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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
Planting Trout.

1t was the policy Of the officers Of a
certain railroad line, In all their adj
vertising matter, to place great stress
on the excellence of the trout-f1shing
to be reached by their lines; and in
order to provide the trout, it was neces-
sary from time to time to plant the
advertised streams with fry.
On one occasion an old gardener
named Conelly, who had charge Of the
station grounds, was sent out with the
cans of fry, procured from che State
hatchery, and a railroad map, marked
to show exactly where to plant the tiny
fish.
Conelly returned that night, how
ever, with part of the fry still I'M
planted. He needed further instruc-
lions from the general passenger agent,
who had marked the map.
"Say, mister" said Conelly, scratch
ing his perplexed head with one hand
and pointing to the can with the
other, shall 1 plant thin fish wild the
tails up, or downs"
why" shouted the irascible agent,
"you laundering blockhead-'
"Aisy, aisy!" murmured Conelly.
"Oi'm no such blockhead as ye'd think.
The shpot on the map where We towld
me to plant thin trout Is all billed
down to mud. If thin small fish is to
go in that sthream at all, at all, It's
wan by wan they'll have to go IN, like
banes. All I'm askin' is this: Is it
heads up yen have thin, or tails?''
We all do "mean little things" think
ing people will not catch us at them,
but we are always caught
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
IF True Hunter-BorR.

Pierced by the blasts of bitter cold
day,
Facing the gale On lone, bleak
shore,
Cramr $500 hl.nd" on a reed
marged bay,
While from a1ar sound the ocean s
wild roar.
Weary end dreary and lone and for
lorn,
Yet LOVING t all-if true hunter-born.
Stationed alone in a wilderness drear
Watching trail thro' the gloom OF
dawn,
Chilled to the marrow, your eyesight
a-blear,
Watching and waiting for buck, doe
or fawn,
watching and waiting and praying for
morn,
Yet loving it aH-if true hunter-born.
Thrashing about through the frost
bronzed brush,
Hampered by bush, brier, tangle and
log.
WatchfuI. expecting each moment a
flush
Striving to keep wary eye on your
deg,
Railing your luck. But fig for your
scOrn,
You're loving it all-if true hunter
born.
will Cuhnback Ludlow in Forest and
Stream.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
THE BADGER STATE
NEWS OF THE WEEK C:HCISELY CONDENSED
WOMAN GIVES SCHOOL $4,000.
Miss Florence ChiIds of EdgertOm
Advances Lawrence's Quest.

Miss Florence ChiIds of EdGertOn
Advances Lawrence's Quest.
DR.. Samuel Plantz, president of Law
renee university, has announced that Miss
Florence Childs of Edgerton had given
$4,000 to the school, which is trying to
raise $150,O00 in order to secure a $780,
600 endowment from the General Educa-
ton Board. In recognition of this dona-
ton the chair of mathematics hereafter
will be called "Childs Chair" This is
said to be the largest educational gift ever
made by a Wisconsin woman. Other gifts
by Wisconsin people were announced by
the president as follows: J. A. Kimberly,
capitalist and paper manufacturer of
Neenah, $4,000; L. J. Nash, ManitowOc,
$1,000; l. X. Edmunds, Rhinelander, ST.
GOO. Recently the university received
$4,000 from a man whose name has been
withheld at his own request. He gave
over half of his property and made
verbal promise to contribute the last $10,-
600 to the fund.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
State News in Brief.

