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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

Good morning! Did you see the
ground hog?
Everybody Madison high
brOws can only take three baths a
week during the fuel shortage.
-OCO-
Spring is sure coming-Bob Dug
dale Of the PIattevilIe News has re-
ceived his annual seed catalog. Bob
we opine, is some gardener.
That American soldiers are well
paid for their services is evidenced
by the following. The French soldier
is paid $40 a year, the German $38,
the British $50 and the American $3.50
-OOO-
In 1914 Kaiser Bill said lie was 60
ing to eat his Christmas dinner in
Paris, but didn't He was going to
eat it in London in 1915 but he didn't.
He was going to eat it in Petrograd
in 1916, but he didn't. He was going
10 eat it in Rome i'll 1917, but he didn't.
He is planning to eat it in Washing
ton in 1918. but he is destined to be
sEQ4 u! p9lu!oddBs!p u!BSe
-OOO-
Tn the last five months $4,000 SOL
diers have occupied Camp Grant. Its
present soldier population is $4,000.
Yet there have been only % deaths.
1t is doubtful if that rate Of mortality
would not have been exceeded if the
men had all stayed at home The
record speaks well for the sanitation
Of the camp and the care that has
been taken oil the health Of the men
-OOO--
"A white haired Pennsylvania pat
riot named Peter Meyers, stabbed to
death a defamer of the president The
dead man, much younger than the
elderly patriot who ny the way has a
German name, t0sultod the president
and the flag In the ensuing encounter
the young man Missed his epithets in
the old mans ear and threatened to
kill him The old man reached for a
knife and dealt a death blow. He is
in jail but can a jury be found to con
vict him?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

WANTED - Board and room. Single
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

man. See S. & S. Shoe store. 5Otfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

J. D. GODFREY Physician and sur
geon. Office over Lancaster State
bank. Residence two blocks north
west of Wright House, Lancaster,
Wisconsin,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

FOR SALE OR RENT-2O0 acre farm
seven miles west of Lancaster, 215
miles from school Box 68 or phone
287, RObt. Reynolds. 49c2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

FOR SALE-Good white oak posts.
Inquire of H. Roth or Dan Kinney,
Wis. 50p2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

Spring is sure coming Bob Dug
dale Of the PlattevilIe News has re-
ceived his annual seed catalog. Bob
we opine, is some gardener.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

DR.. "A. B. COOK-Dentist. Office over
Benefits drug store Both phones:
Bell 45-J, Farmers 147 Lancaster,
Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

BROWN, BRENNAN e CARTHEW-
Attorneys at Law. Office in Baxter
block, Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

=
r This newspaper is a member Of
the Wisconsin Patriotic Press AS
ISOLATION and pledges it's uncOm-
3 promising loyalty to our govern
ment i'm this war.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

Everybody laugh Madison high
brOws can only take three baths a
week during the fuel shortage.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

Dated January 21st, 1918.
By the Court: E. B. Goodsell, Judge
48w3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

Good morning! Did you see the
ground hog?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-02-06

That American soldiers are well
paid for their services is evidenced
by the following The French soldier
is paid $40 a year, the German $38,
the British $50 and the American $3.50.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22
Taxes and the Bond Issue.
From the New York World.


. The House ways and means committee is beginning work on a
gar seYenne bill to raise $4,000 600 900 from taxes this year, instead
pr the $4yOOuoOO0OO raised last year. 1t expects to have the bill
ready by late in August, while the treasury department is planning
a big loan drive for late September.
The president has urged early action on the tax bill for the
reason that business men should know where they stand as soon as
possible. 1t fs quite as important that the people generally should
know where they stand in relation to taxes in order that they may
know what they can do in subscribing for the new Liberty bonds.
This will not matter 80 much with those whose incomes have
been favorably affected by war conditions or by that species Of inla-
ton which is reflected in a more or less arbitrary and very high and
fictitious state of prices and valuations Of property. But It will
matter greatly to the so.called salaried class, who have been a large
support OF previous bond issues, but whose nominal incomes have not
advanced and whose real incomes or wages have been falling steadily
under rising prices and necessary costs of living.
There is nothing elastic in these incomes. It is all the other wav
1t is a case OF being caught between an immovabe body on one side
and I'm lrresistibly constructing force moving from the other side. It
Will be a case not OF willingness to continue buying bonds, but Of an
honest inability to do anything of the kind.
The tax revenues are to be doubled. It is important not oply that
congress keep in mind this forthcoming bond issue in its distribution
the doubled tax burdens, but that this class Of income earners 3
as all others be informed beforehand Of just where they stand in
relation thereto.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22

