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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-20
thoughts on Sardines.

Far away in the depths of wild
canyon-with dry creekbed mean
dering through it and a widespaced
growth of scub trees eking out a
miserable existence at the foot of
vast stoneclad hills-sat man on a
patch of buffalo grass gazing long
and earnestly into the depths of a
small shallow Oblong tin box. The
box was of curious workmanship
with lid of thin metal that rolled
up as scroll upon a slender key.
There was strange lettering upon
the sides of the box in a foreign
tongue. Upon the hillside grazed a
hundred buffalO-the last remnant
of once mighty herds and round
their dams romped score of clumsy
calves. 1t was a peaceful Sunday
afternoon and the man contem-
plated in philosophic mood the wild
grandeur of the varied scenery
spread out around him. And ever
and anon he looked again into the
box he held in his hand. It was the
vacated sarcophagus Of a dozen
sardines that now reposed deep
down in the cavernous depths of his
digestive economy. What a pathetic
thing is box of sardines Who can
gaze at those twelve little silent
forms and repress the bring tear9
How still they lie with heads and
tails alternate in their little metallic
coffin awaiting the judgment day
when hungry man shall spear
them with the relentless toothpick
and yank them hence Crowded
and uncomfortable yet silent and
accomplishing each lies besides his
eleven friends with a resignation
surprising Job himself. Whoever
heard of a sardine sitting upon an
ashheap scraping itself with pot
sherd as Job did? And yet we ex-
toll Jobs patience and declare his
essay on boils a classic-while the
sardine goes down to oblivion un-
wept and unsung.
All gentle reader how few who
look into the sardine box grasp the
lesson in humility and contentment
that it contains. When crowded
and jostled and elbowed by this
busy old world-when turned
wrong end to and made to sleep at
the foot of the bed and smell the
musty feet of those in authority
over us as it were-let us fix our
thoughts upon the meek and long
suffering sardine. Especially COM
forting were these beautiful
thoughts to us last summer while
sitting damned into the coalbox Of
an excursion train with no oil nor
mustard on my remains to prevent
friction and insure snug fit in my
allotted space. And travelling thus
there also came to us the beautiful
thought that some day in the elusive
bobtailed future we would invent
an immigrant car with deep dark
pigeon holes in the sides with the
open ends out so that immigrant
can be showed in head first and thus
economic space. Each passengers
destination can be written on his
protruding shoesoles and when a
station is reached one baggageman
can wheel truck alongside while
another pulls out the passengers
that are to be unloaded there and
they can be stacked up on truck
like cordwood and trundled to a
| hotel with much less confusion than
at present. If it should rain and OBJ
literate the chalkmarks a few raps
on the individuals soles with a
coupling pin Will elicit the desired
information. This part of this
article may not be as poetic as the
start but it is more practical.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-20
Card Of Thanks.

We desire through the columns of
the Herald, to thank our friends
and neighbors who so kindly as
sited and sympathized with us in
our sad bereavement of our darling
baby boy.
MRS. BESSIE KLARMAN and family.
Mr.. and MRS. j. A. DREW and
family.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-20
Road Tax Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the
road tax warrant for the year 1905
has been placed in my hands and
that will receive road taxes charged
therein on real estate and personal
property and also poll taxes at my
Office beginning May 22nd.
GEO. A. DYER, City Treas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-20
LICENSED TO WE'D.
Cupid's Franks as Recorded by County
Clerk Tuffiey.

Winnetta I. Wilson and Edwin J.
Thompson, both of Rockford, Ill.
Clemens E. Brandt, Keller, and
Anna Mannernann, Sinsinawa.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-20
COUNTY NEWS.
Herald Correspondents Contribute
Interesting Letters.
POTOSI..

