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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-02-08
Weather Wiss SnaMs.

As weather prophets snails are
valuable. As long as they are to b
,seen creeping along in the orthodox
manner fine weather may be conf
dently looked forward TO. If there
is rain in the atmosphere the nll'
NAV be seen to seek shelter up the
stems of trees and shrubs, under
leaves and, in fact, anywhere Whita-
er they can be safely out of the wet:
Only when all immediate danger OF
a recurrence of rain is over will
they emerge again.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-02-08
A Surprisa For SMaaa0r.

A Surpriss For S~aessr'
eyes," said Svsgger, "this is a
tarkeze ring" -,
Excuse me-" ssid Bangs; the
correct pronunciation of that word
is fturkwoise.'"
mo; turke1e, e1cnss me-,
Il say turkwoise."
"Well, let's 60 to the ievear and
ask him"
Fright" :, :,
'Gn order to settle a wager" said
Swagger to the jeweler, would you
mind telling me if the correct pro-
nunciation of the stone in this ring
is turkeze or turkwoise !"
The jeweler took the ring and ek-
amined it carefully. "The correct
pronunciation" he said, "is glass.
London Tit-Bits.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-02-08
Unreal Realism.

Hyker-Wlnt did you think Of
that military play last night?
Pyker-Didn't like it at all. 1t
wasn't realistic enough to suit me.
Hyker-What was the trouble?
Pyker-Well, you know that Mex
lean bandit that was killed in the
second act?
Hyker-Yes.
Pyker-He wasn't killed at all. 1
saw him down at the hotel this
morning.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-02-08
Permanent Ideals.

To live in the presence Of great
truths and eternal laws, to be Led
by permanent ideals-that is what
keeps a man patient when the world
ignores him and calm and unspoiled
when the world praises him.-Ho-
more de Balzac.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-02-08
In the Tolls of the Law.

'1 have almost starved to learn" !"
said the struggling student the first
day he hung out his shingle.
"And now YOU must almost learn
to starve," replied the old attorney,
who remembered the echoing empti-
ness of his earliest office.-Christian
Herald.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-02-08
Headed For Il.

They had lost their way in their
new and expensive car.
"There's a sign, dear" she said to
her husband, who got out Of the car
and flashed his fashlight on the
board.
care We on the right readp she
asked.
He read, 'Te the poorhouse."
eyes," he answered. "We'ns On
the right road and we didn't know
#
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-02-08
The MAGNETIC Poles.

The magnetic poles are not sta
tioaary. The northern one is slow
" moving westward along the sev-
entieth parallel and in the course
of three or four hundred years will
probably have encircled the geo.
graphic north pole and returned to
about its present location. OF
course the southern magnetic pole
follows a corresponding course
about the geographic south POKE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
Is YEARS A LONG TIME.

Few are living, if any, who are able
to recall the time when James Good
hue came to Lancaster and with high
hope and stern resolve such as all
young editors have in abundance if
they haven't much else, started The
Wisconsin Herald on it's way to des-
tiny. A hand press and a small
amount of type sufficed to begin a
newspaper in those happy days. In
the seventy-five years since the paper
has had it's up and downs, it's good
editors and its bad ones, it's trials and
it's triumphs, but somehow or other
always managed to get to press and
burst on time upon an anxious
world eager to get the news.
Perhaps this resolution to print the
news and tell the truth has been the
necessary thing to keep the old paper
going all these years and maintain it's
large family of readers In any event
here it is in 1917-seventy-five years
from the time of the foundation-with
modern equipment in every respect
and still printing on time. Editors
may come and editors may go, our
wish is that the old paper will keep
going on forever.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
FIGHTING 1T OFT.

