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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
HOLLANDS TRAMPS.

Instead of Herding Them Together the
Gentry Are Scattered Over Farms.
The growth of the tramp industry in
this country and the consequently in.
creasing demands made upon the chart.
ty of our large cities forces to the front
the question of pauperism. What shall
the country do with those who want
work and cannot get it, and with
those who might get it and won't dc
it? These questions seem to be handled
more successfully in Holland than 10
any other country of the civilized
world. In most other countries these
people are herded together in vast
poorhouses or fed in common soup
kitchens, but the Holland idea is te
scatter them as widely as possible and to
make all who are able to do it earn
their own living.
The state has tract of land contain.
ing about FIVE thousand acres divided
into six farms, and every person apply
ing for relief Is sent to one of these. II
he be willing to work and voluntarily
serves until he has gained some idea OF
agriculture he is allowed to rent a
small farm for himself and to be what
is called free farmer" This is a
very practical method Of dealing with
the vexed problem, and one that is
especially adapted to this country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
in HAPPY PARAGUAY.
The Women Are 1.-the and Graceful and
Wear White Dresses.


Wear White Dresses.
The women have well-molded limbs,
voluptuous, lustrous eyes and are of
every color, from ma hogany to the
white and pink complexion of the fair
est Anglo-Saxon. The dress of Para
guayan woman, says Knights Cruise
of the Falcon" consists merely of
snow-whfte tunic, coming down to the
knees, and white shawl. These wom-
en- are bare-footed. They stalk through
the streets with a soft, supple, panther
like tread that is most beautiful, for
they do not indulge in high-heeled
boots and stays, but step out as Eve
herself might have done, quite unim-
peded by their simple dress, which is
merely a short tunic tied round at the
waist and adorned with the pretty ma
tive lace. These tunics have short
sleeves and very low necks, and reveal
the statuesque shoulders and breasts
rather more than would be considered
delicate in Europe.
This mild race lives principally on
oranges, pumpkins, cassava and other
fruits and vegetables, being almost
vegetarians. Many are the virtues of
these poor, brave Paraguayans; they
are hospitable, kindly honest, and,
though marriage is looked upon as an
unnecessary prelude to two young peo-
pie starting housekeeping together,
they are remarkably constant in their
attachments. The Paraguayan girls
are like Byron's savage heroines-
faithful unto death, soft as doves, but
ready to give up their lives for their
mates. What particularly remarked
was the jovial, gay nature of this am
liable and innocent race.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
BREEDING A RACE OF IDIOTS.
IntermarryiEg In Germany Reducing Mat
rimony Almost TO q National Curse.


rimony Almost to a National Curse.
Matrimony in Germany is singular
institution, says the Pittsburgh Dis
patch. There are so many restrictions,
such complement of formalities to be
submitted to, that marriage is rather
unpopular than otherwise. The pre-
vailing idea is to keep money in the
family, and to attain this end the peo-
pie, so sensible and level-headed in
many respects, are willing to go any
lengths A man may even have for his
wife his cousin, his aunt, his step
mother and his sister-in-law combined
he doesn't care so long as he has a
hold on the money. The number of
marriages among first cousins is count
less, and the results appalling. How
many idiots there are in the Father
land should not like to say. So that
he may keep the money in his family
it is quite a common occurrence for an
uncle TO marry his niece; and man
viii Sc netimes wed his brothers
wi@"-- In Bavaria it is legal for a
boy to marry at fourteen and a girl at
twelve. A soldier may not become "a
benedict until he has reached the age
of thirty-a most unpopular condition,
and one which causes very disagree
able consequences. heard of a case
of man who married his first cousin.
He had four children, one of whom be-
came leper and two of them idiots.
Three committed suicide, the fourth
married her first cousin and had an
idiot child. In another family the re-
suit of an intermarriage between
cousins was two imbeciles out of three
children; all three died young. In one
district numbers of people with dread
|. fully swollen necks may be met. In
the valleys of the Alps some Of the
most deformed idiots on earth are to
be found. They are Cretins and live
by begging, the hideousness of their
looks bringing them in a good deal of
money from the charitably disposed.
And yet these poor creatures inter
marry and spread the scourge. The
marriage knot does not require any
great effort in breaking it in Germany.
Chronic mutual dislike and incompati-
bility of temper are sufficient reasons
for divorce
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
NOT AMBITIOUS WOMEN.
ITALIAN Danes DO Little Outside the Home
Circle.

