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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Tattooed Samoans.

The natives in boats exhibited the
general characteristics of the Polyne-
sian-Maylays. Their faces were clear
of tattoo, but from the loins down over
the hips and thighs to the knees. the
Samoans puncture the color into the
skin in closely dotted mass, with dag
onal lines of bare skin embellishing the
design, which at a distance look almost
like pair of dark pants. The instru-
ments used are usually the spines of
the shaddock tree or bone driven in
with small mallets. Tho colorinp
matter is burned candle nut. The
women do tue tattoo The process is
begun with the men nj the age OF -.
and is slow and painful. As among
their civilized professional brethren.
tnere is coae of honor recognized in
the profession devoted TO this art, and
this code is chiefly applied-so true is
human nature TO all its aspects-to the
maintenance OF AN adequate scale of
fees. A tatsooer VIII sometimes stop
in the middle OF mis- job. leaving the
subject half done. until his pecuniary
demands are satisfied, and no profess
lonal brother can be tempted to cut in
1HV hulSh ZIG business. n Samoan Is
no more able TO walk around for the
rest OF his lie half tattooed than an
Australian masher with one whisker,
and he is therefore obliged to pay up to
the uttermost farthing. Although not
so invariably as in Fiji, the Samoan
men and women do dye their hair vel
low with burned coral, and paint their
I faces red and black. They also shave
the heads of their children, using
sharks teeth for razors, Rubbing or
pressing noses, as with the Maoris. is
\ the form of national salute. They
never eat before 10 or IL o'clock in the
morning, but afterwards have no reg
uiar meal time-eating almost contin-
uously through the day. Melbourne
! Leader.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
4 Talk with Young Men.

Observe that pale young fellow cross
ing the street. You see a good many Of
that kind just now. Some folks say it
is the climate. The truth is, that the
climate of America, with fair chance,
produces not only the best complexion
but the best health in the world.
Did you notice the thing he was car
rying in his mouth? Well, it is that
meerschaum which is doing the BUSH
ness for him. 1t is busy with three mill
ions of our men. Let us study one of
these meerschaum-suckers. We will
take a young man. He shall have money
and plenty of time for sucking. Pale,
nervous, irritable, thin in chest and
stomach, weak in muscle, he is fast los
ing his power of thought and applica-
ton. Let us get near enough to him
to smell of him! Even the beast of
prey will not touch the corpse of a SOL
der saturated with the vile poison.
Nice bedfellow he is for sweet, pure
companion.
Chewing is the nastiest mode, snufling
ruins the voice, but smoking, among
those who have time to be thorough,
is most destructive.
Young X. graduated at Harvard mo
devote of the weed has ever graduated
with the highest honors at that insti-
tGtion', and soon after consulted his
ph siian with reference to his pale
ia Q. emaciation, indigestion, and low
spirits. lie Wi ghcd but one hundred
and eight
stop smoking." was the prescrip-
ton. In four months he had increased
twenty 'ght pounds, and become clear
and healthy in skin. his digestion all
right, and bis spirits restored. One or
TIVE mill ols of our young and middle
aged en- a'e in similar condition,
and would be restored to health and
spirits by the same prescription. On
the Whole, The cigar is worse than the
pipe. Science.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Girls i'm RnSinnSS.

We commend to all girls who wish or
expect to engage in any selfsupporting
occupation, especially where they may
come into competition with men, the
following extract from Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps article, entitled Supporting
Herself" in the st. Nicholas:
"But, girls, if you don't mean to make
thorough business of the occupationl
you have chosen, never, never, 71euer
begin to be occupied at all. Half
fini he'd work will do for amateurs 1t
will never answer for professionals. The
bracket you are sewing for New Years
present can hang a little crooked on its
screws, and you will be forgiven for
the loves sake found therein by the
dear heart to which you offer it; but the
trinkot carved for sale in the Sorrento
rooms must be cut as true as a rose-leaf.
You can be little shally as to your
German declensions in the Schiller
club, which you join so enthusiastically
after leaving school, and no great harm
ever come of it; but teach Schiller for a
living, and for every datiye case forgot
ten you are so much money out of
pocket.
People who pay for a thing demand
thorough workmanship or none To
offer incomplete work for complete
market price, is to be either a cheat
or a beggar. The terrible grinding laws
of supply and demand, pay and receive,
give and get, give no quarter to shilly-
shally labor. The excellence of your
intentions is nothing to the point. The
stress of your poverty has not the slight
est connection with the case. An ed
itor will never pay you for your poem
because you wish to help your mother.
No customer will buy her best bonnet
or her wheat -four of you because you
are unable to pay your rent. When
you have entered the world of trade,
you have entered world where tender
ness and charity and personal interest
are foreign relations. Not for friend
ships sake, nor for PHYS sake nor
for chivalry's sake runs the great
rallying-cry of this great world-but
only 'Udl,te RECEIVED
ut is with sorrow and shame, but yet
with hope and courage, that / write it
there is reason for the extensive COM
plant made by men, that women do not
work thoroughly. / am afraid that, till
time and trouble shall have taught
them better, they will not Is it be-
carse they have never been trained? Is
it because they expect to be married
That it is not in the least because they
can not, we know; for we know that
some ofthe most magnifcently accurate
work in the word has been done by
women.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
My Heart.

