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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07
Much Too Previous.

Winfred Preston sends the Herald
very pretty poem indicative of power
full Imagination, which is an excellent
quality in poet. 1t is entitled THE
Springtime, " and commences
The weary winter now is Ger
which we are not at all prepared to adj
nit
The verdant trees show that tbs spring;
And knows thou not that in the woods
The thrushes sweetly singl
No, Winfred, we don't know any
thing of the kind. In some other neck
of woods, Winfred.
Once more the violet opes its eyes
Possibly. hut under the disadvantage
OF seeing nobody by reason of six or
eight feet of superintendent snow
And scents with sweet perfume the air,
And other flowers now, ere long,
VIII spring up eY rywhere-
they'll be fools if they do, Winfred.
And back from many a distant part
The Joyous birds are on the wing.
Geese, every one of them.
So bid farewell to winter then
which is just what we want to do. but
the villain still pursues us
And hail tn returning spring.
No end of hail. but precious little re-
turning spring. The poem is all right,
Winfred. 1t is sweet young thing,
but, Lord bless you. it is altogether too
previous and precocious. If you don't
think so start out and find few wood
violets and sit in drift until you hear
the thrushcs sing. Chicago Herald
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07
An Imnortant Decision

The Supreme Court of the United
States has recently rendered an import
ant decision in relation to the construc.
ton of the clause in the Fifth Amend
ment to the Constitution which reads:
''No person shall be held to answer
for a capital or otherwise infamous
crime, unless on presentment or in
dlcfment of grand jury, except in
cases arising in the land or naval forces,
or in the militia, when in actual service
in time of war or public danger
1t has been the practice of the infe-
ror. Federal Courts in many cases to al
low crimes to be prosecuted on what is
called an information, which is simply
an accusation made out and presented
to the court in written form by district
attorney, without any presentment or
indictment by grand jury, the courts
holding that the crimes thus prosecuted
are not "capital or otherwise Infamous
in the sense of the amendment. The
nature of the offense has been made the
test. and not the severity of its punish
ment. The case which brought this
question before the Supreme Court of
the United States arose in the Eastern
District of Arkansas. The person, pros
ecuted simply upon information, and
tried, convicted and sentenced to i'm
prisonment, was charged with having
in his possession, with fraudulent in-
tent,a forged coupon bond of the United
States. This offense was by law made
punishable for Il term not exceeding
fifteen years at hard labor. The ques.
ton before the Supreme Court of the
United States was whether an offense.
punishable for such a term of years, wa
to be deemed an Infamous crime
within the meaning of the Fifth Amend
ment To the Constitution. This question
was answered in the affirmative,
thus settling the question that the pun
ishment affixed bv law to a crime is to
be taken into account in determining
the question whether the crime is lin
famous or not and hence whether it
can be tried only on a presentment or
indictment of a grand jury.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07
The London "Cop.v


As | was on my way to my hotel |
had chance to see how London po-
licemen handle drunken me. The
drunken man, hale and well fed En-
glishman, was lying in doorway, on
his back, with both feet and legs tloun-
dering in the air, as if trying to kick at
some imaginary object. At the same
time he was shouting Justify. Along
came Mr.. Officer. Instead of applying
the locust at once he asked the drunk
en- fellow in very kind way whether
he did not think it best to gather him.
self up and try to walk off. Upon
which the fellow very saucily told the
officer he considered himself fully as
good in every respect as the officer.
This did not aggravate the officer, but
he kept on advising him to try his lev
el best to get up and walk, to which he
answered he would not as much as I'M
dertake such thing. After which the
officer, after good deal of useless
coaxing, proceeded as a fond mother
does when she picks up child which
has fallen on the floor. He carefully
grasped him under both arms and lift
ed him up bodily. As left the officer
was tapping the fellow on the shoulder
and patting him under the chin, telling
him to be good and to GO home if he
could Cor. Buffalo Eapress. :
The London policemen seem to be of
wonderfully truthful disposition for
men who see so much of the worst side
of human nature. One of them stop
ped an American the other day, be-
cause he carried ''suspicious-look-
ing" tin box. The officer wanted him
to ''swear on his honor" that it did not
contain dynamite. The American
''swore' and was allowed to proceed.
Apparently the policeman reasoned
that man who carried dynamite could
not lie about it. Such faith in the word
Of a stranger is touching and chival-
rous, but over here such policeman
would be considered decidedly in need
OF sailing. York Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07

They do have some queer girls
down in Boston that's fact, observed
a traveller from New England; '.the
last time | was in Boston, at the house
OF friend, | met young lady there
who struck me as a type of her kind.
We were to have chicken for dinner,
and my friends wife asked the young
lady to step into the kitchen to see
what a nice fat fowl she had. Would
you believe it? That Boston girl in
quired: us it dressed?' and on being
told that it was not she modestly re-
fused to go into the kitchen That
very night that girl, who is a medical
student, went to the dissecting-room
and helped in the work. These Boston
girls break me all up.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07

