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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-03-30

How could YOU muster the courage
to knock tnat burglar senseless with
the potato masherE' they asked her
4 just shut my eyes and imagined
it was john she answered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-03-30

This is what the Japanese woman
wears in the house. She never has to
worry through the pages of a fashion
journal. wondering how her next AT
home" gown is TO be made for it is
always the same And nobody can
deny ii is striking.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
Professional.

TYR. c. D. SMITH, Veterinary Surgeon and D Dentist. treats all diseases of domestic nimals, Office at Brewster's Stable. Tele phone, old "A new 129.
 All Calls Night and Dav
 Answered Promptly
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
Cost of Perfumery.

To produce the yearly out put Of perfumery in the department of Sea Alps, in France, the Revue Statisque says, requires 4,000,00 pounds of roses, 5,000,000 pounds of orange blossoms, 100000 pounds jasmine, 100000 pounds cassia blossoms, 100000 pounds tube roses and 100000 pounds violets. The. average price paid for these blossoms per pound is: Roses, cents; orange blossoms, cents; jasmine, 25 cents; tube roses 50 cents; and violets and cassia blossoms, 40 cents. One plant of yiolets furnishes about six ounces of blossoms and an orange tree about twenty pounds. woman can gather forty pounds of roses in four hours. or six pounds of jasmine in the same time. She can pick twelve pounds of tube roses in third of day, but 1t takes a full days work to gather twenty pounds of yiolets or orange blossoms To obtain one pound of es-- sence requires: Of roses, 1000 pounds, or nearly 5,00O,000 single blossoms; D. 900 pounds of orange blossoms, or l. 100000 single flowers Each years out put of the district amounts to 1,000,- 900 pounds of pomades, or cosmetics. and 100000 gallons of odorless fluids.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
PLANTS THAT SLEEP.

Plants sleep as truly as do animals. The best-marked form of slumber in the vegetable world is the wlrfor rest, when so many forms of vegetation re- tire to the soil together with the dor- mant animals-dormiee squirrels and bears. All trees and shrubs hibernate.
 Some plants go to sleep every night. The mimosa, or sensitive plant, in day light opens it's fragile leaves. which are hard at work eating. absorbing the earbonie acid of the air into plant food. At night the mimosa sleeps and digests what it has eaten. and the leaves fold up double against each other the stem droops and the leaf Is limp and appar- ently dead.
 The wood sorrel in daytime Is wide open. The leaves are composed of three leaflets, each with midribs that suggest to the casual glance the possI- bility of folding And that is just what they do. Each leaf folds over on itself. If flowers kept open cold spring nights the frosts might nip them, rain might wash away the honey and pollen. so they are wise blossoms. that cover up their hearts during the dark hours
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
California Beetle for par,.,..,

The useful beetle known as Novius cardinals, ard employed in California to eat up the white. CT futed scale, , insects of the orange groves, has been exported to Portugal for the same purpose. The beetles were packed in moss with quantity of scale insects to eat and sent by mail to Lisbon. Only few reached their destination alive, but they are prolific and in a few months thousands were available for work on the scale insects which in- fest the orange groves of the Tagus.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
YAWNIN0
Must Now Be Considered High Com
 piiment

Must Now Be Considered High Com
 piiment
 Have you ever observed at theater or concert that the people who are most deeply interested appear between the acts to be quite weary of the whole thing, yawning half dozen times in succession? The reason of this Is 8 physiological one. When your atten~ ton is much absorbed in anything ex- citing or touching. you breathe in 8 very shallow manner, and take into your lungs only half enough air. Con- sequently when your attention is re- faxed, you have to make up the detf- ciency This you do by yawnings which, after all, is only breathing a. very deep breath. If you watch Q man at a play, and observe that he iss greatly moved by some incident, you may feel sure that when the scene ends he will sigh, and moment or two later yawn repeatedly. Of course the yawning. so far from being sign of weariness, is a proof of the liveIiest appreciation. Very often you will ob-- serve the same phenomenon in girl reading novel. And by her yawns you can tell when the end of some abs= sorbing incident is reached.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
Noble Youth.
NobIe Youth. Mommer-Why did you take Adi's cake? Charley-Because you told me to al- ways take my brothers part.
 SIGNAL LIGHTS.

