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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-09-03

The world is improving. You don't
see any red plush family albums and
sterescopes with views of Niagara
Falls on Parlor stands nowadays.
t&*%#**
A woman is seldom as old as she
looks early in the morning.
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We're living in a flying age. Even
prices soar.
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Who remembers when good lunch
cost fifteen cents and a dinner cost a
quarter?
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Last summer it was, "Work or
Fight" this summer, "Work, then
loaf and fight"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-09-03
Growing Old Before Your Time

Kidney trouble tends to "slow up"
men and women in middle life and
they fear oncoming old age when it
is only the kidneys that are at fault.
Foley's Kidney Pills assist Nature to
restore sound, healthy condition
and to Danish ,backache, soreness,
lameness and stiffness, puffy eyes
andother symptoms
John W. Thurston, Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-09-03

Don't Keep Poison in your Blood.
When the kidneys are properly do
ing their work they eliminate from
the circulation waste products that
poison the blood is permitted to re-
main in the system. Foley's Kidney
Pills help the kidneys, remove the
poison that cause aches and pains,
stiff joints, sore muscles, lame back
rheumatic pains.
'oiip w. ihurston. Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-09-03
A VIVID PAGE: FROM THE BOOK
OF LIFE

Food clothing and rents high in price, but knowledge
gained by experience costs than all three combined
And the cost paid in human suffering Every mother
daughter father every should this
picture and profit by the experience of others. is
form of saving throbbng living humannterest
story of youth love and dslusonment sensational ex-
pose of medical quackery.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
Simple But Effective.

Maj. W. II. Graves of the British
army medical corps told at the meet
ing of the American Medical nssocla-
ton story Of how one physician
cured q soldier who had been made
dumb by shell shock, He took him
into room, turned on him suddenly
with a threatening gesture, and shout
ed: speak"
And the man was startled into speak
ing. Once having regained his speech
he never lost 1t again. All he needed
was to be convinced that he could talk,
for there was no physical injury to
his vocal cords or mouth.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
BRIEF INFORMATION

More than n dozen American wom-
en- and playwrights are said to be In
the enjoyment of annual incomes In
excess of $4,000 from their literary
work.
BefQye the war England imported
over so per cent Of the glass used In
the country but since the importa-
tions were stopped she has been able
to produce enough for her own needs.
A factory has been Installed In Hol-
land for the manufacture Of sacklng
carpets and even fine fabrics from
plant fibers, by means Of new pro-
cess. Great quantities Of vegetable
fiber are being accumulated for the
nurnnsa
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

A woman Is the pntentee of a new
poSt-hole digger with hinged scoop
10 remove all the loose earth from a
hole.
Chile, the "shocstrng republic" Is
ms long as the distance from New
York to San Francisco and as narrow
as Lake Erie.
New York theatrical producers re-
port a shortage Of chorus girls, not
outstanding the fact that their
wages have doubled In the last few
years.
Two French scientists contend that
10 per cent of the chickens In that
country have tuberculosis and that the
disease runs as high as % per cent
among poultry In some other coun.
tries.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
Demands "PIace In Sum-"

Lebanon, little California town,
became a bit tired of the way the cit
les around her snatched days from
The calendar and named them for prod
ucts of which they were especially
proud. Esconddio had grape day,
Fresno flourlshed a rnlsln day. and
presently San BernardIno announced an
orange show. Not to be outdone, Leba
non proclaims strawberry fair, with
the additional note that she grows the
finest strawberries In the world
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
Scottish Inheritance LAWS.

When family becomes eNtlngulsh-
cd in Scotland, and there are no heirs
loft. the estate falls TO the crown ny
der a legal sanction known in Scot
tt,h law as ultlmus hacres. A white
paper in regard to such estates has
recently been issued in Scotland, A
note says that by the law of Scotland
the kings and lord treasurer's remem-
brnncer Is entitled by virtue Of his of
Zee to administer. on such estates with.
ont letters of administration or other
process of law. The number OF such
estates dc, It with in 1917 was 1876. and
tho crown celved 1897 COS.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
DUBIOUS OF JUVENILE COURT
judoe Conner Fears That MAXIMUM
Sentences Under the Law WIN
Provo Too Mild.

