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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
Taking No Chances.

A new reason "Why men do not go
to church" has recently been discovered
by an English clergyman. Walking
along lane one day, says Tit-Bits,
the village rector noticed an old man
ahead Of him. Seeing that it was one
Of his congregation who had not been
to church Of late, the vicar hurried and
soon caught up with him.
"Hallo, john" said he. How is it
that haven't seen you at church late
Typ
At first the rector could get nothing
out Of him, but after little persuasion
the parishioner said:
"Well, zir, it be your youngest dar-
ter, Nelly be afeard Of
what, afraid of Nelly, a girl Of
nineteen, and only just returned from
school!'
EYES, zir. You see," replied John,
when 1 went courtin' an old forchin-
teller told me as 'ow l should be spliced
three times. First to gray, an then to
a yeller, an then to a ginger. Now,
when / buried my poor yeller Sally
three months ago, an your darter VII
the ginger 'air coined 'Ome from
schulz, 1 says to myself, l says, That's
'er; that's the ginger 'un; an if |
don't keep away from church she'll
nab me-"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
HOMEMADE CANDY POPULAR.
/ Young Women Torment Confectioners
/ g.

Young Women Torment Confectioners
for Recipes.
In the public Libraries of New York
there is a constant call for books tell
ing how to make homemade candies.
The demand is chiefly by young wo-
men, who, according to their brief con-
versations with an observant librarian,
have attended cooking classes and have
learned to make everything but candy.
'.The explanation of that is very
simple" explained a manufacturer of
candy the other day. "When a woman
who loves cooking (and what women
! do not, to some extentD buys any
thing good to eat in store, she wants
to know how to make it. Candy man.
ufacturers are no exception to the
rule. Ask any Of the leading New
York bakers how much his sales
women are bothered by requests for
recipes.
'In my opinion the cheapness of
4andies in stores has not affected the
longing that women have for home
made candies. Young women who are
among my best patrons come in here
once in a while with a specimen of
old-fashioned molasses taffy, almond
chocolates, or something else Of simple
make, and say to me triumphantly:
!" There, now; isn't that just as good
as yours?
"sQuite as good reply. But when
did you make it, and how much did
it cost your
"T haven't any idea how much 1t
cost is the usual answer. we had a
candy party at our house last night,
and I wanted to show you that I
could make it just as good as you do.
rThere you have it. Vanity; also
an opportunity among young persons
for little social recreation and good
time. The best recipes for homemade
candies are in books written by con-
fectioners. I am the author of one
myself" New York Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

The ashes Of Chicago were not cold
when temporary places of business
were provided and men were making
contracts for the upbuilding of their
warehouses, their stores and their
homes. In couple Of years nearly
the whole of the burned district was
again covered. In Boston the losses
were much less and the local capital
was greater. Baltimore is making ar
rangements to rebuild her business
center at once, and in handsomer
and more substantial manner than be-
FORE The fire in which granite crum-
bles and steel melts does not destroy
the ground or the commercial advant-
ages Of the city's location. Very
much of the property Of the people
is beyond it's reach, and their courage
and their credit-a very great part of
the stock in trade of any community
are absolutely proof against it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

