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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-03-28

Our worthy foretatEers were fond Of
rhetoric particularly of funeral rhet-
oric-and We're not always quick to
perceive the dividing line between the
sublime and ridiculous. They seem,
moreover. to have regarded the eXtraor-
binary as contributing an added and
kindred element to the impressive.
Many of their epitaphs show this, but
few more completely than that Of an
estimable mauon who persisted I'M
timely in Newbaryport in the eight
zenith century
Her tombstone on the crest Of the
burying hill is yet easily legible, with
no more trouble than scraping bit Of
lichen here and there and kneeling TO
push away tile long grass and intrud-
ing daisies. Thus it reads
sscro5 Is the Memory Of
Mrs Mary McHari
The virtuous anl estimahle Consort q Captain
William BlCIiafd q Newhsry Port who midst the
laudable exertious Il q very useful and desirable
life. III which bar Catistan Profession we'll
adorned. and fair cops Of every social virtue
displayed was. u state Of health suddenly
Summoned t0 the skies a snatched from ye eager
embraces Of her trends land the throbbing hearts
Of her discons family confessed their fairest
prospects OF sublunary bliss were IN one moment
dash'd) by Swallowing Pea az her own table
whence in a few Hdurs she sweetly breathed her
soul away Oh tie I'll day q March IT'S. aged a..
This Mournfg Store a faithful Monument
Of Virtue aed t. Realms Above and q solemn
Monitor u all below the Stars. is Erected by
her Husband
Youths Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-03-28
What TO DO.

convincing proof that the kidneys and blad-
der are out Of order.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-03-28

Miss Emma Venerable and Miss
Schuppeuer of Sitter were in the city
Saturday
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-03-28

Mrs. Louis Boerner Of Liberty
spent Wednesday and Thursday Of
last week as the guest Of Mrs. Ed.
Angus.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-03-28

Auction aud horse bills a speciality
a the Herald office.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-03-28

: Macmillan Dick Company.
5 opera house, Fri. Mar. ,.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

We try to recognize and apply the
law of kindness in dealing with all
kinds of domestic animals, but there
are many cases where it will not work
and where nothing short of the en-
forcement of control by fear will hold
some animals in check. This applies
with much force to bulls. which never
under any circumstances can be trust
ed, to some horses which we work and
drive or ride, to many dogs and other
animals and occasionally to some boys
While the rule of force should never be
put into operation where it can be
avoided, it is still all folderol to claim
that there is never any need of it and
that the law of kindness and moral
SuasiOn is all man needs to maintain
his authority over the lower orders of
creation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
THE INFLUENCE OF DEBT.

We think that the average man will
work a little harder, economize more
closely and make his work count for
more when he is working to pay off
a mortgage on his farm or home than
when he is not, and this fact may be
passed to the credit of mans going
into debt, and while it is condition
which may not hurt young man, but,
on the contrary, prove beneficial in de-
veloping habits of economy and thrift,
it is still a condition to be avoided if
possible by men past fifty, who will dc
better TO he content with what they
may possess and be free from any bur.
den Of debt, for there is no surer thing
than that there is a great deal of sat,
isfaction in feeling that one owes no,
any man.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
COMPANY MANNERS

We note that Il good many men with
families do not live up to their privi-
leges as the head of the house in this.
that they do not wish to be burdencd
with any care or responsibility in the
matter of helping to serve the food at
the daily mealtimes. In some homes
the wife prepares the food and docs.
the carving. and everybody is expected
TO help himself, while the head of the
house simply looks after himself. This
plan, while involving the least trouble
III the matter of serving the meal. i,
not promotive of good manners at the
table, and where young people are ac-
customed to this sort of service at
home it is apt to place them at seri-
GUS disadvantage when away from
home, where other and better methods
prevail. The serving Of the daily
meals in the home should be an occa
sion, no matter how simple they may
be, where the family should be seen
on its best behavior where good man
nerS and polite conduct should be ex-
pected from iii. There should be no
such thing as company manners"
known.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
ALL WANT LAND.

