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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Secretary Taft, in discussing a GER
tain hoax, said:
1T reminds me of the story about
Sir Richard Owen, the famous English
scientist. A footman came to Penn
broke lodge, Sir Richards residence,
one morning, with a large bone wrap
ped in a cloth, and with note from
his master, Lord John Russell, asking
if Sir Richard would please say what
animal the bone belonged to.
at required but glance from the
scientist to convince him that the bone
was nothing but a ham bone from an
ordinary pig. He sent message back
to that effect, and, meeting Lord John
the next day, said:
"'Why on earth did you send me a
pigs ham bone yesterday?
"'IIl tell you, said the other. Gen
eral Grant, you know, is great Joker.
He made IRE a present Of what p1Ir-
ported to be that rare delicacy, a grizz-
IL bears ham, but, as l had my doubts.
/ sent you the bone ("
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

The American Library Association
recently held its thirtieth annual con-
ference. In thirty years the public IL
brary in America has become one of
the most powerful agents in the intel
lectual development of the country.
Those who remember the time when the
librarian was an unframed person,
placed In his position by accident rath-
err than by special qualification, can
appreciate the value of the work Of
the association. Without it many Of
the beautiful library buildings which
adorn our cities and towns would be
bat stOrehouses for badly selected and
unused books.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29
Old Ben Bolt.

Oh, don'd you recomember shweet Alice
Old Bold,
Shweet Alice, NIT hair yust Ike mine
Who dremples NIT fear when you give her
vone scnmile,
Und larff NIT delighdts off your frown
In der old kirsche Sart, in der y#alllv
Old Bold,
Somewhere in der corner oil uoue
dots So
Und dhey put in a rock What VeIghdts yona
tousants poundtz,
Und shweet Alice lies unter Got shdone
Oh, don'd you recome1rSer dot hickory
tree, Old Bold,
What crows on der TOP Of der hill?
Where we useed 20 get abbIes, and
beaches, und bears,
Und lisden TO der bologna sausage mill?
But dot bologna sausage mill vas dounbIe
down, Old Bold,
IND i'd can't d0uuIble down any mora.
dots s0'-
Und my name i'd vas Hans Petex Won
nicklecomearuoeCmaFo
Und | don't dola you dot over again
some more.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

bevy of women laborers who have the
leisure will proceed at harvest time
from village to village, and so add a
few more shillings to the modest fam
lily chest.
Few Egyptian village scenes appeal
more fOrcibly to the cultivated taste or
artistic sense than that of the village
maiden fetching water from the river
or the we'll. The 1.-the, elastic. we'll
developed figure of the peasant damsel
seems singularly noble in it's homelv
simplicity, draped in it's loose dark blue
garment, the beautifully nodded earth
enware pitcher poised upon her shapely
head. Her long veil Of coarse crepe, it
Is true, is half drawn to conceal her
face from prying eyes, or, when she
wears no veil-and often, owing to the
eXigencies of field labor, the burke
(face veiD is dispensed with-its office
IS performed by gathering a fold of her
head covering into a corner Of her
mouth. Yet the very poor are not al
ways punctilious about keeping their
faces hidden from strangers, and so
sometimes one sees the indigo or green
ish-blue tattoo designs on the forehead
or below the Under lip. On reaching
the river, where her shadow seems to
kiss the ripples, the modern Rebekah
tucks the skirts Of her Eaiment between
her knees, enters the water to cleanse
and fill her water jar (balass), and
then, with a last feminine touch of adj
justment to the folds of her dress, she
raises the heavy burden into position
and bears it away, spilling nothing Of
its limpid contents. She never loses
her balance, having made a practice
from early childhood of carrying all
burdens on her head and having thus
acquired a naturally upright carriage
and statuesque gait.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29
Re Had Got a HRfse."

Archbishop John NJ. Farley tells a
story which shows the love and good
will entertained for him by those to
whom he stands in the relation Of
friend or spiritual adviser. 1t is given
in his own words in the New York
Times:
Shortly after I was made vicar-gen-
eral an old Irish woman met me In the
street. She grasped my hand fervent-
".
20 father - said she. "Sure and the
Lord bless you! I hear they gave you
a Eise."
YES said 1, "they did"
WELL" she continued, "and I'm
pleased for that It's yourself that de-
serves the rlse.''
Thank you"
'And all hope is, the next rise they
give you will be to heavenw
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29
THE FELLAH'S YOKEMATE.