out of the most precious Of the art win
dows In tho cathedrals and churches.
Queer crtss crosses Of paper would turn
SHOP windows into checkerboards, SO that
when the flying bits Of iron came splinter
lag through them the glass wouldn't ny in
large Quantities,
In Washington square the great arch
would be lost TO view under q protecting
structure Of wood and sandbags or brush.
There would be signs near every subway
approach and near every basement door.
On these signs would DO an arrow and
this inscription. Bomb shelter; 90 peo-
pie" or whatever number the Mace might
accommodate. Now and then Q structure
woul Be oiosed to the public-wreeked by
. bomb, a. II 81. Georges church, In
Paris, where on Good Friday, q she'll
from the supercannon came hurtling
against . huge pillar. killing lot as they
prayed. A bit Of stone clipped out of
the municipal building would show where
a crippled aiIplane had crashed into the
structure while trying to MARE . land
Ing In the inadequate space near the
bridge approach.
And the visitor would be told shout how
things used to Be before the Germans
cauae 70 near. But the fortitude of liberty
loving humanity would be Just a. evident
In New York ~ It 70 In Paris, let W hope.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22
TWILIGHT IN
The WOODS

From the London Times.

SiV LOAAooh IN
Going to bed IL one thing, getting up
must be, people VINO rise with lark like
facility, and inc~ontinently break into
profuse strains Of unprecedented art.
There are such people and they are
rather hard to live with. Blu going to
bed 10 q very different matter. 40 go
to bed 10. on the face OF It, ar easy
thing, and the pressure of the times
10 in the direction Of making II easier.
Hard worked people need a great deal
be, hard worked today. This is the day
Of work. and every one 8 glad, or ought
to be. when tho might cometh. More
over, there Ia a too long delayed move
ment on foot to make children go to
bed earlier. 1t Is a town movement and
fits in with the policy that people who
are called educationists have an
wise" policy. But, strangely enough,
children do no like going to bed; they
much prefer falling asleep In their
traces, so as not to miss q moment Of
the gladness Of living.
Children, especially In u village,
make every possible excuse for not
going to bed In the big houses they
are. they say. afraid to go to bed;
easements or slide down miraculous
moonbeams; afraid Of the fox, with
his three quick. hoarse barks. in the
neighboring woods; afraid Of the owls
who cry; afraid Ito think Of I'LL Of the
nightengales who sing OF lost love and
irretrievable fate. But they are not
really afraid; they want to be up and
seeing and listening and doing. The
cottage children achieve more fully
what the manor house children long for.
They know something at first hand
Of the mysteries-mysteries Of sunset
and moonrise, half light and moon
light. starlight and freight and 10
light, mysteries Of glade and woodland
and winding, shadowy paths, which all
children ny after. Going to bed! It
Is only mortals who go to bed, and
children are immortals.
It IL right and proper for town child
rem to go to bed early: the streets are
no places for them. But in the
cool. flower scented breszes on faces
warn with the gathered sunlight Of a
l @as.o ' oi a warm way; j JUNE as y , ',ins in The Tine
woodland paths Is such lnat no child
can resist it. The birds do not resist
II. Though they will arise before the
sun. The skylark IL singing long be-
fore sunrise. Lat in the dusk. y
teriously fitting, q reg shadow in a
moon-gray oop6e. q cuckoo calls. Ills
note dominates the eventide. the call Of
q magician who bids the woodland
OATS and gnomes come out from their
shelters and dance ON q turf in . green
glade. And. behold, they come.
Shadowy, tiny figures are dancing,
shrM little voices are calling. calling.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22

