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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
HIS EXPERIENCE TEACHES THEM

That Dodd's Kidney Pills Will Cure
Bright's Disease Remarkable Case
of George J. Barber-Quick Recovery
After Years of Suffering.
Estherville, Iowa, Jan. 23d.-(Spe-
cial.)--The experience of Mr. George
]. Barber, a we'll known citizen of this
place, juStifies his friends in making
the announcement to the world
"Bright's Disease can be cured" Mr..
Barber had kidney trouble and it de-
veloped into Bright's Disease. He
treated 1t with Dodd's Kidney Pills
and to-day he is we'll man. In an
interview he says:
Il can't say too much for Dodds
Kidney Pills. l had Kidney Disease
for fifteen years and though doctored
for it with the best doctors here and
in Chicago, it developed into Brighta
Disease. Then I started to use Dodd's
Kidney Pills and two boxes cured me
completely. l think Dodd's Kidney
Pills are the best in the world"
A remedy that will cure Bright's
Disease will cure any other form Of
Kidney Disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills
never fail to cure Bright's Disease.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
JUNE BUGS AS RAlNMAKERS.
How They Came to Be Called Thunder
Bugs in Swiss Canton.

How They Came to Be Called Thunder
Bugs in Swiss Canton.
The big, buzzing June bugs, which
come out in such numbers on warm
summer nights at mountain and lake
side resorts are popular with no one,
and are especially objects Of disgust
to the fair summer girl. Not that the
June bugs do any intentional harm.
They are simply stupid, laundering
bugs, which fly about aimlessly, and
after few short weeks Of summer ex-
istence seem to disappear as mysteri-
ously as they come. But they possess
such dire possibilities in the way Of
flying in the summer girls face or be-
coming entangled in her hair that they
are voted with much emphasis "hor-
rid things" In some parts of the
world, however, especially in the
smaller villages of Switzerland, the
June bug was once held in high es-
TEEN, says the New York Tribune. 1t
was known as the thunder bug" and
was highly regarded by the ignorant
peasants OH account Of it's supposed
ability to bring rain.
The legend as to the cause which led
to this belief in the June bugs won
drous powers is curious one. At one
time a small Swiss village was suffer
ing from a drought, which threatened
total destruction Of the seasons
crops Prayers had been said in the
village church, other rainmaking plans
had been tried, but to no avail. The
peasants were in despair.
At this crisis travelling man, who
was evidently a good deal of a prac-
teal joker, arrived in the village
When he heard Of the trouble of the
peasants he grayely told them that
there was an easy way out of the diff
Guilty. All that was necessary was to
go to the city of Basic and purchase
some thunder The rain would follow
in due time.
So a delegation Of the simple vii
layers visited Basic and, entering the
largest store in the city, asked for
some thunder. At first the clerk was
amazed. Then, entering into the spirit
of the thing, he promised he would get
them the desired thunder Stepping
out Of the store into a back yard, he
caught number Of June bugs. These
he imprisoned in a box, which he hand
ed to the villagers. The June bugs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

TO ADD A CUBIT.


Backboards, iron collars and dumb
bells We're the ordinary calisthenic APP
purtenances in neutrality-suspicious. for
young. ladies in 1776, about the time
yhen Maria Edgeworth was a school
girl. In biography of the first great
Irish novelist, Hon. Emily Lawless
says that these devices. We're not deem
ed sufficient in Marias case For her
special benefit one more had to be add
ed, one which even the judicious fam
lily biOgrapher seems to have regarded
as rather severe.
j, When she was fourteen years old her
shortness was observed with no little
disapproval by the members of her
family. The Edgeworths had always
been a well-grown race, and her lack
both of height and Of good looks was
blot on the reputation of the family.
To obviate one of her deficiencies not
only We're all the usual exercises re-
sorted to, but also one which Mrs.
Edgeworth herself characterized as
unusual" that, namely, of being
swung by the neck to draw out the
muscles, and so increase the growth"
Unfortunately it was of no avail.
Short she was, and short she was des-
tined to be.
One lady described the excitement
created by Miss Edgeworths arrival
at the house where she herself, then a
child of six, was staying, and recalled
the excessive shortness of the visitor.
Small? Yes; she was exceedingly
small, except for her nose, which, l
remember, seemed to me to be very
big" Evidently the discrepancy be-
tween the height the nose and the
great reputation Of the guest was the
point which left the most vivid impress
sion on the mind Of her young ac-
Quaintance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
TRIUMPH or GOOD MANNERS
How the Recent Russo-En g1ish Incl.
dent May lie Regarded.

