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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19
Hints to Housekeepers.

Never let your children come to the
won't undertake to do all the talking.
This you should make a law when you
have company. You are never safe
with the children at the table. If there
is anything you don't want known it
will be told by them. The boy who
never noticed that the spoons were
plated will shout, as though giving you
valuable information:
20, see the gold coming through the
spoonsr'
And that same boy will say he wishes
it was Sunday, and when your guests
ask him why. he will reply:
Because we always have pie SUM-
dav.n
You will find out he knows great
deal that you never suspected he knew,
and you will be at loss to ascertain
how lie ever equipped himself with the
facts. A boy at the table is we'll
spring of displeasure. If his sister is.
kissed by any one he is always the per-
son to witness the performance, and
tells of it before crowd. He is al
ways the one to give to the world the
fact that his sister uses powder, wears
false teeth. and is 30 years old. If there
is a mortgage on the place, the boy
hears YOU speak of it, and then goes
around talking about it as though it
were something to be pointed to with
pride and pleasure. Everything YOU
say in the bosom of your family that
should not be repeated the boy repeats.
and he always has the faculty of re-
peating it at the wrong time and to the
wrong person.
Ii YOU say the clergyman's sermons
are too long or too dry, the boy will
take it all in. and say nothing until the
clergyman comes around to max his
regular visit, and then he will let it ont
Just after you have entered the room.
If YOU say the doctor is not fit to cure
hams, he will jump up on the doctors
knee, when he calls, and cunningly
say:
20, doctor. mamma says you amt
lit to cure hamsp'
The old adage that boys viii be boys
ought TO be changed to boys will be
| iiends. One boy is more bother than
| half n dozen girls. The boy is always
| IA mischief. When he is at school he
Is Studying up some kind of deviltry TO
perpetrate when school is out Or else
nc is playing tricks on the teacher.
When he is at home he is twisting the
eats tail, or disturbing her hearth
= one dreams with bean-shooter. Ii
nse is no cat to torment he will tor
s.;lt his tile sister by making faces
/ her or dressing the dog up in her
| I0.ls clothes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19
Better Than a Dagger.

They sat on opposite sides of the
street-car. and he settled himself back
for long stare at her. He began at
the feather of her hat. and had got as
far down as her throat when she could
stand il no longer She didn't ring
the bell and leave the car in a huff;
neither did she change her seat to
avoid his impudent stare. She had al
ready paid her fare, but she felt for her
nurse, took from it silver dollar. and
extending it to the fellow che sM eetly
asked:
"Will you please pay my fare?"
.Aw-oh - certainly with pleas
ure," he replied, and he showed the
dollar to the driver.
Driver shook his head.
"Changer shouted the man.
mo good that's counterfeit!
The man turned red and green and
blue and crushed strawberry, He in
spected the dollar and saw that the
driver WAS right After painful mo-
ment he slipped it into mis- vest pocket,
hshed ont dollar bill, and when the
change had been givegi him he handed
| the lady % cents and Teireated to the
| back platform to swear.
Il will send it to some charity. y
| whispered the lady to her left-hand
neirhbor .The object was to get rid
of his impndent presence; it is an ex-
pertinent that never fails. Detroit
Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19
Training i'm Amusement.

Oliver Wendell Holmes suggests that
kittens were evidently made to play
with their tails, and we may fairly sup
pose that, if those pliable appendages
were cut of. kittens would do their best
to play with the abbreviated stumps.
Given. however, the fact that the
amusement faculty is there, like every
other faculty it needs education and d :
rection. While most parents are so
licitous about the health of their child
rem, and the way it is affected by late
hours of mild dissipation, is it not de-
sirable to consider amusements in re-
lation to character as wellp Is not
simplicity beautiful in the speech and
manner of childhood, and is it not so
in their dressp That may be pretty
without being snowy, and good with
out marks of extravaganza in cost.
When we think how Partisan and other
foreign ideas affect American taste. we
may well deplore the pernicious habit
of spending large sums in most expen-
sive toys for children, and larger sums
on children's costumes. This is a
question. not of beauty, nor of taste,
for these are appropriate in the dress
of childhood. But the selfish waste in
costly garments made for some enter
tainment in which children take part
has to be considered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19
Bubble Parties.

