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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

shine and pure air. She tells me that
her disease is not hereditary. but she
was always a delicate child. and it was
brought on by hard cold A hard
cold, indeedl How could any one keep
any lungs and sit ali day by north
window crouched over those fiendish,
shining needless"
Aunt Matilda's usually mild brown
eyes flashed Indignantly and then
filed with sudden tears.
''Oh. my dears, the pity of III And
TO think that she is only one of many.
| saw whole stack of Home Journals
and Journals of Fancy Work, and
fashion magazines. but not one single
useful book or paper in the house.
Talk about the suppression of i'm
proper literature. ! sometimes think
journals OF fancy work and fashion
ought TO be included in the list, for
they surely do tempt weak minded wom-
en- to their ruin. | meant to go home
next month, but you will have to keep
me a spell longer, Martha I've a
clear call to missionary labor in the
red house over there. | must have
the phaeton at least two or three hours
every day--for she won't be able to
walk far at first. and you must help
me hunt up all the poor children you
know and if she must sew she shall
make plain garments for them. But
don't mean to let her touch needle
for month If | can help it. How
viii manage it? You'll see. Where
there's will: there's a way"
And in Aunt Matilda's case we
knew this to be true. Ella Beecher
Cuttings, in Chicago Advance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31
Magazines.
HAMPERS.

For the certain reading of its articles
HARPERs MAGAZINE does not depend
upon the artificial interest which the
mere fact Of their appearance within its
pages is sure to excite 1t does not
need TO. Popular interest in the MAGA-
ZINE exists before the MAGAZINE APP
pears; for every Number takes up sub
iects which are before the worlds mind
as important topics for the present and
for the future. For example, the Nov
emher number contains two articles of
Pan-American value; one by Thomas A.
Janyier, describing The Mexican
Army" (Which Frederic Remington IL
Illustrates with fifteen drawings from
life), and pointing out what the excel
lent organization of its military forces
signifies for the future of Mexico; the
other, by the former Envoy Extraordi
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of
the Republic of Colombia to the United
States Hon. Ricardo BeceIra-on THE
Republic Of Colombia" giving trust
worthy account of the resources and the
present social, economic, and political
state of Colombia.
Prof. Charles Elliot Norton tells the
wonderful sto.y of "The building of the
Cathedral at Charities" an illustration
and revelation Of "the great medieval
period Of creative energy" w. Ham
ilton Gibson identifies for his readers
the notes in ''the choral of BIRDS that
one hears on a perfect day in early
June. He furnishes striking portraits of
the singers, and calls bis article BIRD
Notes" Joseph Pennell justifies with
many illustrations the words Of Richard
Wheatly, describing the old minister
CITY of YORK" Thomas w. Knox,
Lucy G. Lille. and John Elliot Curran
contribute short stories, and Charles
Dudley Warner concludes his bright
novel of contemporary American life.
"a Little Journey in the World. T"
Wordsworths sonnet, 1.-The River Dud-
don The Stepping Stones" is illustrat-
ed by Alfred Parsons; and of living
poets, cadet Barnes Gus,afSon and B..
Il. Buckley contribute respectively a
poem, ''Song Of Indian Summer" and
a sonnet, Glove the Crown of Crea-
ton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31
DEAFNESS CAN'T BE CURED

ty local application, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness.
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infamed con-
dition Of the mucus lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed YOU have a rumbling sound or
imperfec. hearing, and when 1t is en-
tirely closed Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken ont
and this tube restored 10 its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine eases ont of ten are caused
by catarrh. which is nothing but an in
famed condition Of the mucus surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
or any case Of Deafness (caused by
Catarrh) that we cannot cure BY taxing
Halls Catarrh Cure Send for circu-
lar, free.
f. j. CHENEY & co, Toledo, o.
sarSold by Druggists, 75c. 500
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

