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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04
MORE SPRING EVIDENCES.

The enterprising farmers of So. Ian
caster show that the present is not too
early to drag the roads. AS a result
the passengers south Saturday found
roads that were right up to snuff.
Many Of the South Lancaster farm
ers were in the fields Saturday after
noon beginning the spring work.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04

victory is ours. The human soul may
and should be persistent. The empty
tomb is the symbol of the unconquer-
able spirit. 1t is good to turn often to
the Christ for He teaches US that
mans destiny is not death but life,
not gloomy Nirvana but a deathless
experience. We should therefore face
life with spirit of buoyant optimism
knowing that in Him we possess the
power of the endless life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04
PRESBYTERIAN Church.

1920. morning service. In connec-
ton with this service there will be re
ception of members, infant and adult
baptism and the Communion Of the
Lords Supper will be observed.
2:3O. Hurricane Sunday School.
$3.50, Divine worship. Sacramento
of baptism and the Lords Supper will
be observed.
The Senior Ladies Aid Society Will
meet with Mrs. Ruth Holzinger on
Thursday.
The Junior Aid Society meets at the
home of Miss Emmaline Nehls on We'd
nesday evening.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Geo. Haarde and Anna Suhr, both
of Platteville.
Walter G. Post and Ethel Geise,
both of Castle Rock.
Clyde E. Vincent, Harrison, and
Maude Callan. Platteville
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04
HARBINGER OF SPRING.

Among other harbingers of spring
is the first visit of the fish wagon.
VIM. Kitto Of Potosi, was on the I'm
ion State Bank corner last Saturday
selling carp and Buffalo. Too early
for bass and game fish, Mr.. Kitto
said. They will come later in the
season.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04
ARRANGE LOCAL RED CROSS.

The ladies of General Calls Circle
have arranged for a local Red Cross
in connection with the State Associa-
ton at Milwaukee The work is now
being pushed vigorously all over the
country with the idea Of being ready
when called.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04
P0TOSI NOTES.

The Wilson and Tiffany mines are
doing fine now and turning out good
" quantities Of ore. Both have good
prospects ahead.
Key & barrow have a new auto
truck to make deliveries to their pat
rons.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04

Will Pagenkopf of Little Grant,
bought a Mogul 1920 tractor and q
Rock Island blowing outfit of Fischer
& Pagenkopf, last Monday. The ma
chimes went out the same day to com
mence work with.
Art Flitsch of Cassville township,
was a Lancaster caller Monday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04
NEW SWITCHBOARD INSTALLED.

The new switchboard was installed
for the Farmers company at Potosi
last Friday 1t is an improved type
and will give better service. Rolla
Kinney says that the growth at Pc
tosi is without end Three phones
were installed last Friday and con
tracts made for four more.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04
WILD GEESE OVERHEAD.

The 'rhonk-honk" of wild geese fly
ing northward, was heard Monday
night from a cloudy sky. The birds
are coming back and spring is on the
way.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-04
TAX MONEY ALL IN:
WHERE 1T GOES TO.

All the district treasurers in the
county have completed their check
with the county treasurer and full re
ports have been forwarded to the
state treasurer. The state gets $685.
299.37 from the taxpayers Of this
county and this sum is divided as fol-
lows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
WAR AND THE DyEsTUFFs

Thomas F. Logan, in Leslie's.
 The development of the American dye- stuff industry has rightly been called & modern business miracle" The Euro pcan war in this respect became prac- tically prohibitive tariff against the importation of dyestuffs from Germany. The embargo was broken with the first trip of the Deutschland, which brought 8 cargo of rare colors. A demand of $9 a pound was placed on the cargo. American dealers informed the captain of the sub marine that they could get all they wanted for s pound. The German im- porters promptly offered the Deutsch- lands cargo of Sky Blue' for $4.50 q pound. Learning that the American manufacturers had also mastered the se- crets of another expensive color, Ger many sent considerable consignment of that hue on the Deutschland's next voy- age, with orders to cut the prices on that as well, to embarrass the pioneer manufacture in this country. The rift in the artificial protective measures af- forded by the stringencies of war through the exploits of the Deutschland indicates what American industries will have to contend with when the war ends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
ARMOUR,s CREED

