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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
Brief Tale of Wandering Cowboy Of
the Western Plains.

The cowboys who travel with herds
OF cattle for days across the Western
plains become very tired of their "a
tons, says the author of "The Log
of a Cowboy" and gladly welcome
any change or addition to their bill
of fare. In illustration of this he
tells the story of a wanderer WHO ar
rived at their camp one night just be.
fore Christmas He was made vel
come, and in his conversation men.
toned where he had been the Christ
mas before.
Il was helping the folks at the
ranch make doughnuts. Well, fell
lows, you ought to have seen them;
just sweet enough, and Drowned to
a turn. l tell you, I'm an artist On
doughnuts."
Miller rose. took him by the hand,
and said, That's straight, now is it?"
That's straight. Making dough
nuts is my long suit"
Mouse" said Miller to one of Tive
boys, "go out and bring in his saddle
from the stable and put it under my
bed Turn his horse into the big pas
ture in the morning. He stays here
until spring; and the first spear o!
green grass I see his name goes on
the payroll. You go to work on this
speciality of yours right after break
fast in the morning, and show us
what you can do in that line"
The next morning, after breakfast
was over, he got the needed articles
together and went to work. There
were nearly dozen men lying round,
all able eaters. BY ten o'clock he be-
gan to turn them out as he said he
could. When the regular cook had
to have the stove for dinner, the taste
which we had had made us ravenous
for more. Dinner over, he went at
them in earnest.
A boy riding toward the railroad
with an important letter dropped in,
and as he said he could only stop a
minute, we stood aside until he had
had a taste After eating solid
hour, he filled his pockets and rode
away. One OF our men called after
him, Don't tell anybody what we've
got!'
The next morning two men rode
up from a camp to the north, which
the boy had passed the day before
with the letter. They went straight to
the kitchen. An hour later old Tom
Cave rode in from his camp, twenty
five miles to, the east. He refused
to take a stool and sit down, like
civilized folk, but stood up by the tub
and picked out the ones which were
a pale brown.
About two o'clock Doc Langford
and two Of his peelers rode up. Our
luck was circulating faster than a
secret amongst women. Our man,
though, stood at his post like the boy
on the burning deck. He certainly
was an artist on doughnuts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
WARM WINTERS OF 's7 AND ,7e.
Many I'm New York Who Remembers
Summary January of Long Ago.

Many I'm New York Who Remembers
Summary January of Long Ago.
There are plenty of people who can
remember the winter Of 1855. Just
thirty years ago, which was the warm
est winter ever known in this latitude
up to this reason, says the New York
Globe. The recent warm weather
brought out flood Of "reminiscences of
that bygone January. One Of a group
that sat on benches in Riverside Park
enjoying the cooling breezes from the
Hudson told Of going swimming in
Massachusetts, in midwinter. Another
man, still under 40, recalled a ten-mile
drive over Rhode Island roads on New
Years day, 1876, when the mud was
up to the hubs and the horses thor
oughly exhausted and in a dripping
sweat at the end Of the journey.
A sprightly old lady of so, who had
listened to these juvenile recollections
without comment, smiled as she asked
one Of the party when Queen Victoria
was crowned.
"In 1897 replied the girl who is
good on dates.
"That was the year." said the old
lady, when it was so warm all win
ter down in Maine that we actually
suffered from the heat. [ remember
it because it got so warm we were
careless with our fires and one morn
ing every hearth in the house was cold.
All the men folk were away in the
woods and my mother tried to strike
a fire with the flint and steel, but the
finder was damp and wouldn't burn,
so had to take an iron pot and go
over to my married sisters, two miles
away, and our nearest neighbor. and
bring back some live Goals so we could
cook. l went barefoot, l remember,
although it was my birthday. Jan. 10.
''That was the year the bears didn't
hibernate, but roamed around all win
ter and attacked a number of lumber
men. Father and the boys killed sew
eral in the woods and brought their
skins home"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
TURNED DOWN.
One Way of Asking Girl to Be Your
Wife and a Possible Result.

