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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
MEAT OR CEREALS.
A Question of Interest to All Careful
Persons.

A Question of Interest to All Careful
Persons.
Arguments on food are interesting.
Many persons adopt a vegetarian diet
on the ground that they do not like to
feel that life has been taken to feed
them, nor do they fancy the thought Of
eating dead meat.
On the other hand, too great con-
sumption Of partly cooked, starchy oats
and wheat or white bread, pastry, ETC.,
produces serious bowel troubles be-
cause the bowel digestive organs
(where starch is digested), are over
taxed and the food ferments, producing
gas, and microbes generate in the de-
cayed food, frequently bringing on peri
tonitis and appendicitis.
Starchy food is absolutely essential
to the human body. Its best form is
shown In the food 'Grape-Nuts,' where
the starch is changed into a form Of
sugar during the process Of its manu-
facture. In this way, the required food
Is presented to the SYSTEM in a pre-di-
gested form and is Immediately made
into blood and tissue, without taxing
the digestive organs.
A remarkable result in nourishment
is obtained; the person using Grape
Nuts gains quickly in physical and
mental strength. Why in mental? Be
cause the food contains delicate par
ticles of Phosphate of Potash obtained
from the grains, and this unites with
the albumen Of all food and the combi-
nation Is what nature uses to rebuild
worn out cells in the brain. This is a
scientific fact that can be easily proven
by ten days use Of Grape-Nuts
There's a Reason" Read THE Road
to MELVILLE" In pkgs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
A Polite Request.

zone of the most polite men that
ever lived in this town was Lon Ho-
BART" said a prominent citizen OF Bush
by to a stranger in the village. 1--WE
were always proud of Ions manners
whilst he was here, and by what I
learn, they've got every reason to be
proud of him out in Stony Gulch,
where he now resides.
Eyes, he went out there in the inter
ests Of a mine," continued the Bushby
man. glad to have a new listener.
..Some of our folks went out there last
wear. and Lon showed 'em round. They
said that in one place, where it was
kind o. dangerous and open, there was
! big placard stuck up, and on it Lon
had printed. please do not tumble down
the shaft
..They said it made 'em feel at home
right Off"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE.
~~~N-~~~~~~N-~~~


"Some one wishes to speak to you
over the telephone, Doctor Barnard"
said the call-boy of the hotel where
the new minister and his wife were
staying temporarily. ooh, yes!" said
Doctor Barnard in response to a lady's
voice which announced, 81 am Mrs.
Wegg."
Doctor Barnard was not surprised,
for Mr.. Wegg had asked him to deliver
an address before the Y. NJ. G. A., and
he had promised reply in few days.
ooh, yes" he answered, and waited
for an inquiry concerning the address.
The inquiry came, but it was a little
different.
"Will you please tell me-" asked the
lady, pleasantly, where 1 can have my
poodle dog trained?'
"Well, eh, Ell, really, Mrs. Wegg. I
don't think 1 know" replied the as
founded clergyman. He was used to
all sorts Of demands, but this was the
strangest yet.
you don't know? Why, isn't this
OOCIOF bdEudru!
EYES,"
"And you can't tell me where 1 can
get my dog trained" the lady persist
ed.
mo. I'm very sorry, but don't real
~ know replied the minister, apollo
getically, "but if you'll wait a moment
I'll try to find out for you," he added
rejecting that this was new parish,
and Of course If he was expected to
know about poodles-
He asked the hotel clerks assistance,
and presently returned to the tele-
phone. He was greeted by the sound
of much excited masculine voice de-
manding, "Please let me have the line
moment, Mrs. Wegg."
1t was the embarrassed Mr.. Wegg
who spoke, and who at once began to
offer contrite apologies to the clergy
man with the explanation that the
Wegg family had two sets Of telephone
Instruments, and that at the precise
moment when Mr.. Wegg, below stairs,
was calling Doctor Barnard, the cler-
gyman, Mrs. Wegg, upstairs, was call
ing Doctor Barnard, the veterinary sur
geon.
