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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
TEN DAYS OF WOE
THAT AWFUL PERIOD WHEN BA-
BY MUST BE NAMED.
Writer Pleads That at Least Year
Be Allowed Parents for That I'M
portant Proceeding-ReIa-
tiVes' Unkindness.

The Modes and Persians were an
unyielding and an arbitrary people,
but it is not recorded that they had
such an inhuman law as this, a regu-
lation requiring that the baby must be
named within ten days. The name
must be filed with the board of health
within that period. 1t cannot be
changed without proceedings so diff
cult and vexatious that most people
will prefer to leave the name as it
stands or will change it without legal
sanction.
Surely no one should be obliged to
name his baby in less than a year. Not
only the board of health, but doctors,
nurses, friends and relatives-especial-
ly relatives-should be forbidden un-
der pain of temporary ostracism from
asking that embarrassing question:
"Well, what are you going to name
the baby?' If you don't name him or
her as soon as it is born they are
scarcely able to disguise their pity for
you. The doctor, perhaps, is not to
be blamed as much as the others.
The law prods him on. He has got
to get it on the books within ten days.
If he doesn't he will not be thought a
punctilious inquisitor. The board of
health will have its eye on him. But
for the others there is no such excuse.
Their action is contra bonos mores,
and quite objectionable. Their inquir-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
THE GENTLE CYNIC.

Most of us believe in eternal pun
ishment-for our enemies.
The good don't all die young If we
are to believe the tombstones.
A man never fights so hard for a
principle as he does for results.
When a fellow tells girl she is a
dream it is cruel of her to wake him
up.
The things that make man discon-
tented are not what he has, but what
he wants.
Some people take melancholy sat
isfaction in always being prepared for
the worst.
Occasionally you find grown man
who seems to eat almost as much as
a small boy.
Even the man who borrows trouble
is apt to kick if he gets more than he
bargained for.
Some men are so rich that they
even seem to think they can pay their
respects in dollars.
1t is quite natural that fellow will
never have a show unless he has the
price of admission.
The man who suffers from dyspep-
STA has little patience with a woman
who merely has broken heart.
1t always worries an absent-minded
man to think he can't remember what
it was he was going to worry about.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
TRUTH IN TABLETS.

Some peoples breakfast is sort Of
cereal story.
A truck has wheels-unless it is
garden truck.
Vanity leaves it's footprints on a
woman's face.
An oficeholder never retires until
the voters pry him loose.
A woman isn't necessarily gifted be,
cause she has the gift of CAB.
The nearer you approach many q
great man the smaller he looks.
Flour by any other name would
smell as wheat--to the shorts.
The antique assertion that figures
won't lie" is lying figure Of speech
The wise man keeps his temper
even when he is getting the worst
of it.
A man will confess to one bad hab-
1t for the purpose Of hiding a dozen
others.
A woman may claim to be as young
as she likes, but she doesn't always
look it.
It's simply impossible to love thy
neighbor as myself if he is an anna
teur cornet player.
It takes an expert female shopper
to get rid of a dollars worth Of en-
ergy in an attempt to save two cents.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

les are oppressive and unjust. They
know not charity nor the rudiments
thereof. They do not have the first
conception of the torture which the
haggard parent has endured.
First of all, there's the dictionary.
It's long enough-the lord knows. But
no one realizes how few good names it
contains until he has attempted to get
one out of it. He thumbs it for weeks
or months together. Always with the
same result! He flies to the family
genealogy and the genealogies Of all
the collateral branches. Result no bet
ter! He calls in his friends, even
his enemies. But they cannot help
him. He becomes a subject of melan-
choly and a hopeless pessimist. But
this is not all. Possibly a boy is ex-
pected-and after great tribulation a
boys name is selected-but the baby
turns out a girl. Or vice versa.
The process must begin all over
again, with the knowledge of what
was accomplished in months must
now be done in days-in ten days!
The parent may escape nervous pros
tration, but who will doubt that his
vital forces have been impaired? And
who should be surprised that names
selected under such duress and intim-
idation don't always stand? Yet folks
are surprised when a change is made.
Clearly the law is villainous, and the
manners of our friends and relatives
are beyond description.-New York
Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

