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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-03-14
Salaries of City Officers.

At the last adjourned meeting Of
the Platteville city council it was
voted to make the following salaries
for the incoming city officials:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

Most expert clanio1ogists insist
that it is extremely difficult to
determine sex from the skull, but
admit there are few distinctions
which taken together indicate sex.
Perhaps the most marked distinc-
ton is the prominence of the bony
projection over the nose. The
skull in man is thicker and stron-
ger, and the mastoid processes
beneath the ear are larger. Broca
is authority for the opinion that if
the skull rests on the mastoid
it is almost certainly a mans. In
woman the top of the head ap-
pears fatter, while in man the
curve from before backward is
more smooth and even. Greek
sculptors always recognize this
Elk.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

president says its future depends entirely upon our
selves; if we are content to allow it to scramble
purposelessly along reserving best efforts for
something else, it will never be anything but a
mediocre literary society,-like ladies' Browning
club at a summer resort-but if we determine that
it shall stand out something unique and original
amidst its peculiar surroundings there is
in the world why it cannot do Surely the brains
are not lacking!
During the hot weather it was but natural that
interest in the work should flag to certain extent.
but now that autumn, with it's long evenings and
cool breezes, is about due, let pull ourselves
together and show the world that the members of
the Pieran circle can raise themselves above their
surroundings and do good work in whatever field
they may be placed.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15
STORYETTES.
How High Was the Tower Of
Babels


The actual height at which the
last stone of that famous structure,
the Tower of Babel, rested cannot,
on account of the remoteness of
the times at which it is said to
have existed, ever become more
than a matter of merest conjecture.
Herodotus, who lived about LOO
years after that ''great spiral way
to heaven is said to have been at
tempted, says that he saw at
Babylon structure consisting OF
eight towers raised one above
another, each Is feet in height,
but whether this ruin was the re-
mains of the Tower of Babel it
was even then impossible to as
certain. Herodotus, usually mi
nutely exact in his writings, leaves
US in ignorance as to how the
upper level Of each Of these Is
foot towers was reached from the
level below.
AS might be expected, even in
tradition, a wide difference OF
opinion exists as to the height OF
the tower. Most orientalists main.
tain that God did not put stop
to the work until the tower had
reached a height of 10000 fathoms
or about IL miles. In Ceylonese
tradition it is said to have as high
as 10000 elephants, each standing
one above the other. st. Jerome as.
serts on the authority of persons
who examined the ruins that il
did not reach height exceeding
four miles. Other statements are
still more extravagant.-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

PRESS dispatches announce that Bat Carr is no
longer marshal of the rising town of Lawton, but
that the helm of state is guided by Miss Matte
Helen Beals, the telephone girl from Wichita who
won the second choice of farms in the Kiowa and
Comanche territory. While Miss Beals does not
believe in wide open policy for Lawton, she is
nevertheless dead game, evidenced by her
first meeting with her predecessor in Office Mr..
Carr to test her courage, shot her up little bit
before handing over the official papers. He failed
to hit her. and the young lady responded by shooting
Bats hat off, An sdmiring crowd Of the leading
citizens looked at the tourney and appauded the
Workmanship of the marshal. Who says the
new woman is not competent to fill any position?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15
NO TIC E.

PERSONS receiving copies of THE MIRROR who are
not on our regular lists will please consider such as
reading, conclude that THE
worthy of patronage send your name to this
Office for subscription published above
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15
Heliogram s..
BY JAN O'RURICK.


