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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

have ascribed to the class of small
shopkeepers; but he had look OF calm
contentment a conviction of divine
peace in his soul, which contrasted
with the purblind excitement of the
others. He stood quite still, held his
head back, and swallowed three of the
large iron nails, heads and all, as they
were put into his mouth one after
another by the steward. Then he re-
tired, and two men came In with a
burnous full Of prickly pear leaves.
1.-THE prickly pear as one sees it in the
south of Europe is sufficiently for
midable plant, but in North Africa 1t
grows to far larger proportions-the
leaves, or rather the fiat leaf-like
stems, grow to nearly twice the size
that they do even in Sicily, and the
prickles are proportionately large and
stubborn. Moreover, the prickle is
slightly poisonous and leaves Tester
ing wound. Consequently 1t seemed not
the least miraculous event of the SER
vice when dancer, stripped to the
waist, and taking huge prickly pear
leaf in each hand, proceeded to rub
them all over his naked body and
shaven head, using them as one might
use cloth. There could be no doubt
that he pressed them against his skin
with all his might, and in the fury with
which he did it, tore leaf after leaf
in pieces and took fresh ones from
the heap. Sometimes he would seize
one leaf with both hands and scrub
it backward and forwards over his
bare scalp and finally eat the leaf with
all it's deadly prickles. Scored and
scratched as his body must have been
in every direction, there was scarcely
a trace of blood.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
Government by the Hour.

An ingenious Englishman has fig
ured out the cost of an hour of gov
eminent since the beginning Of the
century. In France the figures show
an alarming tendency to increase. I'm
der Napoleon an hour of government
cost $4,000 francs; under Louis Phil
ippe, 10000; under the second repub-
lie. 100000; under Napoleon Ill, 249,-
900; from 1870 to 1880, 100000, on ac-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
UMBRELLAS TO LET.
Business Ought to BE Good One In
Shopping District.

Even on these spring days, when it
is bound to rain before the sun sets,
some people with new hats will start
out without an umbrella, says the New
York Herald. What to do when the
shower comes is then question. If
you chance to be where you can bor-
row or buy an umbrella, you are lucky
and stand some chance of preserving
hat and gown for another occasion.
Coming in on a suburban train the
other day | was in this preuicament
and hardly knew what to do. Imagine
my surprise and delight, then, on pass
ing through the station, to see a sign,
Umbrellas to Let" and l cheerfully
paid the rental and reached home with
out damage. This enterprising station
official makes good profits on his in
vestment in umbrellas and scarcely
ever loses one, as his customers are
largely those who make daily trips to
and fro. Similar bureaus might be es-
tablished with profit in the shopping
districts, and the surprise is that it is
not more generally custom | don't
remember ever to have had such an OPP
portunity elsewhere.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
The Nawah Of Rahawalpur.

Except on special occasions, the
nawab dresses in white muslin trous-
ers. very wide and baggy, silk or cloth
coat and waistcoat, and silk and gold
turban. His pockets are numerous,
and their contents surprising. 1t is
a common thing for him to wear two
or three watches, and very beautiful
ones they are. This does not astonish
any one so much as the fact that he
possesses no less than 100 watches
of all descriptions, and is constantly
purchasing others. He has also some
remarkably fine jewels. His crown
weighs nine pounds, and is a mass OF
diamonds set in silver, with row OF
very large pear-shaped pearls as pen
dants around the base. He has a
sword, the jeweled scabbard and hilt
of which are valued at 100000. He
wears some extraordinary rubies and
uncut emeralds attached to chains OF
rubies and pearls that he wears as a
necklace. He has also a set of fifteen
uncut rubies as large as the largest
of the emeralds. They are historic
gems, with the names of the Mogul
emperors engraved upon them. They
are very irregular in shape, and meas
ure fully one and half inches in d.
ameter
He is never without pocketful OF
gold mohurs and rupees. A gold mo-
hur is coin that is not in circulation
as money, but it is custom among
native princes to present these coins
to friends and to receive them as pres
ents on certain ceremonial occasions.
1t is of pure gold, and varies in size
and value from twenty to fifty rupees.
A rupee is a silver coin about the size
Of a fifty-cent piece, but according to
the present rate of exchange is worth
about 20 cents.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
ANOTHER RUSSIAN SECT.
It Has the Usual Number of Queer
Beliefs.