How the Recent Russo-En g1ish Incl.
dent May lie Regarded.
One is apt to forget that the action
of a government may often be, like an
editorial article, the expression Of but
a single mind. In the days of cabinets
and so-called responsible government
the world is not SO much exposed as
formerly to the whim Of ruler, or to
the errors of an ignorant OF corrupt
junta of ministers. The domineering
of a Napoleon is not to be expected or
endured, nor, outside of an oligarchy,
can one conceive Of such folly as al.
lowing the Russo japanese differences
to drift into war. But, short Of the
ultima ratio regum, there is much that
a government can do OF omit, where
supposed invasion Of it's rights is con.
cerned, that may stamp it's character
and define its Light to consideration, as
a gentleman is known among his fell
lows. We are not now speaking of
the superficial courtesies Of routine
diplomacy, but of The trying exigencies
of a crises such as the incident Of the
firing on the British trawlers. A more
delicate situation for both governments
it is difficult to conceive. Each coun-
try contains a lingo element which,
after the strained relations of recent
years, seems to be sleeping upon its
sword Add to this England's actual
injury nd Russias sensitive pride and
a half-knowledge Of the facts, and the
diplomatic problem was colossal. The
avoidance Of war was fortunate, but
not fOrtuitOus. It resulted from the
exercise of exactly the traits which
Lord Lansdowne would exhibit in his
personal ercourSe-frmness with
forbearance, respect for another'S feel
ings, a desire not to Illuminate, and,
withal, strong sense Of justice. The
prompt and sincere expression Of SYM
pathy by the Emperor was most cred
liable and made less difficult the solu-
ton of arbitration-for such virtually,
though not nominally, it is. SO far
the affair has been triumph Of good
manners, and so far as possible the de-
plorable error is in fair way Of rec
tification.
Before the gentler measures Of in
ternational high breeding the mis-
chievous maxim, Cur country, right
or wrong" must increasingly give
way. Willingness to acknowledge a
affairs Of others, sympathy for the
weak against the oppressor, patience
and reason as against petulance, rash
ness, and force, are as possible to a
nation as to an individual. A people
should be as jealous of the national
gentlemanliness as of the national
credit-Century.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
Lantern and Night Stick.

The experiences Of the Bellevue hos
pital ambulance surgeons in the I'M
lighted districts skirting East River,
where it is not safe even for police
men to venture sometimes, have led
the hospital authorities to equip the
instrument bags carried by the sur
geons with tubular electric dark lam
tern, sixteen inches long and two inch
es thick, weighing about two pounds.
1t serves equally. well as a lantern and
a night stick. According to the stories
Of the surgeons, when they have re-
turned from calls to particularly dan
gerous districts, the defensive end Of
the continuance has often proved more
useful than the electric ends.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

indignant at their Imprisonment, Of
course, kept up a buzzing and rum
bling in the box, which sounded like
the faint, far-off mutterings of thun-
der.
There is your thunder in that box"
said the clerk but you must be care
full not to open it until you reach your
village"
The delegation departed rejoicing,
carrying their thunder box" with
them. They restrained their curiosity
until the confines Of the village were
reached. But the mysterious box was
often passed from hand to hand and
held at the ears of the members Of
the delegation, and each wondered at
the faint, rolling sound which seemed
to come from within. So intent were
they on the mysterious box that they
did not notice how the black rain
clouds were piling up back Of them.
At the limits Of the village their
curiosity was too great to be restrain
ed The box was opened. Out flew
the thunder bugs" to the dismay of
the peasants. But in their fight they
took course directly over the village.
In the village the delegation, rather
shamefacedly, explained how the
thunder bugs" has disappeared. The
vexation of the villagers, however, was
partly assuaged by the assurance that
the thunder producers had flown di
certify over the village. 1t vanished en-
tirely when a few minutes later there
came loud clap of thunder Soon the
rain was pouring down in torrents.
The crops were saved, and, Of course,
in such circumstances, the most skep-
teal peasants were forced to admit
that the saving rain was produced by
the thunder bugs"
For many years after this occur
renee June bugs were held in high es-.
TEEN in that canton of Switzerland.
The superstition that they can produce
thunder has practically vanished, but
even to this day the loud-buzzing bugs
are regarded with friendly eye, and
it is deemed the worst of bad luck to
kill one Of them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
A GREAT SUFFERER
LAY HELPLESS AND SPEEOHLE
FOR HOURS AT A TIME.
Sinking Spells, Headaches, Rheumatism,
All Caused by Poor Blood-Cured by
DIR. Williams Pink Pills.

