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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
Goyerness for Edo.

What next? The dogs who walk in
the best tailor-made attire, and whose
family trees are usually far more gen
uine and impressive than those Of
their owners, now have their own
governess. In winter she lives in New
York; in summer she follows her
charges to a famous and fashionable
seaside resort. She is paid by the hour
to come to the house of Fido's adoring
mistress and broaden Fidos mental
horizon and develop his latent genius.
She teaches the dear little fellow to sit
up and bark and sneeze and beg for
sugar plums; to turn somersaults; to
shake hands and faint, and otherwise
prove his claim to an intellect of no
mean order.
Furthermore, the gOvernesS takes
Fido walking every day. His mistress
is often too busy or too tired to ac-.
company him during his hours of exer-
else. She does not trust her servants
with the duty Of serving as his escort,
so the goveraess is paid to accompany
the little dear during his walks
abroad. Her business is to keep him
amused and guard him from low COM
pany.
Last wintel the governess tutored
more than thirty dogs. At certain
hour every morning she takes 10 or II
proteges out OF their leashes. She
keeps the peace among them, sees that
they have a good scamper and roll
on clean grass. teaches them to swim.
fetch and carry, and guards against
their contact with ours that might in
feet them with mango, distemper, or
rabies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
Even Winners Can Be Sad.

"No," said the fat barber in the
Broadway hotel, 81 amt playing the
races nowadays. Fact is, l haven't
got over being sore over the last one
I made, and at that I won it.
ut was this way. l was working
at the chair about 1 o'clock one day
when in rushes guy knew, but not
very well.
"'Got any money! he says to me.
""Touch,' says 1 to myself, SO /
told him / didn't have much, only
what I'd made in tips that day, and
I'd had to buy my lunch out of that.
But he wouldn't give up.
Haven't you got even SO cents 2
he says.
"Well, made up my mind I'd have
to give up, and, anyhow, l didn't
know but what he was good for it, so
I hands over the half, and with that
he rushes out.
"Wasn't more'n an hour later when
he rushes back and shoves me three
dollar bills.
What's this? 1 says.
What is it?' he yells. It's money.
The Mutt wins at to 1. It's a shame
you only had half, but put it in
with mine And with that he hauls
out handful OF ones and twos.
"Was I sore? l was" New York
SIN
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
Highway Improvement.
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Many States are now spending mil
lions Of dollars every year in the I'M
provement of public highways. There
are State road improvement associa-
tons in twentyfour States, highway
commissions in eleven States, and the
National Good Roads Association is
represented in twenty-seven States.
Some States have neither State road
improvement laws nor Is any effort
made to improve the roads unless ne
cessity compels the farmers and mer-
chants to act in unison to preserve an
equilibrium of the market.
New Jersey now has the best roads
and Missouri perhaps the worst, says
a writer in the Horseman. New Jer-
sey has recently expended $3,350,OOO
in road improvements and built 100
miles Of new roads. Missouri raises
more farm products than any State
in the Union and has 100000 miles Of
roads, 80 per cent. Of which are I'M
passable five months in twelve. Some
eastern and a few Of the southern
States have increased their road apprO-
priations and are now spending a
goodly sum for road building and re-
pairing.
There are now about $4,000 road Off
Gals in the United States, nine ma
tional good roads associations and any
number Of local organizations. The
National Good Roads Association, fore
most in the fight for better highways,
is doing an excellent work under the
: direction Of w. III. Moore, and r. w.
Richardson, the first men to secure the
running Of a good roads train" A
number Of States have annual appro-
priations, but a great deal Of the pub
lie improvement is done by farmer
capitalists, who have long ago realized
the economics Of the good roads prob
lem.
Highway commissions have lately
been created in Michigan and North
Carolina, while Massachusetts,, Indi-
cna, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Tennes-
see, Mississippi and Missouri have
provided for the issuance OF bonds for
road improvement and bridge building
along the country highways. In Ne
braska, Oklahoma and Minnesota road
taxes have recently been made payable
in cash, and the money is Immediately
expended in road improvement. Wide
tire laws have gone into effect in Con-
necticut, Indiana, Minnesota, Califor-
mia, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.
The States of Indiana and PeLnsylva-
MIA have passed laws fixing the weight
Of loads to be hauled over country
roads so as to prevent their being cut
into by excessively loaded wagons.
Thus it is that the fight for better
system of country roads is being
yyaped
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
Nature Sculpture.