The Herald last week published a
short article relative to the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition, in which
attention was called to the program
for July ID, which had been officially
designated by the management as
Wisconsin day. L. Fl. Bancroft, of
Richland Center. speaker of the Wis
consin assembly had been designated
by Gov. Davidson to deliver the
principal address upon that occasion
and he was just about to start for
Seattle last Thursday when the an
nouncement came that the date had
been postponed to September 1. The
reason given for this is the fact
that the sovereign grand lodge of
Odd Fellows meets in Seattle upon
that date and it is expected that no
less than 1000 members of the order,
which is strong in Wisconsin. will be
there. with their families.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

After nearly three years the United
States circuit court of appeals has
decided that the great fire in San
Francisco, which nearly wiped that
city from the map. was not caused by
the earthquake that preceded it.
This decision has an important bear
ing upon many insurance cases aris-
ing from that great disaster and will
probably be to the advantage of the
policy holders, but the popular con-
viction will probably aways be that
if there had been no earthquake there
would have been no such fire.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

Trusts, trusts, trusts. everywhere.
Upon sea or land, in the bowels of
earth. or in space above, its numbers
are The latest of the trusts, as has
been reported has been established in
Lancaster by the ministers. The poor
Devil will have hard time of it +;
he will keep shy of Lancaster. 1t has
been said that politics will make
strange bed fellows, But this COM
bination is marvellous. 1t is the
beginning of the end, when religious
creeds will be abolished and the peo-
pie yea all the people will worship
our heavenly father in unison aud no
questions asked. Taffey.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

Ebert Hubbard, who has won much
fame as the editor of the Philistine
Magazine and the Roycroft printing
works, as we'll as upon the lecture plat
form gives the following philosophical
view of plain and practical truth.
He says: Opportunity knocks once
at your door, perhaps more than once,
but if you yourself happen to be
knocking when she calls you'll never
hear her. -
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

The long list of 4th of July ac
cldents which commemorate" the
celebration of that day remind us it
is we'll to remember that the giant
frecracker IS generally just getting
ready to 60 off when you bend over
it or pick it up to see what is the
matter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
Holds the Record.

The Beaumont (Tex) Enterprise
tells of a typist who can take 100
words per minute. We know of a man
in Allentown with a hatchet-faced
wife who can, and does, take at the
rate of about 800 words per minute
when she gets wound up.-Allentown
Democrat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
CHEERFUL. COMMENTS.

Bathing suits nearly everybody on
a hot day.
Even the straw hats have a bewild-
cred, disappointed look.
If the price of ham goes much
higher the ham sandwich will soon be
out of season.
You think you've had a pretty hard
time, but the native strawberry has
had to bear it also.
There hasn't been so much hurrying
to get the hunk of ice off the sidewalk
as there will be later on.
While on the other hand probably
nine out of 10 jokesmiths who make
fun of the June bride were married in
December.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

With this issue of The Herald we
are sending out a supplement Of %
pages containing a publication of all
of the general laws passed by the
legislature at its late session.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
REFLECTIONS.

Policemen don't give rap for law
abiding citizens.
The weather man is a poor prophet
in his own or any other country.
1t seems inconsistent, but the surest
and best way to ascend steadily in
this world is to keep on the level.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
Over the Pork.

Two dragon lieutenants fought a
duel at Carcassone because one of
them had eaten sausage on Good
Friday. One at least of the combat
ants appears to be counting DEATH
London Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

schedules that will be just right and
fair to all need to be wizards in wis
dom.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
Reflections of An Idle Fellow.

