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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-15


more than 10000 women were tortured,
burned and killed, because they did not
believe with those in power. They de-
stroyed churches and statuary,
calling them creations OF the
devil. They ransacked all England to
find somebody who did not believe as they
did, that they might torture them. Finally
an outraged people drove this particular
type of people from power. Down in
Massachusetts they drove Roger Williams
into the wilderness to perish, and hung old
women for riding on broomstlcks. 1t is
this type of people who are demanding
this legislation. Adopt it and the next
move would be to make all adopt their re-
| ligious beliefs. 1t is the natural sequence.
The only safety of the people is to stand
| by the principle of personal liberty.
Mr.. j. E. Child again spoke in support
of the bill, and of the right of the legisla-
ture to submit the question to the people.
| NIB. HILL.
of Winona, was opposed to the legislation
asked for. As he read the constitution he
was obliged to use his own judgment, not
to act in accordance with the wishes of
others, IN forming his opinion as to
whether such legislation was desirable or
not. In the exercise of that Judgment it
was his opinion the legislation
asked for was iniudicious, and therefore
he should vote against it. Another rea-
son for opposing this legislation was be-
cause it was an infringement upon the
rights of property as guaranteed by this
constitution. He closed by proposing an
amendment providing compensation for
property injured or destroyed by the
adoption of the proposed amendment.
By vote upon division, the amendment
was adopted by 50 yeas, a ma
jority of the whole house, the negative
not being put.
Mr.. Jas. Smith, Jr., called for vote
upon his motion that when the committee
rise the bill be Indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. J. E. Child moved the committee
rise. Lost.
And the question being upon the mo-
ton of Mr.. Smith to indefinitely post
pone, it was so adopted.
The committee rose, and Mr.. Bobleter
moved the adoption of the recommen-
dation.
Mr.. Hicks called for the yeas and nays,
and the roll being called, Mr.. Bobleter's
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
The Quaint Hornet.

Last Fall | desired to add to my rare
collection large hornets nest. had
an embalmed tarantula and her porce-
lain-lined nest, and | desired to add to
these the gray and airy home Of the
hornet. | procured one of the large
size after cold weather, and hung it in
my cabinet by string. | forgot all
about it until this Spring. When warm
weather came something reminded me
of it. | think it was hornet. He
logged my memory in some way and
called pY attention to it. Memory is
not located where | thought it was. 1t
seemed as though whenever he touched
me he awakened n memory-a warm
memory with a red place all around it..
Then some more hornets came and
began to rake up old personalities.
remember that one of them lit ON my
upper lip. He thought it was rose
bud. When he went away il looked
like gladiolus bulb | wrapped a wet
sheet around it to take out the warmth
and reduce the swelling so that | could
60 through the folding doors and tell
my wife about it.
Hornets lit all over and walked around
on my person. i did not dare to scrape
them off because they are SO sensitive
You have to be very guarded in your
conduct toward hornet.
| remember once while | was watch
ing the busy little hornet gathering
honey and June bugs from the bosom
of rose, years ago, | stirred him up
with club, more as a practical joke
than anything else, and he came and
lit on my sunny hair-that was / wore
my own hair-and he walked around
through my cleaning tresses quite a
while, making tracks as large as a
watermelon all over my head. If he
hadn't run out of tracts my head would
have looked like load of Summer
squaShes. remember had to thump
my head against the smoke-house in
order to smash him, and / had to comb
him out with fine comb, and wear a
waste-paper basket two weeks for hat.
Much has been said of the hornet,
but he has an odd, quaint way after all
that is forever new Blu Nye.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
Too Many BO0kkeeners.

