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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
ONLY PAwNED CITY IN WORLD.
Swedish Town Becomes German
After n Century.

Swedish Town Becomes German
After a Century.
Wismar, port Of $4,000 people on
the Baltic, situated in the German
duchy Of Mecklenburg-Schw but
belonging legally to Sweden, has re-
Gently become a German city. 1t was
pledged to King Gustav ". for loan
of $1,0OO,OOO. and the King of Sweden
having failed to redeem it within the
century, it has passed to the Duke Of
Mecklenburg- Schwerin, from whose an
cestors the money was borrowed.
In the early part Of the eighteenth
century Denmark, the most powerful
enemy of Sweden, after the destruction
Of the Hanseatic League, a kind Of
trade union established by certain Ger
man cities for safety and commercial
purposes, captured Wismar and RACED
the Notifications. Afterward peace was
declared and the city reverted to Swe-
den, but with the provision that she
should not rebuild the Notifications
The place thus lost It's strength and i'm
portance and became instead an ele-
ment Of weakness to the Swedes. Its
great sea trade was ruined and It's in
land trade lost.
Under these circumstances it was not
surprising that the Swedes tired at last
of their white elephant. SO in the
reign Of the incompetent and extrava-
CANT Gustavus ", with territory lost
to the French in one war, with Finland
lost to Russia, with defeat In war
against Norway, the Swedes seized an
opportunity to relieve themselves of the
burden of possession.
The direct opportunity was given by
the cancellation of Gustavus of his en-
gagement to the daughter Of Duke
Frederick Franz 1. That person not
unnaturally resented the insult and
threatened dire things. Finally his
threats crystallized into a demand for
an enormous indemnity. The money had
to be raised at once. The duchy Of
Mecklenburg advanced 1,258,0O0 reichs-
thaler and took Wismar, Neukloster
and the Island of Peel as security.
Under the conditions of the loan the
City of Wismar and the two govern
ment districts were to remain in pledge
for one hundred years. At the end
Of the 100 years Sweden would claim
and obtain the pledged city and land
by paying back the original loan with
per cent compound interest.-Path-
finder
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
EVOLUTION OF FOOD.
Our Ancestors Would Be Astonished
BY Modern Breakfast Table.

BY Modern Breakfast Table.
What would be the sensations OF
one of our ancestors of the Middle
Ages If he could sit down to mod
ern breakfast table?
To begin with fruits, says Harper's
Weekly, these were almost unknown
to the men of his period; certainly
in their present form. So were most
of our vegetables. The only vege-
table which seems to be more or
less indigenous over the greater part
of the world is the squash-pumpkin,
tribe. The pumpkin is very ancient,
for it dates back to Cinderella.
OF course he knew the small wild
cherry, with its bitter flavor, the lit
tie wild strawberry, the raspberry,
blackberry and plum. Apples, or
"crabs" as Shakespeare calls them,
were used in England, and generally
roasted in order to deprive them OF
their astringency. The wild-hedge
orange of China and India filtered
into Europe occasionally, but it was
scarcely eatable. Potatoes were, OF
course, unknown. Bananas were IN
troduced in quantity to Europe with
in the lifetime of many middle-aged
men. The grapefruit is the product
of the past two decades, and even yet
has seldom crossed the Atlantic. The
peach was a poisonous shrub OF Per-
STA.
Strangely enough, it was the lack
OF fruit which led to the discovery
of Asia. In those days, when salt
fish was the usual diet of all nations,
pepper became a luxury. Pepper plays
a disproportionate part in history.
Who speaks and sings Of spices nova
days, when they can be procured at
every grocer's store? Yet it was to
obtain pepper that the East India
Company was chartered during the
reign of Elizabeth.
Oats were defined scornfully by DR..
Johnson as a food fed to men in Scot
land and to horses in England. What
would the worthy doctor have thought
of our very modern breakfast foods
the flakes, the brans, the husks, the
shreds and various constituents OF
grains? Tea, coffee and cocoa were,
of course, unknown until the begin
ming of the eighteenth century. Sugar
was the most costly of condiments.
Bookkeeping was the practice of every
farmer.
Our worthy ancestor broke his fast
,,non calf fish or meat if he were
wealthy or had access to some deer
forest. He washed down his food
with hot beer, spiced or honey brew
A roasted crab-apple "sang in the
bowl on the very numerous saints
DAVIS. Our modern breakfast would
startle our ancestor very much IN
deed
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Robert Vernon Harcourt, who was
elected to the British Parliament to
succeed John Morley, elevated to the
peerage, is half-American. His mother,
the second wife of the late Sir Will
liam Harcourt, was the daughter of
John LOthrOp Motley, the historian of
the Netherlands. There are in Parlia-
ment a number of other Englishmen
with American mothers, not the least
conspicuous of whom is Winston
Churchill. grandson of the late Leonard
Jerome, of New York.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