calling from tree trunk to tree trunk
and they have q fire, q little glowing
red charcoal heap the hearth Of their
reveGy. And there are human OATS and
Snomes. and they are breathing, and in
q sense making, the mysteries that
mere humanity talks about and writes
about. They are in love with their
forest and itS winding aisles and green
theAters Of ~unrecorded joys. And they
are provident folks, those forerunners
OF the midsummer fairies; they have
brought their supper with them and
adventure Of all adventures) are eat
ing II beside their own hearth In the
heart OF the boaky wood. There Ia q
moment In spring when the summer
heat has not yet come and the winter
cold has fled away, when the green Of
the year has no darkness In 1t, and the
quick % can feel the growth Of things.
In which the children claim with ire
sistible ardor the right to take the twi-
light road.
But at last, in the deepening
shadows, the little people take theft
homeward paths and the charcoal
CLOVIS INTENDED in the quiet clearing
that the full moon roofs with beams
Even OATS and gnomes must 60 to bed,
and the mallet OF the sleep god 10 smit-
ing them. More and more they scatter,
each seeking some special path to some
special cottage in the scattered village.
Quietly they loiter along. golden lads
and lassies all, plucking a leaf, snatch
ing a song, till at last mother and her
apron loom in sight and a word Of
scoldtng Is obliterated with bread and
butter ere bed, In q twtnkling, ends the
long, glad June day.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22
Trench shoe Four soIes Thick.
From the New York Evening Post,

FROM the new IOTh evening FOSt.
According to the government hide and
leather control board the principal use
to which leather is being put at the
present momen Ii for the Pershing
trench shoe. Beginning August l there
will be delivered 1,500. 900 pairs Of the Per-
shing trench shoes every month. Each
pair Of these shoes weighs five and a half
pounds. The shoes are heavier than those
used by the armies Of Great Britain or
Franco. They are composed of a sole
about t~hree-quarters of an inch thick.
made of four soles, or four ~thicknesses
of leather. The sole and heel are COM
pletely studded with iron nails. Affixed
to ea,sh heel and sole are iron plates 30
that the soldier Is wearing out the metal
all the time instead of leather. After
these metal nails and plates wear out the
shoes are exchanged for new ones, while
the old are being restudded and replated
to be worn again. The uppers Of these
shoes are the finest and heaviest that
can be made.
The largest use of leather outside of
that set aside for the Pershing trench
shoe, or possibly larger, Is for harness,
for which there is a tremendous demand
1t is stated that the government Expects.
within 60 days, to have all the black
harness leather It requires; as for rdsset
harness leather. large quantities are sim
required. The tanners OF the United
States are endeavoring to supply this de-
mand for russell harness leather. which
unquestionably will be met IN time. Amy
officers are paying special attention to
the manufacture and quality OF stiriup
straps for cavalry and artillery hoTSes.
They are making the most minute insp &C
ton Of every stirrup strap. because IL
one breaks 1t means almost certain death
to the rider. The strap is made OF rusast
leather; II has got to be OF the vaty
finest quality and as strong as 1t Is posst-
BILE to turn II out,
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22
Most Wills Are Good.

Robert Grant. in Soribner's Magazine.
The right to regulate what shall be done
with ones property. after death, remains
substantially intact, and this. too. not
wtthstanding the popular impression tha
the intention Of ~testators is very easily
frustrated. II Is Q current belief, which
derives color from the sensational con-
tests Of which we read IN the newspapers,
that o great many wills are broken. But,
though the attacks Of disappointed or
greedy relatives are numerous, the con-
trary 10 true according to the records
of the largest county Of the state with
which I am most familiar and where
predatory tendencies against testators are
wen developed.
These records show a steady average of
rather less thar l per cent Of Wills dis
allowed during the last 10 years, q result
which 10 mado more remarkable by the
reminder that some of these were set
aside because of defective attestation In
stead Of The mental i~ncapacity and undue
influence Of the maker ordinarily urged
by the rapacious. The statistics for the
Same period show q yearly average Of
less than / per cent OF Wills compromised
that Is where tho legatees and next of
kin agreed to spit their differences with
the sanction Of the court. These figures,
which are undoubtedly indicative of cor.
ditions elsewhere. reveal q disposition on
the part OF jurie5 to uphold the validity
OF legal testaments n tend to contra
diet the notion OF the man in tho street
that his last wishes are apt to be disre-
garded.
It 10 rather surprising. however. that the
showing o n the side of validity should be
so good considering the haphaxard and
hasty, IL not sloppy, execution OF so nan
Wills. Instead Of regarding tho making
OF a will as one Of the most solemn of
ceremon!als, the man In the street. II not
the capitalist, u constantly asking foolish
chances, as II he conceived II to be Q
privilege Of democracy to be able to make
q will in any old way and have It stand
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22
eRIGANps AND coNoUERoRs. :
From the Columbus tOhio) Dispatch.
Tt Ia m ola GA cSo~, A,,S IL a.

