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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR co.
Att ANITA GA
ODDS AND ENDS.

In Austria coarse cloth of good quail
ity and cheap paper is made from peat
fiber.
The peat boys in Sweden, many &c
them eight to ten yards deep, cover an
area of about S,64S,0OO acres.
Geneva, Switzerland the old watch
making town, is now leading in tho
manufacture of ingenious toys.
japanese florists have succeeded in
cultivating rose which looks red in
the sunlight and white in the shade.
Among the Mohammedans of Cal
cutta the infant mortality reaches the
enormous figure of C34.5 per 1000
births.
The death rate in New Zealand in
1896 was 80 per 1000 inhabitants, as
compared with 1877 in Eugland and
Wales.
The erection on new structures and
repairs on old ones involved an outlay
of $l30,0O0,00O in Greater New York
last year
The Yellowstone park was visited
last summer by about $4,000 tourists,
or about 5000 more than in any pre-
ceding year.
Gorgonzola cheese is Italian, and Is
made from goats milk. 1t comes from
near Milan, and needs to ripen two or
three years.
Portable houses are made in Con-
necticut for shipment to Venezuela.
-Four skillful men can in three hours
build one of them.
The editor of Tennessee town. who
stated in his paper that the new cen
tury would begin Jan. l, 1901, was rid
zen out OF the town on a rail.
Walton-I assure you, sir, that some
OF the best fish stories are never told.
Calton-Yes; | suppose fishermen are
occasionally drowned.-Judge.
A Jerseyite has successfully sued the
New Jersey Central and recovered S25
for blocking the street and keeping
him twenty-five minutes in pouring
rain.
The island Of Tutuila, of the Samoan
group, which comes under American
sovereignty by the partition treaty.
has about 5000 inhabitants of tho
Polynesian race.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
Is Character Dependents

One of the most popular fallacies of
our day is that character is the pro-
duct of environments; that if you put
people into the right surroundings.
they will be righteous. The entire drift
of the New Testament is against this
theory. Its teaching is that the right
soul does far more to change external
conditions that the right external
conditions do to change the soul No
sensible man overlooks the influence Of
circumstances upon character, but he
sees that, however influential they NAV
be, they are not finally determinative.
1t is upon that fact that Christian the
DRY of how human life and society
are to be purified and ennobled rests.
Christianity makes its primary appeal
to human conscience; it brings a mes
sage to the intelligent personality; it
aims to reconstruct life and society and
institutions by Transforming the per-
sonal conscious life of the individual.
Just in proportion as it does this it
succeeds, and just in proportion as it
leaves the citadel Of the human per-
sonality defiant to divine influences it
fails. Let us do everything that we
can towards ameliorating the external
conditions of human life, but the mo-
ment the church substitutes service to
the external requirements of man for
her distinctively spiritual ministry she
misses the essential feature of her vo-
cation; she fails to avail herself of
her principal resource. Not only is
God spirit, man is a spirit. Not only
must they who worship God worship
him in spirit and truth, but they who
serve him must serve him in spirit and
in truth.-The Waterman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
Value Of Space In Rooms.

The season is rapidly approaching
when it may be necessary to move and
for those intending to change their
places of residence this little notice is
prepared. In selecting new apartments
ii should be the aim of the housewife
TO economic on space. Where closets
are scarce. shelf fastened at con-
venient height for gowns and hung
with portiers or curtains of daintily
figured cretonne, make a serviceable
substitute. Fancy brass hooks are
fastened to the outer side and the shelf
can be enameled to harmonic with the
furnishings of the room. On top are
books and photographs, which mislead
the casual observer Any carpenter
will put up the shelves for mere song,
as it were. A box couch in the dining
room may do duty as linen closet and
in the library it may serve as recep-
tacle for old news Japers and books
that are not in frequent use. In the
bedroom the box couch can still be
impressed into service as a repository
for shoes or best bodices and evening
gowns
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
Arranging Rric.a-Brac.