It has often been said that the way
to mans heart leads through his
stomach. 1t is also tolerably certain
that the way to his pocket lies through
his heart. If anybody, more especially
woman, can get q good square grip
on his heart she Is likely to have direct
access to his pocket. This being prac-
tically undisputed. It is remarkable
that so many women who contemplate
becoming wives and apparently so many
who have already become so appear TO
neglect equipping themselves for get
ting a good hold on the stomachs OF
those who are to fill or do fill the re-
latlon Of husbands. There was a recent
case in Chicago where all the costly
unpleasantnesses that follow on the in
PREVENTION of the divorce courts In
household affairs are said to be direct
" traceable to q mans fanciful notion
that his neighbours wife Is more high
~ skilled than his own In the myster-
les of the composition and evolution OF
biscuits and coffee. 1t may be, as above
intimated, purely fanciful on his part.
His neighbours biscuits and coffee prob
ably are not whit better than those
he has long had at home. Very likely
If he were condemned to his neighbor'S
as long as he has been to his own they
would seem no better. Quite likely,
maker of those crispy delectable bis
cults. Both she and her biscuits and
coffee might lose all their Vaccinations
with too much use and wont. And
herein lies a moral for both hubands
and wives, which is that monotony is
always dangerous. The girl who is ex-
pecting to 'be asked" wears as many
faces of fascination as an April day.
The fat Of the priest and the law does
not assure her. against chill If she lets
April droOp into the monotony of No
vember. SO the man who contemplated
asking keeps his worse fOot' out Of
sight Marriage does not authorize him
to keep it always in evidence. Thus we
get around again to the stomach. No
man can live without one, and that Is
fact that every woman knows. So,
too, she knows the dangers Of a roast
partridge every day for forty days.
Let her beware of the danger If she
is surpassed by her neighbor In bis
cults and coffee let her study to excel
her in some other delicacy, for sOrdid
as it may seem the stomach is the basis
Of life for man and woman alike-es-
pecially for man, when he is not cook.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
TMlPoTrrNCY.
BY Kate Thomas.

BY Kate Thomas.
There Is SO much in this great world.
My soul grows sick with looking at
the ways
That wind and knot and part to meet
again
And part again and knot and wind
and fade
Children of fashion; children of the
Streets;
Children of fashion hiding hungry
hearts,
Children of fashion stepped in sor-
did thoughts,
Children of fashion crying for the
light,
Children of fashion careless of the
dark.
Children of cutters starving for kind
words,
Children of cutters starving for dry
bread,
Children of cutters STEPPED in sor-
did thoughts,
Children Of cutters crying for the
light,
Children of cutters careless Of the
dark.
o God! to see the way this heaving
mass
Goes by with smiles and tears (and
fewer smilesD.
Laughing and cursing Gay, and ours
ing moreD.
What can one puny mind do in the
Whirl?
What use one weakling arm to sway
the tide?
Ho! stand with arms rocl--ribbed!
There's a wave
That washes rock to powder. Set your
will
In purpose fixt, as is the brain that
willed
FIxt in the skull The sea filings
wide a corpse,
And cares not if it rot on putrid
sands.
From the Independent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Another national park is likely to be
added to the domains of the United
States at the next session Of Congress.
The Senate committee on public lands
has reported I'm favor of taking the
wild and beautiful glacier region of
the continental divide In Montana
tract comprising nearly a million acres.
The region contains numerous peaks
from six thousand to ten thousand feet
I'm height, and about sixty glaciers. The
large number Of big game animals,
such as Rocky Mountain white goats,
bighorn, grizzly, deer, elk and moose,
suggests the value OF reserving the
tract as breeding ground for the sur
rounding region. The name proposed
is the Glacier National Park.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

