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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
IN THE HEMP REGION OF LUzoN
Easy Life of the Filipino Who Owns
Small Plantation.

Easy Life of the Filipino Who Owns
a Small Plantation.
1t is a fascinating region, this great
hemp district of Southern Luzon, writes
a correspondent of the San Francisco
Chronicle at Neuva Carceres, LuzOn.
Everywhere one goes in the mountains
he is apt to stumble on some little I'M
suspected sequestered hemp plantation
hidden away like moOnshiner's dis
tillery in the Cumberland mountains.
In the mountains, in the lower and
more populous country, almost every
where, in fact, you see the hemp fiber
strung out in the sun on bamboo strips
like a washing put out to dry. Some
of it is twelve feet long. Wonderful
fibers they are, like spun silver, even
more delicate than the hair of ones
head, and with a silvery whiteness
when drying that suggests nothing more
than the inside of a white sea shell.
For miles and miles one sees the
hemp strung out to dry. 1t dries in a
couple of days, and then perhaps there
is more hemp strung out, or possibly
not. For who would work longer when
you, providing you have been born in
the hemp districts, can take what little
hemp you have down ON your pony and
sell it in the market in the city? Then
come rare delights. For there is your
sweetheart or somebody else'S sweet
heart, and you buy her sweetmeats at
the market place-where everybody jab-
bers-for a penny each. Then perhaps
you go to a wedding or bale (dance)
and dance all night in your giddy new
American shoes, patent feathers they
are, and agoniZingly uncomfortable be-
cause you are not used to them. And
then again at night you may go a-ser-
enading and tinkle with your mandolin,
first standing on one foot and then on
the other because these magnificent pat
ent feathers are very uncomfortable.
And then when the money is all spent
you go back to the plantation and strip
more hemp and put the glossy fibers
out in the sun to dry. While the hemp
is drying you dream dreams in the
shade. You plan the purchase of a
black derby hat, a red necktie and q
white shirt, and yOu will buy your sis
ter some school books and clothes, for
she is in the provincial high school at
Neuva Carceres learning to be teach
er. Perhaps you will have TO strip more
hemp than ever, for now that she knows
English and is a friend Of the English
lazy meastra (teacher), she must dress
better.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
A DISCREDITED PROPHET.
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There had been years when Obed
Small had given the town the benefit
of his weather predictions; the former
resident of Bushby remembered those
years, and was not prepared for the un-
responsible look which marked Mr..
Smalls features when asked what the
prospects were for a good picnic day.
GIVE got nothing to say about It, !"
and Mr.. Small gazed carefully down the
road on which there was nothing to be
seen save dust and small boy with a
large paper bundle.
why, Mr.. Small, arenr you the town
prophet just as you used to be-" asked
the former resident, reproachfully. II
relied on you to tell me before l invited
the young people"
A spark of angry recollection kindled
in Mr.. Small's dull eyes.
"If you'd been here in the summer OF
'92," he said, slowly, you'd know my
reasons. If you'd seen Ma'am Gregg
when she came at me, all sails set, for
telling her Mary Jane that twas going
to be a lovely afternoon for her to go
riding with that young Simpson chap
she was trying to get, you'd have
known 'em.
"Seems she wore her best suit G.
summer goods and flower hat and q
pink spotted veil, all on my represen-
tations of the weather. They set forth
in fn open buggy for Wilson's Lake,
and a thunderstorm came up from over
behind old Greenoughs mountain, and
struck 'em on the upper road, where
there's no house for nearly three miles.
"She's afraid of lightning, and had
Mysteries besides which her clothes
spotted and shrunk most fearful, and
her hair came out of crimp her hat
flowers ran, and so did her veil; aud
she lost the Simpson chap as the re-
suits, her mother said.
81 moved my Bible and hymn-booK
to the Mars htOWn church a month later,
so [ shouldn't have to see that Gregg
woman and Mary Jane every Sunday.
I've suffered pretty we'll for my folly,
l tell ye-and I've learned my lesson
once and FOR all.
'That boy coming along the road'il
probably tell a good deal more about
the weather prospects in five minutes
than I'll ever tell long as l live. So
I'll bid We good day"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
Strictly Gerua-PrOOf.


The antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic
Pup
Were playing in the garden when the
Bunny gamboled up;
They looked upon the Creature with a
loathing undisguised-
It wasn't Disinfected and it wasn't Ster-
ilized.
They said it was Microbe and a Hotbed
of Disease,
They steamed it in a vapor of a thousand
odd degrees;
They froze it in freezer that was cold
as Banished Hope,
And washed it in perananganate with car
bolated soap.
In sulfureted hydrogen they stepped its
wiggly ears;
They trimmed it's frisky whiskers with a
pair of hard-boiled shears;
heV donned their rubber mittens and
they took it by the hand
And 'lected it a member of the Fumigated
Band.
There's not Micrococcus in the garden
where they play;
They SWIM in pure iodoform a dozen
times a day;
And each imblbes his rations from a Hy-
gienic Cup
The Bunny and the Baby and the Pro
phylactic Pup.
: -Woman's Home Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
500 Reward. SIOO.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has ben able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
Of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
prOprietors have so much faith in its cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list Of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17

sible places, which Lays railroad tracks
along the most perilous routes; the ar
chitects and builders who rear sky
scrapers to dazzling heights; the steel
&hips OF commerce and of war, surpass-
ing the widest dreams Of the past gen.
Grafton; the marvelously swift rail-
road trains; the development Of indus
Try and commerce to a volume that al
most exceeds belief-of these things
man may well be proud. But there is
not a mart Of trade, there is not a
manufacturing center created by the
genius and industry of man that may
not be reduced to ruins in a few mo-
ments If nature brings her forces to
bear upon 1t. The railroad track may
disappear, the iron and steel bridge
may go down to destruction before the
irresistible forces beneath the earth.
The sky scrapers may topple to the
ground as though they were so many
ant hills. The ships Of war and Of
commerce, anchored in peaceful har-
bors, may become the prey Of tidal
waves. Nature in her angriest mood
may make the strongest and most I'M
pressive creations of man appear to be
the toys of prattling children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
SAN FRANCISCO HARRoR.
1t Is Fifty-Five Miles Long and
Twelve Wide.

1T Is Ftfty-FiVe Miles Long and
Twelve Wide.
Perhaps the most notable bottle
harbor in the world is that Of San
Francisco, says the New York Mail
Here Is vast reach of water fifty-five
miles long and in some parts twelve in
width. Into this bay the tides of the
Pacific flow, through the famous Gold
EN- Gate This is strait about mile
In width in its narrOwest part and
very deep. The proud Californians
look out over this serene eXpanse and
tell you that here is an anchorage for
the combined navies of the world,
which, indeed, seems a very mild state
ment of the case. Aside from the i'm
mensity of this harbor facility it is
interesting to notice that CALIFORNIA;
two big rivers, after traversing the
great interior valley, flow into this bay.
Thus nature has furnished two serv-
iceable water roads leading from
most notable natural harbOr into the
very heart of rich farming, mining
and numbering region. These rivers,
the Sacramento and San Joaquin, are
Of the same commercial significance to
California that the Hudson is to New
York.
The harbor at San Francisco is the
more noteworthy because it is the
only one of first magnitude south of
Puget Sound, and it is claimed by some
that this is the reason that the city
is sure to recover from the recent
earthquake and fire Between these
points California presents to the orient
an inhOspitable cliff coast, only &C.
casiOnally broken by a little beach or
minor inlet. Little coasting steamers
make landings, it is true. at several
points along this grim front; but it is
a matter Of considerable hazard. In
some places along this coast great
cranes, fixed upon the cliff, hoist peo-
pie and freight ashore III baskets And
the daring little skipper must even
then keep his eye to windward, lest a
crashing storm drive in upon him and
forever terminate his service on the
sea. Thus it is that the two great har-
bors mentioned must for all time share
a monopoly Of the Pacific ocean COM
merce. One familiar with the Atlantic
seabOard can parallel the situation by
blotting out, in his minds eye, all the
ports between Savannah and Portland
save only New York. And between
these, in place Of the numerous hos
pitable inlets, substitute a scarcely
broken sea cliff. He will then have the
conditions before him which give to
San Francisco its pre-eminence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17