Circle
The Italian woman has not vet taken
her true working place in society. She
is generally handsome, rarely bad in
the strietest sense of the word, though
by no means very strict moralist AT
home she rules; outside she exerts no
influence whatever. The political WON
an is as yet unknown. A few literary
women exist, but among them are only
one or two who rise above the average.
The Italian woman is nearly always a
good mother, even when bad wife she
follows impulses rather than reason in
her actions, and this to a greater de-
gree than her sisters in any other Eu-
ropean country.
During the national uprising she was
hopeful. bat she remained humble and
never became ambitious Nine. Ratazzi,
who tried to NEEDLE in politics. had to
desist. Outside the domestic circle the
Italian woman does not work, except in
the lower classes, and then she uses
rather her physical than her intellectual
strength The business woman. like in
France, is not met with except in Pied.
mont and Milan. The state has not
been able to find woman other official
employment than that of school
mistress
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
LOOK BEFORE YOU DRINK.
One Woman Didn't and Was Sorry for
Her Negligence.

One Woman Didn't and Was Sorry for
Her Negligence.
Look before you leap" and also be-
fore you eat dr drink, is a good motto
to remember. 1t is wonderful how peo-
pie will rise in the night, lay hold of a
bottle in the dark, and quaff the con-
tents, too often to realize by taste or
feeling that they have swallowed
carbolic acid or some other deadly
draught.
A lady had an experience the other
night which will teach her to light the
gas before she partakes of refreshment
in the night. She had q brown stone
bottle of imported settler water left in
the bathroom in case of feeling thirsty.
One night she arose, fumbled about,
found the bottle, which she knew by
its shape, and the fact that it was not
glass, turned out a gobletful, got a
mouthfnl of something so nauseous
that the goblet fell from her hand, its
contents saturating her night dress.
After good deal of spluttaring and
some delay she struck light near the
wash basin, over which hung mirror;
SO she saw herself, and gave shrek
which ronsed the mouse as she did So
And no wonder-her face, teeth, hands,
feet and garments were covered with
All
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
A DUCK HUNTERS RESORT.
The Odd Business Methods of Southern
Storekeeper.

AAC 49, ASAAANCsS %UCNhOua Va - SodAhGH4
StOrekeeper.
Duck night at EweIls store, down on
the Virginia coast near the North Caro-
lima line, is locally famous in the duck
ing season as the special night in the
week when the storekeeper is at home
to the duck hunters of the region.
Ewell, says the New York Sun, buys
ducks Of the hunters, paying for the
game In goods from his Store, and ship
ping his purchases TO an np-coast life
saving station, whence they fipd their
way to the markets of Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York AS Ewell
waits behind his counter with lantern,
the duckers, rude-looking fellows of
the beach-comber type, drop in one by
one and sit around in the gloom. Ewell
hangs the game in a cold room at the
rear of the store and credits each
QUICKER with the agreed value of his
ducks. As each transaction is made the
QUICKER recalls something that he needs
from the merchants stock, and when
he has received the article the price is
debited against his credit The QUICKER
then relapses to the nearest barrel or
box and waits until some other needed
article shall occur to his mind. He
then makes the new demand upon the
merchant, has a new debit placed
against his credit, and again sinks back
into the gloom. After fully two hours
of this sort of thing, those who wish
the balance of their credit paid in cash
receive their dues, and everybody eau
tiously repairs to hollow tree hard by,
where moonshiners from over the North
Carolina line are waiting with fiery
article of untaxed liquor, and the heart
of the QUICKER is made glad
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
DEATH BY HANGING.
The Three Different Stages Through
Which the Victim Passes.

