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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
Home Trading.

It's lots of fun to see the train
come in! In towns like ours the ex-
press train is the connecting link
with the outside world. 1t brings
in our friends, machinery, books,
clothes-in fact everything UhaG we
don't grow or make at home
We want every reader of this pap
er to make US this little promise:
The next time the express from
Chicago comes in don't watch the
people watch the freight
1t will furnish a better object les
son of the real extent to which the
people in this ne1ghborhood are
spending their money away from
home than dozen of our editorials.
Look at those boxes carefully.
You'll notice that the barrels of
-four and the boxes of merchandise
addressed to our merchants are
marked by labels, trademarks and
other advertising of the manu-
facturer.
You'll also notice that there are a
number of very plain boxes with
no labels on them.
These are from the big catalogue
houses of Chicago.
Why are they without labels?
Because so many of the thousands
of people who are bitten with the
mail order mania have requested
that no identifying labels be pasted
on their packages. They want to
buy away from home-but they
don't want their neighbors to know
it,
Time was when all the freight
coming into this town came direct
from the manufacturer to our mer-
chants-to Re broken into retail
lots and sold at a reasonable profit
and the good old times will never
come to us until we all go back to
this form of trading until all the
boxes of freight coming here have
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
SOMETHING OF DUNS.
The Presentation of a Bill is Not a
Reflection of Dead Beat.

Lots OF people regard every re-
quest made Of them, either verbal
or written, to settle bill, as a
dun. A dun is supposed to be more
or less offensive.
Just why any man should find
fault because some one to whom he
owes money asks him to pay it we
have never been able to cOmpre-
bend. IL you owe a man money
you ought to pay him if you can.
II you cannot, it IS your business to
explain why you cannot. Most
people intend some time or other
to pay their bills but many of them
are not SO prompt as they should
be or as they would like to have
others be.
1t is a very easy matter when
asked to pay bill, to explain it to
the creditor why you cannot do it
and ask for more time. The debtor
will generally get the extra time if
he is dealing with a reasonable man.
The exasperating thing in connec-
ton with credits is to write letter
after letter or send statement after
statement to debtor, and have him
ignore them all treating them ap-
parently with silent contempt. It
is under such circumstances that
the creditor gets irritated and gives
the account perhaps to an attorney,
when by the exercise of a little COM
mon sense and tact upon the part of
the debtor, the matter could be
easily and amicably adjusted.
Do not look on dun as insulting
or even approaching an insult. Do
not permit dun to irritate you.
1t is the right of creditor to ask
for his money when he does not
get it, and to keep asking at in
tervals until he does get it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

some ones label on 'eml
It's un-American to work in the
open and buy in secret. What
would be thought of the farmer
who drove into town at night and
sold his produce to the local mer-
chant oyer a dark lantern?
Well brethren lets all quit fool
ing and buy as we sell lin the
open"-let us spend our money
where we make it and town lots on
the main street will hump them
selves and more people will come
here when they know that they
can get ga square deal"
Just thipk for minute of the
heart it would give every one of our
merchants to find out that he only
had to meet honest and open COM
petition of his brother retailers IN
the future and was forever rid of
these stabs-in-the-dark which every
mail-order purchase really is.
Think how his stocks would be
bigger and better and cheaper if he
had his share of all of the home
market to which he's fairly en-
titled
Line up then! On one side the
folks who like their merchandise to
come from the catalog trusts in plain
packages the other side the
home-lovers who are willing to pay
a fair price in the open to our mer-
chants believe in the presi-
dents square deal" and who spend
their money where they make 1t.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

