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LOCAL ITEMS —Dr. Godfrey returned Monday from a professional visit in Milwau kee. —Mr. and Mrs. Sam Stevens are visiting their daughter and son at Milwaukee. —Louis Wunderlin directs us to ‘ change the address of his paper from Kendall, Mont., to York, same stat«. —Miss Lillian Stevens who has been visiting been relatives and friends in Ashland for the past two months, returned home last week. —Messrs. Lant Kaley, Melvin Marlow, Delbert Taylor and; Gordon Hampton went to Beadle, Co., South Dakota with Ben Petty on land deals this week. —A little girl’s gold ring with a ribbon attached has been found and left at this office. Owner can have same by proving property and pay ing for this notice. —A small purse containing some change was found on the street 'Saturday. Owner T can have same by proving property at the Union State bank, end paying for this notice. —Milk, crackers and butter will reduce flesh as shown by experi ments conducted at the I niversity of Minnesota. That’s a combination which it would naturally be suppos ed would add weight rather than take it off. W. C. T U. meets with Mrs. Trowbridge Thursday Oct. 17th, at 2:30 p. m. —C. H. Nye and wife went to Viola- to reside yesterday. The genial ex-county superintendent and his amiable wife will be missed at their old home here, and always welcome on a return. LOST: Coal black Cockral Spaniel dog at Cassville during fair. Was seen at Lancaster during these dates. Reward offered for any information Concerning his whereabouts. Ad dress Dr. J ‘ J * DeMers, 83t2 pd Cassville, Wis. _Miss Wilhelmina Wetter, the highly esteemed daughter of |Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wetter, becomes the bride o£ Arno AH today at 10 a. m , the nuptials to be pronounced by Rev. Napholz at the German Evangelical church in the presence of a gathering of both families and connecting relatives. The happy couple depart via Potosi on an en joyable wedding trip. A Fond du Lac paper says corn is king. Over in Oshkosh they think it is rye If the students at Madison who broke into a private residence re cently andcalledit hazing,are known why not arrest them as would be done in any other case of burglary ? Wealth may not be the highest aim, according to a Milwaukee minister, but from all our experi ence, it is the hardest aim. Messrs. Geo. Rudersdorf, N. J. Tiedemann, A. J. Hyde and Henry Nichols are camping in the vicinity of Wyalusing. / / —Mrs. W. G. Nickey will arrive home from Chicago today, after an enjoyable visit with her husband there. —D. T. Parker and a company of friends from Fennimore were Lan caster visitor Sunday —came over in an auto. —Lambfert Groenier and bride are in Lancaster after a pleasant honey moon journey to Chicago and othei points. —Mrs. P. Kilev has changed the address of her Herald from Scot land, S. D., to Rapid City, S. Tk —Gordon Smith has secured em ployment as order clerk in a Mil waukee wholesale house, —John Brogley found a pair of lady’s shoes near the Hurricane Monday that the owner may have by calling upon him at his home in Lancaster, proving property, and paying for this notice. —Tempest and Sunshine” a dramatization of Mary J. Holmes’ popular novel will be seen at Reed s opera house, Oct. 17. The comedy is amusing and the love story pretti ly told. —B. J. Lowrey of Howard City, Mich., was in Lancaster on business the past few days. He is a newspa per man of the old school. —The Ladies’ Aid society of the Congregational church will meet at the parsonage on Friday at the usual hour. —The rummage sale given by the cemetery association on Friday and Saturday was a complete sue cess, the receipts amounting to $l2B 86, of which $127.16 was profit. All who participated deserve great credit for assisting in so worthy a project. The conversion of partly worn or little used articles into cash for the beautification of the ceme tery is a happy idea. —The remains of Chas. W. Burr were brought here from Oklahoma City, arriving Saturday night. Mention of his death by typhoid fever was made in the Herald Sat urday. The remains were convey ed to the home of his mother, where the funeral obsequies were conduct ed Sunday by Rev. Hannafoid. luterment took place at Hillside. Mr. Burr was born in Lancaster, Dec. 30, 1868, and made this his continuous residence until four years ago, when he went to Okla homa. He held many responsible positions of trust for a young man, being assistant postmaster during his father’s long administration, also assisting W. J. McCoy for a year during his term as postmaster. Later he engaged in the book and stationery business here which he conducted successfully for a term of years. His wife was formerly Frances Kleinpell of Madison and they were married about fifteen years ago. No children were born to them but the union was a most happy one, the husband and wife being most attached to each other. With the sorrowing wife and moth