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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
SHE HAD THE: KNACK.


skilled workmen will handle loads
of almost incredible weight, even
though they may not be particularly
muscular" said an engineer who was
conversing with a friend. Its all
knack They have little tricks Of the
trade which they employ, most Of IL
Of the balancing order" The Chicago
News tells how the statement was IL
Illustrated.
IF you notice." continued the engi-
neer, "you will observe that a person
who does the same thing many times
soon learns to do it easily, and that
applies even to lifting and carrying
weights. Now here is a case in point.
Do you see that pile Of boards there
ON the curb? That italian woman Is
getting fire wood from the scraps and
bits across the street. She has, I ven
ture to say, all Of hundred pounds
Of wood in that pile. She will put that
on her head and walk away with it,
carrying bigger load than you or
can lift. Just wait here a minute and
you will see how easily she does the
trick"
The two stopped beside the boards,
and just because they stopped and
looked another man stopped, too. Soon
a fourth man and then boy joined
the group, and before the woman had
| returned with the rest of her salvage
quite a crowd Of curious people had
gathered round her pile of wood.
In nowise Disconnected by her sud
den conspicuousness, the woman plod-
ded across the street She lifted one
end of the pile, slipped a piece of rope
under it and looped it round the
boards. Then she fastened the other
end in the same way. Next she drew
from under her skirt a cushion, which
she placed fSmly on her head.
The engineer pulled his friend for
ward.
"Now watch her tackle It," he whis-
pered, eagerly.
The woman, a spare, lean creature,
moved toward the place where the en-
gineer stood. Quickly lifting one end
OF the pile Of boards, she turned to
him and peremptorily ordered him,
Here, you, taxa hold-a here"
Before he knew what he was doing
the engineer found himself lifting his
end of the boards, while the woman,
STOPPING, lifted the other and got under
the pile at the same time. Then she
launched" her head forward until she
had the boards poised on the cushion.
snow let-a go" she ordered, and
stalked off.
Its quite knack," said the engi-
neer's friend, with a grin, but the en-
gineer was SO busy digging splinter
from the ball Of his thumb that he
failed to make any reply.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
The Servant Problem"

Edward Everett Hale and certain of
his friends in Washington We're dis
cussing the veXatious servant prob
lem," when some one referred to the
alleged tendency OF domestics toward
unbearable impertinence.
mo doubt American servants are
reprehensible in that respect" said
the doctor; 'but if the incident I shall
relate is true, then our servants fall
far beneath the standard set by their
French colleagues.
..An American lady of my acquaint-
ance, now living in Paris, tells me that
a friend of hers once had occasion to
reprimand 4 parlor maid for. shameful
neglect of duty.
"'Marie. said she, there's month 5
dust on this table"
SAT this observation, the maid gave
a toss Of the head, saying: Surely,
madam cannot censure me for that,
seeing that l have been in m.dam's
employ but two weeksv"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
A Lesson in Civilization.

With all our high wages and boosted
civilizatio says a writer in the Pail
Mall Magazine, the fact remains that
you will see more wretchedly poor in
any of our great cities in day than
you will see in Japan in lifetime. In
other words, you will see no destitu-
ton in Japan. Though some are very
poor, yet all seem to be we'll fed,
clothed and housed, and are invariably
cheerful, and, what is more surprising,
invariably clean. There are no pau
pers in Japan, and therefore no work
houses or poorhouses, though there are
many hospitals. Practically everyone
can earn a living.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
CHILDREN AFFECTED.


Many babies have been launched in
to life with constitutions weakened by
disease taken in with their mothers
milk. Mothers cannot be too careful
as to the food they use while nursing
their babes. The experience of a Kan
sas City mother is a case in point:
II was a great coffee drinker from
a child, and thought 1 could not eat a
meal without it. But found at last
it was doing me harm. For years I
had been troubled with dizziness, spots
before my eyes and pain in my heart,
to which was added, two years ago. a
chronic sour stomach. The baby was
born Z months ago, and almost from
the beginning, it, too, suffered from
sour stomach. She was taking it from
me!
I'm my distress 1 consulted a friend
of more experience than mine, and she
told me to quit coffee, that coffee did
not make good milk, l have since ascer-
tanned that it really dries up the milk
$50, quit coffee, and tried tea and
at last cocoa. But they did not agree
with me. Then 1 turned to Postum
Coffee with the happiest results. 1t
proved to be the very thing | needed.
1t not only agreed perfectly with baby
and myself, but it increased the flow
of my milk My husband then quit
coffee and used Postum, quickly got
we'll of the dyspepsia with which he
was troubled. | no longer suffer from
the dizziness, blind spells, pain in my
heart or sour stomach. Postum has
cured them.
Now we all drink Postum from my
husband to my seven months old
baby. 1t has proved to be the best hot
drink we have ever used. We would
not give up Postum for the best coffee
we ever drank" Name given by Post
UNI Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Get the little book, The Road to
.Wellville," in each pkg.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

BLoTTER ON RoLLERman in accomplish
ing a great deal in a very short day.
small to be considered is seen in the
little finger blotters shown here, the in.
vention of a Californian. 1t consists
Of revolving blotter mounted on
metal frame adapted to encircle a fin.
ger Of the hand, with an extension to
rest On the next finger. This device
would effect a great saving of labor
when in the hands of ledger keeper
who had many accounts to post or the
writer of envelope addresses, ETC., as
the plotting could be accomplished
with minimum Of labor and as quick
" as the flourish Of pen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
Diamonds and the Potato.