Goldsboro-According to the opin'
lon of Judge George w, Conner, Of
Wilson, who presided over Superior
Court here, the Juvenile Court VIII
not prove a success in this state, ana
Judge Conner says that he Is afraid,
and much so, that the lawmakers AZ
Raleigh had gone little too far In
having these courts established.
Judge Conner expressed his opinion
Of the Juvenile court bills provision
touching upon the under sixteen
years of age clause, and stated that
large per cent OF the criminal cases
tried by the Superior Court judges
we're composed OF young men OF about
sixteen years Of age who had violated
the law seriously, from murder on
down the line OF petty offenses. Judge
Conner further contends that II 10
unwlse to turn young men OF THIS
nge loose, who had committed serious
orfenses upon decent society without
adequate punishment, and with a mild
reprimand and a sort Of guardian or
protectorate He also stated that I'M
der the new law even murderer who
is under 16 years OF age cannot be
tried in Superior Court, and predicts
that with the county and juvenile
courts in working order, there will not
be much left in the future for the SUI
perior Court judge to do
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
Rob.,on Votes Bonds.

I.umberton.-Thr Robson county
townships Rennert, Thompson and
White House voted bonds for build.
Ing roads, making a total of IS Of the
25 townships that have already voted
bonds for road purposes. The issue
carried in ali three townships by sub
stantial majorities and in Rennert not
vote was cast against the bonds.
Rennert voted an issue of $50 1000,
Thompson, $4,000 and White House,
5000
The IS townships have voted a to-
tai bond issue of $690,000.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
u.or,r, ,or suosr Hosrders.

Greensboro R. Michael and the
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com
pany will be given hearing before
United States Commissioner D. II.
Collins. on charge Of boarding sugar.
When government agents went to the
local store of the A. & P. Company,
thew found about 10000 pounds OF
sugar on hand. A day or two later
the government instituted libel pro
c,edng to recover the sugar but
when the marshal went there to take
charge Of the supply, he found that 1t
had been sold ont.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
Hotel for Moruanton.

Morganton.-Th long talked OF
hotel for Morganton Is now an assur-
ed fact and the project Ia financed
largely by local business men. who
have already subscribed over 100000.
Articles of incorporation are being
drawn and while the actual cost mas
not been determined, It will be In the
neighborhood Of 100000.
The assurance OF the hotel - due
10 the Industrial club, and the orEani-
sstion at once saw that first of AZ
Morganton must hare . hotel
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
MASSAGE for Lumbago

Lumbago, according to Or. Pometta,
head of the medical department Of the
Swiss Accident Insurance Institute,
may be purely rheumatic, or result
from a strain 10 muscle or he pro
duced by qhill when overheated.
He says massage is the best treat
ment, and that \recovcry should take
place in from siA to eight days at the
ontsida.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

Lieut.. j. Il. Adams handing phono-
graph to Lieutenant Shnngraw, one of
the pilots of the pathfinder planes
which have started coast-to-coast
flight from Mineola. As the planes
whlz through the air the strains of
music will he transmitted by wireless
tt the accompanying detachments of
men and officers who will travel via
trucks.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

Gastonia.-B. r. s. Austin, general
superintendent Ozark Mills here for
twelve years and before that superin-
tendent OF the Loray, Gaston's largest
mill, committed suicide in Ozark mill
office by shooting himself through the
heart with a shot gun.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

Raleigh.-An increase Of six and
half million dollars in capital stock is
provided for the Durham Hosiery
mills. Durham. in a charter amend
ment, filed with the department OF
state. the total capital to be $780,
600.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