er. a brother also survives, F. C. Burr of this city. Charley was held in high esteem by all who knew him, industrious, honest, ac commodating at all times. —Last Saturday the W. R. C. No. 47, held their annual meeting. An invitation had previously been extended to the W. R. C. of Platte ville to visit the local Corps. The visitors responded to the invitation and about 20 arrived at the noon hour. The day was an ideal one for October, and after dinner a majority of the visiting delegation went out sight seeing. At 2:30 p. m. the corps was called to order, and an address of welcome was made by the local president, Mrs. D. C- Abrams. After the usual routine of business was completed, a pleasant social time was indulged m. The Platteville representation were more than pleased with the cordial reception given them. The Lancaster corps enjoyed the occa sion also, and anticipate social visits with other neighboring corps. —There will be a big dance at the rink Tuesday night Oct. 29th. The music will be furnished by Gari monias Harp orchestra from Mc- Gregor la. ;danee tickets 75 cts. ladies free. This will be a good one, with alt the quadrilles you want to dance and during the quadrilles round dancing will be strictly prohibited. Don’t missthis one. —About 20 acres of sugar beets planted in the vicinity of Lancaster this season will yield 20 tons to the acre on the average, and the price for them is $6 per ton. Matt and Robt. Peacock and Henry Belscam per raised most of the crop. The quality is considered good. —Mrs. Roy Clifton and babies arrived last week for a visit at Grandpa Clifton’s. Something doing there now. —Evans Nye came home from Chicago for a visit this week. SENTENCE SERMONS. “ Killing time is soul suicide. No man finds fame by hunting it.' There is no obedience under com pulsion. Pickled piety is bound to give some body pain. He never finds himself who never denies himself. You never will find faith by running away from facts. They who pour out their hearts never empty them. Ideals of character are the con science of society. A man may deceive himself, but he never fools destiny. The highest religion is to do the lowliest things well. Truth cannot be found while squint ing at popular opinion. Revenge is never so sweet as when we refuse to entertain it. Our roughest experiences often arise from our smoothest tricks. Some talk so hard about duty they have no strength left for deeds. * You cannot be a leader and lose sight of those who are to be led. You cannot travel toward heaven if you turn your back on truth. The shortness of the day excuses no man from greatness of endeavor.- Chicago Tribune. CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT. It is better to point with pride than view with alarm. Refuse to talk and no one can prove how little you know. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER OCT. 1907. :EVENED UP WITH FARMER. Scientific Elimination of an Over- Charge for Beer at Boarding House. A boarder at a Massachusetts farm house evened up an overcharge by the landlord in the following fashion this summer: When he arrived for a fortnight’s stay he learned that the town in which the farm was situated was a temper ance town, and that the nearest source of supply for malt and spirituous quenchers was some eight miles away. When he asked the landlord to bring up a couple of cases of beer the next time he went to town, he was blandly informed: “There’s no need of that. I have adopted you as a member of my fam ily, and I always have some beer on hand for my own.” This was all right, and during the remainder of his stay* the guest con sumed beer as his thirst and fancy demanded. When he came to settle his bill just i before leaving, he discovered that he had been charged with some ten bot tels which he had not consumed. Not wishing to make a fuss over so small | a matter, he cast about for some way to even it up. Engaging the farmer in conve*sa- j tion about prospective improvements on the place, he suggested that some beer would make matters more socia ble, and it was brought. The circle was then enlarged by two new mem bers, and more beer was asked for, brought and consumed, and Iso it went for some time. The departing guest suggested that he pay for the beer, but this offer was rejected; so he made himself comfort able and kept up the interest until some 14 bottles had been* emptied, when he hied himself away with a glowing satisfaction at having squared things so far as his overcharge was concerned without leaving a suspicion behind as to his dark intentions. KING’S TASTE IN COLORS. Edward Tries to Relieve the Gloom of Masculine Dress. i Men’s dress has never in recorded sartorial history been so dull and un interesting as it became during the nineteenth century. King Edward has made tentatfrve efforts to enlarge masculine freedom in this respect: the soft felt hat, tan boots, evening trousers with a stripe of braid down the sides, and loose din