One Way of Asking Girl to Be Your
Wife and a Possible Result.
Slowly they walked along in the
twilight-he and she.
He was no longer in the heyday of
youth.
Time, however, had laid light hands
upon him. So had his barber, but Of
tener and more artistically, and he
was we'll groomed.
She was rare and radiant maiden,
known to the regular frequenters of
Spotcash & Co.'S great emporium of
er.
miss Mildred" he said, with sort
of premonitory cough, "let us suppose
a case"
"A case of what kind, Mr.. Mat
ewer?" she asked. Motions Or rem
nants?"
Let us not talk shop, Miss Mil
bred. If case suggests business I
will vary the phrase. Let US consider
a hypothesis"
"a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a
supposition, an assumption, a postu-
late, a working basis, or an idea TAX
en- for granted for the purpose of lay
ing a foundation, establishing a prop
osition, or demonstrating a fact. Get
the idea?'
"Oh, yes; anybody can understand
that. Is there more of it?"
There is. Some day, my dear girl,
you expect to marry somebody"
rs that the hypo-hypo"
mo; that is one of the eternal veri-
ties. Every pretty girl expects to
marry somebody. Here is the hypo-
thesis: Suppose some man slightly
past the blooming period of youth
but well preserved in full possession
of health. strength, and all his intel.
Iectual faculties
"a hypothesis is man, is it?"
Hes a necessary part Of this one
Suppose some such man as I am de
scribing, not at all Unlocking, and pos
sessed Of a reasonable share &c this
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
FOUR YEARS ON ICE.
Deserted 1900 Miles from Nearest |
White Settlement

Deserted 1900 Miles from Nearest
White Settlement.
MaroOned in the Arctic region with
only the ESkimos for company for
four long years, George B. Cleveland,
who is visiting here, tells an interest
ing story of his experiences, says a
BrOctOn (Mass.) correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean. He is the super
intendent Of the whaling and trading
station established at Foxtown Bay,
north Of the Arctic circle on Hudson
Bay, by the Robert Kennis Company
Of Dundee, Scotland, and has under
his charge 800 natives trapping the
wolverine, polar bear, silver fox and
other fur-bearing animals. With mod
ern boats and appliances he is making
a great success of the post.
1t was when Cleveland went north
in 1899 to locate trading post for
New Bedford syndicate that his worst
experiences took place. After the first
year he was deserted 1900 miles from
the nearest white settlement and left
to make his way back as best he could.
He was compelled to join the Eski-
mos, and for four years remained with
them, dressing in skins, living in the
Ice huts and eating raw meats and
fish. During this time he acquired the
native language. Constantly travel
ing from place to place and treated as
a member of the tribe, he lost much
of his civilized life, and when one day
a Scotch whaler was sighted and Cleye-
land went aboard and met a white
man he could scarcely speak his ma
tive tongue and was nauseated by the
cooked food set before him. 1t took
him a month to regain his habftual
ease as a civilized man.
From this meeting with the Scotch
men came his employment later as
superintendent of their station, which
he has brought to success since then.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
AL Over the State.

The Beloit Fair Association has decid-
ed to quit business.
The Fond du Lac Awning and Tent
Company may move to st. Paul, MINI.
Rev. W. Vandriessen, founder of the
Baraboo Wesleyan church, died at BouI-
der, Colo aged y.
Three days after the death of its twin
sister, a 4-months-old daughter Of David
Reinhardt of Sheboygan died suddenly.
Both were seized with commissions.
Louis Hanitch, the Superior attorney
who announced himself some time ago as
candidate for the vacant seat on the
Supreme bench, has withdrawn from the
fight.
Joseph W. Powell. Methodist exhorter.
raised $4,000 in a continuous twenty
hours service at the Central Methodist
church in GAINESVILLE, clearing it entirely
of deot
Thu State board of agriculture has de-
cided to have an airship exhibition as one
feature of the fair at Milwaukee next
fall. There will also be more horse races
and better class of fireworks.
There is a vacancy at the Annapolis
Naval Academy for Congressman Minors
district because of the physical disabili-
ties OF William Cheney of Kewaunee.
An examination will be held April II.
f. H. Powley, alias z. III. Douglas
was sentenced in Oshkosh to four years
in Waupun. He admitted forging a check
for $26.63 on the Knippenberg Manu-
| featuring Company. He was captured in
Port Gibson, Mich.
After many months, the details of the
sale Of tie big tannery of the \. II. Al
| lens Sons Company TO the Central
Leather Company has been made public
and these show that the new holding com
pany paid S6,961 ,474 for the Kenosha
plant Ii is the bisgets deal ever con-
summated in Kenosha.
VITA both legs cut of. skull fractured.
and a large stone embedded in the brain.
| the body Of Henry Brackmann of She
boygan. aged 81. was found on the North
western tracks.
Dick Riley. who was sent to Waupun
for a year for forging d check in Mari
nette. has returned. He completed sen
tence of eleven months and was given
A north for good behavior. Riley says
| he likes Waupun. lie earned $50 while
there and was a trusty during the entire
time The prison authorities have Of
fered him a good position in the prison
if he will return.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
Mystery on Board Shin.

