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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

tally OF the Guinness wolnan's crimes
may never be made up, but it already
has surpassed that Of the Benders'
butcheries. The parallelism Of the two
affairs is otherwise remarkable. The
circumstances of the earlier were as
follows: In 1871 a family of four came
over from Germany and opened a small
store on the country road which runs
from Independence, Kan, to the Usage
mission. The members of the family
were father, called both William and
John; his wife; their son, John; and
their daughter, Kate, a girl of %, who
claimed to be a spirit medium. 1t was
through the machinery of spiritualistic
seances that the crimes were commit
ted. The victim was seated in the
usual dark room with his head against
a curtain. One of the Benders, stand
ing behind the curtain, then struck him
over the head with a hammer. After
wards, to make certain, the victims
throat was cut, he was stripped of his
valuableS, and was buried at night. Dis
covery came May 4, 1878, through the
disappearance Of DR.. William H. York,
Benders' store. Unable to follow the
trail beyond, the brother returned to
the Benders' place and there caught
sight of something that had belonged
to DIR. York. AS a result of these sus-
picious circumstances an investigation
began, but measures were not taken, so
far as is known, to detain the Benders,
who disappeared and never were heard
of again. There was q rumor that the
Kansas farmers of Labette county
lynched them, but it is wholly unsup-
ported by evidence and therefore is
almost certainly untrue. The crimes Of
the Benders were the wonder Of a gen.
Grafton and the name Of Kate Bender
especially occupies a terrible eminence
in the history Of crime. Yet If the owl
dence in the Laporte affair is not mod
7 flied or in part belied the case Of Mrs.
Guinness is more singular and horrific.
The Benders had the moral Cor I'M
moral) support of one anOther-the ter
rible relief which comes to those who
share fatal secret. Mrs. Guinness may
have had an accomplice in Lamphere
or another, but that has not yet been
established, and it is not improbable
that many if not most of her crimes
were committed by her alone. In any
event she achieved a terrible immor-
tally, leaving a name at which the
world may well grow pale. The posi-
bilities Of the human soul seem infinite
in evil as in good.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
Town Beauty Scheme.

The first move in the plan to make
York, Pa, the Getty beautiful" was
made recently, when under the aus
pices of the York Assembly of the
Dauphin Institute, assisted by public
spirited citizens, Prof. Zueblin, Of Chi
cago University, delivered his lecture
on "The Twentieth Century City, or
the City York Ought to Be-" says the
Municipal Journal and Engineer. Prof
Zueblin would have the city by it's
regularly constituted bodies or through
it's public-spirited citizens lay out a
definite plan Of action, a plan that
would provide for parks, sewers, the
elimination of poles, the identifying
of the laws, the prevention of corpo-
rations from doing as they please in
tearing up streets, street car conges-
ton in the public square, and hun
bred and one everyday common sense
remedies that most citizens have long
been aware of. yet fail to get at the
foundation of, for lack of q general
plan of action. Prof. Zueblin would
have the city fathers, official or real,
decide on what they want In the years
to come, and then "go after it," so that
the future generations may take UP the
work that has been started and carry
1t to completion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
The Bravesr Man.

James Creelman, the Well-knOWn war
correspondent, who is on record over
his own signature as having provoked
the war between the United States and
Spain, gives this description OF the
bravest man he ever saw:
cit was during the siege Of Port Ar
thur" says Mr.. Creelman. ION the
edge of one Of the parapets, his feet
hanging over the edge, sat man max
ing sketch OF the scene. From the
japanese ships in the ofing there came
continuous stream of screaming,
death-delivering shells. But the man
sketched on unmoved. Mauser bullets,
with their peculiar Snakelike hiss, flew
over and beside him. In all this noise
and imminent death the man continued
his work, completely absorbed in it.
FINALLY there came from within the
fortification a Russian officer of gigan-
tic size. He stood long beside the man
WHO was drawing and watched the pen
Gil carefully filing in the graphic lines.
The shells from the ships when they
struck the masonry stirred up cloud
OF mortar dust, and as they exploded
threw chunks cf broken stone in every
direction. The officers uniform was
covered with mortar dust, and his ia
tigue cap had been knocked awry by
a Mauser bullet. l have never seen a
drawer man. At last he said, in ex-
cellent English-for all Russians are
excellent Iinguists-and speaking with
an aristocratic drawl, I say, Creel-
man, aren't you ever going to finish
that sketch :? james S. Metcalfe, in
Success Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
WHAT CAUSES PSYCHIC FORCES.

