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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
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Half Of the worlds coffee supply
comes from Brazil.
Electricity was first used as a motive
force about twenty-five years ago.
The most exquisite laces are copied
In paper and worn by French actresses
Lamp accidents are the cause Of no
fewer than 500 fires annually in Lon
don.
Immigrants do not come to New
York City In a state Of absolute pow
erty by a long way, They bring US
annually about $16,OOO,0OO in money.
In the town of North Andover, in
habitants have been seen to smile de-
risively at the following card in hard
ware show window: 'Kittner & Spin
ney. Cheap Skates. Come in and Look
Them Over"
Glass is made iridescent by being
exposed, in a red hot condition, to the
fumes Of salts Of tin, barium and stron-
tium. Red is produced by the strontia,
blue by the baryta and blush white by
the tin. In ancient glass. which Is
more opaque, iridescence is due to par
tial decay.
Baltimore, following the lead Of New
York State, has started a vigorous cru
SADIE against the cocaine evil, which
is said to be particularly prevalent
among the negroes of that city. An or
dinance prohibiting the easy sale Of the
drug and making persons found with
it in their possession subject to arrest
has passed the City Council and Mayor
Mahool has promised to sign it
AS a result of the efforts to save the
North Shore woods from destruction
by the gypsy moths more than 1000
acres have been treated by clearing off
and burning the underbrush, and nests
creosoted by tree climbers. There have
been 42O men at work. About 900 more
acres have been found which are more
or less thickly infested, although some
Of them have not yet very many moth
nests.-Boston Advertiser.
Little Ethel is the young daughter
of a contractor in Philadelphia. One
Of her sisters has recently entered into
an international marriage. Ethel was
asked the other day by one Of the
teachers, "Who did the ancients say
supported the world on his shoulders?"
Atlas" answered Ethel. "Quite right"
said the teacher, land what supported
Atlas" ooh, answered Ethel, 81 sup
pose he had an American wife"
An alloy that gives off showers Of
sparks when struck with metal-ignit-
ing not only gas, but alcohol-soaked
wicks-was a recent accidental discov-
cry Of Auer Won WelSbach. 1t consists
Of iron with cerium, lanthanium or
other Of the rare earths used for in
candescent gas nantes, and the spark
ing is found to reach a maximum with
the percentage Of iron at 30 A use for
igniting explosives is suggested.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Truly, irrigation has wrought won
ders for the arid and semi-arid West
The possibilities Of reclamation seem.
IN the enthusiastic Western mind, to
be almost Ilimitable. But the time
will come, doubtless, when irrigation
will have accomplished all that is prac-
ticable IN the Far West. Then the gov
eminent may consider seriously the
proposition TO reclaim the swamp lands
OF the East and South. If, as the sta
tisticians who claim the faculty of pre-
vision declare, the population Of the
United States will ultimately exceed
half a billion inhabitants, lands now
under water may be needed for the
support of this enormous aggregation
OF human beings. The West is having
Its day now, through the enterprise of
private capital and the expenditure of
national funds. The East and South
may have their day before the nation
Is very much older.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
Clothes and Ruxt.

"If you wear white clothes at the
shore this summer" said a cleaner.
keep away from screen doors as you
value your life. At the shore the damp
ness causes screen doors to exude a
kind Of yellow dew, a liquid iron rust,
and a drop Of this on anything white
stays there forever. Nothing but a
pair of scissors will remove IL.
"People b:ing me white flannel coats
and trousers, white shirts, white shoes,
sprinkled with half a dozen drops Of
the liquid rust from screen doors. They
think that nothing is easier than to
remove those ugly yellow marks. Moth
ing. as a matter of fact, is harder.
$50 at the shore in your fannels
avoid screen doors as If they were
fresh painted"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
Good Gracious!