accCbs
II have made the subject of death
by hanging a long study" said DR..
ID. S. Lamb, an ex-surgeon of the
United States army, according to the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat From my
observations during my experience
in the army, feel justified in saying
that death by hanging is the most ex-
aggerated of ell modes 1t may be inn
mediate ard without symptoms, but
the subject must pass through three
stages before death.
In the first stage the victim passes
into partial stupor lasting from thirty
seconds to two minutes, but this is
generally governed by the length of
the drop, the weight of the body, and
the tightness of the construction.
There is absolutely no pain in this
stage; the feeling is rather one of
pleasure. The subjective symptoms
described are intense heat in the head,
brilliant flashes of light in the eyes,
deafening sounds in the ears and a
heavy numb feeling in the lungs In
the second stage, the subject passes
into Inconsistencies, and commissions
usually occur. In the third state all
is quiet except the beating of the heart.
just before death the agitation is re-
newed, but in different way from
that in the second state. The feet are
raised, the tongue has a peculiar
spasm, the chest heaves, the eyes pro-
tude from the orbits and oscillate from
side 10 side, and the pupils dilate.
The pulse can, in most cases, be felt
ten minutes after the drop.
Il once knew a man who was desir-
Gus of ascertaining if there was any
suffering by hanging, and in order to
find out he placed a rope around his
neck and stepped off bench, intend
ing to step back again, but he became
Immediately unconscious, and would
have died In few minutes had it not
been for the timely arrival of friend.
He said he experienced all the feelings
that mentioned in the first stage"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
Canin. Cnicken Thief.

A man in Scranton, Pa, missed three
or four of his black Hamburg pullets,
and made up his mind that his neigh
boris big cat was the thief. So he lay
in wait for the culprit with shotgun,
and presently there appeared, not a
cat, but a small black-and-tan dog,
which seized little chicken and ran
of with it, right before the eyes Of the
owner, who was so astonished that he
forgot To shoot. When he recovered
his senses, he chased the dog and
traced il to house FIVE blocks away.
The family begged him not to kill the
children's pet. and ransomed the dog
bv paying for all the chickens that lad
been stolen
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
Az Oda nird,s Nest.

The oldest Of all birds nests is the
one built by the tontobane, South
African songster. 1t is built of cotton,
and always upon the tree producing
the material. In constructing the dom
icile the female works inside and the
male outside, where he builds a senti-
mel box for his own special use. He
sits in the box and keeps watch or sings
nearly all the time, and when danger
comes in the form of hawk or a snake
he warns the family, but never enters
the main nest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
NO TIME TO AIM.
The Luck Shot of Hunter at a Critical
Moment.

Inc LUCK Snot OF a hunter at n Critical
Moment.
1t is STRANGE fact that the human
hand, eye and nerve are SO constituted
as to act automatically and correctly at
the proper moment, almost without
conscious effort on the owners part.
The author of ''Tales of Nomad" gives
an experience that illustrates this in o
most fortunate manner.
We were passing through grass
about two feet, in height, with clumps
of low scrub here and there. / was
leading, and my sp0a5k Kafr named
Jacha, was following me. He had
only one eye, and that eve was keener
to detect game than two pairs of ordi-
nary optics; but on this occasion il
overlooked terrible danger, for the
reason that the danger, though within
few yards of us, was invisible.
There was rustic in a patch OF
scrub six or seven yards before me, and
suddenly out of it rose a wounded buf.
falo with bloody mouth and glazing
eye, which wheeled round facing me in
act to charge.
1t all took place quicker than
thought. My rifle, which happily was
at full cock, went up to my shoulder
instinctively, and dropped him in his
tracks with ball through the brain.
So sudden was the whole affair that
my heart had not time even to give a
great thump. do not quite remember
how | did it. / am sure / did not take
fine sight, and doubt whether
looked at the rib of my rifle at all.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
NEVER SMILED.
The Terrible Secret in the Life of an Err
ring Physician.


ring Physician.
"A few years ago." said Charles j.
Patterson, of Philadelphia, to a st.
Louis Republic reporter, II learned
the secret of the life of man who had
passed more than quarter of a CEN
fury with scarcely a smile. He had
been a physician and surgeon, and on
ore occasion had to remove an injured
eye in order to save the other eye and
prevent total blindness. The night
before the operation he had been drink
ing heavily with some friends, and, al
though the following morning he was
sober, his hand was unsteady and his
nerves unstrung. After administering
chloroform he made a fatal and horri-
BILE blunder, removing the well eye by
mistake and thus consigning his pa
tent to perpetual blindness. The mo-
ment he discovered his error he turned
the man over to a competent surgeon,
decided everything he possessed to him
and hurried from the neighborhood
like convicted thief The remainder
of his life was one constant round of
remorse and he rapidly developed into
a confirmed misanthrope. The secret
of his life was known to a number of
people, but when it was finally revealed
to me it explained a mystery and made
me respect the man, for however grave
his original blunder, which in some re-
spects was, of course, worse than a
crime, his repentance was of the most
genuine character
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
woMAN's TRUE KINDNESS.
1t Is More Natural with Her Than with
Man.

