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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16

those that were expressed in the stat
utes of sister States farther west.
For the downtown teachers and schol-
airs of the schools of New York City to
observe Arbor Day in the strict sense,
would be almost an impOssibility be-
cause of the difficulty to find a tract
or tracts of land where this vast num-
Der of pupils could each plant a tree,
and to plant trees in the public parks
might Illustrate the plans Of the land
scape artists, so the Park Commission
ers would not allow them to do this.
So these children are obliged to con-
tent themselves with singing patriotic
songs, comit ditties, banjo solos, orches-
trail and band music and the entire
category of appropriate words and mu-
sic CLEANED from the production of
American composers is utilized.
Up in the annexed districts it is
different. Merry trolley parties of the
scholars of these schools can HE them
selves to the lovely green woods and
glens in the upper part of Manhattan
Island round about, and upon the
property of many a good philanthro-
piSt- interested in them and their good
work, they may plant trees, hold pic
MICS, and have all the fun they desire
About the middle of April of each
year, the Superintendent of the City
Schools of New York receive no
tice from the Secretary of the Board
of Education of the approach of Arbor
Day, and thereafter sends out soon
printed notices to the several princi-
pals of schools in the city, requesting
them to assemble the pupils in their
respective schools at 1 o'clock in the
afternoon in conformity with the laws
Of the State, to attend exercises in
connection with the day; two or. three
days prior to the holiday each prin-
cipal forwards his superintendent a
copy of the program he has himself
laid out for the occasion.
In the State of Illinois members of
the Woman's Out Door League petit
toned Governor Deneen recently to
change the calendar and have Arbor
Day, which they claim has been COM
ing too late in the spring, to be set
for an earlier date in April This
League, like other organizations
throughout the entire country, is max
ing more extensive plans for the OBJ
servance of the holiday this year than
ever before, and for that reason they
have petitioned the Governor, claiming
that shrubs and trees planted so late
as the last week in April or the first
in May will not thrive as well as if
planted earlier, hence the appeal.
Many additional objects to those
mentioned herein have been attained
by and through the holding of ArbOr
Day, and literature pertaining thereto,
or growing out of same, viz: Children,
and even grown persons have been edu-
Gated to spare the trees from the de
structive, thoughtleSS vandalism of
earlier years, by cutting, hacking the
trunks, forming initials and names on
same, and breaking branches with the
twin implements, knives and the ''Lit-
tie Hatchet." Of splendid, substantial
growth are now large forests as
result Of earlier Arbor Day celebra-
tions and activities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
TIGHTENING DAILY Toll.

take the little kiss she gives when l forth at
the little farewell wish upon the borne;
take her little arms and in the morning light
Go into the world of toll, the battle the right
Ring anvis with clangor!
Burn FORCES, fierce and far!
The night shall bring the home
Where goodness are!
I lean to little lips she lifts rough lips of love-
read the motherhope that shines
I hear the roaring city CALL and 1 go
Lighhear for the because child
SWING hammers, with your cater!
Whirl Wheels beam!
The light of love shall guide home
this OF
I take the little she holds On ~
take the tender memory her blest
face the argent purpose of the labor that mine
Filled with her trust patience youth
Plunge Cities with thunder
Of traffc-shout
While she waits at the
take the task, face the 1 to be
Bound to the labor that lowest fine
From morning unto evende remembering CO. .
Under the bending wheel that glides
Sing, mills, Gathering chorus
the sweat
bare and give strength
And joy in what get!
give and take, and give again, bent
Beneath the burden is
But ah the dear to have the lips wait
The hearts that the cling the gate
Clang with mighty
Roar, Cities with your strife!
And God be praised strength to
For Of love life!
Baltimore News
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
And No Wonder.

According to rumor, there is at ies
one very mad woman in Chicago.
appears that she married a man nam
March, but was divorced from him
wed a gentleman called May. Sub
quently she secured q second dive.
and then became the wife of a Mr.. !
gust. Now, with scurrilous subtlety
newspaper has referred to her rs
bride of only few months Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Then the Cook Cut In.

