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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
CONSOLATION,

Hast thou forgotten God who gives
the rain?
Plenteous and merciful the long
showers pour
On parching fields where dust and
drouth were sore;
Yet will thine eyes watch out the
night again?
Peace on the Swallowed hills and sky
is deep;
Shall not thine heart be comforted
with sleep
AS earth is comforted and lulled of
pain?
Before thy prayer the heavens are
brazen still,
Nor yet to cool thy thirst the foun-
tain fill.
Nevertheless His word shall not be in
vain.
What hope had earth, gasping at yes
ternoon?
What hope hast thou. whose COM
fort shall be soon?
Are We not in His hands for bliss or
0ane?
Tomorrow, where the upland fields
lay black,
Thou shalt so forth and look on life
come back;
Harvest shall follow seedtime yet
again.
Tomorrow, where thy heart lay with
ering,
Fountains of love before His feet
shall spring;
Peace shall repay thee sevenfold for
pain.
Hast thou forgotten God who gives
the rain?
-Mable Earle in the Atlantic.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
ILL-TREATED TREES.
Ideas Held by Workers on Sub.
jecC of ArborC uIture.


Some otherwise intelligent people
seem to have queer nc ions about trees.
We are not sure whether they think
rees require for their welfare treat
ment Identical with that Of lamp-posts
and telegraph poles, or that they re-
gard tree in city street as q public
enemy which should be destroyed, says
the New York Tribune. They surely
must hold one or the other of these
views, or else their actionH grossly
belle their beliefs.
Here arc some examples of the treat
ment given to trees on a choice resi-
dence street in one of the best parts Of
the city: A few of the trees have each
as much as a couple Of square yards
OF open soil about them, CRASHES, of
course, and packed as hard and made
as 1mperviOus to water as so much
Well-puddled clay. In some cases the
open squares originally left about The
trees have been carefully filled in with
bits OF tagging, close up to the trees
all round. In some cases the squares
have been carefully filed with concrete
OF artificial stone, fitting water tight
it not air tight around the trees. In
some cases the large tree trunks have
carefully been trimmed square with
brOadaX SO that the straight edges of
flag stones may fit closely against
them. 1t may be added that these are
all fine specimens of elms, linden and
other trees. Before the sidewalks were
thus adjusted to their trunks they
were thriving almost as luXuriantly as
though they were in their native for
ests. Now they are beginning to die
and the people are removing some Of
them, saying that there's no use in
trying to grow trees in the city, any
way"
= Perhaps they are right. Perhaps
city ought to be an unbroken eXpanse
Of masonry and asphalt, with not
tree nor a shrub nor blade Of grass
within it's bounds. The parks should
be cleared off and covered with asphalt
for roller skating Kinks. 1t would cost
a great deal less to maintain them in
that condition. Perhaps the people, too
might be Vanished or coated from
head to foot with some waterproof and
airprOof preparation. Then they
die as these trees are dying, and it
would cost a great deal less to keep
them so.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Formerly two dozen cbambermaids. !

Formerly two dozen chambermaids.
half as many cleaners and three or
| four linen room girlb, with a none too
we'll educated housekeeper over them
constituted an especially large corps
of female help. AS the most typical
example of the up to date hotel this
force would be just large enough to
! take care of two of the fourteen floors
There seven housekepers, each select
ed for her acknowledged intelligent
executive ability, who employ, dis
charge and direct the tasks of fifteen
parlor maids, ninety chambermaids,
fifty cleaners, twenty seamstresses
and other workers along allied lines.
Each housekeeper has charge of two
floors and all of them report to the
senior in command
Large as are those figures, they
women regularly employed. The
floor clerks and cashiers number thir-
ty-three. Four controllers audit the
checks of the walters. The laundry
employs seventy-fve. the kitchen fif-
teen. The glass pantries are taken
care of by twelve, the stOreroors by
eight and sixteen walters serve all
these women, for they live in the
hotel. The grand total is S45.
But many other women not in the
list earn their living in such place.
Does the business man want to
1o1 do
stenographers are at his elbow. Has
a woman left home without her maid?
All she has to do to secure the SER
vices of an expert lady's maid is to
make application to the floor clerk.
Does a guest want her trunks pack
ed? Professional packers are kept
in the hotel for this express purpose.
Is Turkish bath desired? The at
tendants are within the four walls OF
the hostelry, and manicurists and
masseurs and the like are also with
in call of the bell
In brief, all told, the number of
women who find work in a modern
hotel is not much less than five hun
dred.
Of these women the clerks and the
cashiers probably fill the most i'm
portant positions.
The clerks for example, number
two to each floor. Over them is
man, but for all practical purposes
the women direct the work of looking
after the comfort of the guests. They
despatch the corps of page boys to
answer calls. They take care OF the
keys and mail for the different rooms.
They fill orders for flowers, laundry
of the walters who serve meals in
the rooms, and just as they see
new arrival he is installed, so they
collect his bill and direct his depar-
ture. They make it unnecessary for
a patron to depend on the main ONCE
on the ground floor for anything what
ever.-Chicago News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
QUICK THINKERS.
How Tricky Plays Help Out in Tight
PfarAS