Kinston.-The police expect to pinch
scores, possibly hundreds, of local au-
tomobile owners for failure to equip
their cars with municipal license tags
in addition to the state numbers.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

Belmont. - The Crescent Spinning
Company, Acme Spinning Company
and Sterling Spinning Company have
been organized, A, c. Lineberger be-
ing president OF each enterprise They
will build mills to cost $1,S00,000.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

New Bern.--Actual construction
was started on tne hulls OF the four
steel wheat and tow ships which are
to be built on the ways OF the Starr
Bennett shipysrd here.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

Durham.-The management Of the
Durham Hosiery Mills organization is
putting into operation plan for reor'
ganzing and extending the business
of the corporation The plan carries
with It the erection Of modern up-to-
date silk mill in Durham, and some
extension in the cotton spinning de-
partments.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

Rocky Mount.-More than a quarter
million dollars will be spent in the
erection of new plant and outlying
buildings within the next few months
by the China American Tobacco and
Trading company, according to an an
nouncement made by J. o. W, Grave
", president OF that corporation.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

Wllmington.-Th Tide Water Pow
err Company announces that IT mas
placed orders for equipment that will
double the present capacity OF the gas
plant and that same will be installed
and working by the time the winter
months set In, when the gas demand
takes sudden jump.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

OF general interest to the public and
of peculiar interest TO congressional
circles is the announcement of the en-
rggcment of Miss Elizabeth Pitt
Campbell to Capt. Burdette Shields
Wright. She is the daughter of Rep
rescntativc and Mrs. Philip L. Camp
bcll of Kansas. Captain Wright saw
service in the aircraft division of the
army during the world war and is 4
member of n welI-known Kentucky
fnmily.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05

Winston salem-The board OF al
dermen OF the city called an election
for the ratification OF bond issue OF
$500. 900 for the purpose Of acquiring
additional school grounds erecting
new and making additions to old
school buildings and for $4,000 in
bonds for the purpose OF acquiring
site upon which to erect modern
ireproof municipal office building.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06
POULTRY
"FNIS
ROOFS FOR POULTRY HOUSES
Several Kinds Of Material Can Be
Used In Making Covering-lt
Should Be Waterfront.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
There are several kinds of material
that can be used in making roof for
the poultry house, but it should always
be kept in mind that the roof should
be water tight. If it is allowed to
leak, the interior of the house will
get damp, the birds will become I'M
healthy, lose vigor and be more suscep-
tible to fatal diseases. Single roofs
should have a one-third pitch, while
those covered with paper or metal may
have a less pitch or be almost fiat.
However, the greater the slope the
longer the life of the roof.
Specially prepared paper or shingles
laid on sheathing may be used for
covering the roof. Roofing papers are
used very extensively for poultry
houses at the present time and in
many places are replacing shingles. AS
a rule the former are cheaper and cas-
Ter to lay, while they can be laid on
a much flatter roof than the latter. One
or two ply paper is usually used on
I've sides, and one, two and three
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06
SCOUTS STEADY IN SCHOOL.

That all boys should do their best
school work in these war times is the
necessary caution of Commissioner OF
Education P. P. Claxton, as follows:
"With the hearty approval Of the
president, the department Of the in
terror is carrying on through the bu-
reau Of education a nationwide cam
paign for the maintenance of our
schools and of other agencies of edu-
cation as nearly as possible at their
full efficiency in work and in attend
ance during the war. 1t occurs to me
that none should be more interested
in the purpose Of this campaign or
more helpful in making it effective
than the boy scouts. They are prac-
tically all schoolboys, many of them
about ready to enter high school. They
are all active and energetic and al
ways willing to help forward any good
cause.
81 am therefore appealing to you for
help, first, in bringing it about that all
scout boys or as nearly all of them
as possible, shall enter school prompt
ly, attend regularly, and work hard j;
and second, in getting the help of all
scout boys in inducing other boys to
do the same"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06

