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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-01

stance. There was q young feIloW IN
our part Of the state who was unusual
~ bright. He was so smart that he
could write another man signature
as we'll as that man could write
it himself He wrote other
mems signatures on pieces of paper
and became so bad after awhile that
the authorities got after him.
Today he is serving term in
Waupun.
While this fellow was being tried
the people in his community made his
remark, "That is where your educa-
tion goes. The school certain
~ did not help that man but
listen-if those people had gone back
and looked st the home in which the
young fellow was reared they would
have found that it was the mother
and father who started him off. When
he was a little boy he could have
every thing he wanted and everybody
had to do as he said and when you
bring up child that way he cannot
miss the state prison very we'll. He
is on the way. X x X I believe
the home is the foundation of all
education, You plan a
nice building. get good material and
hire an expert to put it up but provide
poor foundation and what is the
result? In time it will begin to
crack, to get out of shape and you
will be sorry you ever built it.
There are people who are sorry
they ever sent their children off to
school but they ought not to be sorry
for that when it is a fact that they
built wrong fundatlon for the chill
dren in the home.
The home should teach the child to
work and the home should teach the
child 70 mind. < You re-
member when you were little there
were certain things you had to do.
For instance, throwing down the hay,
carrying in the wood, cleaning the
stable That was part of our educa-
ton. And as we grew up we
felt that we must do something; we
were full of that idea and, you know,
some cf the old men today cannot get
rid of it.
The mother is the one who lays
the foundation for our government.
Napoleon said that France needs
mothers and we say the same thing
today. Woman suffrage is COM
paratively small thing in comparison
with the influence mother has
among children the first four of years
of their life If the boy has had to
mind at that time, at 81 he will feel
1t his duty to obey. The
school is out part of the home and
not part from the home.
The child is in the home six hours !;
in the school house six hours. Half
of the child's waking hours are spent
in the school house. Does it make
any difference whether it is an old
shed or a nice building 1t does
make difference whether you have d
nice building on your premises. You
put up a good building because it is
an Investment But the school is an
investment. a cooperative invest
ment and there should be in
the school house everything that will
enable the teacher and children to do
good work
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-01

Now the school board. Let me ask
a question Whose business is TO look
after my home? Somebody else's
No, l am the one. ! have the deed to
the property and it is my business
to provide the different things for my
family. You three members
of the school board will do the same
things for the school that would
do for my home. Make the people
feel that you hold responsible posi-
ton. < x What are some of
the things that we must look for in
the home that ought to be looked
after in the school. First, the chill
dren should have fresh air
It will keep them we'll.
Even temperature is another thing
if a child is hot on one side and cold
on the other he is going to be sick.
Next thing light. Why? Be-
cause the child uses his eyes a IL the
time. On dark day, if there are
not windows enough. you notice the
children begin to rub their eyes.
Every time they strain their eyes they
are weakening them.
Another important thing in the
school room is the water supply,
which is just as important as the
| food furnished for the children.
With very little expenditure you can
get tank with a cover on to hold
the water, and from which the bad
water may be drawn by means of q
faucet This is certainly an I'M
provement over the old water
pail.
Another important matter is the
seating of the school room. If a child
sits in a wrong position, in short
time he is going to get curvature OF
the spine, that means weakness.
You are elected to look after these
children half their time. You are
to hire the teacher, to keep all the
buildings in good condition and buy
what is necessary That in short is
the work of the school board. Dc
for the school and It's children the
same as l would do for my own chill
dren in the home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-01

LIST ms. Dec. 1st. last ms. Dec. 25nd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
Dress Goods Jecfon Jhop JRere Tomorrow

deal in furs away up at Great Slave Lake, 1000 miles north of Edmonton. They say that vegetables of the best grow there. but they do not report peaches as favored, except the canned.
 Americans are about to take charter, accompanied by provincial guarantees to bondholders, for constructing a railway from the boundary to Great Falls. Mont The avowed purpose Is not merely to set tie Alberta lands, but to carry Alberta coal and petroleum to Montanese and other United States people. Half dozen other extensive railways are being guar anteed, as to bonds, by the United Alberta party, or administration, now in live power here. It is composed of amazingly live men, little given to spouting, but corkers for doing things, and so popular that they seem likely to have perfect walkover in the imminent provincial gen. eral elections. In this there may be lesson for politicians in general. to whom l cheerfully leave the job of drawing in ferences from the facts If they draw them correctly, many of them may sur prise their constituencies by becoming al- most as dumb as Alberta badgers are now, when they are mostly enjoying con- tinuous sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
GREAT CUT OFF.
How Hartman Bridged the Great Salt
 Lake.

