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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08

hOLDo LIN. o1'' IrOm slipping OA
the wheel Of the vehicle. AS yet no
satisfactory device has been devised
which thoroughly overcomes this
fault. A unique contrivance is the
one shown in the illustration, patent
ed by New York man. Tt comprises
a chain which takes a zigzag course
upon the circumference Of the tire and
is anchored at intervals by means Of
double-ended snap-hooks to a chain
passing adjacent to the rim Of the
wheel. This chain is made up Of
links, turn-buckles being positioned at
intervals to connect the sections of the
chain and to draw and hold 1t taut.
Another chain is placed Zigzag over
the surface of the tire and Is connect
ed at intervals with the lower chain
by means Of double-ended snap hooks.
These hooks are each made Of piece
Of metal bent to form hooks, while
the shank Of each hook is cOncaved
to conform to the contour Of the tire.
In applying this anti-slipping attach
ment to wheels the inner ends Of the
hooks are caught into links Of the
lower chain, there being two Of these
chains, one on each side Of the wheel.
The upper chain is run zigzag over the
surface Of the tire, being made to en-
gage alternate snap hooks upon oppo-
site sides Of the wheel, and when the
chain has been run about the entire
circumference Of the wheel, the turn
buckles are operated to draw the
lower chain taut This device can be
applied to a tire while it is in an In
fated or Debated condition, and can
be quickly attached or detached from
a vehicle wheel.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08

Long ago Herbert Spencer, in laying
stress on the need Of moral and emo
tional education, and in deprecating
the tendency to worship mere intellect,
declared that 'you cannot get golden
conduct from leaden instincts" Right
feeling is more essential to society
than knowledge, since there is no nee
essary connection between knowledge
and action, and it Is even more the
business Of educational agencies to
cultivate character than to impart in
formation. These truths have been so
strikingly illustrated afresh in recent
developments that it Is not unreason-
able to expect a healthy reaction in
favor of genuine moral culture. Pres
ident Butler, Of Columbia, following
Harvard, University Of Chicago and
other educators, has just spoken with
much directness and force Of the evils
consequent upon neglect Of character
building. Whatever new legislation in
surance and graft scandals have
proved to be necessary, we must re-
member, DR.. Butler told the student
body he was addressing, that "stat-
utes will not put moral principles
where they do not exist" Statutes do
not enforce themselves, and the para
mount need is a sound public opinion,
a high standard Of rectitude and con-
duct. There Is no greater, gray er
symptom Of decadence than the substi-
tuition Of the criminal code for the
moral law as the national standard. 1t
is against such substitution by any ele-
ment Of our population that all educa-
tional and elevating agencies must
ceaselessly work. President Roosevelt
has referred to able lawyers who put
their skill and learning at the COM
mand Of INSCRIPTIONS violators Of the
law. President Butler raises his voice
against "the casuistry Of the counting
room and the law Office" and makes q
plea for higher ideals of conduct. Moth
ing can be more demoralizing than the
impression that all a man has to do
to earn respect and standing is to keep
within the letter Of the law and escape
Indictment and conviction. The ideal
to be held up to the admiration Of the
rising generation is that Of social serv-
ice, Of devotion to the highest princi,
pies Of Individual and social ethics.
If, in DR.. Buffers words, we fail to
cultivate and form those traits and
habits, those instincts which together
constitute high character, a good and
moral will, all our learning may be-
come an instrument Of greed, evil and
injustice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08

made. The product is then completed
by sizing, drying, etc.
In making the water mark on the
paper the mold or the wire frame on
which the pulp is formed is raised in
that portion where it is desirable to
stamp the mark and the sheet is thus
made thinner than in other portions
Of the mold and the design remains
impressed on the sheet.
The art Of making paper by hand
is only acquired after long experience
and practice, for it requires great
alertness, quick eye and concentrat-
ed attention. William Norman, his
wife and two sons were the paper
makers brought from England to
Adams and for years the elder Nor
man made all Of the handmade paper
After his death, a few years ago, his
son William took the place at the
mold and he is said to be the only
man in America to-day who can give
the proper "jog" to the mold.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
Had Husbands to Burn.