Sinking Spells, Headaches, Rheumatism,
All Caused by Poor Blood-Cured by
DIR. Williams Pink Pills.
When Mrs. Williams was asked fol
some details of the fearful illness from
which she had SO long suffered, she spoke
as follows
Ever since I had nervous prostration,
about thirteen years ago, have had
periodical spells of complete exhaustion.
Any excitement or unusual activity
would throw me into state of lifeless-
ness. At the beginning my strength
would come back in a moderate time,
but the period of weakness kept length
ening until at Last would lie helpless
as many as three hours at a stretch"
"You were under medical treatment,
Of course?'
Yes, when I became so bad that I
had to give up my homework, in May OF
1908, I was being treated for kidney
trouble, and later the doctor thought my
difficulties came from change Of life. I
was not only weak, but I. had dizzy
feelings, palpitation of the heart, misery
after eating, hot flashes, nervous head
aches, rheumatic pains i'll the back and
hips. The doctor did me SO little good
that gave up his treatment, and really
feared that my case was incurable."
What saved you from your state of
topelessness?"
In July of 1908 had very bad
spell, and my husband came in one day
with little book which told Of remark
able cures effected by remedy for the
blood and the nerves, DR.. Williams Pink
Pills. He bought box for me, and
that was the beginning of my return to
health. My appetite grew keen, my food
no longer distressed me, my nerves were
quleted, and my strength began to re-
vive"
GLOW long did you take this remedy?''
For two months only. At the end
of that time I had regained nv health
and cheerfulness, and my friends saw
that [ am looking better than I have
done for the past fifteen years.
Mrs. Lizzie Williams is now living at
No. 416 Cedar street. Quincy, Illinois.
The pills which she praises so highly.
cure all diseases that come from inn.
poverished blood. If your system is all
run down, DR.. Williams Pink Pills are
the very best remedy to take. Any drug,
gist can supply them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
"Aunty,' said gentleman who had

"Aunty," said gentleman who had
just read that the youngest son of his
colored cook had been appointed stem
Ographer to large manufactures, tell
me how you have brought up your
children that each one of them has
become so good and useful a man or
woman" 20 honey" was the reply,
that's nothing. l hadn't no educa-
ton, and l could only teach 'em three
things-just three things l taught 'em,
that's all: their prayers and their man
ners and to work" Speed the trans
mission of this three branched torch of
learning from hand to hand and from
race to race!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
Exchange of Compliments.

The village sexton, in addition to be.
ing grave-digger, acted as a stonecut-
ter, house repairer and furniture re-
mover.
The local doctor, having obtained a
more lucrative appointment in another
county, employed the sexton to assist
in his removal.
When it came time to settling up ac-
counts the doctor deducted an old con-
ira account due by the sexton. He
wrote at the same time, objecting to
the charge made for removing his fur
niture.
IF this was steady, it would pay
much better than grave-digging.
The sexton replied:
''Indade, Oh wud be glad ave a
steady job; grave-diggin' is very slack
since you left"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

