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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-27

Jessie Jaarsman, Fulton girl en-
ployed in a grocery, was bitten by a
tarantuIa while picking bananas
for a customer The wound was inn
mediately cauterized and the girl
suffered no i'll effects from the bite.
Rev. Arthur Oates, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Oates of Darlington, and Miss
Kathryn Jones of Madison, were mar
ried Wednesday They Will reside in
Washington, Iowa.
The Savanna spring festival, set
for April 20, wos postponed to May
owing to weather conditions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-27

Club, a grade Holstein COW, the
property of Frank Pink, member of
the Highland Cow Testing association,
is making a record in butterfat pro-
duction. On nine months test this
COW made over 5000 pounds of milk
and 341.71 pounds of butter. Three
months remain to complete the assoc
iation year.
Word came to Mineral Point Thurs
day of the death in Chicago of Phillip
Allen, former banker in the Iowa
county metropolis. The remains were
taken to Mineral Point for burial Sun
day. Mr.. Allen had lived in Chicago
for a number of years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-27
PLATTEYmLE

Little Wilma Latham, daughter of
Richard Latham, Farview, was taken
to Madison and an examination at the
university clinic confirmed a dag
nosis of an unusual case of congen-
ital dislocation of the hips. Prelim-
mary operation was performed Tues
day, with prospects of complete re-
covery. Members of the state board
of health are taking an active inter
est in the case. The child is but six
years old and has not been able to
stand erect or walk since childhood.
John L. rindell, former assemblyman,
learned of the child's misfortune
while in the Farview neighborhood,
and it was he who brought her case
to the attention of the proper parties.
The marriage of Marie Savage and
Bernard Roseleip occurred at st.
Mary's Catholic church Monday morn
ing, the Rev. F. j. Lillis officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
James Savage of this city For the
past two years she has followed the
profession of teaching. The groom
is the only son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
RoSeleip, this city. Mr.. and Mrs.
Roseleip will make their home near
Hanover, Wis, where the groom has
been engaged in extensive farming
Henry Knox had the misfortune to
cut his head while chopping a tree.
The axe caught on the tree, bouncing
back and striking him on the head.
Several stitches were taken to close
the wound.
Mrs. Beebe, aged 81 years, died Sun
day at the home of her sister, Mrs.
McNett Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon.
Thursday afternoon r. P. Young of
the wholesale grocery company, had a
narrow escape from being killed. He
was taking goods to the depot in a
truck. On the roadway to the station
the coal bins completely shut off the
possible to see the train. An incom-
ing train hit the truck completely
demolishing it. Mr.. Young escaped
without injury. He states that he
does not know how he managed to
get out of it so luckily.
Mrs. Ann Bratton Fordyce died
Tuesday evening at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John Butson, Geneva,
Iowa. Mrs. Fordyce has been in
failing health all winter and had been
at Mrs. Butson's only week. Her
daughter, Mrs. Albert Webster, of
River Falls, Wis, went to Tacoma,
Wash, and accompanied her mother to
Iowa. Mrs. BrattOn is we'll known
around here, coming directly from
England to this part of the country,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-27

when girl. The remains were
brought to Platteville Funeral ser-i
vices from Grindell chapel at o'clock
today, Friday.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
DIGGING INTO HISTORY
WITH PICK AND
SHOVEL,

Recent deciphering of a clay tablet
which may add a thousand years to
the span of recorded histOry-for it
contains a code of laws said to ante
date that of Hammurabi by a mil
lennium-is another reminder that
archeOlOgists are finding stranger true
stories than fiction can reveal. The
pick and the spade of the explorer
have resulted in astounding revela-
tiOns, says a communication to the
National Geographic society from AL
bert I. Clay, who has deciphered some
of the most famous of the documents.
above all else, one of the great
est surprises is that the earliest peo-
pies, instead of being barbarOus or
uncultured, were civilized and pos
sessed a culture of a high order" Z"
writes Doctor Clay.
Several ancient libraries and i'm
mense archives have been found.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

