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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

neat in their dress and habits. They
must keep the schoolrooms and the
schoolyard neat. And they must be
kind to everybody"
THAT is great task. Aren't you
afraid Of it?'
The answer was prompt and clear:
mo, for l think they are all good citi-
zens.''
Mary Finn, the judge, said: II shall
warn citizens who don't behave, and If
that does no good shall punish them.
They must behave"
The whole discipline of the school is
put into the hands Of the pupils. The
teachers give instruction, and advice
when it is needed, and the ultimate re-
sponsibility and authority are always
with them. But the students make
laws and really govern themselves, al
though there is an authority above
them, just as a grown-up city governs
itself, although the Legislature may
at any time revoke it's charter.
In fact, there is more real self-gov-
eminent i'll these school cities than in
most Of our larger cities. For there is
no apathy in the school city, no stay
at-home vote, no political machine or
boss.
There is no graft in the school city,
no Doodle in the council, no under
standing between the police and
wrongdoers. The ten-year-old judge
and the twelve-year-OI mayor are alb
solutely incorruptible. Habits of good
citizenship are formed while the mind
is plastic, open to the full force of
considerations Of right and justice and
free from commercial motives and 9TH
er influences that in later life so often
interfere with the duties Of citizenship.
The love Of liberty is strengthened and
ennObled by recognition Of the rights
Of others and the necessity of mutual
limitations for the public good. Re-
spect for law and authority is devel-
oped. The sense of justice is strength
ened and the judicial attitude Of mind
is cultivated
The results have been excellent in
SNSAJ way DUH CO1uuCI anu SCuO1dI-
ship are greatly improved. Disobedi-
ence is pulled up by the roots. Public
sentiment ranges itself on the side Of
law when the public makes the law.
A breach Of order is no longer regard
ed as a defiance to an alien govern
ment, but as an injury and an insult
to the community. Even the most dis
orderly schools have been reduced to
good conduct by the institution Of the
school city.-Century.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
HARDsHIPs OF THE RICH.
Serious Disadvantages in the Bring
ing ITn Of Children.

ing Up OF Children.
Expressing what seemed to be the
result of wide observation and mature
elaboration, President Eliot, of Har-
ward, said in q public address the
other day: 1.-THE most serious disad-
vantage under which the very rich
labor is the bringing up Of children.
It is Well-nigh impossible for very
rich man to keep his children from
habits of Indifference and laZiness.
These children have no opportunity
for productive labor, do nothing for
themselves, parents, brothers or Sis
tiers; never acquire the habit of work.
In striking contrast are the farmers
children, who cooperate in the work
of the household" 1t would be equal
~ interesting and important to know
whether or not statistics, collectible
but never collected, would support
what is, after all, only President
EliOts belief. The children of the
extremely rich grow up in an environ
ment far from ideal, as regards their
training for competition in fields where
the children of farmers will be their
rivals, but two things are to be re-
membered-frst, that there are other
competitive fields than those, espe-
cialIy in older countries than this one.
and, second, that it is the struggle
against conditions commonly called
bad that develops strength and intelli-
gence. Why should the second fact
not do as much for the rich mans
son as for the farmers? An instinct
so nearly universal as that which i'm
pels parents once poor to save, if they
can, their children from the early
hardships which the parents them
selves endured-to give them what is
called a start in life-can hardly be
a wrong instinct, for it has been
everywhere obeyed for unnumbered
centuries without interfering with or
preventing the general and steady
progress of the human race. How far
above the slum and below the palace
would President Eliot draw the lines
within which the CONDITIONS are favor
able for child life, and what part Of
that middle ground does he consider
best? We have something like half
suspicion that he might safely and
wisely leave to Mr.. Carnegie the task
Of preaching the benefits and blessings
Of poverty, and, anyhow, he can be
calmly confident that if the children
of the rich are Of no value to the race
there will be few Of them to trouble
it and the troubling will not be long.
New York Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
FLOWER HUNTING IN WINTER.
One of the Keenest Pleasures Which
the Changing Seasons Hold.

