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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
Where the Coolers Grow.

Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia are
the leading peanut States. In Virginia
the white peanut and the small REQ pea
nut are the varieties chiefly produced.
while Georgia also largely produces
this small red nut
In Tennessee the white nut which is
larger than the red, and the larger va
riety Of the red nut are raised. The
chief peanut counties are Humphreys,
Perry, Hickman and Dickson, but the
area Of peanut cultivation has been en-
larged in more recent years. Few pea
nuts are produced in East or West Ten
nessee, but in the counties named they
are the chief money crop of a large
per cent Of the farmers.
The peanut has many names-goOber,
pindar, earthnut, groundnut, ground
pea. Northern soldiers called them
COOLERS and there was. a well-known
song entitled Grabbing Goober Peas"
which was a favorite with troops
marching through Georgia" Accord
ing to the 1904 census the total peanut
crop amounted to 11,964,OOO bushels.
valued at $7,27O,OOO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
DOCTORS MEST4KES

Are said often to be buried six feet under
ground. But many times women call on.
their family physicians, suffering, as they
imagine, one from dyspepsia, another from
heart disease, another from liver or kid
new disease, another from nervous pros
tration, another with pain here and there.
and in this way they present alike to
themselves and their easy-going or over
busy doctor, separate diseases, for which
he, assuming them to be such, preScribes
his pills and pOtions. In reality, they are
ell only symptoms caused by some uterine
disease. The physician, ignorant of the
cause OF suffering, Keeps up his trea tment
until large bills are made. The suffering
patient gets no better tfJfeaSO0 Of the
wrong treatment, but probably worse. "A
proper medicine like DIR. Pierce,s EaYorita
PROSTITUTION. directed 70 the cause would
have ehtlreIy removed the disease, there
by dlspel!lng all those dISCfeSSIng Symp-
toms, and instituting comfort instead Of
prolonged misery. 1t has been well said.
that "a disease known Is half cured"
DR.. Pierce's FaVorite Prescription IS q
scientific medicine, carefully devised by
an experienced and skillful physician,
and adapted to woman'S delicate system.
1t is made Of native American medicinal
roots and is perfectly harmless In its
effects IN am C0MdltL0ll QLt6R -LRnlGLS
system.
As a powerful invfgorating tonic ia.
vorite Prescription" imparts strength to
the whole system and to the organs dis
tinctly feminine in particular. For over
worked, Uworn-out," rundown" debili-
Gated teachers, milliners, dressmakers,
seamstresses, "shop-girls," house7keepers,
nursing mothers, and feeble women gen.
orally, DR.. Pierce'S Favorite Prescription
is the greatest earthly boon, being I'M
equaled as an appetizing cordial and re-
storative tonic.
AC CoothinO and STRENGTHENING nary.
Inc cFavorite Prescription " is unequaled
and is invaluable in allaying and sub
DUNG nervous excitability, irritability,
nervous exhaustion, nervous proStration,
neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, st. Vitus's
dance, and other distressing, nervous
symptoms commonly attendant upon
functional and organic disease of the
uterus. It induces refreshing sleep and
relieves mental anxiety and dependency.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigorate
the stomach, liver and bowels. One To
three a dose. Easy to take as candy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
DIAMONDS THAT ARE LOST.

