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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02
In the pursuit OF the good things of

In the pursuit Of the good things of
this world we anticipate too much; we
eat out the heart and sweetness of
worldly pleasures by delightful fore
thought of them. The results obtained
from the use of DR.. Jones Red Clover
Tonic far exceed all claims. 1t cures
dyspepsia, and all stomach, liver, kidney
and bladder troubles. 1t is a perfect
tonic, appetizer, blood purifier, sure
cure for ague and malarial diseases
Price so cents, of Il. w. Bryan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

F.W. Bryan, Druggist, will refund the
price paid if Acker's Blood Elixir does
otrelieve any skin or blood disorder A
new, but thoroughly tested discovery. 5
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02
Special Reading Notices.

L. w. Bryan, Druggist, distinctly
states that Acker's English Remedy has
and does cure contracted consumption
Ask for circular. An entirely new
medicine, guaranteed. 4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02
THOUSANDS SAY SO-Mr r W

THOUSANDS SAY SO.-Mr. r. W.
Atkins, Girard, Kan, writes Il never
hesitate to recommend your Electric
Bitters to my customers, they give en-
tire satisfaction and are rapid sellers. .
Electric Bitters are the purest and best
medicine known and will positively cure
Kidney and Liver complaints. Purify
the blood and regulate the bowels. No
family can afford to be without them,
They will save hundreds of dollars in
doctors bills every year. Sold at fifty
cents bottle by STONE u HAssELL.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02
Grant County Aerald.
wALTER 0. CHANDLER, EDITOR and Proprietor.

The British in the Soudan are employ
ing balloons to make observation OF the
whereabouts and movements of IN
Mahdi's forces. Balloons may be found
TO be of very valuable assistance to the
British in getting out of the Soudan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

Dubuque papers are showing up the
swindling ways of the Acme Coulter
company, of that city, which inyeigles
honest farmers into signing an order for
Zone coulter free, " and which contains
a sub rosa clause by which the farmer
at the same time orders % coulters at
$3.50 each which are not so free. The
best way is for farmers not to sign any
thing mot even sine die.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

F.W Bryan, Druggist, states that indi-
gestion prepares every one for disease,
but guarantees Ackers Dyspepsia Tab
lets to cure all forms of indigestion. 6
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

OF course it was Hii,ernian anc-
tioneer who sad of set of mourning
lewelry whicl, he was TRYING to dispose
OF that it was "iust the sors Of article
he would purchase for hi, wife ii she
werea widow
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

THEsE is nothing, sententiouslv re-
marked a lawyer tue other day. that
will cling SO long to man in this world
as experience.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

The line is being drawn at Higgins.
All the other appointments of President
Cleveland have been received by the
country with that profund acquiescence
that comes of the densest ignorance re-
garding them; but Higgins is red rag.
He is known to be a Democrat of the
old Baltimore plug-ugly stripe, and his
appointment as Appointment Clerk in
the Treasury is the only tangible thing
that the press has been able to seize
upon, and it has seized upon it for keeps.
lie is being tossed up in blanket, so to
speak, and the lorgnettes of fifty million
people are levelled at Higgins. If he
escapes from the Treasury department
alive, his fortune is made in the dime
museums
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

Mexican chamber maids are, it is
said, invariably Indian boys.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

A NAN may talk continually and not
be eloquent; sound and substance are
not twins.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01
passages through which the ancient

passages through which the ancient
towers rose to the surface. The proof
of this origin is conclusive. Around
the valleys in which they stand rise
lofty tables or plateaus known in the
west as mesas. These are capped with
heavy sheets of basalt, aud beneath
them are the s4ratifed sandstones and
shales of the western coal fields In
the walls and upon the slopes of these
mesas may be seen many of those
chlmneys in every stage of partial
dlslnterment, some nearly excavated,
some half disentombed, and some just
beginning TO appear, as the mesa
walls still have remnants of the old
cIader cones upon their SUBMITS.
while from those which are wholly or
IN the greatest part excavated all traces
of the clnder cones have disappeared.
Thus the veritable roots of the ancieut
volcanoes are unearthed and laid open
to the inspection Of the geologist.
The locality where these volcanic
''necks" (for this is the technical name
given them by geologists) are seen
lies along the eastern flank of Mount
Taylor, one of the great extinct vol
canoes of the west. 1t is about sixty
miles west of Rio Grande, and seven
ty miles northwest of Albuquerque.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01
RAILROADS IN 1880.
An Amusing Prediction of Their
Coming Use by a StockheIder i'm q