A gentleman entered phrenologist's
Office and asked to have his head ex-
amined. After a moments inspection
the professor started back, exclaiming:
Good gracious! you have the most
unaccountable combination Of attri-
butes I ever discovered In a human be-
ing. Were your parents eccentric"
"No, sir" replied the all-around char
acter, "but my wife is. You needn't
pay any attention to the larger bumps,
sir"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
Good Roads by State Aid.

Farmers from Maine to California
have Joined the cry for better roads.
The Post Office Department has noti-
fed road officials that the highways
must be put and kept in good condi-
ton or rural mail service will cease
The demand for good roads is greater
than it ever was before. The discus
sion shows the farmers of the Middle
West they are behind the times and
have been carrying a heavy and I'M
Just burden in paying all the money
required for good roads.
All through the East and in Mary
land and Virginia and as far West as
and including Ohio, the states pay from
one-third to three-fourths Of the ex-
pense of building and maintaining
good roads. This is as it should be-
The roads are public property-they
belong to all the people, are used for
the benefit of all the people as a part
Of a worldwide system Of transporta-
ton and all the people ought to help
pay the bill in proportion as they are
benefited.
The most equitable plan seems to be
to have the state pay one-half the ex-
pense and the township the other
half, leaving the question of deciding
whether the roads shall be built en-
tirely with the township. This is as
It should be.
Whenever the people of a township
are willing to tax themselves for half
the expense Of building a road it is
absolutely certain the road ought to
be improved. Thus, the building Of
roads is governed in each case by local
sentiment. The state money is raised
by taxing all the property in the state,
making the burden light. In Illinois,
for instance the farmers pay only
thirty percent of the state taxes. The
combined state and local tax for build
ing gravel or macadam roads all OYER
Illinois in ten years, covering all The
main roads, will not exceed ten cents
per acre per year on farm lands under
State Aid These figures are given
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
WINGED WEDDING FEAST.
The Fowl Got Away for Moment
but Was Recaptured.


Judge Prather, of the Wyandotte Pro-
bate Court, was locking his desk last
night when Columbus Lovett and EN-
ma Hawkins, negroes, came for a mar
riage license, says the Kansas City
Times. The prospective bridegroom was
attired in blue work shirt, overaIlS
and a small brown cap. The bride
tO-be wore a calico wrapper, a wide
brimmed hickory hat and a broad grin.
In one hand she carried a sack Of
meal and in the other a Plymouth
Rock hen, which Lovett's mother had
given her to cook for their wedding
feast
The marriage license was issued and
Lovett signed his name to it. Then he
endeavored to make 50 buy a So certifi-
cate. Meanwhile the bride-to-be, in or
der to sign her name to the document,
placed the chicken on a chair. The
bird recognized its opportunity and
made a break for liberty. Over desks,
tables and through a transom into the
hall it fed.
Hold this money, honey, while 1
get that Dominicker," Lovett shouted
to his wife as he dropped the money
and made a dash out of the office. My
nanny never would forgive me if I'd
let that fry get away,
The bride followed with the warn
ing:
'Ketch 'er low, C'lumbus, an don't
bruise the fowl"
The bridal pair was followed closely
In the chase by Judge Prather, Frank
Holcomb, county clerk, and A. J. Hoff-
man, county commissioner, each shout
ing advice.
Down in Kentucky we used to"
Judge Prather began, but he was in
terrupted by blur of feathers which
swept his face as the hen doubled on
her pursuers IN the hallway. Right
about the pursuers turned.
"Catch t." each cried, as the chick
en- passed him.
The hen saw an opening at the end
Of the hallway and flew squawking
down stairway into the basement
Jacob Tillman, the janitor opened his
eyes as the plump Plymouth Rock fiut-
tered into his quarters. Before the
bridal party had started down the
stairs Jake" being colored, had the
hen cuddled up under his arm and
wanted to know what the fuss was all
about.
you white folks don't know any
thing about ketchin' fowls" he said TO
Frank Holcomb. '@The bride an groom
would "a got the hen, but "a course
the present circumstances kinda fius-
tratod 'pn1 "
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