There can be no better decoration
in a room than bric-a- 5rac. yet moth
ing so detracts from art as too much
ornamentation. A New York society
woman who has recently started a
bureau where women just eginning
housekeeping go and get ideas as TO
how they can best furnish .heir homes,
said to your correspondent a few days
ago: The best plan in the world when
purchasing bric-a-brac is TO buy moth
ing that has no visible sphere of uses
fulnesS, or if this seems too broad a
rule, to purchase only one of kind Of
the useless articles. No woman who
cares for the appearance of her room
will have two of every kind of article.
This gives a sameness to its decorative
effect that is indescribably inartistic.
The day of matched pieces is no
more. Elegance consists in having
things that are worth having, and just
enough of them. If one takes to buy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
A Word Ahnnt tho Children.

The Importance of obedience in chill
dren has been greatly overestimated.
So far as this life is convened, only
the most eXtravagant optimist would
hold that the average child owed any
debt of gratitude for having been
brought into the world If the parent
desires to train his child for mental
employment, then the insistence on
obedience for its own sake is at least
logical but is the welfare of the aver
age American boy or girl best served
by cultivating spirit of unquestion-
ing obedience and dependence upon 4
stronger will? Or is the best kind of
citizenship produced by such training?
The boy who has been trained to obey
his father simply because of the fact
of parentage often proves to be the
most unmanageable when he is under
the temporary care Of adults whose
right of 'bossing" him he does not
recognize. On the other hand, the
child who has been governed by laws
which he understands and who has
grown to regard his parents as his
older and wiser friends is apt to be
docile when in the care of strangers,
and to accept as an obvious necessity
a temporary dictatorship without ex-
PLANTATION of orders when travelling or
in similar emergencies.-Dr. A. L.
Benedict in the February Womans
Home Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15

1t is estimated that the state of
Maryland lost $S,OOOOOO during the
past season through the ravages OF
the pea-louse, which, Prof. w. G.
Johnson of the Maryland Agricultural
college says is an insect new to sci
ence. 1t belongs to the well-lnown
group of the aphides, or plant-lice,
and on account of some change in
conditions has become suddenly album
dant, appearing for the first time on
the cultivated pea. 1t is of green
color, and only an eighth Of an inch
long. 1t sucks the juices from the leaf
and stem, and the plant dies. Not
only in Maryland have growers OF
peas suffered, but in New Jersey, Del
aware, New York, Virginia, North
Carolina and Connecticut also. For
tunately the pea-louse has many in
sect enemies, which played havoc with
it before the close of the season.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
1t is noticeable that all the rr

1t is noticeable that all the great
generals, either of the past or present
have been known to the public ana
their soldiers by some familiar nick
name. Lord Roberts sobriquet OF
"Bobs" is the most popular name to
conjure with just now in South Africa.
Just as lie Petit Corporal was the
watchword for Napoeon's legions.
Frederick the Great was dubbed by his
soldiers "Our Fritz" and the duke OF
Wellington, who gained the confidence
but never the affection of his troops,
was known as "Old Nosey"-an uncom-
plimentary allusion to his most prom
inent feature-just as "Stonewall'
Jackson and Marshal Vorwarts" eX-
pressed the most noticeable character
istics Of Jackson and Butcher respec-
lively.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15

a correspondent of Figaro" writ
ing from Madrid, gives very fayora-
Bile account of the present condition of
Spain, which he says lis making rapid
progress toward recovery, after series
OF cruel disasters" The tendencies to
disorder have subsidized; the danger of
revolution has passed; under the inAu-
ence OF a well-balanced budget, public
credit is improving; the personal
worth and practical wisdom of the
queen regent have made her the one
fixed point around which all the wishes
OF Spain and all the sympathies of Eu-
rope gravitate'; and her son Alfonso.
who will ascend the throne in two or
three years, gives fine promise of in
telligence, courage, and virtue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
when Ynn Hang Your Pictures.