A widowed mother who took board
ers to support her family found scme
years ago that her eldest son. as soon
as he was able to pay for his own
board, went to more fashionable
place in another part of the city ''in
order to get into society" His name
need not be mentioned, because no.
body has ever heard Of it. About the
same time, but hundreds of miles
away, there was another family
thrown into straitened circumstances
by the worthlessness of the father. The
mother took in washing, and the boy,
at the age of ten, left school to go
to work to help her. An employer
gave him his first overcoat, and he
still has it. Time has brought some
changes. He was recently elected the
governor of great State, in circum-
stances which constitute it an excep-
honal compliment The feelings of
his mother, who is still living, may
we'll be imagined The reciprocal 10y
atty Of parents and children form
some of the most delightful of all
human experiences. Countless pages
of literature are adorned by examples
of it, making my father" and my
mother" and my child among the
beautiful phrases of our language
Il would rather be as poor as l am"
remarked a tired and unfortunate
man, land have my children than to
be as rich as the man / work for, and
have to take the trouble which his
boys give him." Every one agreed
that he was right, even those who
were striving to rival the rich en-
plOyer, rather than to make heavy in
vestments in domestic affection. Pa
rents are occasionally too severe with
their children, just as there are grown
sons and daughters who remain for
getful Of their obligations to an aged
parent. But these are fortunately the
exceptions. The Chinese make a mis-
take in ancestor worship; many an
American family makes a mistake in
child worship. 1t is the middle course
that is full Of delight, as we'll as of
safety.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

In 1897, when the rural service was
started on probation, $4,000 was
deemed sufficient for its trial During
the fiscal year that ended June 30,
1904, nearly $13,000,000 was expended
for rural free delivery For the fiscal
year upon which we have now entered
S20,S16600 has been appropriated for
the continuance and extension of the
rural mail service. There were 1866
rural routes in existence at the end of
the fiscal year on June 80 last 9,446
new routes having been put into oper-
alton during the fiscal year. On Oct.
/, 1904, there were 81, 135 routes estab-
lished, and the service was being eX-
tended at the rate of about 800 routes
q month.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
Arsenic and Corpulence.

A curious story is reported concern
ing barque which arrived recently in
port having In her cargo three hundred
casks of arsenic. The crew slept very
near the large array Of barrels contain
ing the drug, which gave off constantly
an indescribable odor. They soon all
noticed the same thing, and several Of
the tars became aware that they were
becoming abnormally stout. One man
gained twenty-five pounds. The aggre-
gate extra weight put on by the en-
tire crew was little less than four hun
dred pounds. This was attributed to
vapor generated by the action of the
sun on the cask and inhaled by the sea-
men while they slept.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

"The Star Of Bethlehem" Charles
Mills Gayley's Christmas play which
the English players of Ben Greet's
company have recently been playing,
is published by Fox, Duffield & Co.,
New York.
James Ford Rhodes, the fifth volume
Of whose History of the United States
from the Compromise of 1867 has just
been published by Macmillan, expects
to complete the work, to Jan. /, 1876,
in one more volume.
Walter Pulitzer, author Of "That
Duel at the Chateau Marsenac," the
Funk & Wagnalls Company, New
York, is nephew of Joseph Pulitzer,
editor Of the World, and is a chess en-
thusiast, as is indicated in this novel,
webster. the EXpounder Of the Con-
stitution," by Everett Popperell Wheel
er of the New York bar, will soon be
published by G.. p. Putnam's Sons,
New York. Mr.. Wheeler has long been
a devout student of Webster and his
career.
Harper & Brothers, New York, are
publishing a new edition of mark
Twain's Complete Works. from new.
type with generous margins, bio
graphical criticism by Brander Mat
thews and new preface by Mark
Twain written for this edition.
Henry G. Rowland's novel ITO Wind
ward" has made great hit in Austria
liza, where people have grown tired of
"the stock properties of the European
novelist" A Sydney critic praises it's
freshness and force and says Mr.. Row
land is obviously American, but not
enough to hurt.
After an honorable career of over 80
years 1.-THE Literary World" for the
last two years published by L. G. Page
& Co., Boston, has been absorbed by
"The Critic" which will hereafter ap-
pear as ''The Critic and Literary
World" continuing under the editor
ship Of Jeanette Glider and bearing
the imprint of q. P. Putnams Sons.
A telegraph operator out West evil
IDENTIFY took Mcclure Phillips for firm
Of green grOcers recently, when he sent
the following order over the wire:
ship to-day Wabash-Lackawan 100
cabbages all kinds" 1t finally dawned
upon the intelligence of the publishers
shipping clerk that the bookseller,
whose name was signed to the dis
patch, desired a hundred copies Of o.
Henry's humorous novel, "Cabbages
and Kings" He did.
Meredith Nicholson has seemingly
done daring deed in laying the scene
Of his latest novel, zelda Cameron"
in his native city of Indianapolis. Two
years ago he wrote story called "The
Main Chance" the heroine of which
was an imaginary young woman of
Omaha. It is said, however, that she
has so many counterparts there that
the fathers and brothers of several of
her threatened to make the authors
next visit to that city SO lively for him
that he has considered it the better
part of valor to remain away. Oddly
enough. in spite of the great army Of
Hoosier writer's, Mr.. Nicholson's new
novel is stated to be the first one deal
ing with life in the States capital city
since Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher's
From Dawn to Daylight" published
about 1850.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

