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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
Why Choose Lancaster !?

Because you GOOD High School education
only the accomplished and best trained teachers have
been secued all of them college graduates who come to
after of extended study and experience their
lines They will only the useful knOwI
edge; they will only the methods of instruction
the Lancaster High School account of its long exist
has developed the best OF study and has acquired the
supply of equipment possible all the costly and deli
apparatus necessary used in laboratories
you have your choice of five of study each
which will prepare for genuine that class OF work
you desire to follow through life.
instruction does the student down
searn by opinions of given in single
book Hundreds of supplementary readers and collateral texts
found in brary they form part of our text books
expenses incident school reduced
No costly books to buy The school
them to the students for nominal
price books needed in whole year does not
amount to the cost of single book
system allows the district keep hand only
uptodate books subject tOt 0ddao"0
erpense to the pupils.
Is City Of Lancaster good place for boy girl
years spent the people of this city great
moral education.
School Opens Monday, September 6
and particulars write for caaog,
or address the principal, T. w. TRAINER
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
Needed Inventions,

A man in the metropolis has in.
vented a device which enables one to
blow out the gas without fear of the
consequences. Why cannot this be
neficent genius turn his attention to
other needed inventions? Where is the
machine that will make banana peels
on the sidewalk delight to pedes.
trains? Isn't there some device that
will make the humorist who rocks the
boat and pulls chairs from under folks
a public benefactor? Can't we have an
antidote for the revolver which nc
one supposed was loaded?-Success
Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
BIG BADGER DAY
AND NIGHT FAIR
At PlatteViIIe, Aug. 81, Sept. |,
2, 3, 1909.

Again we bid a cheerful welcome to
the most delightful season of the year,
the recreation and pleasure of the Big
Badger Fair.
This fair commands the patronage
of all, and each great annual event
presents some new, novel and highly
entertaining features.
The Big Night Fair is a glorious,
never-to-be-forgotten occasion, and the
enormous display of Fireworks will be
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
HOUSE USED BY GEN.SHERMAN
Historic Structure in Georgia Exactly
Same Today as When Occupied
by Civil War officer.

Acworth, Ga.-Herewith is a cut OF
the house which Gen. Sherman used
as his private post Office, sleeping
quarters and general headquarters
during his two weeks camp in Ac-
worth during the Civil war. Every
plank in the house now was there
during his occupancy, the building re-
naming now exactly as then. This
old historic house still bears the
names of a number of federal soldiers,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
Lancaster High School

No other school Grant County prepared and we'll equip
give the best that in high school Improve
being made constantly better the conditions the
school house and make the of study efficient
$40, 900 Heating Plant just being insaed-he most
ervceab and safest heating system the market No danger of
the school, all boilers and furnaces housed separate
building required student
holding diploma from the rural schools.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
sherman's Headquarters at Acworth

which were no doubt cut in the planks
with a bayonet. One of the names
plainly read is 81. A. Yoder."
Mrs. Mary Smithson and daughter,
Miss Callie Smithson, owned and &C.
cupied the house throughout the war,
both residing there to this day. Their
"reminiscences of Sherman's invasion
of their home are interesting in the
extreme.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
FACT AND FANCY.

Bankers get rich most rapidly, brew
ers next.
The archbishop of Canterbury makes
$4,000 year.
Don't judge a man by his own
clothes, but by his wife's.
Ties, if unpinned, slip to the left.
This is because man moves oftenest
to the right.
Wives should remember that men,
if kept in hot water overlong, will, like
eggs, harden.
The sneeze is a sign of good health.
Consumptives, paralytics and cardiac
sufferers never sneeze.
Boosting is always ludicrous. Did
you ever stand before the glass and
try to pat yourself on the back?
Some people are so fond of equality
that nothing annoys them more than
to see their friends forge ahead of
them.
The whole art of politeness is en-
braced in the two rules-"Always
think of others and Never think of
yourself
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
No Fine Distinctions.

Our friend Bangs has quite a sim
ian cast of countenance, don't you
think?"
Il think, if you want to know, that
he has a downright monkey-faco."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
Like ATTRACTING Like.