-R3mcnovr that an animal may be
fat and yet be starved Fattening food
will not give the bones and muscles
what they absolutely require. West
ern Rural.
The horses, cows and pigs will ap-
preciate the dropped fruit, us we'll as
the decaying ones, that arc unfit for
market, and this home market is the
only one where such stuff pays.
The absence of business methods
on the farm, thinks correspondent of
the New England Farmer is very often
responsible for failure to get salts
factory returns for the labor of the
farmer.
When a farmer has more grass
than he can NOV, or use in any man
ner, it will pay him to attach heavy
chain to a two-horse pillow and turn the
grass under,a az it will prove more serv-
iceable as a green manurial crop.
One of the best authorities on for
estry, says that the best time to cut
timber for durability is at the period
when it is in full foliage in midsum-
mer. When felled at this time and
left with limbs and foliage on, it will
season quickly, will not rot and the
worms will not touch it.
Prof Thomas Shaw maintains that
production Of special crops for soiling
stock effects a saving in land to the ex-
tent Of enabling the farmer with about
fifty acres to raise more beef, mutton,
milk, butter or cheese than the one
with 100 acres who pays no attention
to growth of green folders.
Considering the low cost OF build
ing silos in comparison with their
storage capacity, those who intend
building can not do better than to re.
gard them rs safe permanent invest
ment. and build them in a good, SUBJ
stantial manner. OF whatever mate
rial it is made. the best constructed
silo will be the cheapest in the end
Farm and Fireside.
Old pastures that have run down
so that the grass is thin may be greatly
helped, according to the American
Cultivator, by narrowing just as fall
rains begin, sowing timothy seed, and
with it a dressing Of two hundred
pounds Of phosphate. Not only will
the grass next season be more abun-
dant but stock will eat it more closely,
showing that it is richer in nutrition
than that grown before being fertil-
lied.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

The momentous fact now bursts
upon the world that in the fourteenth
year of the reign of Ptolemy Philadel
plus, one of the royal gooseherds wrote
letter stating that he could not supply
twelve geese wanted for the king 5 fes-
tival. Ofthis simple fact the world has
been in ignorance for 1000 years; yet
we are assured of it on as irrefragable
historical evidence as that which tells us
that the Pharoah of JoseTh's time inn
prisoned his chief butler aud chief bak-
er for probably as small an offense.
1t comes about in this way: The state
paper concerning the royal geese was
duly pigeonholed, and, after the lapse
of years perhaps, was disposed of as
waste papyrus. 1t fell into the hands
of the undertakers, who used 1t along
with lot of similar material in making
the cartonnoge headcase for a mummy.
The mummy WIS entombed in the ne
cropolis Of a little town the site is called
Tell Gurob at this day } which began
to fall into decay about the time of
Menepthab, the supposed Pharaoh of
the Exodus. 1t has been disinterred by
Mr.. Petrie in the course of his excava-
tons in the FayOum The headcasa,
with thin covering of plaster over all,
was soaked in water, and the papyri of
which it was composed became separat-
ed without injury to the original writ
ing. Thus we come to know about the
gooseherd and about great many other
far more interesting facts in connection
with every day life and affairs of the
Egyptians if that epoch. For there are
lots of mummies and quite crop of
Ptolemaic documents, and many of them
will soon be in the actual custody of the
British museum authorities. Consider
ing the progress that has been made in
Egyptology during the present century,
and the abundance of fresh material
that has been brought TO light Of recent
years, tho next generation may be able
to learn as much about Egyptian anti
quities as the present one can about Gre
clan Or Roman
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

No one needs to be told that If a
plant runs to vine it is at the expense
of the fruit There is just so much
vital force in vine. 1t will go some
where. II it has chance to go into
the vine it often goes there instead OF
the fruit Take the tomato vine as an
illustration. Suppose you let it grow
just as it will The vital force that
might be turned wholly into the fruit
will divide itself between fruit and
vine. Pinch off the vine and the fruit
will get just that much more nourish-
ment. We sometimes see grape vines
growing all over creation. The vino
is spindling. Pinch back the vine and
it is so much better for the young vine,
and If it is bearing fruit it is so much
better for the fruit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31
a New Potato Disease.

1t is announced that new potato
disease has been discovered by Prof
Scribner at the Knoxville (Tenn.) Ex-
pertinent Station, and it is said to have
appeared also in New Jersey this sea
son. 1t first shows itself in numerous
small pimples. which ultimately cover
the whole surface of the tubers, which
become much shrunken, and finally
very dry and hard. The disease is
caused by minute thread-worm not
more than one-fiftieth OF an inch in
length. Nothing is yet known of the
history of this parasite. so that NO
remedies necessary can be suggested
Christian at Work.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31
a coLoRgD MANS SUCCESS.

