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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09

commission business for her own pronr.
She got up circular letter which she
sent to all the customers of her former
employers. in which she said:
II find that it is not a complicated or
difficult matter to manage a commission
house. have competent force Of hog
and cattle statesmen and am now ready
for business. On myself alone rests the
entire responsibility. and | hops to re-
ceive your cooperation in a liberal pat
ronage, with the assurance on my part
that the stock will be well handled and
sold for the best price the market will
afford and proceeds RENTED as you di-
rect. Would like you to come in with
the first shipment. Consign your stock
to Jennie M. Goodwin, and you will re-
oeive every courtesy any commission
house can extend.
Cunning little commission merchant
that she ia, she wants the burly ship
pers TO come in personally with their
first shipment and mees her. A cattle
shipper is only { man, after all, and not
proof against the good looks of his
agent She promises all the courtesies a
commission house can offer. As usual
thing this means much liquid refresh
nent, but probably her statesmen are
hired to look after that part of it.
/ Her stenographer is a man, for, !"
says "the American girl, +" II can get
much more work ont Of man than l
could out Of three women. 1t takes a
man to manage woman, and vice
versa.
Miss Goodwin's Office is furnished as
tastefully as the parlor Of the little fiat
in which she lives with her parents
But she has comfortable outside Office
in which her cowhide booted cattle
punching customers may lounge and ex-
pectorate and smoke their stockyard
cigars without damage to either her fur
niture or her feelings City
Cor. Chicago Tribune
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09

along by The clubs and associations that
women have formed in almost every viii
lage, town and city for study and i'm
proyement.
The time has come, the walrus said,
To talk OF many things
OF ships and shoes and sealing wax,
OF cabbages and kings.
DIR. Mark agreed with the immortal
waIrus that there is nothing too great or
too small to escape the attention Of the
women Of today This clubbable instinct
has been the means of bringing to the
front new woman. The old maid is
dead, but from her ashes, phenixlike.
has sprung the bachelor girl Even as
Pallas Athene sprsng from the dead Of
Zeus, so the bachelor girl rose, full
armed, from the brain OF the ever mas
tering modern idea
Buoyant with youth and health, with
eyes that look forward with hope and
courage into the coming day, strength
for adversely or sHccess, she ia law
unto hersef, or should she marry sha
will adapt herself TO her husband naG
perfect music unto noble words, and all
humanity will profit by her existence.
EXCHANGE
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09
JENNIE h. GOODWIN,
lave STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANT.
Mis-. Goodwin Is an exoeedinglv nre

Miss Goodwin is an exceedingly pref
ty girl She il "a years old and was
born in White county, Tenn She has
the low we'll modulated voice of south
ern women and kas dark, expressive
eyes and M abundance of black, natu-
rally wsvy hair. Bat Miss Goodwin is
mach proudcr Of being the first femi-
nino commission man than she il of
her good looks But she knows the val
ne Of those same good looks, and TO
prove it has = half tone engraved por-
trait Of herself on her letter heads.
Six years ago she went with the
American Live Stock company as stenog-
rapher and grew to be bookkeeper as
well. At that time the American COM
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09
WOMAN'S WORLD.
1.-THE AMERICAN GIRL" IN THE CAT
TIE COMMISSION BUSINESS.

woman's Advancement Convention In
Baltimore Women Physicians For the
Insane Dora wheeler Keith Girls Col
lsges- ChivAlry For women.
The first woman to go into the live
stock commission business in America
has received her first consignment and
sold it ct the top" market price Out
side the door of her Office in the Live
Stock Exchange st the stockyards hangs
her Eign. 1t is this:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09
JENNIE N. GOODWIN.

pany was doing an enormous business,
as every shipper was made a stockhold-
er. But one day the company was driven
ont Of business, both in Chicago and
Kansas City. 1t was while with this
company that Miss Goodwin was given
the sobriquet OF the American Girl, :"
which clings to her to this day and
which she fills to the dot.
After the American company went
out of business she obtained employ
ment with the Campbell Commission
company and handled its correspondence
and books until last month, when it
went practically ont Of business. Then
Miss Goodwin had at least 40 offers Of
employment with other commission
houses and no one knows how many Of
fers Of marriage. But after considering
these offers she declined all and made
up her mind to go into the live stock
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09
eirIs Colleges.