1t was strange coincidence, and
rather an unfortunate one, Mrs. Wegg
thought. Still it might have been
worse-lf, for example, her husband
had asked the veterinary to address
the Y. NJ. G. A.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

Some time ago Governor Hughes of
New York raised q standard for law
yers that might be considered rather
high for everyday humanity. He de
clared that no case should be taken
against the public interest. But If that
be counsel of perfection, the article Of
Frederick Trevor Hill, a New York
lawyer and author Of note, in Putnam's
on legal trickery and the disrepute in
to which the profession is falling, GER
ta1nly demands nothing heroic of the
average lawyer. 1t only asks him to
refrain from twisting and torturing
the law in the interest of clients who
do not deserve success. 1t asks him
to be decently scrupulous and honest.
Mr.. Hill does not hesitate to say that
lawyers are coming to be looked up
on by fair and broad-minded men as
defeaters OF the law and Knockers Of It's
majesty" He attributes this to the
fact that the typical modern lawyer is
addicted to quibbling, trickery and
technicality, and cares nothing about
justice, the merits Of the case, or the
real issues. He thinks 1t altogether
proper to confuse the court and get
reversible error" into the record by
hook or crook. He prepares snares and
pitfalls for the judge, and rejoices
when the efforts are successful. He
stretches statutes and solemnly argues
for interpretations that he knows to
be prepesterous. He defeats honest
claims, regardless Of ali moral consid-
erations, so long as some loophOle for
the rascally client can be discovered.
He decelves legislators into putting
jokers into bills and then goes into
court to invalidate the acts fashioned
by himself with an air Of innocence and
good faith. He takes advantage Of
the failure of a plaintiff to observe
the most technical and obscure rules Of
practice. He will "get off" criminals
and turn them loose in the community
on the most trivial and transparent
pretexts. And so on, to the end Of the
Indictment Mr.. Hill gives number Of
striking illustrations, especially from
criminal practice, to Illustrate his
charges. For example, a burglar who
had robbed q railway station and killed
a constable was once saved from con-
viction on a charge Of murder In the
first degree by the point that the stat
ute in regard to burglary was so word
ed as not to cover railway stations, and
that the constable had been guilty of
trying to make an illegal arrest in In
terfering with the burglar.
Only lawyers can so well expose le-
gal chicane and artful lodging, and 1t
Is to be hoped that Mr.. Hills example
will be widely followed by other con-
scientious members Of the profession.
AS he says, lawyers should see them
selves as others see them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

Ny name was Captain Kidd, as sailed,
as I sailed;
My name was Captain Kidd, as sailed.
I murdered William Moore,
And left him on the shore,
And I left him in his gore,
As I sailed.
While out hunting near a little Mas
sachusetts town more than fifty years
ago two brothers came across a time
stained and weather worn letter. A
glance showed that the signature was
Robert Kid, that there were references
to a hoard Of buried treasure on
Boston harbor island, and that there
were some directions, more or less
mystic, as to how that treasure might
be obtained.
When they looked over the whole
letter carefully they had no reason to
doubt that 1t was a work Of Captain
Kidd, even though the signature was
Robert Kid, instead Of William Kidd,
the proper name Of the man who kill
ed William Moore aboard a vessel by
hitting him on the head with bucket
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
AN INDIAN MARCO POLO.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
NO


Tn +he early DAYS Indians were great
travellers about this country, says Q. ID.
Miller In the Boston Transcript. They
paid their way among their tribes by
describing the lands through which
they passed, making maps in the sand
or the ashes Of the fire to describe
their travels. But there was this DIFF
ference between them and other tray
elers-they were required to tel! the
truth. One detected in falsehood was
Immediately punished.
A Rocky Mountain Indian who had
descended the Missouri as far as St
Louis and there had seen one Of the
early STEAMBOATS,, endeavored on his
return to tell his tribe about 1t. On
the first night he said 1t was as big as
ten canoes. On the second night he
said it was as big as fifty canoes.
At this point the chief interrupted
him, and reminded the tribe that the
night before he had said 1t was only
as big as ten canoes The honest tray.
eler admitted this, and rendered hts
scalp III lO14CAl1 bhS N-AP@~AAA~N ShHeS LIZ
had been at first afraid to say how big
1t really was.
Urged to tell once and for all how
big it truly was, he declared he was
still afraid, for IL they should heap to-
gethsr all the canoes they had ever
seen or heard OF they would not have
half enough to make a single steam.
beat.
