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

Rebuke for Fools Who Write Names
in Public Places.
The man who seeks notOTioty by
placarding his name where he has no
business to put it merely adyertises
his own smallness. Individuals OF
this tyDe drew from President ROOSe-
welt a singing rebuke by lacking
their cards upon the trunks of the
great sequoias near Santa Cruz. The
President suggested that the cards
be torn down, and the suggestion was
acted upon with great and immediate
| enthusiasm, which, however, does
not insure the trees from similar dec
| orations in the future. Why is it that
some people must record the moment
! Gus occasion Of their visit to not
able place by chopping initials ON
tree trunks or scrawling names with
lead pencil wherever surface suit
able for inscription is presented to
their restless gaze?
| Some years ago there was national
| convention of the Knights OF Some
thing or Other held in Washington.
/
in the capital a few people Of unexalt-
ed station who desired to go down the
! Potomac as far as Mount Vernon.
They were quite indignant when they
found that the tombs of Washington
and his wife were covered inches deep
with the cards of delegates to the con-
vention, and that more cards were
forthcoming in the very face OF their
| protest, while the officials in charge of
/ the grounds smiled encouragingly at
the display of pasteboard. You can't
go to Niagara without being Informed
that John Smith and Matilda Jones
were at the edge of the Horseshoe on
| Tuesday of last week; nor can you in
spect the dome of the Capitol at Wash
| ington without seeing all around pen
ciled records of distinguished climbers
who have preceded you. We do not
believe anybody has yet defaced the
| Grand Canyon of the Colorado, be-
| cause it is somewhat difficult to write
names there so that they can be seen
by those who come after, and no one
who is enough of vandal to deface
nature would perpetrate the defac2-
ment unless he was sure that some
body else would witness and initiate
| it. Trees and rocks can't be easily pro-
tected against such outrages, but pub
lie buildings can and ought to be
through the summary punishment Of
Offenders Brooklyn Eagle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
TRADE IN OLD CLOTHES.
New York Stock Ii Shipped to AL
Parts Of the Country.

New York Stock Ii Shipped to All
Parts of the Country.
One might imagine that the Old
clothes trade would be about the last
to be affected by period of CONNER
cial prosperity, but it Is, to very re-
markable degree. Touters looking for
men with old clothes to sell are album
dant in all parts Of the city, but they
are particularly persistent in Broad
way, anywhere from Forty second
street to Trinity Church, says the New
York Times. A man who made an ap-
pointment at his hotel with one OF
these touters produced suit with a
sack coat a cutaway and a Prince Al
bert coat, as It still continues to be
called. The man handed the latter
two garments back.
Don't want them" he said. "Why,
they won't even take them at the
pawnshops. Two years ago we gath
cred in all the getaways and frock
coats we could lay hands on. Now
We won't touch them"
NeW IOIh 1eduS LII the SQlpLAeuL VI
old clothes to all parts Of the country,
just as she leads in the manufacture
Of new clothes. In Seventh and Eighth
avenues, just below Thirty-eighth
street, the center Of the old clothes
industry, truck loads Of them are sent
away every day. In crowded little
rooms In the side streets in that neigh
borhood hundreds Of men are en-
ployed making these discarded gar
ments "look like new" A suit Of
clothes has to be very good indeed this
year to pass muster with the second
hand dealer. In hard times he will
take almost anything that hangs to-
gether, for the old clothes demand
never ceases, and must be filled with
something or other. But when times
are good and clothes are cheap the
old clothes man Is very much in the
game. He is keen as a hunter in scent
Ing his prey. 1t Is very sharp man
who can get the better Of him. He is
polite, even obsequious, If there Is a
chance Of a trade; If not, he is likely
to say unpleasant things. The men who
solicit old clothes in the streets are
usually paid on commission. The more
they bring in the more they make
and they are very much on the make
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
GIirnDSeS.

