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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
CEL.IA'S MIND.
She Would Insist Upon Lending It te
All Her Acquaintance.

Sne would Insist Upon Lending It to
All Her Acquaintance.
She. had very good mind, clever
and artistic, and not wanting in hui,
NOR; Celia had perfect right to enjoy
it. The trouble was-but perhaps one
Of Celia's typical days will explain the
case.
Celia was going downtown to do q
few errands. Upon the car she met
Gertrude Reynolds, who was taking q
water-color to be framed.
"How are you going to frame itT
Celia asked, instantly interested.
II thought I'd have a gold mat"
Gertrude replied.
"Oh, you're making a great mis-
take" Celia declared, positively. III
should have black mat to relieve the
snow, and then a gold frame If you
want. Mr.. Wheeler, the artist, had
one framed so, and you've no idea how
much finer the effect was. You try
it and see"
swell, perhaps" Gertrude answered
doubtfully, as she left the car.
A little later Celia came across Amy
Dutton, who was searching for red
silk for waist
"Oh, why do you get redo" Celia
exclaimed. "With your eyes and com
plexion you never ought to touch it
Blue is your color"
"But I'm so tired of blue" Amy pro
tested.
"Well, of course It's your waist,
Celia replied, "but think you'll regre'
It If you get the red"
Three minutes later she was arguing
with another friend over a book to bs
chosen for gift. The friend had de
cided upon a charming novel which
had just come out, while Celia earnest
ly recommended volume Of poems.
"But Maud doesn't care for poetry
the friend explained.
II know, and how much she is los
ing because Of her fancy that she
doesn't care for It," Celia said. Don
you see, this is your opportunity tt
make her real gift-one that will
open a new window in her life?
novel will be read and thrown aside
but the love Of poetry will be Joy
to her as long as she lives. You'i
better take my advice. I'm sure Tn
right"
Yes, Celia had a good mind. I'll
only" one Of her friends said, hesitat
ingly, one day, for they all liked Celia
IF only she wouldn't insist upon lend
ing it to other people when they dom,
want itv'-Youth's Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
The Perfect Creature.

In his latest book Of travel and OBJ
servation, Highways and Byways Of
the South" Clifton Johnson tells with
what skill and gallantry a colored
preacher complimented the ladies Of
his congregation. There was to be a
new member admitted to the church
that day.
Because the candidate was feminine.
1t seemed appropriate that he should
refer to the miracle Of woman's crea-
ton.
"Jewels," said he, "are found in the
garbage and in the ice-chest; yes dia-
monds are very often found in the rub
bish, but not SO Eve. She was the cli-
max of Gods work-the finest and
most beautiful Of all the things He
had made.
"She was created not from common
dust, but from a crooked rib taken
from the side Of Adam. She was in
no way ordinary.
"She was an extract-like cosmetics
or perfumery which you ladies know
about-something better and mo- con-
centrated than the usual There's g.
difference in things. There's great,
there's grand, and there's greatest. The
creation Of the world was great, the
creation of Adam was grand, but the
creation of Eve was greatest"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
Goose-Rone Science.

M. L. Wroten has hanging up in his
office in Easton, Talbot County, Mary
land, the breastbone of a goose, by
which he says he can tell the kind of
weather that will happen in less than
fourteen hours. He can look at the
bone at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and
tell whether it will rain, hail, snow or
be clear the next morning. He says
that when rain or snow is coming the
bone will become moist or dark in
color; when the weather is going to
be clear, the bone is perfectly dry and
white, and when q drop in the Their
mometer is impending it will turn pur-
pie 1t is necessary, he says, to have
a new goose bone every year. He has
watched the different flocks Of geese
and always procured the weather
goose for the past thirty-fve years, and
has never known it to fail to accurate
w indicate the character of the
weather.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
The Best Governed Town.

Judge j. w. Written, chief of tha
law division of the general land Office
in Washington, has completed a trip
of 5000 miles through Alaska, cover.
ing four months. In an address the
other night on his tour the judge de.
clared that, while Dawson. which Is
under Canadian rule, is, in his opinion,
one of the best governed towns in the
world, all places of business there
closing from early Saturday evening
until sunrise Monday morning, on the
other hand, at Nome, the first Ameri.
can city across the boundary, the sa,
looms and gambling houses are running
in full blast on Sunday, and, though
he was told that the place possessed q
church, he saw no evidence of it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
ELIMINATING THE OBVIOUS.
Content Is Found in Searching for Con-
cealed Opportunities and Joys.

