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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14
Deaths from Cancer in England.

A growing death rate from cancer
is receiving much attention in England
It will be recalled that special re-
search fund for the discovery Of tho
cause and cure Of the disease was
started some time ago with the spe'
cial Endorsement Of King Edward and
some $25O,o0o has already been sub
scribed- Now comes report from the
registrar general Of the kingdom to tho
effect that deaths from cancer have In
creased from 242 males and $40 fe'
males a year per 100000 Of popula'
ton in 1Ss1-7O to 672 males and 977
females at present.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

DR.. Robert Stordy, government
veterinary surgeon in British East
Africa, has been making experiments
/ in the domestication and training Of
the zebra in a huge Enclosure at Naiy-
asha. Baron Bronsort Won Shellendorf
recently brought down thirty zebras
safely across a belt infested by the
tsetse fly to Mombasa for export to
Germany. He had a conference with
DR.. Stordy on the question. A grand
son OF Thomas Pringle, the poet and
South African explorer, Of the Kill
manjao Trading Company, also
brought down fifteen zebras to Nom
hasa, destined for Hamburg.
A cat living in East Weymouth.
Mass, has an elevator for her own
private use, and COMFORTS herself
therein with all the gravity and I'M
concern Of an old business man. Her
owners live in top apartment, and
some member of the family had to go
up and downstairs every time tho kit
ten wanted to go out or in. This be-
came monotonous, so the head Of the
house bethought him Of way out
Of the difficulty. He put the animal
in a basket, tied rope to the handle
and lowered her to the ground. Pussy
made no objection to this unwonted
mode Of progression, and has now
learned to ring for the elevator boy
when she wants to go in and out.
She gets into the basket and news
Justify until she is drawn up or let
down. She has been the cause Of Il
mild sensation in the town, and the
citizens believe that If her elevator
were fitted with electric buttons-"up
once, down twice"-she would master
the combination.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14
FIasks Made from Quartz.

With Improvement In processes for
fusing, the manufacture Of TASKS and
other vessels from quartz is likely to
become an important industry. Two
enterprising Germans are already sup
plying such vessels, an oxyhydrogen
furnace being used, and the melted
material worked and blown into shape.
The product is still expensive and less
perfect in finish than apparatus blown
from glass. 1t has the very important
advantages Of resisting a very high
temperature and Of being practically
unbreakable by sudden heating or
cooling. In laboratory experiments the
electric furnace has been applied to
melting quartz.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14
STAGE PEOPLE IN SUMMER.
Some of Them Have a Hard Time I'm
Tiding Over.

Some of Them Have Hard Time I'm
Tiding Over.
In summer what becomes Of the
numbers Of stage people who return
to the metropolis penniless at the close
Of the season? How do they liver
These questions were put to the man
ager Of the theatrical agency In
Broadway. 'Indulgent landladies,
friends in the country, and parents
In the city solve the summer problem
for hosts Of theatrical people" replied
the agent. can actor would sooner
Starve than be seen by his mates
working at an other trade. About 10
per cent of those who remain here
get trusted for their summers board
and lodging. They pay up, in most
cases, in the course Of the next sea,
son, sending from week to week to
the landlady sufficient to cancel theirs
summers Indebtedness.
"Of course" went on the agent,
they're not all improvident See that
little girl going out?" He pointed to a
petite figure in the ceaseless stream Of
applicants. "Got plenty Of money
enough to last her until the season
opens and a bit to spare. They cali
won't spend her money. Laugh is on
her side nov. Many of 'em come here
without a rag to their backs for sum-
mer and have to wear their winter
clothes or last years suits and
dresses. This one wears good clothes
summer clothes, Of the newest pat
tern, and promenades in Broadway
like a queen. When she's signed, and
the lot weather is on to stay, she'll
60 down to the shore or into the un-
try and enjoy herself. Dresses well,
looks we'll, lives we'll. Next winter
she'll pay her hotel bills, with no 'in-
cidentals.'
"That one over there, the seedy one,
couldn't buy a cigar at a cutrato
store. He'll come out all right, though.
Never has a cent, but always at work.
He's just in from a long tour Pref
ty late for stock, but he's an old
stager and may land. A good many
eke out the years income by play
ing summer engagements at various
theaters throughout the country. Near
ly every city Of any size has from one
to half a dozen stock companies this
summer; the summer-stock business
has grown enormously in the last two
or three years, and gives employment
to hundreds. Not enough to so round,
though. The best people, as a rule,
don't play summer engagements, al
though there are exceptions. Com
paratively few of the best play sum-
mer stock unless driven to it."-New
York Evening Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