How Tricky Plays Help Out in Tight
Places.
Many pieces of work that affect the
results of baseball games are not
seen by many persons on the stand
and bleachers. Many clever trick
is got away with under cover, and the
spectators remain ignorant of just
exactly what brought the victory. An
excellent case in point has Lave"
Cross for the principal figure.
The Athletics were playing Chicago
last year in one Of the closing games
when the pennant race was hottest.
The score was tie. Cross was on
first and Hartsel on third. One man
was out The captain started to steal.
The throw to catch him was fast and
accurate, and he was nailed fully five
feet from the base. But although he
had not chance he slid head first
and sent up a cloud of dust that en-
veloped himself and the shortstop.
Hartsel made a break for home.
Just as Davis, the Chicago shortstop,
was about to throw the ball he I'M
accountably paused for an instant
and looked down; then, without recov-
ering himself, let go of the ball and
made a gorgeous overthrow. Had
the catcher been ten fet tall he could
not have reached the ball. Hartzel
tailed the run that won the game.
Cross, who had been forgotten in the
excitement that attended the play at
the plate, picked himself up from the
dust and came to the players bench
grinning all over his face.
''Why did you slide, sLave'?" asked
Manager Mack. "You never could
have made it,"
did you see that wild throw?" re-
sponded the smiling captain.
"Yes''
81 was responsible for it."
"Why?" asked Mack.
81 pinched his leg just as he raised
his arm to send it home. "-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
THE BOY AND THE LADY.
How He Won a Dime by Mimicking
Birds.


Birds.
AS the lady came down the street
on a fine May morning, she heard a
Baltimore oriole whistle. She hadn't
heard one for long, long time-and
never in the city-so she stopped to
listen. The oriole whistled again,
plaintively and sweetly, then a boy
came around the corner. 1t was boy
"a ten-year-old boy, with soft brown
eyes and curly hair-not too clean,
and bit ragged.
''Was that you initiating the oriole?"
said the pleased lady. do it again
1 love to hear the oriole."
But the boy was shy, and got be-
hind telephone pole.
Can you whistle like Bob-white?'
the lady asked. ooh, do whistle like
a Bob-White. I'll give you a dime il
you'll whistle like Bob-White
Where did you learn to initiate birds?"
Still the silent boy hid behind the
telephone-pole.
"Well, l must CO." the lady said.
"But I'll leave this dime on the curb
stone, and l know that before | get
very far away, you'll whistle like
Bob-white, won't your"
/. The boy made no answer from be-
hind the pole, and the lady walked on
Halfway down the block she heard
another bird. 1t said, "Bob-white-
Bob-white," high and clear. Of course,
she stopped, and looked around. There
at the corner was the boy, walking
away from her. But he was looking
back over his shoulder, and as long as
she could see him, she heard the note,
"Bob-white Bob-white.' - Detroit
Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
A Nautical Piano,