The poet Stedman has not asked for
an office. so far as we know; but the
following lines from his last etfusion go
to show that he has very vivid idea of
the average Democratic experience in
that line:
NY arms reach out--in vain;
They fold the empty air.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07

Dense volumes of smoke belching
from the cellar of the Lindell hotel at
ST. Louis Tuesday evening caused a
panic among the guests, resulting in the
widest commotion but all escaped.
The fire was confined to the basement
and first lloor, the mosaic pavement of
which iumbled into the cellar, the loss
be,ng placed at 100000. Many of the
firemen were sutlocated. but were res
cued and resuscitated.
Police Inspector Dickens, reported as
killed by RieI's adherents at Fort Pitt re-
Gently, was son of Charles Dickens
the novelist He should have followed
in the footsteps of his father, and de-
voted himself to portraying the charac-
ter of the red man of the forest IN sort
of els Atlantic redivivus of low life in
London, and left the task of suppresslng
the noble savages of the Northwest to
other hands.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07
A Guardian for Michigan.

The State of Michigan is having a
serious time. About twelve years ago
the legislature of the state passed a tax
law which'was soon declared unconsti-
tutional. Four years afterwards an
other law was passed, which lasted five
years, and was then declared uncon-
stitutional. Then tax commission
was appointed, to sit as long as it chose,
and draft n law that would hold water
The result of its labors was lncorpor-
ated into law in 1882, and so favorable
were its provisions 10 the state and so
severe upon delinquents that it was
hoped that the state had at last got "a
law which would compel the collection
of taxes. But the best laid plans of
mice and legislators gay aft aglee, and
on Wednesday last both houses of the
Michigan legislature suspended all
rules and adopted a resolution suspend
ing the sOles of lands for delinquent
taxes-advertised to take place May A.
until some suitable law shall be
passed, the last one having also been
pronounced unconstitutional. 1t is
stated that the committee on taxation
has prepared a bill which copies the
Wisconsin tax law almost verbatim,
and it will doubtless be passed 1t is
well If Michigan ever gets in a hard
row of stumps 50 that she doesn't know
what TO do all she has to do is to watch
Wisconsin, do as we do, and she will be
perfectly safe. Ii necessary Wisconsin
will take Michigan under her protecting
wing, become guardian to her, and
see that she comes to no harm.
Wisconsin has in Carl Mari of Mil
waukee an artist who promises to be-
come world renowned and for whom a
brilliant future is predicted. He has
just finished large historical painting
portraying an episode of the French
war of 1918 and has been awarded for
it the silver medal by the Academy of
Munch-the greatest honor within the
power of that institution to bestow.
Carl Mari carried away the honors
against many competitors. Two years
ago the professors announced the sub
iect of the painting. Only the leading
painters at the academy sought to win
the prize. When the sketches had been
completed, the commission was unable
TO decide between that of Carl MARI and
another competitor, and requested each
to elaborate the painting, on the com
pletion of which the final choice would
be made. When this had been done
the professors visited the studios of the
rival artists and unhesitatingly pro-
nounced IN favor of Carl Marrs paint
ing. They were very warm in their
commentator and foretold brilliant
future for young Mari in the world of
art
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07

The humble bee molts at least ten
times before arriving at the winged
state.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07

President Cleveland has appointed
Robert f. Withers, of Virginia, an e~-
rebel, to succeed Gen Moseby as con-
sui ut Hong Kong.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07

II l.. Dousman has over 100 head 'of
hIooded horses on his farm at Prairie
du Chen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07

Rich deposits of silver have been dis
covered within the past week near Eau
Claire, this state.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07

Marquette, Mich, has a roller skating
rink which has new kind of compost
lion floor. the second of the kind in the
United States. aud the floor is said to be
fully equal to maple and less noisy.
Fred King, of La Crosse. who has sued
the rink of that city for $4,000 damages
10 his weak nerves, should solicit the
agency for the new flooring.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-07

Alex. Botkiu, ut one time editor OF
the Milwaukee Sentinel, but for the
pas, several years United States mar
shall of Montana. has been asked by
Secretary Garland to send 10 his res'g-
nation aud send it quick. More Often
siye partisanship, we suppose.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
The Telephone In Farming.

