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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
DueIine Courage.

The Frenchman was still pale and
tremulous from his encounter with the
rough. did l not conduct myself
we'll, heinz" he demanded.
Fairly well. At the same time for
one who has fought four duels there
We a certain pallor, a certain nervous
ness, that rather disappointed US"
The Frenchman looked mortified.
Then he tapped significantly his little
glass of champagne. But l had none
of this" he said Il was taken UMPIRE
pared. l had not the time to-what
you say-tank up!"
But you don't tank up for duel"
Don't we? How little you know!
Imagine 1.-THE horror-the gray desc
lation of the dawn. the surgeon with
his cold and glittering instruments. the
witnesses cruelty searching you for the
least sign of fear, and all this without
tanking up? VOLTA, my old, you are
mad. No, no! Every Frenchman be-
fore duel tanks up. A dueling field
smells like an American bar. And 1t is
astounding with the thought Of the
duel before you, how much it takes to
tank you. A pint, a litre sometimes,
but steadies the nerve and clears the
eye for the dread encounter. New
York Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
A QUEER LIGHTHOUSE.
LampIess Beacon In the Hebrides
Lights the Mariners Way.

Lampless Beacon In the Hebrides
Lights the Mariners Way.
On Armish rock, In the Hebrides,
Scotland, there is a lighthouse with
out a light. That does not mean that
the light has been removed from it;
that the house is no longer used for
its legitimate purpose. On the con-
trary. it serves as a beacon for the
sailors and fishermen every night. and
yet there is no light in it
1t is perhaps the most remarkable
lighthouse in the world. 1t is conical
In shape. and at the summit is a lam
tern In which there is mirror. On
Lewis island. 500 feet distant, is an
ordinary lighthouse. and from a win
dow in It's tower a stream of light is
thrown on the mirror In the Armish
rock lantern. The rays of this light
are reflected to an arrangement Of
prisms. which make them converge TO
a focus outside the lantern. and from
there they diverge in the necessary d.
rection. Thus lighthouse exists that
has neither lamp nor keeper. and yet
1t serves all the purposes In it's locality
Of costly and elaborate structure with
all the accessories that modern light
houses have.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
AN ELECTION PRIMER
Pertinent Points About Our Election
Machinery For NeqO VOtery and old


leading presidential candidates in 19o49
Theodore Roosevelt and Alton B. Parker both of New York
Roosevelt receive majority the popular vote?
He did majority all candidates 10000
There four lesser candidates.
And who they?
Eugene Debs of Indiana Socialist Sas Swallow Of Penn
sylvana Prohbtonist Thomas Watson of Georgia. Popu and
Charles H. Corrigan of New York, Socialist Labor
What was of these candidates?
Deb 4O22S3; Swallow, 25S,536 Watson, 11783 Corrigan,
31249.
any candidates carry any electoral votes?
electoral vote 49, of which Roosevelt got 1856
Parker The electoral for the presidential candi
dates Fairbanks and Davis respectively, the
Is not that always the case?
Not necessarily In 1885, when Bryan nominated both
the Democratic and Ppust tickets for president with Arthur
Sewa president the first ticket and Thomas E.
Watson Georgia vice president the second ticket Watson
received tentyseven electoral for the vice presidency
What Roosevelts plurality over Parker?
2545515 Roosevel total vote 7623486 Parkers
total 5O77,971.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
New zeaIand's Belt of Geysers Of
Boiling Water.

