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Mower County transcript., 1904-09-07

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thar's a sight O the boys that want
to go, but cayn't raise the scads. Wen
chip in an send the most deservin', eff
our women folks go hungry this win
ter. Thar was lie afoat In the
newspapers awhile back that some mig
ger went of after the war an got rich
an come back home jest in time to
buy his old master suit O. clothes an
pay his way to reunion. Ell thar was
man in our camp that I'D go that
away, we'd send i'm in tar an feath-
ers, an on a rail at that"
"Oh, come off, Bas," Kenner laughed,
! as he looked around at George and
Hillyer at their desks. "That's a old
Yankee army overcoat you got on
right now. You've had it dyed with
logwood, but I'd know it by that long
CAPE"
"Yes, that's what it is," admitted
Truttt sheepshly. 1.-THE Yankee that
owned It died at my house while was
of tn the war. It was the only thing
NO AOAC %AA1t " 10 any 0SNOuAA9 0A AAy
women folks had fed an pampered i'm
up with all they could rake an scrape
In the neighborhood, goln' without
themselves beca'se he was SO bad of.
|, After he died they put this coat away
in camphor to keep the moths out Of it.
The blame garment eat up a quarters 8
wuth year fer ten year, an ever win
ter had row with my women folks
beca'se wouldn't wear it. Finally,
agreed eff they nd dye it so none O.
my crowd nd feFgft the war was over
an shoot me, I'd put It on. My women
folks tuck me up. but they wouldn't
make q. fortune runnln' dye house.
This drafted thing has spilled twenty
Sunday shirts fer me. T'other day,
when went in the msetin' house out
Of shower O. rain, I left a streak o.
black fnk from the door to the amen
corner"
"Whar did you git that bugler' Ken
ner questioned. Il know you never
blowed 1t In the army"
mo; Tired Langston had it when he
was bugler in our company an he give
It to me to use In our veteran camp;
he said his boys hadn't sign o. re-
spect fer what it had been through, an
used it to call the dogs to go possum
hunt1n'. He said his gals tied gray
ribbon about it an hung it up on the
wall, but the boys wouldn't let it stay
thar. They treated his canteen jest as
bad. They toted it about with moon
shine whisky In it till It sprung
leak, an then they hung it up on a
tree an shot more holes in 1t. I reckon
I am a sight, todn' a reb flag an
bugle with a Yankee overcoat on, but
they tell me the wars over"
II reckon You went through the thick
OF it." said the cotton buyer tenta-
lively.
II got as much fight as I cared fer
at Bakers cnek," answered the veter-
an. Our boys was about starved to
death ON short rattons, an we had
Jest got hold Of q lot O. fresh beef when
we got the call to arms. Our colonel
told us we'd better take some OF the
beef with us, an me n another feller
was a-filltn' our knapsacks when the
feller all at once said to me, Look y
here. Bas, the odds Is ag1n US, an
hain't a.gotn' TO let no bluecoat ketch
me with a passle o raw beef in my
knapsack., an he th'owed the meat
down. I followed suit. Jest then, in
all the hurlyburfy O gittin' ready,
man rid in with a big basket O. pies
to sell us. We wanted the pies an he
wanted money; we didn't have no
Mower County transcript., 1904-09-07

money, an offered to swap beef fer
the pies; he refused to trade. Then
we put ina on his sway backed boss
an loaded i'm back and front with
bloody beef an top i'm eff he didn't
make tracks we'd shoot at the beef.
But we didn't have time to eat the
pies even, fer the thing had begun.
Folks has often axed me what battle
was like. I couldn't tell you. It Jest
made sound-oo 900 like a
harrycane rippin' gullies in the earth
an sweepin' away trees. rocks, hills,
Mower County transcript., 1904-09-07
Special Rates via Chicago Nil.
Waukee and St. Paul Rv.

