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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-19

tax to be paid on a parcel only the
postage chargeable thereon is con-
sidered; the fees paid for special de-
livery and SO on are not counted
Fourth class or parcel post pack
ages mailed to or in Hawaii and Alas
ka, when the postage amounts to 25
cents or more are subject to the tax.
The tax is not applicable to the par
cells mailed to or in Porto Rico, the
Philippines, the Canal Zone, and is
lands of the Samoan group belonging
to the United States, nor to the U.
S. expeditionary forces abroad.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-19
HOME FROM GERMANY;
u. S. A. MIGHTY GOOD

Clarence F. Metcalf who has spent
the past Is years in Germany at the
city Of Berlin where he was engaged
in the Importation of horses from the
q. S., left Berlin on the second day
Of October and came to the u. S., by
way of Copenhagen, Christiana, Hall
fax and New York. Mr. Metcalfe says
that when he saw the Goddess of Lib
erty in the harbor of New York, he
felt like climbing over the side of the
vessel and hugging it-Platteville
Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-19


rlpening in the nearby pantry. 1t was
a warm, fruity smell that no amount
of onion or cabbage cooking could
obliterate.
Mrs. Woodruff, called 'old'' by her
neighbors, is only sixty-eight, and as
trim and slender as a girl. 1t is sad
experience, rather than years that
wrenches youthfulness from the heart
and quenches the thirst for life, so it
was that Mrs. Wodhull spent most
of her days quietly rocking and
knitting. Her padded wooden rocker
faced a daguerreotype that hung on
the brightly papered wall of the coy
front room.
Christmas was a lonesome time for
the shriveled little old lady who had,
forty years ago, to give up the curled
gentleman in the daguerreotype, who
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-19
CompTimenting Father.

Charles received a wagon on his
birthday and promptly broke wheel.
His father soon mended it. Papa" he
said, ''you are smarter than you look"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-19

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-19
Directors and Officers

Directors and Officers
c. H. BASFORD, President
L. A. CLARK, Vice President
GEO. B. CLEMENTSON
JOHN C. BAILIE
J. HAROLD PUGH, Cashier
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-19
THE
Christmas Treat
By MARTHA HOLDEN

RS. WOODRUFF lived
in a one-story brick
house, whose warm sit
ting room in winter
smelled of dry wood
burning in an air-tight
c,tnrn nd D1n
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were well accomplished, and her subse-
quent advance was altogether due to
her own merit.
In reply to a question as to what it
meant to relinquish girlhood. with its
school and play and freedom from re
sponsibility and care. Miss Brown said :
II missed a good deal of so-called girl
hood life, but my mother did her best
to make it up to me. I can say right now
that I attribute all that l have been and
am to a good mothers influence and a
Christian home. When l returned in
work in the evening everything was
bright and cheerful. My mother arrang
ed little entertainments for our instruction
and recreation, had friends frequently in
for music and games, and what | lost
in the absence of school associations and
girl friends was at least partly made up
by my life in a well ordered home of
cheer and refinement.
II recall that when / was growing up
our list Of friends numbered school
teachers, and from them l imbibed in
one way and another a good deal of
school book lore l was natural student
and appreciteda keenly my lack of op-
portunities in that direction. I early
learned to absorb all the information pos
sible by listening to the talk of my elders
and 1 was a close observer. All in all
picked up fair share of the knowledge
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for the work. and 1 was considered and
found to be so.'
Miss Brown was born in Phila-
delphia in 1854. the daughter of u con-
tractor in that city. During the civil
war the latter was sent for by the
United States government to wire the
Treasury building to make possible the
destruction of the money vaults by
an electric spark in the event of the
capture of the National Capital by the
Confederate armies. The nature of the
work involved good deal of exposure,
and Mr.. Brown caught a cold that re-
suited in pneumonia, from which he
died in October, 1864.
To make matters worse for the Brown
family. the eighteen-year-o son of
the contractor, Alonzo T. Brown, had
In the meantime enlisted without his
parents knowledge and consent, CIV
ing his age as twenty-one. In his
first engagement he was killed by a
shell from the enemys camp, near
Petersburg, Va, July 80. 1864:
The fathers and sons death within
few months of each other left the
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Brave Enough, Anyhow j..

