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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-10-08
ROBBED THE GRAVE.

A startling incident is nara ted
by John Oliver, of Philadelphia, as
follows: II was in an awful condi-
ton. My skin was almost yellow.
eyes sunkeu, tongue coated, pain
continually in back and sides. no
appetite, growing weaker day by
day. Three physicians had given
me up. Then | was advised to use
Electric Bitters; to- my great joy,
the first bottle made decided i'm
provement. | continued their use
for three weeks, and am now well
man. | know they robbed the
grave of another victim. No one
should fail to try them. Only 90
cents, guaranteed at all drug stores.
DIR. Weaver's Syrup
Purfhss the blood; Cerate lontmentl for the akin.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-10-08
A THOUGHTFUL MAN.

NJ. NJ. Austin, of Winchester.
Ind, knew what TO do in the hour
of need. His wife had such an I'M
usual case of stomach and liver
trouble. physicians could not help
her. He thought of and tried DR..
Kings New Life Pills and she got
relief at once and was finally cured.
Only 25c at all drug stores.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-10-08
DOWNWARD COURSE.
Fast Being Realized by Frankfort
People.

A little backache at first.
Daily increasing till the back is
lame and weak.
Urinary disorders quickly foil w.
Diabetes and finally Brights' dis
ease.
This is the downward course of
kidney Ills.
Don't take this course. Follow
the advice of a Frankfort citizen.
Mrs. Amanda Dean, of Is Taylor
avenue, wife of }. II. Dean, boat
man, says: "While / did not per-
sonally use Doan's Kidney Pills
can highly recommend them for
the great relief they afforded my
eldest daughter who has always
suffered more or less from a weak
back ever since child. On &C
count of this condition it was al
most impossible for her at times to
lift anything. Accompanying this
there was a difficulty with the kid
neys which was very annoying and
distressing. I learned about
Doan's Kidney Pills and procured
them for her at J. W. Gayle's drug
store. She took them as directed
and they helped her in every way.
Her back felt very much better
and stronger and the difficulty with
the kidney secretiOns was much
improved. My youngest daughter
complained great deal of her back
uIting her too. l gave her
DOan's Kidney Pills and the results
in her case, as we'll, were most sat-
isfactOry."
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster-Nilburn Co., Buffa-
10, N. V, sole agents for the United
States. Remember the name
Doan's and take no other.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. man or
woman as permanent representa-
tive of big manufacturing COM
pany, to look after it's business in
this county and adjoining territory.
Business successful and estab-
lished. Salary $40. weekly and
expenses. Salary paid weekly
from home office. Expense money
advanced. Experience not essen
tial. Enclose self-addressed envel l.
ope. General Manager. Como
Block, Chicago. 52-St
GA - TO h "A.
Bear. til. hIm Kind You Haze Always Bought
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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-10-08

Quite II number of votes will be
brought in ut the supplemental reg
istration before the county clerk.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-10-08
REGISTERED VOTE.

The following is the vote as reg
istered on Tuesday last, October 4
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-10-08

The following is the registered
vote in 1903:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10
STICKING TO 1T.

We notice that there is a good deal
connected with sticking to a thing
For instance. we know of locality
where the farmers have for fifteen
years stuck to the potato as crop
While some years they make nothing
at all out of them and have to feel
them. the paying years come often
enough SO that. taking an average of
ten years, they find the potato one of the
most profitable crops to raise. Again.
take the man who sticks to the dairy
year after year. This man almost i'll
variably not only has rich and pro-
ductiye farm, but he is usually out Of
debt and has money in the bank True,
he runs this dairy at times when it
does not pay. but in the long run he
finds that it pays and pays we'll. The
readiness with which the average farm
CT will drop one line of production
which temporarily does not pay and
seize upon some other which may be
having boom is thing to be regret
ted. 1t would be better all round if
there was more conservatism OH this
matter. a more general diversification
of production. Experience teaches that
the best time to take hold of any spe-
cial thing is the time when every one
else is quitting it and when it is being
generally sold below the actual cost Of
production.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10
$1,000 OR AN EDUCATION.