4. NJ. Gilbert millionaire paper man.
ufacturer and a member of the Gilbert
PAPER Company was found dead in bed
at Neenah Mr.. Gilbert was about 90
years old.
At Watertown Junction st. Paul pas
senger train struck a handcar on which
were nine laborers and severely injured
each one. Several were thrown twenty
feet or more.
f. @. Ambrose, manufacturer and
dealer in engineV and boilers, will move
his shop from Jefferson. to GAINESVILLE,
having signed a fve-year lease for fac
tory and Shop building.
The days old baby of Mrs. Erwin
Giaaue. for which the entire police force
Of Minneapolis had been searching for
two days. was found in Superior at the
ChiIdren's Home. \ Polish nurse girl is
under arrest charged with kidnapping the
child.
one OF the oldest residents in Douglas
county in the person of Charles Smith
was found in his shack by a neighbor
suffering from a stroke of paralysis that
has rendered useless his left side. He
has lain in the one position on the floor
for two days and was nearly dead when
discovered. He had hOmesteaded on the
property about seventeen years ago. In
his bedroom was found a splendid cO.lec-
ION of classical works that had been his
sole companions throughout the long sew
enteen years he has voluntarily exiled
himself from his fellows.
The C. f. Stout Lumber COmpany's
saw mill at Westboro was destroyed by
fire. The loss is $1,000, with no insur-
ance.
Lightning destroyed $4,000 worth of
property on the Mcdonald farm, near
GAINESVILLE. including four blooded horses,
forty sheep. barns and farm implements.
Mrs. Florence BriscO began suit for
divorce against Vincent BriscO at Mil
waukee. He was a railway brakeman
and killed Police Lieutenant Fitzgerald
Nav 0. 1902. Mrs. Brisco Says her husv
band deserted her on that day and has
never been captured or heard from.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
DIES LAUGHING AT FUNNY TALE.
kenOsha Man ChOI<es to Death After
Listening to AnecdOte.

KenOsha Man ChOI<es to Death After
Listening to AnecdOte.
Louis Dillis, a Kenosha brass worker,
heard the funniest story of his life the
other night, and as a direct result his
body lies in the mOrgue waiting for his
relatives to come and claim it. Just be-
fore Dillis died he shouted to the band
of workers about him, L will die laugh
ing at that story some time and the la
bOrprs who attended the inquest seemed
to think that the death of Dillis was a
part of the joke. Dillis was employed in
a night squad at the Chicago brass works.
Just before midnight the men went t. a
boarding house for lunch. One of the men
told a story and Dillis was convulsed
with laughter. He laughed as he ate.
and while in a CONFUSION of laughter he
attempted to swallow a big piece of meat.
1t lodged in his windpipe and he fell over
from the table. The men thought that
he was joking with them. but when he
failed to get up from the floor they went
TO his assistance and found that he was
dead
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
SHOT AT FROM AMBUSH.
Looks Like Attempt to Murder Rev.
Watson on Reservation.

Looks Like Attempt to Murder Rev.
Watson on Reservation.
Rev. John Webster of the Methodist
mission ON the Oneida reservation, was
fired upon from ambush the other night
while passing the home of Jonas Metoxen.
the famous football player of Carlyle
college, and sustained bullet wound in
his right leg. Another ball passed with
in a few inches of his head. Mr.. Web
ster was on his way home from the vii
lage Of Freedom at 9 o'clock when fired
upon. He at once went to the home of
Metoxen to investigate the cause of the
act. but Metoxen knew nothing Of it ex-
cept that he had heard two shots. The
two men are the best of friends, of high
moral character and have a high standing
among the Indians. The affair is of the
deepest mystery. County officials have
taken up the matter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
WILL BUILD TRANSFER LINE.

Company Formed to Operate Termf-
nal Business Around Duluth.
The Wisconsin and Northern Mime
sofa Railway Company, capital 100000,
has been incorporated to construct and
operate a railroad, equip and operate on
any railroad or railroads previously con-
structed, to connect with navigation or
ferry companies fer the transfer of
freight and passengers and to acquire
docks and other terminal facilities at
Superior and Duluth. The road is to
start in the northeast part of Douglass
county and extend in a northerly and
northeasterly direction through the city
of Superior to the st. Louis river and
thence across the river by ferry OF bridge
to the city of Duluth. It's length within
Wisconsin will be about twenty-five
miles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
ID. "Then may che curses

MS mana. 1uOn may suS CuA SC0
Of"
He got no further, for quickly as
he moved the Vigilant was quicker
still. Never turning his eyes from
those Of the mailman before him, he
whipped out the revolver which he
had been holding beneath the rug and
fired quickly twice. The man jerked
convulsively as the bullets struck
him; but so great is the strength OF
managed to fling out his arm and
hatred that by a supreme effort he
small, black object, no bigger than
an orange, described a swooping
curve.
Kioto sprang as a cat springs, and
caught it, bare two inches from
the floor, just as the man himself
reeled and fell. 1t was a steel-cased
picric acid bomb-one of those intend
ed for use at Nervan. Had it touch
ed it would have annihilated every
thing for twenty yards round.
Marshall Third laid down the still
smoking revolver and took it in his
hand.
"The window, K'oto," he said, quick
ly. '"The room reezs Of powder.
Then take this and call the police"
He wrote rapidly on sheet of pa
per:
''The man Pasquali will not be pres
emit on the occasion of your highness's
nation."-AnsWers
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
TAX MAN SOLVES ODD TANGLE.

