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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-01
PLATTEVILLE.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
Rev. John Glaeser was called to
Platteville by the serious illness of
his mother.
VIM. Cairns of Taylor, N, D, is
visiting at the home of his brother
in-law Harvey Mann. This is Mr.,
Cairns first visit to his old home in
thirty-seven years
William Walters, former resident
of Platteville was recently killed in
Lead, S. D. The details Of his death
are unknown.
The Acme Livery Barn has been
leased to a local company who will
conduct a garage and repair shop
The following are directors of the
new company George Meyer, John
Xettler, Frank Goodell, Will Hill.
w. L. Thorne and Dr.. Savage.
George Meyer had business in Chi
cago the past week.
Miss Kate Horstman is visiting in
Minneapolis with her sister MRS.
Jones
N. E. Frame attended the meeting
CT the Wisconsin Bookkeeper's associa-
tion at Madison last week.
John Russell has disposed Of the
Wellman farm to Matt and James
MANUEL who will move thereon short
ly.
Lloyd France has resigned as
principal of the Green Bay Graded
School to accept a position with q.
b. Lewis manufacturing Go. of
Watertown.
Mrs. Sarah Atkinson of Lancaster
is visiting at Platteville at the home
of her daughter Mrs. Chas, Denure.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-01
BAGLEY.
Special Correspondence to the Herald.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
We received notice, of the mar.
riage of Miss Jessie Ready of Alma,
Wis, to Mr.. Chas. A. Wescott, of
Arlington, Ia, last Wednesday, Feb.
Is, solemnized at the home of her
sister Mrs John Shop. of Arlington
Ia, which will be their future home.
The brides many relatives and
friends of Bagley hasten to extend
congratulations and best wishes.
Jake Zeller and family from Platte
Vile moved TO his newly purchased
farm in Bagley Friday.
The intelligence reached us that
K. Brodt died at his home in Bloom
ington, night of Feb. "a, his son. T.
E. Brodt, of Bagley, was at his bed
side at the moment of dissolution,
Nate Brown moved to Bagley and
took possession of his new home We'd
nesday.
Guy Trine and wife moved onto
the Geo. Harris farm last Wednesday,
Alfred Jackley and wife think of
staying in Bagley this summer.
Hogen Moore is in town for a few
days.
Miss Birdie Brown was in Glen
Haven last Friday.
Dir. Mecum purchased the Lenard
Beer farm and Mrs. Beer will take a
home in Bagley.
John Berkemire, who sold out here
to Nate Brown, bought a house and
moved to the Prairie.
The A. r. Calkins sale went off TO
suit all parties. Now they will soon
bid us good by and be off on their trip
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-01

hesleaves "a brother Kenneth and d
large number o. relatives to mourn.
Mr. and Mrs. Coons have the deepest
sympathy of their many friends.
The Potos1 high school has been
closed for a weeks vacation.
There are quite few people con
fined to their home with lagrippe.
AdoIph Koeller, Of Dubuque, visit.
ed at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Chris Koeller here last Sun
day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-01

to Oregon. Dee Orr and wife leave
also for their home in Washington.
If you want bunch of sheep and
some oats call on Ed Beiderman.
We received some wedding cake
and notice of the marriage of Miss
Jessie Ready, of Alma, Wis, to Mr..
Chas. a Wescott, Of Arlington, la.
We offer congratulations and wish
them all kinds Of success.
Geo. Hodge came home for couple
of days, but returned TO Lacrosse
hospital to take care Of his wife who
is recovering from critical opera
ton.
Mrs. Frey, of Gutenberg, Ia, was
here last week selling silver polish /;
she is trying hard to support herself
and two little children. Our people
sympathizingly purchased her goods.
Prof. Reynolds. of PIatteville, de-
Iivered the second number of our
lecture course here last Saturday,
Feb. IS, entitled Lightning. His
discourse was very scientific and very
interesting especially to those who
are quite familiar with technical
terms such as ozone ether, oxygen.
hydrogen molecules, atoms, ions and
many Others the trend of his talk
was to show up the early and latest
discoveries as to this very mysterious
and subtle power in the universe.
The next on the course will be given
March II, unless date is changed.
Geo. SedImayr, of CassvilIe was
here last week on business and to call
on his friends.
Our pastor Rev. Hooking changed
pulpits last Sunday. with Rev. Jen-
ings of Prairie du CHEN.
Guy Urine has moved his family to
the Geo. Harris farm to work this
season.
Geo. Willard Wits and Huldah
Hooge drove to Bloomington last
week Geu. went On to Madison on
business and the ladies drove back to
Bagley in the evening.
Miss Nellie MiIlin, help at the
Hotel Glen, is now resting at home a
while.
J. T. Clifton, Fred Patch and
others attended the F. M. Wager sale.
A very large and very successful
auction sale.
Miss Matilda Gambler. of CassvilIe,
will control about 500 colonies of bees
in the spring. Divided in stands as
follows: Cassville, Glen Haven,
Bagley; surely the Culvers and all
the rest will now know where to get
a supply of nectar fit for the gods.
Miss Gambler is queen bee raiser
We are having ideal weather just
cool enough to freeze a little at
night, with plenty Of sunshine
through the day.
This Friday was defamation day
with the upper grades.
Are we to have repetition of last
March, hot weather and cold enough
in April to kill all the fruit2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-01
LIVINGSTON.