openly admitted the original appro-
priation of 1OO,OOOOOO marks was sup
plemented again and again until, in
Is years, more than half of POsen had
been bought for German cOlOnists.
Still the Poles predominated. More
kept coming from Poland and Opposi-
ton to the German program was inten-
sified as the measures became har-
Sher.
Even Germany was scandalized
when, in 1902, it was brought to light
in the Prussian parliament that pu-
pills had been whipped by the whole
sale for declining to say the Lords
Prayer in German. But the Opposi-
ton of the grownups did not cause
the worldwide interest aroused by
the school children's strike in 1906
when about 100000 Polish pupils took
that means of protesting against be-
ing beaten when they would not an
sWer questions in German. The Prus-
sian government refused to accede to
the request of the archbishop of Posen
that children be permitted to receive
religious instruction in Polish. Par
ents who withdrew them from school
were imprisoned.
Efforts to absorb or crowd out the
Poles by German colonization hav-
ing failed, measure was passed fo1
the appropriation of Polish land
Further laws were enacted compel
ling wider use of the German lam
guage. Then came the Kattowitz in
cident, in 1910, crOwning a series Of
petty prosecutions which bOrdered on
the absurd, wherein number of minor
officials who had voted for Poles at a
municipal election were removed from
office.
Posen is smaller, territorially, than
Maryland, but had half a million more
population in 1910. About a million
Poles-more than half the total popu-
lation in Posen-were established
there before the World war. POsen
has mineral deposits of Ignite and
salt Much of its land was TILED. Its
manufactured products, besides those
of it's breweries and distilleries, were
sugar. cloth, tobacco, bricks and ma
! chinery.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
TABRIZ: PERSIA'S CAPITAL
CITY

Tabriz, capital of Persia, from
which diplomatic representatives re-
Gently fled at the approach of Boil
shevik forces, is one of the most inn
pOrtant cities in Persia. Its popula-
ton is about 100000 Teheran, the
capital, is the only place in the do
miniOns of the shah which exceeds it
In size.
1t is beautifully situated in a wide
valley ON the River Ali, which flows
into the salt lake of Urumiah 80 miles
to the west. Although apparently sur
rounded by mountains, Tabriz has an
elevation of more than 1900 feet and
the climate in winter is extremely
severe.
Hundreds of springs and fountains
water thousands Of beautiful gardens
in this ancient city which for CEN
turies has enjoyed a deserved repu-
tatiOn as a health resort. Indeed, ira
dition says that the place was found
ed by Zobeideh, the wife of Harun-aI-
Rashid, hero of the arabian Nights -
According to this legend. Zobeideh
came here to recuperate from a fever
in the year 791, and a cure was quick
ly effected thanks to the salubriOus
climate, hence the name Tab (fever)
riz (pourer away, or "fever destroy
ing" AS a matter of cold history,
however, Tabriz was in existence four
centuries before the birth of the beau
tifuI ZOheidph
Up to the time of the completion
of a railway through the Caucasus
and the improvement of Transports
ton facilities on the Caspian sea,
Tabriz was the emporium of Persian
trade with the West. Now, however
most of its trade has been diverted
to Astara, on the Caspian, $50 miles
to the east, and to Resht, 200 miles
to the southeast
OF the three hundred mosques OF
which the city boasts only one de
serves special mention. 1t is the ia
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

In England Miss" formerly was an
piled only TO girls under ten Years of
age.
Jellytish, also known as sea nettIes
frequently annoy bathers by stinging
them.
The valley of the Amazon is said +o
be the largest undeveloped territory
IN the world and the greatest in soil
timber, mineral, nuts and precious
metals.
Speaking Of family trees, most fam
1ly trees are more or less shady.
The last widow of a Revolutionary
veteran was Esther Sumner Damon a
cousin of the Massachusetts stotes-
man, Charles Sumner. Mrs. Damon
died at her home in Vermont in 1909
at the age of ninety-two years.
Lord D'Abenon, who has been an.
pointed British ambassador to Berlin
was financial adviser to the Egyptian
government, 1SS3-S9, during which ne
riOd he enjoyed the reputation of bath
ing in milk and sleeping in a mast,
eEsd kid gloves
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
POsEN, THE EXPERIMENT
STATION FOR "KULTUR"