From the Outing Magazine.
 Take the case of the Lucin cutoff on his Union Pacific. When the historic railroad flung over the Rockies and the Sierras, the Great Lake of Utah lay directly in It's path. The railroad did the obvious thing and carefully made a detour around the lake. When MT. Hartman took over the Union Pacific, then In state of phy- sical decadence, and surveyed the situa ton carefully, he decreed that the great Salt Lake should no longer cause trunk line railroad to double in its path. He had line surveyed directly across the marshy lake from Ogden to Lucin, and when that was done he had a line-on paper-103 miles long, as against .147 miles by the old line The engineers hesitated, but Hartman urged and they courage lously began ts<e construction of miles and miles of embankment and of trestle. Then new difficulties arose. Sink-holes devel- oped. In few minutes structures that had been the work of long months would silently disappear.
 Tt is not possible" the engineers told Hartman.
 You must carry it through, whether 1t is possible or not" Hartman replied.
 And they did.
 When 1t was done the Union Pacific had not only shortened it's transconti- mental line A miles, but it had eliminated more than 1500 feet of heavy grade and 3919 degrees of curvature. An operating economy of between $900,o00 and 1000, 900 year had been effected and the stock holders of the company had a good in- vestment for the BIO 900. GOO that the Lucin cutoff had cost them.
 Nor was that all on the Union Pacific. On other sections of its main line sim liar reconstruction work has added to the economy of operation millions of dollars each year Where the old line twisted and wound itself over the Black Hills or wobbled unsteadily through Wyoming, the reconstruction engineers pressed their work Wooden trestles, old and affording a constant fre-risk, were replaced by solid a single slice through 8 hilltop. a quarter of a mile long and 80 feet deep. reduced grades in wholesale
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
LMed1z1qn 6@ @ss-s{W 1908 F lRST AVE
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BEWARE OF ADENoIDs.
These Growths Endanger the Health of Children and Should Be Removed.

From the Delineator
 Adenoids are curious little caulihower- like growths which appear at the juncture of the nasal cavity and the pharynx. They are often observed at birth, but they seldom cause discomfort until some months later. Then they interfere with respiration and cause the baby to be restless It losses in its sleep and wakens suddenly, crying out as if in distress.
 If adenoids are permitted to remain they deform the mouth teeth, throat, chest and face. At their worst they produce pop-eyes and what is called frog face. They cause mouth-breathing, with all it's attendant evils. They open the way for 101 ills, from rupture of the eardrum, run ming from the ears, coughs and tonsollitis, to pulmonary tuberculosis
 A slight operation sufffces to remove them. The baby suffers little pain and loses little blood. Out they come-and with them the overgrown tonsils that commonly accompany them. If they are suffered to remain, they may never be discovered. But 1t is certain that in one way or another, directly or indirectly, they will cause damage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
Grief That Kills.

My pood boy" said the benef1cent old clergyman, who had encountered a young waif sobbing In the streets, what ails you? Some case of dire distress has touched your heart-chords, no doubt
 No" sniffed the lad, you're clear off your base, old kazoozicks. Me an Snippy an de rest of de fellies tin-canned the mangy old yellow cur up at Schwarz's grocery. and while old Schwarz and de gang followed de dog, I sneaked back to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
White Goods Jecfon

