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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-15
Polls Open al zoo A. M.

Resolved. by the Common Council of the
City of Lancaster:
That the polls of every election, and of
every primary election held in this city.
shall be opened at seven O'Clock in the fore
noon.
That the compensation to ber paid to the
several election officers within this city shall
be as follows:
Inspectors Of election shall be paiC 0wo dol
lars for each days service.
Poll Clerks shall each be paid two and one
half dollars for each days service.
Ballot Clerks shall each be paid two dol
lars for each days service.
All resolutions and ordinances conflicting
herewith are hereby repealed.
This res )lutiOn shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's passage and publ
cation.
Passed by the Common Council of the city
of Lancaster at its regular meeting held on
the 9TH day of March, A. d. 1911.
Approved March 18th. 1911.
JOSEPH T. BENNETT,
JOHN M. STONE, City Clerk.
ESTATE Of Jacob Reisic, deceased.
~ State of Wisconsin, County Court of
Grant county-In Probate,
Notice IS hereby given, that at the special
term of the County Court, to be held in
the City Of Lancaster, in said County on
the second Tuesday of April A. D. 1911,
being the illth day of April 1911. at the hour
of one o'clock in the forenoon, the follow
ing matter will be heard and considered
The application of j. ohm Dawson to admit
to probate the last will and testament OF
in said county. deceased, together with the
written codicil thereto, and for letters teS-
BY order of the Court.
E, b. GOODSELL, County Judge.
Dated March 18th, 1911.
Brown, Brennan & Carthew, Petitioner
| Attorneys.
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WILD SCRAMBLE OF WOMEN
London Paper Tells Of Scene IN Cloak
room After the Racing at
s. Ascot.

AT the end of the racing at Ascot
yesterday 1t seems that the cloakroom
arrangements miscarried, and when
the women went to get their wraps
they were not ready to hand. A wild
report circulated that the thief who
stole the gold cup four years ago had
been busy in the cloakroom and all
the women rushed to find for them
selves If the dreadful thing were true.
There has not been such an out
burst Of feminine excitement since
the last suffragist raid on the house
Of commons, and the attendants grew
SO alarmed and were 80 afraid OF the
cloakroom being stormed BY the angry
owners Of the precious wraps that
they sent for the police. When the
constables came several ladies' fed
ignominously without their things.
The police ultimately Strengthened out
the tangle and the honor Of Ascot. was
saved. The cause of the commotion
Is said to have been the action Of
some women who, left early and put
everything IN confusion IN the search
for their cloaks. London Express.
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BIGGEST CITIES OF WORLD
London Still Far In Lead, but New
York 10 Growing Faster Than II Il
Any Other. 81

London, the largest city In the
world. has population, as now on
cially announced. of 7,252,963. as
against 6,5S1.40 in 1901-an increase
in ten years of 671.561, or only 1912
per cent The population Of New York
is 4,766.883, and with gain In the
ten years Of 38.7- per cent, is growing
faster than any other great city I'd
the world. At the rate at which the
two largest cities are growing 1t will
take long time for New York to
catch up with London: but 1t would be
q great misfortune II It ever did catch
up-there Is too much congestion in
New York already. The third city n
size is Paris. whose population is prob.
ably 100000 The fourth city Is per.
haps Berlin, which had q little over
100000 i've years ago Tokyo and
Chicago fall little under the $500.
600 mark. and st. Petersburg, Vienna,
Canton. Picking, Moscow and Philadel
phia are below 1000, 900. Rochester
Post-Express
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rue SEPTIC TANK ON THE FARM
r. !, scudder. Professor Of Aeronomy. Orc
BY n. - 1.o N Agricultural College. Corvallis.

- c.udder. Professor 81 Aeronomy. Ore
BY H. D. eo Se AHagricntursi coilese Corvallis.
One of the greatest attractions Of
<.rno life is its heathfulness. This e
d l.. more largely, however, to natures
hon bene6cence than TO mans precautions:
80 If the most common sources OF
s IN IN health and physical discom-
fort on the farm may be found in sew
aue accumulations.
whether it be the kitchen slops and
uosh water thrown from the door, the
.n;mal manures under the caves OF
tho harm. or the more dangerous hu.
~ an excreta beneath the outhouse-all
ore the cause of foul odors, the breed
inc of flies, the pollution OF soil and
water. and the spread of disease.
Human excreta, particularly from
diseased persons, is by far the most
dangerous form Of sewage. Annual
" thousands of deaths from typhoid
alone may be traced to this source.
The most common means Of disposal
If this form Of farm and country. sew
ACE the privy, is perhaps the most
unnsanitary that could be devised.
Even the dry earth closet, though less
dangerous, is unpleasant and burden
some to attend. Cesspools must be
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inlet and outlet pipes (4-inch sewer
tile with cemented ioints) should be