A good sort Of trolley conductor,
who has ears for other things besides
the bell of his fare register and whose
run in Brooklyn brings him passengers
to and from certain cemetery,
vouches for this story:
A woman boarded his car at the
cemetery the other day shaking with
sobs. She had not been in the car long
when two women took seats opposite
her. One Of them seemed to recognize
the woman from the cemetery, hest
tated for moment then crossed the
aisle and spoke to her. The sobbing
one looked up and the Identification
was complete.
"Why, Mary" said the woman who
had crossed the aisle, where have you
been for so long and what is the mat
ter
II have been married." came the
sob-broken answer, "and I'm just after
cremating my husband"
Condolences were offered and the
widow soon afterward left the car, ap-
parently cheered, while her friend re-
turned to the seat beside her compan-
ion and told all that Mary had I'M
bosomed to her.
"And she's got husbands to burn"
remarked the companion enviously,
"while I'm still single. New York
Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
KIND TO IDLE IN GERMANY.
Unem p1oyed Men Aided by Lodgin e.
House Association.

Unemployed Men Aided by Lodging
House Association.
Germany shows us a good example
in it's treatment of the unemployed,
whether they are honest workmen tenn
porarily in misfortune or belong to the
class of ''trampa" properly so-called,
says a German letter in the Country
Gentleman All we offer is the cold
hospitality Of the casual ward" with
the meagerest of food and the maxi
mum Of stone-breaking allowance, be-
fore they get out in the morning. Could
anything be more dispiriting to an av-
erage workman?
Now, there is in Germany lodging
house association, having ramifcations
throughout the empire. The working
Is as follows: 1t is a principle Of the
association to regard as without
MEANS" and therefore proper subjects
for help, any workman who has no
more than cents in his pocket and is
unable to find employment in the place
where he happens to be located. Such
a man is received to the full benefits
Of the association without formality
or fee, though if by reasons Of age,
sickness or physical infirmity Of any
kind he should be unfit for the road
or for work, the services Of the poor
law authorities are enlisted on his be-
half.
A voorhees, artisan or laborer, de-
sirous Of going in search Of employ
ment, can at once obtain a passport on
proof given Of his bona fides, and, so
equipped, he is able to walk any nee
essary distance without cost to him
self. An official Of the local herberge
and every town Of Importance pos
sesses one, at least-helps him to draw
up his plan Of route, which Is so ar
ranged that after five or six hours of
moderate walking each day he may
land at the door Of hospitable shelter,
where food, lodging and due care for
his spiritual welfare await him. The
rule followed is: Work in the fore
noon, walk in the afternoon" for,
though the entertainment offered is
without money, it is not without price,
the price being several hours Of light
employment, suited to the mans char
acter and capacity, before the days
march begins; nevertheless, the task
Is omitted where circumstances justi-
fy it.
The wanderer may present himself
at the shelter as soon in the after
noon as he likes, but he must not turn
up later than Z o'clock. On Sunday
no work is required, but a religious
service takes it's place, though in the
afternoon the men are sent on their
way as on any other day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
MAKING PAPER BY HAND.
Only Plant for That Work in United
States Is in Adams, Mass.

Only Plant for That Work in United
States rs in Adams, Mass.
Up in the little town of Adams, in
the Berkshire hills, is the only plant
in America for making handmade pa
per. There is great demand for
these papers for drawing, water-color
painting, correspondence and special
book editions, says the Boston Tran
script, and the mills in Adams are
working at full speed to meet it.
Until 1916 papermaking in this coun-
try was entirely by hand, and the
process was so slow that it required
the labor Of five persons to make
three reamS a day. With machinery
for forming rag pulp into sheet paper
the handmade process was abandoned
and skilled artisans who could give the
"Old-time shake to the mold, forming
sheet Of paper, became almost un-
known. In 1879 the L. L. Brown Pa
per Company of Adams sent a prac-
teal man to England to purchase the
necessary equipment and engage work
men and in 1880 it commenced the
manufacture Of handmade paper.
The difference in hand and machine
made paper is in the manipulation of
the sheets. In making a sheet of pa
per by hand the pulp, made from rags
by the usual process Of washing and
beating, is emptied into an open vat
with quantity Of water. In this vat
the workman, holding a mold or frame
piece of wire cloth in both hands dins
it at an angle of about 65 degrees
and, taking up sufficient quantity of
pulp, raises it horizontally, the frame
or deckle holding it upon the wire
cloth.
A double oscillating motion is i'm
parted to it and distributes the min
with perfect uniformity over the en-
tire surface Of the mold, INTERVIEWING
the fibers. Gradually the water drains
through, the pulp solidifies and takes
on shiny appearance, which indi-
Gates to the experienced eye that the
first process is completed.
The frame or deckle is then ra-
moved and the mold laid upon a
woollen felt or blanket, to which the
wet sheet adheres, and the mold is
lifted from it. Another felt is spread
over this, upon which the next sheet
made exactly like the first, is laid.
and this is continued with alternate
layers of felt and paper until suffi-
cient quantity is made to form a
post" after which the whole is
carried to a press and subjected to
varying degrees of pressure, according
TO the purpose and finish Of the sheet
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
RADIUM CURE FOR CANCER.
It Will Soon Be Available for General
TTae.