Human nature in broadcloth is nc better than human nature in rags.
 A St. Louis girl is so modest that she blushes at the bare state of facts.
 A man with an elastic imagination is apt to mistake it for his conscience.
 A man who lives on hope will spend his old age at somebody's else ex- pense.
 Women weep audibly when they are angry; silent tears mark the deepest grief
 The difference between repartee and impudence is in the size of the speaker
 Sweeping changes are made under the head of appropriations for street cleaning.
 The raan who knows bat one thing feels capAt.e of giving advice on all subjects.
 Some folks are kept in the dark in order to prevent them from bringing things to light.
 Lots of men would never be recog- ulZtu dS AOOiS Il they NlNA 4S%A -@- love and give themselves away.
 But few men ever make their way through the world on the strength Of their chronological developments.
 Lots of men go where duty calls, then stand around with their hands in their pockets after they get there.
 The wise man turns up his sleeves and goes to work while the fool sits around and waits for work to come to him.
 An Irish philosopher says it's great blessing that night comes on late in the day when one is too tired to work longer.
 Half the people in the world are unhappy because they have too much and the other half are unhappy be- cause they haven't enough.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
Tn SIX Weeks.

h Switzerland last summer there were 1,790 hotels, boarding houses, bathing and health resorts to accom- modate the travelling public. When one includes about 1,500 smaller hostelries, with accommodations for about 10 persons, there were sleeping accommodations for 140,000 travellers in Switzerland. During the main. trav- cling season, from the middle Of July to the end of August, the minimun1 expenditure of the average summer boarder, with his children and sery~ ants, is placed at the low sum of francs. Nevertheless this means a daily income to the innkeepers of 650,- 900 francs. Making allowance for fay- orable travelling weather, these esti- mates mean an income to the hotel keepers during a month and half of summer of 2S,000,000 francs. In Lu- zerne alone there are 52 first-class ho- tels.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26

cheap coat does not make a cheap
 1 but it makes him feel that way at ies
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
WHAT THE LAW DECIDES.

l. E
 The right to use the name of cor poration is held, in Huntington vs. Pal mer (R. I.), 43 L. R. A. 95, to be dis tinet from the right to use the name of articles manufactured by it, and not to pass with the latter on a purchase of the plant, machinery, stock and vis- tble property of the company.
 The enforcibility of a stockholders liability in a jurisdiction outside of that in which the corporation was ere ated is sustained in Bell vs. Farwell (Ill.), 42 L. R. A. S04, in case of a Kan sas corporation, on the ground that the stockholders liability under Kansas law is not penal but eontraetual.
 The sufficiency of presentment and demand of payment made on a receiver pendente lite of an insolvent bank. and of notice of non-payment by him, to bind an indorser Of a negotiable eer- tificate of deposit issued by the bank before it's insolvency, is denied in Jack son Es. McInnis (Ore.), 43 L. K. A. .128.
 The right of a married woman to maintain an action in her own name to recover damages for the alienation of her husbands affections is sustained in Beach vs. Brown (Wash.), 45 L. R. A. IA, under statutes abolishing disabil- ities of married women, and it is also held that procuring divorce will not preclude the action.
 The liability of a 1unatic on his con- tract is sustained in Flach vs. Gott- schalk company (Md.), A L. R. A. 745, if the contract is fair and reasonable in its terms and was made with one who did not know of the lunacy, when that had not been judiciously ascertained, and where the parties cannot be re- stored to their original situation.
 The constitutional provision against ex post facto laws is held, in Murphy ys. Com. (Mass.), 43 L. R. A. 154, to condemn a statute which alters or may alter in a substantial manner the posi- ton of those who. committed offenses before it's passage, even if in partic- 0lar case 1t might operate more bene- ficially than the prior law would have done. And this rule is applied where a statute changed the provision as to de- ductions for good conduct and permits to be at liberty.
 The evidence of expert witnesses as to the value of services is held, In Hull ys. St. Louis Mo), 42 L. R, A. 753, to be merely advisory, to be given by the jury such weight as they deem it en- titled to, or to be altogether disregard ed by them, if, from all the facts and circumstances in evidence, they believe the testimony of the experts to be un- reasonable. A full review of the au- thorities on the conelusiveness of ex- pert testimony is presented in the ex. tensive annotation to this case.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
PedIereed snobs.