There is one kind of affinity l GER
tainly do like"
What is that?"
"A poker hand that shovels in the
cash."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01
WILL SHE CONFESS?

You couldn't get girl to confess it,
but the man she most admires is
often
He whose ideas never coincide with
her own.
He who tells her point blank that he
hates to see powder on her face.
He who never says that some other
girl looks pretty.
He who never appears interested
when she airs her little tribula tons.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01

Boosting is always ludicrous. Did
you ever stand before the glass and
try to pat yourself on the back?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01

The sneeze is sign of good health.
Consumptives, paralytics and cardiac
sufferers never sneeze.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01

Wives should remember that men,
if kept in hot water overlong, will, like
eggs, harden.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01

Bankers get rich most rapidly, brew.
erS next.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01

Ties, if unpinned, slip to the left.
This is because man moves oftenest
to the right
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01

Don't judge a man by his own
clothes, but by his wife's.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
DOWager Empress Body Taken to TOn1bS
DIPLOMATS ARE IN
FUNERAL CORT[Gf
Body OF DOwager Empress o.
China Escorted on Eighty
Mile Journey to Tomb

PEKING. Nov e.-The cortege ac-
companying the body, of the late
dowager empress of China. on its so
mile journey to the eastern tombs,
left the Forbidden City early this morn
ing and passed outside of Peking. The
route along which the procession will
travel is thronged with people. A
holiday in memory of the dowager is
being observed
The new imperial guards escorted
the foreign diplomats, who participated
in the procession. for a distance of
500 yards. The members of the diplo-
matte corps signalized the exit of the
late ruler by division in the vote
taken with regard to the time that
the corps should attend the final rites.
some of the diplomats declining to be
present at 5 a. m, but agreeing on
Z o'clock.
Owing to the confusion in the ar
rangements legation guards, with the
exception of the officers, did not wit
ness or participate in the ceremonies.
The head of the imperial clan ac-
companied the coffin in state regalia.
The foreigners were greeted at the
diplomatic pavilion by Prince Chun,
the Chinese regent. and Prince Ching.
formerly president of the board of
foreign affairs and now adviser to the
naval department.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
WOMAN ASKS PITY
IN MURDER TRIAL
Nine. Steinheil Complains OF
Torture and Defends Duplic-
ity Regarding Her Jewels

PARIS. Nov. s.-The sixth day of
the trial OF Nine. Steinheil no further
advanced the solution of the mystery
underlying the murder of the woman's
husband, Adolph E. SteinheiI, painter.
and her stepmother Nine. Japy.
Whiie the testimony given today was
indirectly more damaging to the de-
Iendant, the whole case rests upon cir
cumstantial evidence.
The judges attitude toward the ac-
cused woman is becoming distinctly
more more ienlent, and at the same time her
powers of resistance seem already ex-
nausted under the terrific ordeal
Have pity on me. / should not be
tortured" she exclaimed soon after the
case opened today. During the latter
half of the day she sat forlorn and de-
Jected. the personifcation of grief and
misery.
several newspaper reporters who had
interviewed Nine. Steinheil soon after
the crime gave testimony that was
most damaging to her defense.
Charles NJ Parby, a photographer
testined that when Nine. SteinheiI was
convinced she would be arrested she
wished to commit suicide
Nine. Steinheil then assumed an ag-
gressive attitude. which continued dur
ing the examination of several wit
nesses and resulted in series of lively
Tits between her and Judge de Wales.
When reproached for having con-
ceaied the fact that she possessed fmi-
tation duplicates of her Jewels. she de-
Iended her secrecy on the ground that
she wished to hide from her friends the
famfiys financial condition
The prisoner declared newspapermea
tortured her into confessing she had
placed the pearl in Couillards pocket.
one even having twisted her wrists to
make her talk
The line of defense to be followed by
M. Aubin, Nine. SteinheiFs counsel. will
be that exposure and suspicious so af-
feeted her hysterical and passionate
nature that it drove her into a condi-
ton OF frenzied despair, rendering her
irresponsible for her acts and accusa-
tions after the crime, which she denies
absolutely
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
GERMAN WORLD POLICY
CABLED FROM AMERICA
Count Won Bernstorff's Speech
Declared Authoritative

