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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20

over the wild career that led his
hayward sen into these direful straits.
Much was written about Carlyle
Harris mother when that boy was on
trial for killing his young wife, and
old Charles Harris, the father, vas
mentioned only incidentally. Back
into the shadows cast by his strong
wife sank the figure Of the unsuccess-
full old man. Nobody paid any atten-
ton to him. He was alone with his
great sorrow.
When DR.. Crippen was being hunt
ed, tried and put to death for killing
his wife a lonely old man IN Califor-
MIA followed the reports Of the case
with trembling interest. Myron A.
Crippen was too old to be Of any help
to the son who had left him long ago.
Though unheralded, the greater trag-
edy was the fathers, not the sons.
When Albert Wolter was convicted of
killing Ruth Wheeler his old father,
a veteran Of the Franco-Prussian war,
felt the blow as a long-delayed retri-
button for the one great sin of his
life, and SO expressed himself. Albert
was the child of woman Carl Albert
Wolter had known in Germany. De-
sorting the mother and baby, the elder
Wolter had come to America and
welded another woman. She had died
and he, stricken by remorse, had sent
for the mother and child to join him
in America and had legitimatized the
one by wedding the other.
"The Sins of the Fathers"
And now this child had committed
a murder so fiendish in it's horror that
the old Prussian soldier bowed his
head under the shock and murmured
words about the sins of the fathers
being visited upon their children.
Another case was that of Gen. Jere-
miah V. Messerole Of Brooklyn, whose
son, Darwin J. Messerole, killed TheO-
dore W. Larbig in a fight. The old
soldier fought bravely to save his son
and the verdict Of acquittal, followed
as it was by the young mans CONVEX
sion and reception into Plymouth
church. was balm to the fathers
wounded heart.
There can scarcely be doubt ABOUT
the grizzled Confederate veteran, Col
T. V. Richeson, believing in his sons
innocence. But the tragedy Of such
an accusation against a dearly be-
loved son is less only than that of his
conviction.
These fathers whose gray hairs are
brought down IN sorrow to the grave,
IS the patriarch Jacob expressed it,
are tragic figures. They appeal for
sympathy, but their weight Of woe is
too heavy to be alleviated by Words
New York World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20
OBJ. Manners.

Mourning the loss Of old-time man
ners, an aged Englishman said the
other day: Boys are not like they
used to be. If they do not like a
schoolmaster they show it nowadays
by treating him with studiously cold
politeness. Why, | remember when
was at Eaton a lot of us getting hold
of a master who taught us mathemat-
les AID whom we all cordially detest-
ed, and holding him by his heels over
Barnes pool bridge until We saw in
the distance another master coming
in our direction, when we gently
loosed our victim and let him slide
headforemost into the water"
A New York man writes: Il was
taught to offer my seat to ladies when
travelling foolishly did SO few days
ago in the subway. All l got in re-
turn from the lady was CLASSY
stare, devilish grin and oh, sit down,
my boy. l don't want your seat And
1 am just thirty!"
In the Society islands two persons
on meeting salute by rubbing the ends
Of their noses together, and the saluta-
ton is followed by each taking the
hand of the other and rubbing it upon
his own nose and mouth.
Moors of Morocco ride at full speed
toward a stranger, as if they intended
to run him down, and as soon as they
have approached near they suddenly
stop and fire pistol over his head
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20
No Use for Molly.

admiral Schley, as his own SPLEEN
did career showed, didn't believe IN
automatons," said a Washington vet
eran. Tie didn't believe in the sub
ordinate who let's his boss do all the
thinking for him. I once heard Ad-
miral SchIey talking to a young An
napolis student. He told the student
that unreasoning and unquestioning
obedience to orders was, if the orders
were wrong, foolish thing. He said
the navy had no more use for men
of that stamp than the Widow Black
had for her maid Molly.
"The widow, he explained, told Mol
iy one evening that If any one called
she was only at home to Mr.. Mum.
Then she retired to her room and
took little nap. On toward ten
o'clock she awoke and, ringing for
Molly, she asked: Did any one call?'
ooh, yes, ma'am, said Molly. Mrs.
Blank called, and Miss Dash, and the
pastor
"'And you told them what l told
you tor
eyes, ma'am. I said you was only
at home to Mr.. Num-"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20