They say o woman's heart is like harp,
And like plant that knows blooming
hour;
May be; but mine-not yet hath risen it's
song:
May be; but mine-not yet hath blown its
flower.
Ills true some little, wordless fantasia
May have been Weakened by toying hand: :
Some genial breeze have oped a little bud
A small. white flower like those on lone
woodland.
The music, burdened with granG words
awaits
Some master powerful and passionate;
Ana, dreaming of the royal-hearted sun,
The purple flower sleeps in her veiled state.
But OIL my heart is happy of this hush,
so like the silence of that hour ere dawn:
30 glad TO dream as little shrubs may dream
All winter meath the warm snow on the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
The Law Of Primorenifnre.

1t IS very easy matter to abolish the
law OF primogeniture. In fact, more
than a dozen years ago, when I was a
member of Mr.. Gladstone's first Govern
ment, the question had been discussed.
and a bill was under preparation for
that precise object. and / think myself
that there would be no difficulty what
ever In these days, opinion having
grown and advanced so much, in passing
such measure in the House of Com
mons. / know nothing of the House OF
Lords; but | suspect that even in that
house great change has taken place,
for only the year before last bill of
considerable value in the direction OF
which | am speaking the freedom of
land was brought into Parliament
by Lord Cairns, and passed through
both houses with almost no difficulty.
Well, them we should have the sons
and daughters treated as sons and
daughters, not outcasts. Now, man
leaves, or the law gives, to the eldest
son this handsome estate and this fine
house; and what does it give to the other
sons or the daughters? The law gives,
believe, just nothing. Cheers
What would any man say to father of
family who took his eldest son and
gave him an education, sent him to one
of your good schools in your neighbor-
hood, or Oxford, or Cambridge, or else
where, and gave him the best education
money could give, and left his other
sons and daughters without learning
even so much as their alphabet?
Suppose such case arose, what
would humanity, or what would
the moral sense of the country, say to
disposition like that? Surely if man
was bound to give to his children such
fair education as he can offer them,
surely he is equally bound, from the
means he possesses, to make-I do
not now speak of equal provision
some reasonable and righteous pro-
vision for all his children. II he
neglects or omits to do this, it becomes
the duty of the law, which a Christian
protesting Parliament has made, to
make that provision for them.
The law should be consistent with
natural justice, and with that course
which just and affectionate parent
would have pursued if he had done his
duty. There is no reason why the law
of settlement and entail should not be
80 limited as to be practically abolished
for all mischievous purposes. Trans
fers might be made perfectly simple.
Ships and shares and many vast prop
critics of other kinds can be transferred
almost without cost. A friend of mine
told me last week that he bought a
house in London. He was member of
the House of Commons. There was
no difficulty about the title of deeds or
anything, but the transfer of that house
cost him e200. Why, it might have
been done and not cost him more than |
200 shillings, or less than that.
The amount of business transactions |
would be enormously increased, and |
whenever this new measure of reform |
becomes established as the law of the |
land. | hope the first great measure that
will be undertaken will be to free the |
land of England from these feudal and
ancient claims, and that it will be made |
free, as we succeeded fve-and- thirty
years ago i'll making its produce free
Speech by John BridM
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Domestic Intelligence.

ais Mrs. McSnifter in?" asked Mrs.
Yerger of the servant who took her
card at the McSnifter mansion, on Aus
tin avenue.
"No, she done went out about an hour
ago
Il am sorry to hear that she is out.
When win she be back? ~
Il don't know when she gwinter come
back, but kin run up stairs and ak
her for you. Teras Siffings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Working Around a Point.