Content Is Found in Searching for Com
cealed Opportunities and Joys.
When at Mr.. RusselPs death it was
discovered that his fortune had melt
ed away In bad investments, and Mrs.
Russell and Rosamund were nearly
penniless, their friends looked at each
other in CONSERVATION.
What will they dor they exclaim-
ed. There Is Mrs. Russell practically
an invalid, and as for Rosamund-she
has never lifted finger for herself
in her life. She will be so helpless,
poor girly'
But for helpless girl, Rosamund
proved remarkably energetic. She and
her mother moved at once into small
fiat, and then Rosamund secured po-
sition in bookstore. Occasionally
some of her old acquaintance met her
when she was on her way to her
work, and to each other they confded
their surprise that she looked "just the
same as usual
Finally one day one Of them went in
to see her.
isn't it dreadful, you poor thingY'
she asked, sympathetically.
what is dreadful?" Rosamund re-
turned.
"Why, being in a sture-the hours
and work and the people you have to
wait on, and everything"
ooh, that! Rosamund laughed 81
don't think Of that part Of it at all.
You see, there are so many other
things to think Of instead. I'm really
getting Joe-he's the little wrapper
so that he likes to lift his hat to me,
and Mary Dennis is beginning to be
interested In books, though she doesn't
suspect it in the least And it's such
fun to help bewildered ladies find out
what they want, and to beguile girls
from cheap novels to good ones, and
help boys to know the real heroes of
life. I've been making discoveries, you
see.. One Of them is that the world
is just as. large from Washington street
as from Highland avenue, and another.
that you see just about what you look
for in life. It's worth being In a store
to make discoveries like that"
In recent book Stewart Edward
White declared to mystifed young
woman that the secret Of seeing deer
is "the elimination Of the obvious" It
is the secret Of other and greater sue
cesses, no less. Any one can see the
obvious-the common tasks, troubles,
inconvenience, disappointments, Of
difficult places: to set ones mind free
from these, to search instead for the
joys and opportunities which they con-
ceal-this is one Of the great Victories
Of life.-Youth's Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17

dilly. II couldn't get anything in the
Times by Friday if l wanted to. Hang
ed if hadn't forgotten all about the
arrangement meeting her suddenly like
that" He looked at the address she
had given him. Good Lordr' he said.
1t worried him for 20 yards, and then
he returned to the thoughts that Violet
had interrupted before. Opposite the
Green Park he spotted Ruth Clifford
across the road. He went quickly over;
as he did so, the great plan came to
him.
Hello and hOoray!' he said.
whats the matter?" said Ruth.
Everything. You're the one person
1 wanted to see. I've got the most
glorious idea"
"Still thinking of the silly old
Times?"
"Wait, oh, wait! Let's find a shady
corner in the park and I'll tell YOU
Bless you, dear, you do look ripping to-
day. And it's such lovely plant"
vi lludy eNelILS NiOIeL IuuTSlOn
received copy of the Times addressed
in Georges handwriting. She opened
it eagerly and blue pencil marks caught
her eye. She read:
"a marriage has been arranged and
will shortly take place between George
Hopper, youngest son Of Gen. Sir Ar
thur Hopper, X. G. B., and Ruth Emily
Clifford, only daughter of the late
James Clifford. London Sketch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
EXTENSION OF THE CAPITOL.
America Will Have Most Perfect Pub
lie Building in the World.