Many Valuable Stones Which DisRp-
pear Never to Be Recovered.
At what figure can we estimate the
diamonds that get lost? One can only
reply approximately. Although 1t seems
enormous, it appears that one can place
at 10 per cent the diamonds that no
longer belong to anybody.
First Of all, what do we mean by
lost diamonds? When a stone goes
astray IL generally occurs that, If the
owner does not find 1t again, 1t has
fallen into other hands. 1t is not lost
to commerce. It is not thus, however,
when a diamond, badly SET, for exam
pie, falls to the ground. At least I'M
less it be Of size sufficiently important
to attract attention one must see there
is little chance of it being saved.
In the city it goes directly into the
gutter and thence to the sewer. In
the country, on the main road, 1t be-
comes covered up by the pebbles and
earth that are stirred up by vehicles
and pedestrians. One can feel sure
in this case the gems are lost to the
world and will never return to useful
ness.
But, one will say, we are still far
from the 10 per cent given as the
actual loss Of diamonds. There are,
after all. not such a great number
that get lost and are never found again.
That is true, but 1t is necessary to take
into account numerous other sources
Of loss, such as those occurring In fires,
shipwreck, etc. Again, there are per
sons who express In their wills the
formal desire to be decorated with
their jewels when dead This Is
customary in some countries.
All these causes explain easily how
nearly a sixth of the diamonds can
completely disappear.
The Bank of France every year has
a big balance coming from bills that
are never presented for payment. It
is therefore not at all surprising that
the same saould happen with precious
stones.
In this reconing are not computed
the losses arising from recruiting. The
splintered fragments and pieces are
serviceable still in some way or other.
We do not admit bort, black diamonds
and diamonds used In the industries,
but refer only to gem qualities.
One might mention the % per cent
indicated by the loss on rose cut stones.
OF all stones these roses show the
greatest loss.-Le Diamant.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
Keep Your Blood Pure.

No one can be happy, ight-hearted anA
healthy with body full of blood that
cannot do its duty to every part because
of its impurity; therefore, the first and
most important work in hand is to purify
the blood so that every organ will get the
full benefit of healthy circulation. There
is no remedy We know of so good as that
old family remedy, Brandreth's Pills.
Each pill contains one grain of the solid
extract of sarsaparilla blended with two
grains of a combination of pure and mild
vegetable products, making it a blood
purifier unexcelled in character. One or
two taken every night for awhile will pro
duce surprising results.
Brandreth's Pills have been in use for
over a century and are sold in every drug
and medicine store, plain or sugar-coated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
A Guardian Wrath
[OS506o(ISC@0So000 -oSoooSlosososooo~-~

0ACK EVERETT, the third trick
( ri dispatcher, with steady nerve and
sound digestion, woke that even
ing with his mothers voice ringing In
his ears.
BE careful, Jack" it said softly,
but warningly.
This was the second time he had
heard It. Once before-forty- EIGHT
hours before the same words.
His mother was miles eastward,
away over the mountains, but the voice
spoke to him so plainly that he caught
himself forming a surprised reply. To
be sure, she was coming to him as fast
MS the fast schedule of the Pacific Elk
press would permit, but that she would
be In his arms tomorrow was no ex-
PLANTATION of her voice to-day.
Had he been dreaming? No, the echo
Of the voice was In the room, and be-
sides he slept the dreamless sleep of
q healthy boy whose troubles have not
begun.
Railway superstition that makes
much of warnings" began to Cypress
him.
BllndIy anxious to do something,
anything to shake off the uncanny
feeling, he hurried down to the tele-
graph Office. The Pacific Express was
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09

u 10 oeaIU WIN Cnen. One OF those
trains must be stopped.
If he might get Avon That station
had no night operator, but the agent
slept In a little room or the telegraph
Office, and If he had not cut out his
instrument the Office call might wake
him.
"Av-Av-Av" rang out sharply
as Jack grasped his only chance.
"Av-Av-Av-" the brass sounder
seemed to change it's metallic clatter
to human cry for help.
CAV" once more; then
T-I-Av-" licked back, sleepily,
and Jack was on his feet with excite
ment.
Drop your signal and stop Magill,
special east" he snapped.
so. K. Magill here; what do you
want with him?" ratified back the op-
orator In a way which spelled indig-
nation at broken slumber.
"Get him on the siding quick and
take this order" answered Jack, his
breath coming thick as he sent copy
of the order given to No. 1 at Boss
burg, and which meant so many lives.
A heartbreaking pause, then 1t was
repeated, the signatures Of Magill and
his engineer were added, and before
the Ink was dry on the order book,
Avon reported No. 1 passing like the
tail Of a comet.
The special started east. The thread
snapped.
Mike Schenck, the yardmaster, threw
Ice water over Jack half an hour after,
doused him unsparingly, and revived
him pale and bedraggled. No one knew
why he collapsed and let trains run
themselves for thirty minutes no one
in authority, at least-knew Of the
narrow escape of No. 1 f; and Jacks
mother could not understand why the
dispatcher's Office seemed SO familiar
to her when she met him there as No.
/ arrived in Missoula, although she
never before had seen 1t.
And while no one in authority re
ceived any report of the mysterious
visitation which had prevented fear
full catastrophe, there will not be found
many railroaders who Will deny the re-
atty Of such occurrences; few will as
cribe them to the Imagination IF the
person who receives the strange warn
Ing. But the puzzling question which
remains, and defies solution, Is this
How did Jacks mother "get away from
herself" and traverse the space that
separated her from her son2-Pennsyl-
vania Grit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
The Missing Note.
wolves.

