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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
LITTLE DoRoTHY'S EXCUSE.
Startling in Its Effect and Remarkable
in Its Originality.

A little miss of six years, and of this
city, through her dislike for school,
was responsible for what almost
amounted to panic one morning last
week.
The teacher of the little class had
just closed the roll call when in walk
ed Dorothy, hat hanging down her
back and a dirty face and hands. All
of which showed signs of fresh mud,
but she had a little bunch of wild
flowers for her teacher, which made it
very hard for the latter to discipline
her So Dorothy might have escaped
but for the habit she had of running
off during recess and not returning
for the second session. This had
been going on for more than week,
and the indulgent teacher at last said
she would stand it no longer, but
must have the real cause of Dorothy's
absence So in response to a COM
mand Dorothy approached the teacher,
who, in very severe tones, said: "Now,
tell me- Dorothy, why do you run off
at recess, and where do you go? Re
member, the old excuses won't do; l
want the truth"
81 got to help nurse my papa Sob
bed Dorothy; hes got the smallpox,
an" but the child never finished
the sentence. The teacher went into
mysteries, Dorothy cried even louder
than before. which started the other
children. and the confusion was only
relieved when some one with an older
and more experienced head came to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
Vounq America.

Freddie's older brother had been
i'll, and was now taking daily gym
nastics to regain the strength which
he had lost curing his sickness. One
day papa found the little three-year-
old shut up in his room, and standing
in the middle of the floor vigorously
brandishing his arms.
What are you trying to do, Fred
die?" he asked. you are we'll
enough! You don't need gymnastics. /"
HIN! Cousin Harry's coming to see
us next month. and I want to set
strong enough to lick him." said
Young America Home
COMPANION.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

The struggle for success in life Is
more fiercely competitive than it ever
was and the preparation for this strug-
gle is becoming more and more exact
ing. The school curriculum shows this
to be so. The tendency to overload 1t
seems to be increasing to such an ex-
tent as to evoke the earnest protest
of parents. A system which requires
the young pupil to spend many hours
in school and more hours in home
study to maintain standing in the
classroom and to prepare for nerve
racking examinations naturally pro-
vokes the criticism of parents, who are
best able to Judge of its baleful effect
upon the minds and bodies of their
charges. The youth whose time has
been frittered away on too many
studies may be easily beaten in the
life struggle by the boy who has been
confined to a few essential studies, and
who has made them part of his in
tellectual self.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

The Detroit conference Of the ma
tional congress of mothers favored uni
form divorce laws and denounced
p1lygamy in Utah. 1t failed to define
thedivorce law which 1t would approve
for the entire country. 1t must be pre-
sumed that American motherhood
would approve a law abolishing in
other States of the Union the counter
part of the Mormon institution in Utah
Consecutive polygamy outside Utah
is as dangerous to the future of the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Chicago business men, having dis
covered that time is lost In eating that
might be devoted to getting money,
will form quick-lunch club. Why not
arrange some mechanical contrivance
that would feed them while they are
busy at their desks? Just think Of
stopping for a 50-cent meal, while in
the same time a man might make at
least $1.S3 in his office!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

A West Point cadet has been dis
missed for violating the rules and then
lying about it. Secretary Root, in in
dorsing the decree Of the court-martial,
wrote: ut is of the first Importance
that the cadets of the Military Acad-
envy should discountenance and abhor
falsehood, however disguised" and
that the quibbling evasions Of the de-
PENDANT would be more natural in a
police court than in a company Of Off
GERS and gentlemen" One might add,
while echoing the Secretary's opinion,
that quibbling evasions are out OF
place even in a police court.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

When you take into account all the
varied forms of healing and the num-
Der Of people engaged In mini tering
a wonder that anybody can get sick
enough to die? Or is it more to be
wondered at that anybody is alive?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