BY hanging pictures low you in
crease the apparent height of the room.
Colored pictures should not be hung in
Railways or on staircaseS unless there
is plenty of light for them. In such
places strong photographs, engravings,
and drawings in black and white go
best. A picture should not be hung
from one nail; the diamond lines form
ed by the cord have a very discordant
effect. Two nails, and two vertical
cords, or, what is far more safe, pieces
of wire cordage, should be used instead
of the single cord Picture cords should
be as near the color of the wall upon
which they are put as possible, SO that
they may be but little seen. When one
picture is hung beneath another the
bottom one should be hung from the
one above, and not from the top; thus
We avoid multiplying the cords, which
is always Objectionable. good hue
for walls where prints or photographs
are to be hung, is a rich yellow brown
or leather color. LuStre to the black
Of the print Of the tone of the photo
graphs is thus impaired. The wall pa
per should have no strongly defined
pattern The center of the picture, as
rule should not be much above the
level of the eye.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
''Shut In"
Come We apart and rest awhile.

Come We apart and rest awhile"
Apart from all lifes busy ways
Its ceaseless toil-its crowded days;
Too weak it's Earring sounds to bear
Too tired its very joys to share
With weary frame and troubled breast
The Master bids me come and rest.
The work the busy brain has planned
Drops idly from the nerveless hand;
| long for service, but in vain,
And. bowed beneath the cross Of pain
But little left of life to live.
What have now my God to give?
o troubled heart, why thus oppressed.
This broken, suffering life may rest
On Him whose everlasting arm
Protects His feeblest child from harm
He knoweth that His will we seek,
Though spirit fail, and flesh be weak;
The plying love to which we trust
Remembered that we are but dust.
To bear in patience. day by day;
To count the blessings on my way;
To lift to God a grateful heart
To wait His time-be this my part!
These days of WEAKNESS and pain
May bring their need of truest gain,
And lengthening nights of sad unrest,
And lonely hours, may all be blest.
For as it is the fearful eyes
That look the oftenest to the skies,
The heavenly pathway shines more
clear
As shadows fall on all things here,
And, resting in the desert place,
We meet the Master, face to face.
j. f. Lyman, in n. Y. Observer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15

him. A man whose ways please the
Lord Is certain to have enemies
amongst men. for men who are even
Gods enemies are pretty sure to be
enemies of the friends of God among
their fellowmen. Having enemies is
not III itself proof that ones ways
please the Lord; but when mans
ways do please the Lord, and he has
enemies among men, if he will be pa
tlent and loving and trustful he will
finally bring even his enemies to be at
peace with him. But this takes time.
OF course it does. No man in any
earthly service has a right to expect
pay before his work is done or until
pay day comes. Many earthly pay
masters fail to pay as they promised.
Not SO with God. Gods promise never
fails. Gods pay comes surely. OF
this we may be confident--S. S. Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15

Glorious Obedience.-Monday, March
10, life needs discipline, Matt. 4:1-11;
Tuesday, March 20, training through
obedience, Heb. $3.50; Wednesday.
March 21, success through service, John
12:23-26; Thursday. March %, suffer-
ing often necessary to glory. Ps. 1876: 5,
6; Pet 1873; Friday, March %, hero
ism in near duty, Acts 6:5-15; Satur-
day, March "a, power in steadfastness,
lisa. 4O:2S-31; John S:91. 80; Sunday,
March %, topic, THE Glory of Obedi-
ence," Matt. 2t:2S-32.
What Is Obedience First, it is
knowing whom to obey. There must
be personality in true obedience. The
more we know about Christ, the more
we shall obey Him. Second, it is
knowing what to obey. We must be
familiar with our marching orders, the
Word of God. Third, it. is knowing
when to obey. The truly obedience
anticipates the command in his eager
ness, and runs often before he IS sent.
Fourth, it is knowing how to obey.
True obedience is gleeful obedience.
We obey because we love Christ and
his work, and would not be happy in
anything else.
Obedience Is Glorious.--Because
Christ, the King of Glory, was obedi-
ent even unto death, his meat being
to do the will of his Father. Because
obedience is a condition of knowledge
If we will do his WILL we shall know
of the doctrine Because obedience is
a condition of discipleship. Bear
much fruit; so shall We be my disci-
Pies" Because. highest of all, and
best of all, obedience is a condition OF
friendship with Christ. "Ye are my
friends, If we do the things which
command you"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
HOME-MADE PHILOSOPHY.

