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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
A Hint AS to Table Linen.

~ mint 10 Linen
The preferred table linen is of fine
tiamask with an embroidered cipher
This device Is no longer made very
large and conspicuous, and is not much
greater for the tablecloth than for the
napkins. There IS nothing so difficult
to judge as table linen; no fabric where
authorizations or exact qualities are so
difficult to discern. In other than
high-grade establishments, where one
must depend upon personal judgment
for the purity of fabric, there are a
few points to keep in mind. Pure linen
is hard and slippery, never soft and
pliable. If a moistened finger be APP
piled to an all-linen cloth the moisture
will at once appear on the other side,
whereas in mixed goods it will appear
slowly or not at all. The fax odor is
always noticeable in linens, and every
woman should learn to recognize 1t or
its absence. Sheets with ruffled tops
are again used. after being long aban-
doned. Sheets and pillowcases, with
the bolster cases, if bolster Is EN-
poyed, are made in sets to match.
Yellow or grayish lace, now seen on
underwear, is likewise adopted for bed
linen. Hemstitching is another dec
Grafton which is much elaborated with
drawn work for bed linen and towels.
The laces which are chosen for trim
ming this class of household linen are
Mechlin, Valenciennes and guipure.
Beb covers of Richelieu embroidery
over a lining of colored taffeta are
seen. The most satisfactory ones,
however, are those of fine white Mar
settles fringed or embroidered around
the edge and always fresh by reason
CT their capabilty of being frequently
Numbered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

1t is said that successful trials OF
telephone apparatus without wire
have been mad in Italy. The instru
ments were installed on moving trains
The details of the experiments and ap
paratus are very meagre.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works has
just Installed in It's erecting shop
gigantic crane which has span Of 15S
feet. 1t will lift 1876, 600 pound locomo
tive forty feet in the air, carry it 1886
feet and set it down again in three
minutes and thirty-six seconds.
Ten thousand horse power viii be
transmitted from Garyins Falls, fifteen
miles from Manchester, ~ H., to that
city for lighting, power and street
railway business. The water power is
one of the finest in New England and
the new enterprise can hardly fail to be
successful.
Engine No 102S Of the Reading Road
has established new speed record
with heavy train on the road running
between Camden and Atlantic City
The distance is fifty-tive and halt
miles and was covered in forty seven
minutes, the average speed being 7O.6
miles per hour.
II is stated that automobile omuf
buses will be substituted at once fol-
the old horse-drawn stages on Fifth
Avenue, New York city The omnis
buses will not be allowed to be crowd.
cd. and a little sign bearing the WORD
Fur Will be displayed when every
seat is taken This is the general Eu
ropcan custom.
A simple method of getting .yid on
snneriluous obsolete railway rollins
stock has been adopted at 4. foundry
in Michigan, whore a large number 81
cars were received from a railway
company. The only part of the ears
worth saving was the metal, and the
problem was to separate it Tinm the
timber at small cost. Two inclinos
were built, and two trains of cars were
released at the top Of the incline and
allowed to collide at the bottom. Yhe
wreck was then burned and the iron
collected
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
> WOMEN In TROUBLE.
The Approach of Motherhood is the
Occasion of Much ANXIETY To All


Every woman breads the ordeal
through which she must pass in becon1-
ing mother. The pain and SUFFERING
which is in store fol- her is a source ~
constant anxiety, fear and dread. to,
say nothing of the danger which the
coming incident entails. The ioyous
anticipations with which she looks for.
ward to baby's coming gives way to an
understandable dread Of the ordeal when
she fully realizes the critical and trying
event which will soon approach and
have to be endured.
Women should hail with delight a
remedy which insures to them i'm.
munity from the pain, suffering and
danger incidental to child-bearing.
such q remedy is now offered, and
women need not fear longer the hour OF
childbirth. Mothers Friend"-is a
sclentihc iniment-and if used before
conlinement, gently and surely prepares
the BODY Tor the great requirements
ana changes it is undergoing, insures
safety TO both mother and child, and
takes her through the event with com.
2arative ease and comfort. This Won
derful remedy is praised by every
woman who has used it. .
What woman IS not interested in
"Methers Triend?" This wonderful
remedy has been tested and its price,
less value proven by the experience Of
thousands Of happy mothers who
have used it during the most critical
period of woman's life-the approach
and elimination of motherhood.
1t has won their everlasting praise,
for it gave them help and hope in
their most trying hour and when
most needed. Every woman may some
day need Mothers Friend" The
little book, Before Baby is Born"
telling all about it, and when it should
be used, will prove of great interest and
benefit to all expectant mothers, and
wiz be sent free to any address upon
application to the Bradiield Regulator
Company, Atlanta, Go.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
Hints.