BERLIN, Nov. 9.-Count Won Bern
storff's address on Germany's world
policy before the American academy of
political and social science at Phila-
delphia last Saturday has been read
with intense interest throughout Ger
many.
That portion of the declaration re-
garding Germanys renunciation of her
colonial expansion is considered a
more positive and clearer expression
of the imperial policy than has ever
been previously made authoritatively
and publicly.
The imperial government takes this
step in America, it is declared to re-
move some of the suspicious constantly
encouraged by the illwishers of Ger
many.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
Mcintosh Will Bid for the
Jeffries=JOhnson Fight
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call


NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Hugh Mcintosh
cabled today that his representative
would be on hand with a bid for the
time. The success of the Burns John
son fight at Sydney. Australia, last
Christmas proves that Mcintosh can
with safety offer the most stupendous
purse OF ring history if he is as anx-
ious for the attraction as he appears.
1t is not merely a question of senti-
ment with Jeffries that prompts his
favoring California as the scene OF his
endeayor to re-establish the supremacy
of the white race. He wishes to train
in the state of his adoption If the
fight is held in California Jeffries will
be able 10 do all his training on his al
falfa ranch at Burbank. AS it is JefY :
property he will be able there to assure
the privacy he desires
At his own home Jeffries will find the
proper conveniences for rounding him.
self into perfect condition. He is used
TO every whim of climate in the San
Fernando valley. The water there
agrees with him perfectly. He is thor
oughly familiar with the lay of the
land in his native haunts and could
there do the necessary road work to
best advantage.
Jeffries, however, does not intend to
slight his training in any way from the
natural tendencies of home life While
he may spend half his time in the open
he will institute rigorous course OF
gymnasium work. He will erect a
every modern athletic appliance for
conditioning, and viii also import a
formidable staff of sparring partners
IT is for this reason alone that JefYries
would sooner fight on the coast than
elsewhere.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
GIRL SLAYER.
STRANGE TYPE
OF WOMANKIND
Little Alma Bells Short Life
Story Is Tragic in Its
BIeakneSS
Attorneys for Defense Raise
Strong Point by Citing De
DOux Case Decision

cutor c. ". Hamilton took turns at
examining the panel They wanted to
know II the veniremen had any leaning
toward popular sentiment sometimes
called the "unwritten law and also
they made the point that acts done in
Jealousy. malice or hatred do not con-
stitute basis for defense on the
ground OF insanity"
Hamilton had another question
which was both an antedote for Prev
ett's and a suggestion of the bitter
side of the prosecutions case. He asked
Of jurors:
II woman. irrespective of what
her past conduct had been, should claim
that she had been betrayed and would
take the life Of her alleged lover
would the claim that she had been be-
trayed create a feeling OF sympathy
for her?"
GIRLS PAST LIFE
Can the question of the girls past
life be the pivot upon which will hinge
the most desperate fight Of the case, q
battle which viii probably cut deep
est into the undeveloped soul of Alma
Bell? The defense will struggle to
keep out Of the trial all. innuendos OF
scandalous allegations having TO do
with Alma Bell and persons other than
Armes.
When asked how she intended to
conduct herself in the face OF the re-
puted evidence Of the prosecution. the
girl showed her native shrewdness and
instinct for defense, saying she was
10 be guided by her attorney, but she
spoke freely Of the life she had led in
the Rocky creek district prior 60 meet
ing Armes. There IS where the ter
rible pathos Of Alma Bells hopeless
life appears.
Il just grew up without any raising,
said the girl simply. Il have never
been out Of this county" All the
tragedy Of this poor atavistic girls
life has been so cOmpactly bound in
space and time She is but % years
old
Il went to school part of the time
until I was in the seventh grade.
was "A then. but 1 had to stop fire.
quently and work 1 have never read
a book since. then, nor while in jail
have l done any reading. l never had
any religious training in my life, ]
never learned my prayers. When ]
first left home 1 went out doing house
work: then I went into the restaurant
] kept company with Joe for four
Yea ars--'
When the reporter repeated to the
girl q pleasant story told of some
champion Of hers whom she had "sei
up 10 a meal when he was broke. Alma
Bells face frightened happily. Yes.
always tried to help people" she said
And that is everywhere asserted
Late this evening Judge Arnot ap-
pointed +. A Birce Of Auburn as elisoI
TO summon 20 veniremen.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
ALDR|CH PRAISES
BANKS OF EUROPE
Rhode Island Senator Tells How
Central Financial Institu-
tiOns Control Resources

