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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
SHOOTING Mates MARY
~ cara Mems Clothes aud Can Down
Any thing VITA a Gun.

shooting Match Mary" is a queer
character known 20 nearly every one
IN Southern New Jersey. Her real
name is Mary Judson and she IS about
% years old. Mary's fame has been
gained by her proves with a shotgun
and rife. She runs a little farm ths,
she inherited from her father ano
lives alone Standing six feet in her
shoes she can toss a pillow around
field as handy as any man
But her passion is for shooting and
whenever she has an opportunity TO
take hand in match, she is there
She has been known 10 drive twenty
miles with the mercury in the vicinity
of zero to shoot at a mark with no
better prospect of compensation than
turkey. She has never yet been
beaten in match. Two years ago Or
rim Wakeman. farmer in Deerfield
township, conceived the idea of having
a Thanksgiving shooting match in
which the contestants should shoot
with rifles at the head Of a turkey
whose neck was held in hole through
the bottom of a barrel sawed TO such
a height that the fowl could stand on
the ground while imprisoned
Wakeman thought that by doing this
he would lose fewer turkeys, ana
make more money. He put the price
of the shots down so low that every
body thought he could afford TO try
his hand several times if he did fail
at first The scheme was a new one
in the history of Cumberland county
shooting matches. and the attendance
was large. Mary was present and she
brought with her smooth-bore fire
arm of rather ancient make When
the hour came for the shooting to be-
gin. every man agreed that Mary
should have the first shot, since cour-
tesy entitled her to 1t.
"Supposing l hit that one, do keep
on shooting till l miss?" said the WON
ap, as she made ready to draw bead
Oh the head
Certainly" replied Wakeman.
laughing, You can have my whole
flock if you'll get them that way"
Mary got the turkeys head under
the sight Of the rifle and pulled the
trigger. 1t was 20-yard shot aud
hard one to make, but the BAH went
plumb through the gobbler's head. An
other turkey was placed in the barrel
and Mary sent a bullet through IL
When the woman had made twelve
shots and scored every time the boys
in the crowd set out to hoot and do al
they could to discomfort her but Mary
kept right on pegging away and didn't
miss shot until she had won twenty
four turkeys when Wakeman an
nounced that his supply was exhaust
ed. He had received $40 for the
whole flock and he was Disguised.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
POOR OLD MIAoARAI
They Are Attempting in Every Way
TO Rob tier of Her Glory.


TO Rob tier of Her Glory.
Poor old Niagara! 1t does seem as II
mankind had conspired 10 take from
her the glory which has been hers since
man first looked upon her beauties and
became impressed with her grandeur.
Commercial progress is not to be stayed
by such a little thing as sentiment. aud
as a result ii begins TO look as if Mag
ara's roar was doomed TO grow less and
less and perhaps TO die away in the
distance like the wall of a lost soul. or
the last sigh of a dying giant.
Yes. sad as II may seem, Niagara
seems doomed TO die Man wasn't sat
isfied with Harvesting the giant and
making il do his work-indeed. threat
ening to compel il to turn every wheel in
the broad land. He has decided thai
the lakes which nursed the giant are not
deep enough for commercial purposes.
So dams are to be built 10 bold back the
water, and raise the lev Ell of the lakes.
At least that is what is now proposed.
How to maintain the depth of the water
in the Chicago river has long been Sc
rious problem to Chicasoites. 1t has
been proposed to continually dredge
the river; but this would compel the
lowering of the tunnels which pass
under the stream, and would at the best
be but temporary solution of the vex-
ing question, for the -eason that the
level of Lake Michigan is falling The
clearing away of the forests of Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and the Canadian
shores of the great lakes has deprived
them of that steady supply of water
which used to reach them The peri
odic floods and freshetS which have sue
ceeded do not serve so well as the more
constant and equable supply in main
tanning the high water level Of the
lakes.
The Chicago Tribune advocates the
impounding of the waters of the lakes
by dam in the Niagara river below
Buffalo. which win throw back the
water of Lake Erie four or five feet. and
by wing dams above Detroit when
would have a similar effect with Lake
Huron and Michigan. The shallowness
of every lake harbor is proof of the ne
cesSity of doing something of this kind,
and after the Chicago drainage canal
is in active operation the necessity fer
conserving the waters of the great lakes
in the interest of lake navigation will
be increased
The demands of commerce must have
their way, and a strong dam, no doubt
will ultimately be thrown across Mag
ara. The water which now rushes over
the falls will be held back in sufficient
volume to keep the lakes brimful. Cara
will be taken that the water supply for
the electric power generators on both
sides of the Niagara Will not be inter-
fered with. A good head of water TO
give good constant current in the Chi
cago drainage canal and high tides in
the Chicago river must be maintained.
What surplus water is left after these
demands of commerce are fully salts
fed will be allowed to course down the
broad channel of the Niagara river and
roar gently as it tumbles over the pre-
cipice of the once world-renowned Nj
agara falls.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
Left s1oo. GOO to H.s En.slnve.

