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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
Dried strawberry Leaves.

Mr. Childs will pay twelve cents a
pound for strawberry leaves"
Two small pairs of ears heard Mrs.
Allison say this about the new mer-
chant Then Alice went out of the
room, and beckoned Nettie to follow
Did You hear that?" she asked, ex-
citedly. Just think of the straw berry
leaves in our pasture! Why, we can pick
tons of emit
why, Alice, don't believe we could
find time to pick ton"
Il should think we might if we tried
hard. Let's go at it this very day.
Well make cur fortunes"
Mother Banks wasn't as much excit-
ed as the girls when they told her their
plans.
ut will take great many to weigh
a pound, she said.
But the girls were all courage, and
that afternoon they went into the past
ure and busily picked straw berry leaves
where, few weeks before, they had
picked berries.
1t was pleasant work. The bob0links
came about and chartered saucily, the
robins whistled in the treetops, and
they found ground-bird's nest with
three tiny, spotted eggs.
When the horn blew for supper, they
went home and spread their leaves in
the back chamber to dry. The floor
was covered.
What shall we buy with our money!"
was now the great question, and they
made all sorts of plans.
They looked at the leaves every day,
surprised that they shrank APP SO.
When at last they were dry, the girls
took them to the store, and Mr. Childs
weighed them-half pound!
So they mad three cents apiece. =
Youths Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
FOUND IN A TREE.
The Strange story of PapoOse Uncle
Jock Told the Children.

The Strange story of a PapoOse Uncle
Jock Told the Children.
Here is the very latest story which
Uncle Jock told the children the other
day, while Uncle Jake was carving a
whistle out of an alder branch for little
Ted
you want an Indian story, do you?''
said Uncle Jock.
''rell 'em about what we found in a
tree once" said Uncle Jake, as he
smoothed the mouthpiece of the whistle
with his big knife.
We'll, well, SO ! will. Sit down,
every one of you, on the grass and keep
still
And when they were all seated Uncle
Jock began:
Our house stood on a hill, on the edge
of the old apple orchard which reached
from the back door-yard fence to the
river shore. A great, spreading russell
tree grew near the bank, and il was I'M
der this tree that the Indians used to
camp when travelling up and down the
river in their canoes. We got so we
we're pretty we'll acquainted with them.
anu we WOuIu run QOWn Jle MIL the
minute we saw the smoke from their
fires, or caught glimpse of their wig
vans through the trees.
One morning mother came to the foot
of the stairs and called US to breakfast.
But we were like little Ted here-we
hated to get up. SO we just opened our
eyes little. threw the bed clothes of
and then turned over and went TO sleep
again. But when she called US a second
time, and told US the Indians were in the
orchard, we jumped into our clothes in
a hurry and started on run for the
river, forgetting all about breakfast and
every thing else. We rushed along the
path through the tall rye that grew on
the fats slipping and sliding on the
windfalls that were scattered under the
apple trees, never stopping until we
reached the wigwam.
There was no one TO be seen. and we
thought at fret that they were al
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

Don't give up, there is cure for ca
tarrh and cold in head. Thousands
testify that Ely's Cream Balm has en-
tirely cured them. 1t is safe and
pleasant remedy, Ii is applied Into the
nostrils. Ii is not liquid or snuff. 1t
cures by cleansing and healing. Price
soc.
Sought for the last hundred years. A
remedy for catarrh, hay fever and cold
in the head found at last in Ely's Cream
Balm. Safe and pleasant to use and
easily applied into the nostris. 1t gave
relief at once and a thorough treatment
positively cures. Price 80 cents. 26 2e
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

What is the matter with that baby?''
growled an irascible husband as the
little one persisted in bowling and
kicking to the extent of its might.
The matter is, sir, calmly replied
the wife as she strobe up and down the
floor, the matter IS that this baby in
herits your temper"
And the husband returned to his paper
with a gloomier face than before. -Bos-
ton Courier.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
TsrLAn,Es DELIGHT /.