How foolish and how futile it is to
even think that European nations once
embarked in their struggle at arms.
would listen to words of counsel from
paciffsts, or in fact any one, and de-
clare peace with the issues still I'M
IsOlved and the battle as yet undecided
History, in fact, is in direct defiance
Of any such hope. During the Civil
war many argued for peace using the
same reasoning advanced as at pres
ent. Some said that enough lives had
been wasted, others decried war on
economic grounds. Still others sym
pathized openly with the South and
felt their cause to be just and right
But the stern men Of the North, hav-
ing set their shoulders to the wheel,
determined to fight it out once they
were into it and settle the issues of
slavery and secession for all time to
come.
And SO they did settle it,
Going back further still, we find the
war Of the revolution. A handful Of
pinched, freezing and starving men
were fighting the greatest power CD
earth. How easy it would have been
for these heroes, in a moment of weak
ness, to sue for peace and settle back
to a life of ease even though it was
also one oppression and taxation with
out representation. But, no-the rev.
dictionary fathers determined that
once they were in for it they would go
through with it to the bitter end, and,
after seven years of war to the very
knife, they accomplished their pur-
pose
So it must be in Europe. Right CT
wrong each side is determined to fight
on to the end even though, as we all
hope, the present crisis may be the be-
ginning of that end. Fifty years from
now perhaps the world may see more
clearly than we do and be able to trace
the causes, the issues and the result
OF this we may be sure-every epoch
al advancement Of the race has been
made through rivers of blood and over
bodies piled sky high of the slain. His
tory teaches that great evils are not
wiped out with fair words and rose
water Rather with the surgeons
knife that digs deep into and beneath
the cancer sapping the social welfare
and raw and reeking-plucks it forth,
leaving horrible wound that finally
heals into scar-but healthy scar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
YEARNING FOR NOVELTY.
(Spokane Spokesman-Review.)

(SpOkane SpOkesman-Rev
1t must have occurred to hundreds
Of about-to-be-married pairs that life
would take on added brightness if they
only could get away from the rigid
routine of the prescribed nuptial cere-
mony.
The expense, the invitations, the
vainglorious display Of gifts, the in
eluctable trinity Of Mendelssohn, Lob
enghrin and 80 Promise Me-" the veil
and orange blossoms. the convention
al black" the congratulations, the
kissing, the rice, the faint, funeral
scent of dollhouse fOwers-how to es-
cape from these? Apparently there is
no escape, except for those who be-
come captains of their souls and take
the law into their own hands. The
penalty for this is most severe-for it
means being branded as queer"
few will dare rebel.
The chief virtue of conventional
weddings is that, being uniform in
every detail, they offer little chance
for the exhibition of bad taste. In this
respect they differ from funerals. But
the public should look charitably upon
persons who choose to be married in
"a balloon or cage of lions, or under
circumstances equally bizarre. They
are not necessarily bidding for notori-
ETY., but only be fleeing the curse Of the
rubber-stamp wedding
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
Lincoln.

Nature they say, doth dote,
And cannot make a man
Save on some WORKOUT plan,
Repeating us by rote
For him her Old World molds aside
she threw,
And, choosing sweet clay from the
breast
OF the uneXhausted West
With stuff untainted shaped a hero
new,
Wise, steadfast in the strength of God,
and true.
His was no lonely mountain peak of
mind,
Thrusting to thin air, DER our cloudy
bars,
A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors
blind;
Broad prairie rather, genial, level
lined
Fruitful and friendly for all human
kind.
Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of
Hottest stars.
Great captains, with their guns and
drums,
Disturb our judgment for the hour,
But at last silence comes;
These are all gone, and, standing
like a tower,
Our children shall behold his fame,
The kindly, earnest, brave, foresee-
ing man,
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise,
not blame,
New birth of our new soil, the first
American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
ECHOES OF A JOY THAT is GONE.
(Selected.)