James Wesley Dorsey, a c0lored man,
who up to a short time ago lived Id
Springfield. O.. but whose whereabouts
are now unknown, is in luck to an eX-
tent seldom experienced by one Of his
race. A lawyer is now looking him up
20 tell him mat he has fallen heir Il
the sum OF 100000 left to him 10y
Peter Shaffer. During the early days
Of his life Dorsey and his mother were
slaves TO Mr.. Shaffer, who was Il Mary
land planter Mr.. Shaffer recently died.
ricA and cIiidless. ana al an advanced
age. He showed that he had not for
gotten his old servant. for. by his viii,
he bequeathed nearly the whole of h's
property 10 him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
a VESSEL ON A WHALES BACK.
Lifted the Keel Completely Ont OF
Water and Then Slid Away.


For a ship to run over a whale is
something ouI of the ordinary yet such
a thing happened the schooner Aetna,
which arrived in New York few
days since. May IL she left Jackson
vile, Fla, with a cargo consisting Of
300, 900 feet OF lumber. Five days out
of port the mate on watch discerned a
black object directly in the route of
the vessel. which was Immediately put
about. Closer examination showed a
school of at least dozen whales, max
ing directly for the schooner.
The smashing of planks and timbers
like SO many shingles was the first
warning the crew had of the presence
of one Of the whales under the vessel
which bad come to a standstill by the
conclusion. The water round about
was dyed q brilliant red and the vessel
churncd and rolled, lifting the keel com
pletely out of the water. and then slid
gracefully over the back Of the whale.
In swimming under the vessel the
whale had cracked and broken many
of the timherS composing the keel and
left on them considerable Of his skin
to prove to the crew that for once they
had had ride on the back of a whale.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29

The st. Paul correspondent for the New
Era recently had an item regarding the case
of Mable Stevens, who had just recovered
from serious illness of rheumatism and
nervous trouble, anI was able to be out for
the first time in three months. The letter
stated that it was very bad case and her
recovery was considered such surprise tot the
neighbors that it created considerable gossip.
Being anxious to learn the absolute facts
in the case, special reporter was sent 10
have a talk with the girl and her parents.
They were not at home, however, being some
distance away. 4 message was sent to Mr..
Stevens, asking him to write up full his
tory of the case, and few days ago the fol-
lowing letter was received from Mrs. Stevens
"ST. PAUL, IND, Jan. 90 1897
Editors Ne,e Era, Greenshurg, Ind.
"DEAR SIRs: Yeur kind letter received
and l am glad to have the opportunity TO
tell you about the sickness and recovery of
Mabel. We don't want any newspaper
notoriety but in case like this where few
words of what | have to say may mean re-
covery for some child, l feel it my duty to
tell you of her case.
1.-Two years ago this winter Mabel began
complaining Of pains in her limbs, princi-
pally in her lower limbs. She was going 10
school, and had to walk about three quar-
tiers Of mile each day, going through all
kinds Of weather. She was thirteen years
old and doing SO well in her studies that
disliked TO take her from school but we had
TO do it.
For several months she was confined to the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29