Isinglass forms a most delicate
starch for fine lace, muslins, etc.
To cleanse furnished brass cut a
lemon in two; take one-half and rub
on the brass, then wash with warm
water, and rub with a leather.
Ground mustard mixed with little
water and rubbed over the hands re-
moves strong odors from them. Lin
seed meal answers the same purpose.
When bamboo furniture is filled with
dust it may be cleaned with small
brush dipped in warm water and salt
The salt prevents it from turning
yellow.
Vanished and Painted Floors.-If
once a month. the floors be first wiped
clean with a cloth wrung out of warm
water, then rubbed with a cloth wet
with kerosene and finally rubbed
briskly with a coarse wooden cloth, they
will keep bright and handsome for
years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

If you want to get your aches and
trials out Of sight hide them under
your mercies. Keep a clean conscience
and a good stock OF Bible promises
within reach. Beware of being
amongst tar, lest it soil you" but if
the path OF duty leads you near to tar
and pitch. then, if the Master orders
you there, he will keep you undefled.
Never spend a day without trying to
do somebody good, and then, keeping
step with your Master, march on to-
wards home over any road, however
rough, or against any headwinds that
may smite your face. 1t Will be all
sunshine when we get to heaven
Rev. DR.. Cuyler.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

There is no forthcoming public doc
ument whose appearance Is awaited at
Washington with greater interest than
the report OF the industrial commits
sion, and that part of the report re-
lating to trusts will be read far and
wide. For nearly year and half
the commission has been gathering
testimony from witnesses before 1t on
agriculture, on labor on transportation
and trusts. Railroad presidents and
general managers, representatives OF
immense manufacturing interests, Off
GERS Of such corporations as the Stand
ard Oil company, farmers. factory In
spectors Of both sexes, and representa-
tive OF labor organizations, such as the
railway trainmen and the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, the American Federation OF
Labor ard the knights of Labor-all
have contributed to the vast fund or
information now in the hands Of the
commission.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

The uses Of lemons are manifold anc
the more we employ them the better
we shall find ourselves. For all peo-
pie, in sickness or in health. lemonade
is not only safe but a remarkably
pleasant drink. 1t is a specific against
worms and skin complaints. The pip
pins crushed may also be mixed with
water and used as a drink. Lemon
juice is the best anti-scorbutic remedy
known; it not only cures the disease
but is preventive. Sailors make q
daily use of ii for that purpose. 1t Is
a good thing TO rub the gums daily
with lemon juice to keep them in 2
healthy condition. 1t prevents chill
blains Lemon used in intermittent
fevers is mixed with strong, hot black
tea or coffee without sugar. Neuralgia
may be cured by rubbing the part af-
fected with a lemon. 1t is valuable also
to cure warts and to destroy dandruif
on the head by rubbing the roots OF the
hair with it,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
To Live Forever.

That for which we were made is i'm
mortality and our journey is rough,
straight, sharp. burdensome, with
many tears. Our journey Is not to the
grave am not growing into old age
to be blind, and to be deaf, and to be
rheumatic, and to shrink a miserable
cripple into the corner, shaking and
lettering and forgetting all that | ever
knew. The best part of me is UNI
touched. l sit enshrined within me
The soul, the reason. the moral sense,
the power to think. the power to will
the power to love the power to admire
purity and to reach out after it-that
is not touched by time, though its in
strument and means OF outer demon
stration be corroded and failing. No
physical weakness touches the soul
H. w. Beecher
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
EPIGRAMS BY BALzAC.