A defect in the college life Of Ameri-
can girls that must be noted in this
The arrangements are too much after
the fashion Of boarding school, and do
not allow sufficient scope for the de-
velopment of individual character TIE
girls are expected to retire to bed at
fixed hour and to take definite amount
Of exercise each day, and--a more seri-
GUS defect-they do not each have sep
arate study. Where the students board
out which is the case in most of the
women 3 colleges, they share the life Of
the family they join. but where, as at
Vassar, halls Of residence are provided,
two or three bedrooms to one study are
the usual rule.
At xford or Cambridge every wom-
an student has at least one room to her
self arranged with much ingenuity as
a bedroom Study. Here she works, medi-
tates or idles AZ she likes, receives her
friends, and mistress of her time enjoys
the independence and solitude which are
too often entirely absent from the every
day life Of the average middle class girl.
Under these influences she quickly de-
velops Eobriety and self command, which
are the best correctives Of giddiness or Of
what past geneI alton entitled compre-
hensively "vapors, while the social
life OF the college, with it's clubs, enter
tainments and debates, suffices to check
any tendency that may exist to turn the
student into hermit. National OBJ
server
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09

AS the modern languages are now taugnt
universally it is obvious that the evil is
ON the increase and should be met with
strong hand before it grows to any
greater dimensions =
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09
WHAT DO YOU
EXPECT TO TTED

in first-class meat markets
The first thing is the class Of
meat kept in stock whether
IL is nice, tender and Juicy
or tough as a ten-year-old
Texas steer. Being satisfied
on this point, you begin to
look around as to the clean
illness OF the market and
clerks. We would be pleased
to have YEA call and put us
TO this test We pride our
selves on our cleanliness, and
our meats will be found first
class and the best in the
market. Our prices will al
Ways be found just right,
too :
TACKEY, the Butcher.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09

Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Russell
Sage and Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton
are interesting themselves in move
ment TO erect monument at Seneca
Falls. n. Y, to Mrs. Bloomer, the lady
who first had the courage 70 don tho gar
ment that now bears her name
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09
Bloomington = Stage

J. A. ELLRIDGE, Prop.
Makes daily trips between Eancas-
ter and Bloomington via Beetown.
Leaves Lancaster at o'clock A. NJ,
returning at p. A.; arrives in Bloom
ington at 1870 a. II. and leaves at
80 2. ".
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-09

The eightieth birthday Of Mrs. EIiz-
abeth Cady Stanton, which occurs Nov,
IL, Will be appropriately celebrated by
the national council Of women at the
Metropolitan Opera House, New York
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12
WHAT CAUSES MISERY.
Jordan Says 1t Is the Degeneration
Resulting From Unearned
Happiness.

ALI attempts to secure happiness with
out doing something to deserve it ulti-
mately result in misery. and misery is an
evidence of degeneration in the individual.
Such was DR.. David Starr Jordan's
theme in his lecture delivered last night in
the hall OF the Academy of Sciences be-
fore the Stanford Alumni Extension Club.
During his discourse he said
A person is not really in condition of
misery because he is sick. Darwin, the great
est scientist of the century, was, during many
years OF his lie, SICK man, and yet he was not
in misery.
Poverty may be a cause of misery, but not
nece ssariiy SO; sickness, but not necessarily
so. Instability of character, ignorance, fool
ishness. evil choice. evil environment, adher-
ence to conventionality may lead to misery.
Misery is a personal element; man is mis-
cradle because of his degeneration. "Poor
folks have poor ways an expression OF an old
lady in the Georgia mountains explains the
existence of much OF poverty and misery.
Happiness comes from accomplishing some
thing-from having done something to de-
serve it. In all animals the process of receiv
ing impressions is essentially the same, and
sensation is received, communicated to the
brain and reflected back to the place received
The instinct OF lower animals is the automatic
response to the brain reflection; the intellect
OF man is the choice of a response. All our
knowledge comes from nerve contact in one
way and another with external things.
A man is degenerated to the degree that he
falls short of what he might have been In
the long run there is no conflict between what
is best for the individual and what is best for
the race.
Nineteen-twenteths of our thieves and MUIR
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12
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MUNYON'S Rheumatism Cure seldom fails
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Munyon's Kidney Cure speedily cures
pains in the back. loins or groins apd all
forms of kidney disease. Price 25c.
Munyon's Vitalizer restores lost powers
to weak men. Price. 81.
Ask your druggist for free copy of Nun
yon's Guide to Health, and treat yourself
at home with harmless remedies that con-
tain positive cures for all diseases.
Personal letters to Professor Munyon,
1905 Arch street, Philadelphia. Pa, an
swered with free medical advice for any
disease.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12