One of the Keenest Pleasures Which
the Changing Seasons Hold.
It would be we'll for one who has
never studied vegetation in winter to
begin his cold-weather rambles in No
vember. At that season in sheltered
places an occasional leaf will cling
to the stem, furnishing the key to iden-
LITIGATION, if he does not readily recog-
nize his companions of the summer. He
will then find the witch-hazel, latest
flower of the year, fiaunting it's belated
blossoms in freakish abandon among
its sere and yellow leaves, while it's
mimic artillery bombards the surround
ing thicket with polished seeds, the
fruitage Of year ago.
He will find the stone walls decked
with clustered whorls of the long, fuzzy
seed tails of wild clematis. Asters will
hold up their puffballs of downy seeds
by the roadside, inviting the wind to
watt them to fresh fields and pastures
new. The golden-rod will be shOrn Of
her hoyden yellow tresses, and will
stand chastened and penitent in tassels
and fringes Of gray, exhibiting through
out the winter a quality of beauty
which she did not possess before.
Even after the billiards. of February
have howled over the marshes he will
find them fringed with sedges and stud
ded with cattails, still proudly erect.
The low-lying thickets will be wreathed
with the vine and decked with the
bronze-yellow seed pods of the yam.
The dark blue fruit of the carrion flow
er will mingle with the red berries Of
the black alder. So on to the warm
March day when the skunk cabbage
thaws it's pathway up through the
frozen ground, nature will yield album
dant satisfaction to his craving for the
wonderful and beautiful. The pillared
aisIes of the winter forest will be too
him as worthy a temple as the green
wood. It's ever-changing vistas will
beckon him on to fresh discoveries, and
will stir his being with that vague
sentiment of expectation and hope
which alone renders life worth living.
On the other hand, he who sits
gloomy and sluggish in the inglenook,
gazing through a frosted window upon
his buried garden, feeling that winter
is dismal and nature dead, will miss
the keenest, most chaste and refined
pleasure which the changing seasons
hold.-Century.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
THE SCHOOL CITY.

Workings of New Experiment in
Se1f-GOvernment of the Young.
The writer was present q few weeks
ago when the first school was organ
lied in Boston by Wilson l.. Gill. the
inventor and founder Of the system.
There were 700 pupils, all girls Of the
grammar grades. They were delighted
with the plan, voted unanimously and
enthusiastically to adopt the Golden
Rule as the fundamental law Of their
school city, supplemented it with va
rious provisions against disorder. de-
struction or injury Of property, profani-
ty, rudeness, unkindness, etc., and
showed remarkable discretion in the
election Of their officers.
The mayor was bright-faced girl Of
twelve and half years. When asked,
shortly after the election, what it
meant to her to be mayor of Hancock
School, she said: 1T means to see that
every girl is orderly, clean and good.
1t means that they must have good
conduct They must be clean and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
GHOST POINTS WAY TO GOLD.
Miners Story of Discovery of Rich
Mineral Deposit.

Miners Story of Discovery OF Rich
Mineral Deposit.
Bringing a bottle filled with almost
pure gold, taken from a lode long hid
den in mountain Businesses, not far
from here, w. e. Bartlett and M. G.
Black, both well-known business men,
are back after q perilous trip to the
Cascades.
Theirs, however, was labor richly
rewarded, though the story is so inter
woven with spiritualism and romance
that it is well-nigh incredible. Bart.
lett is the grandson Of d. e. Ingels,
miner of the early SOS in these parts
who was murdered in the hills by his
partner. The Bartlett family are spir-
itualists, and Bartlett declares his
dead and murdered grandfather,
through a Portland medium, sent word
to him to find the lost mine, and he
would be Independent for life.
Bartlett swears positively that be
received specific directions from the
spirit Of his grandfather how to pro.
coed to the lost mine. Moreover, be
was told to select NJ. G. Black to &C.
company him. The men will not tell
Of the location of their find, but say
it cannot be reached save by making
an extremely dangerous trip and one
filed with hardship, especially at this
time Of the year, when the mountains
are firmly in winters icy grasp. In
the spring they will return and develop
their find.
In a rough and mountainous section,
they say, they found a gray quartz
ledge, literally filled with precious
metal. Small pieces were broken off,
pounded up in a frying pan which they
had with them, and the gold picked out
by the mems fingers and placed in q
bottle. Should the ledge prove as rich
as the samples, man could make g
mortar and gold pan, and in a weeks
time take out enough OF the gold t.
make him wealthy.
AS an evidence of their find they
have the little bottle of gold dust
which has already been viewed b,
dozens Of people, and tests have beer
made by o. D. Johnson which prov
that the mineral is genuine.-Seattl
Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
HIS FIRST LAW, PARTNER.
An Alliance Which Gave Lincoln
Practically All Responsibility.