One Of the most remarkable pieces
of nature sculpture in California is
the George Washington rock, about
thirty-five miles northwest Of Los An
geles, in the Santa susanna Mountains,
says the Sunset Magazine. Near this
rock a two-mile tunnel is being bored
through the Santa susanna Mountains
just outside Chatsworth Park. A CHS
eled monument could hardly bear truer
likeness to George Washington than
this chance picture in the ragged
contour of a huge bowlder. Viewed
from one point and only one, it stands
out sharp and distinct against the
sky From all other points the rock
is a shapeless mass. The image meas
ures full % feet from chin to brow
and is close to the top Of the hill. In
the vicinity have been found Indian
relics; ovens, stones containing Indian
writings, arrow heads, mortars and
many traces of a settlement Of abor-
igineS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
Need a Mourning Stamp.

The postofice department is con-
stantly in receipt of requests for the
issue Of mourning stamp for use on
blade-edged stationery. Persons in all
grades Of life assert that there is no
harmony or appropriateness in an en-
velope with black edge and a red
stamp in the corner and they beg the
department to issue a black stamp.
The department has given much con-
sideration to the subject, but has been
unable to comply with the requests on
account of the rules of the universal
postal union, which prescribe that our
lowest value stamp shall be green; that
the stamp used for domestic use shall
be red and the stamp carrying foreign
mail-5-cent-shall be blue. In view
Of these restrictions it has not appear
ed possible to meet the requirements
for mourning stamp, as the depart
ment does not deem it advisable to
print stamp in red and also in black.
However, the suggestion has been
made that the Scent stamp, now print
ed in purple, might be issued in black,
so that persons desiring to use black
stamp upon their mourning envelope
might do SO by paying the additional
cost. The department may take up
this suggestion later and act upon it
Washington Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
FROM WITcHcRAFTT SCIENCE.
Progress of the World In the Last
Two Hundred Years.

Progress of the World In the Last
Two Hundred Years.
A century ago the work Of the mod.
ern surgeon would have been de-
nounced by the theologians, who then
ruled mankind, as audacious intrusions
into the exclusive jurisdiction of God
Two centuries ago, or at the further.
est, three, the man of science who
would take out the viscera Of a man,
cut out their disease, and put them
back, would have been fortunate to
escape the stake or the block, says
Harper's Weekly. But the audacious
Invader Of the streets of the body, the
benefcient healer who with his phial
OF his knife, lessons the miseries Of
humanity, diminishes or destroys pain,
prolongs life and smooths it's pathway
to the grave-this is now the man who
appeals most strongly to his fellow
beings. For him and his training the
their millions, building him colleges
and laboratories, endowing professor
ships, while the world at large halls
him as the man of power and infu
ence at a time when wealth is accum
ulating and when men are not decay.
ing More and more, very likely, we
shall see the strong men Of the col
lege classes choosing medicine, al
though the time has not yet come for
domination over the lawyer who is
now engaged in settling the direction
and the form in which the captains
Of industry shall carry on their devel-
opment of the worlds wealth. The
time seems to be coming, however,
when the indefinite prolongation OF
human life, and the destruction Of
the enemies Of human health-a work
which almost suggests the creative
pOWer-will be the task that will call
for and will receive the services of the
best training of our colleges and uni
versities-that is, when the appeal Of
medicine and surgery will be address
ed inevitably to the best in every col
lege class, just as once the call from
the ministry, and then from the bench
and bar and senate house.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
Animal Longevity.

