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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
ITEMS OE INTEREST.

OF the children of school age in
Russia, 100000 are receiving no in
struction.
There are 800 Chinese students in
the colleges of Japan and 500 more
are to be sent.
Japan imported last year $1,474,0 900
worth Of watches, four-tifths Of them
from Switzerland.
Germany's new meat inspection
laws have reduced by half the amount
Of meat imported.
1t is estimated that half a million
New Workers are awake and busy,
legitimately or otherwise, all night.
Radium, when brought near a dia-
mord in the dark, will make 1t sparkle.
Paste diamonds are not affected.
For ten years the average yield Of
corn in Iowa has been, approximately,
thirty-ive bushels to the acre.
One Of the most prominent oil mag
mates in Los Angeles is a woman,
who is said to control about half Of
the whole product.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
An Adjective overworked.

The exposition, private yacht" "
which suddenly burst into pernicious
activity about three years ago, has
probably come to stay, though it
would puzzle those who use it to ex-
plain it. Why say ''Mr. w. *. YAM
derbilt's private yacht?" Mr.. w. K.
Vanderbilt's yacht is his private pleas
ure boat. The adjective private" is
utterly superfuous in this case. Pres
emily we shall be told that Mr.. 0. H.
2. Belmont went to the opera wearing
his private" dress suit. He would be
Just as likely to wear a public dress
suit as to- sail in a public yacht. Only
monarchs cruise on public yachts
New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
Chicago Live Stock,

NhACbSO AAVe SCOcks
Hogs-Estimated receipts for the day,
pigs, $54O@585 for light, $4.8O@5O5 for
rough packing, $515@580 for mixed,
and $5.l0@5.8O for heavy packing and
shipping lots, with the bulk of the trad
ing at $5.15@5.60 for fair to good aver
ages.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for the
day, 1900. Quotations ranged at $3.50
$500 for choice to extra steers, $3.50
535 for good to choice do, $4.65@4.90 for
fair to, good do. $4,000 Is for common
steers, $2.50@410 stockers and feeders.
81. 5O@45O cows, $2.50@4.75 heifers, 1925
@450 bulls and oxen, $3.50@4.25 stays,
$300@4.4G Texas steers. and $4.O0@6.75
veal calves.
Sheep-Estimated receipts for the
day. $4,000 Quotations ranged at $2.75
0S7O westerns, $2.50@3.S0 natives. $3.50
OSLO western lambs, and $3.75@5.40 ma
tive lambs.
East Buffalo Live Stock.
East Buffalo, N. Y, Oct. s.
Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock COM
mission Merchants, East Buafflo N. z,
quote as follows: Cattle Receipts,
ears. slow. Hogs-Receipts 40 cars.
dull. lower; medium, $E.90@6.0; heavy,
$575@5.SO; workers, $5;9O@6.OO; pigs. $3.50
Lambs Receipts, is cars. market firm;
S.. 40@56O; cuiis and common, s475@
800; mixed sheep, $3.75@4.OO; fair to
good. $3.50@3.60; ewes, $350@375;
Wethers. $4.OO@4.25; yearlinga s4.25@
4.5O Calves-Steady; best, $7.75@8.00;
fair to good, $6.00@7.50.
st. Louis Grain.
ST. Louis, Oct. s.
Wheat-Higher; No. 2 red cash eleva-
tor, ssh @S71ac; December, S51ac; May,
SS1bc; No. hard cash, 77@781ac. Corn
Higher; No. Q cash elevator, AN @44Ac;
December. 41%c; May. 41Ac. Oats
Higher; No. 2 cash elevator, 2SW3S13c;
on track: December, 361sc; May, 37Bc;
No. 2. 531ac.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10

two theater parties and four dozen
American Beauty roses; or you can
take it down to Wall street and get
nervous prostration. In either case
you'll be driving a car at the end of
the month. On the other hand, bust
ness worth $4,000 in Collingwood will
make you independent, happy, a man
of substance and consideration. You
can look forward with confidence; but
In this city there isn't man, however
shrewd, however rich, who has any
rational idea what the future of bust
ness enterprises is going to be. For a
man with small capital it is the finest
possible place to stay away FROM"
"Stella doesn't think so," said Has
kell. "She says that it's the ideal
place for a young man of spirit; that
the very air throbs with inspiration"
1T throbs with the Impotence of fat
rasfals to get other peoples money"
said Benton. "Tom, go home"
"Why, thought you were doing first
rate" exclaimed the simple rustic. ~
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10

