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The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Long Wear, Low Prices. Good Fl,


1 can name many old customers who
will state that their suits have been
satisfactory in long wear, in prices
and i'm fits. OF course errors are made
by everybody, but they are easily cor
rected, and we make as few errors as
any one, and we guarantee fit. We
have studied measure blanks and have
fit irregular men. One of my houses
gives splendid hat with suit or an
Overcoat. Boys get camera with
each suit. Uniform prices and small
profits. Excellent suits or overcoats,
81. to $50. Boys Suits, cut and made
to measure, $3.50 to $3.50. Young
men can save in this line. M. d.
Hughes, Agt.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26

Adams Fistula Salve, put up by
Adams & Fish, Paint Lick, is meeting
with ready sale every where. Persons
who have used it say it's marked
success and sure cure for Fistula,
POlevil, Swinney, Scratches, Enlarge
ment, Greasy Heel, etc. 1t is sold on
a written guarantee, and money re-
funded if not as represented. For sale
by r. E. McRObertS. Lancaster.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Butcher Sllop Sold.

Mr.. E. w. Norris has purchased the
Thompson butcher shop, on Danville
street, and will take charge first of
November. He will employ a first
class butcher and run the establish
ment in an up tO-date manner.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Graded school Tax.

The 1899 tax is past due. Please cal
and settle and save being asked for it
The penalty will certainly be added tt
all unpaid taxes.
If. f. w. HARRIS, Collector.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26

Smith & Currey, Agents for Dan
vile Steam laundry. Work shipped
and received daily. Shirt waists
specially. Office at r. CurreyS or ,cery
store If.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Free Camera.

A free Camera will be given to each
boy who buys a suit from the Stanley
Tailoring Company, and they will
save money, where breast measure is
under 35. NJ. D. HUGHES Ag't.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Fire! Fire!! Fire!!!

Build your fires with Coal bought of
w. B. Moss & Co. 1t is the best,
makes the hottest fires, weighed on
Fairbanks Standard Scales. Good
coal, good weight, why not buy from
uS2
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Bargains.

Come to see me Monday and l will
show you some special bargains in
suits and OvercOats. All wool at BOZ :
tom figures. Satisfaction or no trade.
Ready-made or made to measure. Sew
en- dollars, up.
NJ. d. HUGHES, Agent.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Seed Wheat For Sale.

Yellow Fultz seed wheat one year
removed from the North west. Would
advise farmers to plant to secure seed
for another year. Sample at Citizens
National Bank and VIM. Wards mills
H. A. B. MarkSbury.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
The Right Time.

AS your cisterns are now well filled,
it is the proper time to have them
cleaned. Our cleaner does the work
perfectly. Satisfaction guaranteed OF
money refunded.
Oc-l9tf HATCHER & AUSTIN.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Farm Wanted.

AS agent, l will trade desirable
town property for farm. Nj. d.
Hu0haC
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Hemp Seed Wanted.

We want $50 bushels well cleaned
cultivated late importation hemp seed
III. "A. III. MarkSbury & Son.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
Mure LuEal.
ClOakS, clOaks, clOaks, at JOsepils.

Reserved seats for the Aft Taylor
lecture at McRObertS' drug store. Sc
cure one In advance.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-26
A Paint Lick Enterprise.