The Boston journal SAYS: The SEN
Tor class at Harvard has, in the election
of cOlored man as its class orator.
taken a step which will create deep
impression on the mind of the public.
Clement Garrett Morgan entered Har-
ward college with less money to meet
his four years bills than the Harvard
student of fiction is supposed 10 spend
on his cigarettes During his freshman
year he worked at odd hours in q har-
Der shop. Since then his rank as n
student has brought him beneficiary
money from the college. Last year as a
competitor for the Boylston prizes. he
carried his audience by storm and won
tirst place. This year, in hotly con
tested election for the most honorable
office in the gift of his class. an election
in which about 270 men voted. he re-
ceived substantial majority. Among
recent class orators have been Shermap
IIoar in 1882 and Arthur Richmond
Marsh in 1888. Prof Child was orator
in 1916; Roger Wolcott in 1870. The
office does not call for social qualities
which the marshalships demand. nor is
II lasting like the post of secretary
But it requires literary merit as well as
forensic force. Its holder must. in
order 20 succeed, think ard write well,
and not only how to declaim the fine
phrases of others. Harvard is called
the college of the rich, of snobs, of the
viscious, of heretics, religious aud POI
litical. In MIR. Morgan's election there
stands out shining denial TO these
sayings. If the largest senior class
ever registered at an American college
delights to honor poor eolored mar
and make him its spokesman on It's dav
of fraternity and rejoicing, there must
be something stronger at Harvard than
money and todayism.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31
SPACE. Nv. sw W. 4w 3 M m. ! y.

Annual advertisements payable quarterly.
Same reset quarterly without extra charge,
Advertisements set to double colum so per
cent. extra.
Business cards, 5 lines or less, s. per annum
Each extra line 81.
Legal advertisements charged at the rates pre-
scribed by statute
Advertisements not otherwise ordered, will be
continued until ordered on and charged ae-
ordingly
Estray notices, animal is described,
81 80 for weeks. Each additional animal de-
scribed in same notice, SO cents.
Special notices. and business notices in news
type 10 cents per line first insertion 5 cents
per line each subsequent insertion.
Religious notices, Marriages and Deaths, in
serted free. But 10 cents per line charged for
obituary notices and OBITUARY Poetry"
Ad0a ice pay required for transient advertise
meuts Commissioners Notices, Attachment
Notices and Estray Notices (of animals taken
up).
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

There are
many white soaps.
each
represented to be
just as good as the Ivory.
They are not.
but like
all counterfeits.
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable
qualities of
the genuine.
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon having it.
lis sold everywhere.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

New York Sun: Boston Girl-Dss
you say, Mr.. ServenmaIet. that ynn
sometimes gibe the schooner?
Jack--AYe, mum. We gybes her
often.
Boston Girl (astonished) And is there
any satisfaction in thus trying TO irri-
tate an inanimate conglomeration IF
wood and other fibrous material?
Jack (mystified) Sure enough, mum
True for it.
'And what effect does your gibiae,
have?''
Makes her go off and get rap fnIi,
New York Sun: Young lady What
a lovely breeze, Mr.. Servenmalet How
the sweetheart does fly.
Jack-Aye, mum, she do he limpin
along someat.
Now, why do you say lia.ping
Jack?''
Because, mum, she's maxim Of .
long leg and a short IN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

Exchange: A teacher in public
school has been accustomed to require
her pupils to say: 1.-The equator is an
imaginary line passing around tho
EARTH" etc. 1t never occurred to her
that the boys and girls of her school had
no idea of what an imaginary line
meant, until one day a visitor asked
them how wide they thought the cqua-
tor was. Some thought i; was 5000
miles wide, others 1000, and others said
they could jump over it. The visitors
then asked how they thought ships got
over it. One pupil said he thought the
crews got out and drew them over, and
another said he had read that canal
had been dug through it. "What is the
name of the canal?' was asked. "The.
Suez canal" was the answer
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

The opening speech for the prosecu-
lion in the Cronin murder trial was
made Thursday, and the evidence that
will convict Beggs, Coughlin, O'Sulli-
van etal is being unfolded. The whole
country will watch the trial with inter-
est, and with the hope that justice will
Ia dOlta.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