Some curious statistics have just
been published upon what an insur-
ance company would describe as the
expectation of Life" in animals.
Among the larger species of cattle
there is some approach to uniformity.
Thus, for the horse and the ass the
extreme limit is about thirty-five years.
and for horned cattle about thirty.
For the dog it is given as twenty-five,
while sheep, goats, pigs and cats are
grouped at fifteen. But there ara
stranger disparities among birds.
While a goose may live thirty years,
a sparrow twenty-five and a crow as
many rs one hundred, ducks, poultry
and turkeys die Of old age at twelve
years. The palm for longevity Is d.
vided between elephant and parrot
Both pass the century.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
SEES HIS DEATH IN DREAM.
Montana Ranc1lmsn Murdered by a
Tramp He Had Offended.

Montana Ranc1lmsn Murdered by a
Tramp He Had Offended.
Students Of the occult are finding
much food for thought in the murder
Of Fred Teasdale, rancher Of Bridg-
er, Mont, by tramp who refuses to
give his name, but who says that he
knew the dead man long ago, and that
Teasdale did him a deadly wrong.
II had a queer dream last night,
only it was not really a dream" said
Teasdale, when he went into the field
in the morning, addressing several
men. "I thought that / was living
long, long ago and did fearful wrong
to man who was once my friend. We
parted and met years later, when we
engaged in a quarrel. During this
quarrel he shot me. The funny part
Of it all was that at the time seemed
to be living firearms had not been In
vented"
AS the men were working, about
noon, a tramp appeared in the field
and asked to be put to work. He was
given employment. When his eyes fell
on Teasdale he turned pale and stag
gered as if hit heavy blow.
Soon Teasdale began to joke about
his poor workmanship. This angered
the tramp, and hot words followed.
Suddenly Teasdale leaned forward and
struck the tramp in the face.
Course you, that's twice you have
wtonged me in this world" shouted
the tramp, 'but it will be the last"
Then he drew revolver and fired,
the bali penetrating the heart Of the
rancher, who fell dead. The tramp
was seized and taken to jail. He re-
fuses to give his name, saying only
that Teasdale knew him, and that he
merely took revenge for an injury
done him many years before. The
tramp showed indications of having at
one time filed a high position in the
world and is evidently man Of edu-
cation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
No Judge.

Doctor Podgy looked at his fever
analogue patient with scientific inter-
est. Then, after taking his pulse and
temperature, he proceeded to ask the
usual questions.
"Um-mv' he said, thoughtfully. "The
attacks Of fever and the chills still
appear on alternate days. Do you
thinks it your opinion that they
have decreased in-er-violence, if l
may use the Word?'
Doctor" sad the patient, feebly,
son fever days my heads so hot 1
can't think, and on ague days 1 shake
so 1 can't hold an opinion"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
CLEANING UP OF MANILA.
How EpiGemics Were Prevented frem
Spreading in Capital.