Merle Crowell has written an article for the February American Magazine about J. O. Armour, the well known packer of Chicago, and he says:
 Tn the Hurried week before last Labor Day, when a nationwide railway strike seemed just around the corner, an ava lanche of messages rolled in on the tele- graph companies. Business firms were stampeding to the wires with emergency instructions to their branch houses and agents If traffic tie-up came, chaos would come with it.
 "One organization had superlative in- terest in the situation. Much of its half- billion-dollar annual business was in per- ishable foodstuffs; hundreds of tons were in transit or temporary storage. Freight stagnation meant a mighty loss, the ex- tent of which would be determined by the ability of it's men afield. by the wits of nearly 400 branch house managers.
 Tn this crisis there went out from the company's main office in Chicago to each branch house single message. It filled perhaps a line and half on the telegraph blank, and read like this:
 Tn the event of a strike we expect every man to use his own judgment
 NO instance could be more typical of the way in which J. ogden Armour han dles his 40,O00 employees. This quiet, thoughtful-eyed industrial leader, just turned 53 is applying handmade busi- ness gospel to the 12 companies he con- trols, applying it in manner so divested of show that few people beyond his Own organization know anything about it. In it's last analysis the Armour creed runs ::
 Big men are on,:- little men given a fair chance to grow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
The Nitrate Plant

q regret that so much is being said through the columns of the papers about the nitrate plant at Lock IT," said Mason J. billiard, "when all of Alabama, the entire south, the Farm CTS union of the United States and Southern congress at Norfolk, Va, have all gone on record in recommend ing the Muscle Shoals on the Tennes- see river to the government as being the logical location. In fact, the army engineers and everyone who has taken the time to investigate say that Muscle Shoals has no rival when it's merits are considered and now for part of Ala greatest proposition, for both the gov ernment and the south, any of its pres tige, makes us appear as not being together on any proposition that comes up. If we cannot agree on this great business development 1t seems useless matters.
 Muscle Shoals should get the plant without any objection from any source whatsoever. It will eventually be the biggest proposition in the entire Uni- ted States. Ask the government engi- neers Senators Underwood and Bank head. Professor Waldo of Vanderbilt university. These men have the cold facts. Don't take from Muscle Shoals any prestige she has gained, but stand by her and she will surely get the plant"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
The Phoemix Merged
With the Information;

With the ImGermaGi@ THE PHOENIX, edited by that
 < gifted writer, Michael Mona han, has been merged with the h. ternational, edited by George Syl- vester Viereck. The passing of this bright little magazine, with such a distinctive literary flavor, will be sim cerely mourned. It had no competi- tors worth while and stood practi- cally alone in it's appeal to readers who find the average magazine a dreary repast of pictures, advertise ments and indifferent fiction.
 MT. Monahan is not only a fascinat- ing writer himself, with a number of delightful books to his credit and many brilliant essays on literary top ics, but he has the faculty of mak ing friends by his humor, his love of beauty, his appreciation, finely ex- pressed, of the good things in life and literature, and his courageous optim- ism.
 In addition to Mr. Monahan's own contributions to the Phoenix, in every issue there were quotations of liter ary masterpieces taken from various sources, but always chosen with rare discrimination.
 "Conditions in the publishing trade" caused the untimely demise of the Phoenix, as it is forcing the suspen- sion of many other magazines and newspapers in these parlous times. MT. Monahan bespeaks the patronage of his friends for the International, for which he will continue to write. In the latest issue there is one of his ablest essays on Balzac, the great French master.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
Readx to Defend FIag

we are certainly glad to be on our way home after a long stay on the bor- der" said Private Frank Smith of the Second Virginia infantry, which stopped in Birmingham yesterday en route to Richmond, to be mustered out of federal service. "The weather has been very severe and although our regiment was forced to undergo many hardships, we derived experience which will do us much good in life.
 'The general opinion among residents on the border is that the United States must eventually fight the Mexicans. Villa is fast gaining the ruling power and with in another month will have the Carranza government tottering. The Mexican peo- pie generally are behind Villa in his movements.
 "The United States troops are being withdrawn from the border gradually and within six weeks all of the National Guard will be homeward bound. Most of the boys are anxious to get home but are glad to have had the honor of serv- ing their country. We are still ready for further service to defend the Stars and Stripes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
WILSON AND THE MOVIES
From February Film Fun.