If one can imagine furious and ac-
tive volcano with a crater a thousand
miles in extent, sunk level with the
earth and thinly covered with a screen
OF soil, one has some idea Of the awe
inspiring 'wonderland' Of New Zea-
lands north island You cannot poke
a stick into the ground without start
ing a boiling spring, and wherever
you turn the ground is fairly alive
with geysers of boiling water-steam
jets and blowholes, with quivering VOL
canoes and gurgling mud pots" ali
colored Enthusiastically with rainbow
hues, ranging from brilliant sapphire
to vivid scarlet Stranger still, the
entire face of this region Is constantly
changing in shape and color, and there
are hot springs here stretching in a
continuous chain for 800 miles. The
ground throbs and quivers with vol
canic activity, and set in the midst of
it all are native Maori villages of sur
passing interest, a strange race Of
magnificent savages, who, although
they have been cannibals within the
memory of man, are now a highly in
telligent race and actually send rep
resentatives to the parliament in Wei
lington.
The native women, gorgeous in gar
ments of crimson, green and purple,
are forever putting stolidly at big
pipes and going hither and thither
about their household work with the
quaintest of babies slung across theil
backs. This reminds me that domes-
tic work in this strange region is
made light indeed for white house
wives as well as the Maori women.
Every garden and back yard has It's
hot water provided by nature.
And when these easy going people
grow hungry the mother prepares a
meat pudding or a joint and drops
1t into a convenient pot of natural
boiling water in the earth, and in
few minutes it is cooked. The same
convenienceS are still more in EVIL
dence on washing day. Stepping care
fully through a tangle of boiling gey-
sers and gurgling mud pots, one sud
denly comes upon great collection or
native women and girls doing their
washing in vast smoking lake big
enough to have steamers on it.-W.
7. Fitz-Gerald in ST Nicholas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Young Folks
THE TALKING JACKETS.
A Bit of Conversation Overheard
From a Closet,

A Bit of Conversation Overheard
From a Closet.
There was an uneasy stir at one sidS
of the closet. 1t was Louis jacket
Finally it spoke in a tired. nervous
voice:
by loop, and my shoulders sag so
that | can hardly get my breath. l
don't know how / can ever look nice
and fresh if l get no rest"
Mays jacket reused itself to answer:
You poor thing. am so sorry for
you! Now. my shoulders are resting
so nicely OF this coat frame. May Is
never in too much of a hurry to slip
me we'll on it, Tomorrow some one
will be sure to say to her, How fresh
and nice your jacket looksr"
THAT'S just it, grumbled LOUIS
jacket. And they will say to Lou:
How wrinkled your jacket is! 1t
doesn't seem to keep it's shape at all
WE'LL And all the time it is not my
fault. How can | rest lung only by
loop. and that not strong one?
There's a button off, too. and a three
cornered tear in one elbow that makes
me very uncomfortable. l suppose
when it is torn bigger her mother will
see it and mend it for her. Oh, dear,
this loop is giving way. and | am go
ing to fall to the floor! | suppose that
means dust and more wrinkles"
With gasp the jacket sat down.
falling directly upon a pair of muddy
overShoes.
Mays jacket peered down through
darkness to where the other lay for a
moment. then settled itself for a quiet
nap. 1t looked so fresh and bright the
next morning that no one ever dreamed
it knew all about the troubles of LOUIS
Jacket
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
THRILLING SPORT.
Rafting Down the Canyons Of an I'm
mapped Glacial River.

mapped Glacial River.
With provisions for only ten days a
party of explorers in Alaska found one
September that they must build RATS
and take their chances of letting the
swift river carry them to settlements
where food could be obtained; other
wise ice and snow would shut them in
from all hope of rescue. In "The
Shameless Diary of an Explorer" Rob-
ert Dunn tells of the journey on the
roughly made RATS.
''At II o'clock today began the most
thrilling sport ! know, rafting down
the snaky canyons of an unmapped
glacial river.
Erred and / captained the Mary Ann
IL, the other three the Ethel May. We
rasped and hauled them over the gravel
shadows of our tributary. shot out
between the main walls of the stream
and seized upon that boiling current.
1--WE reached silently from cliff to
cliff, damned pike poles into the slate
shelf overhead, twirled out of eddies.
We bumped and grounded. We dashed
overheard and on the run eaSed her
across shadows. We tugged half an
hour to make an inch at each shove
through the gravel, suddenly plunged
in to our necks. and she leaped free as
we scrambled on.
"Bowlders rose through white ruffs
of water in midchannel. We might or
might not hang on them for perpen-
dicular minute.
You must be very handy with a
pole. You must have a hair fine eye
for moving angles. the strength of an
eddy. the depth of foam ruffling over
a stump. You must be surer Of the
length of your pole than a polo player
of the reach of his mallet. You must
be quicker than a Siwash dog. You
must know the different weight of
each log down TO ounces. the balance
of the duffel piled high like a dais.
covered with the tent and the bean pot.
the mackinaws and the ak dashed to
all the lashings. It's a pretty game"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Descriptions In Prose and Verse.