The pleasant effect and the perfect
safety with which ladies may use the
liquid fruit laxative, Syrup of Figs, I'M
der all conditions make it their favorite
remedy. 1t is pleasant TO the eye and
to the taste, gentle. yet efectual in act
ting on the kidneys, liver and bowels
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28


The undersigned having been restored
to health by simple means. after suffer-
ing for several Years with a severe lung
affection, and that dread disease Con-
sumption, is anxious 10 make known 10
his fellow sufferers the means Of cure.
To those who desire it, he will cheer
fully send Gree Of charged a copy of the
prescription used, which they will fEd
8 sure cure for CoNUMPTIoN. ASTHMA.
CATARRH BRONCHITIS and all throat and
lung MALADIEs lie hopes all sufferers
will try his remedy, as it is Invaluable
Those desiring the prescription. which
will cost them nothing and may prove
blessing, viii please address. REV.
A. WILSON. Williamsburg. Kings Coun.
ty, New York. 44-44
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

Union Printer: Great Borrowers -
New Proprietor: See here. Slick, when
l bought out your paper you guaranteed
circulation of 5000 copies. All
could dispose of this week was 1000
Elk Proprietor-Well. the people here
in this town are great borrowers, and
/ figured that one copy served for about
six families.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
DRUNKENNESS. -LIouoR nAelT--.In aII b

DRUNKENNESS LIQUOR HABiT---ln all the
Woridthere is but one cure,
Or. Haines Golden Specific.
II can be given in cup Of tea or coffee with
out the knowledge OF the person taking il,
etfeeting speedy and permanent cure, whether
the person i a moderate drinker or an alco-
hole wreck. Thousands OF drunkards have been
cured who have taken the Golden Specific in
their cefee without their knowledge, and to-day
believe they quit drinking Of their own free
will. No harmful effect results from tie admin
istration. Cures guaranteed. send for circular
and full particulars Address in confidence,
GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co. 1S5 Race ST Cincinnati O..
S2--32
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
Notice for Tax Deed .
OFFICIALLY
oFFIcE or rnE couNTY cLFRK.

n
Lancaster, Grant County. Wis
August. i2th 1890
Notice is hereby given that the following de-
scribed lands and city and village lots in the
County OF Grant and State OF Wisconsin, were
sold by the Treasurer Of said County on the 18th
day Of May, lSSS for the delinquent taxes OF 1887.
The Amount set opposite 70 each tract OF land,
city or village lot. is the amount oftax. interest
and charges due thereon computed up TO the last
day OF redemption.
Now therefore. unless the taxes and charges
are paid on the following described tracts Of
land city and village lots, on or before the 18th
day Of May, 1891, the same viii be conveyed by
tax deedtO the purchasers according 10 the pro.
visions Of law
Authorizations &c. east; ne. northeast; Sc.
southeast; W, west; NV. northwest; sw. south
west; u. north :. sonth; com. commencing; beg
beginning; run. running: &C. acre; blk. block f.
feet; ks links; chs. chains add'n. ad dition pit.
und. undivided; cor. corner. frac. Fraction al I'D
eOunded IN. thence; sec. section.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

A noted horse race took place at
Sarsnac. Mich. last Saturday. II was
gotten up by Parson Aney. Of the
methodist church. 10 raise money for
religious purposes. There was great
gathering at the driving park. and when
the parson drove in with his noted mare
be was greeted with applause. All the
booths sold things for the benefit of the
church. The pastor addressed the peo-
pie, saying the meeting was called in
the interest of purer races, better stock
and the upbuilding of the spiritual
community. Then the trotting events
came off amid the enthusiastic plaudts
of the throng. Two of Parson Arney's
horses won.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

A small box with a combination lock.
was found among the effects of the late
Roscoe Conkling, and as no will APP
peared among his papers it was sug-
gested that this box might contain the
desired document. The administrator
did not care to break the box, and every
possible word which MIR. Conkhng
might have used in setting the combina-
ton was used on the lock; but without
success. At last his daughter said that
her father was especially fond of words
which contained the letter o pro-
nounced with its long sound. She said
her father would frequently utter the
word Rome, dwelling particularly on
the vowel. and asserting that the word
was one of the most fascinating in the
language for him to hear. She sug-
gested that he might have used that
word in making the combination. That
word was tried; it proved to be the right
one, for the combination yielded to it,
the box was opened, and within was
found the short and simple will which
Mr.. Conkling had written many years
before.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
Ouite Likely.

