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BABY'S DELIGHT
 And Mothers Comfort in Cuticura Soap and Ointment.

Not only are Cuticura Soap and Cuti- cura Ointment, the great Skin Cure,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
Gaug,ed by DIR. Hale.

An Oregon newspaper man was once
travelling in the back country Of oregon,
and, going to a little inn for lodging,
was surprised to see a large picture Of
DR.. Hale on the wall. The woman Of
the house explained it thus: "Well,
you see, a good many strangers come
here and want me to keep 'em, and
don't know anything about 'em but if
they know Edward Everett Hale's pic
ture know they're good for something,
and [ let 'em stay."-Ram's Horn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
LET THE BOYS FIGHT.
There's "A Reason for 1t, Says the
Rev. j. H. Holmes.

There's IA Reason for 1t, Says the
Rev. j. HI. Holmes.
The Rev. John Haynes Holmes thinks
it is natural for boys to fight and that
they ought not to be interfered with.
Talking to the Mothers Club at the Ho-
tel Martha Washington yesterday af-
ternoon, he said:
people used to think that children
were totally depraved, conceived in sin
and born in iniquity and the whole idea
Of child training was based on that
hideous theory. To-day we have gone
to the opposite extreme and we assume
that children are perfectly good. Both
these theories are wrong. The child
recapitulates the history of the race and
as primitive man was a liar and a
fighter, so children are apt to be liars
and fighters. Darwin tells us in his
autobiography that as boy he was
an inveterate liar. He told lies simply
for the fun Of 1T. Yet there was no
man living in the nineteenth century
more consecrated to the cause Of truth
than Darwin. The lying was simply
bit of race experience that he had to
live through: 1t is the same way with
fighting. 1t is natural and wouldn't
stop a boy from fighting. He is set
Ting issues that are important to him,
though they may not seem so to u.s."
The president of the club Mrs. James
p Cahen, didn't quite agree with Mr..
Holmes about the fighting
IL always think of the weaker boy
when 1 see boys fighting" she said. HE
goes home to his mother and her heart
aches"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26

and been harried all day and who
comes home at night tired and worried
and whom q square meal would brace
up nightly and cause to take new
view of life and to set his face in the
right direction, and you give this man
d good dinner with hot plates and
don't you see that you head him up
right and confirm in him his good lin
pulses? You nail him, so to speak, you
start him off right, and you keep him
going right; and there's man saved.
"And now you take that same man
and give him his dinner on cold plates
and that may be the last straw that
breaks the camels back, and he may
get peevish over it, and not enjoy his
after-dinner smoke, and get SO wrought
UP that he doesn't sleep well that night
and wakes up the next morning and
goes to business already tired out and
not fit to do anything, SO that he loses
his temper and is cross and irritable,
and misses every play he makes and
goes on from bad to worse and winds
up maybe by killing somebody before
the day is over. All this is absolutely
attributable to cold plates.
$50 of major crimes such as murder
and that sort of things; but when it
comes to little things, such as plain
sulkiness and kicking over chairs at
home, and being cross to the children
and making your wife UNHAPPY and caus-
ing gloom to settle on the household
generally, why, there cold plates have
crimes to answer for innumerable
"Tall oaks from little acorns grow,
mill-dams break and spread their de-
vastating waters from leaks that at
first you couldn't put your little finger
through, and 1 have. no doubt that
many disturbing, distressing, harrow
ing things have been primarily due to
so small a thing as cold plates, which
indeed, as 1 have said, believe to be
the one most prolific cause of crime
"And taking this view, what a re-
sponsibility rests upon those whose
duty it is to see that the plates are hot!
For the good of humanity, if not for
our own comfort, well being and happi-
ness, give us hot plates !"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26

in his own eyes had been transferred
faithfully to the optics of a pig on the
canvas:
The two other men with peculiar
eyes who earn a living by sitting to
animal painters are also eXpatriated
Englishmen. The writer met both in
Paris in the winter of 1897. One of
them had dog eyes," while the other
wore the expression Of a cat. Both
are we'll known to Bohemian jewellers
in the Latin quarter.
In Florence, one Boutempi got his
living by posing to Matarazza, the
well-known animal painter. Dogs were
his speciality. He had their expression,
that doglike fidelity Of eye which one
amires so much in the pictures by
Landseer.
Iii 1895 there was employed as hall
porter at Oporto a middle-aged indi-
vidual who claimed to have been a
Catholic priest in the early days of his
life. He was in the habit Of sitting,
on occasions to Senior Joaquine da Cos
ia, a painter of wild animals, of rath-
Ell more than local repute.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
Proverbs OF Siam.

