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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Every little while some womans life
is saved by her corset Either the
bullet strikes one Of the steel ribs and
glances off or the deadly blade which
the villain aimed at her heart is stop
ped by the tough fabric Of the corset,
and thus the arguments of the doc
tors go down in ruinous heap. When
a woman's life is saved by her corset
every lady who wears a corset takes
new courage and draws the strings a
little tighter. If the family doctor
,chides her because of the smallness
of her waist she shows him the dis
patch from Schenectady, or Scranton,
or wherever the fortunate girl with
the corset lived, and he knows that
it is useless to reason with her. He
can theoriZe concerning the harmful
effects of corset wearing, but a yard
of theory is quickly demolished by an
inch of fact. At last, however, the
doctor is to be furnished with a solid
steel fact to flash in the face of the
woman who insists that the corset is
a life-saver. When Mrs. William Hal
liday died at Buffalo a post-mortem
examination was made, and the doc
tors found two pieces of corset steel
in her flesh. One Of these pieces had
penetrated her heart 1t is supposed
that while very tightly laced she must
have bent her body or been struck by
something, so that the steel ribs broke
and jammed themselves into her side.
This is one of the most terrible disas-
tiers On record, and the doctors must
not neglect to put it to good use as an
awful warning. There isn't the slight
est probability that the unfortunate
case of Mrs. Halliday, of Buffalo, will
cause any woman to quit wearing cor
sets, but as long as the doctors must
argue on the subject it is fortunate
that they may at last back themselves
up with something more than theory.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
MARINE MONSTERS.
Teen by Many Seamen During a Re-
cent LiG Storm.

u
cent Lig Storm.
A heavy northeast gale Is blowing
here to-day. All the vessels in these
waters are riding safely, except the
schooner Hattie Harper, from Patcho-
que for New York, which lost her star
board anchor and chain IN an effort to
capture three sea serpents and a mer-
maid sighted in latitude 40 degrees 81
minutes, longitude 70 degrees so min
utes, four miles off shore.
Captain Zach Knowlton reports hav-
ing sighted seven other sea monsters
further up the coast. opposite Fire
Island lightship.
Captain Hank Henderson, of. the
Virgin soil, describes a marine Great
ure which he saw as 300 feet long
and 80 feet around, and says that 1t
rose like a mast and snapped at the
men on deck. In general form it was
serpent, with wing-like appendages
on the head, neck and back, the body
being of dark green hue, with fame
colored ears and a long red tongue
which had seven distinct branches.
The monster swan at the surface,
with it's head slightly elevated. Its
mode Of progression appeared to be by
means of a jet Of water forcibly e1-
PEELED from a siphon, which impaired
an equable motion evidently not pro-
duced by any serpentine bending Of
the body.
Captain Ben Sammis, Of the schoon-
er BARLEY Hope, reports having seen
two sea serpents near the Sandy Hook
lightship. They were not SO large as
the one described by Captain Hender-
son and differed considerably from 1t
| in appearance. According to Captain
Sammis, the first one he met reared
itself out Of the water. He is salts
fed that it was a plesiosaurus. The
second creature, of which he and his
crew got good glimpse, had the body
Of an alligator, long neck and six
paddles.
Later.-Herman Kenselman, whose
merry go-round was washed out to sea
in the storm on Saturday, came here
| to-day with seven men whom he had
engaged to recover some of the wood
en- figures Of fishes and animals which
broke away from the wrecked carou-
sci. Herr Kenselman said that two
Of his most valuable figures were those
Of mermaids carved. by hand at a cost
Of $500 each.
He added that he was in hopes OF
recovering some Of the large wooden
serpents and the mermaids for the rea-
son that there were iron plates at
tached to them which would undoubt-
edly act as keels; while preventing
them from splitting would, at the
same time, keep them floating upright
-Rockaway Beach Correspondence
| New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
Whv Called Crusaders.