M. d. HUGHES, Agent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
GUN CREW, BATTERY D. SIXTH ARr1LL cry.

walled part OF Manila When the
trouble at Page Church came, Battery
d saw active service. With two guns
they smashed the church to smither-
Gems, and later at Caloocan did more
valiant service Lieut.. Hawthorne had
command of the guns of the Astor bat
terry, which had been turned over to
the government and formed part of
the Sixth, and on these occasions they
were brought into play effectively. 1t
was necessary to keep the railroad
lines open, and for this work the Sixth
artillery was admirably suited, as it
sheiled the insurgents whenever they
appeared to be working on new in
trenchments.
After the Caloocan affair, these
fighters, aided by the rapid-fire guns
of the gunboat Helena, swept the near
by country of Filipinos. The insur-
gents in bushes were able to give cross
fire that exposed d battery to much
danger, but only one death resulted.
One of the forts built by the bat
terv Oh its march was christened Fort
Macarthur 1t was made up OF sand
bags, behind which trenches were dug
for the shelter O, the men. Dat sacks
were carried in the ammunition wag-
ons for the purpose of making walls,
which insurgent bullets could not per-
forate. The most unpleasant part of
life in this fort was the terrific heat
There were no horses to be had, and
the men pulled their cannon with long
ropes. AS there were plenty OF pull
ers, they did rot object to it. Besides.
it was great relief to the Commits
sary Department net to have the feed
ing of horses on It's hands. Rice straw,
called paddy was the only fodder
to be had in that country. The native
ponies subsisted on this mainly, but
for the larger draft horses from the
United States this was not sufficient.
Their feed, oats and hay. had to be
imported. Post Dispatch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
WOMAN REFUSES
To Live with Her Husband Because She
Says He Is Homely.


New York World: Mrs. Jennie Gold
farb has given novel excuse for re-
fusing to live with her husband Sam
uel. She says that he is too homely
for any woman to live with. Goddard
who is a philosopher, admits that he
is not an Apollo, but he also insists
that his wife has never been known
as professional beauty. The Gold
farbs have had good deal of trouble
since they were married in 1890. 1t
took Mrs. Goldfarb but short time to
discover that her husband did not
come up to her standard of manly
beauty, and she began to make things
uncomfortable for him. Occasionally
she went back to her mother. At an
other time Samuel in despair sent her
to Europe, hoping that when she re-
turned he would find favor in her eyes.
But matters were still worse when she
came back, and, according to a num-
Der of affidavits, in the possession of
former Judge H. w. Leonard, Gold
farb's counsel, she positively refused
to live with him at all. Goddard in
the meantime had spent small for
tune on complexion beautifiers, hair
restorers and other toilet Injuries. He
became a Berry Wall in his dress. But
his wife remained obdurate, and final
ly, short time ago, charged him be-
fore Magistrate Hogan with desertion.
Goddard was sent-railroaded, he says
Ito the island for six months. He
gave bond and was released. He at
once sued for a separation, and for
such other relief as may seem just"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
A RUSSIAN PANIC.
Leagues to Protect the Gar Against
Revolutionists.

A wild panic seized the court circles
At st. Petersburg after Alexander's
death, says Prince Kropotkin in the
September Atlantic. Alexander III.
who, Notwithstanding his colossal stat
IRE and force, was not an oyer-coura-
geous man. refused to move to the Win
ter Palace, and retired to the palace of
his grandfather. Paul T., at Gatchina. /
know that old building. planned as a
Vauban fortress, surrounded by moats,
and protected by watch towers from
the tops of which secret staircases lead
to the emperor's study. / have seen
the trap doors in the study, for sud-
denly throwing an enemy on the sharp
rocks in the water underneath. and the
secret staircase leading to underground
prisons and to an underground passage
which opens on lake. All the palaces
of Paul had been built on similar
plan. An underground gallery was dug
round the Anichoff palace of Alexander
Ill, and was supplied with automatic
electric appliances to protect it from
being undermined by the revolution
lists. A secret league for the protection
of the car was started Officers Of all
grades were induced to undertake vol
untary spying in all classes of society.
Comical scenes followed, OF course.
Two officers, without knowing that they
both belonged to the leagues, would
entice each other into a disloyal con-
versation, during railway journey,
and then proceed to arrest each other,
only to discover at the last moment
that their plans had been labor lost.
The league still exists in a more official
shape, under the name of Okhrana
(Protection), and from time to time
frightens the present car with all sorts
OF concocted dangers in order to
maintain its existence. A still more
secret organization, the Holy League,
was formed at the same time, under
the leadership of the brother OF the
car, Vladimir, for the purpose of OPP
posing the revolutionists in different
ways, one of which was to kill those
of the refugees who were supposed to
have been the leaders of the late con-
spiracies. was of this number. The
grand duke violently reproached the
officers of the league for their coward
ice, regretting that there were none
among them who would undertake to
kill such refugees, and an officer, who
had been page de chambre at the time
! was in the corps of pages, was APP
pointed by the league to carry out this
particular work. Skobeleff, the hero
OF the Turkish war, was asked to join
this league, but he blankly refused.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
Destroys Young Lobsters.

