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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04

washington. April 2.-The pope has
conferred on Rev. James A. stephan OF
Washington the rank Of private cham
berlain To the pope, With the tile OF
Monsignor stephan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04
WRECK ON MAINE CENTRAL.

firemen Ward Killed and Several Peo-
pie Hurt Near Veazie, Maine.
Bangor Me. April "A serious acct
dent occurred on the Maine Central
railway, near Neazie. four miles from
here, this morning
The Aroostook express, which left
here at GAO O'Clock, and the Pullman
train from st. John due here at o'clock
collided
Killed.
FIREMAN WARD. OF the express.
Several parties were injured The
Pullman was late, thereby causing the
collision.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04
ENTIRE CREW LOST.
STEAMER CRY OF HAvERHILL
SUNK.

The Body of Capt. w. p. watrous
Picked Up-Boat Not Designed for
ocean Experience Railroad Wreck in
Maine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04
KERRY PLANTS
AND
EIHhIuIuS HuIhS

] have lot of Fine Berry Plants
grown on new land. In Strawberries
have Saunders, Enhance, Parker.
Earle, Lovett, Michael's Early and
Jessie that have perfect blossoms.
Warfield, Eureka Haverland and
Bubach that are Pistillates.
The price is 81 per 100, 25 or more
of kind.
Raspberries: Shaffer's Colossal and
Musklngum. 30 for 81.
Cuthbert. Golden Queen, Palmer,
Johnston's Sweet and Gregg. 25
plants for soc.
| have a fine mixed lot of Gladiolus
Bulbs, blossoms of which were ex-
hibited on w. r. c. dinner tables at
the last County Fair. Price is 81 for
100 Blooming Bulbs.
WILL L. TAYLOR
Mt. Hope. Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04

Jump up. johnny mother said
Johnny jumped up out of bed,
Jumped sd suddenly, he few
Out OF the window, fore he knew,
In the garden stuck and grew
little Johnny jump-up. -Ex.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04

If you value tine
health Of your wife or daughter
avoid the injurious effects of using
a cheap made hard-running ma
chine save money. save Doctor
bills by buying the Light Running
Household, it has an easy treadle
motion that does not make your
back ache. is never out of
order, does not make your head
acheit is one of the best, and the
cheapest in the long run, try one
and be convinced of our assertions
it costs you nothing to try one.
all on us or write for terms and
prices. WILL You Try ONE?)
Address
MlCHAELIS & ROBERTS.
Lancaster Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04
BLOOD.NERVES.
What Causes Impure Blood
and How the Cause Can
be Removed.
BLOOD MEDICINES, AND THE REASON
WHY THEY DO nor REACH THE
CAUSE OF IMPURE BLOOD
AND DISEASE

The Modern Blood Medicine Does Not
Treat the Blood But the Nerves. why it
Cures When Other Medicines FaiI-Treat-
ing the Cause Instead of the Symptoms.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04

Stock. Corrected every wednesday
morning by c. w. Ray
Hogs, Heavy fair TO good 4.25@4.75
Hogs, Light 40 TO 200 lbs. 10000. 25
CATTLE Steers good to choice 400 Ca
800
StaarS StooLarS . naISo =
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-04

1s Masonic Temfle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30

The foreman Of a bootblacking shop
in Madison square is continual sur
prise to the customers His employer is
padrone, and he is left in complete
control. His conduct justifies his en-
ployer's confidence. He is the hardest
worker among the half dozen employees
and frequently takes the brushes from
one Of his subordinates when there are
not enough customers to keep all busy.
He never allows a customer to 60 away
unless he is satisfied that his boots have
been polished in the best manner posi-
BILE. He is ever full of enthusiasm and
works with as much energy at the end
Of busy day as at the beginning. His
humor never lags, and his muscles never
tire.
ut is as good as a bracer to watch
that fellow" said rounder "He is the
only man ever saw who always seems
to lovo to work. New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
Jenny Lind.

