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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11
General Harmony on Deck.

San Francisco Call: II has been
noted by political experts tina, the he
publican party Is now free OF factions
and feuds for the first time In thirty
years: while the elements of opposi-
ton are more hopelessly divided than
at any time since 1860. 1t seems as II
the people as whole have decided to
settle down To sound money and pro-
lection and let Republican statesmen
run the government.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Early in April there were lying at
the stations OF three Russian railroads,
waiting to be forwarded, 27,000 car
loads OF grain. equal to about IL 900 900
bushels, much OF which has been wait
ing for months. Complaints that rail-
roads are not able to handle their
traftc are common In Russia.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11
Law Held to Be Invalid.

The attorney general has rendered
an opinion holding that the recently
enacted law appropriating 10000 for
repairing and restoring the bikes along
the Wisconsin river in the vicinity OF
Portage is unconstitutional because II
contravenes that provision Of the con-
stitutlon from contracting debts for In
ternal improvements. The attorney
general advises that the validity OF the
statute be tested in the courts
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11
Chicago Produce,

Chicago, July G.--Butter--The market
was caHler; crramericn i4nlsA dairies
l3IsfflGj4
Eggs-The market was steady at ilh
Dressed Poultry - The marke, was
MepGy. turkeys +; thicaeus, s1pe
Ribs-ahort and clear sides 81. 3ous 20.
Others unchanged
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11
Absent. But Well Represented.

"You miss your dear husband dread
fully, Mrs. Simpson,"
yes. OF course: but our youngest
daughter is exactly like him. Shs tries
to regulate the grammar and manners
OF the whole family. detroit Free
Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

II almost looks as though the time
was not far off in this country when
money would not secure for It's pos
SCISSOR either man or woman TO do the
LIenial and dirty work OF life-a time
when the necessity CT doing such work
for Others for pay would cease to ex-
list: when every fellow would have TO
milk his own COW. clean out his own
barn, black his own boots. saw his own
wood. and every woman wash her OVID
dishes. make her own bed, cut, fit and
make her own dresses and COOK her
own meals. Should this time ever
come IL will Iirst compel a greater de-
gree OF cooperation between nsighDcrs
and the introduction of simpler style
OF living and entertaining company
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

which will do away with much sense
less social rivalry which now prevails
ard which is wholly indefensible. 1t
will encourage the raising of children
and thei training as family helpers
aud in many other ways will not be a
bad thing.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

The fear was expressed at many OF
the horticultural meetings last winter
that the apple trees of the West and
Northwest were in special danger OF in
Jury by the cold of the winter because
the trees carried nearly all their leaves
into and through the winter. This fear
seems not to have been well founded,
for apple orchards never came through
a winter in better shape. Possibly an
exemption from a very low range or
temperature during the winter may
have had something to do with their
good condition.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

We would like to know whether or
not it would be possible, and, If posi-
BILE, profitable, to domesticate the COM
mon wild pea of the North and grow it
as a field crop. There is no doubt that
it is valuable legume and under IA
vorable conditions in its Wild state
produces a heavy crop OF fodder or
1ust the kind which is needed on every
stock farm. Have any Of our read
ers ever had any experience with this
plant? If so. we will be glad to hear
from them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Three generations OF colored fam
lily have graduated from Oberlin col
lege-John NJ Langston, In 1919; his
son. Arthur d. Langston, teacher In
St Louis, In 1877, and his grandson
this year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11
Propinquity Of Suggestion

America is going to make It's own
macaroni and vermicelli."
Yes; say--excuse the expression
but that will rather put Italy in the
soup, won't it?''-Chicago Record Her
aid
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Let the small boys onthe farm go to
the circus and celebrate the Fourth, as
boys like to. Don't forget that 40
years ago you got up at 8 o'clock on the
morning of the Fourth to try those
firecraekers. There has been no change
III the boys.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Sir Walter Siemens estimates that
the power generated at the falls OF
Niagara and mostly going to waste
represents a horsepower the equivalent
of that obtainable from all the coal
mined and consumed in the whole
world
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

1t takes more skill to make good
cheese than II does to make good but
ter. Butter making 's reduced 10 sci
ence. while cheesemaking is still large
" done by guess. The principal trou-
bic lies in the curing Of the cheese
most Of it being cured in too high
temperature. The fancy and high priced
foreign made cheese is made of no bet
ter material than forms the base OF our
American cheese. In fact, some OF the
best brands of foreign cheese are made
of partially SKINNED milk, and foreign
success lies almost wholly In the mat
ter OF skilled and scientific curing OF
the product
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