Descriptions In Prose and Verse.
Pass around slips Of paper to each
player. Each one writes his or her
own name at the top OF the paper and
folds it over to conceal the name.
These slips are collected and redistrib-
uted, with instructions to compose and
write a rhyme or verse about the per-
son whose name. is on the paper-of
course without looking or knowing
whose 1t Is. The apropos or malapro-
pos hits make lots Of fun.
Then distribute slips to the young
men only, each having the name OF
some girl present written at the top
and folded over to keep it secret. The
young men are to describe the girls
from memory. Not knowing whom
they are to portray, the naturally pro-
duce glazing insists which are extreme
ly laughable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
EDISON THE VICTOR.
He HumbIed the Pride of the Fast
Telegraph Operator.

Telegraph Operator.
Edison made his first record as p
telegraph operator in Memphis. A con
temporary says he came walking into
the Office one morning looking like ?
veritable hayseed. He wanted a job
and, although his appearance was not
prepOssessing. the Office was short
handed. and he was assigned a desk Il:
the st. Louis wire. the hardest In the
office. AT the end of the line was an
operator who was chain lightning and
Life of Edison"
Edison had hardly got seated before
St Louis called. The newcomer re-
sponded, and ST. Louis started on .
long report which he pumped in like
q house afire Edison threw his leg
over the arm Of his chair. leisureiy
transferred a wad Of spruce gum from
his pocket to his mouth. took up a
pen, examined it critically and started
in about fifty words behind. He didn't
stay there long, though. st. Louis let
out another link Of speed. and still an
other, and the instrument on Edison's
table hummed like an old style Singer
sewing machine Every man In the
Office left his desk and gathered around
the jay to see what he was doing with
that electric cyclone.
well, sir, he was right on the word
and taking II down in the prettiest cop
perplate hand you ever saw, even
crossing his It's and dotting his f's'
and punctuating with as much care az
q man editing telegraph for printers.
st Louis got tired by and by and be-
gan to slow down. Then Edison open
cd the key and said:
Hello. there! When are you going
to get a hustle ONT This Is no primer
class
well. sir" said the gentleman In
conclusion, that broke st. Louis all
up. He had been rawhiding Memphis
for a long time. and we were terribly
sore, and to have a man In our Office
who could walk all over him made US
feel like a man whose horse had won
the Derby"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
LEGAL NOTICES

State of Wisconsin. County Court of
Grant County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given, that at the regular
term of the County Court. to be held in aud
for said county at the court house in the & ty
of Lancaster. in said county. on the first
day of June 1908. at the hour of one O'Clock
in the afternoon. the following matter will
be heard and considered:
The application of S. Eleanor Hodges to
determine the heirship and descent of the
north west quarter of the south west quar-
ter of section u. town four "a, north Range
three 80 west IN Grant County, Wisconsin
By order of the Court
E. B. GOODSELL.
County Judge.
S.H. Taylor. Atty. for Petitioner,
1St ms. April. rs; last Ins. May 9th.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

1t is a pity to see "a person neglect
indications of kidney or bladder
trouble that may result in Bright's
disease when Foley's Kidney Remedy
will correct Irregularities and strength
en- these organs. Take Foley's Kidney
Remedy at the first sign of danger.
j. 4. Bennett,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

81 am sorry to disappoint you," said
the old time druggist to the sutton for
his daughters hand. 81 can't let you
have Amy because I've promised her
to the son of my partner. But 1 have
five other daughters and can give you
something that is just as good."-Ex-
change
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Colds That Hang On.