The cook was going.
GLOW shall 1 word this recomme
dalton, Marie?" her mistress aske
''You know 1 can't touch upon industI
and on the question of neatness, t
less said the better, while as for c,
mary skill"
"Well, ma'am," the cook cut
suppose you just say stood this pla
four weeks. That will be sufficient,
think"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
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In the Breslau Geological garden IS 4
spider monkey, which was operated
upon for cataract and now wears
glasses. 1t seems to do well and I'M
derstand the reason for its strange IA
cial adornment.
Professor William 2. Ellis of Buck
ingham county is the possessor of
game hen which annually changes her
feathers to suit the varying seasons.
Early in the spring the hen begins to
show a few white feathers, which con-
tinue to get more and more numerous
until the first warm days of May, when
she regularly turns out in a suit Of
pure white. This white dress she wear
proudly until the first days of early
fall, when a few black feathers begin
to appear. The black feathers increase
as the days follow each other and US
ually by Thanksgiving she has resumed
her shining coat of black.
Two lynx, tame as any house cats,
are the constant pets of Homer z.
Black, lumberman in Vermont He
has several dogs and number of cats.
while gray squirrels and chipmunks
run over the house and eat from his
hands without fear. The lynx when a
few days old were captured by Black
when he was out looking for game, and
it occurred to him that they might be
made household pets and he carefully
carried them home and placed them
beside his oldest cat. The cat eyed
the youngsters moment and then was
apparently satisfied to let them stay
with the three kittens she was nursing,
and as q result the five animals grew
up together. The cats, dogs and lynx
play together without quarreling, and
although the lynx are free to 60 as the
rest of the animals they always return
to the house after their excursions into
the woods and apparently have no de-
sire to join the few wild lynx which
still exist.
A "freak" horse attracted consider
able attention at the Asher Horse and
Mule Exchange in Allegheny, Pa. The
animal is big mare, perfectly formed,
and without a Flemish from a horse
mans point of view. Intelligence she
has, too, and undoubtedly she would
have made q good road or carriage
horse were she like other of her spe-
cies. But by one of natures idiosyncra-
sizes she was born with tail something
like that of an elephant, and besides
this she wears the hide of that un
wieldy native of Asia and Africa. o.
no part of the horse is there the TIMES
bit of hair. The tough, heavy hide
shiny and as wrinkled and scanned a
the back and sides Of the biggest ele
plant ever seen in a circus. The bi
animal seems to be conscious of he
strange appearance and in nowise prou
of it. Eight years ago she was col
down on an Ohio farm and was til
wonder of the countryside because sh
had no hair. In temperament sh
seemed to be just as much a 'freak
as in physical appearance, for althoug
her owner tried patience and kindnes
she refused to be 'broke" Finding th9
she would be useless to him, the farme
who raised her sold her to a circU
man for a good price. Since then sh
has been almost continuously on IL
road and has proved a great none
maker to those who owned her.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
All Decided.

Her Father-So young Mr.. Nervey
wants to take you away from me?
She-Oh, yes; but he says he'll bring
me back alter the wedding journey. He
has decided that we shall board with
you.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
APPLY Described.

Modern Composer-Have you he
my latest one-act opera?
Friend-Not yet. Comic?
Modern COmpOser-No; baby grf
Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Ouffe Annnrent.

The Tramp-You're one man in a
hundred. 'Tain't often l meet any
body thatn talk to me two minutes
without askin' me why l don't go 20
work at some trade.
The Remarkable Man-Oh, l can tell
by looking at you.-Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16

that the institution of the grille is
more dignified and that to make woman
obvious in the House would be an out
rage upon its traditions. Since the pres
ent parliament met the altered social
conditions of the House have had their
counterpart in the ladies' gallery. The
attendance of aristocrats is not as large
as formerly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Both Expensive Luxuries.

'Are you going away this SUNNI
II don't know. We will either
away or else stay at home and
Ice" -CleYeland Plain Dealer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16

In England the question has again
arisen Of abolishing the grille through
which women visitors to parliament
are compelled to catch what tortured
view of the House they can. The GUS
tom is somewhat of a parallel to the
Indian zenana. There still remain,
however, some women who consider
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
THE BLACK SHEEP.