That cod eat young Holsters is fact
established to the satisfaction of a
writer in an exchange quoted by the
Fishing Gazette. He says: THE cod
fish are feeding on the young Holsters
10 such an extent that 1t will not take
long to exterminate them. Through
the efforts of the United States fish
commission Goldfish seem to nave in
creased greatly in numbers, The fish,
ermen around Block island and Watch
ILIiii say that cod are growing more
plentiful every year, and they soy rur-
Their that when dressing Goldfish they
frequently find young Holsters whole
inside OF the larger fish. Evidently
young Holsters are becoming a deli
cate morsel for some of their COM
panions of the sea. There is a prob
lem for the shellfish commissioners to
solve In the artificial propagation OF
the lobster. Old fishermen about
Watch Hill and vicinity tell me that
when they haul their lobster pots now
they get fifteen and twenty pounds
where they used to get 100" The fish
ermen have no one to blame but them
selves. When Holsters were plentiful
they would kill the egg bearing lob
sters as nuisances and bait destroyers.
IL they had thrown them overheard the
result might have been different.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16

fest in decline in the number of con-
verts to the Christian faith and in a
falling off in the membership of the
Christian churches. Not few aban-
doned Christianity. At the same time
the policy of some of the missions was
modified. Self-support was more and
more insisted upon both in relation to
churches and schools Contemporary
with these influences has been perhaps
a decline, under the power of an in
creasing materialism, in the interest
and prayers OF the churches which
have established the missions. But
there remains strong body Of Japa-
nese Christians and of wise men who,
while they are not protesting Chris
tians. favor Christianity as an elevat-
ing force morally and intellectually,
and contribute to various Christian in
stitutions. There are many tried and
true Christians in official positions and
the number of steadfast adherents to
the Christian faith continues large.
Under the new treaty which throws the
whole empire open to all nations,
desire has arisen to learn English, and
the Bible is sought after as text book
in English Missionaries and teachers
are in request as teachers of English.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
The Length Of Sermons.

From the London Graphic; In the
current Methodist Times, long winded
preachers are dashed with scathing
rhetoric. They are accused of wicked
self-indulgence, and told that they are
guilty of the same moral offense as
the drunkard." 1t is an ingenious
analogy, though it cannot be pressed
too far; for even those OF us to whom
long sermons are most abhorrent would
hesitate to say of the moderate
preacher" such hard things as some
teetotalers say OF the moderate drink
err" On the other hand, the compar-
ison holds good in this-that, just as
there are "three-bottle men" who can
carry their liquor with dignity. so there
are "three-quarters OF an hour men"
who can preach for that length of time
without wearying their hearers. The
difficulty is for any preacher to dis
cover what should be the duration OF
his discourse in order to produce the
maximum effect upon his congregation.
Perhaps he might find way out OF 1t
by taking postcard plebiscite of his
parishioners.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
rub with few drops of spirits of wine
and polish with an old silk handker-
chief
Excluslvenes. of De Resxke.

Jean de Reszke is the only one of
the grand opera singers whom it is
impossible to hire for private mus
icales. He will sing an entire even
ing at the house of fellow artist, but
becomes positively angry when sing
ing in private houses for money is
suggested. He once visited the house
of the Rothschilds in Paris, and de-
lighted his host by singing a number
of songs. The baron, who had tried
to get him to sing at private entertain
ments number of times, but never
succeeded. now resolved to reward the
singer in what he considered the prop
er way. At the close of the evening
he presented De Reszke with a blank
check, signed, asking him to fill it up
for any amount he wished. De Reszke
took the check and as he tore it to
pieces said: MY friend, / am your
guest. If took your check should
deserve to be kicked from your door.
sang only for pleasure.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16

In Passages from the Diaries of Mrs.
Philip Lybbe Porrys there are some
amusing chronicles of eighteenth-cen-
fury small beer. Princess Amelia
asked a remarkably tall young man
what ne was intended for. The
church. said he. "Oh, sir, you must
mistake" said the princess. ut was
certainly for the steeple." Hitherto
this retort has been attributed to Cur
ran; but Mrs. Porrys was smiled upon
by many of the great ones of the earth,
and was therefore in a position to
credit it to the right person. At all
events, Curran has had the honor quite
long enough. Mrs. Porrys also notes
new Pope pun. One day Sir Walter
Blunt's father was in Pope's company,
and talking of punning. Pope said that
was a species of wit so trifingly easy
that he would answer to make one on
any proposed subject offhand, when a
lady in the company said: We'll, Mr..
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
EVOLUTION OF THE BICYCLE.