derers are produced. not by heredity but by
corrosion, because conyentionality leads them
to do evil.
The general effect of the stimulant is TO de-
stroy the veracity of nerves. 1t is an attempt
TO feel better when you have not done any
thing TO feel better for. Perhaps the man who
would accomplish the best results would take
no stlmulants whatever.
There are good many people who try to
receive religious happiness by working them
selves into a series OF sentimental thrills, or
by mlnglIng among the enthusiasts but this
is not religion There is no love that ends in
selfshness.
When student comes to me, as students
have done, full of reElorse because he has been
on drunk, know that he viii go off and do
1t again, for remorse in itself is not a cure.
The great effectiveness of the work of the Sal
walton Army. think, lies not in their relyin 2
upon the feeling of remorse for wrong. but in
interesting the individual and getting him 10
work doing something.
The general end OF the double life is that
the lower life will predom1nate. The best way
is to hold aloof from the lower tendencies
altogether.
Any condition of life based on being good on
Sunday and bad on Monday is destructive to
the community.
What people generally are talking about in
city is pretty good index TO the character of
the population. In Havana, Cuba when was
there once the prevalent conversation was
gambling, and the great hero of the place was
the barber, VINO had just won the big prize
with lottery ticket.
All attempts TO secure the rewards OF skill
without having used the skill end in disaster
The most disagreeable thing that the chill
dren of San Francisco are subjected to is the
language OF suggestion of the bulletin boards
All these things and the trials that are held
and reported through this City's newspapers
are fatal to love, fatal to life.
The SO-called sowing OF wild oats results in
injury TO the spinal column. When wild oats
grow luxurisntly no other crops can grow.
1t is said of Starr King that he did not like
the rotten side OF things.
This class OF literature that is called realism
is not real, is not true to lie at all. 1t ought
TO be banished from every decent mans
library
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12
AN OPINION MODIFIED,
Judges Must Be Careful About
Instructing Juries to
Acquit.
The Practice Is Dangerous, and to
: Be Invoked Only in the
Clearest Cases.

The Supreme Court has rather modified
the terms OF the opinion in the knuth
case by decision filed in the case of An
drew J. O'Connor against o. S. Witherby,
filed yesterday.
In the Knuth case the court said that
whenever in the opinion of the trial Judge,
the evidence given to the jury was not suf-
ficient to justify the verdict rendered, he
the verdict aside.
The decision caused some commen
among the lawyers of the City, and it was
generally considered dangerous theory
to 60 by.
In the case just mentioned this theory
is much modified. A. S. Witherby was
sued by Andrew j. O'Connor for the
amount of an assessment on 100 shares of
stock which he was supposed to hold in
the Consolidated National Bank With
erby contended that he did not own the
stock. The case was tried before jury,
the case was submitted and then the
plaintiff moved that the court instruct the
jury to find for the plaintiff and the in
struction was granted and the jury
brought in its verdict accordingly. The
defendant appealed and one of the points
made was that the court had no authority
to instruct to acqult. The Supreme
Court sustained the ruling of the lower
court, and in answering the point made as
to the instruction says:
We do not think that the judgment should
be reversed because the court instructed the
jury to find for the plaintiff. OF course such
an instruction could not be upheld when there
was conflicting evidence as TO the material
facts which the jury had right to pass on,
but when there is no substantial conflict of
evidence to the facts determinative of the
case, or such facts are admitted, then the jndg-
ment will not be reversed for such an instruc-
ton, although the practice is hazardous and
can be sanctioned only in the cearest cases.
The opinion was written by Justice Nc
Farland. Justices Temple and Henshaw
concurring.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12