|
Henry Van Ellston, of Muscoda,
was here on business last week.
Mrs. c. Anderson has returned
from the city hospital in Madison.
Mr.. Anderson ana Mary went up the
day before and accompanied her nome.
Misses Eva and Blanche Wiseman,
of Benton. visited Prin. Wiseman on
Wednesday.
John Alcott has moved into his
new residence.
Misses Eva Livingston and Eva
Tenney visited with Mrs. Alice
Bishop in Mineral Point a few days
last week. Mrs Bishop returned
home with them and is visiting her
mother Mrs. Chamley.
Mr.. Schlung. of Dubuque who Is
here tuning pianos and organs is con
fined to the house with an injured
knee.
Several of our best citizens are
talking of going to New Mexico to
locate this year, among them are,
Dr.. Tom Livingston, Carl Mueller
and family and Hubert Livingston
and family
Special meetings are being held at
the F. Nj. church.
Chas, Kraemer and family are here
from Stockton, III . and are guests at
the B. Skate home Mr.. Kraemer
is going into the hardware business
at Cobb.
Mrs. L. H. Treglown was in
Linden on Thursday.
Mrs. Geo. Dolphin visited at the
DR.. Cocklin home iii Platteville On
Thursday and Friday.
Harlan Riddick went to PIatteviIle
Thursday to consult Dr. Cunningham.
Mrs. Chas. Watson Jr. and son
Floyd. returned to their home in
Washington, s. D. They were accom-
panied as far as Montfort by Mesdames
Carl Mueller and Jno. Graham.
y ISIS Florence O'Connel, teaching
ut Lancaster Junction, was at home
over Sunday.
There was dance in Allen hall
Friday evening.
Mrs. Will Skate visited in Mont
fort Friday
Mrs. Joe Allen is visiting with her
daughter, Mrs. Carl Wilkinson in
Georgetown.
Mrs. w. M. Livingston spent
several days of last week in Dubuque.
James Dolan of PIatteville was a
business caller Saturday.
Mrs. Dietzman of Mifain has been
visiting with her parents j. Gundlach
and wife.
Wilbur Dietzman, Of Arthur is
moving onto the Laughton farm and
will farm it on shares this season.
Mrs. Tom Noble and baby are home
from an extended visit with her par
ents in Kentucky.
Russell Griffith is home from
Rewey
Miss Agnes Gundlach who teaches
near Pla .teville, was at home over
Sunday.
Rev. Catchpole was here recently
and placed another one of Mrs.
Warnes children in a good home.
Rem Alcott and wife of Linden at
tended the Brossi sale.
Mr.. Mccoy had the misfortune to
lose their family COW last week.
Len Miller and family will move
to Dubuque the 1st of April we are
sorry to lose so many of our good
people.
Gretta Livingston has been suffer
ing with an attack of tonsilitis.
!! Mrs. W. II. Biddick visited with
Mrs. Frank Tuffley at Boscobel, en-
route to her new home in Dunville.
Miss Lou Nicholson is home from
Miflin.
John Barber Livingston, who is
employed at Miff1in, visited with his
family over Sunday. Mr.. Livingston
/ intends building this spring.
The J. W. Andrew farm is for sails
either in lots or as a whole.
John NJ. Ellsworth was out of town
last week purchasing horses.
Payne Stephens and sons of Mont
fort, were business callers here Thurs
day.
Harlan Biddick is quite i'll; three
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-06
Goodbye to Carncross.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
1t is impossible for the passerby at
18th street below Market to witness the
tearing down of what was so long Carn-
cross home of minstrelsy without indulg-
ing in some sentimental recollections and
even regrets. There are few places in
this city around which SO many memo
ries of peculiar kind gather. 1t had a
career lasting through several genera
tions. was one of the smallest houses of
entertainment in the city, but sooner or
later almost every one who frequented
the theater at all in this city entered its
portals. and many entered them alone.
There was long feeling among those
who held the theater in general to be a
work of the devil that Carncross' had a
special dispensation else they didn (
consider 1t theater at all. There is one
feature which gray-haired men and wom-
en- remember In these days with great
satisfaction. In the palmy days of burnt
cork minstrelsy there was nothing said
or done On the stage that was in the
least degree offensive to good morals. In
teliectual brahmns might question the
taste OF some Of the buffoonery. but there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-06
Britain and Rome.