Bubble parties are expected 10 be re-
vived again this winter in adult fash
ionable circles. Some years ago they
We're a craze among youths and child
rem. They did not recommend them
selves to older persons because they
were superficial and not very solid
form of amusement. BY surrounding
them with elaborate preparations such
as feasting, dancing. and music, how
ever, it is calculated to bring them up
to the necessary-dignity of fashiona-
Die indulgence for grown persons. At
bubble party on the south side list
week there We're fifty invited guests
present. The invitations were for
o'clock. The guests assembled around
the dining-room table, upon which lay
generous pile of white clay pipes,
decorated each with a different colored
ribbon.
A large bowl of lather made of pure
white CASTLE soap reposed in the CEN
ter of the board. As many as desired
participated in the sport. The hostess
held in her hand a large box containing
prizes for the largest bubble, the most
symmetrical bubble, the smallest buh-
BILE, the bubble which should retain its
form longest. the bubble which should
evaporate quickest, and, finally, the
best cluster of bubbles Three Judges
were selected, furnished with pen and
paper and the names of those who en-
tered. The prizes consisted of bon
bons in boxes, slippers, and fancy
pipes. The sport was very amusing.
10 make bubbles at all requires some
experience, and to make them well
calls for skill. One lady carried off
four prizes for the largest, the most
symmetrical, and the smallest bubble,
also the one which held its form long
est. She evoked great applause b.
forming the latter in the pipe. and
then by skillful movement of the
hand freeing it and sending it sailing
in mid-air. She then held out her
bare, round arm and dexterously
caught the bubble on her delicate skin,
where it reposed for several seconds
before evaporating.
After the bnbble-blowin was over a
light repast OF chocolate, ices, cake,
and fruits was served, followed by vo-
cal and instrumental music, the enter
tainment concluding with dance.
For SO light species of amusement
there is no little opportunity in q bub-
BILE party to pass time pleasantly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19

the churches in the metropolis. He
had shrewd notion of what had oc-
CURED; but they were spared further
trouble by carriage stopping at the
door. and presently Martin and the
late Millie Waters stood in his injured
presence.
But, strange to say, Martin was an
altered man. He no longer wore SER
wants dress; the hideous patches had
disappeared from his face, and he was
In all respects the perfect gentleman.
Barby gave vent TO his rage, and
when his emotions had subsidized the
ci-divant Martin informed him that
when he found out that he had de-
termined upon his setting his face
against all his wards suitors lie had
adopted the disguise and served in the
capacity of a mental for the sake of her
ne loved, and proved to MIR. Barby's
iuil satisfaction that his character and
fortune entitled him to the lady's hand.
Barby was COMPOUNDED, but knowing
that what had been done could not be
undone, he shook hands with his ward
and her husband, and contented him.
self with saying;
What afool | was that should have
believed it to have been Kiss by Mis-
take. ~ PHILADELPHIA Call.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19
How Cholera Travels.

The disease is best known in Europe
under the names of cholera, cholera
morbus, Asiatic cholera, since the cpl
demic of 1917 to 1919, in which the
English Army, under the command of
the Marquis of Hastings during a war
against the natives. was rendered unfit
for fighting and almost annihilated.
But cholera has never visited Europe
till the present century, when in 1880
it appeared in Russia and spread to
Poland, where war was prevailing.
Since that time, sometimes at longer
and sometimes at shorter intervals,
cholera has sometimes appeared in
Europe. The question why cholera re-
manned thousand years in India, be-
fore it began to migrate is one of great
interest, but one which cannot be sat
isfactorily answered. The principal
consideration appears to me to be that
the event happened at the time when
intercommunioation in all directions,
both by land and water, had become
more rapid. The first steamship APP
peared in the Indian waters at the be-
ginning of the second decade of the
present century. BY land also inter-
course was greatly accelerated. The
Russians possibly took cholera from
India, Arabia, Afghanistan, or Persia,
through couriers and stage-coaches. 1t
soon became clear that cholera, the
specific cholera-germ, was in some way
or other propagated along the paths of
human intercourse, and it also became
evident that unless the germs found a
suitable soil within a certain time they
did not flourish. Observers soon dis
covered that cholera was more prone
to appear in certain regions and affect
certain localities, while it stunned
other districts; and, again, that other
regions were only visited at intervals
of many years. 1t is also fact that
Asiatic cholera never yet appeared at a
place which had not previously been
in communication with region where
cholera prevailed; and, further, that
the disease from an infected locality
never yet passed on to another place if
the journey lasted certain time with
out interruption. The large inter-
course between India and Europe, more
particularly England, by means of ships
which sailed round the Cape of Good
Hope, had never succeeded in carving
cholera from India to England. DR..
Mac con Pettenkofer, in Popular Sci
eace Monthly for February.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19