The Stars and Stripes are, in the
words OF Drake, the emblem "of the
free hearts hope and home" Why,
then, should it be necessary to pass
laws to prevent the Dissertation of the
glorious symbol Yet more than two
thirds OF the States have such laws,
and the United States a few weeks ago
passed a bill for the protection Of the
flag. and sent it to the House Of Repre-
sentatives. The Judiciary Committee
OF that body now has charge of it. If
any law is needed to protect the ma
tIonal banner, it ought to be national
law, covering all the territory over
which Congress has legislative turis-
diction. The state laws are all right
so far as they go, but although every
state had such laws, the flag might be
desecrated with impunity IN 1he terri
tories and even in the city Of Washing
ton itself. The bill now awaiting the
action of the House provides for the
adjustment of any person who puts ON
the flag any picture, symbol or inscrip-
ton, or who displays flag so dishg-
ured, or who publicly mutilates or de
faces any flag, whether public or pri-
Tate property. But 1t allows flags
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
Beaten in Competition.

The abandonment of the port OF
New York by the White Sar Line
freighters in favor of Montreal, whers
grain can be loaded at IL cents a
bushel cheaper than in New York, is
unwelcome proof OF the enterprise
and success of Canadian commercial
competition. Montreal is LOCO miles
from the sea, but the Canadian gov
eminent is spending millions each
year to make the connecting water
way more available, and is also en-
couraging by liberal policies, the de-
velopment of channels Of commerce
from the interior to the port Unless
American enterprise matches the de-
termination, Montreal will become che
outlet not only OF the great British
American Northwest, but also OF
Northern grain fields within the Unit
ed States boundaries.-Bost Her.
aid.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

all dating back 20 me end Of the sew
enteenth and beginning of the eigh-
teenth centuries. There were rings
and brooches, crucihxes and jewelled
chalices, jewelIed sword handles and
table plate. Nobody knows just how
much the treasure amounted to, since
the fisherfolk hid it AS fast as they
secured it, and when official inquiries
were made every one denied his own
share.
They are still digging, however,
and an occasional find Is made The
sea seems to have broken I'D the
cache and distributed its contents
over many acres of beach. Objects
are picked up as far as low water
mark, and some are doubtless wash
ed back from time to time from deep
water.
It is believed that the treasure rep
resents plumber from Spanish coast
towns. 1t is said that long ago there
were numerous bands of Portuguese
pirates which committed depredations
on a considerable scale both afioat
and ashore and when Portugal was
at peace with Spain they were obliged
to be very careful and hide their
plumber. From time to time other
boards of the same sort have been
discovered. When this collection was
buried, no doubt, the spot was far
enough from the waters edge to be
regarded as safe for all time.-New
York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
SEA REVEALS PIRATE HOARD.
Portuguese Fishing Village Endanger-
ed BY the Atlantic Grows Sud-
denly Rich.