TOMORROW IS F. 40 inches wide 15c value, tomorrow at 1o linene sheets good 69c value at SOC Bedspeads heavy weighted $100 value, at 79c.
 very quality at 59c
 42 extension sash Rods to sell at Sc.
 Lingerie regularly 25c at 15c
 wide medicated tary $125 value 24inch, Shtng checks stripes that sell at 29c and 40c; special at 25c
 quality that sells 25c; special 1s hems 23c, sOinch sunbleached Pique 40c value, at 25c with Marseie patern $2 seller, at $l48.
 O Cambric, 36 inches wide, for $1loo. Curtains seler $159 pair
 Table Felt s175 value at s13e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
ffave Arranged 5hroughout 5he Center 5abs >pecia Jales of New pring Merchandise for 5omorrow
Mems Furnishings

Nen s Rrntshnlgs There is no place in Birmingham like Caheen's to "save on' first class mer- chandlse. Try 1t.
 39c. Mems knee drawers and short sleeve undershirts in checked nainsook. B. w. D., Morris" and other good brands.
 19c. Mems "Shaw-knit" Socks, best in America for 25c; also, mems Union Made" Suspenders.
 69c. Mems $1.50 white pleat and plain bosom negligee fine shirts, sizes to IS, rare bargains. Buy now.
 1oc. Boys Brownie Overalls, sizes to 2.
 25c. A new line of children's Windsor Ties, many soc values in the lot.
 2 for 25c. We sell the Royal Brand Collar for men. Mems 75c cambric night shirts.
 69c. Mems S100 white duck coat, with the military collar.
 5c. Mems 2100 linen collars, sizes IA and 15.
 3oc. Mems soc black leather belts.
 25c. The "Notaseame" silk lisle half hose in all colors.
 98c. Mems s1.50 Savoy and Star brand shirts.
 25c. Boys white duck pants, also blouse linene waists
 3ec. Mems soft negligee shirts, with col lar attached, colors.
 75c. Mems $2.0O soft bosom and attached collar shirts odd sizes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25

de grocery to swipe dried apples. De Fido chased into Schmitt's orchard and de gang cribbed de swellest peaches you ever seen, and then dey smoked grapevine cigarettes and set the barn a-fire. I made a sashay, into de apple barrel at de gro cery, an de delivery boy pasted me with a bedslat and 1t hurts yet. and didn't get to see de fire. and didn't get nothin' to eat, and wisht l wuz dead-dog gone 1t allr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
Something New In Chickens.

Little Mary went into the country on a visit to her grandmother. Walking in the garden she chanced to spy a peacock, a bird she had never seen. She ran quick ly into the house and cried out Oh. grandma, come out and see. There's an old chicken in bloom"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
Our Hosiery Jection

Offers More Bargains Than Any Other
 Alabama Store. Ladies' lisle lace hose, black, tan, white, gray, 15c a pair, worth 29c a apir.
 Misses lace hose, pure lisle, white and tan only, all sizes; special 25c pr. Infants sox and hose, all colors, all sizes, special 10c pair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
A New Installment of Superb Values in Mems
 Suits at SIS and $15.

The success which has met our selling of the two special numbers quoted last week has been most gratifying, and we feel encouraged to extra effort in making them attractive. We expect to keep them "Up-to-th -the-notch" " for the entire Spring season.
 This week our New York buyer has sent us in some particularly good values-all of them the very newest things in Mems Wear-good style and good make-made to sell regular for $20 and $25. Our Price $15 and SIS. We Garry a Complete Line
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25

Southern Railway, the popu- lar route to Atlanta. Trains leave 7::30 a. m., 4::25 p. m. and 12:15 midnight. Chair, Parlor, Broiler, Buffet and Pullman cars. Go the old reliable way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
Wash Goods Jpecials For
 Monday and Tuesday,.

Gingham quality solid fancy coos yard, 1oc.
 washable fabric stripes pad all colors yard 15
 Simpson Calico light and colors with without side bands yard, 6c. Suitng, ladies' chidrens clothes all colors, stripes and yard, 1oc. Light Percale, new, crisp goods patterns; yard, SC.
 Lnene dull black ing per yard 5c.
 composed pad yoles silk linen tures Swiss batse etc.; per yard Lawns regular quality patterns; will quick at, yard, 7c. blue black voes, 25c quality yard,
 clothing their children
  be found Visit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25

fashion. antiquated cars disappeared be- fore equipment of the modern class, dilap- dated shanties were supplanted by hand some and permanent railroad stations. The new Union Pacific is monument to the genius of the reconstruction engineer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25

FIFTH AVENUE BARGAIN.
 $13,000, 50x140, near 24th street. Large, modern house, renting $50 per month. Oliver Levert Realty Company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
Americans Doing We'll.

