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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
PLAYING UP TO THE TEACHER
indianapolis Youngster Had a Pretty
ShreWd Idea of What He Was
Doing After All.

John Arthur is a pupil in Jeffer-
sonville departmental school, and had
to write an essay on Woodrow Wilson,
among others. He evinced such high
regard for the president, especially in
his management of the World war;
as to express the view that he was
even greater than Washington or Lin
coin. He said they made a fine show
ing in the little wars they had to ham
die, but could hardly, he thought, have
got through the big one. His father,
seeing the essay, ventured the Opin-
ion that the writer was too positive
in his statement, although admiring
Wilson himself. John Arthur showed
he was perhaps something of dip
Iomat as we'll as an esSayist.
"Oh, WE'LL" he remarked, "the teach
er is Democrat, anyhow. "-Indian-
apolis News.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
THAT SMALL BROTHER AGAIN
This Time 1t Really Seems That He
Has Cooked Sister Evelina's
Goose for Good.

Some things do fall out awkwardly,
don't they?
One evening the fair Evelina was eX-
pecting her latest admirer to call and
her mother hadn't come back from
shopping. SO, while Eyelina slipped
upstairs to don her best blouse and
some powder on her nose, the young
brother was left on guard.
The expected visitor arrived, and
was ushered into the parlor by Will
liam Edward, who promptly began to
ask questions, as small boys always do.
"Mr. Slowcombe," hc said whats a
popinjay?"
"A popinjay my boy" repeated the
young man, thinking hard. "Why-er
its a rare bird"
Are you a bird, Mr.. Slowcombe?'
persisted the inquisitOr.
"Of course not Ha, Ha!" squirmed
his victim.
"Wen, that's funnyw unused Will
liam Edward. Last night, after you'd
gone, ma said you were jay, and
father said there was no doubt about
that, but there didn't seem much pop,
pin the question about you. And now
you say you're not a bird at all 4"
Insanity must be a sensation like
the distorted dream that is familiar
enough to the sane.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
The Windy City Has Heart After All

n YONS. IA.-PeOple in this neck Of
- woods have no great love for Chi
CagO They're suspicious Of the Windy
City and it's inhabitants But a story
comes from there which seems likely
to improve the local estimate of the.
big city by the lake. Apparently Chi
cago has a heart, after all and when
the heart Of Chicago warns up to any
helpless creature, it goes about it
wholesale fashion.
Anyway about daylight one Sunday
morning Edward Hurley, broker, no.
ticed detected figure hudded on n
bench in Washington park, and exam
ination showed a wisp of woman
and baby so emaciated it could hard
ly cry. The woman had ten cents,
some moldy crackers and a half bottle
Of sour milk.
She told Mr.. Hurley that her name
was Elizabeth Coy and that her hus-
band had put her on the train at Ly-
Ons Ia, with ticket for Chicago, CIV
ing her as cents.
Her husband told her, she said, that
he was through with her" as he
would not have "squawklng kid"
around, and that he had another wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hurley took the I'm.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23

THICAGO.-The police have solved
~ the great Hyde Park kimono
mystery-but there's only one way to
tell it-ChronOlogCally.
Some time between six O'Clock and
midnight last Tuesday evening some
one entered room 4O1 in the Shirley
apartment hotel at 4164 DreXel boule-
ward and vanished with $1,000 worth
of woman's apparel, the property of
Mrs, w. c. Gabriel, wife of Lieuten-
ant Gabriel, the aviator. The only
clue to the marauder was a cheap cot
ton kimono and a pair of mems bed
room slippers.
The police were baffied. The apart
ment was four stories above the
ground. An intricate lock and bolt
barred the only door in the one-room
apartment. There were no fire es-
capes.
A housemaid. however. had seen
Robert Black, who, with his wife Mrs.
Rose Black, occupied the apartment
below the pilfered Gabriel apartment,
wearing the kimono. The police en-
tered the Black apartment to find Mrs.
Black and William Davis. but no Mr..
Black and no Gabriel clothing.
The police learned further that
Black and his wife had gone to the
laundry operated by Leslie r. Tpnnpnt
at 1913 Cottage Grove avenue Monday
night and had an alteration about
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
EFFICIENCY OF
farmer VARIES
Some Are Able to Detect and
Eliminate the LoW-Paying
or Losing Enterprises.
OTHERS SHOULD MAKE MORE
Information Obtained in Keeping Rec
ords Is Valuable in Assisting
Farmer to Secure a Balanced
Business for Next Year.