An Alliance Which Gave Lincoln
Practically All Responsibility.
Major Stuart, with whom Lincoln
had joined forces, was not in his early
years a well-read or even an indus
trious lawyer, but he was popular and
had an extensive, if not very lucrative,
practice, which he was entirely willing
to intrust to his new associate. Indeed,
when the firm was formed he was so
deeply engrossed in politics that he
gave little or no attention to the law,
and Lincoln had to assume virtually all
responsibility for the business.
OF course, if the procedure had been
complicated or technical novice
would have speedily come to grief but
the character of the litigation was very
simple in those days, the precedents
were few and far between, and the le-
gal forms exceedingly elastic. Lincoln
met such difficulties as there were in
his own way, asking as little advice as
possible and exercising his ingenuity
to bridge the gap in his information
when his partner was not available for
consultation. The habit of standing ON
his own feet and doing his own think
ing, which was thus forced upon him
at the very outset Of his practice, be-
came his most notable trait. One of his
contemporaries closely in touch with
his professional life testifies that he
never asked another lawyers advice on
any subject whatsoever. He listened
to his associates and consulted with
them, but he worked out his own prob
lens, and there was never anything
of the brain Taper about his rela-
lions with the bar.
The influence Of this early training
is plainly discernible in the remark
able self-reliance and resourcefuIness
which he exhibited in his later years.
New questions did not confuse him;
he faced emergencies with perfect Sc
renity, and he had long been accus-
toned to responsibility when he was
called upon to decide questions Of ma
tiOnal import.-Century.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

Observing his sixty eighth birthday,
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie announces that
80 far he has succeeded in giving away
$13S,OOO,0O0. It is a fairly encourag-
ing record for a man who is trying to
die poor in the face Of cruel obstacles
But In order to calculate with any ap-
proach to nicely what are his chances
for attaining his ambition, one should
know how much his fortune has grown
during the years he has been giving
it away, and upon this point he offers
no information.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

The widespread and vigorous as
sault that is being made on the Rugby
game Of football as it is played to-
day is unparalleled in the history of
that popular branch Of sport. Led
by the President Of the United States
and ably seconded by college profess
sors, coaches and other eminent au-
thorities qualified by experience to dis
cuss the manifold evils of the game,
public sentiments seems to be that
q change in playing rules is inevitable.
1t is q coincidence that at the very
height Of it's greatest popularity the
game should be more widely denounc-
ed than ever before Columbia col
lege is the most conspicuous institu-
ton Of learning to place a ban on
the gridiron game, although many les
ser schools have also barred it as
brutal and demoralizing. Horse rae
ing, hedged about by tricky gamblers,
touts, crooked races, the evils Of the
betting ring and a demoralizing turf
war, is practically wiped off the map
Of the country. The favorite diver
sion Of kings has lapsed into a state
Of decay from which it probably will
never be revived In this country.
Wrestling, which once enjoyed a fleet
ing popularity, has passed from pub
lie view, largely because the public
that pays the price Of all forms Of
athletic sport was duped until the in
evitable revolt came and the men who
had gained regulations as fakirs were
forced into an obscurity from which
no attempt has been made to rescue
them. The prize fighting game sur
wives, but as a relic Of better days
rather than as a square" sport, con-
Quoted along the original lines Of '1et
the best man win" With the eXcep-
ton of California and Pennsylvania,
practically all the States have enacted
statutes making it criminal offense
to hold a prize fight within their Dor
ders. The reason Is plain. Prize fight
ing fell largely into the control Of I'M
scrupulous managers and promoters
who thought more Of dollars and less
Of dishonor than they did Of public
confidence. The prize fighting game
travelled a crooked path with q we'll
deserved end. But baseball has sur
vived the tide Of the years" and
grown stronger in the affection of the
followers Of the game than ever be-
fore. The men who are fostering it
have sought to keep it free from the
evils which beSnt the nath Of evaT-v
professional game. Rowdyism on the
diamond has practically been elimi-
mated, very few umpires suffer ILL
treatment unless at the hands Of in
dignant but ill-advised fans, the
charge Of taking is never made against
baseball and the only real flaw in
the almost perfect record Of the game
is that the home team occasionally
is beaten by the other fellows.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
Fooled the Customs officer.