We We're on a northwestern train
lately upon which were over seventy
men going from central and southern
Iowa to the Dakotas after cheap farm
lands. These men We're largely well to
do farmers who were out of debt ana
had accumulated a comfortable bank
account, but who We're finding it very
difficult to invest their savings in any
satisfactory security at living rates Of
interest AS their money had largely
been made by the advance in the value
Of the farms which they owned they
were cage: to repeat the thing with
some of the comparatively cheap lands
Of the northwest. Some of them will do
well, while others will not Some will
get land with too much water, while
others will mistake range lands for
arabic lands and get bitten. The men
who get the wet lands will in the long
run be better off than those who have
to contend with semiarid conditions, for
it is vastly easier to get rid of a sur
plus of water than it is to put it where
it is not.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
TWO CROPS IN ONE SEASON.

We raised TWO crops ON quite a good
deal Of the garden ground this year.
The strawberry bed, having fruited two
years, was plowed up and the ground
planted to string beans the last of July,
giving a fine crop. Then the early po-
tato and sweet corn patches were clear
ed off and sown to fiat turnps along
about the first week in August. which
did equally we'll The twenty square
rods of ground thus produced crops as
follows: Seventy-tive quarts of straw
berries. worth $3.50; three bushels of
string beans, worth So; corn to the val
ne of 81 and potatoes worth 500 The
turnips sold for $40 making total in
come of S4l from the onc-eighth of an
acre, or at the rate of $356 per acre, and
still some men think they must have a
half section of land in order to make a
living.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
BETTER THAN A DAILY PAPER.

The agent of a cheap daily paper
seeking patrons among the farmers
along a newly established rural mail
route who was making a point that his
paper gave late market reports was
nonplused when the farmer told him
that he had better thing in the tele-
phone in his house, which gave him di
rect connection with five different mar
ket towns and thus enabled him to
know the exact condition of the mar
kets on the morning of the day upon
which he wished to sell his produce.
while the paper was always twenty
four hours behind, do the best it could.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

y l.
We have often wished that with the
experience accumulated since we could
Try the experiment once more of OPEN
ir% up new farm on the frontier We
did it once years ago ANA can now real
ize just what a lot of hlundcrs ana mis-
takes were made: for instance, it was
fiiiy miles to a railroad and a grain
market. and just because everybody
else did so we broke up acres and acres
OF land ana raised wheat to haul fifty
miles to sell, when if we had had any
sense at all nothing but live stock
would have been produced on the farm,
buyers for which would come to the
farm. The mania to raise grain. wheat
particularly seems to be inSeparable
from the first settlement of any new
country, when if man would simply
raise what he needed for his own use
ana turn his attention wholly to cattle
he could make Il living ten times as
easy and at Il much smaller expense.
The fact should he remembered by any
man locating on a new farm far re-
moved FROM railway facilities. We
found it out when it was too late to do
us any good.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
THE FARM HOME.

! Inc want of Il proper dividing line
between the farm home grounds and
abe barnyards is the cause of much of
I the lack of attractiveness about SC
many farm homes. 1t is impossible to
invest hOgyard or a feed lot or the
barnyard proper with any great
amount of landscape beauty. At best
about all one can do is to keep the
buildings in good repair and painted
and the yards as clean as possible and
/ this essential part of the farm equip
/ ment should lee entirely separated from
the home plot. it is, where possible. a
good arrangement to have the home
| lot on one side of the public highway
and the barnyardS on the other. though
not directly in front. Where this can
not be done Il four rod street should be
Iald out between the house and the
barns. The house let should include
the home. the wood shed, the wind
mill, the garden. orchard and lawn.
and from it should be excluded pigs.
chickens and stock of all kinds. The
hoGyard should he located as far to the
rear of the premises as possible. There
Is very much to be done in the way of
Identifying our farm homes. and the
very first step in the process is to get
them distinctly separated from what
may be termed the business side of the
farm work. An attractive and well
Kept country home will add Il value of
from 50 to $40 per acre to any farm
upon which it is situated There is a
great chance for Improvement all along
this limo.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
ARRIVE AT FREDERICK

