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Local Jottings. —Miss Allie Wright is in Minn eapolis. —Erskine Miller is visiting in Belmont. —Cuba City has the town clock fever also. —J. W. Miles was in Fennimore first of the week. —Verne Calloway left for Sioux Falls, 8. D. on a visit. —Lancaster schools will open on Monday, Sept. 2nd. —Landlord Wright had business in Montfort yesterday. —E. I. Holford was here from Bloomington Thursday. —Frank and Miss Elsie V an Dusen are home from Chicago. —W. H. Rose of Boscobel was a Lancaster caller this week. —Judge Goodsell is in Madison. He will listen to Bryan Monday. —C. L. Harper and wife were Madison visitors here this week. —Miss Jessie Frances of Platte ville is visiting Miss Wessie Dudley. —Miss Frances Andrews of Liv ingston is a guest of friends here. —Two cents a mile is cheap travel, but it counts up if you have to go far. —Miss Muriel Whitish of Preston is a guest of her cousin Miss Ethel Philbrick. —Lancaster will appear sort o’ blank when all the school ma’ams are gone. —The pesky flies appear to be thicker and more energetic tfcan ever this year. —Pres. Livingston of the Platte ville Normal gave an address at tne institute Friday. LOST—A small sledge hammer, be tween H. R. King’s and Wiedenbeck’s lumber yard. Return to H. R. King. —Mrs. Frank Maso and son of Fennimore, are Lancaster visitors this week. —Daniel Decker and wife of Fen nimore were Lancaster visitors part of the week. —Mrs. J. S. Chandler of Montfort is a guest of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Callis. —The Union line will be ready to sell all kinds of telephone poles and wire, next week. —Mrs. Fred Cox and daughter Elvira are visiting relatives in High land. —Henry Seipp, Sr , of Cassville shook hands with old time friends nereyesterday. —Misses Lillian and Edith Plat tner and Lena Stippich are Lancas ter visitors this week. —The bill providing for the pay ment of road taxes in money was. killed by the assembly. —County Supt. Brockert gives notice of teachers’ examination in another column today. —Tom Orton is going to petition the Northwestern to stock that depot pond with polly wogs. —Master Carl Johnson accom panied his Grandma Muffley home to Boscobel this morning. —lt is said that the Michigan peaches are to come from the shelves in glass jars this year. —Orrin Kuenster of Glen Haven is here to help Co. Supt. Brockert with Teachers’ examinations. —The buffet car run by the St. Paul road on the Mineral Point divi sion has been taken off because it didn’t pay. —At a special school meeting Spring Green decided by a vote of 77 to 7 to build a $15,000 high school builing. —AI Hunsaker has traded his farm with Dr. D<x>little for one in Clark courty, S. Dak, and will move there later. • —Guests at Wm. McMahon’s are, Mrs. Minor and son of Olerwein, la., and Mrs. Maben and daughter of Cresco, la. —Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Moon, Otto Fahling and Miss Dollie Ishmael of Cassville were Lancaster visitors this week. —Mr. and Mrs Gnf. Hickok of Bloomington visited at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Wm. Miller, first of the week. —Chas. Edwards and family were here from Linden first of rhe week. Charley favored the band with his usual services as cernetist. —Among those from Lancaster attending the Monona Lake Assem bly are Mrs. W. N. Stone, Mrs. J. P. Lewis and Mi s. Barlow. —Hal Stephens has disposed of his Potosi stage route to the Potosi liverymen, Craig and Wunderlin, who formerly conducted it. —But one marriage license has been granted since our last issue— that of bever Tollefson and Tilda Johnsrud, both of Cat tie Rock. Sherm Streeter is back from Waupun, where he served a two years’ term for etealmg chickens. That was the charge, at least. He cut off 3 months by good conduct. —Prin. Slothower is assisting in conducting a teachers’ institute at Janesville. Mrs. Slothower and children are visiting her parents at Poynette m the meantime. —That eclipse of the moon couid not have been pulled off on a more delightful evening than Wednesday gave us, and most everyone saw it. —Miss Elsie Couch of Dubuque who has been visiting relatives and friends in Lancaster returned home. Miss Thresa Wissbaum accompanied her. —By the provisions of the new fish and game law, the trout season is fifteen days longer than before, closing Sept. Ist instead of Aug. 15th. —Gollmar Bros.’ show comes to Lancaster from Platteville and pro ceeds to Dodgeville. The show is said to be bigger and better than ever this year. —Lathrop’s ice-cream parlors are now fitted up with an “Ackotisk” a Kohler and Campbell make. It is an electric coin operated