POTOSI..
The expression that has been in
vogue for decades referring to a
man as sowing their wild oats early
in life don't stand good in this age,
not in the matter of sowing at any
rate. 1t has been the concensus or
opinion among their friends, that
Joe OFT and Nick Twohig have sown
their portion of the avenaceous
weed some years ago. But taking
their own statement for the truth
of the matter, they have made a
new start in that direction and last
Thursday they we're sowing broad
cast over the waters in the ponds
on the island, not wild oats but
wild rice, and when questioned as
to what they expected to harvest.
they answered cheerfully, wild
ducks It's new one or new to us
to sow wild rice and harvest ducks.
But the boys are determined in
their arguments and are planting
the seed, and if they don't succeed
in OBTAINING large numbers OF varl-
Gus kinds of ducks during the mi
grating season it will be no fault OF
the Potosi Gun Club. Contributions
from sportsmen in this vicinity
will be thankfully received, same
will go into the rice fund and will
give the contributors the privilege
to hunt on the leased lands.
Miss Josephine Rider, returned
Wednesday morning from Chicago
and will remain for an extended
visit with her parents and other
relatives.
Mrs. P. H. Roser is visiting at
the parental home at Durango, Iowa.
Pluemer Bros. have closed the
sale for a j. I. Case separator to
Joseph Udelhofen.
Mrs. Rethwisch, of Glen Haven,
is a guest at the home of her son,
Peter.
Miss Myrt Jackson departed for
Sparta Thursday morning.
Miss Ollie Winners, has returned
from Dubuque after making an ex-
tended visit. Y
The Master Mason degree was
conferred on E. A. Reynolds last
Saturday evening, by the brethren
of Warren Lodge, No. 4 F. & A.
M. After concluding the work the
members present were Danqueted
at the Potosi House. The spread
was elaborate and varied, and in
keeping with the reputation of the
popular hosiery.
Mrs. Ida Walter was agreeably
surprised by about twenty OF her
lady friends last Tuesday evening.
The occasion was her birthday.
Mrs. John Steffen, sister, executed
the plans making the surprise COM
plete. Dainty refreshments were
served. AS a token of their visit,
Mrs. Walters was presented with a
handsome rug.
Potosi has new industry-it's a
candy factory. Mr.. Perry, the
veteran candy maker, recently re-
moved from Platteville and occupies
the building known as the Little
Gem.
Ben Webster, Of Platteville, was
among the arrivals at the CONNER
cial on Thursday.
Miss Florence Winners, has fin
ished her term of school near Glass;
vile and is home for the summer
vacation,
The whip-poor-will made his
presence known on Thursday eve,
and summer is an assured fact.
Albert Vogelsberg, of Dubuqe,
was the guest of his brother, Land
lord Vogelsberg, of the Commercial
Thursday.
Cream separators seem to be in
demand this season. Frank OFT is
placing many of them with the
farmers in this locality. He sells the
Uncle, without doubt the best on
the market.
LIVINGSTON.
Mrs. w. A. Kies died at her home
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

Mrs. Pinkham claims that there is a kind of dyspepsia that is caused by a Arrangement of the female organism, and which, while it causes a disturb ance similar to ordinary indigestion, cannot be relieved without a medicine which not only acts as a stomach tonic. but has peculiar uterine-tonic effects also.
 As proof of this theory VIC call at tention to the case of Mrs. Maggie Wright, Brooklyn, N. Y., who was completely cured by Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound after every- thing else had failed. She writes:
 For two years suffered with dyspepsia which SO degenerated my entire system that was unable to attend to my daily duties. I felt weak and nervous, and nothing that ate tasted good and it cauSei disturbance in my stomach I tried different dyspepsia cures, but nothing seemed to help me. I was ad. vised to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound trial, and was happily surprised to find that it acted like a fine tonic, and in a few days began, to enjoy and properly digest my food. My recovery was rapid, and in five weeks was a well woman. I have rec commended it to many suffering women"
 No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unquali- fed endorsement, or has such record of cures of female troubles, as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