He might have been killed for lying
then, but when he tried to go on and
initiate the noises of O. river steamboat
screeching for the whistle, putting fol
the exhaust and for the wheels, all al
once, SO that he almost killed himself
In his honest efforts, they decided he
was, after all, only maniac, so they
drove him out Of the circle and treated
him as H'one possessed"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
Noble Duties,

Several of the English dukes have
an annual duty to perform in accord
ance with the patent of their peerages.
The Duke Of Wellington commentaries
the day of the battle Of Waterloo by
sending miniature reproductions of the
French and English flags to the king.
The Duke of Marlborough presents an
annual flag to King Edward on the
day of the battle Of Blenheim and the
Duke Of Hamilton, as hereditary keep
er Of HolyroOd palace, is involved in
the duty of sending a fat buck to the
Guard of Honor . the occasion Of
their yearly dinnt&. While writing Of
these matters, it may be mentioned
that one or two peerages are in re-
ceipt of government grants in perpetu-
ity. Fer example, the Nelson earldom
gets $4,000 a year, and the barony
Of Rodney is in receipt Of $4,000 a
year. But the annual $4,000 granted
to the baronies Of Raglan and Napier
of Magdala will die with the present
holders of these titles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

forgery. There was nothing on which
to base a suit or anything else but
personal quarrel. A copy Of the letter
Is now preserved In the valuable War
ner papers, in the archives Of the
Rhode Island Historical Society, and
the original is in a bank safe in Ware,
Mass.
But the whole matter came up
again last spring. Workmen who were
digging at Deer Island last year I'M
covered a number Of old coins. It was
Immediately surmised by many that
the money was part of the buried
treasure Of Captain Kidd. To be sure,
the dates on the coins ran to the nine
teenth century, and Captain Kidd was
executed in England in 1701 for the
murder Of William Moore. Neverthe-
less. the belief still exists In the minds
of some that at last the hiding place
Of the tainted Kidd money has been dis
covered.
When the letter was published in a
Providence paper a few years ago the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
A VANISHED TYPE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

On Mr.. Hazelton's return from a
weeks visit in his native village he told
his wife that everything there was
changed, and not for the better. 'They
have dinner at night now" he said,
sadly, luncheon at one, and the Con-
tinental breakfast Of rolls and coffee
or no breakfast at all-is the rule in
every house.
81 told Louisa that I'd like to see
some Of the fried pies that mother aud
Aunt Anne used to make for breakfast.
but my hint fell on stony ground.
Louisa said fried pies were horribly in
digestible; besides, nobody knew how
to make them.
"'Cook would leave if l asked her
to try Louisa said so fearsomely that
/ said no more"
Il don't see why you cried for fried
pies in Elmdale; you don't have them
for breakfast at home" said Mrs. Ha-
zelton, pointedly.
1T was absurd" Mr. Hazelton admit
ted, "but my mouth watered for them
all the same. And for sausage cakes
and a Salt-fish dinner, and apple turn
overs, and sugar gingerbread, to men
ton a few of the dainties Of nv bow
hood But 1t was clear soup and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

There was much talk In the air at the
time Of the doings Of Captain Kidd in
New England just before he was taken
to England and executed for killing
Moore. The document seemed so valu-
able that each wanted it.
Finally, they took the matter to
court, each man setting up ownership
by virtue Of priority of discovery. The
whole State was interested in the liti-
CATION. There was no end OF specula-
ton as to which island in the harbor
was referred to. Then the bottom drop
ped out Of the whole case. The garish
light Of the Massachusetts, court show
ed that the whole letter was a clever
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
AWFUL EFFECT OF ECZEMA.

Covered with Yellow sOFes-Grew
WOrse-Parents Discouraged-Cu-
ticUr9 Drove Sores Away.
"Our little girl, one year and a half
old, was taken with eczema or that was
what the doctor called it. We took her
to three doctors, but this time she was
nothing but a yellow, greenish sore.
One morning we discovered a little vel.
low pimple on one Of her eyes. Doctor
No. said that we had better take her
to some eye specialist, since it was an
ulcer. So we went to Oswego to Doctor
No. 4, and he said the eyesight was
gone. We were nearly discouraged, but
1 thought we would try the Cuticura
Treatment, so purchased a set OF Cuti-
cura Remedies, which cost me ST, and
in three days Of daughter, who had
been sick about eight months, showed
great improvement, and in one week all
sores had disappeared. Of course il
could not restore the eyesight, 5ut f
we had used Cuticura in time am con-
fident that it would have saved the eye.
