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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02
Selling Royal Jewel,

@1HOSE Jewels belonging to the Car
which have been coming into the mar
ket are not crown jewels, it seems but
IApEN gems newly mined. There is always
an ominous suggestion about the sale
of a sovereign's diamonds. When the
Empress Eugene began to dispose of hers, the
knell of the Second Empire was sounded, Sedan
had been fought and it was necessary to con
vert gems of price into the sums for which they
stood But it had to be done secretly, 1t was
an Engshman of reputation on furlough from
India, who undertook the sale. The gems were
taken from their settings, wrapped in leather
and stitched in his belt This he wore day and
night and thus he travelled from one Indian
court to another accompanied only by trusted
servant Vast wealth was represented in the
load he carried around his waist and he Travelled
many long mile with his precious burden He
returned safely with his booty TO the Empress,
but the unusual strain had left him broken
man.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02
GREEN STONES NOW IN FASHION

aids, so much commented on at the time of the
coronation, the gift of her son, Lord How
ard de Walden, on his coming of age-and Lady
Carew, who has a splendid stone, presented to
her by the Shah of Persia.
Peridots, which, oddly enough, have always
been valued by Quakers, are lessaexpcDsive than
either olivines or tourmaines they look beautiful
set in diamonds.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02
NEW USE FOR TRAM TICKETS

the hands of their scholars in review before the
commencement of morning lessons. The idea,
of course, is to eradicate the mourning border
To pass the ordeal children should be provided
with nail cleaners. The soft cardboard of the
tram ticket is admirable for the purpose. Hence
the eagerness of the Paris child to ask you for
your punctured pasteboard.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02

~7 MERALDS are very much in favor at
H r. the moment, and so are the less vaua-
f=ssss5S= BILE peridots, olivnes and to,rmalines.
tSe4W@J Queen Alexandra possesses parure
of emeralds worth kings ransom, and
among society women who fine en-
eralds may be mentioned Lady Aberdeen, Lady
Leicester Lady Ludlow-whose parure of emer-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02

r~7HIS cottage is small, but so well plan
ned as to give ample room for family
lNsSiSSI desiring comfortable, attractive home.
~ 1t gives the very best results for the
small amount expended
A parlor, hall, dining room, kitchen
and pantry, all furnished in hard wood, com
pete the first floor, while the second story CON
tains three large bed rooms, bathroom and
several closets
The entire house is bright aud well ventilated
and can be built for $25Oo as shown by the
following temized account;
Exeavating ,....,.....,.. .,.,...,.... SI5
Stone work '''''''''..........,,. III
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02

Cement floor ..........'''... 20
Carpenter work Observation-Disclosures. 45O
Paper and nalls ''''''. ''.'..''''.'','.''.. 20
Mill work ......'''.....','''' 4lO
Hardware ''''.''...'.'.. oO
Lumber .......................,.. 45O
Painting, glazing .................A. 225
Shingle roof ...............,.... 1907
Plastering '''.''..''.'..'....... 10
Brickwork .'..'.'.,...'.''...... 100
Plumbing '.''.''''''''... .'...,...... lOol
Hot air heating 'r,...,..'.,.,,,..... 100
Range '''''''''''s,.'','''''''''.'..' 40
S2,5OOI
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02

-EN three years away from the world
makes one stranger. Remington felt
tempted to go to the Canadian Paclhc
office instead of the opera, and return
back to the familiar wilds that had lat
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-02

TOR the fortieth and last time we had
quarreled. That is to say, Lenore'
who was otherwise the most charming
d wife man could possess, had exhib-
tied again some of that absurd Ieal-
L., Igr,uob moth
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
CORONATION CT HAAK0N
Programme of the Ceremonies on the
OccSsiOn-WhOle Week of Festi-
vities Arranged.