EVOLUTION OF THE BICYCLE.
In Time, 1t Is Predicted. 1t Will Have
Wings.
Like many other great successes In
this uncertain world, the bicycle was OF
humble origin. 1t sprang from the
wheelbarrow and no one blames it,
says the Detroit Free Press. This Is
the reason that you can fall so far and
be SO long about it, when you are
mixed up with one of these machines,
no matter what price or what model.
The velocipede, which the best authori-
ties testify was connecting link, was
uglier than anything else except a
three-humped camel trying to escape
his keeper The device will best be re-
called as propelled by small boy with
straw hat over his ears, his busy feet
shoulders settled down on his waist
line. Then came the ungainly affair
with an enormous fly wheel in front,
and pitiful little baby wheel trailing.
To drop from 1t was like falling off a
load OF hay and it forced upon short,
fat men the indignity of mounting from
a second-story window or convenient
shade three. Nearly all of those who
we're thrown from it and survived are
miscellaneously MANNED. But it is
through such rugged stages that sue
cess is reached. The bicycle became a
thing of beauty and a joy forever with
pneumatic tires that are blown up as
they deserve it, artistic finish, ball
bearings, spring seats and an unac-
countable disposition to participate In
scorch. AT last they have thrown off
their chains and have the highest de-
gree of freedom attainable by things
inanimate. They neither eat nor
drink, but are always merry. They
toll not, neither do they spin-when
policeman is looking-yet Solomon in
all his glory could not have ridden one
Of them to save his life. They do not
shy at firecrackers, a cow in the road
or locomotive whistle, it does not re-
quire two hands to hold them when an
interested couple are going home, as 1t
does a horse headed for the oats bin,
and they will stand without hitching,
wherever the bicycle thief permits. In
time, it is predicted, they will have
wings, and humanity itself aspires to
nothing more desirable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
Credlting Stamp Loss.

Washington Spe. New York Evening
Post: A good idea of the enormous
size of the postal business may be had
by getting close to one of the big ma
chimes smallest wheels. Take, for ex-
ample. the erediting of stamped en-
velopes or stamps which have been ac-
cidentally destroyed or rendered
worthless. This one duty occupies the
entire time of six men. During the last
quarter the books of the department
show that Chicago was credited with
p cases of such stamped envelopes,
each containing 10000. The losses
come from many different causes.
Often envelopes are misdirected.
Sometimes they are burned or get wet.
A method by which stamps are fire.
quently lost is the grinding of mail
sack under the wheels OF a train. This
sometimes happens when an effort is
made to catch a mail sack from train
going too rapidly. If the bag happens
to slip. the pouch is pretty sure to be
sucked under the cars.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
Polishing Pianos and Furniture.

To polish your piano saturate piece
of channels skin in sweet oil and apply
faithfully to every part. Then with a
dry skin rub well. renewing the pieces
as they become creased with the oil.
1t will require one hour, or even long
er, of constant rubbing to give 1t the
gloss desired. For your walnut furni-
ture take three parts of Iinseed oil to
one part of spirits of turpentine. Put
on with wooden cloth and when dry
rub with wooden. The polish not only
covers the disfigured surface but re-
stores the wood to its original color
and leaves a lustre upon the surface.
Crude petroleum is very good for
cleaning any kind of hard wood, and it
is the cheapest furniture polish posi-
BILE. To remove white marks from
mahogany furniture rub the stains
with little sweet oil; wipe it off. then
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
Every Artillery Man His Own Horse in
the Philippines.