(Selected.)
The baby is dead and it's body lies
in its little grave where we so tender
~ laid it. Days and weeks have
passed, said the father of the dead
one, but the echo of his childish
voice rings through the house as it
was wont to do in the days before the
fever came and took the rose of life
from out his tender cheeks. The rat
tie Of the wheels of his little wagon,
the patter of childish feet upon the
floor, the music of his voice as he
calls to papa" and mama" all come
back today as they did when his little
arms chung tenderly around our neck.
We can see his face peep through the
palings Of the fence and can hear his
childish welcome as we go home to
dinner as in the days Of yore But it
is all an echo Of joy that's gone;
the perfume of faded flower, the
ashes Of a memory that his young,
childlife filled with radiance and love.
The world without is cold, relentless,
cruel; but in the home we found ever
bright welcome, happy home circle,
tender kiss from our child. Now
that is gone. We cannot drive back
the burden from our hearts or chase
away the shadows that linger around
our home. The brightest eyes, tender
est voice, the merriest attic, the
most joyous heart-all gone from our
home forever He had twined himself
around our heart with three-fold cords
of love. His little chair, his tiny
shoes, his bits of playthings all about
the house-these bring his bright face
before us hundred times day. And
night brings all these past joys before
us like they were when they were the
gems of passing life, and never can we
forget the voice, the form, the love of
our dead baby.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
COAL RESERVE ABUNDANT.
(RevieWs of RevieWs.)

d.
1t is not generally known, but it is
none the less true, that coal is our
most abundant natural resource Our
supply will Outlive even the natural
fertility of the soil. q distinguish
here between natural fertility and a
fortified soil.) Our forests even now
are vanishing. Our ore is approach
ing the exhaustion point. We have
gone through the rich lenses and are
beginning on the complex ores in the
precious metal mines But in coal we
have, since 1910, worked out only one
fourth Of l per cent. That part of
coal which is gone is nothing when
compared with that which remains
That is, this is true if you assume
that all our coal reserve, regardless
Of where it lies can be made available
by some scheme of transportation to
all the people, no matter where they
live.
The United States geological sur
vey has measured our reserve at some
thing like 4,188,O0O, 100000 tons in the
United States and Alaska. This fig
ure, of course, conveys no impression
to any one except of his inability to
conceive of it. To speak of even a
thousand million of anything is to get
beyond human comprehension. To
speak OF four thousand thousand mil
lion is merely to multiply an incon-
ceivable mineral by 1000. Perhaps it
is more nearly understandable to say
that more than As per cent of all the
coal upon which the world must de-
pend forever-so far as is known now
is piled up in the United States and
Alaska.
To bring these titanic figures to a
plane where we can begin to compre-
bend them, I divide our territory in
to two coal stations-one east of and
the other including and west of the
Rocky mountains. The area principal
ly under development is the eastern
one and contains about half of this
coal reserve. This, we will say, con-
tains 100000, 100000 tons. From this
area we produc in 1916 about 6O0,-
100000 tons Of coal. If production
should be held steadily at that point
in future, it would take 1926 years
to exhaust our eastern deposit alone,
If we should get all the coal, or O.
900 if we should continue to reclaim
but so per cent of it. And when that
was gone We would still have an equal
amount in and west of the Rockies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
OUR STATE CAPITOL.
(Mineral Point Tribune.

In the spring of 1917 it is said Wis
consin's beautiful capitol will be COM
pleted. In 1887, just eighty years ago,
the tiny procession Of OK teams and
workers toiled painfully overland
from Milwaukee to begin erection, in
the heart Of the virgin wilderness, of
the first capitol building at Madison.
The present building is the third TO
be constructed on it's site. In eighty
years Wisconsin has progressed from
the estate Of wilderness outpost to
that of one of the leading members of
the sisterhood OF American common
wealth. Measured i'll terms of dollars
and cents, the progress has been from
capitol building planned to cost $780,
600 to one costing $8,000,00O.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
OUR OLD SOLDIERS.
(Richland Democrat. J

More than $4,000 soldiers of the Civil
war were erased from the pension
rolls by death the past year. This is
almost as many as were killed in bat
tie, and more than died of wounds dur
ing the war.
But 2S6,000 names of soldiers remain
on the pension rolls and the bulk of
these will be gone within the next five
years. However, the vitality, rather
than the death rate among them, is
the remarkable thing about these old
soldiers.
1t is nearly ffty-six years since the
first gun was fired in that struggle,
and more than fifty-one years since
the last confederate surrendered. and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

haps except that we all mark birthdays
OF any kind as something more or less
important in our evolution and in
way set our standards accordingly.
We hope in the next year to increase
the quality of the paper and make it Of
increasing value and interest to our
readers. If year from now We are
all living we will, both reader and ed
itor, be able to note whether this re
solve has been fulfilled.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
"GUNN- SMITH"