great guns and thirteen hits. It was wonderful. with the target one mile away. I am glad to say that the Wis- consins record Is indicative of the &C., curate shooting which has been done generally by, our fleet.
 We are able to achieve such mar velous results because of the intelli- gent class of men we have in our ser vice. A thing that made a strong im- pression on me was a remark of an enlisted man, who was in the turret of the Massachusetts when the breach block of one of the guns was blown out told them he said, when he was helped out of the turret, not to open that breach plug. He knew more than his officer. He belonged. found. to one of the best families in Ohio"
 Best Men Do Not Desert.
 The Admiral was asked about re- ports of dissatisfaction with navy conditions among It's bluejackets.
 Tt has been published to the world" he answered, that we have been losing 20 per cent of our men. As a matter of fact the trained fight ing force of the navy Is not deserting. Throwing out the mess attendants, who are servants, and the coal neav- CTS, the loss Is less than per cent In
 
 in the special branch, and 5.17 per cent in the commissary department. We have more than 5000 petty off, cers' and the percentage of assertions among this class Is less than two per cent
 The reason coal beavers desert is found in the character of the men, Young Americans do not wish to do coal beavers work; they get dis couraged and worried and say they would rather blow. We could ger foreigners. but we are not enlisting foreigners in the navy. understand the department is trying to form 2 special class of men for duty as coal heavers
 Men of this rating get moro pay. which Is an inducement. but as mat ter of fact the pay in our service is higher than 1t Is in any other service in the world. Then, too, our men are better fed. Those who are in 1t are becoming more and more attached to the navy. They are getting a great deal of liberty excepting during the winter maneuvers when there are no places for them to go ashore. After the maneuvers they are given per- mission to go to their homes for two weeks.
 ''The department also has decided to establish home ports for ships-that is, points to which certain ships al- ways shall go for repairs and liberty. This will enable the men with home ties to see their families"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23
FATAL MONEY CHASE
STRENUOUS LIFE CAUSES GREAT
 INCREASE IN HEART DISEASE.
Work and Play Too Hard-AppallIng Statistics Collected by New York
 Physicians.

New York Speclal.-In the last three months the number of sudden deaths in the borough of Manhattan have been much larger than in any similar peri cd in the history of the city.
 In the last eighteen months a cor responding increase has been noted, A large proportion of this increase may be traced directly to heart affec- tions and other diseases growing out of the tense life we are leading.
 Dr. Henry P. Loomis says of she heart and allied diseases;
 Increase. increase. nothing but 'n- crease in the percentage of mortality year by year. In 1880 the death rate was only l31-2 per cent, and in 1904 27 per cent I believe the figures this year maintain this ratio of increase.
 There can be no question:" contin- ued Dr. Loomis. that the hurry skur- " of modern life In this city Is re- sponsible for this unfortunate state of affairs. Life Is lived too fast. Men eat too fast. work too hard. play too hard. All this involves strain. Nerv- ous strain in time involves heart or other organic trouble. Then the vic tim falls dead"
 While the increase in the rate Of sudden deaths began some eighteen months ago 1t was not until within the last month that special attention was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23
~Battle.hIp Good for Fifty Years"