1t Is a fact that the feet Of American
women are growing larger! Devotion
10 athletic exercise is the cause, and
some one Is daring enough to say that
the dainty, delicate, little Cinderella
feet that find ample room in No. / and
No. 2 slippers viii be unknown twenty
years from now. Any exercise that
keeps one on the feet for any great
length of time will surely broaden and
faUten the foot, and a years steady
course in a gymnasium will show re
markable increase in the size Of the
feet
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
Japan Would Like 20 Make steei.

Japan Would Like TO Make SJeef.
/ he Government of Japan has detail
ed five gentlemen to make tour Of the
United States and Europe in order to Sc
cure bids for the construction Of an inn
mense steel plant in Japan. These gen
tlemen are now in Ohio. The plan Of
the japanese Government Is 10 pur-
chase S2,0Oo0o0 worth of machinery for
the new factory, but to order none Of it
until the tour OF inspection has been
completed. Steel rails will be made the
principal product Of the new factory.
The party is headed by Machitaro Osh-
ina, technical director Of the Imperial
Steel Works Of Japan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
Things Are Different Now.

'How time changes" observed a
member Of the United States Supreme
Court bar The other day motion
was made in the ordinary routine way
to admit Ellen Spencer Mussey OF this
city to practice before the court Hard
~ any notice was taken Of It, and tina
Chief Justice granted It. the same as
he did al the similar motions, with his
pleasant and welcoming smile. Thirty
years ago, or even later had such q
motion been made It would have at
tracted attention all over the land, and,
indeed, all over Europe. remember
the preparation Of my first argument
IN favor Of the admission OF women to
practice law. 7 was hampered at every
point because Of the lark Of precedent.
Now there are hundreds Of preeedcnts,
but thare is no use for them, because
no one opposes such a motion and WON
en- have nearly every opportunity that
men have in the practice Of Law, even
e they DO net get as large fees"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
PATENTS AND INVENTIONS
Eha Former Are Not Needed TO Pro-
mote the Worlds Progress.

AhOkC NnC " OEAufe EEOEICSSs
If you look back on the history of
human progress you will find that none
of the great epoch-making inventions
has ever been patented. The man who
lit the first tre-whether Prometheus
or the party from whom he stole the
idea-did not get patent for il. Meth
er I'D the man who made the first
wheel-in every sense one of the most
revolutionary inventions in the history
of man. The same may be said of the
invention OF soap, candles, gunpowder.
umbrellas. and the mariners compass;
or. to come down TO our own day. OF
the steam engine and the electric te1e-
graph.
Patents are mostly concerned with
small mechanical details and improve
mentS-it may be in candles or UNI
brellas, or ii may be in the application
of steam and electricity-and by means
of these patents enormous profits have
been secured to second-rate inventors;
but the great ideas and discoveries
which underlie- these details have been
given to the world gratis.
There is 4 general notion that if you
did not protect inventions by means of
patents inventors would cease TO in
vent and the material progress of the
world would come to a standstill. 0ut
history does not bear this out in the
least. Men with great mechanical
gifts do not exercise them solely with
a view TO commercial profit, any more
than astronomers search the heavens
for new worlds with an eye to regis
tering patents and floating companies
on the result of their discoveries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
If you are
Particular

About the accommodations you
get when travelling, select the
Burlington Route as your line,
and you will be more than salts
fed.
II you are going beyond Chica
90, st. Lewis, Denver, St. Paul
or Minneapolis, and don't know
the rate Of fare, or the different
routes, time etc, write to Geo. P.
Lyman. Gen. Pass. Agent, St.
Paul, Mimi, and you viii get a
prompt reply, or call on any
agent Of the Burlington Route
they can be found in all principal
cities
Reclining Chair Cars, Compart-
ment Sleepers and Cafe Dining
Cars make a co bination un-
equaled for comfort in travel.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
RIme Butter.