former was put measure; among the
latter measurable, mesurableness,
measurably, measurer, measureless,
measurement, unreasonable and un-
measured. Compound words whose
meanings were clearly indicated by
their component were omitted-as
c1ock-work, draught-horse, hard-earned.
Counting this way an average of TWEEN
ty primitive and thirty-fve derivative
words was found on each page. This
would make, there being S14 pages of
vocabulary in the dictionary, total
Of 1920 Of the former and 2S,4OO Of
the latter, or almost $4,000 in all.
Next was taken page in each letter
and on it were counted the words
which is seemed any person Of average
intelligence would be able to use and
understand. On twentyfour pages
there were 268 primitive words and
221 deriVative, or nearly 5000 in all
Of the former and more than 1000 of
the latter. And lastly was made a
count Of very common words, such as
even a poorly educated person could
hardly escape knowing, and they were
found to number 500 promitive and
5000 derivatives. No proper names
were included in any Of the countings.
It would therefore seem to follow,
if what we are told Of the vocabular-
les Of Shakespeare and Milton be cor
rect, that a person Of average educa-
ton to-day knows at least as many
words as did the former, and one
whose school opportunities have been
quite limited is capable of walking be-
side the latter in this respect. AS re-
CARDS ideas and ability to express
them, however, the difference may be
worldwide.
The foregoing facts seem to warrant
these general conclusions: Every we'll
read person of fair ability and educa-
ton will be able to define or under
stand as used nearly or quite, perhaps
more than $4,000 words. And the
same person in conversation and writ
ing will command not fewer than To-
COO to 10000, and can add 5000 to TO-
coo to these numbers if he be literarily
inclined. The plain people, as Lincoln
liked to call them, use or read under
standingly from 5000 to 10000 words,
according to their general intelligence
and conversational power, while a per-
son who cannot read, but who has a
good degree Of native mental ability,
will command about 5,O0O.-Indianap
oils Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14
PEBBLES.

In the Memoir" Of Robert Cham
bers, by his brother William, IS a
delightful allusion to PEBBLES, their
birthplace, and spot ever warm In
the loving memory of Scotch residents.
One Of these, a man who had lived
there all his life, was enabled by some
uplift Of fortune to visit Paris. When
he came back, his townsmen graVely
gathered about him.
MOO" said one while the others lis
tened, "tell us ABBOTT it."
paris" he began, "a things con-
sidered, is a wonderful place. But
still, PEBBLES for pleasurew
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

AS much, thought and care should be
used in selecting baby's first short
dresses as there was in making or
buying his layette. Nothing very elab-
crate should be put on a baby Of this
age; rather something plain and sim
pie, but exquisitely fine, If the means
allow, but very dainty. The little
frock illustrated here is a very popu-
lar model, and one which the young
mother is not afraid to attempt to
make. 1t is a perfectly plain little
frock, with the shoulder straps made
Of very fine Swiss embroidery. A mar
row embroidery Of the same pattern
makes the collar and cuffs. These and
also the shoulder straps are edged with
a very narrow fine lace edging. The
skirt is put up with wavy hem which
is finely brier-stitched all around. Per-
sian lawn is very good for making the
first short dresses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14
Dined on Hats.

