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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
TO GET kNOWL EDGE
EVERY MAN SHOULD EXERCISE
MIND BY THINKING.
Learning Comes Through Our Senses,
Which Are to the Mind and
Body What Reporter Is to
Newspaper.

Whatever knowledge we have we
have obtained it in two ways, Thomas
Drier writes in the Nautilus. The
first is Inheritance. The second is &C.
QUESTION. With that which we OBJ
tanned from our ancestors we had
nothing to do. We are not concerned
with the past. We are vitality inter-
ested in the present
All knowledge must be obtained to-
day by one or more of the five senses.
Through the avenues of seeing, hear
ing, touching, smelling and tasting
come all our sensations. The quality
and number of sensations depend up
on the kind of sense organs we have.
The man with weak eyes can never
obtain through sight the knowled dye
obtained by the man with eyes that
are strong. The man whose sense of
taste has been impaired, say, by indul.
gence, cannot obtain the sense of sat
cultivated and trained to report &C
curately.
Our senses are to the mind and body
what reporters are to a great news
paper. Each has a special department.
One covers police, another the drama
and entertainment, and so on. Each
is a specialist. The more efficient,
the better trained, the more educated
each reporter is in his special de-
partment of reporting, the stronger
will be the stories and articles he will
turn in to his paper.
The strength and power of the pa
per is but combined strength and
power of the work of the reporters.
The truthfulness of the paper is the
sum of the truthfulness of reporters.
The new story written by the re-
porter with weak eyes will lack
strength and accuracy just as the eyes
of the reporter lacked strength and
accuracy. AS the matter which is
printed in the newspaper is the re-
suit of the work of the reporters so
is the matter printed on the mind the
work of the five senses.
To build the muscles Of the body we
require wholesome food and proper ex-
ercise. No matter how wholesome the
food, no matter how much or how lit
tie we eat, we cannot have strong,
healthy bodies unless we take proper
exercise.
So with the mind. No matter how
rich the mental food the senses may
bring to the mind, no good can be ac-
complished unless the mind is exer-
cised, is used in serving some pur-
pose, is employed in doing some work.
Let us use our newspaper figure to
illustrate. If newspaper employed
the greatest staff of reporters in the
world, if each was a master in his
line, if each one had no superior any
where, if each wrote stories and arti-
cles that had never been equaled, if
the stories sent in we're such as to
command the interest Of the entire
city-if these reporters did all and
were all things and these articles were
printed in the paper in the most at
tractive typographical manner, and the
papers were then stored in vault in
the basement, would that newspaper
have any influence, would its circula-
ton grow, would advertisers clamor
for space in it's columns?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
UNCLE ABNER

A good many sharp jokes fall fiat
The best thing about most any man
is his wife.
There's many a slip twixt the soup
spoon and the lip.
l never heard of any Teller makini
money buying mining stock.
Most people like a high-brow poetry
bekuz they can't understand it.
1t is better to have no opinion at all
than to have an opinion that amt
worth a darn.
1t is pretty pertickler town where
a Teller can't put on a celIloid collar
without bein' called snob.
Rev. Mr.. Hudnutt says what is need
ed most is pay-as-you-enter meetin'
house. The theory that salvation is
free has sunk deep enough in the
public mind.
.--T'rv ~
At the church social last week Hold
Peters ate a quarters worth of pop
corn and drank half gallon of new
cider, and amt been seen since, but
Doc Hanks says he may be able to put
him together when all of the pieces
have been recovered.-Roy X. Moulton
in Chicago Evening Post
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
USE GOOD ENGLISH
Whatever is Worth Saying, is Worth
Saying Well.

