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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
-Sleighing is fairly good and farm
ers are improving it.

-SIeighing is fairly good and farm
ers are improving it.
-Four stockmen were instantly
killed in wreck on the Illinois Cen
trail near Apple River Monday night.
The new photograph gallery on
the Clark block, to be occupied by
Guy Cham bers, is in course of con-
struction.
Geo. E. Groom of Cassville an
uounces large sale of stock to take
place on his farm Feb. 22nd. Partic-
ulars next week.
Miss Maud Carthew very pleas
antly entertained company of her
young lady friends Saturday evening
at her home in the fourth ward.
-Mesdames t. F. Orion and w j.
Brennan received Tuesday evening at
he home of the former in honor OF
Mrs. Schreiter of Darlington, who is
a guest of Mrs. Brennan.
Architect HI. e. Koch will be here
from Milwaukee next week to meet
with the building committee of the
new court house and will lay his plans
and specifications complete before the
gentlemen, explaining everything in
detail. Alterations that are necessary
will then be made, after which the
matter will be open for bids for con-
structiOn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
Local JOtttingS
Read the new ads. this week.

-R0aQ the new aGS. CnlS W6eh'
Send this copy of the Herald to an
absent friend and let him see picture
Of the new court house.
-Thos. Metcalf was up from Glen
Haven and left subscription for his
friend, j. c Orr of Bagley, Friday.
Don't forget the big dance at the
rink this week Friday night. Dubuque
harp orchestra, dance tickets IS cents.
Come right along every body and bring
your friends. There is no place like
she rink in which to enjoy dance.
The weekly report of the secretary
Of the state board of health for the
week ending Saturday noon places
she number of new smallpox cases
reported at 389, of III are in Wal
worth county, the disease having
broken out near Delavan. All the new
cases are of very mild nature and no
deaths have been reported SO far.
The eighteenth annual report of
he agricultural experiment station Of
the University of Wisconsin for the
year ending June 90, 1901, has just
made it's appearance and contains a
mass of information Of value and in
terest to farmers, scientific agricul-
turalists and dairymen. 1t makes a
volume Of 352 pages with the index.
The volume is profusely illustrated
and Ioplete with statistics. There is
scarcely a department of agricultural
activity upon which some light is not
shed.
A Methodist congregation in a
little town in the southern part of the
state, which had been holding It's
meetings in the village school-house,
decided to build a church. A build
ing committee was appointed and a
prominent member of this committee
was an Englishman who spoke Yankee
pretty we'll until he got warmed up to
"a subject and then he would drop
back into English dialect. The com
mittee were discussing plans for the
building. some favoring the building
of church large enough to accommo-
date them for many years to come,
others preferring to build a building
hat would meet their needs now and
ater on as the congregation increased
to build an addition or an ell as it is
commonly called. The Englishman
favored the latter plan and expressed
himself thus: CHI. think we thought
30 save on h'expenses now where we
can, and later on when the church is
IN better condition we can h 'add a
nell to it, The good deacon could
not understand for long time why
his comrades seemed to be so amused
over what to him was q grave matter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
Tales of the Town.

