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SHE KEPT A VARIED SUPPLY.
No Need for Him to Go to Drug Store
for Poison.

No Need for Him to Go to Drug Store
for Poison.
At eight o'clock the other evening q
bareheaded plainly-dressed woman
about forty-fve years of age walked
into Grand River avenue drug store
and asked:
HAS a man been in here within an
hour and asked for poison?''
mo, ma am" was the reply.
Rather small man, with red goatee
and freckled face?''
81 don't remember any such man."
"Got squeaky voice, and he'd tell
you that he was tired of life and longed
for rest?"
mo; no such man has been in here,
ma'am."
"Well, he may come. It's my hus-
band. Every week or two he tries to
do it he threatens to poison himself.
He went away this morning saying I
would never see him again, and that
would read of his death in the evening
papers"
''Yes'm.''
you'll know him the minute he
walks in. He'll ask you for arsenic
ten cents worth of arsenic"
"Yes'm.'
Hell begin to blow about me while
you are putting it up, saying as how I
make life miserable and full of woe,
and that he has decided to die
"Yes'm."
Then he'll begin to shed tears and
claw off and say perhaps he'd better
make one more effort to live with me,
and the result will be that he'll walk
out and leave you ten cents out of
pocket"
81 see. I'll be on watch for him"
Eyes, you'd better. He's played that
trick on every druggist within mile
of here keep laudanum and rough
on rats and strychnine in the house all
the time, besides three or four ropes
stout enough for him to hang himself,
and there's no earthly need of his beat
ing drug store. He just does it to get
sympathy and have chance to say
that bought four ten-cent novels in
one week"
81 see."
IF he comes, just grab him, turn
| him around and lift him outdoors, and
| Pll be very much obliged to you, and
| it may help to make a better man OF
him. Good evening. Detroit Free
Bress,
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A Celestial Clock.

Wynn Molesworth has invented ana
constructed very ingenious celestial
clock" The entire face of the clock
rotates under wire bar, representing
the equatorial horizon, and is regulated
to perform one revolution in twenty
three hours, fifty-six minutes, four
seconds, this being the time in which
the earth turns once upon its axis The
apparent annual motion of sun, moon
and planets in the opposite direction is
effected by movable pins, while the
north and south polar stars, that do
not rise or set for us, revolve stimuli
taneously with the rest by a separate
movement. Thus may be seen the en-
tire heavens. with sun, moon, planets
and considerations in their actual
places, ever rising and setting, as they
rise and set in the heavens.-Pall Mall
Budget
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SHE MARRIED BOTH.
BY JULIUS wEDEKIND,

lCopyrlgnt, 1874, oy the Author
Mr. Wilberforce Trott, lawyer, of the
Arm of Lunkenstein & Trott, was the
picture of prosperity and contentmen MT,
sitting in his office in the most luxuri-
ously-appointed Office building in town.
His private Office, where we find him,
was poem in hard wood and stucco,
but it's spic and span cleanliness de-
noted its newness, In fact, Mr.. Trott
had not always occupied quarters like
these. Indeed, as he sat in his rotary
chair putting the smoke from colo
RADIO maduro with a sultanic air of linn
itless wealth, Mr.. Trott's elegant sur
roundings bore the gloss of a weeks
existence and not day more. Not that
he wore the new conditions with anv
the less grace on that account, how
ever. Anyone, to have observed him
critically, would have acknowledged
the aristocratic repose of his regular
features and the exquisite taste of his
fashionable apparel. But the fact re-
mains that Mr.. Trott, a week before,
had been struggling young attorney
with an inchoate practice and an unre-
liable sequence as to meals.
AS there are no such things as fairy
wands to change hungry lawyers into
well-fed barristers, the truth may as
well be admitted-Mr Trott had hit
the races The ten thousand dollar re-
tainer from a delightfully."- mysterious
corporation in the west, which he as
sured his friends was the basis of his
new magnifcence, was in reality a
winning of that amount on a cluster of
horses upon whose combined speed he
had made bet after the manner cur
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A FACE OF DARK, HEALTHY BEAUTY.
.c-G~A&AS