The inhabitants of Paradelha, a
tiny fishing village on the Portuguese
coast some distance south of Lisbon,
have been growing rich of late on
what seems to have been the hidden
plumber of some long forgotten pirate
band. Some Of them have gathered
in as much as $1,000 worth of treas
ure.
That part of the coast of Portugal
is suffering from the encroachments
Of the ocean. Many houses have been
undermined in the last few years and
have had to be abandoned. Some
times big slices of dry land slip off
into the Atlantic on a stormy night
and the people wake up to find all
landmarks changed.
This is what happened a couple
Of weeks ago in a furious gale. The
waves washed far In over the upland
and carried away vast masses of the
upper soil, leaving the shelving beach
couple of hundred feet wider than
If had ever been before. A fisherman
walking along the edge of the strand
saw something glistening in the slope
and roofing it out of the ground
found it was an ancient silver cup.
He ding some more and found guam
titles of scattered gold and silver
coins.
When the news got around the vii
1age the whole population turned out
70 dig. They found still more money
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Starting with one original state, the
George Junior Republic has become a
nation. Last month a national orgahi-
cation was formed to found and unite
Juvenile demOcracies in all the States.
The first colony was at Freeville, n. Y.
Others followed in California, Con-
hecticut and Maryland. Fifteen more
states have applied for admission to
the union. AS each republic" is a
community modelled on an American
town, so the George Junior Nation will
be a miniature imitation Of the feder-
al government
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
MOSES
| GREAT WAR CHIEF WHO;
KNEW WHEN NOT /;
TO FIGHT. f;
FROM GEN. 0. 0. EDWARDS FAMOUS
INDIAN CHIEFS" In ST. NICHOLAS.


In the northwest of our great coun-
Of Indians that 1 cannot begin to tell
you their names, but they were Of
ten divided in this way. Those who
lived on reservations were called
Reservation Indians" and those who
did not Outside Indians" Now
Moses was chief of great many
tribes of Outside Indians and he was
q very great chief. Of course, Mos
es was not his name, but Governor
Stevens gave it to him long ago and
every one called him so, indeed, he
seemed to have forgotten his Indian
name and called himself Moses. He
was a very handsome man, tall and
straight, and always well dressed.
He usually wore buckskin coat and
trousers, and handsome beaded mo-
cassins, and broad, light felt hat
with a thin veil encircling it. He
waist, in which he carried a long
knife and pistol holster, the ivory
pistol knob in plain sight.
Now, Moses had led his Indians in
many battles, both against Indians
and white men, and everybody knew
that he was brave warrior and
could fight. Indeed, in 1853 one OF
the very fiercest battles we ever had
with the Indians took place when
Moses was the Indian war-chief and
General George Wright commanded
the United States soldiers at the
Battle of Yakima River" But af-
ter Mr.. Wilbur became the Indian
agent things changed, for the Indians
loved him and called him Father Will
bur, and Moses decided not to fight
the white men any more.
Many times Moses was asked to
go on a reservation, but he always
replied that he would live on a res
ervation, but not with Indians he did
not know Many tribes had asked him
to be their chief, and he wanted
Washington" to give him the land
In a bend of the Columbia River
for a reservation. 1t was waste land,
! he said, where no white people want
ed to live, but the Indians would be
happy there, he knew. When Chief
Joseph led the Mex Perces against
us IN the many battles 1 have told
you about, he sent often to Moses
| to ask him to come and fight too
but Moses always said mo" Still
this chief did not have an easy time
for many people said he was a bad
indian. and at last he wrote me a
letter which l have keep many years
and which am sure you would like
to see.
l Moses Chief want you to know
what my Tum-tum is in regard to
my tribes and the white people. AL
most every day there come to me
reports that the soldiers from WalIa
Walla are coming to take me away
from this part of the country. My
people are constantly excited and
want to know from you the truth so
can tell my people and have every
thing quiet once more among us
Since the last war we have had re-
ports up here that Moses am going
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

owned by the nation or by the states
to carry inscriptions authorized by law,
and does not interfere with the excel
lent Grand Army practice Of carrying
flags marked with the post name or the
names OF famous battles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
Errors Didn't Matter.