There are 11S, 995 English school
fesehcrs, nearly all of whom are spin
Sters.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19
Church Manners.

while we are upon this subject, we
wish to call attention to two matters
in which the majority of congregations
might easily improve their manners
and add to the impressiveness of the
services. 1t is common habit when
the audience are to stand during the
singing of hymn, to wait until the
first line is begun, and then ruin the
verse by the confusion of the rising.
Again, during the latter part of the
last verse the Gathering of books into
the pew-racks before the close of the
song is a serious interference with all
devotional effect, and especially so
when that opportunity is seized for the
putting on OF wraps, rubbers, etc. No
one would do this during the closing
sentences of a prayer; why should it be
done during tho ascription Of praise to
God? Hundreds, yea, thousands of
Christian people thus thoughtlessly
mar the song worship in the sanctuary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19

All Ii. of La Porte. Cal. is the
wealthiest Chinaman in America, hay-
inc modest b, 100000 to his credit.
His family consists of wife and six
children, and he has sent them back to
the Celestial Kingdom to live perma-
nehtly, whittier III viii follow them as
soon as he settles up his business. He
made his money in the mines and in
trade, and is going home to enjoy it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19
Under the Snow.


Under the snow the feet PAGERS glide,
side,
Urging their racers to marvellous speed,
Passing each other with gall0ping steed
These are the riders that winter days go
In swift line OF beauty over the snow.
Over the snow the tired footmen go.
some from their shops arc walking home
slow.
This is the season when farmer and son
Rest by the freside for labor Is done;
over TO town the farmer viii drive.
Bcatiug his fingers 10 keep them alive.
over the snow the hungry Will 60
once they we're wealthy, you never may
II trouble, or sickness, or pain brought them
Theirs is the class to dread the cold snowi
All, II we knew what had led them Of late
10 let 80 their foothold and quarrel with
H.
Under the snow where the flowers yearly co.
Nothing can hinder-tde world is made sol
ne rarest Of gardens in sunshine one day,
~ sure to IND winter in passing away.
Under the snow DO cur loved sleep as one,
Testing and silent with fe's duty done.
Under the snow we viii soon all be placed
Aoiaea our hands, and form heavenward
Dreaded or hopeful. our turn viii arrive,
IN JOY or IN sorrow with friends left alive
O, al are immortal, but mortal as well,
tell.
III.
over the snow are the pleasures we find,
Under The snow may be Joy more refined;
blended Mt last with the earth under snow.
" no shall sleep sweetest, the high or the
lowY
Who shall live longest, the great or the
sma.lY
Like the end Of a King IS the end Of us ALL
Under thc snow la honor lets 70.
iLiNng and loving and sganding life so,
thht years Hfter going me fond friends
viii say:
For one he was noble and brave every day.
He made the world better, and lived such
part.
That stamped his fond image Of good In my
heart.
Under the snow! Breathe it once low,
a rest Tor al'sarrQw. balm for all Voc!
meeting hey ond with the oy Ell gene before
a parting 20 BRIEF that it soon viii be DER.
Heaven grant us the blessing when we are to
40.
That our lives be as stainless and harmless as
Snow.
Harry Hildreth
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19

1t is now said that the Rev. ID. Bur-
chard, so widely known on account
of his famous and foolish ..rum, roman
ism, and rebellion utterance, is des-
cendant OF the DR.. Burchard who many
years ago was so effectually snubbed b.
Aaron Burr. As the story goes, DR..
Burchard was annoyed because Col.
Burr came late to service in squeaking
boots. One Sunday the doctor publicly
reproved the offender. laying: You
have been guilty of criminal otfense
against the Almighty, sir, and on the
.;,st great day shall appear at the bar
uf God as your accuser. This was
very impressive. but Burr was equal
10 the occasion. Pausing at the door
cf his pew. he smilingly said: In the
course OF large aud varied criminal
practice. doctor, have observed that
the greatest criminals are always the
irst to turn states evidence. All the
i,urchards seem to have talent for
getting into hot water.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19

