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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Stories Abou. Peonle.


William Dean Howells has lifted so
many young men from total obscurity
into fame tat his time is often tres
passed on by persons without talent,
who, nevertheless, think that he
should write of them as essay as ap-
preciative as those, say wherein he
poinsad out the genius of Stephen
Crane.
At the Franklin Inn Club of Phila-
delphia poet told the other day of
a young man who once called on Mr..
Howells without so much as a letter
of Introduction. This young man
thought himself sonneteer. He had
two sonnets with him and he said he
would read them both, and then he
would ask Mr.. Howells to tell him
which of them was the better
Mr.. Howells is always gracious, and
always particularly gracious to young
men who love letters. Therefore he
listened patiently to the first sonnet.
1t was eXecrable. The writer of such
doggerel could not but be hopeless.
''Tle second sonnet is the better of
the two,' Mr.. Howells said firmly, and
he refused to listen to it. Pleading an
engagement, he asked the young man
to excuse him. 1.-The second sonnet is
the better, assure you," he repeated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Fond of r-.ilk.

Bishop Coleman of Delaware takes
@ long walking trip every summer.
Usually he goes alone, but on one oc-
casion several gentlemen accompanied
him. The party toured the White
mountains.
On an August afternoon they
stopped, very warm and thirsty, at a
farmhouse and bought several quarts
of milk. Even now, though, they were
unsatisfed, so the farmers wife
fetched from the spring house no less
than three gallons of milk in pail.
Setting this before them, she said:
Zone would think, gentlemen, that
you had never been weaned. detroit
News-Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
The Mississippi river is bomins

The Mississippi river is booming
again and all low land is flooded.
Dubuque will have carnival
and mid summer circus Aug. 1915.
Aid. Henry Muesse returned
Monday from a trip to Minneapolis.
Mrs. j. 81. Baldwin and daugh-
ter, Dorothy, are visiting in Chica-
go.
Leroy Clifton is looking after
business interests up north this
week.
Miss Daisy lockwood is visiting
her friend, Aloha Aupperle south of
town.
Mrs. Frank White of Platteville
was a guest of relatives here por-
ton of the past week.
Milwaukee now claims a popu-
lation of 1923, 900 and is tenth city in
size in the United States.
Henry Koch, efficient operator
at the Northwestern depot, was a
Madison visitor Monday.
DR.. John Chase returned to
Viroqua Monday. His wife and
child will remain here for another
week.
Its pity that people who worry
over little things haven't something
big to trouble them-a newspaper
for instance.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Schreiner
went Saturday to Madison to visit
their daughter, Mrs. R. Sander.
They will also visit the Monona
Lake assembly before returning.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Arthur Notes.

Word was received here last Tuesday
of the severe sickness of Mrs. Vance
Hannah, nee Alice Hill of Livingston,
now of Fort Pierre, S. Da. Her father
took the train that evening for that
point. Her many friends are hoping
to hear of her speedy recovery.
The many friends of Albert Rundel
are pleased to hear that he has SO far
recovered fir m the severe burns which
he received in trying to save his barn
that he is able to sit up, and for the
first time last Friday was able to view
the destruction of the fire.
Sheriff Watson and Ted Lowry of
Lancaster we're callers here and at
Livingston Sunday. The sheriff took
dinner at his old home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Verge Basye and little
daughter are visiting at his sisters,
Mrs. Cushman. Just where they are
living we have not learned. 1t has
been some years since he has been
here.
Grandma Watson of Livingston is
spending few weeks with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. G. w. Hillary.
Frank Anthony went to Jinkings-
vile Friday to see his grandmother,
returning Sunday and bringing her
back with him to spend few weeks.
The immense hay crop has been all
harvested and now nearly everyone is
busy cutting oats.
Mrs. r. F. Livingston and Miss Al
len went to Belmont Wednesday to
visit their brother Will.
There was a pleasant gathering in
Arthur Wednesday evening. Guests
from Platteville were in attendance
and some from the country: Beer and
limberger cheese was their desert.
They all had merry time and at mid
night each one concluded to return
home, hoping soon to meet again,
Rev. Trousdale of Platteville will
give lecture in the M. E. church
Wednesday evening, Aug. 5. What
the lecture will be on we have not
learned, but know it will be something
good as he is a fine talker. Everyone
is invited.
The little son of Less Wells was
badly bitten by dog last week, but is
doing nicely under the care of DR..
Treglown.
The many friends of Mrs. Fred Kirk
are sorry to hear that her health is
failing. She has been spending few
weeks with her daughter, Mrs. L. Run
DEL
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