be sent up to attitudes Of 10000 me-
ters, and, unlike balloons. can always
be used at any given height and for
any length of time, but difficulties are
occasionally encountered when the
wind is unfavorable or when there is
no wind at ALL
In order to overcome such drawbacks
all tie kites sent up from the new
institute will be flown from a small
vessel possessing great speed and a
small turning radius, such as motor
boat, as by this means unfavorable
wind conditions can be best met. After
agreement with the two States border
ing on the Lake of Constance, the Ger
man government has decided that the
new station be erected at FREDERICKSBURG
fen, near Manzell. A motor boat has
already been ordered at cost of 10000
marks, and the plans completed for the
station, laboratories, workshops and
other buildings, which are to be fitted
up with the most modern apparatus
and repairing plant.
The staff of the Friedrichshafen sta
ton will consist of q scientific director
with one assistant, machinist, a me-
chanic and a clerk. The total cost of
the station when erected will not eX-
coed 10000 marks and it is estimated
that the annual expenses will amount
to 5000 marks.
The kite which has been officially
adopted at the German institute is the
so-called Hargreave, or box, kite, con
sisting Of a bOX-shaped frame, strength
ened by fine steel wires. The linen
covered end can be either fiat or curry
ed, and automatic apparatus for regis
tering the temperature and humidity
Of the atmosphere, as well as the vari-
Gus strengths of wind, are fixed inside
both the ends.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
A KENTUCKY WOMAN
How She Gained Fifteen Pounds ID
Weight and Became Well by Taking
DR.. Williams Pink Pills.

DFs NkIiIfdITS GiTk THIS
Women at forty, or thereabouts, have
their future in their own hands. There
will be change for the better or worse,
for the better if the system is purified by
such tonic as DIR. Williams Pink Pills.
Mrs. d. @. Wedding, of Hartford. Ky.s
writes as follows concerning the dItn-
culties which afflicted her:
81 was seriously i'll and was confined
to my bed for six or eight months IN all,
during two years. l had chills, fever,
rheumatism. My stomach seemed al
WAYS too full, my kidneys did not act
freely, my liver was inactive, my heart
beat was very weak and had dizziness
or swimming in my head and nervous
troubles.
'Iwas under the treatment OF several
different physicians but they all failed
to do me any good. After suffering for
two wears l learned from an Arkansas
friend about the merits Of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills and 1 decided that l would
try them. The very first box 1 took
made me feel better and when l had
taken four boxes more was entirely WE'LL
weighed fifteen pounds more than when
I began, resumed my household duties.
and have since continued Ill the best OF
health. 1 have recommended DR.. vii.
hams' Pink Pills to many people on ac-
count Of what they did for me, and I feel
that cannot praise them too strongly
DIR. Williams Pink Pills restored Mrs.
Wedding to health because they actually
make new blood and when the blood is
in full vigor every function of the body
is restored, because the blood carries to
every organ, every muscle, every nerve,
the necessary nourishment. Any woman
who is interested III the cure of Mrs. Wed.
ding will want our book, "Plain Talks to
Women which is free on request.
All druggists sell DR.. Williams Pink
Pills, or they will be sent by mail post.
paid, on receipt of price, 80 cents per box,
six boxes for $3.50, by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Co, Schenectady. Ny.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
Met His Match.