One of the leading tenors in Moscow
was called upon to sing an opera in
which one note was much too high for
him, but ne got man in the orchestra
to come in just at the right time and
supply the note. In exchange the tenor
was to take him to supper. The plan
answered we'll, the applause was loud,
but the tenor forgot all about the sup
per. Next time he sang the opera he
went to the front of the stage, put his
hand on his heart and opened his
mouth as wide as he could. His dis
cOmfture was great when the expect
ant hush was broken by a voice from
the orchestra saying, where's my sup
Der?''-ISkra.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09

marked up on the blackboard as four
hours late. He could catch 1t at los
ton, on the Montana division, with a
word to his mother. He scrubbed and
tore up, scribled and tore up again,
until, consulting his watch, he handed
this message to the operator:
'MiSsouIa, Mont, June 3.
ITO Mrs. Fanny Everett-On No. 1,
Toston: l am on duty at midnight and
will watch over your safety, mother
dear, from the time you leave Helena.
Don't worry, sleep sound, and dream
Of JACK"
you've got twenty minutes to get
'em in, Jimmy, and now I'll see If 1
can eat some dinner!'' was his COM
ment as he strolled off to Draco's
restaurant and ordered a meal, still
cropping for a solution of the mystery.
For years he had wandered, but the
weekly letters between his mother and
himself knew no break. Now as he
thought of them. there sounded an
eerie note through the letters to him
IN key with the warnings. He had
never noticed 1t before. How many
times she had insisted that she was
watching over him; insisted that she
could and would be near him in time
OF need. Why, in her last letter-he
had received it only that morning, the
last one to come before she would be
with him-she had said:
Jack, dear, love you so, my boy,
that If danger should threaten you, at
that moment you will find your old
mother at your side to tsand between
you and its shadow"
He had looked on the letters as epis-
bolary lullabys that crOoned of the days
when they would be together; when his
boyhOod would be lived again. She
seemed TO be singing happily Of her
child coming to her with his troubles,
looking to her for ready consolation.
That, with boyish condescension, was
the way he had Interpreted them.
The warning words struck another
key. The theme was full of minors
that set his nerves quivering.
be Careful. hudl Was ne Uul
careful? How could he answer for
the safety of those in his care, for the
lives, except by being careful Where
q single oversight would pile UP en-
gines and cars In horrid chaos re
sounding with the dying prayers and
curses of those his mistake had muir
dered.
He had seen a man once who had
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
CRIED EASILY.
Nervous Woman Stopped Coffee and
Quit Other Things.

Nervous Woman Stopped Coffee and
Quit Other Things.
No better practical proof that coffes
is a drug can be required than to note
how the nerves become unstruDg In
women who habitually drink it.
The stomach, too, rebels at being
continually drugged with coffee and tea
they both contain the drug-caffeine-
Ask your doctor.
An Iowa woman tells the old story
thus:
ST had used coffee for six years and
was troubled with headaches, nervous.
ness and dizziness. In the morning,
upon rising I used to belch up a sour
fluid, regularly.
"Often I got so nervous and miser'
able 1 would cry without the least rea.
son, and I noticed my eyesight was
getting poor.
"After using Postum a while l OBJ
served the headaches left me and soon
the belching of sour fluid stopped (wa-
ter brash from dyspepsia). I feel de-
cidedly different now, and am con.
vinced that it is because stopped cot.
fee and began to use Postum. can
see better now, my eyes are stronger.
"a friend Of mine did not like Post.
um, but when told her to make it like
it said on the package, she liked it all
right" Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Greek, Mich. Always boil Post
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville" In pkgs There's a rea-
SON."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
Ernnoh WonIth

The population of France is about
40,OO0,O00; the wealth of France is
nearly $45,OOQOOO. Robert F. Skinner,
IN some recent statistics, shows how
evenly this wealth is distributed. The
number of estates administered in 1904
was LIST, and Of these one-half were
for values ranging from less than
$4,000 to a little under 100000. Only
three were 100000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
Immortality.

