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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-09

Northern Pacific, common held its own,
and Northern preferred also declined
slightly.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-09

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BON

e. Isos -..sp-year funding" COLL.
,,slg0l Water stock" currency
.'g 1903 Water stock currency
Funding currency 5.5j's.- -...-.- III
~ e Reg s-l0's- 1897 l9ll .-...-.-.. -.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-09

The Mexican railway shares are likely
10 attract attention in the near future If
the general market is active. AS has
been pointed out in this column hereto
fore several times. these lines are all
making magnificent earnings records from
week to week and month 20 month, and IL
cannot be questioned that there will be in
vestment buying. and pool manipulation as
we'll. as q result. The statement of the
Mexican Central for December and for the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07

tort wniIe ne took the neIo. he oeslrea
that she should return thither at oSce.
ohe determined u remain ard sayly
tapped his cheek and baGe him have
roaconcern. She could readily find
quarters, ard 50 Sic Cd. The regu-
lar garrison Of the Presiaf6 was long
since afeld, but tie families Of most
Of its officers still remained there. while
the houses Of two or three, completely
furnished SO far as army furnishings go,
were there in charge Of the post quar-
termaster. From being the temporary
guests of some old friends, Mrs. Frank
and her pretty companion suddenly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07
To The Farmers OF Wisconsin.

The farmers of the state of Wiscon-
sin have organized and Incorporated
under the laws of the state to protect
themselves against loss by hail to
their growing crops, and against loss
by wind on their buildings, stock and
farm machinery. The assessment for
the past two seasons has been very
low, not exceeding /! mills. Mr..
VIM. Wetter of North Lancaster car
ried insurance to the amount of $640.
and his assessment in full for two
seasons past was only $2.06. A num-
Der OF other farmers in the surround
ing country have been induced TO Join
this company and are all well satisfied
with the insurance. The company is
known as The Northwestern Farmers
Mutual Hail and Cyclone Insurance
Company of Waterloo, Wisconsin.
+. ID. KNOwLToN, Sec'y.
a. WAYNE, County agent for Grant
county.
There will be several other solicit
ers in the county besides Mr.. Wayne
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07
First Publication May ~ last June
NoUice of Hearing.

Estate OF Wm. y. Stone, deceased)
state of wisconsin, County Court otGrant
County-in probate.
Notice is hereby given, that at the special
,erm OF the County Court, To be held in and
for said County, at the Court House IN the
civ of Lancaster. in said County, on the
third Tuesday of June A. ID. 1900. being the
NINETEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1900,
at the hour of ten O'Clock in the forenoon
the following matter will be heard and con-
Sidered:
The application of James Wenzel for an
order or Judgment of said court directing
John NJ Stone the administrators OF the
estate Of VIM. n. Stone, deceased. to convey
TO him pursuant to contract, the following
described premises, to-wit:
Commencing 426 feet north OF the south.
east corner of the northwest quarter OF
section B. town 4, north of range west ~
Grant county, Wisconsin, thence west l6O
feet. thence north $50 to the place OF oegin-
ming of the tract of land hereby intended 10
he conveyed, thence west 100 feet, thence
north 40 feet thence east 100 feet, thence
south 100 feet to the place of beginning.
BY order of the Court.
T.. Il. GOODSELL,
County Judge.
Dated Nav % 1900.
W. J. Brennan, Attorney for Petitioner,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07