1t Is More Natural with Her Than with
Man.
Among all nations, women are ever
inclined to be cheerful and modest.
They do not hesitate, like man, to per-
form hospitable or generous action;
not naughty, nor arrogant, nor super
cilious, but full of courtesy and affec-
ton; Industrious, economical, inge-
NOUS; more virtuous, and performing
more good actions than man. never
addressed myself in the language of
decency and friendship to a woman,
whether civilized or savage, without
receiving a decent and friendly answer.
In wandering over the barren plains
Of inhospitable Denmark, through
honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude
and churlish Finland, unprincipled
Russia and the widespread regions of
the wandering Tartar. if hungry, dry,
cold wet, or sick, woman has ever been
friendly to me. and uniformly so; and,
to add to this virtue, so worthy the APP
pellation of benevolence, these actions
have been performed in so free and
kind manner that. if | was dry,
drank the sweet draught, and if
hungry, ate the coarse morsel with a
double relish.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
WOMAN COMES LAST.
How the Arab Regards His Wives and
Daughters.


Daughters.
An Arab-meaning tent-dweller, in
an equine sense, the town-dweller is
no Arab-loves first and above all his
horse. No one need to recite the oft
sung affection he will lavish upon him.
Next he loves his f1rearm. This. poetical-
ly speaking. ought to be six-foot, gold
in-laid, muzzle-loading horror of a
matchbox, which would kick any man
butan Arab fat on his back at every shot;
but actually, in Algeria or Tunis, when
he lives near a city, it is more apt to be
a modern English breech-loader. You
must fly from the busy haunts of men
to find the matchbox Next to his gun
he loves his oldest son. Last comes his
wife-or one of his wives, perhaps.
Daughters don't count; mean the
Arab doesn't take the trouble to count
them, unless in so far as they minister
to his comfort, dietetic or otherwise
Until some neighbor comes along and
proposes to marry, in other words, to
make stin worse slave of one of them,
she is only chattel--a soulless thing.
And yet she is said to be . pretty, amia-
BILE, helpful being-said TO be, for no
one by any hap ever chances to cast his
eyes on one worth seeing. This disre-
gard women, be it said to their honor,
does not always apply to the Bedouins
of the Syrian and Arabian deserts
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
A Fish with a Lantern.

No matter what animals. or groups
of animals, are studied, it will always
be found that their leading physical
traits are exactly adapted TO their hab-
its and conditions. A striking illustra-
ton of this fact is afforded by the
torch fish. This is deep sea fish, that
carries ON its nose something like a
short, thin bone, which IL can illumin-
ate with a phosphorescent light, or ex-
tinguish at pleasure. Ii does. not use
this lantern to guide it ON its way in
the depth of the ocean, or to enable it
to see what is going on in the neigh
borhood; the light is put to more
practical use. When the fish feels
hungry, it lights up to attract smaller
fish. They dart for the light and find
themselves in the capacious mouth of
the fish. How the lantern is lighted
and extinguishsd is net yet clearly I'M
derstood.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
THEY KEEP POND WATER CLEAR,
Goldfish and Sunfish Are Terrors TO Green
Scum and Wigglers.