How Epi6emics Were Prevented frem
Spreading in Capital.
The Americanizing Of Manila has
been a revelation to the Filipinos, says
the New York Tribune. Never did a
city need cleaning worse, and no city
was ever cleaned more thoroughly. Be-
tween American doctors anxious to
prevent an epidemic of plague, Amer
lean sanitary commissioners who elm
mated open sewers and American road
builders eager for good highways
between these and others, Manila has
been turned upside down.
It was q city of sicken1ng smells.
The sewers in many parts ran In the
center of a narrow street, and refuse
from the houses on either side was
emptied into them. The smell from
the bitches was mOnstrouS thing, but
1t was handy and cheap having the
drain there and the native does not
mind a smell. Some of them even
protested against any change. The
idea that smell was unhealthy, that
it might bring the dread cholera, never
entered their heads.
They were satisfied with the miser-
able old paving which made some
streets almost impossible. The de-
partment Of public works now employs
nearly 2,O00 officers, mechanics and Ia
bor4rs. They have widened some
streets, raised others by filling in
heavy stone, and now they are at
work on a system of parks, Of which
Manila was sadly in need. Indeed,
the lack Of open air spaces, play
grounds for old and young, was caus-
ing no little anxiety. The natives
take readily to games, but until re-
Gently they have had no encourage
ment. There are hundreds Of clerks
and under officials in the government
service who have little to do with
their spare time, and who have been
crying for parks.
The field in front of the Luneta is
being converted into an open recrea-
ton ground. Games Of all sorts will
be permitted and there will be chill
drens playground modelled after those
in this city. A city park laid out with
broad drives and walks an aviary and
a geological reserve are added attrac-
tons.
With the plague always present at
Eongkong it is not strange that it
should stalk the 600 miles to Manila
It was discovered in the last week of
the year 1899 and increased rapidly I'M
til 1901, when the number of cases
was 432. Then the fight began in earn
est.
To the rats was laid the blame of
spreading the disease. Hundreds of
traps and many pounds Of poison Of
various sorts were distributed to the
people. A reward was paid for every
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
MAKING USE OF OLD CANS.
Turned Into Weights for Elevators
and Window Sarhes.


was much surprised and greatly
Interested a few days since when
shown through a certain establishment
near New York City to find that the
raw material used consisted chiefly
Of empty fruit and vegetable cans res
cued by the cart load from the dumps
Of the city, says the American Ma
chinist. 1 had supposed up to that
time that the only purposes for which
such material was suited was food
for goats or to be attached to the
tails of unfortunate CANNES. The prin-
cipal products of this establishment,
which is a foundry, are window sash
weights, elevator weights, and ballast
for boats. The weight castings are
very hard, and when struck with a
hammer ring like steel. About the
only tool which can be used for re-
moving sprues and fins is the ham,
mer, as a cold chisel or file will not
stand up to the work. The fracture
Of the round sash weight is smooth
and shows crystals radiating feom the
center like spokes of wheel.
After delivery at the foundry the
cans are first piled into a large iron
grating, located under a sheet iron
hood which terminates in a smoke
stack. They are sprinkled literally
with crude oil, which is set on fire.
The process consumes the labels, loos-
ems the dirt and melts the solder,
which falls through the grating, is
collected, washed and melted cast into
ingots and sold to be used again.
Some Of these cans, which have sim
ply Tapped and soldered points, melt
apart completely. These are sorted out
and the sheets forming the shell
are Strengthened into bundles to be
sold to trunkmakers, who utilize them
for protecting the corners of Saratoga
trunks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
The Vale of AYoca.


There is not in this wide world valley
so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright
waters meet;
O, the last ray of feeling and life must
depart
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade
from my heart!
Yet it was not that Nature had shed o'eK
the scene
Her purest Of crystal and brightest Of
green;
Twas not the soft magic of streamlet or
hill
o, no! it was something more exquisits
still.
Twas that friends, the beloved of my
bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene Of enchants
ment more dear,
And who felt how the best charms Oh
nature improve
When we see them reflected from looks
that we love.
Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could Il
rest
In thy Bosom of shade, with the friends
love best;
Where the storms that we feel in this
cold world should cease,
And our hearts, like thy waters, be min
gled in peace.
Thomas Moore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
Eow.He Came by His Name.

There is a man in New Orleans who
has a most uncommon name. This is
how he came BY it.
His mother was on the lookout for
something original, and one day, be.
fore his christening, she noticed upon
the door of building the word
"Nosmo."
This struck her fancy. Now for a
middle name. Later, coming past the
same building, she saw the name
king"
All! this was what she was after.
'Nosmo King Jones he shall be-" she
said, and he was christened SO.
On the way home from the church
she passed the building again.
The doors were shut, and behold
the doors with the names on them
which she had detected were shut to.
gether, and she read-not "Nosmd
King" but mo Smoking" and her
heart was broken.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
In the Interest of Sleep.