ZEE gHHBR AB E Ba &c Ha8 EH * E8EEB 43
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
IN A Law COURT.

''The late Judge ]. I. Clark Hare
said lawyer of Philadelphia was
one day relating to me some of his
odd experiences on the bench.
He said that a certain man was
about to be tried in the common pleas,
and showed a great disposition to chal-
lenge the jurymen.
Evidently the prisoner knew all
about the right to challenge, and evil
IDENTIFY he. felt that the more chalIeng-
ing he and his lawyer did, the better
his case would go for him.
Finally, though. his challenging
came to an end He announced that
the jury now satisfied him.
:" Your challenging is all over? We
can now go on?' said, with a smile,
the attorney for the prosecution.
. The jury is all right said the
prisoner, hurriedly and anxiously, but
want to challenge the judge. I've
been convicted under him several times
before. and it's more than likely he's
prejudiced against me- +"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
HE FELT FOOLISH.

At the Players Club in New York
a rather ill-natured story was told the
other night about Nat Goodwin
''Goodwin's opening in London at
the Shaftesbury theater with "A Gilded
Fool was you know. a FROST said the
tragedian. smiling gladly. 1.-THE piece
didn't go at all. Goodwin had to make
a quick change to An American Citi-
zen
Goodwin was staying at the Cecil,
and one evening he got into a hanson
to go to the theater. Shaftesbury ave-
nue., in front of the Shaftesbury theat-
er, is usually crowded with cabs and
hansoms and motor buses, and, to
make better time, cabmen usually APP
proach by means of little alley to
the west.
'Shaftesbury theater, said Mr..
Goodwin to the cabman, and. to save
time, take the alley
No need to take the alley tonight,
sir said the cabman, grinning. Good
win is playing "A Gilded FOOL sir
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
A PLEASANT PROSPECT.

superintendent E. C. Brennan, of the
Volunteer life saving crops, said of "a
freaskish invention for life saving:
THE man who tried to save life with
that thing would have pleasant pros
a cord would be bound to snap, or q
pulley would be bound to break. The
poor life saver would have as unpleas-
ant arr experience ahead of him as a
friend of mine had last spring on
trout fishing trip.
My friend went trout fishing in Pike
county. He got board, at So a day, at
a small wooden farm house near
good stream.
Arriving late at night. his first meal
at this farm house was breakfast, ana
when my friend came downstairs the
next morning, breakfast was spread on
the kitchen table.
1T was a splendid April morning.
The sun had just risen behind the
mountain tops. The air was sharp and
sweet.
My friend was tremendously hun
when he saw six boiled eggs ranged
in row beside his plate.
Come, come, madam he said to
the farmers wife. admit I've got
good appetite, but you really shouldn't
have boiled all those eggs. Two would
have been enough
Wall said the woman, we mout
as we'll try them six fust, an if there
hain't no good ones among EN-, III
boil ye half a dozen more
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
IN THE PLANTING SEASON.

'The planting season." said the sec
rotary of agriculture, James Wilson,
sis now at hand. The farmers plant
on a large scale and the residents OF
the suburbs, taking home in his vest
pocket some packets of flower seeds,
also, in a smaller way, participates IN
the great planting movement
1T is all very pleasant. The anna
teur planting of the suburbs is even
amusing. Thus the other day. between
two suburban gentleman, l overheard
a conversation like this on train:
Nice growing weather
Yes, it is So.
Your seeds, suppose, are begin
ming to show by now?'
SHOW? Man alive! They came up
long ago.
why, that's odd Mine are only
beginning to peep through the ground
here and there. It's the difference IN
the soil, suppose.
Soil nothing. It's the difference IN
the surroundings. My next door neigh
Dor keeps chickens
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
TO HIDE IGNORANCE.