o.5S a. M, except Sunday, from Cincinnati.
III sDurg, Washington junction and wsV
sta loi s. Baltimore and Washington. Mi
AIRY and way stations. Mail arrives on
this train. ~
S,S2 a m, except Sunday from Winchester
- Hagerstown and way stations
lU.Zo a. M, except Sunday, from Baltimore
and way stations, Philadelphia and New
1850 a. M, except sunday, from Washington
and way stations.
LIZ a; M, Sunday only from Washington
ana way stations, Chicago and Wheeling
20 cincinnati and st. Louis
lzU3 p. m, Sunday only, from Baltimore and
i, way stations, PHILADELPHIA and New York.
20 p: M, except Sunday, from ST Louis
and inc.nnaii, NV York, Philadelphia.
Nashl eton, Hagerstown Lexington and
way stations ''N
$40 p; m, Sunday only, from WASHINGTON
and way stations, st. Louis and Cincinnati
4OO p, M, except sunday, from Baltimore
and way stations, Philadelphia and New
$50 p; m, except Sunday. from Baltimore
and way stations, Philadelphia and New
200 p. m, kept sunday, nom Washington
and way stations, philadelphia. New York
Plttsburg and Chicago.
SlZ p: m, daily, from Baltimore and way
stations. ~
sop. m, except Sunday, from WASHINGTON
Cumberland, Hagerstown, Brunswick and
way stations. N4
w. T. MULLINIX,
Ticket Agent
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
FARM INSTITUTES.

The season for holding the farm IN
stitutcs is near at hand. and these
meetings will to a greater degree than
ever before become centers of interest
to all formers who wish to be up ia
date in their calling There is no bet.
ter textbook on agriculture than the in
dividual aud practical experiences of
the farmers themselves. The colleges
and experiment stations furnish many
theories and useful facts; stin. thi
work must of necessity be largely SUI
gestive, something which each ma
must work out in his own way vii
good or bad results as the ease may D !.
The testimony of farmer ut IN iu> Z
tuto giving details of his success h
any particular line is worth more a
TIA average man than the Scicut .t
lslGtinS. FOR instance. one man n
community always makes Il success Of
cloyer-gcts good stand. cures his clo-
yer hay nicely and always has clover
seed t. sell 10 his neighbors such
man should be given a whole half dav
at any institute where he can he found
fer he knows what every man to whom
h. talks ought To know and that which
IS worth lot of money To any man
who Will listen TO him. Another man
always has Il clean cornticld ana biz
or p. He should he put ON the witness
stand. Hero is woman who makes
500 year out Of poultry on her hus-
Dana = lII1n Sltn ShAf1II lA
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
THE EVOLUTION OF A FROG POND

THE EVOLUTION OF FROG POND
\ friend of ours thirty years ago
came into possession of a half section
Of wet land in the central west The
soil was good, but all the land was
TOO wet for the purposes of cultivation.
lie tried to sell it, but could not. 1t
lay for years seeking a purchaser at
$40 per acre when other and drier
lands in the locality were selling for
80 and $50 per acre. Finally it be-
came a sort of common or herding
ground. and the stock pounded the
hbrous turf into solidity. and here and
there a little patch of blue grass be
gan to come in. The more it was pas
tured the drier it became. and in the
course of years the native grasses were
all driven out by white clover and blue
grass. About this time people began
to want to buy this land. but our friend
said nay-that he had held it for so
long he would hold it longer. Today.
ten years later, it has been converted
into two Of the best farms in the west
ana would bring. if placed upon the
market, SO per acre quick. Now. this
change WAS brought about without any
artificial drainage save such as could
be done by properly blowing the fields.
Lands of this character are as rich and
fertile as the land in the Nile valley.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
wEEK-DAys

"e' stops to take on passengers for Coi,,,,,,,.
and points east. 'h" stops to lei IN 0iu a
gers from west of Columbia. P"ssen-
IA, nsd9l - trains leave Frederick for Bruc
returning, leave Bruceville for EreJ S;1 y y
1910 II. m and $50 y. IN oSc,
trains rs Leave Hanover for Gettysburg nj q Az
g. ~ ni,, III ana 959 p m. weekdays: retnrn'
W. arrive ny hanover from Gettysburg o %
a. m ana 4.3l p, IN. weekdays. ~ NV
TRAINS LEAVE York FOR THE NoRrH
tactic and Northern Express, daily -
News Express, daily Nis ~ 40 ~ m.
c 1h,o ana M rils9nrg Tx, daily. ID 2Sa M
nnnlGago and st Louis EXP daily 70 r m
WWu niinr, ~ Louis Ex daily. p
western >. Western Eek. daily. ID. "a = ~ M
ror n An tables and further Inform ation u,
ply 10 ticket Agent at the station up
- d, holOhlNsoN, j. r. WOOD
"enerai Manager General Pass. Art
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