A clever smuggling trick has been
played on a customs officer on the
Russo German frontier. An innocent
looking peasant reported to the officer
a plot for getting a large number Of
pigs across the frontier. The method,
he said, would be to drive across at
intervals Of half an hour three, six,
twelve and two hundred pigs, the
smugglers arguing that If the first
three lots could be sent over there
would be no trouble with the two hun
bred.
The officer was naturally on the
alert. In accordance with the peas
ants statement, three pigs were driven
over, then six, followed by twelve.
All were allowed to pass, and prepara-
tons were made to receive the two
hundred. But no more pigs appeared,
and the twenty-one animals admitted
had In the meantime been lodged in
safety.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

work. And while there are enough
things needing doing to give work to
every pair Of willing hands, there Is
no legal method Of securing funds to
pay for the same. With the aid of
the queen and after months of effort
an unemployed" fund has been rails
ed, but the thing has not reached the
stage when the starving multitudes
have been able to touch the money
because Of red tape inflicted by men
who never felt the pangs Of hunger
and who would grow faint at the idea
of sleeping in the park, Nothing hap
pens without a reason. Poverty is
a disease and want a cancer that can
be cured. If humanity cannot find
a way to put an end to the human
misery that girdles the world, isn't
it almost time to vote our great men
and the life plan a failure? These
hungry folks do not ask for wealth.
In most cases they simply want a
chance to earn bread with no thought
of luxuries. Isn't it a big question?
Be kind and charitable and thought
full. Those things are good for you.
But don't let the main topic get away
from you, for if nations are to live
and prosper it must some day be
solved. Hungry men are dangerous
men.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
Had 21 Names for the Baby.

A farm laborer recently took his in
FAINT son to a rural church near Tun-
bridge Wells to be christened.
He astounded the vicar by handing
in a list Of twenty-one Christian
names, each beginning with a different
letter Of the alphabet.
The vicar demonstrated with the
father, who then consented to dis
pense with fifteen Of the names. The
man, who was a stranger temporarily
employed IN the locality, is regarded
as being a little eccentric.-London
Daily Express.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
UntRnahle.

First Doctor-And you found that
the Pullman passenger was choked to
death in the night?
Second Doctor-Yes. My theory was
that he had sucked a pillow into his
windpipe.
First Doctor-That's not likely. 1t
would have to be something large
enough entirely to obstruct the air pas
sage, you know-Cleveland Leader.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
The Man He Wanted.

ST sent for you, sir,'' said Mr.. Pham-
ley, ito fix key in my daughters
piano."
But" protested the artisan. Sim
not a piano tuner; I'm a locksmith."
Exactly; 1 want you to fix the
blooming thing so 1 can lock it I'D
when I feel like t."-Philadelphia
Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
viii Take No Chances.

