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man East Africa, says Lieutenant
Werther in his recent book. are ex-
tremely warlike The various sub
tribes and family factions are in al
most constant feud. but their cam
paigns are carried on in a very easy
going and comfortable fashion. me
men of rival villages will marcn
against each other in the morning ana
engage in a desultory fight With bows
and arrows At midday the women
bring lunch and hostilities ere sns-
pended for a time Then the fight IS
resumed and kept up until night faii'
when the warriors of both sides so
home. very well contented with tie
days work. OF course, there are few
casualties which only serve to prolong
the vendetta. One day six messen
gers with dispatches for Werther found
their way blocked by battle OF TINS
sort. They called out to the nearest
party to stop fighting and let them
pass. One of the chiefs thereupon
yelled to his opponents: Hello there!
Here are some men with letters for
the white man in Kondoa. Stop shoot
ing and let them through" The hight
was promptly stopped to be resumed
as soon as tne mail-carriers had
passed. -Staats-Zeitung Feb. 10, 1879.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

marshes and malaria of Indiana. a
struggle that lasted to within the most
recent generation, was but proem to
the hardships and conflicts that fol-
lowed when the Iowa immigrants
crossed the big river, and the Missou-
rians that were to be forsook the hills
of Tennessee. Iowa itself, excluding
the consideration of the warfare with
the doughty Sioux, was not such
basis of tragedy, nor was Missouri
geographically so, but Iowa and Mis-
souri, furnished the basis of the exodus
to the further west, and in doing so
gave both the genesis and the nemesis
to many habited place on the way to
the Pacific. Iowa itself is an illustra-
tion in minor way of the law of least
resistance. and Missouri is an illustra-
ton of the law of greatest endurance.
The excess of population from Illinois
would doubtless have gone over the
Missouri as we'll as the Mississippi and
have stretched across the plains of
Nebraska twenty years before the
Union Pacific rails were laid, had not
Iowa's surface been as it is and the
nomads grown tired of rolling up and
down the undulating hills, and decided
that the easiest thing to do was to
settle in the attractive wooded wales
and stick their plows into the deep,
loamy corn-producing SOL. The thou
sands who remained have always been
of the remaining, sticking kind, steady,
industrious, thrifty, but circumscribed
by the hills from whose outlook only
hills are to be seen"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

sorts and patterns. It is known thar
insects have marvelously keen scent
and It Is believed that all these odd
little objects are perfume boxes and
that the fragrance so thrown abroad
Is a signal call to the female butterfly
which may be wondering about in tbe
air 1t is. to say the least, a very in
teresting guess, and there is evidence
to prove that butterflies and moths are
summoned from distances by odors
that we would hardly notice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

Within month from this date, in
all probability, the long-awaited action
will be taken which will insure to Chi
cago an unpolluted water supply, will
furnish to northern Illinois a mag
nificent waterway and add materially
to the wealth and prosperity of not
only Chicago, but the whole sanitary
district. The great drainage channel
will be officially opened. The dark
waters of the Chicago river will go
bounding on their new-found way over
the rocky bed and between the smooth
stone walls of the mammoth cut to
Lockport and there joining with those
of the Desplaines will flow through
Joliet and so on through the Illinois
river to the Mississippi and to the
ocean. For seven years this day has
been anxiously looked forward to not
alone by the trustees who have charge
of the gigantic enterprise, but by the
2 100000 and more people whose health
is intimately associated with the sue
cessful completion of the task.
Obstacles, unforeseen in the early
days of the great work, were met and
overcome. Heart-breabing delays, set
backs due to natural agencies as much
az to human failure and malice, were
faced and overcome. The
channel has been dug. The great cut
extends its yawning chasm twenty
eight miles from Robey street to Lock-
port awaiting the influx of water. The
bridges are in place, and where there
is delay the substructures are suffi-
GENTLY advanced to allow of the ad-
of the water The mighty
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
Man Who Didn't Cut His Friends