Shakespeare shade was perusing one
Of our theatrical programs.
''It is all very WELL" he unused, "to
read '"Hamlet," by William Shak-
speare,' but just think if it were IN
stead:
Costumes designed by Shakespeare,
Paris
Scenery painted by W. Shakespeare
electrical effects by the Shakespeare
company, Standardization
Interpolated coon songs by VIII
Shakespeare
Disappointed and remOrseful, he re-
Iapsed into spCoky silence.-New York
Times.
When a man stops and wipes his feet
before entering a restaurant, the men
An the restaurant look at each other
and smile: They know he is hen
pecked, all right.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
Too Much for Her.

81 met Mrs. Doolittle yesterday and
she was putting on all kinds of airs.
wonder what's the matter"
"She's probably on some kind of a
committee. 1t always swells her head
when she has anything to do like that"
Detroit Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09

n n all around
is n
the nights brighter
An the bells acro the pasur bars
OTIS Of fun n full Of haze
fiddle surgin' whar the cabin fires baze
robbed the honey
sparkn pleasel
whIrrn partridge boundin Of the bukI
treein of possum, rabbits foot uckl
Ehe barkin of the squirrel o. hick'ry
shoot pleaseI
for the world is good to see
the Is smiles mel
II 8 a quadrile-Tm takin' chance
priest gal goin to have dance!
Constitution.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09

If a man follows the family clock
In taking a train, he will find when
he goes to the depot that he Is going
tomorrow, when he really intended to
90 yesterday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-09
Iron-Hearted World.

Frequent earthquakes Of late have
enormously increased scientific curios-
ity about the earth's interior. On this
subject Sir Oliver Lodge observes in
Nature that at has long been suspect
ed that the earth is an iron planet, and
now, through the work of Strut and
others, the evidence both for and
against is lntensifying. It is just worth
noting, as q matter of simple arithme-
tic, that core of metallic iron Of den
sity z, covered with a crust of rock 500
miles thick, Of density %, together
make up average terrestrial density 5.6
but recent evidence points to a crust
much thinner than the above.-LondoD
Telegraph.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-02-22
FREDERICK w. BANCROFT.
To Appear At Opera House ST.
Patrick's Night Under the Aus
pices of ST. Mary's Parish.

One of the most delightful of ter
tainments is scheduled for the coming
month in the appearance here at the
opera house of Frederick w. Bancroft in
his Irish Songs and Song Writer'S
Mr. Bancroft comes under the auspices
of st. Mary's church parish and will APP
pear at the opera house on st. Patrick's
Day. March 17th Perhaps the best way
for The Register to tell its readers about
Mr. Bancroft is to quote from an ex-
changes report of his Shakespeare In
Song" "Itis difficult to characterize Mr..
Bancrofts performance by single
word. 1t is not a lecture, or reading,
or concert and distinctly not ''song
recital but combines the best qualities
of all four"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-02-22