The province of Posen, formerly
part of Germany's eastern Prussia.
and one Of the most important frag-
ments of old Poland, which has been
Incorporated in the new war-born Po-
land, was the unhappy experiment
station for some of Prussia's most Wig
orous and futile efforts to Germanize
an alien population.
Until the northern portion Of PoSen
fell to Prussia, after the first par
tition of Poland in 1772, and the re
mainder was annexed to Prussia 21
years later, POsen's history was blend
ed with that of Poland. In connection
with the first partition, it will be re-
called that Frederick the Great adopt
ed the ingenious scheme of surround
ing those parts of Poland he desired
with a military force, on the pretext
that he was seeking to check the
spread of a cattle disease.
After being banded for a brief pc
riod, Posen fell to Prussia again in
1915, and for more than half a cen
| tury Germany paid little heed to it.
After the division of the vast estates
and other economic changes, Polish
/ middle classes in Posen began to pros
per, whereupon, toward the last quar-
| ter of the nineteenth century, Prussia
| began to take notice Of its provincial
"Topsy." Germans had been immi-
! grating there since the thirteenth cen
tury and the newcomers, at first were
welcomed. Severance of Posen from
Poland changed that feeling though
open friction was not generated until
! Prussia began her represSive meas
ureS.
Polish mobiles had kept alive PO-
Iish traditions, but Prussia was more
alarmed by the prosperity of the Poles
than by what, today, might be called
the mobiles propaganda. SO she set
! about Germanizing Posen, both by col
onization and by cOmpulsiOn, much as
she attempted to do to the French il
Alsace.
Prussia's first move was to make
German the language of the schools
Police were ordered to disperse meet
ings where Polish was spoken.
After 16 years that program failet
to make much of a Prussian impres
sion upon Posen, so a commission wa
set up, in 1884, to buy land from
the Poles for German settlement. Be
fore the failure of this policy wal
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

try. Attacking the nunnery they led
its young abbess into a wood and Or
dered her to worship their gods. She
refused, and in spite of their efforts
to terrify her into submission, the
brave woman remained faithful to her
creed. In a fury, the leader of the
band ordered her to lay her head down
to be cut off. Obeying, her head
was Immediately severed from her
body. On one night every year the
abbess revisits the scene of her hlar-
tyrdom, carrying her bead in hex
hands
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
CHERSO: MAY BE THE
HELGOLAND OF
ADRIATIC

The RapalIo agreement of last No
eember which fixed the status of the
troublesome city of Fiume and dis
to territory on the eastern shore Of
the Adriatic sea, gave Italy an i'm
pOrtant fOOthold near Fiume III the OBJ
scure island of Cherso.
Practically unheard of on this side
of the Atlantic, eluding most travel
ers, even escaping many of the seek
ers after the little-known places of
Europe, ChersO neither is inaccessi-
BILE nor unattractive.
1t bangles like a pendant in the
Gulf of QuarnerO, low hung from the
neck of Fiume. 1t is the Long Island
miles to the south. Its slender form
extends to the southwest for 40 miles,
though it never exceeds seven miles in
width, and its area is somewhat more
than twice that of the District of
Columbia.
Holding in mind this location, near
the head of the Adriatic, in view of
the plans to make Fiume a buffer
state between Italy and Jugo-Slavia,
the strategic possibilities of Cherso
become apparent. Inded one may pic
ture it as a potential Helgoland of
the Adriatic.
A natural curiosity of the island is
Lake Vrana, or Crows Lake, with a
surface 40 feet above the sea level,
fed and drained by invisible streams.
The island is rugged, with one noun
tain peak rising more than 1000 feet
above the Quarnero waters. Gibral-
tar-like rocks rise precipitously
1000 feet along one of its shores.
Here are the dOme-like caverns of
Smergo, now protected from the sea
by wave-built rock barrier.
The devastating Bora, which sweeps
the Dalmatian coast, drips it's salt
spray over Cherso, excluding many va
rieties of plant life. The absence of
large trees and scarcity of springs
are two physical characteristics. In
the north laurel and mastic grow, and
vines and olive trees abound in the
southern portion.
Politically Cherso was included in
Istria, when under Austrian rule.
With it's neighbor islands, Lussin, to
the southwest, and Veglia, to the
east, it was part of the Lussin dis
trict.
Cherso lies off the shores of the
northern part of Dalmatia and the
Croatian littOral, a region formerly
known as MOrlacchia. The Morlac
CHA channel preserves this name orig
mating with the Slavic invaders of
Dalmatia, who "called the Latinized
people they found there Vlachs, ol
rO-Vlachs-Black VIachs." Thu;
the Slavs of this region have come tC
be known, by a corruption of this
title, as MOrlachs.
In rural districts Morlacchian WON
en- retain their historic costume, which
includes kerchief for the head, many
| strands of beads, a waist band from
| which hang amuletS and various trink
cts, and, over a blue cloth gown, al
apron of exquisite embroidered pat
| tern. About her neck an unmarried
| girl wears string of coins and ring:
I which comprise her dOwry. Formerl!
the men wore their hair in a plait.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