They were stretched in their deck
chairs and trying to make themselves
think a sea voyage was simply too
lovely fof anything.
'I wonder why they make the ship
windows those round little portfolios
with hinged frames in them instead Of
sash?" she unused, YEARLY, remember
ing how stuffy the stateroom was.
II don't Know he replied with an
effort, unless it is that they didn't
want to make it possible for "A
passenger to throw up the SASH
Then they both gulped strangely
and were very silent for the space Of
several minuteS.-Modern Society.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
MUNICIPAL COLLABORATING.
An English Town Taking An Ad-
vanced Step in Civic Reform.

The town of Huddersfeld, England,
which stands in the front rank of the
cities that have adopted the plan OF
public utilities owned and controlled
by the municipal authorities, has re-
Gently taken a further step, and pro-
vided for child-rearing under official
direction. Realizing that large part
of the death-rate among the poor was
of infants under one year of age, ow-
ing to insufficient or unintelligent care
and nourishment, the mayor of the
city offered a bonus of 81 to every
child born in one of the districts that
should attain the age of twelve
months. This offer, which is to hold
good during the term of the present
incumbent's mayoralty, led the local
health authorities to consider whether
steps could not be taken towards saw
ing the lives of infants.
Accordingly they decided to offer
a reward of one shilling to the first
person who should inform the medi-
cal officer of the birth of a child
within forty-eight hours of it's oc-
currence. The mother is then to be
visited by physicians and women
health visitors, who will instruct her
as to the best methods of feeding,
washing, and clothing the child, while,
in addition, detailed instructions are
to be prepared and printed for gen.
eral distribution
The health visitors will also ex-
anime the homes Of the mothers and
factories and other places where wo-
men are employed, and cases where
deaths OF children under one year
have occurred will be investigated.
Furthermore. a years experiment will
be undertaken with a day nursery
where children will be cared for, and
sterilized milk will be supplied for
the babies. Huddersfield is a manu-
featuring town, and the authorities
consider that its present strength can
best be preserved through maintain
ing its native labor. They therefore
believe that il the infant mortality
is reduced to a minimum, a large
majority Of the children would grow
to manhood and womanhood. The
experiment is interesting. Harper
Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

worlds goods, should fall wildly, mad.
ly, desperately in love Nith you Miss
Mildred"---
'Well?"
And offer you his hand and heart
do you think you could learn to
love him?''
Not if he looked anything ike
you Mr.. Matewer''
They walked along a block or two
in silence.
Then Nj. Matewer spoke again.
Feels litale as if it were going
to snow doesn't it, Miss McGinnis ?"
he said.-Chicago Tribune
MASTER OF HIS CRAFT.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
Where and Wherefore.

The patient at the clinic suddenly
shook off the fumes of ether, sat up
on the operating table and said:
"Where am IL"
When nobody answered he looked
wildly in the faces of the students who
filled the amphitheater and cried out:
"What am l here fOr?"
And a voice from the rear benches
replied, For instance
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
To Pain.

sna =
BY Arthur L. Salmon.
ierVant of God, our spirits nurse,
tutor and craftsman of the spheres.
Vno drawest glory from the curse
VI sin and want and primal tears
rom toll and sOrdid strain, through
thee
We win immortal liberty.
ne CLINT and flashing of thy sword
Are fragments of the eternal Light;
hOu art the angel of the Lord
With whom we wrestle in the night,
IS thy ruthless steel whose shock
culptures the man from shapeless
rock.
rom stress of matter worlds are
born,
By stress of spirit souls are made,
lie clouds that stiflle back the morn
Are pierced by thine unerring blade.
hold how from the midnight strife
ERE issues forth the light of Life!
e birth-pang of the race is thine,
And JOY is sucked at thy breast.
is thy ministry divine
That takes the good and gives the
best.
meath thine overshadowing
e sons of God together sing.
inc is the pang of falling leaf
IF fading flower, or wailing wind
June magnifcently brief,
Md winter following swift behind;
Inc is the sob of rains that pass.
ipping athwart the kirkyard grass.
nakedness Of puissant limb
We see thy purity and might;
e vestures that would veil and dim
Reveal us stark before thy light,
Il all the passion Of the soul
won to thy supreme control.
Thine were the mysteries of birth
When yet the worlds chaotic lay.
fe struggle half-eIHerged from earth,
And half imprisoned by the clay;
My the swift, resistless hand
an free our limbs and bid us stand.
! thou of Love the f1IStborn child,
And thou Of love the living breath
We know, when thou hast strangely
smiled,
The message is of life, not death.
hou raisest those whom thou hast
slain
o two-fold being-mystic Pain.
From the Speaker-London
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
WHILE mrs. WESTWOJD
WAITED.