1.-The farmers say that the squirrels
are not laying up any great store of
nuts, as they do in ordinary winters y
And what does that indicator"
"a mild winter"
Pm afraid I'm not sufficiently
agile"
For what?"
ITO initiate a squirrel. "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
The Beneficiary.

Each wind that blows brings some one
JOY profound,
As we avoid the breezes damp and
rude
The grip germ sallies forth and looks
around
And manifests abundant gratitude.
Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

Camille Flammarian says the in
habitants Of Mars are much more
highly developed than are the people
Of this earth. If he can prove that
the Martians do not find it necessary
to have policemen we wip readily adj
nit that they have us beaten a mil
lion years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

A California man thinks he has
found out how to make hens lay
whether they feel like it or not. Isn't
this taking a mean advantage Of poor
dumb things?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

Neither President Roosevelt nor Vice
President Fairbanks uses tobacco, a
coincidence which somewhat dis
credits the assertion that smoking is
becoming almost universal. It also
suggests that the social smoke is not
absolutely essential to getting along"
in the world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

When very pretty girl waits on a
man in a dry goods store, it comes
just natural for him to tell her that
he is buying for his sister, when it is
really for his wife.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

The theory that the Cossacks would
balk at the order to shoot down wo-
men and children is pretty thorough
ly exploded.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

1t seems odd, doesn't 1t, that with
all the knowledge In the world; with
all the good brains and the inventive
genius and great wealth and almost
endless years Of opportunity, in the
face of poverty and human suffering,
the world seems almost helpless. If
these is famine in Ireland, and fam
ines have periodically visited that
country for ages, q few ship loads
Of corn are sent in, many resolutions
OF sympathy are passed, a lot Of men,
women and pinched children starve
to death and sink into forgotten
graves, and that is the end until an
other day, when the whole distressing
thing is repeated. Humanity seems
powerless to learn, or too callous and
Indifferent to make one calamity the
certain cure for the next England
has had the unemployed problem since
the days when her inhabitants were
little better than savages. To-day she
has a dependent poor population Of
over 10000 in London alone. She is
absolutely unequipped to grapple with
an evil that may engulf her. The
makerS Of laws say they cannot make
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

With $4,000 worth Of silver plate
and eleven inches of armor plate, the
cruiser Pennsylvania is equipped to
provide entertainment of several
kinds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

David B. Hill refuses to tell what
he did with that $1,000 a year he re-
ceived as retainer from q New York
insurance company. His money went
on the retired list with him, appar-
emily,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

An Ohio genius has devised a round
trip matrimonial ticket. 1t consists
Of marriage license with a divorce
coupon attached.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

America has too many churches.
Towns which might be we'll admins
tered spiritually by one clergyman or
two have six, eight or ten. No one of
the six or more congregations can pay
for a good preacher. Few of them
can pay all the cost Of any preach
er, however poor. Nor can any one Of
them pay for all the time of their spir-
itual leader. So only very young men
are to be had, and the demands upon
their time cover so wide a territory
that preaching must be almost their
exclusive occupation and pastoral du-
ties be almost entirely disregarded One
Of the clergymen observes tersely and
justly: mo business could flourish by
that method, and few churches can"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

Or course Germany thinks it foolish
Of France to talk Of being prepared
for war.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
Good for Evil,

Mrs. Gawker-The coal man left
his bill; but John, he has given US
short weight. Gawker-Well, I'll give
him long wait.-New York Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

Will the coming man marry? asks
New York minister. Bernard Shaw
would say that that viii depend en-
tirely on the coming woman. If she
should want the coming man there
would be no escape.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

The United States produces more
than half Of the worlds supply Of
petroleum-and everybody knows who
the United States is.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

Contrariness, like revenge, Is a poor
principle to follow in business, where
honesty is more Of a polite than a
moral quality.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07
The New school.

The doctors used to bleed mankind
For every i'll that they could find;
But now they're wiser, so it's said,
And ''bleed" the pocketbook instead.
Saturday Evening Post
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-07

Winter is more becoming to most
girls than summer, because in win
ter they don't look so thin.