FACE OF DARK, HEALTHY BEAUTY.
rent among the pool rooms For all
TINS, Mr. Trott was by no means a
sport" He was unquestionably a
young man of talent who would be
neard from one of these days, and who
knew what it meant to "toil terribly" :"
Inc reason that we do not find him
at work with his books directly con-
Germs our interest in this lucky youth.
TOT Mr.. Trott's thoughts were floating
oack over five long years of professional
siclssltudes, as dreamily as the smoke
'hat curled aloft over his blonde head,
until they rested upon a face of darn.
aealtny beauty surmounted by curling
: 4ocKs as black as the tender ewes
whose depths he had once celebrated
N q Feeble quatrain with the opinion
". .hat they rivaled the glories of star
.i' nlght He had truly been des-
perately in love with Alice Monroe,
iact that had been fully appreciated by
'nat dainty little despot, who not only
accepted all his attentions in the way
" .heater tickets, balls and bouquets,
~. u' pouted for more. All of these
.nings had been the despair of poor
young Mr.. Trott, who wondered how
nc was ever to marry a girl whose
stlVlai expenses per week exceeded his
Income at the bar per month. To rem
nc uer 'he situation even more poignant,
., 'o repeatedly declared that the man
cue married would have to have money.
~ her heartless opinion love in a cot
was unqualified bosh. Often he
dingy room: ' 0 LIS
one Is vain, Haunting, extravagant,
unworthy an honest fellows toll"
~ oh every line Sunday afternoon, for
o.. sweet sake, he had hired yellow
-, ana large black horse with a
.iae IKE the course of empire, whose
20 %.sa-colored harness was the syellest
th lug that graced the Clifton drives on
Tl as aay. The SWEETEST? Alas, no.
A. T was one rig that excelled that of
a. nrott, even as the white glory of
~ e'anond excels the dull gray of the
pa~ Aud in that rig sat the bete
noir OF Mr.. Trott-the one being on
eo.s: -. =. wnom he hated with the cheerful,
~ nate of lover for rival.
sch- me name of this party was Messer-
maa ue cool, imperturbable gentle
sran Eau, the unrufied impudence of whose
mass. s'eaay eyes had taken Mr.. Trott's
iasafe sirs. on the night that they had
s''s oes In Miss Monroe's parlor, and
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VOLUME XXXU,
EUT ALSO


Not only wishes he possessed
Unconscious health,
Wherewith by fortune blessed
But also
Wealth.
Not only after riches strives
Each waking hour,
And wins, since fate contrives-
But also
Power.
Not only yearns the joys to know,
AS life goes past,
Which wealth and power bes tow
But also
Caste.
Not only health. wealth, power, and caste
Came at breath:
Not Only these, at last
But also
Death
Hunter MacCulloch. in Cosmopolitan.
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In a Broadway Restaurant.

Pfoprietor--Any one waiting on you,
miss?
Miss Hayseed (blushing)-Weli, FL
Perkins is kind er purring round, bu1
hs hain't talked business yet. Truth.
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BENTON, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY o. 1884,

were ever since noting the details of
MI Irott's suit with stolid Teutonic
amusement that betokened their own
er's confidence in his own supremacy.
AS rival, Mr.. Messerschmidt was, in
deed, peculiarly dangerous in the pos
session of gigantic soap factory, in
herited from simple-minded parent
who would have turned in his grave
with astonishment had he seen what
his SON had done for the old concern
since its founders death, for the plant
had undergone the mysterious process
known only to the subtle promoter who
capitalizes small enterprise into CO.
lossal one by the hocus-pocus of the
street"
Never in his life had Mr.. Trott
claimed the society of the capricious
Miss Monroe on one of those bright af-
ternoons but what Mr. Messerschmidt
could be seen in his gorgeous turnout,
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS,