Fire destroyed the barn and
granary of August Wenzel, residing
south of Lancaster, Monday night.
Spontaneous combustion is supposed
to have been the cause of the blaze,
originating in the loft of the barn.
When discovered about II p. m.
every effort was made to extin-
guish the flames, but to no avail.
The live stock was rescued. Loss
5000 with $500 insurance.
Erwin Blackburn was arrested
by Sheriff Watson Friday eve,
charged with assault and battery
by Lille Smalley. The defendant
accidentally and unintentionally
ran against the complainant while
she was passing and her feelings
were so shattered that she insisted
on the young mans arrest. 1t was
entirely an accident and her action
was unwarranted. However, rather
Than expend any great amount OF
money contesting the matter he
wisely paid fine of 81 and costs
and was discharged
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
On the Installment Plan.

do you do business on the install
mem plan?" he asked of the tailor.
The tailor looked dubious, fo; he
knew something of the man. How
ever, he finally admitted that he did
business that way.
I'm that case" said the customer
Il would like to get suit of clothes
On the installment plan.'
"All right" said the tailor, 'but of
course you understand what our in
stallment plan is"
Isn't it like all others?'
Not at all. You see, we deliver
the clothes by installments, and you
first payment will just cover the vest.
When you make the next payment
you will get the trouses, and when the
bill is all paid we deliver the coat"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Fling Nature.

There is an inaccessible crag in the
Hartz mountains SO unsightly that the
owner of local chalet has deter
mined to cover it with vegetation. To
this end he is loading cannon with
canisters OF tee and grass and seed,
and firing them on to the inaccessible
peak. Canisters of Old-fashioned
grape would have made pretty crop,
and the harvest could have been got
in by means of balloon or airship.
But the idea is a happy augury for
that golden day when swords will
be beaten into plowshares and cannon
into grain drills.--Chicago Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The minimum rainfall at which
trees will grow is twenty inches.
Monday is the fayorite day for COM
hitting suicide.
New Zealand Christian Endeavorers
now number ten thousand They pub
lish a handsome quarterly.
Yale professors will hereafter be re-
tired from service, except in special
cases, at 6S years of age.
The Russian government contracts
yearly for $4,000 tons of Welsh coal to
be delivered at Port Arthur befo. e
July 1.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Too Great q Shock.

The guest at the fashionable noun
tain hotel asked for his bill.
''Let me see," said the clerk. "YOu
have been here three weeks, have you
not?"
eyes, SIR" said the guest, wondering
if they would insist on keeping his
trunks as security.
"Ah, here it u.s." murmured the clerk
'Three weeks at 81 a week. That will
be $6. And then you missed ten meals
and were away one night, for which
we will allow a reduction of $3.50
making the balance due us $780,"
With gurgling groan the guest top
pied over and fell upon the floor.
The bump woke him up as If it had
been the bang of a giant firecracker.--
Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Baptist Notes.

Lancaster-Prayer meeting to-
night, covenant meeting Saturday,
preaching and S. S. next Sunday
morning.
Mt. Ida-Preaching and G. E. in
the evening. Young people'sspecial
meeting for election of delegates to
convention at Mazomanie. Ladies'
Aid meets with Mrs. III. o. Monroe
next Wednesday for dinner.
Dyer school house-Preaching
and S. S. next Sunday. The young
people have arranged an ice cream
social for next Saturday evening.
The pastor will show some lantern
pictures.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

The master electricians and the cleo
trician sergeants of the newly created
corps of the army will be designated
by symbol of white metal resembling
forked lightning inclosCd within a
wreath of gilt metal. The uniform
trousers of these officers will show a
scarlet stripe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Ministers Barred.