The scheme of the West Grant
Agricultural society of Bloomington
scored a success by engaging W. j.
Bryan to deliver an address July 9Th,
not alone financially hut by giving the
public an opportunity to listen to one
of the greatest orators of the United
States His reception was certainly
the most enthusiastic that was ever
extended to any man in Grant county.
Lancaster was we'll repr. scented. Our
townsman, Senator Baxter, in his
happy and eloquent manner and al
though a republican, brought honor
to Lancaster by introducing the great
commoner in an eloquent speech.
w. J. Bryan, to judge him i'm
partially, is certainly one of the
choicest products of the United States.
He is an orator, a gentleman and a
scholar. and still the idol of the great
democratic party, although ne led it
to defeat three times. Quoting the
language of an eminent democrat,
with all his faults we love him
still. =
The latest brotherhood that has
sprung into existence is perhaps of
novel origin. You are the owner of an
automobile? If so you are q full
fiedged member. You are not re-
quired to make an application nor
pay an imitation fee, or take secret
oaths upon skull and cross bones or
ride a goat or climb the golden stairs
or wade through the burning sands of
the desert. Enter an automobile take
hold of the steering wheel and you are
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

fully initiated. The man with $4,000
machine would stop to assist the
fellow with a 5000 auto in case
accident The recent accident, when
one of Lancaster's autoists was stalled
five miles from the city in the middle
of the night brought three autos to
his assistance as soon as the mishap
was known. Damon and Pythias.
David and Jonathan where are you
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

The trouble is that people who have
money are content to think money
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

1t is not generally known that the
Masonic fraternity is the most bene-
fcient society extant. 1t is only by
accident that its charitable acts be-
come public. You never hear Free
Mason mention the fact that their
hand of charity has been extended.
The treasury of the fraternity is
always open to its needy members.
The widow of deceased brethren are
unostentatiously protected and
supplied wi the necessaries of life
John Pendleton who lately passed
away after years of suffering was a
free mason. He has been maintained
by the Lancaster lodge for years and
his brethren have taken especial care
to supply all his wants. The Masonic
Order is the greatest and most beL f.
cent Home Missionary society in the
world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
WAYSIDE WISDOM.
Opportunity is a gum-shoe artist.

Opportunity is a gum-shoe artist.
1t is an odd man that never tries to
get even.
Some people cannot think without
making the noise Of a boiler shop.
The trouble is that people who have
money are content to think money.
Don't wait till somebody offers to
turn the grindstone before you sharp
an your AK.
It is very hard to tell where pa
ticace leaves Of and laziness begins in
most people.
A woman's idea of Staying the fat
ted calf is to put the best tablecloth
on the table.
The devil finds mischief for idle
hands to do. The busy ones find
tho:r own mischief.
I shows the innate superiority of
tie masculine sex that man can be
be.d and still be loved.
You can't tel just what man ex-
poets who puts a rabbits foot in his
pocket when he GOES to call on pref
ty girl.-Illustrated Sunday Magazine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

Some people cannot think without
making the noise Of a boiler shop.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

1t is an odd man that never tries to
get even.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14

Don't wait till somebody offers to
turn the grindstone before you sharp
an your ak.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-02-26
TO OPEN CAPITOL
TO PUBLIC VIEW
Park Extension VIII Give Travel
STs Chance TO See Building.
NO MONEY WILL Be WASTED
Gov. Stuart will Supervise tho
Buying Of Property.

Harrisburg. Pa. Feb. 26.-wIth the
adoption Of the Fox bill, which Is now
well on its way through the legisla-
ture, the extension Of Capitol park
can be started without delay. The bill
provides for the appointment by the
governor. with the approval OF the
senate. Of a commission OF three com
petent citizens, to acquire the property
for the state. The commission will be
vested with the full power Of the state
to take land by condemnation where
It cannot be purchased amicably.
The fact that the naming Of the com
mission ia left entirely with the gov
srnor is a guarantee that the enter
prise will be carried out with the
same business-hke care and capacity
that has marked other features of the
Stuart administration. As in the case
Of other committees appointed by him.
Governor Stuart will keep in personal
touch with the work Of this body. All
the acts Of the commission will be
subject to the governors approval.
AS to the prices that are to be paid
for the properties within the area Of
the proposed extension, the detailed
report Of Governor Stuart's three ex-
perts. already presented to the legisla-
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-02-26
nyelene ana neronlann,