To Denver, Colorado Springs an .
nearly all Colorado points also to Hot
Springs, Custer and other South Dako-
ia points, to Cloudcroft n. M. and El
PasO Tex. Tickets on sale June LIST
to Sept. Both. good to return Oct. 31st
1904 at one fare plus Soc for round trip.
C.. w. Snere, Agent.
Mower County transcript., 1904-09-07
PRINCIPAL CITIES.
! LEAVE. | ARRIVE

saDaily. fDaily except Sunday. .s
2:4O p. M, train has fine recliRing chair cars
and high back coaches through to Kansas
City and st. Louis, and Pullman sleeping cars
Abba to st. Louis and Kansas City. 1S :O9 q.
m., train has through buffet sleepers chair
cars and coaches all new to st. Louis. 5aS q.
a H., has f1ne reclining chair through to Peoria.
For rates etc apply to- .3-s-s-. a
H. 7. Boyd. .szg A. b. Cntte. =
Agent. 6. p. and r. A.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
Brief State Happenings.

A dog poisoner is at work in Appleton.
Judge D. e. Stolz, for many years JUS
tice of the peace in Beaver Dam, died
suddenly, aged 76 years.
The postoffice at Heineman was
robbed the other night. Postmaster Hool-
ahan figures his loss at 500.
The Ottawa and Tumble mines at
Hurley, operated by the Montreal Min
ing Company, have laid off $50 men.
Jacob Dubois, while riding in a sleigh,
was struck by a Chicago and North
western train at North Freedom and
killed.
The S-yearold son of George Ham
man, of Little Chute, tried to drive a
lightning rod into dynamite cap and
nearly had his hand torn off.
Pulpwood is arriving at the Appleton
paper mills at rate of from $50 to 300
carloads a day. The amount to be re-
ceived this season will greatly exceed
that Of last year.
Because of the many serious accidents
in bob coasting among Appleton children
the Mayor has issued orders that every
hill in the city shall be covered literally
with ashes and sand.
Willie Smith, of Chippewa Falls,
while riding on a sleigh loaded with
wood, was ordered off by the driver. He
slipped and fell under the sleigh, which
passed over his body. He cannot live.
A match in the hands of a servant
caused a $500 loss by fire at the resi-
dence of J. l.. Broderick i'll Brodhead.
The girl was looking for something IN
closet and did not notice that some blan-
kets had caught fire until they had begun
to blaze fercely.
A party of ten Wisconsin people, in
Guiding Miss Pearl Gage of Appleton and
Mr.. and Mrs John Wenzel of Camp
bellsport, has just started on trip to
Montana. where they will prove up land
claims. The women each have their own
aim.
VIII H Van Nortwick, the well-known
paper mill man of Appleton, and John
Burton. of Batavia, have arrived i'll
Paris, France, on their trip and will
presently leave for Egypt, Japan and
China. They will make a tour Of the
world and come back via the Pacific
Ocean.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27

/ men bowed their s1very locks IN ST.
lent salutation.
And cry went up-a wild cry from
thousand threats that drowned the
blasts of Tyra's horns
'Leodesia! Leodesia Save us, Leo.
desia!"
Then the gates were thrown ajar
and the maiden beheld her lover,
Tyra, and his eyes were looking into
hers. A smile was upon his face;
his hands were outstretched to her
and around his head halo of sunlight
lowered.
With a cry of delight she watched
him advance over the flowers the
maidens strewed in his pathway. A
wave of passionate affection swept
over her and her cheeks blushed like
the roses he crushed under his feet
Then she turned slightly and saw,
at her right hand, youth bearing
two goblets of wine. Barley shade
paler grew her face as she bent low
in salutation to her lord With set
lips she raised her head and smiled
an instant into Tyra's eyes; then,
reaching forth her hands, she took the
goblets from the. youth.
She saw the lovelight on her lovers
face; she heard the moaning and the
pleading of her people. So steadily
that not drop was spilled she raised
to Tyra's lips one of the goblets in
her hands.
Drink, oh my best beloved" she
said, calmly; drink this token of my
greeting unto thee, my noble one"
He took the goblet from her hand,
and with smile upon her face she
watched him drink it's contents. Then
she quivered moment like leaf and
fell forward, lifeless, as he also, fell
dead at her feet.
Now, this question have. the Syrians
debated even unto this day: Did Leo
desia hand to Tyra the poisoned wine
and die Of grief; or did she seek to
save her lovers life and herself ex-
pire through fear of the curse called
down upon her by the sage?
But no man knoweth, to q certainty,
how, il her heart Leodesia did decide
that day, for the treacherouA sage had
placed poison in both goblets!-E. w.
c., in Illustrated Bits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
TUNNELS OF NEW YORK.
They Are Made Necessary by the Com.
gestion in the City.