-,t-f' aao. rs Tennyson Neeiy.l
NJ c-n reecr re unuol.-. ny ,a.-s. -
ended and J can never look you IN thA face
again Al srst I thought / should show the
letters. one by ore. to the man she mar
ried. ard ask him what he thought Of his
wife but that is TOO low. hold them be-
cause I have mad longing 10 see her
again and heap reproach upoA her, but, i
| fan and should | feel a any time that
my end is near, I'm going TO send them TO
you TO read-to see how | was lured, and
then, If you can. TO pity and forgive
'EOLLIN."
Armstrong; firm lips twitched IN
der his mustache. The general, with
moist ewes, had risen from his chair and
mechanically held forth his hand.
Poor lad!" sighed Armstrong. "Of
course you know who the girl wasp
"Oh, Of course" and Drayton
shrugged his shoulders.
well. we'll have to CO. and led on to
the misty light without.
Over across the way were the head
quarters tents of big parade, hope
fully awaiting orders for Manila. TO
their left, separated by narrow space,
so crowded were the camps, were the
quarters of the officers of the -teenth
infantry, and even through the veil of
mist both soldiers could plainly see
along the line. Coming toward the gate
was Mr.. Prime, escorted by the ma jor.
just behind them followed Mildred and
the attentive Schuyler. But where was
Miss Lawrence? Armstrong had al
ready seen. Lingering, she stood at
Biily's tent front, her ear inclined to his
protruding pate. He was saying some-
thing thattoolS time, and she showed no
inclination TO curry him. Miss Prime
looked back, then she and Schuyler ex-
changed significant smiles and glances.
There was rather d lingering hand
clasp before Amy started. Even then
she looked back at the boy and smiled.
Him" said the general, as he gazed,
that yOungster woulGn swap places
with any subaltern in camp, even if he
is under charges"
There was no answer from the strong
soldier standing observant at his elbow.
But when the chief would have moved
detained him. "One more
question. general. In case you were
away and wanted something you had
left in this tent, you would send an aide
or orderly, or-would an order signed
by one of your staff be sufiicient?'
HIM. well-yes, suppose il would"
said the general.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07
CHAPTER XII.

Opinion was divided al Camp Merritt
as to whether Billy Gray should or
should not stand trial. Confident as
were his friends of his innocence of all
completely in Morton's escape, there re-
manned the fact that he had telephoned
for a carriage, that carriage had come
and that carriage with four men, APP
parently soldiers, had driven rapidly
downward along Point Lobos avenue.
1t was seen by half a dozen policemen
as il shot under the electric light or gas
lamp. Then there was the bundle inside
his rolled overcoat that Gray had per-
sonally handed Morton when prison
er. Everybody agreed he should have
sent i by orderly-everybody that is,
except some scores Of young soldiers in
the ranks who could see nc harm in
it having been done that way. especially
two Delta Sigs" in the teenth. Then
there were the long conferenefs in the
dark. What Gid they mean: NJ things
considered. the older and wiser heads
saw that. as the lieutenant could or
would make no satisfactory explana-
ton Of these 10 his colonel, he should
to court or take the consequences.
you've made a mess Of the thing and
an ass Of Yourself. Billy" was Gordon's
comprehensive # not consolatory sum
mary Of the matter, and as Canker has
been raped for ono thing or another
by camp, division and brigade com
| manderS,o one after another. he feels that
| he's got to prove that he isn't the only
fool in the business. You'd better en-
ploy good counsel and prepare for q
fight"
Cant afford it," said Billy, briefly,
land I'm bloweG if I'll ask my dear Old
dad to come 10 the rescue. He's had
to cough up (shame on your slang,
Billy far TOO much already. tel you,
Gordon. I'm SO fixed that cant eX-
plain these things unless I'm actually
| brought to trial. It's it's-well. YOU
have no secret societies al the Point as
we DO at college. SO you can't fathom
it. I'm no more afraid of standing
trial than l am of Sqneers-and be
ID y him !, -4-.~s-~a,s' 49, So
Good Lawd. youngstcr-yo you
aren't quite such an ass a to suppose
a court IS going 70 regard any schoolboy
obligation as paramount to that which
Your oath Of Office demands. Look
hyuh. Billy. your heads just added!
l can't work on you, but somebody
must"
And Gordon went away very low in
his mind lie liked that boy. lie loved
keen. alert. snappv soldier on drill,
and Biuy had no superior III the bat
TALON when II came 10 handling squad
or company. The adjutart plainly saw
Tie peril 81 his position, and further
consultation with his brother officers
confirmed him ii lis fears Schuyler
tle brigade caumi~sarN. being much
~ith he ic.rtE messing With the"
iu fact. Wien he WAS net ,.a.ciH- 81.
H.. 1arce ou Miss Hriwe lcar aI 81,
...sn ta.l, a..l isle LIST. t,.~ il la1e
Tea5f .h.t t5e N@ reNt lst Nsr
la Ne. 'htr N
ts5t SIS. h
1Gf.a te.'
Et. " 81
$50 81
t1.e
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07
/ f FL s.
IFysst publication Mag u. last. J't5'
Notice to Creditors.