That boy who tried to eat fire after
the fashion Of the fire-eater at a the
atrical performance will never be as
handsome as he was, but he will have
a good deal more sense.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Mr. Mangasarian says the woman Of
the future will be more creative and
inquisitive and less passive and SUBJ
missive" than is the woman Of to-day.
There are married men who will pity
the man Of the future if Mr.. Manga
sarian is right concerning the inQuisi-
tive part of it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

No, troubled reader, those alleged
adornments which women wear in
er busters are not badges of an order
of housemaids. They are just a devel-
opment of freak millinery.-Boston
Transcript
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Whitaker Wright's claim that he
would have been worth $5O,OO0,0O0 If
he had operated in this country is
tribute of which American has not
reason to be proud.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Mrs. Burdick has her $4,000, but
even that will hardly make her forget
that some of the papers were mean
enough to say ct the time Of the in
quest that she was homely and looked
her years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

1t is simply wonderful, all the things
that can be done with cotton-seed oil.
In December we. shipped $500 tons of
cotton-seed oil to Marseilles. France
and it will soon come back to us as
pure olive Oil.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Picking, written Pekin in United
States Government publications since
1897, is to get back its ''g." If current
developments may be taken as indica-
ton, the ancient capital of China may
yet be written Pekingsky.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
The Difference.

TIE race horse has uncommon luck,
OF oats he gets his fill;
While man, who bets upon him,
scrimps
To meet the grocery bill.
Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
Not Enough to Worry About.

zone kiss" he said, with an effort
when Miss Brunei, the homely heiress,
accepted him.
"Ohv she giggled, Il hate to kiss
a man with a mustache."
Nonsense" he replied. Besides,
your mustache isn't very heavy"-Phil-
adelphia Ledger
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Mrs. Wigs, of cabbage patch fame,
is a heroine Of fiction who does not
appeal to the gentlemen who invent
new names for cigars
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Many a man puzzles over the proper
place for shall! and will" After a
while he learns that when q woman
says he shall, he will.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Now Moncure D. Conway says he
was misquoted. He didn't call Lincoln
a scamp. This must be q great relief
to Lincoln's descendants.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17


The action recently taken by the va
rious State Legislatures with refer
ence to a constitutional amendment
for the direct election Of Senators by
the people shows not only the wide
spread interest in the reform but the
strength of opinion in it's favor where
the issue has been brought to the test
of a vote. 1t appears that thirty-six
State Legislatures have had the pro-
posal before them, and that of these
| twenty-one have Endorsed it, while
| fourteen have failed to indorse it. In
only five States, Massachusetts,, Maine,
Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio, has
the proposal been voted on without
carrying Maine, however, did not
finally reject it, but postponed 1t to
the next session. In most of the other
States that are listed against it it was
buried in committee, and will surely
be heard from in future Legislatures.
In one State it passed one house and
in another it passed both houses but
was vetoed by the Governor. OF the
| twenty one States that have indorsed
the proposal nine went merely so far
as to ask their Senators and Congress
men to vote for the submission of an
amendment. The other twelve, how
ever, took the radical step Of demand
| ing that Congress call a constitutional
convention to submit the amendment.
These twelve States are:
| California. Nevada.
! Illinois. North Carolina.
| Minnesota. North Dakota.
Missouri. Oregon.
| Montana. Utah.
| Nebraska. Wisconsin,
| The federal Constitution has existed
one hundred and fourteen years with
out the need of a constitutional con-
vention to revise it. Such a conven-
| ton will not be necessary now, but it
will only be when almost all of the
required two-thirds of the States have
demanded it that the privileged Senate
will be induced to yield to popular will
and permit the submission Of an
amendment direct to the States. The
| time is doubtless not far distant when
the twelve States that have made the
call will find eighteen more arrayed at
| their side, and the reform will be as
Sured
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

It is no compliment If friend comes
fifty miles to your wedding, but it is a
great tribute if ne comes five miles TO
YOUR funeral.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