ner jackets ail owe their introduction to the royal arbiter of men’s fashions; and at the Windsor garden party the color in the king’s dress was remarked —a dark but rich blue overcoat, a pink shirt and a heliotrope tie. Again, at the last ball given to “meet their majesties” at Devonshire house many of the gentlemen guests were privately requested to appear in knee breeches, by the king's desire. — London News. Telltale Footsteps. “Did you ever notice the individu ality of footsteps?” asked the man whose office into a long hall up and down which a great many peo ple walk every day. “Well, I have, and there’s a lot in it. I have got so I can tell the tread of almost every one whom I know well before he en ters my door. •No two people walk quite the same, and as a rule everybody, undef ordinary circumstances, puts down and lifts up his feet in a way that doesn’t vary. I can recognize without trouble the quick nervous stride of the man who has the room next to mine, the footfalls of my stenographer, the peculiar shuffle of the dean of our row. There isn’t the least difficulty in telling the identity of frequent visi tors to my sanctum ere they appear, for there is the telltale revelation brought to my ears before my eyes rest upon them. Just a little observa tion does the trick.” Half-Finished Tasks. Most lives are filled with half-fin ished tasks which were begun with en thusiasm but which have been drop ped because the enthusiastic begin ners did not have enough grit to carry them to a conclusion. It does not take much ability to begin a thing, and we cannot estimate a person by the number of things he or she com mences. The test of character is in a wom an’s or man’s ability to persist in what she undertakes until he adds the fin ishing stroke. The ability to hold on is one of the rarest of human virtues. Look out for the period in your life when you are tempted to turn back'! There is the danger point, the decisive period. All the great things 'of history have been accomplished after the great majority of men.would have turned back. Herd of Cattle Sunstruck. Hicks' Myers, about 13 miles north east of Trenton, lost 11 head of fat steers the other afternoon, says the Boston Herald. Mr. Meyers had changed the steers from a shady pas ture to another about an eighth of a mile away, in which there were no trees. His boy discovered one dead about noon and Mr. Meyers, on arrival at the pasture, found the whole herd closely bunched trying to get shelter from the burning sun in the shade thrown by their own bodies. He cut out all the yearlings and drove them to another part of the field, but too late to get the herd to shelter before 11 had fallen dead. The steers were worth about $65 apiece, and as they were not insured, were a total losa- % Copyright 1907 The House of Kuppenheimer Chicago this firm knows how to make them right. We have a good showing now of Fall and Winter Overcoats and it will pay. you to take a look at them before you make your purchase. JOECKEL BROS. Clothiers and Tailors. PLATT A LIFE-SAVER. Senator's Advice Brought Friend to See Joy of Living. “Did you ever hear how Senator Platt saved Ashley W. Cole’s life?” asked one of the amen corner regu lars. “While Ashley Cole was railroad commissioner he went to Platt’s apart ments and said, ‘Senator, you know that I have been suffering from rheu matism in the small of my back for about five years. The pain has almost driven me mad. I have suffered tor tures. I have tried a score of doc tors, going from one to the other as each failed to give me relief. Recently I have thought of suicide as the only escape, and I have come to consult with you, my closest friend, on that very subject.’ “‘Suicide!’ said Platt. ‘Stuff and nonsense. Before you think seriously of passing in your checks, why not go uptown and see the man who has done such wonders with my crippled legs?* “Cole hadn’t much faith in the ex pert, but agreed to call on him to sat isfy his old friend, the senator. “ ‘Rheumatism, eh ?’ said the expert, as he examined Cole’s back. ‘I guess not. Just lean over this chair.’ “Cole complied. The expert struck him a powerful blqw on the back and commanded him to straighten up. “ ‘How is the pain?’ he asked. “ ‘lt’s gone,’ said Cole with a shout Qf joy. “It was merely a dislocated muscle and Cole did not commit suicide.” — New York American. ARE WORLD’S FINEST STABLES. Most Luxurious Horse Quarters on Earth to Be Found in Newport. No one feature of Newport extrava gance more clearly shows the mint of money lavished on this playground of millionaires than the wonderful stables attached to every establish ment, says the Broadway Magazine. Take, for instance, the O. H. P. Belmont villa. SR has a stable for its ground floor of sv-ch dimensions that a coach and four ''an d~ive in, turn about and drive out again. It con tains the most elaborate equipment of carriages and harness in the world; its walls are decorated with rare old