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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
HOSPITAL CAR FOR WRECKS.

Operating and Ward Rooms on
Wheels Provided by a Railroad.
In car No. 1899 the Erie Railroad has
added a complete hospital on wheels to
its equipment, says the New York Her
aid. 1t is provided for use when in
case Of accident passengers or employees
are injured and the nearest hospital Is
SO far away that operations on tho SPOT
become necessary.
Divided into two compartments, the
siXty-foot car has an operating room
fifteen feet ten inches in length, equip
ped with an Isaac operating table, with
a movable head and foot extension, an
instrument sterilizer on the right and
a surgeons basin on the left The car
also has two lockers equipped with sur
gical instruments and stocked with ban
dages, plasters, sponges, anGesthetics,
antiseptics, astringents and other medi-
cal and surgical necessities.
Four-foot slide doors in either side,
with portable steps, permit of an easy
entrance with a stretcher to the room,
which has ten side windows and a large
window IN the roof over the Operat-
ing table. All are Of ground glass and
provided with white rubber roller cur
tains. Two four-fame acetylene gas
lights and two smaller ones furnish
light at night. A gravity water system
to furnish both hot and cold water can
be regulated by a surgeon with valve
operated by the foot.
Two sliding doors, with ground glass
windows, lead to the ward room, forty
three feet four inches in length, equip
ped with eleven brass bedsteads and a
lavatory and saloon. Boxes under the
car carry crutches, splints, army
stretchers, surgical implements, wreck.
ing tools and other accessories. The
car rests on six-wheel trucks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
For the Drovysx.

The belief that the hours Of sleep
should be artificially restricted is prev
alent. Yet 1t is contrary to ordinary
good sense. If the human body does
not need sleep for the upbuilding Of It's
tissues it will not call for it. A rule
Of health which can not be wrong IS
to sleep, if possible, as long as any in
clination for it exists. The erroneous
view, on this subject is undoubtedly
due to the fact that when the mind
and body are thoroughly rested it is
often difficult to arouse the mind from
its comfortable lethargy. On the other
hand, the man who is under a mental
strain and sleeps only five or six hours
at night is keen and alert soon after
awakening. But it is an unhealthy ac-
tivity. He is on edge, so to speak.
Such a strain, long continued, results
inevitably in nervous breakdown
Cleveland Leader,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24

way we skim as lightly as a bird and
we swing into Jerome avenue. The
macadam gives splendid opportunity
for speeding, and, bit by bit, our driver
shaveS the seconds down, until the
motor is hurrying through the darkness
! at thirty miles an hour. Far away a
huge, fiery glow is spread over the
southern sky, wavy and blurred. 1t Is
the. reflection of the lights of New
York.
AS we near the city traffic thickens.
A lone trolley car is passed as if 1t
were standing still, and delivery wag-
ons seem to be dropped a block at a
jump; fellow motors appear, and the
hoarse ''honk" of the auto horns is
deafening. This leg of the course is
eaten up as quickly as the preceding
one. The silhouette of the city is more
distinct. Here and there, some great
apartment hotel shoots its light
speckled bulk into the dusk, while,
nearer at hand, the lamps on bridges
and shipping in the Harlem form a
dazzling network. Our speed decreases
to a modest twelve miles an hour. Fur
Their up the river, as we rumble over
the bridge, train-the same that left
the suburban station with us-whistIes
for the draw. We will beat it to 43d
street by several minutes.
Over into Seventh avenue we roll,
slowly threading our way out of the
ruck into more open. ground, where, at
medium speed, we fash past the ele-
waited pillars. A policeman holds up
warning hand as we rush past 30th
street, but before he can say a word
we are past and two blocks away. Now
we are at Central Park West. The
rough native rock of the park and the
dressed granite cliffs opposite cast puz-
zIing shadows across the asphalt. At
61st street a mounted officer dashes out
from the curb, pulling his horse to his
launches, and lifts two warning fingers.
You can't pass here after 6 o'clock"
he calls, and we slip down a side street
into the Circle, where stands the great
discoverer on his pedestal. Swinging
into Broadway, we mutely obey the sig
nails of numerous tall bluecoats and
regulate our speed accordingly. a few
blocks further on the lights of Long
Acre square CLEAN warmly, and clock
strikes the half hour as the car whirrs
to a standstill beside the curb. We
have done it%n less than sixty minutes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
Praise and Prayer.

