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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
TOO CAREFUL OF THE HAIR.

College Girls Made Prematureiy
Gray by Excessive ShampoOs.
The non-collegiate woman who had
just returned from a three days visit
to her sister at a wOman's college had
not got over marveling at the ways of
college girls. "But what impressed and
shocked me most" she said, twas the
unusual number of gray-haired girls.
Of course, 1 don't mean entirely gray,
but so streaked with it that it was
noticeable. 1t made no difference
whether the tresses were brown or vel
low, titan or black, there were the
gray streaks just the same Of course,
there were beautiful heads of hair that
looked as young and fresh as they
should, but in a group of twenty girls
/ actually counted thirteen whose hair
was turning gray rapidly. Their hair
did not look neglected It was well
kept and glossy, but there were more
gray hairs than a girl of 80 should
lave. 1t did not seem as if they could
be caused by worry, for college girls
are not given to worrying, so l thought
maybe the strenuous life of work and
play was responsible
''The matron of the dormitory had
a different theory. It's because the
girls never leave their hair alone she
said. They wash their tresses once q
week and sometimes twice a week.
Come with me and I'll show you
"She took me around to the back Of
the building, and there hanging out
of number of windows, in the sun
shine, were several heads of hair. The
sight was as grewsome as Blue
boards chamber. The matron said it
could be seen every day in the week,
and was the end Of the shampoo-the
drying process.
Those girls simply wear their hair
out, and that's all there is to it, she
insisted. and it really seems as if it
were the only practical solution of the
mystery. New York Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
Beware of 0intmeRtS for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mu-
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from reputa-
Bile physicians ,as the damage they will do
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., To-
ledo, o., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
ing Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally and made
in Toledo, Ohio, by f. ]. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
PRISONERS SECRET LETTERS.
How COnvicts Communicated with
misunderstanding Ink Used.

How COnvicts Communicated with
Friends-InvisibIe Ink Used.
A most important dic0very was re
Gently made by Warden Hook Of the
Baltimore city jail in the fact that let
tiers written by the aid of an invisible
process have been leaving the institu-
ton and that the writings were of the
most private nature, says the Baltimore
American. Some eight or nine months
ago there was a prisoner at the Jail
who served q sixty-day sentence on a
false-pretense charge, and it was this
prisoner the warden has since learned,
who introduced the scheme to other
prisoners.
The man conided his scheme to a
select number Of other prisoners and
one of the letters written by this same
process got into the hands Of the ward
en-, who soon learned all about it. Pris-
oners are allowed to send one letter q
week from the institution. but every
letter that goes from the jail is either
read by the warden or one of his sub
ordinates. A certain amount of paper
is given each prisoner and he is al.
lowed to write on only one side of the
paper.
Instead CT filling the entire side Of a
piece of paper those who resorted to
the new scheme would leave a space
about an inch and a half deep, which
seemed apparently blank But through
the discovery it was found that the let.
ters that got out of the institution in
this cute manner were full of writing.
The process used was a liquid acid
gotten in the institution. It was ex-
planned yesterday that the prisoner had
made study of deceiving the officials.
and that he had gotten on to the trick
through some friends. He used a fine
stub pen with which to write and had
to write fast in order to get the acid to
make an impression.
The warden has since learned that
the man would have a fellow prisoner
who was released from the institution
ahead of him go to the persons houses
to whom the letters were addressed
and tell them of the scheme and how
the letters could be read. The letters
had to be held over heat in order to
bring out the impression, and after a
little study the writings could be read
quite distinctly. He also told prisoners
he could write letters with uric acid,
lemon juice and vinegar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

it's work crowned with success. This
success is not great, but it appears to
be advantageous to the fisheries, and
experiments thus far made show that
about 90 per cent OF the fry may be
reared to an age when they are better
able to stand the strenuous existence
which awaits them.
A comparison between the years 1880
and 1902 show the falling off in the
catch and the enormous increase in
price In 1880, 19,836233 pounds were
caught, valued at $473,341 on average
of nearly 21a cents a pound. In 1902
the catch amounted to 1402S, 845
pounds, valued at $1,271, 500, or about 9
cents a pound, an increase of nearly
300 per cent. The scarcity, however, has
not been alone responsible for the great
increase in price, for in $780, when the
catch amounted to 30,449,603 pounds,
the greatest in a quarter Of a century,
the price was 40 cents a pound, an
increase of nearly a third Of a cent
pound over that in 1880. In 1902. when
the catch was one-third less than in
1880, the price was four times as much.
When, a few years ago, it became
evident that the salvation Of the lobster
fishery was to be found in the artificial
rearing of Holsters, the special commits
sion which the government appointed
to look into the subject began to con-
duct a series Of Investigations, from
which SO many valuable suggestions
were acquired that the government has
begun In earnest to start nursery for
young Holsters OFF the Maine coast.
Much had to be unlearned before the
secret was discovered, and various were
the attempts and devices used to pre-
vent canibalism among the fry.
Great expectations are harbored as
a result of the special commissions re-
port, and the statement has been made
that the government lobster nurseries
will in five years succeed in enlarging
the fishery SO that the market price
will fall so per cent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
TantaIite Pens.

