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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
HAD A WRONG SIDE.

She was prettily explosive, and at
tractively worried; her aunt was adj
miring her gown, says the New York
Post. Suddenly the young woman
gave a little Shrek and exclaimed:
Don't look at the back; my spine
curls every time any one looks at
the back of this frocki The fronts
all right and it's just my luck to have
the back go back on me. It's been
that way all my life. If one side of
a hat was becoming the other was
hideous and / have the most awful
time keeping people on the attractive
side.
when I'm in a ear I loathe all
the people that are looking at the
side without the feather and often
at teas and places I've Unanswered
for minutes to get man on the side
that was dashing. My idea of heaven
is dress and hat that looks well all
around OF course, know you think
I'm silly, but ! can no more help 1t
than fly. YoA asked me last night
why 1 was so gay at dinner and then
so distract when we were playing
bridge. 1 didn't like to tell you, but
it was my evening gown. 1t fits bad
ly in the back, and when we played
bridge I was sitting so that the peo-
pie at the two other tables could see
my back perfectly. You needn't
stare. l know lots of girls who feel
almost as strongly as I do about it.
Why, I've one friend whose hair only
grows prettily on one side, and her
left profile is really rather plain, and
when her mother is giving dinner
they have to arrange the table three
or four times so that the person she
cares least about will sit at her left.
It's really pretty serious; yes, it is,
TOO. Oh am | talking loud? Why,
every ones been listening to me. How
horrid!" And she quickly rose and
draped a travelling cloak over her
shoulders. At that moment the train
came.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

mentioned above. If you happen to
be a girl of boarding school age and
to go into his store to buy candy he
gives you kindly and confidential
smile as he says:
Want it tied up in school style?"
Then, If you say yes, he goes
through a most extraordinary perform
ance. He wads paper into outlandish
lumpy shapes, and stuffs it in around
the candy box until, when the package
is finally completed, wrapped and
handed out t. you, no one-except
school girl who is in the secret
would dream what was in it.
1t might contain a tin trumpet, or
a toy horse and wagon, or a pair of
shoes, or clock. But no one, not
even chaperon, would ever think of
candy. The girls carry their forbid
den sweets home to the school under
her very eyes and she is none the
wiser.-New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
Rhlnoceros Takes Drugs.

Fifteen New York veterinaries
made the discovery recently that the
dose of anaesthetic required to put
rhinoceros to sleep is pound and
three-qu;lrters of chloroform and half
a pound Of ether.
This accession to veterinarian
science was made during an opera
ton to remove cataracts on the eyes
of Mogul, the Indian rhinoceros in
the Bronx Zoo. Mogui, after succumb-
ing to more than half gallon OF
anaesthetic, remained under its influ-
ence for an hour, and at the end OF
that time began to crouch hay as
though nothing had happened.
Through a blow on the head in his
native jungle Mogul nearly lost the
sight of both eyes, and the operation
was agreed upon after careful exami-
nation.
The big problem was to tell how
much aneasthetic it was safe to give
The hide of the pachyderm was so
thick that no pulse was obtainable,
and the stethoscope was useless. BY
means of a derrick and harness Mogul
was thrown. A roll of cotton batting,
stuffed in a cone of brown paper,
was used to administer the anaesthet-
ic. Before the rhinoceros was put
to sleep the fumes nearly overcame
the doctors and keepers. The opera
tion consumed half an hour.--New
York Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
PLATED TIN SPOONS.
Somewhat Elaborate Processes In
volved in Producing Simple
UtensiI.

OTenSlls
Here is one way of making spoons,
the process described being used in
the manufacture of one variety of tin
plated spoons.
In it's original form the material
from which these spoons are made
comes in long thin strips of steel
rolled to a uniform thickness. The
strips are twelve or fifteen feet in
length and of a width sufficient for
the length of the spoon to be made.
s These strips are fed into cutting
machine which cuts off pieces each
of sufficient size for making spoon,
these being simply so many small,
fat pieces Of sheet steel.
Then these blanks are put through
a grader, a machine with powerful
rolls, which so works the metal as to
make it thinner in those parts of the
blank that are to form the bowl and
the handle of the spoon and thicker
in the middle of the length OF the
blank from which the shank of the
spoon will be made, so that it will
be the better able to bear the bend
ing strain that will he put upon the
spoon in use.
From the grader the blank goes
into drop press, which cuts it into
the outline form of spoon, though
from this press it comes out still
fiat.
Then in another press the bowl OF
the spoon is formed, and then in
still another the handle, and so at
last you have the. spoon in it's COM
plete spoon shape, in steel, ready
now to be tinplated by dipping it in
molten tin.-New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