Their Existence Proved, but Scien-
lists Cannot Understand Them.
l have seen enough to make me be
lieve in Zollner's fourth dimension, but
l don't, writes Hamlin Garland in
Everybody's. My mind is so con-
structed that such wonders as we have
seen recently produce very little effect
on me. They are as normal to me as
the popping Of corn or the roasting OF
potatoes. But as for belief-well, that
is not a matter of the will, but of
evidence, and the evidence is not yet
sufficient to bring me to any definite
conclusion. In fact, in the broad day,
and especially the second day after |
have been through one of these eXpe-
riences, / begin to doubt my senses.
Richet speaks Of this curious recession
Of belief and admits his own inability
to retain the conviction that at the
moment of the phenomena was COM
plete. "No sooner is the sitting over
than my doubts come swarming back
upon me-" he says. ''The real world
WHICH SuIIOuuuS us, Will AtO pLCJu
dices. it's scheme of habitual opinions,
holds us in so strong a grasp that we
can scarcely free ourselves completely.
Certainty does not follow on demon
stration, but on habit"
Maxwell says: II believe in these
phenomena, but 1 see no need to at
tribute them to any supernatural in
tervention. / am inclined to think they
are produced by some force within
ourselves" Just what he means by
that 1 can't precisely explain. It's
harder to understand than the spirit
hypothesis. He goes on to say that
while he is certain that we are in the
presence Of an unknown force, he is
convinced that the phenomena will III
timately be found orderly, like all other
facts Of nature. "Some future Newton
will discover a more complete formula
than ours" he prophesies. Every
natural fact should be studied and II
it be real incorporated in the patrimony
Of knowledge" He then adds, with the
true scientists humble acknowledge
ment of the infinite reach of the undis-
covered universe: "Our knowledge is
very limited and our experience young"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
THREE SURVIVORS.
@~N~~~

The only living creatures which
passed through the fire in the city hall
at Portland, MaIne-a fire which crl1m-
bled stone walls, warped great iron
Orders, melted copper wires and crack
ed f1agstones with the intensity Of its
heat-were three cats. They were
found by a newspaper man after the
fire had been extinguished, while the
ruins were still smoking In places, and
were elsewhere encased in ice where
the water from the engines had frozen
In glacier sheets over everything.
The three cats were the special peTs
Of the reporter, who was accustomed
to feed them, and they had a bed in
the basement, paying for their board
with a toll of rats and mice. After
the IRE 1t was supposed that, cooped
up In their narrow quarters, they had
lost every one Of their nine lives, and
had long since gone to the feline happy
hunting grounds.
The building was destroyed on Fri
day, and on the afternoon Of Monday
the newspaper man was surprised to
hear a plaintive little cry proceeding
from a heap Of stones and rubbish.
Enlisting the aid Of some policemen
and others, he rummaged round, and
presently found "'RaStus'' snuggled
under a big, charred foor-timber,
which in falling had somehow penned
him in. There was a big. cut on his
head, his fur was singed, and two or
three days of fasting had not improved
his appearance. He was released from
his prison and sent to an animal hos
pital for repairs.
His owner then began a search for
the other two cats, bob" and "Jim-
ME-" and found them also alive,
penned in by the fallen debris, and
about as misunderstanding cats as
ever were seen. Strange to say, neither
seemed to have suffered any serious
injury, although very inferno of fire
must have ragged about the place where
they were discovered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
Queer Names.