state Of wisconsin Graet Comfy Court.
Sinh IN the mater Done estate d wmsHaben
Letters testamentary on the eatate 81
VIM Shaben. deceased having DeeH 80 -
TO Jedida Shabtu, ,t.,,-s
Notice is hereby given that the creditof
of said VIM Shaben. deceased, are d!lo"tG
and limited by order q thls court uAt4l a.
.lnCluding the
FIRST TUESDAY. OF DECEMBER, 1860
being the 4th day of said month 10 present
their claims and demands against sag F" ". u.
Shaben. deceased, 70 the county Cpd ~
examination and allowance. ,.t,.,
Notice is also hereby given that the CAIN
ana demands So presented Will De examined
and adjusted bv this court At the ONCE OF
me COUNTY Judge at the Court House IN the
CITY of Lancaster in said county on the see-
ond Tuesday OF December I@o,
Dated this 22nd day OF May 1900
By the Court,
FB GOODSELL, County Judge
II. W. Brown, eXecutriX attorney.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07
First Publication May 81; last June 2l.I
Notice to Creditors.
emily p. Cronin. deceased. }

emily l.. CrOnln, deCedSeu.)
State of Wisconsin, Grant County Court,
IS. In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Emily p.
Cronin. deceased.
Letters of administration on the estate Of
Emily p. Cronin, deceased, having been is
sued TO Frank M. Cronin,
Notice is hereby given that the creditors
of said Emily =. Crontn, deceased, are al
lowed and limited by order Of this court I'M
til and including the
FIRST TUESDAY OF DECEMBER, 1900,
being the 9TH day of said month, to present
their claims and demands against the estate
of said EmilyP. Cronin, deceased.to the coun-
~ court for examination and allowance
Notice Is also hereby given that the claims
and demands SO presented Will he examined
and adjusted by this court at the Office of
the county judge at the Court house i'll the
city of Lancaster in said county on the
second Tuesday of December A. D., 1900
Dated this 18th day of May, 1900.
BY the Court
+. 3 GOODSELL, County Judge
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07
Very low rate- to sioux rams. : u

Via the North-Western Line Fx-
cursion tickets VIII be sold june Is
IL. inclusive. limited Il SO days from
date OF sale. on ACKNOWLEDGEMENT meet
ing supreme Lodge 4 o. t. ". Ar
ply t. agents Chicag7 i North-Wa.teTr
R-v.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07
Hair Rates to Philadelphia Pa,

Tia the North-Western Line Ez-
cursion tickets viii be sold at one
fare for the round trip. June 1T. 10
and lG limited to June -. or account
III Republican National Convention.
Apply % agents Chicagu II Northwest
err R y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-07

-, Milwaukee Weekly Sentinel il
81 special arrangement offered in
connection with The Herald for SlS3
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
San Ansonio,a ciIm te.

Coming from the home of biting east winds and a winter climate, the at mosphere of San Antonio is veritable paradise. The city is located in south western Texas. is about 600 feet above the sea level. and is delightfully."- situ- ated, with range of hills extending completely around the town. The weather is delicious-never too cold in winter and, during the summer, while it is hot enough in the day time, the evenings are always cool. According to signal service reports taken during a series of years, the average number of days in the year during any portion of which the thermometer falls to the freezing point is 14. It is rare thing to have frost before November or later than April.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
MaRes Living Catching Butteraies.

Catching butterflies is the pleasant work by which clever English girl makes good living. Miss Mary Yeo- mans, before going to California, has collected butterflies for pleasure al home, and after coming to America
 realized that many of the rarest varie- ties are to be found in California. The first butterflies she captured were os 8 species seldom found except in the higher Alps, and on sending them to England she was paid S25 each. From that time on she has been steadily in- creasing her stock, and now makes a large income by the sale of the insects.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
SILLY VOWS WELL KEPT.
Artist Whose Masterpiece Was Due ia
 an Oath He Took.