-Wife-'What are you coming homo
at this time in the morning forY' Hus-
band-"Bre' kfush. Detroit Tribune.
-"Why did Ethel Robinson marry
Harold Smithers, l wonder?" "She
admired his monogram. 1t looks SO
like the dollar sign.-Harper' Bazar.
-May-''They say Miss Stepley, of
Chicago, gives great deal to the
poor" Bell-"What does she give?'
May-"Her old shoes IN. Y Herald.
-She-'T must ask you to release
me from our engagement. Papa has
failed" He-'O, that's all right
am the man who won all his money"
Indianapolis Journal
Two of Kind. -Mistress-"Brid-
get, 1 don't want you to go out this
evening"" Maid-"Nather do Path
rick, mem; he's coming to say me,
mem. Detroit Free Press.
Too True.-First Girl-"Chape-
rones are more averse to engagements
than any one else, don't you think
so?" Second Girl-"No; according to
my observations men are."-Truth.
-Hicks-"What curious acting
chap Aberrate is! Sometimes 1 think
his mind cannot be right" Wicks-
Don't you think it too bad to blame it
on his mind?'-Boston Transcript.
81 suppose you have been shopping
all day again." said Mr.. Snaggs to his
wife at the supper table. "And / sup
pose you have been bucket-shopping
again." retorted she. - Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
-Merchant-'T believe we ought to
get more than fifty cents yard for
that goods" Shrewd Clerk
'"There's just one way to do it."
'How?" ''Cut it up in fragments and
sell it on the remnant counter."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Worse Yet.-Bill the Bombthrower
(waiting for the group to assemble
''There won't be many of us here to-
night. It's rainin' pitchforks. Dyna-
mite Dick-"Rainin' pitchforks? Great
Scott! It's rainin' soapsudsr
Tribune.
mo-" said Mrs. Blivens, in reply to
her little daughters beseeching for
little sister; mo, we can't afford a new
baby" But" persisted the child,
won't the doctor make reduction if
you take twins?"-Pittsburgh Chron-
icle.
--Longwed (meditatively)--"The man
who refuses to take no for an answer
may be blooming bright or he may be
blanked chump." Neybor-"Speak-
ing from personal experience?" Long
wed-'Er-I was just thinking of my
numerous proposals to Mrs. Longwed."
Buffalo Courier.
-"Fangle-"Young Barlow has Sc.
lected his vocation" Cumso-"What
is his choice?" Fangle-"He has de-
cided to become a poet" Cumso-
Nonsense! What qualifications has
hep" Fangle-"He has one very inn
portant qualification" Cumso-''Name
it." Fangle-"An assured income" -
Harper Bazaar.
What do you think of this social
istic idea that people should receive
pay in proportion to the effort they put
forth?" TITS utterly impracticable.
Why, under such a rule, that girl next
door who is trying to be soprano
singer would be entitled to about 81, 900
a day. y."-Indianapolis Journal a
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Messerschmidt married her that fall,
but Mr.. Trott had never called upon
them since the event.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-23
MILL HANDS ARE OUT.

Eleven Thousand Operatives Omit the Cot
ton Factories at New Bedford.
New BEDFORD, Mass. Aug. 2l.-The
cotton operatives began their general
strike, and nearly IL, 200 are Idle. The
machinery of but five of the twenty
seven mills in the city is in motion,
and it is thought that these
mills will soon be shut down with
the Others. The manufacturers have
nothing to say, but the notices of re-
duction against which the help rebel
are still posted. Score tary Ross, of the
Spinners' union, stated that the mem
bers of his union had lined up for a
long struggle, and confidently expect
ed that it would be of six months
dIlra tion
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-23