"No," said the publisher, 1--WE have
no room for you; intact, we've dis
charged all our proofreaders. Don't
need EN-"
"You don'tw exclaimed the appli-
cant
mo. We're publishing nothing but
dialect stories now.
Ledger.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Every time Frank Gould talks of the
curse of money" a. good many men
have a burning desire to tell him how
to get rid Of the curse.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

The Gar released 10000 political
prisoners at Easter. The Gar is ON to
the fact that if you are sufficiently des-
pOtic in the fall you can be so beauti-
fully clement In the spring.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Often the father of bride who gives
her away would be willing to throw
In q mOther-in-law for good measure.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Occasionally a married man man
ages to save considerable money by Sc
Iecting his wife's hats.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Every one will rejoice to hear the
glad news from the Agricultural De
partment that the hens are laying only
strictly fresh eggs this year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Insurance that will insure a busy
man against insurance agents would
all a lOng-felt want.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Ancient pyramids have been discOv-
cred In Mexico. A prehistoric basket
may yet be found in prehistoric bull
rushes down there
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
Those ConsuItntions.

"Why do they have consultations Of
physicians, pa?"
Sometimes one doctor can think OF
something to operate for that hasn't
occurred to the er."-SmaTt Set.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

If it wasn't for the calcium light
the brilliancy Of many a theatrical star
would never be noticed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

A woman, says President G. Stanley
Hall of Clark University, may be in
love with several men at the same
time. She may-until they call on the
same evening.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Many a man tries to get out of pay
ing as he goes because he doesn't ex-
pect to come back.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Lots or charity is given because the
neighbOrs are looking.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Congress does not seem inclined to
raise the Maine. 1t can remember il
without going to that bother.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

It's a wise woman who knows when
she is confronted with her last chance
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

How very few people there are In
the world who have enough sense to
go to bed early
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

A man doesn't think any the less of
q woman because her brain power is
limited.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Is the dog a wild or domestic ami
NAL" asks a contemporary. 1t is.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

There's no hope for the man who de
clInes to give himself a square deal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

The Gar has a single estate cover
ing Loo, 100000 acres.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

The Kentucky court of appeals has
decided that it's a proper exercise OF
the States police power to put a
tax on dogs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

A man who tells all he knows,
muses. the Chicago Record-Herald,
soon drops into the habit of telling
more.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08
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Tag, you're it," See that you are,
says the Detroit Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Big with the Importance of q new
discovery, the London preacher says:
Never check the flowing tide of wo-
mans talk" We never heard OF
anybody, who ever did.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

We have long been familiar with
stories of ghostly stage coaches and
railroad trains ON the land and Ely
ing Dutchmen'' on the waves. Now
that phantom airships are reported,
thinks the Boston Transcript, we may
regard aerial navigation as estab-
lished.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Beef prices are going up. Pack.
ers say this is because of a shortage
of cattle. That is all right as stock
statement, to the Washington Star.
but the consumer would like to know
the real reason.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

We talk OF the terrible nervous
strain" of modern city life, writes the
Saturday Evening Post. The worst
strain of modern city life is not on
the brain, but on the lungs. Apart
from its foul air, city life is the
easiest, happiest and most healthful
life yet invented.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

For the first quarter of this year,
says the London Globe, not birth.
marriage or death was registered in
the parish of Kirkgunzeon Kirken-
brightshine, state of affairs which
is unique in the registrars experience,
extending over 40 years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

When Cardinal Logue said to John
ID. Rockefeller, You have a fine
country, he did not use the pronoun
you" in a personal sense, as some
have supposed, explains the Atlanta
Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

Flies must co. is the latest edict
of science. And after the mosquitoes
and the flies and the f1eas there will
be the gnats, fears the Louisville
Courier-Journal, which may possibly
organize and overcome the human
race when it is tired out from kill
ing the larger insects.