The Crusades were holy wars under
taken by knights of old in Europe fol
the recovery of the sepulcher Of Christ
from the Saracens who then held Je
rusalem and all Palestine. They were
called Crusaders from the Latin word
crux, which means cross, and because
each of the soldiers wore upon his
sleeve or breast or shoulder the EN-.
broidered figure of a cross to indicate
the cause for which he fought. There
were eight Of these Crusades, or holy
Wars.-St. Nicholas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
POOR ENGLISH SPARROWS.
Dipped i'm Canary Dye They We're Sold
for Songsters.

cat least some members of the spar
row family have been enjoying their
ease and a great deal of luxury in
pretty, bright brass bird cages within
the past few weeks" remarked a down
town business man, land every time /
see the busy little creatures now, I'M
consciously find myself anXiouSly ex-
amining their feathers. wondering the
while. if they numbered among the
hundred or more fortunate ones that
clever CRATER succeeded in paWning
off on this ever-credulouS public of ours
as the real thing in the way of a chirp-
ing canary bird. The fellow who did
the trick has my congratulations. He
is ingenious, at any rate; and | could
not help thinking, when [ saw him
caught with the goods on, too, how
much real talent and rare qualities of
enterprise had gone into seed. Some
how. / felt provoked that it should
have been wasted upon a poor little
flock of innocent sparrOws.
''As it turned out, complaints have
been coming in thick and fast. Com
plants that a man has. for some time
past, been peddling around town Eng
lish sparrows that, it has since been
discov cred, were artistically dipped
into a pretty, bright, canary-colored
dye, and disposed of at a dollar or
more a head; the latter depending upon
the generosity of his victims.
With each purchase was given slip
of paper, upon which was written the
rules which were to be strenuously adj
hered to. EXactness, he explained; be-
ing necessary, owing to the unusual re-
quirements of the peculiar species of
canary bird which he presented. Upon
the paper was written very few
things to do for the little creatures in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
A. T. EWAR1'S CARPET WAR.
How the Merchant Started the Mills
at G1oversviI1e, n. Y.


at G1oversvil1e, N. Y.
With all his wonderful shreWdness,
A. Z. Stewart, merchant prince, occa-
sionally caught Tartar. Mr.. Stewart
lived to see the decadence of the Amer
lean trade in foreign carpets, first large
ly undertaken by him in New York.
The manufacture of Administer and
moquette carpets by hand in foreign
countries was one Of the sloweSt Of
trade processes. Two men and boy
were employed at one loom, and they
could make but one and a half yards
day, according to the New York
Times. Alexander Smith and his part
lner, Halcyon Skinner, of Yonkers, in
vented a loom that made eleven yards
a day when attended only by young
girl This revolutionized the carpet
industry. Stewart, quick to perceive,
Immediately acquired control Of the
output of Alexander Smith & Sons
Carpet Company, and through his enor-
nous dealings that concern grew to one
Of the largest of it's kind in the world.
ander and Warren B. went quietly
along filling Stewards orders and in
creased their plant. Inasmuch as
Stewart had financed the company
right along, he thought he owned it.
One day Smith Git was in 1873 called
ON Stewart at his store for funds. IF
you want any more money out of me,
you've got to do something for it,"
said the merchant. 'I've been too
liberal with you, and I'm paying too
much for your carpets. You must
come away down in your prices"
Smith said he would think it over.
The Sloanes, who had started in the
carpet business in 1S43 in small build
ing opposite the city hall, were not, up
to this time, of great consequence in
the trade, but when Smith left Stewart
to think over money and prices he
walked straight to the Sloane estab-
lishment and made a dicker. The next
morning Stewart learned to his dismay
that the entire output of the Yonkers
mills had been turned over to the
SIOaneS, ana he was no longer carpet
king.
It was a severe blow to Stewards
business, as well as to his pride. For
revenge he built an extensive carpet
factory at Groversville, n. Y, with a
capacity of 100000 yards annually,
but by some strange perversity of fate
he died on the very day that the first
roll came from his looms. At the same
time Smith quit him no one supposed
the Yonkers manufacturer had a dol
lar he could call his own. His indie,
pendence proved that he was rich. And
when Warren B. died the other day the
world was startled to learn that the
quiet, unassuming, hard working
weaver had laid up a fortune of $780,
100000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