Tie chairman or the western PaS-
senger Association says the great in
crease in immigration during 1903 was
due largely to the inducements offered
by the railroads to settlers on the
farm lands in the northwest, the south
west and the far west Nearly all the
railway systems, it is said, have their
agents in Europe drumming up immi-
grants. When the question Of restrict
ing immigration by imposing an edu-
cational qualification was before the
last Congress representatives OF sew
eral large western roads were heard In
opposition to it. They did not say
that the proposed restriction would in
terfere with the work the roads are DO
ing in planting settlers on their own
lands or on other untitled lands in the
regions travelled by their lines. 1t was
claimed then that the railroads were
hard put to it to get all the common
labor they needed and that it would
be an injury to them to cut off the
European supply in whole or part. The
railroads do not feel so prosperous as
they did two years ago. They have
not the need of labor they had then,
or which their officers said they had.
Immigration is stimulated now not to
get labor but to get settlers-and also
to get the sums which they pay for
their transportation. 1t has been sur
missed that as the steamship lines So
licit immigration because they make
money out Of it, so many railroads are
governed by the same motive. LIZ
will be admitted that an immigrant
planted on a western farm is a desir-
able acquisition. That is not neces-
sarily true of an immigrant who, when
he lands, plunges into the Overcrowded
slums of New York City and stays
there either because he prefers to stay
or has not the money with which to
make his escape. Only small pro-
portion of the Storage passengers OF
1903 appear to have found their way to
the far west. While Ats settled in
Colorado, 2,43S in Texas, 6,967 in
Washington, and 1906 in Oregon, 254,-
AS made their homes in New York,
III, 169 in Pennsylvania, and 65,757 in
Massachusetts. There came to Illinois
63.37S but of those who remained here
the larger number probably settled in
Chicago. If last years increase in
immigration was due largely to the
efforts of the railroads the roads did
much more to increase the population
of the great cities of the east than of
the rural districts of the west. 1t may
be that their efforts brought more un-
desirable than desirable immigrants to
this country Railroads and steamship
companies should let the matter of i'm
migration regulate itself and not at
tempt to stimulate and direct it to
promote their selfish interests.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

tress is the most companionable and
efficient of women. She is skilled in
household arts and in kindergartening
as we'll as in the ancient and modern
languages. She understands how to
keep the home sanitary and how to
make the purse serve the best interests
of the entire family. What wonder,
then, that boards of education and
school superintendent are at their
wits ends to secure teachers willing to
sign a contract containing an anti
marriage clause covering specified
period. They will soon have to be
thankful if they can get them on any
terms which the women themselves
are pleased to make, for just now the
way to the schoolhouse seems to be on
the direct road TO matrimony.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
short Meter Sermons.

Circumstances cannot stunt the soul.
Sorrow is only our side Of their
joy.
Misery is not synonym for moral
ity.
Love is always a door into larger
life.
Lofty souls never despise lowly serv-
ice.
There are solemn sinners as we'll
as solemn saints.
A little vim in religion is worth a
lot of vision.
Heart keeping is the SECRET of happy
housekeeping.
The self-conceited are bound to suf-
fer from solitude.
He who rebels against conscience
ruins character.
Lessons are for our learning rather
than our liking.
Goods are among the least of the re-
wards of goodness.
Suffering should leave a legacy Of
ability to sympathize.
Men of shiftless habits are never
of immovable character.
It is no use singing sunshine" if
your life is all moonshine.
The true man never lets his living
stand in the way of his life.
No good is found in difficulty by
the man who crawls around it.
The man who resists tendency will
not have to regret habit.
The only effective criticism of poor
religion is the creation Of a better
one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
All over the land there is a deart

All over the land there is q dearth
VI schoolmistresses. Even in the
East, where women are supera bundant
and the schoolma am was ways not
ed for her staying qualities, there is
now cry for more teachers School
agencies say THAT never before were so
few well-trained women instructors OBJ
tainable. All give marriage as the
cause. Time was when the school
mistress was a drug on the matri-
monial market A woman put off as
far as possible the evil day of enter
ing the schoolroOm, knowing that it
meant for her lonely life with no
hope of marriage. "Old maid school
teacher was the offensive phrase
which labeled her social status. All
that is now changed and the school
mistress is having things her own
way. Her college education, her va
cation trips abroad, her leadership in
clubs, have made her a most delight
full companion, fitted for any social sta
ton. She has free scope for the de-
velopment of her talents and is using
her opportunities to advantage. Men
have been quick to see the change and
have learned that now the schoolmis-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
QUEER yroRDE5