founded. The cold storage facilities
of the present day make the use of
preservatives with fresh meat IN
necessary and the larger packing
houses do not employ them. It
sometimes happens that local
butchers sprinkle preservatives over
a cut of meat IN order that they
may keep it exposed on the block
or hanging in a show window as an
advertisement. The use of chemical
personalities with fresh meat is
confined to this practice alone.
Preservatives are very commonly
usedlwith chopped meats and saus-
ages especially fresh sausage. They
are always employed with canned
Vienna and Frankfurter sausages
1nclosed in castings with ends tied.
Where the ends are cut preserva-
tlves may be absent. The reason
for this is that the temperature re-
CURED for the complete steriliza-
ton of sausages will either burst or
distort the skins when the ends are
tied-whereas sausages with cut
ends afford an opportunity for the
escape of the water and steam.
With many varieties of sausages
both fresh and smoked and with
chopped meats of all descriptions
coloring matter is sometimes en-
ployed. This is done partly for the
purpose of satisfying an unnatural
demand for a high colored article
and partly sometimes to conceal the
the grayish color characteristic of
old meat which should not be used
at all.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
TALES OF THE TOWN

Charley Roberts is one of the
meanest men in town. He heard
me state that I was going to swear
off New Years then went and
bought me knife with a cork
screw in it for Christmas present.
~
Just at present there is very little
doing in gold mining stock in Ian
caster Some of our oldest in
habltants can remember when Lam
caster had full fedged gold min
ing company Of it's own, Incorporate
ed, sealed and duly advertised.
Some OF us best financiers we're al
lowed to open the cellar door and
room IN the basement, and if it had
not been for the foresight of some
OF the officers I think all of the
stock would have been purchased
oy the ground floor people, as it was
such a great cinch. A bang up
good mine was bought in a far
away country-so far away was it
that the long distance telephone
has not reached it yet. And then
The company was ready for business.
A couple of bright and thrifty
mining experts were engaged and
sent down to look at the mine and
saw off few strips for the ground
floor boys who were getting anxious
to see something coming. The
thrifty experts sent home a lot of
gOld-but it was all contained in a
small vial and did not boost the
stock price very much. After the
thrifty experts had been working a
year or SO they made great dis
covery. The gold mine was at the
bottom of a great big heavy river
and the river had no roof over 1t,
and when it rained the river would
rise several feet a minute and drive
the natives and experts to the tall
t1mbers, and they stayed there most
OF the time. just at this point,
when business was slack in the gold
mine Office, one of the officers dis
covered a newly patented machine
which was a wonder You could
take the sand from the bottom OF a
river and run it through the ma
chine and the gold would pour out
of ore spout and the sand drop
from another. This was a great
find for the people in the cellar and
the price of the stock was sent up.
Several tons of sand was sent to the
company, but it never arrived, and
suppose some tribe of Indians dis
covered the great richness of the
sand and worked it without ma
chine-but it was wonderful
machine and has never been heard
of since. AS expenditures were
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
STORM AS PREDICTED.
Rev. Irl Hicks Predicts for January
Weather Conditions.

Rev. ri r. Hicks in his predic-
tions for the opening days of Jan
uary was right He predicted the
first storm of the New Year to be
central January 2 and the snow
storm of Tuesday afternoon sus-
tanned him in his belief. The snow
which covered the ground was quite
heavy but with high barometer, a
great part of the snow had melted
by evening or converted into slush.
Rev. Hicks predicts a cold wave to
follow the snow storm.
For the remainder of the month,
he says we will have the following
weather conditions:
A reactionary storm period is fore
cast for Jan. z, s and 9. From Jan.
to IL the barometer will fall and
thick, and prolonged cloudiness will
exist. There will be heavy sleet
and snow storms in the central and
northern portions. From the 10th
to the 18th there will be gales from
the northwest and an extreme cold
wave.
Rain, sleet and snow are forecast
for the 18th and 18th to be followed
by another cold wave. The 10 and
20 rain and snow may be expected.
About the oath it will grow warmer
and few rainy days may be looked
for. This Will be followed by a sud-
den cold snap and northerly blizz-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
AS the month draws to an end the
weather will be warmer and thun-
der may be common.