Some come from away up on the Great Peace river, whence they sledged, ponied, and tramped, for a winter iaunt of 400 miles to and fro, apparently as gayly as you would go to New York by a vestibule train. A Maine family, the Lawrences. first started wheat growing on the Peace some 30 years ago. When they come down they look as if 1t had paid mighty we'll Such stalwarts! Other Americans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
EAST

Via Seaboard, leave 4:10 p.m., arrive New York ZOO a.m. :; through sleeper and dining car serving all meals. Effective May 2.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25

mystery Unless wind be blowing into the window the room never gets very low intemperature, though both sashes air could not enter rapidly enough to bring the rooms temperature below ten of 15 degrees above freezing point.
 This Is a degree in which sleep that is sleep can be slept. Can it be that the electrical conditions are such that the cold outer air slides off the warm inner air. instead of fusing quickly with it and so lowering interior temperature speedily? A more extensive ignorance of electricity than the question is based on cannot be found in many months search anywhere.
 Perhaps a photograph of the halls of a leading Edmonton hotel at meal times. or of the unwrapping room of the Edmonton club, would interest your poor southern CTS much, by reason of the display or fur overcoats. Those at my hotel must represent value of many thousand dol lars since they include seal beaver, musk OK (rare) mink fisher marten, wolf, wolverine, badger, sheep goat, astrakhan, and even the costliest of the fox kino. sometimes. as to trimming. Many of the men who hang up those coats look as If few thousand such could march right down to the Gulf of Mexico, driving the rest of mankind before them, but it is probable that they are too good-natured to do it. not to mention that many Of them are United States, or were so re- centiy enough to cherish affection for those they left behind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25

Summer Underwear.
 Nainsook-Morris' make knee drawers, coat shirt, per garment .50c "Faultless'' ''-Of lawn in plain white, figures or polka dots, knee draw CTS, coat shirt, per gar ment 50c toS1 French Balbriggan Lisle- Long drawers, shirt long or short sleeves, per gar ment ........ 25c to $1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
of Mems Suits from $1O to $35-and the Best at
each price.
A NEW WRINKLE

A NEW WRINKLE Mems Hose, Tie and Hand kerchief to match-all the new shades. A set put up nicely in a
 box. $1.50 New Vertical Stripe Sox, lace or lisle. 25c
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
Most Striking Argument,

One Of the most striking arguments
for temperance reform, says Mr.. l.. A.
Brady, is to be found in certain cold,
dispassionate statistics issued by the
United States Census Bureau. These
figures show that intemperance, as
either a direct or contributing
cause, was responsible for more than
10 per cent.-practically one-fifth-
of all the divorces granted in the
United States during the twenty years
between 1887 and 1906 inclusive.
Since at the present rate at least
every twelfth marriage ends in di-
vorce, we get a proportion of one
home in every sixty-one wrecked by
drink. Moreover, the census author
tiles themselves, according to Mr..
Brady, admit that these figures rep
resent only the most flagrant and pal
pable instances of the part which in
temperance plays in divorce, and that
greater percentages than those ac-
tually given would be nearer the
truth. The detailed figures as set
forth in the census bulletin are as
follows:
Drunkenness was the sole cause
OF divorce in 36,516 cases, or 3.9 per
cent. of the total number of divorces
C1SS7 to 19O6). 1t was a cause in
combination with some other cause
in 17,765 cases, or 19 per cent of
the total number. Therefore, It was
direct cause, either alone or in COM
bination with other causes. in 54,-
PSI cases, or 81 per cent. of the
total. OF divorces granted to the
wife the percentage for drunkenness
either alone or in combination with
other causes was 10; of those grant
ed to the husband, the corresponding
percentage, Ia.
THE attempt was made to ascer-
tair also the number of cases in
which drunkenness or intemperance,
although not direct ground for the
divorce, was an indirect or contribu-
tory cause. The number of such cases
was returned as 1870, ,2S7, represent
ing 1873 per cent. of the total num-
Der OF divorces. Probably this num-
Der includes those cases in which the
fact of intemperance was alleged in
the bill of complaint or established
by the evidence, although not speci.
fled among the grounds for which the
divorce was granted"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
The Horoscope.