It is rather early to expose the
presidential blooms for 1904, es-
pecialy as there is considerable
frost due before that date.
If there is any other reason why
Cuba should he annexed the an
nexionists have failed to find it.
The boy that is easily tired of
the novelty of job will never
make a steady man.
If mans ancestral tree has re-
quired a hundred million years to
produce the kind of fruit it bears
at present, some one should attach
an electric motor to hurry the
evolutionary car along.
A good character can be lost
without any carelessness on the
part of the owner.
When a missionary makes an
excuse for looting, (stealing is the
court title) he is more to be GEN.
sored than the footpad whose
vocation is criminal.
1t is strange that some of the
long distance fighters in Wash
ington have not put in a claim
against Dewey's victory at Man
lila. What's the matter with
Aggy? He was nearer than ten
miles.
It looks as if Uncle Sam must
either fight or come off the COM
mercial perch in Europe.
Wisdom is a good thing to have,
but lots of people are just as
happy without it.
There is no condition under
which man can live and claim he
is enjoying liberty and freedom.
i Wealth distributed is a greater
Indication of prosperity than
wealth accumulated.
Oppression of the weak is sure
sign of cowardice and greed.
| If the Christian church had a.
soul saved for every dollar they
have spent in costly temples and.
ornaments, we would all be ready
for the second coming of Christ.
If everyone had the choice of
conditions in being born, some
places would be so overcrowded
that there would be more misery
than happiness.
Even if time waits for no man,
his wife will if he comes in at 8,
q. m. with Glove breath.
Defects in character are about
as common as defects in form.
When person makes mistake
it's always someone else's fault, but
the correct action is not so gratui-
tously given to others.
If Porto Rico thinks that be-
cause she has free trade with
Uncle Sam she is going to be
bothered with an circumference Of
cash, she will find out her mistake
, after a little swapping with the
, Yankees.
Existing with a broken backbone
must be a very trying ordeal, with
the Beers and Philippines espe-
cially, since theirs have been broken
in so many places.
From the preparations Eddy the
VII. is making for his coronation,
Willie the II. will feel like Chicago
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

The mineral resources of the United States are
apparently inexhaustable. Copper, zinc, platinum,
lead iron and the precious metals have been found
in great; quantities for many years, but hitherto
people have always believed twas necessary to travel
to foreign climes to find diamonds, although other
gems are mined in this country. According to the
latest report of the geological survey, this is mis-
taken idea. No less than three distinct districts
mentioned in the report diamond fields. The
first includes Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and
Ohio; Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South
Carolina and Kentucky compromise the second,
while the third includes the watersheds Of northern
California We have not heard, however of any
great rush of beaten miners to these districts
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

Labor may be classed as capital,
but very few banks will advance
any interest on it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15
EXCHANGES.

Living is not the only thing that
comes high nowadays. The Chi
cago undertakes have raised the
price of funerals Minneapolis
Times.
Russell Sage has just celebrated
his 85th birthday by getting his
last years straw hat cleaned and
reshaped. Record Her
aid.
That unterrifed Kansas liar
laureate says that a dog of his
acquaintance that was taught to
hold the hose in his teeth and
sprinkle the lawn was one day
seen to turn the stream on a cat
and laugh to see the feline bunch
it's tail in rage and run away
Denver Post.
It is evident that Teddy Roose-
velt proposes to be President if he
has to kill the entire animal
population of the Rockies in the
attempt.-St. Louis Republic.
A gang of tramps at Cedar lake
have been suffering from an at
tack of hens on their camp. In
self-defense, they say, they have
had to kill the hens Minneapolis
Journal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

An ungrateful master is more to
be blamed than thankless slave.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