Some Occupations of the Egyptian
Girl and Woman.
Her lot has improved vastly since
those dark days of superstition when,
in order to propitiate Scraps, the deity
who presided over the waters of Faith
er Nile, she was liable to be given as a
sacrifice to the f1ood-custOm which
was until quite recently commemorated
at the annual cutting Of the Khaleeg at
Cairo by the erection of an earthen
"bride," which was swallowed up by
the rushing waters, says the Fort
nightly Review. Albeit the fellows
lines have never been cast in pleasant
places, very early in her existence does
her round Of drudgery begin, for while
still tiny child she is allotted a varie-
ty of tasks. In the clover season one
sees peasant baby girls posted as senti-
nels over the horses and cattle tethered
in the wildly green berseem fields !;
mere children, placed in authority near
a harshly creaking water wheel, fol-
low with toddling steps the wiry little
donkey or gaunt, ugly buffalo harness
ed to a wooden prop which is attached
to the cogged wheel of the sakeeyeh
The little mites by voice and whip
urge the weary blindfolded beasts to
keep jogging along in the worn cfrcu-
lar track, that the slowly revolving
eartEenware pots cease not to pour the
fertilizing water into the trough.
The same little maidens, their hair
generally plated and the wisps and
braids decked with coins, are often
seen tending small serbs of goats. At
times, too, they are sent to forage for
rare windfalls of frewood (rare. be-
cause in the delta wood of any sort is
scarce), which, if they find, they carry
homeward across the fields on their
heads, the strings Of beads and glass
bracelets on their fat little necks and
arms glistening in the bright sunshine ::
while those who dwell in woodIess
provinces are employed to collect ma
nure, which, mixed with chopped straw.
is pounded into round cakes and when
dried in the sun forms the staple native
fuel called "gelleh7 Active little maid
ems carry diminutive hOds or baskets
Of mortar or bricks when building OBJ
eratiOns are in progress, or are set to
destroy caterpillars at seasons whom
these pests threaten destruction 70 the
maize or other crops.
Should their village be within easy
distance of railway, girls Of tender
age are sent to hawk gooIahs Of cold
water hard-bOiled eggs or fresh dates,
figs or oranges. up and down the coun-
tryside stations; and these bright.
clamoring, smiling. pearly teethed
maid0ns are pleasantly familiar little
figures to all travellers throughout the
Delta. The bigger girls in time of
wheat harvest will join with the older
women in field labor, which is very IA
tiguing, as in many districts not only
do they pluck and bind the corn, but
afterward carry the sheaves to the
threshing place. Not infrequently q
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

A fall on che doQr Of a skating Pink
was the means by which Miss Ira Ram
sey Of AsheHlle, n. c., recovered her
power of speech, which she lost three
weeks ego without apparent cause She
had not been sIck and her physicians
was at q loss ID account for her strange
afiiction. Miss Ramsey went to the
skating rink and short1y after going on
the floor slipped and fell. The fan was
not q heavy one, but the shock .gas
doubtless sufficient to loosen some vocal
cord, which had ceased to exercise Cts
RvnTtbm.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

DR.. Mary Putnam jacob, who died
In New York the other day at the age
of SO years, was a pioneer, but she
lived long enough to see the world
come round to her early view that
women are as much entitled as men
to recognition as physicians. She was
the first woman to go through the Paris
School of Medicine, the first to be ad-
mitted to the New York medical socie-
ties and to the American Medical AS
ISOLATION, and the first sent as a dele
gate from New York to the State Med
ical Association.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29
Two Of Them .

''Roxley committed suicide. you know.
He lost half Of his great fortune IN
speculation very suddenly"
Eyes, and did you hear about his
heirT
no. Whatr~
when he heard be was to receive
what was left the sudden Joy drove
him bopeBessly insane. Philadelphia
Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

With the promotion Of the American
minister at Constantinople to the grade
of ambassador, Turkey becomes the
tenth power TO which the United States
sends a representative of the highest
diplomatic rank.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

IAN honest man has nothing to fear
from investigations" says Governor
Folk Of Missouri. This is true, but it
SENS to be difficult to get some Of the
men who are In the oil business to
agree that there is any reason why 9th
er people should in their desire to in
vestigate use so much time that might
be otherwise employed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29
frantic Pfn&Mclering.

Uncle Proedoeimo. looking at his two
little nephews playing at taking a fort,
promised 2 cents to the victor. Five
minutes after, the fort was taken.
well, one OF you is a clever cap
tain. How was tbs fort taken?7
oh" said one, Il promised Gigi a
cent if he would surrender" III Monde
UmoriStico.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Eggs are now being recommended as
products that cannot be adulterated,
but If they could speak, what tale of
suffering in cold storage some Of the
fresh ones could tell!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

The congestion of population In cities
has led to much moralizing on the DO
cay OF farm life and the indispoSttion
OF farmers sons to pursue the fathers
calling, Get our census reports show
that between 1850 and 1900 the number
Of farms IN the country increased from
less than 100000 to nearly 100000.
That this is not wholly due to larger
population is shown by the fact that
while in 1880 there was one farm TO
every IS persons in 1900 there was one
to every 1873 persons, the farms grow
ing in numbers faster than the popula-
ton. There Is shown in this fact one
reason why farm labor is 50 inadequate
to the demand Just now.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