4 German correspondent writes as
follows concerning ''tantaIite pens" a
recent invention: On Jan. IL, 1906, the
latest progress in lamps, the new tan
talite lamp of the firm Siemens &
Haiske, was for the first time exhibit
ed before the Electro-Technical Asso-
citation Of Berlin. On this occasion
DR.. Werner Won Bolton delivered an
Introductory address concerning the
method by which he had succeeded in
producing the metal tantalite in a pure
state and declared that it possessed a
very extraordinary hardness. Sheets
made Of tantalite were so hard that
with a diamond drill, which worked
for three days and three nights with
5000 revolutions a minute, hardly a
noticeable impression was made, and
the drill itself was dulled. At that
time it was stated that the firm intend
ed to manufacture tools and other ar
ticles Of tantalite. This latest patent
is the result Of experiments to make
use of the properties of tantalite. The
tantalite pen resists chemicals to a
very high degree; it is much harder
and more elastic than the steel pen.
and on that account indestructible. 1t
is even more elastic than gold pen.
and it is predicted that if it will be
placed upon the market at a moderate
price it will supercede both steel and
gold pens.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Much of the feeling against motor
cars in the country is due to a disre-
gard, or an apparent disregard, of the
rights Of others. The feeling would
melt rapidly If all automobilists under
stood human nature as well as one man
in Missouri. On the back of his ma
chine is large sign, 'Thank you!"
When a farmer has pulled out at one
side of a narrow road to let the auto
mobile get by, and then, looking after
1t little GROSSLY, perhaps, sees that
sign, he smiles and feels better. Other
motorists in the same region have adopt
ed the plan, and now, it is said, the
farmers will even pull an automobile
out Of a hole without making sarcastic
remarks about the superiority of horse
flesh to gasoline.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Agitation respecting the enforcement
of the so-called poison laws regulating
the sale Of deadly drugs inevitably re-
calls the familiar but truthful observa-
ton respecting the futility of attempt
ing to make people yirtuous by act Of
parliament It is certain that the sale
or use of poisons cannot be apprecia-
bly, diminished by any law that can
be framed. The reason is evident
enough. Two classes of people-other
than physicians-buy poisons. The
first and most numerous class Is COM
posed Of victims of drug addictions,
such as the morphine habit and the
choral habit. These people know the
ropes In the matter Of procuring the
poisons which they use. They either
have q physicians prescription or they
can write prescriptions for themselves
and there is no law requiring an Aft
davit or a notary's certificate with each
prescription calling for poison. The
drug users are shrewd and acute and
they can and do find means to get the
powerful narcotics that have become
necessary to them. No law will reach
these unfortunates. The other class of
people who want to purchase deadly
drugs Is made up Of would-be suicides.
The impossibility Of keeping the means
Of self-destruction out Of their hands
must be evident to anybody who reads
the daily newspapers. The man who is
bent upon suicide will accomplish his
end in spite Of any preventive measures
that can be devised. What Is more to
the purpose is the circumstance that the
pOisOns most commonly employed by
suicides are sold with little or no re-
strictlon. A man may not buy arsenic,
for example, but he can buy rat poison
containing enormous quantities of that
drug. He cannot purchase a grain of
strychnine, but he can buy a pint or a
quart of somebody's elixir containing
enough strychnine to kill regiment. Of
what avail are the poison laws" I'M
der such circumstances? And even if
the sale Of poisons were absolutely stop
ped how would the situation be imprOv
ed when cheap revolvers are easily OBJ
tanned with which half the population
could make its quietus if suicidally dis
posed? There is no restriction upon the
sale Of pistols and lakes and rivers fur
nish lethal facilities for people who
have not money with which to buy one
Of the cheap pistols. The whole matter
may be summed up with the statement
that while it is unQuestionably proper
to restrict the sale Of poisons the pres
ent laws are not likely to have much
effect in that direction. In this as in
similar matters the work Of reform
must begin with the individual. If
there are no drug ''iends" or would
be suicides there will be no necessity
for poison laws. SO long as there are
such persons the laws will be of little
avail
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
ATTACKED The HEART
Awful Neuralgia Case Cured TO STAY
Cured by Or. Williams
Pink Pills.