Use.
"From what I have seen in CONT
mental hospitals l predict that in one
year radium will be used in all hospii
tails that fight cancer in all it's FORMS"
said Hugo Lieber, the discoverer Of
the wonderful radium coatings used at
Flower Hospital, to the New York
World.
Mr. Lieber recently visited the prin-
cipal hospitals Of England, France
and Germany at the request of the
great physicians to explain the use
Of his radium pencils which have
cured cancer at Flower Hospital. !
'The use of radium for therapeu.
tic purposes" said Mr.. Lieber, "has
been more general in EUROPE than
here, possibly because of the nearness
of the supply. They are using it, not
only for cancer and lupus, but in the
treatment Of milder skin Affections,
In Berlin l found Prof. Markwald,
one Of the most eminent Of physical
chemists, urging the use Of radium Id
the hospitals
I'm Vienna well-known doctors, such
as Freund, Holzknecht and Nienstaed,
are using radium and the coated rods.
l saw Prof. Curie in Paris and am to
send him a number Of the new rods to
try in Paris hospitals.
"The greatest difficulty is that the
demand has shot the price Of radium
up over 300 per cent in the last thirty
days. What was sold for $3.50 few
months ago now costs 5000 to 500,
and very little is to be had at that
price. Physicians hope that my dis.
coyery will make it possible to use
radium broadly and at comparative!
" small cost.
'"The London hospitals have done
the least experimenting with radium
and have not had the splendid results
that have been obtained on the CONT
nent. However, no work that have
seen abroad is more advanced than
that of our own physicians. No Eui
ropean has been more successful than
Drs. Able, Morton, King, Dieffen-
bach and Piffard in New York"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
TEACHING IN 8IST YEAR.
Services of 62 Years in School Work
the Record of Prof. Hopper.

Services of 62 Years in School Work
the Record of Prof. Hopper.
Prof. Zephaniah Hopper, Of the Gen.
trail high school, recently celebrated
his eighty-first birthday.
He has been teaching continuously
in the high school since 1859, and be-
fore that had been for eleven years a
teacher in grammar schools, his record
Of sixty-two years continuous service
being unequaled says the Philadelphia
Bulletin.
During this time he has seen 10000
boys pass in review before him in the
school from which he was graduated
as an honor man Of it's first class in
1912.
Prof. Hopper does not look his age.
Keen and alert, he has preserved the
equable temperament and the kindly
but determined disposition which has
earned him professional success and
endeared him to all who have come
under his instructions.
He was born in Philadelphia of En-
glish Quaker stock on Sept. 8, 1924,
and was admitted as student to the
central high school from the model
school in January, 1889, and was grad
uated No. in the first graduating
class of thirty-One members. Three
months after graduation, when only 10
years Of age, he received an appoint
ment as an assistant teacher in the
Frankfort grammar school and taught
there for six months.
In June, 1854, he was elected to
new professorship in the department
of English in the central high school.
The greater part of his teaching career
has been devoted to mathematics. In
1866 he became professor Of algebra,
and in 1878 he took charge of the sub
iect Of geometry, which he now
teaches.
During the greater part of the year
1886 to 1888 he was acting president Of
the school, pending change in the
presidency, and again in 1893 and
1894. He was an instructor in the
Artisans, now evening high school, for
twenty eight years.
Prof. Hopper holds the degrees Of
doctor of philosophy and master Of
arts. He has pursued many independ-
emf lines of study in addition to those
in which he has given instruction. Dur
ing recent years he has devoted much
attention to the practical study of bot
any and has collected an extensive
hnrbarium Of wild flowers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
A Remarkable Wager.