ScRIBNER's MAGAZINE for November
contains a third African article-a valu-
able addition TO the notable papers of
Professor Henry Drummond and Joseph
Thomson; discussion of some startling
problems in International Law affecting
the United States in the event of another
European war; the description of an
ole Spanish University by we.l-known
novelist; an explanation of The relation
of electricity to health by high me'li-
cal authority; an army surgeons ac-
count of the modern Sanitary Corps
which relieves the sick and wounded +;
and interesting essays, fiction and
poems. Most of the articles sre richly
illustrated.
Colonel IL. c. Pr9ut (Baroud Bey),
an American Goyernor-General of the
Equatorial Provinces of Africa, and a
trusted friend of General Gordon, writes
of that little known region under the
title Of Where Emin Is" Emin Pasha
was chief medical officer during Colonel
I'rout's administration, and the latter
speaks of him rs ga valuable adviser
and a good companion. 1t was
to Emin's province that Stanley recently
made his perilous journey, and from it
he is now advancing to the coast by the
Masia route described in the October
issue of this Magazine. Colonel Prout's
article IS therefore NEST timely, and es-
peciaIIy valuable as the narrative of
personal experience in q wild region.
Tho authors education as a military
engineer enables him to present import
ant scientific information about the Nile
Valley in its least known paris. His
description Of the strange people who
inhabit the Provinces is most entertain
ing. Gorden's plans and ideas in re-
gard to this region, as revealed in per-
soral letters TO Colonel Prout, are here,
for the first time, published. The author
has thrown new light on the character
of Gordon, whom he revcrences as "the
least selfish, the most magnanimous,
most generous, and the bravesL man it
has ever been my fortune to know. F"
The illustrations include rare portraits OF
l.min and Gordon, and types OF the
natives, villages, and landscapes of the
Equatorial Provinces, with unpublished
maps and fac-similes.
1t is the intention of Scribner'S to
publish more articles in the African
field, to which Colonel Prout will con-
tribute
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

Boston Transcript: Not greedy; Fog
II was glad TO see your name at y 70
foot of an article In the-lrBmpetcT ye s
terdav." Fenderson--"Oh yon read I,
aid YOU? How did you like it?n Fogg
-"Oh, / didn't read il. Il was suiis-
Gent pleasure 10 read your name j
am not greedy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31
YELLOW fever is reported as breaking
out in all parts of Brazil.

A BATTLE is said to have occurred
lately between Malietoa and Tamasese,
the RIVAL King of Samoa, in which 800
men took part on each side. A num-
Der were killed and wounded, but it is
not known who won the victory.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31
i.IddJlIl3I

After ten years exclusive sale, can now be
obtained of ali Druggists and Dealers in Medi-
cines It CURES-tske notice-not simply helps
hut CURES LIVER COMPLAINT,
BfIiousness and Dyspepsia.
Il a strictly vegetable preparation and viii
CURE MALARIA. and all MALARIAL troubles.
Or. S. II. Wise, Of Boston, Ky says
aITave practiced medicine Is years, and find no
equal 10 HERBINE as a Liver Regulator
Dr. W. a. Baker, of Madison, Fla, says
- bottle Of HERBISE is worth more than
$500 worth Of Qninine in any family"
Acting on the Liver in different way from
any other medicine; il IS a positive cure for
Chronicle Constipation and is cheaper than Pills
Its peculiar composition Is such, that we
guarantee 10 cure any case of Chills and Fever
or Bilious Fever with one bottle.
II costs but 70 cents and each bottle con-
tains over 40 average doses, making the cost
less than two cents q dose. Would you ask
for cheaper medicine II Is not cure-all. But
viii cure any Liver, Billions or Mala.
rial Complaint. Manufactured by
The Horbino Co,
(successors to Wa. Condell.) 81. LOuis, NO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

ONE of the very interesting things
seen at the Paris Exposition are the
dwarf trees which the japanese horti-
culturists are showing, and which are
attracting much attention Pines, thu
les and cedars, said to be 100 or $50
years old, and only eighteen inches high,
and with such specimens it would be
easy to have coniferous forest on a
balcony These aboreal deformties are
produced by great labor. and if the
truth is told about their ages this work
Of arrestins the trees development and
forcing it into contorted forms must be
persisted in by several generations of
forcsters All this painstaking is hardly
paid for by the beauty of the resulting
abortions, but a look atithese trees will
explain Where the fantastic forms come
from which serve as models for the
plants we see on tile lacquercd trays,
hronzes and embroideries which come
from JgDqn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