(This is Lesson Xxx in a series of
twenty lessons in English, by G. R.
Rounds, Inspector of English, Wiscon-
sin State Normal Schools.)
THE PROBLEM
Most of us do not make very many
different errors in speech; we make
the same errors over and over. That
should be a source of some encourage
ment If those who have followed
these lessons will but weed out the
errors mentioned here, they will have
gone a great way toward gaining cor
rect habits.
The very fact that one is trying
counts for half the battle Let no one
be discouraged. The writer of these
articles has had to rid himself of
errors of more than thirty years
standing. Anyone who makes up his
mind to do so, can get rid of speech
errors.
But, of course, good use of English
involves more than freedom from err
rors; it involves the expression of
thoughts that are true and worth
while. So let us strive to make our
speech clean, accurate, and helpful.
Let us realize that it isn't at all i'm
portant or necessary that we should be
talking all the time. Let us realize
that silence is frequently a blessed
thing, and that it is a great accom-
plishment to be able to listen. Then
when we do speak, our words may
have something of merit and worth in
them, and those who hear them will
be glad to listen.
Copyright, 1914, by C. R. Rounds)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
A SERIES OF SHORT, SIMPLE
LESSONS IN ENGLISH.

These lessons have been authorized
by the Board of Regents of Wisconsin
State Normal Schools, and a portion
of the expense of their publication is
borne by that body. The newspapers
of the state, both daily and weekly,
have very generously shared the ex-
pense and contributed their services,
in hope of waging a successful cam
paign for good English. These lessons
will appear once a week in most of
the papers Of the state.
c. r. ROUNDS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
A SERIES OF SHORT, SIMPLE
LESSONS IN ENGLISH.

These lessons have been authorized
by the Board of Regents of Wisconsin
State Normal Schools, and portion
Of the expense of their publication is
borne by that body. The newspapers
of the state, both daily and weekly,
have very generously shared the ex-
pense and contributed their services,
In hope of waging a successful cam
paign for good English. These lessons
will appear once a week in most of
the papers of the state.
c. R. ROUNDS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
WORLDS QUEER FOLK
MANY OF THEM IN ACTUAL LIFE
AND IN BOOKS.
Freaks and Caprices of Nature, Added
to Almost Daily, Source OF
Wonder and Matter for
Study.

We read in the old books catalogued
by booksellers as quaint" books like
the 'Wonderful Museum" or the &c
centric Biography" about misers, her
mits, gargantuan eaters, strong mon,
men with horns, women with Whisk-
ers, and we wonder at the freaks and
caprices of nature, but there is ma
terial every year for still more en-
cyclopedic volumes, year books Of
Living Marvels." Read the neWSpa-
pers. There are wild men in the New
England states. Mr.. John D. Rookie
teller, not believing in holidays, be-
cause they too often lead to extra
vagance," kept the laborers on his
ESTATE" hard at work on September
1. Letters to the New York Times in
form us that there are persons, other
wise sane who are endeavoring to
color meerschaum pipes.
There was hermit in the heart Of
London few years ago. He lived in
cellar, 'the sole vestige of house
| in Clare Market, pulled down and for
gotten by it's owners Tradesmen Of
the neighborhood gave him food, and
| he was lazily happy until a journalist
discovered him. The hermit was then
interviewed and photographed, and the
workhouse authorities pulled him out
of his cellar and cleaned him, so that
his glory as hermit faded. Mr.. Chris
Granger of Brooklyn on August "a
ate 80 Holsters weighing from pound
to pound and quarter. Not long
ago he ate 15-pound bluefish, six
green peppers, nine potatoes, two
loaves of bread at sitting, and, heed
ing not physicians who advise against
drink at table, galy put down 10 bot
ties of beer. Truly, this is little
world of great wonders.
Go back few years. Did not John
Ruskin deserve place in an "Encylo-
paedia of Wonders?' We do not refer
to his handing over Mrs. Ruskin to
his artistic friend, Mr.. Millais; we do
not allude to his crusade against rail-
ways and factories. When he suffered
from any malady, he always asked
what would be the worst for him;
then he ordered it and ate it. The
physicians told him that pepper was
dangerous. He scattered it profusely
over every dish. An obstinate man,
| when he was most disobedient, reck-
lessly perverse, he recovered.
Some of us remember the old man
who for 40 years had a telescope at
Fifth avenue and Twenty-third street,
in New York, Mr.. Frederick J. Sey-
bold, known to thousands only as the
professor. This learned stargazer in
vited the public by little placards to
see the Man in the Moon or the
Mighty Jupiter. He had studied medi-
cine, chemistry, law. He was a pro-
found astronomer and an ingenious
inventor. He was a member of the
Grand army. Why did he become a
street astronomer? No one knows,
and when he died a few days ago in
a hospital at Hoboken, all that could
be said of him was that he died chiefly
from starvation. Living on the canal
barge on the Hudson, he had burned
all his papers.
Did Edward Harrigan have him in
mind when he sketched the part of the
street astronomer in "Squatter Sover-
eignty?" 1t was not one of Harrigan's
best parts; yet the performance was
amusing.-Philip Hale in Boston
Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
The Collision,