French is the language of more than
a million of the five and half millions
Of Canadians.
With 3S5 pounds of smokeless pow.
der the new forty-calbre twelve-inch
gun will send an S5O-pound armor-
piercing shell through 10 5-1O inches
OF Haryeyized nickel-steel armor at a
distance of a mile and a half.
A wilson petrol, evidently blown in
from the coast, was killed by a cat
not long ago in Winchester, N. III.
Winchester is eighty miles from the
coast, and these birds are seldom
found more than ten miles inland.
According to the Department Of
Agriculture, standard milk is milk
containing not less than 81 per cent
Of milk fat and 81 per cent Of solids
not fat, and which has an acidity
equivalent to not more than 2.10 per
cent Of Tactic acid.
The most magnificent tomb in the
world Is deemed to be the palace Tenn
pie Of Karnak, Egypt, occupying an
area of nine acres, or twice that of st.
Peters at Rome. The temple space
is a poets dream Of gigantic columns,
beautiful courts and wondrous aven-
ues Of sphinxes.
New England still retains her pre-
eminence in the boot and shoe indus.
try, but three Of her six States, in-
GLIDING Maine, rank lower in the COM
parative value Of their product than
they did twenty years ago, while Of
the others only Vermont has made
gain in comparative rank.
A pair Of women's shoes made in
Lynn, Mass, to establish record for
rapid shoemaking, required fifty-seven
different operations and the use Of
forty-two machines and one hundred
pieces. All these parts were assembled
and made into a pair of shoes ready
to wear in thirteen minutes.
A little Japanese village, some thirty
miles from the town of Kumamoto, Is
situated in the center of a volcano,
which may some day become active.
The village, lying nine hundred feet
below the top Of the volcano, the walls
Of which are very steep, is quite hid
den from sight Its two thousand in
habitants seldom leave this place.
AS twilight approaches garden
filed with brilliant flowers the red
flowers will first lose their gorgeous
color as the light diminishes, and then
the grass and leaves will appear gray
ish. The last flowers to part with
their distinctive color-white flowers
being left out of the account-Will be
the blue or violet ones. This fact is
useful to such insects as, in order to
avoid their enemies, visit wild flowers
in the twilight
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

1t is said that Egyptian and Turk
ish harems are being demoralized by
the fashion plates. The European
''delineators" tempt the plural wives
Of the eastern potentates to extrava-
CANT expenditures for dress, and it is
becoming impossible for the poor kings
and princes to keep more than one
wife dressed in the Partisan fashion.
Instead Of 200 wives, some Of the old
fellows are finding it difficult to sup
port two, it is said. The same evil
cause is producing what we Americans
call a desirable reform in Utah. The
modern mormon finds it too expensive
to support bunch of wives. He finds
1t cheaper to obey the law of monog-
amy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

The negro in the South is coming tc
the front as a money-maker. If the
cotton crop yields $65O,OOO,OOO he will
get $200,O0O,O0O of it. He is better of
than ever before. But this prosper
ity is said to have made him uneasy
and migratory. Still very few of the
great mass Of negro workers emigrate
to the North. The fact is that the
South is growing rapidly. The white
population Of Mississippi, the banner
negro State, is growing faster than the
black.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
LAYING IN THE WALNUTS.
California Public Schools Close When