Top floors are healthiest On the
same principle to nest like birds
among the trees Is a sound practice
hygienically and one that is INDUCED
IN every summer by Princess Marie OF
houmania. who owns an airy habita
ton that was erected for her BY the
King. This consists OF a small two
roomed simply furnished cottage with
a Kitchen and has for its support four
big nr trees. The idea is not original
but 1t suggests the most convenient
form OF abode for an aeronaut. as 4,
facilitates the process Of launching
Ihus = man could step out OF his
dining-room into the car.
A possibility OF the near future is
the aerostatiOn treatment Of invalids
Instead OF sending his patient To
health resort a doctor will prescrib.
some hours day in a balloon AT al
altitude adapted to the case in hand
In this respect there has already been
considered a perfected system OF bal
loon car with library, a recreation
hail. and a portable laboratory com
plete.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-02-26
South African MillIon.lr..

Harry Barnato, who has just died
in the prime Of life, is the latest ad.
dition to the list Of South African mil.
llonaires whose lives have closed pre-.
maturely and often tragically. Cecil
Rhodes. 1t will be remembered, did
not live to see his forty-ninth birthday.
although he had qualified as a million
aire at least twenty years earlier. and
Barney Barnato was only 46 when he
came to his tragic end on the high
seas. but he had lived long enough to
leave nearly e1.OOO.OoO behind him.
WOolf Joel. Barnato's nephew, was
much younger when at "a a bullet put
an end to his life at johannesburg ten
years or SO ago. and yet he was able
to leave an estate valued at a1,226,-
900; Herbert MatthewDavies aceumu.
lated e734.O0O before he died at the
age Of 43. and Mr.. Belt had made and
left his millions before he had long
completed half century of years.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-02-26

Unrest in India is obviously becom.
ing more ominous. That is confessed
by the government in its enactment
of summary justice" bill for dealing
with sedition. For weeks the news
from that empire has been almost daily
marked with reports Of dacoity, or OF
assassination attempted or effected.
Dynamite plots have been discovered,
bomb-throwing has been INDUCED In,
and indictments to wholesale massR.
ere and insurrection have been and
are numerous in the press. There have
been hints at a general uprising in
April next. Whether they are fulfilled
or not, there can be little question
that the government is now facing the
most serious problem which It has
had before it since the great mutiny
of half a century ago.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-02-26
Tracing Underground Water.

A rational device for finding under
ground currents Of water has been
Invented BY FrenehmAn named Diem
ert II was suggested by the instru
ment known as Daguins acoustele-
device Ior the analysis OF sounds
looking somewhat like a megaphone
To use It a hole about a foot deep IL
sunk In the earth and the large end OF
the horn is placed in 1t. tubes attach
ed to the small end being inserted In
the ears. II there is underground
running water anywhere In the Vicin
ity 1t may be heard plainly, the sounu
resembling that OF the wind In for
est Still water. o. course, cannot be
detected. Experiments with this in
strument near known subterraneap
streams have succeeded well, but ii
does not appear that it has ever dis
covered any hitherto unsuspected
stream There seems 70 be no reason.
however. why 1t should not be 90
used.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-02-26