An Amusing Prediction of Their
Coming Use by a Stockhelder i'm q
Canal.
The New York Gazette of Sept. 90.
1880, gives the following humorous
argument, which, it says, was used
by canal stakeholder in opposition
railroads: HE saw what would be
the effect of it; that it would set the
whole world a. gadding-twenty miles
an hour, sir! Why, you will not be
able to keep an apprentice boy at bis
work; every Saturday he must take q
trip to Ohio to spend the sabbath with
his sweetheart. Grave, Flooding citi-
zens will be flying about like comets.
All local attachments must be at an
end 1t will encourage flightiness of
intellect. Various people will turn
into the NEST Unreasonable liars; all
their conceptions will be exaggerated
by the muni6ceRt notions of distance
-'only hundred miles eff! Tut.
nonsense, I'll step across, madam, and
bring your FAM Pray, sir, will you
dine with me to-day, at my little box
at Allegheny Why, indeed, I don't
KNOW shall be In town until ID.
Well, I shall be there, but you must
let me off in time for the theater.'
And then. sir, there will be barrels of
pork and cargoes of -four and chald-
rOns of coal, and even lead and whis-
ky and such like sober things. that
have always been used to sober
travelling, whisking away like a set
OF sky-rockets. 1t will upset all the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01

gravity of the nation. If a couple of
gentlemen have an affair of honor,
they have Only to steal off to the
Rocky mountains and there no juris-
diction can touch them. And then,
sir, think of flying from debt. a set
of bailiffs, mounted on bomb-shells,
would not overtake an absconding
debtor-only give him fair start.
Upon the whole, sir, it is pestilentiai
topsy-turvy, harum- starum whirligig.
Give me the the old, solemn, straight
forward, regular Dutch canal-three
miles an hour for expresses and two
for jog or trot journeys a yoke
of oxen for a heavy load l go for
beasts of burden; it is more primitive
and SCI iptural, and suits mural az 4
religious people better None of your
hop, skip, and jump WITNESSES for
me. y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01
A Coyote on the Highway.

The driver of the stage between
Butte and Boulder had quite an ad
venture with a wounded coyote on
his trip out the other day. When a
short way out he saw coyote stand,
ing In the road some distance from his
team Having his rifle with him he
fired at the beast, wounding it in the
breast, and also breaking one of it's
forelegs. He then drove up to where
the coyote was kicking around in the
dust of the road, and got down from
the wagon to finish the job by klckin g
Mr.. Coyote in the head. AS he start
ed around the head of the team the
wounded aniraal made dash at the
nearest horses leg, which he was
about to seize when met by the drivers
heavy boot. This only seemed to in
crease the rage of the beast, which
now turned on the driver and tried
to get at kis threat. The driver sue
ceeded in keeping the coyote away
until he got back into his wagon. He
then commenced to put a cartridge
into his rife, but had hardly got
started when, happening to look
around, he. saw the coyote in the
wagon, not two feet from where he
stood. making toward him with snap
ping jaws and blood-shot eyes. Not
having time to finish loading. be
dubbed his rife and by lucky blow
knocked the beast off the wagon. The
coyote again attempted to reach him,
but the gun was soon loaded and it's
contents fired into the body of the
beast, putting an end to its life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01
WHAT ALLIED HIM.

He wandered about in an aimless way,
He looked like man in distress.
He tried to be happy, to smile and be gay,
But somehow he'd lost the address.
He couldn't catch on with the moving Chrong,
That any one round him could see;
He seemed like a bird that had lost its song
His pantaloons bagged at thu knee.
The sun wouldn't shine in the sky for him,
AS it did for another man;
He came and he went at his fortunes whinn,
As he ended where he began.
The roses he plucked all faded and died,
The servant put salt in his tea;
The wish of his heart was ever denied
His pantaloons bagged at tue knee.
He saw one by one his hopes and his fears
Go into the glimmering past,
For life gave him neither it's joys or its tears,
And he laid down his cross at last,
With bitter curse on the human plan,
Which devised snch hard decree,
That the world could find no use for man
Whose pantaloons bagged at the knee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01
Ancient VeItanic Relies.
Boston Herald .

During the past summer Captain G..
E. Dutton, of the geological survey,
has been studying some remarkable
relics of ancient volcanic action in
the northwestern portion of New
Mexico. They consist of a multitude
of needle-like peaks rising cut of the
broad valley bottoms to attitudes vary
ing from 1, 900 to 2, 200 feet. They are
called chimneys by the residents.
They are composed of black basaltic
lava, having a beautiful columnar
structure like the basalt of the Giants
cause way. They are remnants of lava
which once rose up oat of the earth
through the strata and CONCEALED in
the volcanic pipes or vents. La later
periods the strata which inclosed them
have been dissolved away and remov-
ed by the general erosion Of the coun-
try, leaving these basaltic cores pro-
ieeting many hundreds of feet in the
air, as casts of the volcanic pipes or
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01