Charles Washburn, one Of the auc-
tiOneers in the fruit exchange over the
Erie railroad pier, was interrupted By
Inspector Bayard Fuller and a police
man, the latter leading very dis
reputable looking emigrant, who had
wandered away from his boarding
house and did not know how to get
back.
whats the matter with him?
asked Mr.. WaShburn.
He's lost" replied Inspector Fuller.
"Weu, what have to do with it?'
"We've tried him with English,
Spanish, Greek, Italian, German and
French, but he doesn't understand a
word. Now we want to see if he I'M
derstands that COMPOUNDED gibberish
you speak. "-Philadelpbia Ledger.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
NO GROUND FOR SUSPICION
Brother of a Suspected Man Explains tho
Sudden Departure of Bereaved
Doctor.

Chicago, Oct. 9.-Dr. Joseph Low, Of
this city, brother of DIR. Frank Low,
formerly of Clinton Junction, Wis,
whose wife died a few months after
their marriage and whose departure
for Oklahoma on the day of the fu-
neral caused some comment, denies
that there is any ground for suspicion
of foul play as the action of relatives
of the dead woman might indicate.
Without the knowledge of the hus-
band or his brother, it is said, the cor
oner was asked to investigate. The
body was disinterred and chemical
examination made. Said DIR. Low:
MY brother was heart-broken over
his wife's DEATH and that is the rea-
son for his sudden departure. He is
in Oklahoma and will return if neces-
Sary.''
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
"sTELLA!" HE GASPED.

pert criminal he would have counter
feited innocence by doing as they did.
Instead he remained in that room,
wringing his hands, drenched with
nervous sweat and the prey of thou
sand fanciful terrors.
After an interval that seemed to him
to extend we'll into the next day the
general babble of voices ceased and
he became aware of two that were just
outside his door. One was Mrs. Jolly'S,
and the other was strange, gruff and
fearsome. Haskell was unable to stand
the strain. He flung open the door and
confronted gigantic policeman, who
strobe into the room, followed by Mrs.
Jolly. r
"What seems to be the matter?" in
Quired Haskell in a faint voice.
Mrs. Jolly sank weakly into chair.
"It's the strangest thingw said she.
II never had anything of the kind hap
pen in house of mine before. A young
lady in the top floor front has lost the
tray of her trunk, and she says that
all her money and her ticket on the
railroad were in it. She was going
home tomorrow" "a
At this moment the policeman inter
rupted her by STOPPING forward and
tapping on the floor with his club.
whats this?'' he demanded. And
the next instant he had dragged the
tray of trunk from under the bed.
you've got a nerve, you have!" he
continued, waving his club toward Has
kell. Come along with me till we get
this thing identified, and them
He did not finish the sentence, but
strobe out into the hall with the tray.
"Oh, myv' cried voice from above.
where did you find it?'
A pretty dark eyed girl came flying
down the stairs. Haskell at sight of
her fell back against the casing of the
door.
STELLAR he gasped.
The girl turned toward him with a
cry She had just thrust her hand into
! the tray to the spot where her money
should have been, and her fingers had
J clutched large assortment Of collars
and neckties, obviously gentleman's.
atom Haskellw she exclaimed. "You
here? Have you sold-oh, 1 hope you
haven't sold''-
Stella said he, with strange
calm, you were going home tomor-
row. Why"
IL didn't want you to do it." she
gasped. 81 heard you were going to
because I'd said so much, and
tor
row?"
81 can't" said she family. my tick
ct and money are gone"
"Look in the other trunk"
1.-The other trunk? Why, it's a
man'sv'
"It's NINE" said Haskell. '"rhe serv-
ant brought down my tray this after
noon. I didn't know it. went up in
the dark and got yours by mistake.
Then I took it back again and locked
! 1t up in my trunk because 1 got lost in
! the dark. The two are just alike. Old
| Sam Harris in Collingwood only car
ries one line, and we got the same size.
Wait Let me get this explanation
done. Curtis Benton sent me here 1t
was trick of his. He wanted to
bring us together, and his success has
been sensational. Stella, will you go
| home with me tomorrow
ST don't like New York as we'll as
thought I should" said she, with fem
mime indirection.
$50 far as l can fgger 1t out" said
the policeman, there amt been no
crime here at all; only a mistake"
"Only mistake" said Stella.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10