Fred G. 3urr, the Ideal Manager of
the City opera house, was in Galena
Wednesday of last week and the light
of his smile and music of his laugh
made the old city on the Fever river
appear like circus day parade. Fred
went down there to get acquainted
with his friend ST Perkins and take in
the show given by ST and his rube
band. ST met him at the train and
the band was there, too, and the Lam
caster eX-brakeman was escorted up
tow at head of the procession in a
carriage drawn by gasoline engine.
Mr.. Burr used to railroad it into
Galena years ago and every man,
woman and child knew him but his
long sojourn away from the old famil
lar haunts had caused his Illinois
friends to partially forget him. He
possesses a very cavernous voice and
the stentorian tones of his well known
giggle, like Fred Testers, has caused
the '.hoss cars to leave the track and
the factory girls to leave their work,
thinking the whistle for lunch was
blowing. Small children who are un-
used to the below Of Texas "doggie"
or the roar of a jungle cat esconsed
themselves in the boughs of the roof
tree when Fred first made Galena,
and could not be coaxed down with a
sugar tit until they were assured that
the Northwestern brakeman had
''gone and went" Widows pulled
down the blinds when they heard that
he was out, old maids jumped into
bed and covered up their heads for
fear Fred might steal them, while
young girls and pretty maids still
blushing in their teens used to go
down in the cellar and make goo-goo
eyes through the ventilator when the
smiling wonder of the Northwestern
road was loose. But things changed
as time went on. The good people of
Galena lived to learn that Mr.. Burr
wouldn't hur5 the children, neither
would he take that which belongs to a
widow, or steal an innocent old maid
from her happy home. He would not
steal the blush from the fair face
of girlhood, and he learned
to love the little ones with an ardent
love that many a man would give his
right hand to possess, and so it is
little to be wondered at when all these
things are taken into consideration
that the residents Of Galena, together
with ST, gave Fred such a warm re-
ception on the occasion of his visit
there last week. He was accorded q
seat at the head of the table at the
De Soto, had row for himself 'way
up in the dress circle of the opera
house and after he retired the rube
orchestra lulled him to sleep with
sweet strains of music. But that was
not what the opera house manager
from Lancaster went there for-he
made his gisit for the express purpose
of giving 81 Perkins dressing down
for passing up Lancaster with his
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
KICk A dog

Kick a dog and he bites you.
He bites you and you kick him.
The more you kick the more
he bites and the more he bites
the more you kick. Each
makes the other worse.
A thin body makes thin
blood. Thin blood makes a
thin body. Each makes the
other worse. If there is going
10 be a change the help must
come from outside.
SCOTS Emulsion is the right
help. 1t breaks up such a
combination. First it sets the
stomach right. Then it en-
riches the blood. That
strengthens the body and it
begins to grow new flesh.
a strong body makes rich
blood and rich blood makes a
strong body. Each makes the
other better. This is the way
SCOTS Emulsion puts the thin
body on its feet. Now it can
get along by itself. No need
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
He Had Regular Habits.

Milwaukee, Wis, Feb. 4.-Michael
O'Brien, who would have been 100
years old had he lived until Aug. IA
next, died Sunday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Singleton, OH Potter
avenue O'Brien was former we'll
known lead miner, having been inter-
ested for many years in a section
known as the new diggins," near
Wyoming, Wis. Mr.. OBriens long
evity was said to be due to regular
habits of living.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
A WretChed Millionaire.

The story is told of the owner of
several railroads who were unable to
buy relief from the nerve twisting
agony of neuralgia. 1t is an unlikely
tale. The sick man must have known
that Perry Davis Painkiller would help
him at once as it has helped SO many
thousands of sufferers in the past sixty
years. There is but one Painkiller,
Perry Davis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
Girl Has a Miraculous Escape.

Kenosha. Wis, Jan. 81. - Miss
Thomy had a miraculos escape from
instant death in this city Wednesday
afternoon while driving from this city
to her home in Pleasant Prairie. She
was struck by q fast mail train. The
buggy in which Miss Thomy was rid
ing was smashed to kindling wood,
but when the train was backed to the
place of the accident the young wO-
man was discovered brushing the
snow from her garments. She was I'M
injured
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
HUNTER HAS A CLOSE CALL
Carried Out Into the Lake and Barely Es-
cape the Grim Terror.

cape the Grim Terror.
Milwaukee, Wis. Feb. 4. -Drifting
helplessIy in the lake for five hours
amid floating ice and with the ther-
mOme+ar below zero, John B. Deluca
was rescued Sunday barely in time to
escape death When Captain William
Ganavo, Of the tug Welcome, and his
crew took him aboard eight miles out
III the lake Deluca was unable to walk,
but by the time the tug reached the
shore he had sufficiently recovered to
go to his home.
Deluca had gone in an old skiff with
but one oar to get duck he had shot,
but on account of the gale blowing off
shore was unable to paddle back.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
But the Play Went On.