ChIistiania, June S.-The programme
of ceremonies attending the coronation
of King HaakOn VII and Queen Maud
have been completed. The royal couple
will arrive at Trondhjem the evening
Of June 10, and wait there the arrival
of the foreign princes and ambassa-
doris. The coronation will take place
at II o'clock the morning of June %,
at the cathedral, and will be followed
by state dinner, which will be at
tended by 800 guests. The remainder
of the week will be taken up with Gel
ebratiOns, including musical festivals.
popular entertainments and professions
in which children will predominant.
King Haakon ON June 25 will receive
Populations and give a soiree at the
palace.
Yesterday, the first anniversary OF
the dissolution of the union with Swed
EN-, was celebrated as general holiday
throughout Norway. In the cities flags
were flying and the streets were crowd
ed with meTrymakerS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
FUNERAL OF SENATOR GORMAN
Noted for It's Simplicity and Complete
Absence Of Ostentation-Prom-
inent Men Attend.

Washington, June S.-With simpIic-
ity and complete absence of ostenta-
ton, in accordance with his expressed
wish, the funeral services of the late
Senator Arthur Pue German, Of Mary
land, took place in this city from his
late residence. Before the services be-
gan many prominent men, including
Vice President Fairbanks and nearly
all of Senator Germans closest poIit-
1caI associates in Maryland, as well as
colleagues from the senate and house,
in addition 10 members of the congree
sional committees, were afforded an
opportunity to view the body. The
fora tributes were many and beautl-
full, among them being large wreath
of water lilies and ferns from Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Rev. DR.. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
church, which Senator German attend
ed, OBLIGATED, assisted by Rev. Fred
erick d. Powders, pastor of tf2e Yer,
mont Avenue Christian church. The
body was placed a vault in Oak
Hill cemetery temporarily. Inc serv.
ices at the vault consisted OF prayer
and the commttal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09

and inventiveness of determined per.
sons may accomplish their end by the
use of the most unlikely and eXtraor-
binary means. The materials out OF
which this amorphous place OF
worship is constructed consist princi.
pally of old lumber, scrap iron, odd
pieces of tin, with divers miscellane-
Gus articles of domestic and CONNER
cial use added in apparently promis-
cuous fashion. The lumber has been
nailed from the outside with little re-
gard to the perpendicular or horizon,
tal and fastened together with ties Of
every size and variety from shingle
nail to a railway spike. To summon
laggard worshipers to Service there is
a locomotive bell hanging over the en-.
trance door, the panels of which are
elaborated with old picture-frame
molding. Pieces of broken machinery
garden tools, etc, are scattered over
the building as ornaments. and from
the dome on top stands out a cross
made of two curtain poles. The com
mercial value of the whole structure
is only fraction Of the worth of the
lot on which it stands. 1t is testi-
mony-curious but inspiring-to the
devotion and resourcefulness of the
nFiest who built and still n""''">'>-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
3!ASM'T = "DARESG &C..
What a Farmer Thought When the
Telephone Was Still
Novelty.

Years ago, when telephones were
still novelty, farmer from the out
skirts of Manchester, N. H., came to
town one day and called on a lawye!
friend of his, now United States Sen
ator Henry E. Burnham, whom he sup
piled with BUTTE, and who had had a
telephone recently put in his Office
Need any butter this morning.?
asked the farmer
well, l don't know" answered TIE
lawyer. wait minute. III ask my
wife about it,
After speaking through the phone
ne went on: No; my wife says no.
The farmers face was a study fo1
a moment. Then he broke out with:
Look a-here, Mr.. Lawyer, l may be
'rube' and have my whiskers full OF
hay and hayseed, but I'm not such a
darned fool as to believe that your
wife is in that box!"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09

Scott as to what he meant by 1.-THE
Odor of decayed meats in his report.
in view of the statement Of Wilson
that from a business proposition de
cayed meats could not he left around.
1T was certainly an odOr of decayed
meat" persisted Neill 1T may have
been from the rotten Eeat-soaked
wood
What do you mean by sinking?
asked Wadsworth. "One would infer
you meant a horrible, rotten sinking
condition.
That's what it was" said the wit
ness.
This sentence in the report was read
and questions asked: 'In a word, we
saw meat shoveled from filthy wood
en- floors, piled ON tables rare'y
washed taken from room to room in
rotten box carts, in all of which pro-
cesses it was in the way of gathering
dirt, splinters, floor filth and the eX-
nectoration of tuberculosis and other
disease workers."
How do you know it was tuber-
culosis expectoration? asked Chair
man WadsWorth.
Il thought so,'' answered Neill. Then
simplifying. he said he saw men there
whom he believed were tuberculouS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
SCORES AT BASE BALL