GF3attIeship Good for Fifty Years"
 "It is a mistake" he said, ito be- lieve a battleship will be obsolete in a few years. Ships of this type should be good for fifty years to come. All that is necessary to preserve them Is to keep their bottoms painted and take care of them generally. We are building a fresh water basin at League island which could be used for ves- sells in reserve. and fresh water or course does not conduce to the devel- opment of barnacles and other ma rine growths.
 Tt must not be forgotten that we have two oceans washing our snores and we have long coast lines We must have fleets in both oceans and
 part of the ships always will be un- der repair. In my judgment probably not one-half of the forty-eight Ves-
 sels which we consider necessary for our defense would be actually In com
 mission at the same time. It has been estimated that a fleet of forty-eight battleships would cost the country an nually $2OO.0O0,O00, but this estimate was based on the idea that all the ships would be in commission at the same time.
 Expense SIOO,OOO,OOO n Year. "As I have shown, this would not be the case unless we wS%e engaged in war. I do not believe our expenses would be more than $100. 100000 per annum. and the country surely ought not to begrudge that amount for its protection. I do not believe we would have had the Spanish war If Spain had realized what a good navy we pos sessed. My interest in the develop ment of the American navy grows out of my keen desire to have the country continue at peace, for when 1t Is known that one Is prepared an attack rarely occurs"
 Admiral Dewey grew enthusiastic
 in describing the condition of the navy today
 our ships arc as good as those of any other natlon." he declared, but
 we have the best men in the world. See the shooting done by the Wiscon- sin recently-thirteen shots with it's
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23
ADMIRAL DEWEY SAYS
 WAR SHOWS NAVY NEED
Holds the Outcome of Campaign in Far East Depends on Result of Coming Sea En-
 counter--Moral for Americans.
Chicago | pla'
Mashhfngton Special

Washington Special to Chicago
 Tribune.
 Why don't our people see the need of d strong navy? Surely no better evidence of It's necessity can be found than in the naval situation in the China sea today. Whether Russia pr Japan shall be the victor In their war depends, In my opinion, upon the re- suit of the battle about to occur be- tween the fleets of Admiral RoJest- vensky and Admiral Togo"
 Admiral George Dewey spoke earn estly in order to emphasize this great moral of the present struggle.
 If Admiral Togo Is beaten.' he con continued, "all the money and the lives that have been spent by his country in Manchuria will go for nothing. The Russians, in command of the sea. would cut off communication between Japan and the mainland. and the Japa- nese army in Manchurl4 would De poWerless."
 Dewey in TOgO's Position.
 Admiral Dewey has been following the naval campaign with intense in- terest, not only because it's scene is that in which he gained his renowned victory, but because of lessons which 1t is furnishing and which will be of the greatest value in the development of the American fleet. During the war with Spain Admiral Dewey was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

For twenty-five years the nature of magnetism, a problem scarcely less be- wildering than life itself, has been subject of research by Joannes Zachd- rias the German engineer. He has experimented patiently and in many ways with magnetized and unmagne- tized materials, with ordinary and spe- cial magnets. and has concluded that this singular force is not staple stata of matter, but-like light and heat-is motion of molecules. This he holds to be true in the ease of per manent magnets as well as electro magnets. Some of his results are quite magicaI-as the rotating of suspend ed steel ball enclosed in glass tube by turning a copper ball on the other side of a partition. or displacing me taIlic balls by the heat of light d cigar or even of finger ar causing horseshoe magnets to rotate non magnetic disks like selenium or mag neSiunA,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