Many man makes az big mistake
in wotin' as Adam did in eetin' green
appulls.
Death IL only a partin' at the sun
down oy life. Nun oy us IL goin' to
stay up awl night
Beware ov yoore friends wen you
first begin to suckscede in life, and
hey mummy to lend.
No oddz wot change we make in the
sistim oy our government, the same old
seventy millyuns of peepul will be here
to run 1t.
Wealth IL the only reward this life
now offers to the greedy. We mite list
az we'll wurk for a big soap bubbull,
for awl the good wealth duz for us in
the end
The onest, earnest thinker IL alerze
radckal and. severe. The dog that iz
bizzy diggin' out rat frum under. a
pitch pine stump duzent keer ware the
dirt flies.
A hull lot ov good-thinkin' peepuf
are willin' to throw wide open the
mental door ov youth, but they insist
on putin up skreene door over the
aperture too ketch awl the big trooths
goin' in.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15

BY the action of the senate in rati-
flying The Hague peace treaty, the
United States now stands before the
world as a nation no less ready to
practice than to preach arbitration.
It's promptness in accepting the invi-
tation to The Hague, the eminence of
those who represented the country, its
commanding position as one Of the
great powers of the world, and the
governments well-known advocacy OF
the principle of arbitration, all tend
to invest the action of the senate with
peculiar significance. BY it we have
now shown our good faith, and other
nations may follow. The aim of the
treaty, stripped of complicating de-
tails, is merely to make peace easier
and war more difficult. 1t cannot
compel peace, for it leaves each ma
tion free to choose a course for itself;
but it seeks to render the resort to
arms the last resort.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
The WhoIeaoma Girl

Cleanliness and neatness go hand
in hand in the care of the person. and
one cannot be too particular as regards
ones appearance in that respect. There
is much truth in the Spanish proverb
that no woman is ugly if she is well
dressed. There is more in the fact
that the slovenly girl. no matter how
great her beauty, is never an attrac-
tive OF ject, and, as one grows older,
ones il clination is to fall off in those
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
Christian EisCInleshin.

The acceptance of Christian power
from the Lord and the exercise of it
in the practical relations Of the home,
of the church, of society and business,
will take away the hardness OF life,
the wear and friction and pain. In
the home it will make heaven; in the
church it will increase the power OF
worship and usefulness a hundredfold;
in business it will relieve the WEAKNESS
and burden. The hard things of life
will be softened; the evil things and
unkind things will lose their power to
hurt. In every relation of life love
will bring peace. This is the browning
privilege of a Christian disciple 1t
is given to him to be power in the
world for good and to live in love and
peace through the grace and mercy OF
the Lord. This more than all else
must be felt by the world at large; it
must be felt by the stranger and the
children, and all will know the blessed
ness of Christian discipleship. The
light will so shine that it cannot be
hid.-Rev. William l.. Worcester.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
Inmate NIanner@

We hear so much in these days about
heredity that some people feel as
though everything was settled for us
beforehand, and as if it were not worth
while to try to make ourselves any bet
ter than we find ourselves. UndOubt-
eddy heredity has strong influence on
individual character. But its dominion
has been much exaggerated. We are
not bound hOpelessly in the chains OF
ancestral inheritance. For good or Ill
We are mainly free beings, able to re-
sist and overcome whatever tendencies
we may have inherited and to assert
ourselves in living a life and doing a
work of our own. Yet it is difficult to
get rid of any trait which is in the
grain so to speak. And it is peculiarly
difficult to root out the quality OF
meanness. when, unfortunately, it is
Unborn. The unpleasant fact about
meanness is that it is meanness. 1t
is not an evil quality which has, like
some, q certain fascination, almost a
sort of nObleness in it, but it is I'M
equivocally base and contemplate, and
when it is allowed to increase it's power
it renders ones character despicable.
This very fact however ought to nerve
each of us to strive against it the more
intensely and patiently. One thing is
certain. Our Lord does not regard him
who by nature is the victim of such
an evil quality as any worse than he
whose inherited tendencies are less
disagreeable and annoying. And he
who is conscious Of being one of those
to whom it comes naturally, as we
often say, to do mean things, may take
courage. remembering how others like
himself have been enabled to rise into
the free and generous and noble man
hood which is one with Jesus Christ
Congregationalist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
The Well Spent Day.