Some hearts there are which know not
full fruition
Of any hope; but oftentimes along
The dark there falls beam, on loving
mission:
Across theo silence breaks bar of
song!
A golden day, perhaps, with one whose
coming
To spend all days would swiftly dry
all tears!
A silver night, when earth's discordant
strumming
Is lost in music heard Of spirit ears!
Glimpses--short-liv sureties of
brightness
To follow fast this life of transient
breath;
Some natures could not bear all sweet
and lightness,
So God withholds their JOY till after
death
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
u. S. SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
Recommends Pe-ru-na
For Dyspepsia and Stomach Trouble
Catarrh of the Stomach Is Generally
Called Dyspepsia Something
to Produce Artificial Dl0es-
ton is Generally Taken.
Hence, Pepsir, PanCreatln and a Hest
of Other Digestive Remedies
HAS Been Invented.
These Remedies Do Not Reach the
Seat Of the Difficulty, Which
Is Really Catarrh.

rX-U. s. Senator M. @. Butler frem
z, South Carolina was Senator from
that State for two terms. In a re-
cent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co..
from Washington, D. O., says:
"T can recommend Peruna for Gyss
pepSia and stomach trouble. Ih&ve
been using y0s r medicine for a short
period and feel very much relieved
II is indeed wonderful medicine be-
sides good tonic. IN. c. DufEer.
The only rational way to cure dyspeD-
STA Is to remove the catarrh. Peruna
cures catarrh. Peruna does not produce
artificial digestion. 1t cures catarrh and
leaves the stomach to perform digestion
in a natural way. This Is vastly better
and safer than resorting to artificial
methods.
Peruna has cured more cases of dys-
pepsia than all other remedies COM
bined, simply because 1t cures catarTh
wherever located. If catarrh Is located
in the head, Peruna cures it. If catarrh
has fastened itself in the throat or
bronchial tubes Peruna cures 1t. When
catarrh becomes settled in the stomach,
Peruna cures It, as we'll In this location
as In any other.
Peruna Is not simply a remedy Ter
dyspepsia. Peruna is a catarrh remedy.
Peruna cures dyspepsia because 1t In
generally dependent upon catarrh.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
IMPRESSIONS IN VENICE.
City Which Ts Yet Beautiful, But
Suggests Decay.

A City Which Ts Yet Beautiful, But
Suggests Decay.
Under every mood IN which | saw
the city there was q deeper mood
which was hard to define to myself,
but which seemed curiously COM
pounded out of its pathos and its
Soualor. Venice is beautiful and yet
SO pitiful A city where the peoples
Of the world have hustled and traf-
licked. that has been a great mart and
cosmopoIis and now is neither is more
pathetic in its decay than any other;
il is like the lonely and desolate old
age Of woman in whose salon the
wits and beaux of vanished time had
paid their court, says a correspondent
of the New York Mail and Express.
1t is unreasonable that any sentl-
ment of disrespect at its plight should
arise, and yet sometimes | felt It. To
vary the figure little, the spectacle
of the fallen bride had in it something
tragic yet squalid. like the fate OF a
beautiful and high born woman Wnom
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Birds 6hun This Tree.

A German authority has recently an
nounced the discovery Of a tree In the
forests Of Central India which has
most curious characteristics The
leaves Of the tree are Of a highly sen.
sitive nature, and SO full OF electricity
that whoever touches one Of them
receives an electric shock. It has a
very singular effect upon magnetic
needle, and will influence it at dis
lance Of even seventy feet The cleo
trical strength Of the tree varies &C
cording to the time Of day, 1t being
strongest at midday and weakest at
midnight. In wet weather it's powers
disappear altogether. Birds never ap-
proach the tree, nor have insects ever
been seen upon it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