piano, run by water power daytime, and in the evening by electricity. —Our office boy ate too many green apples the other day, was quite ill from effects of the dose, and when questioned in regard to his spasmodic periods of pain stated that he was subject to spells termed “fruit punch.” —Sheriff Bud worth took Albert Bloyefc of Blue River to the home for the feeble minded at Chippewa l'-'IIs yesterday morning. Bloyer is ab*. ut 20 years of age and one of the human puzzles. He is a kleptoma niac, is a victim of epileptic fits and a difficult solution to solve. --Mrs. Robt. Scott passed away at her home in the Ist ward Wed nesday morning, after an extended illness. An obituary notice of more length will be printed later. Funer al obsequies were held yesterday, Rev. Morgans officiating, and inter ment took place in Little Grant. —Eyery farmer on a rural route who has any correspondence what soever, should have his name, the name of his farm, and his special business, printed on the paper and envelopes he uses. The Herald furnishes this stationery at a reason able price. It is just the thing. Place your order with us. —There will be a farewell cele bration of the Holy Eucharist at Emmanual Episcopal church, Lan caster, at 8 and 10:30 on Sunday first. The Rev. C. G. A. Monro goes on Tuesday for a short visit to . the Bishop iof Springfield before ' proceeding to Carlingville, 111. to enter upon his duties as vicar of St. Paul’s Church. —Miss Bessie Carter, a maiden lady of about 40 years, was adjudged insane and taken to Mendota hos pital by Sheriff Budworth Monday. She was very violent at times and it was no small task to attend her. Wednesday she died at Mendota and was relieved of her miseries on this earth. Remains were brought back to her home for interment Thurs day. —W. H. H. Long and Mrs. Mary E. Knjx of Platteville went to Galena last week to get married. The county clerk refused them a license for the reason that Mrs. Knox had been divorced just the day before. The couple went over to Dubuque Friday morning, pro cured a license and were married at the court house by Judge Skemp at that city. This is Mr. Long’s fifth attempt in the matrimonial field. —A Crawford county man who was for a good many years a Justice of the peace and sometimes per formed the marriage ceremony, says a couple came to his house and wanted to get married. After he had married them, the groom asked what the charge would be. The Justice replied that the law allowed him $2. The groom then replied; “All right, I’ll give you a half- doll ar and that will make you $2.50. Look out you Lancaster Justices. —The fifty-fifth annual conven tion of the Wisconsin Teachers’ as sociation will be held m Milwaukee on Nov. 7, 8 and 9. While the meeting is nearly four months a way the preliminary arrangements have been completed. Up to this season the meeting has been held during the Christmas holidays, but a law passed by the legislature made it possible for the teachers to attend the meeting in the fall without suf fering loss of salary. School boards have the authority to close the schools if necessary to give the i teachers a chance to attend the con i vention. 4 GRANT COUNTY HERALD. LANCASTER, WIS. JULY, 27, 1907. —No, ‘ ‘printer’s ink” is not a ‘ ‘cure all” for business troubles, but its curative powers in many intsances of “lack of trade” has been almost mi raculous. To those who have an up-to date line of goods, that seem disinclined to venture out of the store, we would advise a liberal ap plication of the “ink habit”—other wise called publicity or advertising. Your local editor is a good man to see for professional advice in this line. —Gov. Davidson signed the auto mobile bill, providing that when re quested by the driver of a horse or team, a person operating an automo bile shall stop his machine, and, if necessary, assist the driver to get his frightened horse past the ma chine. Also, if requested, the automobilist shall stop all motor power until the horses are under control. The law provides that a second violation of the speed ord inance shall be punished by a fine of not less than $ 25 nor more than |IOO, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding sixty days, or by both fine and imprisonment. —The authorities of Viroqua are carrying out the will of the majority on the liquor selling question with a vim. Last week a thirsty fellow represented to a physician and to a drug store that he wanted liquor for medicinal purposes and secured from the former a prescription and from tne latter a bottle of whiskey. He changed his mind about the pur pose for which he wanted it after it was secured and used it as a bev erage. He