The discovery in the Transvaal Of a
diamond valued at $2,5OOOOO inspires
NJ. Harduin in LIE Matin to ask wheth-
er the precious stone represents new
capital-that is, new source Of
wealth.
'"Hhe only real capital" he says, lis
that which gives birth to new wealth
directly to the profit of it's owner and
indirectly to the profit Of the commu-
nifty. This is what will happen. When
the company owning the diamond sells
1T it will receive money. This money
it will invest and lay by the interest.
But since the purchaser, who has part
ed with $2,5O0,0OO, will lay by nothing,
it will come the same thing. The
whole operation, therefore, is reduced
to a simple shifting Of capital.
This conclusion follows: Billions
Of dollars worth of diamonds may be
dug out of the earth and the wealth Of
the whole human race will not be in
creased by single cent, for this cap
ital does not really exist. And as
nothing is gained in the way of means
Of production, so nothing is gained for
the general well-being. This is not so
when iron or other metals or coal is
dug from the earth. Far truer is it
that the peasant who digs potatoes
does far more for the welfare of man.
kind than the man who discovers
diamond"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
CHEWED THROUGH BARRED WIRE
Example of the Determination and
Courage of Japanese Soldiers.

Example OF the Determination and
Courage of Japanese Soldiers.
We were to perform a famous feat
in crawling on all tours for many
meters. Our ambition was not exactly
to attract the attention Of the Rus
slams and receive their applause from
their quick frers. All sorts of fire.
works seemed to help the work of
their sea rchlights. We made slow
progress, always on all tours. We
reached the second netting of barbed
wire, and this we hacked away with
us was the final fence. We had had
a happy run Of luck so far. We did
not wish to spoil it by a touch Of
carelessness or too much daring. eau
tiously, therefore, we went on our
stomachs to maks the distance be-
tween the second and the first barbed-
wire entanglements. All this distance
was a surprise to us; it was covered
with many things evincive of the skill
and thoughtfulness Of the Russian en-
gineers. 1t was about one hundred
meters in length. The ground was
sloping. 1t was filled with pitfalls
and mines innumerabe. For a sec
ond these mines made us forget the
first line of wire fence toward which
we were making our way. First of
all, we had to dispose of the mines
We had reason to suspect that they
were electric mines, and, in fact. the
Russian engineers, with all their
thoughtfulness, did not always take
the trouble to bury the conductors.
We discovered and cut as many as
four conductors, which were just
about the size of my thumb. They
were wrapped in a rubber coating, and
within the rubber coating we found
over twenty-four small wires. l car
ried no scissors about me. These cleo
iris wires were a neat surprise to US.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

In round numbers the farmers of
the United States raise about 100000
bushels Of corn each year. The value
OF this crop usually exceeds $1,000
100000 These figures are so enormous
that in the abstract they almost sur
pass conception. The American corn
crop is the most important crop that
is grown. But in spite Of the enor-
nous figures which must be used in
expressing the size Of this crop the
agricultural department at Washing
ton declares that it could be doubled
without adding one acre to the present
producing area and without any both
ersome increase Of time, money or
labor to the farmer. This wonderful
undertaking could be accomplished,
as the department has proved, simply
by using pedigreed corn for seed. The
average yield last year was twenty
FIVE bushels to the acre, but large
number of farmers who followed the
guidance of science raised the yield
on their farms to fifty and even to
100 bushels to the acre.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
Travelling Savings Bank.

