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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
DOWN TIE DALMATIAN COAST
Strange Superstitions of the Mixed
People That Live Along the
Adriatic.

A much mixed, backward, and
strangely superstitious people are
those who dwell along the eastern
shores of the Adriatic sea, according
to a bulletin of the National Geo
graphic society. Greek colonies and
Roman municipal; Byzantian officials
and sick Franks abandoned on the
rocks Of cara by Crusaders; Italians
exiled during the centuries of strife
among their petty states or brought
thither by trade ventures; the flood of
SlavOnian and, later, of Ottoman, in
vasiOn; all these are the elements of
the people living along Austria-Hun-
gary's seacOast. Franks, Byzantians,
Croats, Bosniaks, Turks, Hungarians,
Genoese, Neapolitans, Germans, and,
of first Importance, Venetians have
ruled various parts of this coast at
different times. The heavy ground
tone of this shore people is Slavonian,
but there is besides tumble of almost
every other racial element
From Trieste downward, the Slavon-
fans predominant. Latin writer's noted
that the Slavonian tribes knew no form
of monarchal government, but that all
matters of the tribe were dealt with
by a common national council. And
today the individual Dalmatian and
Istrian is one of sturdiest independence.
These Slavonians worshiped a god of
thunder, sacred groves, nymphs and
genii, special-pOwered beings of all
descriptions; and they still do many
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

fly in the air. I told him the report
was quite true. "Flying in the face of
Providence" he said sadly; tempt
ing Providence"
Batteries All Around the City
On the hills above Tivoli, in view of
the temple where the prophetic books
were kept that held the story of Rome
and where a wise sibyl uttered oracu-
lar truths tempered with aroba oility,
another battery of straight nluzzIes
takes heed only of the deep, silken
night sky. This IS a larger townlet
than the village of Calvi, and the in
habitantS, lulled to a semihypnOtic
somnOlence by the never .ceasing spell
of their waterfalls, know little of the
wary guns that guard their slumbers.
Along ROme's immediate coronet of
hills, above that Latium where ghOStly
lines of aQueducts and here and there
a ruined group of gnarled old tower
spell out the tale of Roman and baro-
NAL days, more batteries guard the Sc
curity of the eternal city, and the same
is the case farther down where little
well of acidulOuS water that is much
drunk in the hot weather sends in it's
daily supply on summer mornings, to-
gether with the brightly colored fruit
carts, to be sold in the streets heralded
by strange, sing songing cry.
AS far away as the Simbruni hills
that lead in gradatiOns of Wildness to
the harsh heart of central Italy, the
ROme-SulmOna railroad has it's grim
guardian angels. And at Subiaco, the
cradle Of western monastic orders, all
is ready against the incursiOn Of ILL
intentiOned creatures of the air.
Vatican Real Help to Rome.
And yet, it is perhaps the Vatican
that constitutes the best and surest
anti-aerial weapon. The pope lives
within it's walls, and Austria, the most
Catholic monarchy, will send no bombs
to Rome. AS the capital of Italy,
Rome would perhaps not be spared,
but stray bomb on the Vatican would
trouble the cOnsciences of the dual
monarchy more than the slaughter of
any number of innocent nOncombat-
ants and create complications for the
imperial government greater than they
care to face. 1t is doubtful whether
even Protestant Germany would care
to affront the conscience of a not in
considerable part of it's population.
There have been no formal assurances
given to that effect-if they exist they
have not been made public-yet there
seems to be a tacit understanding
that because of the pope's presence
Rome is to be respected.
Thus, this city of many vicissitGdes
though prayer and fasting are as much
out of date as a means of defense as
the terror by night" that haunted the
old monks of SubiacO, carries within
herself purely spiritual defense more
powerful than any girdle of steel.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