HEN the aged fa-
Their Of the Rev.
G. v. t. Richeson
fell upon his sons
neck in the prison
at Boston, and
the two men SOB
bed in each 9th
er's arms, a trag-
edy was unfolding,
a tragedy deeper
and more heart
rending than even
that which led to
the death of poor
Avis Linnell.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20
UBest on Earth"

This is the verdict Of r. ]. Howell,
fracv, Q who bought Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound for his wife.
: Her case was the worst l have eve;
seen, and looked like a sure case OF
consumption Her lungs were sore
and ehe cougte1 almost necessarily
and her voice was hoarse and weak.
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
brought relief at once and less than
three bottles effected complete cure.
]. I. Bennett
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20

'My boy! My boy!" cried the IA
Their in his anguish. Almost the words
with which the breaking Of King Da-
vid's heart was registered for all time
when they brought him word of the
death of his erring son Absalom.
Deal gently with the young man.
the old king had said to the soldiers
he sent out to capture the rebelliOus
youth. And when divine justice cut
him off in his sins, David cried, ooh!
AbsalOm, my son, my SOM"
Through the ages this cry has rung.
1t has burst from the heart of almost
every father whose son has commit
ted crime
Much is written and said about the
weeping mother of the son who goes
wrong-a figure full of pathos that
obtrudes itself forcibly, often over
shadowing the equally pathetic figure
Of the father of the prisoner, for a
mans grief, though no less deep than
a womans clamors rot from the
housetops but broods in the dark 81
lences of the heart.
Fathers Grief Worse.
A mothers grief differs from a ia
theirs in this-that she, in spite Of
overwhelming evidence, can never
believe her son to be guilty. Thus
her passionate tears are those of re-
bellion against injustice to one who
is dear to her. She will fight, as the
mothers of Carlyle Harris and Harry
Thaw fought, to save their sons from
what they believed an unjust fate. A
father, on the contrary, may know his
son to be guilty. He may be obliged
to let the law take it's course, to sit
silently alone at home when his son
Is being led to the galloWs or the
electric chair, knowing that the boy
so dear to him is meeting a just fate
In cases like this-and they are by nc
means exceptional-the fathers grief
transcends in its miserable tragedy
even that Of the weeping mother.
The figure of Judge Paul Charlton
quietly coming to the aid of his son
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20

"A I FTER.
Col. T. v. Richeson,
Confederate veteran.
Gen. Peter C. Hams,
veteran of the Civil war.
Gen. Edward L. MoIineux,
veteran of the Civil war.
Gen. Jeremiah v. Meserole,
veteran of the Civil war.
Carl Albert WoIter, veteran
of the Franco-Prussian war.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20
University Uses Experimental ccttag,

University Uses Experimental Cottage
SO that the work Of the housewife
may be reduced to the minimum, an
experimental cottage-not a model
cottage-has been fitted up by the de-
partment of home economics under
Prof. Abby L. Marlatt of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin for laboratory work
in house management, dietetics, home
nursing and house decoration. Much
of the decoration is supplied from the
textile laboratory, so that the expense
is somewhat similar to that of the
private home. The first floor bed
room of an ordinary cottage was
changed into a kitchenette, so that the
pantry now lies between the kitchen
cite and dining-room, which was the
old kitchen. The basement, freshly
concerted, is divided into a cold store
room, a laundry and furnace room.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20
Humility Proof of a Great Man.

| believe the first test of a truly
great man is his humility. do not
mean, by humility, doubt of his own
power, or hesitation in speaking his
opinion. But really great men have a
curious undersense of powerlessness,
feeling that the greatness is not in
them, but through them.-Ruskin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20
Foley Kidney Pills

Tonic in action, quick in results.
Will cure anys' case of kidney CT
bladder disorder not beyond the reach
of medicine No need to say more.
j. I. Bennett
The Washington herald., 1911-05-28
SOCIETY GIRL
OWNS ROSEBEN