6en AISULI. who is giving the allies
LIZ trouble" said Il globe trotter
.'is a brave man. anyhow. In Tangier
/ once saw Raisuli. fat and magnificent
in silks and jewels. enter a shooting
gallery where a Tunisian was prac-
ticing.
THE Tunisian was an excellent shot.
He broke glass balls. rang bells. splin-
tered pipestems and penetrated bulls
eyes without number. AT each shot a
polite murmur of applause arose. The
man was puffed up with triumph.
"Raisuli exclaimed in loud voice:
In duel this gentleman wouldn't
shoot SO we'll
"'we'1r see about that growled the
Tunisian, and he challenged Raisuli.
Ten minutes later they were on the
field
They were to fight at twelve PAGES,
each to fire one shot. Lots We're drawn
as to who should shoot first. and Raj
suli lost. He took hissstand before the
Tunisian calmly, and the latter lifted
his weapon, took careful aim. and
missed.
"Raisuli smiled. What did I tell
your he said.
And he thrust his pistol in his belt
and strode away humming a song.
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which children Of my age were gaining
in school Our little family were, too,
regular church attendants, and that
brought US into helpful class of society.
In that class 1 still find my friends and .
congenial social circle
Miss Brown has grown up with the bu-
reau of engraving and printing, which
has not yet attained its fifty-flfth year
of existence. having been organized
August %. 1862. 1t was then housed in
the building of the United States Treas
ury, and she was removed with it in
due time to it's individual headquarters
across the Mall. and thence again to its
latest abode, the splendid new building it
now occupies on the Potomac. which
promises to serve its purpose for good
many generations to come.
Miss Brown has served in almost every
branch Of the service of the bureau and
has noted with interest the development
and progress of its methods and work.
She recalls. as an instance, when the
numbering of a thousand sheets con-
sumed one days work of one person oper-
ating hand press; now from one press.
electrically driven, from sixteen to twenty
thousand sheets are the daily output And
she declares herself as proud to do her
part in sending out the $1,000, 900 which
is the average daily delivery from the
greatest money factory in the world.
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Strange Meats.

essF HE Germans are eating whale.
sausages." said journalist who
recently returned from the fatherland.
at luncheon.
'Tn Germany, what with the acorn
coffee, whale sausages and straw
bread, you don't know where you're at.
In short, you're like the American At
the Chinese mandarin's dinner party.
The dinner was exquisite. There
were sea slugs. shark fins. birds nest
SOUP. all the delicacies. and, though the
host and guest could not speak each
others language. every delicacy was
duly recognized.
But finally dish OF unusually fine
flavor was brought on. 1t pleased the
American. 1t was rich stew of onions.
pork. mushrooms. and a dark, tender,
rich meat that seemed to be duck. The
American ate heartily of this stew.
Then, when he could eat no mora.
he closed his eyes. lifted his hands and
wagged his head from side to side in
ecstasy. AfteS this pantomimic COM
pliment to the dish, he said to his
host. interrogatively:
"'Quack, quack?'
'The Chinaman smiled and answered:
'Bow-wowv"
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Her Own Way.