The Wisconsin Interscholastic
Association, composed of repre-
sentatives of the high schools of
the state, is opposed to football in
its present form. It was only
through the discovery that the con-
stltution of the association would
not warrant such action that pre-
vented the association at it's meet
ing IN Milwaukee last week from
voting for its adjustment. After a
spirited debate lasting two hours a
compromise was affected by which
a committee was appointed to in
vestigate the subject more thorough
ly and report to a meeting of the
principals which will be held in
next May. In the debate it de-
veloped that football in It's present
form had few defenders, the game
being characterized as brutal and
dangerous.
Bulletin No. z, issued by the
Wisconsin State Horticultural soci-
ETY., is entitled Buying Nursery
Stock" and contains pointed advice
to fruit growers as to when and
where to buy fruit trees and also
the kinds to plant in Wisconsin. 1t
will be sent free upon application.
MIR. r. L. Duncan of Winona,
M1nn., visited at the home of his
mother, Mrs. F. Duncan the past
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
Bound Over.

Clarence Redmond CT Platteville
who held up Chas. Orion Of Ellen
boro at the point of a revolver re-
Gently and demanded his money
was given preliminary hearing
before Justice Trabor at Platteville
Thursday.
He was bound over to trial at the
next term of circuit court and bail
was fixed at $3.50.
Being unable to secure bondsmen
he was remanded to county Jail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

The personalities employed with
meat products are boric acid borax
and sulphites. To detect boric acid
about a teaspoonful of the chopped
meat is thoroughly macerated with
little water pressed through BAG
and two or three tablespoonfuls of
the liquid placed IN a sauce dish
with fifteen or twenty drops of
strong hydrochloric acid for each
tablespoonful. The liquid is then
filtered through paper dipped into
it and dried near a lamp or stove.
If boric acid or borax were used for
preserving the sample the tumeric
paper should be changed to a bright
cherry red color. If too much
hydrochl rlc acid has been employ
ed dirty brownish red color IS OBJ
tanned which lnterferes with the
color due to the presence of boric
acid. Now if drop of household
ammonia be added to the colored
tumeric paper and it turns a dark
green almost black color then boric
acid Is present. If the reddish color
however was caused by the use of
two much hydrocholoric acid this
green color does not form. The
corrosive nature of hydrochloric
acid must not be lost sight of. It
must not be allowed to touch the
flesh or clothes or any metal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

A new preacher in a Kansas
town delivered such a powerful
sermon on honesty that three hard
ened dead beats started out on Mon
day morning and paid all their
debts. Since then the minister has
had nine calls to other churches
and the business men of his own
town are raising subscription to
double his salary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

This is the season to pay delin-
quencies and renew subscription to
your newspapers. The Herald IS
pleased to say that its patrons are
doing these things. And not in the
history of the paper has so many
cash in advance new subscribers
been added to its list as in the past
two months.
Subscribe for the Herald now.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

running up and no income had ap-
peared to help pay the experts, they
were recalled and they hurried home
as soon as they received their
tickets, and active operations
ceased at the river bed mine, but
the mine is there yet, protected by
a deep river, and as soon a a ma
chine is invented to set rivers aside
boom will be experienced in the
stock of this mining company, and
those who have stock can sell it at
long price. It is needless to write
that this experience, although ex-
penslve, will probably last most of
the amateur miners lifetime.
~
Ii Lancaster expects to celebrate
the 4th of July this year, it's time
to commence preparing for it and
talking about it. The 4th is not
far away now and by the time it
arrives the smallpox will be wiped
out entirely.
~
There's two more cases down at
Blewett's -old"time lager.
~
Harvey Abrams handed us the
following advertisement yesterday:
Owing to my i'll health, l will sell
at my residence IN township nine
teen, range eighteen, according to
a government survey, one plush
raspberry cow, aged eight years.
She is good mixer, not afraid of
the cars or anything else. She is of
undaunted courage and gives milk
frequently. To a man who does
not fear death IN any form she
would be a great boom. She is
very much attached to her home at
present by means of strong chain
but she will be sold to anyone who
agrees to treat her right. She is
one-fourth shorthorn and three
fourths hyena. l will also throw in
a double barrel shotgun which goes
with her. In May she usually goes
away for week or two and returns
with a tall calf with wabbly legs.
Her name is Bess. I would rather
sell her to a nonresident.
~
Jim Scullon does not fancy Dodge
vile because there's SO many Cor
nish there. Tom Orion states that
Jim received the incest kind of a
smile from a young lady over there
the other day but would not recip-
rocate because the lady was Cornish.
The liveryman finally located a
shoemaker with a Nc in front OF
his name and passed the remainder
of the day with HIM.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

