Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-01-27

4 KANSAS CITY mnn who is under arrest
for perjury, says his law! er advised hin
10 swear to a lie. Westward the star OF
empire takes its way, and the lawyer goes
along with il.
THE era OF real estate booming that
several sections of the country have had
must soon reach the point where the last
man in will find it hard work to get out
without financial disaster.
The advance in tbs price of coal to
cons umeIs rests simply on the manipula-
la'ioE of tae market by the big dealers.
The product for the second week in Jan
uary was the largest on record for that
week and a fifth greater than last year.
! Two Belgian glass workers at Butler,
| Pa, were discharged for drunkenness
and thereupon they secured the aid of
twenty other Beigians and tried to mpel
| other workingmen to quit, threatening to
kill those who returned to work. 1t is
about time some means should be found
to stop such un-American proceedings.
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PENNSYLVANIA mine oper ator says
that the great earring companies pay the
| mines no more for their coal than they
did before the Reading strike, and that in
fact. it costs the corporations less to
mine and ship anthracite than it did in
November. There is no reason why the
price of coal should go up except the
grind of the octopus monopoly.
SPEAKING of Alaska in a recent lecture
in Washington, Prof. J. w. Chickering
said that the great obstacle to enjoying
a summer there is the vast number of
large and bloodthirsty mosquitoes. Dogs
are killed by them, and men preserve
their lives only by covering their faces
with thick cloths and wearing gloves.
MANY of the farmers and lumbermen in
Northern Michigan are making use of
dogs this winter TO draw their sleds. 1t
is said that the dogs become very expert
at the work after little training, and in
many ways equal the Esquimaux dogs
II we may believe half the stories told of
the brutality practiced in the lumber
camps, the dogs are nearer human beings
than the men.
THE faith-cure craze has met its first
decided opposition in New York, where
the Manhattan County Medical Society
has memorialized the legislature, asking
for a committee of physicians and law
yers to be appointed to consider the ad
visibility of law prohibiting such prac
tice as dangerous to the lives of the ig
norant and weak minded.
IT seems to be settled that law will be
passed at the present session of congress
authorizing national banks to Issue notes
to the par value of the bonds deposited to
secure their circulation. What the couu-
try needs still more in this connection,
however, is an effective law to prevent
such banks from coilapsing in spite of
the systematic Federal supervision which
is supposed TO be exercised over their af
fairs.
THE Governor of Rhode Island, in his
annual message, sadly acknowledges that
the Prohibitory law of that State is a
failure, and he says tho fact that it is a
failure is entirely due to "a lack of pub
lie ser timent" to support and enforce it.
1t is always a mistake to enact law that
can not be enforced. laws do not Ell
force themselves any more than legle.s
body walks itself, wipgless bird flies
itself, or an erginele,s railway train pro
pels itself.
THE presentation of the annual report
of Adjutant-GeneralP Porter has revived
discussion as to the relative Importance
of instruction and preparations in the
different arms of the service for militia
in time of peace, Many of the best
critics incline strongly to the view that
more heed should be given to the artil
lery and cavalry, for the reason that
neither artillery men nor cayalrymen
can be beimprovised in case of war as readi-
ly as infantrymen. A small allowance
for keeping horses, subject to inspection
fit for cavalry or artillery service would
greatly encourage enlistment in those
arms of the service.
THE latest correspondence between
Austria and Russia has not q pacific tone.
Russia having given reassuring explana-
tions of certain movements of the Cars
troops, Count Kalnoy has replied that,
while Austria's purpose are equally
peaceful, the military councils alone eau
Judge of the situation created by the
advance of Russian troops. TIE second
Caucasian corps has been ordered to
advance to the Austro- Roumanian from
tier, and, on the other hand, the Hungar-
ian troops in Pennsylvania have been
| heavily re-enforced There is also q
transport of a large Italian army to the
aid of Germany in the event of war.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS DRA-
PER, of New York, is of the opinion that
the work of the lower grades in the pub
lie schools of that state is so inadequate
| ly performed that the average ability OF
| New York children to read, write, cyphsr
and spell correctly is below that of q like
| company OF children i'll any European
nation. This statement may be TOO
sweeping, bu. there is little doubt that
! the public schools generally undertake
too much in the range of stulies in the
lower grades. This, Mr.. Draper thinks,
! is the main trouble in New York.
| 1HE full returns up to the close of De-
cember reve | the fact that the gross
earnings of 10 railroads reached an ag-
gregste in the year 1886. The roads re-
ferred to comprise all the the important