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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08
MAI. GEN. WILSON.
One of the Nine Surviving Generals
of the Civil War.

One of the Nine Surviving Generals
of the Civil War.
OF the 253 major generals and those
Of superior rank upon whom fell tho
military responsibilities of the field
during the course of the Civil War,
there are only nine survivors, OF
these Major General James Harrison
Wilson, famous cavalry leader and en-
gineer officer, is president of the Cav
airy Society of the Armies of the Unit
ed States.
General Wilson was born in Shaw
neetown, ILL.,, in 1887. His grandfather
was one of the founders of Illinois and
his father was an ensign in the war
of 1912 and a captain in the Black
Hawk War. General Wilson was edu-
Gated at McKendree College and at the
United States Military Academy, froT4
which he graduated in 1860. He was
assigned to the corps of typographical
engineers and was the chief engineer
of the Port Royal expedition. He then
served in the Department of the South.
and acted as aide-de-camp to General
George B. Mcclellan, being present at
the battles of South Mountain and An
tietam. Appointed lieutenant colonel
in the volunteer staff of the army, in
November, 1862, he served as chief en-
gineer and inspector general of the
Army of the Tennessee. and was active
in the operations around Vicksburg. He
became captain of engineers in May,
1868, and brigadier general of volun-
teers in October of that year and was
engaged in the operations near Chat
tanooga, the battle of Missionary Ridge
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08

were bound and carried off to be sold
as slaves, and since that awful day l
have never seen her. The robbers car
ried me blindfolded to their mountain
stronghold, where l suffered great bod
lily hardship and intense anguish of
spirit. After many months, one day l
was hastily summoned, blindfolded and
presently handed over to passing car
AVIAN OF merchants to whom 1 had been
sold as a slave. These men took me
to the city of Colosse and exposed me
there for sale in the slave market. Very
soon was purchased and taken to the
home of wealthy man named Phile-
mon."
"Ah! Where was he from? Was he
a Christian
"He had not lived long in Colossg,
and think he came from Ephesus, but
am not certain. Yes, he was good man,
and his kind treatment of me was the
first thing that impressed me with the
idea that his religion was good"
"The very same! Did he have a
grown son? And was his wife named
Apphia?'
"You seem to know his family. He
has a grown son named ArchippuS, who
is also, like the parents, an active Chris
tian worker.
''Most assuredly I know that family,
seeing baptized both the parents and
the infant son, but l have not seen
them for years. The pastor Of that
church, Epaphras, is my feNow-pris-
oner here at Rome, and he has told me
many things about the church there
which Philemon helped him to found.
The young man, Archippus, is now act
ing pastor during the absence of Epa-
phras. And so you were in the home
how did you come here If you were his
servant? l fear you took matters into
your own hands and fed"
Eyes, that is exactly the case, but
surely you do not think did wrong in
escaping from slavery, do you? True,
my master was kind man, and now as
1 look back upon it all, it may be that
he was planning to instruct me in the
Gospel; for he always tried to have
me in to the services with the other
servants. But my heart was bitter
over the terrible fate which had befall-
en- our entire family. 1 saw no reason
why l should tamely submit to slavery
who had the rather been accustomed
l. ., g.
was my spirit that all the kindness of
my master was lost on me, and de-
termined to escape This was the easier
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08

| and the relief of Knoxville. Placed in
command of the third division of the
Cavalry Corps in the Army Of the
Potomac, he bore a conspicuous part in
the operations under General Philip III.
| Sheridan, including the Richmond raid
| and the cOmbats near Petersburg. He
led his division through the Shenan-
doah campaign including the battle Of
Opequan, until October, 1864, when he
was assigned to the command of the
Cavalry Corps of the military division
of the Mississippi Organizing a mount
ed body of $4,000 men, he contributed
| largely to the success won in the west
by the armies of General Thomas and
General Sherman, particularly by his
capture of Selma and Montgomery,
Ala, and Columbus and Macon, Ga
In % days he captured five fortified
cities, % stands of colors, 28S guns
and $500 prisoners, among them JEFF
ferson Davis. April, 1865, he was pro-
noted major general of volunteers.
In January, 1866, he was mustered
out of the volunteer service and in July
was commissioned lieutenant colonel of
the Thirty-fifth Infantry and brevetted
major general in the q. S. A. for gall
liant and meritorious services during
the war.
In 1870 he was honOrably discharged
and engaged in large railroad and en-
cheering operations at home and
abroad. In May, 1898, he was COM
missioned major general in the volun-
teer service for the Spanish war and
commanded the First and Sixth Army
Corps in Georgia and Cuba and took
part in the Porto Rico campaign. He
was with the China Relief Expedition
and commanded the cooperating force
Of American and British troops in the
capture of eight Chinese temples. He
also commanded the American forces
in Picking. When King Edward Of En-
gland was crowned General Wilson rep
resented the United States Army. He
was placed on the retired list in 1901
by special act of Congress as brigadier
general Of the u. S. A.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08