SCOUTS
Fl [&
Conducted by National Council Of the
Boy Scouts Of America.)
SCOUTS LIFE NOT WASTED

After Lieut.. Gen. Sir Robert Baden
Powell made known the heroic death
Of one French boy scout described in
q letter found Oh the body of dead
German, the whole country sorrowed
over the lads sacrifice. The German
had written in part:
"a traitor has been shot-a little
French lad belonging to one of those
gyInnastic societies which wear the
trl-color button. The poor little fel.
low in his infatuatiOn wanted to be a
hero. A German column was passing
along a wooded defile, and the boy was
caught and asked whether the French
were about He refused to give infOr-
nation. Fifty yards further on fire
was opened from the cover of the
wood. The boy was asked in French
If he had known that the enemy was
In the forest, and he did not deny 1t.
He went with firm step to a telegraph
post and stood up against it, with a
green vineyard behind him, and re-
ceived the volley of the firing party
with q proud smile on his face. In
fatuated boy; it was pity to see such
wasted courage"
Katherine Lee Bates has written
this poem in Life:
Wasted? blind OF heart, you wrote II
wasted.
The loyalty, the courage and the pride
Nay, you, who could but pity and deride
That pearl of boyhood, smiling as he
tasted
The sacrament Of death; you, who had
hasted
BY steep descent from where the stars
abide
To heavy darkness; you, who had denied
The CLEAN Of God in your own clay
are wasted.
VIII not all lovers of the fair and true
Forever see that little figure stand
Erect against the post, to die for France
Her leafing April vineyard better knew
The beauty Of that deed than your dull
hand,
Wondering at honor, counting faith mis-
chance.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06

Farmer'e Ice House With Milk Room
dairy products and other perishables
from the farm when warm weather
comes again.
Save Fuel Supply.
These war times make heavy de-
mands upon the fuel supply of the
country and, paradoxical as it may
seem, it takes fuel to produce artificial
ice, while natural ice may be harvest
ed at time when farm work is not
pressing and both man and horse labor
are not otherwise profitably employed.
Ice is one of those luxuries which in
many sections Of the country can be
had for the gathering. The cost of
harvesting and storing it is not great
as compared with the comfort that It
brings.
Important in Country.
An ample supply of ice is of greater
economic Importance in the country
home than in the city residence. City
people can purchase perishable sup
plies as needed, but the remoteness of
country homes from markets often rem
ders 1t necessary to use canned,
corned, or smoked meat products dur.
ing the season of the year when the
table should be supplied with fresh
meats. Not only is the use of ice i'm.
portant In the preservation Of fresh
meats, butter, and other table supplies,
but the production of high-grade do
n00ffR 3c o1Voon I'm,
sible without ii. Many markets to
which milk Is now shipped demand
that it be cooled before shipment to a
degree not attainable without the use
of ice.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06
SCOUT SAVES GIRLS LIFE.

The fact that Grace Ohler, agei
eight, is alive In Seton hospital in Gin
cinnati is a tribute, physicians say
to boy scout training. Watching ovel
her, with a smile on his face, is Shell
don Smith, aged fourteen, boy scout
who is given credit for saving her life
by quick action.
The Ohler girl while carrying a jal
OF gasoline, broke it and severed ar
artery in her arm. An effort to sum
mon seven physicians in the neighbor
hood was futile.
With blood streaming from thu
wound, the girl called young Smith
from his home. Utilizing his boy Scout
training, he applied double tourni
quet. A boy friend then drove thu
girl and the boy scout to Seton hos
pital in his auto In ten minutes. There
the severed artery was closed.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06