In the abstract an ear of corn, a
stalk of clover and milk COW are the
commonest of things, but Just the same
they have offered problems which tax
the best knowledge and wisdom of the
they have not yet found out all there
is to know about this remarkable trim
ity of good things. The COW and her
milk, corn and its utilities and clover
as soil redeemer will still furnish
texts for valuable agricultural sermons
many years hence.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

vest things produced on the farm
IS bring enough more than the
Ion and average product to well
any one for the trouble taken to
zee then. Then there is the pleas
producing these best things,
is worth not a little.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

Ia writer calls attention to the
advance in live stock by citing
h that in the year 1900 in Great
n calf sold for as small sum
scents. This is not good evidence,
the year 1895 it was a common
lee for the dairymen in the cen
vest to feed their calves to their
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

now a man who raises 5000 or
bushels of corn each year and
5 as many hogs, horses and
Job had of camels, asses and
Is who still keeps enough bees
the proceeds from his honey
II pay his taxes each year.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

There is all the difference in the
world between driving your work and
being driven by it. In this strenuous
age it is almost impossible for any man
doing any sort of business to take
things easy and do them deliberately.
A slackening of the pace set by modern
business methods means being run
over, crowded back and seeing your
place usurped by some other man with
more push. There is much TO regret in
this state of things. for this high pres
sure method robs man of very much Of
the pleasure of living.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

tears. Is II [ Tor
women who are
daily being con-
sumed by tn e
sinouldering fire
of disease there is
little sympathy.
inflammation,
with it's fierce
burning; ulcera-
ton, eating into
the tissues ; the
nervous system all
most shattered by
S''llSIiIlS these
are only part of
the daily agonies
borne by many a
woman.
DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription
puts out the fire
of inflammation,
heals liberation,
and cures female
weakness. 1t tram
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

The government has interesting re
ports from its expert sent to examine
the agricultural capabilities of the Yu-
kon valley in Alaska. lie reports that
nearly all the common vegetables
tatoes, turnips, cabbage, onions. let
tuce, radish-and in cereals barley can
be raised there without difficulty. the
almost perpetual sunshine of the sum
mer largely compromising for the
shortness of the growing season. The
native grasses are reported as very
luXurant.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

We came across two men recently,
each over sixty, who had not made The
discovery during all their lives that the
fly which bites the horses is not the
same sort of fly which tickled their
bald heads and got into the sugar
bowl While these two varieties of flies
look almost exactly alike, they are built
very differently, tie house fly feeding
by surface suction, while the horse fly
bores for blood like a mosquito.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

We were in one of the largest poul-
try establishments of the west not long
ago when large consignments of all
sorts of dressed poultry were being
received. Talking with the proprietor,
he said that there was loss of from
% to 80 per cent to the average shipper
or producer solely on account of care
less dressing of the birds. He showed
us turkeys which he was selling at 10
cents pound, these well dressed and
others equally fat which he could not
get rid of at cents owing to their bad
appearance.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

There are two agencies which more
than any others are DESTROYING the
forests Of this Countrywide sheep herd
ers and forest fires-and both of these
are largely under the control Of man
and should be prevented. The care
less aud shiftlcss way in which the
refuse of Ill timber is left where it is
cut for market invites the forest fire
and makes it difficult to control, while
the sheep absolutely prevent the
growth of Ill young timber to take the
place of that removed. If enough
sheep cannot be raised in this country
without their having the range of the
few remaining forests, 1t is better that
we buy both mutt@n and wool abroad
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

