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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
QUEER SToRlE5

There is a house in Bombay with
591 inhabitants, and another with 663
Bombay's population is the mos
crowded Of any in the world.
For Vermont the enumerators report
83,109 farms; in 1880 there were 49,,
500, and in 1890, 32,573. The numbe.
Of farms in 1900 was 536 in excess OF
1890, and 2,413 in 1880.
Two hundred and sixty-four out o.
every one thousand of the worlds pop
ulation own King Edward VII as then
sovereign. Ninety are Russian, sixty
hree French, sixty United States sub
Iects and forty-nine German.
Greece is almost as badly off 70;
suitable wood for casks and barrel
as is Egypt, and one of the obstacle
with which the wine trade is constant
" confronted is the expense connect
ed with the importation Of slaves an;
casks. The wine merchants propos
to solve the problem by using barrel
made Of paper.
Wentworth is the biggest house II
Yorkshire-some say the biggest l.
England. There is a frontage of seve:
hundred feet, and great ranges of Gel
lars. The size Of the place is so be
wildering to newcomers that it is re
ported that packets of paper wafer
are offered to guests with the idea tina
they drop them as they go to thei
rooms, so as to find their way bacl
again.
After figs have been collected the,
are dipped in boiling brine, and the
dried on trays for from two to fou
days, according to the weather. TIL
dipping is supposed to bring the So
gar to the surface and hasten tn,
drying. After being dried the figs ar
placed in ''sweat boxes" holding two
thousand pounds each, where they re
main for two weeks. Then they ar,
washed in cold salt water, to remov
all dirt, and are packed by women ant
girls in half-pound, one-pound and ten
pound boxes, in layers, being split pre-
liminarily with a short bladed knife.
uC Cdl III SOlldlllS an dOQludnNC Va
water, even in places like some Of ou
great Western plateaus, where the sur.
face is comparatively arid. The great
est depth at which underground water
can exist is estimated to be about siy
miles. Below that, it is believed, the
cavities and pores of the rock are com
pletely closed. The amount of water
in the earths crust is reckoned at
nearly one-third of that contained in
the oceans, so that it would cover the
whole surfaceof the globe TO depth of
from three thousand to three thousand
five hundred feet. The waters under
ground flow horizontally after sinking
below the unsaturated zone of the
rocks, but in the sands of the Dakota
formation, which supply remarkable
wells, the motion does not
exceed one or two miles a year. The
under-fow toward the sea beneath the
great plains may sometimes take the
form of broad streams or moving
sheets Of water. But the movement is
slow.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
FAMOUS NEW YORK HOTELS.
Historical Refectories of the Last
Half Century.

Historical Refectories of the Last
Half Century.
Between 1886 and 1S59-when the
Fifth Avenue Hotel was opened
many large and, for their day, fine ho-
tells, for the most part since RACED to
the ground, were built. In 1910 was
opened the New York Hotel, corner Of
Broadway and Wayerley place, an arts
tocratic house, where many fine Old
families stayed, and where Jenny Lind
was accustomed to stop. In 1850 caLne
the Clarendon, on the European plan,
also an aristocratic place, where many
foreign diplomats stayed. A house,
opened about the same time, and in
much the same style, was the Irving
Hotel, Chambers street and Broadway.
In 1852 the st. Nicholas and the Met
ropolitan, on an expensive scale, and
introducing bridal chambers" were
opened. The st. Nicholas was built on
the Broadway side, in marble, and in
that respect was an architectural innO-
Walton, so far as New York hotels
went. The house was the largest and
finest hotel in the country and remain
ed such until the erection of the Fifth
Avenue. 1t was very sumptuously fur
nished, Of solid rosewood and had
double the capacity Of the Astor
HouBe The mirrors alone cost 100000
1t is said that the furniture cost more
than the furniture of the Waldorf
Astoria. 1t size it was larger, it is
said, than any New York hotel with
the exception of the combined Astoria
and Waldorf. In 1854 two hotels still
doing business, the Breveort and the
Everett House, were opened ON the
European plan, and were OF a high or
der. The latter house took its name
from Edward Everett, portrait of
whom still hangs in the reception room
The Everett House is structurally a
good example of the old style of New
York hotels. 1t is built of brick, but
is very lid.-Architectural Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
For a States Good Roads,

