Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-08

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Tag, you're it," See that you are,
says the Detroit Free Press.
The Kentucky court of appeals has
decided that it's a proper exercise OF
the States police power to put a
tax on dogs
A man who tells all he knows,
muses. the Chicago Record-Herald,
soon drops into the habit of telling
more.
Big with the Importance of q new
discovery, the London preacher says:
Never check the flowing tide of wo-
mans talk" We never heard OF
anybody, who ever did.
When Cardinal Logue said to John
d. Rockefeller, You have q fine
country he did not use the pronoun
you in personal sense, as some
have supposed, explains the Atlanta
Journal.
For the first quarter of this year,
says the London Globe, not birth.
marriage or death was registered in
the parish of Kirkgunzeon. Kirken-
brightshine, a state of affairs which
is unique in the registrars experience,
extending over 40 years.
Flies must co. is the latest edict
of science. And after the mosquitoes
and the flies and the f1eas there will
be the gnats, fears the Louisville
Courier-Journal, which may possibly
organize and overcome the human
race when it is tired out from kill
ing the larger insects.
We have long been familiar with
stories of ghostly stage coaches and
railroad trains on the land and Fly
ing Dutchmen'' on the waves. Now
that phantom airships are reported,
thinks the Boston Transcript, we may
regard aerial navigation as estab-
lished.
We talk Of the terrible nervous
strain" of modern city life, writes the
Saturday Evening Post The worst
strain of modern city life is not on
the brain, but on the lungs. Apart
from it's foul air, city life is the
easiest, happiest and most healthful
life yet invented
Beef prices are going up Pack.
ers say this is because of a shortage
of cattle. That is all right as a stock
statement, to the Washington Star.
but the consumer would like to know
the real reason.
We are constantly deluded by the
statistics about wealth and wealthy
men, but the fact is that unknown bill
lions of wealth are represented by
the soil and by the annual products
of the soil. insists the Christian Regis
ter. 1t has been estimated that the
value of the farms of the country in
a few years increased by five billions
of dollars, and that in 1900 the food
products and other raw materials
produced in this country amounted to
nearly four billions Of dollars.
Think of all the detectives, ali the
watchers, all the time clocks! exclaims
the New York Journal. All
human brains should really be devot-
ed to production. Now, thanks 10
our savage condition of widespread
dishonesty, the keen, alert mind is
watching the inferior mind and pro-
ducing nothing. Think of the cashiers
that are mere watchers! Think OF all
those that simply take in money!
They would be released from useless
labor if natural honesty could be re-
lied upon throughout the nation as it
can in the individual family.
The Medical Record" applauds the
members of the American Medical
Association for making Colonel Will
liam C. Georges, NJ. D., their presi-
dent. 'HHe is man of few words
but of great Deeds" it says, "and,
Judged by what he has accomplish
ed, he is far and away the foremost
sanitarian of his day. He has con-
quered the disease which made tropi-
cal cities the graveyards of northern
men, and on the Isthmus of Panama
he has also reduced the malaria NOR
tally, so that it is no longer a men
ace to the man who observes proper
precautions"