EeSC1Ou the N1Cys
The narrowness Of the island on
which little old New York is built,
and into which Is packed during the
working hours Of each day a popula-
ton drawn from a radius Of fifty
miles, makes its traffic proudly the
most difficult Of any city of the world,
says Golfers Weekly. Surface and
elevated lines are destined to be
thrown across the city like a net; its
subcuticle to be honeycombed with
tunnels. The great subway, which is
now being completed up the backbone
Of Manhattan, will be at once con-
gested Added facility will but create
demand.
Two reilway tunnels are already in
process of construction under the
North River from the New Jersey
shore Others are proposed. One Of
the tunnels will pass under the city
and the East River, and thence to
Long Island; the city Is already build
ing It's own tunnel from the Battery to
Brooklyn. A second subway is pro-
posed from 42d street SOUTH on Broad
way and other streets to the Battery,
while third will probably extend
northward from 42d street under Lex
ington avenue to the Bronx Trans
verse tunnels are contemplated con-
Meeting the various longitudinal lines
at 10th street and at 32d street. To
s1pDlement the underground lines adj
,litional tracks are now being planned
on each of the four north-and-south
elevated lines with ingeniously calcu-
lated systems for handling most expe-
ditiously the various sorts Of crowds
the far-coming suburbanite and Har-
lem sort, the congested shopping
crowd.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27


She was raised to the giddy height
through her own efforts, without the
aid Of wealth, influence or distinction.
The Yankee will, capability and ambi-
ton landed her far above the most dis
tinguished women Of the land Of her
adoption.
She was beautiful, with the quiet,
peaceful beauty of the country. Be
ing the daughter Of a staid and digni-
fed Presbyterian preacher Of small
Ohio town, she did not possess the
vanities Of the city-bred women nor
the means to satisfy them. Two new
frocks each year, simple and severe
in style, furnished the adornment for
her charms. She did not care for fine
clothes, nor for other little adornments
that other girls yearned for. She was
ambitious. Once, after choir practice,
when she was walking along the road
way from the little meeting house to
her humble home, she told girl chum
that she believed a woman, If she only
tried, could reach the highest position
in the land.
II mean to do it." she added.
Perhaps the reason she did not be-
come wife Of the President Of the
United States is that her father soon
after went to Korea as missionary
Emily was his jealous helper in the
missionary field. She led the singing
In the mission choir and her beauty
was reported to the King.
The King invited her and her father
to the palace and promptly fell in love
with her. He invited her to join his
household, but at first Emily declined.
The Emperor was insistent, and she at
last consented, first obtaining the En-
peror's promise to marry her.
The life Of a queen in Korea Is not
very pleasant, even though she Is
known as Lady ON, which, in the
Korean language, means "The dawn Of
the morning" The Empress did not
take warning from the fate Of her
predecessor. The former Lady ON
married the Emperor, and when she
finally became queen, political intrigue
demanded her death and one day she
was murdered in the palace by assas-
sins hired by prominent officials who
were jealous Of her power. The King
declared her a traitor and said that
she deserved her death
This was where Emily Browns
chance came. The King, while he had
plenty Of other wives, failed to raise
any one Of them to the dignity Of
queen, and the little American girl
knew that her time had come. The
story Of the life Of the American en-
press is strangely incomplete. There
are few Americans in Korea and the
Empress Emily is very reticent. She
does not care to see Americans, and the
inner life Of the court has always been
like a sealed book.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
THE HEARTLHssNEss OF MAN.


They quarreled on day, twas a
trife.
No doubt, tkat induced them to part,
That caused her to bid him t. stifie
The love that had bloomed in his
heart
She saw him turn slowly and sadly
To leave her, she heard his good
bye;
He loved her-he swore he did
madly;
She held her head proudly and hign
He did not return, for some reason,
To humble himself at her feet;
Another arrived in due season,
Fate having decreed they should
meet.
He told her the lovely old story,
And she, as his bride, reached the
height
Of what to a woman is glory
Then quietly passed out of sight.
The other man gained high station,
And, having enthroned himself
there,
Possessing the worlds admiration,
Won the heart of a girl who was
fair.
Far back, where few saw and few
knew her,
Was one who went nursing an ache,
Because he had not returned to her.
0r aft hod NOT fni1nH for hQr
sake.
S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Rec1rd-
Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
Hears and Speaks Again.