- WE was a very big young man.,
but he had a timid air, as if
he were afraid that some one
would tell him to go away. He
wore a cutaway coat of black diagonal
worsted, with waistcoat and trousers
of the same material, and his heavy
overcoat was considerably shorter than
it should have been. In his hand he
carried a travelling bag which looked
as if it might have been his mothers.
The fact that the great office was al
most deserted did not reassure him. A
few clerks were visible behind the win
dows that stretched away upon either
hand, and he had a feeling that one Of
them might thrust out his head sud-
denly and ask why Thomas N. Haskell
of Collingwood, O., had come to New
York.
He had passed within three feet of
a uniformed attendant without seeing
him, and when this individual said
"Well, sir?' in a tone of polite interrc-
cation Haskell jumped as though he
had been hit in the small of the back.
81 was looking for Mr.. Benton" said
he, blushing.
"Mr. Benton won't be here till 8
o'clock" said the attendant. "You can
wait in this ROOM"
The reception room was impressively
elegant, and it made Haskell feel poor.
He took off his overcoat and hat,
dropped the travelling bag upon the
floor and lay back in big chair, with
his eyes turned up to the ornate ceiling.
1t was his intention to "think it all
over for the five thousandth time, but
instead he fell asleep and dreamed of
q tall, slender, dark eyed girl full of
life and willfulness. Her voice was
clear, high and imperious, but in this
dream it suddenly became harsh and
deep, and she said:
''Tom Haskell! Well, blast my but
tonsr'
The young man awoke to find Curtis
Benton shaking his hand.
Your cried Benton. "You in New
York;
"Yes," responded Haskell. Reuben
Jay has come to town, and he has come
to stay"
you've come to stayw echoed Ben
ton. "Is your business sold|'
1T will be inside Of week." replied
Haskell. 1.-THE terms are all settled,
and Lawyer Warner will take the mon
ey and ship it on to me. I couldn't
wait"
Benton sat down on the arm Of a
chair and stared at his friend.
'Is this Stella Maynard's doing?'' he
demanded.
"Stella thinks I'm a toadstool, if
that's what you mean," said Haskell.
'She thinks I'm negotiating in Colling-
wood, and that's not her idea of ex-
istence. She's in New York studying
music"
"Stella is as good girl as ever
lived" said Benton, ''but she is raising
the Old Harry with you. What are you
going to do in New York?'
Haven't fully decided" responded
Haskell in a tone of cheerful despera-
ton. Thought I'd look around bit.
I'll have about $4,000, and"-
Twenty thousand dollars in New
York." said Benton solemnly, twill buy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
Found Dynamite in His Barn.

Helena, Mont, Oct. 9.-Northern Pa
cific officials in Helena, and the au-
thorities of Broaway county, have
been notified by Nicholas Rovic,
farmer, that he found two large sacks
of dynamite under the hay in his
barn. Rovice says that one morning
several weeks ago, on going to his
barn early, he found man sleeping
ON tie hay, who, upon being discoy-
cred mounted horse and rode away.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
A Dozen Times a Night.

Mr.. Owen Dunn of Benton Ferry wv.
Va, writes;"I have had kidney and
bladder trouble for years, and it became
so bad that was obliged to get up at
least dozen times a night. | never
received any permanent benefit from
medicine until tried Foley's Kidney
Cure. After using two bottles, am
cured" Jos. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
Mrs. Fairbanks Addresses the ID. A. II.

Davenport, Ia, Oct. 9.-The Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution met
in state convention here. The feature
was the address of Mrs. Charles w.
Fairbanks, wife of the senator from
Indiana, who is president general Of
the society. The state regent, Mrs.
Maria Purdy Peck, of Davenport, was
reelected
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
THE WEATHER

Following is the official weather fore
cast up to o'clock tonight:
Illinois. Indiana and Lower Michigan
Fair and continued cool: westerly
winds
Wisconsin and Iowa-Fair; slightly
cooler; westerly winds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
Stock Exchange Seats Are Cheaper.

