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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

vocates barring college athletes from
competing for athletic clubs. Many
Of the college and university profess
sors and physical directors support his
position. The colleges provide their
students with the diamonds, gridirons
and gymnasiums on which and in
which they become athletes. They fur
nish trainers. They fill the students
with confidence and enthusiasm by
means of choice musical yells. In con-
sequence-so reason the professors and
physical directors-the colleges ought
to have not merely first lien upon
but an exclusive right to the use Of
the biceps, backs, and wind of college
athletics. They should run, jump,
pitch, tackle, and otherwise expend
their physical energies in the interest
Of no institution except that in which
they are learning languages, sciences,
and the noble art of smuggling without
getting caught The professors are
right. The reputation Of modern
school depends partly upon the victo-
ries of it's football team and the tro-
plies won by it's track team. A school
may be great for Greek, but II 1t
doesn't shine on the gridiron it never
will amount to much. An athlete can't
satisfactorily serve two masters. The
more he exerts his muscle for one the
less he will be able to exert 1t for
the other. Justice plainly requires,
therefore, that the college athlete shall
serve nobody but his school. Another
reason why the college athlete should
be barred from competing for athletic
clubs is that it takes him from his
studies. Since his athletic work for
his school consumes a good deal Of
time, if he completes for clubs, too, he
may not get much studying done. This
may be a trivial matter. Many modern
college professors think it amounts al
most to nothing. 1t has been observed
that good athlete seldom fails in his
exams" whether lie knows anything
OF not. But some parents are old
fashioned enough to imagine muscles,
desirable as they are, are less desira-
BILE than knowledge, and to think it is
mainly for the acquisition of the latter
that young men are sent to school. 1t
would tend to conciliate these old TO-
gies if the colleges would keep their
athletic young men away from clubs
and persuade them to go through a
few of the motions Of studying.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
To Prognosticate storms.

By means of delicate instrument
called the ceraunograph, Rev. Freder-
lex L. Odersbach, professor of chemis-
try in st. Ignatius' College, in Cleve-
land, Ohio, is able to foretell many
hours the numerous summer storms
which come up, often on bright, warm,
clear days, with startling rapidity, and
with dire results to the small craft
along the sea coast and on inland
waters.
The action of the ceraunograph is
simple and easily understood by any
one acquainted with an ordinary tele-
graph system with relay. The initial
action precedes the advent of the
storm from one to thirty six hours.
AS the electric disturbance advances
the coherer is very busy, soon produc-
ing a continuous band record, while
the decoherer keeps up constant
clatter, which finally becomes deafen-
ing
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
People Are Queer.

Call a girl a chick and she smiles;
call a woman a hen and she bowls.
Call young woman a witch and she
Is pleased; call an old woman a witch
and she is indignant. Call girl kit
ten and she rather likes it; call a wom-
an cat and she hates you. Women
are queer.
II you call man a gay dog it wiz
hatter him; call him pup, a hound.
or cur and he will try to alter the
map of your face. He doesn't mind
being called bull or bear, yet he
will object to being mentioned as q
calf or cub. Men are queer. too.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
Taller Told by Old Pottery.

Pottery students and collectors find
much to charm them in the old wares
they sometimes hit upon. For instance,
Micah Salt of Buxton, England, says
the Philadelphia Record, has gathered
eleven pieces of pottery illustrating the
sports Of bear-baiting, bull fighting and
cock fighting.
Some of them are Of Nottingham
make and probably date from the sew
enteenth century. They are all drink
ing vessels. The bears are shown muz-
zled and in various attitudes. Shak-
speare has references to the sport by
bear-baiting. Bear gardens, each kept
by a bearsward, were common in his
day. Bull-fghting and cock-fghting
are also illustrated. The figure Of the
cock is formed Of the ware which is
characteristic of the Astbury-Wood Pc
Rod and previous to the cream ware
development of Josiah Wedgwood. The
yellowish white is shaded by patches
of brown. The black eye is character
istic Of the period
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
We're Good for Both.