less and ridiculous task. Another
Iunatic, who believes he is the incar-
nation of the soul of Beezebub,
passes his time carving toy men out
of wood. Eacn pair of his creations
are joined together. now at the necks,
now at the shoulders.
Lunatics have been treated with
great brutality in the past; but hap
PLY those days are over. There is no
stronger proof of human progress than
the modern treatment Of the insane.
In the comfortable asylums where doc
tors and nurses use their best eff
forts on behalf of their charges the
mailman is allowed to cherish his
chimera. What an advance since the
days Of the great Pinel!-Harpers
Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
FASHION NOTES.

Roses in all coIOrs are in evidence,
and sweet peas and wild blossoms that
certainly have received their impress
sions from the dyer's hands.
Gold is very much seen in soft
gowns of black-not the cheap, bright
gold, but the dull, almost rusty color.
There is no material which shows
up to better advantage the beauties
of the mental trimmings than black
satin.
Several of the new designs in lin
gerie gowns have the short kimona
sleeve unconfned by band at the ell
bow.
With gold flowers, gold cords, gold
lace, the latest thing to put about the
neck of a lingerie waist is a piece
of gold braid.
Violet and purple are mixed IN
bows also pink and gray, and all
broadly striped ribbons are much ID
demand.
Pewter. steel, gold, silver, copper
all the metals are represented in
the garnitures designed for the dec
Grafton Of handsome gowns, and they
are applied to both heavy and light
materials.
There are dire rumors that the shirt
waist is doomed, that the ultra cor.
rect people will not wear it much
longer unless disguised.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
SMUGGLING CANDY.
One Dealer Who Helps the Boarding
School Girls to Get Sweets.

School Girls to Get Sweets.
A certain city in which flourish in
Vulnerable boarding schools has a
candy store which is the secret Macca
Of every girl who can escape from
her chaperon long enough to hasten
to it's hospitable door.
The name Of the city shall not be
divulged: for the matrons and house
mothers and chaperons and princi-
pals and all the other supervisors of
the appetites and purses of their re-
spective focks might happen to see
and get wise.
These supervisory personages have
shown a cruel hardness of heart on
the subject of candy which has made
it necessary for the owners of a
sweet tooth to use VI much gray mat
ter in eluding the prohibitions which
have been pronounced against sweets.
They have a friend and abettor
In the man who owns the candy store
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
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"oH. WHAT'S THE UsR?"

Oh, " HATS I11H U0Ez
/ If d wife discovers that her hus-
band doesn't look at her any less
when she's got on dirty old kimOno,
and no corset, and her hair screwed
up into a knob with one hairpin.
skewered through it, than he does
when she has put on something pink
and lacy and marcelled her hair to-
the roots, who can blame her if she
says to herself 'Oh, what's the use?''
and degenerates into the dressing
sacque habit?
Probably the majority of husbands,
who do not comment on their wives
bad management and cooking and
breakfast curl papers keep silence
from a sense of politeness. 1t seems
to them an ungentlemanly thing to
criticise a lady's appearance and mis-
takes.
Never was there a greater miscar-
riage of gallantry. In every case the
woman attributes the lack of remark
to blindness and indifference on the
mans part.
In proof of this you have only to
lock about you and see that in every
household where the man watches.
what his wife does, and what she
wears, the woman is an admirable
manager and always charmingly dress
ed.-Dorothy Dix, in the New York
Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
GEOGRAPHY NOT NEEDED.

In one of the city public schools is
q. little girl pupil whose ancestors
and coreligionists have ever held
that the principal end and aim of the
life of woman is marriage. This
little girl is we'll up in most of her
studies, but she has an inVeterate
dislike of geography, and it seems
impossible to teach the study to her.
The other day her teacher, made i'm
patient by her seeming unwillingness
to learn her geography lesson, sent
to Rosie's mother a note requesting
her to see that the girl studied her
lesson. The next day showed no i'm
provement, however, and the teacher
asked Rosie whether she had deliv-
cred the note.
eyes, ma'am," was the reply.
"And did your mother read the note,
Rosie" said the teacher.
Yes, ma'am."
what did she say?"
"My mother said that she didn't
know geography, an she got married,
an my aunt didn't know geography,
an she got married, an you know
geography, an you didn't get mar
ried. New York Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
caterniIIars in Church.