California IublIc schools close W mem
the Harvest Time Arrives.
The culture of the English walnut
has become an important industry in
California Of late years. The first
walnut orchard in the State was plant
ed with seed from the Los Angeles
mission gardens, where the padres had
started few trees with nuts brought
with them from Spain. The under
taking was a success from the first,
and the acreage of walnutS has stead
lily increased-slowly at first, but now
with rapid strides. The walnut trees
early age of bearing, its long life and
the steady demand for it's product
tend to make the enterprise deserved
ly popular. Already it is supersedings
the orange in favor among fruit grow.
ers.
The walnut tree begins to bear when
six or seven years old, and nothing
is known definitely of it's age limit of
bearing. Fabulous stories are told OF
trees in Spain one or two centuries old,
bearing enormous crops. The oldest
trees in California are still bearing,
but deductions from the short history
already made show that the tree is in
it's prime from it's twenty-ffth to its
thirtieth year. Fifteen hundred pounds
of nuts to the acre is q good average
yield, making seventy-fiye pounds the
average weight from one tree.
The. harvest time begins about the
middle of September and lasts nearly
six weeks. The nuts begin to fall
with the leaves, and the perfect cult.
walton under the trees leaves no
chance for them to lose themselves
among clods or weeds. The brown,
dead leaves alone hide the nuts. IN
der normal conditions they drop free
from the outer husk or hull, through
it's irregular bursting, and getting the
nuts picked up is a simple matter
Sometimes the trees are well irrigated
just before harvest time to insure the
clean dropping of the nuts.
Boys and girls, men and women,
Japanese and Chinese, are all pressed
into service, and on hands and knees
the great orchards are gone over, not
once, but several times, on account Of
the irregular ripening Of the nuts. The
trees are occasionally shaken during
the season to loosen the nuts, and be-
fore the last cleaning they are ''poled'
to start the very tardy Ones This is
done by long, coarse, bamboo poles,
whose light weight makes them easily
handled.
In certain rural districts the public
schools close regularly for a walnut
vacation" The hep of the children is
needed, and the children are nothing
10th to replenish their diminished
purses. Pals, cans, and gunny-sacks
are scattered among the pickers, and
when the bags are full they are carried
to the drying grounds, where they are
spread on slat trays to dry.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
coLORs IN EGGS OF BIRDS.
One of Natures Secrets Over Which
Scientific Men Still Puzzle.


Scientific Men Still Puzzle.
eff you are interested in nature
problems" said a man who likes to
pore over the cases in the Museum Of
Natural History, there's very simple
one, but you can find in it all the food
for speculation and theory you want
as scores of very eminent thinkers
have done already. What is natures
reason for the color and marking OF
birds eggs and in the process OF ev0-
luton how has it worked out? There
must be a reason for their infinite di-
versity and it can hardly be an es-
thetic one.
"That looks simple enough, yet the
most advanced naturalists haven't been
able to puzzle it out. All they can say
with any confidence is that the all
pervading instinct of distrust and need
for protection is exhibited in egg shells
as in more important things and the
main idea Of their color scheme has
been to secure safety in harmony with
their surroundings. But even that has
exceptions.
's1ake the doves. Their eggs are
white and are plainly visible in the
flimsy nest, though the nest is built in
a tree, and the eggs shuld be of a
darker tint, to follow the general rule
Now, that, believe, has been reasoned
out in this way The original doves
were rock doves and they laid white
eggs in conformity with the natural
law, which ordains that color for most
species of birds nesting in the dark,
so that the female might readily see
them when she comes into the gloom.
'You find traces of this early in
stinct in the fact that wherever there
is a deserted rabbit warren you will
find doves taking advantage Of it to
burrows. But whether in holes or
trees the nests still contain white eggs,
which nature ordained for their rock
dwelling ancestors.
"Owls lay pale eggs for the same
| reason. They breed in the dark On
the other hand, the ducks, which. so
far as anybody knows, have always
frequented the most open places, also
lay pale eggs without markings. But
with them you will find a greater
| tendency to revert to olive browns Or
sandy tints, the very color of the sand
and shingles on which the eggs are
laid.
'The egg shell of the plovers and
similar beach breeders are exactly
ground color, just as the partridge and
pheasant eggs are the color Of fallen
leaves. And grouse. quail and moor
fowl have eggs matching exactly in
color with the brown stems of heath
er and the pine tree scales among
which they lie. But there are blue
and white spotted eggs you can't ex-
plain. At least I can't satisfactorily.
Anybody may start his own theories
on the subject and find the problem
endless. Solve it correctly and / think
you will solve at the same time half
a dozen other mysteries which have
puzzled great scientists on this queer,
problem filled planet" New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
Had No Time toIose.

Boarder-Why in creation did you
ring the breakfast bell at o'clock this
morning?
Cook-The missus heard it thunder
ing and told me to hurry up and serve
breakfast before the milk soured.-
New York Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
Unions Among Laborers.