Father Darcy, one of Ireland's real
wits, was man who hated to say an
unkind thing, yet could not help say
ing something to the point when the
opportunity offered. Such an oppor-
tunity presented itself one day when
he was invited by a man who was
known as an ignorant braggart to visit
new and beautiful house which the
person, who had become wealthy sud
denly, had bought. With more than
his usual pomposity the host dragged
the priest over the place and expa-
tiated on the excellence of everything
that he owned. Finally they reached
the immense library, where there were
thousands of volumes, all splendid in
binding. The host sank into one of
the great leatheEcovered chairs with
sign of contentment and exclaimed:
but. after all, father what is all this
luxury compared with my favorites
here? The other rooms, maybe, give
pleasure to my wife and daughters;
but this is my place-right here among
these books. which are my friends.
And these here on the desk pointing
to a score of fine volumes" what
may call my most intimate friends"
Father Darcy got up and examined one
of them. when broad grin spread over
his good-natured face. We'll, it's glad
am to see that you never cut your
intimate friends!" he exclaimed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

of certain amount of time, labor and
dynamite directed along well-estab-
lished lines to produce channel 16S
feet wide and from twenty-five to
twenty-eight feet deep.
The main channel, it should be
understood, ends abruptly at Lockport
in wall six feet thick made of stone
and backed up by thousands of tons
of stone dumped in from the spoil
banks. There the channel widens
from 100 feet, the regulation width OF
the cut, to a "windage BASIN 600 feet
wide, in which the largest ships can
be turned around. This basin, of course,
is locked on three sides by stone walls
extending seventeen feet above the sur
face of the water when the channel
will be filled. On the north wall
stands the controlling works. The
waters of the river, when they are
turned in on some bright day in the
future, will flow uninterruptedly down
their new rocky bed to this point
There they will encounter the stone
walls on the south and west and flow
ing to the north they will pass through
the sluice gates and over the dam
which comprise the controlling works.
These seven gates can be lowered, cut
ting off the flow of the water, and this
dam can be raised cutting off some
more of it if necessary. The gates can
be shut down altogether, presenting as
impenetrable front as the stone walls
and the bear trap dam can be raised
until it is as high as the level of Lake
Michigan. Then the water will stand
still. 1t will not flow uphill. Rather.
if the dam be thus raised, the water
will turn about and flow back toward
the lake.
There are seven sluice gates at pres
ent and each weighs twenty tons, but
so nicely are they counterbalanced that
but two men are required to work the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
strong on Horses. weak on Buuco.

A few months ago Russian veteri-
nary surgeon was sent into the Ural
district by the government to buy
horses for the army. He had been Sc
lected by his superors because he was
famous as a shrewd and sharp horse
trader, who never had been beaten in
horse trade. But he returned from
his experience with the Ural Cossacks
in a chastened condition of mind for
they had cheated him frightfully. He
confessed that with all his cunning
he had been perfectly helpless in their
hands. and he swore by all the saints
in the Russian calendar that nothing
should tempt him to try it again. His
grief was made the more poignant by
the fact that at the time they were
swindling him so cheerfully and sue
cessfully a Russian bunco steerer
struck their territory. filled them with
a firm conviction that the world was
coming to an end in short order, and
sold them tickets for Paradise at enor-
nous prices.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

course, my feet are my principal guide,
and I've been over the same ground so
often that have learned every inc
quality by heart, but | couldn't get
along with either nose or feet alone.
1ney work together, and where one
fails, the other helps out Between
them they make very good eyes. The
secret of my stepping out is this I've
learned how to stop. People who can
see hurl themselves forward like loco
motives. That's why the shock is al
ways so Unexpectedly violent when you
collide with another person. l put no
extra power whatever in my move
ments, and If the toe of my boot
touches some unknown obstacle | stop
stock still instantly" This clever blind
man leads a very tranquil life. He has
a small income and lives with grand
daughter. A servant is hired especial
ly to read to him every afternoon.
Many of those who know him are una
ware Of his blindness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
Cabby Knows His Fare.