I pay highest cash prices for all kinds OF
farm products Call in and see me or tele
phone number 1922. W. J. WOODS MARKET
FOR SALE CHEAP--Good big work horse
years old, weighs about 1900, Have no use
for him. Enqui at Room II, Batten Block
Gtf
FOR sALE-A 24O egg Chatham incubator,
practically as good ms new, cost $29; tl2
takes it. f.. b. rlatt, whiting, vt. I'll
wANTED-To take a ~ or 10 COW farm on
shares by good farmer. Harry f. Hunt,
Middebury, Vt, II. +. ID. No. 8.
FOR sALE-Four year old brown colt, fair
size, well broke double or single. will sell
or trade for good sized work horse. H.
Danyew, Foote street. I1
LOST OR SToLEN-A Collie pup months
old. Color, reddish brown with white stripe
between forelegs. Any information VIII be
appreciated and a reward paid for the re-
covery of the animal. John Hanon, r. D.
No. @. It'll
The Eaton and Hurlbut papers are un
equaled in style and quality by any other
make and yet they cost you no more than in
ferior papers; sold at Sterns' Park Drug
store.
WANTED-A good farm team, between HOO
and 1900 pounds in weight, not over 10 or ID
years old. Also 10 good mich COWS. Inquire
OF Hartwell Danyew, Middlebury, VT, X. d.
No.5. Su
| TEACHERS BUREAU-GOOu teacnerS lot mi
positions; also governesses and tutors.
Schools recommended to parents. The Inter
national Teachers Bureau, 90 Fifth Ave-,
Room ,, Manhattan Building, New York. 33tf
WANTED-50O hens and chicks each week.
Bring them any day but Saturday. Renem'
Der that we are still buying veals and can pay
the highest prices for them. Come in and
see us IL you have any farm products to sell
l.. j. GORHAM Sons.
FOR SALE-I offer for sale the cedar swamp
lot, property of the late w. W. Booth of Wal
than, situated east OF Town Hill, in New
Haven. Said lot is lsls rods east and west by
20 rods and 10 links north and south, contain
ing about 81 acres. There are several first
growth pines and Is very choice piece OF
property. r. ID. Booth, Admr., Ferrisburg, vt
FARM FOR SALE--The e. Allen farm %
miles from the village of Iridport, VT,
miles from Crown Point ferry, = mile from
school, containing POS acres suitably divided
1 acres wood, good supply OF pine. Com
Portable 10 room house. Two 30x40 barns
Horse barn attached Tool and wood sheds
and hog house. one third OF purchase price
may remain on mortgage. call on or address
81. or q. Il. Walker, Bridport, VT slap
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-02-22
TORTURED DAY AND NIGHT
rheumatism Crazes the Mind
An Internal Blood Treatm nj
Called Uric-O is Widely Recon-
mended TO Cure IL.

Every sufferer from Rheumatism who wants
to be rid of the sleepless nights. the nerve
binding, muscle twisting hours of pam, should
get at once bottle of Uric.O, the marvellous
specific for the cure of Rheumatism. 1t mat
tiers little how long one has suffered from the
trouble nor how intense the suffering. Uric
o will cure it. 1t cures by its direct action
upon the blood, muscles and kidneys; it neu-
tralizes the rheumatic acid poison and drives
it from the system. Druggists and Physicians
everywhere are recommending Uric o because
they know that at last there has been a RENE
dy prepared which actually cures the trouble
and cures it to stay cured 1t has stood all
kinds of tests and never been found wanting.
Uric o is cure for Rheumatism and for Rheu-
matism only Mr.. NJ. K. Burt is the agent
for Uric o in Middlebury and he would be
glad to meet all sufferers from the disease and
explain the action of Uric. o on all forms of
Rheumatism. The Smith Drug Co., of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, are the makers of Uric-O, and
will be glad to send any rheumatic sample of
this marvellous specific on request. They
sometimes send full sized bottle to people
sending for samples
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-02-22
COLLEGE NOTES.

4 The annual Washington Banquet will
be held this evening in the town hall.
Beside the usual after. dinner speeches
and college songs there will be several
selections by the College Glee Club.
Of the students who took the Oxford
entrance examinations in view of obtain
ing the Cecil Rhodes scholarship, j. M.
d. Olmsted, 'O7, of Middlebury College,
and student of the University of Yer
mont at Burlington, passed them success
fully. 1t has not yet been decided
which of the two will receive the ap-
pointment.
The regular meeting af the Young
Woman's Christian Association was held
Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock and
was led by Miss Myrtle Mosier, OF.
Miss Bessie Getman' '09 is quite i'll at
Hammond Hall.
Miss Marguerite Harwood, OF, re-
turned Tuesday after a few days stay at
her home in Swanton.
Miss Edith Fay, 90, spent Saturday
and Sunday in Rutland as the guest of
Miss Bagley, 10.
The delegates sent by the Middlebury
Y. w. C. A. to the State.Conference helt
in Burlington last week returned to col
lege Monday.
A large number of the students arr
sick with grip or tonsilitis.
Miss x. A. Adams, o., went to Pitts
ford Wednesday for brief stay at her
home