From the New York World.
The empire OF Rome. as we now look
hack upon II at the distance OF LOCO
years. in It's greatest extent may be said
only TO have embraced the fringes of the
of the Atlantic. II Is true that this is
equivalent to saying the whole of the
then known and civilized world. 1t is
owing TO this fact that Rome occupies
and has occupied for 1000 years the
not only to her arms, but to the mighty
genius of her poets, statesmen, orators.
architects and artists, and the laws and
institutions which she developed and
which still constitute the main fabric Of
the civilized world.
In that sense there can never be another
Rome. But so far as imperial sway over
men and peoples of all chimes and hemi-
spheres is concerned. the British empire
Of today bears much the same relation to
Rome as the United States OF today does
TO the United States OF 100 years ago.
Reckoned in actual square miles OF ter
ritory and i'm millions of population. the
British empire is not only the greatest
in the world today. but IL is the greatest
Z all time.
That this greatest of all empires and
the greatest republic of history are now
preparing TO draw closer in perpetual
bonds of peace and amity is, after all.
the grandest fact In connection with the
picturesque and stored events Of corona
ton week. Like the 900 beacOns which
flashed from Lands End to John o
Groat's house. telling of the coronation
of new king and queen, the proposed
Anglo-American peace pact is beacon
which may yet light up the history
of The world for centuries TO come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-06
The Mystery of Stonehenge.

From the New York Times.
The announcement that in far-on Gre
clan Libya Prof. Richard Norton of Har-
ward the brilliant son of Charles Eliot
Norton. has found out something new
about Brtain's Stonehenge in the gigan-
tic monoliths and three-stone structures
of Cyrenaica. will have the attention of
all who have viewed the mysterious
heather shrine
4 shrine it is. but of burial, not Of hui
man sacrifice. In Cyrene there were no
Druids with horrid rites. Beneath the
Iibyan tablestones, shaped III the pattern
of Stonehenge. Prof Norton has found
tombs, a gloomy metropolis which his
party explored, of which the tremendous
monoliths are the landmark Diodorus
Siculus was not more mistaken when he
described to the cotemporaneOus Roman
world the temple at Stonehenge as dedi-
Gated to Apollo than later psychologists
who thought the barbarous priests of
ancient Britain inundated their victims
upon it's ALTAR stone" An earlier priest
hood than the Druids, not Celtic, inspired
it's rude but imposing architecture. But
who brought those vast stones there. and
by what engines? Can Prof. Norton tell?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-06
TREES OF AGATE AND TOPAZ.
Beauty and Wonders of Petrifed
Forest of Arizona.
From the Rata Yoga Messenger.

From the Raja Yoga Messenger
The petrified trees in Arizona that are
of red moss agate and amethyst and
smoky topaz and agate are nearly or en-
tirely transparent and SO beautifully pre-
served that all the veins and even the
bark can be plainly seen. The hardened
dewdrops of this enchanted wood are pur-
pie and amethyst and topaz crystals
such as one traveller found in the heart
of an ancient king of the forest.
In an outlying part of the forest are
different logs. They are perfectly opaGu,
and tinted in soft browns and grays
They are partly covered by great de-
post of limestone and strange blush
clay, whose depth shows how many mil
lions of years they have been there.
The most striking part of the forest is
called Chalcedony Park. Here is the
greatest number of petrified trees found
in any one place in the world. One OF
them has fallen across deep canyon fit,
feet wide, thus forming the only bridge
of solid agate in existence.
The wood of these trees makes beauti-
full ornaments when polished. but 1t Is sc
hard to cut that even modern methods
find it very difficult to saw through it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-06