1--WE Chinese" said the law student
"give our children queer names. Our
girls, for instance, are not called Ma
bel, Jenny or Matilda, but Cloudy Moon
Celestial Happiness, Spring Peach or
Casket of Perfumes.
Our boys get less delicious names.
Boys are made for work and wisdom
rather than for dancing and pleasure,
and their names show this, as Prac-
teal Industry, Ancestral knowledge,
Complete Virtue, Ancestral Piety, Dis
Greet Valor.
ITO our slaves we give still another
set OF names. Yes, those dear, pathet-
ic little slaves of ours, some girls, some
boys, who do a hundred various little
tasks about the house, these lowly cred
lures have names like Not For Me,
Joy to Serve, Your Happiness and
Humble Devotion. "-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
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NoNooOon

In an autobiographical book just pub
lished by Rev. A. J. Church the author
states that he has in his lifetime re-
viewed 10000 books. In addition, the
unfortunate man wrote seventy vol
umes
In the third volume of the new Ev-
ersley Tennyson, his son notes that
Elaine, Guinevere, the Holy Grail, and
the Passing of Arthur were his favor
lite idylls for reading aloud" With
reference to the title the poet says, Il
spelt my idylls with two Is mainly to
divide them from the ordinary pastoral
idyls usually with one ~
The new edition of the Complete
Works of George Eliot" will have in
Productions prepared for each of the
different novels setting forth in detail
the circumstances under which it was
written. There will be in this edition
pictures of Griff House, where George
Eliot spent her girlhood, the various
schools which she attended and the diff
ferent homes of her later life. One
fO1uuG VIII D0 uCNOI0O u
written by George Eliot but never be-
fore published in a collected edition.
1.-THE Diary of a ady-in-Waiting," a
new edition Of which will shortly be
published, originally appeared in 1888
as 'Diary Illustrative of the Times of
George W." 1t was caustically criti-
cised by the Edinburgh Review and the
Quarterly Review, both of whom attrib-
uted it to Lady Charlotte Bury, daugh-
ter of the fifth Duke of Argyll who
had been 1ady-in-waiting to the Prin-
cess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caro-
line. She never disoWned the work.
and it is now regarded as one of her
numerous publications, many of which
originally appeared without her name.
In the present reprint, the names left
blank in the old editions have, as far
as is possible, been filed up.
DR.. Louis Livingston Seaman has an
article in Appleton's called ''The Hell
of War;" in which he states that four
times as many deaths occur from pre-
ventable disease as from the guns OF
the enemy, to say nothing OF the vast
number temporarily invalided or dis
charged as unfit for duty. That the
monstrous sacrifice is almost totally
unnecessary was abundantly proved in
the records Of the japanese war, where
100000 men were sent to the front
in country VIGOROUSLY unsanitary
and only $1,000 men died of disease to-
$4,000 who fell in the discharge of duty
on the field of honor. In our army IN
1898, 2,649 picked soldiers died in three
months in the pest camps of their ma
tive land without leaving the country
or ever having heard the hum of
hostile bullet. The remedy lies OF
course in a properly equipped medical
and sanitary department whose officers
are empowered to enforce proper SAM
tation and hygiene.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

Commenting ON the danger Of trust
ing women to run motor cars, an Ohio
mayor suggests that the only proper
machine for a woman to run is the
sewing machine. There is also the
washing machine We should be more
willing to confine our women to these
useful contrivances if they had electric
motors to drive them. 1t would be well
If some of the power spent in driving
automobiles were applied to necessary
domestic engines, which in many homes
overtax the feet that push the treadles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