The plague of small spotted cater
pillars made everybody uncomfortable
in the upper Bedford section Of Brook
lyn Sunday. TWO large elm trees on
McDonough street, between Sumner
and Lewis avenues, were so covered
with them that the bark could not be
seen. There were groups of curious
onlookers about the trees all day.
The caterpillars are only half an
inch long and have a sharp sting.
They fell from the trees on church
goers. and then, during the service,
they struck where the armor was
thinnest. With the crawling sensa-
ton and the bites, women who wore
open-work waists and gauzy hose were
in misery until church was over
New York World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
The Enoineer who Makes Time.

"Thev do not run trains so fast
in England, because the engineers
know too much about their engines"
said an engineer who has run an en-
CINE in that country. In England a
man has to be a competent machinist
before he is allowed to run. They
say that the man who knows all
about how an engine is put together
knows how delicate some of its parts
are, knows how many dozen and one
things there are liable to break at
any minute, hasn't the nerve to run
one of them eighty or ninety miles an
hour. The best engineers are the
ones who don't know too much about
their engine-just know enough to To-
cate the pounding in cylinder box
or how to unlock her on one side
if she breaks a driving rod or some
thing that way. That's a theory at
any rate, and / believe it is pretty
nearly right. '-Columbu Dispatch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
WIVES LIKE TO BE WATCHED.


Every woman has an instructive de
sire to live up to her husbands ideal
of her, and when she doesn't it is al
most always because she thinks that
he has ceased to notice her
Let it not be thought that am
advising husbands to play the part or
a domestic spy. Far from it. I think
that shopping around the kitchen and
auditing wife's bills ought to be
cause for divorce. A man has no
business meddling in his wife's bust
ness of housekeeping. He should give
her a fair and generous proportion of
his income for her own use and be
hoof. and then watch out for the re
suits.
And women like to be watched. They
like to feel that they are so important
in some one mans eyes that he notes
even the straying of a curl about
their brows: that there is a wisdom
and a judgment and a knowledge of
the world interposed between them
and the mistakes they might make,
and that they can throw themselves
upon a protecting tenderness that
guards them like a special Providence.
It's anachrOnistic, but even in this
day of the Independent new woman
the happiest woman is the one who
is most Enthusiastically DIX, In the
New York Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

The popular vote in 1904 aggregated
over 1880, 600 Of which Roosevelt re-
ceived 100000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
WAR AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.

Mrs. Grace Leattie has recently con-
tributed 100000 to the st. Louis So
cfety that is waging war on tubercu-
losis. She is said to be the richest
woman in Missouri and her cOntribu-
ton is said to be the largest ever CIV
en- by one person for the prevention
and relief of consumption.-New York
Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

The Mexican porter handles loads Of
400 pounds with ease.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16

A writer In the British Medical Jour-
nal thinks that an interesting essay
might be written on the addition to
medical remedies made by animals. 1t
Is said that 1t Is to dogs we owe the
knowledge Of the fever abating prop
critics OF bark, while to the hippopota-
mus Is attributed the use of bleeding.
The story as told In Philemon Hol-
iond's translation of Pliny Is as fol-
lows: "The riuer- Horse hath taught
physitions one deuice In that part of
their profession called Surgerie, for he
finding himself ouer-grosse and fat by
reason of his high feeding so contin-
ually gets forth of the water to the
shore. hauing spied afore where the
reeds and rushes haue bin newly cut
and where he seeth the sharpest cane
and best pointed bee cts his body hard
on to 1t to pricke a certaine veine In
one of his legs. and thus by letting
himself bloud maketh evacuation.
whereby his body. otherwise inclin-
ing to diseases and maladies. Is well
eased of the superhuous humor. and
hauling thus done hee stoppeth the orr
fee againe with mud and so stancheth
the bloud and healeth the wound"
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16
The preaidsnt'. Salary.