View Showing Character Of Buildings
Within stone's Throw Of Capitol.
ture. will serve as a guide both to the
park extension commission in effect
Ing amicable purchases and to the
court and iuries where condemnation
proceedings are necessitEted by re-
fuSal Of property owners to sell at a
reasonable figure
The bill provides that net more than
100000 a year shall be expended dur.
ing Eve years. This will not only com
Dlete the purchase Of the property
within the total appropriation of S2.-
600, 900. but IL expected to provide the
ground ready for parking, as the ma
tSrials in the buildings will pay for
clearing them away. Governor
etuart's experts have estimated that
the properties can be bought for 81
oi.4s0. The total appropriation in the
Fox bill. therefore. is ample for all re-
Guirements.
As fast as the property is purchased
and cleared II will be entered upon by
the board of public grounds and build
ings for the purpose of converting It
into a park. This work will involve
comparatively little expense, as the
board is already equipped with a com.
petent force Of engineers and garden.
srs. Even the plans are well thought
out, for the extension OF the park has
been regarded for several years az
bound to come, and there has been more
or less getting ready for It on the part
Of the ofneials in charge Of the public
property. Under these circumstances
there will be no occasion for hiring
hish-priced enginsSrs and landscape
gardeners.
The extension will carry the park
from ks present eastern limit 1000 feet
70 the main line tracks OF the Penn
sylvania railroad. This will open up a
sweeping view of the most imposing
state capitol in the country to hun
dreds Of thousands Of persons who an
nually pass this point along the great
avenue Of transcontinental travel.
These include people not only from all
over the United States and the world,
but also the bulk OF the inhabitants of
Pennsylvania, who are especially in
terested in the state capitol, and who
can now see ii only by stopping on
between trains At Harrisburg. Passen.
ger trains at this point run at neces.
sarily reduced speed, because they are
either approaching OF Just leaving the
Harrisburg station. and with the park
extending for a distance of fve city
blocks, abundant opportunity would
be given for a full view Of the beau
tiful structure that is now hidden be-
hind buildings Of the poorest class.
AS the members Of the legislature
have studied this-and other phases Of
the proposition they have diseerned
that this is not only q good business
move, but Is q matter of interest TO
the people Of the whole state. And
since the plan has been worked out
With so many safeguards against eK-
'trsvaganee and with an economy Of |
expenditure which clears the way
financially. the last vestige OF opposi !
ton has faded away and there is prac. |
dcsliy unanimous approval Of IN
project.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-02-26
HOVHHEs FOR the TABLE.
Silver Trimmed casssroles-cloths
for Formal Dinners.

Silver Trimmed casseroles-clothu
for Formal Dinners.
This is decidedly the day Of the
casserole. These comfortable lookinr
and handy dishes have come to the
dignity Of silver decoration. the silver
being applied in q vaIy open design.
These may be used in exactly the
same manner as their humber
friends, as they stand the heat beau.
tifully. For entrees there are indiyi-
dual casseroies in the same deslgn.
The careful housekeeper, says Town
and Country. viii be interested in the
silver coasters or plaques in applied
silver which are designed to protect
her mahogany table from the heat Of
vegetable dishes.
An od0iCy in old ShefHeld plated
ware Is a double glass standard. This
has a champagne glass at one end
which when not in use forms the base
and a cordial glass which in its turn
is used for the base at the other end.
In this ware too Is a dish for the cook
ing Of the most important breakfast
egg. This has an hour glass on top
Of It to insure the result desired.
Speaking Of the table leads one
naturally to the flowers which form
so large a part in its ornamentation
and to the beautiful linens which no
true woman can pass unmoved. For
the formal dinner the plain satin da
mask cloth has no rival On this the
monogram Ia placed on each side Of
the centre decoration at a distance
Of about fourteen inches, thus leav.
ing a space OF some twenty-eighi
inches for the flowers.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-02-26
An EnaIi.h Woman MAYOR.

DR.. Garrett Anderson. the woman
Mayor OF Aldeburg. Suffolk. gave Il
banquet en- Saturday evening to forty
councillors and other guests. The
Mayor. dressed in black. with a
widows cap. and wearing diamonds.
was the only woman present
The Mayor gave the toast OF "The
Services" and said she hoped that
they would be numerous enough TO
meet all emergencies.
Replying to the toast of "Aldeburg's
Prosperity" the Mayor said that dur
ing her year of ONCE she would try
ali she could to be motherly sort of
housekeeper to the town. Of which
they had every right to be proud.
The guests were allowed to smoke.
but the Mayor did not.