When 1t comes to gaping jays, the city has more of them to the acre than the remotest school district of Missouri. We make fun of the Reubs who stand and stare in open-mouthed wonder at 22-story buildings, but turn out in tens Of thousands and crane. our necks to see fome pedigreed snob who happens to be staying in town over Sunday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
His Only Purpose.

The mountaineers who form the two cavalry companies at Camp Bradley are the source of great deal of fun for the Legion boys When one of them was being examined a physician jokingly asked if he could read. "No, gol durn it, I can't" he replied, "but I didn't come up yere to teach skule. I come ter fight" It is needless to say that he passed.-Louisville Courier Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
BLOOD CURE SENT FRET

A Oure Tor Blood and skInrDiseases Fcze 4 ma, Pimples. scru fala. Biead Po,son
 Cancer, Etc.
 By addressing Blood Balm Co.,. 222 Mitchell ettaj, allahts, Ga., any of our readers may 9ooobd R q sample bottle uf their famous B. -Botanic Blood Balm. the greatest. grand i. e>l. e>! pest and strongest Blood Remedy made 1ures when all else fails. pimpes, ui .ers, sores eczeHla, bolls blood poison eating sorss' uislresslng skin eruptions cancer. ca- larfh' lals5 rheumatism. Free medical advice in. ciuoed, when description of your troubIe is gwen. gwen This generous offer is worth while ac. paid Large bottles jcontaipi6@ neaTIg s9 re3 . quart ot medtcinel for sale by ali druggists af af, Sl. per bottle. B. B. B. is away ahead of ail other gl Blood Remedles for curing Spring hiooo huIhofs, Try B. 5, B. this spring, 156
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
WILD BIRD
a Absolutely No Fear of Man.

u.d Absolutely No Fear of
 Man.
 ~ extraordinary instance of ,Sspess aS of birds in unexplored < related by writer in the Ma ., ' eeographic magazine, deserib- \ .onr of exploration to the head
 of the Saskatchewan. As our |'l' more winding through deep |s' bird appeared which resem- 5 airo bullfnch, fitting from tree
 and following us closely. Some sl.ter it gave the most remar lble |..ss l of tameness that l lave ever '4s uaving followed us for about
 .iIes 1t waited in a tree during snstle and confusion of making
 bnt in the afternoon, when all E .aiet some of our men were Ia inc bird became exceedingly EM sII.r walking on the ground near .s5 finally perching on our ex- ss bands It was soon evident ' .he object of our visitor was to X mosauitoes, which were hover E :, ewarms around our heads. It '..5 at q ring on my hand, at our ISss and in fact any metal article, tsa climax was reached when by Easnt the bird saw it's own image in 'mslI looking glass which lay on ground. Then, with extended 5. and open bill, it uttered cries = ,sss and peeked madly at the glass @ Ssleb an enemy appeared. Among attitudes of mountain forests, ',rsls fnehes and whiskyjacKs ! show unusual confidence in man, ,Bis particular instance is remark because the bird would alight on nersons even after it had been mo- ,tarlly though gently detained se7- Hines as a prisoner in my hand. cheap coat does not make a cheap a but it makes him feel that way at iss
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
in Time