A sea captain belonging to Sunder
land had made such an exceptionally
good voyage that his wife felt en-
couraged to ask him to purchase
piano with which to beautify their
house and exasperate their neighbors.
He told her he was going to London,
and while there would look at some
instruments, with view to buying
one This is his description of the
one he thought would suit her:
"Black walnut hull, strong bulkheads
strengthened fore and aft with iron
frame, lined with white wood and
maple riggings, steel wire double on
the ratlines, and whipped wire on the
tower stays and heavier cordage; be-
laying pins Of steel, and we'll driven
home; length of taffrail over all 6
feet l inch; breadth of beam, SO
inches; depth of hold, Ia inches;
matches can be battened down proof
against ten-year-old boys and ten-ton
spankers, or can be clewed up on
occasion, and sheeted home for a
first class instrumental cyclone
Tit-Bits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER.
DOM.
Amounts Due State Institutions from
Counties tuberculosis Commission
Appointed-$1 900 Found in Old Mat
tress-Man Finds Sister.

The amounts due from counties under
the settlement made by the State board
of control in it's annual report for the
year ending June 80, 1903, are: State
hospital for the insane, $34, 1854 North
ern hospital for the insane, $54, 1902;
industrial school for boys, $15,545. 81;
home for the predetermined, $50, $3.50.
Summary of amounts due county asy-
l1ms for care of chronic insane, 1903:
Brown, $12,419. 10; Chippewa, 49,
1861; Columbia, $9,928.25; Dane, Sill
615.S7: Dodge, $1O,251.01; Dunn, $15,-
528.7O; Eau Claire, S11, 534.S7; Fond du
Lac, $1O,961.53; Grant, $12,274.95;
Green, $12,578.5O; Iowa, $13, 493. 10; JEFF
ferson, $11, 265.66; La Crosse, $14,216.87;
Manitowoc S2O,366; Marathon, $50, 1885,
20; Milwaukee, $15, 515.53; Monroe, $50;
Outagamie, $15,405.11; Racine, Sill
044.40; Richland, $15,411.43; Rock, $13,-
GSG.77; St. Croix, $1S.329.37; Sank, SILL
333.97; Sheboygan, $8,38S.20; Trempea-
leau, $13,178.11; Vernon, $15,2O2.T4;
Walworth, $12,O6S.75; Washington, $751;
G55.17; Waupaca, $6.O84.32; Winnebago,
$40, 774.SS; total, $401, 1892.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Another Cure for Consumption.

Consul General Mason of Berlin in
recent report gives the composition
and effects of sanosin, the new rem
edy for consumption, which has had
a careful trial at Berlin with crafty
ing results. It was noticed by tray
eler in Australia that natives used q
decoctiOn of the leaves and roots OF the
eucalyptus as a remedy for consump-
ton with good effect, and that con-
sumptives coming from distance to
reside among the eucalyptus groves
were benefited. On this hint chemist
compounded pulveriZed leaves and es-
sential oil Of eucalyptus with powdered
charcoal and flour oflsulphur and gave
his mixture the name Of "SanOsin.'
Owing to it's volatility sanosin is put
up in sealed glass tubes that hold each
thirty-one grains. The patient breathes
in a closed room the fumes generated
by heating the contents Of tube on
an earthenware plate by means OF an
alcohol lamp. An aromatic penetrat-
ing odor is perceived ana the patient
speedily finds relief from his cough,
his expectora ton is decreased and his
appetite improves. The bacillus which
causes the disease disappears from
the sputum and in 80 per sent of the
cases q cure is effected.-BaltimOre
SIM
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
State Itema of Intereat.