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. Nov. S.-Reiter-
ating his declaration that neither he
nor the monetary commission of which
he is head had any pet scheme of
financial reform, Senator Aldrich to-
night in this city dwelt at some length
upon some of the advantages of the
European banking systems over the
systems in the United States. He
spoke after a dinner given by the
clearing house association at the
Baltimore hotel. He wass introduced
bye Senator William Werner of Mis-
souri,.
Aldrich found in the reserve system
the most striking characteristic of
European banks, he said. He said
that central banks of England, France
and Germany-the Bank of England,
the Bank of France and the Reichs-
bank-hold all the resources of all
the banks OF their respective coun-
tries.
He pointed out that there is no legal
requirement making it necessary for
foreign banks to keep in their vaults
SO large a percentage of deposits as is
necessary in the United States, and
said that the subordinate banks re-
gard money in the central institution
just as available for their reserve pur-
poses as il it were in their own vaults.
In England, France and Germany the
banks amass a credit at the central
bank which is in itself reserve, and
they thus are enabled to lend from
four to ten times the amount that they
could lend under other conditions
Aldrich dwelt upon the fact that Eu-
ropean laws make no requirement
either as to the amount or reserves
or of their publicity. The percentage
is left to the wisdom of bankers. He
said that the Credit .Lyonnaise. the
great test private banking institution
in the world, kept practically no money
in It's vaults, depending entirely upon
the Bank OF France in case or large
demands upon it. But, on the other
hand, reserves of the central bank
amount to about 20 per cent or its
liabilities, not only rendering 1t ex-
ceptionaliy strong, but making it a
bulwark for other French banks.
Asking himself how the great CEN
trail banks protected themselves in
times OF stress, A1drich replied:
''They advance discount rate as they
did the other day. For what? To at
tract gold from other countries. which
has the effect of building up their
reserves. This process is always sue
cessful. In 1907 the Bank of England
advanced the rate to 7 II per cent and
that step brought gold from 22 coun-
tries. i asked Mr.. Campbell, then
governor of the bank, what he would
have done If he had not secured the
gold. He replied: We would have
put the rate up to 10 per cent, and
that would have brought gold out of
the earth .
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
LABOR FEDERATION
UPhOLDS GOMP[RS
Council Recommends Prosecu-
ton of Appeals Against In
junction and Sentence
President, Mitchell and M0rri=
son Expect to Be Reelected :
for Another Year I.

TORONTO. Nov. 9.-If President
Samuel Gompers Vice President John
Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morri-
son of the American federation of
labor have to serve Jail sentences for
contempt of court it will not be due
to lack of support from trades union
ism. The executive council of the fed
era ation recommended to the annual
convention today that an appeal be
taken to the United States supreme
court both in the Bucks stove and
range comrany's injunction case and in
the contempt proceedings growing out
of it,
That the convention will ratify the
recommendation seems certain andsthat
the three labor leaders and their fell
low officers will be reelected for AN
other year is predicted.
A vigorous denunciation of the use
of labor injunctions was embodied in
the councils report today, which said:
1T should be borne in mind that in
these proceedings Messrs Gompers,
Mitchell and Morrison did not have the
constitutional right of trial by jury
All the circumstances in this case go
to prove that conviction would not
have followed If the case had been sub
mitted on it's merits to jury of their
peers.
JURY TRIALS DEMANDED
we hold that, excepting that where
contempt is in the presence of the
court, the liberty of no citizen should
be committed to the keeping of any
one man, regardless of who he may
be or what position he may hold; on
the contrary, we hold that a citizen
charged with violating an injunction.
the penalty of which involves impris-
onment, should have the same legal
right 20 a trial by jury that is always
accorded to a person charged with vio-
lation of the criminal law. To deny
the right OF trial by jury is TO take
from the people the protection and
priceless heritages which Were secured
by them after centuries of persever-
ance. struggle sacrifice. exile and even
martyrdom.
OLD AGE PENSIONS URGED
On the subject of old age pensions
the council reported a bill providing
for the organization of an "old age
home guard to be composed of per-
sons more than 65 years of age, who
do not own property worth more than
$500. or whose income does not ex-
ceed S240 per year. If this bill is
passed by congress these persons may
make application to the secretary of
war for pension enlistment" and shall
receive from the government S120 q
year in quarterly installments
The relort recommends that every
effort be made to assist in the work
of conservation of re tural resources.
A continuation of work among unor-
ganizcd labor is urged, and each aff1li-
6ted organization is asked more thor
oushly TO advertise the names of firms
when employ union labor and conduct
their establishments under sanitary
conditions"
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
TAFT'S13,OOO MILE
TRIP NEARING END
Glowing Tribute Given Nations
Chief Magistrate on Arrival
in Wilmington