There never has been a time in this
country when the question Of highway
improvement was so vigorously dis
cussed in the press, on the platform and
by the fireside There is a general
movement for better conditions, and it
is spreading from coast to coast. For
the first time real progress is being
made.
In solving any question the first
thing is to find out what ought to be
done, how it ought to be done, and who
ought to do it; in other words, to start
right and make every step count. The
country is phenomenally prosperous i'll,
spite of the late bankers panic and the
people demand better things. Nothing
is more needed and nothing will pay
better return for the outlay than good
roads. By that we mean roads good
365 days in the year.
The traffic over the highways is
enormous. The worlds food supply
passes from the farm to the market,
and a large part of the manufactured
product of labor goes the other way
over the road to the farm home. The
farmer is the manufacturers biggest
and best customer. This important
communication between the farm and
the railway should be uninterrupted.
Bad roads longest traffic, interfere with
business and make for the business
world either feast or a famine.
After careful study and painstaking
investigation fifteen States have found
out what ought to be done, how it
ought to be done, and who should do
it. They unanimously agree that the
State, from 4 general tax levy, should
pay a substantial part of the perma
nent improvement upon the highways
because the roads belong to the people
and are public property. They found
out that any plan of road improve
ment that is not done under expert en-
cheering supervision is a waste of
funds and that farm property ought to
be relieved Of a part at least of the
cost of building and maintaining the
roads. New Jersey began the expert
ment and it was found to be a success.
Other States followed. The first twelve
of them were all in the East. Michi-
gan came in rs the thirteenth, Ohio the
fourteenth and Virginia the fifteenth
State. While there is some variation
In the details of the various States, as
might be expected, the central idea is
the same.
BY the State Aid plan (Which has
become tremendously popular, especial
ly with the farmers, because it brings
to them the greatest relief, and yet
leaves the absolute control of the high
ways with the people of the respective
townships), the burden is so distrib
uted that two or three times the
amount of money can be raised for
road building purposes, and there is
very little increase in the rate of taxa
ton. The State aid plan is sure to be
adopted throughout the Union, as it is
the only successful plan that has yet
been devised to solve this great and
veXing questiOn.LH III. Gross, Secre-
tary Farmers Good Roads League.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08
Too Hard to Pronounce.

A well-dresSed man entered a flor
lists shop in a certain city recently,
threw down 4 dollar and said he
wanted some flowers to take home He
was quite unsteady, evidently taper
ing off a spree, and the flowers were
apparently intended as a domestic
peace offering. The florist picked out
a collection of hyacinths, and the
caller started to leave, but at the door
hesitated. 81 say" he said, thickly,
whats these flowers called?" "Hya-
cinths," said the florist. The customer
shook his head, and, as he walked
back to the counter, said: "Gotter
have something easier. Gimme a dozen
roses"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08
MANY MISNOMERS.

Names Which in Certain Depart
ments of Science are Misleading.
There are terms in certain depart
name the products to which they are
applied.
The word "oil' in it's more compre-
hensive and indiscriminate uses is
made to include hydrocarbons, like
petroleum, and also many other SUBJ
stances that have an oily appearance,
like ''oil of vitriol," which is not oil at
all, but sulphuric acid.
Strictly speaking, the mineral oils,
including all petroleum products, are
not OIL although we speak of 'cOal oil"
and kerosene OIL"
The best classihcations of oils do not
include mineral hydrocarbons, like
naphtha, paraffine and petroleum, but
treat only the two well-defned groups
fixed oils and fats, and the essential
or volatile oils.
"Copperas" is not copper, but sui
phite of iron. "Salt of lemon" has
nothing to do with the fruit of the
lemon tree, but is potassium binoXalate,
or potash treated with oxalic acid.
"Carbolic acid" is not an acid. but
phenol. In structure it is allied to the
alcohols, and has only slight acid prop
critics. "Soda water" has no trace of
soda. ''Sulphuric acid contains no
sulphur. sugar of Lead is innocent
of sugar.
Cream Of tartar" has nothing to do
with cream, nor milk of lime" with
milk German silver" is a stranger to
silver, and 'black lead" is not lead at
all, but graphite. Mosaic gold" is
sulphide of tin.
These misleading names have coma
down from the vocabulary of an early
and inexact chemistry. As popular
science extends the old terms are yield
ing to the more scientific nomenclature.
II you want to be satisfied to work,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08