A writer in a Minnesota paper states
that the prairie chickens Of that state
will hatch out two broods this year, the
spring weather having been so favor
able. This is a mistake This bird
rarely ever brings off more than one
brood in a season unless the first set
ting of eggs is destroyed in some man
ner. The quail will often in the lati-
titude of Missouri bring off two broods
in year. but the ruaed grouse and the
prairie chicken never.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

We have the report of a Vermont
creamery, and it shows that its patrons
received 6S cents per hundredweight
for April per cent milk. The West
orn creameries made better showing
than this.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

1t will please the grangers of the
west TO learn that Mr.. Phillips, who
lives III little one story cottage. at
Evanston. made enough out of his corn
deal so that he can move into a brown
stone front on Michigan avenue if h.
wants to.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Bad smt Is around a creamery Will
always reacn to New York, for there Is
one thing which is as accurate as
well regulated thermometer, and that
is the nose of the expert tester of the
big cities.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11
Leaves Ruin in It's Path.

A small cyclone and severe thunder
shower passed over Outagamie county
the evening of the Both ult. doing
much damage. Telephone and tele-
graph wires are down and details are
meager. At Appleton creek one man
vas killed by lightning, and through
out the county much stock was killed
At Appleton two school houses were
unroofed, church steeple blown down
several plate glass store fronts beaten
in and many trees blown down. The
city park is impossible from fallen
trees.
At Kaukauna several buildings were
unroofed and many trees blown down
At Iiortonville, Mackville and Green
Vile the damage to trees, factories and
farm property is reported rs large, but
details are lacking by reason of tele-
phone connections being cut on
Crops in the vicinity of Appleton
were beaten into the ground by the
heavy rain and hail. Grain and small
fruits are believed to be ruined.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

The top grating Of Duchess with Me-
linda and the sowing of the seeds OF
the apples thus produced are recon-
mended as the most practical way for
south Dakota to secure a reliable win
Ter apple.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Southern Missouri is not likely to de-
velop into the home of the big red
APPLE as was so confidently expected
few years ago. Insects, blight and
fungous diseases have so affected the
orchards of that section that the owner
of $500 acre orchard there located
pronounces the attempt at commercial
orcharding a total failure. The two
most promising new apple sections of
the country are Northern Michigan and
Idaho
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Existing prices for farm products, il
continued, will justify still higher
valuation of farm lands. Land which
will bring in the owner net return of
S. per acre for series of years is
worth 500 per acre as an investment
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Even a full crop this year OF cereals
and meat-producing animals is not like
" TO materially lower present prices.
Labor is everywhere employed at good
wages and must be fed with the best
that the farm affords.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

All shade and fruit trees should be
trimmed to the extent of removing all
lead and distorted or wrong growing
limbs at least. We prune and trim even
more than this to insure symmetry and
beauty of shape.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Agricultural department statisticians
t,lmate the annual damage done to
the wheat fields of this country by the
dessian Fly at $40,00O.000 and that done
hy the chinch bug to the several cereal
crops at 100000, 900
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

4 good deal of transplanting may be
cone successfully during the wet June
DAYS. Beets, cucumbers. melons, straw
.erry and raspberry plants may all be
IAen safely transplanted il care is TAX
10 take plenty OF earth with each
plant
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Some people seem to enjoy spending
borrowed money just as much as
though it was their very own. This
seems queer
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

A Michigan peach grower offers re-
ward of SIS for the discovery of single
weed in his large peach orchard. There
is a hint here to men who try to raise
apples in competition with blue grass.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

he month OF May, this year, was
unique In the fact that there was not
Mhere the writer lives a particle Of
.Ir4lIHeal display or disturbance. some
.4.Hs which we never knew to happen
.sfyre.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

When man Of the farm marries in
haste, he has d better opportunity to
repent at leisure than the man in town.
he has all day in the cornfield to chew
a,.r The rag and think what an ass he
has made of himself
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Portland cement at 81 per barrel
would revolutionize modern archltec-
ture Wizard Edison announces that
a recent discovery Of his will enable
this cement to be sold at this figure.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

4. Happy Is that man who is not con-
Iohted with the agricultural problem
= peing compelled to apply SO many
NolAara worth OF fertilizer to his land
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

In Australia a breed of cats is being
developed which become the natural
foe Of the rabbits and which are doing
more to exterminate the pest than any
other agency yet tried.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Don't fool yourself with the promise
that when you have made your pile
you are going to lay off and enjoy your
self When you get ready to lay off,
If you ever do, you will have lost the
capacity for enjoying anything save
hard work and the making Of money.
Happiness in living very fortunately
is given to men in daily installments
and cannot be banked and checked
out all in lump at some future and
far-off time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

When you have fruited the strawber-
~ bed two years, pillow it up. 1t is cas-
Ter to start a new bed than it is to rem
ovate the old one.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