New York, Oct. 8. = A stock eX-
change seat has been transferred for
So 800, which is $500 below the last
recorded sale and about $4,000 below
the high record price at which seats
sold year or more ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-10
4 PAIR OF
TR AVS
By WARD LDING
Copyright, 1902, by G. w. Hooke

WYE was very big young man,
A but he had timid air, as if
he were afraid that some one
~ ~ FOL 70
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-13
PIONEER WOMAN CUTS THROAT

Colfax, Oct. 13.-Mrs. James Wood
ley, wife of one of the oldest settlers
and most highly respected citizens of
Colfax, committed suicide by cutting
her throat Saturday evening. 1t is
thought she was temporarily insane
She had been i'll for some time, and
her mind had been unbalanced. She
was under care of a nurse, who had
left the room for a short time, and
when she returned found Mrs. Wood
ley with her throat cut and gasping
for breath. She died in few min
utes, without regaining consciousness
Mrs. Woodley was Sc years old and
leaves a husband in Colfax and
daughter, Mrs. Walter Dodd, whose
husband is son of Charles H. Dodd,
of Portland, living in New York. she
was an estfmable woman and q leader
in church and social circles. Her
tragic death was a shock to this
community.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-13
ederation Is Needed.

of the powers and influence of the
holy see
Federation Is Needed.
What will save Italy and renew IN
a new form the independence of the
supreme moral power will be feder-
alton adapted to circumstances
communal system. whence sprang the
hundred cities of Italy with their
wonders and their glories, that broad
and elastic system in which the move
ment of the varied provinces OF the
land had easy play. That is the real
fact, for such is the law of history
and such the imperative impulse OF
necessity.
Plus X. looks on the social and dem
ocratic question as the keynote or
government, and the masterful force
Of the time. Signor Toniolo, the the
oretical head of democracy; Count
Medolag Albani. the chief organizer
and president of the second group;
Count Grosoli, confirmed as the di-
rector of the opera del congress-"
all the leaders of popular activity, are
old friends of the pope.
Social Union Encouraged.
At the Padua congress in August,
1896, when he blessed the schemes
of the union for social studies" dur
ing his patriarchate in Venice, when
he filled Venetia with associations for
protection, Plus x. came into con-
contact with the new necessities, en-
couraged Christian democracy, and
followed with ardor the severe and
lofty aspirations of Leo Kill No
sooner had he become pope than he
confirmed Count Grosoli in his office.
The president insists that he did not
care for a perfunctory reappointment.
He explained his views, which were
those of Leo XIII, of Signor Toniolo,
of Count Medolago Plus X. approx
ed and praised. 1t is by those ideas
that the acts of the holy father will
be guided.
When eager opponents undertook
to attack Count Grosol. Plus X in
terfered at once and stood up for
Christian democracy.
That good and gentle man is a
vigorous pilot. He administers, and
will be the living and fruitful execu-
tor Of the policy impressed on the
pa pacy by Leo XIII That will be his
place in history-a high and full
place. His mind adapted itself to
the surrounding difficulties. He
created slowly, with tact and gentle
ness, the new Catholic state of mind
such as present conditions demand
The legislator became a Fabius Cunc-
tator
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-13

full term OF twenty years was not i'm
posed. The same consideration in
tiuenced the court in the sentences
imposed today.
In his remarks this morning, Judge
Bell referred to his recent practice
OF passing heavy sentence upon con-
victed criminals, and declared that he
should continue to do SO in the hope
of lettering the dangerous element
from the commission of crime.
Kelly Took No Active Part.
The sentence of ten years is the
lightest upon conviction for robbery
that has been given by Judge Bell
for several months In this case the
evidence tended to show that John
Kelly took no active part in the rob-
berry, but was merely present with the
others when the crime was commit
ted.
1t was in the trial of Lne two Kellys
that their accomplice, Murphy, was
put upon the witness stand after his
own conviction and testified that the
other two men were not with him. but
his companions were two individuals
who had then left the city. One, he
said, was in Whatcom and the other
in Vancouver.
Murphy had already testified at his
own trial that he himself was in San
Francisco at the time of the robbery,
and in view of his apparent readiness
to perjure himself the jury disregard
ed his later testimony.
Before imposing the sentence, Judge
Bell refused applications for new
trials, on the ground that from the
evidence he had no doubt that both
men had been rightly convicted.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-13
.JS RULES
|fI1H FIRMNESS
Roman Catholic Pentif
| Ills Own Secretary
|,t,E,Ls BEAUTY OF CHARACTER
| Head Of the Church Believes the
Communal System May
Save Italy.