The half-breed Indian interpreter
with the Sioux tells a great story on
Charlie-Owns-The-DOg, one Of the
most dignified Of the lesser chiefs with
the band. 1t was at Brighton Beach
and Charlie and the interpreter were
taken for ride on the scenic railway
by one of the men with the show. All
through the whirling trip Charlie LET
out a series of discordant cultural
sounds, and when the trio were safe
on the ground again the man said 10
the interpreter:
Charlie must have enjoyed it; he
was singing all the way"
Singing? Huh! Praying" came the
anSwer.-BaltimOr News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
".

Jude Carson made his selection from
with the rapidity and unerring skill of
the expert,
He explained at the outset that he
only dealt In the very best, and that
it would be waste Of time to offer him
second-rate or inferior goods; and as
rapidly as he selected them he slowed
them away In his bag.
Hiram Jones, adopting a frank air
Of unsuspicion, made no objection to
this proceeding. Why should he? Was
he not absolutely secure in his knowl-
edge Of the stalwart help at hand?
Jude Carson looked at his watch and
noted that it was twenty minutes past
II. He closed his bag with snap and
then in a trice he had flung the door
open and vanished.
The bewildering suddenness and au-
dacity of the act simply paralyzed HI
ram Jones, but not so the detectives.
They were ready for it-ready and
prompt Saunders threw down the
screen and hurled himself at the door
without the delay of an instant; but
even he was not so quick as Jenkinson,
who was out of his cupboard and after
the fugitive before Jude Carson had
fairly left the room.
Escape seemed to be hopeless.
Carson held straight on down the
passage. past the lift and the stain :
case, past an interminable array of
office doors on either side. running at
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
Too Much Like work.

"Say, Blinky, I see it here in dis
paper dat Rooshee wants to borrow
$8OO,OOO,OOO. What do you t'ink O
dat?"
"Nothin' If 1 had de stuff 1 wouldn't
give it to 'em."
"Why not?'
Jaw, say, don't you know It would
take Teller most half day to count
out a heap like dat? 1 amt fond
enough o. work to tackle -Cleve,
land Plaindealer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
Beware of 0intmentS for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering 1t through the mu-
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from reputa-
bic physicians AS the damage they will do
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by f. J. Cheney & Co., To-
ledo, o., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system. In buy
ing Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally and made
in Toledo, Ohio, by F. ]. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24

ler's room, and in the course of it he
saw a great deal that interested him
and augmented his curiosity, but moth
ing whatever that satisfied it.
For instance, he saw Mr.. Carson
using the boring tool, then he caught
him busy with the rlveting tool, and
then it was the turn of the craving
tool, and it was an undoubted fact
that Mr.. Carson was engraving certain
letters or characters on the FURNISHED
surface of the plate.
But the reason for all this activity
remained a mystery, and by lunch time
the tools and the brass plate and the
paint brush had been put away without
1 single word of explanation.
After lunch Mr.. Carson was en-
crossed in studying the floor plan Of a
great block of Office buildings designed
10 be let out as Offices.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24