Major Bell of Bell Farm (QuAppelle
River Farming company, Canada, con-
sisting of Is, 900 acres under cultivation,
gave London Journalist the following
description of the use of the telephone in
farming: lone feature that is somewhat
novel, perhaps in our management is the
employment of the telephone. At 8
o'clock every evening press my button.
and put myself into communication with
my divisional foremen. l give them
perhaps ten minutes each, but in each
case the others hear what / am saying,
though they are four or five miles apart
both from me and from one another.
Every man must carry out my orders,
right or wrong. If he does not, off he
goes
Every horse, too. has its appointed
task set every evening, sixteen to twenty
miles day. But here l am more merci.
full, and if horse gives out why, the
foreman only has to go to his telephone
and tell me of it, and l reduce the ami
mails task, taking off two miles a day.
perhaps. The whole machine is worked
In this way as easily by a single overseer
as if it were matter of thirteen and not of
1900 acres; and all the discussion about
the comparative advantages of large and
small farming is really rather out Of date,
for the telephone enables you to combine
them both The telephone and federation
are quite as applicable, assure you, to
farms as to states Every 200 acres has
cottage on it, with man living on it, rent
free. and having charge of three horses.
This system gives us an immense pull
over other farms, such as Dalrymples
the next biggest to ours, which are worked
from single centre, so that team will
have to go four or five miles. perhaps, tn
get to its work; that is sheer waste. These
homesteads art grouped into divisions. of
which there are five on the farm altogether,
with a divisional foreman responsible fCJ
report every day to the foreman and the
foremen report to me. Local matters
are left to them; imperial concerns are
reserved for me at my telephone,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
old Mag" of wall Street.
New York Telegram


An old woman whose face had been
beggar had been missing for some time,
Oil board, who had known her we'll
marked her absence. After a while she
reappeared, looking much younger and
free from any crook in her back Her
rags had given place to a tidy dress of
neat black cloth and she nodded pleasantly
to old friends, who hardly dared to believe
they saw "Old Mag" before them She
explained, however, that she had begged
for twenty years and had saved per-
sistently. While going from Office to
Office she learned the condition of the
market, and she had prohted by taking
turns on her own account
But, Mag, you can't have enough to
live on always have your" asked broker,
whose mouth was open with establishment
Mag laughed quietly why not, my
friend2" she said. Il sail for Europe
Saturday, and propose to spend $12, 900
during the year, and that Is not onethird
of my income How old are you? You
look twenty years younger Il was 80
last birthday. When / was Is / COM
menced to make my way down here, and
that was twenty years ago. With your
knowledge of the street, why don you
stay here ard speculate? mo, my son,
she said, with a smile. II am rot fool
l have my pile, and out l go. l have seen
the rich grow poor. have gone cold and
hungry to become rich, and now shall
live well And, if stay here, why, all
you boys will want to marry me to pro-
tect me, I suppose Good bye This is
my last day in Wall street
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
Definition of Genius.
Notes and Queries,

wish to draw attention to the fact that
the'deinition of genius as "the capacity
for taking infinite pains is not true one.
At best it merely expresses a portion and
that the least Important portion. of the
truth. To complete the definition we
require the addition of the following
words, viz, combined with the faculty
of discerning whether the object is worth
the trouble, and in which direction sue
cess is most probable. These conditions
are absolutely necessary. The true genius
is he VINO sees his way, and who, seeing
it, pursues it with the utmost care, neg
lecting no circumstance as being too
trivial, and concentrating his strength
upon the most hopeful point of advance
The mere taking of infinite pains. with
out any guiding power to render such
pains successful, is nothing but dunder
headed stuDiditY
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
The LabOrs of the Busy Bee.

The bee has long been type of the in
dustrious worker, but there are few PEG.
pie who know how much labor the sweet
hoard of the hive represents Each head
of clover contains about sixty distinct
flower tubes, each of which con.
tains a portion of sugar not exceed
ing the five hundredth part of a grain.
Some patient apiarian enthusiast, WHO has
watched their movements. concludes that
the proboscis of the bee must therefore be
inserted into 500 clover tubes before one
grain of sugar can be obtained There
are 1000 grains in pound, and as honey
contains three-fourths of its weight of dry
sugar, each pound of honey represents
2, 500, 900 clover tubes sucked by bees
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
STEAMER MOKOLII,
lMcGregor, Commander,

(McGregor Commander,
Leaves Honolulu each Thursday for Kaunaka-
kai, Kamao, PuEOo, MOanui, HalawaI Wailau,
Pelekunu and Kalaupapa returning, leaves PuKoo
Saturday A. NJ. for Lahaina; leaves Lahaina Satur-
day p NJ for Pukso, remaining Sunday, and
arriving at Honolulu "Wednesday morning.
Esy- The Company will not be responsible for
any freight or packages unless rcceipted for, nor
for personal baggage unless plainly marked. Not
responsible for money or jewelry unless placed in
charge of the Purser.
All possible care will be taken of Live stock, but
the Company will not assume any risk of accident.
SAM'L. O. WILDER, President.
s. B. ROSE, Secretary.
OFFICE-Corner Fort and Queen streets.
23-Iy Mar 80
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
restoring Color to Grav Hair.