written law generally has been OBJ
served, perhaps by geographical acct
dent or perhaps because of the adapt
able, cOnciliatOry nature of the kindly
folk who claim the Sacred Mount for
their own.
But deGpite the strict regulations of
the Most Blessed Assembly of the
Holy Mount and the shock of horror
which assails the most humble of the
brethren at sight of the gentler sex,
women have penetrated where war
has feared to tread.
Founded in Third Century.
Although the remote history of the
colony melts into misty legend, it is
generally believed that the first relig-
iOus settlements on the peninsula were
made by refugees from the persecu-
tons of the Iconoclasts early in the
eighth century. The legends of the
monks attribute them to the age of
Constantine, in the third and fourth
centuries. Reference to the existence
of the cluster of religious brother
hoods is made in historical documents
Of the ninth century.
The claims of the monastery OF
Laura, founded about the middle of
the tenth century by st. Athanasius.
appear to be well founded. and to make
it, for historical purposes, the most
ancient of the monaSteries. There is
reason to believe that Vatopethi is
of about equal antiquity. According
to the mOnastic accounts of VatOpe-
this founding, it is the most venerable
Of all the twenty, having been estab
lished by TheodOsius in recognition
of the providential rescue of his son
from drowning on the coast near by.
The most recent of the monaSterieS,
StavrOnikitu, was founded in 1915.
There are twenty of them. They
are situated on the wooded and noun
famous slopes of peninsula which is
forty miles in length and from four
to seven miles in width. The total
population of the peninsula is about
1000. Three thousand of the inhab-
itaDts are monks and the rest are lay
brothers.
Besides the twenty monaSteries
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

position from the viewpoint of
~ anti-aerial defense. Not only
is it in the usual sense a forti-
fed city, but it lies in a wide plain sur
rounded by hills at successive levels
that render minute and long distance
observation singularly easy.
The theory of hidden and possible
important airplane base somewhere by
the Tyrrhenean sea, that could send it's
aircraft to Rome along the flat shores
or the Maremma marshes, has now
proved to be highly improbable, writes
Magda Sindici in the Chicago News
The latter would be the best side on
which to attack, only it has the great
disadvantage as a scheme, of not be-
ing-so far-feasible. Seashore and
Maremma marshes would have to be
approached, failing this western base,
by crossing the higher Apennines. 1t
is, perhaps, difficult to place anti-air
craft batteries along these peaks suffi-
cient in number to protect the whole
mountain chain; but spur after spur
of the Apennines runs at right angles
to the main range from this spinal col
umn of Italy to the sea; and these
spurs are protected at every strategic
point, that is, wherever the mountain
Gus district mergeS into plain.
Munition Works in Unnbria.
All over the dreamy province of Um-
bria, SO called because of the "shade"
once cast over the land by the thick
woods that covered it, batteries are
concealed. This province seems to
have gathered to itself all the gentle
ness of Italy, as if the spirit of it's an
cient agricultural inhabitants, older
than the Etruscans, had managed to
survive the impact of fierce medieval
war. Umbria holds the town of TERM.
with it's unresting steel and munition
wOrks-a great goal for bomb throw
ers and many times attacked. The
little river Nera comes tumbHng along
close by it, between high, cool banks,
so hasty and vivid that it's waters lash
themselves into perpetual foam; and
just above the Nera, the gray CLEAN of
guns adds a contrasting touch to the
peasants in blue OverallS and the red
tasseled white cattle for which the
district is famous.
Close under an old rambling con-
vent watched by ageless expresses,
which strike a warm brown note in a
surrounding scale OF hard grays, an
other battery turks; Calvi, perched at
the top of the last hill before the
Apennines dwindle away into the val
ley of the Tiber, must not be left I'M
defended. l know an old peasant there,
who perhaps still trudges along the
same road every dawn and nightfall
with his ak and his spade, who asked
me, not so long ago, if it were true
that there now existed some mad folk,
among other ubiquitous children of this
wicked century, who were trying to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
Notice for Administration and Notice
to Creditors

State of Wisconsin, County Court,
Grant County-In Probate
In re-estate of Mary A. Cornwell,
deceased. 4s~
Notice is Hereby Given, That at the
Special Term of said court to be held
on the fourth Tuesday of January, A.
d. 1918, at the Court House in the
City of Lancaster, County of Grant
and State of Wisconsin, there will be
heard and considered, the application
of Edward Cornwell for the appoint
ment of an administrator of the estate
OF Mary A. COrnwell late of the City
OF Lancaster in said county, deceased;
Notice is Hereby Further Given,
That at the Special Term of said court
to be held at said Court House, on the
fourth Tuesday of April, A. D. 1918,
there will be heard, considered and
adjusted, all claims against said Mary
A. Cornwell, deceased;
And Notice is Hereby Further Given,
That all such claims for examination
and allowance must be presented to
said county court at the Court House
IN the City of Lancaster, in said county
and state, on or before the 18th day
OF April A. D. 1918 or be barred.
Dated December 18th, 1917.
By the court: E. B. Goodsell, Judge
Brennan & Carthew
Petitioners Attorneys. 42c3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