Beliefs.
Another of those curious sects which
Ire continually springing up in Russia
Is reported from the government of
Astrakhan. They call themselves. or
are called Enochites, and their beliefs
are, as usual in these cases, the result
Of gross ignorance, combined with
much reading of the Bible, says the
London Standard All tokens of the
imperial government are unrecognized
by them as being the works of anti
Christ, whose seal, namely, the Rus
sian eagle, they find on all official pa
pers and the current coin of the land.
That wonderful priest, John of Kron-
stadt, is for them the Prophet Elias,
while the local orthodox priest is
Enoch, and the appearance of these
two in the flesh they regard as pres
aging the end of the world. AS is the
custom in such cases, the police have
laid hands on all members Of the sect
that they could, and some seventy per-
sons are now lying in prison, and will
in the ordinary course be sent off to
residence" for life in Siberia. From
one point of view the frequency with
which these sects keep springing up
is a good sign for Russian progress.
though the orthodox church cannot
well afford to recognize the fact. While
men read their Bibles, and however abb
surdly or mistakenly interpret what
they read for themselves, they are
making progress, for the average Rus
sian, even in very much more exalted
circles than the poor peasants among
whom these sects appear, know a
great deal more about the code of laws
than about the Scriptures.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

A pretty long bow was drawn the
other day by the superintendent Of
education in a great city, when he told
Rev. DR., Huntington that among the
children of school age in his jurisdic-
tion there were one hundred thousand
who did not know of the existence Of
such a book as the Bible. But it is
probably no eXaggeration to say that,
taking the country through, there are
millions who know very little of the
Book of books beyond its name. Col
lege presidents testify that large per
cent of college students are lamentably
ignorant of the Scriptures. Sunday
school instruction does not go far, and
the only safeguard against the hea-
thenization Of part Of our population
seems to lie in a reviving sense Of
parental responsibilities re-enthron-
ing of religion in the family.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has, in decision rendered in the mat
ter of the estate Of Cope, held uncon-
stitutional the Pennsylvania direct in
heritance-tax law of April IL, 1897.
The act in question imposed tax Of
per cent on all personal property of
a decedent passing by will or by the
intestate laws of the state after de-
Quoting the debts of the decedent and
the costs of administration, but ex-
empted from the payment of the tax
personal property to the amount of
$4,000. The court held that this ex-
emption created an inequality in the
burden of the tax
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

From Puck: Young Criminal Lawyer
Il have arranged to have the prison
er's wife and babies sit in front of the
jury and weep all through the trial.
Do you think it would be advisable to
pick bachelors or married men for the
jury? Old Criminal Lawyer-Oh, it
doesn't make particle Of difference
if bachelors, they will sympathize with
the woman and babies, and If married
men, they will sympathize with the
prisoner
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
At a Mohammedan Revival.

A writer in the Cornhill Magazine
gives an interesting description of a
Mohammedan revival. After picturing
various sights and incidents of the
gathering, he proceeds:
First, number OF carpenters nails.
at least three inches long, were handed
to the steward and demure little man
stepped forward. He did not belong
to the athletic and savage type of the
majority; he was quiet and domestic;
a man whom one In Europe would
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

count of the raising of the average by
the cost of the war with Germany, but
from 1880 to 1890 the cost was 4O3, 900
francs an hour. A French paper re-
marks that this seems to prove the
undesirability of paying a government
by the hour or by the day; payment by
the piece, according to the work done,
is the only way, it thinks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
The Helen Gould carnation.

1t is said that Miss Helen Gould
shares the general enthusiasm for car
nations, and has in her greenhouse at
Lyndhurst many varieties There is
one which shows stripes Of red and
white in particularly beautiful effects.
1t is named Helen Gould There is not,
however, any reason for supposing
that the flower originated in the Gould
conservatory New York Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

Two hustling advertising agents are
trying their utmost to buy all the
available space on each side of the
Reading railway, from Philadelphia to
Norristown, in order to display the
merits Of their numerous wares. Be-
ing backed by plenty of capital, they
are enabled to offer tempting sums for
the spaces desired. Farmers owning
ground along the line are only too glad
to get their old fences torn down and
have high ones erected in their stead.
They also receive a handsome sum per
foot from the agents for the privilege
Of the advertisement. The agent makes
up the cost in width by the height Of
the fence, which is sometimes twenty
feet. 1t is apparently the purpose of
the advertisers to have all the pretty
landscape shut from the view Of the
passengers and instead to offer them
continuous panorama Of patent med
icines, pills, bicycles, biscuits, ETC.
Philadelphia Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

In Virginia the people have inaugu-
rated a movement in favor of the cleo
tion of United States senators by the
people instead of by the legislatures.
There can be no doubt that the feeling
is growing in favor of adopting some
measure of reform in this important
matter In Pennsylvania a Joint conf
mittee has been instituted to secure
the cooperation of other states along
these lines. What is desired is the Sc
curing of United States senators who
shall represent the people and no. the
bosses and combines. the trusts and
monopolies OF this country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
A Tempting Subject.