Mrs. Frank Abbott, R. T. D. No. 8, Full
ton, OsWego Co., N. z, Aug. II, 1906"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

Ambassador Bryce, when he was de-
livering the commencement address be-
tore the students of Chicago University,
expressed the opinion that everybody
ought to have a good hobby. He did
not say 1t IN these words What he
said was: Every one of US ought to
have a second or inner life, over and
above that life which he leads among
others for the purpose Of his vocation,
be It to gain money, or power, or fame,
or be 1t to serve his country or his
neighbor. He ought to have some pur-
suit or tastes to which he can turn
from the daily routine. Whatever tho
taste or pursuit may be, whether Of
higher or commOner type, it Is good for
him; but, Of course, the more whole
some and eleYating the taste or pur-
suit, so much the better for him" So
what he means is, have hobby. We
know a physician whose hobby Is
flowers. His yard Is not much bigger
than you could put IN your hat, but he
uses every inch of 1t. Takes his trowel
and his spade and his flower seeds and
his rose bushes, and every morning,
early, you can ind him among his lit
tie beds II am certain" he said, that
It makes me a better doctor and a bet
ter man" We know young clerk
whose hobby is good books When the
other fellows are down town in the
evenings, he is at home filing his
mind with wonderful thoughts and
empying the splendid literature OF
the world into his head. We know a
business man whose hobby is giving
happiness to poor children He has a
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
KING AND THE BOY.
Edward Broke Cake with a Little
CurIy-Headed Child.

Edward Broke Cake with a Little
CurIy-Headed Child.
King Edward, when at Marlenbad,
taking the cure, was one day having
tea in the Cafe Bellevue Gardens with
a party Of friends, says the Youths
Companion. A small boy, with bare
brown legs and q head covered with
curls, was playing about IN charge Of
his nurse. He was attracted by the
kings smile, which comes readily for
children, and drew near the royal Ia
bic.
His majesty smiling offered him q
piece Of cake, whereupon, becoming sud
denly shy, the little boy took to his
heels ard scampered away.
The king laughed softly. But as he
knows a good deal about child nature
he placed the plate with the cake on
it invitingly near the edge Of the ia
BILE, and presently "Curly Head" came
haltingly back. His majesty again ex-
tended the plate. This time the boy
took It,
Thank you!" said he.
The king bowed with the utmost
gravity.
Then, resting the plate on the kings
knees, the boy ate the cake with appe-
tite, even STOPPING scrupulously to pick
up and eat q rather large crumb which
had fallen at his majesty's feet.
When the last crumb had disappear
ed he placed the plate on the table.
THANK you'll" he said again.
"Most welcome" returned the king.
holding out his hand.
The boy took 1t, quite unconscious
that he was shaking hands with Eng
lands sovereign, and ran Off to his en-
barrassed and Mortified nurse without
a backward glance. But when the king
was leaving the gardens the boy spied
him, and remembered that he had brok-
en- bread with him. With all his lit
tie might he chased his majesty's re-
treating figure.
"Good-by!" he painted. ''The cake was
fine"
His majesty's hand rested for an In
slant on the curly head.
"Good-by!" he said. And those who
witnessed the little scene say that it
was a fathers and not a kings smile
that accompanied the words.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
Witty Journalism.

Jacob A. Riis, the author and jour
nalist, was talking about witty news,
paper headlines.
Gas witty a headline as 1 know"
said he, "was written by a youth of IS
in a San Francisco newspaper Office.
There was bill up to prohibit the sale
Of alcoholic drinks within four miles of
the University of California, and this
bill the youth headed:
"'An Act to Promote Pedestrianism
Among Our Students
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
Sure to Miss Him.

A man runs a truck-farm in Virginia
tells of the sad predicament in which
colored man named Sam Moore, who
is in his employ, found himself. Sam
had had considerable difficulty in evad-
ing the onslaughts of dog from q
neighboring farm. Finally the dog got
him, as Sam kicked at him.
Sans wife, hearing a tremendous
veil. rushed to the rescue Of her hIs-
band. When she came up the dog had
fastened his teeth in the calf of Sans
leg and was holding on for dear life.