Neuralgia III any form is painful but
when 1t attacks the heart tits frequently
aStal. Complicated with indigestion Of
form that affected the vital organ Il
threatened serious consequences In am in
stance just reported. The case is that OF
Mr.. +. L. Graves, of PleasantbilI. La.
who tells Of his trouble and cure aa
follows:
travelled considerably. was exnosed
to all kinds of weather andwas irregular
in my sleeping and eating. I suppose
this was the cause of my sickness. aS
any rate, Ill May, 1905, had got SO ba6
that l was compelled to quit work and
take to my bed. / had a good doctor
and took his medicine faithfully bui
grew worse. l gave up hope of getting
better and my neighbors thought I wa
surely going to die.
81 had smothering spells that it Il
awful to recall. My heart f1uttered ant
then seemed to cease. beating. l coult
not lie on my left side at all. My hand
and feet sWelled and so did my face
After reading about DIR. Williams PM
Pills III a newspaper decided to tr,
them and they suited my case exactly
Before long [ could see an improvement
and after taking a few boxes / was en-
tlrely cured. am glad to make thi
statement and wish it co1ld cause ever
sufferer to try DR.. Williams Pink Pills
DIR. Williams Pink Pills do not simnly
deaden pain; they cure the trouble which
causes the pain. They are guaranteed Il
contain no narcotic, stimulant or opiate
Those who take them run 10 danger o.
forming any drug habit. They aci
directly on theblood and tits only through
the blood that any medicine can reach
the nerves.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by al
druggists or will be sent, postpaid, on
receipt of price, 80 cents per box, six
boxes for 81. so, by the Dr. Williams Med
icine Co., Schenectady, NY.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

tailors and dressmakers- turmoil
by changing the crease In his trousers,
but they will be disposed to applaud
Queen Alexandra If her latest example
prove the vogue. The vulgarity of the
display Of diamonds and other gewgaws
has become outrageous in England.
Therefore the Queen is frowning upon
the barbarous display and is setting the
example and the fashion by wearing
studlously simple ornaments, such as a
little brooch or small collar. These
modest ornaments shine conspicuously
by contrast with the coronets, ropes,
sunbursts and 'tararas." Let us hope
that the fashion of simplicity will go
so far that the prevailing habit in
America among the nillionaires Of car
rying around with them a whole jewel
~ shop and Of being robbed of their
wares continually will fall into desue-
tude.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

When the epicure orders lobster ne
does not realize that were it not for the
efforts Of the United States Fish Com
mission he would very likely have to
omit the delicious crustacean from his
meal. But it is fact, and to the ex-
tensive and costly experiments carried
on by the government is mainly due the
survival Of the lobster when it was on
the point Of becoming as extinct as the
dodO.
Experiment stations have been main
tanned by the government on the Massa-
chusetts coast since 1883, and from
that year until 1903 the government
hatcheries have planted no less than
1851, $50 fry. 1t is estimated that
about so per cent of the fry planted
are destroyed almost Immediately after
they are put into the water by the nat
ural enemies Of the little Holsters.
among which, strange to say, are other
little Holsters.
The decline Of the fishery, it has been
found in the course of the experiments,
cannot be arrested simply by Matching
fry and planting them in the waters.
If the lobster fisheries are to be pro-
tected, the experiments show, instead
Of fry, the government stations will
have to put young Holsters into the wa
ter, little fellows to some extent able
to take care of themselves and prevent
their relations from making meals off
them. In other words, the government
marine stations off the New England
coast have become nurseries for young
Holsters.
The artificial rearing of the young
Holsters is one of the most difficult
problems which confront the fish cul-
turist or biologist, for while Matching
the fry is comparatively easy matter.
the rearing Of the young and defending
them against cannibalism and from the
diatoms and other dangers to which
they are prey have required many years
Of study before the department has had
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

ing vessels over shoals, which had evil
IDENTIFY been dormant in his mind since
the days of his early Mississippi river
experiences. The little model of a
boat, whitfield out with his own hand,
that he sent to the patent office when he
fled his application, is still shown to
visitors, though the invention failed to
bring about any change in steamboat
architecture.-St. Nicholas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

With almost no preliminary bIaYe Of
trumpets Mexico, after an expenditure
Of $85,000,OOO, has opened an interocean
railroad line across the isthmus of Te-
huantepec and is reaching out on both
sides for international trade. Mr.. Wal
lace the other day advised Americans
to keep an eye on this railway, and it
certainly will be a rival to. the Panama
canal, with the advantage of perhaps
eight or ten years the start.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

The habit of keeping punches of 500
bills in shoe boxes in bedroom closets
up to $4,000 is not to be commended.
1t is unsafe to keep over $4,000 in the
house, though doubtless many Kansas
farmers grow careless through handling
their increasing wealth and do not real
lie how large q sum they have on hand.
1t is a good plan for farmers to count
their money every week or two and
deposit all above $4,000 in some good
bank.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
No TrnnhIe.