A homeless horse in Paris the other
day ate up several hundred francs
worth Of new hats. 1t seems that
a halter of the Boulevard de Belle
vile adorned his premises with Pan
anna hats. He left the shop for a
while and when he returned found a
horse busily eating away and seem
ing1y enjoying these creations" in
straw. The Panamas had already dis
appeared down his throat. The ami
NAL, it is thought, had probably been
starved and had escaped from a neigh
boring stable. He was sent to the
Mound
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

and every factory there is cry for
young men of capacity. Not for or
binary, mediocre young men; not for
young men who watch the clock for
the hour Of quitting time; not for
young men who do mechanically op}y
what they are told. That class Of
young men can only get what the
market allows to those who have to
have their thinking done for them. But
the young man who has something
original in him, and who is ready to
apply himself and make sacrifices,
who has growth in him. has greater
opportunities now than ever before.
Money is cheaper now, compared with
ability, than ever before.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

We often hear Of the necessity Of q
universal language without realizing
that there is one already. DR.. e. M
Ga1audet, president Of the Columbian
Institution for the Deaf and Dumb In
Washington, has Travelled extensively
and says that he has never yet found a
deaf mute who had been educated In
the sign language that he could not
converse with. He has addressed pub
lie meetings Of deaf mutes in the sign
language in more than half the coun'
tries of Europe and never failed to
make himself understood.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Considerable excitement has been
caused in New England by the report
that the catch of Goldfish on the New
foundland banks is steadily falling off.
Some timid souls are anticipating the
rapid decline Of Gloucester. Others
are wondering what they will do with
out the fishball, upon the stimulating
properties of which Senator Hoar re-
Gently dilated with 50 much eloquence.
The New York Tribune, referring to
the possibility says: New England
would shrivel mentally without fish
balls, and small red schoolhouses from
the Providence plantations Of Little
Rhody' to the Green mountains Of Yer
mont, from southwestern Connecticut
to northeastern Maine, would shut
their DOORS" The situation is hardly
as desperate as all this, though it Is
not remarkable that those acquainted
with it should regard the disappear
ance Of the cod as a serious business
calamity and the disappearance of the
fishball as an equally serious tntellec-.
tual calamity to New England. Of all
sea food the cod has been held to con-
tain greater intellectual potentiaHty
than any other, whether served in
hash, or in fishballs, or In the plain
boiled dinner garnished with beets and
drenc aed with the fat Of salt pork,
the pork itself cut into cubes. It is
no secret In New England that the
cod is disappearing and is already
scarce IN Gloucester market, and yet
that market supplies just as much salt
Goldfish as 1t ever did, and Goldfish balls
are just as plentiful as ever. How the
demand can be met while the supply
Is steadily diminishing is explained by
the fact that another fish is masquer-
aiding as cod This fish is the pollach,
Or pollock, a distant relative Of the
cod and sometimes called the green
cod. 1t is found every where along the
coast, not only in deep water but even
in the tidal rivers, and in apparently
inexhaustible numbers. It is a hand
some, gamy fish and a free bitter. Its
average weight is greater than that Of
the cod, and it's flesh whittier and sweet
err. From the fact that they do not
keep well when out OF the water they
have not been considered a desirable
fresh food fish, but within the last
few years the Gloucester dealers have
found that they are an excellent sub
stitute for cod, and that few can tell
the difference when they are put on the
market as boneless cod. Over two
thirds Of the so-calied homeless cod sold
In Boston and Gloucester is homeless
pollock. But as homeless pollock is
better than boneless cod who should
complain? It is likely also that the
pollock fishball Is just as Intellectually
stimulating as the Goldfish ball.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

An American traveller in the West
Indies asked boys just let loose from
school what they were going to do
when they grew up. The unanimous
reply was that they were going to
America as soon as they could raise
the passa ge-money. That's the place
where West Indians get on, for there's
no room for them to go ahead here"
There Is always room In our country
for one MORE provided he is Of the
right sort.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