Colds that hang on in the spring
deplete the system, exhaust the
nerves, and open the way for serious
illness. Take Foley's Honey and Tar.
1t quickly stops the cough and expels
the cold. 1t is safe and certain in re-
suits. j. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

a state OF Wisconsin, Grant County
Court SS-In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Carl
TeelZler. deceased.
Carl Taenzler. deceased having been issued
to Herman Buchner
Notice is HEREBY given. that the creditors
lowed and limited by order of this court
until and including the 1st Tuesday of
Nov. 1903 being the 3rd day of said month. to
present their claims and demands against
said Carl Taenzler. deceased, to the county
court for. examination and allowance.
Notice is also hereby given, that the
claims and demands so presented will be
examined and adjusted by this court, Of the
Office of the county judge, at the court
house, in the city of Lancaster, in said coun-
ty, on the second Tuesday of Nov, 1908.
Dated this 22d day of April 1908.
By the Court,
E. B. GOODSELL.
County Judge.
Geo. B. Clementson, Atty. for Executor,
LIST ms. April 25 last May TO-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

An SO when he's teached to ride on a
broom,
Like all the witch cats do,
Well ride through the night 'thout any
light
An give all the folks a terrible fright,
But you won't be 'fraid Of your own
little maid.
I'll whisper to you it's a play at I've
played
An 1 amn't witch for true!
New York Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Serious Results Feared

You may we'll fear serious results
from cough or cold. as pneumonia
and consump ion start with a cold.
Foley's Honey and Tar cures the most
obstinate coughs or colds and pre-
vents serious results. Refuse sub
stitutes. j. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
The Witch.

Muvver. you called me a witch. you
know,
So / borrowed gran'muvver's hood, \
Cause witches they don't never wear any
hats,
An witches they always have black cats.
So I'm teachin' Tommy to ride on a
broom,
But up in the nurs'ry 1 didn't have room
To do list like witches should.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

Football is understood to have orig
mated among the Romans about the
middle of the first century before
Christ. 1t appears occasionally during
the middle ages, but it was under the
guidance of the public schools of Great
Britain that the game advanced and
became nOnular
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

Here is an extract from the pros
pectus of hotel in Switzerland:
"Weissbach is the favorite place of
resort for those who are fond of soil
tude. Persons in search of solitude
are, in fact, constantly focking here
from the four quarters of the globe.
London Taller.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
DOGS and BOYS.

Dogs anc Boys
Little Dick-Why did you run away
from that dog?
Little Johnnie-'Cause I was 'fraid
he'd bite me.
Don't you know that if you run
away from a dog he'll run after you,
and if you run after him he'll scoot!'
mo"
well, it's so. Dogs is just like
boys"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

cures made by Or.
Kilrner's Swamp
Root, the great kid
ney, liver and blad-
der remedy.
1t is the great med
ical triumph of the
nineteenth century /;
discovered after years
of scientific research
by DR.. Kilmer, the
eminent kidney and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

The torn leaf OF book can be mend
ed by pasting new white tissue paper
over it with transparent paste. The
print will show through.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
DO you GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK?

Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know of the wonderful
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

bladder specialist, and IS wonderfully
nccessful in promptly curing lame back.
uric acid, catarrh of the bladder and
Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec
commended for everything but if you have
kidney, liver or bladder trouble it will be
found Just the remedy you need. It has
been tested in so many ways, IN hospital
work and in private practice, and has
proved so successful in every case that a
special arrangement has been made by
which all readers of this paper, who have
not already tried it, may have sample
bottle sent free by mail, also book tell
ing more about SwanIp-Root, and how to
fndoutifyouhave kidney or bladder trou-
bic. When writing mention reading this
generous offer in this paper and send your
address to DR.. Kilmer 81
& Co., Binghamton,
n. Y. The regular q !:
ffty-cent and one 4@
dollar size bottles are Home of Swamp Root.
sold by all good druggists. Don't make
any mistake, but remember the name,
Swamp-Root, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
and the address, Binghamton, N. Y, on
every bottle.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-04-05