 The French artist, Gericauld, was determined to allow no distraction to interfere with the painting of his great picture, .The Wreck of the Medusa' . He had his head shaved and vowed that he would never allow his hair to grow until his work was done This vow he religiously kept, in spite of strong temptation to break it, and the reward of his heroism was the most perfect painting of his life. A story is told Of 3 young man in E gland, great chess enthusiast, who was so annoyed at his failure to solve an ap- parently simple problem that he vowed he would neither sleep nor eat until the solution was found. He shut him. self up in a disused room and was found four days later by his relatives terribly emaciated and out of his mind. He spent a year in the lunatie asylum as the result of his rash VOW: and the problem remains unsolyed. It was for 9 very curious reason that an old lady, who died a few years ago, condemned herself to more than thirty years confinement to her house. She had married a Widower, as nliseriy as lie was unromantic, and he insisted that his second wife should wear the clothes left behind her by his first wife. The wife was as mutinous as the husband was resolute, and she de- termined that until she could have her own clothes she would never leave the house-a VOW she kept until her death. Woman appears to be at the root of many eccentric vows, for it was ha- tired of the sex that once impelled well-knoWn lawyer to swear that he would never speak to woman again as long as he lived. Nothing would induce him to see a lady client, and he would never conduct a case in which woman appeared ,.s a witness. He never employed 8 female servant, and deliberately "cut'' all his lady acquain- tances. The inevitable result was that the men deserted him, his practice dwindied and he died, less than year ago, alone in a squalid room.-Pitts- burg Dispatch.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
Miss Klumpke's Good Fortune.

Current newspaper statements con- corning the will of Rosa Bonhenr re- call the fact that the principal legatee was, until the last year of the great artists life, an entire stranger to her. Miss Anna Kiumpke, a young portrait painter of promise, greatly desired to paint Rosa Bonheur, and wrote, ask ing that privilege. Receiving favor able reply, she at once started from Boston to Fontainebleau, France, and entered upon her work. The two women found themselves in such close sympathy that Mademoiselle Bonheur asked her visitor to make her home with her, and at her death last year devised almost her entire estate chateau, park, library. paintings and priceless manuscripts-to this young American. The story is romance in real life. It underscores the poets query: Who can answer where any road leads?"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
Amazing Expansions of Great Britain


 h l780 the area Of the British for eign possessions. outside and exclusive of the British Isles, but including Can ada. the West Indies. and India, may be set down as about 31a millions Of square miles, with population of less than two millions of white people and perhaps forty-fve millions of colored races. These figures, though little as compared with those of 1899, are yet quite respectable. They were vastly greater than other nations Of that time. could show. Indeed they are greater than any nation can even now show for foreign possessions. In 1899 the British empire contains over F mil- lions of square miles and 40 millions of population, of whom 55 millions are white people, that is 40 millions in the mother country. and 15 millions in the colonies, while the remainder are of colored races. This represents about nearly one-third of the habitable globe and shows an amazing expansion with in the hundred years.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
FOURTH IN POPULATION
rlis Is the Standing of the United
 states Among the Nations.

