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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
Eyeglasses.

There is nothing which more conf
pletely changes the effect of a pair Of
eyeglasses than the habit Of crOwding
them on the nose with one hand. The
best efforts at fitting and adjusting are
all brought to naught by person who
has acquired that habit.
The proper way to take off glasses
Is to take hold Of the bridge and lift
off gently without dragging or pulling
out Of shape. To take off spectacles
take hold of the right temple with the
right hand and lift it off the ear. Then
turn the head to the right and the left
temple will fall off easily.
The average wearer of glasses when
be is cleaning them takes hold Of the
bridge. The consequence is that he
gradually works the bridge out of
shape, and every rub he gives the lens
gives a twist to the bridge, and in
course of time the bridge or the lens
breaks when he least expects it. There
are probably more glasses broken in
this way than any other
The correct way to clean them is to
take hold Of one Of the eye pieces
where the glass is screwed on the outer
edge and clean the lens, and then re-
verse the glasses; take it by the other
end piece and repeat the process on
that lens
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
Mexican Pacific Coast Ports.

A special correspondent of Brad
streets writes that many Western Mex.
leans believe that Guadalajara, which
Is a city of over 100000 inhabitants, is
destined to become the commercial city
of Mexico. Guadalajara is connected
by rail with the City Of Mexico, and
the Mexican Central is busy completing
the road to Manzanillo. A clearer view
Of the present situation may be obtain
ed by stating that Mexico has so far
only one port on the Pacific which con-
meets the interior with the sea by rail
Salina Cruz. The northwestern part of
the country does not profit by this rail
road at all, as the road goes practically
due east, and connection with Guada-
lajara can be made only via Cordoba,
near the Atlantic coast and Mexico
City. Passenger traffic takes four days
from Salina Cruz by rail to Guadala-
lara. The road TO Manzanillo com
pleted, Mexico will have its second port
on the Pacific. This, 1t is expected, will
result in considerable profit to Guadala-
lara and incidentally to the United
States, for Mexicans thereabouts desire
closer trade relations with this coun.
try; in fact, the younger generation of
Western MeXicans aim to acquire a
knowledge Of the English language.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
On One Farm Eighty Years.

Over so years OF. age, Henry Johnson,
whose home is back Of McKees Rocks,
several miles from the river, has never
seen a railroad train nor a street car,
yet is not only Intelligent but intellec-
tual as we'll. Familiar with books,
those by the best known modern writer's
and the standard classics of English
literature, Mr.. Johnson Is O pleasing
conversationalist and one we'll able to
hold his own with any traveller chance
might send his way, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch.
No deep-rooted prejudice keeps him
from cities where the yell of the steam
whistle is heard and where the trolley
mows down its victims. Mr.. Johnson is
in sympathy with modern Improvements
and keeps abreast of the times on his
farm, which is equipped with al the
latest improvements in farm machinery,
so far as is necessary. He is lacking
only in curiosity.
He doesn't care to leave his farm.
That is the reason he knows not the
look of the steam engine or the trolley
car. There are many other things of
modern aspect that are unknown tc
him, but the few autos that have passed
the way of his farm were received cor
daily and the bicyclist Grant who
went his way in the days when the
wheel was popular could complain Of
his reception in no way.
AS uneventful as possible has been
the life of Mr.. Johnson. He was born
where he now lives and has never lost
sight of his home, literally speaking.
His parents were the first owners Of
the land.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
WHEELING THE BABY.
Opinions of a Young Lawyer Who
TrundIed PerambuIatOr.

Opinions of Young Lawyer Who
TrundIed PerambuIatOr.
A certain young lawyer, whose bust
ness connections bring him much in
touch with some corporation interests,
has not had his head swelled by his
rapid rise in the last few years, and
has vetoed some of his wife's ambitions
to climb the social ladder. He has a
baby daughter to whom he is very
much devoted and occasionally, on a
Sunday afternoon, will take the young
ster for an airing in her perambulator.
A few Sundays ago the lawyer and
his wife were out with the baby car
riage when they met the head Of one
of the big concerns for which the law
yer holds a retainer walking with a
friend.
81 never was so mortified in my life!"
exclaimed the wife, after the magnate
had passed.
You must not wheel the baby car
riage in public again."
Nonsense" replied the husband. His
further remarks were interrupted by
his brother, who had been hurrying to
overtake him.
81 heard a compliment to you just
now, JIM" said the brother. You
know Steele, the traction MANI"
"Just met him." said the lawyer
$50 did l." said his brother. HE
was talking with his friend about you.
l heard him say, "A very promising
young lawyer-must be a decent sort
of chap, too. He's making a lot of
money, but he isn't too proud to push
his own baby carriage. I'll have to
keep an eye on him. Pretty good,
wasn't it?"
The lawyers wife hasn't had any.
thing to say about the family dignity
since the incident.-New York Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
The Song of the Shirt.