One Of the States Of the Union has
decided that it's Legislature shall meet
only once in four years, and that even
then It's proceedings shall be strictly
restrained to extremely short sessions.
In various parts of the republic the
sentiment against annual meetings of
the Solons Of the capitols and against
prolonged deliberations and discussions
when the sages do assemble is evil
IDENTIFY gaining ground. The belief that
earlier generations have been legislated
for to excess, and that there has been
too much talking through weary
months In StatehOuses is steadily mak-
ing Roadway.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

The number Of women now employ
ed In business and confidential posi-
tions which offer opportunities to dis
honesty is very great, but it is rarely
that any embezzlement, defalcation or
breach Of trust is committed by them.
This is perhaps to be explained largely
by the absence among women Of many
of the temptations to which men so
often lay themselves open, and also in
great measure by that sensitiveness
as to reputation which is more acute
among women than among men.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

If the common people Of the United
States will resolve to let Morgan and
Schwab and Keene and Rockefeller
buy and sell stocks entirely with each
other the power Of stock gambling to
injure the people will be emasculated
There Is but one way for the, ordinary
man to provide for his future. That
is to stick to work and to invest his
savings in some form that he can see
for himself is stable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

One Of the precious few gifts whose
givers will forever remain unknown
is the $25O,OO0 which a gentleman hand
ed to the late Mr.. Hewitt one day,
telling him to give it to the Cooper
Union and never reveal the name Of
the giver. Mr.. Hewitt accepted the
gift with the conditions attached and
he died without revealing the secret.
At the annual meeting of the Union
the other day it came out that none OF
the present trus tees knows or suspects
the name Of the donor. And they will
not try to find out.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

The ultimate upon which all rests is
nation-rather than sporadic genius
Average intellect, average virtues
these make national character. While
this Is sound, the nation prospers;
when it decays the nation dies and IA
multitude Of geniuses cannot save it
from destruction. 1t is unwise to dwell
too much upon cases Of great wrong
doing. They are SO exceptional that
they prove nothing. Numerous as they
are, they are too few to justify a gen
erallzation. The average is sound.
That is the important fact which
should control 81 thinking on the sub
ject of naticnsl condition.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

cause he is too old and decrepit for
service and not because the automobile
has destroyed his usefulness. The
automobile, indeed, has not even affect
ed the horse market. The demand for
good horses all over the country Is as
great as it was before the automobile
came into use, and the prices are as
high. All this is shown by reports
from 325 cities in the United States
collated and embodied in a report to
the national convention Of Master
Horseshoers in ST. Paul. According to
this report, the figures from each city
show the usual normal increase IN the
use of horses and that the demand Tor
them is constant and without fiuctua-
lions. While there is little doubt that
the perfection Of a cheap and durable
storage battery, suitable for all forms
Of trucking, would displace many
horses in the larger cities, greatly sim
plifying the problem of street cleaning,
it is hardly probable that this would
have an appreciate effect upon the
general demand for horses, or that 1t
would discourage in any degree the
breeding Of high-prfced horsehesh.
The gasoline buggy is doubtless here
to stay, but so is the horse-at least
for many years to come.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
MADAGASCAR'S EX-QUEEN.

Ranavalona, whose picture is here
shown, is the ex-Queen Of Madagascar,
east of Southern Africa. IL 1896 this
island became a French colony, and
in February, 1897, the Queen was de-
posed and exiled. She now makes her
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Algermon Sartoris, General Grants
grandson, wants to go over and annex
Canada to the United States. Algy's
grandfather was a man who generally
confined himself to dealing pretty Wig
orously with trouble when 1t came.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

We might merely remind Russia
that it is not the number nor the size
Of the ships that count in a naval
struggle, but the way they are man
aged and the number of shots that hit
the mark
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
Street Car Capitalization.