States Among the Nations
 There were 62, ,622, ,250 inhabitants in the United States ten years ago, &C., eording to the last census. Secretary Cages actuary of the treasury, who is a close guesser in matters of popula- tion, computes the present population between Maine and California. Alaska, and Key West, at 76,148,000. To this must be added the peoples brought un- der the stars and stripes by the war with Spain and by the annexation of Hawaii, to say nothing of Cuba, Porto Rico, and Guam. If the Filipinos can be induced to stand still long enough to be counted they may possibly yield | million or two more, but unless the actuary has made mistake in addi- tten there will yet remain a wide gap between the actual and the magnificent round number. For a decade or two longer. therefore, the United States must be content to remain in the fourth place in point of population among the nations of the earth. China despite the encroachments upon her territory. still holds the lead, with 482, csc. 900 men, women, and ehif. lreu within her borders; the British empire comes next. with SSf ,057sS74 subjects. including the dusky fanatics of the soudans and the Russian em7 pire is third, 129, ,211,143 persons owing allegiance to the czar. No other na- ton, however, can show such rapid increase as that Of the United States. George Washington was president Of a nation numbering fewer than 3000,- 009 individuals It took 20 years for the population to double. In 1910 it was 7,239,881, in 1920 it had reached only 9,633.822, and 10. years later the total F, ,866, 020. From this time on it advanced by leaps and bounds. Tn 1840it was 17009. .453, in 1850 1t was 23, ,191 ,876, in 1860 it had reached 3t,- 443, ,321, and 30 years ago. the census showed population of 38,558, ,371. It did not pass the 50.000,000 mark until 1880, when it was 50,155,783, and the last enumeration, 1890, gave total Of 6, ,622, 2,250.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
MT. Daiy's Relies.

Mir. Daly's interesting collection of curiosities and rare books to be sold by auction next month at the Ameri- can Art Galleries, New York. Among the relics is David Garrick's desk. Ii has a high back, with a painting of Garrick as Hamlet, and other elaborate decorations. There are the scales used by Edmund Kean when he played Shy lock, and sword that he used on the stage. The collection includes an enormous number of rare and costly books. including folio editions of Shakespeare. and there are death masks of many celebrated people. Amongst the pictures is a portrait of Peg Wellington, by Hogarth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
Sitting Erect.

Very many persons, in taking a seat, use the edge of it only, with the result that in a very short time they seem to be doubling up, the head bending forward over the chest. The easiest method of sitting erect, and in a grace ful position, is to occupy the chair in such 9 way that the lowest part of the spine or backbone touches the back of the seat; then, by causing the shoul- ders also to touch the back, the whole body is erect and maintains itself, not only without an effort, but with 3 feel ing of support, relief and rest, and that, too without any appreciable eff fort. Any position maintained by the aid of a brace is forced. and is secured by an injury done to some other part, which not only has to support itself. but aid in supporting parts not intend ed. hence must in time itself need aid from other sources, and thus the mis- chief goes on.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
The Upturned BInstaehe'

Apropos of the statement that several portraits of Charles I. by Van Dyek' showed the same fierce mustaehe Whlch the kaiser is so fond of, a German monthly now comes forward and oo- serves that the "upturned mustaehe was really invented at the court of Philip ". of Spain. Charles L, beng Philips brother-in-law, subsequently, set the fashion in England, and thence it spread to Belgium. Germany, =sWed= en and France. Louis XIII. was pfae- ticaIly the last monarch to wear thIs type of mustache, until it's revival by
 william IL
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-20
EGG MEME RANE
Used as 2 Substitute For Skin Grating
 For Surface Wounds

New York Special Chicago Tribune: Medical science has discovered that the hens egg provides an admirable substitute fir human flesh to graft on human open wounds The substitute is the delicate membrane that imme- diately lines the inside of hens egg. The German surgeons first found that this membrane can be successfully used as the nucleus for granulation oR open wounds The surgeons of the Seney Hospital in Brooklyn were the first in this country to adopt and pfae- tiee the Germans discovery gonsa- qnently Edgar A. Garbut VIII 1eaYa the Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, and again take charge of his laundry GarbuE, =36 years old now. fell from his bicycle two years ago and so seve rely injured himself that as the disease Of the bones advanced it was necessary to remove the bones of his left arm his shoulder blade, and the left end, of his collar bone. While Garbut rallied, the sur geons soon saw that the wounds left by the operations would not heal on the surface Garbut's wife, his nephew and young man in his employ of fered of their euticle to graft on Gar but's wounds But on December 10 tha last one of the surgeons in the Seney Hospital remembered that the German surgeons say that the hens egg pro- vides 3 substitute for human eut.cle In such cases. So the seney Hospital surgeons procured some fresh eggs and from them took the membrane thas lines the shells, and pieces of mem- brane were planted on Garbut's wounds Soon new skin was formed
 The egg membrane did not form any part of the new membrane skin. but simply was "starter" for tt.