1t has been said, "Tell me a peoples
proverbs, and 1 will tell you what sort
of people they are" Judged in this
way, the Siamese are a shrewd peo-
pie.
The Menam, their chief river, is to
Siam what the Nile is to Egypt, and
the elephant, tiger and crocodile are
found in jungle and stream.
Here are "a few of their proverbs
when you go into the woods, do not
forget your wood knife" "Place not
your boat across the stream" because
of the currently. can elephant, though
he has four legs, may slip, and doc
tor is not always right
"Go up by land, you meet a tiger go
down by water, you met a crocodile"
(there are difficulties on all sides)
Mobility is seen iii the race, manners
in the Individual" IF a dog bite you,
do not bite him again." HE who lives
under the sky should not be afraid Of
the rain" 'Nourish no worms that eat
timber" (be careful in the choice Of
friends) London Scraps
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
HOW Prisoners Read.

cit is rather pathetic" said a prison
chaplain, 'the way our inmates read
their surreptitious newspapers. 1t is
bad for the poor fellows eyes, too.
at is against the rule for them to
read in their cells, and in the cell doors
there are peepholes, to which the Jail
ers come noiselessly, seeing that all the
rules are enforced.
"The prisoner who simply must read
pastes with a bit of pOrridge his jour-
nal UP against his cell door beneath
the peephole. He sits down on the
floor yard OF two away and holds his
dustpan in one hand and his brush in
the other. In this awkward and weari-
some position, his eyes nearly popping
out of his head from strain, he reads
away for dear life.
"And when the jailer's cold, hard
eye peers in through the peephole it
misses the paper and lights up with
some faint appreciation at the sight of
the prisoner polishing up his floor
New York Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26

At no previous time have the mani
festations of racial antipathy been so
widespread as at present. In South
Africa determined hostility Is shown
toward the natives of India, who have
been migrating to the Transvaal In
large numbers A law for their de-
portation went into effect on January
LIST In Australia the same hostility to
Asiatics prevails; and in British Col
umbia and along the shores Of Puget
Sound the natives of British India have
been attacked by mobs Of DIRECTORS to
anti-Japanese feeling in California and
in Vancouver is the successor Of the
Chinese feeling of a generation or
two ago. 1t Is useless to attempt to
close the eyes to these facts. There
exists, whether 1t ought to or not, a
distinct, well-defined and active hOStil-
ity between the Asiatic and the CaucaS-
ian races. The Caucasian is a Christ
ian, with a social system based on
Christian principles. The Asiatic Is
non Christian, with a social system SO
different from the Caucasian that there
can be no harmony between them. The
antipathy to theAsiatic when he enters
Caucasian country has been explain
ed as due party to an instinct Of self
preservation. There are so many hun
dred millions in the East to whom the
income of the poorest American would
mean luxury, that men Of European
stock, wherever they are established,
are determined to prevent the flooding
of the market with the cheapest kind Of
labor known, and to keep their own
country for their own benefit. But
there is something deeper than selfish
ness in this antipathy. The antag0n-
isms of many white men toward ne
groes, and toward American Indians,
although they take different forms and
manifest themselves in different ways,
are other illustrations of a general
| fact of human nature. They are re-
grettable, but cannot be disregarded.
The industrial conflict between the
East and the West, although it has
hardly begun, has already stirred up
racial hostility to an alarming extent.
Whatever the final outcome may be, the
mObs attacking foreign laborers can
never be justified by thinking men. The
problem must be met in some other
way
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
WATER sPoILs ASPARAGUS.
Dealers Practice Of Soaking IT Les
sens it's Value as Food.

Dealers Practice of Soaking 1T Les
sens it's Value as Food.
Vtce-Consul Murphy, at Frankfort,
reports as follows, says the New York
Tribune:
"a warm discussion has been going
on for many years in Germany as to
whether purchasers suffer from the
dealers practice of submerging aspara-
gus in water to prevent its whitening
or hardening. The plea Of the dealers
has been that soaking asparagus in
water merely keeps it fresh in appear
ance without either lessening its all
mentary value or increasing its weight.
SIN order to put an end to this dis
cussion, the Gardeners Union deter
mined to submit the question to the ex-
perts of the experimental institute at
Geisenheim on the Rhine. According
to the Frankfurter Zeitung Drs. Win
disch and Schmidt have completed the
experiments with surprising results. 1t
has been ascertained that the absorb
ton of water by submerged asparagus
is not inconsiderable, the weight being
increased about 10 per cent In two
days. Moreover, it loses some Of its nu-
triti6us components, especially those
containing nitrogen and mineral mat
ter.
"The results of experiments with as
paragus whose cut surfaces had been
coated with paraffin were exceedingly
Interesting. Contrary to expectations,
It was found that asparagus thus treat
ed absorbed considerably more water
and lost much less Of its alimentary
value than that which was placed in
water without first being coated with
paraffin where it had been cut.
"Thus it has at last been authOrita-
lively established that the practice OF
keeping asparagus fresh by placing it
In water not only lessons it's value as
food, but also defrauds the purchaser.
by increasing its weight"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
GLAD SIZE Misunderstood.
Father Didn't Say 'Darlin'," but the
Little One Thought So.