inlet and outlet pipes (4-inch sewer
tile with cemented joints) should be
on the same level and turned down, as
shown, inside, soithat their discharge
will not disturb the mass of organ
isms at the surface of the tank con-
tents, and also so as to prevent the en-
trance of airrto the tank or the return
of sewage gas to the house. The tank
should be connected to the waste pipes
of the house by 4-inch sewer tile with
cemented joints. This inlet tile line
should have fall of not more nor less
that l inch per foot. The plumbing
of the house, of course, should be
modern in eyer respect, with the GUS
tomary traps and clean-outs. The out
let tile to dispose Of the waste water
of the tank should be ordinary drain
tile with about one-eighth inch spaces
left between the ends in laying them.
This drain tile should lead to ravine
or dry ditch where the waste water,
which is odorless and clean, can seep
away into the ground. A screen
should be placed over the exposed end
of the outlet to prevent the entrance
of small annals. Of course, if the
soil through which the outlet line is
run is sandy and porous, the waste
water will seep into the ground
through the joints of the tile within
one or two hundred feet, depending
upon the porosity of the soil. In such
cases, the outlet into ditch would
not be necessary.
Where an outlet ditch is not availa-
BILE, the drain may lead into a pre-
pared sand or gravel well at a dis
lance of two or three hundred feet
from the septic tank. The fall Of the
outlet tile should be about the same as
the inlet, one inch per foot, where
leading through very sandy soil. It
may be much less where the, soil is
Peavier and seepage along the tile line
is not depended upon.
NO strong antiseptics, such as
chloride of lime or carbolic acid.
should be allowed to enter the sewage
IN other than very small quantities, as
they might destroy the organisms that
bring about decomposition. The scum
OF organisms on the surface of the
sewage in the tank should not be dis
turbed. About once year the tank
should be examined and cleaned, il
necessary, but this seldom need be
done.
ihe materials required for building
tne tank shown are: Gravel, q yards:
sano, yard; cement, barrels; go
nre brick; sewer pipe and drain tile:
old lumber for forms. The cost Of ma
terlal and. labor ranges from $25 to $50.
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action. The tank msy be pissed q
any distance desired from the house,
IL il constructed of concrete with
man hole and concrete cover - shown.
it is practically alright and odorless.
The size Of the tank should be such e.
would permit sewage capacity ct
about four cubic feet per person,
closet, kitchen, bath and wash-roOm
waste all being included in this allow
ance. The tank shown in the drawing
Inside measurement: width, SO inch
es: height to water line, S8 inches;
length Of inlet chamber, So inches
length Of outlet chamber, "a inches)
has sewage capacity Of about 40
cubic feet, hence is Of about the right
capacity for family Of ten or twelve
persons, or for several small families
living in adjoining houses.
The wooden forms for the walls are
set in pit Of the proper size and
thoroughly mixed concrete poured in,
making the outside wall 6 inches thick,
and the partition wall 8 inches. Fire
brick are laid without mortar on the
base Of the partition wall, one-fourth
inch spacess left between the edges OF
the brick. On top Of this brick
screen, consisting Of eight layers OF
brick laid on their fiat sides, the con-
crete partition wall is completed. The
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Smiling. at length he exclaimed to the
stalwart Captain OF Plymouth:
"Pecksuot Dragged very loud. OF his
courage. his strength and his
stature
Mocked the great Captain. and called
him a little man; but see now
Big enough have you been to lay him
speechless before you'll"
Thus the first battle was fought
and won by the stalwart Miles
Standish.
When the tidings thereof were
brought to the village OF Ply
mouth,
And as q trophy Of war the head OF
the brave Wattawamat
Scowled fronh the roof Of the fort,
which at once was q church and q
b fortress.
ALI who beheld it re1oiced. and
! praised the Lord, and took cour-
.9 age,
Only Priscilla averted her face from
this specter of terror,
Thanking God In her heart that she
had not married Miles Standish:
Shrinking, fearing almost, lest, com
ing home from his battles.
He should lay claim to her hand, az
the prize and reward of his valof.
(ro BE CoNTINUED.)
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swelcome. Dnglishi~ they said. -
these words they had learned
from the traders
Touching at times on the coast, 70
barter and chatter for peltries.
Then in their native tongue they be-
gan to parley with standish.
Through his guide and interpreter.
Hobomok, friend Of the white
man,
Begging for blankets and knives. but
mostly for muskets and powder.
Kept by the white man. they said.
concealed, with the plague, In his
cellars,
Ready to be let loose, and destroy his
brother, the red man!
But when Standish refused, and said
he would give them the Bible.
Suddenly changing their tone, they
began to boast and to buster.
Then Wattawamat advanced with a
stride in front OF the other,
And, with lofty demeanor, thus
vauntingly spake to the Captain:
NOW w dtIdWdudt CdA 0So, ~ LIZ
fiery eyes of the Captain,
Angry is he in his heart; but the
heart Of the brave Wattawamat,
Is not afraid at the sight He was
not born OF woman,
But on a mountain, at night, from an
oak-tree riven by lightning,
Forth he sprang at bound, with all
his weapons about him,
Shouting, Who is there here to fight
with the brave Wattawamat?'
Then he unsheathed his knife, and,
whetting the blade on his left
hand,
Held it aloft and displayed woman's
face on the handle,
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writ "a. the dAys Of the fafkeis.
But when he heard their deflance, the
boast. the taunt, and the insult
All the hot blood Of his race, Of air
Hugh and Of Thurston de Stand.
ish,
Boiled and beat In his heart, ana
swelled In the veins Of his tenn,
pies.
Headlong he leaped on the boaster
and, snatching his knife from its
scabbard,
Plunged 1t into his heart. and, Keeling
backward, the savage
Fell with his face to the sky. and 1
flendlike fierceness upon IT,
Straight there arose from the forest
the awful sound of the war-whoop.
And, like a furry OF snow on the
whistling wind of December,
Swift and sudden and keen came q
flight OF feathery arrows.
Then came a cloud of smoke, and out
Of the cloud came the lightning,
Out Of the lightning, thunder, and
death unseen ran before 1t.
Frightened the savages fled for shelter
In swamp and In thicket,
Holly pursued and beset; but their
sachem. the brave Wattawamat,
Fled not; he was dead. Unswerving
and swift had bullet
Passed through his brain, and he fell
with both hands clutching the
greensWard
Seeming In death to hold back from
his foe the land Of his fathers.
There on the flowers Of the meadow
the warriors lay, and above them,
Silent, with folded arms, stood Hobo
mok, friend of the white man.
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Saying, with bitter expression and
look Of sinister meaning: :
f"I have another at home, with the
face Of a man on the handle;
BY and by they shall marry; and
there will be plenty OF children"
Then stood Pecksuot forth, self
Wanting. insulting Miles Stand
ISL;
While with his fingers he patted the
knife that hung at his bosom,
Drawing it half from its sheath, and
plunging it back, as he muttered:
"By and by it shall see: it shall eat:
ali, ali! but shall speak not!
This Is the mighty Captain the white
men have sent to destroy us!
He is a little man; let him go and
work with the women!"
Meanwhile Standish had noted the
faces and figures of Indians
Peeping and creeping about from
bush to tree in the forest,
Feigning to look for game, with ar
rows set on their bow-strings,
Drawing about him still closer and
closer the net of their ambush.
But undaunted he stood, and dissem-
bled and treated them smoothly;
So the old chronicles say. that were
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again. / don't know how TO express
my thanks for the good it has done m !93
and I hope all suffering women WIZ WIZ
give Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetactte o
Compound trial It. was worth l.S
weight in gold. Mrs. j. T. ENDIlch'
r. F. d. No. 4, Erie, Pa. -
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable COLI OH
pound, made from native roots anu
herbs, contains no narcotic or nalns1
full drugs and today holds the recola
for the largest number OF actual ca an5
CT female diseases we know OF, a ays
thousands of voluntary testlmoni an
are on file III the j 4nkham laborato -
atLynn, Mass, from women VINO na "
been cured from almost every form =.
female complaints, such as 1nna aIuo;d
Aon, liberation, displacements. nD oius
tum6rA irregularities, perio0c Pal o,,s
beckache, Indigestion and nea arcsn
prostrati0n. Every suffering wJ p;nF.
owes Il to herself to give Lydia T. Ell
ham's Vegetable Compound 3 tlla .;ta
III yon want special advice tMc sif
Mira fnkhazn, Lynn, Mass, ,vA
Is Is cree and always helpiul'
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The March of
Miles StQndish