A +. THOM, the representative of So
SNs per cent of Americas railroads
before the Newlands committee, said
at dinner:
The railroads are not Utopian. They
know the kind of world it is, and they
don't ask impossibilities.
'In fact, the railroads Of late years
have come to have the rather grim
outlook of the chap whose girl said:
"'Oh, no. George. 1 don't see how I
could possibly marry you. You know
always want my own way in every
thing
"'You could keep on wanting it, said
George. after we were married."
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look delightedly old-fashioned. They
have to be tied on with ropes and
straps
Sometimes a pair OF skates does for
two boys. Each wears n skate and by
dint of pushing hard and rapidly with
the unskated foot has lot Of fun.
The skate makers are more scientific
than they used to be. The tubular rae
ing skate is as delicate as a fine razor
blade, but as strong as 4 steel bridge.
They are fastened to a specially con-
structed shoe by rivets. and nothing
that can happen on ice will ever get
them loose. They are narrow in the
blade and the foot is high above the
ice. The hockey skate, an innovation
since the days Of the old-timers, is also
fat on the ice and may be fastened to
the shoes by screws or by clamps. The
old form Of rocker skates, however,
is the one that attracts the fancy
skater. When father takes the boy
down to the skate store to make tho
young mans heart glad he passes over
the Canadian" moIel and the hockey
skate and the wooden model and
looks at the rocker"
by George he says, with glow Of
pride, Il bet 1 could put on a pair OF
those things and show them all how to
do it. could skate some. I could"
But wait until he sees the things his
bog can do on pair of hockey skates.
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wife and mother Of two small daugh-
ters without means of support, and 1t
was decided that the Intelligent and
capable child of eleven should become
the family breadwinner Fortunately
for little Emma. S. NJ. Clark, the first
director of the bureau of engraving
and printing, was a friend of her fam
lily, and he offered the eager child a
position under him.
The first work required of the little
girl was to make packages of the old
fractional paper currency known as
"shinplasters." A woman who has
served in this bureau longer than
Miss Brown recalls the child with
long black hair streaming down her
back coming to take her place among
the woman workers. They realized her
position and made something of pet
Of her. each one tightening her burden
as much as possible. Emma took her
own part in affairs very seriously.
however, and from the first her tasks
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WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN
FIRST ATTENDED CHURC CHI

a SIMPLE granite monument has
A\ been raised by the people OF
Indiana over the grave of a
sister of Abraham Lincoln whose re-
mains for about ninety years have
Pigeon Church, near Lincoln City, in
Spencer county, Indiana. Her name
was Sarah Lincoln and in 1925. when the
Lincoln family lived in Spencer county,
Sarah married Aaron Grigsby, the eldest
son of y large family. She died soon
after her wedding. leaving no children.
The story is told that the casket in
which Sarah Lincoln Grigsby was
buried was hevn from large walnut
tree. Aaron Grigsby survived his wife
about three years, married the second
time and was buried beside his first
wife. A sandstone slab was erected
at their grave by James Grigsby, q
brother of Aaron Grigsby.
1t Is recorded in the annals Of that
part of Indiana that the Lincoln family
belonged to the Old Pigeon congre-
cation, and this church is said to have
been the first attended by Mr.. Lincoln.
The Lincolns lived about a mile from
the little house of worship. Living not
far from the church today is woman.
Mrs. Alonzo Griffith, who has a book
bound in deerskin, containing the names
of the original members of the Old
Pigeon Church, and among them is
that of Thomas Lincoln, father of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
The Old Pigeon Church is a Baptist
congregation, and is one of the very
old religious organizations in that part
of Indiana. Spencer county is on the
Ohio river. and of course is one Of the
southern counties of the state. 1t
might well be called one of the south
western counties of the state, because
only three counties--Warrick, Wander
burg and Posey-lie between it and the
Ohio river. Lincoln City is In the
northwestern part of Spencer county
close to the Warrick boundary. and
the village of Pigeon lies still closer
to the Warrick county line and within
q short distance of Little Pigeon creek.
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by ostriches, though their eggs are as
nothing when compared in size to those
of the extinct epyorniss. The eggs of
this strange bird were laid hundreds
Of thousands of years ago, so their
rarity is not to be marveled at. \ good
specimen today viii easily bring 1000
or more. For it's size the kiwi of New
Zealand, bird both odd ana wingless,
lays the largest egg. The kiwi is
twenty y-seven inches in length, and ITS
eggs measure five inches long. By far
the smallest birds egg is that of the
humming bird.
Some time ago the National Museum
purchased a great aux egg for SlO0
These monsters of antiquity laid but i
single egg, as do the funny little pen
gums, the petrels and It number OF
modern tropical birds. The quail, in
order TO survive, must lay from. twenty
to thirty at a sitting. The flicker Is
known to have laid as many as forty,
each egg a trifie smaller than the last
one preceding it. The birds that lay the
feWcst eggs have feNest enemies.
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1t Pays to Advertise.