Rev. Frederick Aigner of Kaukauna
has been called to the Sixth Reformed
Church at Cleveland, Ohio.
Jacob Enders, a repair man at the
Marinette paper mill, was badly scalded
at the mill. He removed nut from a
steam pipe without closing one of the
valves.
Charles Scofeld of Brownsville, in min
ing on Wildcat bluff, near La Crosse,
discovered quartz with unmistakable
signs of gold. 1t is the belief of old min
ers who are operating lead mines in the
vicinity that rich vein Of gold has been
discovered.
An entire stop has been put to the con-
struction work of the GAINESVILLE Electric
Company in putting in large Golfer dam
to utilize the water power for electric
lighting and power service. The halt
has been necessitated by the height of the
Rock river.
Chris Hanson of Racine has filed a
suit against Nels Anderson and Alfred
Anderson for So 900 damages. Nelson al
leges that he went in bathing with the
two Andersons and was given a duck
ing and came near drowning. Five
hours later he was reSuscitated.
The Wisconsin Central depot at Dale
was robbed of $13 in money. While the
agent was eating supper the thief en-
tered the office and took the money from
the cash drawer. The officers have an
excellent description of the robber.
The family of Peter Hiltgen of She
boygan, consisting of the parents and two
girls, barely escaped asphyxiation by gas
fumes escaping from the broken service
connection at the meter. The son, re
turning home late, found the fiat filed
with fumes and succeeded with difficulty
in rousing the family, who have since re-
covered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Who Owns the $1,000.

Within a short time the courts will be
called upon to decide upon who is the
rightful owner of the $1,000 found in
mattress purchased by Mrs. John WEIGH
ers from the estate of the late Charles
Broecker of Racine Some time after
the death of Mr.. Broecker the household
furniture was sold and the mattress was
purchased by Louis Mohr, hotel pro-
prietor. He kept it for several months
and then sold it to Mrs. Weichers, who
upon attempting to clean it found ST.
600. 1t is believed that Mrs. Broecker,
when demented and before her removal
to an asylum, placed the money in the
mattress
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
To Decide on State Hospital.

Gov. La Toilette has appointed a State
Tuberculosis commission, composed Of DR..
Gustav Schmitt, Milwaukee; Prof. HI. l..
RUSSELL bacteriologist at the State uni
versity, and DR.. Michael Rain of Mer-
rill. The commission is appointed in ac-
cordance with the direction of a joint
resolution passed by the Legislature. Its
duty is to determine the ACCESSIBILITY of
she establishment of a State hospital for
the treatment Of tuberculosis in human
beings, select site and report to the
next Legislature. A move is also on
foot for the establishment of a State
health park, where consumptives who
cannot afford to go to warmer and dryer
climates may find home, it being claim
ed that portions of Wisconsin are as
beneficial to those affected by pulmonary
trouble as Colorado or California.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Found His Long Lost Sister.

Craig Brown of Beaver Dam found a
long lost sister by attending the sessions
of the grand lodge of Elks in Baltimore
They had not seen each other for TWEEN
ty-seven years, each thinking the other
dead. Mr.. Brown came west twenty
seven years ago. He continued to CORE
spond with his sister until ten years ago.
Then he lost his sisters address. In the
meantime he removed to Beaver Dam,
and his sisters letters failed to reach
him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
WOMEN IN THE BIG HOTELS.
Every skyscraper Hosiery Employees
Hundreds of Them.

The big hotel of today is remun-
erative field for women workers. 1t
demands the service OF hundreds of
them. 1t largely depends upon them
for ultimate success. 1t pays them
thousands of dollars weekly. In this
one thing alone it conspicuously diff
fers from the big hotel of yesterday.
The women employees of the spa
ciols hostelry of a decade ago were
all mere servants. In it's monster
counterpart of the hour they are
graded all the way up from cleaners
to college graduated clerks, whose
abilities to direct the satisfying wants
of the occupants of entire floors en-
able them to earn comfortable sal
aries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Find the Engineer Killed.

Walter Bates, second engineer OF the
Goodrich steamer Georgia, was found
dead with his head crushed by some ter
rife blow as the steamer was leaving
her dock at Milwaukee for Mackinac
Island. The body was lying face down
ward on the grating of the engine room.
No one saw any accident about the ma
chinery or anything else to cause death.
He was % years old, unmarried, and
lived at Spring Lake. Mich.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Death Ends Pleasure Trip.

AS the result of a runaway at Rich
wood, Louis Welkert of that place was
seriously injured, his wife was killed in
stantly and their children fatally injured.
They were on a visit to friends and the
horse ran away on a hill, dashing into
tree and wire fence, throwing them out.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Death Releases Prisoner.