The authorized capitalization Of
street car lines in the United States
in 1902 amounted to $3.50, ,316,
while the gross earnings from opera
ton were 247, 1858, 999, and the net
income, after deducting all expenses,
both operating and fixed charges, was
$50. 596,977.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

The automobile is not sending Dob
bin" to the boneyard. Contrary to pre-
dictions, it has not driven the horse
out Of business. If he is turned adrift
to exc out an uncertain livelihood from
the Canadian thistles and mulleins
that grow along the highways 1t is be-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
Ladies' First. Always,

MI. Newlywed--Howd dare you swear
before my wife?
Indignant Chauffeur-How was l to
know your wife wanted to swear first
New Yorker.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Father Hagerty advises every young
woman to drop her lover if he doesn't
hold union card. Might not mar
rage license be literally construed as
filling the bill?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Ar American syndicate is buying
Popocatapetl, and on the installment
plan at that, in order to market the
sulphur deposits This commercializa-
ton of one of the worlds greatest vol
canoes suggests that nothing in nature
Is too big to escape. our propensity for
nedd1inp
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
A Dangerous Weapon.

Don't be skeered," said the first
footpad. Its only two women"
''But one O. them's got a revolver"
protested his pal.
saw! OATS nothin'. Come on an
Gee whizz! light out, Bill! De other
ones got a hatpin!'-Philadelphia
Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

AS far as some OF our eminent Uni
ted States Senators are concerned, 1t
seems to be merely a case Of second
bOyhoOd.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
The RulingPa

Dying Actress-Can't recover, doc,
tor?
Physician-Impcssible.
Dying Actress-Then send for the
undertaken and let's have dress re-
hearSa1 The part is entirely new to
me.-Baltimore American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
George Repeats Himself:
to your father 2"

to your father?''
YES"
II know what he said.''
How do you know"
''Well, George isn't original"
what difference does that make?"
"Of course, he said the same thing
he said when-there, don't get mad"
Plain Dealer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Over in Canada there is still some
talk about secession. Canada evidently
believes in crying over the spilled milk
as long as there is spot on the car
OF
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
For PIayprOunds.

San Francisco's city engineer in
cludes an item of $731,000 for chill
dren's play grounds in his report on
needed Improvements.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Dowie says he never kissed a wom-
an outside Of his own family. A good
many men make remarks like that in
the presence Of their wives.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

All the talk about the Alaskan boun-
Diary and revision of the tariff system
of England and her colonies, and Ca
madam independence and Canadian an
nexation, increases the interest OF the
American people in their ne1ghDors on
the north. And it does not take more
than half an eye to discern marked
similarity between the development OF
Canada and the history of the devel-
opment Of the United States, or TO
foresee a period Of remarkable ana
long drawn-out prosperity for Great
Blitain's empire colony, from the rug
ged banks Of Newfoundland even TO
the farthest stretches Of the Portland
Canal. The history of Canadian prog
ress will, for the period of quarter
Of a century, at least, reyolve about
the great transcontinental railroad that
Is opening up the Western reaches
just as the Union Pacific opened new
nations to add bright stars to Column
bias diadem. The extent OF the I'M
migration Of the home and fortune
seekers into Western Canada can be
understood better by the statistics OF
the Canadian Pacific Railroad, which
sold last year upward of 100000
acres of land, at an average of about
81 an acre. Three years ago its sales
fell short of 100000 acres, but the year
following they increased to nearly
100000 acres, which averaged about
SO an acre. So in three years 4,500,-
600 good, rich acres of the West have
been taken up by individuals, who
doubtless will achieve the success that
came open-handed to the early settlers
of our Western plains and mountains.
Within five years the gross receipts
of the Canadian Pacific have almost
doubled, slight earnest of the bust
ness that is bound to come when the
doughty pioneers begin to reap their
golden harvests.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