Did it ever occur to you, gentle read
er, that ''our most cherished beliefs
are frequently like the preserves which
the good housewife puts up in the
autumn and then hides away on a
shelf? There they stay in seclusion,
awaiting an occasion of sufficient i'm
portance for bringing them cut But
how consoling it is to know that they
are there, ready for use if need be!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

this offer which is made to get you to
test Salzer's Warranted Vegetable Seeds.
They will send you their big plant and
seed catalog, together with enough seed
20 grow
1000 fine, solid Cabbages,
1000 rich, juicy Turnips,
1000 blanching, nutty Celery,
1900 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1000 splendid Onions,
1000 rare, luscious Radishes,
1000 gloriously brilliant Flowers
ALL FOR BUT 16o POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice, and
if you viii send them zoe in postage, they
will add to the above a package of "a
nous Berliner Caulifower. &c. N. U.l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

up worker gets little enough air at
any time. Now it is to be cut off
and heated and superheated and
breatnad and re-breathed and breath
ed over again. Open the windows!
If everybody insists on shutting the
door, do you open the windows-at
the tops, mind you-or the transoms.
Down the conspiracy! You are fight
ing for your life. You must have red
corpuscles in your blood if you amount
to anything physically or intellectu-
ally. And the only way to get them
is by breathing pure air with oxygen
in it. To oxygenize your blood is
more necessary than to eat or drink.
You must have the oxygen. If any
man pulls up the window shoot him
on the spot, or words to that effect.
Get as many long drawn breaths Of
fresh air as you can command. Half
the race dies because it don't know
how to breathe. Distend your lungs
by as much outdoor exercise-walk-
ing is goOd-as you can hold. Empty
and fill them repeatedly. God AL
mighty did not mean you to be suf-
located When you sleep, open the
windows-at the top If by no other
way you can remember to fight for
your life in self-defense, remember the
cruel DOCTRINES it uel?-of the
survival of the fittest. Don't allow
anybody to shut off your normal al
lowance of air. Open the windows
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
A Poeticai Measure.

what do you do when you can't
think of subject for a poem?" asked
the inquisitiye female.
ooh, then / write blank verse;" re-
piled he of the elongated locks,
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

When the Japanese minister to the
United States was operated OH for
appendicitis, it must have occurred to
many a waggish mind that the world
now has conclusive proof of Japan's
acceptance of Western civilization.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
Thew Fell Ont.

Returned Traveler-What has be-
come of Catchem & Cheatem, the rich
lawyers? Retired, presume?
Resident-Yes, retired. They are
both III the poorhouse
"Phew, What happened?'
"They had a quarrel and sued each
other New York Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

In Salem, Mass, a woman has sued
for divorce because her husband kick
ed her with his wooden leg. He will
no doubt set up the plea that he could
not stand on his wooden leg and kick
her with the other.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
Indirect but Effective Method.

Il suppose : said the chemist, that
the secret Of transmitting the baser
metals into gold will never be discov-
cred"
Nonsense" answered the mining
magnate Il discovered that secret
long ago. All you have to do is to
choose your baser metal and then cor
ner the market" asilipgton Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01

The increase in the number of wom-
ell who are doing mems work. has
been 40 per cent in the last ten years.
Which, however, may only indicate
that the men are not doing their own
work we'll enough.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01
Millions of vegetables.

When the Editor read 10000 plants for
Ice, he could hardly believe it, but upon
second reading finds that the John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, than
whom there are no more reliable and ex-
tensive seed growers in the world. makes