in Time
 he waiting-room of the Boston and |ata Railroad station was hot. Iwthing about it, from the dingy 5tfs on the door to the shabby plush of the seats, was dirty. An Sa of bananas and peppermint came :n tle refreshment stand. Near the |r two schoolgirls in showy hats |a eating caramels and rolling their |s at the ticket agent. A shriyeled lady sat in a retired corner, sur Etltiously adding to the dusty pile peanut shells which lay under the D. Hallway down the room, a EkY child in a dirty white cap. be- forbidden to roll on the floor, |ied its mother franticaliy and gave |t to a series of angry shrieks. between the windows sat a girl who, |n her small velvet turban to the of her polished boot, seemed the i? embodiment of luxury. Her |uth had a determined expression, her blue eyes were unsophistica- and there was an admirir 2, trust look in them as she gazed at the D by her side.
 |Ie appeared less obviously out of |e in the forlorn surroundings. His |Aes were new-too new; and he |ned i'll at ease. His somewhat ex- Fssonless eyes rolled nervously and Alternately fingered his glove but and fondled scrubby little mus FuqdenE there was a rattle and jar |lhe dingy door and an elderly man Ftlly entered. He cast a glance put the room, and then walked di- |lly toward the pair by the window.
 E young man started up at his ap- |ach and began to speak with evil lt embarrassment.
 we are-that is-you see"
 |eome, Marguerite" interrupted the Plleman, i've have just time to catch three e-forty-flve train for home. " Fe held out his hand for the travel bag. The young girl drew herself Essentially.
 |sather,' she said, Alfred and I are |elner now, at last-and forever" |ae smiled and looked proudly up |ae young man by her side for con- Eauon. He had picked up her bag |a the seat and was about to hand Ffer her to her father. Her cheek " slightly and then flushed. Silent Pae took the bag from his hand as Y mat of servant; then lifting the |aatns of her skirts, she turned to
 lather with smile; "just time, repeated mechanically-"just time F4lch the three-forty-fiva-"
 Natural Railway Tunnel. |4e of the most remarkable tun- III the world is the natural rail- tunnel on the line of the. South 's4ue N and Ohio railway, in Scott 'lV' Virginia. The railway appar- 's' ana in fact, enters a natural
 !. ' grotto and disappears in the VI the mountain. The entrance Ess Es tavern is about fifty feet square. N N, ol It the railway runs through 'Vs or chambers for about 1,5O0 ahen 1t emerges from the other ~ lne mountain. The cave-tun-
 al In limestone. It serves not
 as natural railway tunnel, but N aS a channel for a small stream .. u as Stock creek. Virginia also ssses s@ natural bridge over one Of \. 1eents of the James river, about
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26
Dogs That Meyer Bark.

There are three varieties Of the dog that never barks-the Australian dog. the Egyptian shepherd dog and the ''lion-headed" dog of Thibet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-26

DR. A. ". TROUPE. FPina Rluff. Ark G Office hours,2 ? to p. ID. Telephone
 ethce with Anderson Meyer Drug Store
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1899-11-04
THE SCHOOLS AND LIQUOR
PROFITS.
Horny Needs the Largest Sum.
Several Counties Do Not Require
Anything to Give Them the
Required So Per Capita.
The State, 1st inst.

uS SlutSs lol lunJ.
The comptroller general has re-
ceived from all the counties save
Barnwell and Spartanburg the
statements Of the county super
intendents of schools as to the
amount each county needs from
the dispensary profits to make up
the constitutional 50 per capita.
Upon this statement the money
now held in the treasury will be
distributed The total amount
thus far reported is SIS, 1887.
1t will be noted that nine of the
counties thus far reported need
nothing and Of these there are the
two in which the largest cities in
the State are located. Horny
county needs the lions share of
the fund. Here is the statement
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1899-11-04
Dewey to Wed Mrs Hazen.

Washington, ID G., Oct 81
Admiral Dewey has announced to
some of his more intimate friends
the fact of his engagement to Mrs
w Is Hazen, of this city.
Mrs Hazen is the widow of Gen
Hazen, formerly chief signal Off
Ger of the army, who died about
ten years ago, and is a sister of
John h Mclean, democratic can
didate for governor of Ohio.
Mrs Hazen has no children, and
since her husbands death has made
her home with her mother. She
is woman of large means, about
40 years of age and popular in the
best social circles of Washington.
The date of the wedding has not
been fixed.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1899-11-04
Liquor Profits That Have Gone
to the School Fund.
The State.