One Of the laws of organized profess
sional base ball provides that between
May 20 and August 20 each season the
sixteen clubs which comprise the
American and National Leagues can
carry but twenty-five players on their
rosters This means that during the
three most important months Of the
campaign 400 players are maintained
or the salary lists of the major league
clubs. or this number nearly one-sixth
--sixty-five, to be exact-have been
playing I'm the two principal organiza-
tions Of the great outdoor leagues
for eight years and more
When the rack and tear on physique
and mental powers by every day COM
petition for six months-the actual
playing seasons taken into consid
GRAFTON. this is a large percentage.
When 1t Is also realized that each
spring some 900 odd ball players are
taken south for spring training by
these same sixteen clubs the percent
age grows proportionately.
1t has been said by those who have
made profession of base ball for
years that the average life Of the
professional player in the two major
leagues is four years. This can read
lily be understood when it is recalled
how many athletes are drafted or pur-
chased by these clubs. taken south
to GUST some seasoned veteran from
his regular berth. and are sent back
to the minor leagues.
There is still another point of honor
to the credit of the sixty-five favor
ties who have performed for eight
years and more Base ball has ad-
vanced in a natural progression. along
scientific lines. No longer are the man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-06
FEW ABLE TO LAST EIGHT
YEARS IN MAJOR LEAGUES
Thirteen Pitchers Weather Storms of Many
Seasons, Including Wild Bill Don
ovan and George Mullen.

ayers looking for ability to hit the ball
hard and field we'll They want more.
They must find this natural ability
possessed in conjunction with brains
the ability to think quickly and act
with precision at psychological mo-
ments. The fact that this socalled in
side base ball is being taught in the
schools OF instruction, the minor
leagues and the colleges. makes the
feat of the veterans in keeping pace
with the times all the more commend
able.
Why have these men succeeded in so
prolonging their active careers? The
answer is condition. Capital training
and the fact that the players have main
tanned a regular mode of life during the
or season account for the success of
the sixty-five, according to their own
versions.
way to the wear and tear. Yet Mathew
son Of the Giants, Mordecai Brown OF
the Cubs. Patsy Flaherty of the Boston
Nationals. Long Tom Hughes of Wash
ington. George Mullin and Bill Donovan
of Detroit, Eddie Plank and Chief Ben
der Of the Athletics, Sam Lever of Pitts
burg, George Wiltse and Leon Ames OF
the Giants, not to forget Cy Young OF
Cleveland, have weathered the ravaSes
of time and are included in the choice
number. 100
CIV Young has been pitching since 1890.
twenty-one years, and has been actively
affiliated with major league base pan
longer than any other man. Mathewson
and is still conceded to be the peer or
them all. Criger, who was with the
Highlanders last season. began catching
In 1880 in big league base ball. William
Keller broke in i'm 1872. Napoleon La1oie
played his first major league game Au-
gust IL, 1896. and John Honus Wagner
launched his career in fast company July
10, 1897
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-06
WILL STUDY GOVERNMENT.
Commissioner Rudolph to Spend
Some Time in Dusseldorf.

Outside OF Marb1rg. which Is the BIRTH
place Of his parents, Commissioner Ru-
dolph is expecting to spend the most in
teresting part of his trip to Germany In
the city of Dusseldorf. The Commission
er is interested in the municipal improve
ments which have made Dusseldorf from
an ancient into a modern city. and ex-
poets to study them at length.
At Marburg Mr.. Rudolph. besides visit
Ing the places where his mother and
father were born. will also visit Marburg
University, which has been in existence
six centuries His grandfather was IL
brarian of the university number or
years.
The Commissioner who will be accom-
panied on his trip to Germany by Mrs.
Rudolph and Miss Alma Nj. Summers OF
Mount Washington Heights. Mrs. Ru-
dolph's niece. will sail for Hamburg sat
urday He will visit Bremen. Berlin.
Dresden and other cities. AS he speaks
German fiuently, he expects to discuss
with the burgomast and councillors of
the cities he will visit the underlying
principles of German municipal govern
ment.
Commissioner Rudolph plans To return
to Washington before TIE middle of Au-
gust. During his absence Commissioners
Johnston will act as president of the
board of Commissioners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-06
The Sweet Pea.
rom the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