From Tit-Bits: In Dublin the legal
fare for a car-drive between any two
points in the city is sixpence, but
when these points are very far apart
the fare" is expected to bear this in
mind. It was overlooked, however, by
a big. fat commercial traveller, who
mounted a car at one extremity of the
CITY to be driven across to the other
but who. on dismounting, offered the
car-driver the customary sixpence. The
driver. instead of taking it, took the
horsecloth briskly out of the well OF
the car. shook it out, carefully covered
with it the horses head, and then,
turning to the traveller, touched his
hat cheerfully, and held out his hand
for the sixpence. What was all that
for?" asked the traveller. To whom the
driver replied, in a confidential tone:
Il didn't want the dacent basic, your
honor, to see what a big load he had
brought all this way for one little
sixpence.'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

machinery to raise or lower them.
They are built in solid masonry which
suggests the frowning front of a fort,
but this is necessary, as the pressure
against them the water will exert will
be tremendous The heavy granite and
brick wall contains seven other spaces
for additional sluice gates, which are
now bricked in solidly awaiting the
time when Chicago's population has so
greatly increased that the capacity of
the channel must be doubled. Then
these gates will be put in to permit an
increased flow of water into the Des-
PLANES. But the gates in themselves,
while they are massive pieces of en-
cheering work, are not enough with
out the bear-trap dam. 1t is called a
bear trap, the engineers say, because
its shape suggests the old deadfall bear
traps which were once in use by early
settlers. 1t consists of two hinged metal
leaves which present an inclined face
160 feet in width to the waters. The
place of joining, known as the crest of
the dam, can be raised by hydraulic
power, the turning of valves allowing
water from upstream to flow into
chambers under the dam and easily
raise its million pounds of weight. 1t
has total oscillation of seventeen feet
that is, it can be raised that much
from its lowest point if necessary. To
lower it other valves are turned and
the water from the chambers under the
dam are released to flow out into the
tail race and the great metal barrier
settles slowly down to the required
level. Over the top of the dam the fiot-
sam and jetSam of the channel, the
trees, sticks. barrels and ice floating onsI
the surface will be allowed to pass,
which would never get through the
sluice gates for the reason that the
water will pass under the gates, leav-
ing the surface almost placid and inn
movable, holding all floating objects,
and in the course of time the windage
basin at the end of the channel would
be filled with floating debris from the
twenty-eight miles of canal all hurried
down against the end wall These
things will easily pass over the DAM
which will ordinarily have foot of
water pouring over it's crest to the
tail race.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
GUIDE POSTS OF THE BLIND.
A sightless Man Tells How He n
Helped to Make His wsv Ahon+

sighsiess Man Tells How He Is
Helped TO Make His Way About.
New Orleans Times Democrat
There IS blind man living in the
heart OF the old quarter who walks
nearly every day to a little restan-
rant near Canal street. The distance
each way is from sixteen TO twenty
blocks, according to his route and IN
see him saunterng carelesslv along
one would never suspect his infirmitv
Talking with an inquisitive reporter
he declared that he saw with his nose
and feet, and this was the wav he ex-
planned it: When a man has his
sight, he said, "the smells of the
street are all mixed up, but when he's
blind he learns to separate them. The
smells of the shops are almost as plain
to me now as the signs used to be over
the doors. Some of them you would
hardly suppose to exist. Take a dry
goods store, for instance; it smells OF
cloth, and has very peculiar odor.
Iron and tin have smells of their own.
and / can tell hardware store imme-
diately. | pass two book stalls nearly
every day, and | scent them yards off
by the old books. Then there are a
great many indescribable odors nv
which | know this place and that. OF
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
The Rnfterhv,. Paela4

From the Philadelphia Times: The
male butterflies have the proud priv
ilege of pocket, but the pocket of a
butterfly is wonderfully made. 1t is
really an extension of the under wing
folded back on the upper side, but it
is exquisitely colored and marked like
the upper side so that it is very hard
to detect, and no one has yet discov-
cred Just how it is opened, although
undoubtedly the butterfly can throw
it open while he is flying. At first
g ance there seems to be on'y white or
amber-colored silk floss within. but
examine this with a microscope and
you will find twisted ribbons, slender
rods shaped like a shepherds crook.
Others jointed bamboo-like, and fex-
IDLE rods and tiny scales of various
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
TAILED ONE ON THE BISHOP.
Eminent Divine Had Exchanged Grips
with a bridegroom.