The Song of the Shirt.
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread.
Stitch, stitch, stitch
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the "Song of the Shirt"
20 men with sisters dear!
o men with mothers and wives
1t is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures lives!
Stitch, stitch, stitch
In poverty, hunge rand dirt;
Sewing at once, with a double thread,
A shroud as we'll as a shirt.
Work, work, work
My labor never flags.
And what are its wages? A bed of straw,
A crust of bread and rags,
That shattered roof and this naked floor,
A table, a broken chair
And a wall SO blank my shadow l thank
For sometimes falling there.
"Oh, but for one short hour
A respite, however brief
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief
A little weeping would ease my heart,
But in their briny bed
My tears must stop, for every drop
flinders needle and thread"
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread.
Stitch, stitch, stitch
In poverty, hunger and dirt.
And still with voice of dolorous pitch
Would that its tone could reach the
rich =
She sang this Song of the Shirt
Thomas Hood.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
For Fathers and Mothers.

Miss Jane Adams of Hull House
doesn't have spasms at the sight of q
wife and mother as breadwinner, while
father, she sits round all day." She
says: Fathers have function outside
the supporting of the family. l have
In mind a case where the mother earned
the living. The family got along pretty
well, so long as the father stayed at
home. He held the family together and
controlled the boys. After the mother
was all worn out, as she expressed it.
and sent him away she lost control
The children became .unruly, and they
did not get along as they had done with
the father there. l do not know why
we have the idea that moral training
is exclusively the care of the mother
Perhaps 1t is because we are In tht
habit of judging the father only on hi,
capacity of earning and the mother al
her capacity for holding the family Il
gether. 1t is a mistake. We shouI
not lose sight of the fact that it is
partnership relation. 1t takes both
hold the family together"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
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Tobacco was legal tender In the
American States when they were still
, colonies Of Great Britain.
Quails are becoming so scarce that
both France and Germany have abso-
lutely prohibited their killing.
It has been figured out that the Brit
ish Empire is sixteen times larger than
all the French dominions, and forty
times greater than the German En-
pire.
In 1862, the first proposal to Danish
music from church services was made
by the Council Of Trent, on the grounds
that the style Of music had become too
frivolous.
The Vatican was thoroughly cleaned
lately and a quantity Of repainting
done. The work employed 500 people
for six months. Merely in cleaning wall
papers, 1000 loaves Of bread were used
daily.
The sea has no herbiferous inhabi-
tants. Its population live on each 9th
er, and the whole Of this immense ex-
panse of water is one great slaughter
house, where the strong for ever prey
on the weak.
Our game Of golf, or goff, as 1t was
formerly called, was a popular sport
In England and Scotland about the be-
ginning Of the seventeenth century. IT
was played by the nobility, and was
the favorite pastime of Prince Henry,
son of James 1. Golf sticks were then
called bands" and golf balls were
made Of leather and stuffed with feath-
ers. The principle Of the game was
practically the same then as it IS now.
Recent studies Of the skulls Of the
morosaurus, the diplodocus and other
| species of the extinct gigantic animals
called the sauropoda, have brought out
the fact that in several Of these crea-
lures, although perhaps not in all spe-
cies, there existed on the top Of the
skull a well defined tubular opening,
smoothly lined with bone, and leading
directly down into the cerebral cavity.
Professor Osborne regards it as prob
able that in this opening was lodged a
large pineal, that is, cone shaped, eye,
an organ the existence of which was
left predetermined by the researches Of
the late Professor Marsh. In q re-
Gently restored skull of the morosaurus
the orbits are of enormous size.
An Algerian farmer defiea che police
and barricaded his farmyard. Several
rife volleys were fired at his place in
the hope of terrifying him. As this APP
parently had no effect, O three-incb
Quick-fring field gun and melInite shell
were brought into use In all eighteen
bombs were fired. The first two few
wide, but the other sixteen reduced all
the farm buildings to heaps Of rubbish,
under which, when search was made,
the farmers body was foZnd. He had
evidently been killed by a rife bullet
on the preceding day, so that all the
terrors of artillery and mellnite had
been wasted on a corpse. 1t is per
haps the first time that the police have
tried heavy artillery on one lone man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