Farmers, Just like other business
men, vary widely in the degree of eff
cheney displayed in running their bust
ness. Some are able to analyze the
farm business and thus to detect and
eliminate the lOWpaying or losing en-
terprises. Others lacking the knOwl-
edge of how to make a systematic
analysis Of the business as whole,
know that their profits are not what
they ought to be, without knowing
how to go about it to increase them.
They may be able to find and correct
the obvious errors in the small-sized
farm business, but in handling a bust
ness of considerable size they often
fail TO spot the enterprises that are
losing money for them. Such men
may or may not make money, but at
|. best they fall short of making as
much as they might. A farmer may
be making a large net profit on his
potatoes and losing it all by keeping
producing cows. Similarly a man
may be making money on his COWS and
losing part of the profit on another
enterprise. Hence the paramount i'm
portanCe of records to the farmer.
Farm Returns Studied.
Careful studies made upon large
number Of farms enable the office of
farm management of the United States
department of agriculture to make
some interesting statements in this
regard. For instance, they find that
only 10 per cent-usually less-of the
farms studied are managed so as to Sc
cure better-than-average returns from
all four factOrs-size of business,
yield of crops, live stock, and labor
while from 20 to 80 per cent of the
farms considered have only one factor
better than the average 1t must be
| understood that no one of these fac
tors will determine success.
The figures given which relate to the
labor income will prove most interest
ing to farm employers. The analysis
has reduced the labor cost of farm
work to figures. An acre of hay, on
an average farm, costs the labor OF
one man and one horse for Il ten-hour
| day to cut cure, and harvest it. oats
wheat, and barley, one and half
DAYS of man labor and three of horse
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
Commuters See Melodrama in Real Life

tide had swung out into the river
distance of about thirty feet. His
rival seized the rope and began al
ternately to throw his weight upon it
and strive to lift it.
The result was that the boy on the
rope soon found himself jogging up
and down above the river, now almost
touching it with his feet and now
raised high above it. He started TO
come back. He became exhausted.
The terror-stricken shine of his eye
balls was visible to the. passengers on
the train. His rival took, to his. heels
and Disappeared, .>..
Then the exhausted boy dropped
into the river. AT the splash and
stranged cry the little white girl rTH
10 the end of the pier, dropped her
,narasol and plunged, in all her staTchy
friIls, into the stream. she came up
with the boys head resting on her
shoulder. Two men with a rope
hauled both children to safety.
Meantime the passengertshad been
taking up a collection and presently
parcel, well wrapped in newspapers,
thumped into the street at the feet of
the bedraggled little girl
AS the train moved jerkily on its
way she clutched the parcel in. her
arms and gave a dripping wave of the
hand to the departing cars.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
Biscay Bay Would Make an Angel Swear

hungry BisCay. Our parSOn puts all
fears to rout, he trusts in God, his
heart is stout but wants to swing the
lifeboat out, for the devil rules old
Biscay. The good ship at the seas
does bound she tries in vain to knock
them down, then backs away and goes
out round the mountainous seas of
BsCay.
For days and days we bob around,
our only motions up and down, the
Old ship makes ID poor clown
for acrobatic Biscay The cooks are
having lots of fun as after pots and
pans they run, but dinners always
sure to come, they are the cooks for
BiScay. The engineers down in the
hole, they only say gol blame my soul,
just to see this old ship roll, on bloody,
blOomin' Biscay. For four long days
we've stood the gff, but not discour-
aged, no, not half; we're getting used
to Biscay's chaff, we'll soon be out of
BiSCay.
"The good old ship she isn't weak,
old BiSCay cannot make her leak, or
even make her timbers creak, she de-
fies the Bay of Biscay. Our company
says the caps dear, as to the chan
mel we draw near, because from Bis
cay he's won clear, cOnqueror of Bis
cay"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23

some laundry which resulted in Black
knocking Tennent down.
Mrs. Black finally unraveed the
mystery" of the kimonO.
Black was taking a bath Tuesday
night when the Hyde Park police with
the patrol wagon arrived to serve a
warrant sworn out by Tennent.
Hastily fastening his trusty kimono
about him and dOnning his slippers,
he stepped out upon Il ledge in an
areaWay, scrambled up to the Gabriels'
bathroom window ledge, and entered
the fiat Tearing off the kimono he
dressed himself in Mrs. Gabriels fin
cry, even to a blue fox scarf, hat, veil
and handbag. Thus arrayed he saun-
tered down the hallway and-van-
ished.
They haven't found him yet, but the
Gabriel clothing was returned by mail.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23