~ YER one secluded nook of the
turbulent LeVant still brOOdS
the Tibetan calm which has
envelOped it for more than
thousand years. 1t is the prOmOntory
OF AthOs, the easternmost of the three
peninsulas extending into the HEgean
sea from the coast of Macedonia like
the gnarled fingers of an aged priest
whose hand is raised in benedictiOn.
There, only 40 miles from SaIOniki,
the allied war base, dwells a monastic
community of some 1000 souls under
a republican form of government
which has Outlasted the SaracenS, the
ByZantines, and bids fair to survive
the Sublime Porte. Mount Athos, the
glisteniDg pyramid of marble in which
the 4O-mile peninsula terminates, is
visible at sunset from the Plains of
Troy across the sea and shimmers
tntO view from the slopes of Mount
Olympus.
While airplanes were circling above
the ruins Of Helen's city and the re-
mote founder of the superdreadnaught,
Queen Elizabeth, told of shells that
spanned the peninsula of GallipOli, the
monks behind their marble barrier in
toned the chants that were old when
Columbus embarked on his great adj
venture and paced in brocaded and
clOth-of-gold vestments which were
grOoved by sandaled feet when the
Byzantine empire fiourished.
The law of ages seems to forbid
wars trespass on these sacred pre-
cincts, and the mOnastic statutes deny
admittance to any female creature. be
it woman, hen or cow, says a writer
in the New York Tribune. The I'M
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
VIM. Wetter, secretary.
Notice as to Payment Of Taxes.

Notice is hereby given by the under
signed city. treasurer Of the city Of
Lancaster that the tax roll for said
city, for the year 1917, is in my hands
for collection, and that the taxes
charged therein are subject to pay
ment at my office, at any time prior
to or upon the 31st day Of January,
1918.
I will hold my Office as follows, viz
City hall.
Dated this 18th day OF December,
1917.
F. B. Calls, City Treasurer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

Statements were billed out Sept. /,
1917, covering service from July /,
1917 to Jan. 1, 1918.
Delinquent statements were sent out
later. Still there are some that have
not paid. According to the company's
bylaws, these subscribers are not en-
titled to receive further service, there
fore, If remittance is not received at
ouce, delinquent subscribers will be
disconnected and will have to pay all
arrears and connecting charges be-
fore being reconnected.
Respectfully,
FARMERS TELEPHONE co
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
Six cents line each insertion. No
advertisement taken
NOTICE or ANIMAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting Of the members Of the
German Mutual Fire Insurance Society
OF Liberty, will be held on January 8,
1918, at II a. M, at the frame school
house near the Rock church at Liberty
Ridge, for the purpose Of electing Of
ficers and transacting such other bust
ness as may properly come before said
meeting
VIM. Wetter, secretary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
Egypt Celebrated for Wheat.

Egypt IN ancient times was cele-
brated for the growth of it's wheat.
The best quality was all bearded. The
seven-eared quality was described in
Pharaoh's dream Genesis - :22).
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
He Came Back.

The director of geological garden
was on his holiday. He received a
note from his chief assistant which
closed thus: "The chimpanzee seems
to be pining for companion. What
shall we do until you return?"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

BUY AND SELL want second hand
stoves and furniture. Call and see
me at the old Lancaster house. I will
take your second goods off your hands
and pay you good price. When in
need Of anything in the second hand
line call and see me. RALPH BAR
NETT, OLD LANCASTER HOUSE 41tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR SALE-Buick roadster, model 20,
in good order and running condi-
ton. hip. observation-disclosures wood
saving outfit, in good order. One auto
single, top buggy, in good shape; 1
single harness and one driving har-
ness, both in good shape. Richard
Walsh, Bloomington, Wis. 46p2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
FARMERS TELEPHONE co.