Something light and genteel is what
most of the young women who have to
work want. | don't blame them for it,
but as a rule it don't pay. Ninety-nne
in hundred would rather be .'sales-
ladies" at s. or So week than take
hold of trade that would give them IS
or $40. (Speaking of salesladies, you
may have heard that the superlative
idiot who invented that word died lately
of softening of the brain, but am sorry
to say it is not true; he didn't have
enough brain to soften). A great
many young women now take to book
keeping They would do much better
by taking to millinery or dressmaking.
but these look more like real work than
bookkeeping. The bookkeeping ranks
are terribly overcrowded already. An
item now going the rounds says New
York business man who lately adver-
tised for bookkeeper at $40 week.
received 700 applicants for the place,
and that there are 5000 bookkeepers
out of work in this city. 1t seems to be
the same old item that has done service
the same way any number of years,
but though an exaggeration, it contains
enough truth for an item anyway.
New York certainly has an enormous
| number of bookkeepers and miscellan-
eous clerks out of work. The kind of
work they have to sell is not in demand
at least, there is an immense deal
more OF it than the demand calls for
All the Italian rag-pickers can find
plenty to do. The Chinese washee-
washee men are busy all the year round.
Most men who know how to sweep the
streets can find employment. Nine
tenths of the hod-carriers are always at
| work. Blacksmiths, carpenters, ma
sons, brlcklayers, cabinet makers and so
on, who know their trades, need not be
pinched except in very bad times. But
the bookkeepers and miscellaneous
clerks are all the time walking the
A great many of the poor fellows may
be found every night in the cheap
lodging houses along the Bowery and
Chatham Square. The rag-pickers,
street-sweepers, hod-carriers, etc,
don't have to 90 to those wretched
places. | dom mean to say that it is
better to be a rag-picker, street-sweep-
er or hod carrier than bookkeeper,
but what | do say about plenty of work
for the former and very little for the
latter is u fact. Some bookkeepers in
New York are paid as high as $4,000
year, and many get from $4,000 to
$1,000; but two-thirds of the whole
number regularly employed are glad
to get so to SO week. ] have my
self had men offer themselves at 81 and
IS week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
Millionaire and Barefoot Boy.

Ills evening. and the round red sun sinks slowly
in the West
The flowers fold their petals up, the birds ay to
their nest,
The crickets chirrup in the grass. the bats nirt
And tinkle-tankle up the lane the lowing cattle
go:
And the rich man from his carriage looks ont on
Them az they come
On them and on the Barefoot Boy that drives
the cattle home.
I wish. . the boy says to himseH-'.I wish that
And yet. upon maturer thought. | do not--ne
street
Not for all the gold his Golfers hold would / be
that duffer there,
With iiver-pad and gopts toe and scarce a
single hair:
To have wife with a Roman nose. and fear lest
panic come
Far better TO be the Baaefoot Boy that drives the
cattle home.
And the rich man mnrmurs to himself Would
give all my pelf
To change my lot with yonder boy? Not If
know myself.
Over the grass that's full of ants and chill with
dew to 60.
With stone bruise upon either heel and splin-
ter in my toe!
Oh, I'd rather sail my yacht year across the
oceans foam
Than be one day the Barefoot Boy that drives
the cattle home.
T{aryTes.ie lfTg0-5.e
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
Money without Intellect.

The moral power money yields. apart
from character, liberality, intelligence,
and the other qualities essential to
true manhood, is of but relative value,
and is insignificant except when true
worth and high traits of character ac-
company it, We haye instances ofthis
fact in our own time, which show that
almost unconsciously the popular opin-
ion measures man by some higher
and more durable standard than the
money he may possess or may have
accumulated. This is the case where
the reputation of those who are held in
high esteem is also based upon wealth.
the manner in which it IS gained, the
use to which it is put, stamp themselves
upon the public judgment and make an
impression which cannot well be obliter-
ated. Take for instance such men as
Gould and Vanderbilt in comparison
with George Peabody or Peter Cooper
Great wealth and the use 10 which they
put it have given them their fame In
tellectually no one of them would ever
have been 6nown outside of his own
Immediate sphere. The first two far
surpass the others in wealth and the
power tHe9 Can cAtII III tue DusiHeSS
operations of the world They can
make or ruin the fortunes of thousands
of fellowmen by the carprices of specu-
lation. But how much moral power do
they control in comparison with the
last mentioned? Their acts and opin-
ions are of no moral force in the COM
munity There wealth contributes
nothing to the fund of true greatness.
Not SO with wealth used rs in the case
of the other examples quoted. The
true fame thus attained is more lasting
and more enyiable. To the ambitious
who seek wealth and fame and toll TO
have their name live after them, the
lessons of the true power of wealth
should not be unheeded Boston Goa
ricr
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
Metropolitan Growth.