It is 4 fact that il India butter mada
from the thin milk of the native COW
is blue, instead Of yellow. "Wben !
came acro this azure substance. says
a travelled lady. 4 vowed womd rot
touch IT; bur others did, with evident
enjoyment and curiosity getting the
upper hand. | tried the butter. and "
MY surprise found It delicious You
who have been used to the golden FRESH
butter Of England can hardly realize
what Il Is to see bread apparently
painted blue"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29

When young couple runs away to get
married half the world saws: How
Romantic!" the other half says: "How
sillyI" But you can't tell either way
until the honeymoon " is over. When
this young couple get settled down to the
regular hun-drum of life, they'll manage
all right and find solid happiness in any
case, if they have good hearts and sound
health. All depends on that.
wonderful how much health has to
do with married happiness. Sickness af-
fects the temper. You can't be happy
nor make others happy if you're ailing.
When you find yourself irritable. easily
worried, beginning to rundown" it's
because your blood is getting poor. You
need richer blood and more of it. Your
blood-making organs need to be vitalized
by DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry. 1t imparts new power to produce
an abundance of the healthy, red corpus
cles, and gives you a fresh supply of
pure, rich blood. It's a blood-creator
it is for everyone whose blood is impure
or in a poor, rundown " condition. 1t
prevents the germs of disease from get
ting hold on your system. Even after
disease is settled on you, it is driven out
by the blood-creating properties of the
discovery" 1t is a perfect cure for
general and nervous debility, catarrh,
malaria, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula and
every form of blood disease. 1t isn't
called consumption but even con-
sumption, which has its roots in the
blood-is driven out by the Golden
Medical Discovery" if taken in time.
.The Discovery" is the prescription
of one of the most eminent physicians
and medical writers in this country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
vRster Found il SOLID Granite.

A most interesting fact has been dis
byered by a Swedish scientist II Is
that water can be found by boring into
granite and other crystalline rocks to
a depth Of 100 to 700 feet A well was
sunk in the island OF Akro, of the
Swedish coast not long ago, and at the
depth Of 10 feet fresh water was tap
ped, providing an apparently mex,
haustible supply,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29
America Rediscovered

An English publication has the fol-
lowing to say of our power: The Euro
pean press, and among them we are
sorry to see many English papers, have
affected to laugh at the idea of Amer
lean warships forcing the Dardanelles.
Ignoring for the moment the political
aspect of the question, we would ask:
Have not those who scott lost sight
of the fact that the American navy is
daily becoming a greater power than
they care to acknowledge? 1t is bare
" two years ago since an American
firm asked, in all good faith, to be al
lowed to compete for the construction
of British Warships, a request which
raised a storm of ridicule in our pa
perS; and now, almost before the mer-
riment has ceased, the same firm have
secured the contract to build two 1000
ton cruisers for the japanese govern
men, vessels which, be it noted, will
have to be completed in as short a time
as any English firm would care to IN
dertake delivery in. The American
navy may be a small one to-day, but
we who speak the English tongue ought
To be the last to undervalue the mar
yelous potentiality of a nation which
entered upon the great struggle OF
1860 with a mere handful Of men. only
TO leave off four years later with arm
ed forces whose numbers alone caused
the whole world surprise. AS with her
men. so it may be with her ships
should the requirement for them ever
arise-a requirement which. as il kin
lred nation. we pray may never come.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-29

This is what hope )es for mankind
no man ever found happiness. but ev-
cry man expects to.
The oasis., 1897-08-28

Thursday morning Messrs Miguel Bonio and Charles 0. Allen, manager and superintendent respectively of the Colorado Mining Co.,, came in from Las Planchas.
 ",rhe Business of the Church of Christi will be the pastors subject at the Congregational church Sunday morning. The evening subject will be "Gideon-or Fighting for the Right
 Friday night of last week MT. A. J. Griswold suffered the loss of his fine fox terrier bitch Betty She chased a rat into Hogan's blacksmith shop, fell in the well inside, and was drowned.
 Monday evening Mrs. F. Vaughn came up from La Colorado. She went to El Paso where she will visit a while. Thence she will send her little daughter Frances to Brooklyn, N. Y., to school.
 Sunday evening Mrs. Temple ter minated her visit at Nogales and re- turned home to Benson. Monday evening Miss Ida followed her moth er They expected to stop a day or two at Huachuca.
 