passion or mischance had dragged
down to the life of the streets. l can
understand the wish which Howells
had expressed somewhere that the
dead cities of Italy might all be wall
ed up and left slowly to fall into ruins
by themselves; their present estate IS
not dignified and the quest that brings
the tourist to them comes near Illus
trating the indecency of curiosity.
The worst of it all, so far as Venice
is concerned, is the feeling that the
cup of it's humiliation is not yet full.
Those leaning church towers, those
walls that totter out of plumb prom
Use other chapters in the story that be-
gan with the fall of the Campan1le Line
sea which Graded Venice may some
time be it's grave. Little by little,
you cannot but feel, these monuments
will crumble and disappear as the rot
ten piles sag and snap under them;
you shrink from presaging the Gala
mitous ana bitter day when every edl-
fee shall have melted away into
molderng heap, and the tides OF the
Adriatic, as they sweep back ana
forth, will roll across the slime that
was Venice.
Something Of this thought came TO
me, on my last morning there, when !
climbed tower only second IN height
to that of st. Marks, and looked down
on the city and the lagoons that en-
circled It, 1t lay there in the sunlight,
beautiful yet ruinous, smaller than L
had imagined-indeed, about the size
and shape of Manhattan island be-
low Canal street. From other towers
the chimes were ringing, and the bells
seemed to proclaim how completely
the past was gone; how far removed
the city from the track of modern cosl-
merce; how useless now the vantage
that had made it great
| am ashamed to say it, but the same
sensation came to me that remember
when l spent an hour in Coney is
land after the summer was gone ana
the concert halls were boarded UP and
the Bowery lights had been darkened
"a desolate feeling quite divorced
from dignity. 1t was depressing, and,
believe me, I was glad to leave Ven
ice
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
An After Dinner Train.

Beginning Aug. 2, NJ, K. & T. train
No. 3 will leave Kansas City Union depot
at 1926 p. M, instead of 1885 a. m. as
heretofore. This makes an elegant after
dinner train for Texas, giving passen-
gers from the North and West an oppor-
tunity to lay over in Kansas City for
several hours, and then resume their
journey to points reached by the katy"
In Oklahoma, Indian Territory and
Texas
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

Mrs. P. Conlin, 50 Green
field Avenue, Carbonate,
Pa, says: II suffered with
backache, and, despite the
use of medicines, I could not
get rid Of it. Iaoas compelled
to use o. cr,ttch for eight
months, and a part Of the
time was unable to walk at
all. I fairly screamed If ]
attempted to lift my feet
from the floor, and, finally,
] lost control Of my limbs
through weakness, as I could
neither bend nor straighten
up to my full height, and If
ever a woman was In a serious
condition, I was. My hus-
band went to Kelly's drug
store and brought home a.
box Of Doan's Pills. I felt
easier in a few days, and,
continuing the treatment, ]
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Uncle Reuben Saws:

De man who leaves $4,000 behind
him to erect a monument ober his
grave could have bought a heap mo-
public praise wild $500 with Of soup
tickets, but fur some reason or other
nobody cher put him ON to de racket
Detroit Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

Ask Your Dealer for Aliens Foot Ease,
A powder to shake into your shoes. 1t
rests the feet Cures Corns, Bunions,
Swollen, Sore, Hot, Gallons, Aching,
Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails.
Aliens Foot-Ease makes new or tight
shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and
shoe stores, 25c. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

Aching backs are eased.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling OF the
limbs and dropsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment, hig h
colored. pain In passing,
dribbling, frequency, bed
wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills
remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation,
sleeplessness, h eada CHI Q,
nervousness, dizziness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
New Cook Every Dav

Nodd-It's so lonesome out In the
country. I should think you would like
to have some one spend the night with
you.
Todd do. I bring out a new cook
almost every day.-Town Topics.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

An old railroad man looks upon
passenger brakeman with disgust; he
says passenger brakeman is sort OF
nurse to woman and children passen'
gers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving q
full statement Of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Cheap Fireworks.

Ohurch-What is the effect of using
kerosene ON the mosquitoes?
Flatbush-Oh, I guess it makes light
ming bugs Of them.-Yonkers Statesman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

Shooting Is the most popular method
Of suicide.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

"A.

was soon able to walk. At
the end Of two weeks the
pains ia my loins left. When
/ had completed the treat
ment, l had not an ache nor
o pain, and I have been In
that condition ever since.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
Her Reason.