EXclaimS the Boston Gazette cores
pendent: New York never ops grow
ing. ! have never known the time when
it was possible to walk any distance on
Broadway without having to scramble
over platform or some sort of Il scat
folding erected in front of a new build
ing. On the very street where | am
living Eighteenth street within the
past SIX years there have been several
million dollars worth of new buildings
put up between Fifth and Third ave
nues On the corner of Eighteenth
street and Fifth avenue the first OF this
new Chickering Iall-was erected
and two of the prettiest houses that
ever adorned Fifth avenue were torn
down to make room for it. Further
along toward Broadway, Herter erected
large furnishing establishment. On
the corner of Broadway G. IL. Ditson
q Co, have put up their large stores.
On the opposite side, with an L running
down to Eighteenth street, is Sloan's
enormous carpet store. Next door to
this is the St. Nicholas apartment house.
Opposite is the building occupied by
The Century Company, and next to this
is an enormous hole in the ground
which will soon be filled up by an
equally large building Further down,
on the corner of Fourth avenue, Is the
new Belvidere Hotel; on the opposite
corner, the Florence, one OF the largest
apartment houses in the City; and on
the corner of Irving place candy
manufactures has Just erected sin
story factory. This | suppose, would
be called the march of Improvement;
perhaps it is not the march of beauty.
| sincerely sympathize with Mr. White
in his regrets for the architecture of the
past"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
Sorghum Sugar.

The question of ''sugar for the mil
lion," has been most satisfactorily
solved, and hereafter no one need be COM
PEELED to use long sweetnin'" where
clear-grained, crystallized sugar is pre-
ferable. A few far-sighted, earnest, sci
entific gentlemen have for the past few
years been most industriously seeking
for some method by which good grades
of sugar can be obtained from sorghum,
and their efforts have been crowned
with tlattering success. The manufac-
ture of syrups from glucose and various
other substances, some of which are
quite injurious to the health of the con-
sumner, led a great many farmers of the
northwest to enter into the cultivation
of sorghum cane for the purpose of max
ing molasses only, and new and i'm
| proved machinery and methods were
in strong demand. The result was
pure, clear, sweet syrup, that at once
came into quite general use, and very
frequently a quantity of dark sugar
would be found in the bottom of the keg
or barrel after the syrup was drawn off
The object sought by science was to col
lect and clarity these sugar crystals
| without having to wait for them to sep
arate themselves from the syrup, and
happily that object has been attained.
Among these industrious experimentors,
none rank higher or have been more
successful than Prof. Magnus Smenson,
who resigned his position in our State
| University, last winter, in order to ac-
cept position as Superintendent of
farm and factory near Hutchinson, Kan
sas. There are, close to this factory,
1000 acres of cane, and during the har-
vesting and crushing season it required
the labor of nearly twenty teams and
two hundred men. Four "centrifu-
gals" or whirling machines, were in
use, for separating the syrup from the
sugar; and these machines turned out
daily 10000 pounds of frst-class sugar
and 600 gallons of syrup; both entirely
without the sorghum taste, and the
sugarwas found by experts to be ''purer
than that made from the finest Southern
cane.
A report from Sterling, ILL.,, is equally
encouraging. The works at this place
are operated by capitalists from the
Eastern States and Illinois. The build
ing and machinery cost about $50, 700,
and have a capacity of 10000 pounds
per day. 1t is thought that the | 800
acres of cane to be cared for by these
works will yield $4,000 pounds of sugar
and 10000 gallons of syrup or 800
pounds of sugar and 30 gallons of syrup
per acre, and that the entire value of tie
crop will be in the neighborhood of $780,
900. Sugar can be produced that will
fully equal in color and taste, the finest
and best grades now produced by South
ern manufacturers. This is certainly
cheering news to the farmers and peo-
pie of the west and northwest, and NAV
we not soon hope to see in our midst
sugar refineries equal to the famed ones
of the South, and home sugar in every
household?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
How China's Emperor Lives.