take the stump for the Congressional
campaign. But so far Mr.. Cleveland
HIS refused to accept their advice, be-
cause he wants 10 ''get even" with
Gorma an and his supporters by writing
a message to Congress, explaining his
position. The more explaining he does
the more republicans will be elected
to the next House. For that reason re-
publicans hope that he win send mes
sage TO Congress.
Senator Vest made another savage
attack on Mr. Cleveland in speech ON
Wednesday, during which be let the
cat out of the bag as TO the soreheaded-
ness-he baan't been given any pap.
He also argued that Secretary Carlsle's
letter against the passage OF the pop
gun tariff bills proved what has all
along oe-n in'ended by many If the
| democratic Senators, that Secretary
Carlisle favored the Senate bill aud not
the Wilson bill There is a rumor here
that Mr.. Carlisle wraie that letter with.
ont consulting MIR Cleveland, for the
purpose of making ii more certain that
the Senate tariff bill would be- allowed
TO become a law, with or without MIR.
Cleveland signature, and that in con-
sequence The relations of the two men
are strained TO such an extent as to
make the resignation of Secretary Car
Isle q probability.
Republicans consider the work of the
sess on done. End so many of them have
gone home that the Senate is already
without 4 quorum and likely TO remain
50 II is PROBABLY because of tie know
Ledge that certain democratic Senators
have become so very solicitous that
me bill should he passed that will
take away the pr fits that they have
deibel a'ely voled 10 give the sugar
trns'. There is democratic hypocrisy
on every band The Senators are mere
ly trying to keep up with the record
made by the House democrats when
they passed a tariff bill with a duty on
iron, sugar, coal and barbed wire. and
Immediately afteiv ards passed separate
bills putting those articles on the free
list. The voters Of the country will in
November express their opinion of this
sort Of business
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-23
MANY LIVES LOST.
Two Disasters Reported from the
Far Northwest.
Five Drowned In the Yukon River-Mem
beers of q Coast Survey seamer's
Crew Perish 1T 10 Creek-Rus-
sian Steamer Founders.
TWO BOATS cAPsIZED.

TWO BOATS cAPsIZED.
PoRT TOWNSEND, Wash, Aug. 90
Advices from the Yukon river district
mp TO July l have been received here.
Capt. Lyon. who was going down the
Yukon river to take command of the
steamer P. B. Weare, and four others
were capsized and drowned at Five
Finger rapids Sixty pounds of mail
was also lost.
Probably Drowned.
OoosTA, Wash, Aug. 90.-Saturday
morning while making a landing
through the surf at 10 Creek, IS miles
north of Gray's Harbor, q whaleboat
and Grew of nine men in command Of
Lieut.. Freeman II. Crosby, L. S. N, of
the United States coast survey steamer
Macarthur, was capsised and Eve men
are missing.
Disaster In Russia.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 20.-A dis
patch from Rybinsta, an important
commercial center on the right bank
Of the Volga river, states that a ter
rible storm passed over that city and
the neighborhood Friday last. The
damage done to property was
immense. The steamer Uspisku, plying
on the rivers Shexna and the Volga.
was caught by the storm on the former
stream. There were 100 passengers on
the vessel, and they were thrown into
a panic by the tremendous force Of
the wind, the furious downpour of
rain, and almost impenetrable dark
ness. The captain, knowing his yes
sci was in great danger, headed 1t for
the beach, his intention being to run
1t ashore. Before this could be done,
however, the vessel sprung leak and
began to founder. AS it foundered the
decks were blown up by the
air in the hold. Everybody on
board was thrown into the water.
there not having been time to lower
the boats. Despite the fury of the
storm passing vessels which had heard
the signals OF distress stopped and
managed to rescue everybody except
the captain and Ave other persons
Nothing was seen of these six after
the steumer foundered and it is be-
lieved they were drowned.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-23
RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.
1t Becomes q Law without the Presidents
Signature.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-The river and
harbor bill, carrying 81, 479, $50, be-
came law at midnight Saturday night
without President Cleveland's sigma
ture, the legal limit of ten days hav-
ing expired within which he could
sign or veto it. 1t is the third time
since Mr.. Cleveland's two terms that q
river and harbor bill has become law
without his approval, the only other
bill of this kind submitted to him hav-
ing been vetoed. Fears were expressed
mp to a late hour Saturday that
the present bill would be vetoed,
as Mr.. Cleveland made it known
TO the river and harbor managers
several months ago that he did not want
the total of the bill to exceed $40, 00O.-
600. This led to pairing down the APP
preparations on most of the river and
harbor projects about four-fifths from
the estimates, so that the total of
50, 5Ss, $50 allowed by the house was
about one-fifth of what the army en-
gineer asked to prosecute the work.
In the senate the bill was raised to
S12, 790, $50 This led to an animated
struggle in conference, the house men
contending that the bill would be
vetoed unless it was much reduced.
The conferrees finally reduced
it to S11,47s, 100, and thus 1t was
agreed in both houses and so went to
the president. Aside from the amount
carried by the bill TIE sundry civil
appropriation bill ais aries IS, 4O0,-
600 for river and hal contracts,
making a total for this 8 of work
of $40, s7s,150. This is about So, 600, 600
less than the amount given for river
and harbor work for the first session
of the last congress. An important
feature of the new bill is that it au-
thorizes no new contracts
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-23
STAGE ROUTES.