One western county maintains a
county farmers institute and has
monthly gatherings the year round.
The summer meetings are given a pic
mic turn, and the system is one to be
commended
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

We incline to the opinion that the
uniform color and shape of the Polled
Angus cattle are worth about 30 per
head where man is feeding carload
of them for beef.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

Nobody can afford to eat broilers at
30 cents per pound but the farmer who
raises the chick and the rich man in
the city.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

June extras are going into cold stor-
age at about 20 cents, marked ad-
vance over the prices paid few years
ago. when Is and 16 cents was consid-
cred good price for June creamery
butter. The improved methods of re-
frigeration which almost perfectly
preserve the June butter favor arc
largely responsible for this advance.
The margin between June and January
butter is now very small.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

The little red revenue stamp was TAX
en- off from the milk check on the first
OF July.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11
Reminded of Previous Disaster

A terrific storm passed over Viroqua
last week, which had every appearance
of repetition Of the great cyclone
which visited that town SO years ago
and ut almost the same hour In which
II persons were killed and 40 MANNED.
This visitation of the elements sacri-
feed no lives. but there was prop
erty loss OF nearly 100000 to the city
and immediate vicinity. Barns, horses
and outbuildings were demolished on
every side. The storm traversed ter
ritory six by three miles In extent,
Many buildings were struck by light
ming and several horses and many
hogs and sheep killed by lightning and
falling structures.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

An Eastern agricultural paper OF note
states that clover hay is worth in the
state of New York the sum of $l2 per
ton TO plow under green as a fertilizer
This seems hard to believe.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

pneumatic cotton picker operated
nv power has been successfully tried,
II sucks the matured lint from the
Ulaut.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

You will have better colt to let the
mare run in the pasture for three
months but if you must work her, don t
LET the colt follow her.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

What is most sorely needed in this
country is a newly-invented bucksaw
or garden hoe which will possess the
same fascination for the 15-year-old
Kid as does the baseball bat.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

The strawberry crop of this country
represents a value of about $SO,O00,O 900
year. Not one man in 20 raises this
berry, when nearly all might If they
WOUld
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

man but rarely plants balm OF
gilead, silver poplar or cottonwood tree
near his home but he lives to regret IL.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

before he can hope to secure any sor
of crop.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11
COPYRIGHT 1901, By
J.S.TRIGG. RCCKFORDI Ia.

The crop of cotton planted this year
is reported at 27,500000 acres.
The Conservative, 1901-03-28
RATIO OF EDUCATION TO PRODUC-
TON


DR.. Charles w. Dabney, president of
the University of Tennessee, in the
Worlds Work for April, contributes an
instructive article upon the relation of
education and production. DR.. Dabney
shows, by careful investigation of statis-
tics obtained from industrial and edu-
cational commissions of the several states
and of the United States, that produc-
ton is in direct proportion to the educa-
ton of people. The acquisition of
material wealth is inseparable from
mental growth and development. The
productive capacity is largest in those
states that have the best and most liberal
ly patronized schools.
In 1893 and 1899, the average school
attending period for each child in the
United States was four years; for Massa-
chusetts seven years; for Tennessee
three years. For the year 1899 the
average per capita production for the
United States was $170 or 55 cents day
for Massachusetts,, $3.50, or S5 cents
day; for Tennessee $116, or 3S cents
day. The average per capita school at
tendance in Massachusetts, was little
more than double that of Tennessee.
The average per capita daily earning
capacity in Massachusetts exceeded by
The Conservative, 1901-03-28
MAPLE SYRUP.
DEAR MORTON:

DEAR MORTON:
Please accept can of maple sprup l
sent you by express yesterday, made on
my farm south of WILDER, where you
and Hon. A. J. Poppleton stopped over
night with me some thirty-two or three
years ago, in 1868, when he was making
canvas for congress as the nominee of
the democratic party of this state against
Hon. John Taffe. Things agricultural
have materially changed for the better
since that date. The vast prairies, then
unoccupied, lying between my place and
the point on Turkey creek where you
held the meeting, are now owned and
titled by a thrifty and Industrious
people. Land then vacant, not con-
sidered worth anything, now sells for
$35 and $50 and as high as $50 per acre.
"Sweet are the uses of adversely"
TOBIAS CASTOR.
Lincoln, Neb,, March Goth, 1900.
The Conservative, 1901-03-28
BUSINESS AND POLITICS.

The American people, taken as they
come, are proverbially the shrewdest
business men on earth. The very keen
est of competition makes them sharp.
From the common laborer to the master
of billion-dollar trust, every man has
some idea of business methods and some
ability to get the worth of his money in
The Conservative, 1901-03-28
Useful and logi-
cal thought is brain
bullion. Coined
MENTAL MONEY.

