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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Play Financial Success

The total receipts for the annual
school play were $335.50 Had the
roads been better it is likely that the
entire house would have been sold
out
The school is appreciative of this
fine support and will see to it that
the money is expended for the promo
ton of worthy activities only
All who were responsible for the
presentation of "Stop Thief did the
very best they could to give ev-
eryone who bought a ticket his mon
ey's worth. 1t is a considerable handi-
cap not to be able to practice on the
stage more frequently than is possible
when it costs us ten dollars a night
for rehearsaIs. When the new high
school is completed we will be able
to have more stage rehearsals which
will be a great advantage to those
who take part.
The next big school event will be
the presentation of a high school OPP
eretta with an entirely different cast
and show that will be altogether
different from "Stop Thief" The date
of the operetta is Feb. q and the name
is miss Cherry Blossom" The price
will be within reach OF everybody.
The object of this performance is
not to raise money but rather to en-
courage vocal music and offer an OPP
portunity to a larger number of stu
dents to participate in public activ-
tiles.
Honor Roll
SeniOrs-Susan Clementson, Ada
Hartman, Genevieve Williams.
Juniors-Billy Edwards, Alma Ed
wards Leona Kerr, Virgil Lorenz, Ii
lab Mclean, Richard Orion, Virgil
Perrin, Floyd Retallick, Billy Schloes-
ser, Lave~n Stanley, Evelyn Sherman
Donald Vincent, Louisa Wepking.
Sophmores- Marion Batty, Helen
Beetham, Clark Croft, Leroy Eastman
Stanley Edwards, Gladys Hore, Rob
ert Morse, Glen Roesch, Vernon va
ger.
Freshmen-Frederi Granville, Hell.
en- Mckinley, Margaret Thier, Lillian
Wieland.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
pERFECT NEW MACHINE

The Bracket Machine Shop OF TINS
city is getting out new machine
called a "tenanter." 1t is designed to
be of great use in various kinds OF
delicate wood working. Mr.. Brackets
idea has always been to produce an
efficient machine for about half what
the big competing machines sell tor:
The Bracket Mortiser, sold st $24o
the world over, exemplifes this idea;
The tenanter will sell for around
s400.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
QUESTION BOX

Question-Is there any one of our
readers that can give recipe for
"Bannocks," an old Scotch dish, made
of oats and barley meal?
Legitimate questions with replies
from readers will be printed under
this head free of charged
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
no MINTER IN DIXIE LAND

Mr.. and Mrs. John Clark LETT Lam
caster Thursday afternoon for Indian
apolis, Ind, where they spent q few
days visiting their son, Harry, and
family. From there they went to Lou
isviIle, KY, to visit their daughter,
Mrs. Wm. Oliver Johnson. They ex-
pect to be absent from Lancaster Tor
q couple of months.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
INTERESTING ARTICLE

A recent issue OF the Wisconsin His
torica1 magazine contains an inter
esting and well written article by ".
H. Pearson of Washington, D. c.. for
merIy of Lancaster and a brother Of
Mrs. w. P. Richardson of this city
Mr.. Pearson uses the life of the poet,
James G. Perciyal, as a topic. Mr.. Per-
cival was one of the early poets OF
this country and for time state ge-
ologist of Wisconsin. He died in 1859
at Hazel Green and was buried there.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
PLACE ORDERS
FOR EQUIPMENT
OF NEW SCHOOL
Furnishings to be of Best All
Through Building. Other
School Notes.