Recent news that Roseben, one Of the
most popular horses that ever raced
on an American track. is now the fav-
orite mount of Miss Wadsworth, daugh-
ter of former Representative James w.
wadsworth. in Washington. has caused
many people to ask what has become
of other famous race horses.
Roseben was taken on the tracks in
1909 after winning forty -four races
and $4,000 in first money in six years,
besides breaking several records. He
could not have been bought for $4,000
three years ago, but his legs went bad
and when, two years ago. 1t became
evident his racing days were over, his
owner Davy Johnson, gave him to Mr..
good care of the old racer Mr.. Wads-
soon found out that the race horse was
as gentle as child and made an ideal
woman's mount,
Thousands kn0v the fate Of Sysonby
one of the gr1test horses that ever
lived. His skeleton is in the New York
Museum of Natural History. --'.
Star Pointer was the greatest PAGER
in America. He was the first horse to
show a mile in less than two minutes
but his death. a short time ago, on a
stock farm in Tennessee. was un-
noticed in the public prints. Many
horsemen considered Star Pointer the
greatest race horse America has ever
produced. But after he made his
famous record of a mile in 1:5sk In
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1897. he entered the stallion ranks and
passed from the public mind. w. j.
White, the Chewing gum king" had
him at his Two Minute" villa near
Cleveland for several years. His last
owner has offered his bones to the
University of Chicago.
Kingston. who won $142.562 in his
day and whose name was familiar to
every one interested in the turf, is
spending his declining days on the
famous Castleton stud farm in Ken
lucky He is twenty-seven years old
and 1t is nearly fifteen years since he
raced. Peter Pan, almost as great a
winner as Kingston. Is also on the
Castleton farm, which is owned by
James r. Keene.
Joe Patchen, who was Star Pointers
greatest rival, is living a peaceful old
age on a stock farm near Lexington,
KY. Dan Patch, who, despite his age,
raced at frequent intervals until five
years ago, is also on a stock farm near
Lexington.
Fitz Herbert, who was regarded as the
emperor of race horses in 1909, and
who won the Suburban, the Realiza-
tion, and the Coney Island Jockey Club
The Washington herald., 1911-05-28
HANDLING OF DYNAMITE
IMPERILS CANAL WORKERS