had been approached by a man named
Miller, VINO intimated he had been sent by
Mr.. Gallagher, and that she had been Of
fered money if she would swear that DIR.
Brown had been seen in a compromising
position in her lodging-house. The wit
ness expressed the opinion that his visitor
simply came to him to get him to raise
the alleged bid of the other side. Before
the woman left DIR. Brown forced her to
admit that she had never seen either him
or Miss Overman before the day of her
visit.
Mrs. Brown was put on the stand at the
request Of Mr.. Nagle and corrected her
testimony of Tuesday by saying that she
had misunderstood the question which
was asked her as to whether DIR. Brown
had told her of the Stockton kissing Incl
dent. She said that she was deaf in the
left ear, and added that DR.. Brown had
told her of that matter shortly after it
occurred.
There was some merry gossip and specu-
lation by the audience as to whether DIR.
Brown whispered his confession into her
deaf ear
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12
Nuptials of Miss Greenebaum
and Alfred Simon Last
Evening.
sCHLEss1NGER THEATER PARTY
Friday Night Whist Club Meets.
Theater Parties at the Audi.
torium This Evening.

The wedding of Miss Stella Greenebaum,
daughter of Mrs. Herman Greenebaum,
and niece of Mrs. Louis Sloss and Mrs.
Lewis Gerstle, and Alfred Simon, son OF
the millionaire merchant, II. L. Simon, OF
the firm of Stein, Simon e. Co., was
solemnlzed last evening at the residence
of the BRIDES mother, 1914 Pacific avenue,
Rev. DR.. Voorsanger officiating. The
engagement of the happy young couple
was announced about three months ago, q
short while after Miss Greenebaum' return
from an extended European visit
In addition to the high standing of the
contracting parties, the wedding last
evening was all the more interesting on
account of the delicious little romance con-
ne cted with it.
1t is the romance of love at first sight,
strengthened and nurtured by congenial
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12

Mrs. sobriski, DR.. and Mrs. Hanson, Mr..
and Mrs. II. Melindy, Mr.. and Mrs.
Cheeseman, DR.. e. Davis, Judge Golfer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Morffin, Dr. and Mrs. Green
ough, Mr.. and Mrs. F. Grant, Mr. and
Mrs. Neuman.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12

The statistical returns of the various
total membership throughout the world.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-10
did He Get Hi. whiDnirv Or

Tom, Dick and Harry got into trou,
BILE one recess. It was strictly against
the rules to throw stones, yet they had
been caught in the act by an angry
old gentleman whose orchard came M
to the s~chool-hOuse yard. Worst of
all, he had sec n stone from the hand
of Tom smash through the glass of his
fine conservatory. So the guilty three
expected severe treatment when Tho
principal invited them t. n private in,
,erview.
Tom was the oldest and worst n,
them. Harry was an Innocent little
fellow. misled by the example of The
others. Dick was usually well-behavcd
but had gone wrong for once. Tho
teacher said:
Boys, you have broken two vain.
able things, this gentleman's glass ana
one of my rules. You deserve severe
punishment and perhaps you will ce,
it, but intend giving you a chance
to escape. Each of You may CUES 70,
himself whether he b to be punished
or not Those who answer wrong will
be punished, those who answer right
will be spared, 30 be careful what you
say. Henry, you may guess FIRST"
Harry looked up timsdly and ventured
to sayi II guess yoz viii not whip me
SIR"
Very good. my boy; you have an
swered correctly. I shah have to lie,
you Of. Go to your seat Tom, your
turn"
Tom thauEht he had learned soue
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-10
SPLINTER.
Gawkeyc People Think Their IAN
Ruah VIII Be Another Crum,