That the United States should be
leader in the great movement for in
ternational arbitration is fitting. The
movement Is the most vital one in
world politics, and its success up to the
present is due very largely to infu-
ences from this country. The progress
Of arbitration during the last year has
been remarkable beyond the expecta-
ton Of it's most sanguine advocates. A
year ago, the international court at
The Hague was an untried tribunal.
In twelve months it has received three
great cases-the Plus fund case be-
tween this country and Mexico, settled
last fall in our favor; the Japanese
house tax case between Japan on one
side and Great Britain, France and
Germany on the other and the Ven
eZuelan question of preferential treat
ment, the settlement of which will es-
tablish an international principle Of
five other international disputes have
been arbitrated during the year, and
half dozen or more are still pending
before special tribunals. Numerous
friendship treaties that have been ne
gotiated and the fact that the VeneZle-
Ian episode with all it's intricacies led
to no further international cOmpllca-
tons still further attest the spirit Of
peace that is growing among the ma
tons. 1t ought to be matter Of pride
tO nyQrv mprican that this country Is
taking a leading part in this movement.
Not only has it been a party to four
arbitra lions during the year, but it's at
titude in the recent Venezuelan Difficult
ty has given this country high rank
among the peacemakers. The appoint
ment of the Alaskan boundary tribunal
is still another evidence of our desire
to settle our disputes with our neigh
bors peaceably.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

The Harvard professor who has dis
covered the germ of smallpox has our
permission to keep it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Uncle Sam has more forests to burn
nowadays than he will have few de-
cades hence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Never poke sick man in the ribs,
or a well man oftener than once.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

We are assimilating Immigrants In
stead of digesting securities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

It's rare man who dares invite
guest to dinner without first consult
ing his wife.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

ii. j. JOHNSON, Publisher.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
English workmen Gamble.

Gambling among American work
men is almost unknown as compared
with the same evil in Great Britain,
saws the Mosely commissioners.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
UNDISMAYED BY PERIL.
An Impressive Instance of the Cool
ness of Paul du ChniIIu in
Face of Danger.

The late Paul du Chaillu was man
of indomitable bravery. Nothing
perturbed him. In the most desper-
ate crises his air was calm and some
what humorous, says the New York
Tribune.
One of the veteran conductors of
the Pennsylvania railroad said of him
on the announcement of his death:
MIR. du Chaillu was man whom YOU
couldn't frighten. Danger seemed to
enliven him. I'll never forget ride
he once took with me. He sat in the
last car of the train, parlor car,
and we came near having a rear end
collision.
"Mr. du Chaillu, from his seat
could see the other train approach
ing us-could see that collision was
pretty near inevitable. He said to
me as took my stand beside MIN:
Conductor, have you got piece
of chalk?'
What on earth, sir I asked, 'do
you want with piece of chalk now?
Why, it looks he answered, 'as
* our legs and arms would be flying
about in a little while, and 1 think il
would be good thing to mark them
so that we mayidentify them later
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
BIG pETR1F1ED STUMP.
One in Colorado That Is Twenty Feet
in Diameter md Ten Feet
High.

The petrified stump of gigantic
redwood tree, which is in an almost
perfect state of petrfaction, is at
Florissant, not far from Cripple
Creek, Col, says the Wide World
Magazine.
Although numberless people have
taken specimens from this stump ag'
gregating many tons, it is still esti'
mated to weigh fully 44O tons. To
give u better idea of it's size it may
be well to state that it is 20 feet in
diameter and ten feet high.
There have been many attempts to
dig it up and place it upon exhibition,
the last being scheme to exhibit 1t
at the great exposition at st. Louis
in 1904. Owing to its great weight,
however, this had to be abandoned,
as there are no railway cars capable
of carrying anywhere near its weight.
What, perhaps, makes it more of n
curiosity is the fact that this Rocky
mountain region is a country of
small trees, and that there are no
giant redwoods within n thousand
miles of this stump-which goes to
show that nature has changed the
entire vegetable growth of this Sec
tion, as nothing requiring the semi
tropical heat of aredwood tree would
grow at this altitude now.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
ODD JAPANESE TIMEpIECE.
Made to Represent n MONDAY Land
scape with Every Detail in
Perfection.