Sympkins-Don't you think, Mrs.
Snobkins: that / tried to kiss my wife
at the kitchen door tonight as l was
leaving, and
Mrs Snobkins--of course she did not
object
Sympkins-Object ? should say she
did She said that she didn't want
people to be mistaking her for the hired
girl.-West Shore
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

A carpenter, by the name Of M. $.
Powers. fell from the roof of house in
East Des Moines, Iowa. and sustained
a painful and serious spraln of the
wrist. which be cured with one bottle of
Chamberlain Pain Balm He says it
is worth IS a bottle. Il cost him so cts.
For sale by Jos. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
To TILE POINT.

Boston Courier: He calling on bis
knees oh. Mary! may | address you on
the subject of marriage?
She-You may if you can dress me
after marriage.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

A curious ap9sthetic used by the
Chinese mas recently been made known
by Dr. IT, Lambuth in his third annual
report of the Soochow Hospital. II is
obtaind by placing frog in jar of
flour and irritating it by prodding it.
Under these circumstances 1t exudes 8
liquid which forms a paste with the
flour. This paste dissolved in water
has well marked anaslheuc properties.
After the finger has been immersed in
the liquid for a few minutes it can be
cut 10 the bone without pain beng felt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
Children Cry for Pitchers CastOria.

When Baby was sick, we gave her CastoriA.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to oastoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
IN THE YEAR ONE.
30

Englishman-May | ask when your
constition was adopted. sir?
American (curtly) when was born
Burling \ Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

Mothers viii find DR.. Winchell' 5
Teething Syrup just the medicine to
have in the house for the children; il
will cure Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat,
and Regulate the Bowels. Try it.
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
INITIAL.

why does that man keep watching
me all the time?Y
May be lis because be wonders
why you're staring at him. Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
INA gowERY DINING ROOM

Chatter: Hayseed - Gimme three
hard boiled eggs and three fried.
Waiter-W der matter wild der
hen?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

THAT is a great goat, said Mrs. Nc
Finerty we call i'm Oleomargerine.
There's nothin' av the butter about
him. Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28
LOVES LOGIC.

Puck: He VIII you marry me?
Sbe-No.
he-I think You might've always
patronized your father.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

Economy: 100 Doses One Dollar
Merit: Peculiar to Itself
Purity: Hoods Ssrsaparilla,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-08-28

= Wonder if grandpas can always tell
Stories that boys like, and girls as wellf
Nine tells always the incest kind,
Bus grandpa like mine is hard 10 ind.
Tbs last one he TOLD was so very good
&1pugh he made the lesson well unde
stood
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30

and female. The sight of a clergyman or
"godlv minister" would almost make a Pur-
itan cross himself, despite the fact that
Romish ideas were scoffed at and denounced;
and vet, gentle reader, did you really know
that these Puritans were only human beings
after all? Were you aware of the fact that
there was good deal of hilarity and
almost deviltry going on all the time? It
is impossible to squeeze out all of the evil
that is in the human family. Some there
are that won't be squoze," as Deacon
Caldicut once said in ''Tun Meetin'." No
one can deny that there was many sly
wink and litter among the comely matrons
and prim maids as old Squire John Black
ston, gravely stridIng his horned steed, with
his great coat tails Tapping in the wind,
undulating roads. Then there was the lovely
and good-natured Dame Preston, than whom
the Lord never made a better when sitting
or presidfag one night at table with her
company, was startled by crash at her
back. Things were tumbling, splitting,
breaking and smashing; the dear soul was
paralyzed for a second, and then, shouting
with all her might, said: "Smash, darn,
devil, I've broke my kittle!" which was in
deed the case, the hook upon which it was
hanging having parted. Did the Puritan
assembly rise and leave the wicked woman?
Oh, no! They laughed till the tears came,
and later on Dame Preston laughed, and
still later on the "cyder" and bit of grog
(rum) helped to appease the religious senti-
ments and sorrows. There can be no doubt
that if you or I were willing to eavesdrop
Just little, we might creep around the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30