Inauisitive Assessor Finds Calico
Lost for "a Year.
An inquisitive tax assessor has straight
ened out a peculiar tangle which devel-
Oped in Milwaukee over a shipment Of
calico from Boston to a Kenosha com
pany. The shipment did not arrive in
Kenosha. The other day the assessor
pccked through window into a storage
house. He saw the calico and copied the
name of the consignee, as the location of
the shipment in this storage house arous-
eG his curiosity He then notified the
Kenosha house, stating that he would
have to collect the tax. This gave the
company the clew, which had been sought
in vain for over q year
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
ASK MIIS14oN FOR NORWAY.
Huge Sum for Fatherland to BE
Raised in the United States.

Huge Sum for Fatherland to Be
Raised in the United States.
Gov. James O. Davidson has been asked
by John w. Artcander of Minneapolis,
Mimi, to serve on a committee Of sew
enteen which is to, raise $1,000000 for
the benefit of Norway. Of this sum
$25O,O0O is to be devoted to forestry,
$25O.OOO for drainage and 100000 for
uplifting and encouraging the industries
Of Norway. Gov. Davidson has not yet
signifed his intentions on the subject.
The plan viii meet with opposition even
among Norwegians, it is said, who de-
clare that there is enough improvement to
be made in the United States without
spending money for uplifting Norway.
Other Norwegians have pledged their aid
for the cause.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
STAGE FOR THE PARLoR.
How to Erect One for Production of
Home TheafrfcaIs.

HOW to Erect One for Production of
Home TheatricaIs.
NO pleasanter home entertainment
can be prepared than a we'll conducted
play but in order to be this something
more. is needed than good amateur act
Ing, lmpo~tant as this admittedly is.
To have a home play ''go off, well,
there must be something done in the
way of stage appointments, and the
nearer these can approximate genuine
accessories so much the better.
The Illustrations show plan for
building stage at one end or on one
side of room, all the work being of
such nature that no injury need be
done to the woodwork or the furnish
ings. A situation should be chosen so
that a door may open from one side
of the space set apart for the stage.
This will give opportunity for the max
ing Of entrances" and "exits," and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
Pleads Guilty to Shooting.

Frank Capparo of Cumberland, who
riddled the home of his sweetheart with
bullets while seeking a man named Gold
des. who walked home from church with
the girl, has pleaded guilty to the charge
of assault with intent to kill.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
Lightning Destroys Barn.

The barn of David Mcdonald, west of
Whitewater, was struck by lightning and
with its contents burned. Destroyed in
it were five horses. forty sheep. nine
COWS. six calves. hay and farm nipple
ments. The building was valued at 81
600. and was insured for about One-haif
that amount.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
ALLEGED FORGER MISSING.

Fred C. Wells Charged with School
Fund Shortage OF $4,000.
From the report of the committee en-
pIoyed to check up the accounts of for
mer secretary of the school board of the
town of Iron River, Fred c. Wells, it
was found that his accounts were short
something over $1,000, obtained through
alleged forgery of school orders. A war
rant has been out for the arrest Of Wells,
but all efforts to locate him have proved
fruitleSS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
BOMB FOR SUIT CLUBS

District Attorney of KenOSha County
Declares They Are Lotteries.
District Attorney Baker of Kenosha
has sent out an order declaring all suit
clubs and similar organizations lotteries
and directed that they be stopped at once
on penalty of prosecution. An examina-
ton shows that more than 1000 people
there are interested in these clubs. -Four
thousand dollars is being paid into one
clubs treasury weekly and it Is claimed
that the income Of one man from the
clubs exceeds $4,000 year. 1t is said
that more than 200 women are inter
csted in these organizations.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
SUES TO ANNUL MARRIAGE.
Young Man Says His Views OF Maj
rimOny Have Changed.