From the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
1t Is an old. old story. but 1t IL
applicable today when considering
a certain emperor and the doing Of
his troops In stricken Russia. 1t
will not. therefore, do any harm to
again relate It.
: Once there was a Thracian pirate
: named Blondes, who had been raw
: ishing the seas In the days Of Alex
; ander. He was finally rounded up
and taken before the mighty con-
: queror for sentence. Alexander said
, to him something like this:
: you contemplate brigand. how
dare you infest the seas with your
: misdoings?"
; But It didn't frightsn blondes.
The pirate simply grinned as he re-
: piled:
; "And you'll BY what right DO you
, ravish the universe? Just because
; I have but one ship I am called q
} brigand; but, having a who'll fleet
: at your command, you are called q
: c%onquerorp
, It Ia recorded that Alexander
; saw the point and released the
, pirate. But the moral Ia that X one
, mar were to 60 into the Ukraine
and rob the people, he would be
? called a robber or brigand or some
; thing else despicable. But here we
; have the German emperor throwing
, thousands Of men into the region
; and taking everything they can
, carry Off and numbering the people
, who refuse to give up their property
, to them. and Il Ia called warfare.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22
SIOUX CITY PIG. CO., NO. s4.1s1s.
SURELY MUST HAVE NERVE
British ~"chasine Pilots" Are REQUIRED
to DO All Sorts of Stunts
in the Air.

The ordeals that the Chasing pilots
attached to the aviation corps of the
British forces at the front have to I'M.
dergo before they are considered as
proficient In their p%erilous work are
sufficiently trying to test the nerve
OF the bravest flyer. AS an army cor
respondent Of the Philadelphia Public
Ledger puts 1t, the candidate who pass
es the required curse Of aerial
gymnastics must either be all
nerve or possessed of no nerves at
oil.
At this school, he says, you will
see an airplane, thousands of feet
aloft, suddenly fling It's nose up and
begin to climb vertically as If the pilot
intended to loop the loop. Suddenly II
pauses, and remains for perhaps q full
minute poised perpendicularly on its
tail. Then, with the engine switched
off, it falls helplessly, tail first, spin
ming giddily round and round in a way
that resembles the helpless flutter Of
a falling leaf. Then suddenly the en-
CINE roars again, the twisting, tiutter.
Ing dead thing becomes instinct with
life, rights itself majestically on fash
ing pinions, swOops down In swift and
headlOng course, mounts the wind and
UP and up, as light and grace
full as any bird.
Other nerve-shattering things they
do, these soaring young demigods Of
the air-feats that seem nothing short
of miraculous to the earth-bound ones
who stand gazing upward in awe
Youths Companion.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22
War, As Usual.
Chester NJ. Wright. in the New Yorl
r-lk,-