Most dangerous Of work in which man
engages is the handling of explosives.
To earn their daily bread men will at
tempt any task, no matter If their lives
hang by hair in the doing. The writer
from personal observations at Cristobal,
Canal Zone, is able to chronicle with
exactitude the nonchalant way in which
men appear to trifie with death.
1t is claimed by medical authority that
residence in the tropics materially af-
fects the nerves, and yet when one learns
of the dangers ever imminent and sur
rounding the workers on the Panama
Canal it is hard to convince you of the
correctness of such a statement. At least
such has been the experience of the
writer, so far as it relates to the Ameri-
cans on the job. 1t is true that when
You see West Indian negro ''toting" a
fifty-pound box of dynamite on his head
in close proximity to a boat load of 500
tons, you get peculiar sensation rum
ming up your spine and picture him
stubbing his tone, e but ordinarily the
yellow streak is absent. Even then
IL you were to ask the supervisor what
would be the result if he was to let 1t
fall, the reply would probably be 1.-The
completion of the canal. that's ALL
Following the explosion of the dyna-
mite boat in New York Harbor an epit-
ONE of the amount of dynamite con-
sumed in the building of the canal, to-
gether with the method of unloading,
handling, and its distribution upon its
arrival on the isthmus might prove in
teresting. All shipments of dynamite are
received at Dock IA, Cristobal, within a
very short distance of the city of Colon,
Panama. and not over five minutes walk
from Mount Hope, where the depot quar-
termaster's large storehouses are To-
Gated, together with the printing plant
OF The Isthmian Canal Commission.
cannot give a better account of the un-
loading than by quoting a portion of a
report of a dynamite inspector that fell
10 my notice shortly after my arrival on
TIE Isthmus. I have always treasured
this account because, like most men COM
ing here, 1 had just left my family and
was longing for home and environments,
and this had a tendency to make me
forget such trifles.
Careless Handling.
THE steamer Phyllis arrived at Dock
II with 1,0S2, goo pounds of dynamite
2e.64O cases of fifty pounds to a case.
Each box was picked from the hold by
a man who passed 1t up to another man.
who in turn passed it to third. by whom
1t was set on a long skid and allowed
to slide toward the dock. Just before
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fine tarpon this morning and every one
got away. but the las. could have land
ed. only an enormous shark attacked 1t
and swallowed IT, after nigh upsetting
my boat
II know that fellow. Buddy said I.
and I'm going after him. .,
Next morning picked cut my biggest
shark hook and twenty-five feet Of good
line and started out in a small boat. I
didn't wait long after casting the hook.
There was a swirl of the line, a swish,
swish. as it frightened. and shark. boat,
and man were whirring out of the Pass
with the speed Of an ocean liner, ham,
merhead in the lead and doing the tow
ing. We went 1t for twenty minutes. my
boat sailing through the air, most of the
time just touching the crest of the waves
By ami by I tried holding him with the
oars. All of a sudden I was swimming
no boat to be seen shark had drawn II
under. There's no fun swimming on top
of a twenty foot shark, held to your boat
by hook and line. Life looked good to
me. but it was a thousand to one that
death claimed the pot. I could see an
gels all over the island. 1t looked too
much like heaven. y
.'Of sudden the boat bobbed up close
by me. Wasn't glad! 1 Swan to 1t, but
just as was about to crawl in. under it
went again. L was Ial1I ITOIQ lTlSnt anu
growing weaker every minute. Something
hard touched my foot and tainted How
long laysuncolscicus / don't know. but
when came to was lying. in my partly
submerged boat. my head on the stern
seat which held il above the water: the
forward seat and my twenty-five feet Of
line gone; the shark had pulled 1t out. I
padded ashore with my hands, hunted
up my oars, and rowed back.
what hlck?' asked Buddy.
Good luck replied. I've got back
alive"
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wickershams and passed by Congress.
The United States supreme Court has
said that it is constitutional The law
provides the government with about IS.
ooo.o0e Of new revenue, hut that is incl
dental although the revenue Is needed.
Better than money. however. is the gov
ernment's opportunity to learn the meth
DDS and profits OF large and supposediy
dangerous corporations. The law opens
the books. That in ifseif is regulatory.
wildcat Organizations. knoving that they
can't stand visitation and ihspections are
going out n businesS Thus the public
10 safeguarded agairist .Swindlers. In the
meantime the sunlight Of publicity has
been good for all Of the honest and we'll
managed enterprises. am = progressive
Republican. but am an enthuslastic
champion ~ President Taft even Il among
my brethren Tiers are those wfal want
come one else Nominated next year
The Greatest AhnerseAn oues1ao4.
s'Wlst b had cegporation7' asked.
The question angssrs Itself" Senator
lsenyon rs61ed. ~ ROD corporatioa
keepo within - iasetsa ~ oogporafioa
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Copyright b, @. v. Buck


operates outside Of the law. Much mas
been said and written about corporations.
Perhaps the subject has become, tiresome.
BUT the corporation problem. in my opin-
1n. transcends all others and calls Tor
the ablest craftsmanship of the time. 4
have been where could learn the meth
DDS used by asgregations Of capital to
destroy competition. The Standard Oh
Company simply crushed its competitors.
Crushed is the word to be used IN that
connection. 1t is said by some that the
practice Of cutting prices and of over
supplying the market led to the creation
of combinations In the first place; that
monopoly Is simply the outcome Of de-
moralixing rivalry for business Without
attempting TO get 1t the chemistry Of the
present sitAtion, II is enough Tor me to
know that the American people wasn't
competition. that the principle " sacred
and secure in public opiniou. Beipg .
nxed policy IN popular thought and as
ptfafion, leRfslatore cannot fn safety
ehAIlense = foelink lind Z d11panA that z
hAerpat q : country thas Wae fpunoee
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TIPS TO THE BEGINNER
IN THE ART OF ANGLING