NEW YORK.-Passengers on a
~ stalled suburban train BECAME in
terested i'll scene on Harlem river
pier at One Hundred and Thirty-sec-
ond street, during the delay. 49,.
On one side of the pier two little
negroes. apparently about ten years
old, We're showing Off" They stood
on their heads; they pummelled each
other with shrill cries of mimic ferocitg.
The cause of their antics, a white girl
of about the same ago, dressed in her
starchiest and frilIiest best, sauntered
UP and down the opposite side of the
pier with blue parasOI in elaborate
Indifference to masculine maneuvers.
One of the contenders for her
glances suddenly swung himself out
hand over hand on a taut hawser that
led to the stern of a barge which the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23

fortunate woman and baby into their
home and the newspapers printed a
brief account of the affair BY noon
Sunday visitors had sent in checks and
had delivered in person, total of 81
600 for the woman and baby. Auto
mobiles were lined up for three blocks
each side of the Hurley residence,
their owners anxious to help the unfor-
Inmates. One of the contributions was
So, earned by q Japanese who worked
overtime tQ, get it. -. 49,. .
Now promipent family. has given.
the woman and her baby a,permanene
home. and with their little capital,
which has now grown to about $1,000,
they will get along nicely.
All of which sounds good to Lyons,
la.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
FARM WOODLAND CAN
BE MADE PROFITABLE
Erroneous for Farmers to Saw
Up Choice Timber.
Many Valuable Logs Go Into Cross Ties
When They Would Bring Much
More Money if Sold as Saw
Logs-Other Hints.

1t is a mistake to saw up choice
logs of white oak, ash, cherry and vel
low poplar for rough uses at home or
to use clear black walnut for gate
boards or split up white oak butts for
fence posts. This fact is emphasized
in many ways in new publication,
"Forestry and the Farm Income is
sued by the forest service United
States department of agriculture.
Farmers are told that many valuable
logs go into cross ties when they would
bring the owner much more if sold as
saw logs. Likewise, large numbers
of rapid growing trees are cut which
produce only one small tie, whereas,
if left to grow for from three to five
years; they would yield more than
double the profit. To avoid making
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
NEW SEEDLINGS FOR PASTURE
Sheep Better Suited for Grazing Than
Horses or CattIe-Rye Favored
for Fall Pasture.

New seedlings of clover and timothy
should he pastured lightly. Sheep are
better suited for this purpose than
horses and cattle, but care must be
used to prevent them grazing the new
meadows too closely. Stalk fields.
from which the corn and StOver have
been removed, furnish considerable
feed in the form of grasses, weeds and
an occasional stalk and ear of corn. 1t
is well to allow the stock to clean up
this feed that would otherwise 90 to
waste. In order to provide more good
fall grazing it is a good plan to sow
rye at the last working of the corn
crop.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23

II lGOR, ME.-Capt Frank Rufus
- endletOn. first officer of the
sht steamer Andra, is handy with
the pen and finds it easy to keep the
log III rhyme. In a letter to his place
in Belfast, Me-, he describes the An
dras passage across the Bay of Bis
cay in part thus:
"The Bay of Biscays on the bum
Old Neptune he is full of rum, and
we are sorry to have come into the
Bay of Biscay. The skipper at the
clouds does stare; he jumps around
and tears his hair, and says 'twould
make an angel swear, this ID old
Bay of BiSCay.
give passengers are with us here
and they have given up. fear. all
they've eaten for year to hungry
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
Safe.