Paulding, Miss, May 15.--(Specisl)
In this neighborhood men and wom-
en- alike are telling of the great bene-
6t they have received from the use Of
Dodd's Kidney Pills and it frequently
happens they are the means of curing
members of both sexes in the same
family. Take the case of Mr.. and Mrs.
f. Erby. The latter voices the senti-
ment Of both when she says:
my lips cannot express too much
praise for Dodd's Kidney Pills. SUI
fered with Backache and Female
weakness for four or five years and
feel that have been wonderfully help
ed by Dodd's Kidney Pills. My hus-
band, too, was sufferer for five years
from weak bladder and they also
cured him."
Dodd's Kidney Pills make healthy
kidneys. Healthy kidneys mean pure
blood and good health all over the
body. No woman with healthy kidneys
ever had female weakness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Is it not nearly time to quit talking
about a restored" union? No north
ern man can go South, no southern
man can go North without saying
something or other about the war be-
tween the States, its heroes and its
glories and how Fftz Lee and Joe
Wheeler wore the blue, as though there
is something strange about it. The
fact is that when Ben Hill rose in his
place in the American Congress and
declared that he and the Southern
men who thought as he thought were
again in their fathers house and that
they were there to stay he spoke for
the entire South and spoke by author
ity. Yankee and Rebel are as much
one in our country as roundhead and
malignant are in the old country But
If we continue to protest too much
about it somebody may take occasion
to challenge our sincerity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

This readiness to accept corrupt mo-
tive as the source Of action of public
men which disagrees with ones no.
tons Of what they should have done,
is one Of the inducements to corruption
with the weaker kind Of officials. We
will be suspected anyway and might
as we'll have the game with the name,
they reason. But, while there is only
too much cause for such suspicion, it
is too indiscriminatingly laid, and at
taches justly, in fact, to small per-
centage Of officials.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

had gone to Rex, and with one black lie
ruined two lives. If l could only once
have spoken to my love, or looked into
his eyes, all would have been we'll; but
the ocean lay between us, and he believed
the other one.
l was both blind and deaf in that time
of despair. / think when one plNcks a
rose from its stalk and throws it away
to wither in the sun, the poor flower must
feel as / did in all those weeks and
months; only the rose dies and is at
peace, while / lived on through all my
youth, but my soul was dead within me-.
All, heaven, the world is weary! What
beauty will the dawn bring for me? In
this summer land there will be forever
silence, for love has gone.
Is this dreamAthe message that
comes speeding over the sea after long
years?
en- is dead, and has confessed that
he lied. Wait for me. Forgive!
REX"
Once again I smell the perfume of the
flowers, and I see that the sky is blue,
and l hear the birds sing. My senses
break from the lethargy of years, and
burst forth with a marvellous buoyancy.
He comes, and with a cry clasps me in
his arms and holds me close in the soft
darkness-how many moments I know
not.
On Decoration Day in the sweet
Southland, men and maidens are strew-
ing flowers on the graves of dead SOL
diers; but the traitor sleeps.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

"Before wrote to you, telling you how
Ielt, [ had doctored for over two years steady
and spent lots Of money on medicines besides.
but it all failed to help me- My monthly PEI
RODS had ceased and suffered much pain,
with fainting spells, headache, backache and
bearing-down pains, and was SO weak
could hardly keep around. AS last resort
/ decided to write you and try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and / am SO
thankful that did, for after following your
instructions, which you sent me free Of all
charge, my monthly periods started am
regular and in perfect health Had it not
been for you I would be in my grave to-day.
1" sincerely trust that this letter may lead
every suffering woman in the country to
write you for help as did"
When women are troubled with ir-
regular or painful menstruation, weak
ness, leucorrhoea displacement or ul-
ceration of the womb, that bearing
down feeling, Inflammation of the ova-
ries, bacl1ache, fatulence, general de-
bility, indigestion and nervous prostra-
ton, they should remember there is
one tried and true remedy. Lydia e,
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once
removes such troubles.
No other female medicine in the world
has received such widespread and I'm.
qualified endorsement. Refuse all sub.
stitutes.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
TO write her for advice. She has guided
thousands to health. Address, Lynn,
Mass.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe said at col
lege alumni dinner not long ago that
she "had no Oberlin or other college
education, except the liberal educa ton
that any one ought to have after IS
years Of life In a Christian country"
1t is curious that the young people in
the academies and colleges usually
have to live several years after gradu-
alton before it begins to dawn on them
that life itself is a school in which one
can get liberal education If one is so
disposed, and that postgraduate work
in that school is frequently of greater
value than the things learned in the
classroom.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
Unusual Land Deal.

The regents Of Kansas university
have purchase fifty-one acres adjoin-
inf the campus on the west The terms
are little peculiar in that no fixed
price was established. The seller, an
elderly person, is to receive an annu-
ity of 5000 during her life. The first
payment was made by popular SUBJ
scription contributed by the citizens
of Lawrence. The legislature will be
asked to make provision for future
payments.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

The grave Of Joseph Rodman Drake,
the author Of '"The American Flag" is
not to be desecrated. Twenty i've
thousand dollars have been appropriate
ed by the government of the city Of
New York for laying out and acquir-
Ing part Of the little cemetery in the
Bronx in which Drake was buried.
The plot of ground to be secured will
be known as Rodman Drake Park,
and the wish Of Fitz-Greene Halleck,
expressed in poem on the death of
his frlend-"Green be the turf above
thee'-will be fulfilled.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
Value of a Bathtub.