was arrested, waived examination, but after being held for trial went before Judge Ma honey and was fined S4O and costs, amounting in all to over SSO. —IL any people seem to deem the “girl of today” of no account com pared with the girl in grandmother’s time. That is a mistake. The girl of today is a hustler. She does the clerking, the typewriting, the book keeping, the school teaching of the country. She is crowding the boy off the earth, because he is too slow, too indolent, too indifferent, too busy drinking, playing pool and fishing to keep step with her. In America women are not only doing the housekeeping better than it was eyer before done but half of the other work as well. She shines in the colleges, makes up three fourths of the graduating classes in high schools, does most of the church work, conducts literary clubs, beautifies parks, roots for the home baseball team, and leads the procession in all the moral, social and literary functions, visits the sick and dispenses charity. Besides all this she finds time to listen to the love-making of some weak man who needs a wife to take care of him. We tell you that a modern girl is strenuous. She is a dandy. —A prominent Wisconsin lawyer, widely known for his common sense and integrity, said last year; “There is urgent need of some practical plan of training fairly in telligent women, in ordinary busi ness methods. I have had as clients scores of women, brought up in comfort, whose fathers, husbands or brothers, have died and left them with some means, but with not enough business training to tran sact ordinary business with a hand intelligently. They are sometimes ashamed to confess their ignorance, and I have learned to assume that they do not even know how to draw and endorse checks.” A number of leading lawyers and bankers cor roborated this statement. Acting upon these suggestions, the Cor respondence-Study Department of the University of Wisconsin started a course in simple business forms and methods. The course is carried on by the Department of Business Administration of the University. It has been strikingly successful. Among the students are two soilage graduates, both women, one from Colorado and one from Missouri, who wrote, in almost the same words, “I want to learn how to care for my own property.” Many people who can make money do not know how to invest and care for it, and a training in elementary busi ness principles, that can be obtain ed under honest, intelligent guid ance. without much expense, or neighborly criticism or suggestion, is a boon they appreciate. —Boaz, a little burg over m Richland county with a population of 400, was submerged as a result of the Wisconsin river on Monday over flowing. A number of houses were moved from their foundations, and carried from 100 yards to a mile and set on elevations. The people of the town are moving about in boats gathering up prop erty. The water is from four to ten feet deep. Provisions were brought from neighboring towns but the roads are so bad it is im possible to supply the people who are in need. Most of the inhabit i ants on their wav to Muscoda. The dam at Dalmoral. Richland county was swept away as was the dam at Excelsior. The loss at each place was 18,000. All bridges between Muscoda and Sylvan Corners were swept down tbe river. The rail roads aie tied up. The telephones are almost useless. Much live stock was drowned and gram land flood ed. No loss of human life is re ported. The Kickapoo railroad was also put out of commission on ac count of the storm. —The scientific world is making tremendous gains in knowledge of the causes and prevention of com mon diseases. The rapidity of this advance is strikingly shown in the Correspondence-Study Department of- the University of Wisconsin. Manv middle aged physicians, in small towns, who have graduated from the best medical schools dur ing the past twenty years, have se cured loans of small laboratories and are taking courses in Bacterio logy to learn the most up-to date methods. A number of health offi cers are among the most enthu siastic students of this course. When people of this class, who realize that “an ounce of preven tion is worth a pound of cure,” be come well trained in stamping out the sources of diseases, the country will be saved an enormous wastage in money as well as an untold amount of suffering. A Matter of Disposition. [Original.] This is a story something like dupli cate whist, which is intended to elim inate chance in the game of whist and give a comparison of pure skill. This story eliminates the physical person ality in the game of love and leaves all to disposition. When the engagement of Harriet Hartwell