1t has never been entirely clear to us
why the pests of notwithstanding
perS, chinch bugs, potato bugs. borcrs,
hesSian fly, aphides, purslanc pigweed,
foXtail, ragwccd and the like should
have been endowed with such marvel
Gus powers of reproduction. They are
all propa%atcd on Il ratio not of twenty,
sixty or one hundred fold but Il million
fold, and need but just a foothold to
claim all the earth. The good things
OF life lack this power of fecundity.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

A pretty sure sign that girl has
passed into the old maid period of her
existence is y hen she will tolerate
more than one cat around her. The
more old maidish she becomes the more
cats she will want.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

Try the experiment anyhow and send
the boy this winter to some good agri-
cultural school or college for three
months term. 1t viii not cost very
much-lesS than 500 for clothes. books
and board--and see if it is not money
well invested The farmer under com
ing agricultural conditions must know
more than his father who wrcstlcd with
pioneer discouragements and cheap
land.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

The Maryland experiment station is
out with Il bulletin showing that the
stalk of the corn plant contains more
nutriment than the ear.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

A few dairymen, and only few, man
age to get return of 500 End over
per head from each COW. in tlleir dairy
herds. 1t is almost nek say that
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

A quartet which works very nicely
upon Il small farm is made up of dairy,
poultry, fruit and bees. This combina-
ton works well on forty acres and by
limiting the size of the dairy can be
made to do good work on even ten
acrps
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

little island Of Porto Rico is
ling this winter what she can do
Ie vpy of furnishing Uncle Sam
niee ORANGES to eat While the
kieits this wear will not be large,
4.uit comes along the irst of any
ID orange season and will be a fac
d this business OF considerable i'm
ante later on.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
LEAVE FREDERICK.


4.So A; NJ, except Sunday for Washington
junction ana way stations, Washing Ton
baltimore, Philadelphia and New York
Due Washington GIL a. m
600 a. m, daily, for Washington and yav
stations, Philadelphia and New York Due
NaShln gton $50 n. IN. Sundays S 50 a m
$40 a m, daily, for Baltimore and way sta
tons, Philadelphia, New York, Cumber-
ia'd and except Sunday for Hagcrstown
Due Baltimore $50 a. m.
o'lU q. M except Sunday, TOR 3 ltim re and
puncral way stations, Philadelphia a . a
"a New ork. Due Baltimore 10. % a. m
9.2O q: M except Sunday, for Harpers Ferry
winchester Harrisonburg, Lexington and
Staunt. n.
9i5 a. m, except Sunday, for Washington,
Philadelphia and New York, HagerStown
and way stations, tincnnati, Indinnapo-
MS, LlitSburg and Chicago. Due Washing
ton l2u5 p. m
l.5O p. m, except Sunday, for Baltimore and
way stations, Philadelphia and New York
Due Baltimore 800 p. IN.
4iO p. m, daily for Washington and wav sta.
lions, Philadelphia and New York Cum
heillrd, Cincinnati and st. Louis and eX-
cept Sunday for Winchester and Straspur0
Junction. Due WaShingtor So D. m
$50 p M, daily, for Baltimore and way sta
IONS, Philadelphia and New York Due
Baltimore 40 D. M
so : M, except Sunday, for Washington.
tigerstown, Winchester and way stations
PiItsburg. Wheeling, Chicago. Philadel.
phla and New York. Due Washington 40
p IN. " '''N
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

When a man is real anxious to be
elected a director of the country school
district, it is two chances to one that
he has daughter lie wants to act as a
teacher.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

Almost every hired man has way
of his own, and sometimes his way is
q good one, and sometimes it is not. We
have always found that 1t paid to hui
NOR men to n certain extent, because
they will always, do their best work in
their own way.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

When a man plants out a honey To-
Gust tree, he starts quite a little trou-
Bile for himself as general thing. No
tree Of which we know will so persist
entity extend itself by suckers, and the
more these suckers are cut off the moro
they will spread, almost exactly follow
ing the habit of the Canada thistle in
this particular We know of one case
where a single locust planted thirty
years ago mas covered over several
acres of land with these sucker trees.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

The difference between the Angora
goat and the common billygoat is said
to be in the fact that the Angora will
not eat up the family washing if it has
the chance, while the billygoat will.