Chicago. June S. Following are
the base ball scores:
League: At delphia-Cincin-
natl 5, Philadelphia 2 = eleven in
nings; at Brooklyn-St. Louis Z, Brook
lyn 3; at New YOrk-Chicago 10, New
York o; at BoSton--W Gather.
American: At Decentralization Q.
Cleveland 4: at Washington
l, Detroit {; at st. Louis-New York
6, st. Louis thirteen innings; at
Chica gov Gather.
Association: At Indianapolis - Min
neapolis 4, Indianapolis l: (second
game) Minneapolis 3, Indianapolis e.;
ut Louisville-St. Paul 8, Louisville TO-
at Columbus-Milwau ,. Columbus
4; at Kansas City-Toledo s, Kansas
City II.
Western: At Pueblo-Sioux City >
Pueblo S; at Omaha-Lincoln 8, Oma-
ha- Il; at DenEef-DeS M0ines / f. f.
Denver l.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
LAST OF THE BOOMERS.
One Lonely Old Woman the Sole Sur
vivor Of the Once Famous
Band.

All that remains of the famous
"Bloomer Band" of half a century ago
is one lonely old woman and a new
word in the dictionary. The term
"bloemers" has survived, but few
know that the word had its origin
in movement of half a century age
for the revolutionizing of womaR's
costume as a first step toward the en-
forcement of equal rights with men.
The woman who led this band was
Mrs. Anne Bloomer, of New York.
Mrs. Bloomer was a famous advocate
OF woman's rights, but she attained
worldwide fame only when she called
upon her enslaved sisters to break the
shackles, defy convention and the
male sex and step into the light of
day wearing trousers, the uniform of
liberty. Not all at once did the little
band of women who responded to the
BloomeF call cast aside the garb Of
the down-trodden sex A COMPROMISE
was effected in the form of a costume
part trousers part skirt. It was hide
Gus, nightmare, a thing to make
both sexes shuddeT and seek the woods.
But many women set their teeth and
marched into the limelight wearing
the new "Bloomer" costume
The entire world shrieked. The
Bloomerites were Iampooned in type
and picture, even Punch considered
the subject important enough for his
satirical shafts. The nerve of some
of the Bloemerites failed them after
a time and the costume became less
and less familiar in the streets Of
American cities. 1t was generally sup
posed that nothing remained Of the
BlOOmer movement but the name, now
applied to more than one kind of
neither garment. But there is one
Boomer woman still living and stiR
boldly facing a hooking world, wear
ing the costume adopted at the time
of the futile movement Of half
century ago. This last survivor of the
famous Bloomer brigade is Susan
Fowler, Of Vineland, N J. For 4G
years she has titled her farm, gath.
cred her harvest and, clad in the COS
tune to which she has ever remained
faithful has driven to market TO sell
her produce. Indifferent to the atteR-
ton she attracts, the only living
BIoomer woman walks the streets 81
Jersey town or tolls on her farm
dressed in the garb over which the
comic papers of the world cackle6
with merriment in the fifties.. 1t may
be funny to some, but it is a little
pathetic, too, to see the lonely ole
woman (for she is so years Of age
and works and lives in solitUde)
clinging stanclr2y to the dress she IN
dertook to wear when women were
calling on their sisters to discard the
skirt of thraldom and be free like
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
Memories of his Youth,

A hard-headed old Pittsburg manufac-
turer who made his fortune, as he ex-
presses it, with his coat off," was in
duced by his daughters to accompany
them to a Wagner concert, the first he
had ever attended, relates Success Maya
zine. The next day he happened to meet
an acquaintance who had seen him the
night before, who asked:
Il suppose you enjoyed the concert
last night, Mr.. BROWNE"
Eyes; it took me back to the days Of
my YOUTH the old man said, with a
reminiscent sigh
',Ah, summer days in the country, girl
in lawn dress, birds singing, and all
that?"
mo, the days when l worked in a
boiler shop in Scranton :"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
A CURIOUS CHURCH.
ODD PLACE OF WORSHIP IN
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA.
Constructed of All Sorts of Material
and Used by Russian Settlers
"A Tribute to the
Priest.