Are you the headquarters Of the
city police? Oh, I'm Hiram Jones'
Hiram Jones & Son, of 231 Graham
House, Upper Broad street, wholesale
jewelers.. Yes, yes that's right. 1
want you to send round a couple of
plain clothes men, to be here not later
than IL 30. Get that? Eth? You can
manage 1t? Good! Well-eh? Well,
of course, can't say, but it looks fishy
quite outside the ordinary run Of
business. Says he wants to buy an as
sortment of really high-class fancy
jewelry. No, l haven't seen him; he
wrote. What2 References? Yes,
asked for references, but he replied
that he was prepared to pay cash, sub
Ject to the usual discount. Naturally
let it go at that didn't catch that
Oh, his name? The name he gives is
Smith-Lumley Smith. Wrote origin
ally from a hotel In Manchester, but
wired this morning that he was in
London and would call at II sharp
Then you'll send them? Very much
obliged; but not later than IL 30"
And Hiram Jones returned the In
strument to its stand with the satisfied
feeling that he had taken the very
best means Of protecting himself
against being swindled that were open
to cautious and keen-sighted man to
adopt.
And, indeed, he had. Whatever risk
he was running in exhibiting to Mr.
Lumley Smith an assortment of high
class fancy jewelry was narrowed
down by these precautions to its In
credible minimum.
At IL 80 punctually the two plain
clothes men presented themselves at
231 Graham house, and were ushered
INTO Hiram Jones' private office.
He smiled broadly when he saw them.
for they were just the type Of men he
would have selected himself If he had
had the choosing Of them.
Saunders, the detective sergeant,
stood six feet two in his socks, a broad
shouldered, deep-chested giant, a blow
of whose brawny fist would have felled
an OK, while Jenkinson, his assistant
and subordinate, who was only a little
less tall, was man Of that fine, wiry,
hard-bitten frame that means speed, en-
durance and agility.
Have you got a screen, sir?" in
CURED Saunders, when he had been
thoroughly posted in the part he was
designed to play.
Yes, Hiram Jones possessed a screen,
which was duly brought and placed in
the corner nearest Mr.. Jones' writing
desk.
THAT will do for me. Now, what
about Jenkinson?"
Mr.. Jones suggested the cupboard to
the left Of the door.
A few minutes before u o'clock the
two detectives secreted themselves in
their respective hiding places, and on
the stroke O. the hour Lumley Smith,
alias Jude Carson, was announced.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24

1t was next morning after breakfast
into his confidence.
Parker, I have discovered what
looks like a reasonable opportunity
for replenishing our somewhat de-
pleted eXchequer; but the success of
the effort will depend in some degree
upon yourself"
''YeSsir" said Parker.
You know Graham house, Upper
Broad street-a huge pile Of buildings,
containing some hundreds of sets of
off1ces?"
Parker knew it well, and said so !;
he also recognized it as the block Of
buildings whose floor plan Mr.. Car
son had been SO diligently studying the
night before.
Very well, Parker, 1 want you TO
call upon Sidney Mander, an insur-
ance broker in small way Of business,
who occupies single office on the third
floor, last door but one at the end
Of the passage. It's one Of the cheap
est offices in the place, because it looks
out upon the central we'll of the block,
and gets very little air, and little or no
light"
"Yessir," said Parker.
ct want you to call upon Mr.. Man
der shortly before - o'clock, Parker"
proceeded Mr.. Carson, airily, land en-
gage him in conversation on any suit
able topic that occurs to you. You
might suggest to him that you desire
to insure your life, or that you have
a friend who desires to insure his, or
that you propose to take out a fire In
surance policy. confidently leave the
exact choice of a topic to your own
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
Rather Insinuatinr.

"Ah, Miss Evangeline," whispered
the impecunious nobleman, "did-did
you tell your papa that you had cap
tured me for one husband?
81 did," replied the pretty heiress.
"And-and did you tell papa that 1
was one great piece of luck?"
81 did"
"And what did papa say?"
"He said, oh hang the luck ="
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
~N~~NN~%~N
The HuSkerS.