One of the very few occasions on
which Rufus Choate, the famous
American lawyer and statesman, met
his match was when he was examin-
ing one Dick Barton, chief mate Of
the ship Challenge" Choate had
cross examined him for over an hour,
hurting questions with the speed of a
rapid-fre gun.
"Was there a moon that night2"
Yes, SIR
did you see it?''
mo, sir"
''Then how did you know there was
a moOn?"
1.-The Nautical Almanac said so,
and I'll believe that sooner than any
lawyer in the world
BE civil, sir. And now tell me in
what latitude and longitude you cvoss-
ed the equatOr"
"Ah, you are joking"
mo, sir, I'm in earnest, and de-
sire an answer"
That's more than 1 can give"
Indeed You a chief mate and I'M
able to answer SO simple a question:
Eyes, the simplest question l ever
was asked. l thought even a fool Of
a lawyer knew there's no latitude at
the equator"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17

Much has been said of the reckless
waste OF human life in the steel mills
Of Pittsburg, which largely employ i'm
migrant Iaborers. At least one foreign
consul has been moved to enter a pro-
test The accident in a Pittsburg mill
In which a workman was overcome by
burning gas and the thirteen remaining
men in the shift successfully attempted
to succor those ahead OF them, with
the result that the entire fourteen were
overcome, three fatally, proves that
there is heroic stuff in these new Amer
leans with foreign names. They de
serve every precsutiOn for their safety
that can be devised.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17

8reS1QIUC I'LL OIL the OIedlJ ANOA L1C-h
road calls the attention of his spend
thrift countrymen to the grave dangers
which confront them. He says that IN
about fifty years they will be practical
" out of iron ore, and in a century coal
will be harder to get, dearer, and Of
poorer quality than now. When that
irOnless and coalless age shall come
the soil will have to be the main de-
pendence Of the population. The farm
er will reassume the unchallenged su-
premacy which was his before the
manufacturing era began. The agrl-
culturists are not doing their work
thoroughly enough to satisfy Mr.. Hill.
He saws that the land now titled does
not produce half what it might be
made to yield without losing an atom
of its fertility. There is, he says, no
intensive agriculture In the United
States, except in individual cases.
There is instead a process of eXhaus-
ton and deterioration which horrif1es
Mr.. Hill when he thinks of the hun
bred million more people who will have
general government to disseminate
knowledge of farming instead Of free
seeds. There is much truth in Mr..
Hills structures. Extensive areas of
land may be found in many Of the old
er States which have been made barren
by ignorant cultivation. Most of the
land under cultivation can be made to
produce much more than twice what
it does without impairment of its fer
tiIity. The United States could feed
with ease four times its present popu-
lation If scientific farming were the
rule. There is another country besides
the United States which needs agricul-
tural instruction and is indeed In great
err need of it. That Is Russia. The
peasants are clamoring for more land,
when the land they have would have
provided for all their wants If they had
known how to use it. Their wretched
methods of cultivation have exhausted
the fertility of the surface soil, ana
even when weather conditions are the
best they cannot raise the crops they
Gid thirty years ago. The poorest soil
in Germany is more productive than
the best in Russia. If the peasants
shall be given new land they will eX-
haust it as they did the old, and In
few years will be no better off than
they are to-day. The Russian govern.
ment ought to devote itself with pas
sionate energy to the agricultural edu-
cation of it's people. American farm
ers are not so slow to learn as Russian
peasants. They are becoming aware
that farming is q science and that he
who understands that science the best
fares the best. They are coming to APP
preciate the fact that prosperity de-
ponds not merely on the price they get
for bushel of grain but on the number
of bushels they can grow to the acre,
and that they can increase the number
by intensive cultivation. The probabili-
ties are that without much agricultural
instruction by the national government
the American farmers will be all that
Mr.. Hill wishes them to be long before
the advent of the ironless and coalless
age
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
RIGHT HOME.
Doctor Recommends Postum from
Personal Test.

Doctor Recommends Postum FROM
Personal Test.
No one is better able to realize the
injurious action of caffeine-the drug
in coffee the heart, than the doc
tor.
When the doctor himself has been
relieved by simply leaving off coffee
and using Postum, he can refer with
full conviction to his own case.
A Missouri physician preseribes Pos
tum for many of his patients because
he was benefited by it. He says:
Il wish to add my testimony in re-
gard to that excellent prepare ton
Postum. 1 have had functional or
nervous heart trouble for over Is
years, and part of the time was I'M
able to attend to my business.
II was a moderate user Of coffee
and did not think drinking it hurt me-
But on stopping it and using Postum
instead, my heart has got all right
and L ascribe it to the change from
coffee to Postum.
Il am prescribing it now in cases Of
sickness, especially when coffee does
not agree, or affects the heart, nerves
or stomach
when made right it has a much
better flavor than coffee, and is a vi
tai sustainer of the system. | shall
continue to recommend it to our peo-
pie, and l have my own case to refer
to-" Name given by Postum Co. Bat.
tie Greek, Mich. Read the little book.
1.-THE Road to Wellyiile," in pkgs
''There's a reason"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
SCIENTIFIC KITE-FLYING.
German Government Making a Study
of Wind Currents.