Two shipwrecked sailors now at
Baltimore confessed to having practiced
cannibalism while ut sea in an open
boat with nine comrades. Two sailors
died and their flesh was consumed by
the survivors. Ono of the REALTORS of the
horrible tale says an attempt was made
TO Kill him in order that he might be
eaten,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

D,lroi Free Press: In Madagascar
vou ean keep house, live well, and have
fbree servants for about seventy five
cents A hired girl would be para'lzed
with establishment il paid over six cents
per week, and tbs washwoman thinks
she hiss soft snap al three cents per
dav. II is not a boom. mird YOU but a
steady, permanent growth.
( Texas Siftjngs: a country doctor VINO
owned 4 smoke house hung out = sign;
4f,vnsumption and hams cured.
Jndoe. Georgia Cracker On Atlanta)
you sav Il amt with nothin?
Sforekeeper Not five cents. us
Confederate money. Where did you
get il2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

NlA gnu " - NthO. AuNitW on 4 tIiH1
of last week by reighbors and friends.
Thos Tumoys youngest boy aeci-
dentally broke MS arm 10y falling OF a
lounge. There is probability Of
speedy recovery.
l.. A. Powers is back from Pcnnsyl
vania, having been gone from home
about month lie has Somo interests
in oilwells in that state. lie liked ii
well there, bu, thinks Fennimore is good
enough. Joe GA nos return with him.
Smith a. Rogers. the popular livery
men, lave bought out John Moore, pur
chasing his horses, barn and most Of his
carriages. Mr. Moore will retire from
the business. The present proprictors
will occupy the old stand. Their record
in the past insures them success in the
new enterprise
Robt. Anderson will take up a resi-
dence at his son-in-law, ID. +. rarker's,
again, after an extended stay at Ripon,
Wis, bis home Fennimore, in his
case, as in many others, seems 10 be
the best place after all.
a special school meeting 70 consider
the question Of erecting additional
school building VII BE- held in The Phi
mary school-hou.o next Monday eve
ming at O'Clock A full attendance
will no doubt be had Daio Nov. a
Him Bros. win, before long, com
mence the erection of saw mill at this
place, II is 4 step in the right dircc-
ton. Every new industry helps 10 build
up town.
There will be fair meeting in the
town hall next Saturday evening a. 1880
o'clock. to adopt bylaws, hear the re
ports from committees and progress
made in subscriptions, and transact
other necessary business. Every MEM
Der is requested 70 be present and help
the Military Ridge Agricultural So
cietyn to prosper.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

A BUFFALO carpenter committed sui
eide a few days ago, and left letter
alleging as his reason for the act that,
having been engaged in the carpenter
trade for many years. he had decided
upon doing something higher and bet
ter. The Bible, lie continued, says that
''ln my father house are many man
-ions, and some Of them must need re-
pairing. So, having been a good car
pcntor on earti he guessed he could
get along ia heaven He tLen shot
himself.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31

Munsey's Weekly; Asking too much
OF Marshall p: Hostess (facetiously,
al pleasant little dinner party. to her
entertainer MIR. Wilder, are YOU
success at taking off the skin Of an
Granger" Mr. Wilder Madam, |
can take of almost anything. but unfor-
tnnately my powers of imitation have a
limit"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-10-31
an ODD OCCURRENCE

a remarkable mistake was made at
he opening 81 the Industrial fair ii
Toronto Sir John Mcdonald had made
It's opening speech Of eongratulaiion,
ana before eating upon him 10 press an
electric button starting the machinery,
President Withrow invited one or two
other speakers 10 deliver addresses. One
Of them was Mr. John Le1s. Nj. p. P.
for Toronto. lie advanced 10 the from,
and laid his heavy white hat right on
top Of the electric button. Instantly
there was shr.eking OF whistles, and the
machinery in the building began to run.
The crowd roared with laughter, and
after much geStieulation and running
about the managers stopped the pro-
ec,ding,;.ud he machinery was restarted
by Sir John and Lady Mcdonald.