From February Film Fun.
 President and Mrs. Wilson celebrated their first wedding anniversary by going to motion picture show. It is said that it was their first visit to a mo- tion picture. We are inclined to take that statement with a grain and half or maybe two grains of best table salt Surely any two people who have been so frequently and consistently photographed as President Wilson and Mrs Wilson must, at some time or other, have yielded to the temptation to slip into the last row of picture theatre, if only to see how they looked on the screen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Strange as 1t may seem a well bal
 anced family isn't one in which the hus-
 band and the wife are on opposite sides. We do not know much. But we do know that women do not wear peek-a-
 boo waists because they want other wom- en to look into them. Critics cannot agree as to the position of. the arms of the Venus de Milo before said arms disappeared. But they do agree that Venus was not enough of a Suffra- gette to stand around with her hands in her pants pockets. Any healthy boy can tell you that mos, any man might be elected President of the United States, but that it takes a real hero to pitch no-hit game. There are other mysteries But the greatest of them all to a mere man is
 how the Hek girl keeps her legs warm on a cold day. Why is 1t that the pens provided for the public in the average telegraph of- fee are ones that write as though they
 had been used to open oysters and canned goods?
 Lots of women who regard cannibals with horror go around backbiting other women
 No matter how fair man tries to be. he will always twist his side of the story a little so as to give himself the best | of it.
 | Some people seem to imagine that the | bird on the new silver currency is a l harmless. Dove. But if they will get a microscope and look closer, they will dis cover that the bird has a wicked beak
 and a set of formidable talons. | The reason why the courts do not let
 us sit in judgment on ourselves is be.
 cause if they did, the verdict would al- ways be in our favor. l If you have sinned, stand up and take your punishment like man. Don't whine l that other men have sinned more and
 been punished less.
 The reason why conceit in others dis gusts a man is because every man is conceited.
 l We are all willing to give the devil his due. But we are not so considerate of
 our neighbors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
DANCE HALLS OF BIRD LAND

From the National Geographic Magazine DC1HERE are several species of bower
 birds chief among them the
 Satin and the Newton. The Satin bower bird is the best known. When the bowers were first discovered it was supposed that they were playhouses built by the native children; but, as a mat ter of fact, they are the dance halls of bird land.
 The nests are built in the trees and have no connection with the playhouses. The male birds build these latter and gather every bright and shining object they can find to adorn the entrance to the bower. When it is completed, ac- cording to one who has watched them, little lat homes'' are given daily, at which the males meet and pay court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
THE BIRD AND THE OAK

By Samuel Minturn Peck In the springtime came from over tho
 sea A bird to rest on a great oak tree,
 And unto the tree it cried: Tell me, Oak, do you never crave To go with me where the palm trees
 Tho summer seas beside To watch the pillows as they flow With bubbles like blossoms white as
 To hear their wonderful song? There is no music that can compare With the strain by the sea flowers tossed
 And borne by the wind along. And then the sky all blue and bright. And the stars that shine in the Quiea.
 night
 Where the graceful palm trees sway, Tell-tell me. Oak. how you can bide Year after year on this lone hillside
 And drowse day after day" Then slowly lifting his boughs the Oak, When the bird had spoken, the silence 6 broke
 And softly answered. May. Upon my hillside let me be For have kindred upon the sea.
 And they are long away. They view the billows-and feel them.
 too; With spikes their sides are driven
 through,
 With nails their hearts are sown And racked and worn and smitten with
 age They heed the bowling tempest's rage
 And answer with groan.  Unlike you, Bird. they cannot return To this green slope, however they yearn.
 Toiling from shore to shore. Upon my hillside let me be, For have kindred upon the sea
 That I'll behold no more,s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15

to their lady loves, now lowing and scraping, now playing hide and seek through the bower, and now doing an absurdly dignified dance for their edifi- cation.
 Newton's bower bird decorates its bower with fresh flowers every day, and if visiting male bird wants a fight all he has to do is to disturb one of these flow CTS. The master of the bower proceeds with the painful duty of teaching him how to behave in company, while the remainder of the party raise great racket, but never interfere.
 A naturalist studying them disarranged one Of their flowers, but each time he did it the bower master rearranged it with great care.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
THE RUB.

 There's far too much combativeness In this old world of ours; We're throwing bricks that cause dis
 tress,
 Instead of tossing flowers And though quite weary of such woes A fact we'll all admit Our painful hesitation shows We don't know how to quit
 HOW IT HAPPENS. "If the average American could only shoot as well as he talks, this country would always be in a state of prepared ness''
 Maybe so, but you can hardly blame the average citizen for being better speaker than he is a marksman. Guns and ammunition are expensive. while talk Is the cheapest commodity on earth.'
 AS THE POET SAYS. 'Co- operation is the secret of a suc- cessful household" remarked the sociol- ogist
 That's what I used to think" an- swered MT Glithers. ''but 1t has been so long since Mrs. Glithers would tolerate my interference in household affairs, I have about concluded that they also serve who only stand and wait. "
 A MODERN TENDENCY. q don't see why the girls dislike me-" said the soulful young man. T quote beautiful poetry to them.'' My boy" said the elderly person, you are years behind the times. The only poetic feet the young woman of today is interested in are the kind that move gracefully over ballroom floor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
Episcopal Pension
 lEnnmdl is Assnnrem