You have nice bright boy and hon
estly desire to do as well as possible by
him. We will suppose that you. are
that kind of father who will cheer
fully give this boy start in life when
he leaves you at twenty-One to the
amount of $1,000. In doing this you
give him what is called a common
school education, such as may be OBJ
tanned at your district school, and he
stays and helps you on the farm until
he is of age. Now, we want to ask YOU
if this is the best thing that you can
do for this boy of yours. Suppose you
take that $1,000 and invest it in a good
modern education for your boy and
turn him out at twenty-One with such
education and no money. We are go
be along agricultural lines and that
when he leaves you he will take up
farming as a business. Agriculture
has within a few years been lifted up
from a happy go-lucky, hit-and- go-miss
business into profession, business
demanding the trained mind and ex-
pert skill. Your boy thus equipped is
infinitely better off than he would be
with the $1,000 and the limited educa-
tion which went with it. A three years
course at one of our agricultural col
leges is one of the very best invest
ments you can make for your boy
Think this thing over.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10
WHOSE REEss

1t is common belief that the stray
swarm of bees belong to the man who
discovers them and that he may enter
upon the premises of other parties and
take possession of them 1t is also be-
lieved that the finding of bee tree
gives the right to cut down such tree
and take the honey, no matter upon
whose land it may be found. The SUI
preme court of Iowa has rendered a
decision to the effect that bees are not
like wild animals. since they have a
local residence at times and belong to
the person on whose property they
have stored their honey The forest as
well as the cultivated field belongs to
the owner thereof. and he who invades
it is trespasser
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10
THE SELECTION OF A FARM.

While all of the soil of the west and
northwest was when first broken III
for cultivation well supplied with fer.
tile constituents, it is not so TODAY.
Forty years of cropping have maue a
vast difference in the value of farms.
Some soils have worn better than ota-
erS. The light soils with gravel sub
soils along the river. the graye.iy hills
the acutely rolling clay lanes. once
tmbered. all show the effect of wear
and tear resulting from contin. .ed
cropping and erosion by the elements
1t may be said that this class of lands
will not with average cultivation pro
duce One-half tile crop of thirty or for
ty years ago. In buying or even in
the matter of renting not sufficient at
tentiOn is paid to this fact. We 60 not
think that we overstate the case when
we say that such land is really not
worth One-half as much as land that
is rich, fertile and unworn. AS be-
tween such a farm and one regarded as
wet we should choose the latter every
time, for it is easier and will cost less
to drain a fertile soil than restore fer
tility to Semibarren one. It is
curious fact that in fixing the value of
land no attention seems to be paid to
this very vital and important matter,
the wOrnOut river farm commanding as
much as and often more per acre than
the black prairie land of the plateaus
between the streams This fact ShoulG
be considered carefully by every would
be purchaser and renter of land. for it
means practically the difference be-
tween one and two tons of hay to the
acre, twenty-five and fifty bushels of
corn, twenty and forty bushels of oats
and one-half difference in the matter of
pasturage.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10
Low Rates ON Empties.

Dean Hole. the noted English clergy.
man who died recently, was the leading
figure in many humorous stories. On
one occasion he was crossing the chan
mel after visit to the continent. the
voyage being very stormy. The dean
was bad sailor and had suffered
great deal OH the "trip. AT Dover ne
was looking over the railway COM
pany's rules on the station wall as a
fellow passenger came up. Said the
dean: After that story voyage we
have at least one advantage in max
ing the subsequent trip to London.
see the company carries recurring
empties at reduced rates" Topeka
State Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

A lady friend comes at us with ref
erence to the hired girl problem and
says that the average hired girl cannot
be recognized as a social equal because
she lacks education, culture and re-
finement, to which we reply that just
as soon as American women remove
the social bar which they have placed
on the domestic help they will at once
be able to get better educated and
more refined type of hired girls.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

The Indians had it all fifteen years
ago. The products of the country were
rattlesnakes, buffalo grass and prairie
dogs Last week two train loads of
Oklahoma products, including corn,
wheat, broom corn, cotton, -four and
fruits, gayly decorated, were sent to
the east from Oklahoma for the pur-
pose of advertising the resources of the
territory. Without doubt il is one of
the finest and most productive regions
Of the United States.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

Mr.. Harrison lives near Darlington,
England. He farms 200 acres of land,
Of which 1876 acres are in grass. Dur
Ing the past fifteen years his sole aim
has been to raise the very best cattle
possible, and SO well has he succeeded
that during that time he has won sew
enty-three champion prizes, 942 first
prizes and 123 second prizes at the
British cattle shows. The money value
of these prizes has been $34, 1850, while
the animals winning have been sold at
very long prices. The foregoing shows
what a man can do when he sets out
to do something.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