There are to-day 100000 day labor
ers in this country. One AMI one
fourth millions belong to national
trades unions, another million 10 tra les
unions not yet national in their scope
and the remainder comprise the army
Of unorganized labor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

Walking on all tours is said to be
a cure for appendicitis. Why not have
parties where the guests may cure
their appendicitis in this way and at
the same time compete for prizes, the
one who can go it on all tours long
est and most gracefully taking the
honors?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

But if China should get courage
enough to cry, "Asia for the Asiatics,"
would it be so very different in prin-
ciple from Germany for the Ger
MANS" or America for the Ameri-
cans"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

1t may be that every college pro-
fessor needs a wife, but the question
is, How can he support her i'll the
style to which she has been accus-
toned?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

Another feature Of the Japanese
Russian struggle is that it is a con-
test between meat eaters and vege-
tarians.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

A court has decided that a man
must treat his mother-in-law with
respect. Mighty few mothers-in-law
need any order of the court to make
the young man do the proper thing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

1t always angers girl who breaks
off an engagement if the young man
in the case refuses to make fuss
about it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
Involved Disturbance.

Parker-We'ye moved again.
Barker-You have?
Parker-Yes; our children were so
noisy that we couldn't stand what the
neighbors said about them.-Detroit
Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

When a young man is old enough to
cast his first vote what he doesn't
know about running the country isn't
worth knowing
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
Many Colors in Chrysanthelnums

The Japanese cultivate chrysanthe-
NUNS in 269 varieties Of colors. OF
these eighty-seyen are white, sixty
three yellow, thirty-two purple, thirty
one pink, thirty red, twelve russell and
fourteen mixed hues.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

If all women who look back were
turned into salt pillars the streets
would be full of statues.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
Big Railroad for China.

One of the great railroads Of the
world will be built in China from
Canton to Hankow, GOO miles, through
densely populated district.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

Shortly after getting the political bee
in his bonnet the average man gets it
in the neck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

When a woman loses her temper
she shows her age.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

About the time love lets up on a
man rheumatism takes a fall out Of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23

Lots Of people come to grief by
meeting trouble half way.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
LANCAS TER, WISCONSIN.

Being out Of debt is the best thing
out.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
rHE FAMILY OF GOD.

BY Rev. r. H. vagerty. d. d.
Has it ever occurred to you to ex-
anime the Technology Of the gospel
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-23
NORTHWEST NEWS.

Clarence Bouldin. a Cuban wrestler.
will nave a contest during the winter
with 1.-TWO Feathers" at Seattle.
Grandma" Edwards. rs years of
age. dropped dead at Harrington.
Wash, while laughing heartily at a
joke
Mrs. S. Flowers carelessly stepped
in front of a Northern Pacific train
at winlock. Wash. was run down
-and killed.
Richard Hayden cut his throat at
Seattle while lying in bed He used
a razor He is said to have retired
in good health and spirits.
The fire chief of Astoria feels it
incumbent upon him TO take, and
advise others to take. especial precau-
tions against fire during the holidays.
f. ]. Schroderm. a well known
Northern Pacific brakeman. while
playing the piano at his boarding
house in Ellensburg. Wash. fell over
dead.
Mrs. Louis C. Beck offers to sell to
the Seattle park board for park pur-
pOEtft IAdNtild AOi NA@"s''Ns
The price Is regarded es reasonable.
but the city is hardly able TO afford
the Investment at this time
An effort is being made to build
Y. NJ. c. A. hall at Corvallis. by
the members Of that organization who
are students of the Agricultural Col
iege. They are planning a $4,000
building and nave $4,000 In hand.
Protests are going in to the presi-
dent about the government charge
for dockage at Bremerton. 1t is 10
cents per ton, while at the Dominion
port of Esquimault, near. but across
the line, it is three cents per ton.
The Washington State Federation
OF Labor is going to maintain a large
and active lobby at Olympia this
winter and politicians who have made
promises to union leaders in return
for prediction support will find 4
very embarrassing to turn any flip
tops at the critical hour.