Chester M. Wright. in the New York
Tribune.
Big pictures are made OF little sweeps
and daubs Of paint. Big. wide mind i'm
press,ons sometimes are mad UP Of little
lettings and Hastings of men and things.
The war "over there" Is really a collection
Of experiences through which millions Of
men n women are going In various
ways. 1t Is made up of howit2ers and
food shortage, of trenches hospitals.
Of women who say "goodby" to their men
with a smile on their faces, and Of men
who go bravely into hellfire over heaving
earth-of these n many other things Is
this war made up. II Is made up Of Eng
lish girls working in big munition plants
where they wear rubber shoes to keep
from blowing themselves up, of engineers
who pull long trains Of wounded Into q
big London railroad station, Of brave men
who go up over that same city to fight off
murderous raiders, of nurses who a
for men who may live and who may die
and of silent folk who go without the food
they used to know about, accomplishing
and r~esolute. And 1t. Is made UP OF q
thousand other things, some OF which
don't look as II they had n relation to
war. Here are some little flashes at just
a few Of the things that we saw while we
(members of the American Federation OF
Labor mission to Great Britain and
France) went through Britain and France
"a tour lasting five weeks, In which we
saw and saw until u eyes ached with
seeing and our minds baked at taking In
more of the multitude Of strange i'm
pressions:
The war is as near to New York as It
Ia to Paris. The fighting il not. If 1t
were you would see something like this:
The lions that flank the public library
entrance would be covered with sandbags.
The statue Of Ben Franklin down by city
hall would no longer stand as a visible
symbol of meditation and wisdca You
would see a yellow pile OF irres--..eaf shape
Hainst bombs and bits OF
shrapnel. They would be taking ths glass
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22
ksrt HE Hand In.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Smith is a great golf bug. isn't hep
said Brown.
in all winter and practiced every day"
But how could he practice In winter
when the links are closedt' asked Brown.
I'VE walked downtown every morning,
and every 600 yards he would swing at an
!nagtnsry ball with his cane" replied
Jones. Then he would cuss Q blue
streak"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22

probably take over the
other IS per cent. This
information should In
duce American houHe-
wives to preserve veg
etables h ic h are
plentiful In the sum-
mer for winter con-
sumption"
Drying v the
product, saves storage
space. saves transpor
tati0n. Dried products
may be kept any
where. rs long as they
are In alright con-
tainers and are out Of
the reach of rats or
mice.
Any one can sue
cessfully dry and save
any product. When de-
sired for food, all prod
ucts can be partly re-
stored. many Of them
to nearly their original
condition, The house
wife who takes vege.
tables ftesh from tho
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22
Bad News.

From the Pittsbur sh Chronicle-Telegraph-
Fancy dresses were decidedly In her line.
and her life ambition was TO Aeep vi the
deception of youthful appearance.
Elizabeth" she callad, did you get the
flowers tina, l am to wear in my hair to-
night"
"yss. num- was the reply, but"
But what?"
give niSla!d the hSir. mum," i
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22

pound ever since and give Won INV per.
mission to publish this letter.".Misa
Flo KELLY, ats So. 14tht 81, Newark.
The reason this famous root and herb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
compound, was q successful In Miss
Aelly's case was because il went to the
root OF her trouble. restored her to a
normal healthy condition and as Q result
her nervousness disappeared. w
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22

Harness Tor Drying Frame wood, and the bottom should be OF gE-
vanzed window screen wire, fastened with
double pointed tacka Get two pieces Of small sized rope. II window weight
cord, each six feet long. Tie the ends Of each piece together, making two
loops each exactly so inches long Gig p. Place ne loop around one end Of the
frame, the other loop around the other end (Fg. ~. Bring the upper ends Of the
loops together and fasen them with a third loop, OF double rope, sufficiently
long to reach from a few feet above the stove to q firm hook In the ceiling
(Ffgure 81. Near each end of a block Of wood, 8 inches long and IN inches
wide, bore a hole large enough to let the doubled rope pass through easily
Pr.s the end Of the upright rope through one hole and shove the block down
to the junction of the two loops Gig b.. Tie a ESt In the upright rope
to keep the lower end Of the block from slipping up; then pass the double
rope through the upper hole in the block (FG. IL, and place the upper end
Of the upright loop YER the hook in the ceiling.
Tho purpose Of the block Of wood Is to make It easy to adjust the
height O.: the frame. To raise the frame pull the rope through the upper
ole In the block unit. the desired height II reached, then fasten the frame
IN pa@s by looping the "sack" Of the rope around the upper end Of the block
as shown IN Figure 8.
Place two loops of rope. each about 20 inches long, around the suspended
frame, on loop at each end, and let them hang down. In the lower ends
of these loops place the second frame and suspend the third frame from
the second In the san manner.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-22

GOWN and got 80
weax ! could hardly
stand, and had head
aches every day. I
tried everything I
could think Of and
was under a ply
sician's care for two
years. girl friend
had used Lydia e.
P~inkhsm's vege-
table Compound and
she told me about
From the frst
! took itIbegan
feel better and
now i am well and
To- do most any
Tin Of work. I
been recon-.
!nendinR the Com.