The regular monthly meeting of the
school board was held Tuesday night
with all members present. The ses-
sion lasted until 1870 a. M Wednes-
day Eight different equipment firms
had their representatives present to
present their bids on the school
equipment. Samples of school desks,
chairs and auditorium seats were on
display almost enough furniture to
fill the laboratory in the high school
building.
Buy School Equipment
Bids were accepted by the board on
each item to be considered. The rep
resentatives were allowed from two
to five minutes to present and dem
onstrate their offerings, and as there
was such a large number of different
individuals to be heard on each item,
the process proved to be a slow one.
However, orders were given for most
of the items on the list that had been
previously prepared.
The assembly seating contract was
let to Haywood Wakefield & Co. The
library tables and chairs, office fur
niture and desks and chairs for the
commercial room are to be furnished
by a Port Washington firm. The reci-
tation seats, also the folding chairs,
were purchased from the Columbia
School Equipment Works of Morrison,
Ill. The Eau Claire Book and Station
cry Company will furnish the lectur-
er's desks for the two science lab
oratories.
This does not complete the equip
ment. A librarians desk for the lib
rary, drawing tables for the drawing
room, laboratory tables for science
work, furniture for the teachers ROOM
wastepaper baskets and window
shades are among the items yet to be
purchased.
High Quality Furniture
All the equipment purchased is of
high quality. The library tables and
chairs especially are to be furnished
in quarter-sawed white oak through
out. The auditorium seats are to be
furnished by the same firm that seated
the Grantland auditorium and will no
doubt be of the same high order of
workmanship and appearance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Methodist Church

Sunday school $3.50. There are three
classes of homes that send children
to Sunday school: those with the atti-
tude of Indifference, those mildly in
terested and those homes that coop
crate with the church.
Public worship 1920, subject for
sermon: "The Invisible is Supreme"
Epworth League GAS. Readers: Mrs.
Birrell and Genevieve Williams.
Public worship 1880, subject for
sermon: Things that Keep Us from
God" Text, proverbs 6:16-9. ''These
six things doth the Lord hate, etc."
John Birrell, Minister.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
THESE MAY WE'D

Harry H. Kuhls, Belmont; Nora u.
Komp, Platteville.
Ernest F. Johnson, Lima; Irma
Helms, Belmont.
Geo. E. Ginter, Dickeyville; Frances
Schardt SmelSer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Morbid Sentimentality.

Human Nature, as Esop once re-
marked, is a funny thing.
A convict shows gift for music
hall harmony and is allowed to broad
cast over the radio. He is showered
with presents and made hero of.
Thousands of other equally worthy
convicts brood in their cells, unnot-
iced, unheralded and unsung.
A man exploring a Kentucky cave,
catches his leg under a boulder and is
imprisoned in the bowels of the earth.
Offers of aid come from all points of
the compass. These include money,
devices and whole army of ex-
perts. The whole machinery of a
state is thrown into the rescue.
Yet people die all around us daily
in starvation and preventable misery
and nothing is thought of it or done
about it.
The dramatic catches attention.
That and the chance to have ones
name heralded over the radio or
spread on the pages of the press as a
generous giver.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Life Is So Short.


We attend the funeral of a good
man and good friend to all who
knew him and wonder why it is as
human beings we don't emulate his
example and try to get along better
together.
Life is so short. We are here just
a little while and then go forever.
No ever came back and no one ever
will.
With life so short, why all the back
biting, petty jealousy and unkindness?
Why don't we make the most of the
few hours we yet may spend" as old
Omar once said. Not in his meaning
which was Disqualification, but in
good deeds. Life is so short.
The grave comes and it is too late
to do the things we know we should
do but don't. Why don't we? Life is
SO short.
Young people think they will live
forever. We all thought they way
once. Youth cannot visualize that old
age is certain and death comes to all
And as man grows to middle aee
he sees his good, old friends taken
away, one by one, like ripe leaves fall
ling from the tree. He would then
like to say the kind and helpful word
but the ear that might have heard it
is cold in death.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

Elmer lockwood of No Lancaster
underwent an operation at Doolittle
hospital Saturday.
Albert Phillips was in Chicago last
week with cattle shipped via Cassville.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
News of the Churches
Emmanuel Episcopal Church

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Friday 7.30 p. m. Eyensong and choir
practice.
Setagesima Sundays a. m. Holy
Communion $3.50 a. m. church school.
1890 a. m Choral Eucharist and SER
mon. 6:45 p. M. Young Peoples So
ciety. 1880 p. m. Evensong and adj
dress.
Feb. 25-Ash Wednesday.
A. NJ. Mclaughlin Pastor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Charity.