If Shakespeare could be alive now, :
remarked the fanciful person, Il won
der what he would think of all the con-
troversy his works have inspired" "A
man of his genius wouldn't miss the
opportunity" replied the student.
He'd write splendid satire on EN-. "
Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

Francisque Sarcey, perhaps the
greatest dramatic critic of Paris, is
dead. He had been closely associated
with dramatic work since 1000, and his
labors were always characterized by
sincere earnestness. There were but
capricious and fantastic mind, and
none whose pen exceeded his in hon
esty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

One of the favorite styles OF ladies'
hats this year is double-decked af-
fair with formidable turret. Il has a
distinctly naval look about it, and
needs only to be trimmed with a small
brass cannon or two in order to be sim
ply killing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

What is rag time, and where did it
originate? is question frequently
heard. The sudden popularity of coon
songs" which took a firm hold upon
popular favor a few years ago, and de-
spite all predictions to the contrary,
have held it ever since, led to a varia-
ton in music known as rag time"
Since then rag time" has been an
expansionist. mere is rag time" mu-
sic; there are rag time" songs; there
has been a rag time" opera. There
are professors of rag time" in
structors of rag time" and specialists
in rag time" but precisely what it is.
no two musical authorities agree, ex
cept on the point that it is something
very popular just now. One teacher Of
rag time" here tells me that rag
time" takes its initiative step from
Spanish music-or. rather, from Mex
leo, where it is known under the heads
and names of Habanra, Danza and
Seguidilla, being nothing but consecu-
tive music, either in the treble or bass.
followed by regular time in one hand.
In common time the quarter note of
the bass precedes the melody.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

1t is a mistake to carry on the de-
bates at The Hague conference be-
hind closed doors and to pledge the
delegates to strict secrecy as TO what
takes place. The people Of the world
have too vital an interest in the sub
ject under discussion to be satisfied
with the few crumbs OF information
Baron de Staal may throw out to them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
"such a Happy Remark. .

Wife of Patient-"I'm so sorry. doc
tor, to bring you all the way to Hamp-
stead to see my husband" Doctor
(from Mayfair)-"Pray don't mention
II, my dear madam. / have another
patient in this neighborhood, so I'm
killing two birds with one stone."--
London Punch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
Greatest Glove Town.

Grenoble is the place where most Of
the kid gloves come from. At this place
alone, 100000 dozen pairs of gloves are
manufactured annually This repre-
sents a value of $7,OOO,O00, and it gives
employment to $4,000 working people
of both sexes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
Parcel Post to Venezuela.

BY agreement Of the postal depart
ments of the United States and Ven
ezuela, parcel post has been arranged
for between the two countries. The
rate of postage is fixed at IL cents per
pound, and the maximum weight of any
one package is fixed at eleven pounds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

After the war is over Aguinaldo
might make something by publishing
book entitled "Proclamations l Have
Issued" giving a full description Of
the manner in which he was enauled
to do his writing on the run.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
Narrow EscaDe.

"Blazenstein had narrow escape
from getting his insurance withheld"
'Indeed?" Yes. He had fellows pass
ing handbills through the crowd an
nouncing a great fire sale before the
fire was half out. indianapolis Jour
nal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

Having been unable to destroy the
peach crop by frost, enterprlsing jour
nalists of southern Michigan have
moved upon the entire fruit crop with
cutworms, black bugs and red ants. 1t
would seem desirable that there be a
slight frost allowed them at once.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

in many an escapade for he was full
of money and health. Suddenly, in
the midst of pleasures, he withdrew
himself from society, appointed an adj
ministrator for his estates and went to
the forest. where he spent a month
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

putting up the house shown in the IL
lustration. That done. he discharged
his servants, sold his horses, car
riages and furniture, and said good
by to the world. He has rarely spoken
to any one since.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

Brother John Wanamaker has again
taken his pen in hand to express his
opinion of Boss Quay, and it is appar-
ent that his ardor on the subject has
not cooled.-Boston Herald
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

Some Of the trust organs are so full
OF expansion that they are liable to
burst at any time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
Eunhamiafin.