A Newark man, running at mod
crate rate of speed, was about to pass
a cross street when a reckless mosqui-
to dashed in front of him and carried
away a lamp and fender.
The victim was able to stagger to
the next crossing and report the case
to the policeman.
cts no use," said the officer. "He's
safe by this time. If you didn't catch
his number there's nothin' doin'."
OF course, this could happen only in
New Jersey.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
A Scheme.

Assistant-Here is another letter
from those piano people.
Manager-What do they say?
Assistant-They want to know what
terms they could arrange to have the
prima donna recommend their pianos
every time she is called before the
curtain at the end Of an act.-Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
II Would Never DO.

wilkins has some singular ideas
for a financier," remarked the presi-
dent of the Unlimited Confidence cor
poration.
What about him?"
He thinks we ought to pay off our
debt instead of refunding it."-Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
A Friendly Clock.

'Took and see if the clock is run
ming, DEAR" said grandma to small
Sadie.
No, it's standing still, grandma"
reported Sadie, "but it's wagging its
tall
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
TEXAS TICKS

Some of us are so fast that we can't
see the block signals.
Men who haven't money in bank
often get through on a bluff
Quite naturally every self-made man
is ambitious to own a self-starter.
There are many people who sleep
out Of doors, but only the rich brag
about it.
A man may have his heart in his
hand and another up his sleeve at the
same time.
Possibly the reason they speak Of
candidates as timber is because
many Of them are poor sticks.-Dallss
News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
Picked the Wronn Eve.

what soulful eyes you have!" she
said to the innocent youtA.
''Have ~" he smilingly asked.
eyes," she murmured in her gush-
ing way. Especially the left one. I
could look into it's liquid depth for
hours"
81 might leave it with you over Sun
day." said the youth, somewhat bit
terly; cts glass"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
The Near Prizes.

"Some rich men seem to enjoy bad
luck" remarked the cynical observer.
Il never met any such person"
ooh, yes, you have. Every fisher
man you ever knew took more pride
in the fish that got away than in those
he actually caught. Washington
Evening Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
A Slight Discrepancy.

"Your theory is that the firing Of
cannon in battle produces rain?"
Eyes; and I have a long list of bat
ties just to prove it.
"Just a word"
''Well?"
Some of those battles were fought
before cannon were invented"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
Sane on One Thino

Shakespeare was asked whether
Hamlet was sane.
"He never thought there was for
tune in chicken raising" he respond
ed.-New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
Kindness,

''Why does Miss Screamditi always
close her eyes when she sings?"
"Well, you know she is so tender
hearted that she cannot bear to see
anyone suffer-"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
Just So.

ST see one of our young baseball
phenoms is to be sent back to the
minors for more seasoning"
eyes, evidently he lacks pepper"
''But maybe it's another way of say
ing that he isn't worth his salt"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
IN-SHOOTS

A book Of preferred stock will often
take the enthusiasm out Of the trust
buster.
AS a rule only a few OF US can
share the satisfaction of the self satis-
fed man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

The doctor who will discover a
remedy for fits and starts may treat
the world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
FROM HAMLET

In my minds eye. Horatio:
Frailty, thy name is womani
A little more than kin, and less
than kind.
Seems" madam! Nay, it is;
know not "seems!"
1t is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the
observance.
He was man, take him for all in
all,
/ shall not look upon his like again.
Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them,
to mems eyes.
The air bites shrewdly; it is very
cold.
o. that this too, too solid flesh would
melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into dew;
Or that the Everlasting had not f1x'd
His Canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
High.