While Niagara Falls will only last
$500 years, picture postcards will be
out of date by then, and in all probable
lty the falls won't be needed for any
thing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

In his latest poem Alfred Austin de-
ciares Mature Is Greater Than l."
There is something memorable in the
modesty Of this concession.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Henry Phipps, of Pittsburg, pays
100000 a year for the use of a deer
park in Scotland. Other Pittsburg mil
lionaires have shown that he might put
his money to a worse use.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

A woman Is suing for divorce be-
cause her 1S-year-old husband smokes
cigarettes. She ought to have made
him show his fingers before she mar
ried him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

"Why do they call these dentists Of
fees dental parlors?" asked Smith Of
his friend
"Why, parlor is an old-fashioned
name from drawing ROOM"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

At the age of II a Kentucky girl has
been married three times and twice di-
vorced. If she has started after the
record her chance looks good.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Another man has almost succeeded in
swimming the English Channel. Civil
ization is going to take a fearful slump
unless somebody does it pretty soon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29
H. ]. JOHNSON, Publisher.
WISCONSIN.

One of the best things going, as you
might say, is an unwelcome guest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29
Hfs Criticism.

did he Eeally tell you had use
OF stage frightg' asked the amateur
actress.
NO" replied the dearest friend. "he
said you we've. Phildelphi Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

A girl went to Jail rather than tell
her age on the witness stand. She does
not deny, however, that she's over Z.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

We have often wondered why Luther
Burbank, the wizard, doesn't try to do
something in the way Of producing a
cantaloupe with a clear conscience.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

bad habit or curtailed an indulgence
over the acts with a dozen intimate
friends. If she contemplates a college
course or a matrimonial venture, she
consults both interested and uninter-
ested people about it. A religious ex-
perience is discussed until it vanishes
in talk, and a high resolve comes to
nothing because the words IN which it
was to be framed could not be salts
factorily defined. If the modern woman
were to initiate less the methods Of
practical science, and take more les
sons in the still workshop Of nature,
she would achieve results more beauti-
full, and perhaps even more useful.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29
TEeIpNsl.

"What books have helped yOa most r
inquired the literary girl
We'll" answered the wholly Ine1ee~
Iary author; II must confess that ]
never succeeded in drawing royalties
from any except my cEn Washington
Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Evidently the Car has no hope of
winning immortal fame by being elected
the first president of Russia.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

By boiling all the water and steriliz-
Ing all the milk and thoroughly cook
Ing all the vegetables and killing all
the flies, the average person may es-
cape typhoid fever.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

most judgment is picked before it is
ripe
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Marriage seems to get the mans Idea
and the wOman's idea Of directions
mixed. They can't agree If he did his
running toward her or away from her.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

What the world Is really looking for,
according to the women's version, Is
some man who will hand conscience
money over to his wife.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Mans devices for progress carry
noise and cg1nmotion in their tyain. The
trolley car, the steamboat, the tele-
phone, the railroad are so many inven-
tions that Increase the CHATTER Of the
world. Even human character in these
modern days makes a ''to-do" in It's
growth. The child passes into girlhood
with much talk about her feelings and
preferences. When she has given up a
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29
PafriOfisrn.

Patriotism.
Breathes there the man with soul SO dead
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land =
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him we'll
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentered all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
Sir Walter Scott.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Pierpont Morgan has bought a rug
for $1,000. Hard to beat that rug.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Look yourself over carefully. Are
you fool? And nothing pays so well
as O LITTLE sense.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

A woman's tongue is the important
part Of her running gear.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

we Have Drunk from the Same
Canteen.
There are bonds of all sorts in this world
of ours,
Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers
And true lovers knots, l ween.
The girl and the boy are bound by a KISS
But there's never a bond, old friend, like
We have drunk from the same canteen Z!
It was sometimes water and sometimes
milk
And sometimes apple jack fine as silk;
But, whatever the tipple has been,
We shared it together in bane or bliss,
And 1 warm to you, friend, when I think
Of this
We have drunk from the same canteen
The rich and the great sit down to dine,
And they quaff to each other in sparkling
wine
From glasses of crystal and green,
But guess in their golden potations they
miss
The warmth of regard to be found in
this
We have drunk from the same canteen
We have shared our blankets and tents
together
And have marched and fought in all kinds
of weather,
And hungry and full we have been;
Had days of battle and days of rest,
But this memory l cling to and love the
best
We have drunk from the same canteen
For when wounded 1 lay on the outer
slope
With my blood flowing fast and but little
hope
Upon which my faint spirit could
lean
Oh, then, remember, you crawled to my
side,
And, bleeding so fast it seemed both must
have died,
We drank from the same canteen
Gen. G. G. Halpine private Miles
O'Reilly).
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