Tie ruler Of the 250, 600, 000 of which
the Chinese nation probably consists is
now within five years of his majority
(the age OF eighteen years), and is an
occupant, while yet a minor of the
same apartments in which lived the
Emperor who proceeded him on the
Dragon Throne. There, saws the
North China Herald, he eats with gold
tipped chopsticks of ivory. There he
sleeps on large Ningpo bedstead, rich
" carved and ornamented with ivorg
aud gold the same on which the noble
minded Emperors Kang Hsi and Chen
Lung used to recline after the days
fatigue last century and the century
before.
Like one of those living Buddhas who
may be seen in a lamasery on the Mon
golian plateau, he is knelt to by all his
attendants and honored as god. The
seclusion in which he is kept is far
more complete than that of the gods.
The building in which the Emperor re-
sides is called Yang Hsig Tien, and is
little to the west of the CHI len Ching
Meu in the middle of the palace. At
the back of the central gate, ON the
South side, is the great reception hall.
When Ministers OF State and others
enter for an audience, at 4, 5 or in
the morning, according to custom, they
have TO go on foot to the centre of the
palace over half mile, if they enter
by the east or west gate; and when they
get on in years they can appreciate the
Emperor's favor, which then by de-
cree allows them to be borne in chair
instead of walking.
The Emperor was vaceinated when
an infant, before his high destiny was
thought of, otherwise, it would have
be difficult TO vaccinate him, for, his
person being sacred when Emperor, no
lancet can touch him. His mother, the
Princess of Ch'un, goes in to see him
once month and kneels when she
first speaks to him, but rises after
wards. His father does SO too. The
Emperor studies Chinese daily for an
hour and half, and Manehu also fol
an hour and half He spends two
hours in archery and riding and in
winter amuses himself with sledgino.
He has little brother of five. whom il
may be hoped the mother lakes with
her when she goes to the Palace. The
teachers who instruct him kneel to him
on entering, but afterwards sit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
W here's X0urEimief.

Little Johnny Yerger has caused a
breach between Gus DeSmith, an Aus
tin society gentleman, and the Yerger
family. Gus called to make q friendly
visit after supper, he having previously
informed Colonel Yerger Of the intend
ed honor. The whole family and Gus
were in the parlor when JOHNNY riveted
the attention of all present BY asking
Gus DeSmith:
Have you brought your gimlet with
you9'
Hush, Johnny" said Mrs. Yerger.
Go to bed, sir, remarked Colonel
Yerger
What do you mean, johnny ask
ed Gus.
II don't mean muffin except hoard
pa say you We're coming this even
ing to bore us all. ~ 9eras !SiffiRqs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
Looking 1T the Brighter Side.

Human life is full of its strange ups
and downs. but ii we could only per-
suade ourselves to remember the ups
and forget the downs we should be the
happier for it, We are seldom rs mis-
cradle as we think we are When Il
single hornet stingS us we need not
swear that we ran against hornet 5
nest and that the whole swarm came
out and stung Us until our bodies
swelled to the size of Jumbo. Learn a
lesson from the lrishmau. Two broth
ers were rolling huge leg down hill.
One end rolled faster than the other.
and Pat put his arms around it to stop
it. The log rolled on, however, and
one minute Pat was under the loo
groauing, and the next minute he was
on top OF the log roaring for help His
brother, with q true lrishman's wit.
took in the situation at a glance, and
cried out: ''Hold on tight. Pat. for YOU
are on top half the time any way"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
The Burns Murderer.