In the Gentleman's Magazine, an
old English publication, for 1850 ap-
pears the following: con Wed. 20
august at seven in the morning was
decided at Newmarket a remarkable
wager for 1000 guineas $4,000 laid
by Theobald Taaf, Esq, against the
Earl Of March and Lord Eglinton, who
were to provide wheel carriage
with a man in it to be drawn by 4
horses 10 miles an hour; it was per-
formed in So minutes and 27 seconds"
Each of the horses was ridden by a
jockey and Only harnessed to the car
riage by loose straps. Between the
hind wheels sat another jockey, who
guided the carriage by moving a han
die like that of the modern bicycle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08

It has recently transpired that the
late John Hay made his daughter,
Mrs. Payne Whitney, heir to all his
unpublished manuscripts, of which he
seemed to have had a number on hand.
They say J. M. Barrie has decided
to write no more novels. His plays
have not only brought him large
financial returns, but in them he feels
that he has found his true means, of
expression. At present he is engaged
on four new plays.
The first edition Of Mrs. Bayard Tay-
lor's memoirs, "On Two Continents"
was sold before the date Of publica-
ton. Mrs. Taylor was the daughter
Of Hansen, the noted mathematician.
AS wife Of one Of the foremost liter
airy figures Of his day, she could hard
~ fail to accumulate a fund Of rem
iniscences and recollections Of strik-
ing value and interest.
They say it was on account Of AL
bert Bigelow Paine's first book, "The
Bread Line" that Thomas Mast, the
cartoonist, selected Mr.. Paine as his
biographer. Mr.. Paine's book has
biographical interest through being
the outcome Of a publishing venture
in which he, Irving Bachelor, Orson
Lowell and Frank Verbeck were in
terested. They undertook the publica-
ton of a Juvenile magazine which
"died young" Mr.. Mast had a little
experience in that line himself, and ga
fellow feeling makes us wondrous
kind
Sienkiewicz, the Polish writer whose
"Quo Vadis" made him known in this
country, is at present engaged on an
other historical novel, dealing with
the reign Of the Polish King, John
Sobecski, who in the seventeenth cen
fury delivered Vienna from the Turks.
Sienkiewicz's home Is at Warsaw,
where he has recently experienced the
consequences of having displeased the
Russian authorities. AS is we'll known,
Sienkiewicz is an ardent patriot. He
recently joined his fellow citizens in
drawing up and publishing vigorous
protest against the outstanding Of
Polish schools. For so doing, he was
arrested and sentenced to a fortnight's
detention in the unpretentious fat he
occupied when in the city.
The public is always curious as to
the Identity Of the individuals who
may or may not have figured in ia
nous popular novels. 1t is now adj
mitted that angela Marsden Mes
senger," heroine Of Gall Sorts and
Conditions of Men," the late Sir Wal
ter Besant's most popular book, was
Lady Burdett- Coutts. The Glare fam
lily in Hardy's "Tess Of the D'Urber-
villes' was drawn from that of the
Rev. HI. Moule, vicar Of Fordington,
and "the brilliant brother at Cam
bridge" is the present bishop Of Dur
ham. Morley Roberts Lord Lin
lithgow" was drawn from Lord Rose
berry; and the late Lady Dixie has
been identified as George Eliots
"Dorothea" and the Lady Grace" Of
Mallock's New Republic"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08

Within very recent years the Amer
lean people in general have been
learning as they never did before the
wonders Of their own country. They
went abroad for scenery and to view
places Of historical interest, unmind-
full that their own land contained
spectacles unrivaled elsewhere and
relics of a civilization that is prehis-
toric. Places that only a few years
ago had hardly visitor now attract
many thousands annually. The Vel
lowstone park has become we'll known
so also the stupendous canyon of the
Colorado, the terrific domes of the
Yosemite, the imposing Sierras rising
abruptly almost from the sea level to
heights Of nearly three miles. Amer
lea abounds with miracles of nature.
grandly impressive, or marvelously
beautiful.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
USE OF "DOUSING RODS"
Tho Art of Divination in the Bowels
of the Earth Explained.