Selling a stone in the road, Sans wife
was about to hurl 1t when Sam, with
wonderful presence of mind, shouted:
Mandy! Mandy! Don't frow dat
stone at de dawg! FrOw it at me, Man
dyv'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

belief that there was booty of the pir-
ate captain In the vicinity Of Boston
sprang up again, full armed, and per-
sons all over the country wrote to the
author of the story asking for iDforma-
ton, telling what they knew Of the
matter and theorizing in many differ
ent directions. One man told of a
mysterious party that had made mys-
terious treasure digging trip to an IN
named island in the harbor. The his
torian author Of the story said that
there were many indications that the
letter was authentic, not, knowing, ap-
parently, of the decision Of the law
suit in Massachusetts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

way Of picking up forlorn street boys
antl tiny girls who scarcely ever heard
Of happiness. A hundred children love
him. Hobbies are only habits. Fool
ISL hobbies are foolish habits. Waste
full hobbies are wasteful habits. Bad
hobbies are bad habits. But the good
hobby Is nothing but a good habit. Mr..
Bryce is a pretty keen-sighted man.
He knows that there is nothing that
takes the life out Of us like routine,
always doing the same thing, without
any let-up or contrast. We need a good
hobby or two, like flowers, or good
books, or making children happy, and
the more wholesome and healthy the
hobby the more real good we will get
out OF it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
19S Chances.

Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania said re-
Gently In Harrisburg of bill that he
opposed:
'@Ehis bill, at first glance, is full OF
promise and enthusiasm and hope, but
1t is naive. 1t is like the young max
of Kensington who proposed for thgl
hand of the millionaire's daughter.
"'Well,' said the millionaire, frOwR~
ing thoughtfully, what are your pros
poets? Is there any chance Of promo
ton In your businessP
"'Any chance? cried the young man.
We'll, 1 should say so. Why, we en-
ploy 200 men, and my job is next to the
lowest in the establishment
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

Expert witnesses, as q class, have
won the dIstrust Of the public. A Mas
sachusetts physician, following the ex-
ample Of thoughtful men In other
States, has outlined plan for the Inn
proVement of the legal value Of expert
testimony, and also for the protection
Of the medical profession from the Ill
repute brought upon 1t by some Of its
members in court. He proposes that
the court appoint the experts and the
State pay them. So long as human
nature is human. an expert, no matter
how good his intentions, will be In
clined to favor the side by which he is
engaged and paid.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

Hetty Green has given UP her resi-
dence at Bellows Falls because the as
SCISSORS there wanted her to pay taxes
on some OF her personal property. Why
Doesn't the lady outwit the tax gath
erers by having a kitchen and bedroom
rugged up in one Of those little houses
on wheels such as travelling photog-
raphers used to make use Of while sup
plying the populace with tintyes?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

sweetbreads and salads everywhere
Just as it is here.
"And the worst Is not yet" said Mr.
Hazelton, feelingly. "And the old-fash-
toned woman who took the table-cloth
to the door after a meal and shook it
has departed for good and ALL
Youths Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
Conclusive.

do you regard this prevalence Of
high prices as a sign of prosperity"
Certainly" answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax; "the fact that people can afford
to pay them Is conclusive sign Of pros
Qerity. Washington Star
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
The Ruling Passion.

Telegram Operator Thirty words /
that will be S1.S5, madam.
Madam-Oh, you're mistaken. The
message is only ten words; the rest
is simply a Observation-Disclosures Tran.
script.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

Emma Goldman says "a desirable
citizen Is one who throws Off traditions
and the past and acts freely on the
Impulses of the present" 1t is said
Emma Is thinking of going abroad.
The hope is that she will act on the
Impulse Of the present.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

It is a noteworthy fact that none Of
the gentlemen who are voclferously In
favor Of universal disarmament appear
to think It necessary to find out how
Bertha Krupp and her husband feel
about It.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

An Ohio editor thinks there is no
reason for general Encouragement as
long as seven pounds of prunes may
be purchased for a quarter. Evident
" he doesn't board.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31

evil women ever dress like men?
asks New York reformer. No. Even
If they wore trousers they would want
to put them on by poking their heads
I'D through from under.