A BRILLIANT after-dinner speaker
~ said at a Sphinx Club banquet In
New York:
"A doctor told me the other day that
he spent between three and four thou
sand dollars a year on advertising.
"a generous appropriation, DOCTOR
said I, but 1 thought that the medical
profession was ethically opposed to thai
sort of thing
"'The advertising on which my money
goes the doctor answered, is the de-
partInent stofe advertising that my
wife reads in the daily press
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lNltlIE case III lic ScNtii
IN ment service is that of Miss
~ Emma S Brown. who, not yet
- S sixty-three years old, has
spent ffty-one of those years in the
employ of Uncle Sam.
There are few people today who
would be happy to say that they had
given five-sixths of their lifetime to
federal work, but Miss Brown is proud
OF her unique experience, and is quite
as happy as, If not happier than, the
majority of people Of her age, and it
would be next to an lmpossibllity to
find another woman who looked young
er than she does and confessed to over
three score years.
Another remarkable feature of the
case of Miss Brown is that, although
her work of over a half century for
the government has been constant and
frequently arduous. she has hardly
gray hair to tell the tale of lifetime
of labor. confess the toll of the
years. Nature favored her again, in
asmuch she has been spared the
necessity of wearing glasses. and she
reads and writes. sews and knits with
out this artificial aid to her vision.
4 !:
Miss Brown possesses a bright and
cheerful spirit, which doubtless has
done a good part in seeing her happily
through her lifetime of toll. There
is also word to be said for Uncle
Sam as a fair taskmaster, and his long
time employe is one of the first to give
credit where 1t is due.
1t was at her desk in the trimming
room of the United States bureau of
engraving and printing that the writer
recently found Miss Brown busy at her
task of experimenting the work of the
hundred and more employees under her
charge, who trim the sheets of all gov
ernment moneys from one dollar up to
a thousand made in Uncle SANS great
money factory.
This work OF trimming the federal
notes requires precision and care, and
it is Miss Browns task to see that it
is done to the standard required by
the government, and that work is
planned and allotted so that there is
no waste of time or overlapping Of
work. She is credited by the officials
of the bureau with executive ability,
which maintains the work evenly and
satisfactorily. and with turning in re-
ports which prove that she is possessed
of mind strong and accurate
Yes" said Miss Brown. in answer
to question, Il can answer for what
1T means to spend a lifetime in the
service of the government, better per-
haps than any one else in the service
and l can and do say. first and fore
most, that I have nothing to complain
of. My lifework has been happy, and
! am more than content with con-
ditions as they have been and remain.
All of us have trials, and l have had
my share; but mine have not been
heavier than those of the average
woman in or out of Office. One rule
/ have tried to make and keep in both
my public and private life is to remain
pleasant and kindly whatever hap
pens
1.-The reason for my youthful entrance
into the federal service is very easily
told. 1t was a case Of financial neces-
sity. In those early war-torn days
there were no civil service examina-
lions to be passed, and there was 10
child labor law to prevent q girl OF
eleven from working IL she was At
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thought and continue the pleasantly by
saving that skating brings us all to
our own proper level, for the man who
holds his head so high that naught but
q Londonmade silk hat will express it's
grandeur is quite apt-sure-to find that
on ice the thermometer of attainments
and intelligence is reversed and the
superiority of the feet takes precedence
over the cloud-bumping mastery of the
head. And if one does not realize it quick
ly he will find himself turning frightful
half circles in the air, inToluntarlly
cracking his skull on the ice and way
ing untauSht skates nigh into laugh
ing welkin-not only once, but many
times, while urchins of all shades anG
grades, and with ffty-cent skates, glide
by mocking and gibing.
When Washington goes out to skate
the population of the city appears to be
made up of a tremendous number of
very pretty girls. That is an interest
ing proposition to start off with.
Wherever there is ice there is also
Mabel and Maud and Clarisse and all
the rest, followed persistently by q
large mob of very sportylooking and
proficient youths who really think they
have gone out to skate-but who are
following the eternal feminine as blind
y and as slavishly as did their parents
long before them. Some people declare
that yacht under full sail, Spinnaker
set and running free before a boom
ing wind, is the finest sight on earth;