The State.
lnasmuch as there is consider
able interest being manifested in
some quarters in the amount of
dlspcnsary profits that have gone
to the free schools of the State
since the constitutional provision
was put in some years ago, "A
representative of The State yes
terday looked up the official
figures.
The books show that on April
20, 1S9S, SO 1895 was dis,
tributed to the schools Of the
State. On April so, 1899, SG3, :
204. 35 was paid out to the schools
by the comptroller general, and
now the third payment Is about
to be made. This amount, all
the counties having at last been
heard from, will be S19,4S3.37,
and $4,000 more goes to the
superintendent of education for
normal institutes, etc. This
amount is to be paid in the next
few days.
When all has been paid there
will be left to the credit of the
dispensary school fund the sum of
$43, 312.2S, aid the schools will
have been paid q total of $162,-
1927. When this years amount
necessary to make up the 50 per
capita has been paid, the comp.
troller will then proceed to dis.
tribute pro rata among the several
counties, according to enrolment,
the s43,312.2S, making the grand
total paid the schools $2o5, 499. :
IS. ~
Exclusive Of the school fund,
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1899-11-04
DR. Grier's Will Refused Pro.
bate.
A bbeville Press and Banner.

Abbevile Press and Banner.
Within the last two months
three improperly executed wills
have been presented for prObate
in the office of the probate Judge
of AbbeviIle county.
The will of DR. w Nj Gricr
wa not admitted to probate be-
cause there were only two sub
scribing witnesses. =
2 The will Of Mrs Ferguson,
wife of j G Ferg son, was re,
fused probate for the same rea-
son.
3 The will of DR. j w Thorn.
as was signed in the presence of
only two witnesses, but in the CO.
diciI the will itself was recognized
and the codicil was signed by three
witnesses. This act apparently
remedied the will, but when the
witnesses were confronted with
the affidavit they declined to sub
scribe to it on the ground that
they did not sign it in the presence
of each other.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1899-11-04
Y hurlow S. Garter,
EDITOR AND MANAGER
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1899.
Ingratitude and What Has Come
of it.

Very naturally a recent editori-
nj remark in The Greenville, S G.,
News, copied in this paper at the
time, to the effect that the South
has put itself out OF business in
Federal politics, having thrown
away the alliance which made it
strong and aggressive, has attract
ed considerable attention. The
Charleston News and Courier.
commenting upon it, says that it
will be years before the South
will merit the recognition which
was gladly given to it 10y Presi>
dent Cleveland, and says that
"there has been nothing in the
political history of this country to
compare with the base ingratitude
of the Southern people in their
treatment of him." The Rich
mond Times agrees with this and
adds that W hen the apostles of the
new 'dispensation got possession of
the party and formed what they
called the New Democracy, they
turned their backs upon the Dem
ocratic leaders of the North, who
hal stood SO gallantly by the
South in all her troubles slnce the
war, scorned them, denounced
them, and boosted that the party
had repudiated them forever.
Notice was served on the Northern
Democrats that the New Democ-
racy would have nothing more to
do with them, and when MIR Bry-
an went North he gave out that he
was going into the "enemy's
country" In place of these
noble Democrats of the North the
party took to its bosom the Popu-
lists and free silver Republicans
of the West and it was given out
that the West and the South were
allied against all the powers of
darkness in the North and East.
1t was Il sorry exchange for the
South. 1t was an exhibition of
base ingratitude md the South
will suffer for il.
The South has suffered for it,
it is suffering now, in public
opinion and in seIf-respect.
Charlotte Observer.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1899-11-04
ROBBED THE GRAVE.

A startling incident, of which
Nh John Oliver of Philadelphia,
was the subject, is narrated by
him as follows: 81 was in q most
dreadful condition. My skin was
almost yellow, eyes sunken, tom
que coated, pain continually in
back and sides, no appetite-grad-
ually growing weaker day by day.
Three physicians had given me
up. Fortunately, a friend adj
vised trying Electric Bitters;"
and to my great joy and surprise,
the first bottle made decided i'm
provement. / continued their
use for three weeks, and am now
a well man. know they saved
my life, and robbed the grave of
another victim" No one should
fail to try them. Only 80 cts,
guaranteed, at Crawford Bros
Drug Store.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1899-11-04

the State dispensary had in the
State treasury yesterday, subject
to the order of the State board of
control, balance of $l44, ,491.7O.
Fhis Is the exact status of the
State 5 rum business ut present,
not taking into account outstand-
ing bills and warrants.