Rome Oct. 13.-Pius x, that soul
=. crystal is revealing the beauty of
!. character and the firmness of his
F-ind Hearts that are extremely good
hre strong hearts.
one must be infinitely intelligent
l. he wholly good" said Nine. SWEET
|chlne.
His race. his beginnings, his educa-
nm in supernatural things, his com
merce with men, and his experience
II affairs have elevated the soul of
The holy father to an extraordinary
rarception OF things. His love for
the humbl and for workingmen fills
MIN with bitv and inexhaustible ben
evidence, but experience and the
shirt of government protect his ex-
uusite urbanity by an active and Of
lien infexible energy. When he has
made I'D his mind it is once for all
At Venice, the Difesa refused to
support the alliance of conservatives
and liberals which the patriarch,
cardinal Sarto, had taken under his
protection.
You must fall into line" he said
Ito Father Zocchi.
Il cannot
Il wish it,"
Then allow Us to disappear"
The Dtfesa must go on
In that case l resign as editor"
you must remain at your post"
All Abandon Me-"
From the very beginning Plus x.
|Met with disillusions which increased
Pr fear Of power and his regrets at
Eeaying Venice Weary with the du-
r. of commanding, which he never
Bowed Cardinal Rampolla declined the
slonor ana the crushing weight Of the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-13
RESUME.

Everybody's magazine for October
comes heralded with the announce
ment that under it's new management
the circulation has grown by 100000
copies during the past four months
Now the normal summer history Of
almost any magazine is one of loss;
from June to September, while the
reading world is out of the range of
news-stands and spends its evenings
out of doors, the sales fall Off by
thousands, and the philosophic edi-
tor bides his time and puts his
strength on the autumn numbers,
which are to pull him back to his
high-water line, and perhaps a little
beyond For a new enterprise, these
months would be presumably as the
obscure but necessary run, prefacing
the brave jump in the fall. One picks
up the new Everybody's to see why
it has violated the usual procedure.
Articles, stories, pictures, poems
proverbs, comments of the times, por
traits of the eminent. intimate conf
dences from the publishers; some
where in these lie the secret of sue
cess. The investigating finger points
first, perhaps, to The Madness of
Much Money wherein Alfred Henry
Lewis uses his trenchant pen as a
stiletto and jabs freely and daringly
at the follies of those whom most Of
us would run our shoes off to meet;
i-ti To h1J
man nature in that. Then there is T.
P. O'ConnOr's study Of ''Labby
human document that needs no es-
pecial interest in the powerful, biting
Labouchere for its appeal, since the
living presentment of a great man
must always make the crowd pause,
no matter what his race or his reason
for greatness.
Literal neutrality-suspicious. phs-
show the heads Of Americas great
orders, the knights Templars and the
Masons. the Bar Association, the
Christian ndeavor, the D. A. R., ETC.,
with a brief. personal account of each
Timeliness, they say, has value; for
that there is Will Payne's character
study of Chicago, coinciding with
that city's celebration of its hun
dredth birthday But perhaps that
boosted 100000 would have been no
more than $4,000 with less vital row
Of stories, short and long. 0. Henry
has done nothing better than this
reckless, impudent tale of 'The Lotus
and the Cockleburrs,' tale defiantly
American, a trifle outrageous, and
trimming with acute masculine hui
NOR A delicate feminine story, turn
ing on motherless baby and the two
women who wanted it, is contributed
by Margaret Johnson. while Albert
BigelOw Paine has done an aDDeallng
picture of a boy of the West Who tried
to become a boy of the east. T1ere
are half a dozen other stories, all
good in their different ways. and each
making its human appeal-telling the
truth about somebody. Perhaps after
all, there can be no stronger attrac-
ton than just that; the public likes
human truth.