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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
ATTACKED BY SHARK.

Fisherman Was Almost Killed, but
OverpOwered the Monster.
When the Portland fishing schooner
Moses B. Linscott, Capt L. ]. Miller,
arrived in port recently she brought
a badly bruised-up sailor and mon
ster man-eating shark which he had
killed after a desperate fifteen-minute
battle off Tanter bank, says the Bos-
ton Journal.
This is one Of the few cases Of a
man-eating shark having ever been
taken in these waters. The big fish
weighed 675 pounds and measured
seven feet four inches.
The hero of the conflict, E. H. Mil
Ter, brother of the captain, was pull
ing travis in a small dory about 500
yards from the schooner, when he
pulled the trawl to the surface, won
dering at it's weight, and saw the big
shark lying in it. The fish was quiet
until he saw the dory; in an instant
he made a rush for it.
when l saw that terrible wide
open mouth and four great rows of
teeth my nerve left me-" said Miller.
"But l picked up a big oar to defend
myself with.
"The sharks leaps carried him away
out Of the water, and when he struck
the dory had all | could do to keep
from being thrown out and into the
water.
'"The second jump came near seeing
the end of me, for the big fish made
such a leap that he threw himself
right across the boat and carried her
g1nvale under water, at he same
time hitting me a terrific blow with
his tail that daZed me.
"On the third jump, by lucky blow
with my oar over the back of his neck
7 stunned him. Another boat came to
my rescue jEst then, and together we
finished him."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
TOLD IN THE CODE
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S7 WAY to the west "the hill" the
AA last spur of the Rockies, black
and threatening in the deepen
ing twilight, with a path Of steel
clinging to its side to the very top, and
a double row of switch-Ights shining
on the rails through the yard. It was
a stiff climb to the summit, a grade
of one hundred and sixty feet to the
mile, where drawbacks and pins
strained and groaned with the soul
trying pull. Where metal, weak and
crystallized like an old mans bones,
would give way, and all behind would
go down the singing rails faster, fas-
ter, faster, until, perhaps, the roaring
dust-cloud, with its core of jumping,
Jostling cars, would refuse the road
and take the ditch. More tractable it
might, If fates were propitious, trun-
die along the fat at the foot of the
grade with diminishing speed until it
stopped with blazing journal-boxes in
Missoula yard. Or, most dreaded fin
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
MAKING THE INDIANS WORK.

The Roosevelt Theory of Providing
for Them Now Being Tested.
1.-The wisdom of a definite policy in
the treatment of our Indian wards has
been made clear in the past few years."
said a Western man the other day
president Roosevelt has decided
ideas on this subject, and his appoint
ment of Leupp as Commissioner of In
dian Affairs insures the carrying out
Of these ideas.
1.-THE President does not believe In
feeding the Indians, but insists that
they shall work. The big irrigation
projects now being constructed by the
Government in many parts Of the West
are affOrding test of the Presidents
ideas on the subject of making the In
dian a self-supporting citizen
IF some one suggested to you that
the Apache would make a good laborer
l am sure that you would smile, as I
did at the tale, and count it another
yarn Of the versatile Westerner, but
you have got to believe it when you go
uONu W AEIZOlld. OuclC Sam ) GnSl-
neers are working a small army Of
Apaches, remnants of Geronimo's band
of murderers, in building mountain
roads and digging canals and bitches.
And would you believe it, they beat the
average hobo laborer out Of sight for
industry and quantity of work per-
formed.
"The Navajos, Pimas and Pueblos
are being employed on similar works
there and elsewhere. Many of these
mentioned tribes are constantly en-
ployed by the railroads. Up in Col
orado the sugar beet planters are de-
pending more and more each year on
the Indian laborer, During the hop
picking season in Oregon and Wash
ington whole families Of Indians move
from field to field until the crop is
gathered. In fact over the entire West
ern country, which is making such won
derful forward strides, the question of
Indian labor grows increasingly i'm
portant each year."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
DROPPING PEBBLES IN A STREAM.