Jenny Lind must have been the most
simple, unpretending prima donna that
ever lived. When she first came to Eng
land she was bound to sing only at tho
Royal Italian Opera House, and when
commanded to sing at tho queens con-
cert she was obliged to refuse. Very
sorry to bo compelled to notify this, sho
ordered her carriage and drove straight
to Buckingham palace. She handed her
card to an official, who, not unnaturally,
declined to take it in. A higher author
ity happened to pass and took it upon
himself to present it. As soon as her maj
esty saw it she said, admit her, by all
means. " Jenny Lind appeared and said
simply that she was SO very sorry to be
unable to sing at her majesty's concert
that she thought it better to call herself
and explain. The queen was charmed
with her natural manner, gave her q
cordial reception and promised to be her
friend. To-day.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
Lilo In Japan.

"It is acurious. but accepted TRUTH"
comments the wife Of q naval officer
who has resided q number Of years in
Japan, that Americans, as class, do
not long stand up against Japan life.
There is something in the air, or some-
thing lacking in it. which is peculiarly
trying to us. So many naval officers
serving three or six years duty there
have come home with an incurablo COM
plant that it is common talk in the serv-
ice. Two admirals have died of abcess
Of the liver after several years residence
there, and other officers have had their
health seriously impaired under similar
conditions. never was seriously sick
in my life till got out to the island
empire, and throughout my whole stay
] fought something. The English resi-
dents do not seem to suffer as we do,
which is also commented upon fact. !"
New York Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
Who Invented the Guiiiotineq

1t is now certain that neither DR.. ].
l. Guillotin, who is said to have died
upon the instrument which has name
so strikingly like his own, nor DIR. j.
B. V. Guillotine, who has also been
given the credit of being its inventor,
was the designer Of the French instru-
ment Of capital punishment. 1t is
known to have been in use in Italy at
least 500 years before tho time of either
Of the gentlemen mentioned and was
the recognized instrument used for in
ficting the death penalty in Scotland
during both the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. Conradin of Suabia was exc
cuted by such q machine at Naples in
the year 1858, and that it was in use In
France more than 100 years before the
time Of DR.. J. l. Guillotin is proved by
the fact that the Due de Montmorency
was deoapitated "by sliding AZ" in
l682.-St Louis Republic.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
BANK BOOKKEEPING
A Perfect System Never Has and May
Never BE Developed.

A Perfect System Never Has and May
Never BE Developed.
The cashier of a prominent up town
bank says that such q thing as perfect
system Of bookkeeping has never been
devised and probably never will be.
"When you think of it, " he said, "book-
keeping is simply question of mental
ingenuity. What one brain can devise
in the way of safeguards another brain
can usually undo, speaking in general
way. The daily papers in condemning
tho banks because Of tho moderate sal
aries paid to bookkeepers overlook q
very important fact The banks pay the
market rates to expert bookkcepers,
which are anywhere from 81, 500 TO S2,
200 year, An almost unlimited num-
Der Of men can be obtained mt these
figures, and paying more money would
not make the banks bit safer, for the
simple reason that men of strong mental
powers, great business capacity and un-
swerving integrity are not, as rule,
content to be mechanical bookkeepers
in large institutions do not, of course,
mean to disparage bookkeepers in any
way.
"The point is that the men who make
good bookkeepers are unimaginative, re-
liable and steady going persons, who
are not influenced by great ambition,
and who do not aspire to lofty places. II
is not required of bookkeeper that he
shall have very high mental qualifica-
tions as bookkeeping is now conducted
in our big institutions. Each man has q
stipulated amount of work of stereo-
typed nature to do. He has of course
enough ingenuity to swindle, If he
chooses to do so. Anybody who believes
that a perfect system of bookkeeping
can be devised must also believe that it
would be impossible to counterfeit
money. The Bank Of England has been
held up as marvel for many years, and
yet it is no secret that that institution
was swindled in the most complete
manner for many years before it was
found out. The most important and con-
servative commercial agencies and finan-
cial institutions in this city and London
have lost money through their en-
ployees, and the Credit Lyonnaise, in
France, where bookkeeping is said to
have been carried to the very highest
point of safety, was completely upset by
a number of clerks two years ago, who
had no difficulty whatever in hoodwink-
ing the experts and pocketing the banks
money. New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
NUMBER 81.
SAVED HER SLIPPERS.
A BIt ct Hitherto Unpublished History of
q War of 1919.