The following is from an editorial
in tie January Century on ''The
Newspaper and the Organ: eff, be-
sides the newspapers, there must be
partisan organs, these ought to be
distinct and separate In their field of
operations-as distinct as the news
paper and the monthly magazine now
are. Absolute independence of par
tisan trammels in it's news pages,
whatever may be the bias of it's ed
itorial columns, should be the rule of
every newspaper worthy of the name.
The organ need not be more untruth-
full than the partisan newspapers are
now. It is to be hoped that it would
not. But at least the onerous task of
lying, misrepresenting and traducing
characters and motives could be put
upon the politicians who manage the
other departments of political work
not dissimilar to this. The frequent
appearance during heated contests of
ephemeral cam paign dailies, run di
rectly by the campaign committees,
shows that the politicians will be
ready to take up this work as soon as
the newspapers will be ready to lay it
down Tee division of labor here
pleaded for would render it no longer
necessary for great journals when the
quadrennial madness is upon them,
to publish barefaced falsehoods in
their news pages, and to permit dis
tinct lowering of the tone Of their
editorial views for PARTISAN ends.
There is much In the history and
present attitude Of both of the leading
political parties which honest ad-
herents cannot justify, and they will
not always submit to seeing news
papers, so called, complacently prais-
ing good and bad alike.
1.-THE work of the organs and the
newspapers thus separated, the for
mer would naturally be published at
Washington, Albany, Harrisburg,
Tree ton, and other centers of political
interest, while the newspapers would
yanain IN New York, Boston, Phila-
del phia, and the other great centers
of population. The Intelligent reader
and voter might like both an organ
and a newspaper to consult; just as
he might at table like both soup and
fish; but as he does not want his soup
and fish in the same dish, he will pre-
fer his organ and his newspaper to be
entirely distinct and different enter
prises. Each is well enough in it's
way, but their ways are not the same,
and cannot be made So"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01
Two Sides of a Congressman's Life
St. Nicholas for January.

1t is an error to suppose that the
lawmakers have nothing M ere to do
than to attend the ordinary sessions
of the senate or house, and draw their
pay. Some of them are models of in
kustry- going to the capitol early In
the msrning, holding committee
meetings for an hour or two, darling
off to an executive department for
information, taking part IN the de-
bates of the respective houses, writing
letters to constituents, and transactfng
infinite odds and ends of business un-
til dusk. And when they go hons in
the evening, they are not always al
lowed to rest. They are bothered by
dissatisfied constituents; they are
besieged by strangers and friends, one
wanting this done, another that, a
third something else. until, wearied
and exhausted, they sink into rest
less sleep, aEd dream hideous visions
Of the coming day.
Yet there is another side to the pic.
ture. They each receive IS, 900 year
and perquisities, to say nothing of the
honor of writing an. c." and gu. S.
Ne tOA bA1Sll d1O QIoiIh-
guished guests wherever they go; they
are invited to all levees and recep-
tons, to all festivals ana amusements;
they are banqueted by the president
and entertained by cabinet ministers;
and they are welcome to every species
of domestic and foreign hospitality,
from a charity ball to a German at
the legislation, where they move sol
emily through the figures of the
stately minuet, or dance to the ivelier
music of cotillion and Virginia reel.
Altogether, their careers are decidedly
agreeable, and the average congress-
man would gladly serve his country
for life, and nominate his bones" to
fill the vacancy occasioned by his
death. The bright little son of SEN
ator evidently thought the senate was
an hereditary institution; for, when
asked what he intended to be ON reach
ing manhood, he mournfully answer
ed: Well, I'd like to be a hack driver,
but I s'pose I'll have to be a senatorr'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01

1t seems, from all that can be
learned from the fair sex, that Worth
and his compeers in PARIS charge a
round hundred thousand francs, say
twenty thousand dollars, to outfit a
young lady for the matrimonial voy-
age. For this she is equipped from
top to toe; everything is of the pest
and in the latest fashion. Of course
this is not the limit Ladies IN Paris
occasionally spend two hundred and
fifty thousand francs for their trous-
seau, and are heard to complain, few
weeks after marriage, that they have
nothing to wear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01
STRENGTH FOR TODAY.