Lacrosse, Wis, Jan. 31.-As Jeffer-
son de Angeles was about to go on the
stage in his new play, THE Royal
Rogue" here Wednesday evening he
received a telegram announcing the
sudden death of his son in New York.
He went on, however, and at midnight
left for the east
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
Distinguished Pythians to Compete.

Milwaukee, Wis, Feb. Ex-Governor
LaFollette is to be the candidate from
Wisconsin in the eXemplifcation of
rank work at the jubilee of the
knights of Pythias to be held in Chi
cago March a. Mayor Harrison is to
be the candidate for Illinois and Sen
ator Beveridge for Indiana.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
Old Resident Missing.

Kenosha, Wis. Feb 1.-William
Michael Niederprim, one Of the oldest
residents Of the city. is mysteriOusly
missing. He left his home in South
street Wednesday night to seek medi'
cal advice and failed to return. He is
almost blind and it is thought he may
have lost his way. fallen III the snow
and been frozen to death. He is near
ly 80 wears of age
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
His Love Gave Him Smallpox.

Lacrosse, Wis, Feb. 3.-Nelson
Berry. a prominent young man of this
city, lies at the point of death with
smallpox. which he contracted at the
home of his sweetheart, Julia jane
son, whom he nursed while suffering
from the same disease.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
Causes Comment and Amusement.

Fond du Lac, Wis, Feb. 3.-The re-
port which has gone out from this city
that Bishop Grafton and CoadjutOr
Weller have requested the clergymen
of this diocese to address them as my
lord" has caused considerable COM
ment and amusement. A churchmaan
in high authority at st. Paups cathe-
dral said that it was of small moment
and was of little interest to the peO-
Dle generally
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
state Couldn't Prove Its Case.

Kenosha, Wis. Feb. Leslie NJ
Polhamus, ct Chicago, who was re-
Gently arrested in this city on the
charge of numbering his infant daugh-
ter, has been released from custody
by Justice Stewart. The state had
failed to establish it's case.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
Horrible Death of an Aged Woman.

Eau Claire, Wis, Feb. Mrs. 10
hanna Thompson, 80 years of age, be-
ing afflicted with rheumatism, tried
rubbing herself with kerosene oil. She
then sat down by stove and in light
ing her pipe of tobacco set fire to her
Clothes She was enveloped in flames
in an instant She seized a blanket
and wrapped it around her, but was Sc
terribly burned that she will die.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06

DR.. W. T. BROWN the Eye, Ear,
Nose and Throat Specialist, will be in
Lancaster, Monday, Feb. II, at
Hassell's office; Fennimore, Tuesday,
Feb. IS; Boscobel, Wednesday, Feb.
10Th. 5O-t2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
Milwaukee Sells Some Bonds.

Milwaukee, Feb. An issue Of
$4,000 of Milwaukee municipal
bonds was disposed Of Thursday at a
total premium of $13,1G2,42, which
makes the bonds sell at 1O1 .625. A
Chicago firm was the successful bid
der
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06
Norwegian lutheran Preacher DYING.

Eau Claire, Wis, Feb. 3.-The Rev.
G. Hoyme, president of the United
Norwegian Lutheran church of Amer
lea, is very i'll, and there is no hope for
his recovery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06

HOW Are Your RKIdneysV
Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. Sam
Dle free Add. Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or N. Y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-06

Of medicine.
This picture represents
the Trade Mark of SCOTS
Emulsion and is on the
wrapper of every bottle.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOVINE,
400 Pearl ST.. New York.
soc. and 81. all druggists.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-17
AGE OF OLD GLORY.
sTAR-SPANGLED BANNER 10 NJ"
1875 YEARS OLD.
The Design Was Suggested oy ""'
Neutrality-suspicious. Flag was "aue
NV Retsv Ross-The Banners Battle
Christening at Fort Stah"A'