directed to 1t.
 The authorities regarded 1t as merely
 passing wave that would pass in good | time, and that the figures would rec gain the normal sooner or later TheN
 did not regain the normal: instead
 they increased month by month. Look Into Conditions. Tn the last few month&," said C0ro~ ner's Physician Albert T. Weston, stha | matter was brought more closely to
 our attention through the fact that we were working morning and night on | cases of sudden death. Then 1t waa
 we began to look into conditions, and at last decided that the increase sfnp-
 ly was the logical and natural resuie | of present day life in this city. xm 1904 there were more than 5000 cases
 of men falling dead or dying hardly
 less suddenly from heart failure ana
 such diseases This is 500 more casea of the kind than were noted in any other year. In the months of JanuarvN February, and March there were 1.4 700 cases to which our attention vvaa
 called, and thls far exceeds the figures
 Tor a similar period of any previous year. Persons are in too great q hurrys
 They live too fast. This fact need not be deducted entirely from sudden deaths from natural causes, either.i Accident, suicide, even murder results
 from the present tenseness of life. Tt Is not necessary for scientists ta point out the fact that the present day
 life in this city is killing one" said
 Dr. Edward s. Spitzka- The facts are perfectly patent to the veriest layman.i
 Men drop dead nowadays whose hearts. | under ordinary conditions, were Rood enough to last 100 years. Mind you.
 do not say they are perfect. but theyt
 are good enough for all practical purS poses. Eat and Drink Swiftly. i "But what do they do2 Y Hurry home eat their meals Sd
 swiftly that the food is but half mas-'
 ticated. washed down by a glass or,
 several glasses of water. then go out. Something happens to excite them op | arouse other deep emotions and then | crack goes the heart. They fall dead. | Men die that way. men with nothing radically wrong with their hearts thaf we can discover, victims of hurry, inc digestion, nervous excitement ana shock. The heart is prone to shocks and
 the times certainly supply them." pr. John H. Girdner feels today as
 though the mantle of a prophet felI l on his shoulders when he wrote hiS book. New Yorkitis." some years aRo.
 Many baleful predictions therein con-
 tained are now in process of vertfioa. tion- pr. Girdner declares the increase
 or sudden deaths in this city in the l last few months struck him as being
 nothing short of phenomenal
 New York;" says Dr. Girdner, "at
 the present time is not reproducing
 itself. We are all living swiftly. dy~ | ing swiftly. Were 1t not for the in-
 Aux from out of town the decrease fr,
 population would soon be noted. But
 as 1t is, for one New Yorker that dles l two strangers take up abode in the city. and thus the loss Is not noticed. New Workers are driving them
 selves and are being driven like beasts of burden. They are working like dy.
 namos all day. playing like idiots at night"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

Some of my friends assure mo that Peruna Is equally as Rood TOT
 their various ailments as 1t IS TOT my complaint. I do know that TOT
 kidney troubles and suffering from A weak back 1t has no equal.
 The drouth and the strike, the cola wave and the epidemic. all affect the Iaboring man more readily than any other class of people.
 Good health is an absolute necessity with these people. Invalidism Is not compatible with success.
 There is no one thing so disastrous
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

to the laboring man as catarrh in some phase or form.
 Catarrh Is the greatest enemy of the human family, and especially that pOr-
 ton of the family who must earn their livelihood by honest toll. For this reason Peruna comes to the lahoring man as a priceless remedy. It not only becomes his household remedy for that multitude of family ailments dependent upon the Vicissi- tudes of climate. but it becomes his own remedy whenever catarrh In any form begins to manifest itself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

ularIy for a week, at which time be- gan to feel much better.
 T have been feeling all right ever since and think it is but fair to give Peruna credit for putting me in normal shape again."
 Not alone from economic reasons does the labOrer find Peruna valuable remedy fin the household, but fin a mul- titude of instances he finds 1t to he the only remedy that will overcome the tenacity and stubbornmess of chronic catarrh.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

4 Victim of Worry and Overwork Re-
 stored by Pe-ru-nn.
 Mir. Lee NJ. Hart, General Secretary Theatrical Stage Employees National Alliance, Chicago. Ill, writes:
 "I was badly rundown by reason of worry and OverwOrk and felt that 1t would he necessary for me to take a lay-Off and recuperRte at some resort. but the suggestion was made to me by n friend that | give Peruna a trial"
 "I procured a bottle and took 1t reg
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23
Pe-ru-na Worked wonders.

RG-FU-uU WoEke0 WVm0Ek8s MT. Christ. T. Timmins, Financial Secretary Hod Carriers and Building
 Laborers Union, No. {. Chicago. Ifll writes:
 "Your medicine has worked wonder4 with my constitution. My work is considered rather hard on the kidneys and 1t certainly affects ed mine.
 Numerous remedies were tried.
 read a few testimonials in one of tho
 Sunday papers regarding the merits of
 Peruna, and immediately purchased ( bottle. srhe third bottle gave me eompIet4
 relief. If any one asks me about Pe<
 runa, what better endorsement can
 give them than the result of my ewn
 experience" For free medical advice, address pr, S. B. Hartman, rresident of The Hart-
 man Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. Al1
 correspondence held strictly conndenl tial.