ioh INV Hiiaueipuid fuDiic lAeuSeT
The exhibition of the National Sweet
Pea Society is said to have been the
most remarkable revelation of the posi-
bilities in the cultivation of this ex-
quisite flower that has been witnessed
In this country. A single exhibitor
showed 200 vases. each holding distinct
variety The rainbow is put to shame by
the well-nigh innumerable hues, and, as
in the case of the chrysanthemum, the
carnation and other highly specialized
flowers, there is a constant accretion of
new sorts which the scientific cultivator
singles out at once from the standard
and familiar species.
Sometimes it seems as though. Tor the
conservation of almost every sort OF ami
NAL or plant, separate society existed
but since beauty is it's own excuse" in
the case of the sweet pea, the lovely
flower itself eloquently justtfies the at
tention that is bestowed upon 1t by the
society that bears its name. There are
few growing things that SO well reward
the gardeners hand and his senses.
1t is distinctly n flower OF the century.
for the improvements wrought in its
size and appearance during the last few
wears rival the wizardry of Luther Bur
bank, and the '1athyrus odoratus' OF
1911 is a very different flower from. the
humble flower Of two or three decades
ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-06

judah. Carrying with them the stone. the
ark the tables of the law and Aaron 8
rod that budded, they reached Ireland
where the princess married a chief OF
king of Ulster.
The royal pair were crowned by Jere-
miah on the mystic stone. incidentally,
it may be mentioned that there are per-
sons who profess to trace the genealogy
of our British sovereignS back through
the Stuarts and the early Celtic kings OF
Scotland to this Judean princess and hel
Irish husband. and through the princess
to David. When she died, says the le-
gend, the ark, the tables of the law and
Aaron's rod were buried in her tomb, but
ton stone. From Ireland it passed with
the Scots to Iona. thence to Dunstan-
mage. thence to Scone. and there 1t re.
manned till it was carried off to England
by Edward /.
The stone seems to have been held in
equally high repute in England and In
Scotland, and although after the acknowl
edgment Of the independence of the lat
ter country the Scots were very anxious
to get 1t back. the English were as anx-
ious to retain It, In the treaty of North
ampton, 1923. the stone of destiny Is not
mentioned, but from a writ under the
privy seal of the Dean and Chapter OF
Westminster 1t appears to have been
agreed that it should be returned to Scot
land This, however, was strongly disap-
proved of by the people, with whom, in
deed. the whole treaty was unpopular
and when the trophy was to be taken
from it's place in Westminster a riot oc-
CURED and London mob determinedly
and successfully opposed its removal.
The authentic history of the stone be-
gins really at Scone: 1t is very doubtful
it was ever at Dunstaffnage or Iona and
still more doubtful that it came from Ire
land. Even among those who accept the
legend as to the ark, Jacobs pillow, etc,
having been carried to Ireland, there are
some who hold that all the relics re-
manned. and are still there. the story be-
ing that they were all buried at Tara
About ten years ago some cranks actually
commenced excavations at Tara with q
view to discovering the tomb of the Jul
dean princess and the sacred relics said
to have been buried with her The exca-
vations in the historic hill were conducted
I'm such way as to rouse great indigna-
ton. Antiquaries protested. and eventu-
ally operations were stopped.
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Champagne and Automobiles.
m the Chicago Record. Herald

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Few people are likely to see any
thing regrettable in the figures show
ing that aimportarions OF champagne
for the eleven months ending with
May last have been valued at only half
the importations for the eleven months
ending with May. 1910 Champagne is
a luxury of "spenders," whether rich
or poor: it is the bottle OF wine" that
the newly rich SO often wish to open
to show their generosity and their ig-
norance of any other kind of wine.
Less champagne ought to mean more
public welfare.
Where has the money gone that would
have been spent for champagne under
a continuance of our thirst for that
fizzy beverage? Speculation is only
speculation, but possibly a large part
of it has gone into automobiles. To
those who have been wondering how
it has been possible for Jones and
Robertson to purchase machines we
venture to suggest this eXplana-
ton: They may have cut down
their champagne bills instead of mort
gaging their homes. This also should
be for public good, since the automo-
bile. moderately used. means the en-
joyment OF fresh air and recreation for
all the family. Less champagne. more
automobiles-may the good showing
increase even though it cannot be
shown that there is a direct relation
between the two.