when in Japan not very long
since, L saw as remarkable a time
piece as l suppose the world con-
tains," said Mr.. William T. Crews, of
Newark, N. j., reports the Washing
ton Post.
1T was inclosed in a frame about
three feet wide and five feet long. re-
presenting n MONDAY landscape of
rare beauty. In the foreground ap-
pear plum and cherry trees and gor-
gerous plants in full bloom; in the rear
there is sloping hill, from which a
cascade seems to flow, the crystal i'm
itation being of wonderful likeness.
A thread-like brook meanders from
this point, encircling rocks and
islands, and finally disappear ng in a
piece of woodland. In miniature sky
a golden sun, turning in a silver wire,
strikes the hour on silver gongs as it
passes.
Each hour is marked in the frame
by a creeping tortoise which take
the place of a hand. A bird of eXqui-
site plumage MARBLES at the close of
each hour, and as the song ceases a
mouse sallies forth from u neighbor-
ing grotto, and scampering over the
hill to the garden is soon lost to
view"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
EXPRESSION IN THE HAND.
That Member Is Frequently Far More
Eloquent Than the
Tongue.

There is a wealth of meaning in the
simple pressure of the hand. Not in
frequently woman's nature and
breeding may be distinguished by the
manner in which she shakes friends
hand. 1t may be due to the fact that
there are more nerves between the
brain and the hand than between any
other two portions of the body, but
true it is that the hand is often more
eloquent than the tongue, Washing
ton orator is quoted as saying, and
when a woman once appreciates the
Importance of this she will immediate
ly begin to study the expression of
the hand. One human touch of SYM
pathy or grasp of the hand can and
frequently does mean more than a
volume of words, and to possess this
quality, particularly in woman, is no
light charm and thing that lies with
in the reach of every woman. Should
she not have it naturally she should
speedily cultivate expression of the
hand:
VI course there are certain hall marks
of refined hand, beauty and texture
of skin, whiteness of nails all essen
tial, but not half so important as ex-
preston. Graceful gesture and touch
of quick sympathy, these never lose
their charm or power.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
VIRTUES OF IVORY.
Prescribed ns n Medicine and Made
Into n Jelly I'm Eighteenth
Century.

Ivory was formerly used as medi-
cine, but this was discontinued about
the end of the eighteenth or the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century.
1t was certainly prescribed in 1746,
the date of the last edition of Castel-
los "Medicae Compendium" says
Stray Stories.
In Schroder's zoolog', 1850, trans
lated into English by T. Bateson, it
is thus described under the heading
"Elephas:"
'His teeth are only used in medi-
cine, vulgarly called ivory. The vir-
tues: 1t cools and drys, moderately
binds cuts, strengthens the inward
parts. 1t is good for the jaundice, it
chaseth away wormes, it is good for
inveterate distractions; it takek
away the pains and weakness of the
stomach; it heals the epilepsie, drives
away melancholy, resists rottenness
and poysons. 1t is used in infusions,
and the powder is given in substance.
The dose is half dram. Preparation:
i. Burnt ivory, called Spodium, and
to distinguish it from the mineral
Spoduim, Spodium of Ivory, ii.
Troches of Spodium."
Ivory ground fine, and made into a
sort of jelly, has been used as a
STRENGTHENING food in more recent
times, by medical advice.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
A Picked Traveller.