An electrical instrument that will
register the temperature II Pixies Peak
and Mount Washington in the Chief
Signal Service office at Washington
threatens TO supersede the army of
signal station men of the country.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-18
DON'T DELAY,

DUT 90 and see the largest and handsomest
I'D stock of Jewelry, Watches, Silverware and
Fancy Goods ever exhibited in Chester. Bar
gains in GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.
If you want to buy an engagement Ring, We'd
ding, Birthday or Christmas present, call OH Z.
C. STAIN, you will find an endless variety of
presents, from % cents to $3.50.
Just received for the lovers of art, Steel En-
cravings Oil Paintings and Photographs.
Hanging Lamps, Student and new patent Fan
Lamps giving light equal to gas light.
Remember all goods are sold under guarantee
to be as represented. No wish for the purchaser
to be deceived. We call gold, gold; and brass,
brass. My prices are as low as the lowest for
reliable goods Long years experience and am
pie capital enable me to buy at lowest prices, and
will not be undersold by any one.
Cash purchasers of Watches, Sewing Machines
and Organs can secure special Bargains, as 1
want to reduce my large stock.
An improved high arm Machine. drop-eaf and
drawers and all attachments, warranted years,
for $500.
WATCH REPAIRING receives my personal
attention. Satisfaction guaranteed at moderate
prices. Orders by mail promptly attended to.
Respectfully, Z. c. STAIN,
Chester, S. C.
November q al 1y
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-18

Mr.. JONES GOES SHOPPING.-"Jeptha," "
said Mrs. Jones, as her husband rose from
the dinner table, II wish you would get me
some skeins of embroidery silk at some of
the dry goods stores, and save me from go
ing down town to-day"
"All right" said Jones, airily; what
color do you want?"
40, a mixed gray and black, something
like your hair" said Mrs. Jones, pleasantly.
The first store that Jones went into the
girls stood in line behind the silk counter,
and looked him over as he approached he
felt cold chills running up and down his YER
tebrse, his knees shook and clammy per-
spiration started out on his noble brow as he
asked for embroidery silk. .'...--
"'sWhat cOlor?" asked one of the sales
ladies, as she smiled sweetly at Jones' mus
tache. q
''Just the color of your hair" he said in a
soft, .beseeching tone, that sounded like a
cat tapping cream.
And then he saw change come over the
face of the girl, even as thunder storm
turned her back to him, pulled down a box,
slammed it on the counter, jerked off the
cover and revealed mass of scarlet silks.
Jones started. ... E .... ......- ....'..
Good heavens! The girl had fiery red
hair. ara
He made his peace with her finally, and
got out of the store alive. He said it was
his own hair he meant, and he took off his
hat humbly, and she got the mixed skeins
and gave them to him with his change.
''It would have saved you some trouble if
you had told me in the first place that you
wanted silks the color of singed owl, !" she
said; sweetly. ... g..
Jones says it was hair breadth escape for
him. {. a. r"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-18

THE MANAGEMENT OF HEAVY CLAYS.-
Though vegetable matter is highly impor-
tant for heavy clays, it does not follow that
green manuring is always helpful to immedi-
ate fertility. We have known large groWths
of fodder corn and Hungarian grass ploWed
under late in the season, when the wheat
crop following was rather injured than
benenefitted. In some cases it makes the
soil too porous, thus causing it to absorb
and retain a large amount of water, which
alternately expands and contracts by freez-
ing and thawing. In other instances the
green manure plowed under late in the
fall turns sour, forming the green scum on
the surface which is the common indication
that acid is being generated to poison all
vegetable life. When green manure is
plowed under earlyIin the season, however,
it never fails to produce good results. Its
fermentation not only increases heat, in
which heavy soils are deficient, but it dis
integrates the particles of soil and thus
makes available much plant food that would
otherwise have been locked up in the clods.
While it is true that these green manures
give back to the soil no mineral elements
not first taken from it, yet the fact is un-
doubted that soils abounding in clay will
endure this exhausting process longer than
any others. That which heavy soil most
suffers from is a system of cultivation and
cropping which eXhausts their due proper
ton of vegetable matter. When this is
gone the labor of tilling is greatly increased
as the crop is leSsened.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-18
Anlnoruns department.
BRINGING A CASE TO A FOCUS.