scum ana hlggiers'
Fish have their uses to humanity
over and above serving as food material
or as unwilling caterers to the sport of
the fisherman, says the New York
Sun. Although it may seem odd so 70
speak of them, they often are as indis-
pensable to country place as dog or
cat.
If that country place happens to be
one that is supplied with running wa
ter, and this is used for ornament in
ponds or fountains, two things are pref
ty sure to bother the owner.
One is the well-known green scum
which spreads over the waters of ponds
and fountain basins. When its growth
begins the plant is pretty. 1t starts
from the bottom, as soon as the sun
gets high, in May or June, and sends
upward a delicate, graceful, wavy
thread of vivid green. Until it reaches
the surface it remains pretty, but once
there it spreads along and rots, and is
soon offensive in several ways.
The other nuisance from standing
water, even when it is often renewed
and directly from the springs, is mos
quitoes. The wigglers grow there.
The remedy for both these troubles
is fish, and the two kinds that will cure
them happen TO be the two most desira-
bic for other reasons.
Goldfish viii keep the green scum
from growing; and yellow perch, or, as
they are generally called, sunfsh, will
destroy the mosquito w'igglers.
The suntish one has to catch, but the
goldfish can be bought two for quar-
ter in the fish and bird stores of the
cifu
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
valuable Horses Are Burned

RED OAK, Ia, Oct, 29.--Between Il
and o'clock Sunday morning the
barn belonging to n. Yeager, OF
Omaha, was destroyed 1t was used
as winter quarters for the race horses
in charge of J. Tilden The 3-year.
old stallion Antwerp, by Aneo 2:1oK,
and Elgin Girl, 2:195f, valued at IS. 900,
were both burned. A yearling colt by
Red Valid, 2:eS5f, was also lost. The
fire was undoubtedly Of indendiary
origin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
COWBOY APPRENTICESHIP.
Calling That Js FrauRht With Much
Mental Angular.

A Calling That Js FrauRht With Much
Mental Angular.
IF young men who have the cowboy
fever had any idea of the apprentice
ship they are likely to serve before
becoming full-fedged cowboys, most of
them would be cured without the ex-
pense of a trip thousand miles west"
says Elias Miller, of Hutchinson. Kan,
to the st. Louis Globe-Democrat re-
Gently. 1T is nearly twenty years
since mad the fever and went out to
be cured. My'ffst work was watching
the line between Wyoming and Da-
kota. Line or fence watching is an as
signment frequently given to new
conner, and the duties consist in riding
up and down the line and preventing
cattle from straying over it. Several
men have lost their reason in this
work, and | came very near doing so
myself. All the glory and adventure
we read of in books is absent, and the
solitude is terrible. could cover my
distance in about two days, and did
nothing else but ride up and down the
line watching for the stray cattle,
which never strayed my way. Sheep
herding is said to be the most terribly
monotonous work a man can be put to.
but there are few cowboys in the west
who have not an acute recollection of
the sufferings they endured when do
ing such work as describe. There are
hundreds of men doing it to-day. but
each of them is looking forward TO OBJ
tanning new job with almost the
eagerness of a convict who knows that
his sentence has nearly expired
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
A PECULIAR FRIENDSHIP.
How 1t Was Established Betwee4. q Hawk
and a Rooster.

now II NAB EtbhDkkSneu between q HaW X
and Rooster.
1.-THE most peculiar friendship | ever
saw formed was one between a hawk
and rooster" said traveller recently.
Zone day, when living on farm in
western Pennsylvania, / shot and
wounded hawk. When / picked up
the bird l found that its wings were
broken, but otherwise it was unin-
jured. My sister begged that the crea-
lures life be spared, and the request
was granted. Within a few days the
hawk had become quite tame and
would come to us for its food when we
called it. The chickens were greatly
frightened at its presence and kept UP
considerable fuss. This soon wore of
and in a short time its presence was
taken as matter of course. The birc
was tied to stake IN the back yard
and the fowls would go several times a
day to look at him One rooster, more
courageous than the rest, concluded &c
get acquainted with the enemy. In some
way they succeeded in communicat
ing together and establishing bond
of friendship. They were constantly
together, and after the hawks wounds
had healed and he was liberated he
would spend portion of each day
with his friend, the rooster, paying nc
attention TO the other chickens. In
some way he must have told the other
hawks that our flock was under his
especial care, for we were never
troubled with them afterward, al
though before that we had lost a great
many chickens"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
New Road in Operatlon.

WELLsBoRo. Pa, Oct S0.-The Buff
falo & Susquehanna railway, a con.
Meeting link between the Western New
York & Pennsylvania ana the Fall
Brook railways, was opened Monday
and regular trains are now running.
II is 40 miles long and runs from Keat-
ing summit to Ansonia. This ROAD
opens up the vast lumber region in
Potter and Clinton counties.