A travelling savings bank estab-
lished in the north Of France is an
electric motor carriage, carrying
small safe, desk, made of folding
shelves, for depositors, and seats for
the driver, two clerks and a cashier.
1t Journeys about the country, making
short stops in the villages on stated
days to receive such sums as the work
folk may be DESTROYS Of saving.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

The thirtieth anniversary of the
first typewriter girls entrance into
business was celebrated recently
What wonders the typewriter and the
girl who operates it have wrought
since 1875! Business is done more
expeditiously and more pleasantly, too,
because Of the entrance into the offices
of pleasant-voiced, mild-mannered as
SiStantS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

Not age but Consciousness should
be made the basis of chloroforming,
if we are to chloroform at all. There
are young men who have entered poll
tics to purify it and become the worst
kind of corruptionists; young men
who have entered literature to write
the great American romance and
fallen into the habit of debating a
full fool book every two weeks-these
and others merit the soporific sponge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
Eow's his

We offer One Hundred Dollars seward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & co. Props. Toledo, O.
for the last 10 years. and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and finap-
cially able to carry out any obligation made by
their firm.
WEST & TRUAx Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O.
WALDING. KINNAN u MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists Testimonials free
Halls Family Pills are the best
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

One waste place after another is re-
claimed and adapted to the uses of
man. Some years ago the low wet
lands Of Florida were regarded as
worthless, and would not have brought
five dollars an acre. Then some one
began to cultivate celery in the wet
soil, and now the land is valued at
from three hundred to a thousand
dollars an acre.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

ests divisions of
labor are provided
for in order TO
minimize effort and
economic labor de-
spite the fact that
these are days Of
strenuous living.
The fountain pen
and automatic ink
we'll, as well as the
typewriter, card
index and vertical
numerical Fl lin g
systems, S h oul i
share with the tel
ephone and tele-
graph the honor for
t b e weH-earned
reputation of the
American business
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

The Sultan of Turkey has decided to
) buy thirty gunboats. He is foolish.
Why should he buy gunboats when he
can always get out of trouble by max
ing promises that he doesn't intend to
keep?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
Some iocular dramatic critic recent

Some jocular dramatic critic recent
ly announced that Frohman had de-
cided to dramatize one Of Shak-
speare's plays. The jest has a grain
of truth in it's satire, for THE School
for Scandal has been turned into a
musical affair called Lady Teazle"
and "She Stops to Conquer" has been
made over into 1.-THE Two, Roses an
other musical thingamajig There is
no apparent reason why some Of
Shakspeare's plays should not be deft-
" worked into musical comedies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

A Milwaukee doctor who removed a
mans stomach with no i'll effects to
the patient now declares that there is
no need Of this part of the human
makeup. When the stomachless gen.
GRAFTON comes will the space thus Great
ed be an aching void?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
Now They Don't Speak,

Esmerelda-That handsome young
stranger seems to have taken quite a
fancy to you.
Francelia-Yes; but 1 can't imagine
why.
Esmerelda-Nor can I, unless he has
just escaped from some foolish asylum.
Francelia-You mean thing, how dare
you!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
Identified.

"Who is that man who bores all his
friends by his complaints about rheu.
matism and the gripY'
"Oh, he's the fellow who used to
strut around and say that if there was
he liked it was an old-fash.
toned winter. "-Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

The Russian authorities have seized
Maxim Gorky's- manuscripts and will
destroy them. Yet the Russian author
tiles can't understand why a man like
Gorky should be opposed to their meth
DDS of government.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

A man defends a suit for separate
maintenance brought by his wife on
the ground that she ''held hands" while
playing cards. But what else would
she hold at such a game?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

Johann Hoch descends from the pin
nacle Of romance to petty criminal
by confessing that his numerous mar
riages were merely part of a scheme
to collect the Widows mite.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
Passing Of the JewsharD

There is another vanishing industry.
The Birmingham jews-harp industry
is stated to be in bad way, owing
to the collapse Of the demand among
savage peoples. The advance Of civil
ization has been SO thorough that
nowadays in Central Africa nothing
short Of Wagner will satisfy the ma
tive souls.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

The preachers are again discussing
the question, What shall we do to be
saved?" 1t might be answered in the
words of the famous modern Philis-
tine, do your duty to-day as well as
you can-and be kind"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

Instead of chloroforming all men of
three-score, how would it do to inocu-
late some of the college professors
with a moderately strong solution of
common sense?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
AS seen Abroad.

what is the chief product of the
United States?" asked the teacher in
a European school.
And without hesitation the bright
pupil replied:
"Money"-Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

The good people of Philadelphia ap-
pear to be doing too much of their
praying in the market place and not
enough in the closet.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

IT Young Corbett's voice is insult
able for the stage or the lecture plat
form he may be compelled either to
start a school Of physical exercise or
open q saloon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

DIR. Uepew calls private cars 1.-The
bandits of commerce." That's name
that will stick.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

Probably one reason men are not
naturally religious is that their wives
thank the Lord for things they (the
husbands paid for.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

Some women think the only stamp
of elegance necessary is to wear q
train.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
Chinese Farmers Making I'm.

Chinese farmers are beginning to
demand modern tools, especially such
as are useful for intensive farming.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness and some have s.
cent cigars named after them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

A wife never gets through expecting
her husbands conscience to wake up.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
Brief but Pointed .