A social reformer Of the kind now
declared to be distinctly smart gave a
house party recently. Among his
guests was a Socialist who had never
before found himself in such luxuri-
Gus surroundings. The porcelain
bathtub in particular awakened his
enthusiasm.
"Ah," he said one morning at break
fast with unconcealed delight at the
Renaissance, there would be no dis
content and no social problems if
everybody had a porcelain tub like
that"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Emma Goldman, the anarchist, de-
clares that President Roosevelt is not
a specialist in motherhood. Still, she
will have to admit that the same re-
marks will apply to most of the ladies
who believe in race suicide.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Professor Wilder Of Cornell Uni
versity says the most beautiful thing
in the world is a sharks brain, and
he recommends that every child should
have one to play with. We have a
strong suspicion that Professor Wilder
has come to appreciate the value of
advertising.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Edward Atkinson is credited with
having said a woman could dress her
self on $65 a year. Probably an error.
More likely he said a woman could
dress her husband on that.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
IN THE SWEET SOUTHLAND.
BY JESSIE JULIET KNOX.

A blue sky, the breath of spring-the
song of birds and two young hearts. 1t
was Decoration Day, and in the sweet
Southland flowers were being strewn
upon the graves of dead soldiers, while
the music swelled and thrilled the hearts
of the listeners. In the vast crowd which
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

It's odd how shocked a girl can look
when she overhears a man exclaim
THE devilY and yet she frequently
put the same diabolical emphasis upon
her own exclamation of "Oh, myw
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
Memorial Day.

1t is the lives that we revere
In beauty of the May,
Loves gift of reverence sincere
For our Memorial Day.
They are alive in all our hearts,
The while with tears we pray,
Yet thought of heaven it's bliss imparts-
And hallows our Memorial Day!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

The way to get good name is to
deserve it. That is something for the
rich as well as the poor to find out;
and, on the whole, it may not be re-
grettable if the rich are receiving les
sons
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

The King of Assam has 200 wives,
who are divided into nine grades. When
one of them dies her body is lowered
from the roof Of the palace to be buried;
the law in Assam prohibits the carrying
Of corpse through the doors.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Doubtless the Cars hired girl bears
down on the soft pedal when she
pushes the carpet sweeper over the
floor, lest she should pick up bomb
In II
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

We might train up our boys with
the idea that if they miss the presi
dency they can at least become $780,
600 men" if they try hard enough.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Still, no one is going to blame China
very much if she tires of the role of
being an innocent bystander every
time a row starts in the Orient.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

A Russian fired nine shots at the
governor Of Libau prison and missed
him. 1t was lucky for the governor
that he was not an innocent by
Gtander.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

If Gar Nicholas Is not careful he
will fool around until they won't let
him have even a constitutional mon
archy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

We've just finished counting up the
Filipinos, and we find that we paid
Spain for them about $3.50 a head.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Good nature is the very air of good
mind; the sign of large ana generous
soul, and the peculiar soil in which vir-
tue prospers.-Goodman
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Work will bring success-and the
more folks you have working for you
the more success you will achieve.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

49, - but not, not by
N@@ the shot
Of his comrades to
fall,
Nor his proud name erased from the roll by
And dishonor the sum Of it all.
Fighting Billy lay face to the earth In
tent
With a guard pacing by,
But court-martials waited, for battle had
rent
A rift in the black of his sky.
He lifted his head as an officer passed.;
Zone favor, sir, one!
One favor, the first l have asked and the
Release for the day and a gun"
The old colonel halted. "Well, Billy, my
You'll find old Pap Thomas
Is looking for fighting to-day, good or bad.
Go! die or come back! it's promise.
Chickamauga was raging and Billy's blood
| like tigerish thing.
He illiped at length where the dying were
heaped,
He offered his breast to its sting.
But the shell turned away and the bullet
sped wide,
Till there came an advance
And brother-in-arms whispered close at
his side,
"Hey, Billy, my boy, here's your chance
''Charge ahead at the word and forget to
come back
| A dozen good men
Will swear you were captured while lead
ing attack,
| And fig for the court-martial then"
For a moment the blood smothered close
at his heart
| And deserted his face,
AS he fought the temptation which rose at
! OF the thought of his waiting disgrace.
Then "Forward!' and wildly he led the at
tack
And then? Did he lag!
Did he throw down his gun? Or who was it
brought back
| An enemys shot-tattered flag?
He was there when the court-martiars YER
dict was read.
Guilty. That was the word.
"On every count guilty!' The hard thing
And murmur of sympathy stirred
As Billy stepped out and surrendered his
Grained grit through and through.
''There is only one thing ! regret sir That
Is that Guilty God help me! is true
And then came the sentence. "The pris-
oner must,
Till his service shall end,
| Be as valiant in arms and as true to his
! trust
As to-day. For the rest we commend
! ''The pardon. his soldierly conduct has
1 earned,
And his colonel requests
] And never was lesson more thoroughly
learned
AS he proved in a hundred tests.
And when men would boast Of the bloody
ARRAY
And the daring attacks
81 was brave only once in my life," he
would say,
"And that was a time turned back"
Edmund Vance Cooke
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