Eminent Divine Had Exchanged Grips
with a bridegroom.
From the Albany Journal: Bishop
Huntington of Syracuse told this story
on himself during one of his last Wis
its to Washington. The good bishop,
it seems, once went down to a town in
Connecticut to perform a marriage
ceremony. He arrived the day before
the wedding, and he left at the same
time the bridal pair did, although he
was driven to a different railway sta
ton. AS he passed through the sta
ton. carrying his travelling bag, he was
aware that he was creating a sensa-
ton, but was totally at loss to ac-
count for it. In the car he found that
he was still the object of amused at
tention. The porter positively snick-
cred as he passed his seat, and finally,
just as the train drew out, he came up
and assisted the churchman to remove
his overcoat. What is the matter with
you, my man." asked the bishop. The
porter's smoker broadened into a
laugh Amt you done lef' the lady,
sah?" he chuckled. En-" exclaimed
the bishop in surprise. Then his eye
fell on the side of his travelling bag.
which the porter had just turned
round. There glued to it was wide
strip of white satin ribbon, on which
was painted in large letters: Married
this morning" The facetiously mind
ed best man had mistaken the bishops
travelling bag for that of the bride
groom, and a chuckling black porter
worked late into the night removing
the ribbon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
GEOGRAPHY FOR A PROFESSOR
Peaches Were Sent Over Alosg with the
Whale BIa7ner.

GEOGRAPHY FOR A PROFESSOR
Peaches Were Sent Over AIosg with the
whale Bla5ner.
Canadians are very touchy on the
subject of climate, as Rudyard Kinling
discovered when he somewhat thought
lessly dubbed the dominion our Lady
of the Shows, says the Philadelphia
Post. When Arthur Stringer, the young
Canadian poet and author, first went
to Oxford. he carried with him letters
from Prof Goodwin Smith of Toronto
to Prof. York Powell the distinguished
historian of Christ Church. This old
Oxford don, like one or two other Eng
lishmen, had very vague ideas about
Canada, and somewhat surprised the
young stranger by inquiring ii he got
along nicely on English roast mutton
after living so long on frozen seal meat.
The young poet gravely protested that
he perhaps missed his whale blubber
little, but the next day cabled home
and in less than a week the finest
basket of Autumn peaches ever grown
in Ontario, carefully packed in saw
dust, was on its way to oxford. A short
time afterward the young author was
again dining with the Regus profess
sor of Oxford, and that gentleman pro-
duced at the meal fruit dish loaded
with tremendous peaches. Most ex-
traordinary," said the old professor,
but these peaches were sent to me to-
day, and I'm blessed if know who sent
them. From the south of France, sus-
peCt, so | saved few of them for you,
Stringer; they will be such a novelty,
you know" The Canadian very quiet
ly took steamship company's bill of
lading from his pocket and handed it to
the professor. The professor gazed at
the bill. then at the fruit. then at the
poet. Il had some whale blubber, too,
professor" said that young man, but
| simply had to eat that. These other
things were grown on my uncle's farm
in Kent county, Ontario, you know. He
has 200 bushels of them every year,
and he sent me over a basket of little
ones along with the whale blubber."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
HOW CHAMBERLAIN WORKS.
Secret of His Power OF Getting Through
a Vast RusinaSS.