When Mr.. Brownlow Of Tennessee
introduced a bill in Congress appro-
priatin $20,OO0,000 as a fund for Ma
tional aid to road improvement in
the United States a good many people
were startled at the size Of the fig
ures, says the Washington Evening
Star. The amount, however, seems
very small compared with the sum
that a single State now proposes to
raise and spend. The New York Leg
islature has adopted constitutional
amendment proposing to raise end
spend $5,O00,O0O annually for ten
years, or $5O,O00,O00 in al. This
amendment must pass the Legislature
again in 1905, and then it will go be-
fore the people for ratification or re-
lection. 1t can reasonably be expect
ed that the measure will meet with
popular favor. The people Of New
York have given the principle Of State
aid thorough trial and the results
have been highly satisfactory.
One of the objections most loudly
urged against both State and National
aid is that it will encourage local COM
munities to neglect the improvement
of their roads and depend upon the
State and the Federal Government to
do the work for them. But this OBJ
lection has proven to be purely i'm.
aginary. In no place where State aid
has been tried has any such result APP
peared. On the contrary, aid from the
State treasury only stimulates local
self-help. 1t arouSes warm competi
ton among the counties and townships
to secure share Of the State aid
funds. Instead Of sitting down and
folding their hands as predicted, the
local communities are raising a great
deal more money under the stimulus Of
State aid than they did before.
It looks now as if National aid is
bound to come in the near future.
Already the Stale Legislatures of Ala
bama, Tennessee, Wisconsin, New
Mexico, Missouri and Minnesota bave
put themselves on record in it's favor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
AIDED CARL SCHuRZ ESCAPE.
Lewis Schmitt, Now of Indiana, Once
a German RevoIutionist.

German RevoIutionist.
Although Lewis Schmitt has lived in
Newcastle, Ind, since 1852, yet his
nearest friend never knew that in his
youth he performed feat which had
he been in the service Of a monarchy
might have won for him the iron cross
Of Prussia or the Victoria cross Of
England.
1t has been pretty well known that
Mr.. Schmitt was a great friend of Carl
SchurZ, says a writer in the Indian
apolis News, but it was only a few
days ago that it became known why
that friendship existed. He revealed
the secret at family dinner Carl
Schurz had to flee from Germany to
save his life and Mr.. Schmitt was one
Of band of revolutionists who helped
him to escape.
The German revolution of 1889
started in France and spread to Ger
many. Schurz and his friend, Gustave
Kinkle, were professors at Heidelberg
and were officers in the revolutionary
army under Franz Sigel, afterward an
American general in the Civil War.
The government forces whipped the
revolutionists and the last of the army
was surrounded in the fortress of Ras-
TAFT and was compelled to surrender.
Schurz and Kinkle were in that sur
render. Schurz made his escape from
the fortress by way OF a sewer, was
in Switzerland short time and then
went TO France. Kinkle was convicted
of high treason and sentenced to
death, but this sentence was com-
muted to life imprisonment at the
fortress of Spandau, whose cannon
look down on the city Of Berlin.
The government put a price on
Schurz, and every police officer of Ger
many was instructed to get him ut all
hazards. He disappeared from France
md 1t was supposed that he went to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
A seaman on board the Discovery, of

A seaman on board the Discovery, of
the English Antarctic Expedition,
says that for twelve months they had
lived ON seal all the time, except Sun
days, when they had mutton. The
problem of eating quail a day for
month, usually considered arduous,
pales into insignifeance ia the pres
ence of the seal achievement. No won
der the sailor wrote, Il reckon if they
turned the ships company out in q
field with plenty of grass there would
not be much left"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Inha bitants of Breathitt

Inha bitants of Breathitt county,
Kentucky, have about finished the work
of demolishing the old Kentucky home
of song and story. Ia its place there
rises for the eyes OF the world to
look upon a home barricaded and de-
Tended with deadly rife, while hatred
and bloody murder stalk about the
premises. This work of demolition
began some years ago, but it remained
for the people of Breathitt county to
wreck the remains of the old home and
to become architects of the new-styled
habitatiOn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Waste in Cooking.