From time mmemora the of Freethought has been
able boast number of active workers Many do not get
melght public knowledge but there exists mighty
host of and who, years, have boldly faced
orthodoxy in shape and form and have hest
a blow freedom whenever
unty itself the latter be found the
ye judged by his fruits, A. B.
Bennett Norwak Connecticut today front
ranks of the valiant of Freehought.
A. b. Bennett product of American country life In his
blood revolutionary fathers
a sturdy and English which gave him that
ndomtable will and enabled him
santly for improvement He succeeded He
born in the little of Wilton Fairfield County Con
necicu the 9th day of June 1851 and will therefore, be
81 this His father Henry Bennett the
only Thomas Burr Bennett while his
a Captain I'M command a company revolutionary
patriots which fired effective voley Corvallis buc
they marched in battle through
Westport, Conn. His mother Miss Lockwood the
that his lineage of that England
which has done much in making the strength
of the American republic At the twenty years he
married Miss Elsie F. a daughter
Gorbam, prominent business Westport, which
union daughters three These
all the threshold of womanhoods
bright dawning the parents proud
the &c years their married
visited by and very little
of A. Bennett may appear new to many
Blue-grass blade., 1908-04-05
A. B. BENNETT


present Blade perfectly familiar to
the old guard time time have read with pleasure
the pen among the first to rally to
others, Blade has been able to
make its improvements Ready and willing at all times
help his financial he just ready to defend
his principles From his father he inherited much
his independence according his statement his
fathers religion in practice
your business, diligence
that few possessed"
The subject this born farm life His father
hundred land the first few of
life spent this with opportunities advan
plenty of work with schooling of three months each
nature years
his views things especially pertaining
religious subjects today,
has creeds dogma, spirits spooks ghosts He
the Uncle
the conducting
ice his Thrift frugality industry
and combined place him position
life may exempar and
such Freethought much of its glory.
While prolific writer he has at various times given
free his honest opinions The Blade has published
very long ago a upon
Freethnker deist which the benefit Blade
reproduced this order what
have in Mr.. Bennett
Could Freehought boast thousand like him, with
energy possesses long
would be the triumphant in America.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-03
RECKLESS DRIVING AT
BIG AUTOMOBILE RACE.

Brighton Beack Track, N. Y, Oct. 3
With a trail of injured and dying
men and hopelessly wrecked racing
machines behind them, six of the IL
automobiles that started in the "a
hour race at the Brighton Beach race
track last evening, are still in the mad
whirl this morning. Apparently pru-
dence has been cast to the winds and
no chance is considered too great to
the drivers of the flying machines.
AS the result all previous records are
already broken and if the leaders main
not quite 100 miles will be added to
the "a hour figures.
A piling up of racing machines was
avoided during the night as by mir
acle, when four cars running close
together were thrown into confusion
by a special officer, M. G. Pickett,
who passed directly in their track.
Three autos avoided the lodging man
but the fourth smashed into him
throwing him sixty feet. He was pick
gu up uhSOhoClOuS anu Is HOW III d
critical condition All the others in
jured are drivers and mechanics, but
none seriously.
French car No. 4, caught fire in the
seventh hour and Italian entry No.
Is crashed into the fence, soon after
retiring from the contest The Italian
entry driven by Dehalma cracked two
cylinders and the American car driv-
en- by Chervelet froze it's bearings,
both retiring. At eight o'clock this
morning the field had been reduced
to six cars.
At the conclusion of the twelfth
hour the track was cleared to permit
of repairs being made on the turns
which had been cut up badly. intend
ing to resume at ten o'clock. This will
bring the race to a close at ten to-
night. At the end of the twelfth hour
the score was: No. 5, 613 miles; No
6, 612; No. 8, SOS; No. 2, 562; No. 1,
Alb; No. 4, 254. The best previous rec
ord is sos miles.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-03
SPERRY DISCUSSES
GREAT WARSHIP CRUISE

Manial, Oct. I'm discussing the
cruise of the Battleship fleet from San
Francisco Admiral Sperry declared
the efficiency of the SHIPS had been
greatly increased, particularly in the
engineering department but the sym
etrical development of the entire feet
had steadily increased with the repe-
tition of drills and with the addition
al experience in handling ships under
all conditions.
Shore leave will be granted the Off
GERS of the Fleet during the stay pro-