1t Is safe to say that very few Of the
people living in this country know how
the president of the United States
dra VS. his salary OF $4,000 year. or
those few who may have given the
matter thought, large majority do
not know whether be receives his sal.
airy monthly. quarterly or semlannuai-
ly. AS matter of fact. the salary due
the president Is taken to the White
House by a trusted messenger from the
office of the treasurer OF the United
States on the last day OF each month
and handed over to the official whose
business 1t IL to look after It. The
president receives his salary In the
shape of a check, the $4,000 being d.
vided into eight checks OF 81, 1857 each
and four checks of 81, 1866 each.
Thus one month out of every three the
president receives / cent less on his
check than he does the other two Some
such arrangement as this is necessary,
as, of course. $4,000 Is not exactly d.
visible by twelve.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16

Desire one Of the company to think
of any number she chooses, provided
1t be even. Tell her to triple 1t, halye
the product, triple this half and then
tell you how many times nine will go
into this last number Multiply this
by two and it will produce the original
number. Thus suppose to be the
number thought of You triple it,
making 1t II; halve this product, leav-
ing 6; again triple this. making Is, in
which will go twice This twice,
multiplied by 2, gives you A, the num-
Der thought of. Or. to give another
example, suppose to be the number
Triple 1t. Is; halve this, 8; triple 1t
again, 81. You ask how many times
9 will go into the result and being told
three times, multiply by Q, and the
answer Is 6.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16

The following illustrates Louis Phi
lippe's Idea Of England and the Eng
lish. he one day asked Hugo IL he
had ever been In England and on re-
ceivlng a negative reply continued:
well, when you DO go-for you will
go-you will see how strange 1t is. 1t
resembles France in nothing. Over
there are order. arrangement symme-
try, cleanliness, well moved lawns and
profound silence on the streets. The
passersby are az serious and as mute
~ specters. When, being French and
alive, you speak In the street these
specters look back at you and murmur
with an inexpressible mixture Of grav-
tty and disdain. French people! When
l was In London | was walking arm
In arm with my wife and sister. We
were conversing In not too loud tone
Of voice. for we are we'll bred persons,
you know, yet all the passersby. bour-
geois and men Of the people, turned to
gaze at u. aud we could hear them
growing behind as: French people!
French peopler Memoirs OF Victor
Hugo"
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16
HosajUl and the Drum.

When Rossinfs "Gazza Ladra" was
performed for the nrst time the drum
In the orchestra not only excited much
comment. but caused the enemies of
the composer. whom they denounced
as foolish inventor of unmusical
novelties" to threaten Rossini with
bodily violence, One young man. q
pupil Of Rolla's. gained admission to
the composers presence and declared
that art had been 20 violently outraged
by the invention that be must kill the
offender. He drew a weapon. but con-
scented to listsa. to argument He had
bsen = soldier..and when the composer
asked him why there should not be a
drum where thsrs are soldiers he
sheathsd bis knife. Promise Qe,
though" be said. that you will put
no drums in ySar future music.' Ros-
sinl promised, but forgot
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16
sOION

Miss Myrtle Hughs, who had been
spending a few weeks at Peaks
Island with friends, came home Tues
day, on account OF the illness of her
mother, Mrs. Livonia Hughs. Mrs.
Hughs seems a little better at this
writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Curtis went to
Madison on business Saturday.
Mr. Eugene Gordon of Lowell, was
calling on old friends in town the
past week.
Mr.. Clarence Rowell of Winthrop
and little child spent Sunday in town
with his parents.
Mr.. A. F. Gerald of Fairfield took
dinner with his wife Sunday, who is
stopping with her brother, Mr.. A. w.
Rowen
Mr.. A. C. Merrill went to Madison
to work, Friday.
Mr.. C. A. LETTERS of West Mills was
in town Tuesday noon.
Miss Isabelle Stumcke of Athens is
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Moore.
Mrs Eleanor French is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Turner Boswell, and
other friends in town.
Mr.. Morris Severy, who has been
in town a few days, returned to his
work in New York Tuesday after
noon. Mrs. Severy and Charlie ac-
companied him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wyman and
Mrs. Annie Kenerve of Dexter were
in town Tuesday.
Mr.. Louis Whipple was in town
Sunday.
DIR. F. A. Coolidge went to Show
hogan Friday.
Mr.. Timothy Clark is confined to
the bed with rheumatism.
Mrs. Climena Whipple is wishing
her niece, Mrs. Elijah Savage in oak
land.
Mr.. McDunnah went to Madison
Monday, to work.
Mr.. John Savage has finished his
house ready for the painters and has
gone home to do his haying.
Mrs. Elvira French of Massachu-
sets is visiting her sister, Mrs. Mercy
Randlett and other friends in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. MahloR Patterson
came Saturday. They have been
spending some time in Boston.
P. 8. Longley and family and guests
enjoyed picnic with Mrs. Wathing-
ton and family at their summer home
Saturday.
Most of the river drivers went to
Dead Water to fight the fire there
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ruel Mcguire of Mad
ison were in town Saturday night,
the guests of Mrs. Livonia Hughs.
Miss Ethel French went home Fri
day for a few weeks stay. Mrs. AL
ston Rowell is clerking for her.
Mrs. Ralph Kingsley of Bar Harbor
who has been in town for a two
weeks visit, left Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Daniel Maynard went to Madi-
son Tuesday afternoon.
1t is expected that Rev. Mr.. Gould
of Norridgewoek will occupy the Con-
gregational pulpit next Sunday at the
usual hour.
The play, "David Harum" was
given in the M. E. church Tuesday
evening for the benefit of the Ladies'
Aid Society.
A number of the ladies took break
fast at the river drivers camp Tues
day morning.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16