it received q ''horse, watch, some cash
and some notes."
The organ was built in 1857 by Jo-
seph DOwner, then a youth of 20 years.
At first it was regarded as a curiosity
by the neighbors. People came to see
it from far and wide. Tourists would
tell their stage coach drivers to stop
at the small town near Boston to see
this much-discussed music box.
The instrument is six feet wide and
nearly eight feet high. 1t is painted
with enamel, and is finished with carv-
fngs and scroll work. The workman.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Albany, N. Y, ranked as the sew
enth largest city in the United
States in 1870.
A five-dollar bill advertised as found
by the Berkeley (Cal) police depart
ment was claimed by 236 persons.
King John did not actually sign the
Magma Charta, as is often stated.
What he did was to affix his seal to
the document. He was unable to
write even his own name.
The "baby tanks" of the French
army have been generally adapted for
agricultural purposes.
More than one-fOurth of the women
students attending the Kansas State
Normal school are earning part or all
of their expenses.
As q result of recent earthquakes
in Chile large mountains in the
Andes range sank an average Of 16O
feet, a sufficient distance to disclose
peaks beyond that had been hidden
from sight. High banked rivers which
flowed swiftly are now flush with the
Aanks and moving slowly.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
Ancient Uses of Fire

Fireworks, as we know them today,
remarks London Answers, were not
known to antiquity, but the ancients
employed works of fire in connection
with their religious festivals. The
early monarchs of Asia, according to
Herodotus. commanded that ensigns of
fire, considered holy and eternal,
should be carried at the head of their
armies on little affairs of silver Fire
was used by the Romans in their ieli-
gious rejOicings: but the Greeks intro
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
G. w. Logan, Peabody, Kansas

'Tanlac has completely restored my
health and l feel finer than in years"
was the Straightforward statement
made recently by Mr.. George W..
Logan of Peabody, Kansas, one of
the most prominent stockholders in
the Middle West.
sit has not only made a new man
of me but 1 have actually gained
thirty-five pounds in weight and feel
as well as ever did in my life. I am
telling all of my friends about Tanlac,
but they can see for themselves what
it has done in my case.
tWhen began taking Tanlac I was
in an awfully rundown condition.
was away off in weight, felt weak and
nervous all of the time and couldn't
take any interest in my work or any
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
Accounted For,

Cortland Bleecker, the well-known
clubman and connoisseur, said at a
dinner in New York:
1--WE live in an age of substitutes,
and we pay three times more for
these substitutes than we ought to
pay for the real thing.
"a pretty debutante said to me at
a dance:
"T see that you're admiring my
stockings. Don't they glisten beauti-
fully? And vet they're not real silk,
you know. They're an artificial silk
made of wood
"'Wood, eh? said l. "Then that ac-
counts for the ladder just below your
knee"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
HAS ORGAN BUILT IN 1887
Interesting Specimen of American
Ingenuity Recently Loaned to Car
negie Museum at Pittsburgh.

Al organ which gives every evil
fence of being one of the earliest
products of American ingenuity, has
been loaned to the Carnegie museum
1t Pittsburgh by Q. G. Kramer. With
It is a note in the builders own hand
writing, showing that he sold the o.
ian to a certain John May, and fo'
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

thing else. My main trouble was in
digestion. Nothing seemed to agree
with me. At times would have dizzy
spells and at other times my back
would ache so bad that could hardly
get up and down in my chair. This
is just the condition I was in when
I started to take this medicine. II
took just six bottles to make well
man of me. now have a fine appe
tite, everything tastes good and my
digestion is perfect.
"My wife was also troubled with
indigestion at times and it relieved
her the same way. You may pub
lish my statement wherever you like
and if anyone doubts it, just tell then
to see me-"
sTanlac is sold by leading druggists
| everywhere
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

nous Blue Mosque, 50 called because
it Is covered with blue tiles. 1t dates
from the fifteenth century and is now
in ruins. The ark or citadel is a
brick building of massive walls, with
a tower 120 feet high.
More than half of the trade of
Tabriz was with Russia. Its chief
imports before the World war dis
turbed conditions were cotton and
woolen tissues, sugar and tea.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
RemarkabIe Insanity Record.