but they always say that in the sum
mer time. Let them behold now girl
from the high school going out to
Chevy Chase lake and they will forget
that a yacht was ever built
First. there is a witchery in the eter-
nal feminine's manner of putting on
skates-or having them put on-and
there is nothing SO absolutely splendid
as the cheeks of youth as they redden
with the exercise of skating. and there
is nothing quite SO grand as to see a
girl who is a really good skater try a
few choice stunts on the ice Talk
about yachts
There is always at Chevy Chase and
the little Zoo pond a gallant collection
of youths in sweater jackets and
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1t is related that Old Pigeon Church
was first organized in Warrick county
in 1916. and soon afterward was moved
TO Spencer county. where a log build
ing was erected. Historians of the
church have written that Noah Gordon
and Samuel Howell gave the ground
and Owen R. Griffith hewed the logs.
Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham
Lincoln, made the window and door
castings, and built the first pulpit for
the church. The bricks were made by
David Turnham, and it is said THAI
Abraham Lincoln worked on the church
with his father. 4 brick mold made by
Thomas Lincoln is preserved at Rock
port.
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endeavoring to can eggs successfully.
Eventually they proved that eggs can
be frozen and subsequently canned
satisfactorily. The department has
shown beyond a doubt that eggs can
be quite as satisfactorily canned as
vegetables, but conditions must be
right. The first experiments were made
with low grade of eggs, and the
result was failure. An expert AYERS
that eggs spoil because of the rapid
growth of bacteria.
The necessary requisites in successful
canning OF eggs are perfect cleanliness
and cold. Canned frozen eggs can be
kept safely for a full year. They are
wholesome, and for pies. puddings, etc.
are said to be superior to either fancy
shell eggs or storage eggs. AS yet
these eggs are not put up IN packages
small enough for the average house
hold. fivc-pound package is the
smallest on the market The eggs can
be purchased with the whites sepa-
rated from the yolks, the yolks from
the whites. or yolks and whites mixed.
Every one is more or less familiar
with the great number of proverbs hav-
ing their origin in sentiments grow
up around the egg. Don't put all your
eggs in one basket; Teach your
grandmother to suck eggs, ITO tread
upon eggs; He killed the goose that
laid the golden egg" are among the
best known. One which has become
obsolete because of the scarcity of eggs
is: will you take eggs for your
money!" This was applicable in the
days when eggs were as cheap and
plentiful as they are now dear and rare
A quaint French saying runs. The
goslings want to drive the geese to
pasture" which is to say that young
sters all too frequently attempt to
teach their elders
An authority claims that no more
than one hundred hens will produce in
q single year 1877 posnds of chalk. The
remarkable thing about this is that not
SO much as q pound of pure chalk lies
loose around a farm. The materials
are picked up in such food as stones,
brick dust, sand. pebbles. scraps of
bone. etc.
An experiment was tried with eight
ordinary hen eggs. These eggs were
each submitted to pressure and the
breaking pressure was found to range
from 400 to 675 pounds per square inch.
The average thickness of hens eggs
is l3-I. 900 of an inch.
The largest eggs in the world are laid
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accomplished by getting a fair start
and then assume position of extreme
bow-leggedness, with feet turned out
ward as far as possible. and sailing
around in great arc in that position.
He can waltz on ice as well as on the
polished floor of ballroom. He can
skate backward, Sideways on one leg
or on three or four if he had them
he may be limited in every other ac-
complishment, he is king while the
ice holds.
There are skates that appear on the
river every winter which undoubtedly
did duty long before the war. They are
long things, with a curved piece Of
steel which coils up over the toes and
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oncet Jim an me skated to Alexandria
an back in twenty minutes. No. yo'
fellers don't know what skatin' is"
He believes it himself. That is the
worst of it.
Even with the basin and the danger
Gus reaches of the Potomac frozen and
crowded with skaters there is always
space reserved for the proficient who
can sign his name On the ice with the
keen edge of his skates. That is only
one of his accomplishments, for he can
do the grapevine, pirouette on the
point of one skate while the other
whirls around. lifted two feet from the
ice, to the imminent danger of any
passing shins and kneecaps. He can
do the spread eagle, which is a difficult
but by no means graceful performance.