of Wind Currents.
The great advantages resulting from
scientific and systematic Investigation
of the conditions prevailing in the up
per strata of the earth's atmosphere
were recognized some years ago by the
German government, and great progress
has been made in this direction in Ger
many lately, says the Paris edition of
the New York Herald. | learn that the
State meteorological establishment at
Lindenberg, description OF which has
already appeared, has yielded such sat
isfactory results that the authorities
have made the necessary arrangements
for the erection OF Il second institute
following the same aims.
Recognizing the fact, however. that
kites furnished with self-registering ap-
paratuS are vastly superior to free bal.
looms for such purposes, the new insti-
tute will be of a perfectly different kind
from the one at Lindenberg. Kites can
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17

How short lived is the modern war
vessel has been shown three times with
In the last few months, the Philadel-
phia after sixteen years of service, the
Bancroft after thirteen years and the
Texas after eleven years having all
been relegated TO the ignOminy of either
harbor 81 revenue service. The Ban
croft is the last to go. IT cost. eXclu-
sive o. repairs and maintenance. was
but 100000. while E the Philadelphia
cost about $1,50O,OOO and the Texas
over 100000, exclusive Of repairs As
the Texas has been the only one of the
three To have much strenuous service,
Its most important engagement being
the attack upon Ceryera's feet off San
tiago. the eXpensiveness of the modern
navy lhay be better understood.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
Not a Quadruned.

But the teacher insisted, you have
a dog, therefore you're the owner of a
Quadruped."
"No, ma'am," little Willie persisted.
Don't be stupid, Willie! l just ex-
planned to you that any animal with
four legs is a quadruped."
"Yes'm, but Tige lost one O. his'n
fightin' a trolley car."-Philadelphia
Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
Alarmed.

MY" exclaimed the giraffe In the
menagerie tent, lis this h0rseless bust
ness going to strike us neXt?"
whats the matter?" Inquired the
neighborly lion.
THAT matinee girl just passed by
with that bum actor and I'm sure l
heard her say she wished he'd give her
his autogiraffe. "-Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
No Lack of Opportunity.

Miss Goodun-Think of those poor,
neglected children of Mrs. Offenwedd
How can you expect them to be well
trained?
Miss Tartun-Oh, 1 don't know.
They've had five or six different step
fathers, some Of them quite respecta-
Bile and well-meaning men.-ChicagO
Tribune
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17

One of the important questions which
came before the meeting of the Inter
national Sunday School Association
was the organization Of adult Bible
classes 1t is estimated that there are
already a hundred thousand of these
classes, and they are a potent force in
the development of church life. The
adult who goes to Sunday school is like
" to be a devoted student Of the Bible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17

Six OF the seal poachers captured IN
Alaska have been convicted, five of the
number pleading guilty. Possibly this
will socthe the japanese, who fancied
that the revenue cutter had opened fire
On a bunch of innocents.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17

Cuban rebels who feel that they are
entitled to the offices on the grounds Of
patriotism must have forgotten that
American soldiers saved their country
for SIS q month and board.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17

An Australian matrimonial agency
pliers to solemnize a marriage, provide
witnesses, and supply a guaranteed
gold wedding ring for $3.50. For an
additional 40 cents it will probably
hustle around and find a bridegroom.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
No objection to Stating 1t.

Reporter Senator, if it isn't a secret
I should like to know something about the
speech you are going to make tomorrow
How will you stand on the government
ownership?
Statesman Briefly, but with emphasis
young man, 1 shall jump on it with botI
feet