The editor of an Iowa exchange is
in bad on account of wedding. The
bridegroom was named Gum and the
girls name was Smith. The editor
turned in the copy to his Office boy
just before going to press then hur-
ried to the train to be gone two days
When the paper was printed the ar
ticle was headed Gum Smith" and
went on to say that the bride was ar
rayed in mule" instead of null, and
she carried a large red nose" when
the copy was rose"
The editor wrote that the groom
was the well liked son of A. Gum, the
boy set it up, "The groom is a wall
eyed son of gun" The editor has
never since been able to square it up
With the Gums and the Smiths.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

as the average age of enlistment was
twenty-One years, and the average life
Of enlistment was about April /, 1853
the average of those surviving now
should be approximately seventy-four
years.
Moreover, ten per cent Of the origin
al enlistment still survive.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

An assemblynan named Pieper made
a ridiculous attack last week on the
Junior Prom" Pieper is probably
gulleless and the very foolishness of
his talk makes him Individually harm
less, His effusion was perhaps only
surpassed by the reply given in the
Daily Cardinal. Pieper is like some
other assemblymen who seek by simu-
latjng rugged virtues, to pose as plain,
common men. They fool no one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
THE PAPER,S BIRTHDAY.

Beginning with our next issue the
Herald passes into the. seventy-fifth
year of its existence as a newspaper
fact not especially significant per-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

Good, old Lincoln! This is said not
irreverentiy of the greatest of our
presidents. Every nation needs it's
can0nical idols but America suffers
under no delusion when it enshrinos
the memory of Abe Lincoln and holds
hiHO, North and South, as wise, brave
and true. James Russell Lowell
wrote a poem once on Lincoln that
we think surpasses any of the re-
markedly fine poems before or since
on this inspiring subject. Here is
what Lowell said:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
WHADDAYMEAN, "PRIMA FACIE?"

All subscriptions are continued un-
til ordered discontinued. The fact
that a person takes his paper from
the postoffice is prima facie evidence
that such a person desires the paper.
Cuba City News-Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

How much depends upon the point
OF view The Louisville Courier
Journal says can automobile will add
ten years to your life" and the De-
troit Free Press sagely comments,
mot if you get in the way of it,"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

The style makers for men say that
coats will be worn longer this year.
Yes, in view Of hard times, we CON
cur-decidedly longer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

The best paper going and worth
twice what you ask for it," said a sub
scYiber the other day. Kind words,
friend, and, amid the sings and ar
rows of outrageous fortune this will
not swell our head.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

Jake KIauer comes out in the Cass-
vile Record and flat-footedly tells, as
an American of German ancestry,
where he stands Attaboy, Jake!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
A. L. SHERMAN, Editor and Publisher

Entered into the postoffice at Lam:
caster, Wisconsin, as second class mail
matter
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21
Grant COUNTY HERALD
N Independents Republican Newspaper

Published Every Wednesday morning.
SUpbscriptiOn price, $3.50 per Year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

Take February" is almost
over,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

Really now one can almost say "rah
for Spring."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

Black mare, coming years, weight 1000. !
skin mare, 10 years, weight 1000. Three colts,
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-08-10
H. W. BRIDGES GIVEN.
HIS COMMISSION
Other Officers of Missouri Sixth
Commissioned by Governor
Yesterday.

