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The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Overheard in Skallyballoo.

Overheard in skaIIybaIloo.
Murphy had courage"
He did"
"Yis; whin tn cannon ball blew hii
head off, phwat did he do?"
"Phwat did he do?"
"Phoy. he turned aroun' avn asked
tn corporal for glass av whisky"
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Required No Nerve.

81 don't see anything remarkable
about the heroic boy standing on the
deck" said the man with the glass
eye.
MOP"
Certainly not. If had the deck
I'd stand. too-but as it is, give me
two cards"
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Caught.

Mr.. Reuben Eck-Doing some shop.
ping for your mother to-day, weren't
you?
Miss Grownsere (unwarily)-No.
was quite selfish to-day. All did was
for myself. Why?
Mr.. Reuben Eck-I saw you going
into that false hair emporium"
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
The liaht That Failed.

Mrs. A.-When | was engaged to my
husband he was the very light OF my
existence.
Miss D.-And now?
Mrs. A.-The light goes out every
night.-Brooklyn Life.
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Gone. But Not Forgotten.

Manager-Where's the living skele.
ton? It's his turn to go on.
The General Utility Boy-Please.
sir, he slipped while he was awashing
his hands, an went down tn waste
pipe.
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Those Loving Girls.

Edyth-Yes, I have decided to mar
ry Jack for the purpose of reforming
him
Mayme-Poor fellow! Is he really in
need of such heroic treatment?
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Just Makes II.

"She borrows everything she can
think Of"
"Oh, no; she never borrows trou'
ble."
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Great Luck

Great Luck
81 had great luck coming home in
the trolley car last night"
You didn't really get seat?
"Oh, my no! But l had half inter
est in a strap nearly all the way
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Power of Imagination.

Power of Imagination.
so you went to see one of those old
New England plays. Was 1t reallst-
ic?"
"Ipdeed it was. Why when the rain
storm came up Uncle Henry's corns
began to hurt him.
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Aaked and Answered.

Asked and Answered.
What" asked the youth, is the
great secret of success?
1.-The great secret of success, re-
plied the philosopher, "is to find some
thing you can't do-then don't do It,
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13

YachtsmGn-We sailing under reduced canvas
Fair Maiden-Ah! A bargain sail.
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13

TRIINkS TRUNKS, TRUNKS. Write for IL
BAG CO.. 10th md Lawrence SITS, Denver. Colo.
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13
Financial Contract Security Co.
We pay 6 per cent. interest DEPOSIT BY MAIL.

W0l lAC SEND for LIST OF SECONDHAND
tIOLINO, INSTRUMENTS. 1t Will pay
l.. RUSCHENBEHG X CO.. SO 10th st., Denver, Col.
The Springfield herald., 1903-02-13

AGENTS. wants to sell Nursery Stock.
HULN y Special Inducements to local agents.
NORTHERN NURSERY Co, DENVER, COLO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12
Animal Longevity.

Some curious statistics have just
been published upon what an lnsur.
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 1t is given as twenty-five,
while sheep, goats, pigs and cats are
grouped at fifteen. But there are
stranger disparities among birds.
While a goose may live thirty years,
a sparrow twenty-five and a crow as
many as 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, 1903-09-12
Even Winners Can Be Sad.

mo-" said the fat barber in the
Broadway hotel, 81 amt playing the
races nowadays. Fact is, 1 haven't
got over being sore over the last one
I made, and at that I won it.
''It was this way. l was working
at the chair about 1 o'clock one day
when in rushes guy knew, but not
very we'll.
"'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?
he says.
''Well, I made up my mind I'd have
to give up, and, anyhow, l didn't
know but what he was good for it, so
1 hands over the half, and with that
he rushes out.
wasn't more'n an hour later when
he PUSHES back and shoves me three
dollar bills.
"'What's this? I says.
"'What is it?' he yells. It's money.
The Mutt wins at to /. It's shame
you only had half, but 1 put it in
with mine And with that he hauls
out a handful of ones and twos.
WAS I sore? l was."-New York
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12
rat killed. Some $4,000 were tagged and

rat killed. Some $4,000 were tagged and
sent to the government laboratory for
psychological examination. OF the
10000 examined with the microscope
25O were found infected with plague.
The houses from which the infected
rats came were treated just as were
those where the disease attacked hui
man occupants. During one month,
according to Dean A. c. Worcesters
report, 65,379 traps were set and 403,-
709 plates Of poison placed by the rat
catching squad. Many houses which
were hopelessly unsanitary were burn
ed during the plague clean up and the
cholera scare which followed it. In
each case the owner was remunerated.
Many of the market places were aban-
doned by order Of the authorities I'M
tx they could be rebuilt.
AS result the spread Of both cpl.
denies was prevented and the general
health greatly improved. The natives
wonder at all this activity and, feel.
ing secure In the possession of their
charms against disease, grumble
great deal at the disturbance of the
house and the 'city cleaning.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12
Need a Mourning Stamp.