ELSEWHERE in this paper there appear some
suggestions offered by the retiring president of our
Chautauqua circle at the last meeting of that body
and the ideas advanced by him receive the hearty
support of The MIRROR. It must be apparent to all
that of late the circle has been devoting too much
time to subjects which, while providing entertain
ment and amusement, nevertheless fail to furnish
food for thought in the interval between the meet
ings that it is hopeless task to attempt to keep pace
with current events while we in here, and that
the time now spent in discussing matters of public
interest might be more proftably employed. The
argument advanced against the changes proposed by
the president and in favor Of the existing order is
that it would be unwse to devote all the time al
lowed for the meeting to the consideration of serious
matters, that the society needs the fun and i'm
promptu speeches introduced by the "mock congress-
in order to keep in healthy condition. The presi
dent. however, does not suggest all work and no
play; he merely proposes either reading from classics
or the delivery of papers dealing with classics during
the hour devoted to the congress- and this would
include the works of Mark Twain and many other
humorous writer's And there would be just as much
opportunity for general discussion as there is at
present.
The Chautauqua circle ought to be of great
and lasting benefit to all it's members. It ought to
represent the intelligence of the inmates of this in
stution and it ought to be credit to those who
fortunate enough to belong to it. We all know the
interest Warden Wofer takes in the welfare of the
organization and the latitude of speech granted at
it's gatherings; it is managed exclusively by the
prisoners and is given every encouragement; con-
sequenty we all should make special effort to de-
rive as much benefit from it as possible. AS the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

If there is any other reason why
Cuba should he annexed the an
nexionists have failed to find it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

It is rather early to expose the
presidential blooms for 1904, es-
pecialy as there is considerable
frost due before that date.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

From the preparations Eddy the
VII. is making for his coronation,
Willie the II. will feel like Chicago
after the st. Louis exposition in
1903. N. B. 80 cents.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

The boy that is easily tired Of
the novelty of a job will never
make a steady man.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

Defects in character are about
as common as defects in form.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-08-15

Existing with broken backbone
must be very trying ordeal, with
the Beers and Philippines espe-
cially, since theirs have been broken
in so many places.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24
Chicago Her father. Matthias wardaln,

Chicago Her father, Matthias Wardain,
left Chicago to settle in Minnesota just
after the great fire. in which the family
lost all.
Mrs Batz is an attractive lady, has a
fine soprano voice and is organist at the
Catholic church at Holdingford. She is
also director of the school board at that
city. She has three children, two girls
and a son, the latter now a student at
st. Thomas.
Mrs E. Y Chiffon, of Howard Lake,
was Grace Hays Tromley. She was born
at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, and received her
education at the GRANVILLE and Fairfield
high schools, in Illinois Mrs Chiffon, at
the time of her marriage, was a kinder
garten teacher at Excelsior, and had pre-
viousy been a teacher of music in kim
dergarten at Aberdeen Mrs. Chiffon is
striking in appearance She is tall. fair
haired and has very dark eyes She is
much interested in school and church
work and is especially fond of music,
of which she is still a student. She is
not lavish entertainer, but a pleasant
hostess
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24

Mrs. Greer is progressive, up-to-date and
keenly interested in the political and
business career Of her husband.
She is a graduate of the State uni
versity and of the Philadelphia school
of oratory and elocution Mrs. Greer is
gifted reader and entertains frequently
by means of that accomplishment She
is a social leader at Lake City, a
prominent member of the .. E. S. and
Federation of Woman's clubs and is in
tereSted in her beautiful collection of
flowers. Her most devoted admirer is
her only son, Torrance, who is just
seventeen. Senator Greer met his wife
ut the university, when both were
students and afterwards principals In one
Of the earlier of the many romances
which have haloed the CT
Mrs. Margaret Bycrs Barker is the
wife of Senator Barker, of Cambridge.
She is OF Pennsylvania Dutch stock and
was born in Minnesota, at Princeton
Her parents were among the early
pioneers and experienced some lively IN
dian scares during her early youth
Mrs Barker is a very pretty woman
fair, plump and very youthful in APP
pearance. She has four children. Her
three daughters, Minerva, Ethel ana
Ruth are students at Mortified, and her
son, Blaine, is at school at Cambridge.
MIS-. Barker is very domestic in her
tastes, but takes an active interest in
temperance work.
Another artist is Mrs William Cause
WITT, of Owatonna, one OF the most
charming women in the state. She was
Miss Addie LIE Roy, a Wisconsin girl,
born in Sparta and married at Maus-
ton, Wis, within a year after she left
college. She is the mother of five chill
dren, all at school. Mrs. Gauzewitz is
an active member of the Presbyterian
church, to the aid of which she devotes
good share of her time Mrs Gauze-
WITT is not interested In any lodge or
club work, but is a splendid hostess.
Mrs. Valentine BATE, of Holdingford, is
a convent graduate, and was married
just after she left school Mrs. Batz was
Miss Mary Wardain. and was born at
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24
PRDE W IIE ON OF NUMBER VI PROMINENT MINNESOTA MIN