TIN afraid" she said as they sat
own ON a log where they could watch
le clear water as it rippled along
yer the shining pebbles, that we
dght not to have come out here
lone. Mrs. Westwood will be wor-
ed when she finds that we are not
/ sight"
YES" he answered, perhaps we
3ght to return. She appears to take
er duties Of chaperon very seri-
usiv,"
How do you know the path we
Gst came down is called Lovers
amer I thought you had never been
ere before?"
II merely guessed it must be Low
rs Lane There is always a Low
fs' Lane at a place of this kind, you
now"
rs there? But the real Lovers
.ane' maye be somewhere else.'
Perhaps it is, We might call this
till we find the real one, though"
you must have had delightful
inaa. in Colorado. Was Pixies Peak
very wonderful"
Il didn't think much of it, and
Colorado was a disappointment to me.
didn't see it under very favorable
circumstances, you know"
"Why, wasn't it the right season."
mot for me- I went out there just
sfter you had told me that you never
-"
isn't it beautiful the way the sun
beams steal through the leaves and
1lay on the water down there?"
Eyes, it's very fine Mrs. West
wood will probably be worrying about
u.s. Shall we go back?"
81 think we'd better. Isn't it ridfcu-
Eous the way Miss Allen and Mr..
Hewitt have been flirting out here?"
''I hadn't noticed it."
Goodness, you can't have any eyes.
Everybody has been talking about il"
81 have eyes for only"
<It looks to me as if Mrs. West
wood had invited them out here de-
uberately to throw them together"
give heard that she's an incorrig-
ible matchmaker"
ooh, she doesn't live for anything
else"
81 wonder if she expects Tom
Thurston and Miss Marsh to arrange
matters between themselves While
they are here?"
"You may be sure she. wouldn't have
invited them if she hadn't thought
it might come to that"
"ShalI we go back?"
"Yes, they'll be getting the help
out to hunt for rs if we don't hurry.
It is true that the forget-me-nOts cover
almost everything on the way up the
sides of the peak?"
81 didn't notice. I believe there
were flowers Of some kind there, but
they didn't interest me-"
"And I suppose you found q
Lovers Lane out there, too? You
say they always have one every
where"
There vas one there, no doubt. but
wasn't looking for it. If you had
been there"
clark! I thought 1 heard some
boIy calling. Don't you think we'd
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
CHILD TERRIBLY BURNED.

Lone Rock S-Year-OId Girl Plays
with Matches and May Die.
The 3-year-old daughter of Nathan
SchoOnover of Lone Rock may die from
terrible burns received while playing with
matches. The little girl locked herself in
a room in the second story of the house
and lighted several matches. Her screams
were heard by a brother, who rushed up
stairs. but could not get into the room.
Securing assistance. the door was broken
down and the child was found with her
clothing nearly burned off. She may re-
cover. The age of the girl makes her
condition serious.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
FIGHT MOURNERs FOR CHILDREN
Father Interrupts Funeral of His
Divorced Wife in Wisconsin,.

VI
Divorced Wife in Wisconsin.
As the body of Mrs. Warren SchOett-
ish was being lowered into a grave at a
cemetery at Welcome, her divorced hus-
band, Peter Young, in company with a
dozen friends, charged the crowd of
mourners in an effort to get possession
of his two children, II and Is years old,
who had made their home with the moth
er. The funeral services were stopped and
the mourners and attackers engaged in
a general fight. The father captured the
older child and was carrying her off when
the police interfered and delivered the
children into the custody of Father Pele
grin. The case will be brought in Apple
ton to determine what disposition is to
be made of the children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
Catch Burglar in Pavvnshop.