residence in Algeria, but lately left
there with her little niece, the Prin-
cess Marie-Louise, to go to Vicsur-cere,
France, for a water cure. At the
health resort she lives very plainly and
unostentatiously. Her greatest desire,
she said, was to profit by her temper
ary residence in France to visit Paris.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Even with his wonderful memory
the Oldest inhabitant is apt to forget
that he has inflicted his "reminiscences
On everybody he knows.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

The fall Of water in New York City
recently was the heaviest ever known
except in Wall street.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

A woman will forgive man any
thing except his refusal to ask for
giveness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

II. 3. Marriott Watson, the English
novelist, says American women are de-
generates. But he has had al chance
to study only those who have married
Establishment
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30
Lost Opportunity.

Lost Opportunity. .
Cohen-I often wish l had made q
failure Of life.
Levy-Vy?
Cohen-Dink vot SUCCESS id YOU'D hat
en!-Brooklyn Life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Some of the new millionaires seem
to have got ahead by thinking with
their elbows.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

At the age of 16 a gi1a stops crying
and begins to weep
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Piso's Cure Tor Consumption promptly
relieves my little 5-year-old sister Of
l.. A. Pearce, % Pilling
street, Brooklyn, II. Y, Oct. 2, 1901.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

A sensible woman seldom wastes
her time on a handsome man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

Spirituous liquors form the chief ex-
port of Germany to her colonies.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-26

COACHMAN and USEFUL. MAN.-Thor-
ouEhly experienced. care Of horses: best
recommendation NJ n. Box - 1873 9Th
ave
New-York tribune., 1903-01-26

USEFUL MAN.-Sir-le- private family.
city or country; experienced hoUseworS.
furnaces. hot air and steam. horses, cows
flowers and all kinds vegetable gardening
good driver: best OF references. Address 3. .
Box 20. Tribune Office.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-26

urer at Harvard. as well as chief of irrigation
Investigations in the Department of Agriculture,
has had twenty years experience in the de-
velopment of the practical application of irrlga-
tion in the arid lands OF the West.
G p Putnams Sons announce new state
,,ant of sociological Theory in the Rev. DIR.
7 n w Stuckenberg's Sociology, the Science
- Human Society" In writing of his system
tho author calls it the social science with
.,ha.. in italics He has made effort to Sc
cure new permanent and progressive basis
for sociology abandoning all imitation of bio
logical or physical methods in presentation
Fourteen years have been spent by the author
in preparation in the Royal Library. in Berlin
besides a summer in the British Museum and
much time in the Harvard and Boston libraries
The work which is in two volumes. is divided
into three parts treating of the nature of soci-
ETY.. the evolution of society ana socloiosicdi
a+bics The matter is divided into four hun
dred paragraphs. with notes at the enc Oh Tue
nararraphs in smaller type and in brief ap-
pendix. DR.. Stuckenberg. who is a member oi
Tho phiIosonhical Society of Berlin, has pub
lished numerous articles on social supJec's
and in 1898 an introduction to the StuoE ol
Sociology" which is soon to appear III l'aiia'i'
The ;,,r-ession is certainly bound to grow
that there exists some wag in the remote re-
gions of the underlined West who alnuses MN
ealt b,, sendtnr in unconsconable orders to staid
publishers in the East The latest instance IL
the recent by Harper 6. Bros of an order Tor
..,lanoleon. the Last Faze by Rosenberg ana
Heroine of Affection by HoWis-
New-York tribune., 1903-01-26

WORKING HOUSEKEEPER--B reliable
competent woman; good se3HStress siI.
cook. CITY or country: best references hFs1
class people only Mrs PAYNE StSs Nrst
SSsh-st