a Vast business.
A glance at Mr. Chamberlain room
in the colonial office will reveal part OF
the secret of his power in getting
through work, says the New Penny
Magazine. There is nothing super
fluous. nothing out of place; and every
morning when he comes to business
his desk is absolutely clear. There is
not paper in the room. Mr.. Cham
berlain works in large room, looking
on the great quadrangle round which
are built the foreign, colonial, home
and Indian offices. He often lunches
in his room when too occupied to go to
his club, the Athenaenum. Sitting at
his large desk at the farther end of the
room, he has accorded interviews to
men of all nationalities and all colors
Mr.. Chamberlain morning at the CO.
lonial Office is taken up in dealing with
great mass of papers. In addition he
has to give verbal instructions to his
subordinates and to see a large num-
Der of important people. In the after
mum nS hdS " 80 hOWH " Lhc iOuSC
of commons during the session, where
as a minister he must attend daily to
answer questions, besides transacting
his general parliamentary business. To
his private room in the house of COM
mons papers follow him in boxes, la
beled with slips of paper, red, green
on white according to the urgency of
their contents. Nor is the days work
ended there. At midnight. when ne
goes home, he finds papers at his pri-
vate house; and even when he is away
from London they arrive with regular
ity by post or by special messenger.
In fact, Mr. Chamberlain cannot escape
them unless he were to disappear alto
gether.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
Tire.nme for the Sun.

Grandmamma had been explaining
to the little girl how our earth is kept
from flying off into infinite space by
the attraction of the sun, which is con-
stantly trying to draw the earth to-
ward itself while the latter always
keeps its distance. "Grandmamma,"
said the little girl, Il should think the
sun would get discouraged after
while and let Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
Too Lazy to Hunt.

Remember. said the young man
with the downy mustache and the for
eign title, Il am not fortune hunter.
No" answered Mr.. Cumrox. gloom
lily, Il discovered that shortly after |
became your father-in-law. You pro-
pose to cit still and have the fortune
walk into your bank account. You
won't do anything so fatiguing as to
get up and hunt it."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
An Ancient Tree.

The Oldest tree on earth with an au-
thenticated history is the great bhoo
tree Of Burmah. For twenty centuries
it has been held sacred to the Buddha.
and no person is allowed to touch the
trunk. When the leaves fall they are
carried away as relics by pilgrims.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
Tnexolicabie Wants.

From the Detroit Free Press: He
don't see what you want with golf
cape when you're not golfer. She
But you can, no doubt, tell me why
you wear box coat and never coula
be q boxer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

1t was not much over two years ago
than an expressman, with a broad
smile and wink which signified con-
siderable, took a bright new baby
carriage from his wagon and carried
it up the front steps OF the residence
Of ex-President Harrison. The door
opened and the new vehicle was re-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
Bailey's Laxative Tablets Cares Csnstipa-
tiou

The active principle is casoara ss-
grada, plant found In California.
1t docs not do the work for the bowels
but makes the bowels do their own
work. 1t gets the bowels back in the
habit OF doing their own work. and
after they have been reused irtc .
state Of healthy activity, and the liver
and other organs also, they will con-
tinue on without medicine. They
will cure sick headache, billiousness
and liver troubles and constipation
and remove poisonous matter from
the system. Put up in 10 and % cent
packages. For sal. J. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
WRESTLING WITH LANDSCAPE
The Original Iowans Got Tired OF Climb
ing Hills.

Westward of the Mississippi, the
dramatic play of physical nature
against the migrating will of human
beings assumes many times the inter-
est and impressiveness that it had in
the movements from the Alleghanies
to Illinois, says a writer in Ainslie's,
in an article explaining the settling of
the United States. THE struggle OF
the settler with the swamps and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

ceived with open arms by white
capped nurse. 1t was quite evident
that there was some use for the baby
carriage. Miss Mary Elizabeth Har-
rison was born two years ago, in In
dianapolis, Ind, when the ex-president
was abroad as member of the vene-
zuelan commission.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18
Official f9irectorp.

A TToRNEYS- BUSHNELL. WATKINS s. MOSES
Practice in all State and United States
courts Offces over State Bank Of q rant Coun-
ty, Lancaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

PHYSICIAN-F. M. CRoNIN, NJ d.
once over Ziegler's hardware store east
of court house, Lancaster. Calls in city and
country promptly attended
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

ATTORNEY-w. q. PALMER.
Practices In all courts. Probate bust.
ness promptly attended to. Boscobel
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

A Merry War.
The Warangi, wild tribe of Ger