James Tobin, who was to be arraigned
at the next term of the municipal court
in Milwaukee as the alleged murderer of
his aged wife in their home in Granville
Center, July 10, was found dead in his
cell in the county Jail. The county ply
stefan gave as his opinion that Tobin's
death was due t. old age and natural
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Pooling tho RaDY.

The limit of masculine humiliation
has been worked III the case Of
Wichita man. His wife makes him
wear tucks in the sleeves of his night
gown, trimmed with pink ribbon so
that the baby won't know the diff
ference when he walks the floor with
it in the night.-Kansas City Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

= new play is called "A Bad Egg"
1t isn't likely to prove popular with
the profession.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
BALTIMORE PROVISIONS.
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, Sept. 26.-Todays stock
market was kept unsettled and feverish
by signs of renewed liquidation at some
points of the urgent and precpltate
character which threatened the situation
on Thursday and which was checked by
yesterdays protective measures taken by
the great banking interests. The course
of the London market this morning lndl-
Gated that the stock purchased yesterday
for supporting purposes would be for sale
again at any favorable market opDortun-
lty. This had the effect OF dlscouraglng
the professional operators who were plan
ning for a turn on the long side or the
market, having closed out their short
counts yesterday. The market developed
evidences of support on declines. The
obvious purpose is to bring about a con-
dition OF greater stability, pending the
working out of the financial situation. A
disorderly break in prices is dreaded for
the panlcky conditions which 1T might
bring about but the feeling continues
general that there is liquidation still to
| be effected. 1t Is also considered undo
sirable to undertake any campaign tor an
advance in face OF the money require
ments for the crops. The bank state
ment was regarded as satisfactory, es-
pecially in the loan contraction of up
wards of IS 900, 600, rejecting the good
| progress made III the necessary process of
| liquidation. Hopes are entertained that
this process will begin to be effective in
restoring the impairment OF credit which
! has overhung the market like a cloud
| and infected all minds with distrust and
| apprehension. The most notable selling
pressure today was in the United States
Steel securities, Baltimore and Ohio, and
the local fractions. United States Steel
| fell to yesterdays low record and the pre-
ferred to within IA of 1t, while the
bonds made new low record at 20 IA
| The weakness in these securities con-
tinued to have a large sentimental effect
elsewhere in the list. The selling which
developed on the favorable bank state
ment was also evidence OF the continued
purpose and probable necessity to sell
stock on every available opportunity
The market closed unsettled and rreg-
ular Bonds have declined in sympathy
vanced 3-S, the 5s one, the IS / IL,
the old As, registered, 2 and the old As,
coupons per cent The rs declined 1 IL
per cent as compared with the closing
call of last week.
Total sales OF stocks today were 425,-
TOO shares, including Atchison 24,250 B
and o. 14,525; Erie 1880; L. and N,
$500; Missouri Pacific $500; Norfolk and
Western lao; Pennsylvania 6,400; Rock
Island l5100. st. Paul 1870; Southern
Pacific 1880; Southern Railway 4,S0O:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
Ware e. l. Glands
Cotton Letter,

The feature of the day was the define
abroad. This could be, and was genralIy
assigned to the offerings of Sothern
cotton in Liverpool. We have now
reached the time of year when uyers
OF futures are face to face with otton
real, actual cotton offered by the COVER.
Heretofore it has been contract orpaper
cotton. But now there is the neN crop
available in large and larger qualities,
and this will make very differeG sort
of a market. Advances will not De as
easy under changed conditions, unless
warranted by facts. The price i'll be
more the result of actual supply ad de-
mand. If the cotton is not thee and
there is a big demand prices wilnot go
much lower. If the cotton is the, and
no demand to equal it, prices wi work
lower. For the moment the stItion is
perpleXing in the extreme, as pri,s have
declined cent a pound, and elp news
is not as good as a month ago he next
report is likely to show a heav, loss in
condition, and with any improvement In
Wall Street, this will bring in shirts and
prevent lower prices. The mark should
not weaken very much below inc and
a quarter cents before the Ocober re-
port. On the other hand, lot cotton
covered By shorts below nine al a half
cents will be put out again or any adj
vance and this will tend b help the
market rather to narrow down We would
continue very cautious policy on both
sides Of the market.