About the LIST of July Chicago
fruit buyer went over to St. Joseph,
on the Michigan shore, to view the
peach crop prospects, and he found one
orchard owner who was feeling so very
blue that he said to him:
Now, then, I'll give you check for
$1,000 for your fruit rs it stands"
NO, | couldn't do it" replied the
grower, after some hesitation. .It
would seem to be doubling the Lord. I"
Two weeks after that, when the pros
poets were still poorer, he appeared in
Chicago and said he guessed he would
take the thousand dollars.
But it will be doubling the Lord"
observed the buyer.
Yes it probably will; but I've con-
ciuded to doubt him on peaches, and
make up for it by hanging on to
'taters and cabbage. Val Street
NelCS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
UNRE1EEME1 LANDS.
NOTICE FOR. TAX DEED.
OFFICIALLY
OFFICE OF THE County CLERK. i
Lancaster, Grant Co., Wis,
August 16, 1884. J

scribed lands and Village and city lofs. in the
County OF Grant, and State of Wisconsin. were
sold by the Treasurer of said county, on the 18th
day OF May, 1882, for the delinquent taxes Of
1881:
The amount set opposite each tract OF land,
village or city lot is the amount of tax interest
and charges due thereon, computed up TO the
last day of redemption.
Now, therefore, unless the taxes and charges
are paid, on the following described tracts of
land, village and city lots or before the 10th
day OF May, A. ID. 1885, the same win be con-
veyed by tax deed to the purchasers, according to
the provisions of law.
IABBREvIATIoNs:-E, East: ne, northeast; Sc.
southeastern, west; NV. northwest: sw, south
west; n, north 3. south; com. commencing: beg,
beginning; run, running; &C, acre; blk block; IT,
feet; ks. links; chs, chains; add. addition; pit,
part; adj. adjoining; con. containing; ex, ex-
cept: und, undivided; cor corner; frac, fractional
bd, bounded; tn, thence; sec, section.l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
A Sefenade:

She leans far cut upon the window sill
And battles her fair brow in the cool night
air.
The moonlit street below her feet is still,
Or echoes only to the passer rare.
Far out she leans, her rounded arms CLEAN
white,
Her dainty, rose-hued lips breathe odorous
signs.
And in her deep blue melting eyes the light
Or an unutterabie yearning lies.
Whiie-robed she is, this sentry of the night,
Fair as the vision of young mani dream
At length her eyes with hope fulfilled grew
bright
He comes, she murmured, "and he's got
the cream.
Tho ft1dnn-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
TowN 5. RANGE e.-wYALUsING.
C. W. HILL,

County Clerk Of Grant County. Wis.
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-09
Guardians Sale of Real Estate
In re the Guardianship Of the Estate Of
Juan Cristan, a minor.

Notire Is hereby given that in pursuance Of an
order Of the Superior Court OF the county Of Los
Angeles, State Of California made on the 1st
day Of July, 1884, in the matter Of the auardi-
anship Of the estate Of Juan Cristan, q minor,
the undersigned, Guardian ofsaid minor, will sell
at private sale TO the highest and pest bidder for
cash, gold coin OF the United States, and subject
to confirmation by said Superior Court, on and
after Friday, the z5th day Of July, 1884, all the
right title and interest OF the said minor In and
TO that certain lot situate. lying and being in the
city and the county Of Los Angeles, State Of
California, described as follows, to-wit:
Fronting on the westerly side Of New High
street 80 feet more or less. and having depth OF
about 80 feet more or less; and bounded on the
north by lot Of Guadalupe Gonzalez, on the
south by lot Of Estate OF L. Luchetti, deceased,
and on the west by lots Of vallc, Santa Cruz and
Ortiz, being the same lot formerly owned by
Francisco Duarte Lugo; the interest Of said
minor being an undivided one half Of said lot,
saving and excepting thercirom the southernmost
of two frame rooms In the rear part OF said lot,
with the right Of egress and ingress to and from
said rooms to the street, over said lot.
Terms anu conditions Of sale: Cash, gold coin
Of the United States. Deed at expense Of pur-
chaser. Bids or offers may be made at any time
after the first publication Of this notice. All bids
or offers must be in writing and left with the un
dersigned at his Office No. 24l North Main street,
Los Angeles. JAMES q. KAYS,
Guardian Of the Estate Of Juan Cristan, a miner.
July 8, 1884. jul4td
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-09
s. H. Hersam, Plaintiff,
VS..
Ira Nichols, Administrator, ct al,
Defendants.