If we sit down at set of sun
And c"''nL the things that we have
done,
And counting find
One self-denying act, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard
One glance most kind,
That fell like sunshine. where it went,
Then we may count the day well spent
But if through all the liyelong day
We've eased no heart by yea or nay;
If through it all
We've nothing done that we can trace
That brought the sunshine to face,
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing
cost,
Then count that day as worse than
lost. Anon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
When Little Is Much.

1t needs watchfulness and faith to
keep from growing stingy as ones in
come increases. Commonly the more
one has, the less one gives. There are
beautiful exceptions to this general
rule, and these exceptions are tri-
umphs of grace. Small gifts may have
Gods approval, yet not because they
are small, but because they are the
most that the giver has to give. Jesus
commended the poor widows two
mites, not because they were two
mites which make a farthing," but
because they were "all that she had,
even all her living" 1t is said that
He that stitch in the heavens shall
laugh at some things May he not
laugh when a man with a big bank ac-
count puts in a petty sum- saying that
he gives "the widows mite?" If We
use a scriptural figure. we must see
to it that it is appropriate to our case
as 1t was to the one of whom it was
first used. Sir Thomas Browne said:
Though cup Of cold water from
some hand may not be without its re-
ward, yet stick not thou for wine ana
oil for the wounds of the distressed "
S. S. Times
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
Thoughts That Br rathe.

The righteous" says the Psalmlst,
shall flourish like a palm-tr tree That
is ore part of his life-to be upright,
gentle, like that most beautiful of ORR
entail trees. But there is another quail
ity added: He shall spread about like
a cedar in Libanus" That is, his char
acter shall be sturdy. solid, broad; he
shall protect others as we'll as himself;
he shall support the branches of the
weaker tree around him; he shall COW
er a vast surface of the earth with his
shadow; he shall grow and spread and
endure: he and his works shall make
the place where he was planted mem
orable for future times. 1t has been
we'll said, twice over, by the most
powerful delineator Of human nature.
with one exception, ever produced by
our country, that prayer to the Al
mighty searcher of hearts, is the best
check to murmurs against Providence
or to the inroad of worldly passions.
because nothing else brings before US
so strongly their Inconsistency and un-
reasonableness.- Stanley.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15

In a Brussels street traversed by an
electric tram-car it has been noticed
that the trees on one side of the way
begin to lose their foliage early in Au-
gust, the leaves turning brown and
dropping off. But in October the same
trees begin to bud again, and some
times even blossom. Meanwhile trees
on the opposite side of the street are
unaffected, losing their foliage late in
the autumn and budding only in the
spring. The cause of the anomaly is
supposed to be leaking electric cur
rents. which stimulate the growth OF
the trees affected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15
Mother Friend

We know that il thousands of cases
it has proved more than a blessing 10
eXpectant mothers. 1t overcomes morn.
ing sickness. 1t relieves the sense of
tightness. Headaches cease, and dan
ger from Swollen, Hard and Rising
Breasts is avoided. Labor itself is
shortened and shorn of most of the pain.
We know that many doctors recon-
mend it, and we know that multitudes
of women so to the drug stores aud buy
1t because they are sure their physicians
have no objections. We ask a trial
just a fair test. There is no possible
chance of injury being the result, be-
cause Mothers Friend is scientific
ally compounded 1t is sold at 81 a bot
tie, and should be used during most OF
the period of CESSATION, although great
relief is experienced if used only Short
time before childbirth. Send for our IL
lustrated book about Mothers Friend.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR co.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-15

The recent trials at Indian Head. on
the Potomac. of the armor made for
the Russian battleship Retvizan. build
ing in this country, seemed to show
that armor-plate of the Krupp form
made in America has the advantage in
the endless contest between guns and
armor. Five-inch projectiles with a
striking velocity of more than 1000
feet per second failed to penetrate more
than two inches in a five-inch plate,
and the projectiles were broken in
pieces, while the plate was not cracked.