Some one has ventured the unverifed
statement that all the world loves a
lover. One cannot tell. Contra 3ictory
manifestations have been made in speci-
fed cases. The one thing that may trn-
ly be said of all the world is that it is
possessed of a good-natured curiosity.
Its humor is capricious kindly in the
main, but always inquiring. Some one
else has said that the proper study of
mankind is man, but the most fascina-
ting, curious. ever new and unsolvabIe
problem is still woman
A man rises to eminence in his locality
and the people who know him best be-
stow upon him generously the honors
within their gift convinced that he is
worthy their confidence. Out among his
fellows he is well and favorably known.
Over at home, his associates know, is
the power behind the throne 1t is the
sweet, controlling power that makes him
what he u.s. of the wife, whose charm
of manner makes bright his home life,
whose tactful fingers smooth away the
care lines whose devotion flatters his
soul, that one is all absorbed in him.
To her his interests ambitions, successes
and failures are of utmost interest. She
is his best chum, the mother of his chit
dren, his closest confidante and best adj
wiser. because she is an unselfish advi-
ser; keen in her judgment where his
interests are concerned, because the
study of his interests have been her ia
vorite occupation She knows for what
goal he is striving. She has perhaps
pointed it out to him. She punctuates,
with infinite tact his life story of which
he roughly at best draws the plot The
wise old world reads en- PEASANT. at once
detects the artistic touches, and is
charmed.
In the hotels of the city are little col
onies of charming ladies, most of whom
are new to st. Paul, in a social sense.
They are the ladies of the legislature,
for purposes of this narrative, the ladies
Of the senate. A few of the women who
have influenced the lives of men, of
whom it is said that they constitute the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24

most intellectual senate in the history
of the state.
Mrs! A w Stockton, of Faribault. is
one of them and just in the charming
Indian summer of womanhood Mrs
Stockton was Julia Elmira Andrews, IA
Michigan girl and was married at Fari-
bault, Mimi, in 1878. She is very fond of
travelling. and usually spends her winters
in the South, whittier she is now bound.
She entertains handsomely during the
summer months, but is more congenially
occupied when she is just playing mother
to her two children Miss Glenn Stock
ton now a sophomore and popular
Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity girl at
the university, and Murray c. Stockton,
still a student at Shattuck. Mrs Stock
ton is prominent in church work at Fari-
bault.
Another sweet, motherly lady is Mrs.
A. Grindeland, the daughter of Ammund
Forde who was one of the Iowa pioneers,
CT Norwegian extraction. She comes
of a musical family, is a graduate of the
DEBORAH institute. She had intended to
teach-but she met Mr.. Grindeand with
the result that she is now devoted to the
senator and her family of six childre"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24

phases two four and eight measures
long. The first part Of the song was,
therefore. written as recitative, al
most as one would declaim the sonnet
in speaking tones.
There is a similaritysof sentiment in the
eighth line of the sonnet, When our
two hearts lie cold beneath the rose,
and the fourteenth line, Shall still live
On though cur sweet loYe be dead" and
Miss Thompson has elegcrly made the
music the same in besls instances, fol-
lowing sort OF love and death motive,
as it might be called. The prelude to this
song consists of seven measuress which
resemble a funeral march Miss Thomp-
son says it was designed to make up for
the lack OF melody in the first part of the
song, which was made necessary by the
peculiar meditative and retrospective
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24

character of the words The whole effect
of this attempt at setting sonnet to
music is rather heavy and sombre, and
the song will probably never be as pop
ular as the two others. But the expert
ment is most interesting and skillfully
contrived. The two songs, .'Tones Pass
ing and 1.-THE Everlasting Shows. are
written in the "durch komponirt' form
known as the art song in which no
two verses have the same music. III
songs of this kind the music is made to
fit the words In each verse and is chang
ed according to the character of the
words.
MOST POPULAR OF THE TRIO.
The words of sleep, My Heart" the
most popular Of the three songs, are as
follows:
Love is broken lily, pale and crown
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24