The American flag has passed us
125th birthday. 1t was ON June H.
1777. that Congress, then in session at
Philadelphia, resolved that the nag
of the United States be Is stripes d.
ternate red and white; the union 10 Oe
Is stars, white on a blue field' repre-
senting new constellation, the STARS
to be arranged in circle
1t has often been asked what sug-
yested the design for the star-spangieu
banner. There are many traditions
atloat, but the one in which there Is I'M
doubtedly the most truth credits the
design to Washington. The Geherai
found in the coat-of-arms OF MS own
family hint from which he drew the
design. The coat-of-arms OF the WASH
ington family has two red bars on
white ground and three gilt stars above
the top bar. The American nag once
decided upon was rushed through IN a
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-17

design for the dag, and the result
that the original 13 stripes were asasA
used, the stars arranged on the b,n1
field in the form of a square, with ous
constellation for each new State r.
1918 this plan was formally adopted :.
Congress. and the dag with its !,
stripes and stars corresponding In nm
Der to the States in the Union becam.
the established emblem of the union
Mrs. Reid, wife Of the famous 90.
captain. made the first flag Of the new
design July 4, 1918; the number Of STAR
was 20, Illinois being admitted thai
year. This design, adopted in 1918. i
our flag Of to-day. with the addition ~
q stars-47 States. where 125 years apo
there were but 13, and those were fight.
ing a hard battle for liberty and ripbt
to progress. Some of the first flags wera
made under difficulties and at great
cost, the greatest ingenuity being re-.
quired to secure the necessary mata.
rails for the banners History tells la
that Nine. Wooster and Mrs. Roger
SneTIldu Iuduc LIE uTSI national nag
for the Connecticut troops used in tbs
army from their own dresses.
Difficult indeed 1t is to-day to realize
that our country's emblem was given
to Uncle Sans boys in those early DAYS
only after the expenditure Of great la.
bor-for all the first flags were hand
made. Now great factories turn out
the national emblems by the thousands.
and to-day Old Glory waves in all sizes
and qualities, from the little penny
flags with which the school children
decorate themselves to the magnificent
slken banners which float from club.
houses and public buildings.
The quaint little home in which Betsy
Ross made the first stars and stripes ia
still standing in Philadelphia and will
be purchased by the Betsy Ross Me-
mortal Association
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-17
1he Braxerx OF MOODY.

The honorable William III. Moody, OF
Massachusetts,, who steps from Con-
gress to the post Of Secretary of the
Navy, has won an amiable reputation
as man of sOlidity Of character.
On one occasion when an opponent
protested that he had been done an in
justice, Mr. Moody with quick courtesy
instructed the stenographers to furnish
an abstract Of the speech to the pro-
testing member. so that the latter
might have opportunity to mark for
expurgation any Objectionable para
graphs.
When colleague at one time doubt
ed whether Mr.. Moody's constituents
would indorse a measure he was sup
porting, he replied:
II was not sent here to shake ana
shiver like dry leaf in November
gale whenever a protest came from
home. but to exercise my intelligence
and to vote for measures according 20
how, in my best Judgment. they would
benefit or injure the peOple."-Pnila'
delphia Post.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-17