The young people Of all the English
speaking countries have lost a good
friend In the death Of Joel Chandler
Harris, Of Atlanta, the author Of the
uncle Remus" stories, and the Gre
ator Of the "Tar Baby" Daddy Jake"
and other appealing characters. Per-
haps the reason the interest in the
stories OF Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit
ard the other animals is not confined
to any one country is the fact that the
stories themselves are folklore tales,
many Of which originated in the wilds
OF Africa, and have been handed on
from one generation Of story-tellers to
another, until they finally reached the
very best form for gaining and hold
ing the attention.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Two thousand youths carried a mes
sage from the Mayor Of New York to
the Mayor OF Chicago. Each of them
ran half a mile. The message, placed
IN a small silver tube, was given to the
first boy on the steps of the New York
City Hall at ten o'clock on the morn
ing OF July 10Th. 1t was delivered to
the Mayor of Chicago at about half
past nine on the morning Of Tuesday,
July 21st 1t would have reached
there a day earlier If the race had not
been suspended over Sunday. All the
youths are members of the Young
Mems Christian Association, and all
are expert runners. Two of them had
20 be good swimmers, for to save a six
mile detour round Cayuga Lake one
boy swan the half-mile halfway across
ne lake. and gave the message to boy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
An Act of Real Bravery.

The decoration which Police Commits
sioner Bingham Of New York placed
recently on Matthew McGrath for "a
most courageous act" was well deserv-
ed. 1t was the congressional gold
medal for bravery. Very nearly year
ago John Hartigan fell into the Harlem
river and McGrath heard his cries on
the Lenox avenue bridge. Seeing Harti-
gan struggling in the water, the police
man threw off his helmet and coat and
jumped from the bridge, a distance Of
over fifty feet, and swan to the drown
ing mans assistance through cold wat
er, against a strong current, distance
of over 100 feet from the shore and say
ed Hartigan's life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Hopeful visions of the future are al
ways valuable, If they serve only to
stimulate the Imagination. The secre-
tary Of the Postal Progress League
looks forward to q time when the
rural delivery shall convey to the imam
at the sources electric power for me-
chanical purposes, freight and passen-
gers, and shall furnish telegraph and
telephone service. Stranger dreams
have come true.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
Let the Government Help.

The general government collects Its
revenue by indirect taxes. In this way
the people do not feel the burden. Pay
ing taxes as such leaves a bad taste in
the mouth. When it is done indirectly
we take it like a sugarcoated pill and
smile.
Uncle Sam taxes us IN the aggregate
about $1,000 per person per year. A
State, Illinois, for instance, collects
about $1.OO per year, yet in that State
campaigns are fought out on the basis
Of the State tax rate. Taxation is a
burden people must bear. The art Is in
so adjusting it that it can be easily
borne. 1. e.. place the load where 1t can
be carried easiest.
As above indicated a National tax
of $1,000 is felt less than State tax
Of one-tenth that sum.
Good roads are the greatest need Of
this country They must be built and
the people must pay the bill. How can
1t most easily be done? Congress has
power under the Constitution to build
roads or to assist to build them. I'm
Gle Sam is using most Of the main high
ways for rural mail delivery and this
service is costing him twenty to twenty
FIVE per cent more than it would if the
roads were all macadamized or gray
eled. Hard roads will cost from $4,000
per mile, where gravel is plenty, up to
100000 per mile The average will be
approximately 100000 per mile.
The total road mileage Of the United
States is about 100000 miles; 900,-
OOO miles (about) are used for mall de-
livery and about 100000 miles of these
are unimproved. 1t will cost about g
billion and q half to improve these
roads and the Federal government
ought to pay one-third the cost, or
$5O00O0,00O. The States should pay
one-third and the townships one-third.
Is Uncle Sam able to pay his part? Let
US see.
The debt Of the United States u.s. ac-
cording to the Chicago Daily News
Year Book for 1908, SILL, and the an
nual interest charge is % cents for
each man, woman and child in the land.
The debt of Germany is $4,000 per
person.
The debt of England is $SS.83 per
person.
The debt Of Italy is $50 per person.
The debt of Spain is 500 per person.
The debt Of France is $144 per per-
son.
If the United States were to issue
$500, 100000 of two per cent bonds, as
wanted, and with the proceeds assist
the States and townships to build good
roads, It would be sufficient to perma-
nently improve all the main highways
used for rural delivery. These bonds
would increase the National debt to
$1650 per person, or about one-third
the German debt. The interest charge
would advance from % cents to 40
cents. The interest charge would be
$1OOO0,OOO per year, but the building
Of the roads would save upon rural de-
livery alone over 100000 now, and
by the time the roads were built the
saving would wipe out the interest on
the bonds!
Uncle Sam has the authority to help
build roads; he needs the roads and he
is amply able to help build them.
If these $5OO,0O0,0O0 bonds had been
available last year there would have
been no panic, as they would have been
used as the basis of currency issue OF
sufficient amount to have avoided the
disaster Of 1907, which entailed loss
many times greater than the proposed
bind issue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