Tho Art of Divination in the Bowels
of the Earth Explained.
There Is undoubtedly a practical art
Of discovering springs, says Casters
Magazine. Indians or frontiersmen can
find water in the desert when "ten-
derfoot" cannot. Mexicans and eXpe-
rienced prospectors can similarly find
ore. These arts consist mainly in the
recognition Of superficial signs which
escape the ordinary observer.
1t is not necessary that the operator
should consciously note these signs
separately and reason upon them. No
doubt he frequently doSs so, though
he may not give away the secret Of
his method to others. But in many in
stances he recognizes, by association
and memory, the presence Of a group
Of indications, great or small, which
he has repeatedly found to attend
springs or ore deposits. This skill, due
to habit is often almost unerring for
a given limited district, but under new
conditions it breaks down. Old min
ers from California or Australia have
often made in other regions the most
foolish and hopeless attempts to find
gold, because they thought this or
that place Cooked just like" some
other place in which they had mined
successfully.
Apart from the magnetic minerals
there is no proof that ore deposits ex-
hibit their presence and nature by any
attraction or other active force. With
regard to water, however, there may
be an action affecting the temperature
and moisture Of the everything surface.
Even here, however, it seems more
likely that such effects are manifested
visibly to close observer rather than
by direct affection Of lis nervous or
muscular system. The favorite fields
for water OWNERS are regions in which
water is abundant, but not gathered
upon given horizons Of impermeable
strata underlying porous rocks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
The "A s" DISASTER.
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Each new invention brings new pos1
sibilites Of danger with it, the learn1
Ing Of which comes through practical
and often sad experience. While the
lesson works for future safety. it Is
sometimes tragic one, as was the re-
cent sinking Of British submarine
boat. The story Of the catastrophe ia
told in the London Standard by a witt
ness who was on board the trawler
Chanticleer, and helped rescue tho
four survivors of the Inflated boat.
When I first saw the submarines
they were going at high rate of
speed and bearing down directly to1
ward US. There was a lieutenant in
the cone Of the last boat, which was
marked mo. A s." I could spot him
by the two gold rings round his cuffs,
I take it he saw he could not cross
our bows, and decided to change direc!
ton SO as to pass under our stern.
He called something down below.
Such boats are steered by a wheel
close under the coming tower. The
helmsman cannot see where he is gO7
ing, and can only obey instructions.
When the lieutenant shouted below
to change course, the man at the
wheel must have spun his helm hard
over. The boat came curving round
in hiss Of white froth, and began in-
stantly to heel over. Any small crafts
whose helm is suddenly damned over
will be thrown broad on her side. I
have seen naval picket-boats almost
captized by the same cause.
The submarine came swerving
round in way that brought my heart
into my throat. The lieutenant saw
what was going to happen. I heard
him roar out in a startled voice:
what are you doingy You'll have
us overv'
The submarine rolled until it's cone
was fiat on the water The four men
were flung off the deck. Then there
came a strange sobbing sound, and
all Of a sudden it vanished. 1t was a
shocking thing: one instant a big,
cleaning boat buzzing through a race
IF foam, the next blank sea with
four men struggling in it.
dropped the helm and ran for-
ward, crying out to my mates, who
were silent and pale as death, "Out
boat to save lifev'
How we ever did it I shall never
understand. We must have had the
strength of giants given us for the oc-
casion, for we shouldered the heavy
punt sixteen feet long. until it's keel
rested on the bulwark-rail, and then
ran it sheer overheard.
We were only just III time. One of
the men, a petty officer, had heavy
sea-boots and oilskins on which were
dragging him down, and the lieuten-
ant was doing all that mortal could to
support him. We pulled them all in.
care there any more Of you in that
sunken craftY I asked.
Fifteen morev came the answer.
and the lieutenant put his hand to his
eyes and groaned.
We put the survivors on board the
torpedo boat, and then / could have
sat down and cried with the horror of
it. After that we got out own boat
on board again and bore away to sea.