war ot 1919.
This is a chapter of semiofficial, semi
domestic history, and it is vouched for
by granddaughter of the heru's FAM
lily line, Chicagoan who now lives on
Dearborn avenue.
Prominent in Mr.. Madison's cabinet
sat, fourscore years ago, Secretary Of
the Navy Jones, the son of IA famous
shipbuilder, n man gallant not only in
spirit, but i'm dress and manner His
fitness for his office is attested by the
naval histories of the war of 1912 But
the successful secretary had more wit
than hair, and wig was sine qua
non Of his political and social life All
went we'll with this adornment until
the luckless August day in 1914 when
the British marched from Bladensburg
upon Washington.
1t will be remembered that President
Madison and his cabinet stood not upon
the order Of their going on that occa-
sion, but went at once--to q very re-
tired summer resort Every one knows
how Lady dolly" remained behind
long enough to save some valuable
White House portraits from having their
eyes put out by English bayonets, bnt
few have heard how collected Mrs. SEQ.
retary Jones was in this national crisis.
Presence of mind is said to be promot.
ed by absence of body. This lady dis.
played in the face of danger presence Of
both mind and body As the secretary
emerged from his doorway, his hands
full of such family valuablos as his aci-
tated condition had allowed him to col.
lect, Mrs. Jones confronted him with
the appalling words:
"My dear, you have forgotten my
slippers You must go back and get
them"
General Ross was almost ut his door
bringing Imprisonment or death, but tho
unhappy man turned back to hunt the
slippers, which, il is only fair to Mrs.
Jones to add, were adorned with dia-
mond buckles. In his headlong quest for
these reasures-which he secured-his
wig dropped off in dark corner, and
he did not dare to take time to hunt for
it nor to attempt the purchase of an
other. The shorn appearance Of the SEQ
retary, hitherto faultless in all appoint
ments Of dress, is said to have very much
lessened the melancholy Of tho cabinet
journey. II is further asserted that dur
ing the time of retirement, no matter
how depressed any member Of tho presi-
Dental party felt over public and phi
vate woes, if he but glanced at Secretary
Jones peal upon peal of Irresistible
laughter was sure to follow and that the
despoiled Adonis cordially joined in
these bursts Of merriment. Chicago
Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
A Malay Water Slide.

In Perak state in the Straits Set
Elements, the Malays have one form Of
amusement which is probably not to be
enjoyed anywhere else in the wide
world.
There is hugo granite slope in the
course of q mountain river, down which
the water trickles about two inches
deep, tho main stream having carved
out q bed by tho side Of the bowlder.
This rock, tho face of which has boen
rendered as smooth Us glass by the con-
stant flow of water during hundreds Of
years, the Malays-men, women and
children-have turned into toboggan.
Climbing to the top Of the rock, they
sit in the shallow water with their feet
straight out and hand on each side for
steering and then slide down the 60 feet
into pool Of water.
This is favorite sport on sunny
mornings, as many as 200 folks being
engaged at time and sliding so quick
ly one after another or forming rows OF
two, four or even eight persons that
they tumble into the pool q confused
mass Of screaming creatures. There is
little danger in tho game, and, though
some choose to sit ON piece Of plantain,
most Of the tobogganers are content to
squat on their launches London Lit
tle Folka
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
THE KING OF INNlSHKEA.
He Dweiis on an Irish Island and Rules
Mayo Tribe.