handsome, gentle youth to his very
toward Timothy, the more than son.
This very love between them tended
to melt away all barriers Of reserve.
One day after a long conversation con-
corning the things of the Kingdom Of
Heaven, the master, looking earnestly
at the youth, said:
Tell me more fully your life story,
Onesimus; your up-bringing was not
plebeian that is quite clear"
'HNO, master, it was not. The most of
father was the wealthiest man in the
village where we lived; our home was
luxurious for that region, and my edu-
cation was the best that could be OBJ
tanned"
Eyes, your speech shows that, and
your hands are not yet hardened by
toll. But how did you drift so far
from that happy homer
"Assuredly it was not of my own
choosing, but as you have perhaps
learned, that home was broken rp and
destroyed by a rowing band of robbers.
When they attacked the town, my faith
er led the villagers, who tried to resist
them, but he and most of his company
were slain. The invaders swept down
upon us and came straight to our home.
My mother was 'ruthlessly cut down as
she sought to protect my only sister /;
the home was robbed of everything val
liable, then burned; my sister and 1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08
Excellence of French Roads.

France has 1866 miles Of national
routes, which cost $3OS, 975, 900 to build,
and 316,S98 miles of local highways,
costing S3OS, 100000, of which the state
furnished SS1 100000 and the interested
localities S227,740,O00.
The best and most complete road sys-
tenn in the world is to be found in
France. French roads are good not
because of any superiority Of raw ma
terials. as the same materials exist ev-
erywhere; they are good not because Of
any special talent for road building, as
the formula was furnished by an En-
glishman.
Their real superiority is attributable
to the fact that it is under the constant
intelligent supervision of trained men,
who discover within the organization
opportunities for advancement and dis
tinction which no mere county admins
tration can offer.
The French type of road is the broad
and smooth national route. upon which
one good draught horse is expected to
be able to travel eighteen miles per day,
hauling a load of 1906 pounds
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08

apparent to taxpayers. The import.
ance Of the subject is appreciated in
some States, and measures have been
adopted. There are, however, many
communities where the necessary steps
have not yet been taken. The subject
is treated pertinently by w. Pierre
pont White in a recent article in Out
ing Magazine. In this article Mr..
White says:
"Not one cent of money should be
expended in the creation of these ex-
pensive highways unless at the same
time system Of careful maintenance
and repair is established.
>'Steam roads when first built were
permitted to run down, ties to rot, the
ends Of iron rails to flatten, bolts in
the fish plates to become loose, until a
general overhauling was ordered, and
an excessively expensive amount of re-
pairs was made owing to the neglect.
To-day we'll managed roads do not per-
NIT this. But each road is divided into
sections under engineers, under assist
ant engineers, under section bosses,
with men passing daily up and down
the road, giving it constant repair and
attention. This we are familiar with.
I'm Europe highways are patrOlled
in the same way. Men, usually old,
patrol the roads under their care, each
in charge of a section, each response
BILE for it's condition, and the slightest
hole in the wearing surface is detected,
repaired and filed in Immediately after
it commences. Ruts are detected and
filled, sluices and bitches kept open and
washing of the sides stopped, and only
by this constant care are roads kept
in good condition. This same system
must come to this country and be in
augurated at the time that the general
improvement is made; otherwise the
peoples money will be thrown away"
Good Roads and Farm Values.
There is a direct connection between
good roads and the value of farm
lands. In nearly every case the States
having the highest percentage of i'm
proved roads have the largest popula-
ton per mile of road. This shows that
better roads are a powerful factor in
encouraging the settlement of unused
lands, especially in sparsely populated
sections.
Good roads are also an important in
fiuence in retaining in the farming dis
tricts the desirable elements who might
otherwise drift into the towns and
cities. AS the price of farm lands de
ponds on their productivity, accessibili
ty to markets, and population engaged
or desiring to engage, in agricultural
pursuits, it follows that road improve
ment, by attracting additional settlers
and giving them better facilities for
reaching their markets, directly tends
to increase the values of all farm lands
within the radius of the roads i'm
proved.
Farm lands have been known to adj
vance in value from 80 to 500 per cent,
on account Of the improvement of the
roads connecting them with the mar
ket towns. AS farmers realize that the
establishment of a complete system of
properly constructed public roads in
creases the value Of their farms, they
become the foremost advocates of a
broad, comprehensive policy of public
road improvement.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08
"TO A WOODLAND VIOLET"