Meanwhile the stalwart Miles Stand
ish was marching steadily north
ward,
Winding through forest and swamp,
and along the trend Of the sea-
shore,
All day long, with hardly a halt, the
fire of his anger
Burning and cracking within, and the
suTphurous odor of powder
Seeming more sweet to his nostrils
than all the scents of the forest.
Silent and moody he went, and much
he revolved his discomfort;
He who was used to success, and to
easy victories always,
Thus to be fouted, rejected, and
laughed to scorn by maiden,
Thus to be Knocked and betrayed by
the friend whom most he had
trusted!
All! twas too much to be borne, and
he fretted and chafed in his
armor!
IT alone am to blame" he muttered,
''for mine was the folly.
What has a rough old soldier, grown
grim and gray in the harness,
Used to the camp and It's ways, to do
with the wooing of maidens?
Twas but dream,-let 1t pass,-let
it vanish like so many others!
What thought was flower, is only
a weed, and Is worthless;
Out of my heart will pluck it, and
throw 1t away, and henceforward
Be but fighter Of battles, lover and
wooer of dangers!"
Thus he revolved in his mind his
sorry defeat and discomfort,
While he was marching by day or ly-
ing at night in the forest,
Looking up at the trees, and the con-
stellations beyond them.
After three days march he came
to an Indian encampment
Pitched on the edge of meadow, be-
tween the sea and the forest;
Women at work by the tents, and the
warriors, horrid with war-paint,
Seated about fire, and smoking and
talking together;
Who, when they saw from afar the
sudden approach Of the white
4ueua
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frequently emptied, and cesspools and
dry wells alike. soon clog up and pol