The constitution of Tennessee pro-
vides that whereas ministers of the
gospel are by their profession dedicat-
ed to God and the care of souls, and
ought not to be diverted from the great
duties of their functions, therefore no
ministe. of the gospel, or priest Of
any denomination whatever, shall be
eligible to seat in either house of the
legislature of the state.-Chicago Jour-
nal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
TO SAIL SATURDAY.
Wieland Oswald Departs Today on
Journey to Switzerland.

Wieland Oswald will go to
Switzerland to accompany his uncle
to America. This has finally been
definitely decided upon.
He will leave here today and
will sail from New York on Satur-
day, returning the latter part of
August.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
4 Jananese Buddhist dignitary ";

A Japanese Buddhist dignitary was
buried a few weeks ago. The police
made the following terse return of the
side issues of the ceremony: "311 in
juries. Is fainting, 121 thefts, 374 pick
pockets captured, 1,021 articles lost.
Seventy-nine people fell into creeks
or bitches"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29
Even the hot weather cannot pre-
vent Senator Carmack from break
ing loose every once in a while.

Congress has long since adjourned
but Congressman John Wesley
Gaines still continues to ornament
the street corners of Washington
with his picturesque presence.
Bryan is going to Yurrup. He
may tell them mossbacks how to
run their BUSINESS so as to make
money out of their jobs. Should
Candidate Bryan and Kaiser Will
liam ever come to shirt-arm
collar-and elbow heart-to-h heart talk
of politticks the gentle murmur
of tangled buz-saw, up in a
black gun knot would be a sooth-
ing symphony compared to the busy
whir Of strident cultural oratory
that would then and thar be turned
loose on the potato crops Of Rot
tsdam.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

Miss Nollie Goodrich of Fond du
Lac is a guest of her parents,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29


Green corn is on the market
and is plentiful.
H S. Gerlach, accompanied by
Mrs. John Taylor and the Misses
Christina and Lizzie Belken, drove
to Liberty Monday and spent the
day as guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Wetekind
Mrs. J. D.,Long of Sanborn, Ia,
who had been a guest at L. G. Longs
since Wednesday last, returned
home Monday. Miss Bertha Long
accompanied her aunt for an ex-
tended visit in the west.
Emma Cook was placed under
arrest Friday by Sheriff Watson
charged with larceny Of a
pair Of gold spectacles. Justice
Shilnnin, after hearing the evidence
against the prisoner, gave her
twenty-four hours to make herself
scarce in these parts and she did SO.
Cupid is taking lay-of these
hot days and but little business is
being transacted in County Clerk
Griffis' matrimonial bureau in con
sequence. But one license was
granted since the Herald's Saturday
issue was printed, and that went
! to Theo. Helgerson of Soldiers
Grove and Olivia Johnson OF
| Hickory Grove.
Glen. Thomas of Potosi re.
Fceived box of pure, home grown,
handmade, silver-plated, full chest
ed, delicately- favored Havana cigars
direct from Manila the other day
from his son Bart E., who is teach
er there, and he allowed us one.
We had been saving it for some
time and just scraped up enough
spunk to smoke it the other day.
1t was an experience not soon to be
forgotten, and when we came out OF
the delightful trance visions of ORR
entail beauties and faint strains OF
sweet music and panoramas of trop-
ical landscapes and the hum of gorg-
eously feathered birds had left their
impress on our exalted imagination,
while we received fr esh stimulus to
loaf our lazy soul away forever. It
was surely great smoke.
Some of our citizens who may
be afflicted with the western
fever" will be Interested to learn
that the State Of Oregon is contest
ing the timber of number of home
steaders from this state and Min
nesota. 1t seems that the state of
Oregon secured from the govern
ment the right to pick out lot of
desert land for irrigation. This
right was given by the state to the
Oregon Ditch Co. which seems to
have selected the timber upon which
the Wisconsin and Mime
sofa parties have filed their en-
tries. The local men will contest
as the land is heavily timbered,
and there is no reason at all for
calling the land desert land A
large number of Wisconsin and
Minnesota people have located in
this region in controversy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

DR.. Wiley has started a crusade
against tea drinking. And while
Sir Thomas Upton was still, a guest
of the nation, too.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

1t is difficult to understand why
England should complain about
what she calls the theft of a few
little Polynesian islands after we
have given her Willis Waldorf
AstOr.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

The fact that Bryan and Cleve-
land are both to speak in Chicago
cannot be taken as an indication
that they will speak to each other
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-01

great have been troubled with Dyspepsia have
tried all the known remedies without obtaining
recommended by druggist ter taking
glad say that anything wish without suffering ndi
eeston recommend II all Sueert Dyspepsia
how serious their cases" e. A. DECKER, Little Falls, NY
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-01
BEAUTY "D0N'TS."