George Reynolds, aged %, who is want
ed at WaukeSha for robbery, was arrest
ed in La Crosse while attempting to sell
gold watch marked with the name.
"Grace E. Jameson in a local pawn
shop. He had much jewelry, silverware,
watches and weapons. The Waukesha pO-
lice has identified the goods.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

better go? What joke It would be
to get lost in these woods
I'm afraid that would be pretty
hard to do he said, getting up. zone
couldn't go a quarter of mile in any
direction without getting into the
fields"
But people sometimes get be Wild
cred, so that they go around in cir
cles without knowing it, she answer
ed as she tossed a piece Of bark into
the stream and watched it float lazily
away. Have you ever been lost?'
mo, but | have loved and
do you think Mabel Allen and
Mr.. Hewitt are suited to each other?
They're both dark, you kown."
What difference does it make
about the color of their hair or eyes
if they love each other?"
81 don't know, only people say that
a girl who has dark hair should marry
a man who is light, and vice versa"
would you say no to a man be-
cause of the color of his hair if you
ing personal? 1 was talking about
other people"
"Other people don't interest me
very much. But supposing other peo-
pie were to get to considering the
question of dark girls and light men
or dark men and light girls and de-
cided that we we're"
eve must really be going, or Mrs.
Westwood will never forgive u.s.
Eyes. The sun will be down in
few minutes There's the whistle of
the boat coming up the lake"
'This is such a delightful spot that
I hate to leave it. l think I shall
come out every day and sit here and
watch the ripples. Do you suppose
there are any fish in this stream?'
I'm afraid not But there may be
wildcats in these woods"
ooh, well, I suppose l can get the
coachman, or the man who attends to
the lawn, or-or somebody to come
and protect me-"
He looked at his watch and then
glanced up the path.
"This is the lovliest time of the
day to be in the woods" she con-
tinued. There's such an eerie teei-
ing about them. One can imagine that
there's a dryad behind every tree"
"Theres a chipmunk behind that
one over there. I just saw him scoot
around it. Hadn't we better go
now?"
81 don't believe you care for the
beauties of nature"
There's the chipmunk Do you see
him?"
But I wasn't talking about chip
munks."
Hes one Of the beauties Of nature,
isn't hep
81 mean the trees, and shrubs, and
streams, and rocks. What a gift it
would be if one could put this all into
a picture or a poem"
"And sell it for three dollars and
forty cents"
THAT isn't at all funny"
Mrs. WestwCod won't be at all
funny either if we keep her worrying
much longer"
ooh, well, if you can't think Of
anything but Mrs. Westwood, per-
haps we ought to hurry back"
81 could forget that there ever was
Mrs. Westwood if
He stood looking down at her while
she earnestly gazed at the tiny point
of a shoe that peeped from under her
soft, fluffy skirts. The setting sun had
found an opening through the trees
and was trying to add to her beauty
by heightening the color of her.
eff what?" she asked.
eff you would tell me you were
sorry you said no that other time"
She lifted her arms toward him and
they forgot that Mrs. Westwood was
waiting.-S. E. Kiser in Chicago Rec
Ord-Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
MERCHANT BURNS TO DEATH.
Clothing Catches Fire from Stove
Member of WeII-KnOVvn Family.

MEMBER OF We11-knOVvn Family.
Emil Fugine, aged 81 years, an Ar
cadia merchant, was burned to death in
the sight of a number of customers, his
clothing catching fire from a stove near
which he stood. Fugine rushed into
neighbOring barn, which caught fire from
his burning clothes and was partly de-
stroyed. He was a member of the we'll
known Fugine family of Fountain City,
a relative of District Attorney Fugine
of Buffalo county, and of others who are
merchants and steamboat owners at
Fountain City. He had large acquaint-
ance in Trempealeau, La Crosse and Buff
falO counties. A later dispatch says thar
no inquest was held over the body of Flu
CINE. The belief is now held that Flu
CINE was insane and committed suicide
by pouring kerosene over himself and set
ting it afire
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
DRILL FOR WATER AND GET GAS
People of Superior Greatly Excited
Over Rich Find.

At Superior while workmen were drill
ing an artesian we'll on city property in
the east end, the eight-foot pipe sud
denly became the outlet of a steady and
increasing flow of natural gas. Sand was
thrown into the air for a considerable dis
lance from the mouth of the pipe. At
one time one OF the workmen was in dan
ger of suffocation. but he was pulled
away. Great excitement prevails in the
vicinity Of the gas strike.