Drop pebble in the water-jes splash s gone
But there's half hundred crClin'
Spreadin' preadn from the @
end is goin' to be
Drop pebble in the water-in
there's little
All the rppes fowin' fOwn o a hi grown
An disturbed mighty droppin
Drop unkind carelessn a $ gone
But there's half hundred ripples circn
They spreadn spreadin preadn
An they amt
Drop unkind a
d perhaps heart
disturbed life that's happy dropped
Drop cheer and kindnessjes'
there's a hundred on an an
Bearin spashin
Till wouldn't believe the
Drop word cheer and kndness-in a
But there's still a sweln
be
Over miles an miles O. waterjes by droppn a ind word.
bismarck
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

q crashing roar which told of the end.
Down into the gulf rolled the mass Of
splintered wood and twisted metal. up
roofing pines and scattering powders
like pebbles from the path, then-si-
lence.
Way down, hundreds of feet below.
a cloud of steam drifted up through
the tree tops, and hung there like a
fog.
With the crash and a spasm of pain
Jacks mind became a blank; to
awake to blistering heat and choking,
scalding vapor; to find himself pinned
down in it's midst. He attempted to
movements. Then he heard, at first
family, then clearer, finally sharp and
impatient, the hOarse barking Of an
engine as it surged up the hill with
open throttle and full stroke, lifting
the fire from It's crate bars with every
revolution of the drivers. AS he sank
back, cowed by his sufferings, shriIl
but sweet its whistle came to him to
call him back from the dead:
Jack! Jack! Jackw
Kitty was coming, and, with the
help of the 428's chime, was telling
him that help was at hand. He
stretched his hand to the whistle cord
to tell that he was alive, and the gal
liant old 80 gave it's last breath in a
responsive below that ended in a
ludicrous "whoof' as the steam failed.
"Just like dying calf" thought
Jack, laughing, Historically, as he lay
there waiting for the train crew to
dig him out.-San Francisco Argo,
naut
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

atty, it might find a train laboring up
the hill behind it-then surgeons as
well as mechanics would be called to
go with the wrecking outfit.
Jack Everett grimly regarded this
Black rampant as, tolling the 52's bell,
they rumbled through the yard to the
upper end, where they would wait the
coming Of No. 1.
Two years before he had been the
crack train-dispatcher of the road
Then his mother died, and not long
after, without a word of warning, he
handed in his resignation, and left for
parts unknown. Some said it was be-
cause Of a girls Indifference Jack
said never a word, and long after the
men bewailed his fitting, and told Of
what he had done and what he could
40. Even now, some cranky old "eagle
eye" laid out at a blind siding
through a train dispatcher's poor
mathematics, would say: "Well,
Jack Everett never messed things like
that. He was a train dispatcher and
not dude train delayer," and all this
might have pleased Jack if he had
known it.
Poor fellow, he had chased hard
times to the Atlantic slope, through
the South, and back again to the
shadow of the Rockies, only to find a
superintendent and trainmaster who
didn't know him and didn't want to-
Moreover they had no work for him.
He had come back willing to play
his part in the Prodigal Son, but his
friends had gone, and the fatted calf
had not been roped. He had come to
stay just the same. If he might not
direct the movements of trains. he
could at least fire an engine, and to
the motive power department he went
and heated up his own welcome.
Now the thought of the miles of
mountain grade to be climbed and the
appetite the 80 had for coal, got on his
nerves and whispered Of the bachache
10 come, and he sputtered to himself:
Nice state of affairs Fine way to
rise in the world, this tobogganing
from train dispatcher to be wet nurse
Tor a Hinkley hog
Then the airbrake sighed ponder
Ously, and the big machine halted just
clear Of the street crossing, where the
Oil-soaked ties told Of engines that had
waited there before.
Old Barney McFee damned the
throttle tight, pulled the reverse lever
1O H.
cylinder cocks, swung to the ground
with torch and oil can, while Jack
hauled the slash bar from the tender
and broke open his fire.
The baked crust of coal shot out
tongues Of fame as he poked and
prodded, and, coaXed by the draught
OF the blower, the fiery tongues joined
and scuttled through the flues until the
blaze spread evenly and the hand be-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
ONCE UPON A TIME.