America Will Have Most Perfect Pub
lie Building in the World.
Every patriotic American citizen
will hope that no obstacle will intrude
in the path Of an extension Of the east
front Of the capitol at Washington in
accord with the plans which have been
reported favorably by a joint commits
sion Of the senate and house, says the
Baltimore American. For several gen
erations this has been a project dear
to the heart Of almost every congress,
and always dear to the heart Of every
lover Of art in architecture, and who
could not look at the grand building on
'the hilI' without a feeling Of pro-
found regret that so imposing a pile
should be conspicuous in one great de-
feet, that the magnificent dome should
seem from the eastern point Of view to
be topping over for lack of proper
and harmonious pedestal.
Regardless Of its defects, the capitol
is splendor Of piecemeal construc-
ton. No other architectural pile in
the whole world, erected in such vicis-
STUDIES, has been permitted to detain
such thorough integrity. 1t stands sim
gular in architectural form and situa-
ton, the most imposing Of all houses
Of parliament. Not one in any for
eign land approaches it in tremendous
dignity. Only in the ruins Of struc-
lures Of ancient days can be found a
semblance Of the chaste design Of this
meeting place Of the lawmakers for
more than 100000 Of population
those ruins from which were drawn to
a large extent the noble features Of the
capitol, the treasury and the building
of the department Of the interior.
1t Is not complimentary to the con-
gress nor to the people that the de-
fects Of the capitol have gone so long
unremedied. When the terrace" was
added to the western front to give
mass to the apparent foundation, an
absurd mistake was made in placing
stairways Of black slate amid the
white marble which everywhere else
prevailed. To the most uneducated
taste this was offensive and architec-
tural artists Of every land stood aston
ished that such crime could be COM
mitted in the name of architecture.
In connection with the remedial move
ment at the east facade this mistake
upon the west is to be corrected. and
when that is accomplished and the CEN
trail section of the east front is extend
ed this so-called crude country of
America will have the most perfect
building Of public use in all the world.
The British house of parliament is
not only Extensively ornate. but it is
placed upon the banks Of the Thames
and can be properly seen only from
the Surrey side. The chamber Of dep
uties in Paris. although of classic Ge-
sign and having a curious sentimental
outlook in facing the great Church Of
the Madeleine, precisely similar In
architecture, but far across the Seine,
and the beehive Of the Place do la Con.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
NO MORE HEADACHE
GENERAL WEAKNESS AND FEVER
DISAPPEAR TOO.
How Woman Was Freed from Troubles
That Had Made Life Wretched for
Many Years.


Many Years.
The immediate causes Of headaches
vary, but most Of them come from Door
or poisoned blood. In an@mia the blood
is scanty or thin; the nerves are imper-
fectly nourished and pain is the way in
which they express their weakness. In
colds the blood absorbs poison from the
mucous surfaces, and the poison irritates
the nerves and produces pain. In rheu-
matism, malaria and the grip, the poison
in the blood produces like discomfort. In
indigestion the gases from the impure
matter kept in the system affect the
blood in the same way.
The ordinary headache-cures ut best
give only temporary relief. They deaden
the pain but do not drive the poison out
Of the blood. DR.. Williams Pink Pills
on the contrary thoroughly renew the
blood and the pain disappears perma-
nently. Women in particular have found
these pills an unfailing relief in head
aches caused by anamia.
Miss Stella Blocker recently said: "Dr.
Williams Pink Pills did me great deal
Of good. had headache nearly all the
time. After I had taken three boxes Of
these pills became entirely WE'LL"
Chow long had you suffered ?" she
was asked.
For several years. I can't tell the
exact date when my illness began for it
came on by slow degrees. I had been
going down hill for many years..
"Did you have any other ailments?'
" was very weak and sometimes l had
fever. My liver and kidneys were af-
fected as well as my head
How did you come to take the rem.
edy that cured your"
!" I saw in a southern newspaper O
statement of some person who was cured
of like trouble by DR.. Williams Pink
Pills. My physician hadn't done me any
good, SO I bought box Of these pills.
After Thad taken one box felt so much
better that kept on until I became en-
tirely we'll"
Miss Blocker's home is at Leander.
Louisiana. DR.. Williams Pink Pills ara
sold by all druggists. Besides headache
they cure neuralgia, sciatica, nervous
prostration, partial paralysis aud rhsu.
matisrn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
Curve Light of the Stars.