Returning from Europe, A. B. Hep
burn, president Of the Chase National
bank, says that 1--WE are regarded on
the continent there as a bumptious peO-
pie who ought to be spanked into some
sort of decOrum, and they would vel
come and rejoice in any international
complication, not involving themselves,
that would bring us into difficulties. We
are their commercial and financial riv-
ais" The same might be said of Ger
many because Of its extraordinary adj
vance in power, wealth and industry.
1t is said of Japan because Of the mar
Telous efficiency it manifested in the
war with Russia. BumptiouSneSs is
often the vice of success and Of pros
perity In individuals and nations; sue
cess and prosperity invite the suspicion
and jealousy of the less masterful. But
what warrant has anyone for saying
that Germany, France, Italy or Aus
tria, meaning the people OF the CONT
nent, want to see the United States hui
inflated or impoverished by war? A
few political intriguers or certain COM
mercial interests in Berlin or Paris or
elsewhere possibly would be pleased to
see this country hindered In its devel-
opment by war with some power not
neighbor to their own. To this feeling
Mr.. Hepburn attributes the hope he
discovered while abroad that trouble
with Japan would arise from the send
ing of Admiral Evans fleet to the Pa
cific.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

"Every ship in Admiral Evans fleet
has beaten its former record by a good
margin" That is as much as strategic
secrecy can let the American people
know Of the target practice of the fleet
at Magdalena Bay. The officer who
said it added, 'sThe world will be as
founded when the facts come out. !"
While we are waiting to be astounded,
we can pass the time in being proud.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

What fraction Of the nations wealth
Is consumed by a typical extraordinary
hen in one year? Anybody who has
owned a potato patch or a flower bed
within walking distance Of hen knows
how small part of her living expenses
is paid by the man who gets the eggs.
He also knows how large a percentage
Of the hens diet must be left to the
imagination.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

1t is said that an Eskimo will devour
twenty pounds of meat in day. When
the meat trust strikes the frozen north
the native ought to manage to worry
along on half rations to keep down the
price Of living.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

After he had driven a coach from
London to Brighton, Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt enthusiastically declared
that it was the greatest achievement
Of his life. Young Mr.. Vanderbilts
definition of the word achievement
seems to be a rather curious one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
Eating Onions.

Persons with dropsical tendencies
should eat onions frequently. This sim
pie cure has proved effective in many
cases. In one instance the patient had
been given up by several physicians and
only tried the onions to please a friend.
She was completely restored to health
and, though that was five years ago,
has never had a return of the trouble.
She ate the onions just as she would
an apple, taking great many during
the day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

Two women recently fought a duel
with butcher knife and red-hot poker
because of a man. The man will have
our sympathy if he ever marries either
Of the women.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
knew what was Coming.

ST am dying" walled the soldier on
the stage. 81 haven't long to live"
"Quick, them" replied the hero, hand
me out that soiled and broken picture
of your sweetheart and the faded rose
that you have always worn next to
your heart. I'm in a hurry to get
away."-Detroit Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

Medernity and antiquity meet in odd
ways. The oldest house in the United
States, the one at st. Augustine, Fla.
built In 1865, has been turned into a
garage for automobiles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

@. d. Gibson, the artist, says there
are more pretty women in America than
there ever were before. We can readily
agree with Mr.. Gibson, as far as the
pretty women are concerned, but we
don't believe there are as many eight
foot men here as there were when he
was drawing for the magazines.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

The Kaiser is said to be supporting a
movement to introduce baseball into
Germany. After that umpires may get
"in bad'' on the ground Of lese majestic
by handing out raw deal to the team
the Kaiser is roofing for.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
Old FavOriteS
The Owl Critic.