frequently emptied, and cesspo0ls and
dry wells alike. soon clog up and pol
lutte the surrounding soil, eventually
establishing percolation channels
which lead into the country ground
water, carrying impurities to the
sources Of domestic supply. Neither
cesspool nor dry well are feasible in
heavy clay sub-soils, yet in gravel
sub-soils they more quickly distribute
contamination to the country water.
Nor is the emptying of sewage into
creeks an entirely successful DISPOSE
tion of the matter, for this very com
monty merely carries impurities and
disease to the district below.
Hence the satisfactory disposal of
farm sewage has been for long, a
most vexing problem. Until the con-
ception Of the septic tank idea, no
permanently sanitary and economical
method Of disposal was known. BY
giving nature proper assistance, the
septic tank enables the farmer to COM
pletely and inexpensively dispose of
all household and human waste pro-
ducts, destroying their disease-carry-
ing power as well as Kidding the farm
stead of its most discomforting fea-
ture.
The septic tank is a simple concrete
receptacle built under the ground sur
face, into and through which the sew
age slowly passes and is transformed
through bacterial action into practi-
cally harmless liquid.
The exclusion Of sunlight and air
from the sewage chamber causes q
great army of saphrophytic vegetable
organisms, the anaerobic bacteria, to
attack the waste animal and plant
matter Of the sewage, from the de-
composition Of which these minute
organisms must obtain their necessary
oxygen. Ordinarily in less than
twenty four hours these bacteria will
break down over fifty per cent Of the
organic solids Of the sewage, trans
forming the offensive matter largely
into carbon dioxide gas and leaving
traces Of nitrates, potash, ammonia.
and marsh gas in the water remain
ing. In this process the disease
germs are destroyed as well. The
outflow from the tank almost clear.
practically odorless and harmless
may be used for irrigation or dis
charged into water course where
sunlight and soil complete its purifi-
cation.
The septic tank offers highly sat
..fac&nrv means If disnrn;nr re A.
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Saw the flash Of the sun on breast.
plate and saber and musket,
Straightway leaped to their feet. and
two from among them advancing,
Came to parley with Standish, and
offer him furs as a present;
Friendship was In their looks. but in
their hearts there was hatred.
Braves o. the tribe were these, and
brothers gigantic in stature.
Huge as Goliath Of CATH or the ter
rible o.. king Of Bashan;
One was Pecksuot named, and the
other was called Wattawamat-
Round their necks were suspended
their knives in scabbards Of wan
pun.
Two-edged> trenchant knives. with
points as sharp as needle.
Other arms had they none, for they
we're cunning and crafty.
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An Ideal.