He-Women are seldom capable Of
reasoning.
She-Don't you believe anything like
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

The name 'negro1head" is applied to
large rolls of tobacco, weighing 6 to 10
pounds each.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

Mrs. Wins1ow's SOOTHING sTRUr for Childrs
teething; softens the gums reduces Inflammation, a.
lays pain, cures wind colo. Is cents q bottle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

He-Why not?
She-Well, er-because.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19

Now I'm old | will not falter;
Curfew it must ring tonight"
Wild her eyes and pale her features,
Stern and white her thoughtful brow,
While within her sacred bosom
Bessie made solemn vow.
She had listened while the judge read,
Without a tear or sigh,
cat the ringing Of the curfew,
Basel Underwood must die"
And her breath came fast and faster,
And her eyes grew large and bright,
In an undertone she murmured,
"CurfeW shall not ring tonight"
With quick steps she bounded forward,
Sprang within the old church door,
Left the old man, treading slowly,
Path so oft he'd trod before.
Not one moment paused the maiden,
But with eye and cheek agloW,
Mounted up the gloomy tower,
Where the bell swung to and fro,
And she climbed that dusty ladder
On which fell no ray of light.
Up and up her white lips saying,
"Curfew shall not ring tonight"
Now she's reached the topmost ladder,
Der her hangs the great dark bell,
Awful is the gloom beneath her
Like the pathway down to hell.
So the ponderous tongue is swinging,
TITS the hour of curfew now,
And the sight has chilled her bosom,
Stopped her breath and filled her brow
Shall she let it ring? No, never!
FLASHED her eyes with sudden light,
AS she sprang and grasped it firmly,
"Curfew shall not ring tonight"
Out she swung, far out,
The city seemed a speck of light,
Below there, twixt heaven and earth
suspended
AS the bell swung to and fro
And the sexton at the bell rope,
Old and deaf, heard not the bell,
Sadly thought that twilight curfew
Rang young Bassel's funeral knell;
Still the maiden >clung more firmly,
And with lips of trembling white,
Said to hush her hearts wild throbbings
"Curfew shall not ring tonight"
It was DER, the bell ceased swaying,
And the maiden stepped once more,
ElPmly on the dark ,Olu lauueT,
Where for hundred years before,
Human foot had not been planted.
The brave deed that she had done
Should be told long ages after,
AS the rays of setting sun
Crimson all the sky with beauty,
Aged sires with heads of white
Tell the eager list'ning children,
"Curfew did not ring that night
Bessie sees him and her brow,
Lately filled with fear and anguish,
Has no anxious traces now.
At his feet she tells her story,
Shows her hands all bruised and torn
And her face so sweet and pleading,
Yet with sorrow pale and worn,
Touched his heart with sudden pity,
Lit his eyes with misty light,
go your lover lives" says Cromwell,
"Curfew shall not ring tonight"
Wide they swung the massive portals
Led the prisoner forth to die,
All his bright young life before him
Meath the darkened English skies.
Bessie comes with flying footsteps,
Eyes aglow with love light sweet,
Kneeling on the turf beside him,
Lays his pardon at his feet.
In his brave, strong arms he clasps her
Kissed the face upturned and white
Whispered, Darling, you have saved me
Curfew did not ring that night"
Rose Hartwick Thorpe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-19
ODD
FAvORITES


Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight.
Slowly England's sun was setting
Der the hilltops far away,
Filling all the land with beauty
At the close of one sad day
And the last rays kissed the forehead
OF man and maiden fair.
He with footsteps slow and weary,
She with sunny floating hair,
He with bowed head, sad and thoughtful
She with lips so cold and white,
Said to hush her hearts wild throbbing
''Curfew must not ring tonight
Sexton" Bessie's white lips faltered,
Pointing to the prison old,
With it's tower tall and gloomy,
With it's walls dark, damp and cold,
1--WE a lover in that prison,
Doomed this very night to die
At the ringing Of the curfew,
And no earthly help is nigh.
Cromwell will not come till sunset"
And her lips grew strangely white,
AS she breathed the husky whisper,
"CurfeW must not ring tonight"
Bessie" calmly spoke the sexton,
Every word pierced her young heart,
Like the piercing of an arrow,
Like a deadly poisoned dart,
Long, long years I've rung the curfew
From that gloomy Swallowed tower,
Every evening just at sunset
It has tolled the twilight hour.
/ have done my duty ever,
Tried to do it just and right,
Now I'm old / will not falter;
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-12-02
WILL BORE AN
ARTESlAN WELL