At an inquest at Ashford, Kent,
England, on Ebdil Coll, who committed
suicide by placing his head on the
railway line in front of an approach
ing train, it was stated that his wife
was in an asylum, having become in
sane owing to air raids. He had a
brother, and brother-in-law in asylums,
and another brother-in-law committed
suicide Coll left a statement show
ing that he was worried by family
and money troubles.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
Sorry He Saved.

"What did you think when the high
hvaymen stuck their revolvers into your
face and ordered you to hold up your
handsT
"Werl, I wasn't as frightened as
Thought 1 might have been, but 1 was
sore at myself for not having eaten at
least SO worth more at the cafe l had
Just left"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
WaInuts From China.

The walnut was taken to China by
the early American missionaries, and
its culture and sale are now the sup
port of hundreds of Chinese villages.
The Chinese waste nothing and when
the walnut crop is gathered the husks
are beaten off and buried in wet earth
to rot and become fertilizer.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10


Years ago the library of Ashurbanipal
(66S-626 B. c. was discovered at
Nineveh. In more recent years tenn
pie and school libraries have been
found at Nippur, Sippar, Larsa, Baby
lon, and Erech. The libraries of the
first three sites belong chiefly to the
third millennium B. c.; those of the
last two belong to later periods.
But especially large archives of
these documents, numbering several
hundred thousand and belonging to
the third and fourth millenniums B.
c., have been found at Tello, Nippur,
Drehem, Jollha, and recently at Ur.
''The Code of Hammurabi, written
about 1000 B. c., upon a large and
somewhat irregular stele, is perhaps
the most important monument of an
tiquity of a high order. In codifying
his laws, Hammurabi arranged them
in a definite and logical order, based
upon accepted judicial decisions. In
no better way is it possible to become
acquainted with the everyday life of
the ancient Babylonian than by care
ful study of the Hammurabi Code"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
Keen Barber GUESSING.

Sitting in a BARRIERS chair, new
technique occurs to us. We find that
as soon as we have announced that
we do not want a SINCE, a shampoo,
a face massage or an invigorating
vacuum vapor, our friend, the artist,
loses all interest in the haircut that
we do want, and in fact rather looks
down on us altogether. Therefore,
from now on, we will keep him in sus-
pense We will pretend to be making
up our mind, and say we will let him
know about that shampoo and massage
when our haircut is finished.-New
York Evening Post.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
Autos Heavy Toll of Death.

According to statistics compiled by
the National Safety council, three
times as many people are being killed
by automobiles as in all the factories,
mines, railroads and other industries
in America. The annual toll of auto
mobile accidents at grade crossings
averages 1000 persons killed and 5000
injured.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

duced illuminations. Lighted lamps
we're held at a certain feast in honor
Of Minerva, who gave them oil; of
Vulcan, their inventor of lamps; and
of Prometheus, who was said to have
rendered them service by the fire
which he had stolen from heaven.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

ship is good, and the materials used
seem to have been of The best. Some
Of the pipes were glued in and others
were placed in groves. Those glued
in are today just as tight as they were
100 years ago.-Detroit News.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10
More Suitable.

$50 the stork has just visited Zeke
Yawkey's home for the eleventh time,
said the presiding elder.
"Stork?" returned Gap Johnson of
Rumpus Ridge. "You mought say
'stork,' if you want to, parson, but
if you'll take a look at them chill
dren of Zeke's you'll swear it was a
hyena. Arkansas City Star.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

81 see a man was excused from a
jury because he frankly said he didn't
have sense enough to serve"
"His frankness was, perhaps, COM
mendable, but I'll wager both sides
were sorry to a him"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-02-10

This is the elaborate S0-pound we'd
ding cake presented by the American
colony in Jerusalem, to the son of Sir
Herbert Samuel, British high commits
sioner in Palestine, and his bride,
Hadassa Grasovslsy of Jaffa. The dec
orations on the cake depict some of
the historic scenes about the Holy
CITY,