MENTAL MONEY. cal CnOugnt is Drain
bullion. Coined
into words it passes current from mind
to mind, measuring mans reasoning
powers as accurately as chronometers
measure time, or gold measures values.
Reason is the standard which determines
the worth of all speech-making. The
arts of oratory sometimes successfully
counterfeit logic, stamp the semblance
of truth upon falsehood, and Stimulating
sound sense, cause it's imitation to cir
culate at par though the fraud is sooner
or later detected and punished. Some
times sophistry, prejudice, vagaries,
fallacies and demagogy are emotionally
and designedly circulated at the ratio of
sixteen to one. Out of such debased
metal of the mind bogus logic and coun-
'terfeit truth is coined 1t is detected
either before or after it has deceived or
damaged the innocent who have accepted
it as genuine. 1t never circulates un-
challenged for any great length of time,
and is readily detected by the economists
who manage universities and colleges
those great clearing houses for that in
tellectual currency which is the life
blood of healthy commerce and popular
government. And just as counterfeit
coins, showed into trade channels,
always accumulate penalties and pains
for the culprits who issue them, so
fallacies and vagaries in finance inevi-
tably bring retribution to those who
coin them, and inexorable disaster to
governments which adopt them.
The Conservative, 1901-03-28

whatever commodity he desires. And
yet in spite of this native shrewdness and
business capacity, no cities on earth are
governed with so little regard to bust
ness principles as our American cities.
1t is often said that politics ruins a man
for business. No wonder, for while he
is in politics on the American plan he is
expected to use anything but business
methods.
The head of business house, when
he wants bookkeeper, seeks the most
efficient man to be found at fair salary.
The head of a department in city or
county, when he needs clerk, gets the
largest possible appropriation of money
and gives the Office, as he is expected to
do, to political henchman, no matter
how many better men might be secured
at lower salaries. The stockholders of a
great corporation invariably elect the
most efficient man to be found as presi-
dent; the voters Of a great city seek
man with a political pull for mayor.
When railroad superintendent has
work to be done he hires the best men
he can find to do the work. When
street commissioner needs men to work
on the streets, he is expected to hire
men of his own party who have friends
in the swim.
If any business house should attempt
to carry on it's affairs in the methods
pursued in municipal governments it
would become bankrupt within year.
Cities remain solvent simply because
they have perennial income, to be
squandered. What we need is not only
men of business ability in office, but
men of business ability voting as they
would vote if stockholders in corpora
tion, for the best men regardless of
politics or past services, or favors to be
secured. There is no good reason why
business and politics should be divorced.
We can secure business administra-
ton of municipal affairs just as soon as
we begin to use business judgment in
electing men to office.-St. Joseph News.
The Conservative, 1901-03-28
Tbe Conservative.

about the same proportion the per capita
earning-capacity in Tennessee.
"This is not mere coincidence" says
DR.. Dabney, Sin the case of Massa-
chusetts, the United States, and Ten
nessee; it is the law the world over.
The productivity of a people is every
where proportional to their education,-
to their intellectual, physical, and moral
training. 1t is not the natural resources,
the climate, the soils and the minerals
it is not even the race, much as these
things count in production; but it is
education which above everything else
determines the wealth earning power of
a people.
"The population Of Massachusetts, is
2,SO5, ,346; of Tennessee is 2,O2O,616.
They have the same number of children
to educate.
Massachusetts taught school 1873 days
in the year, and her enrolled pupils at
tended an average of 1885 days. Ten
nessee taught school only SO days, and
her enrolled pupils attended only 62.S
days.
Massachusetts expended for all pur-
poses on her public schools in 189S-99,
$13, 1885, 1888, which was 1856 per pupil
and $5.07 per capita of her population.
Tennessee expended for her public
schools in the same year, 81 ,62S,313,
which is $4.62 per pupil and only S3
cents per capita of population. The
average expenditure for all the states of
the union is $19 per pupil and $2.67 per
capita of population of the entire county.
"The power Of education in production
may be presented again in this concrete
way:
Massachusetts spent in 1S98-99, $12,-
26l ,525 more upon her public schools
than Tennessee. But see what a return
she gets. Each one of the 2,S05, ,346 citi-
zens of Massachusetts,, men, women
and infants-has, as we have said, pro-
ductive capacity of $3.50 year, against
$170 year for the average inhabitant
of the whole United States and $116 a
year for the average inhabitant of Ten
nessee. The inhabitant of Massachusetts
has thus an excess of 800 year over the
average inhabitant of the United States,
and $144 a year over the average in
habitant of Tennessee. This means that
the people of Massachusetts, earned in
that year $S52 ,4S7,1 more than the
same number of average people of the
United States and $403,969,82 more
than the same number of people in Ten
nessee. Twelve millions invested in
superior education yielded four hundred
millions year."