LANCASTER b PLATTEyILLE STAGE.
(Daily.)
LEAVES Lancaster at p. N. and ARRIVES ST
Platteville at p. N.
LEAVES Platteville at q. m. and Arrives at Ian
caster at 1880 p. m.
GREEN. & ABRAMS Props.
LANCASTER 81 sPECHT'S FERRY STAGE.
(Daily.)
LEAVES Lancaster at a. m. and Arrives at
Potosi at II m,
LEAVES Potosi at p. m. and Arrives az
Lancaster at $50 D. m.
THoS. HYMER, Propr.
LANCASTER, BEEToWN & BLOOMINGTON
STAGE.
(Daily.)
LEAVES Lancaster at m and Arrives at Bloom
ington at 10 m.
LEAVES Bloomington al 80 p. m. and Arrives
at Lancaster at 8 80 p. m.
JOE. SIXTH. Prop.
LANCASTER Il BURTON TAGB.
LEAVES Burton at a. m. and ArriN les at Lancas-
ter at IL m.
LEAVES Lancaster at 200 and Arrives at Burton
JNO. STRICKLAN. Prop.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-23
FARMERS. ATTENTIONS
SPECIAL PREMIUM AT THE FAIR.

SPECIAL PREMIUM AT THE FAIR.
The University of Wisconsin offer q
sack Of 100 pounds of the following des.
cribed grain. for the best exhibit oil
cereals, all grown BY the exhibitor, al
the coming Grant County Fair, held al
Lancaster, September 10, 20 and 81.
The grain will be shipped to the sue.
cesstul exhibitor from Beaver Dam.
Wis, from which point he will be rs-
CURED to pay freight charges.
BRIEF HISTORY OF MANsHURY AND
MANDsCHEURI BARLEY.
About 1859 scientific traveller
brought some barley seed from The
mountains OF Mantchooria, Asia, to
Germany, where it was grown by the
gardener of the Emperor at Sans Souci.
DIR. Herman Grunow, of Mifflin, Iowa.
County, while on visit to Germany
was given some of this seed by the gar
dener and planting it on his return to
Wisconsin, found this variety Of barley
far superior to anything he had before
known. With much forethought DIR
Grunow sent seed 10 Prof. Daniels,
then in charge of the agricultural de.
partment, through whose instrument
tally it was widely distributed. DR..
Grunow named this barley Manshury,
giving an easy spelling tor the word
Manichooria Mantchooria lies Just
north of Corea, the seat of the present
trouble between Japan and China.
Manshury barley has been worth mil
lions to the northwest.
10 1889 the Ontario Agricultural Col
lege secured a variety of barley from
Russia, which no doubt came originally
from the same country, as the Russians
called it Mandscheuri Two years ago
the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment
Station secured seed of the Mandscheuri
barley from the Ontario Station and
found that it thrived on the Station
farm. Last spring an arrangement:
was made with Mr.. A. F. Moves,
a large raiser of barley at
Beaver Dam. to grow this variety for
us. The yield of Mandscheuri with
Mr. Moves this year was 69.6 bushels
of 30 lbs. each per acre, while the other
halt of the field sown to Manshury, the
old strain, from carefully selected seed,
yielded 81 s bushels of so lbs. each per
acre. At the Outario Agricultural Col.
lege the Mandscheuri barley has aver.
aged about five bushels per acre more
than any other variety tested by the
| Station.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-23
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent
Washington. D. c.. Aug. p, 'g4.