and Sam Thatcher was an nounced everybody said that it was a good match. Harriet was a high prin cipled girl, steady, dignified, full of noble aspirations, which she made a good show’ in carrying out. Sfce was wealthy, and her surplus incQme went where it would do the most good. Thatcher was also a steady going fel low, with no evil or w’eak traits about him, bis life purpose being to achieve success and do his duty by his fellows. Notwithstanding the opinion of the world the engaged couple failed to grow’ together. Harriet studied when with her fiance to be interested in what he was interested in, to accord with him in his view’s —in short, to make her self a part of him. There came a period when Thatcher noticed that his fiancee w’as different at different times. At one evening when he called she would manifest her usual interest in w’hat interested him or what he w’as supposed to prefer to talk about, and the next she would chatter lightly, principally about w hat she was herself interested in. Thatcher was rested by this semifrivolity and per mitted her to chatter to her heart’s content. Then, too, she manifested a disposition to have her own way about little things and occasionally would fly into a sudden burst of passion, so im potent, so unreasonable, that he was quite amused. Instead of flaring up himself he w’ould sit and laugh at her. Then when he had had enough of this summer tempest on a millpond he would take her to his arms and cover her face with kisses. The next time he called he would probably find her former self—ready with her sympathy and practical ad vice as to his affairs, her expression of those strong w’omanly principles for w’hich she was so valued by the world at large indeed, all that she had throwm off, nothing that she had as sumed, during their last meeting. One evening w’hen he called—he had witnessed the evening before one of her April storms, with a bit of thunder and lightning throwm in—and found her her own steady self he deliberately set about to make her angry. She looked at him W’ith a dignified astonishment. He kept on with his prodding till final ly she arose and with a pained sur prise, mingled w’ith contempt, walked out of the room. He sent a maid for her, but she declined to return, and he went away without seeing her. He did not sleep that night, for he w’as much troubled. Her treatment of him had repelled him. If she was to be alw*ays this serious self he was quite willing to release her from her engagement. But he could not give up that lighter Harriet w’ho rested him. amused him and of w’hom all he asked was to be loved. However, the matter was settled the next evening when he called by a greeting far more demon strative than she had ever stiown him before. Indeed, it seemed that the bond between the two which even w hen she was her lighter self had been flimsy had suddenly become unbreakable; that they w’ere now’ the fetters of a real mutual ecstatic love. “Sweetheart,” he said, “w’hat has brought about this change?” “I’m pledged not to tell.” He could get nothing from her, but she showred no disposition to relapse. From that time till shortly before the wedding he saw no more of her other serious self. She w r as the same light, whimsical, irrational, emotional, lova ble creature. When the lover, tired of his daily labors, left them at his office he could be sure that during his even ing call upon his fiancee he could laugh and chat w’ithout being reminded of them. Occasionally if he felt like throwing the burden upon her it wrould be received not with advice and a dissertation on the better part for a man to choose, but w’ith a kiss. One thing above all pleased him —she had |The Day To Celebrate! Gollmarßros. | Greatest of American Shows. Wli >GV'\Ny^Kts ? ' K ’i' *X Zffn* r.. xfIKV C W Lancaster August 3,1 New and superb, brimful and overflow t, ing with the most sensational, ingen ious and high-class arenic and hippo drome feature acts ever exhibited. A collosal combination of | circus musieum, hippo-! drome and $1,000,000 me-1 I nagarie! 1 ; I ‘ n -?. i i .