V. r. Meade, than whom no one
knows the Blue mountain country
more thoroughly, says he Is Of the
opinion that artesian wells will have
to be resrted to to solve the water
supply for Sumpter.
His reason for this belief is that In
every shaft sunk on this slope Of the
range, water Is encountered at from
fifty to 100 feet, the supply growing
greater a. depth Is attained. The
greatest flow yet encountered was
found In the Golden Wizard. on
Deer creek; where, at less than 900
feet depth, 30 great volume was
encountered that no machinery yet
installed has been able to keep the
shaft sufficiently free from water to
permit 1t being worked in that par.
ticular place.
So convinced IL he that artesian
water can be found. that he has de-
cided to buy a drill aud bore we'll
on his Mill street lot, where he lives.
The machinery will be ordered SO
that II will arrive here In time to
begin operations In the early spring.
II Mr.. Meade's theory IL proven
correct, 1t will prove Of vast benefit
to this whole section If country.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-12-02
THIS THE GREATEST
MINING REGION EVER
It's Greatest Drawback Is The Per.
SlStsnt Butter.In. Who Never
Lands a Victim.

John X. Cassin, OF Spokane, presi.
dent Of the Alamo Mining company,
passed through Sumpter Sunday, on
his way home from the mine. Mr..
Cassin isxn mining man of wide ex-
perience aud his favorable opinion
on II district is OF value. He says
that he believes eastern Oregon con.
stitutes the greatest mining region
on tho globe, SO far AZ Its natural re.
sources In minerals and the necessary
adjuncts to work the ores, wood aud
water, are concerned.
Notwithstanding all this, he says,
this country has one serious drawback {:
II Is a difficult matter to induce
capital TO invest here. One reason
for this is that the mining men who
live here don't work together, aud
When men are not united In any
effort, they are very apt to be antaR-
onistic. On this point, Mr.. Cassin
says:
"On II previous visit to Sumpter
was accompanied by some gentlemen
from the east. whom was trying to
induce to invest. 4 local broker
butted into the game aud endeavored
to get them interested In another prop
osition. He was doing his work In
the To- ~ of the Hotel Sumpter ard
l IN to 20 to the manager Of the
house aud demand protection from
that variety Of pirate. That Is the
only trouble Of the kind l have ever
had here In Sumpter. but In Baker
City this species Of interference IL u
positive nuisance, mensoinR danger.
I "And the strange feature Of the
proposition 10 that they persits In
this. when they have never landed
yet aud never will. The only result
IL to drive men and money out Of the
You people ought to organ
ize against such practice, for II 10
working = great injury"
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-12-02
SUMPTER SMfLTER MAY
BLOW IN NOW ANY DAY

Two cars of ore from the Golconda
were sent out today for the Sumpter
smelter. This makes the first con-
signment received here from this
we'll known Cracker Creek producer,
aud while there Is no definite infor-
nation obtainable relative to this
phase Of the matter, the natural sup
position would be that the Golconda
intends transferring its patronage
to the Sumpter institution.
The fact of the Golconda's ship
ment would also seem to warrant
the conclusion that the smelter peo-
pie have made an arrangement where
by all ores offered may be purchased.
When approached relative to this
aspect Of the situation. DR.. Ed W.
Mueller, manager of the smelter. had
nothing to say either In confirmation
or denial.
Again, the activity at the lime kiln,
and the general overhauling and
fixing up of the machinery at the
plant, leads to the belief that opera
tions may start now any day. DR..
was also non communicative
On this point, but admitted that early
in Is contemplated, though
he declined to name date.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-12-02

miners. and they are among the stay
ers. There are Others lsess familiar
to the public whom | could mention.
Mr.. sHutchins Is going back in a few
days. The Major now has force of
men employed In building road
from Rastus City to the forks of East
Camp creek. where his tunnel site
IL located.
"The values are not in the phono.
lite, but in the contacts, as Is the
case In Cripple Creek and in the
Black Hills, the only other two places
| know of where a similar formation
IL found. And In each instance tel
lurides are encountered with depth.
''Two- thirds of the claims located
In the first mad rush are now vacant.
Only few people are left there, but
they think they know what they are
u about. "
Mr.. Kelman and his partners will
return to Rastus In about two weeks
and remain there during the winter.