The pOstOffice department is con-
stantly in receipt. of requests for the
issue of a 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 a black edge and a red
stamp in the corner and they beg the
department to issue 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-shal be blue. In view
Of these restrictions it has not appear
ed possible to meet the requirements
for a mourning stamp, as the depart
ment does not deem it advisable to
print a 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 a 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, 1903-09-12
Nature SCnInturo.

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 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, 1903-09-12
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 a 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 "No Smoking" and hei
heart was broken.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12
MAKING USE OF OLD CANS.
Turned Into Weights for Elevators
and Window Sashes.

turned knto weights for Elevators
and Window Sashes.
/ 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. I 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
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 a 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 on.
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, 1903-09-12
SEES HIS DEATH IN DREAM.
Montana Ranchman Murdered by O
Tramp He Had Offended.

Montana Ranchman Murdered by a
Tramp He Had Offended.
Students Of the occult are finding
much food for thought in the murder
Of Fred Teasdale, a raneher Of Bridg-
er, Mont, by a tramp who refuses to
give his name, but who says that he
knew the dead man long ago, and that
Teasdale did him q deadly wrong.
II had queer dream last night,
only 1t was not really a dream" said
Teasdale, when he went into the field
in the morning, addressing several
men. II 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 wa
engaged in a quarrel. During this
quarrel he shot me. The funny part
Of it ell 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
wronged me In this world" shouted
the tramp, "but it will be the last"
Then he drew revolver and fired,
the ball 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 high position in the
world and is evidently a man Of edu-
cation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12
The Vale of Avoca.


There is not in this wide world valley
so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright
waters meet;
0, 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 o.
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 enchant.
ment more dear,
And who felt how the best charms OF
nature improve
When we sec them reflected from looks
that we love.
Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could h
rest
In thy tosom Of shade, with the friends
I 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, 1903-09-12
No Judge.

Doctor Podgy looked at bis fever
analogue patient with scientific inter-
est. Then, after taking his pulse and
temperature he proceeded to ask the
usual questions.
"Um-mr' he said, thoughtfully. "Ths
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 1
may use the word?"
"Doctor," said the patient, feebly,
ION fever days my heads so hot 1
can't think, and on ague days l shake
SO l can't hold an opinion"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12
Highway Improvement.


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 twenty-four States, highway
commissions in eleven States, and the
National Good Doads Association is
represented In ,wenty-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 $3,35O,0 900
in road improvements and built 700
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 few Of the southern
States have increased their road appro-
priations and are now spending
goodly sum for road building and re-
pairing.
There are now about 5000 road Off
Gals in the United States, nine ma
tiona 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. HI. Moore, and r. w.
Richardson, the first men to secure the
running Of good roads train" A
number of States have annual appro-
prlations, but a great deal Of the pub
lie improvement is done by farmer
capitalists, y. no 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 il Con-
necticut Indiana, Minnesota, Califor-
MIA, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.
The States of Indiana and Pennsylva-
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 a better
system Of country roads is being
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12
Goyerness for FidO.

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 goverless 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 wintes the governess tutored
more than thirty dogs. At a certain
hour every morning she takes 10 or IL
proteges out on their leashes. She
keeps the peace among them, sees that
they have a good scamper and a 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
ra hieS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12
FROM WITCHcRAFT TO SCIENCE.
Progress of the World in the Last
Two Hundred Years.

Two Hundred Years.
ern surgeon would have been de-
nounced by the theologians, who then
ruled mankind, as audacious intrusions
into the exclusive jurisdiction Of God
i 70 centuries ago, or at the further
est, three, the man of science who
would take out the viscera Of 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
benefcient healer who, with his phial
or 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
captains of industry are pouring out
their millions, building him colleges
and laboratories, endowing professor.
ships, while the world at large halls
him as the man of power and influ
ence at 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 fot
domination over the lawyer who a
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, 1903-09-12
CLEANING UP OF MANILA.
How Epidemics Were Prevented from
Spreading In Capital.

How Epidemics Were Prevented from
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 a city Of sickening 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
It 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 a 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 1000 officers, mechanics and Ia
Dorers. 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 a 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
Hongkong it is not strange that it
should stalk the 600 miles to Manila
1t was discovered in the last week of
the year 1899 and increased rapidly IN
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, 1903-09-12
In the Interest of Sleep.

what did you mean by telling those
new neighbors that they needn't buy
a 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 60
ing to have the bland assurance to
come around at o'clock in the MORN
ing and borrow a lawn. mower
Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12

Statistics go to show that rs per
cent. of the women sent to insane
asylums 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
fan to seek relief until the mind SUI
fers with the body.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12
=OLD==
FAVORITES


MY Country 'Tis of Thee.
Ny 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.
MY native country, thee,
Land Of the noble free,
Thy name l love;
l love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hillsj
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 prolcng.
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, DIR King.
Rev. S. +. Smith.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12

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 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
sopsult a lawyer, employ dentist or