A Chicago girl went fishing and
caught pair Of trousers containing
1913. That's nothing. Miss Goelets
angling has landed a whole suit Of
clothes containing a duke with a rent
roll Of 100000 year and string Of
titles as long as her own petite SELF
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

It would be worth while to know
whether there is any good basis for
the persistent rumor that oysters are
responsible for q great deal of ty-
phoid fever, at least to the extent of
being the passive vehicle for the diff
fusion Of the microbe of the disease,
to which it is itself presumably i'm
mune. The testimony of one doctor is
hardly to be accepted in so important
q matter
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

"CriSp new bank-notes" may cease
to be descriptive term, If the gov
ernmSnt avaiIs itself Of recent discov-
cries by which paper can be made soft,
velvety and unShrinksble. In the
making Of postage stamps, too, the dis
covery may work considerable
change. 1t Is said that because of the
shrinking Of the paper now used, af-
ter receiving the printing on one side
and the muciage on the other and
because no two sheets shrink alike,
one-fifth are ruined in the perforation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Many people must spend half or more
Of their earnings for their food. In
view Of this fact is it the part Of wis
dom for the housewife to scrimp on
beef that she may buy ribbons to tie
up her sandwiches? A distinguished
statesman once assured a young rela-
tive that her knowledge Of cooking
and housekeeping was worth literally
a hundred thousand dollars to her;
while another authority affirms that
we waste enough at the store, a. the
market, and in the home to make us
wealthy-if we would only save.
Would it not be pleasant to be-
wealthy? More than half the diseases
which embitter life are due to avoid
able errors in diet. Therefore the
housekeeper's power is greater than
that of the physician. A specialist on
insanity says that its various forms
almost always begin with the inabil-
ity Of the person to digest food. If
the mistress Of the house believed that
she might save husband or father from
insanity, would she begrudge study
given to the chemistry Of food? A
man enters the arena Of business with
the purpose of becoming master of
whatever he undertakes. He knows
that reputation, social position, prog
ress, the happiness Of his family and
life itself, depend upon his success.
If the young housekeeper would feel
the same responsibility in regard to her
home, can any one doubt that her sue
cess would be striking and priceless?
These facts and queries are respect
fully submitted to girl readers who in
reality OF anticipation preside over the
destinies of a household.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Finding himself without money, n
passenger on an ocean liner recently
adopted the expedient of communi-
eating by wireless telegraphy with his
mother, who happened to be travel
Ing on a passing steamer Of the same
company. She accordingly deposited a
certain sum with the purser of her
steamer, who cabled an order to the
corresponding officer of the other ship
to deliver that amount to the young
man. The success Of the experiment
suggests a new sense in which it has
become true that money has wings"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Admiral Dewey's statement that the
American navy is inadequate will be
happily believed, no doubt, by every
European country except Spain. She
knows a don sight better.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

How to be popular though frank is
a conundrum not yet answered. A
young man who got out Of street
car in an Eastern city recently had
not answered 1t. AS he disappeared q
young woman in the car said to her
companion, II just hate that man! He
says we have the homliest crowds Of
girls in our Office he ever saw in his
lifer'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Considerably more than half the
population Of the globe lives in Asia.
This Is one Of the reasons for the
interest which progressive Americans
are taking in the markets Of the East.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14
An Excess Of Nerve.

'T like to see a young man energetic
ard able to push himself" said the
old banker sadly. But when he Dor.
rowed the money from me to buy an
automobile in which to elope with my
daughter, it was carrying things lit
tie too far.''-New York Times. p
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

The man who complains that he lost
a pocketbook containing $1,5OO0OO
doesn't deserve much sympathy. Half
that sum is as much as any man ought
to carry around on his person these
dishonest times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14
Born Late.