Blowser and Brimble are two quarrelsome
neighbors in Virginia City, Nevada. The
other day Blowser called Brimble, who is
rather thin, a "desiccated coyote" Brim-
BILE made minute statement and then went
to lawyer to see if he could not have
BloWser arrested for libel. The disciple OF
Blackstone, Coke and :.'Auld Clootie" ran
his legal eyes over the old parchment cover
of Brimble's ''soul case" and shook his
head. II fear" said he with sigh, "that
it is not actionable."
"No?" said Brimble. "What then can l
do with BloWser 2" ~as,.,...- =. ......
"Nothing, as matters stand; but we may
manage to bring things to focus in some
way that will give us hold upon the fel-
low. You 60 back to him and call him a
posthumous pumpernickel. Try that to be-
gin with; then, if necessary, we may ad-
vance to something stronger and still not
render ourselves LIABLE"
"Call him posthumous pumpernickle,
shall II" ,.... ...-
"Yes; I think We'll start out on that, and
if it does not bring him to focus actiona-
BILE we will then proceed to brand him as
'stultus schnadahupf' or a gutta percha
gansbauch." I
"Well, as to the sposthumous pumper-
Nickel shall I say it to his face?"
''To his teeth-throW it into his very
teethn'
An hour later Brimble came back to his
legal adviser with watch fob cut over his
left eye, two front teeth knocked out, and
his upper lip puffed out beyond the end OF
his nose.
"Ah, cried the wielder of legal thunder
bolts, rubbinghi hands with satisfaction as
he gazed upon the dilapidated visage of
his client-Ah! I already see the first fruits
of our little stratagem. Now we begin to
stand on solid ground. We may now open
our guns upon Blowser on charge of as
sault and battery. I'll get him fined $40
and shall not charge you over 500 or $25 to
carry the whole business through"
"But, must I pay $50 and then only get
him fined $1O?"7 - s''s..
II must acknowledge, my dear fellow,
that such is the situation as the case now
stands; but you may 60 back-now while he
is hot and reckless-and call him gutta
percha gansbauch, and the result will
probably justify US in bringing charge
OF assault with intent to murder"
"No," sadly said Brimble, II guess I'll
not proceed beyond the posthumous pump
ernickeP to day, I feel like, taking rest
before commencing the 'gansbauch' busi-
ness. ."-Dan DeQuille in Near York San.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-18
The farm aid fireside.

PROFIT IN FRUIT DRYING.-Whenf fruit
sells too low for profit it is time to preserve
it and reap treble gains. The quickest and
cheapest ways of keeping fruit will be found
most profitable, and are the only ways in
which grower can work off crop in time
to save, it.. Dried fruit is easily handled,
and is coming back into favor with the
knowing housekeepers, who recognize good
things and know how they should be cook
ed. No expense for evaporators is necessa-
ry. l long since made up my mind that
eyaporated fruit is inferior to sun-dried in
flavor, and talking with old dealers in fam
lily stores find they prefer the sun dried for
their own use. The best cook I ever knew
saws the same, and there is reason for it..
The sun ripens and develops sugar and
flavor in cut fruit dried in its rays. To have
nice quality OF dried fruit, select firm nice
ripe specimens, wipe clean, pare and cut
with silver knives, as steel turns them black
on the edges, and hurry into the sun as fast
as they can be prepared. =,
The cheapest and best way of drying fruit
is to lay it on lengths of coarse cloth, sus-
pended on frame out of doors, in full sun,
with white mosquito netting over to keep
off shreds and insects. This allows the air
to reach both sides of the, fruit at once, and
when you want to turn it, the whole can be
swung over on another cloth, leaving the
first ready for a new batch. Apples should
be cored, pared and cut in eight pieces:
Peaches should not be pared, for the richest
flavor is lost with the skin. They should
have the fur removed by dipping. baskets of
them moment into weak boiling lye of
wood ashes or common potash, and wiping
with coarse towels. Common peaches only
need be cut in halves to dry. We had
peaches dried in this way last winter, which
when cooked would be hard to tell from the
best canned peaches in looks, with richer
favor.-Lick's Magazine.