Necessity is known to be the mother
of invention, and the Canadian west
is full of examples of how the en-
terprise and adaptability of pioneers
has roughly fashioned to the uses of
civilization the virgin resources of
nature. The accompanying picture
represents the place of worship of the
Greek Orthodox Church of Canada, sit
uated on Stella street, Winnipeg, and
it is an example, the most curious in
our acquaintance, of how the energy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
TAKES ISSUE WITH WILSON
Declares That the Floors Were Not
Scrubbed for Weeks.

Declares That the Floors Were Not
Scrubbed for Weeks.
Ne1ll rather discouraged a visit Of
the committee to Chicago at this time
as many of the conditions complained
of were due to negligence and could
have been remedied Immediately. He
denied the statement of Wilson that
the floors We're scrubbed daily. The
dirt on some of the rooms was caked
on the floor and had not been washed
for weeks. Neill was asked: "You
take direct issue with Mr. Wilson on
the fact that these rooms were not
cleaned?" eyes, sir, l do. There We're
floors there that were black. There
was no ventilation
Haugen wanted to know the objec-
tion to artificial light. 1--WE are work
ing right here in this room with arti-
fetal light and have fifty others right
On this Capitol MY opinion is re-
piled Neill, that no one should be
required to work eight hours a day by
artificial light" He could not exact
" specify the rooms that were dirty,
but said he remembered in particular
one cooking room was dirty, and he
remembered walls, particularly in the
entrances, that were sticky with dirt
and pillar that you could scrape dirt
from with your knife.
LOrimer asked number of questions
TO find out if Neill saw meat in transit
from the curing watts to the cooking
vat. But Neil would not answer this
directly. 81 did not follow the meat in
that way he said. 1--WE came upon
meats in all stages, not knowing where
st came from or where it was going
He took issue with Wilson'S statement.
One instance he remembered specifcal-
" i'm the Nelson Norris house. He
saw one of the men who had just fin
fShed his bOning walk over The dirt on
the floor to a pile Of meat on the floor,
climb on to the pile with his feet,
knees and hands. pick up~a piece and
throw it fifteen feet on the floor to his
bench. THIS he said was directly I'M
der the eye Of the superintendent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
SIX DEAD IN THE STORM
Many Seriously Injured and Much
Property Blown Away Is the
Minnesota News,

st. Paul, June s. = Six dead, many
seriously injured and thousands of dol
lars worth of property blown away
briefly summarizes the effects of the
storms which devastated sections OF
Minnesota and Wisconsin. There were
two separate storms, one in southern
Minnesota and western Wisconsin and
one in the northern part of Mime
sofa, which also swept over into Wis
cOnSin.
The dead are:, Near Stoddard, Wis.
HalvOr J. Halvorson: near Caledonia.
Mimi, Mrs. Peter Meyers and tive
children; near North Branch, Mimi.
Engdahl. ST., and Andrew H. Olson
the latter killed by lightning.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
HOUsER Is NUNDR BOND
WiscOnsin's Secretary of State Ar
rested for Bribery-Trial Set
for Friday Next.

Madison, Wis, June S.-The arrest
Of Secretary of State Rouser, charged
by Insurance Commissioner Host with
attempted bribery, took plaae at the
office of the secretary here
Houser appeared in the municipal
court later and waived the reading of
the complaint, and the preliminary ex-
animation was set for the morning Of
the 10Th at 10 o'clock. Houser was re-
leased upon the signing of his own
recogniZance and a bond of $1,000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
Presidents investigator Replies
to the Testimony of the
Packers Witness.
ISSUE OF vERACITY IS MADE
Investigator and Witness Are Wide
Apart on Facts.
NeiH Insists That the FlOOr-ScrubbinS
at the Yards Is Imaginary
:. Other Points of Dispute.