Wonder why Blixon wal
fired from his place on the Comet?'
Dicks-"In the first place, how do yor
know he was fired? He doesn't say
So Hicks-"Not in so many words
but it amounts to that. He told me
that he severed his relations with the
paper. Boston Transcript.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

New York has number Of "conjure
women" They conjure, perjure and
injure with equal skill.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

On lifes highway everybody is not
only willing but anxious to take the
rich mans dust.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

He isn't always happiest who wears
the happiest look.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

"That new war drama is very real
istic." "Oh, don't know. The en-
balmed beef in the second act is made
81 rubber. Detroit Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

War clouds are again rising on the
Chinese horizon. There are enough
spheres Of influence" to keep the ball
rolling
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
in THE ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.

The City OF Malolos-Facts About the
Lsse Capital of the Philippine Insur-
gents-An Australian Puzzle Solved
The Nawab of Bahawaipur.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

So far as can be ascertained, the re-
mainder of the man whose ear was
found nailed to telegraph pole few
days ago has not come around to claim
the appendage.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
Headquarters for Mother-of-PearI.

Thursday island, in the Torres
straits, exports 100000 worth of moth
er-of-pearl annually.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

There is something wrong some
where when the night latch fails to
yield to a buttonhook at 2 a. m.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

"A grain of theoretical wisdom may
turn out to be pound Of practical
folly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

The servant girl problem has much
to do with the hire education OF
women.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

"A sensible girl has no more use for
a fresh young man than for one that is
stale.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

They say Grover is real mad. Boston
Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

Can it be possible that anybody in
Boston says real mad?"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

Girls who attend some of the wom-
ems colleges in England are wailing
because they don't have enough to eat,
and they don't like what they do have.
The parents are adding their voices to
the lament, because their daughters
are driven by hunger to buy food out
side the college, the bills for this ex-
ira diet being an additional charge on
the parental purse already taxed with
high enough fees" This recalls the
American college boy whose parents
were puzzled in reading over his ac-
counts by the persistent temperance
of the item IS. P. G." They appealed
for an explanation, which was prompt
and to the point. S. p G. meant Sun
dries, Principally Grub. New York
Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

Great Britain makes $20,0O0,o 600 Q
year profit out Of its postofices.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

NE1S-NEEDHAM WALKER
Daniel Needham-Ray ID. Walker) Will
practice in all State and United States courts
Settlement of estates a specially. once in
Ziegler block, Lancaster
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

ATTORNEYS CLARK & TAYLOR.
once over the Postonice in Clark's block,
Lancaster
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

The sons and daughters OF the
princely families of Rome are said to
have pretty hard lot. They are gen.
orally very poor, yet they have to live
in enormous houses and keep up ira
dition of magnifcence. The young men
drive in dog carts which, according to
rumor, are owned jointly by dozen
of them. The young women are to
be seen driving on the Pincio, arrayed
in stylish hats and coats, wearing good
gloves and carrying pretty parasols.
"And yet" says the English CORE
spondent who is responsible for this
gossip, their distract expression shows
that they are uneasy in their minds.
The particular form of guilt which
burdens their souls is a dread that
some one will invite them to descend
and stroll about the bandstand, reveal
ing the fact that their skirts are by
no means so smart as their coats or
waists, and their boots more open to
criticism than their gloves. New
York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. wAtKpR

a ATTORNEYS & BRENNAN
Practice in all courts ONCE in the Bax-
ter block, Lancaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

Wichita is typical boom" town
Twelve years ago it had a population
of $4,000. Today 1t has perhaps $4,000,
which is a considerable recovery from
low tide in 1895, when it had less than
10000, according to estimates based
upon the number Of names in the di-
rectory. In 1868, before the boom
broke, Wichita real estate was selling
at New York prices, and they point out
lots on the main street that sold for
$1,000 front foot for which the own
ers would now be glad to get $500 or
$400. The real estate exchanges in
New York in good times will reach
about $32,00000O year; in chicago.
in 1892, just before the worlds fair,
the transfers, as shown by the record
er's books, were about S30,000,O00, but
at Wichita during the five months pre-
ceding the collapse in 1888, more than
$35,000000 in town lots changed hands
Correspondence Chicago Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

self-conquest is the truest royalty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

North and South are joined in the
material Of the national capitol. The
central building is constructed Of Vir-
ginia sandstone, painted white. The
extensions are of Massachusetts, mar
BILE, and twenty-four columns of the
grand central portico are monoliths of
Virginia sandstone thirty feet high,
and one hundred columns of the ex-
tension porticos are Of Maryland mar
BILE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15

There comes to my heart this morning
On the western breeze's wing
The chant of the crazy chinook,
The drunken demon of spring:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-15
Official f9irector1.
LAWYERS.

ATTORNEYS -BusHNELL. WATKINS &MosEs
Practice in all State and United States
courts. East Maple street, Lancaster