SiX-year-old Frank came running
into the house, swinging in his hand
paper sack. Mother" he called,
"has Helen still got the toOthace?"
Helen was his nine-year-old sister,
and she having heard the question,
answered it herself. mo, it's well.
Why?" she returned.
"Oh, was going to have you keep
my candy till | got hungry for the
rest of it, but if your tooth is well
I'll just take care of it myself"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
MARKET FOR SURPLUS TRUCK
Fruit and Vegetables Otherwise Vast
ed Can Be Sold In Small Guam
titles by Using Motor.

The motor truck express routes in
many Localities make 1t possible for
fhe farmer to market his, surplus fEuit
and vegetables in small quantities that
would otherwise be wasted. When
there Is more than enough for canning
purposes this method should not be
overlooked.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23

corn for the SiO, three man days and
five and half days for a horse
onions sold in punches, require about
% days of man work to only ten for
the horse dairy cows take Is days of
man time every year and two days
Of horse time-SO on through a list
that includes about every item of farm
effort. This information is valuable
both in securing a balanced business
and in assisting the farmer to esti-
mate his labor needs for the coming
year 1t is contained in a new publ
cation Of the department of agricul-
ture, bulletin 1889, "A Method of An
alyzing the Farm Business"
Advice of Experts Available.
With the bulletin go blank forms
for the purpose of preparing the an
alysis. Upon these blanks the farmer
can inventory his business and then,
if he feels unqualified to abide by his
own judgment upon the results shown
he may secure the advice of experts
by submitting the data gathered to
his county agent or to his state agri-
cultural college, or he may send it di-
rectIy to the department of agriculture
to have the analysis made.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
New Hiuh Explosives.

South Africa is now manufacturing
a new material to take the place of nj
troglycerin explosives 1t has been
tested in mines and is regarded as both
strong and safe. 1t is called sengite,
the first syllable being derived from
the letters of the words, Substitute
explosive, no glycerin."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
Losinn a EaNorite Theme

I'm kind of sorry to see this votes
for women question so close to settle
ment," remarked Mr.. Mcekton.
Don't you approve Of votes for
women?'
Yes indeed. But I've heard Henri
eta talk on the tariff and the league
of nqtionS and most everything md |
honestly think a suffrage speech is the
best thing she does"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
POISON FOR CABBAGE WORMS
Insect Powder Mixed With Flour viii
Be Found neutrality-suspicious.
less to Humans.

Insect powder mixed with three or
four times It's bulk Of flour and left
over night in a tight contaner is an
effective poison for the common cab
bage worm. II is harmless to persons,
Apply when the dew is on using
sitting top can or powder blower.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23

Giving Him Every Opportunity.
"We're going to move to Ohio
"What's the idca?'
"Want to give ny young son n
chance to become president some day
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23

Every man you hear something"
about has probably "heard something"
about you.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
The Kind.

81 understand the candidate you
speak of is climber in politics"
"YeS; front porch climber"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
Her Retort.

"You wear no stockings when you
SWIM"
mo. And l don't wear overshoes
when l dance"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23

l would rather die than be debased.-
Latin PrOverb.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-09-23
Solid Guilt.

Guess I'll buy a few shares of tina,
mining stock. Looks like a gilt-edged
proposition to me"
you've only seen the edges ~
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-08-30
HOME SERVICE FOR
EVERYBODY IN NEED

Do you know what the present day
Home Service of the American Red
Cross Is?
Many people do not know that. be-
sides completing the work for ex-sery-
Ice men, especially the disabled, 1t pro
yides the same neighboyly service to
families In general that 1t formerly
gave families Of soldiers, sailors and
marines.
"Home Service covers a wide~ and
varied field" says Frederick G. Mum
roe. general manager of the American
Red Cross. at gives aid to families
in solving such problems as budget
planning, marketing, tiding over times
of financial stress, keeping children in
school, helping crippled children, wild
owed and deserted mothers, children
backward in school and children in
conflict with the laws. 1t renders serv-
ice to the homeless and transient to
the illiterate, to tenement jewellers. to
the unemployed, and gives friendly as
sistance and advice to foreign speak
ing groups"
In addition to helping families in
the solution of their own problems,
Home Service helps in strengthening
the weak spots in the social life Of
communities. It joins hands with 9TH
ers to make communities safer.
healthier and happier.
Organizing action along lines in
which the community is already inter-
ested is one of the objects of Home
Service. 1t has established community
meetings. patriotic celebrations. pag-
pants andlpcnics Rest rooms. recre-
alton facilities <play supervisors and
moving pictures have been provided
Thrnu~h Home Service other agencies
are influenced tn bring ABOUT improved
t.onimern'nl nnlisrments' and better
school facilities and TO promote travel
Ius IibrnripS rs well aS 10 secure cOun-
~ agricultural and home demOnStra-
ton agents
IL you need assistance at any time.
20 to the secretary of the nearest Red
Cross chapter and describe the Situa
lion. Your confidence will be sacredly
-esnected and every possible effort will
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-08-30
HUSBAND IS HELD IN
PALISADES MURDER
Detained as Witness in WO.
mans Mysterious Death.