The average country town princess,
after she has married begins to look
as if she had sold her birthright for a
mess Of pottage.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

A Philadelphia man who spent two
years In teaching his parrot to swear
has "got religion"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

DR.. Mary Walker can testify that
no gentleman can dress himself prop
erly on $50 year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Mrs. Wins1ow's SOOTHING SYRUP for Children
teething softens the gums, reduces Inflammation, al
lays pain. cures wind collie. Is cents bottle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, the Great
Kidney and Liver Cure. World Famous Write DR..
kennedy's Sens Rondout n " for free sample bottle
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

President Liginger Of Central Asso-
citation, Amateur Athletic Union, ad-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

He who would be great soul in the
future. must be a great soul now.-R.
W. Emerson.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
Find Fortified Grain +.

The drillers at work in a new deep
well at Junction City, Kan, are find
ing all sorts of odd things. Recently
the drill penetrated stratum of what
appeared to be petrified rye. The
grains were surprisingly like that
cereal, and some one has suggested
that an ante glacial elevator or store
house has been discovered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24
ut SAVED MY LIEF
PRAISE FOR A FAMOUS MEDICINE
Mrs. WiIIadsen Tells How She Tried Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound lust
In Time.

Mrs. T. G. Willadsen, of Manning.
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
Dear MrM Pinkham -
81 can Truly say that you have saved my
life, and cannot express my gratitude to
you in words
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-24

SHTING Billy lay face
to the earth in a
tent,
With a guard passing
by.
The lust of the liquor
within him was
spent
And what was there
left but to do?
He was willing for that,
but not, not by
the shot
Of his comrades to
fall
The Holly chieftain., 1905-11-24

We'll, he's guessed it, Senor Jack.
He knows you are the Squire John
again against whom they played their
cards in Edinburgh"
What do you suppose he will eo?"
Nothing just at present"
But he hates me-
Quite true; and yet just at present
he depends upon you for his very life.
When we get back to Havana, if For
tune is SO kind as to allow us, then
look out for storms, but not here"
Its little care, you know. SO long
as am able to serve her. That is the
full extent of my mission to Cuba.
And from the way matters are going,
have strong hopes that sooner or
later success will come to me. But let
us forget the future. and take care
of the present. We have seen no signs
of our enemies around. and yet hard
iy believe they have left the neighbor-
hood. Look out here at the sky-you
have spent some years in Cuba. Tell
me what you think of the chances for
downpour of rain"
1T has certainly .clouded over; but
you know at this season of the year
We usually have daily rain after the
noon hour"
That's what look for, my dear fel-
low; 1t would be in direct line with
our luck. But you seem to be listen
ing. What is 1t you hear?"
Put your head out again, sir, and
you will be fully informed"
Jack does as requested.
The strong wind bears to his ears
The Holly chieftain., 1905-11-24
From Alaska to Iceland.

At meetin. of the Geographical
Society in Philadelphia this month the
president, Henry G. Bryant. the well
known explorer, made the announce
ment that two of the Bryant-Melville
casks which were sent adrift several
years ago in the Polar sea have been
found.
The first was thrown overheard by
the revenue cutter Bear on August 81.
1901, about eighty-five miles north
west of Wrangel island, and recovered
by Capt. A. G. Christianson on August
II. 1902, near the mouth of kolyu-
ching bay, on the coast of Siberia in
the course of one year less four days
it had travelled $50 miles to the south
east and was probably Influenced by
local currents.
The other cask was placed on an ice
foe northwest of Point Barrow,
Alaska. in latitude 71.53 N. and longi-
tude 164.50 w. by the steam whaler
Alexander on September 13, 1899. It
was recovered one mile east OF Cape
Bauda Nupr. on the northern coast OF
Iceland, June Z, 1908.
Mr.. Bryant said the position proved
the existence of current from
Bering strait around the circumpolar
basis to the Atlantic ocean.