Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-01-11


about during u period when the popula
tiol. has increased 100000, and credit for
this restriction is given by DR.. Crosby
Ito our eycellent excise board" Happily
the dispositio, of pubDio sentiment is to
demand a still further diminGtion of
places where lquor is sold.
IT IS not TO be wondered at that the
conservative republicans of France are
disturbed at the candidacy of Gen. Bou-
longer in Paris itself. The success of
the picturesque cham pion of revision in
the very heart of Frence would be seri
ous blow to the Fioqust ministry. The
prospect of such an event cannot be de
termined at this distance. Paris is full
of Penama canal shareholders, al of
whom bear the governments a grudge for
refusing TO nationaIize that bankrupt
concern. Upon the other hand, ali of the
enemies of Boulanger will smother their
riValries in order TO strike the adveDturer
down. Nothing shows the anxiety over
the situation better than the propose
quet against Boulenger. The last time
they met-on the field OF honor-Bou
langer got the worst of it.
THE st. Louis Republic furnishes some
interesting statistics regarding the work
ings OF the high license and local option
law of Missouri. The law fixes the mini
mum license fee at $3.50 and the maxim um
at 1900 but incorporated cities and
towns are allowed to fix the price OF Ii
cence at any figure thsy please above the
minimum or withhold license altog ether.
This has resulted IN placing the license
fee in some cities as high as $4,000. The
saloons in the state have been reduced
5000 to 900 the majority of which are in
the CITY of st. Louis. In sixty fivo cOun-
ties and seventeen cities there are no "a
looms. In forty two of those counties the
people have voted no license under the
local option provision and in this other
twenty wo licenses have been refused by
the licensing authorities. 1t is claimed
that ono can travel aoro,. the state from
the Iowa line to Arkansas by rail without
coming within ten miles of saloon. 1t
is probable that in the license coun-
ties there Ia more or less cIandestine sell-
ing, but in tho main the law seems to be
we'll enforced.
"Ir il a rad thing that It friendly ma
tion should offer to us an outrageous in
fplI but ,Tt - / Init tut. -
so says La Nerito, "A paper published at
Port au Prince in m article on the re
capture of the steamer Hnytien Repub
lio. If the Lsgitime government had
kept its promise to our state department
and surrendered The steamer weeks ago,
there would hive been no ue,d of naval
demonstration. j should also be remem-
bered that the blockade of the various
northern ports is declared not by
government duly recognized by the Unit
I'd States but by a faction which is likely
30 be driven from Port au Prince at any
time. The course of the United States
in protecting American citizens in that
volcanic part of the world WAS perfectly
iustidsble.
AMERICAN CORN IN EUROPE
Time was when Indian corn was an i'm
portant article of food IN most American
households. II WAS native so the soil,
easily cultivated, nutritious and not hard
TO prepare for use. Corn still remains
the leading cereal of the United Scetes
the crop for the current year reaching
nearly 2,OOO00O OOO bushels, valued at
100000 900, or more than douhle the
value of the wheat crop OF the country.
But although American farmers grow
corn more successfully than ever, Amer
ican honsekeepers have forgotten how TO
cook it. Corn now adays Ia chiefly
transformed into pork or whisky. The
pones, dodgers, puddings, grits, Johnny
cakes, hominy and other forms in which
corn was used 10 tempt thu appctites OF
the American citizen, have become mem
cries only of most households. This
decadence of corn rs an article of food
Ia no doubt chiefly attributed to two
causes-the Abundance of wheat and
the iustaument Of the foreign servant
girl a. queen of the American kitchen.
American farmers grow corn, however,
in greater quantities than ever, if they
have forgotten how to eat il, and they
are beginning to wonder if they cannot
persuade the people of Europe to buy it
and see how they like IL. 81 far the
amount of American corn consumed
abroad has been insignificant. While our
wheat expectations average from 2b
to SO per cent. of the total crop, our ex-
ports of corn and corn meal do not av-
erage above 3 per cert. of the crop, aud
the highest expectation ever known WAS
bu. e., per cent. of the crop. Even the
little tnat has gone abroad has been used
chiefly by distillers and attlefeeders
very little n'ering into the food CON
sumption OF the countries importing it..
With view TO popularizing corn as r
cheap food product in foreign countries
plan has been set on foot for special
corn exhibit at the Paris Exhibition ne xt
year. The contemplated exhibit is to be
MADE IN separate paNllon erected TO-
the purpose at cost of $4,000, the
building to be covered inside and out with
Indian corn in the form of grain, ear,
stalk and sheaf. The walls ana ceilings
are to be covered with mosaics of corn in
different colors, the entire structure to be,
in fact, a corn palace. Inside are to b@
ranges a. counters, TO be presided over
BY Southern "Aunties" and "Dinshs" of
ebony hue, preparing and displaying the
Southern forms of corn cookery, while
New Euglaud housewives will show
the uninitsted foreigners how Bos
ton brown bread, Indian puddings and
Johnny cakes are made. The scheme Is
good one and should be pushed with ths
characteristic energy that makes most
Yankee projects successful. If success
full it will open market sor our most i'm.
portant crop and thus benefit Ame5ican
farmers. 1t will likewise introduce q
cheap and wholesome breadstuh to the
overcrowdsd millions of Europe, thu.
,haanenipp the cost of subsistence tf