First Railroad Train Isn't So Old
as Youngsters Sometimes Think.
Did you go to the st. Louis fair? If
you did, and you failed to see the rail-
road exhibit you missed a wonderfully
interesting part of ''the show" You
missed seeing what may be called the
evolution or development of that won
derful invention, the railroad engine
The trouble is that the boys and girls
of to-day are so accustomed to the
railroad that they think little of all
that it represents. Some of them may
be like a little girl happen to know,
who once said:
why, papa, didn't we always have
railroads.
Just ask your grandparents about
that. l have an idea that some of
them will tell you that they were men
and women long before they ever saw
a railroad engine. A man but forty
five years old told me the other day
that he walked ten miles with some
other boys when he was ten years old
to see a railroad train.
1t has not been SO very many years
since the most intelligent men and
women laughed and even jeered at the
mere idea of people riding at the rate
of fifteen or twenty miles an hour.
When George Stephenson first began
to talk about inventing an engine to
be run on lines of wooden or iron
track, the people looked upon him as
a dreamer, visionary who might not
be quite fright in his head
But this George Stephenson, Of wy
lam, near Newcastle, in England, was
not to be put down by sneers nor
jeers, and he had the audacity to de-
clare that he could invent an engine
that would run at the terrific rate of
twenty-five miles an hour, whereupon
one Of the most noted periodicals of
the day said that he ought to be ''put
in a straitjacket."
Stephenson went to work and built
a queer-looking little railroad engine
called the Rocket" in 1929. and that
was the beginning Of one of the most
useful and wonderful things in the
world-the modern railway system
st. Nicholas
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
Fakirs of India.

Perhaps the most wonderful of all
instances of religious fanaticism is
that presented by the "fakirs," not
"faikerS," of India and other coun-
tries of the East. In all ages and
countries men have been known to
infict upon themselves bodily suffer
ing from mistaken religious zeal. The
fakirS of the East Indies are a very
large class, numbering, it is believed,
more than 100000 of persons, of
whom about three-fourths are adher-
ents of the Hindu and the remainder
of MOhammedan religion. The word
is kir' is of Arabic origin, signifying
poor OF beggarly, and is applied TO all
these enthusiasts who separate them
selves from the ordinary pursuits Of
tie life around them to give their
whole time to religious observances
and the practice of Standardization.
The fakirs are of different grades,
some bearing a respectable character
for learning and piety, according to
their religion, whether Hindu or Mo-
hammedan; while others, forming tile
mass of the order, are signalized only
by their wretched condition and the
disgusting character of the infIiction
which they impose upon themselves.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
RESTORE STRENGTH
Or. Williams Pink Pills Actually
Make New Blood and Good
Health Follows

The evil effects that follow many dis.
eases = particularly the grip and the
wasting fevers, such as typhoid and
malaria, are caused by the bad condition
in which these diseases leave the blood.
AS a result, the flesh continues to fall
away, the sufferer grows nervous and
irritable, and even slight exertion causes
shortness of breath. These are danger
Gus symptoms and indicate that the
system is in state that invites pneu-
monia, bronchitis or even CONSUMPTION.
What is needed is new supply of rich,
red blood to carry health and strength
to every part of the body.
CT was all run down from the effects
of the grip" says Mrs. Amelia Hall, of
No. High street, Norwich Conn, ''and
could not seem to get strength to walk
could not eat full meal, my stomach
was so weak, and was SO nervous that
could not sleep. I could only stay III
bed few minutes at time, either night
or day. The least little thing would
startle me. had difficulty III breath
ing and had frequent fainting spells.
MY general health was completely
wrecked and | had neuralgia and rheu-
matte pains, dyspepsia, constipation.
and female weakness. My physician at
tended me for the grip aud again for
the condition that it left me in. but
got no strength from the tonics he pre-
scribed In fact, nothing helped me
until tried Dr. Williams Pink Pills
and they cured me.
q grew stronger and gained flesh
from the time I began taking them.
am satisfied that the pills are all that is
claimed for them and shall do all can
to make their good qualities known"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cure ner-
vous disorders of every kind, check
wasting diseases and build up strength.
For booklet, address the DIR. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

ton, Kan, will inter
est the thousands Of
veterans who came
back from the Civil
War suffering fortunes
with kidney co m
plant. Captain Ely
says: 81 contracted
kidney trouble during
the Civil War, and the
occasional n t t a C k S
finally developed into
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
His Only CONCERN.