"What is the meaning of alter ego'?"
asked the teacher of the beginners class
in Latin.
'The other l." said the boy with the
curly hair.
"Give a sentence containing the
phrase"
He winked his other T."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

So long as the newspapers merely al
legged that members of Congress franked
pianos, beds, dining room furniture and
carriages through the mails there was
40 protest, but when one said that a
cow had been sent in that way the
House committee on postoffices called
the editor up to explain that there are
limits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Olga Nethersole Is suing a paper for
100000 because it said all her plays
'left nasty tastes in the memory" Let
us hope that it may be decided, when
the case comes to trial, whether the
memory is or is not provided with a
tongue and a palate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

More than 100000 persons are at
sea daily, exclusive of those who are
guessing when work will begin on the
Panama canal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Appointment lawyer asserts that wom-
en- are to blame for so per cent of the
divorce cases. However, it will GER
tainly not be denied that the women are
to blame for an even greater percent
age Of the marriages.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

ct must be hard on the people Of
London to have a chief magistrate who
is always like a bad dream to them"
"What do you mean by that?'
'Well, isn't he a knight mayor?"-
Baltimore American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

1t must not be forgotten that it was
absolutely impossible for the man who
declared that fine words butter no
parsnips to have any adequate under
standing of the comprehensive scope Of
the modern jolly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

It may freely be admitted that the
majority of drugs-perhaps all drugs
have a psychical as well as a physical
value. Cures by suggestion, conscious
or unconscious, alone or in association
with drugs, are undeniably brought
about
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

After all, Esperanto, which has been
adopted as a language" by the Lon
don Chamber OF Commerce, looks as
well as any cable code.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

The new Rockefeller baby is said
to be worth $10O,O00,00O for every
pound he weighs. Lots of US would be
willing to undertake a load like that.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Olga Nethersole is going to study
medicine and try to find cure for
tuberculosis. This should make her
press agents work comparatively easy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
short Cuts to Profits.

at is a wonder that BARRIERS as a
class do not make more out of politics"
''Why should they?'
Because they work so hard at the
DoIls."-BaltimOr American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
Facing an UDhiI TasL.

Miss Ascum-Is Freddy Fathedd
working for a living?
Miss Trillion-Oh, my, yes! The poor
boy has been trying for six months to
gain papa's consent-New York Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
Rash Girl.

Mabel-Really, I don't care what
sort of q husband I get.
Her Mother-Why, Mabel, I'm sur
prised at you.
AIabel-So long as he's rich and
handsome and kind to ne, don't care
so there, now philadelphia Ledger.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Scientists say there is no such thing
as an eQuinoctial storm. Oh, we'll, that
kind Of storm by any other name is
just as disagreeable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

American automobiles contemplate
Ing trip to Italy should secure a com
plete outfit Of armor- plate touring suits,
with rapid-fre batteries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

A New York lawyer who admitted
that he charged a client $115 for col
Letting a $50 bill was told by the
Judge that he was a disgrace to the
bar. The proper fee, of course, was $50.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

A man who secured a marriage Ii
cense five years ago has just led the
girl to the altar. Her father must
have been patient about settling gas
hills
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Andrew Carnegie has come out for
spelling reform, but not hard enough
to write it Karnagi
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Sensible Americans are disposed to
laugh when they read that King Ed
ward of England has thrown the world
Of extreme fashion-those who live for
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

What has become of the old-fashion-
ed woman who described hasing lost
her temper by saying, 81 just rar'd
axoundT
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Guard we'll your thoughts, Thoughts
mshe the man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Tennessee has instituted a new pro-
cedure in lynching a man out Of a new.
trial.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

Home is the place where we can
wear the old slippers and slipshod
manners.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

There is nothing the children enjoy
more than the look on Mothers face
when a guest starts to sit on a broken
down, but propped up, piece OF furni-
ture.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

There is nothing so nice as a nice
woman. But the dogs bark at bad
one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09

There is a sea sickness on land, too
people are sick to go to sea.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-09
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