During the week certain members Of
the Scotch minister's flock had been
paying overmuch attention to sampling
the local whisky. and the minister took
advantage Of his position In the pulpit
to administer gentle reproof. An |
tell ye, one an all. yere on the way to
perdeetion!" he cried. At that moment
dy settled on the Bible before him
He raised his fist. "Ye're gaein' tae
hellv' he shouted. AN yell all get
there. Just sac sure as-sae sure as |
ding the life out o. this feew His fist
crashed down as he uttered the words.
Then he looked to see the result OF
his handiwork. Missed he ejaculat-
ed. "Ah. weel. maybe there's chance
for some O. ye yet"'-London Bellman.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16
ORDER OF NOTICE

Upon the foregoing petition. It is ordered
that hearing be given thereon at East New
Portland in said New Portland, on Saturday
the thirteenth day Of June, A. d. 1908, at
one O'Clock in the afternoon. at which time
and place. all persons interested therein,
snail have full opportunity to show cause
why the prayer Of said petitioners should not
be granted and it is further ordered that a
copy of the foregoing petition and Of the
order thereon, shall be posted up at the post
office n. New Portland public and con.
spcious place in said town OF New Portland.
said copy to be posted at least fourteen days
before the date Of said hearing. Il IS further
adjudged that no personal notice shall be
given thereon. And it is further ordered that
copy Of the foregoing petition and Of the
order thereon, shall be published ia the New
T rtland Sun, the last publication Of Wlica
mall be at least fourteen days before toe
date Of said hearing.
JOHN KNOWLTON, Selectmen
ALBERT E. MILLAY, Of
J. S. WILLIAMSON, New Portland
A true copy. Attest,
A. 5. PARSONS.
Clerk OF the town of New Portland.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16
The Rstort Courteous.

A young man In hurry went
through the left side of pair of
swinging doors In the senate wing of
the capitol at Washington last session
and almost knocked over senator
who was about to push through the
right side.
The young man apologized profusely.
I'm very sorry-I didn't know | was
Il am In great hurry"
That's all right. son." said the SEN
ator. "But let me give you piece
of advice about going through doors
like these. Always go through on the
right sde'an turn to the right Then
II you meet anybody coming through
and bump into him you needn't apollo
gixe. He'll be burned fool. and 1t
won't be necessary. Good morning" -
Saturday Evening Post.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-16

travelled part Of the highways and drveways
at all points of crossing said highways and
driveways with said wires; elsewhere outside
of village limits wires shall be at least fifteen
feet above the surface of the ground where
each pole is set. Said Town of New Port
land to have the right to place an instrument
in the Selectmens Office for the use of the
Town officers while doing town business free
of charge.
Given under our hands at New Portland
this nineteenth day OF June, A. D. 1908.
John KNOWLTON. J selectmen
ALBERT Z. MILLAY of
J. S. WILLIAMSON, New Portland
A true copy. Attest,
A. S. PARSONS,
Clerk of the town of New Portland.