Gawkeyc People Think Their Man
Rush Will Be Another Crum.
IF the young Splinter from the Grin
nell College does not prove to be an
other John V. Crum in the athletic
world he will sadly disappoint an entire
State. Iowans are sure the handsome
fellow who created such a sensation
before one of the biggest crowds ever
assembled in Marshalltown will prove
to be one of the fastest sprinters Amer
lea has ever produced. There seems
70 be good ground for the confident ex-
pectations reposed in the boy from
Waterloo. At the State championship
meeting Mt Marshalltown he performed
with great credit to himself, winning
tho four sprinting events handily in
that stamps the new man as hay
ing a brilliant future on the cinder
path. He ran fifty yards in 0:05 20,
100 in 0:1O, 200 in O:20 3-5, 30 in
Do So, and closed the day by rompins
away from his field in the quarter mile
event in 0:53. That Is n days work
that even the wonderful Wefers might
well be proud of. Rush has been in
training for running less than one year.
md the events mentioned were the first
big games he ever attended rs n COM
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-10

trousers, gazing up Ut INC
bronze statue of the martyr Nathan
Hale.
what a soft snap that feller's got,
anyhow" he presently remarked
''standin' there all day long, wild tlId
trees n shadin' him, nothin' to do, no
cop to make him move on, nothin' to
eat, nothin' to drink"-there the chain
Of thought suddenly ceased-"nothin'
to drink! I'd be a statue myself If it
wasn't for that. What a snap 1t would
oe."
And then speculation ripened into nc
ton, John proceeded owe to the base
Of the pedestal. 'Ill try It," he said.
my other engagements can watt A
tat broker hopping the PRECIPITATION
from his chubby checks hurried along
up Broadway. He glanced from right
to left and his eyes rested complacently
on the leafy greenery Of the park, Sud
denly he halted.
Shades OF ADe Lincoln" he gasped,
awe-stricken. On the bronze pedestal
whence Hale. the martyr, had looked
down over the passing show was perch
ed a fgure-a figure grotesque in its
simplicity. Nothing more strange. in
deed, than poor, addlevheaded John
Doe, his arms folded herolcally across
his red undershirt. And yet, he war
attracting the rapt attention of O
throng. So he played the statue faith
fully, until a park policeman yanked
him down by the foot and took him of
to the station.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-10
One Way to Put 1t.

Many of the sayings and dbings of
the Southern negro. that find their way
into print, may be a%pOcryphal, but
enough are known to be true to make
good his claim to humor. A gentleman
discussing coon-huntinS relates an in
cident, In Forest and Stream, that Illus
rates this characteristic drollery.
The party, consisting of hunters,
dogs, axes and torches galore, had been
hunting for a good part Of the night
without any luck whatever. Finally,
the dogs freed n Dol 1t would take
some time to fell so large a tree, and
one Of the negroes volunteered to climb
it and ascertain the whereabouts of the
Don
All agreed to this, and sat around to
await developments. Soon after the
negro had disappeared among the
branches, n peculiar sound was heard
from the top of the tree. 1t was a kind
of mixture of negro and oon dialect.
Some one ventured the remark:
"Bill, have you got that coon?"
Eyes, sah," was the reply, Use go,
dis here coon; but l wish you'd send
some O. dem darkies up here to help me
turn him loose"
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-10

petitor. He Is the son of a prominent
travelling man of Waterloo, and is the
Ideal athlete in appearance. He is .
feet 10 inches tall and weighs about $50
pounds in good condition. He has n
perfect style, which comes natural to
him, and in action on the track looks
like n runner who has been in the sport
for years. This Is all the more remark
able from the fact that he has eve
had the advantage of being handled
by n trainer of experience, who could
advise the young man Of his faults. He
Is exactly 81 years old, and what he
knows about sprinting he picked up by
seeing others perform.