The People Of the State Of California send greet.
Ira N chols, administrator, with will annexed,
OF estate Of Hiram Hersam, deceased. Mrs. Sarah
Wallace, May Tucker, Olive Tucker, Samuel
Tucker, Mrs Nancy Frost, Greenleaf Hersain.
Dunn, Arvila Spaulding, Nathaniel Hersam.
Amanda Cummings, Lorano Tucker, defendants.
You are hereby required to appear in an action
brought against you by the above named plain
tin In the Superior Court Of the State Of Califor.
ma, In and for the county OF Los Angeles, and to
answer the complaint filed therein, within ten
days exclusive Of the day Of servicel after the
service on you Of this Summons-if served within
days-or Judgment by default will be taken
plant.
The said action IL brought to recover .
Judgement and decree against you and each Of
you in favor Of the plaintiff, s. II. Hersan, quiet
ing the title in and to those certain tracts Or par
GELS Of land in the county OF Los Angeles and
State Of California. being portions Of the Rancho
Santiago de Santa Ana and described as follows
First-k Of lot 2, block B.. Of the tract sur
veyed by E. X. Nichols In 1871 otherwise de-
scfibed as E. Of the NV. 1 OF the NE. l. Sec
20, T. As, r. 9 W., s. b. M.
Second-Also twenty acres Of SAID Rancho
bounded as follows: Commencing at the SW.
corner Of land formerly owned by Joseph Martin,
thence W. 10 chains; thence N. 20 CHAINS; thence
+. 10 chains; thence s. 20 chains to the point OF
beginning
Reference is had to complaint for particulars.
And you are hereby notified that II you fail to
appear and answer the said complaint as above
required, the said plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded In the complaint.
Given under m, hand and the zeal OF the Su-
perior Court Of the State Of California, in and for
the county Of Los Angeles, this 9Th day Of June,
in the year Of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-four.
ISeal.l A. W. POTTS,
Clerk.
BY E. Fl. OWEN, Deputy.
Bicknell & White, Attorneys for Plaintiff
ipI0 ofn
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-09
A Trick Found Out,

Many people of questionable reputa
ton work their way into the flats and
tenement houses OF the city, and agents
are compelled to be very careful, The
following scheme is said to have been
worked with success by the agent of a
wealthy landlord, until some of the
tenents got on to it. Each month this
agent wonld make his round, and when
he came to the room of any lady OF
questionable character he would famil
iarly chuckle her under the chin. Ii the
person would smile and submit to the
caress, notice to leave was the next
day served upon her; but if, on the other
hand, she resented the insult she was
considered good tenent and allowed to
remain. The plan was worked with
snecess uutil last month, when some one
gave the scheme away. Several of the
girls having been informed of the trick
waited for the agent, and when he came
around last week and indulged in the
usual familiarities each one drew off and
hit him crack in the eye. He is now
looking for another dodge.-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-09
Notice of Application for Wharf
Franchise.

Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned
John +. James, has filed with the Clerk OF tn,
Board Of Supervisors OF the county OF Los An
geles, State Of California, his petition in writing
asking said Board TO grant him authority to con
struct wharf on lands bordering on the navi-
gable creek or arm OF the sea. variousy known
as wilmington Creek, Wilmington Channel
"Wilminton Bay" San Pedro Creek" or the
Timer Bay Of san Pedro" located between the
Wilmington Breakwater and the Palos Yerdes
Rancho Tor the shore bounding the same), in the
said county Of Los Angel and also to construct
bridge or approach to the same, with license
TO take tolls for the use Of said wharf for the
term Of twenty years; and that application will
be made by the undersigned TO the said Board at
the supervisors room. IN the Court House, in
the city Of Los Angeles, In said county, on Mon.
day, the 9TH day OF July A. ID. 1884. at 10
o'clock A. NJ, for grant Of such authority with
said license. The location Of said proposed wharf
Is as follows: Commencing ut a point from
which the southeastern corner Of the Pacific
Coast Steamship C0mpany's wharf as now con.
structed In said creek, bears N. 25' 90 T., dis
tant 44g feet: thence running s. s5' 90 w. 275
feet to the northeastern corner OF the wharf To-
cation Of W. H. Perry, described In the fran
chise granted to him by said Board on January
sth, 1884, and recorded in Franchise Book /.
pages SO ct seq; thence at right angles N. o.
40 W. 70 feet to the northwestern corner OF said
wha'f location OF W. II. Perry; thence at right
angles 25' 20 3. 275 feet to a point; thence at
right angles 3. 81 40 +. rs feet TO the place Of
JOHN y. JAMES.
Dated at Los Angeles, June 9Th. 1884.
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-09