There is no love between equals.
Women are only as old as they look
Love is not only a sentiment; 1t Is
an art.
Vanity is the most tenacious OF alg
habits.
Generous souls are defective in bust
ness faculty.
Woman understands all things
through love
All human power Is a compound OF
time and patience,
Women have presentimcnts whose
business is wonderful.
Love is the only passion which looks
to neither past nor future.
The savage has feelings only; the
civilized has feelings and ideas.
Nations, like individuals, derive
their vigor from noble sentiments only
Men Of fine character confess THEN
faults to themselves and punish them.
selves for them.
II society gives us pillows she makes
II up by govt; Just as she puts up Law
to modify justice.
A woman's errors come almost al
ways from her belief in good, or hez
confidence in truth.
The privilege OF being at home ev-
erywhere belongs only to kings, to
girls and to thieves.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

Inc United States civil service COM
missioners declare in their annual re-
port that the carrier service and the
railway mail service have almost
reached the maximum point in stabili-
ty and efficiency. The force of over
fourteen thousand carriers lost last
year only about two hundred by re-
movals. and the relative loss of the
railway mallmen was almost as small.
The statement is portion of the basis
Tor the official announcement that dur
Ing the last sixteen years persons ap-
pointed through the commissions ex-
aminations have suffered removal only
to the extent Of less than per cent a
year. The merit system is willing to
be judged by its fruits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
Christian Endearnr Tonlcs.

Readiness.-M March 26, prep
aration for service, Luke %: 50-56;
Tuesday, March q, secure against sur
prise, Mark 14:29-42; Wednesday, March
2S, strengthened for sorrow, 2 Cor.
1877; Thursday, March 30, readiness
is defense, Pet 3:1216; Friday March
80, filling the moments for Christ, John
1926, SO; Saturday, March 81, helping
another, Phil. FLA; Sunday. April l.,
topic, Always Ready" Luke 21:29-36;
12:35-40.
Gods Readiness.-God proves His
readiness in nature. His gravitation,
His ether His electricity, His light, all
His forces, are alert for touch, and
always have been. His readiness
shows itself in grace His forgiveness
is always ready at the touch OF the
appraised hand. His readiness Is far
ahead of our need. Long before we
were born He had planned for us an
ideal life, if we could only follow his
plans. And his readiness has antici-
pated our death. for he has prepared
an eternal abiding place for US. God
is always ready for Satan, and II God
is our ally, Satan will never catch US
unprepared.
Our Readiness.--God's readiness will
avail us nothing without our readi-
ness. The rain IS worth nothing to US
unless we furnish cisterns, We can
not be ready at all times to do Gods
will without keeping ever in mind the
relative Importance of worldly and
eternal things. No one can be ready
for a matter unless he thinks much
and constantly about it. II We would
be ready to do Gods will we must
mediate much upon it. AS We work
in Christ's strength alone, so, also, it
is only in Christ's strength that we can
keep ourselves ready to work.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

they are not passing shadows, as some
people think. They go where they are
sent, like carrier pigeons, and return
with the good or i'll you send. People
should be careful of the quality of the
thoughts they send, lest they return
like boomerangs and work injury to
the sender. Good thoughts are like
good manners-they cost nothing and
work for our good. AS We sow so we
shall reap; We cannot sow chaff and
reap wheat. AS Urine says. Give to
the world the best you have, and the
best will come back to you" And as
charity covers multitude of sins or
mistakes, We are not so poor but we
can give good thought. and give all
the benefit of the doubt. Good thought
will show forth in our faces-L. Cum
ningham.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
A Place Appointed.

Thou cam'st not to thy place by &C
cident,
1t is the very place God meant for
thee;
And should'st thou there small scope
for action see,
Do not for this give room to dIscon-
tent;
Nor let the time thou owest to God be
spent
In idly dreaming how thou mightest
be,
In what concerns thy spiritual life,
more free
From outward hindrance or impedl-
ment,
For presently this hindrance thou shall
find
That without which all goodness were
a task
So slight, that virtue never could grow
strong;
And wouldst thou do one duty to his
mind,
The Imposer' -overburdenei thou
shalt ask,
And own thy need Of grace to help, ere
long.
Richard CheneviX French.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
A Rad Habit Have You IL?