Forest z. Post. II years old. through
his mother as guardian, has brought suit
to annul his marriage with Alice Kellar
Post on Jan. 3 of this year at Ham
mond, Ind. The principals in the suit
are members of prominent milwaukee,
families and their unexpected marriage
caused a sensation. Post says he has
changed his mind about married life.
Soon after the suit was filed young Post
was arrested on the charge of abandon
ment preferred by his wife. lie was re-
leaSed under bail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
Killed h. stnmn PuIIer.

Adelbert z. wilkins. president and
manager of the Phoenix Nursery c. at
Delavan. was killed while assisting pull
ING stumps at the nursery. The cleviS
hin became loose in the evener and the
sweep that acts as a lever sprung back
with great force and struck Mr.. Wilkins
in the forehead, crushing his skull.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
USES HER SLIPPER ON MAN.
Actress Resenfs Effort to Move Her
from "a Porch.

AEUAIa q . UItAAs
Charles Bender. a shoemaker. was fined
S. and costs in the police court in Mil
waukee for attacking Miss Marion Max
we'll But for the beating he got in
return for his attack. the court said. he
would have been fined a larger sum. Ii
developed that Miss Maxwell. an actress.
beat him with the heel of her dainty
slipper until he fed in terror. He has
been in bed most of the time since the
fracas. The shoemaker objected to Miss
Maxwell sitting on his front porch and
attempted to move her therefrOm. He
was decidedly worsted.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12
Ynn Camps Boav Found.

4 body found at BROWNSVILLE. Mimi.
twelve miles south of La Crosse. was
identified as the body of Wollfred Van
Camp. a saloonkeeper, who was drowned
in the Mississippi river with Miss Rose
Wright a few weeks ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12

There are about $4,000 Chinese in
the Transvaal gold mines, which fact
is giving the British some concern.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12

The ancient Egyptians used a form
of blast furnace 1000 B. c.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12

Gov. Davidson has issued a prOclama-
ton designating June IL as Flag day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12

A mans hair usually turns gray
i've years sooner than a woman's.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12

We all do ''mean little things" think
ing people will not catch us at them,
but we are always caught
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06

and returned once more to his Mis-
sissippi home. He resumed his po-
itical career in Congress, being ele-
waited to the United States Senate
and to the cabinet of President Pierce
as Secretary of War.
OutIived Sectional Feeling.
With the consideration of Mr.. Da-
Wis political career the speaker dis
cussed at some length the issues
which led to the Civil war, mainly
the right of secession. He said:
"Mr. Davis accepted the ideas of
the eminent makers of the constitu-
ton and believed that they had or
dained and established a general gov
ernment, which had ample powers to
conduct the states to the brOadest and
loftiest national glory, without having
conferred a grant or even one power to
Cypress any citizen or class Of citizens
nor to discriminate against a section
or scourge a state" Quoting Mr.. Da-
Wis words, "As long as 1 held seat
in the Senate my best efforts were
directed to the maintenance of the
constitution and the union resulting
from it, and to make the general gov
ernment an effective agent for its pre-
scribed purposes. AS soon as the para
mount allegiance due to Mississippi
forbade continuance of these efforts
| withdrew from the position"
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06
PAGE THIRTEEN
THE AMAZING ECONOMICS OF ME-
MORTAL DAY,

Continued from Page ID
plain what the remaining $S,OOO,OOO,
600 represents?
To speak about value" in the
vague, reckless way manifested in
these remarks is extraordinary in a
long-deliberated public address. What
under the sun does it mean to say
that the commercial value" of the
railroad property of the country is
worth as much as the securities rep
resenting it? The presence of the
men that get rich from stock-water-
ing is that their practices are justified
because a property can rightfully be
capitalized up to its earning power.
Is that what the president means?
The net earnings of a railroad this
year may be 100000, whereupon,
according to this pretence, it's CAPT.
talization should be 100000 900, allow
ing 5 per cent as the proper and nor
NAL rate of dividends. Next year the
road may go into the hands of a re-
ceiver and its net earnings be moth
ing. Then, according to this brilliant
theory Of economies, and according to
President Roosevelt's deductions, the
capitalization also should be nothing.
Loose talk?" Well, rather: so
loose it rattles.
What the country would really like
to know from President Roosevelt or
some other eminent authority is this:
Since more than one-half of the cap
italizatiOn Of the American railroads is
fictitious, and since on this fictitious
capitalization the public must furnish
the dividends and interest charges,
how large a proportion Of the present
freight rates and passenger rates could
be scaled off if the capitalization were
real instead of fictitious?
To one not enlisted in a third-term
movement it would seem much more
important to answer this question
than to reassure Wall street at time
when Wall street is doing quite we'll,
and when the only persons that need
reassuring are the tin-horn gamblers
that, securing an advance copy of the
presidents speech, use it to fleece
some unwary victims of their game.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06
Will You Join Us
In Making A Fortune =?