If you have your name stamped upon
your rural mail box have it put on the
side where it may be seen by the pass
erby. 1t is always a pleasure to know
the name of the owner of a good farm
and is a species of advertising which
may prove Of not little benefit to him
some time. If your farm is poorly cared
for and you feel ashamed of it, keep
your name off the box, for that gives
advertising of another character.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

Elevation in it's effects upon plant
life corresponds very closely to lati-
tude. Here in the city of Quito. in
Ecuador, South America. located al
most on the equatorial line, but having
an elevation of $500 feet, 1t is insured
most delightful climate. one of al
most perpetual spring, the extremes Of
temperature running from 45 to IS de-
grees, with mean temperature for the
year of GO degrees. An elevation of
1000 feet on the California mountains
entirely changes the kind of fruits
which may be successfully grown. The
Wealthy apple grown in latitude al de-
grees is summer fruit, but when
grown in latitude A or As degrees be-
comes an apple which may be kept
through the winter with ease. Because
of the elevation the finest apples are
raised in the Pecos valley, New Mex
leo, under an almost tropical sun. This
question Of elevation is a most i'm
portant one for all growers of fruit to
consider
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

There is mischief in this-the letting
of pretty little grapevine wind itself
gracefully and affectionately around
the trunk of some valued tree in your
dooryard. Year by year it will reach
out, grow thrifty and strong and make
welcome arboreal shade, but it will
fix your tree, and in short time you
will lose both vine and tree. Woman
has been POLITICALLY likeDed to the
clinging vine on the tree, and with
some women it works just like the
vine and the tree.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

September last marked the largest
exports of cotton which this country
has ever known, the money value Of
these exports aggregating $43,0OO,OOO.
Cotton in the south, corn in the corn
belt and wheat in the wheat sections
will always prevent this country from
getting very poor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

During the last week in October there
was spread of $4.35 between the sell
ing price of the best and the poorest
steers on the Chicago market more
than we have ever before noted. 1t
represented in concrete form the
profit and loss connected with beef
production.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10
CORN CANNERIES.

The growing of sweet corn for the
canneries always tends to develop the
dairy interests of the locality where
grown. This combination is great
soil renovator and money maker and
not only benefits the land and the
farmer. but insures good wages for a
h""e number of poor people-unskilled
are able to earn quite IL
nice sum of money during the canning
season. There is probably no safer
for a small country town
to tackle in the way of manufacturing
enterprises than a sweet com canlery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

Those Maine farmers know how to
raise potatoes, one man this year get.
ting 300 barrels of three bushels each
bushels per acre. This explains how
the savings banks of that state come
to have so much money.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

1t has been a mooted question for a
long time whether corn silage could be
proftably used in the production Of
beef. A recent experiment at the Ten
nessee station shows that sixteen steers
fed a period Of $50 days with from
thirty to forty pounds of silage each
and three and one-half pounds of cot
ton seed and corn cob meal made
gain of 337 pounds each, while another
lot fed Oh shredded corn fodder in
place of silage with the same grain
ration made gain of 692 pounds.
These figures are large enough to in
vite serious doubt as to the correctness
of the bulletin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

Men who feed cattle this winter
meet the combination of 31a cent feed
ers and 35 or 40 cent corn, a combina-
ton which means meager profits for
them on the basis of 5 cent finished
beef.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

And now the farmer is having an
an electric bell placed in connection
with his rural mail box where the box
is located some distance from the
house, the mail carrier ringing the bell
when he delivers the mail. What next?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10
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A chicken hawk in pursuit of spar
row dashed against 6 by 10 foot
plate glass store window in western
town. Damage, $50. Bird killed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

North Dakota farms are showing up
fine this year, the fax and wheat fields
where not damaged by the rust giving
an income of $40 an acre and over.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

The immense amount of canned fruit
put up by the housewives of the coun-
try the past season is seriously affect
ing the demand for the California dried
fruits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

The women of Texas can make SO
much money assisting in the care and
the gathering of the cotton crop that
they are neglecting their poultry, and
eggs for home consumption have
doubled in price.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

Apples which weigh a pound and
over and potatoes which run over two
pounds are seldom worth eating. Ex-
IRENE size is almost always obtained
at the expense of quality.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

There is SO much cotton to pick and
the price is so good that the planters
are gathering their crop by the aid of
lanterns at night, so as to be able to
get it to market before the price falls.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

-Four years ago he was representa-
tive of one of the largest railway sys-
TENS of the west He rode in Pull
man and got his meals in dining car
most of the time and drew a salary of
$4,000 per year. He had every chance
to go up still higher and was in line
for one Of those $4,000 places which
are always ready for the right man.
We met him one evening recently just
as he had borrowed quarter of a
friend to secure some place to sleep for
the night. Whisky did it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