Charity.
"And Jesus said: Let Him Among
You Who is Without Sin, Cast the
First Stone" They made no reply.
Conditions have not changed much
since our Lord walked among men
and laid down his beautiful creed of
life. We still sling stones, judge harsh
ly and are. inclined to kick people
down instead of lifting them up.
A man may walk ever so straight
and do a thousand things right, pain
fully and laboriously building char
acter and a career. Let him make one
misstep and the whole structure tot
ters and falls. No one is so poor as
to do him honor.
Time enough to judge when the evil
dence is in. Don't judge too harshly or
too quickly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

F. G. Granville was a Madison bus
mess caller Thursday.
Miss Anna Nehls was, a PlatteVllie
passenger Thursday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

Geo. Taylor, Wisconsin university
student, was visitor at home last
week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Flashes
'Iife is Short tell the TRUTH

All Strengthened Out.
Judge Stolen says he was misquoted
in his talk about bad social conditions
at Madison. He says his talk was de-
livered to a small group of men at a
social meeting in a Madison suburb.
He said about so percent of the men
between Is and 25 are or have been
infected with venereal disease. He
didn't mention the university directly
or Indirectly.
A Madison paper took the story up
and amplified on his statements, the
judge claims The story was broad
casted all over the country, creating
qnuite a furore.
Now it is all smoothed over by a
general agreement that Madison is no
worse than other towns of its size in
the country. That is probably true but
the question still remains-how good
is that?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

Tolerance
In another column are printed views
of Confucius, Chinese sage of 5000
years ago, and Herbert George Wells,
modern English ologist-historian.
The interesting point is their similar
ity. We do not doubt Mr.. Wells sim
cerity although we may not agree with
him. We hold no brief for either.
A broad-mindcd person who desires
to grow in knowledge and under
standing tries to learn something OF
the views of other people. He APP
breaches the subject sympathetically
and without prejudice. There must be
something steadfast, he reasons, in
faith that people cling to so steadily.
He does not go to become converted
but he learns He sees that people
cling to things because they beleVe
they are helped by them. They hold
to faith because of the good they
find in it. And that applies to all
faiths.
A narrow-minded man cannot toll
crate the fact that other people dlf-
fer with him. 1t enrages him. With
nreiudice he seeks to destroy their be-
lief. He only strengthens it.
The person who dare not hear or
read of other beliefs than his own
must have little sureness in himself.
Always he lacks tolerance.
ANY faith that keeps man tolerant,
charitable and straight is a GOOD
faith. The essence of all creeds IS
brotherhood. The one who lacks TINS
lacks a faith of any kind. Having no
faith he sets about to attack those
who have.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

And if childhood was being exploit
ed we would feel as safe with the hui
mainly and common sense Of a state
legislature as with the same kind OF
human beings in Congress.
No more federal power or central
ization of authority. 1t is costly and
destroys initiative in the citizen and
his interest and participation in gov
eminent. That's what Coolidge says.
We agree with him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Galena Man Takes
Life by Gas Route

GALENA-E. G. Willis of Galena,
employed by the Interstate Light &
Power Co, took his life Monday by
inhaling gas.
Willis did the deed at his home in
Davenport, Iowa, where he had been
employed since leaving the Electric
Light Co.
He is survived by his wife and three
children. The body was taken to ST.
Paul, Mimi, for burial.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
CONGREGATIONAL Church

Sunday school 10000; morning ser
vice HOO, sermon topic: ''The Great
Quest of Life" Special music by a
mixed choir under direction of Mrs.
McNelly; Christian Endeavor GAS.
The evening service hour will be given
to a Lincoln memorial service and an
offering will be taken for the Ameri-
can Missionary Association which is
carrying on the work so well begun by
Lincoln to free mankind from bondage
and ignorance.
Mid-week service Thursday evening
1880
Ladies' Aid meets Friday afternoon.
cordial welcome is extended to
all who can attend~any or all Of these
services.-G A. Mckinley, Pastor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
BautiSt Church

We want you and your friends here
next Sunday morning at $3.50 for Sun
day school.
Subject for morning: "a Step Far
Their"
B. Y. P. U. 700. You vii enjoy it.
Subject for evening: "Does Godli-
ness Pay?"
Good music and a hearty hand
shake. Come once and you will want
to come back again.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
No More Amendments.