Strength for to-day is all that we need,
AS there will never be tomorrow:
For tomorrow will prove but another to-day
With its measure of joy and sorrow.
Then why forecast the trials of life
With such a sad and grave persistenc3
And watch and wait for a crowd of ills
That as yet have no existence?
Strength for to-day-in house and home,
So practice forbearance sweetly-
To scatter fine words and loving deeds,
Still trusting ia God completely.
Strength for to-day-what precious boon
For the earnest souls who labor,
For the willing hands that minister
To the needy friends or neighbor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01
THE FIRST sNO

Gay bloom the flowers in springtime set,
And streaky apples linger yet;
Twas autumn but a week ago,
Why, then, these winter flakes of snow?
Summers last rose they disarrayed,
The while she dreamed 10 peace to fade,
One swallow was inclined to stay;
The white fecks frightened him away.
Dismayed, we note the first gray hair,
Soon others conceive ceage to care;
Then gray, outnumbering the brown,
And soon white winter settles down.
And when from youth we've passed to age
We've learned our lesson page by page,
To take what comes for veal or woe
And never fret about the snow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01

Burchard is the name of new
town in Nebraska. It is not expected
that good Republicans will 7" settle "
there, and consequently there is one
town ia Nebraska which the Demo
Gratis hope to control.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01

Forty per cent of the land of Indi-
ana is under cultivation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
Ordering Vessels.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 11.-An
order for six fast iron cruisers of the
Esmeralda pattern was received IN this
city Thursday. These vessels are NOM
inally ordered by private gentlemen just
as they might order steam yachts. but
they will be for sale when compl eted
and offers of only one European govern.
ment will be entertained, and it is
thought that that government will be
Russia. Three paramount features
will be insisted on, namely: nineteen
knots of speed and q coal carrying capac-
lty for twenty-five days steamIng and q
buoyancy for three steel rife cannon of
large caliber. The Esmeralda is regard
I'd by the prospective owners of these
vessels as the highest type of war vessels
hat float. 1t was built for Chilli in
England by Sir William Armstrong and
Is about 1000 tons weight. The six yes
sells TO be built on her model will not
exceed 1900 tons IN size aud will not
have an ounce of unnecessary plating on
them. A syndicate of capitalists in
cluded in this scheme believe In making
money by selling ships just as their COL
leagues IN the grain and produce busI-
ness. They hope to improve their con-
dition by feeding struggling nations and
hold that provisions are quite as much
contrabsnd of war as ships. The
keels for these vessels will be laid i'm
mediatslV
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
NEW POSTAGE RATES..


The following important change made
in the postage rates will take effect
J uly 1st:
l. ANY article in a newspaper or
other publication may be marked for OBJ
servation except by written or printed
words, without increase of postage.
2. All newspapers sent from the Office
of publication, including sample copies.
or when sent from a news agency to
actual subscribers thereto, or to other
news agents, shall be entitled TO trans.
mission az the rate OF cent per pound
or fraction thereof, the postage TO be
prepaid.
3. The weight of all single.rate let
tiers is increased from one-halt to one
ounce each or fraction thereof. The
same increase of weight is allowed for
drop letters, whether mailed at stations
where there Is free delivery or where
| carrier service is not established
4. A SPECIAL stamp of the value of ten
cents may be issued, which when at.
tached TO letter, in addition TO the law
full postage thereon, shall entitls the same
to immediate delivery at any place con-
tanning 1000 population or over, accord
ing TO the federal census, within the car.
rier limits OF any free delivery office, OF
within one mile of the postoffice, or any
NthSA POStSilISO SohiinR MiIhln the pro
visions of this law which may, in like
manner, be designated as special de-
livery office, that such specia
! stamped letters shall be de
liVered between O'Clock a. IN
and midnight; that book shall be pro.
vided in which the person TO whom til,
, letter is addressed shall acknowleug q
the receipt; that messengers for THU
special delivery are to be paid so pc
cent. of the face value of all the stamps
received and recorded in q month, pro
vided that the aggregate compensation
paid to any person for such service shall
not exceed $50 per month, and provided
further that the regulations tor the de
livery of these specially stamped letter
shall in no way interfere with tn
prompt delivery of letters as provided
by existing law or regulations.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16
A Grave Question.

NEW YORK, April ia Phlladel-
pima correspondent of the Herald says
that it was stated to q writer this after
noon that American ship companies had
been approached by the British adj
miTalty for terms at which their vessels
would be leased TO that govern
ment. Another steamship agent
went so far as TO state that
the British nations claims upon the
vessels OF his line might be asserted
at any hour. Vessels of the American
company alIcarrY British flags under the
statute that only an American built
craft can fly the flag of this land. The
agent said that if Russia inaugurated the
aggressive warfare that was possible for
her, this statute would prevent Ameri-
can people from taking advantage
of splendid opportunity which
such condition of things would present,
tor regaining of their once proud posi-
ton on the seas. He even suggested
that in event of war an extra session OF
congress ought to be called to take ad-
vantage of the situation that may not
occur again IN q century. Americas
future said he belongs TO
her and she has stood long enough
upon courtesy and amenities of trade.
She must regain what she lost during
four years of enforced Iethargy of nation
al commerce during the civil war. The
ocean trade was taken away from her
fairly enough but now il her chance, 1t
is the hour for great stroke. VIII she
saka II