All that glitters can't be measured
by the golden rule.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

is a good motto for July or January.
1t would be a strange, confused world
in which the grass made Il commotion
about It's upward climb, such as a puff
ing automobile makes as it thrusts it's
nose over the hilltop. OF the great
forces Of nature it may be truly said,
as a scholarly version of the Psalm has
it: ''They have no speech nor Ian
guage; their voice IS not heard"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

Only to grow as the grass grows,
Prating not of joys or woes,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-29

One great sacrifice Is demanded by
the American people of the man whom
they honor with election to the presi-
dency. That is, the absolute surrender
of any notion he may have that he is
entitled to any privacy in his life. The
servant Of the people, he must keep
constantly In sight Of the people, and
must endure any 'disagreeable features
Of the official relationship. One of
Washington's first queries, as he sought
assistance from his cabinet in shaping
the forms and ceremonies of the new
republic, was: What would be said
if the President were sometimes to be
seen at quiet tea parties?" There was
a great gulf fixed between the state
coach bedecked with Cupids support
ing festoons, with it's outriders and foot
men in livery, and the seclusion and
privacy Of which the first President
was so fond. He felt the need Of ca
.tering to the public interest in the
ruler Of people, but his heart often
turned with longing to the old friends
whose quiet c0mpanionship he craved.
Long afterwards, when Jefferson and
Jackson had had their leveling infiu-
ence, criticism was directed to Presi.
dent Pierce, because he used to step
out Of his official surroundings now and
then to call as plain citizen upon old
friends Of his New Hampshire home.
Ii President Lincoln, opening a closet
door, found an Office seeker hidden
within, it was to be taken as a matter
of course, and many a woman, forced
for the time to share the White House
with her husband during his term of
office, has bemoaned the fate Of 1.-THE
first lady Of the land" when cut off
from that homelike seclusion which
every man and woman wants at times.
1t is probable that the curious inter-
est Of the ruled in their rulers will not
cease while our government lasts. But
it must be trying, If not absolutely dis
gusting, to a man Of President Roose-
velt's good sense and democratic spirit
to find a press dispatch informing the
citizens Of every State that during a
sudden shower he and his wife had
their clothes drenched, even though the
added information was missing that
the Presidents garments were at once
sent to the tailor's to be pressed. The
President has a right to be put out by
tale Of his habits Of eating, particu-
larry If almost every single paragraph
of an alleged accurate account Is found
to be false. A certain amount Of popu-
lar interest must always attend the
routine Of a public servant like the
President, but it is difficult to believe
that there are many American citizens
who care a straw whether there are
ten courses or two In the daily dinner
in the White House.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
A New Trolley Line.

D. H. Clark, J. B. Phelan, S. E. Will
son, b. M. Clark, Irwin Barry and A.
E. Bell have made application for a
charter for trolley line from Punxsu-
tswney to Sykesville, via Big Run, to
be called the Mahoning Valley Street
Railway Company, The line will be
about fifteen miles long and will pene-
trate populous and prosperous mining
communities, besides connecting PunY-
sutawney, Big Run, Sykesville and Du-
Bois by direct route. 1t is understood
that the work of construction will begin
as soon as the preliminary arrangements
can be made.-Punxsutawney Spirit,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
Why We Don't.

We we're asked this week by a delin-
quent subscriber why we kept on send
ing the paper after the subscription
date had expired Every weekly news
paper In towns Of this size are forced to
do this. Should wn stop subscriptions
when time expires nine times out of ten
the subscriber would give us calling
down" for insinuating that his credit
was not good. Rather than to cast a
reflection against the honesty OF SUBJ
scriber to pay a small debt, it is
next to a necessity for home paper to
continue sending the paper after the
time has expired. 1t is not necessary
for the city dailies and weeklies to
follow this rule, as their subscribers
live at distance and are not personal
friends as is the case with number of
our subscribers. Our subscribers should
deem it an honor to know that we do
not doubt their integrity and continue
to send them the paper after their time
has expired.-New Bethlehem Leader.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08

G. H. Mateer, of Mosgrove, spent
several days in this place last week.
Miss Grace Clawson, Of Reynoldsville,
visited Miss Delva Schugars Sunday
Mrs. James Dickey, of YatesbOro. is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Louis Horn.
Miss Clara Anderson, of Reynodsvile,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. B.
Moore.
Mrs. VIM. McDonnal, of Rochester,
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. l..
Hetrick, Sunday.
Miss Jessie Corbin, OF Brookville, is
visiting her grand parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Moore.