 Sunday morning Hon. George H. Christ, U s. surveyor general of Ari- zona, came down from Tucson to visit his family. He remained until Tues day evening. It is stated that about September first Mrs. Christ and Miss Kate will join Mir. c. in Tucson.
 The substance of a letter from Mr. F. J. Ryan, formerly train dispatcher at Nogales and of late agent for the N. M. & A. railway at Fairbank, is that the gentleman was about to start for the scene of the new gold discov- cries on the Yaqui river.
The oasis., 1897-08-28

Wednesday evening Mir Chas. Wad- leigh came up from prietas, en' route to his former home in Buffalo, New York, where he will visit a number of weeks.
 Anyone desiring to purchase desira- ble residence lots in Noon's Additio- to Nogales, are advised to call on Cap tain J. J. Noon
 Monday evening MT. Miguel Padres, the merchant doing business at La Colorado, came up to Nogales for a short visit among friends and ac- quaintances.
 MT. A. Biester has bought from F. Sandoval & Co.,, the lots adjoining the residence of Colonel Juan Fenochio, and will build thereon a five or eight roomed mansion.
The oasis., 1897-08-28
CITY AND COUNTY

The Columbia Smelling Co.,, at Rollin, employs over POO men.
 MT. R. Johnson, master mechanic for the Sonora railway was at Tucson on business one day this week.
 Mir F. A. Stevens of the Duquesne Mining Co.,, has returned to Washing ton Camp from trip on the coast and the east.
 It is authoritatively stated that the Duquesne Mining Co.,, will pro- ceed immediately to erect shelter of large capacity at Duquesne.
 Star: The first application for leas- ing school lands in Pima county was filed yesterday with the Board of Supervisors by R. Fimbres. The land is located in the Laguna. There are some fine cultivated school lands in the Sonoita which it is said will be applied for soon.
 Star: The demand for houses is in- creasing daily and they are not to be had and yet every carpenter and builder in Tncson is taxed to the uttermost and buildings are going up in every quarter of the city but we must have many more for the coming visitors this fall and winter.
 Star: Harry Underwood, son of Hon. H. D. Underwood, in returning from Hoff's ranch, Wednesday night, a new wire fence having been erected across a part of the old road and it be- ing dark he run into the barbed wire fence, suffering severe larceration. The horse was also pretty badly hurt. Harry is not dangerously injured but will be confined to his bed for some days.
 Star: Prof. F. N. Guild, of Deer Lodge, Montana, has been appointed professor of minarology and assaying at the territorial university, in place of O. E. Won Barneveld. Prof. Guild comes highly recommended, for the last two years he has been professor in the department of the School of Mines of Montana and is spoken of as anexpert on mines as well as a scien- tiic scholar in the line of bis profess sion.
 Star: Alexander Seramin came here few days ago looking for work, and having highly commendatroy letters from the N. NJ. & A. R. B., for which company he worked for some years as telegraph line repairer. He secured work from the Electric Light Co.,, but night before last de- veloped evidences of insanity. Yes terday he was examined in the Probate Court and ordered committed to the territorial insane asylum.
 Citizen: There is a report current that NJ. F. Shaw of this city will start stage line between here and Fl Plomo, Sonora, about September 1. This would mean much to Tucson from a commercial point of view and will no doubt receive the hearty SUD- port of the business community. It will also be great convinence to the travelling public, as the opening of the new custom house at Sasabi will neceSsitate much more travel in that direction from this city.