prints and blue-ribbon prices. The estates of the brothers Vanderbilt, Alfred and Reginald, at Sand’s Point, are veritable villages of stables. As you pass, Dr. Austin Flint whirls by in his motor, and you remember that people from Maine to California are reading that “Miss Reginald Vander bilt is confined in the house with a cold.” Have You Ever - NOTICED - iJiHE way some Coats and in fact, most J ~ overcoats fit around the shoulders and collar? They do not fit snug and close as they should. There are tailors with good reputations who cannot overcome this difficulty. Some coats wrinkle dir ectly below the collar and form a sort of ridge or welt from shoulder across the back. If you want to see a coat which Really Fits, try on one with the Kuppen heimer name in it s It will fit close to your collar and lay smooth and snug across the shoulders-simply because The mere incidents impress you at first with the extravagance of New port. The prices of papers, period icals, candy, flowers, etc., are doubled. The millionaire sets the pace even in the simple process of buying a paper of pins. But these details are not of Importance; what is important is the gigantic abortive extravagance dream ed! of in the philosophy of the million aire, and ably shown by the magnifi cent homes of the very horses and mo tor cars. Ship Sinking in Quicksand. Broadside on the sands of the west coast the big Kosmos liner Sesestris is bleaching in the sun, a helpless wreck, frustrating every attempt to move her from the quicksand in which she daily sinks lower and lower until in the course of/time she will probably be completely swallowed. The last and final attempt to save the valuable ship was n\ade by the Anubis, one of the Kosmos ships, now in this port. The Sesestris went aground at Ocos, Peru, about six months ago, and due to her having lost her anchor. Al though she struck head on, she has been washed by the waves until she has swung around broadside and is now high and dry on the beach. It is possible at all times to board her without wetting one’s feet, and at low tide she is completely out of the water. There were at times rumors of her being converted into a hotel. —Seattle Times. Mistakes of Drug Clerks. “There is one loss sustained by druggists that very few people know about,” said the experienced clerk. “That is in the prescriptions that have to be made over, the same as clerks, stenographers, writers and artists, no matter how painstaking, frequently have to do their work over. The most careful drug clerk in existence is bound to make mistakes sometimes in measuring and mixing. “He may pour in too much of some ; kind of liquid or sift in too much of ; a certain powder. In most cases the I overdose would not really affect the value of the medicine, but the con scientious clerk isn't going to take any chances of murdering anybody, so he throws away the whole mixture : and makes up another prescription.” Natural Curiosity. A singular forest of stone columns at Dikilatch, in Bavaria, has been vis ited by Prof. De Launay, a Frensh geographer, who reports that this ruin like formation extends over a space about 1,500 feet long by 100 to 150 feet broad, on the edge of a plateau in the open country, the columns be ing 15. to 20 feet high, and some of mem a yarn tnicx, tneir snape Den absolutely cylindrical. They ha’ been produced by erosion of mass of the gray nummulitic limestoE broken by joining. A special stu< was made by Prof. De Launay, and concludes that whirls in the bed a torrent gave the column their iso tion and shape. The bank depositor is apt to lose**. balance 1 when the cashier becomes . steady. y When a naturally amiable man tempts to act otherwise he is sure overdo it. It is difficult for a man to aecuD late dollars unless he has sense to gin with. If a man’s sins find him out tl usually camp on the front porch a patiently await his return. There is but one thing on the fr of the earth worse than a woman g sip, and that is a man gossip. PITHY PARAGRAPHS. Pa says it is a bad sign when a b won’t study, but a good omen wb he wants to go to work. Some fellows talk as sharp and f as flat as the piano player who p< forms on the black keys. Pa says we have many a gia trust, but none of them approach that of a trustin’ female for a sick sentimental spoon. When a girl hands a fellow the mi ten and he doesn't turn to arink, si gets to talking about men being b yond understanding. Pa says it beats all how muc some men can eat at a table d’hot and how little they care for at an la carte restaurant. Be careful when you tell your fe! low that he is pure gold that h< doesn’t think you mean that he has ; yellow streak in him. PROVERBS AND PHRASES. A poor man is all schemes. —Span lsh. Sorrow is an evil with many feet.— Posidippus. Wherever we meet misery we ow pity.—Dryden. /* - After pleasant scratching comes ui pleasant smarting.—Danish. ) - There is a place and means fc every man alive. — Shafcesseane*