Nothing surely offers safe investment and large returns
gOod manufacturing stock Probably you do realize how
many people that enjoying regular the results from
investing manufacturing stocks There thousands Of them
and they largely those who bought their
portuny first price
Company had been fully developed.
Stocks of manufacturing companies have advanced from
few dollars share ranging from $100
value and besides have paid back the dividends
times what they first invested Many of
paying from so to 100 cent in dividends the first price for
stock.
Twenty-Five Bell Telephone stock sold at 81 share;
this stock has increased i'll value ST. 900 share.
few Linotype Machine stock sold 500 share;
this stock is worth $1,000 share today the market
To Sch opportunity purchase stock in the Empire
Machine Company at $25 share This in the hands
of whose ability and integrity be questioned these
pledge themselves that each and nver in the
enterprise receives equal division of the profits
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06
CANNING
HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO.
Loopers, S. c., February 5, 1907.
The Raney Gamer Co.,
Chanel Hill NJ n

AOop0AS, .. ", r0UIudIy D, 1JU(.
The Raney Gamer Co.,
Chapel Hill, N. G.
Gentlemen:-In regard to the No. 2
Gamer l bought Of you last season, |
must say 1 am more than pleased
with it. When l bought it 1 only in
tended using it for my own goods,
but l canned for my neighbors as well
as myself. ordered my outfit late in
the season July 12th), as you re-
member, and put up 100000 ten thou
sand cans. My fruit is certainly fine.
1t has the natural flavor. My goods
are pronounced ''the very best" by
all who have tested them. /
expect to purchase a larger outfit
from you this season and can on a
larger scale.
To sum it all up must say Raney's
Gamer is good enough for me.
With best wishes and a prosperous
season for you, am,
Yours very truly,
w. H. WILLIAMS.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06
CONCRETE.

has long been
the future its development such is becoming necessity. That
material is needed by the diminishing supply
of wood, which is estimated will al be in years.
Wooden buildings have practically short life of usefulness
and buildings of brick although they have life.
to weather conditions and will eventually dsnegrate
CRETE the contrary when subject M conditions,
stronger time goes
The Empire Machine Company has just been organized
ufacuers of Concrete Block Machines, Machines
Concrete Mixers Concrete Sidewalk Machines
Machines
THIS has been Incorporated with capital of
$5000O divided into shares value 800 SHARE temporary
price, $25 a share.
Our Machines fully protected by United States and Foreign
Patents There 300 profit their manufacturer
this profit and the rapidly nc easing for
Machinery should make this stock pay dividends Of 80
100 year in the future Dividends will be declared
sem-arnualy
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
A SEAT OF MANY ILLS.
Eye Strain 10 Responsible For a Num-
her of Ailments.

Eye Strain 10 Responsible For Num-
Der of Ailments.
When the specialist to whom they
had taken their sixteen-year-old daugh-
ter on account of what seemed to be a
case of incipient melancholla diagnosed
the case as one of eye strain and or
1ered prompt treatment from an ocu-
list, the parents of young New York
girl were astonished. Eye strain SEEM
ed as remote from melancholla as
would eorns on the feet. Their aston
Ishment was proportionately increased
when after few treatments and &C
qulring glasses the child showed no.
ticeable improvement,
Latter day medical science traces to
sye strain many ills which seem so re-
mote from the eyes that formerly ply
sicians never thought of establishing q
connection between them. Sick head
ache, nervousness. meiancholia, insom-
ala, are but few which have of late
been laid to the door of weak eyes, the
proper treatment having been neg
lected.
Nervous diseases of the nature Of st.
Vitus' dance are now thought to origi-
nate frequently in eye trouble. The
weak eyes blink incessantly, aud this
leads to a general contortlon of the
facial muscles, which grows on the
subject through constant repetition
Exchange.