In a discussion Of disarmament led
by Lord Avebury there was no voice
raised IN the British House Of Lords
which really dissented from the propo-
sition that the disarmament Of Great
Britain might be realized. Lord Fitz-
maurice, speaking for the government,
said that Great Britain might appeal
to Europe for a reduction Of arma-
ments. To the more urgent champions
Of peace, might" may seem lukewarm,
even cold; but there is great signif-
canoe in the fact that the possibility of
decreasing warltke equipment was even
considered in the House Of Lords.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Fashions rule in sports as in mats.
The new crowds out the old and there
are no mourners. Bicycle factories are
changed to automobile factories to re-
spMld to the popular demand. That
sport falls into disfavor does not neces-
sar;Iy mean permanent Abandonment.
CrCQuet, after some years OF desuetude,
has had a revival of public interest
baseball has never lost its hold, but
styles of playing vary from year to
year, and what is popular one season
may be hopelessly out Of fashion the
next. The only sports that last almost
without change or decay are children'S
games. Marbles, tops, jackstones
kites, and the other instruments Of
play are used by children in the same
way year after year. The language OF
the games remains the same and the
rules, fixed by some unknown authority
ages ago, are as immutable as the de-
crees of the Modes and the Persians.
The reason is that here the players
change Before a child has had time
to tire Of a game he has grown up to
other amusements and a new race Of
children has succeeded to all the privi-
leges and pleasures of what its elders
have abandoned. The child, too, has
a regular succession Of games during
the year, going through cycle of
sports within a period which relative
to the child's age, Is perhaps as long
rs the period which brings round for
Older people croquet and the like. The
most curious feature Of fashions In
games is the difficulty with which one
nation can be induced to take an inter
est i'll tie sports of another. Attempts
have been made to introduce lacrosse,
or curling, or pelota, or cricket, O-
other exotic sports in which other na-
tons take great delight But such at
teniEts Eever win any large amount Of
sympathy from the general public.
When a foreign game Is adopted, as In
the case Of football, it is transformed
by the national genius until 1t Is al
most unrecogniZle to those who knew
1t in its native land. In some French
schools the boys are compelled to play
football and the period of the game is
the saddest time Of the week to the
boys, while the British youth cannot
be taught to appreciate baseball. Golf
Is the one conspicuous exception, and
it is at present triumphant, but he
would be a rash man who would pre-
| dict for 1t centuries Of favor here such
as it has enjoyed IN the land of it's
origin. The golf links may have to be
transformed again some day to meet a
change in popular interest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
RinDIinc Wit.

One day as Pat halted at the top OF
the river bank a man famous for his
inquisitiye mind stopped and asked
"How long have you hauled water
for the village, my good MANI"
Tin years, sor."
'Ah! How many loads do you take
IN a day2"
From tin to fifteen, sor."
"Ah, yes! Now, have a problem
for you. How much water at this rate
have you hauled in all, sir?"
The driver of the watering cart jerk.
ed his thumb backward toward the
river and replied:
Cali the water yez don't see there
now, sor."-Christian Advocate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
Policeman Moved.

A certain well-known Chicago po-
licemean, whose last name is not I'M
like Murphy, walked unannounced into
the Hon. Timothy Sullivan's room at
Saratoga while Mr.. Sullivan was ear
nestly talking to another man.
"Hello, Murphy! Glad to see you !!
DO YOU play checkers?" asked Tim"
"I haven't played in long time, but
T guess 1 could" replied Murphy.
All right" retorted the New Yorker,
looking toward the door; ''it's your
move"
Mr.. Murphy thought a moment and
then went out.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Americans are slowly awalzing to the
commercial value of preserving natural
wonders and objects Of historic interest.
An important factor IN the prosperity
Of Italy and other nations of the old
world Is the tourist trade. 1t has been
estimated that the money spent by tour
lists In Italy constitutes a third income
Of that country. Entry Of the United
States into the galaxy of world powers
has greatly increased its value from the
standpoint Of the tourists, and steam
ship companies report a marked In
crease in the last few years in the num-
Der of foreign visitors to this country.
Hitherto Americans have not been quick
to realize the necessity of preserving
and marking the points of interest in
the various parts Of the country which
will attract visitors.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
Her Dilemma.

Young Matron-Why SO pensive,
dear? Angelina-Im desperate! Will
adores me in pale pink, while Max says
I'm an angel in blue. l can't have but
one gown, so you see my whole future
depends on the color I select. 1t Is
sending me crazy.-LondOn Tit-Bits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Bialystok has taken its place on the
map Of Russia beside that Of KIsche-
neff, and both emphasize the fact that
In the matter of religious liberation the
land Of the Car is still living in
the age Of the st. Bartholomew massa-
ere
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Princeton folk, citizens Of the town
and alumni and officers Of the univers-
lty have urged Congress to appropriate
money for q monument at Princeton,
where Washington, on Jan. 8, 1777, won
the second victory In the campaign
which Frederick the Great pronounced
the most brilliant in military history.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