NOTICE TO HUNTERS AND TRES
PASSERS parties are hereby
notified that hunting without per-
mission with guns, dogs or ferrets,
and all trapping, is strictly forbid
den on my premises in sections "a
1926 in Beetown and sections l and 2
in Waterloo township. A reward of
$40 will be paid for information lead
ing to the prosecution of anyone US
ing ferret. And SIS for information
leading to prosecution of anyone
hunting or trapping on the above
premises. N. S. Adams, Lancaster,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

BIG BARGAINS AS we are closing
out our business we offer the fol-
lowing for sale: New National Cash
Register; Model 1854, XG; Ton Truck
Attachment for Ford car; Our garage
building also for sale. Horton Auto
Company, Patch Grove, Wis. App
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
WANTED

WANTED TO RENT-Rooms for light
housekeeping or furnished house.
by young couple; no children; willing
to pay well for good place. Call Herald
office, both phones. 42c
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR SALE-Nearly new folding sew
ing machine. Worth $4O priced at
$40. See L. A. Clark at Peoples State
bank. 45tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

HUNTING FORBIDDEN-The under
signed hereby notify any and all
persons that hunting on their respec-
tive farms is strictly forbidden. Please
take notice.. D. Eastman; Dobson
& Eastman. 28tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

DIR. GAULT is again doing general
medicine and surgery; calls city and
country promptly attended; special
attention given to Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
FARM PROPERTY-FOR SALE

FOR SALE-My farm Of 1O3 acres, 4
miles west Of Lancaster, good set OF
buildings, good spring water, at house
and in pasture. John Bracket, r. z.
Z. 4, Lancaster. 45p3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR SALE-MammOth Toulouse
geese. Mrs. Frank Morrow, Lancas-
ter, WIS. 41tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR SALE-Pure Bred Mammoth
Bronze turkeys. Mrs. Clyde Richard
son, Lancaster, Wis, r. F. D. g 41tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

To Whom it May Concern: Tubes not
called for after Jan. 10, 1918 will be
sold to cover cost Following tubes
to be sold for charges: Old cards nos.
481-463 608-448.-at the Lancaster Tire
and Repair Shop. 1904
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

NO HUNTING and trapping
are strictly forbidden on our farm
in the town of Beetown Violations will
be prosecuted. Piel ce & Baker. Alps
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
FOR SALE

Mrs. Matt Aue1 has two of those
full blood Bramah ROSTERS for sale.
If you want one call her up by phone.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR SALE-Pure bred Scotch and
Scotch Top Bulls; sired by son of
Imported Villager; also Pure bred
Duroc Bears for sale. Frank Smith,
Rose Farm, Lancaster, Wis, r. SStfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

DIR. MOORE is again specializing in
the treatment of pyorrhea and dis
eases of the teeth and gums. Special
emetine treatment expertly given.
Cases from out of the city will receive
prompt attention.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
NOTICES

NOTICE = No. Lancaster treasurer
will commence collection of taxes
at the Union State bank, Saturday.
Jan. 9Th Frank Bidweu, treasurer
46p4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR SALE-Two Poland China boars.
One is an extra good one. w. C. Kue-
ster, ROCKVILLE, Wis. Attic
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR RENT-Farm of IA acres in
town of Potosi, Wis; good fences;
good building. For information write
or phone. Mrs. Ed. Rettmeyer, Poto-
81, WIS, K z. 44c3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR SALE-Good paying place of
business. Inquire Herald personally.
No phone calls. 43tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

FOR SALE OR RENT-North Andover
store. Inquire of VIM. Forck, Glen
Haven, Wis 44tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
SEEDS, PLANTS-For Sale

FOR SALE-Marcus seed wheat. Guy
Walker, Fennimore, Wis. 38pS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR SALE-7 spring calves; 5 steers
and heifers. L. O. Vesperman. RID
., Lancaster, Wis. APP
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

FOR SALE-3 Jersey COWS, coming
fresh in spring; 2 Jersey heifers,
coming one year. Burr Walker. 43tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN

STRAYED-Spring calf. Notify Ben
dorf Bros, Hurricane, Wis. 45tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

ONE is situated in an admirable
position from the viewpoint of
anti-aerial defense. Not only
is it in the usual sense a forti-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02

LIVE Stockton Sale
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02
HELP WANTED

WANTED-Men to cut 500 cords of
wood. N. S. Adams, Lancaster, RID
3. 44c3
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-08-02
MAKES STEEL HEAL iTSEL
Remarkable Machine Designed ar
Constructed in French Workshop
During the War.