Fayface, you
the Shutdown Skies
COnvenlke tall walled like lovely clustered
called Little Sister to the Sum-
the a birth,
to earth
which
pleasure this little song!
Clarence Urmy in Lippincotts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08
Road Maintenance.

The utter wastefulness and lack of
economy in building roads and making
no provision for their repair and main
tenance are becoming more and more
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08

There are very few people who are
polite enough to wait until man is at
leisure before bothering him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08

When a woman invites another to be
her guest, and finds that she has pre-
viOus engagement, she feels that so far
as she is concerned the slate has been
washed off.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08
Art md Tenrs.

az suppose you sometimes shed real
tears at the thcater?" said the adj
mirer
81 am tempted to-" answered Mr..
Stormington Barnes, "when [ look over
the box office statement" Washington
Star
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08

The man who has motto is also apt
to take up some of your time by quot
ing poetry you aren't anxious to hear.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-08

II you want to be satisfied to work,
loaf awhile.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-11-05


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les): 9oite fhon sebDrt, Der Serf@s
mann bat setrisst ipesen ber Yleffe
8 Monate. Seiteles: p@ott. mas mnB
tr semudt haben for a feines @ef9dh
babel! 1
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be. 2ebret: 9urd mas 1T Waridaq
Riel bauptiGhlid beriibmt setporbeHa
S9iilerin: 0ur9 feline Rofsn.
= Sn bcr Rebattion. 9id5F
terIing: Sinh meine Wibfenbuneeit
nidt INNER gum 2adens 8tbdfieaft
So. piFen Sic. tuenn mir bic g}n9
einen Brief bon Sbnen brinei, boHa
RUB i'd fdon INNER laden. 1
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-11-05
. .eemssr ibem".

prioatier gum 2eutnonta
SD babe Iebr pi.l llnsliid i'm 9ebeJs
sebabt. trotoem id nit trbiidsn Gtii4
tern reid sefegnet bin. -
2entnant: t: rRu, oafiir Ioll jsH
bas Slid feinen ginSue bel Sbneit
baIten = i'd perbe cine Sbrsr S6s44
ter beiratben!" !
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-11-05

8ersfer: nSdau Der. pos faS
cine esfdbrlide Sour mir beute mas
den. Der Giibrer bat iosar bos Sei{
miigenommen."
Sennerin: Sch. oa tuirIt' ons
ssbdn5i. baB BIZ or Winb mel forts
bldit.~
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-11-05

@besbGibt. Sic: 9aa, 5erf
2eutnant, Idmedt benn Der Sefi ali
ieines Gr: gtin. liebss &inb, &apiaz
uub 9luiisrn mub i'd aud bu5u bdA
BEN.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-11-05

.@ds bdben sic benn oa fir ed
nen tigentbiimli1en gbauffeura" -
go, ros lit mein alter &utider. 81
eignet iid aud sdn3 gut od3u =
nur pie Eeitide tann id ibm nod
mid. o6eerShnen!"
@nnbel Der 3eiteI.
Mann Gebr ippbltbGtig. 5u ebem0S
blinbem 9sttler): Das, @if 6nbeIk
Sbr 9lusenIidt ipiebererlansts 8end
Ter: Das tam fols.nbermaBen. so
babe nGmiid meinsn Sunb perfureay
unb bd ih nun nidt fdnser bliRe
fein ionnt'. bin ib taubftumm sra
horben. =
Gntf9ulbiet. OnIek
~Wenn i9 70 piel Sdulben b6iie iuh
Ou - i9 fonnte feline Go9t me6r Sas
big i9lofen!" - gleffe (aerfrirfdy)A
yDrum iiB' i'd ia AUDI INNER iD Suas
Eu Der anetpsl-
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-11-05