Mrs. S. T. RoTer, the famous cooking
expert, paused in the midst of a lecture
on game to smile and say:
And that reminds me of a young
English girl I used to know. She got
married last year in London, and had
only been keeping house a week or
two when a cousin in the country sent
her brace of pheasants.
Some people like to hang phea-
sants-to keep them a week or two,
letting them get high, on the ground
that the fresh flesh is tough and
stringy. The cook knew this but her
young mistress knew nothing of cook
ing
Please. ma'am.' said the cook,
when the pheasants arrived, do you
like the birds ighc'
:. The birds eye?' said the mistress,
puzzled.
d" What 1 mean, num- the cook ex-
planned is that some folks likes their
birds stale
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE.
DR.. William OsIer Talks Apropos of Heroic
Remedies.

and confuse me. They come with a
shock. They come with a shock like
that which a young girl of Lode re-
ceived one night.
This young girl sat in her bedroom
with novel. Her hair was down and
her feet were in red slippers. Now
and then, extending her white arms,
she yawned
You see, it was very late, and
downstairs in the parlor her older
sister was entertaining young man.
She, naturally. felt a deep interest in
the entertainment. She was waiting
to hear how il would terminate.
And at last there was a sound in
the hall. crash as of a closing door,
and it was plain to the impatient girl
that the young man had gone.
She threw down her novel, and
running forth, peered over the balus-
trade into the halls intense blackness.
Wei. Maude,' she said, did you
land him?'
There was no immediate reply to
her question. There was a silence, a
peculiar silence, a silence with a GER
tain strained quality in it. Then
masculine voice replied:
She did -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
misunderstood.

The brilliant essayist, Miss Agnes
Repplier, was discussing her widely
talked-of paper on the ugliness of
mems dress.
mo, she said, in answer to an at
tack II made no such assertion in my
paper. You misunderstood my mean
ing You misunderstood me as COM
pletely and as ludicrously as a maid
once misunderstood a visitor.
This visitor, young lady, rang
friends bell and said to the maid who
opened the door:
81 is Miss Gaye in?'
&c She is, ma am the maid answered.
.s And is she disengaged?'
1.-The maid nodded sadly.
:. I'm afraid so, miss she said, for
/ just seen her young man scoot down
the steps, a-clutchin' the di'mond ring
she's been wearin since last Easter.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
LESSON FOR PLoDDERs.

Charles G. Gates, lunching at the
New York Athletic Club, said OF sue
cess:
"J think that in analysis of success
100 much credit is given to plodd1ns'
to regularity, to steadiness- Whlie
the regular, steady plod er is neVer Idle
il is also true of him that he IS sell
dom on fire with energy and zeal
sePlodding is very wen when spurts
of fiery zeal diversity it. Otherwise
it is not apt to land man among
the millionaires.
II remember. when I lived in St
Louis getting a job for one of these
steady. plodding chaps.
"A month or so afterward, meeting
the man for whom the plodder worked
l said:
".Weu how is Harry doing"
oh. all right, I guess, the man
answered.
There was no enthusiasm IN ms
voice and SO. to kindle him up, / SAID
Isn't he sober? Isn't he STEADY
STEADY said the man. Indeed ne
is steady. He's mighty steady IN
fact If he was much steadier ne
wouldn't move at all
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
r EGiSTEREO 1888
S&N&%~%Sx%S%xxx>

He was a very bad boy; and yet, some
how 1 liked him, for he was brave and
strong and handsome and witty. Why
is it that the bad are so often like
that?
But this boy was certainly a bad
one. He and I were playing marbles
on Saturday morning when a min
lister stopped and watched US a little
while
The minister, like everybody else,
couldn't help liking the bad boys looks.
and tried to enter into converse ton
with him.
Well, my little man. he said,
what are you going to be when you
grow up?"
'Aw,' said the bad boy, I amt a.
goin' to grow up. The good dies young.
See2' -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
WHERE LOOKS DON'T COUNT