T. H. GOODMAN,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
A. N. TOWNE,
General Manager.
4. +. HEWITT,
Assistant Superintendent. Los Angeles
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-09
Notice Of Presentation,

To I. W. Hellman, Jose Mascarel, Phillip,
GARNER, Pic Pico, Sostenes Sepulyeds. Fran
cisco Uribo de ocampo, Cenaida Euriquez.
You and each Of you are hereby notified tina
on Wednesday, July 18th, 1884, at 10 o'clock a
N OF that day, the undersigned, as Cit,
Attorney Of the City Of Los Angeles, u municipa
corporation, will, In the name OF and for and il
behalf Of said corporation, present to In,
Superior Court OF the County Of Los Angeles
State Of California, at the Court House In tn,
City Of Los Angeles, In said County and State
and in the court room Of the said Court Uouss
In which Hon. II. NJ Smith, prosides as one Of
the Judges OF said court, petition In writing
praying Tor the condemnation for public use
viz, for public street. Of that realty described
IN said petition and sought TO be condemned
which said realty Is described az follows:
Situated In the City u Los Angeles County Of
Los Angeles, State Of California, and more
particularly described thus. All that real prop.
erty lying, being and situated In the City OF Los
Angeles, County OF Los Angeles, state Of Cali.
fornia bounded and described as follows. to wit:
Commencing at a point being the Sc corner Of
an adobe building. the property OF |. W Holman
and Jose Mascarel; said point being the south
srn extremity OF the westerly boundary line of
Negro Alley, and running thence along the west
erly boundary OF Negro Alley N 81 n h 27l-l0
feet to the northern extremity OF said westerly
boundary line of Negro Alley; thence N So 10
W 9s 10 feet 10 the point Of intersection Of said
last described course, with right line drawn
from the NE corner OF the Arcadia Block TO the
extreme eastern extremity Of the elliptical fence
the old Plaza grounds: thence along
said line, drawn from Arcadia Block to the
Plaza, s 81 3D. W 262. 81. feet to the point Of
intersection Of said last described line drawn
from Arcadia Block TO the Plaza, with the south
erly boundary of the adobe building, lying bo
tween Sanchez street and Negro Alley; thence
along said southern boundary Of said adobe
building s So sb' u li8.i0 feet TO the point Of
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-09
what do You Gan EN-.

Nm Mr.. Raynor Of Belfast, who was
Nm yesterday, we learn that after
qhard rain Fridayhight he discovered
l1roand covered with peculiarly
,eI11essd worm which varies In sizs
~ than one inch 10 four inches in
- cad one half inch Ia circumfer.
~ says that the ground at this
= literally covered with them for u
:1noe Of three miles. They are Of q
la color with yellow on the under
y and have from twenty -four TO thirty
y each. They strip all vegetation they
~ IL contact with and have the same
buIiarity noted Of the cricket, in
flng : direct course and keepMg IL.
~ cross streams by swimming and
N TO live equally as we'll In water Ms
Ind. He says they are travelling in a
jrlAerly direction, aud Wednesd " he
"A great trouble In keeping them outof
h house. These worms were not seen
y alter the storm Friday, and his theory
Nat they were rained down. We have
Ion 10 several concerning the visit OF
- very strange insects and they say
~ never heard OF such a thing before
q fFom the description, never saw q
~ with similar peculiarities OF con
1etion and instincts. Who knows
~ name and where they come from'
4 knssen, Cai), Advocate, June 20.