DO you know" said a Sunday
school teacher, addressing a new
pupil in the infant class, THAT you
have soul?" Course I do" re-
piled the little fellow, placing his
hand over his heard, 81 can feel it
tick.n
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06
ADULTERATED FOODS

1t IS a matter of common informa-
ton that oleomargarine is some
times substituted for butter and
that rancid and badly made butter
is frequently melted and washed
with soda and churned with milk
for the preparation of renovated or
process butter.
Methods are available which with
little practice may be employed to
distinguish between fresh butter
and oleomargarine.
The "spoon" test has been sug-
gested as a household test and is
commonly used by analytical
chemists for distinguishing fresh
butter from renovated butter or
oleomargarine. A lump of butter
two or three times the size of pea
is placed in large spoon and it is
then heated over an alcohol burner.
Ii more convenient the spoon may
be held above the chimney of an
ordinary kerosene lamp or it may
even be held over an ordinary
Illuminating gas burner.
If the sample in question be fresh
butter it will boil quietly with the
evolution of large number of small
bubbles throughout the mass which
produce a large amount of foam.
Oleomargarine and process butter
on the other hand sputter and
crackle making noise similar to
that heard when a green stick is
placed in a fire. Another point of
distinction is noted if a small por-
ton of the sample is placed in a
small bottle and set in a vessel of
water sufficiently warm to melt the
sample. The sample is kept melted
from half an hour to an hour when
it is examined. If renovated butter
or eleomargarine the fat will be
turbid while if genuine fresh butter
the fat will almost certainly be
entirely clear.
To manipulate what is known as
the Waterhouse or milk test about
two ounces of sweet milk is placed
in a wide mouthed bottle which is
set in a vessel of boiling water.
When the milk is thoroughly heat
ed teaspoonful of butter is added
and the mixture stirred with
splinter of wood until the fat is
melted. The bottle is then placed
in dish of ice water and the stlrr-
ing continued until the fat solldifies.
Now If the sample be butter either
fresh or renovated 1t will be solidi-
fed in a granular condition and
distributed through the milk In
small particles. If on the other
hand the sample consists OF oleo-
margarine it solidifies practically in
one piece and may be lifted by the
stirrer from the milk.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-06

Many persons believe that the
great mass of the fresh meat sold
on the market is preserved chemical
ly. This impression is entirely un-
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05
A VICIOUS CIRCULAR
Is Being Distributed Among Negroes in
the Indian Territory.

Muskogee, l. r.. Dec THE
United States marshal aud the com
missioner here are considerably per
turbed on account OF q vicious circu-
lar that is being circulated among
the negroes OF the Arkansas river
valley, calling them TO arms to pre-
vent destruction by the whites from
Arkansas and Texas This circular
purports to have come from the edi-
tor OF a negro paper published at
Topeka Kansas 1t was issued i'm
mediately after the election In the
new state.
Il states that the people from Ar
kansas and Texas who have come to
Indian Territory are going to reduce
the condition of the negro To some
thing worse than slavery and that
they must buy arms and ammunition
and prepare to resist with their lives.
Deputy marshals who ride the sec
ton mentioned have picked up some
of these circulars among the negroes,
and they have also been tipped off
that the negroes are buying more
ammunition and guns than they are
in the habit of buying
These things are causing some un-
easiness because the officers well
know that some Of the worst negroes
in the country live in that section and
they are afraid that they will start
a riot and bloodshed will ensue.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05
CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Report of Superintendent Acker for
the Month of November