Orrin A. Carpenter, one of the wealth
lest. and hitherto one of the most prom
inent and respected citizens of Lincoln,
ILL.,, was arrested on the Goth inst, on
the charge of numbering Fora Burns
She had been employed as domestic
in Carpenters family, and was found
dead near the outskirts of Lincoln, her
body bearing all the evidences of des-
perate murder, her throat having been
cut from ear to ear; her skull was crush
ed in, and her arms bore evidence that
she had had a fierce struggle with her
assailant. Blood stains were found on
Carpenter buggy and on the harness
There appears TO be wide difference
of opinion at Lincoln and elsewhere re-
garding the guilt of Carpenter, who is
under arrest on suspicion of being the
murderer. While the circumstantal
evidence points to him strongly. yet the
fact that his record as man and citi-
zen had always buen clear and honor
able up to the time of his alleged scan
dalous connection with the woman, and
that his kindly disposition and tempera-
ment were the contrary of depravity,
cruelty or a murderous spirit, causes
many people, espe tally those who Were
Intimately acquainted with him, to dis
credit the theory of his guilt. Thus far
no positive evidence has been found in
culpating him. II he is not guilty of
the crime, he is being subjected to an
ordeal that it would seem only the most
courageous innocence on the one hand
or the most calloused depravity on the
other coul successfully withstand 1t
is altogether probable that the horrible
mystery surrounding this tragedy will
in time be fairly solved.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01

generous coating of red paint made
cheaply, or of crude petroleum or even
kerosene will pay for itself ten times
over and anybody can put it on. Boys
will do it well and deem it pleasure if
you win just give them chance. just
cast your eyes around you and begin at
once to get ready for cold weather,
look after the little things, do what you
can to make everybody and everything
comfortable, and if you are not happier,
richer and better for your efforts just
put your experience down as one of the
unaccountable things and try it again
at the first opportunity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01
Reserve Power n Necessity.

1t is not wise to work constantly III
to the highest rate of which we are
capable. If the engineer of the rail
road were to keep the speed of his train
up to the highest rate he could attain
with his engine, it would soon be used
up. 1t horse is driven at the top OF
his speed for any length of time, he is
ruined. 1t is well to try the power, oc
casionally, of a horse or engine, by
putting on all the motion they will
bear, but not continuously. All ma
chinists construct their machines so that
there will be a reserve force. If the
power required is four-horse, then they
make slN-horse power. In this case
it works easily and lasts. long A man
who has strength enough to do twelve
honest hours of labor in twentv-four.
and no more, should do but nine OF
ten hours work.
The reserve power keeps the body in
repair. 1t rounds out the frame TO full
proportions. 1t keeps the mind cheer
full, hopeful, happy. The person with
no reserve force is always incapable OF
taking on any mere responsibility than
he already mas. A little exertion puts
him out of breath. He cannot increase
his work for an hour without danger OF
explosion. Such are generally pale,
dySpeptic, bloodless, nervous, irritable,
respondent, gloomy. We all pity them.
The great source of power in the in
dividual is the blood. 1t runs the ma
chinery of life, and upon it depends oul
health and strength
A mill on q stream where water is
scanty can be worked but portion Of
the time. So man with little good
blood can do but little work. The re-
serve power must be stored up in this
fluid. When the reserve power of an
individual runs low, it is an indication
that a change is necessary, and that il
is best to stop expanding and go to ac-
cumulating, just as the miller does
when water gets low in the pond. Such
a course would save many person
from physical bankruptcy. HeraM Of
Health.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01

Long, slender pins for hats and neck
wear are considered most stylish. dag
gers, canes, baseball bats, aud lawn
tennis raekets. may be mentioned as a
few Of the approved designs.
The newest sleeves are made with
only one seam on the under side of the
arm, and fit closely from shoulder to
wrist. Those made full and gathered
over the shoulder are no longer fashion
able.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01

What are you laughing at my
dear?" asked Mrs. Jones of her hus-
band, who was chuckling over his morn
ing paper. Something | saw here.
he replied. '.but IFS hardly funny
enough for two.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01

Heavy outside garments made Of the
same material accompany all the new
tailor-made suits for the winter.
Gimp and galoon trimmings are much
used with cashmere and other wooden
dresses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01

London contains 100000 Jews and
the finest Jewish library in the world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01

The use of the term
/" Short Line iu com
nection with the corpo-
rate name of a great
read. conveys an idea
of just what's required
by the travelling pub
lic--a short Line, Quick
Time and the Best of
accommodation -alinf
he greatest railway in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-01

An Ohio woman, - years old. has
sued boy of Is for breach Of promise.