hurry, for the army was badly in need
of a standard. A committee had been
appointed few days before June IA.
when the stars and stripes were adopt
ed, who were to consider the subject
and report on general standard for all
the troops Of the colonies. The commit
tee consisted of General Washington,
Robert Morris and Colonel Ross. 1t
was at the suggestion of Colonel Ross
that the committee decided to call upon
the niece Of the Colonel, Mrs. Betsy
Ross, and ask her assistance in the
making Of the first national emblem.
Betsy Ross enthusiastically undertook
the work, and in a few days beautiful
star-spapgled banner was ready to be
unfurled. She had made one altera ton
in the design submitted by Washing
ton. The general had made his stars
six-pointed, as they were on his coat-of-
arms; Betsy Ross made hers with five
points-and five points have been used
ever since.
For several years Mrs. Ross made the
flags for the government. The prices
she received varied-it was all contract
work. For those for the fleet in the
Delaware the treasury paid her ETA
los. I'd
The stars and stripes were used first
for military service at Fort Stanwix, re-
named Fort Schuyler now Rome. N. Y,
in 177T. On August 2 of that year me
fort was besieged by the English and
Indians; the brave garrison were with
out flag; but one was made in the
fort. The red stripes were Of a petit
coat furnished by woman. the white
stripes and stars were supplied by an
officer, who gave his shirt for that DUR
pose. and the blue was a piece of Colo
mel Peter GansevOOrt's military cloak
Three women worked on the flag. and IL
was raised to victory when, on the 22d
OF August, the red men and the Eng.
lish were defeated at the fort. The
banner was used at the battle of Bran
DIVINE, September II, 1777, at German
town October of the same year. and il
also fioated over the surrender of Bur
goyne.
Cheers the Patriots.
This flag cheered the patriots Of Val.
ley Forge the next winter; it waved mr.
Yorktown and shared in the reioicinys
at the close of the war; AS long as tho
States remained Is in number tho
original design Of the circle OF stars
was all right. but when in 1871 Ver.
mont and In 1892 Kentucky were takan
into the Union 1t was decided to ar
range the stars in the form of one bugo
constellation. In 1895 1t was decided 70
add stripe as we'll as a star for each
State which came into the Union con.
sequently in that year Vermont and
Kentucky were marked on the flag. one
by white and the other by a red stripe
Some wise prophet, looking ahead some
twenty years or more, saw that this
plan OF adding stripe as well as q star
for each te-added to the Union
would mean constant changing of tho
nag. and as a great growth of the conn.
try was foreseen. it was soon apnrac,-
ated that by this plan the dag would IN
few years become so large ana nm
calmly that its beauty would be lost
committee was elected I'm 1919 nv
Congress to decide upon a permanent
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-17
CHAPTER XXVI.

Thursday, the 18th of June, was the
festival of Corpus Christi, when the
streets and churches of every town all
over the Christian world we're filled
with that singular pageant intended to
bring before the bodily eyes of the
people the eternal claims of the Re-
deemer and his martyrs to reverent
gratitude and alteration.
1t was significant of the permanence
of the church throughout all political
connections and changes that this
solemn procession was not intermitted
in London on that memorable Thurs
day. Some courage it needed to per-
sist, for of all the great ceremonies of
the church there was none so likely to
he subjected by an excited populace TO
unseemly insult or riotous interrupt
ton. Lollsrdy was spreading fast
among the people; and in the ewes of
the Lollards, who repudiated transub-
tantiation, the alteration of the Host
was profane rite. On ordinary occa-
sions even there were many who kept
out of the way or refused to uncover
and bow the head when the sacred
pyx was carried along the street. To
send the procession through the city
when London was surrounded by huge
mobs, as bitterly hostile to the minis
tiers of the church as they were to the
ministers of the state, and possessing
in both animosities the full sympathy
of the populace, seemed like counting
disorder. But no interruption oc.
Cured. The officiating priests with
their sacred charge, the long train of
white robed choristers, Ursula and her
maidens, Catherine and her wheel,
Sebastian stuck full of arrows, st.
George and the dragon, passed through
Cheapside unmolested. 1t may have
been that the personators OF the mar
tyrs trembled lest their acting should
be turned into earnest, but jeers here
and there from crowds buzzing with
expectation of greater novelties were
all the indignity they had to endure.
1t was the archbishop who had in
sisted that the ordinance of the church
should be observed. Sudbury was not
in mood to yield to popular clamor.
In retiring from his high Office in the
state he had wrapped himself round
with all the dignity OF the church. II
he was no longer lord high chancellor
OF England, he was still the legate o.