No More Amendments.
Thirteen states have voted against
a federal child labor amendment. All
have child labor laws of their own.
WHY the sentiment against federal
statute?
Tn. answer is that the Amer
lean neoDle think the constitution has
been amended enough, As Thomas
Marshall. ex-vice-president says, any
one can go to Washington and have
an amendment tackled onto the constI-
tnfion. The people want this stopped.
The original constitution clearly
provides that the separate common
cerning LEGISLATION within their bor-
ders. So far the states have been per-
fectIv CAPABLE OF carrying this out ac-
cordine To the demands and social
sense Of the people. But the amenders
want to take this power away and TO
further centralize power at Washlng-
ton. hundreds or thousands of miles
away.
So they seek further amendments.
AS FAR as the writer can see child
hood is not being exploited. If the
American people lean too far in any
direction it is toward being over SEN
timental and easy with our children.
We have a pretty fiossy and not too
industrious younger generation as
result.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22

into climax of ecstacy they seize redhot
irons, lick them passionately and hold
them in their mouths without showing any
signs of pain.
In other monasteries the dervishes seize
daggers and plunge them into their flesh.
After their frenzy has abated they fall to
the floor exhausted, and the chief sheikh
passes among them and treats their
wounds with his saliva.
The devishes are reputed 10 be able to
perform miracles and the ignorant peas
antry frequently go to them for treat
ment. Their usual way Of treating all
diseases is by breathing on the sufferer
The faporite cries of the dervishes are
IVA Ghazi," meaning ooh, Victors"; "Ya
Shahid,C"Oh, Martyrs; "Ya Allah
oh, Allahp and "Ya Hoo"-"Oh, Himp'
Many OF them practise self-mutilation.
chlet among them being extraction of ali
the teeth.
They practise all kinds of magic and
have command over spirits and ghosts.
which are called "djinns." According 10
them every letter of the alphabet has an
attendant djinn, which they can call up by
uttering the letter.
Certain of the dervishes are believed
by the credulous to have the power of
making themselves invisible. Of course.
If they have this power the Government
cannot prevent them from CARRYING on
their mysterious operations.
Many thousands of the dervishes are
descendants of the Prophet Mohammed,
and hence have doubly sacred character.
Such deryishes were allowed to abuse the
Sultans without punishment.
Those who have witnessed the PERFORM
ances of the whirling dervishes state that
they whirl until they appear TO fly.
There is, indeed, no class of persons in
the world surrounded by such mass of
superstition, fanaticism, legend and mys.
terry as the dervishes Of Turkey. 1t will
astonish the world, if they can be wiped
out by a reforming government.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22

around six sides of the building, and be-
meath it, on your left hand a. you enter,
you remark the lattices through which the
Turkish women witness the service.
ga narrow mat surrounds the circle
within the railing, and upon this the derv-
ishes kneel during the prayers; while the
centre Of the floor is so highly polished
by the perpetual friction that it resembles
a mirror, and the boards are united by
nails as large as a quarter to prevent
accidents to the feet of the dervishes dur
ing their gyrations.
"A bar of iron descends from the centre
of the domed roof, TO which transverse
bars are attached, bearing a vast number
of glass lamps of different colors and
sizes; and against many of the pillars, of
which | counted twentyfour, supporting
the dome, are hung frames, within which
are inscribed passages from the Prophet.
"One by one the deryishes entered the
chapel, bowling profoundly at the little
gate of the enclosure, took their places on
the mat, and, bending down, reverently
kissed the ground, and then, folding their
arms solemnly on their breasts, remained
DuIlen IN prayer, WIN their eyes closed
and their bodies swinging slowly to and
fro. They were all enveloped in wide
cloaks of dark-colored cloth with pendant
sleeves, and wore their geulafs, which they
retained during the whole of the service.
"The service commenced with an ex-
temporaneOus prayer from the chief
priest, to which the attendant dervishes
listened with arms folded upon their
breasts and their eyes fixed on the ground.
At its conclusion, all bowed their fore
heads TO the earth, and the orchestra
struck into one Of those peculiarly wild
and melancholy Turkish airs which are
unlike any other music that / ever heard.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22