One Of the most remarkable ma
chimes ever built is in operation at tn.
great workshop In France, where tn,
Royal Flying corps repairs it's damaged
airplanes. This machine, the only one
Of It's kind, which was both conceived
and constructed In that workshop, Is
described by Gustave Babin in ILLUS
tration as one that makes wounded
steel heal itself in exactly the same
way as wounded flesh heals.
1t is almost automatic, IS operated
by electricity and uses galvanism as
Is principle. II needs only one or two
nan to watch it, they being guided by
chart, showing IL many colors the
piece Of metal TO be repaired, the ex-
act repairs necessary, the composition
OF the galvanic bath, the current need
ed, the diameter of the wires that con.
duct it and the time of immersion. All
this is worked out mathematically TO
the minutest fraction and the machine
does the rest.
1t is used for restoring worn or
broken parts of delicate motors, most
Of which are difficult TO replace. When
M. Babin saw 1t there were lying on
the table beside 1t parts 1t had just
repaired that would have. cost $4,000
and much time to replace. In the
previous week it had turned out 300
pieces, all Of great Importance, for
nothing less Is confided to 1t.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-08-02
Woodstock, Virginia, Friday, August 2, 1913.
CANNOT MATCH THE BIBLE
Great Men Can Find NO Other Book
That Combines its Literary OF
Historical Merits.

The bulk OF the people-business
men. lawyers, doctors and others
don't read the Bible, bat writer's nil
versally recognize it as the greatest
book, Prof. William Lyon Phelps OF
Yale university said IN q recent ad-
dress.
Being serious book, # IS weak in
humor,' Professor Phelps said. But I
think Job intended a grim joke when
he said, Would that mine adversary
had written book
mo narrative writer's can match the
style of the Bibles Old Testament
stories-Hume. Gibbon, Rose-tbey are
all inferior. This is the day Of the
short story writer, Kipling. De Maupas-
SAINT, o. Henry, but their best efforts
fall short Of the stories of the Bible.
So 1t is with its poetry IN the Psalms.
Its wisdom Of the Proverbs Is just as
up to date as the morning paper, and
there Is no political economy equal to
the Book Of Gospels.
att is possible to overestimate the
blDtc I-AtutISS t4 1-HSilSI LttI q ttAAf5'
Bunyan wrote great book because he
was saturated with the Bible, and it
trickled out when he wrote.
Lincoln knew only two books-the
Bible and Shakespeare-and yet he
was a splendidly educated man. TO
know the Bible Is to be educated. One
of the finest metaphors in Keats ode
to a Nightingale is taken directly
from the Bible; Nearer My God to
Thee is simply a paraphrase Of the
Bible."-Detroit News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-08-02
NEED NOT SEEK POPULARITY
expert" May Achieve Ht=hs5. Eez~
use of Success, but Na&y y Sc
VIII f.eVe- 9s Love


There Is nj n.E.h mystery OF even
any at al. IL TIE dislike Of '.Xre-' 5"
that is felt and eSr SOD kgea f.
The expert nan is & nan s,rbc goes
other men and tells Thorn '
way in which they gre 77s-s r
Is not the best wav--t}ro- l.
costly, or even stupid way a 81
they will only listen to hin ,g-
his advice their work WITH be aro
and their efficiency increased,
. None Of US takes pleasure 81 hear
ing talk Of that sort, and the displeas-
ure is greater in exact proportion with
length of the hearers training and ex-
perience In conducting his business,
trade, or art. All that the expert saws
carries the implication Of adverse crit
cism directed against the recipient of
his suggestions, and usually IT is cr'ti-
cism Of that recipients father snd
grandfather. OF course that is re-
scented, and the resentment is bitterest
when the expert goes ahead and gives
undeniable proof that his new way
of doing things is better than the old
ways which have long been productive
of honor and profit.
The expert, too, Is always open to
the convenient charge that he is moi
"practical"-that he is man of the
cries and fads. Sometimes the charge
Is true-but only of the expert who
claims the name without deserving it