About iG miles from Dugort, in Achill
island, out to sea. looking like thin
line Of sand in the waves of the Allan.
tic, is the island of Innishkea. One fine
morning our party started TO visit it in
q trusty hooker. As the hooker came in
sight of the shore great excitement was
visible among the islanders, and II was
very hard to realize that we were still
but 80 hours journey from London.
The inhabitants turned out en- masse.
The women and children in their scanty
garments Of red flannel crouched outside
their cabins, while numbers of the men
ran down to the beach and put out in
their coracles on chance of rowing us to
land. 1t was strange scene and curl
ously like picture plate in boys book
of adventures We knew there was q
king of Innishkea, and soon tall,
bronze faced man was pointed out to us
as his majesty On landing all the party
were introduced and conducted by him
to the palace, where the queen dowager,
with her daughter, bade us welcome in
true Irish fashion.
The old lady was in her picturesque
native costume-red dress and plaid
shawl over her head. The princess, how
ever, had evidently on first sight of the
hooker arrayed herself in modern fash.
ion to do MS honor, and we were amused
on penetrating into the reception room
to find advertisements from shops in
Buckingham Palace road and ST. Paul's
churchyard hung up to embellish tho
wall, though only by q favored few
could they DO read
Tho island was destitute of any school
or means of instruction for the children,
very small proportion either under
stood or spoke English, and there was
neither watch nor clock among the peo-
pie, who had happy go lucky idea of
time and troubled themselves little as
to Greenwich regulations
There were no church bells to ring, no
trains to catch, no office hours requiring
punctuality, so when the sun was high
in tho heavens they would get through
their not arduous farming duties, and
when he sank in the great waste of
waters they could sleep. The kings
word settled all disputes It was o
hereditary monarchy, and his people, so
far as he was concerned, were untaxed.
Happy those states thought some of the
visitors, where royalty could be main.
tanned with so little GRANDEUR How
ever, am in honesty bound to add we
found King Philip had other means of
filling his Golfers besides levying taxes
on his faithful subjects and learned the
art of making good his opportunity
whenever tho Saxon stranger ventured
to land on his shore. But Innishkea has
an interest altogether apart from its sit
uation, surrounded as it is by lovely
views Of mountain cliff and rocky head
land. On this spot, hundreds of years
ago, early Christian missionaries land
ed, and on top of shelly mount, half
mile from tho beach. are Christian
remains of great antiquity, West of the
island there stand also the ruins of o
church said to have been built by the
successors Of st. COLUMBIA. Leisure
Hours.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
TREE PLANTING IN FRANCE.
Useless Sand Dunes Converted Into vaIu.
able Land with Pines.

Tho French thoroughly appreciate the
advantages to be derived from systematic
tree planting. Tracts of sand have been
covered with pine forests, and tho word
lande, borrowed, as it is thought, from
the German, is losing its meaning of
"waste." Till century ago large
portion Of the forest of Fontainebleau
consisted of bare sand hills, but the
planting Of pines was begun. A variety
capable of standing tho soverest win
ters was evidently found, and millions
of trees now diffuse healthy and agree.
able odors, besides furnishing timber
for fuel.
Tho decomposed fir needles, more
over, gradually form crust Of vegeta-
ble mold, permitting tho growth of trees
and shrubs less able than the Pine to
live ON air The department of the
Landes, once barren region, with sand
SO loose that people had to walk on
stills, is covered with pines, and the
problem Of draining the subsoil has been
solved, as described in Edmond About's
story of 'Maitre Pierre"
Tho losses by fire and anxiety to pro-
duce something more remunerative than
pine are now, however. inducing
schemes Of artificial fertilization. In
many French watering places dunes
have been transformed into woods. thus
holding out to seaside visitors tho at
traction of agreeable shade and change
from monotonous beach. Shifting sands
have been prevented from extending in
land. In some cases dunes have been ac-
quired by companies, which, after plant
ing them, have cut them up into build
ing lots and have seen them dotted with
villas
Elsewhere municipalities have taken
up the matter, and in large operations
the district or the department has pro-
vided the funds. s.-London Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30

there Is any knowledge of us ON the
part of the dead. And old Armstrong.
practical minded Scotchman, remarks
that he cannot conceive of tho souls of
Burns and Shakespeare as spending their
time in knocking devil knocks at the ta.
bles Of noodles like pair of demented
postmen. But, says he, you can fan.
cy the spirit of mother saying to the
master seraph, 81 have been behaving
pretty well of late, and l would like to
10 back to Castle Bariield and have q
look Mt the lad left behind me, and
the master seraph says, go to the poor
creature, go!' And you feel her near
you, and You say in tho blindness of
your mind, NERVES. " And you try to
chase your poor old mothers soul away
from you with a decoction of Peruvian
bark. n"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
A Fine Polish For Tinware.

When the kitchen range is cleaned
ont, there will be found in the flue un.
der the oven considerable quantity Of
gray dust It is not ashes exactly, not
yet SCOT, but smoke deposit as near
akin to lampblack as o coal fire is able
to produce-soft. light, impalpable,
finer than the finest -four Not many
among those who throw this into the
ash bin are probably aware that this is
the best thing in the world for polishing
tinware. far SURPRISING all the prepared
powders and pastes sold for that pur-
pose Apply it to the tin with damp
cloth, and few strokes will produce
such luster as is on new ware or as the
engraver puts upon his zinc plates by
the use Of charcoal -Exchango.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
MAY MARRIAGES uNLucKv.
Old Superstition which Has Powerful In
Huence with European Bridal Couples.