''Is he man of high ideals?"
Eyes he will never be satisfied un-
til he holds the aviation record for al
titude."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

It's the fast man who finds trouble
in keeping up with his running ex-
penses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

When a very small firm fails for
very large amount it shows clever
management
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

Love is said to be blind, but it
usually gets there ahead of the old
man just the same
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

The man who gives as much as he
ought never growls about it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

An enemy is a person who aD.
plauds when you fail
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

About all the buried treasures most
people have are the good resolutions
they have put away.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13
PICAYUNES

z
An enemy is a person who aD-
plauds when you fail.
The man who gives as much as he
ought never growIs about it.
It's the fast man who finds trouble
in keeping up with his running ex-
penses.
The doctor who will discover a
remedy for fits and starts may treat
the world.
When a very small firm fails for
very large amount it shows clever
management
usually gets there ahead of the old
man just the same.
About all the buried treasures most
people have are the good resolutions
they have put away.
Some people work SO hard to mako
people feel at ease that they make
everybody uncomfortable.
There are but few people who can
pay debt without acting as if they
were comforting a favor.
When mans wife makes 1t warm
for him, strange that he does not re-
fer to her sunny disposition.
1t has been discovered that the
man who laughs ten times a day that
nine of the laughs were inspired by
something he said himself
A New Jersey woman leaped out OF
a ten-story building last week while
suffering with toothache.. 1t must
have been the jumping kind.-Newl
Orleans Picayune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

Some people work SO hard to make
everybody uncomfortable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

There are but few people who can
pay debt without acting as if they
were comforting a favor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

1t is a pretty pertickler town where
a Teller can't put on a cell'loid collar.
without bein' called a snob.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

1t is better to have no opinion at all
than to have an opinion that amt
worth darn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

When a mans wife makes 1t warm
for him, strange that he does not re-
fer to her sunny disposition.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-10
THE .JEFFERSONIAN


.WatS0n's Wagasine
My friend from Jerusalem says that when
l refer to the Servians as Protestants / be-
come laughing stock.
Poor mel It's habit that has grown on
me ever since I advocated and obtained such
new-fangled reforms as the Government de-
livery OF mail at a country mans front gate.
Sorry now that [ did not make the law so
that the Government would leave the mail on
the centre-table, in the family sitting room.
It's lots of trouble to toddle out to the front
gate to get The Jeffersonian. The Leading
Enterprise of Fitzgerald, and the Christian
Index.
Now, 1sidor did not say that the Servians
were Protestants like you and me. and brother
Warren Gambler, and brother John Wana-
maker, and brother John D. Rockefeller. and
brother j. p Morgan, and brothers Woodrow
Wilson and William Jenkins Bryan
What said was that the Servians are the
Protestants of the Eost-like the HISTORIANS,
the Armenians, and the Christian Copt5 of
Egypt.
1zzie Gelders seems to think that Martin
Luther and John Knox and Zwingli were the
forerunners Of all Protestants. Not at ALL
Technically, the LutEerans are the only Pro
testants; but broadly the word should en-
brace all those who protest against the mon
strous claims of Italian popery
Thus the Albigenslans, the Vaudois the Lol-
lards, the Waldensians. and the Baptists were
PrOteStants before Luther was born.
In like manner the Eastern Christians have
a1acayS been Protestants That is, they always
rejected Italian popery and protested against
it's monstrous usurpations.
The HISTORIANS are an older sect than the
Roman Catholics.
So are the Armenians, and the Christians
of Abyssinia.
Now. when [ named the Servians as Pro
testants, it never occurred to me that any
body would suppose I meant to liken them to
Lutherans, Presbyterians and Episcopalians.
What the text of my article plainly stated
was, that the Servians had always fought
Mohammedanism on one side, and Italian
popery on the other. They have always re-
Jected the universal sovereignty arrogated by
the Roman bishop, and have always pro-
tested against his absurd and wicked claims.
In this sense-the highest sense-the Ser
VANS are the Protestants Of the East. They
don't any more bend their knees and kiss a
priests nasty foot, than we Baptists do.
Friend Gelders IS mistaken about there be-
ing no Baptists in Greek Catholic countries
There are thousands, and always have been.
They suffer less persecution right noa0. than
Protestants do in the Roman Catholic States
of Central and South America
Friend Gelders says that Italy is entirely
Roman Catholic. On the contrary, it is So
cialist, Agnostic, Atheistic, Jewish and Wal
densian.
Hardly any Italians are left to the Pope,
excepting the priests and the densely ignor-
ant. wretchedly poor peasants who bow down
at the shrine on the roadside and worship
the image it contains-just as the Romans did
in the palmy days of paganism.
lizzie Gelders finishes his editorial in these
words
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-10
PAGE NINE
The Farmers Ought TO Watch
alle Farm Papers.