Again attention is called to those es-
sentially feminine habits Of putting
pins in the mouth or moistening a
pencil with the lips. A pin swallowed
means only surgical case, but the
greater danger lies in the contagion
that may be lurking in the pin itself.
Under the head of the pin, or In the
point OF the pencil, all kinds of ma
lignant germs may be located. which
will be transmitted by the mouth
quicker than any other way. 1t hardly
seems possible that anyone needs to be
cautioned against holding money be-
tween the lips, yet person can scarce
ly go block on street car without
noticing some one indulging in the
dangerous habit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

An incident which occurred at Drl-
vate school in Louisville, and is mar
rated in the COurierJournal, illus
trates. among other things, the unwls-
dom of Judging by first impressions. 4
new teacher had just taken the girl
class in English On the first day sno
told the class that she would not give 4
regular lesson, but that each girl might
write down all the slang she knew and
bring that to the next days recitation.
Several girls who had brothers, and the
rest who knew other girls brothers,
set these young men to work. The re-
suit was marvellous. When the class
was called the next day, there was not
a girl who could not show two closely
written pages of slang expressions. The
teacher looked at them. Very good, !
she said. Now translate them into
English" The new teacher had nc
trouble in winning the respect of her
class
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
Rooted In the Rock.

A lady riding in a carriage spied a
beautiful flower by the side of large
rock and alighted, thinking to take 1t
up and place it in her conservatory.
She was unable to do it. She found
its roots had SO worked their way into
the rock that with all her strength she
could not move the plant. What an
emblem this is OF the true Christian
who IS rooted and grounded in love.
settled and established in the faith of
Christ, and who will not be moved
away from the hope of the gospel. or
his confidence in God. Let those who
have tested that the Lord is gracious
see to it that they strike their roots
deep, that there be no superficial work.
no mere surface connection; but let
faith go down into the depths and
cling to the Rock OF Ages. Then the
child of God can rest unmoved amid
the tempests of earth, secure against
storms and dangers and temptations
over every foe.--Sel.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
Tive tn~or.apc, Of Neat Appsr.,

TIVE I'm Nor'auCH ~ Near App9Fal.
The woman who is always we'll and
neatly dressed is able to exercise a
greater influence for good than one
who is the reverse. The neatly dressed
woman is more attractive TO the eye,
and the eye is one of the main avenues
to the heart Other things being equal.
her influence is more potent than her
neighbor's, whose reputation Of dress
ing just as it happens" at home, in
some indefnable way casts shadow
over whatever virtues she may possess.
A woman neatly dressed is ready for
emergencies. The chance caller and
unexpected guest finds her ready to
receive them. But. perhaps. the great
est necessity for looking we'll at home
is the home itself To the members of
our own family circle do we owe the
first duty Neatly dressed does not
mean richly dressed. A cheap, plainly
made gown may be the perfection of
neatness. and take only a few minutes
to assume after the dinner work is out
Of the way. A woman in slatternly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
Training Wivcs.