 ID ISHOP WILLIAM LAWRENCE ID of Massachusetts, who has been the leader in the great undertaking of raising a fund of $5,000,000 as pension fund for the Protestant 5 Episcopal clergy, announces that the total amount desired will be in hand by the 1st of March. When the active canvass was begun less than year ago some churcnmen doubted whether 1t would be a success. The meeting of the triennial convention in Octo- Der gave the movement strong inn petus, but even then some there were who thought it might require a long time to bring the fund up to $5,000,- GOO. But as the date set for round- ing the total approached interest in creased and subscriptions came fast. J. P. Morgan, the treasurer of the pension organization, was optimistic from the first and was a helpful as- sociate of Bishop Lawrence.
 Now that the fund is practically completed the New York Sun says what has been done by the Episcopal church can be done by other churches. The communicant member ship of this body only crossed the 1,00O,0 ,000 mark two years ago. In last years religious statistics it was credited with 1,040,896 members. There were 8061 churches and 5538 ministers.
 The pension plan is thoroughly scientific, noted insurance actuaries having assisted in working it out" Sixty-eight years is to be the retire unent age. There are I'll clergymen xyho are over 68 and are therefore alirible to a pension at once. Not X <onIy is every clergyman upward of X '+led to retired pay, but if upon
 'e leaves a widow or chil-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
family. The day of the lazy gardener

family. The day Of the lazy gardener has passed.
 Let the head of the household keep up his horticultural enthusiasm until frost time and he will add wealth to the state and to himself by feeding his own family.
 If hadn't anything else to do, I should hire myself out as a farm hand right now" said the Hon. Champ Clark in recent interview. But deep down in his heart he's probably glad he has some thing else to do.
 A lady baseball magnate has been granted divorce from her husband on the ground that he squandered her prop erty Surely, he didn't take any of her high-priced players out and lose them?
 * s *
 A Cincinnati man who has been sem fenced to obey his wife one year should lose no time in consulting married men with whom obedience has become a habit.
 Considering the number of times Ed gar Allan Poes name appears in print, it is strange that erudits editorial writers insist on spelling his middle name Al len"
 The Augusta Chronicle publishes an editorial entitled, Handling Whisky Carelessly." A reformer's idea of han ding whisky carelessly is drinking 1t.
 * x j.
 Don Marquis says he has never known young college graduate who could spell. However, he has probably known a few who could yell to beat the band. If the international crisis has done noth- ing else, it has taught audiences in thea tres to stand up when "The star-Span- gled Banner is played.
 According to the dimensions given, there will be no room on board one-man submarine for phonograph and set of Shakespeare's works.
 While naval aviator at Pensacola suc- ceeded in looping the loop in a hydro airplane, the straightaway flyer is most useful in warfare.
 Ambassador Gerard declined politely but firmly to be 'sandbagged." It is possible to go too far, even with an American diplomat.
 It is rather unselfish for Mexico to want peace in Europe, considering the fact that she needs it so badly herself.
 * * *
 Texas always has something to boast about Her peanut crop has made the whole county sit up and take notice The "flivverous' life has its compen- but they are not so apparent when a tire explodes.
 < * *
 Even the vaudeville performers are giv- ing Villas name the Spanish pronuncia- ton these days.
 The Stars and Stripes and the Red Cross flag make a combination hard to beat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-15
A NATION OF INDIVIDUALIST Maynard Owen Williams in the Christian

Herald.
 You have been in China What is your opinion of the Chinese?" asked Marquis Okuma after a pause.
 Individually have a very high regard for them" I answered. q think they are destined to be great in modern history as they have been in the past. The prob lem of bringing such an unwiedly nation up to date is, however, so overwhelming that difficulties must compel slow prog ress."
 Individuality" said the marquis, they are a very fine people. I respect them highly. We have had very many Chi nese students in Waseda university and in all branches they are efficient. Even ir science, in which they are thought to be lacking, they sometimes stand above our own students. But when it comes to cooperation and organization, there is where the rub comes. They lack that talent. Individually they are honest and efficient, but collectively they are unable to organize with skill"