John" whispered his wife, shaking
him, 4 hear somebody in the basement"
John CROPPED his way, half awake, to
the wall, and bawled down the register.
You internal scoundrel," he said, ''af-
ter you have satisfied yourself that there's
nothing worth stealing down there will
you please push in the upper damper rod
of the furnace? | forgot to do it,
Then he crawled back into bed again.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

a chronic case. At one time l had to
use crutch and cane to get about
My back was lame and weak, and be-
sides the aching, there was a distress
ing retention of TIE kidney secretions.
l was in a bad way when 1 began
using Doan's Kidney Pills in 1901, but
the remedy cured me, and 1 have been
well ever SINCE
Sold by al dealers. so cents a box.
FOsterMiIburn Co. Buffalo, n. Y.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
something Wrong.

"You wore red suit and horns at
the masked ball last night, didn't your"
remarked Tommy.
mo. indeed replied Mr. Hoamley,
II went as a cavalier"
"Pop must "a been mistaken then.
He said you looked like the devil."-
Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
sympathetic.

Miss Thuttyfore-He was the best and
truest man in the world, but we quar-
relied, and-well, you know the rest.
Miss Chillicon-Yes 1 understand; it
IS always the biggest fish that gets away.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
HERITAGE or CIVIL WAR.

Thousands Of Soldiers Contracted
Chronic Kidney Trouble While In
the Service.
The experience Of Captain John L.
Ely, of Company z, Seventeenth Ohio,
now living at 800 East I'd street, New
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
A Cheerful SouI

A man lost a leg in a railway acct
dent, and when they picked him up
the first word he said was: Thank
the Lord it was the leg with the rheu-
matism in itr'-Atlanta Constitution.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

Write to-day to Allen s. Olmsted, lie Roy,
y. Y, Tor FREE sample of Aliens Foot
Ease, powder to shake into your shoes.
1t cures tired, sweating, hot, swollen, ach-
Ing feet 1t makes new or tight shoes easy
certain cure for Corns and Bunions All
Druggists and Shoe stores sell it. 25c.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

San Francisco team drivers receive So,
$3.50 and 81 day for driving one, two
and three horse teams. respectively.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21
Worth Knowing

that AllcOck's are the original and
only genuine porous plasters; all other
So-called porous plasters are limitations.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

Some men don't care how dull bus
mess is # it is equally bad with their
rivals.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-03-21

But the best airship on earth may be
no good IN the air.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-10-27

MEISNER
CHANGES IN PARTNERSHIP
Mr.. McCUTCHEN RETIRING
Mr.. O. D. Harrison Purchases Mr..
McCutchen's Interest-Will Con-
tinue Under Old Firm Style

Mr. s. Proctor McCutchen has sold
Grocery Co.'S store to Mr.. O. d Har-
rison, formerly with the Goyer Co.,
wholesale, and retail grocers, and Mr..
t. w. Crouch, of Hollandale. the
sac being consumated last Monday
Mr.. McCatchen has re-entered the
employ of the Goyer Co. where he
was prior to his purchasing an inter-
est in the Crouch Mesner store, an
attache OF many years standing and
his services were highly valued by
the Goyer Co.
Mr.. O. ID. Harrison has been with
the Goyer Co. for the past four years
and is thoroughly acquainted witt,
the grocery business He is a young
man of highest character, and Mr..
| is to be congratulated upon securing
such an active and wide-awake part
ner and manager for the business.
| Mr.. T. w. Crouch will have charge
OF the books Of the firm. and will dc
all of his part to preserve the present
popularity of the store.
The Crouch NJ eisner Grocery Co
will continue to give its customers
the same careful attention as hereto
| fore. and the business will go along
with the same systematic manage
ment that has made it the leading
grocery in the city. The line of fame,
Aand staple goods will be fully up tc
/ the standard and the prices the low
est quoted for the same goods.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-10-27

tender their sincere thanks to DIR.
Abram Brill, and further show their
appreciation OF his efforts in behall
Of The Hebrew Union Congregation
as we'll as in behalf of the Council,
by dedicating to him in matters pro-
noting the welfare of our people,
Resolved, That we herein express
the wish that Dr. Brill may be per-
mitted by The Almighty God to en-
JOY many years of health and happi-
ness, wherein he may witness his Ia
bors bearing rich fruit
Resolved, That these resolutions be
recorded on our minutes as slight
memorial TO DIR. Brill, that a copy be
sent to him, and to the papers for
publication.
Tillie NJ Rosenstock, President
Josephine Stern Ehibert
Fannye Morris Weinberg
Committee.
October 26. 1000
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-10-27
IMPRESSIVE
CEREMONIES
BY the Private Taylor Rucks Chap
ter. U. d. C., at Central School
Last Saturday Night.
ATTEND THE PRESENTATION
OF CROSSES OF HONOR