Letters have been received in Oshkosh
from Mrs. J. Stanley Rice Of Springvale,
Mimi, announcing that her husband has
suddenly recovered his hearing and
speech after period of six months, dur
ing which he was wholly deaf and dumb
Mr.. Rice's affection came upon him in
Oshkosh. where he was living at the
time. The recovery Of hearing and
speech was due to a severe shock sus-
tanned by being thrown from vehicle
while driving Mr.. Rice has no recollec-
ton Of events during the six months OF
affection.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
Goes Through Machine. %re"

Anton H. Hietpas had a sensational
ride in the Combined Locks paper mills
in Appleton. He crawled into large
paper machine to clean several parts Of
it. Another employee coming in later
saw the machine standing still and start
ed it. He was carried through the entire
conveyor and then was violently thrown
against wall. He could not save him
self from the terrible experience, being
so helpless and frightened that he failed
even to cry out. An ankle was broken,
which will lay him up for some time, but
otherwise he miraculously escaped in
iury
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
DETECTIVES IN FICTION.
Sherlock Holmes Dissected by Scot
land Yard Chief.


Sherlock Holmes confided to DR.
Watson so many times his unreserv
ed opinion of the official detectives, OF
Scotland Yarders, that Conan Doyle's
readers will be especially interested
in what Sir Robert Anderson, head OF
London's criminal investigation de-
partment, has just written-apropOs
of Holmes "return" the
estimation which the regular men"
hold of the amateur sleuthhOund OF
Baker street.
Perhaps it will be best to give Sir
Roberts views, as a practical GRIMM
al agent, upon certain details of the
Adventures" before quoting what the
famous ex-eommissioner of police has
to say regarding Holmes gibes at the
methods of the regular fierce.
cit implies no disparagement Of DR..
Doyles art" he says, ''that in the 'Ad-
ventures of Sherlock Holmes the ele-
ment of exaggeration is seldom want
ing. The Final Problem exemplifies
this in a notable way. To an expert,
at all events, the story of Moriarty's
tracking Holmes to Switzerland is
preposterous."
Sir Robert goes on: 'In this coun-
try, an accused person must, without
the slightest delay, be brought before
a magistrate. But in the Study in
Scarlet we are told that Jefferson
Hope was to be put before the magis-
trate in the course of week. In The
Man With the Twisted Lip the police
at Bow street flushed the thing up
apparently without the Intervention
of a magistrate at all.
"And in The Sign of Four the
closing scene reminds us of one of
Dickens's bagmen stories. Jonathan
Small makes a quartet with our two
friends and the Bow street officer,
whose prisoner he is, in the Baker
street lodgings we know so we'll; and,
ensconced in comfortable chair,
with a glass of spirits and water at
hand, he spends a pleasant hour in
telling the story Of his crimes. And
even this is capped by DR.. Watson's
being allowed to carry away the treas
ure chest, the corpus of the crime,
which is supposed ito contain jewels
of priceless value. He conveys it in
a cab to the house of his fiancee, and
in her presence he breaks it open with
a poker!" And thus the practical de-
tective goes on at some length.
Evidently, however, Sir Robert An
derson does not take Holiness jibe at
the expense of Scotland card with
great seriousness. There is a wide
difference" he says, between the
work of the responsible police officer,
whose business it is to bring GRIMM
ais to justice, and in the work of the
private detective,' who has merely to
ascertain the facts and to solve seem
ing mysteries. But the difference is
| not so vital as that which distin-
| guishes the fancies Of the novelist
| from the facts of real life.
"He must be a poor sort of crea-
lens. And it is delightful to notice
how accurately the Sherlock Holmes
keys invariably fit the Sherlock
Holmes locks, and how invariably his
two and two makes four. But in real
life keys are apt to get missed or mis-
laid, and two and two have some
times a way of making twenty-five;
all of which may be quite unprevent-
able and is always most embarrassing
London letter to Washington Post.
|
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
Som thing New in Tunnels.

In constructing the tunnel under the
Hudson the Pennsylvania Railroad
will have its track supported a part
Of the way on screw piles connected
by Orders which are Independent of
the tunnel, thereby relieving the tun-
mel structure Of the weight Of trains
passing over. This Independent sup
port Of the track is without precedent
In tunnel construction. The tunnels
under the East River are almost en-
tirely in rock.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27

official Of Korea
because he was op-
posed to her shar-
ing the throne with
the emperor. 1t ts
said the Empress
secured the SER
vices Of two men
who slew the Off
cial.
Emily Brown Is
the first American
girl who ever be-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
She'll Lake to Have Plant.