Among the scientific toys at the
Paris Exposition was an instrument
named the Horoscope. 1t consisted
OF a wooden paddle about six and a
half feet long and three inches broad
whitened with chalk, and turning
about Its middle at the rate OF 1900
turns In a minute. When in motion
the paddle resembled a thin, circular
screen through which objects could
be seen. Al distance OF nearly four
feet behind the whirling paddle and
parallel to It's plane of rotation was
fixed a black screen. The apparatus
being placed in dark chamber. a
brilliant Photographic image of some
obisct was projected upon the NOV
Ing paddle. and Immediately the
Image seemed 10 stand forth with all
the solidity of a real object. The
perspective was supplied by the re-
nection OF the image from the black
screen behind as we'll as from the
semitranaparent screen formed by
the rotating paddle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28

Dairymen all over the country arc
beginning to find out the great value
of linseed meal and cottonseed meaI
as dairy feeds for the production OF
milk, and it has been found equally
as good for laying hens. Cottonseed
meal contains 500 per cen. protein,
while corn contains oaly IL per cent.
OF protein. Also, compared with the
present prices of other feeds. cotton
seed meal Is about as cheap as wheat
bran or cornmeal. making 1t a very
econom cal feed, compared y its
richness aa1 power to make cows and
hens produce, says journal OF Agri-
culture.
No very rich or heavy feed should
be given as an exclusive ration, hence
cottonseed meal should not be fed
alone, but in connection with green
feeds and other light feeds. When it
is given TO laying hens IL should be
mixed with cornmeal or wheat bran
and fed as a stiff mash, followed with
grass range in summer and green
roots and vegetables IN winter. Cot
tonseed meal Is now sold on almost
all feed supply markets at from $l.25
TO $50 per 100-pound bags, and it
is one OF the best feeds that can be
used for variety OF farm animals.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-10-28
/ be -a5ta-T a5tl:T arm"

! he amount of bran and add cracked
corn to the ration. A ration of four
| parts oats one part bran and one part
corn should prove satisfactory.
While the grain ration is important
| in feeding colts, attention should also
be given to the roughage. This may
consist of mixed hay, bright clover
free from dust and mold, oat straw
and corn stover. Sheaf oats, either
cut or whole, are very desirable for
| colts. The roughage should be fed
literally, but the colts should not be
allowed 10 eat all they will eat. as
such will work injury on the digestive
system. Although the feed and water
are all important in growing colts, IL
must be remembered that these
youngsters need abundant exercise in
the open field whetN sunlight is pleu-
tiful Feed as neal MS you can a bal
anced ration consisting of variety Of
feeds, using oats, bran. little corn
in the winter and roots, if you have
them.
| prefer clover hay, If cut carly
and clean, with some timothy and
corn fodder, and always a place where
they can get exercise. II fed all they
can clean up and digest well they will
always be ready for the market
If not sold when three years old
they should be broken to drive, and
put the draft colts at light farm work
and they will pay for the keeping for
the next year. Then they should be
fed for the market, and that means
they should have about 200 pounds
more flesh than they usually have in
the average farmers care. Then they
will bring from s25 to $50 more per
head than if sold while still thin.
In fact, there is no better business
for a stock feeder or farmer than to
feed draft horses for the market. as
a good, growthy young draft horse,
if properly fed, will put on flesh at
the rate of 100 pounds per month for
two or three months. When they are
put up for feeding give them light
rations on the start, and gradually in
crease the ration until they get all
they will eat and properly digest
J. p. Fletcher, in the American Guilt.
vator.