>‘v-" c f" i 200 artists, 30 clo;wns, 100 feature acts 200 blooded horses, $20,000 blood-sweat- ing behemoth, monster herd of perform - ing elephants and scores of surprising I sights and scenes in salutation; | Grand gold glittering and glor-1 i ious free street parade | at 10 a. m. | IS TwoiFeifoimances Daily,Us and 7 p. m. 1 a sympathetic heart for every one. Though impulsive, her impulses were good. And notwithstanding occasional April she was in the main a model of amiability. When Thatcher would speak to her about her former self and his delight that it seemed to have faded away from her she would hide her face on his breast and say nothing. At last the marriage was set for a month in advance. The next time Thatcher called on bis fiancee he was astonished, that as she* had" been for a time a double disposition .so .she,. was. now double.in the flesh. .One of the* two advanced to meet him. “I am Harriet Hartwell,’* siie said, “and this is Florence Kirk. We met accidentally and vzete astonished at our similarity. Suspecting that my dis position was not suited to your require ments, I persuaded her to personate me alternately with myself, she wearing my costumes while doing so. She has proved conclusively that she is capa ble of making you happy. I am not. We alternated in receiving you until you showed on one occasion a mental constitution with which I could never be in accord. Then I told Florence that I would resign you to her. She had meanwhile grown tQ love you, and the feeling that she was to possess you cemented the bond.” Possibly Harriet was Florence’s su perior. That Thatcher was not en rapport with the former and needed the latter does not indicate that he was any the less a man. He needed not a duplicate of himself, but his comple ment EUGENF R THATCHER. Chesterfield’s Shrewdness. Lord R., who had many good quali ties and even learning. Lad s strong desire of being thought skillful in physic and was very expert in bleed ing. Lord Chesterfield, who knew his foible and wished on a certain occa sion to have his vote, went to him one morning and, after having conversed on indifferent matters, complained of a headache and desired his lordship to feel his pulse. It was found to beat high, and a hint of bleeding was thrown out. “I have no objection, and, as I hear your lordship has a master ly hand, will you favor me with trying your lancet upon me?” said the tact ful and politic Chesterfield. After the operation he said. "By the way, do you go to the house today?” “I did not intend to go, not being sufficiently informed of the question to be debated,” answered the impromptu physician. “Which side will you be on?” Lord Chesterfield, having gained his confidence, easily directed his judg ment. He took him to the house and got him to vote as he pleased. He aft erward said that few of his friends had Jone as much as he, having lit erally bled tor the good of his country. Forcing Hiu There was to be a circus in to.xn next day, and Robert wished to go and see It unload, so he sought to obtain his father’s consent. The first question his father put to him on being ap proached was, “Have you asked your mother?” “Yes, sir,” was Robert’s prompt re ply. “What did she say?” the father pur sued. “She said I couldn’t go,” was the frank rejoinder. : “What do you mean, Robert, by com ing to me to ask to do a thing after your mother has told you you could not do it?” “Well, papa,” the little fellow ob served, “I heard you say last week that you’re the boss of this ranch, and I thought it was about time for you to assert yourself.”—Exchange. Fate of a Prince Albert. When Commander Peary went on his first trip in search of the pole, he won the gratitude of an Eskimo by pre senting him with an ancient Prince Al bert coat and an extensively creased sombrero. Years afterward, when again in the north, the explorer re ceived a ceremonial visit from a native and, to his surprise, set eyes once more on the discarded vestments. On the occasion of the commander’s next dash for the pole the aborigines took him aside and pointed to a rude mausoleum. By its side stood the disused sledge. Its six dogs had been strangled to make an appropriate funeral. On the pile of stones lay what was left of the Prince Albert coat and the sombrero.—Boston Herald. Made a Hit With Women. Two men who had been friends for years went into the restaurant busi ness about the same time. Both ran clean, unpretentious, moderate priced houses. One made a success, the other didn’t. “I succeeded,” said the lucky one, “because I ma<l> a special appeal to women. I always prepared dishes and set my table in such a way that they could get points on good housekeeping. At every meal I got up some fancy dish that women would be sure to like, and if they wished it I gave them the recipe. In a little while I got the name of being a good fellow. “ ‘You ought to eat at Blank’s,’ said one woman to another. ‘They’ll make you a present of a first class cookbook if you eat there often enough.’ “And that settled it. With the wo men on my side success was assured.” —New York Press. Providing For the Season. “Dear, let us take a little cottage in the country this summer.” “All right, darling, but be sure and insist on a furnace in good order.”— Baltimore American.