Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-18

| Oily, VINO belongs TO the Twentletn Kan
gas regiment under General Funston, is
not more than % years of age, The
family formerly resided in Spring Grove.
| Thus portion Of honor belongs to Wis
consin.
Want Hotter Prohibition Paper.
A new prohibition paper is started
| BY Wisconsin reformers. the feeling be-
Ing that Rev DR.. Miners Northwestern
Mail of Madison is too gentle in tone.
| The "Agitator' is published at MeEon!-
once Falls, near Milwaukee (where the
| beet sugar factory failed), and Rev. w.
D. Cox is the managing editor; but W.
H. Rintelman is the business manager
and owns the whole outfit. He for
| merly ran local paper In the town.
| Editor Cox has been the Methodist pas
tor at Menomonee Falls for some years.
For The Agitator Mr.. f. w. Chain Is
| furnishing a History of the Prohibi-
ton Party" Notes of the Field" are
reported by J. f. Clayton. Among the
corresponding editors are Professor A.
| L. Whitcomb, Evansville; ]. b. Smith,
Madison; Amy Kellogg Morse. Butter
nut, and Hon. S. ID. Hastings, Green
| Bay.
Rev. DR.. Miner is one of the most be-
| loved Congregational pastors in the
state. His wife, who Is as beautiful
| a character as he, writes a What See
from My Window" column. The fight
| ing" Prohibtionists want a paper that
| can be sensational like The Voice to at
| tract attention.; but the good old Dr.
Miner could no more abuse any one
than Uncle Toby could pick the wings
| OF fly: 60 poor devil" he said
1.-The world is wide enough for you and
for me-"
Potatoes from stevens Point.
Everybody knows that Stevens Point
sends out great many potatoes, all
the way from the Golden Gate to the
state of Maine. At last we have some
figures. In the eight months preceding
May /, SIS car loads were shipped from
this one station, and at 500 bushels
car CIT Is nearer 600) the shipments
were 287 500 bushels. At an average of
80 cents n bushel this means $94,S75.
Some OF the potatoes We're sold as low
as 90 cents-cheaper stock, but on the
other hand 81 cents was paid for much
of 1t. and for seed stock as high as so
cents. The price in Madison at retail
today is SO cents.
Is II Right to XIII Caterpillars?
Arbor Day came on Friday MAY 12)
and the department Cf public instruc-
ton issued 45-page pamphlet with full
suggestions as to how to get the most
cut of it for the school children. There
are 100000 more children in the public
schools than there were a decade ago
fact brought out in debate by Senator
Stout recently.
Two things are suggested by this
unique observance; one Is that the
bird" feature of the day is in the as
Ccndancy; the other, that thousands of
school yards are made clean and kept
clean through the enthusiasm of Arbor
Day Birds take hold of childish inter
est more than even trees, though no one
has lain at the foot of a great, straight
giant pine tree in the silent forest With
out having thoughts that made him
realize "how near to grandeur is our
dust" In many places, too, Arbor Day
agitation has developed a sentiment
which has resulted in the more fire.
quent cleaning of walls, floors and
furniture inside the schoolhouse, tasty
window shades in place, a fresh coat
of paint on the outside, better outbuild-
ings, II neat fence about the grounds,
and the hearty cooperation of the
community in lettering the school as
q place Superintendent Harveys book
also says what is true.
In the Capitol park at Madison the
squirrels have lost their fear of man,
and even the dogs have learned to re-
spect them. They will take nut from
the hand of IA stranger because they
have learned that man is their friend
They play about in the school grounds
of the Madison schools when the pupils
are out at recess, because the pupils
have been taught to protect them. These
pupils are more manly because they
have learned to respect animal life.
In strange contrast with this beauti-
full teaching is the following sugges-
ton in the same pamphlet from the
article on Village and Town Improve
ment' by the ladies of the organization
devoted to that sort of thing: Zone
COMMITTEES of a town improvement So
ciety in the east Is known as Cater
pillar Destruction Last year the di-
rectors offered 10 cents a hundred for
belts or nests of the tent caterpillar col
lected before May 1. The treasurer's
account shows that 500 We're collected
by the school children"
Somehow it seems to me no good
thing can come from the organized
slaughter by children of even baby cat
erpillars.
Lost nm Of,ice but Not Sorry.
A letter from a man of some promi-
nenCc who was expected to be appoint
ed to an important post but failed.
phrases the reflections of philosopher
well. lie says:
"I}ut | have no desire to stir UP the
dirty pool OF politics in n search for
the reptiles who find II home in its con-
genial slime
'Fortuuately | am not dependent on
politics for living, and have never
been an office seeker In the words of
Spencer,
What boots it
To fret thy soul with crosses and with
cares;
To cate thy heart through comfortless
dispaircS;
To fawn to crowChe, to waite, to ride,
to roune.
To spend, to give to want, to be UNI