idlers in the streets of the villages and
cities of Turkey from one of the country
to the other. To suppress them will re-
quire about as much trouble as enforcing
prohibition in America.
q Dervishes are ordinarily divided into
three classes-whirling, bowling and whis-
pering. BY whirling they reached a state
of ecstasy and partial insensibility in which
they believed they enjoyed "union with
the divine"
The method of the bowling dervishes
was to chant over and over again the
formula, "There is no God but Allah"
This was chanted to the accompaniment
Of reed instrument, while the dervishes
stood in circle, each on his right foot.
The body and left leg were swayed right
and left from side to side, in time with
the repetition of the formula and the
music. The chant grew sbriller and shril-
Ter until the noise was naddening
The final effect of the continued chant,
rhythm and movement was a kind of auto
hypnotic trance, in which the devotee
entered what is called ''the world Of
Dreams" where he was only conscious of
"his identity with God"
The whispering dervishes," who were
less numerous than others, whispered the
formula, "There is no God but Allah and
Mohammed is his Prophet" until their
souls were supposed to leave their bodies
and continue the whispering in the air
for time.
An English traveller, who was privileged
10 witness the dance of the whirling derv-
ishes in the great mosque of Konia, has
written this interesting account Of it:
THE centre of the floor is rallied off
and the enclosure is sacred 10 the whirling
dervishes, while the outer circle is appro-
priated to visitors. A deep gallery runs
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22

Instantly the full voices Of the brethren
joined in chorus, and the effect was
thrilling; now the sounds died away like
the exhausted breath of departing spirit,
and suddenly they swelled into deep and
powerful diapason that seemed scarcely
earthly.
"A second stiffness of about minute
succeeded, when the low, solemn music
was resumed, and the dervishes, slowly
rising from the EARTH followed their su-
perior three times around the enclosure,
bowling down twice under the shadow of
the name of their founder, suspended
above the seat of the high priest. This
reverence was performed without remov-
ing their folded arms from their breasts
the first time on the side by which they
approached, and afterward on that oppo-
site, which they gained by slowly revolv-
ing on the right foot in such manner as
to prevent their turning their backs on
the inscription The procession was
closed by second prostration, after which
each dervish, having regained his place,
cast off his cloak, and such as had walked
in wooden slippers withdrew them, and
passing solemnly before the chief priest
they commenced their evolutions.
"They spread their arms and com
menced their revolving motion, the palm
Of the right hand being held upward and
that of the left being turned down. Their
underdresses consisted of a jacket and
petticoat of dark-colored cloth, that de-
scended to their feet, the higher order of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22


of immense width and lay in large plaits
beneath the girdles, and as the wearers
swung round formed bell-like appear
ance..
THE number Of those who whirledSwas
only nine-seven of them being men and
the remaining two mere boys. Nine,
eleven and thirteen are the mystic num-
bers, which, however great the strength of
the community, are never exceeded, and
the remaining members of the brother
hood, during the evolutions of their COM
panlons, continued engaged in prayer
within the enclosure. These amounted to
about score, and remained each leaning
against a pillar, while the beat of the
drums in the gallery marked the time to
which the revolving dervishes moved, and
the effect was singular to a degree that
BATTLES description. So true and unerring
were their motions, that although the
space they occupied was somewhat cir
cumscribed, they never once gained upon
each other. And for five minutes they
continued twirling round and round, as
though impelled by machinery, their pale,
passioness countenances perfectly immo-
bile, their heads slightly declined toward
the right shoulder, and their inflated gar
ments creating cold, sharp breeze in the
chapel from the rapidity of their action.
cat the termination of that period the
name of the Prophet occurred in the
chant, which had been unidentified in
the galleries, and as they paused and
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
On the Right

brethren being clad in
green and the others in
brown or a sort of yell
lowish-gray. About
their waists they wore
wide girdles edged with
red, to which the right
side of the jacket was
closely fastened, while
the left hung loose.
Their 'petticoats were