Don't speak with all the muscles of
the face in play. 1t is very charming
and captivating to be deeply, deadly
in earnest. but facial grimaces form
creases, which. in time, will become
fixed.
Don't worry, but if worry you must,
keep the forehead smooth, and don't
frown.
Don't wear tight shoes. They make
young face look drawn and wrinkled
in few hours.
Don't neglect the ten minutes rest
during the day, with the feet raised
1t gives the whole body a great sense
of repose and works wonders in
smoothing out the lines of the face.
Don't let insomnia get the upper
hand. By all means in your power try
to break up the habit. Sleeplessness
is sometimes caused by unconscious
hunger, and cup OF hot water, or a
biscuit, will often induce sleep.
Don't go too long without food. Hun
ger gives a strained look to the face.
Now and then. If one is fatigued. a
bite between meals will invigorate the
whole system and give repose and re-
Taxation to strained muscles and
nerves.
Don't sit facing strong light.
Don't stoop or bend over while read
ing or writing.
Don't scowl.
Don't use violence in smoothing out
lines on the face. for IL will not stand
pounding. The manipulation must be
gentle and even, or the skin will be-
come coarse and leathery.
Don't rub the lines the wrong way,
or they will become more, instead OF
less, prominent Rub across the wrin-
kles. with rotary motion
Don't loosen the skin from the UNDER
lying tissues. or stretch II.
Don't forget that occasionally dur
ing treatment the face should be gent
ly smoothed with the tips OF the fingers
OF both hands.
Don't be anxious or disheartened, or
impatient. These passions make ugly
lines on the face.
Don't believe that there rs any SUI
pernstural virtue 10 being ugly. or that
IL b 20 very frivolous - c0ntrive that
q man shall always remain Ia love with
his own wife
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-01
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
THE CAPITAL OVERRUN WITH
DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION.

The Trouble Into Which Senator
Elect Hopkins Got-AmOng other
Things He Said George Washing
ton Was Decidedly Inclined to
FIirt with the GirIs-NIrs. CorteI-
you a HOmebOdy-Gen. Miles and
His Guests-The Yarmouth Thaw
Engagement - other Matters of
Special Importance.
Washington, d. c., Feb. 27.-The
twelfth session of the Continental Con-
gress, held this week in the national
capital, fills the city to overfiowing
with Daughters'-nearly 5000 of
them having arrived, from all parts
Of the country. The wearers of the
wheel and staff badge are truly
handsome body, composed OF the very
creme de la creme of society Indeed,
so extremely stylish are they that the
envious "outs" are wont to speak of
them as 1.-The Great Dress Organize
ton of How Not to Do It." OF course
there are dinners and teas and recep-
tons galore in their honor, as a whole
and in state bodies, every state in the
Union being fully represented. At the
first reception, rendered by the Ma
nor House Chapter to the visiting dele
egates, the gowns and jewels of the
receiving party made richer showing
than any seen lin line" this winter at
the White House reception. If the
plain but patriotic ancestors of most
of these modern DANES, who, like Sol
omon's lilies, Toll not, neither do they
spin" lin spite of the distaff badge
could look down upon the gorgeous
gaud and gear of their descendants, l
fancy they would be vastly astonished
The majority of the venerated great
great-grandmother's were pioneer far
mer folk, who believed in the gospel
of labor for both sexes, and thought
that the highest praise to be accord
ed a woman lay in the scriptural text,
She looketh we'll to the ways of her
household and eateth not the bread of
idleness."
From many of the Daughters wild
horses could not draw the admission
that their lauded ancestresses never
owned silken gown or jewel in their
lives; that they cooked over cavern
Gus fireplaces, scrubbed uncarpeted
floor and did the family washing with
their own toil-hardened hands.
BY the way, Senator-elect Albert l.
Hopkins of Illinois, who comes to take
Senator Mason's place, rather put his
substantial foot in il, in an address he
made at the same initial reception.
Mistaking the views of his fashionable
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-01
HALF A CENTURY.