Il visited Miss Marie Corel1 when
/ was in stratford,'' said young wo-
man. she lives in a quaint house of
dull red brick. She is very pretty and
very rich. and she likes Americans.
Miss Corelli was full of fun. She
talked about womans over-regard for
appearances. She said that she her
self was too prone to think of that,
if appearances We're all right, every
thing was right.
'Once, in her childhood, Miss Corelli
said she was yachting on the English
coast.
LAS the yacht sped along there was
a sudden swerve, and the helmsman
said:
BY Jove, I believe she's broken
her rudder.'
g oh, Well, said the young girl,
what does it matter? It's under
water, and I'm sure nobody will notice
it, %
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
oLD-FAsH1oNED HOG wE1GHIN

OLD-F ASfiIONED HUG w EIIf1I-NI.
Senator Foraker said the other day
of certain carelessiy prepared statis-
tics:
This statistics recall to me the way
they used to weigh hogs in the West.
They would put the hog in one side of
the scale, and some stones in the 9TH
er side, and then they would guess
at the weight of the stones
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
THE PAINT ROCK MANS RAZOR

1Ai11 AIN MIN -hA<A~N - AN-N~~C-N'
Senator Clay was talking about an
important bill.
1T is too delicate d measure he
said ito be treated SO harshly. Knock
ed about like that, it would come to
the same pass as the Paint Rock man S
razor.
THE Paint Rock mans razor?"
Yes. A Paint Rock man arose one
morning and slipped into the bath
room and turned on the water for his
tub. and then, taking down his razor
and strop. shuddered, and gave a great
cry of despair
Oh he shouted. oh, my razor?
Who has been tempering with my
razor?'
The little son of the Paint Rock
man spoke up bravely, coming to the
bathroom door:
I was using your razor, father,
he said. L used it to open some oysters
with, yesterday afternoon
g oh, did your said the father.
Here, then Take it and give a lick
or two on a cobblestone or I'll never
be able to get a decent shave this
morning.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
A NEW WORD.

Henry James, who is always on the
hunt for new words, though he will
never admit them to his stories, de-
scribed at a dinner a new word that
he had come upon in London.
Mr.. Plowden,' he said, lis bril-
liant and witty London magistrate. 1t
is quite the thing 10 spend an hour or
two now and then in Mr.. Plowdens
court, watching him sparkle.
AT one of these legal entertain
ments 1 heard a new word. l heard it
from an old woman. She was old and
poor. with a red nose, and she was
accused of l forget what
Mr.. Plowden asked her the nature
of her occupation.
" Well, madam he said, and what
do you do for living?'
The old woman's reply, a lesson in
conciseness, added a new word to my
vocabulary,
Lodgern,' she said
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
POOR CHAP.

DR.. William Osler, apropos of heroic
remedies, said:
'Uneducated persons have no faith
in the subtleties of medicine-in tiny
pills, in diet, in exercise. When they
are i'll, they want large, strong, black,
bitter doses. They want heroic mea-
sures to be applied to them.
Thus there was an English physi-
clan who sent some leeches to pa
tient, miner.
Calling the next day, the physician
Inquired, before starting upstairs for
the sick room, if the leeches had ar
rived.
The miners wife. with a contemptu-
Gus laugh, replied:
o. Yes, sir; but what on earth be
the good O. sending them little things
for great chap? I just took an clap
ped ferret on 'un.' -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
A BAD ONE.

Francis Wilson recently made an adj
dress before some Western children.
He told the children many interesting
"reminiscences Of his childhood-among
others this about a bad boy:
When ! was a little chap In Phila-
delphia, / had a bad boy for a friend.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22

The tail?' repeated the mistress,
more puzzled than ever
And then, in order not to appear
ignorant in the cooks eyes, the smiled
broadly and said:
Prepare the birds. please, with the
eyes and the tail both -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
A SHOCK.

At an unexpected interruption IN an
after-dinner speech Senator Hale sinh-
ed.
These words he said, surprise
The Oskaloosa herald., 1906-12-13

Buy an irrigated farm at
Holly, Colorado. Go Tues
day. Dec 18th. For further
information see
HARRY e. DAVIS.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1906-12-13

Buy an Irrigated farm at
Holly. Colorado. Go Tues
day. Dec. 49, For further in
formation see
HARRY e. DAVIS.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1906-12-13

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