S~~~OoI~~o-o~oO0No-oO~
The owl Critic.
"Who stuffed that white owl?" No one
spoke in the shop;
The barber was busy, and he couldn't
stop;
The customers, waiting their turns, were
all reading
The Daily, the Herald, the Post, little
needing
The young man who blurted out such a
blunt question.
Not one raised a hand or even made
suggestion,
And the barber kept on shaving.
Don't you see, Mr.. Brown"
Cried the youth, with frown,
''How wreng the whole thing is;
How preposterous each wing is;
How fattened the head is; how damned
down the neck is
In short, the whole owl, what an ignor-
ant wreck tbs?
1 make no apology;
I've learned owl-eology;
I've passed days and nights in hundred
collections,
And cannot be blinded to any reflections
Arising from unskilled fingers that fail
To stuff bird right from his beak to his
tail.
Mister Brown! Mr.. Brown,
Do take that bird down,
Or you'll soon be the laughing stock all
over town J"
And the barber kept on shaving.
1--WE studied owls
And other night fowls,
And 1 tell you
What l know to be true:
An owl cannot roost
With his limbs so unloosed;
No owl in this world
Ever had his claws curled,
Ever had his legs slanted,
: Ever had his bill canted,
Ever had his neck screwed
Into that attitude.
He can't do it because
'Tis against all bird laws.
Anatomy teaches,
Ornithology breaches
An owl has a toe
That can't turn out sol
I've made the white owl my study for
years,
And to see such Job almost moves me to
tearsi
Mister Brown, I'm amazed
You should be so gone crazed
AS to put up a bird
In that posture absurd
To look at that owl really brings on
dizziness
The man who stuffed him don't half
know his business !"
And the barber kept on shaving.
Examine those eyes;
I'm filled with surprise
Taxidermists should pass
Off on you such poor glass;
So unnatural they seem
They'd make Audubon scream
And John Burroughs laugh
To encounter such chaff.
Do take that bird down;
Have him stuffed again, Brown"
And the barber kept on shaving.
with some sawdust and bark
1 could stuff in the dark
An owl better than that;
l could make an old hat
Look more like an owl
Than that horrid fowl,
Stuck up there SO stiff, like a side Of
coarse leather;
In fact, about him there's not one natural
feather"
Just then, with wink and sly normal
lurch,
The owl very gravely got down from his
perch,
Walked round and regarded his fault
finding critic
(Who thought he was stuffed) with a
glance analytic, -
And then fairly hooted, as~lf he would
say:
"Your learning's at fault this time, any
way;
Don't waste it again on a live bird.
: pray. I'm an owl; you're another.
Sir Critic, good dayi'
And the barber kept on shaving.
IN n.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
Mistaken identify.

ST came in to-day" said the fair shop
per, ito see those handsome sideboards
Of yours
'tNot me, lady," exclaimed the new
furniture salesman. 81 amt never
wore anything but a mustache."-
Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

If it is true that Mr.. Carnegie has
taken to writing peetry, he must be In
earnest about wanting to die poor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

A matchmaker is the most popular
person in the world with two people
the day after they become engaged.
But the feeling they entertain for her
grows colder after they are married,
and when they have been married as
long as five years, each one secretly
feels that he, or she, would like to
set fire to the matchmaker's barn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

Mrs. Sage, it is announced, may give
s250,O0O to make over the inside Of the
New York city hall. Can she get new
administration that cheap?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

The dramatists are pretty slow this
time None Of them has as yet, so far
az we know, put Mrs. Guinness on the
stage.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

If MXs. Guinness was or is a reincar-
nation OF Kate Bender she has outdone
the CHASTITY achievements of her former
life. OF the Bender family's known
victims there were only seven The
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
A Wise Wife.

LADY, need a new outfit.
Husband-Where is the money to.
come from?
Lady-Don't worry about that; the
milliner has promised to give you cred
it.-Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

There are some choir leaders who
act as if they believe the music in
heaven will not be worth hearing until
they get there to direct It
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

The man who ISSUES an ultimatum
usually transmits it by telegraph or
through the mails. The hand-tO-hand
ultimatum has such a habit OF making
trouble.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

Every business man frequently hears
this: You charge too much"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

Exanthematous typhoid has invaded
a Russian prison. Think how this dis
ease will drag its slow length along.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
A Sacrifice to Science
Div Young chemistry tough

A jolly young chemistry tough
While mixing a compound of stuff,
Dropped match in a vial,
And after a while,
They found his front teeth and one
cuff.
Success Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

SPANS year-old Prince of the As
turias has been made private in the
army. In the infantry, we presume.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

Only few have the courage to, pub
licly disagree with a majority.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

The only way to win a lawsuit is.
to keep out.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

The butcher should be careful how
he steaks his reputation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17

Success Magazine.