/ win strive to raise my own body
and soul daily into higher powers Of
duty and happiness; not In rivalship
or contention with others, but for the
help. delight, honor Of others. and
for the Joy and peace OF my own life.
-Iohn Ruskin.
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If dose of Hamlins Wizard Oil tax
en- at night will prevent your having q
bad cold in the morning, isn't it good
idea to have it ready to take the mo-
ment you feel the cold coming?
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Ready Tor the Summons.

Suppose you knew you were to die
tonight at IL o'clock. asked q lady
Of Wesley, how would you spend the
Intervening timer" How, madam"
he replied. why. just as ] intend to
spend It now. should 60 through
with my business. go to my room and
TO slesp at 10 o'clock. and wake up in
glory"
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lalmOSC nelpleSS. !
Invent to three doc,
ltors and they did
|me no good, SO my
sister advised me to
try Lydia E. PINK
hams V egeta bic
mpo d, and
when 1 had taken
only two bottles l
could see q Dig
| change, so l took
six bottles and l am
NOW strong and well
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-11-17
Road to Something Better.

Everything we endure patiently 10
. key to something beautiful we could
never enter otherwise. By the toll
some road Of study scholar learns
to get Joy out Of books and stones and
trees. BY the hard road Of discipline
a man learns to get JOY out OF every
day living.
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SHE
SUFFERED
FIVE YEARS
Finally Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.

Erie, Pa suffered for FIVE years
from female troubles and at last was
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About Twenty Per Capita.
It is.said that the people Of Chicago
consume 100000 pigs feet every
year. Perhaps that accounts for
whole lot Of Chicago's peculiarities.
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,Copyright, The Bobbs- Merrill Company
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1911-12-07
Ayerts Avid Tragedy.

Timely advice given Mrs. Viii
loughby, of Marengo, Wis. Or,
No, l prevented a dreadful ira.
gedy and saved two lives. Doc
tors had said her frightful cough
was a consumption" coug h
and could doslittle to help her.
After nanny remidies failed, hel
aunt urged her to take DR.. Kings
new discovery. Il have beer
using it for some time, !" she
wrote, land the awful cough
has almost gone. 1t also saved
my little boy when taken with 9
severe broncial trouble, !" This
matchless medicine has equal for
throat and lung troubles. Price
SOC LOO Trial bottle free, Guar
anteed by all druggist.
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CHARACTERS OUT OF SCRAPS
Thsckeray's Personasss Were Patch.
works, Seldom to pc Recognized a.
Portraits Of Actual Persons.

Thackeray rarely-drew an out and
out portrait, though he sometimes ven
tured on recognizable caricaturs OF
people he detested. In Roundabout
Paper" called de FinibuR" he. asserts
that he creates his personages out OF
scraps. heel-taps. odds and ends OF
characters" Lady Anne Tbackeray
Richie corroborates this. my father"
she writes in answer to private 70
quest for information, scarcely ever
put real characters into his books
though he, Of course, found sugges
tons among the people with whom he
was thrown. have always thought
there was something of himself as
Warrington. Perhaps the serious part
OF his nature was vaguely drawn IN
that character. There was also little
likeness to his friend, Edward Fits
gerald, who always lived very soil
tary life."
Il Warrington, indeed, may be TAXI.
as typical instance Of how Thackeray
made up--his own percentages out OF
odds and ends Of characters. In the
circumstances OF. his. life. Fitzgerald
was the closest Of all prototypes that
have been suggested. Like Warning
ton, he had married beneath him
though not so far beneath as Warning
ton; he had found his wife utterly un.
congenial and had left her In comfort
able circumstances to make his own
way In London in poverty and OBJ
scurity To add the final touch Of
pathos. Thackeray painted Warning
tons abandoned wife as bad woman,
which Mrs. Fitzgerald was not, but
only very foolish and snobbish one.
Besides the originals already sug
gested. James T. Field hints at q
fourth in Barry Cornwall. and Gen
James Grant Wilson says Thackeray
told Philadelphia that Warrington
was an English professor OF Latin
William S. Walsh, In Columbian