Harry w. Bridges, representative of
Cape Girardeau County for several
terms, is among those who received
their commissions as officers from Gov.
ernor Gardner, according to a dis
patch from Jefferson City. He was
commissioned Captain of the Brigade
Quartermaster Corps of the Missouri
National Guard. Capt. Bridges was
ordered to the State training camp in
Nevada three days ago, preparatory
to the arrival of the entire strength
of the National Guard of the State.
All officers of the Missouri Sixth
have now been given their commits
sions by the Governor. Col. Arthur
Linxweiler, Lieutenant Colonel Ben
nett Clark and the three Majors of
the regiment were among those who
were given their commissions by the
Governor
Capt. w. W. Bratton, who muster
ed in the local company two months
ago, received a commission as Major
of the Quartermaster Corps. He had
been Captain Of the National Guard
for several years, and was in COM
mand of a company on the Mexican
border last summer.
Other officers of the Missouri Sixth
who received their commissions from
the Governor are:
William Stonestreet, second lieuten-
ant, Company A, Sixth Regiment,
rank from August 4.
A. S. Oliver, first lieutenant and bat
talon adiutant, Sixth Infantry, rank
from August 4.
F. o. Wickham, captain, f. A. Shir-
ley, second lieutenant, Company l,
Sixth Infantry, rank from August 4.
o. G. Jones, captain, Supply Com
pany, Sixth Infantry, with rank from
June 27.
Carl L. Sistine and William T. Nor
gan, majors, Sixth Regiment Infan-
try, all to rank from July 2s.
R. V. Campbell, captain, and Harry
w. Boradman, first lieutenant, Com
pany A, Sixth Infantry, rank from
August 8.
Grant Davidson, captain, and F. M.
Cox, second lieutenant, Company NJ,
Sixth Infantry, rank from August 8.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-08-10
COURT CONDEMNS
new BRIDGE OVER
DRAINAGE DITCH
Structure is Called Unsafe by
Scott County Judges, Yet
it is Still Used.
BOY FATALLY HURT
WHEN RIG UPSETS
Approach to Structure SO Steep
That Horse Ladder is
Constructed.

The new bridge over the Little
River Drainage ditch on the Rock
Levee road, which was finished a few
weeks ago, was condemned by the
Scott County Court yesterday as be-
ing unsafe. Despite the condemnation
it was left open to travel and many
people crossed over it in autos and
wagons.
The bridge is considered a freak in
construction work. 1t follows the
course of a corkscrew over the ditch
which permits Ramsey Creek to enter
into the drainage canal. The approach
es are SC steep that it was necessary
to nail heavy pieces of lumber upon
them, producing ladder effect, so
that horses could climb to the main
span of the bridge.
By condemning the structure, the
County Court relieves the county of
all responsibility in the event acci-
dents occur in crossing or attempting
to cross the bridge. 1t is believed that
this danger prompted the County
Court to act.
Last week, while attempting to
drive upon the bridge, a mover and
his family were upset and small son
badly injured. The mules were un-
able to drag the wagon up the steep
incline Of the approach and the vehicle
rolled back and upset, a cooking stove
falling on top of the boy. The lads
collar bone was fractured, two ribs
were broken and he was internally
hurt. A Kelso physician who treated
the youth, informed The Tribune yes
terday that the chances for his re-
covery were remote. The father of
the boy has announced that he will file
suit for damages.
Following the announcement that
suit would be instituted, it is said the
County Court visited the bridge and
condemned it.
The bridge has cost Scott County
$4,000. The northern approach begins
about forty feet west of the Rock
Levee road, and then bends back
across the ditch and into the road.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-08-10
REFUSED LICENSE
ONCE,BUT RETURNS
August Reimler of AlIenville Has
County Officers Vouch for
Age of His Bride.

After having County Clerk Blucher
Sperling and several other county off
GERS vouch for the age of his bride-to-
be, August H. Reimler, a Government
gauger employed in the Allenville dis
tillery, secured a marriage license at
Jackson yesterday afternoon to marry
Miss Blanche Graf, of Hermann, Mo.
He departed early this morning for
the home of Miss Graf's parents,
where the wedding will be celebrated.
Mr.. Reimler, who is 81 years old,
called at the office of County Recorder
of Deeds Siemers yesterday morning
and asked for a license. Mr.. Siemers
refused to issue the license, he said,
because he did not know the Miss
Graf. Late in the afternoon Mr.. Reim-
Ter called again at the Office, and after
communicating with Mr.. Sperling, had
him and two other county officers as
sure the recorder that Miss Graf was
of age. He gave her age as 25 years.
Mr.. Reimler has been employed in
the distillery as gauger for several
years. He made the acquaintance of
his bride while employed in Hermann
in the same capacity.