Huence with European Bridal Couples.
The municipal statistics of the city Of
Marseilles show the observer that on the
2sth Of April, 1894, there were regis.
tered ut tho mayors office in that town
no less than "a marriages Why this
enormous number? Because, according
TO an ancient tradition, couples that
marry in the month of May expose them
selves to great danger-death will soon
smite the unfortunates, or, at the very
least, their union will not be blessed
with children. Therefore large num-
Der of Marseilaise lovers availed them
selves of the last days of April to join
themselves in wedlock.
This curious superstition is ty no
means confined TO Marseilles. NJ 10
Blaut, French Investigator, ascribes
to it an origin in Roman antiquity. The
Roman poet Ovid said that May was no
time for widows to marry or for young
girls. and adds that the imprudent
woman who braves fate by so doing will
die early. Plutarch agrees to the truth
of this
IL may be because Of this ancient prin-
ciple that the Roman Catholic church
has mado the month of May sacred to
the Virgin However this may be, the
idea has certainly perpetuated itself with
singular persistence. Tassoni, writing
about the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury, relates that among the inhabitants
Of Ferraras many young mobiles and
princes who were married in May died
only few days afterward at is tho
observation Of this strange fact, he oh.
serves that induced the Ferrarese, so
it is said, to follow the ancient custom.
At the present day the superstition
has not ceased to show itself in certain
regions of Italy, in Roumania, in south
Germany, Bohemia, Westphalia, Eng
land and France, notably in Saintorgc
and in the Cevennes, where every one
acknowledges the truth of the proverb,
1.-THE month of flowers is month of
tears"
Perhaps" said Plutarch, "the
month Of May is regarded as unlucky
because it comes between April and
June, tho months respectively Of Venus
and Juno, the tutelary goddesses of mar
riage, or perhaps it is because May is
the month of the feast of the Lemures
the souls Of the dead. Paris Letter
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
Triumph of had Smelling.

Mr.. r. e. Bartlett, Chelmsford, writes:
~ can beat the achievement of Charles
Edward, who, by spelling box 'botsk,
made more mistakes than the letters ad-
init of. l have in my possession letter
addressed many years ago to my father,
in which l3 mistakes are made in sim
gle word Of five letters The word is,
or was meant to be. usage; the spelling
is yowzitch There are thus five sins
Of omission and eight of commission;
total. 18. "-London News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
RECONCILEb.

"Have pityi" cried the weeping rose.
ooh, tear me not from this dear bowcri
Here have ! dwelt in sun and shower;
Here have l grown from bud TO flower;
Here let me in my bloom repose."
"weop not, o rosei" whispered low.
"1ll take thee to heavenly rest.
Upon my swcotheart's swelling breast
Thy beauty shall in rapture grow"
"I'm happy" sighed the smiling rose.
"Her radiant eyes upon me bend
Her breath and mine in greeting blend.
] feel the throbbing of her heart.
Oh, never tear US two apart
Here through life's bloom would rcpose. ,
Clement Clifford in New York Ledger
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
Tho Principle In Thought.

During normal sleep cerebral force is
restored which during the day was con-
sumed. We cannot during walzefuIness
maintain an electric supply as fast as
We disperse it as not only all thought,
but simple consciousness itself, must
consume something Those are marvel
ous microscopic wrinkles of electric
light that attend the disruption Of the
microscopic cells when we think. Won
derful is that earnal enginery whose 60
ing, wrought by cerebral action, marks
the genesis. and whose stopping indi-
Gates the exodus of our lives. New
York Advertiser.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
A New Use For the Telephone.

1t has remained for the latter part of
the nineteenth century to evolve anoth-
er and wholly different method from
that usually employed for the transmits
sion of osculatory favors. This is to
have the matter accomplished by tele.
phone. The invention is not, however,
patented, and may upon occasion be
adopted in other cities than Washing
ton. Washington Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30

They have recently made gold leaf by
electro chemical processes as thin as
four-millionths of an inch thick, il you
can imagine that. II was exactly l.2,
79s, 900 of an inch. The highest previous
thinness ever reached was 1857, $50
This is 10, 584 times thinner than ordi.
nary thin writing aper.-Journal of
Education.