At the special town meeting at Shell
Lake, the ordinance to secure $4,000
from the State fund for the purpose Of
erecting a power, water and light plant
was carried by majority of 81 out Of
241 votes cast.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27

The present plan for increase of the
metropolitan water supply provides for
an expenditure of about $50, 100000 for
bringing to New York 200,000,000 gal
Ions daily from the Wappingers Creek
and Esopus regions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
LITTLE OHIO GIRL WHO
BECAME EMPRESS OF KOREA

The Empress Of Korea, formerly
Miss Emily Brown, Of Ohio, is accused
Of having caused the murder Of a high
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27

How about a man loving his neigh.
Dor as himself if he is his own worst
enemy?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
"a WEEKS RECORD OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.
University to Train Girls In House.
wifery-E1ectricity Saves from Death
by Morphine-Forn Oshkosh Man
Receivers Speech and Hearing.

The training of girls to be wives in
stead of mere social fixtures, the teach
ing of the practical and primarily useful
arts of housewifery in addition to the
teaching Of French, music and philoso-
ply, will be inaugurated at the Univer-
sity Of Wisconsin at the beginning Of the
second semester of the university year,
in February. A department. of domestic
science has been authorized by an appro-
priation of $4,000, rooms have been
equipped as kitchen and laboratory, and
the turning out of domestic experts will
begin with the next commencement in
June. The appropriation for this de-
partment was made by the Legislature
after the clubwomen Of the State had ap-
peared and persistently lobbied for the
measure. The old South hall, dormitory
couple of scores Of years ago, then
chemical laboratory and in recent years
ARCHAEOLOGICAL laboratory and headquar-
tiers of the short course school Of agrl-
culture, was renovated and equipped. A
domestic science expert, Miss Caroline
L. Hunt. was secured, and the work is
about to begin. The enrolment Of the
first class will be the limit Of the capac-
ity Of the department, as the idea has
"caught on" The course will include
scientific and practical study and pre-
paration of foods, house sanitation, dec
grafton and management and domestic
physiology
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
Electricity Saves a Life.

A powerful electric current was sent
coursing through the dying body Of Ad-
rian w. Brown, morphine fend and at
tempted suicide, in Madison, and life was
kept in the man until the power of the
drug was expended and he awoke. He
took an overdose of morphine at
4 o'clock in the afternoon, just the proper
dose to be deadly, was found in a sound
slumber three hours later, failed to re-
spond to any amount Of pounding and
rubbing by two doctors and squad OF
brawny policemen and was cold to the
knees when an electric current from the
city service wires was sent into the body
to fight the death work of the drug. The
coroner had already selected an inquest
jury and gone home when the patient
began to revive. At l o'clock in the
morning he sat up in bed, coughed few
times and remarked that he felt "a bit
sick and guessed he would have to go to
the asylum for treatment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-08-05
GOMPERS CALLS
ON The PRESIDENT
AFTERWARDS COMMENTS ON THE
CHICAGO STRIKE, SAYING THE
PACKERS ARR VERY ARBITRARY
IN THEIR PRESENT ATTITUDE.

Washington, August 4-samuei Com
pers, president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. called upon the President
today with President OConnell of the In
ternational Association of Machinists, and
committee representing the local union
of that organization to urge that an in
crease be made In the wage of the ma
chinists employed in the Washington
navy yard The President promised that
an investigation of the question violated
should be made by Secretary Morton and
action would be based on the secretarys
report After the conference President
Gompers commented briefly upon the de-
velopment of the meat handlers strike
1T seems to me-" said he, THAT the
course pursued by the packers in the
strike is most arbitrary and most unwse.
Their refusal to confer with representa-
tives or committees of the union serves
only to exasperate the men and to render
less likely an amicable adjustment of the
difficulties. Inevitably their refusal to
confer with the men, except as ind-
viduals, will tend not only to AXE the
men more lnslstent in their desire but
what Is more to the point will enlist the
active sympathy of all unions and union
mon throughout the country OF course
the men will insist upon conferences with
their employers. That is only natural
and fair"