If woman made as big a fool Of
herself over the way the men dress as
some men make Of themselves over the
way the women dress, she would have
4 discouraglngly small circle Of mas
suline acquaintance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
ELECTRICAL APPARATUS

For Initiating Candidates Into the
Secret Societies.
Practically every society or lodge
has a different secret initiation Of can
didates of some form best adapted to
its ideas. In the smaller lodges the
initiation is very simple, but in the
larger and more influential societies
the ritual prescribed is often very elab-
crate. An Illinois inventor suggests
the employment of electricity in initia-
ton programs by the use of a special
apparatus he has devised and patent
ed. 1t is guaranteed to be strictly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

According to English physicians,
silence will cure nervous women and
delay the coming wrinkles" So will
suicide. Why not suggest something
practical?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

The Gar says the thing that hurts
aim most Is the mutinous conduct Of
regiment that he has often honored
BY wearing the uniform of It's colonel
How could 1t have been so mean?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

The latest fad is the conundrum sup
per. The conundrum, Of course, is, what
are your really eating? Nobody is able
to answer It, not even the cook.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
Two Good Reasons.

Goofer-In speaking Of your auto
mobile why do you always refer to It
IL the feminine gender, as she?
Shoofer-Well, the auto is so hard
TO manage and so blamed expensive -
Brooklyn Life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Most vacations which fail are unsuc-
cessful because they are misfts. 1t is
curious that in a matter where individ-
ual needs and personal preferences are
so important, the final decision should
90 often be allowed to rest on other
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Only an intellectual woman can
spread a stepladder so that it won't col
lapse and leave her clinging to the top
shelf Of a closet
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

That old catch phrase about the Ice
man is clear back in the shade now.
How would you like to be chief clerk to
s high railroad official?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Now the son of Pittsburg million
lire Is under arrest for burglary. It
will seem to the world to be impossible
10 get rich in Pittsburg and at the same
time raise a satisfactory family.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Wizard Burbank might confer an in
estimable boon on mankind by produc-
Ing a canteloupe that will register it's
real quality on the outside Of it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

1t is easy for the family physician to
convince a man of ample means that a
vacation will do him more good than
medicine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

There is a movement on in London to
lock up all anarchists The English are
In some respects a very practical peo-
n1o
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Chinese sentenced to death are re-
leased when their prayers bring rain.
Jupiter Pluyius can take a joke, appar-
emily.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08
Modern Conveniences.

Mrs. Hunter-And what door is that?
The door of the medicine closet?
The Agent (who is showing them
through the fiat)-Medicine closet!2!
No, ma'am, this Is the spare room =
Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Perhaps the safest plan is to run
when the girl admits that she was once
with a "Florodora" company.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Yet the great fact that can neither
be scared away nor howled down IS
that the people have got to have mes4.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Barons are quoted now at 100000,
80 distinct a cut that the quality Of the
goods naturally comes under suspicion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Oklahoma's most serious task now
will be to decide on what to use for a
State flower.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Another stay for Patrick" There's
stays as a corset.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

People seem to be using the only part
Of the hog that the packers couldn't
utilize.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

Maybe they had Beef Trust exposures
in the days of Nebuchadnezzar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

grounds. For the great majority OF
men and women who work, but who
have a vacation, two weeks represent
the limit Of time which they can devote
to rest and recreation. That is only
one-twenty- sixth part Of the year. and
most persons need all Of it, and need to
use it in the wisest way. What is the
wisest way? No one but the person
himself can tell; and hence the folly Of
allowing oneself to be overinfuenced by
the advice of Others One Of the week
" magazines lately contained accounts
Of vacations in camp, in an automobile,
on a bicycle, on foot, in a canoe, in
hunting with a camera, in seeing 9th
avenue, and in searching for wild flow
ers. Each of the articles is charming
reading, chiefly because the writer had
what he was after-rest, recreation and
good time. The reader may easily be
misIed into thinking that the charm be-
longs intrinsically to the particular
kind Of q vacation which is described.
It does not. It belongs only to the eX-
actness with which the vacation hts.
The wisest thing one can do is to say to
himself, ''What is it that I should most
like to doY' And if it fall within his
means, and if he has only himself and
his own pleasure to consider, do that,
regardless Of whether any one else
would enjoy it, or whether any one else
has ever done it. The hobby or diver
sion to which one gives his spare mo-
ments during the rest Of the year is
often a wise guide. 1t requires courage
and common sense to disregard conven-
tional conceptions and half-formed
plans, and to follow the inclination of
the moment; but the reward is nearly
always a happy and restful vacation,
and not infrequently at little cost
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

The average woman is as closely Con
fined to the house as q fireman
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-08-08

What has become of the old-faSh.
Toned curly haired boy who put "clab,
Der" on his hair to straighten it?