A traveller in Tartary tells the fol-
lowing story of a corpulent Greek
servant who accompanied him: "At
the end of the third day the we'll
seasoned kavass in attendance, whose
whole life had been passed in the
saddle, came with a smile to report
that Gurgis was unable to proceed
from abrison, as the doctors called it,
of the epidermis. He can't be left
behind, sir, in the desert added the
old beirakdar, so, with your leave,
we will give him the Tartar bath A
tub of the strongest brine was ac-
cordingly prepared, in which the un-
fortunate Gurgis was forthwith i'm
mersed, uttering the most appalling
howls at the first plunge, but subsid-
ing shortly afterward and eventually,
after half an hours tanning coming
out so effectively hardened that
he rode further thousand miles to
the Black sea in the course of the
next week without showing symp-
tom of distress"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
INDIANS KNOW A COWARD.
Red Skin Has Way of Telling
Whether N White Man VIII
Fight or Not.

An Oklahoma man once told an
lndianthata desperate white man was
after his scalp. He smiled and shook
his head, relates the Kansas City
Journal. A few days later we were
talking to the white man, when the
Indian came up to join the group.
He had spotted the stranger and
knew him by sight. Without saying
a word to him he walked up within
arms reach and struck the white
man in the face with rough, heavy
glove. He paused for few seconds
and hit him again. "Ugh!" he ex-
claimed as he wheeled around and
walked away. The white man looked
at the Indian In amazement, but
made no show of resentment. Later
in the day, when we asked the Indian
why he didn't follow up the insult
with blows, he told us the white man
was coward. In explaining how he
knew 1t he said tho mans "jaw drop.
ped" when he struck him In the face
the second time with the glove, and
that this, with the Indian, was an un,
failing sign of cowardice.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
STUDY STATE ETIQUETTE.
British Records Contain Prccedents
for Almost Everything Ever
Heard OF.

"In the quiet rooms of the lord cham
berlain's Office" says writer in
Household Words, ''men learned in
state etiquette, court dress and royal
functions reach down heavy volumes to
see what was done on such and such an
occasion. Beautiful pictures, showing
with minutest exactness the details
of the court costume under various cir
cumstancees, are ready to their hands.
''Is the shah of Persia coming? Is
the kaiser soon to arrive? Is the king
going to receive the monarch of Siam?
Is the coronation imminent? Is one
of the royal princesses to be married?
When any of these events happen the
officials at the lord chamberlain's Of
flee know exactly what to do. And if
some point should crop up which has
not been raised for "a century or more,
they have the recorGs-great, heavy,
official, but utterly faithful records
as to what was done on the last occa-
sion. Precedent! Yes, they live on
precedent, these sticklers for "cor-
rectness,' these abnormal haters of
Irregularities They talk of 'prece-
dent as some men 'babble of green
fields Maybe in the silent watches of
the night they dream of precedent"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
Good with His Gun.

The sultan is said to be IA wonder
with revolver and is one of the fin.
est shots in the world. He always
has few in his clothes and is usual.
ly looking for an assassin. Recently
he dropped gardener in the palace
gardens who came from behind u
Tree suddenly. The sultan is quick
man, and, as they say in the west,
ESome sudden with his artillery"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12

During the last three years 22 mil
honaires have died in England, Theix
average age was rs years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION.

Living at an out of the way place,
remote from civilization, family is
often driven to desperation in case of
accident, resulting in Burns, Cuts,
Wounds, Ulcers, etc. Lay in supply
OF Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It's the
best on earth. % cents at C. P. Champ
ney's drug store.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
Growth of America.

Since 1870 the area of the United
States has increased from S27 s44 to
3,629,933 square miles, the number of
counties has increased from 307 to
2,s67, and the total population has
increased from 3,929,214 to 76,3O3, ,3S1,
or nineteenfold.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-12
neiected for stnmmerinr.

AS stammering is cause of rejec-
tion for military service, its frequen-
cy is shown by the statistics of the
examination of recruits in different
nations. The number rejected as
stammerers is 7.50 per thousand eN-
amined in France, 3.23 in Switzer-
land, 2.s7 in England, 2,2 in Austria,
.s6 in Italy and but 10 in Russia.