''What did you mean by telling those
new neighbors that they needn't buy
q lawn mower, as you will always be
glad to lend them ours?" asked Mrs.
Bliggins.
That's one Of my best IDEAS" an
swered her husband. mo one is GO
ing to have the bland assurance to
come around at 6 o'clock in the morn
ing and borrow a lawn mower
Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09

Attorney General B. r. Wise, Of
New South Wales, has become the
author of a new law similar to the
compulsory arbitration act of New
Zealand, and the people there are con-
fident that the long struggle between
labor and capital is at an end, and
that there will be no more expensive
strikes and loc&outs to call for the
sacrifice of thousands of dollars and
scores of lives. The act provides that
if a dispute arises it must be referred
to the State court Of arbitration for
settlement, and that anyone who
strikes, locks out, or has anything
to do with melting trouble shall be
guilty of q misdemeanor and shall be
punished by fine and imprisonment.
The general result, Mr.. Wise says, will
be that q greater stability will be
given to industry. Employers need
no longer be afraid that their calcula-
tons will be upset by sudden ces-
sation of work because, even though
disputes should arise, the act provides
that work must go on while the diff
Guilty is being referred to and settled
by the court of arbitration. On the
other hand the workman is in a posi-
ton Of greater security than he has
ever before enjoyed, both because he
can not be locked out and because the
court can take notice of any abuse,
or injustice, Or wrong in the condition
of his employment, and, by the exer
else of its power to declare a common
rule, level up the conditions in the
best conducted and regulated estab-
lishments. In other words, sweat
shops will be driven out of business
at once, and all men must receive liv-
ing wages. Trades union will also be
relieved of the danger Of having their
funds eaten up by sympathy strikes,
and all that sort of thing, and in no
more instances will the wealthy
unions have to support the weaker
ones. New South Wales has had wis
dom enough to see the light and fol-
low the good example set by New
Zealand, and it is strange that Ameri-
cans do not take a similar step.
Strikes and lockouts are behind the
times
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09

Few men went to college a genera
ton or two ago unless they intended
10 enter one of the learned profess
sions, and the proportion of intending
lawyers, teachers, physicians and min
lsters was pretty uniform In each
class. But this is all changed. In the
graduating class of Harvard this year
about a hundred and ninety Of the
total Of more than six hundred intend
to go into business. Law and teach
ing, together, attract about the same
number, and only forty-six intend to
be physicians, and six will preach.
The significant fact to be noted in
these figures is that, in spite of the
lure Of the almighty dollar, so many
young men who intend to engage in
commercial pursuits have thought it
worth while to seek the higher educa-
ton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
OLD
FAVORITES
~~~~~~~~~~e


MY Country, 'Tis of Thee.
My country, tits of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee l sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land Of the pilgrims pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.
Ny native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name 1 love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedoms song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our fathers God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With Freedoms holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King.
Rev. S. r. Smith.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09

Statistics go to show that IS per
cent. Of the women sent to insane
Rsylums come from farm-houses.
Many are easily frightened, many
grow morbid by reason Of their tread
mill life and lack of wholesome re
creation and many lack proper medi-
cal attention when it is necessary and
by reason Of ignorance and poverty
fail to seek relief until the mind suf-
fers with the body.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09

An old-time political economist has
been figuring up to find out who it is
that the public pay best, and the fol-
lowing is the sum total: First-We
erals. Second-Those who cheat us:
Politicians and quacks. Third-Those
who merely amuse us: Singers, actors
and musicians. Last, and least of all
Those who instruct us: Authors,
SchOolmasters and editors
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09

A trust company which does business
In one Of the New York hotels pur-
poses to give a new meaning to the
term, banking hours" by keeping
open until midnight Here is a sug-
gestive reminder of the extent to
which a city turns night into day.
Shops and offices Of many kinds make
the electric light their sun, SO that
In the metropolis at any hour one can
consult a lawyer, employ q dentist or
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-09
Who Pass the Examination.

seventy-seven per cent of the womea
and but 62 per cent of the men taking
the civil service examination are aba
to pass 1t.