Prof. Marshall, the noted English
economist, estimates that $500,O0O,O0O
is spent annually by the British work
ing people for things that do nothing
to make their living nobler or truly
happier. At the last meeting Of the
British Association the president, in an
address to the economic section, ex-
pressed his belief that the single item
of food waste alone would justify the
aforementioned estimate. One potent
cause of waste to-day is that very
many of the women, having been prac-
tically brought up in factories, do not
knew how to buy economically, and
are neither passable cooks nor good
houaekeepers. 1t has been estimated
that in the United States the waste
from bad cooking alone is over q thou
sand million dollars a year.
hid ho 10 do
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

Every few months one well-fed
person or another becomes inspired
TO live day on eleven cents, or may
be a week at that rate, for the educa-
ton of the poor In table economy
Seemingly those philanthropists have
never head of the famous DR.. Tanner,
who lived forty days on sips Of water,
which cost nothing. Their shot at
fame, measured by his standard, is
like little boys arrow-fiight at the
g,O00-yard butts Of Creedmore. The
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
A UNIQUE Career.

The career of Brigadier General Ed
ward M. Hayes familiariy known as
Jack Hayes, who has just been pro-
NOTED from the colonelcy Of the Thir-
teenth Infantry, is unique in the an
nails Of our army. He enlisted in the
army as a boy in 1866 as bugler IN the
company Of which Fitzhugh Lee was
second lieutenant. When the war be-
gan he enlisted as a private and came
out an officer. With the reorganiza-
ton of the army in 1868 he obtained a
commission, since which time he has
made a most brilliant record, first on
the plains and lately in the Philippines.
II you don't get married until you
ire twenty-five years old, you will see
trouble enough.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

The unusually heavy losses resulting
from the forest fires in the Adirondack
region this year can hardly fail to re-
vive public interest in the necessity for
better forest control and more gen
eral education of the people in for
estry. AS result of the drought
which prevailed throughout April and
May thousands Of acres Of the best
of the Adirondack reserves were burn
ed and many summer homes and re-
sorts were swept away. While the
lesson was a very costly one, running
UP into the millions, the country doubt
less stood in need of it. History shows
what is confirmed by science, that
large area of forest land is essential
to civilization. A treeless country
means a barren country, and a barren
country never attracts q progressive
people. 1t is certain to be inhabited
by the vagrant and non-producing
classes There must be forests and
patches of woodland to retain mois
ture, to prevent droughts and to create
soil for future agriculture. In Eu
rope of course, where the necessity
for forest preservation is more uniyer
sally recognized, an effort is made to
keep the proportion of woodland at
about one-fourth Of the area Of the
country, which is regarded as the cor
rect proportion to sustain the activities
of civilization and the welfare Of the
people, Not only large forests, but
scattered woodlands must be preserv
ed. The latter not only tend to check
evaporation and hold bodies of mois-
ture for slow percolation into springs,
brooks and small rivers, to be fed
slowly to the surrounding country, but
they break the force Of the wind, de
creasing the probability of hurricanes
and cyclones. The West has suffered
much more than the East from forest
fires, for the reason that the Western
forests are made up largely of resinous
woods. The West therefore should CO.
operate with the East in bringing
about more adequate systems of for
est control. Forest fires will not wait
for special sessions Of State Legisla
lures. The force of forest wardens
in the timber States should be greatly
increased. There should be State and
Federal cooperation in the establish
ment of forestry schools all over the
country, such as exist in Austria, Eng
land, France, Italy, China and Japan
This will cost the States larger out
lay for forest preservation, but it
would be trifiing compared to the mil
lions that have recently been swept
away in the Adirondack region.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
NINETY MILLION TONS
Weight of Cereals Grown in the Unite
States in One Year.