Washington. d. c.. Aug. q, "a.
The worst enemy of Mr.. Cleveland
could not wish HIM 10 occupy more
humiliating position than he does at
this writing. He has been defeated in
the fight with the Gormap-Brice CON-
bination which he himself invited, and
he has now 10 choose between signing.
vetoing or allowing to become a ,w
without his signature. the Senate tariff
bill, which he characterized in his letter
TO Mr. Wilson as "undemocratic, per-
tidious and dishonorable. 1t he fol-
lowed bis personal inclinations be
would veto the bill and Try to keep Con.
gress in session until be could force a
Till through that was nearer Tree trade.
But there are weighty reasons why he
is not likely to follow his personal in
clinailons. the first of which is the uni
versal demand from the business men
of al sections and all parties, that the
bill be allowed To become law, bad as
it is. in order that they may have
chance to do business. The second md
probably the most weighty reason with
MIR. Cleveland. is the knowledge tha'
the Senate would refuse 10 pass any
bill that be was known to wish passed.
The pop quo tariff bills for tree iron,
coal, sugar and barbed wire, which the
House passed and sent TO the Senat,e
are nothing more than excuses to aid
free trade democratic members of the
House to square themselves with their
free trade Constituents. The only one
of them that could possibly get through
the Senate is that providing for free
sugar, and that one the administrati on
joins the sugar trust in opposing. Sec
rotary Carlisle and the agent OF the
sugar trust are both working in concert
to prevent the passage of he free sugar
bill, the latter trying to brighten those
democratic Senators whose votes are
not controlled by the sugar trust, by
representing that the MONEY to be col
lected through the tariff on sugar is alb
solutely necessary to save the admins
tratiCn from anC Their issue of bonds.
This argument does not speak well for
Mr.. Carlisle's opinion of theintelligence
Of the democratic Senators, as every
intelligent reader of the newspapers
knows that the Treasury will not for
long time to come collect any tariff on
sugar, for the very simple reason that
the sugar trust hiss supplied Itself with
all the raw sugar il will need for
months, in order t. nsca pc the payment
Of the duty The real reason why the
administration is opposed to free sugar
is that it would knock the sugar trust
out OF the two cents pound which it
proposes to add to the price of sugar.
1t is sn omen secret here that Secre-
tares Gresham and Carlisle have ad-
vised GIr. Cleveland to sign the tariff
bill aud let Congress adjourn. leaving
TIC democrats to make The best they
e. individually Of the surrender of Mr..
Cleveland and the House, when they
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-23
win Speak in Indiana.

New YORK, Aug. 1s.-Ex-President
Harrison, in course of an interview,
said 81 shall make two and possibly
three speeches during the coming
campaign. shall make them in
my own state and very neal to
my own home All that / have to
say about the tariff and every other
topic that you want me to talk about
will be said then. have numerous
invitations to AXE poll teal speeches
in different parts of the country. but
have resolved to limit myself to the
field ! have mentioned"