The Medical World reports a case now
under observation in which the patient
hair-which had become prematurely
gary-is slowly returning to its original
color under the internal administration of
phosphorized cod liver oil The World
had previously noted similar restorations
under the same treatment.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
NaturalIy Oned Harbors.
TArkansaw Traveller.

The anchorages of Narrakal and Al
leppy, In India are stated to be perfectly
smooth and quiet even when tie sea out
side is tumbling in before strong south
westerly gales To explain this, Dr.. w.
King. mentions that analysis proves the
existence of oil in the muddy bottoms OF
these anch ages, and he supposes that
there are deposits of petroleum, either be.
meath the sea bottom or along the coast,
from which oil continually Oozes up, and
Gains the otherwise troubled waters.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
advertisements.
CASTLE 81 COOKE
Elk. MENDOZA" and Other Late Arrivals
nj San Francisco Lagea andy
MerhAn
Plantations, Country Stores and Families,
IN PART OIL


oil in
Oils Lard Oil in barrels and Cylinder OIL Albany cOmPOun
Galvanized
Plain Perforated
Springs, l. r.
fat
styles Anv Vses Hydraulic Rams Jack Screws Paris Steel Breaking Powshe
all
Lanes
Planters Shove Bush Sythes Feed Cutters
Knives, Mowers Road sorper,
Fairbanks
Pick and Ak MOck Pick Horse Shoes Machine Bolts all sizes and
Hinges Planes all kinds
Patents kinds, Paints
and Glass
Turpenine large variety paints
variety Stationery Hollow Medicine
SALMON, in barrels
Family Flour
CRUSHED andG GRADUATED SUGAR. n
POWDER POWDER, very
perS
BOILER FEED
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
Novel Floating Breakwater.

A floating breakwater of altogether
novel type viii shortly be experimental
with on the coast of Sussex, England. 1t
consists of a double row of empty iron
boxes, running out into the sea in parallel
lines. The front, facing the sea tidewards.
has wedge like shape, presenting to the
oncoming waves its tolerably shal p edge,
which is intended to divide the mass of
water projected, and so to break its force.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
Courtship in LapIand.
lNorristown Herald.I

In Lapland, where the nights are from
three to six months long. beaux often kiss
their sweethearts good night abous six
weeks before daybreak Their stock of
caramels, peanuts and small talk becomes
exhausted bv that time
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12

Puck: The ten-penny nail falleth in the
highway and maketh a loud noise, and is
known among men; but the carpet tack
standeth upon its head in the silent spaces of
the night and getteth in his fine work upon
the soles of the just and the unjust. Selahi
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
The Paris Dandy's Cane.
1.-THE Argonaut.

Partisan swells now carry natty little
canes with genuine coral heads. They
come high, but the French handles must
have them, and no doubt they soon will
be carried by our local Beau Brummels
At distance these canes look like an
early spring radish mo united on a reed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
Came Honestly by Them
[Chicago Ledger.

"You ought to be ashamed of yourself, "
said gentleman to a tramp, ITO be seen
going are und in rags as you do.
And why should be ashamed of them.
sir? / come honestly by them.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
New Engraving Process.
scientific Journal

BY new process of designing and en-
craving, lately devised. people or scenes
can be photographed of an afternoon. and
the electrotype cut prepared for printing
in the newspapers Of the following morn.
ing. The cost is considerably below the
old method
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12

Chicago Ledger: A boy easy on clothes
never amounts to much: but, then, as
they say about spooks, there amt nc
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
NOTICE.

ON AND AFTER THIS DATE ALL OUR
~ accounts will be rendered MONTHLY instead
Of quarterly, as heretofore.
s. J. LEVEY & CO.
Honolulu, Feb. end, 1883. 497 #
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12

A dog in Philadelphia lost his voice
during the recent cold snap, and it is just
heart,rending to see the other dogs gather
around him moonlight nights, and stare
at him in dumb amazement while with
exciting pantomime and yoiceless jaws he
bays the moon in torrents of impressive
silence
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12

At no time within a score of years la,
there been war progressing in so man.
parts of the world as now.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12
STEAMER KILAUEA HOU,

CWeisbarth, Commander,
Tfu leave regularly for same ports as the S. S.
Lehua.
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STEAMER LEHUA,
Davies, Commander

VIII leave regularly for Paauhau, KohOlalele,
Ookala, Kukaiau, Honohina, Laupahoehoe, Haka-
lau and OnOmea.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-12

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