There are certain stars which show
more or less conspicuous variations Of
brightness. Among the 5000 easily
visible to the naked eye there are be-
tween fifty and 100 Of which this is
true; about half dozen Of them were
known before 1900. If the telescope
stars are included the number of
known varia bles is at least 1900, and
this without taking account Of several
hundred more which have been detect
ed in certain star clusters within the
last five or six years.
Ten years ago DR.. Chambers cata-
logue Of variables included only about
300 objects. The roll is now increas-
ing with extreme rapidity, between
200 and 300 having been added within
the last twelve months. This swift
growth Is due largely to the utiliza-
ton Of photography, which, through
the comparison of photographs Of
given portions Of the heavens taken
at different times, continually brings
out new variables.
When thus detected the astronomers
proceed to study them in detail with
photometers attached to their tele-
scopes, enabling them accurately to
compare the brightness of each sus-
pected object from time to time with
that Of its neighboring stars, and thus
to determine the amount and character
Of its variation as represented by it's
so-called Eight curve"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
cords, rs drawfed and obscured upon

cords, r. drawfed and obscured upon
the bank Of the river.
So the changes might be rung upon
houses Of parliament of all the great
states Of the world. No other stands
forth with such prodigious weight and
dignity Of proportion and such COM
handing situation as this white pile at
Washington, and again let the hope
be expressed that congress will leave
nothing undone to finally correct the
mistakes in art which have been al
ways recognized and which are solely
due to the patchwork manner in which
the wonderful structure has been pro-
duced.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
she Was a Peach.

Small Edwin had been seemingly lost
In thought for several minutes, when he
finally said:
Mamma, all peaches don't grow on
trees, do they?''
"Of course they do, DEAR" replied his
mother. What reason have you for
thinking otherwise?"
"Well," answered Edwin, 81 didn't
suppose papa's typewriter grew on
tree. / heard him tell Mr.. Guy this
morning that she was the only peach in
the orchard, and"
just then the door opened and the
mother arose to welcome her peach-lov-
ing husband, who was kept busy for the
next half hour trying to explain that he
was abiding to the machine and not the
operator.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
Cleaned Out.

When deep cellar becomes filled
with heavy, poisonous air, 1t is never
safe to go into it until 1t has been
cleaned out. When your body has been
poisoned with the foul residues of un-
digested food, it is just as necessary
to clean it out. To do this pleasantly
and safely take DR.. Caldwelrs Qaxa-
tive) Syrup Pepsin. 1t is a pure scien.
tifc preparation which has no equal In
the cure Of constipation, headache, bill.
iousness and stomach trouble. Sold by
all druggists at soc and $1.00. Money
back if 1t fails.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
The Land of Thunder.

Java is said to be the region Of the
globe where it thunders oftenest, hav-
ing thunder-storms 81 days in the
year. After it are Sumatra, with SO
days, Hindostan with sc, Borneo with
81, the Gold Coast with 80, and Rio de
Janeiro with 81. In Europe, Italy oc-
cupies the first place with SO days Of
thunder, while France and Southern
Russia have Is days. Great Britain
and Switzerland have each seven days
and Norway has four. Thunder is rare
at Cairo, being heard only three days
in the year, and extremely rare in
Northern Turkestan I'd the Polar re-.
gions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17

exceedingly variable, sometimes Excess.
sive and at other times scanty. The
color was high, and passages were ac-
companied with a scalding sensation.
Doan's Kidney Pills soon regulated the
kidney secretions, making their color
normal and banished the Inflammation
which caused the scalding sensation.
can rest well, my back is strong and
sound and feel much better In every
way"
For sale by all dealers, price so cents
per box. FOSTER-MILBURN 90.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
WHAT | CAN DO WITHOUT.

Twas lonely little homestead, the home of pioneers,
On the wide prairie where passed early years.
Sometimes the threshold harvess with plenty filled the
And sometimes threshold Times peering
Then serious discussions of and occurred
To be finally concluded by my fathers CHEEKY word
Whatever may do without whatever may get
There's thing that is certain, do without debt"
Twas bit Of homey wisdom, with touch Of honest PRIDE
Through good or evil fortune it set aside
Many with shadows their
With their vanished
Time and Change the unreentng the little home away
The open, lonesome prairie is fruitful field to-day,
But the voices of the homestead their yet
And what may not come do without debt
Woman's Home Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
Honey and Vinegar.

At ''stag" dinner the other evening
an old bachelor gave the following toast
Woman, the morning star of infancy,
the day star of manhood and the evening
star of old age. Bless our stars-and
may they always be kept a telephone
distance"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
Great Gratitude.