WILMINGTON. n c., Nov. s.-His
1900 mile journey through 3S states
and territories all but concluded, Presi-
dent Taft is speeding tonight toward
Richmond, where he will stop until late
in the afternoon, leaving then for Wash
ington to spend the night at the White
House.
The president has had a wonderfully
good time on his long trip butts pretty
travels so soon are to be over.
Taft has given up all idea of visiting
Panama this winter and will make no
more long trips until next summer
when he hopes to visit Alaska. He will
spend the Christmas holidays in the
White House with his family.
The president is especially glad in
getting home to know that Mrs. Taft is
better The great Improvement which
began at Beverly last summer has con-
tinued rapidly and early and complete
recovery from the nervous breakdown
of last spring is certain.
GIVEN HEARTY RECEPTION
The presidents day in Wilmington
called out a great display Of enthusi-
asm. People came from all sections to
participate in the welcome In many
ways the celebration here was one of
the most significant of the presidents g
trip. Governor Kitchin extended for
NAL welcome of the state in an address
that bristled with the patriotism of the
south and that embodied one of the
most glowing tributes the president has
received.
The president was escorted to the
beautiful colonial home of James
Sprunt, where southern home break
| fast was served. George Washington
and Daniel Webster had known the
hospitality of the same splendid man
sion.
! From the Sprunt home the president
motored in review of 1,500 school chill
dren. He stopped several minutes to
listen to their cheers and songs. and
then proceeded to another part of the
city, where he reviewed the colored
children and made them a little ad-
dress
BOARDS CUTTER SEMINOLE
Boarding the revenue cutter Seminole
at 1890 o'clock with a committee of so
citizens as an escort, the president was
taken for a sail of % miles down the
waterway and return Wilmington is
desirous of deepening her channel to
the sea from "a to 80 feet, and the ride
was to give the president an object les
son as to the need of Improvement
Luncheon was served on board.
When the river trip had ended Presi-
dent Taft was taken for carriage ride.
The parade ended at the city hall,
where the president spoke. Tonight he
attended supper at the Masonic tenn
pie before leaving for Richmond at 8
| o'clock.
Governor Kitchin, in introducing the
president this afternoon, declared that
he wanted Taft to know that the south
was his country, as the north is our
1 4.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10

authorize his prosecution of any one
save Warriner.
Il believe WARMERS statement.
said the attorney, "that he has been
bIackmailed. but we have only his.
word for it, and we can not act on
that That is for state authorities to
do il they choose.
The facts dfvulged by WARMERS
confession are still unknown. Railroad
officials have so far refused to make
them public, but WARMERS attorneys
declared today that on their part they
had no objection to the document be-
ing given out.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
TYPHOON IN PANAY
MAKES 5000 HOMELESS
Crops and Property Destroyed
by Storm in Philippines

MANILA, Nov. s.-Panay, island of
the Visayas group. Philippines. was
crossed by a typhoon last Sunday. The
storm was especially severe in Capiz
province, where many homes were de-
stroyed.
Five thousand persons are homeless
and much property and crops were de-
stroyed.
The wind, which was of hurricane
force, was accompanied by heavy rains,
and much of the country is flooded.