-c mat more than TWO men car
walk abreast.
As a result Of the fine DUST thu
filth and the glare Of the sun on the
white walls, ophthalmia and lung dis
eases abound. The flies, which breed
in the open refuse heaps in astonish
ing numbers, swarm over everything
They cause the button, common aise
in Aleppo and Bagdad, an ailment that
resembles q carbuncle and persists for
several months and leaves an ugly
scar.
Opposite Mosul, across the river
are the last vestiges Of Nineveh, cap
ital of the second of the worlds great
empires. In places, great walls of the
ancient city, built Of tremendous
masses of sun-dried brick laid on 8
high broad wall of cut stone, are still
traceable. The city was further PRO-
tected by a moat into which the wa
ters of a small river could be con-
Quoted. 1t was hewn to a depth OF
20 feet and a width Of so yards, and
like the walls, Is in evidence today.
Varying Length Of Life In Fishes.
The length of life of fishes is vari-
able in the extreme. When we think
Of the great number of enemies to
which any fish is exposed, such as
other predatory fishes, parasitic
worms and crustacea and other para
sites (Which are usually harmless to
man but destructive to the fish, crabs,
sea birds, bacterial diseases, etc., we
easily see that to live in the water
and escape all these dangers re-
quires many projections which at best
can preserve only a very small num-
Der Of fishes beyond the spawning
time.
Such projections to fishes are speed
Of swimming, defensive spines and
fms, the ability to distend themselves
like the puffer to prevent being
swallowed, teeth, electric organs, heavy
corselets of scales which easily slip
from the skin and high state Of re-
siStance against disease.
Thus, if fish is well protected, out
of large number of its kind few
may live to reach unusually large sizes.
There are records of very large fishes
of most known varieties.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06
ATTRACTIVE ONLY. TO TOURIST
Eastern City Of Mosul Not Place in
Which Westerners. Care to
Make Long Stay.

MOsul, the modern Nineveh, is q
picturesque but not altogether attrac-
tive city. The houses are built of
irregular blocks of stone laid in thick
mortar. They are usually covered
with a white stucco, made by burning
the local gypsum rock.
The roofs, of the same material as
the walls. are usually fiat, with a
waist-high parapet, but are not infre-
quently dOmed. Doorways are often
made of slabs Of the easily carved
gypsum.
The streets are narrow and aim
less, forming maze Of tangled lanes.
AS there is no system Of sewerage
whatever, they serve as Repositories
for all the filth Of the houses that
border on them. They are rarely %
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06
Looked Like lincoIn's SLAYER

A curious footnote to history Is
found in Simon VOLTS presidents ]
Have Known" Mr.. Wolf, Washing
ton lawyer, loyal Unionist and a
friend of President Lincoln, was yet
also acquainted with John Wilkes
Booth and resembled him In appear
ance. He says concerning the assas-
sinatiOn of Lincoln: after the trag.
edy was compelled to remain in my
house until after Booths capture, for
unfortunately I resembled him very
much in feature-so much so that
Theodore Kaufman, the historical
painter, asked me to sit for him for
his famous painting of The Assassina-
ton of President Lincoln The Out
look.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06
Value Of Intersection.

To do anything worth while we must
be something worth while, and we can
not be If we take it all out in talking.
The mind must receive Impressions be-
fore it can give them, the heart must
feel before it can make others feel, the
soul must be filed before it can over
flow.
If people would only live more, If
they would only think more, If they
would only sit in silence alone with
their souls now and then, the words
they gave out would mean so much
more. But alas and alack. the art of
conversation is not lost, 1t Is flowing
on and on until one longs for silence
with great and overwhelming longing
that only silence may satisfy.-Ex-
change.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-06
SCOUTS RESCUE cANoEIsTs.

The members Of Troop No. 81 of
Manhattan rescued two canoeists from
drowning in the Hudson river. The
scouts were in motorbOat. The scout
master, Father Coogan, who is also a
police chaplain, was in charge of the
boat. Sixteen first and second class
scouts were aboard.
A mile away, one of the scouts dis
covered a distress signal. A canoe
paddle was waved at intervals by
some one in the water. The scouts soon
effected reS~se.