The HusIxers.
It was late in mild October, and the long
autumnal rain
Had left the summer harvest fields all
green with grass again;
The first sharp frosts had fallen, leaving
all the woodlands gay
With the hues of summers rainbow, or
the meadow flowers of May.
Through a thin, dry mist, that morning,
the sun rose bright and red,
At first a rayless disk of fire, he bright
ened as he sped;
Yet, even his noontide glory fell chast-
ened and subdued,
On the corn fields and the orchards, and
softly pictured wood.
And all that quiet afternoon, slow sloping
to the night,
He wove with golden shuttle the haze
with yellow light;
Slanting through the painted beeches, he
glorifed the hill;
And, beneath it, pond and meadow lay
brighter, greener still.
And shouting boys in woodland haunts
caught glimpses of that sky,
Flecked by the many-tinted leaves, and
laughed, they knew not why;
And school girls, gay with aster flowers,
beside the meadow brooks,
Mingled the glow of autumn with the sun
shine of sweet looks.
From spire and barn looked westerly the
patient weathercocks;
But even the birches on the hill stood
motionless as rocks.
No sound was in the woodlands, save the
squirrels dropping shell,
And the yellow leaves among the boughs,
low rustling as they fell.
The summer grains were harvested; the
stubble-felds lay dry,
Where June winds rolled, in light and
shade, the pale green waves of rye;
But still, on gentle hill slopes, in valleys
fringed with wood,
Ungathered, bleaching in the sun, the
heavy corn crop stood.
Bent low, by autumn's wind and rain,
through husks that, dry and sere,
Unfolded from their ripened charge, shone
out the yellow ear;
Beneath, the turnip lay concealed, in
many a verdant fold,
And glistened in the slanting light the
pumpkins sphere of gold.
There wrought the busy harvesters; and
many a creaking vain
Bore slowly to the long barn floor its load
of husk and grain
Till broad and red, as when he rose, the
sun sank down, at last,
And like a merry guests farewell, the
day in brightness passed.
And 10 as through the western pines, on
meadow, stream and pond,
Flamed the red radiance of a sky, set all
afre beyond,
Slowly Ger the eastern sea bluffs milder
glory shone,
And the sunset and the moonrise were
mingled into one!
As thus into the quiet night the twilight
lapsed away,
And deeper in the Frightening moon the
tranquil shadows lay,
From many a brown old farmhouse, and
hamlet without name,
Their milking and their home tasks done,
the merry huskers came.
Swung DER the heaped-up harvest, from
pitchforks in the NOW,
Shone dimly down the lanterns on the
pleasant scene below;
The growing pile of husks behind, the
golden ears before,
And laughing eyes and busy hands and
brown cheeks glimmering DER.
Half hidden, in a quiet nook, serene of
look and heart,
Talking their old times over, the old men
sat apart;
While up and down the unhusked pile, or
nesting in it's shade,
At hide-and-seek, with laugh and shout,
the happy children played.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
Never Had,

Miss Flurty-Have I ever given you
reason to suppose, Mr.. Smallpyle, that 1
cared for you otherwise than as a friend?
Mr.. Smallpyle-You have not, Miss
Flurty. ought to have had sense enough
to know that when you accepted kisses
and presents from me you didn't mean
anything by it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
THE LoWLY WAY.

The 1owy lfes the best life-not wantin wings;
princes pleasure; It's KILN time for kngsI
king big but rests his head;
powders his pilow-the bombs beneath his bedt
haunt him In the darkness the nights
The like to drive shod with dynamite!
taste the souphe cook coils an dies
tries cabbage an it blows him to the skies
The IOwly ife Old Poverty long,
meet him with the banjo greet him with song
bread though
S it in patches an in peace!
despsin' richesf they they're welcome ALI
70 the table, music in the hall!
But strife you'll find raisin'
an life an joy an amazin'!
ATLANTA Constitution
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
The RetOrt Pat.

The statesman scrubbed this on a card
and sent it out to the waiting reporter:
Il refuse to be intervude. As to the
political situation it suits me we'll enuf,
and believe in letting well enuf alone"
The reporter sent him this reply, writ
ten on the other side of the card:
"Then why don't you let the English
language alone"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24

Mlsses' Q NllIuIen-S 5LlOs5, 9ss.seO 20 P1.OU.
Try w. l.. Douglas WOmen's, Misses and
Children's shoes; for style, fit and wear
they excel other makes.
If could take you Into my large
factories at BrOCktOn, Mass. ,and show
you how carefully WI. Douglas shoes
are made, you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit better,
wear longer, and are of greater value
than any other make.
Wherever you live, you can obtain w. l..
Douglas shoes. His name and price IS stamped
on the bottom, which protects you against high
prices and inferior shoes. Take no SubStts
fute. Ask your dealer for w. L. Douglas shoes
and insist upon having them.
Fast Color EueIets used they wiH not USdr bYassp.
Write for illustrated CRtalog of Fall Styles.
w. L. DOUGLAS, Dept. II, BrOcktOn, MaSG,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
Comfort for the Author.