@9perin. Der bieiise Sdubs
ma9ermtifer paul 9rumn, R0niss
itrabe 35, fam duf bas 25idbrige
9eiteben feinss SpesiaIssi9dfts sus
riidbIiden.
GtGbbers. @ersiftet bat ii9
in feinsr DObnuns Der apotbet.rl,br.
ling Grib sur Cop. aus petersburg.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-11-05

@rmreutb. Sier itiirsts bic
SdnbIersfrau llIm beim Serabbolen
Don Seu 10 uneliidIid bon Der Better
b,rab, buB iie ndd einisen StuHo.H
perfarb.
@iftins. Sier bat cine Rotts
bon Is 8uriden ben rrbis bes Wegss
sebenben BAL. Sebsl unb einsn sefp;is
fen S9neiomiiller iiberfallen un6 ourd
MeHeriti4e idper perl,Bt. Die Rob
linee tpurben .rtaHnt.
RisIbers. Wesen 8ranofiif'
Catoctin clarion., 1908-12-17

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Sus1icion. Not Surprise

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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-05-28
CURES COUGHS AND COLDS
Hyomel Gives Relief In 10 Minutes
Cures Over Night.

Everybody knows. or ought to
know. that Hyomei is recognized
among scientists us the specific for
catarrh. asthma, brochitis ana hay
fever. but there are great many
people who do not know that Hymoei
viii cure a cough or a cold in less
that "a hours.
But every one should know that
the soothing. balmy ana antlseptic
air Of Hymoei when breathed over
the raw and INLAND membrane Of the
nose and throat will instantly alIay
the Inflammation, ana will effect a
prompt cure.
Complete Hyomei outfit. Including
inhaler. costs only $10O at Harrison
& Harrison's. Extra bottles II af-
forwards needed. will cost but so
cents.
Joseph NJ. Harbaugh. Heldredge.
Neb.. writes: Il have used Hymoei in
my family for two years or more.
and find it one Of the best remedies
we ever used FOR a cold or sore
throat. We find that It gives quick
relif in cass OF catarrh.'
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-05-28
S SOCIAL
EnIoyabIe Card Party.

Last evening Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Alexander gave a very enjoyable card
party in their attractive new home
on South Chestnut street in honor of
their visiting guests, Judge and Mrs
Moss, Of Parkersburg. Five tables
were arranged for progressive eu-
chre aud at che close OF the game the
ladies' head prize was captured by
Mrs. Dudley Britt ON cut with Mrs.
Moore Jackson. Mrs. William H.
Lewis, Miss Garrard and Miss Brown,
The lady'sl lone hand prize was cap
tured by Mrs. Henry Raymond on a
tie with Miss Brown. The mems
souvenirs were won by Messrs. Lynn
S. Hornor and osman Swartz on a
cut with Dudley Britt. At 10 O'Clock
a delicious salad supper was served II
small tables. Covers were laid for
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Lewis, Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Findlay. Mr. and Mrs.
Britt, DIR. and Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Jack
son. Mrs. Raymond, Mrs. H. Il.
Houston, Mrs. Robert Wilson, Miss
Garrard, Miss Brown and Messrs
Lynn Horror, osman swartz and Hen
ry Alexander.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-05-28
new GROCERY
AND MEAT MARKET OPENED nv
J. F. RIGHTMIRE

Never In the history Of modern
times owing to the great financial
crash In business, have the most i'm
portant necessaries of living been i'm
posed on the masses of the peonIe nj
such high prices in the way az pro-
ceries and all things to eat. There
fore we have opened up a first class
grocery and meat market in the new
building on Pike street Just oppnsj.. !.
the postoffice, and will be ready on
Saturday morning, May 30, to fur
nish all with an entirely new fresh
stock OF goods with a new era of
lowest prices. made possible In
Clarksburg by buying my goods for
lowest cash prices in Quantities III
rect from manufacturers and i'm
porters Of first glass goods. We re-
alize that It is up to us to win your
patronage by quality and low prices;
to win you by deeds rather than by
high sounding promises, and to that
end We start right OFF by selling 10
you for cash only, and will deliver
all orders free to those buylng IN
reasonable quantities within the CITY
limits, and will pay street car fare
for those living out OF city limits on
car line buying sufficient orders. All
are cordially invited to come and
make a trial purchase ana be con-
WINGED that you can get the best
goods at lowest prices in the citv.
Respectfully,
]. Il. RIGHTMIRE