People talk of problems, but there is
no problem equal in Importance to all
Americans to that of bringing about
the subordination Of the people to the
law
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

whom he met there to swim with 1t the
other half-mile. Some one may ask
what il the use Of this sort Of thing.
If he knows boys he will understand
its value as a summer occupation and
as an incentive to healthful physical
exercise.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Among the pleasant souvenirs Of the
recent Quebec celebration will be the
eight new postage-stamps engraved to
mark the event. Such issues become
valuable historical documents.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

The Iowa 7. NJ. @. A. has under
taken to supersede the high school
''frat" in that State. The leaders Of
the 7. NJ. @. A. hold that it is wiser
to foster than to discourage the 'gang"
instinct in boys, but believe that care
full supervision of their societies is nee
essary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

II we are bound to worry, let US wor-
~ about possible car shortages. That
Will not retard the coming of prosper
ity, but rather herald it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Without wishing to be accused Of
trying to work off a pun we may say
that Mr.. Upton Sinclair has had good
deal Of success in turning the filth OF
the rich into pay dirt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
Bad Roads Affect Trade.


The effect of road conditions upon
highway traffic has been very forcibly
illustrated by the data recently conf
piled by the Illinois State Highway
Commission. A systematic count was
made of traffic over various kinds Of
highways leading to towns and cities
In different parts Of the State on given
days each month throughout the year.
Seventy-two points were selected and
record kept Of the exact number Of
vehicles passing, as well as the weather
and road conditions.
The results show that traffic over
stone and gravel roads is fairly uni
form throughout the year, while over
earth roads the widest variations are
noticeable. The following figures, taken
from the report, are sufficient to show
the effect of earth road conditions on
traffic during the winter and early
spring season, the very time when the
farmer has the most leisure and wants
to go to town.
The Clear Lake earth road leading
into Springfield, H., for March, showed
an average traffic of 651a vehicles per
day. On the same road in June and
July following, an average Of 2S9 We
hicles passed. On the same days in
Peoria, under probably the same wealth
err conditions, over a hard road the
traffic in March was 166, the average
for June and July 1913.
A Champaign earth road leading to-
ward a Tolono road, showed an aver
age for January, February and March
of So; for September and October 200.
The same year at Decatur, over a gray
ell road, March and April showed 240,
July and August 27S The report on the
whole would indicate that the falling
off in traffic due to bad earth road con-
ditions, ranges from 40 to so per cent
The farmers are the best customers
Of the country merchant, and any In
reference with traffic Immediately cuts
down his trade. Again, the farmer will
trade in the town nearest, not in miles,
but In time and effort to get there. He
will go five miles over a good road
rather than three over a bad one. 1t
is to be observed, also, that where
roads are good the farmers are more
up-to-date citizens, they live better and
are more liberal spenders; and the
country merchant is directly benefited.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Caleb Powers, when he goes on the
lecture platform, will not get even with
those responsible for his being kept in
jail for years. 1t viii be another case
OF the innocent mystander getting it In
the neck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Can you imagine anything more pa
thetic than the lepers of Molokai sa-
Iuting with fireworks the fleet as 1t
passed? What to them are battleships
or world prestige?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Prussia announces that 1t opens Its
higher education to women because
they can't get married. We doubt
whether this will cause an immediate
rush of girls to the universities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