Shows is a sonnet set to music. The
words are:
And shall it be that these unda1nted
SHOWS.
That poise 50 lightly On the mountains
crest,
A lily laid to cheer its lonely breast
Shall their chill smile face the wind that
blows
Across the field wherein no blossom
And light the land where no gay life may
rest
When our two hearts lie cold beneath the
rose?
These silver fakes of ancient hoary frost
Surviving all our joys supremest powers,
And, though the petals of your lips be
lost
And gone the summer of your golden
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24

less rose
touch of SHOWS.
So, sleep my heart, lie sleeping, nor
open weary eyes,
For waking is but weeping and sleep Is
paradise.
Love is. a cadence, trailing where broken
music falls,
A hapless shadow sailing across deserted
walls.
So, still, my heart, lie sleeping till loves
hot sun be set.
For waking is but weeping; asleep. sad
eyes forget.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24
head,
This pale, eternal growth of winter fiow-
erS
Shall still live on though our sweet love
be dead.
SINGING A SONNET.

The musical divisions Of time are by
twos and threes and their multiples, so
that we have measures containing two,
three, four, six, eight nine beats, etc.
But sonnet is constructed in iambic
pentametre; that is, with five beats to the
line as it were. Therefore reducing these
lines to musical notation with four beats
in a measure was not an easy task Then
a sonnet consists of fourteen lines in
t" o uneven divisions, and this also would
seem incompatible with musical form,
which is usually arranged in periods and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24
Something About the Wives of Few Gentlemen Who
Occupy Seats in the State SenateTheir Home
Life, Accomplishments, and Position in
Club Social or Church Work.

Mrs Grindeland is not believer in club
work. She presides, however, over one
of the hOspitable homes in Warren Mimi.
Miss Louise, the eldest daughter of the
Grindeland household, inherits the mu-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24
1t Comes High.

Saturday Evening Post
Within two years the cost of our navy
has more than doubled Uncle Sam still
paddles his own canoe, but In these days
paddles are expensive.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24

ner that put one at once at ease.
Mrs. Mary Dorman Greer, of Lake
City, is the wife of Senator Greer. She
was born in old st. Anthony, the daugh-
ter of the first East Minneapolis banker.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-24

Get the laugh on the other fellow by
reaching Omaha earlier over the Mime
apolis & st. Louis R. r.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-09-19
IN HANDS OF GRAND JURY.
gOsz, Assassin of President,
Are Expected

Buffalo, \. y, Sept. 1.-THE county
court grand jury Monday morning be-
gan its consideration of the case Of
Leon Czolgosz, charged with murder
in the first degree, in killing President
Mckinley. District Attorney Penney
is himself presenting the case.
About 20 witnesses assembled in the
district attorneys office, and, after ex-
aiming few of them, Mr.. Penney
took DIR. Herman Mynter into the jury
room. He was the first witness sworn
and testified as to the preliminary ex-
animation and finally as to the death
of the president and the causes leading
to it.
Il was said on good authority Mon
day that the assassin is confined in the
Jail despite the fact that it is under
repair. A cell has been secured next
to the subway leading to the city hall
and the prisoner can be brought
through the subway into court with
out trouble. The district attorney said
Monday that if an indictment was
found the prisoner would be arraigned
at once. The trial will begin on Mon
day next, before Supreme Court JUS
tice White.