While in general way we all know
that linseed oil is made from fiaXseed,
not all know how it is done. The fax
is cleaned. ground into meal and then
subjected to heat of 300 degrees 1t
is then put under a hydraulic press
and the oil extracted. The residue
forms the oil cake of commerce. A
bushel Of fax will make trifle over
two and One-half gallons of oil and
give thirty eight pounds of oil cake
At the date this item is written the
fax costs S115 per bushel. the oil
brings y cents and the cake 4S cents
1t costs Is cents to obtain these re-
suits. so that there is evidently more
money in growing the fax than there
is in manufacturing cake and OIL
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

Men with rough brush farms should
by all means look UP the goat PROPOSE
ton. When one has once seen what
these beasts will do in retaining such
land he will never feel like brushing
grabbing and burning to clear it up.
A main in the spring of 1903 turned 300
of these goats on to a 200 acre brush
farm. d tangle, of hazel brush. brier,
poplar and oak saplings, with few
scattering trees on it, In just two sea-
sons they have converted this tract
into a fine blue grass and white clover
pasture. and in two years more the
whole tract may be turned over with
the plow. barring the few trees. The
hair and increase will pay for the care
of the flock.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

The best things raised on the Ameri-
can farm mag well be used by the
farmer who produces them-the best
milk, the richest cream, the incest pig,
the choicest fruit and freshest eggs.
In Europe the best things have to be
sold to pay rent and taxes. and the
farmer lives on what is left 1t should
be particularly noted that the Ameri-
can farmer never under any circum-
stances uses stale eggs He always
sees to it that his town cousin wres-
ties with this problem
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-10

The rapid increase in the number of
crows in the older settled portions of
the country is rather remarkable con-
sidering that they rarely raise more
than one brood in year and not many
in brood. They are doubtless very
long lived bird and seem possessed of
a native sagacity which enables them
to successfully outwit nearly every at
tempt of man to destroy them. They
are yearly becoming greater pest
and during the past two seasons have
been making systematic raids on the
corn when it gets into the milk. The
best way to drive them out Of a locality
is to raid their roosting places at night.
The legislature of the state of Maine
year or so ago appropriated the sum
of $500 to be paid as bounty on porcu-
pine scalps. this little beast being sup
posed to do much injury to the pine
forests of that state. The bounty was
to be % cents per scalp. At the last re-
port the $500 was used up. and the
sum Of $4,000 more was needed to pay
for the ScalpS. A county in q western
state offered bounty on woodchuck
scalps and paid it until the bounties
paid ran into the thousands of dollars,
and it seemed as though the more
chucks there were destroyed the faster
they multiplied The same thing has
been true where bounties were offered
for gopher scalps.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-16
Public Opinion on Milk.

The matter of public opinion is a
large one when it relates to the milk
traffic. We must have a higher level
of requirements for milk If we are to
have better milk produced and sold.
The public must be educated to refuse
any except perfectly pure milk, and
must be also educated to the point of
paying for that milk what it costs
more than the milk that is now being
sold, which has a low average as to
cleanliness. At different times, talk
butter, they have deprecated the agi-
tation of the subject, for they have
said that If the public found out how
dirty the milk really is they would re-
fuse to use it and that would hurt the
milk trade. But that is not the effect
Of proper enlightenment of the pub
lie on the matter. Once the public
comes to understand that the milk
for which they pay a certain price is
low in freedom from dirt they will
demand milk that is clean and will
be willing to pay for it. That is the
course as it works itself out in prac-
tice. AS public opinion rises the quail
ity Of the milk also rises, for the men
that sell dirty milk find that they can
not hold their customers. The papers
and the men that are telling the truth
to the public about this matter are the
ones that are turning the trade to the
vendors of pure milk and that are
driving the other men out of business.
To illustrate: About two years ago
one large milk concern in Chicago
was discovered to have preserved IFS
milk with formalin. The papers of the
city published the facts. The next day
all the customers of that company
stampeded, and the company went
into bankruptcy within a few weeks.
This will be the result with every
company that is discovered not to be
doing right by the public, provided
the public finds it out. Public opinion
is mighty power that is seldom fully
counted on. Turn it in the right direc-
ton and nothing can stand before it.
The strongest aid that we can call to
the production of good and pure
milk supply is this same intangible
force. Rightly informed it is invaria-
bly, mighty weapon for good.