tomb, and Joined herself with the faith OF
her husband with a cordial soul; how these
two, with the sister of Lazarus and Re-
becca, the slave, iourneyed together, escap-
ing the dangerous prominence of their start
ling history, into what they called another
country.
For strangers will mock her when neigh
bors mock, and in the province where they
make their new home these elected ones
taught the faith of Him who had given His
own life for truths sake and for God's-the
faith of humanity and purity, of mercy and
peace, the faith that respected the poor, and
comforts the unhappy, and is gentle with
the sick, and restores the mistaken and the
willful and the wrong, and gives life unto
the dead.
But it is doubtful if Zahara herself even
fully understood her own connection or that
of her husband with the tragedy which one
month from the burial of Lazarus OF Beth
any shook the world.
Upon the secret influence and spoken
word of Annas, the High Priest, the fate of
the Nazarene hung balanced for so much of
a space as might have saved-and did con-
demn--the grandest and the most piteous of
lives.
How could Lazarus tell Zahara this ? She
became so accustomed to the thought which
her husband did not share with her, that
perhaps she wondered less, or worried less
about the fact, which she reserved, than
might otherwise have been the case. These
must be subjects upon which the lips of
Lazarus were sealed-those of the grave no
closer. Time did not loosen them. He be-
came tender husband, busy citizen, de-
vout man; but he remained silent one.
The friendship experienced by Jesus for
Lazarus, maintained to the end with a self
obliteration and tenderness upon which it is
heartbreaking to think, went with other re-
corded and unrecorded sacrifices to count
the cost of price, upon which we dare not
dwell and from whose preciousness we avert
an awed and humbled face.
Whence had he come? Where had he
been? What solemn marvels had he seen?
What awful secrets did he know? What
blessed story could he tell? Passionately
beloved to the end, and assiduously cher
ished, his own wife never knew. She might
as well-she would as soon-have asked the
sepulchre from which he had emerged.
THE END
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30
ks in her quaint recitations of "ye

colt remarks in her quaint recitations of "ye
olden days"
Sunday was, among the Puritans, day
in which they tried to put up the natural
shutters of their existence. All actions
were ordered and measured off for the Lord !;
it was His day; one only of the seven was
completely given to the Creator, which the
Creator must have been thankful to them
or. But let us step into some of the good
colonists' kitchens along about o'clock in
the evening of winters Sunday. In one
we find a group of farm hands seated about
the open fireplace quietly converting and as
quietly smoking their corncobs. Occasion
ally some one of the party will squirt
mouthful of tobacco juice onto the roaring
back log, and pretty soon another red-faced
chap will crawl before the hot blaze with his
hand in front of his face and reach for long
heating iron, which, when found, he would
withdraw and immerse into huge mug con-
tanning cider. Others follow his example,
and in an hour or so the group become ami
mated enough. BY 8 o'clock the farmer
comes in and squats down on the great high
back settle. All is attention. He talks
about the scanty loan of last season, pro-
poses to make stone fence around the rear OF
the farm, suggests the removal of number of
trees which can be hauled on the snow to the
barn, and thinks it wise to keep the road
open toward the Plymouth people, By 9
o'clock all Ievity and business ceases and
everyone OF the household gathers in the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30
THE MONKEYS MIRROR.
He Uses il Like n Bnd Boy TO Annoy Hi,
Npizhbors in the Zoo.