Last Saturday was the anniversary
OF the birth of Mississippis lamented
soldier and statesman, ]. Z. George,
and was one of the occasions on
which the noble order OF the United
Daughters of the Confederacy can
bestow crosses OF honor upon the
surviving Confederate veterans. in re-
cognition OF their deeds OF valor and
chivalry.
The local r. d. C.. Private Rucks
Chapter, with very impressive cerc-
monies, presented in all twenty-fivs
crosses at the Central School Audi
torium in honor of this anniversary
The program Was fttiugly arranged
and carried out to meet the occasion.
Songs, music, patriotic speeches, etc.
made up the evenings entertainment.
at the close of which the crosses
were presented TO the following nam
edveterans:
]. c. Brandon. J. T. Casey, DR.. c. NJ.
Curell, DR. 5. r. Dunn. John n
Dunn, w. A. Everman, w. X. Gid
art, ]. c. Heard, Geo NJ Helm, J w.
Houston, VIM. +. Hunt, -. +. Hunt,
John NJ Lee, J. NJ. Montgomery, J.
II. Nelms, w. f. Randolph, J. II.
Robb, c. J. Spencer. Julius Thompson
and VIM. Wood. Veterans.
To the oldest descendents of Con-
federate soldiers, Mrs. Robret Somer-
vile, Mrs. J. c. Greenley and DIR. T.
+. Worthington.
Another veteran, Mr.. VIM. Kellar,
would have received a badge of honor
had his application been received in
time He will receive his well earned
cross at the next presentation time.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-10-27

POSTPONED
ON THE CODE AND FIRE
QUESTION
The Coucil, at a Call Meeting, Dis
cusses Important Matters-Final
Action Will Likely Be Taken
At Next Meeting

The Council held a called meet
ing last Tuesday night and received
bids for the erection of fire house
for Company No. I. The bid of J.
w. Birmingham & Co for $1,000
being the lowest bid submitted. but
its acceptance was deferred until the
next meeting when the finances of the
city could be looked into and if justi-
fable to let the contract to ] w
Birmingham & Co
The code petition was brought up
by Councilman Wilczinski by asking
the Council what had been done as
to checking it up. City Clerk Lee
stated that he had gone over the perl-
ton and had notified Attorney Began
that he was ready to go to the Court
House and check up same.
Mr.. Robertshaw told the Council
that he had had talk with some Of
the gentlemen leading this movement
and it was stated to him that ii the
Council would order the election of a
Marshal that they would withdraw
the petition. This Mayor Yerger sub
stantiated.
Councilman Wilczinski said that ii
he understood it right there were
some 400 names on the petition, ana
| he did not see how one or two could
| withdraw the petition There was
| only one way to overcome this, and
| he thought it was by counter petition
! To this the gentlemen replied that
they would be represented by attor-
ney to withdraw same if election was
ordered.
| 1t was also agreed that there were
enough names on the petition to or
| der the election and if an agreement
as above suggested, does not NEE
with the approval Of the representa-
tives OF the petitioners, then at The
next regular meeting the election vii
be ordered.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-10-27
DEATH OF ARTHUR PORTER

Arthur Porter, the thirteenyear-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. r. J. Porter,
died at Crawford. Miss. last Satur-
day night and the remains were
brought here over the Southern on
Monday for burial. His remains were
accompanied by his parents and sister
and other relatives.
The party was met at the train and
the remains carried 10 the city cemc-
terry for interment Rev. J. R. Coun
tiss saying the last comforting words
Mr.. and Mrs Porter and family
formerly resided here and have hos
OF friends who will regret to learn Q
their sad loss. Arthur was a brigh
and dutiful son and his early depart
ure is keenly felt by his sorrowin:
parents, sisters and brothers. The,
| have our deepest sympathy