1T is an old game for the Money Sharks and
the Trusts to use the farm papers.
Thus the Standard Oil Trust paid $4,000
year to the Manufacturers Record, and SINH
lar sums to The Southern Farm and other
agricultural papers.
In this way, the beneficaries of Special
Privilege get on the blind side Of the farm
ers.
The Southern Rm'aist, of Atlanta. seems
to have moved into the Red Light district of
journalism. and to have become a common
strectwalker
1t prostituted its columns to the Warburg-
Aldrich Money Trust law, now in force: it
was loud in praise of the Regional Bank des-
potism; it's voice is that of an enemy to the
cotton growers Of the South.
In pleasing contrast, are The National
Field, and the Southern Cultivator. both of
Atlanta; and from the last named we quote
the following eye-opener:
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-10

Won't you send us one new subscriber9
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-02-05
Suspender Department
Mems and Boys

Regular 60c Dress Suspenders Sale Price 49c
Regular SOC Dress Suspenders Sale Price 43c
Regular Csc Dress Suspenders Sale Price - l9c
Regular 15c Dress Suspenders Sale Price, lie
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-20
RALEIGH

Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
RALEIGH, y. c., December ia
very pretty wedd ing was celebrated on
Wednesday morning, at the home of the
( Pride OH Jones street. when Miss Clara
turner. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. g. r
turner, became the bride Of Henry w
scott. of Graham. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. j. c. Wooten. of
Edenton Street Methodist Church. Miss
Little Miss Mary Turner was ring
bearer. and G.. y. Scott Of Graham. was
best man. The bride was given away
by her father. Mr.. and Mrs. Scott have
gone for IA wedding trip to New York
Graham.
Mr.. and Mrs S. Brown Shepherd have
gone Tor trip To New York and Bal
,timore.
The Tuesday Afternoon Club had Mrs
j. Stan. Wynne for hostess this week
The Raleigh Country Club has in
auEuratcd a series OF buffet supper
and dance events OF weekly recurrence
that are proving decidedly popular and
delightful.
Friends here have received announces
ments reading as follows: MIR. and Mrs.
Frank Wake Nelson announce the
marriage OF their daughter. Lucille. to
MT. Neal Duncan Ivey on Thursday,
the Sd OF December. 1914. Richmond
after December 10. Nashville. Tenn"
MIR. lvey is son of DR. T. \. Ivey.
formerly editor of the North Carolina
Christian Advocate and now editor of
the Christian Advocate, Nashville. Tenn
On Tuesday evening there was a de-
which Misses Louise Horton. May Stew
cnson. Anna Story, Rachel Pearsall
Agnes White. May Aiken and Alice
Ward were the principal participants