He Uses it Like Bnd Boy TO Annoy His
Nrfghbors in the Zoo.
Washington sunday Herald.l
There is very interesting case of animal
intelligence, combined with original cussed-
ness, to be seen over at our infant 600" in
the Smithsonian grounds. The hero of this
tale is monkey. His keeper has suspended
little round mirror in his cage, into which
his monkeyship often looks quite admiringly
at his own beauties. The other day he mad e
discovery. He happened to look at Il 9
glass just as q beam of sunlight to lched il,
and saw that the light was reflected back
into the eyes Of cockatoo, across the way
in cage. The angered bir gave screech
and the monkey Immediately put this and
that together, while cunning expression
shone on his face, just as it used to on
"Peck's Bad Boy" when he was up 10 mi /.
chief.
That monkey kept shifting that glass as
the sunlight moved along, with deibel at on
and malice, to make 1t flash every few
moments into the cockatoo's eyes. Then the
latter would break forth into screeches
again, which so pleased the monkey that
he would jump about in an ecstacy of de-
light and perform all the acrobatic feats
that he knew. Then he would return to the
sport of shi ting the glass SO as to put the
cockatoo into a fresh rage. This perform
ance was kept up until both keeper and
visitors who witnessed the scene came to the
conclusion that there was no need to hunt
for the "missing link" longer. That
monkey displayed intelligence enough to
entitle him to the honor, and to forever
settle the truth of the doctrine of original
sin. This primeval sinner did not even need
an Eve to corrupt hml
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30

raspberry, tansy and lilac bushes which
border the tan-based old house, and peek
through the wooden inside blinds, and find
Jolly group of men and women playing
that forbidden game, Switchboard (cards),
or crosspile.
These Puritan folk hadi their Monday
mornings and Saturday nights Just the
same as we do. The mother of family of
nine girls did not 60 a-visiting on washing
day; no, she got the girls into line, and that
too before daylight, and made them scrub,
scrub, scrub, and the boys had to take a
hand also, for they could turn the Dumb
Betty-a sort of washing machine-at least
a half hour before the horn blew for
school. Now it is not at all probable,
and no modern mother will admit
that their great, great grandmammas
went about the house with sanctifed looks
and mumbled over prayers when that wash
ing was on. They joked, talked OF the
Pequot war, the landing of the new migra-
tors, the importation and raising of tobacco
at Ma-blehead, the poor quality of choco-
late, "the grand wake" for their funerals
were nothing else; pretty colors and furbe-
lows and no end of local affairs; they laughed
right out loud when they discovered that
their washing was out before their neigh
bors'. Oh, they were a merry people when
reused, sad set, no doubt, when the church
and Indians claimed their attention. They
courted, told white lies, scrambled in the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30

his estate. Then, too, there may have been
few muskets secured up and some bullets
cast, or perhaps the ambitious young colon
lst may have nailed a VOLTS head to his
door, thus publishing the fact that be was
entitled to bounty; at any rate there: as
not that awe and grave solemnity lurking
everywhere which the historians would allow
US to suppose. No. the Puritan, elder or
workingman, maiden or matron, was not a
bit different from the people of to-day, in
fact there were no more "cranks" then than
now. The provincial New Englander OF
1850 ana 1890 is one and the same parcel and
ever will be. Creed is just as rampant in the
old country parishes now as it was two or
more centuries ago, and so is nonsense; so is
the loud laugh, the joke, the keen wit, and
love for innocent amusement; all the talk
which we read about the sobernesss and holy
sanctimoniousness Of the Puritan Is only the
conclusion of writer who has read the
clergyman's history of the colonial days.
Depend upon it that more complete idea
can be obtained Of the lives and customs of
the early settlers by reading the town records
than by accepting the theories of the learned
writer's of to-day. Doubtless religion was
more important than civil law, but to pre-
sumo that there was ''no fun" in those days
is mistake; the joker never dies. S. D. L.