The story of American agriculture
has been the story of our growth IA
population and of the extension o.
our natiS2ll domain-a record Wlthou
a parallel in the history Of the world
says Success. A Chicago man once
said that he had lied great many
times about the growth Of his city, buI
Providence had always quickly conn
to his relief. 1t would take a gifted
liar to overstate the growth of oul
agriculture or exaggerate the marve
of it's present proportions. The difh
Guilty is to prod Imagination to an!
appreciation of the simple facts.
Uncle Sam occupies the first rank
among the farmers of the world II
the magnitude and value of his crops
Although his family constitutes onl.
one-twentieth Of the human race, ht
produces nearly one-third Of tn
worlds food supply, while Russia
which comes next as q food producer
has one-twelfth of the worlds populs
ton and supplies less than one-iftl
Of its food. Compare our wheat GRO
for 1900 with that of the other lea6
ing wheat countries of the world.
Country. Bushels
united states o., $1,000.
Russia in Europe. 1868, 623, 00
France 300 ,383,00
British India ............ Is, 5S2,0O
Germany ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 141, $4,000
Hungary ..................1 49, 100000
Italy ................... .119, 10000
Spain Observation-Disclosures. .lO5 100000
Argentine ................. 101 ,266,00
Great Britain ............. 55,33OOO
The expert mot officiaD estimate o
our wheat crop for the past year /
7OO,50O,000 bushels, and the same an
thority places our corn crop at 2,
$780, 900 bushels, which equals tb
output of wheat for the entire worlC
in 1900.
We are told by the Government au
thorities that our crop of cereals 70
a single year is 90,O00,0O0 tons. lie
us try to get hold of these figures, S,
that they will mean something to us
How long a train of cars would
required to ship this crop, allowin.
forty feet outside measurement t
each car, and ten tons of grain t
each?
If we had a double track beltin,
the globe at the equator, these car
loaded with our grain crop for
single year would fill both tracks solit
and then enough would be side tracket
to reach from New York to San Fran
cisco six times!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
An Old Legislative Body.

With the exception of the British
Parliament, the Swedish Rigsdag is
the Oldest legislative body in the
world. The kingdom of Sweden has
maintained its integrity as far back as
there is any record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Statittics on Suicide.

The first authoritative suicide statis-
tics for the whole country have been
compiled by Prof. William B. Bailey,
of Yale. The period covered is from
1897 to 1901 To take a convenient
unit 10000 cases We're taken by Prof
Bailey for computation in his statistics
OF these 1871 We're found to be men
and 2,219 women. Taken by age, the
figures show he following:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

Secretary Wilson is experimenting
with a nearsilk worm. Unlike the real
silk worm, they do not demand null
berry leaves for food, but will eat any
thing. If successful, Secretary Will
son promises that we shall all wear
silk.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

When the appeal for help for the
prosecuted Jews in Kishenef was made
In New York the Chinese gave a ben
eft performance in the Chinese thea
Ter, and raised nearly three hundred
dollars. AS Shakespeare might have
said, one touch of abuse makes the
alien races kin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

If Mrs. Carlyle's dearest friend"
has broken loose and tasted the joys
Of print we may expect long series
Of revelations as to how Tammas con-
Quoted himself; the brute!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

While Professor Smith is discussing
the shortcomings Of the scholarly di-
vine in "practical' prea ching, he might
throw in a word or two, by way of
balance, concerning the benefits to be
derived by the typical '.evangelistic"
preacher from a slight application of
scholarship.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

If Grover Cleveland lives long
enough he will probably have chance
to decline to be the President Of ev-
cry college in the United States.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Same Old Party.