New York, Aug %. - After the
young woman whose body was discov-
cred in a vacant lot near GrantwoOd,
n. j., had been positively identified as
Mrs. Blanche Schulz, of 435 East
l35th street, The Bronx, two men were
taken into custody as material Wit
nesSes in the inquiry into the mystery
surrounding her death.
one of the men is the murdered
girls husband, Frank Schulz, who, az
c0rding to the authorities, is known as
"Beansy" Schulz, and who has work
ed ut various jobs, including those of
conductor on a Third avenue surface
car and bonncer in d dance hall. The
other is Edward Faulkner, described
as an expressman and friend of the
husband.
The, investigation brought state
ment from Rev. Anthony Ferretti, of
CHffside he had heard a woman
screaming between 10 and II o'clock
Saturday night not far from the place
where the body was discovered.
This is the nearest estimate of the
time at which the murder may have
taken place the police have yet re-
ceived.
Schulz told the police he had last
seen his wife Saturday, when she
started ostensibly for the residence of
her sister, Mrs Otto Widmer, at Key
port, n. j., with about $3.50 in cash in
pocket that was pinned to her COR
set, and wearing several articles of
jewelrys Neither was found upon the
body, but attached to her corset was
pin. which the officials thought
miiht have held the money packet.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-08-30
Saws Cox Dreams in Millions.

New York, Aug. 2S.-Will H. Hays
replied to the speech OF Governor Cox.
He asserted Mr.. Cox had such "inti-
mate knowledge of the wasting of
millions in aircraft production" dur
ing the war he dreamed in millions"
Mr.. Hays issued the following at
Republican headquarters:
"Of course Candidate Cox fails TO
prove, as he has failed to prove and
will fail to prove, his charges. This Is
simply because the charges are false.
"fIe says millions have been put in
to the Republican national committee
by sinister influences to corrupt the
electorate. He first is reported to
have said a hundred million. Then
Secretary Roosevelt said thirty mil
lion. Then Candidate Cox said fif-
teen million, while now Candidate
Cox says eight million.
Candidate Cox, himself million
aire, has had such intimate knowledge
of the wasting Of millions in aircraft
production in his state, ana Secre-
tary Roosevelt has such an intimate
knowledge of the burning OF billions
by the administration of which he has
been an Important part, that these
men dream in millions.
Incidentally, they will have a
chance next week to indicate Nthe
sflurce of thefF own money, both OF
their national committe and other
agencies outside of their national
committee raising money to try to ais
Candidate Cox's election"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-08-30

mad not seen the commissions report
and that the departments announce
ment was second step in the pro-
gram indicated when instructions
were sent to all United States dis
trict attorneys Monday ordering them
to watch closely for enhanced prices
as result of pyramiding coal quota
tionS through rnsales-
Department officials indicated their
fntention of asking ''the limit of IN"
law" as a penalty where convictions
of coal profiteering is obtained. They
declared they expected to uncover
some fragrant violations Of the Lever
act in the tidewater Investigations.
The concentration on tfdewatee
ports should not he accepted as mean,
ing that the prosecution of coal prof
trers would he slackened in other
parts of the country. it was said. The
hl,0adcned investigation will mean a
r,orr rigorous investigation in I'll sec
r'nns, but for the present the depart
n,rnt's attention is to be directed
PRINCIPALLY Mt the numbering ports, II
was added.
The trade commissions report said
that the average cost of coal at the
mines in West Virginia was $40 a
ton. With respect to the Baltimore
and Hampton Roads deliveries, the
freight would increase the cost about
co q ton II was said