One Of the most indefatigable advO-
Gates OF woman's rights used to say
that it was the greatest possible mis-
sake for girls to be brought up to re-
gard marriage as profession. The
danger nowadays seems to lie in the
opposite direction, and women appear
90 think that no kind of training IS
necessary in order to fit them for the
duties that will devolve upon them II
they do become wives and mothers,
says the Ladies Pictorial. That moth
ers should train their daughters TO
snare husbands and to regard matri-
mony as their predestined end IS I'M
questionably a mistake; but that our
modern system does not make for do
nestle felicity is, unhapply. only too
evident. However, we get over all our
troubles at this end of the century by
the use OF serum or by technical
schools, and it is therefore not in the
least surprising TO learn that train
ing college is in course of formation
where girls can be taught their duties
as matrons. Naturally, housewifely
duties come first in the course of
studies, then care of children, then
the preservation OF personal appear
ance. And it may be here noted tina.
this is by no means an insignificant
subject for wives to study. We know.
alas, that the average woman looks
older than the average man, who Is
very susceptible to good looks and that
indetinable attractiveness that clothes
can give a woman If they are well
chosen and well put on. Every wife
cannot have unlimited dress money or
ere lit at her modste's, but she can be
careful TO keep wrinkles and dowdiness
at bay. One can easily imagine that
the classes for this subject will be well
attended at the school for wives; but
It is impossible to imagine how pupils
are to be practically trained in tact,
which is also included in the curric-
ulum. If the professors can teach
this, then future rulers in the divorce
court should have very easy time,
and matrimonial misunderstanding
become exceptional. But how Is it to
be done? Can the leopard change its
spots or the Ethiopian his skin? And
Edwins and Angelinas all the world
over are daily giving each other all
manner OF proyocation for making
those riffs within the domestic lutte
which SO often widen and widen until
the music that at the outset of their
matrimonial life was SO full of har-
nony becomes altogether mute. When
Edwin shows disposition to seek So
.iety away from home, when he grum-
0les increasingly and unreasoningly,
when he filings his relations. so to say.
ut Angelina; when he sulkS; when. in
short, he does any of the aggravating
things that he always does, Angelina
must hit the happy mean that lies be-
tween absolute which goads 4
man to madness-and the addition OF
fuel 70 the fire which inevitably results
from answering back" any argu-
mentation. BIZ if women are made
so perfect as to hold their tongues
when provoked. it is difficult to see
where the material for plays and nov
is is to he found.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

The st. Petersburg correspondent Of
Inc Times remarking that "lt will not
10 10 place overmuch reliance upon
hussia's official assurances that moth
Ing will be done to embarrass England
IN the present situation OF affairs"
gives additional details showing that
inc delays in the ordinary traffic on
the Central Asian railway are not
caused as has been officially stated,
by snowfalls, but are due to the pas
sage OF Russian troops, estimated at
$4,000, who are being concentrated in
the vicinity of Kushk. Russia is 60
ing TO do something soon that will not
be good for Great Britain.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
commission

Congressman Lorimer has spent a
great deal of time lately at work with
his colleagues of the industrial COM
mission upon the forthcoming report
OF that body to congress. The docu-
ment in printed form will make two
volumes. and its most interesting por-
ton will be that which comprises the
testimony about trusts. There is
great deal of curiosity in Washington
as to what the commission itself will
say IN regard to this evidence, and a
few wiseacres declare that there Will
be no recommendation in this regard,
no suggestion as to legislation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
Nyglenic Eaihin~

An authority on hygiene says that
systematic use of salt baths will pre-
vent one from taking cold, and avert
chapping and roughness of the skin.
A handful of common coarse salt dis
solved in basinful of water as cold as
ones vitality permits is sufficient for a
sponge bath over the entire body. No
soap should be used in this bath. 1t is
better to use cold water for the face
and neck. adding a little hot for the re-
mainder of the sponging, if desired.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

AN indication of some of the impor-
,ant industrial effects which may be
expected TO follow the opening ND of
emma is given in recent reports con-
corning the Chinese tree called Tho an
chung Both French and English bot
anists assert that this tree contains a
valuable substance resembling rubber.
or gutta-percha- Mr.. Weiss of Owens
college believes that the substance i,
a true caoutchouc, and that the tree
VIII become OF great economic impor-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
The Power ~ Prayer.

Show me a man who has been a
power in prayer, and | will show you a
man who has given himself up to dc
and to be what God wants him to do
and be. If you would have this power
in prayer you, too, must make this
complete surrender to the will of God.
You may be praying for some special
blessing, but God cannot give it to you
until you are wholly His-Francis E
Clark
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
Once armies were gnared al night

Once armies were guared at night by
sentries, pacing their rounds. Now, in
South Africa. the Beers stretch cleo
trio wires around their camps, which,
when touched, set bells a-ringing at
headquarters. In brief. it is a giant
system of burglar alarms to guard an
army from surprise. There are few
more striking appliances of science to
warfare than this.