Employer-Well, Mike, now that you
have your papers and can vote, what
party are you going to support?
Mike-Shure, sor, the same oil party.
Employer-And what party is that?
Mike--Me mother-in-law, sor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

to train young men for office holding.
That's not bad idea, but how are
the trained young men to get the
offices?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
well-nourisned idle are improved phys.

well-nourished idle are improved phys.
ically by little starvation, yet it is
doubtful whether they would stand
even the eleven-cent regimen for for
ty days. But some Of them, and some
professors and chemists and expert
mentors, since the days Of Edward
Atkinson, have been demonstrating to
the poor man that life can be lived
for day on next to nothing, just to
show him that he is a most eXtrava-
CANT person. The tendency of wages,
wherever there is one workman more
than there are places, is to the low
est rate at which that man will con-
sent to work. That tendency is beaten
back again and again by the unions,
but it is ever present, and any low
ering Of the average standard Of liv-
ing in any trade would give it dan
gerous impulse. The one wretch IN
any calling who lives in miserly fash
ion will save beyond his fellows who
live rightly, it is true; but it his fare
and fashion became adopted by all,
down would go wages in spite of the
unions, until perhaps, it would be I'M
possible even for this Daniel Dancer to
add penny to his pile. Luckily good
health of body Sid mind makes the
toier demand the best meat and fresh
vegetables, good clothes for himself
and his family, and books and mu-
steal instrument in the house. And
while he's we'll fed and clothed and
housed his work will be better and
it's product more. Vigorous and red
blooded, he will demand his share of
this increase from time to time, and
get it, and better still will be his feed
ing, his raiment and his surroundings.
Silly folk, important enemies of prog
ress, are they who would induce the
workingman to forswear his constant
corlled beef and cabbage for the thin
and pale phantom of aliment that
costs but eleven cents a day!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

There is not much difference be-
tween an epigram and an epitaph. An
epigram says unkind and true things
about the living; the epitah says kind
and untrue things about the dead.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

An exchange says: "No woman ev-
er boosted of being born in log cab
in" No man does either until he gets
into a broWn-stone front.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

Eve did her own Homework, prob
ably because she wasn't afraid any OF
her neighbors would be ashamed to
recognize her on account of it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

J A woman can never understand
why her husband pays out money for
a new hat when it looks just like his
old one, anyway.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

It seems a pity that about the only
way for man to learn what. kind Of
a woman he ought not to marry is to
marry her.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

If you have an ak to grind, it is
well to consider the character of the
man you induce to turn your grind
stone.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

The new metal, radium, is said to
be worth $3,O0O,0O0 a pound Don't
neglect to save up your scraps of ra-
dunn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

President Hadley describes two
ways Of being a leader Of men. But he
leaves out the advertising method.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

glory? She is generally credited with
the invention of jelly. and jam.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

Scientific ma gaines are now deyot-
ing much space to the Causes Of
Floods" but it will be difficult to con-
vince Kansas that they are caused by
anything but water.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

Herr Most says he is for peace and
obedience of the law. Why not try the
fail cure on a few others?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

It's all day with the British stomach
now that the American quick lunch
has invaded London.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

There are plenty to furnish matches
10 the man who has money to burn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

When a lot of boys are playing to-
gethtr. women always watch them,
expecting every minute to see some %
them killed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

No matter if your teeth are poor it
rs your duty to smile frequently.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Totals .....1O,0O0 7,7S1 9

More married people than single per-
sons kill themselves, and shooting is
the favorite method.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

You can't tell by mans hand shake
how much he thinks Of you. |
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-18
Society to Work Amona Criminals,

Rev. Edward A. Fredenhagen of To-
peka, Kan, has organized society,
with local organizations in Kansas,
Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma
whose objects are the prevention of
crime, reform in criminal law and
prison management, evangcliStic work
IN prisons and the assistance of dis
charged prisoners by securing work
for them. The Society of the Friend
less, as it is called, has been of sub
stantial service to hundreds of prison.
ars, besides contributing materially to
the introduction Of several reforms in
criminal laws.