Miss Inez Zent-Miss Koy tells me
she is only "a, That seems remarka-
BILE, doesn't it?
Miss Newitt-Yes, indeed. 1t seems
to indicate that she wasn't born until
her tenth birthday or so-Philadelphi
Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

About the only music that will kill
mosquito, in our opinion, is the solo
Gabriel will play on his horn when he
rings down the curtain on the last
day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Boston is to have a cemetery for de-
ceased pet dogs, cats and birds. Bos-
ton should be heartily and miserably
ashamed Of itself.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Everybody likes to see the honest
farmer get a good price for his wheat,
but one can't help wishing it could
be arranged without increasing the
price Of -four
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Sir Thomas says he still hopes to
see the "hloomin' old cup lifted" Sir
Thomas is one Of the most hopeful
souls in the tea business.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Baron Henri de Rothschild has been
fined So in Paris for auto scorching.
The cable doesn't say how he sue
ceeded in raising the money.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

A little girl asks, why does a hen
only lay in the daytime" We don't
know, unless 1t is because in the night
she is a rooster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14
Looking Backward.

Mrs. BLOW many proposals did
YOU have, my dear, before you married
Smith?
Mrs. S.-One too many, dear, I'm
afraid.-London Judy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Thomas Jefferson may have intro
duced long trousers in America, but he
never imported the John Hay cut Of
Whiskers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Mr. Carnegie is credited with the
saying: "Steel is either king or
pauper." Mr. Carnegie knew when to
ahdicate
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14
A Clean SWeen.

81 fed a hungry tramp to-day. You
should have seen him eat"
II suppose he ate right and ieft?"
That's where you are mistaken.
There wasn't any left"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

In the matter of work you can get
your hand out in a minute, but it takes
q day or two to get 1t back.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

The man who wants the earth Is
the very one the earth can get along
without.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

The next time Mr.. Corbett fights
he ought to wear a stove lid over his
solar plexus.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

After falsehood has been accepted
twenty years by the people, without
general protest, it gets into the school
books. ..-..-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Peary's dash for the pole seems like
throwing good toes after bad.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

Money is waiting everywhere for
men who can use it advantageously.
From every great mercantile house
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-14

In our mind, fat horse is always
associated with a good farmer
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-05-09
STATE oFF1cERs.-M1NNEsoTA

STATE OFFICERS-MINNES
President-J. ]. Regain, ST. Paul
Vice President-Thos. p. Moran, Hast
inss.
Secretary-Thomas Connolly. A2A Pleas
ant Av., Minneapolis.
1'reasurer-John Flood, Duluth.
President Of Insurance Fund-R. ].
Clarke. St Paul.
Vice Presdent--Dan NJ. Clark. Brainerd
Secretary of Insurance-John Mahoney,
$50 Temple Court. Minneapolis.
Treasurer of lnsurance-John Sheehy,
Montgomery.
State Medical Drector-Dr f. w. Buck
ley. ST. Paul.
DIRECTORS Of Insurance FUND.-. ].
Daley. Minneapolis: ]. d. Higgins. St.
Paul; j. II. Nightingale. Minneapolis; j.
p. Coughlin, Faribault: Robert w. Nc
Garry. Saltwater.
State Board of .Audit-T j. DOYLE. ST.
Paul: J. NJ. Hynes. Rosemount: ]. f.
McGovern. Rochester
STATE OFFICERS OF LADIES AUX
Hilary.
Presldent-Mrs. ). j. Daley, 1904 Central
Vice President - Mrs Mary Reilly,
Branerd.
secretary-Ella Heating. lat Pleasant
Av.. st. Paul.
Treasurer--Mrs. Katherine Mcdonald
Duluth.
Insurance. Secretary - Miss Margaret
Grady, Saltwater.
Insurance Treasurer - Mary Sullivan,
Rochester.
State Medical Director-Dr. II. W. Buck
ley. st. Paul.
Directors of Insurance Fund - Sadie
Reilly. Braincrd; Mollie Callahan. Mime
apolis: Mrs j. d. Higgins st. Paul; Mrs.
James Best, Minneapolis: Agnes II. Reilly,
TOW