He feels immensely under obliga-
tons to that lady"
Indeed! Did she do him such a
favor?"
"Yes; she was his wife and kindly
consented to get a divorce. kansas
City Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
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Twenty Years Ago.

Twenty Years Ago.
I've wandered to the village, Tom, I've
sat beneath the tree,
Upon the school house playground, which
sheltered you and ME;
But none were left to greet me, Tom,
and few were left to know,
That played with us upon the green,
some twenty years ago.
The grass is just as green, Tom; bare
footed boys at play
Were sporting just as we did then, with
spirits just as gay;
But the master sleeps upon the hill,
Which, coated Ger with snow,
Afforded us a sliding place, just twenty
years ago.
The rivers running just as still; the will
lows on it's side
Are larger than they were, Tom; the
stream appears less wide
But the grapevine swing is ruined now,
where once we played the beau,
And swung our weethearts-pretty girls
just twenty years ago.
Near by the spring, upon an elm, you
know l cut your name,
Your sweetheart's just beneath 1t, Tom,
and you did mine the same;
Some heartless wretch has peeled the
bark-'twas dying, sure but slow,
Just as that one, whose name you cut,
died twenty years ago.
My lids have long been dry, Tom, but
tears came in my eyes;
I thought of her I loved so well, those
early broken ties;
visited the old churchyard, and took
some flowers to strow
Upon the graves Of those we loved, some
twenty years ago.
It Singeth Low In Every Heart.
It singeth low In every heart,
We hear 1t each and all
A song Of those who answer not,
However we may call;
They throng the silence of the breast,
We see them as Of yore-
The kind, the brave, the true, the sweet
Who walk with us no more.
IT'S hard to take the burden up
When these have laid it down;
They frightened all the joy Of life,
They softened every frown;
But, oh, tits good to think of them
When we are troubled sore!
Thanks be to God that such have been,
Although they are no more.
More homelike seems the vast unknown
Since they have entered there;
To follow them were not so hard,
Wherever they may fare;
They cannot be where God is not,
On any sea or shore;
Whate'er betides, Thy love abides,
Our God, for evermore.
John White Chadwick.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17

Talk about bravery all you please,
there never was q man who wasn't
afraid In battle,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
HAPPY WOMEN.

Mrs. Pare,
wife Of G. B.
Pare, a prom
In e n t resi-
dent Of Glas-
G 0 W, K y,
says: II was
s u IF e r / n z
from a COM
plication o I
kinney LrOu-
bles. Besides
a bad back,
I had a great
deal of trou-
BILE with the
9 e C r e tons,
which were
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-07-08
BY Associated Press.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, July 7.-Oflciar
announcement was MADE here to-day
that E1fhu Root has been appointed
secretary of state. The announcement
was made to-day on the authority Of
President Roosevelt; the following
statement was given out by Secretary
Loeb:
'sEihu Root has accepted the tender
by the president of the seeretaryship
of state. He will take the oath Of Of
fee in a couple of weeks, but it will
necessarily be some little time before
he closes up his business affairs. He
will not go to Washington permanent
" until some time in September"
Roosevelt Gratified.
President Roosevelt is much graft
fed at Mr.. Roots acceptance and is
deeply sensible of the personal sacri-
fices made by Mr.. Root in again TAX
ing upon him the burdens and duties
OF a member of the cabinet
The decision of Mr.. Root was reach
ed finally on the presidents special
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-07-08
Official Announcement
of Roots appointment

train during the return of the presi.
Dental party from Cleveland. For
personal reasons entertained both by
the president and by Mr.. Root. it was
deemed desirable not to announce the
decision publicly until the president
had returned to Sycamore Hill. II
was determined therefore that the off,
cial statement OF the presidents ten.
der and Mr. Roots decision to accent
it would be to-day.
VIII Assume Duties at Once.
1t is the intention of Mr.. Root to
assume the duties of secretary OF
state practically at once. although II
will be perhaps two weeks before he
formally will take the oath of Office
His professional interests are so large
that he will have to devote consider.
able time to a satisfactory arrange
ment of them before ne goes to Wash
ington to take permanent charge OF
the state department.
When he takes active charge Of the
department he viii give up entirely
his law practice.