A lady has written a popular song
entitled "How to Keep a Husband" 1t
Is not likely to appeal very strongly to
the members Of New York's smart set
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

They're going to sterilize the Old
Oaken Bucket just to make it feel at
home among the fire escapes on the Lit
tie Red Schoolhouse.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Time will cure many things, but even
a long prison sentence fails to cure
some men Of the desire to live without
working.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
New York I'm 1000.

Stranger-What's the excitement over
there?
Citizen-Greatest discovery Of the
age! Workmen digging into the con-
crete and iron strata have just come
upon q vein Of real dirt Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

The Sultan put on a smooth fac
while swearing by the Beard Of thu
Prophet to uphold the constitution
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Real happiness is when you are pref
" near certain you are going to miss a
train and don't
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Hon. Battling Nelson announces tina
he has all the money he wants, VIVA
q strange person.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Don't order your airship now. By
waiting until next year you may be
able to buy one considerably cheaper.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

out by the Farmers Good Roads
League, and it is prepared to de9aon-
strate they are correct.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Boosting of their strong points IL a
weakness with some people.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30
state Road Enterprises.

Continuous work on the state road
that is being built by convicts in Colo
RADIO from the New Mexico boundry to
Trinidad, and which is planned to be
extended to the Wyoming boundry, is
advocated by the Denver Republican
as the most economical and the best
method Of accomplishing the undertake
ing. The Republicans advice applies
to New Mexico, and there should be
no break in the effort to push the road
through from Santa Fe to the Pecos
this year, and after that from the Pc
cos to Las Vegas and up to Ration. and
ON the south from Santa Fe to Al
buquerque and thence to Ell Paso, Tex.
But at first let the territory finish one
stretch, and that the most difficult, and
yet the most attractive, that from
Santa Fe to the Pecos and thence to
Las Vegas, Of which thus far thirty
miles are completed and only twenty
five miles more need to be built, says
the Republican.-Santa Fe New Next
can.
OKldnOmd VIII DuI1u d puulAC hVau
across the new state, north and south,
and another east and west. They will
cross in the Chickasaw Nation lands
somewhere Convicts will be used to
make the roads. The bridges will be
furnished by the counties through
which the roads pass. Texas will fall
behind her young sister in road build
ing If she doesn't get busy.-Sherman
Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Fighting Bob Evans drops his flag"
Well, no foeman ever made him do it
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

Give a woman a handkerchief and
rocking chair. and she will weep over
the troubles Of the whole world
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-30

There seems to be no one so hard to
discourage as the person who can't sing
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-11

With the establishment of a public
art gallery in the new high school
building, Ninth and North B streets,
Richmond will once more attract the
attention of the entire art world. When
the gallery is thrown open to the pub
lie with its already goodly sized col
lection of valuable canvasses. this city
will have the distinction of being one
of the three American municipalities
under 100000 population which can
boast of having a free. public art gal
lery. Richmond's rivals for this dis
tinction are Wooster, Mass, and Mari
on Ind.
I'm Wooster, Mass. wealthy man
interested in art, established a public
art gallery He has spent nearly two
millions of dollars on this institution.
At Marion, Ind, the school board es-
tab1ished an excellent public gallery in
the Carnegie library stated Mrs. M.
F. Johnston, president of the Art as
ISOLATION of Richmond. Richmond
will be one of the very few American
cities which has public art gallery