Little One Thought So.
Out in Oak PARK there lives a man
with little daughter who is as bright
Of mind as she is plain of face. Hers
is the kind of plainneSs that is at
tractive, however, and everywhere she
goes she is the center Of on admiring
crowd. She is four years old, and her
time for condolences is the hour when
her mother is getting her ready for
bed.
A young artist in the city is a good
friend Of the parents, and is a fire.
Quent dinner guest. The mother was
without maid for time not long ago,
and during the time the husband an
nOunced that he had asked the artist
to take dinner with them on the fol-
lowing Monday evening. On Monday
the wife developed q sick headache, and
she was compelled to excuse herself
from appearing at the table. She got
everything In readiness, however j;
dressed the little girl in a dainty
white frock, and then said:
''Now, daughter, mother is not well
tonight, and you must take her place
at the table. You must act like a little
lady and be hostess to fathers guest. +"
The little ones eyes danced. 1t is
the delight of her life to be taken into
a confidence.
That evening the two men and the
small hostess seated themselves about
the board, the child sitting opposite the
father. He is very careful Of his Ian
guage in the presence Of the small
lady, but while carving the steak some
gravy splashed on the clean cloth.
Darn 1t !" said the host to his friend,
and Immediately thought OF the child.
He looked across, and she smiled back
in a pleased fashion.
When the hour for bed came the
little daughter said, thoughtfully:
"Father was very nice to me tonight,
mother"
"Is that So" said the mother; "and
what did father do?"
"Well, he was cutting the meat, and
he looked across at me and he said
Darlin', and then he went right on"
The father is inclined to think that
at certain ages innocence and not
ignorance Is bliss-and safer for the
elders.-Chicago Record-Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKED.
Young Couple Saw Chance to Sue
coed and Took 1t.

Young Couple Saw a Chance to Sue
coed and Took 1t.
A story which shows amid rough sur
roundings the kind Of character which
makes new civilization and new enter
prise comes from a man whom con-
sumption drove twenty years ago to
Colorado, says the Youths Companion.
He had been drug clerk. His wife
was a strong young German girl. They
found themselves stranded in a little
Colorado town.
Our first Saturday night In town was
one long to be remembered. A few cow
boys rode in about dusk and began to
liven things up. One of them, who had
been discussing world politics, sudden
ly discovered that the existence Of
Chinese laundries in SilyertOn was a
great menace to society in general, and
should not be tolerated.
In less time than it takes to tell 1t,
four sleepy eyed Cinnamon were hitting
the high places for anywhere but
Silverton, and new era had dawned
We were sorry for the Cinnamon,
but their departure meant our oppor-
tunity.
Monday morning rented the vacated
laundry and opened up for business. I
stood behind the counter all day long
and took in bundle after bundle. The
news Of our succeeding the Cinnamon
spread, and people brought us work
just to see if what they had heard was
really so.
About o'clock I locked the front
door, and then the work began in earn
est.
While 1 had been taking in the bum
dies my wife had been getting the work
ready. We pitched in at o'clock and
washed till long after midnight
That was our start. Later business
became normal, and we could just COM
fortably do all the work with the help
Of two women we hired.
We stayed there all winter. In the
spring we decided to move further
south, and sold out for enough to buy
a good outfit of furniture, wagon and
team. After we had moved and set
tied we sti11 had enough for a cow and
some chickens.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26

invariably the case is evidenced by a
solicitor In the north of England, who
ascribes much Of his prosperity to a
look Of profound wisdom which has
gained for him many clients, but which
is lent to what would otherwise be a
somewhat commonplace couhtenance
by a pair of FOWL eyes,
At least three men who have come
under the writer's notice (and there
are possibly many more like them)
earn a precarious livelihood by sitting
to animal painters. All three have
come down in the world, and one is un-
known to the other two.
The first mentioned belonged once to
good Cheshire family, but went
wrong and emigrated years ago to Can
ada, where he found his level on the
waterside at Montreal.
According to his own story, he was
on the verge of starvation, when, one
evening, he was accosted by French
Canadian artist, who asked him wheth-
er he cared to earn a dollar by COM
ing to his studio and sitting to Kim
for half an hour.
Only when the painting, very large
one, was completed did the unfortun-
ate model discover that the picture was
study in farmyard life and that the
hateful and all too familiar expression
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26