Below is the report of Prof. w. l..
Acker, superintendent of city public
schools, for the month of November:
Number of children within school
age enrolled-Males 422, females
ASS; total 80.
Number of children under age en-.
rolled-Males It, female %; tota
40
Number of children over age en-
rolled-Males 3, females IS; tota
49,
Entire enrolment of all children
Males 454, females 529; total 9S3.
Average daily attendance-M Males
3S5, females 425; total SO.
Number of eases of tardiness
Males 3S, females "a; total 72
Number of pupils perfect in attend
ance- Males $50, females 1876: total
3TN.
Number enrolled in cOlored school
Males 40. females 3N. total IS.
Number of days has been taught
a.
Amount of tuition collected Pre-
yiously reported $22o.15. November
collections Sl4N. total $3GN.75.
Pupils on the honor roll. Cecil
Mackin, Maude Kennedy, Mary sleep
gr, Cecil Srokgr. Ted Bvall Modeua
Hawkins, Ada Mae Bothrock, Willie
Nay stroud. Archie Mcpherson.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05
CONTEST FOR SPEAKER
Hon ]. n. Alderdite WtkdrawS from
Race Tor Thai PosiiIoa.

Hon. j NJ Alderdico IS no longer
q candidate for speaker OF the house
OF representatives OF tho Thirtieth
legislature lie has announced HIS
withdrawal from the contest. With
reference 60 his retirement from the
race Mr.. Aldegdice said
MY business affairs have prevent
cd me from making such personal
campaign as the situation required
on account Of the large number OF
new members and this. together with
the lateness of my announcement, has
placed me at disadvantage with those
who have been active in the field for
many months.
~ desire to thank my friends for
expressions OF confidence and kindly
assurances and trust that our labors
during the coming session may be
wisely directed and result in great
good TO the state
Mr. Alderdice will, In next Janu-
AIRY, enter upon his third term as
member of the Texas house of rep
resentatiyes. Born in Weekly county,
Ky, Janaury IA, 1868, he has had
varied and interesting career. He
attended the district schools OF Gra-
YES county, Ky, few months in each
year, went for one year to the village
school at Lynnville, KY, and for two
years TO Clinton College, Kentucky
He came to Texas in 1856, locating
in Ellis county, where he has continu-
ously resided since that time. For
the first ten years in Ellis county he
taught school and was then elected
to the office of county superintend-
ent of schools, which position he held
for four years. Starting without
means, he has by energy and thrift
prospered and owns one of the best
black land farms in Ellis county. He
has been a book agent, had expert
ence in banking and mercantile busi-
ness, has studied law some and has
taken an active and prominent part
in legislation during his term of ser
vice.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05
a BOHEMIAN SUICIDES
Martin JaaCd ReilreS 10 Room In Hotel
and Sho0k Himself.

Martin Janca a Bohemian laborcr.
lately from Germany, who has been
working on the Fort Worth branch
OF the Central railroad killed him
self In his room az a hotel In Ennis
about Z o'clock Monday night He
was sick with a bilious attack and
complained 0f home sickness and was
despondeut lie was well educated
and about II years old Two shots
were fired. Roth entered under the
chin One came out in the upper part
Of the mouth and the other penetrat-
ell the brain. \ small sum of money,
some letters of character and letter
frcm a friend In Waco were found in
his possession. The body was viewed
by Justice OF the Peace Youugblood
and turned over to an undertaken for
burial.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05

The Foreign Missionary Society Of
the Methodist church has been asked
for books for their mission schools
in the Indian Territory and New
Mexico. Knowing that many families
have books for children and adults
that have been read and packed away
and are of no further use, the ladies'
appeal to the citizens of Waxahachie
that such books be given to them to
be sent in a Christmas box to the
mission schools. All donations may
be sent to the Methodist church on
Friday and left in the hall in the
rear.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-05
Notice to our Customers.

We are pleased 10 announce that
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs,
colds and lung troubles Is not affect
ed by the National Pure Food and
Drug law as it contains no opiates or
other harmful drugs and We recon-
mend it ass safe remedy for children
aud adults. B. w. FeBris