their old shoes. trusting to avoid pneu-
monia by constant motion and content to
dry themselves after returning to the
fireside at sundoyn. But wading without
boots is obviously dangerous to any one
except the hardest athlete; and it is un-
comfortable unless you have no delicate
sensibilities. The Ordinary rubber boot.
hip length, is. of course, the simplest
waterproof covering. Its disadvantages.
| however, are manifest. You can have
hobnails only in its heel. and a slip on
some slick stone may result In a sp-ained
ankle or even a broken leg. The wading
stocking. while more trouble to put on.
is better. Over the foot you wear hob
| nailed shoes, leather or canvas, which
make your perch secure on the most
slippery rock For wading in deep places,
wdding pants, reaching all the way up
to your chest. have their advantages: but
they are unavoidably heavy and leave you
wearied to frazzle at the end of day.
Sometimes the trout are hard to get.
Days pass when the anglers groan aloud
over the waning glories Of the little river.
and declare that 1t Is "f1shed out" Then
dozen of them go out and flll their
baskets In a few hours. The trout have
been there all the time: II was merely a
question of the time, the place-and the
fly. Z
II your first venture does prove disap-
pointing, however. don't fall into the err
ror of blaming the stream. A certain
deep-sea fisherman was persuaded to try
his hand at fresh-water angling last
year. ard after a week returned to town
disguised ovec a total catch of four trout.
He said he would never go to the stream
again. But. as he afterward remarked.
the fascination of fly casting had gripped
him despite his failure to get the fish. He
thought about the picturesque brook, the
foamy rapids. the dark sheltered pools
and could not rid himself of the memory.
In fortnight he came to the conclusion
that the slow sport of trout fishing might
be worth trying again.
Back ne journeyed to the brook, five
hour trip into the Catskills. When he
arrived a shower had just passed over
the valley. 1t was one Of those after
moons when the trout seemed to want
any and every fly you offered them, and
the one-time deep-sea fisherman caught a
basketful, although he cast his line as IL
he were whipping balky horse and
slashed through the waters with the
clumsiness Gf cow
From that day to this he has trailed no
line over boat on the sea. and he SCOTS
when anybody suggests the delights Of
saltwater fishing.
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1t reached the wharf each box was caught
by a man who carried It to a point on
the dock, whence 1t was carried into
the box cars on the siding" Great sport!
But what IL the man on the wharf
hadn't been a good catcher? This is the
monthly and frequently the semi-monthly
stunt at this dock. After the cars are
all loaded Casually, fourteen) they are
labeled with a large red card marked.
Explosives" and. await the engine to
take them on their way. The people
on this end of the isthmus then begin
to- breathe more frequent and more
freely. To say that the engineer is po-
lite when backing up to this train would
be putting 1t mildly. He simply displays
a degree of railroad etiquette unknown
away from Panama. This job would be
good training for some Of our engineers
who pull accommodation trains out OF
our large cities. Not long ago one of
these trains was standing on siding
alongside of the printing plant An i'm
posing sight. But what about the COM
positor with rush take at a window
frame? Picture this and then try to
make yourself believe that 1t Is the cli-
mate that affects the nerves.
Notwithstanding the enormous quantity
Of explosives used in digging this ditch"
and the class or labor (unSkllleQ) EN-
ployed on all the various work, there are
fewer lives lost from dynamite than are
lost on account Of surface railways ira
versing the streets of cities with popu-
lation equaling the number of employees
on the canal There have been but
forty-nine men killed from dynamite ex-
plosions from June. 1907. to September.
1910. and hut one explosion, that of Bas
Obispo, December II. 1905 The direct
cause was determined. 1t would require
too much space to describe the details
of each, but the following two will give
you q fair idea of the stupidity among
the laborers, and the vigilance required
of the few Americans at all times and
under all circumstances to maintain such
a record:
"Culebra Cut. November Is. 1907-Two
negroes killed; placed a small charge too
near an unexploded charge Of go
pounds
"Culebra Storehouse, May q, 190s-One
Spaniard and one Negro killed. The
Spaniard became impatient with the ne
gro's slowness and tried to knock the
top off of a box of blasting caps with a
machete.''
1t is the same old story, just told in a
different way. They have gone to join
the servant girl with the kitchen range
and the kerosene can. They are still
among us and the fool-killer has been
working overtime.