More than one-half the drownings re-
ported are of young persons who have
aever learned to swim. The art OF
winning is easily acquired, especially
" children. Those who have mastered
declare that life has few more pleas
Irable sensations than that which
Teeps over the body at play in the
Tater. Every muscle is brought into
Ictivity, and the man or woman tastes
ne joy of pure animal sport. If you
10 not know how to swim make it a
lart of the summers duties to learn.
Hunt up the nearest swimming pool.
Practice long strokes and diving, and
he overturned boat on a mill pond, the
tipping of a canoe on an unknown lake
It the resort will have no terrors for
Fou. The swimmer with a cool head
the water can take care of himself
md make it his privilege to help others
Fho have neglected an important item
their education.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
WOMEN AS WAGE FARMERS.
Making 1t Harder for Men to Sup
port Families, Says Writer.

port Families, Says Writer.
The entrance of women in large num-
bers to occupations which were once
exclusively restricted to men is one Of
the distinguishing characteristics OF the
present industrial age. It's effect upon
social conditions has become the sub
ject Of anxious inquiry, says a writer
in the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Competition for employment in gainfuI
callings is no longer confined to~one
sex, and heads of families find it in
creasingly difficult to maintain their
charges unless their daughters become
wage-earners. Thus the ranks Of labor
at all suitable for women are constant
ly recruited.
MANY women, married and unmar-
ried, are obliged by necessity to seek
employment from which they were
formerly excluded by custom. Others
desire financial independence. What
ever the motive for the departure Of
women from the old ways, 1t must be
regarded as movement which is hav-
ing tremendous influence for veal or
woe. It's relation to Wage-earning men
must not be overlooked. A writer IN
the New York Tribune remarks that
While we have been trying to discover
what the effect of the new industrial
progress is on women, few except those
Immediately touched are much concern
ed over what changes might be work
ing in the condition Of the man whose
place, in many instances, the wage
earning women has usurped."
The casual observer cannot fail to
note the large proportion Of wage-earn-
ing women coming from industrial es-
tablishments at the close Of the work
ing day and to contrast this with form
er conditions. While we are felicitat-
ing ourselves upon the opening oppor-
tunities for-~women and their success
in new fields, the lowering of the wage
rate, the displacement Of fathers Of
families and young men, obliged by the
new competition to postpone or ADAM
don matrimony, deserve consideration.
1t appears from the last census that
half the women in the United States
over 10 years of age are unmarried
The percentage is likely to become
higher with the increasing inability Of
men to marry. The sociological out
come deserves, attention. After enum-
Grating the results of woman's activ-
ity-better wages, greater oppOrtunf-
ties for her productive industry, ire
lease from the Odious compulsion which
drove women into marriage as the only
means of livelihood and "the ampler
| service she can render society''-Dr,
Lyman Abbott significantly says in
Worlds Work that motherhood is the
highest service of all:
Claw governs life, medicine prolongs
life, poetry portrays life, art presents
a simulacrum Of life, the mother Gre
ates life. The education of the future
! will recognize motherhood as the SUI
premest of all destinies, and the curri-
culunf of all schools and colleges worthy
of the name will be fashioned to con-
form to this standard and to prepare
for this service"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
A CAUSE OF CRIME.
Mr.. PhliGminthrOe's View of Eff
feet of Cold Plates on Mankind.

Mr.. PhligminthrOe's View of Eff
feet of Cold Plates on Mankind.
81 suppose" said Mr.. PhligminthrOe
to the New York Sun man, that when
everything has been counted up and re-
duced to the final analysis 1t will be
discovered that the one single, most
prolific cause of crime is cold plates.
81 wouldn't be understood as saying
that cold plates are a direct Indictment
to murder, though it is not impossible
that they might be SO but as an insid-
ious, undermining cause, as an infu-
ence leading perhaps indirectly, but
still with no less certainty, to the COM
hitting Of crime l have no doubt you
would find cold plates leading all the
rest.
"How often do we hear it said of the
fate Of nations that it is trembling in
the balance, ready to be moved this way
or that by the slightest touch? And
if this can be true Of nations how much
more may it be true of individuals, who
may be swayed, their fortunes for the
time settled, or their whole conduct of
life determined by the slightest circum-
stance?
Coming back now to cold plates.
You take man who has worked hard
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
In s.I.irht Disfress.n

az heard q new term the other day."
said w. B. Snow, il. ut was at Wins
ton. An old lady and her two daugh-
ters came into a millinery store. The
young women wore mourning hats.
"The old woman said to the clerk j:
4 want a mourning hat, for I am in
mourning. But my datter here indi-
eating, SIS a wilder Of two years
stand, and she is in light distress
Give her a hat with blue feathers on
t.'"-Charlotte Observer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26

The Massachusetts bishop who has
ordered collections in q Worcester
church to be taken by the cash register
system evidently is not afraid that this
business-like innovation will lead to
others, such as trading stamps, bar
gain days and satisfaction guaranteed
br money refunded"