At a recent club dinner given by
newspaper men at Washington the con-
versation turned upon the subject of
testimonials and their value in newspa-
ner advertising. i do not believe"
said a prominent politician who was
present, that one newspaper testimon-
ia1 in a hundred is genuine"
The owner of one of the largest news
papers in the country was present and
took up the subject vigorously, finally
agreeing to let his opponent select any
testimonial in his paper and wagering
to establish it's genuineness to the poll
tician's satisfaction.
Quite by accident the case of Mr..
Newton K. Young of Pennington, N. j.,
was selected. He had been completely
cured of a case of hemorrhoids, or piles,
by the use of Pyramid Pile Cure. The
politician was especially skeptical re-
garding this case, as 1t was alleged that
Mr.. Young was man over eighty
years of age and had been cured of piles
after firty years OF awful suffering and
when all other remedies had failed. II
was agreed that the politician should
write to MIR. Geo. w. Scarborough, PHI
c., a prominent resident of Penning-
ton, and that the result of the con-
troversy should rest upon his reply. The
following was Mr.. Scarborough's an
swer:
Dear Sir--Mr. Newton X. Young Of
this town, a man nearly eighty years
OF age, and who has been sufferer
with piles for perhaps half a century,
has been completely cured by the use OF
Pyramid Pile Cure. / felt especially
Interested I'm the case. as II was upon
my recommendation that Mr.. Young
began the use OF the remedy after hav-
ing used so many others. Yours re-
spectfu1ly, Geo. w. scarborough. Pm.
O."
The Pyramid Drug Company OF Mar.
shall. Mich, have this letter IN their
possession and are willing 20 guarantee
with backing Of one thousand dollars
the gsBuineSefs of ME scaTbOT0ughs
t1allmonE.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-01

sages are ever read by Rockefeller
eyes, but they are read by some one
undoubtedly, and if of any conse-
quence, the. visitor is later asked by
mail to call again and talk his propo-
sition over.
Though never so much of a public
figure as John D., William was much
more frequently mentioned in print
ten or twelve years ago than now.
There was a time when his horses
were often the subject of newspaper
solicitude; later his taste for art re-
ceived some attention, but so far as
the world at large knows, he has given
up both horses and pictures.
1t is understood by a few, however,
that he is as much interested in pic
lures as ever. Both his town and
country houses contain many high
priced canvases, most of which are of
real merit, and many of which were
selected by himself. May it be posi-
BILE that some day in the future Will
liam Rockefeller's name will be known
as that of a great art collector and art
connoisseur?
More than one man of wealth IN
New York has built up such a naxle
and at the same time added to his
riches,
The late Henry Marquand and his
famous art collection, which was sold
recently, are cases in point but the
most interesting instance of this sort
was furnished by the late George I.
Seney. Mr.. Seney failed in business
when in about middle life, but was
able to realize enough from the sale
of his pictures to begin the task of
getting on his feet again. When he
had accomplished the task, measure
bly,, he began on new collection, and
he gathered this together so sxilfully
that long before his death his pic
lures were as valuable as had been
those which formed his first collection.
This second lot of pictures also was
sold by Mr.. Seney eventually, not be-
cause he needed the money just then,
but because there was an obvious pro-
fit to be made in the transaction.
James ]. Hill is as enthusiastic a COL
lector of paintings as ever George I.
Seney was, and, they say he buys
with even better Judgment. He will
never think of selling his pictures for
profit, however, probably since he is
a much richer man than Mr.. Seney
ever was.
OF the other railroad monarchs now
before the public it can hardly be said
that any of them is an art connOisseur
properly speaking. Though all of them
buy expensive pictures, and some of
them own some canvases of great
merit, their picture buying, in the
main, is incidental and not carried on
with purpose. There are several mil
lionaires of prominence, though, who
are getting collections of pictures to-
gether that are certain some day to
surprise the critical world by their ex-
cellence. Duane,