Washington, June s. - The house
committee on agriculture continued it's
hearing on the Neill-Reynolds meat in
epectiOn report. Thomas E. Wilson,
manager for Nelson Norris & Co., and
representing the large Chicago pack
ing houses, continued his remarks on
the Beveridge amendment providing
for meat inspection. His remarks We're
devoted entirely to criticism of such
sections of the Beveridge bill as he
objected to.
Objected to by Wilson.
Representative Adams summed up
the objections Wilson had made to
the Beveridge amendment and Wilson
assented to each in turn. The first was
the objection to placing the cost of
inspection on the packers; the second
requiring dates on labels: third, the
sanitary requirement, which leaves dis
cretiOn to common carriers to reject
shipments if it regards the packing
house from which they came as I'M
sanitary; ESurth, the use of adjectives
describing meat unfit for food; fifth.
the restriction on preservatives, in such
form that any inspector might put his
own Interpretation on what was in
furious. and sixth, the requirement
that the contents of canned product
shall be gct forth on the label.
n DIP. NeilI Goes on the Stand.
Neill was then pat on the stand.
Scott Of Kansas wanted to know the
training Neill had previously had to
prepare Inn to make the inquiry. 81
simply claim to be a man of average
Intelligence" he replied. He said he
had worked ia a Chicago packing
house for. six months in a university
settlement. Nei1l related a parting in
terview with DIR. Dyson, consulting
veterinarian in Chicago representing
the packers. DR.. Dyson, he said, sug-
gested that Neill and Reynolds go to
Washington. make no report, but in
form the packers of the conditions
found and suggestions for remedies;
then to wait thirty days and come back
and see if conditions had not been bet
tered. This, he indicated, was to pre-
vent injury to the trade. Neill said
he replied that he was not authorized
to make any trade or deal. He then
presented two letters he had received
from DR.. Dyson along the same lines.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
THE WEATHER

Following is the official weather
forecast up to s o'clock tonight:
Illinois and Indiana-Partly cloudy
with showers and thundeEstorms f;
brisk southwest winds.
Lower Michigan-Showers and thun-
derstorms; high southwest winds.
Possible showers and
thunderstorms; cooler in west portion
high southwest winds.
Iowa-Partly cloudy with showers
and thunderstorms in east and central
portions; cooler.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
WAS THAT HOG CLEANED?.
That Is Something the Witness Is Not
Prepared to Say.

IfCDdFcu I'd say
The slipping of a hog into a plivy
was made the subject of a colloquy
between the witness and Representa-
tive Brooks, of Colorado. He said he
saw the hog fan and identified a pic
ture OF the privy; it was a very filthy
one; the hog was put up on the rack
and he believed the hog was never
cleaned. Chairman Wadsworth persist
ed that the witness might "beIieve'' the
hog was not cleaned, but he did not
know it,
At this point Wilson was allowed to
state that there were men scraping
and cleaning these hogs, and that none
was allowed in the cooling room that
was not perfectly clean. This was
not a case of scraptng, it was one for
cleaning with an antfSeftic flrl4d.'' re
piled N0iH. Chairman Wadsworth per-
sisted that the hog case contained the
essence of the whole report. The state
meRt was positively made in the re-
port that the hog was, not cleaned, he
said, when as a matter OF fact Neill
had admitted he had not followed the
hog to ascertain absolutely the fact he
had stated.
Just before the committee adjourned
for the day the question Of the style
OF the witness examination came up
and he said that his treatment had
been quite different from that given
Wilson, intimating that it had been
hostile in his case, the attempt being
made IN MT him in To r,-,.o,no
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09

The book plate used by Sir Henry
Irving has now recognized value in
a collection of such designs. The cop
les of the plate have already been sold
at good prices in England and on the
continent. The design, which was
made by direction of the great actor,
is shown herewith.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-06-09
AS TO "ROTTEN" BOX CARTS
Stands to His Charge That the Meat
Was Decayed.

Chairman Wadsworth took up the
statement in the report: eve saw meat
shOveled from dirty floors into rotten
boxes and pushed from room to room"
''How do you know they were rotten?
Did you test them?e
I'VE felt them .sand smelt them
There are floors there he continued,
(which all the seas could not wash
the dirt from !.
But you could not push a box Of
meat if the box was rottC = persisted
Wadsworth. --
When questioned by Representative