"Can 1. o. U.?" asked the new Gus
toner.
NO. answered the grocer. 'T @
o. D."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

We suppose the slang expression,
Cut that out" originated with the
doctors.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

A Chicago lunatic ate two newspa-
pers. The man who "just devours
reading" has at last been located.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15

Whatever athletics may or may not
do so far as scholarship goes there Is
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-15
REVOLVING BlOTTER.

An Improvement Made in the Desk
Necessity.
An exemplification of the old saw
that every little helps" is found in
modern office equipment. The small
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-24
ASK STATE PROTECTION
GRADUATE NURSES WILL AGI-
TATE Law FOR REGISTRATION
BY STATE AUTHORITY.

The Ramsey County Graduate Nurses
association Of st. Paul and the. Henne-
pin County Graduate Nurses associa-
tion of Minneapolis, are interested in
the questioned state registration for the
trained nurses Of Minnesota. Five of
the states, New York, New Jersey, Vir-
ginia, Maryland and North Carolina,
have already secured the passage of
such bill. The object of state regis:
tration is to, give the properly trained
nurse the title of registered nurse, max
ing it misdeameanor to use the title
unless the nurse is truly registered; and
by allowing only the graduates of
standard training schools to register
to distinguish the well-trained nurse
from the other classes of nurses, and
raise the training schools to such a
standard that their graduates may be
eligible to registration. The object is
not to exclude unframed nurses from
the field, but merely to raise the well
trainign nurse to, the distinctive posi-
ton she deserves.
A committee representing both asso
Citations has been formed and is ar
ranging for a massmeeting to be hello
the latter part Of May, when state
association will be organized. Cir
culars signed by Miss M. Wood, 421
Aurora avenue, st. Paul, MINI, an6
Miss B. Erdmann, Nurses club, 1902
Third avenue s., Minneapolis, have beer
issued to graduates turnout the state.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-24
DID NOT WANT CHARITY
MAN AT GATE TURNED GIVERS
AWAY FROM THE NICHOLSON
HOME.

Holding back score of automobiles
with one hand, and with the other re-
straining kind hearted pedestrians from
emptying their pocketbooks, mar
stood all morning in front of the home
of Ingebrik Nicholson and his wife,
1000 Second street s. A story printed
in the morning papers told Of a stricken
family but four weeks in this country,
without resources, with two children
dangerously i'll, and two little ones VINO
died the same day Of pneumonia
representative Of the Associated
Charities was sent to investigate the
case. Everything was In readiness to
send nurse and doctor and to pro-
vide relief for the family and work for
the man. When the representative ar
rived it was found that innumerable
people had already offered help and
that the family was at it's wits end to
dispose Of visitors. Finally a friend
stationed himself in front of the house,
and asked everyone to desist. Mr..
Nicholson says he is able to care for
his family and that he is not without
resources. " r: ss"5 S=ss r 81
With the exception of the description
Of the restitution of the family the rest
of the story is true. Since coming to
this country the family has had hard
pull, and death has stricken them. Cour-
age has never been absent, and rather
than ask help from anyone, the father
intends to fight his own battles. y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-24
AID FOR WOMEN'S HOME
STATE GIVES FIRST APPRoPRIA-
TIoN FOR MAINTENANCE OF
OLD SOLDIER. ). COUPLES AT
. ANOKA.

The legislature this year made the
first appropriation to an institution
managed wholly by women. This was
granted to the Ladies Of the G.. A. r.
home at Anoka, where old soldiers and
their wives are cared: for together, and
provision, is made for elderly women
who have been dependent on old sol
d q for support. The Ladies Of the
G. A. r. inaugurated the work Of pro-
soldiers, whose claim has been recog
nized in the generous provision made by
the state this year, for the care Of
such dependents at the Soldiers hcme.
The home maintained by the depart
ment of the Ladies Of the G.. A. r. is at
Anoka, and began in 1898, with one cot
tage on land donated by the town coun-
dious and comfortable cottages, two of
which are being enlarged this spring.
The demands on the home at present
are beyond it's capacity, as the work has
been carried on wholly by private gifts.
The state appropriation is for mainte.
nance only and cannot be used in build
ing. The $4,000 granted is to be ex.
pended in a period of three years.
The plan. Of this institution enables
the old couples to keep up their family
life, and there will always be a consid.
prefer this more, independent life to
that Of an institution. For this rea.
son the institution will not be super.
seeded by the dormitory planned at the
Soldiers home, which already has a
prospect of more applicants than its re
sources can accommodate. The ole
people feel themselves a part Of the
community, and find this SO enjoyable
i that two families who came into some
means after going to the home, have
purchased homes in Anoka and re
manned there. 9 @
The management Of the, home i.
vested in board of nine women direct
ors elected by the department of Mime
4 sofa Of the Ladies1of the e.. A. r. The
B. Mullen Of Wabasha, and the, secre
tary, Mrs. Lilah NJ. Sander Of st. Paul