Oscar II. Weber, st. Louis man.
who acted as photographers assist
ant when he was not fighting in the
Philippines, has brought back with
him number of views that, better
than words, tell the story of campaign
ing as done by the artillerymen. Web
er served in Light Battery d. Sixth ar
tillery, enlisting in st. Louis, making
the overland trip to San Francisco and
then sailing on the transport Peru.
The ship stopped at Honolulu, and in
August, year ago, landed its men on
Oriental soil J. w. Cole, formerly
connected with st. Louis theates:
Frank Simmons, Seller, Benson and
others were in this battery.
For several months after their ar
rival the men of the Sixth had pro-
vost duty to perform inside of the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
To Explore the Pacific.

Prof Alexander Agassiz, with corps
OF men of science, and under the au-
spices OF the United States fish COM
mission, set sail from San Francisco
recently in the steamship Albatross, on
one Of the most important scientific
expeditions of recent times. An inn
mense area of the Pacific ocean, includ-
ing the Paumota, the Friendly, the FL
lice. the Gilbert and the Marshall is
lands, and many unnamed groups of
coral islets, will be thoroughly explored
for the first time The voyage will
cover about 10000 miles, and the ex-
plorations will include the life and
phenomena of the sea from its surface
to its greatest attainable depths.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
ANOTHER MEAN MAN.
Bachelor Who Gets Sewing Machine
Agents to Do Mending.


Agents to Do Mending.
Hes the meanest man that | ever
had anything to do with" said the
sewing agent. Il received
note from him the other day saying
that he desired to view one of our
matchless machines with the view OF
purchasing it, if found to be satisfac-
tory. In these piping days of compe-
tition it is a novelty for a sewing
machine agent to be invited to call
and show goods, and when l had re-
covered from my surprise | promptly
loaded a machine in my cart and start
ed for the address the man had given.
An old man met me at the door and
invited me to bring the machine in
side so he could more closely examine
it. | did so, setting the machine up
in the sitting-room, and calling his at
tention to its fine points. He was an
attentive listener, and | talked with
the confidence of man who consid-
cred a sale certain. Finally, having
exhausted all my arguments, he asked
to see practical test of the capabili-
ties of the machine. | agreed, and
asked him to bring me something upon
which to work. He left the room, re-
turning a few minutes later, his arms
filed with damaged linen. | sat down
at the machine and showed how easily
rents and tears could be mended, max
ing the garment as good as new and
saving in short time the price OF the
machine. The man seemed very much
interested and kept handing me gar
ment after garment that needed atten-
ton. worked for two solid hours
mending the old mans garments, and
at last, having nothing else that need
ed attention, he commenced to find
fault with the machine. Finally he
told me that he guessed he wouldn't
buy a machine right away. | was SO
mad that / didn't dare trust myself
to speak, and l was glad afterward
that | didn't, for when l learned the
whole truth / realized my total inabil-
ity to do the subject justice. That
miserable old sinner, who happens to
be bachelor, had brought me up there
merely to do his mending, and had no
idea of buying a machine. He has
worked the same game on other
agents. New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
Baiieys Laxative Tablets Cares Constips-
ton

The active principle Is cascara So
grada, plant found in California.
1t does not do the work for the bowels
but makes the bowels do their own
work. 1t gets the bowels back in the
habit o! doing their own work, and
after they have been reused into Q
state Of healthy activity, and the liver
and other organs also, they will con-
tinue on without medicine. They
will cure sick headache. billlousness
and liver troubles and constipation
and remove poisonous matter from
the system. Put up in 10 and rs cent
packages. For sale j. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16

From the London Answers: AS q
train was moving out of a Scotch sta
ton a man in one of the compart-
ments noticed that the porter, in whose
charge he had given his luggage, had
not put it into the van. and so shouted
at him and said: "Hi, you old fool.
what do you mean by not putting that
luggage in the van?' To which the
porter replied: Ell, man!yer luggage
is ne'er such a fool as yersel'l Yer Z
the wrang train,'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16
bacteria In Tobacco.

According to recent investigations.
the peculiar flavor which pleases to-
bacco smokers is largely due to the
activity of certain bacteria while the
tobacco is undergoing the fermentation
stage of curing. DR.. Suchsland culti-
waited germs taken from fine Cuban to-