II fear your comedy was a failure +"
"Oh, no."
II heard no laughter"
"Ah, but between acts lots Of people
smiled. Nashville Courier JournaI
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24

The greatest thing in the world is po
likeness. And no schooling Is necessary
to be agreeable; simply have a littls
consideration for others, and be QuIei
and modest
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24

good judgment. Parker. But the point
of your instructions consists in this
that you will have to get him out Of
his office by II 10 and keep him out of
it till II 80. Between ID 10 and u 80
l shall want his Office for my own USE /"
'Yessir," said Parker. But his Gu
riosity-it almost suffocated him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
Going to Extremes.

you ought to let that man down
easy"
"Why?"
Because he's SO hard up. Balti
more American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24
His Opinion.

"AIr Skads, | Will have to lose a day
tomorrow; I'm going to be married"
THAT won't be losing a day: that
will be wasting it"-Houston Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24

Petroleum is the fuel of all the lOcomo-
tives in Asia.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-24

A divorced man is very touchy over
what SHE says about him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-10-04
ASHLAND CHEESE PRODUCER
PAYS A FINE.
BAD EXTRACT OF LEMON
Winona Medicine Concern Refuses 10
Defend Dealer Arrested for So ling
Its Adulterated Dope--Dairy and
Food Commissioner Emery on
Trail of Unlawful Goods.

Fred 2wicly of Alienville was con.
wcted last Friday In the municipal
court of Ashland before Judge Goss
of maintaining an uncleau and unsani-
tary cheese factory, A fine of $50 ana
costs was imposed Tho complaint
was brought by IL, l., Odorhold OF
Ne2nah, u cheese factory inspector of
the dairy and food commission,
Edward Thoenes of Wonowoc was
convicted Thursday in the justice
court OF Mansion by c, Lyon, justice,
of selliung adulterated lemon extract,
and was ilned $50 and costs, The
extract was manufactured by the j.
X. Watkins Medical Co of Winona.
MINI, This j. H. Watkins Medical
Co would not back the fight in this
case for the defendant IL is said
that this company has agencies In
nearly every county In this state and
the dairy and food commission Is on
the trail of these unlawful products.
Tho complaint In this case was
brought by II, 9, Larson of Dodgeville.
an inspector for the dairy and food
commission.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-10-04
OTHER OCToDERS.

The following October data, cover.
ing period of 20 years, have been
compiled from the weather bureau
records at Madison by Observer Bart.
lett. They are issued to show the
conditions that have prevailed dur.
Ing past Octobers, but they are not
to be construed as Il forecast of tho
weather conditions for the coming
month.
Mean or normal temperature, so
| degrees.
Warmest month, that of 1879 with
average Of SO degrees.
Coolest month that of 1896, aver
ago Al degrees.
Highest temperature, "a degrees, on
4, 1897
Lowest, 2 degrees, on 25, 1887.
Earliest date on which first killing
frost occurred, September 30. 1888
and 1899.
Average date on which frat killing
frost occurred, October H.
Average date on which last frost
occurred, April u.
Latest date on which last frost oc-
Cured May 10, 1888.
Average precipitation for the month.
2.45 inches
Average number of days with OF
inch or more. 8.
Greatest monthly precipitation, e.12
IN 1881
Least monthly precipitation, a trace.
in 1889.
Greatest precipitation in any "a
hours 205, sth, 1881.
Greatest snowfall In any "a hours
(record extending 10 winter OF 1884
So only was 10 inches, %, 1889
Average relative humidity at q.
m, 81 per cent; p. m, go, p. IN,
"A.
Average number OF clear days. O.;
partly cloudy, ~; cloudy TO-
Prevailing winds have been from
tho south.
Average hourly velocity, II miles.
Highest velocity was A miles
from the southwest on October 10,
1880.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-10-04

lighthouse and drowned, Before the
storm Johnson refused an offer to SO
ashore
PaScagoula lighthouse was partly
demolished, The federal quarantine
station at Ship island was badly Grip,
Piled, the isolation hospital and ~,
MoncrueS residence being the only
buildings on the island to escape dam.
age.
\ report from Meridian. Miss, said
that Biloxi was reported destroy -,
New Orleans had communication by
rail with Biloxi all day and no serious
damage was done there, Outside OF
the shipping destroyed the main
property loss to the sound cities oc,
Cured about Pascagoula. Fifteen
lumber mills located there reported
many Of their buildings and machin.
cry RACED to the ground. Large guam.
titles Of pine timber We're virtually
destroyed.