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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-08-28
CONTENTS OF
CORNER STONE
Thirty-nine Separate Articles
Securely Deposited.
THE LIST ENUMERATED
Future Generations to Find Important
Documents at Some Period to Come.
Copper Box Contains All.

"A EQUAL OF Unll'Uy-nlno afClCl0S were
consigned to the copper box encased
in the corner stone of the now court
house Tuesday, as follows:
Eolfords History of Grant county
1900, containing roster, etc.
Wisconsin Legislative Blue Book
of 1901, giving lists Of our present
state and national, legislative and
judicial officers.
Report Of State Superintendent
for 1899 and 1900.
Proceedings Of the Grant county
Board Of Supervisors for 1900 and
1901.
Proceedings of the Grant county
Board of Supervisors for special ses-
sion, 1901.
Watton's souvenir of Lancaster
1900.
Watton's photographs of old
court house and monument.
New York Special account of
Lincoln's assassination, 1865.
Roster of county, city and town
officers in Grant county, 1902.
"reminiscences of old times in
Grant county, by Luther Basford.
Roster of Grant county soldiers
in Black Hawk war 1882 under
command of Capt. John H. Roun-
tree, Lieutenants George Robinson
and James P Cox. 80 privates.
"reminiscences of Ind. O. of OCd
Fellows in Lancaster; also Of Rec
becca lodge, and list of officers ard
members, both orders.
Roster of Grant county officers
not named in Holford's history.
Viz. H. w. Brown, Dist. Atty,
John Scheinpfug, Co. Treas. and
T.. II. OI1lIIS, W. OlOIk.
Report of sale Of 10 head cattle,
weighing 27,85O los. at 1855 Per
cwt., amounting to $2409.02. Sod
by E. j. Austin, Aug. 49, 1902 IN
Chicago
Subscription list made in 1889 by
Grant county citizens to start
newspaper in Platteville, named
Northern Badger" under editor,
ship of Thos. Eastman.
Grant County Herald, illustrated,
dated Aug. Fl, 1902.
The Teller, dated Aug. IA, 1902,
and Aug. 81, 1902.
Piatteville Journal, Christmas
edition, 1901 and Aug. 20, 1902.
Boscobel Sentinel, Aug 20, 1902.
Fennimore Times, Aug. %, 1902,
Cuba City News, Aug %, 1902.
Montfort Mail, Aug. 81, 1902.
Bloomington Record, Aug. 81,
1902.
Muscoda Waterman, Aug. p,
1902.
Cassville Index, Aug. 81, 1902.
Grant County News, Aug. 20,
1902.
The Dial-Enterprise, Aug 20,
1902.
The Grant County Witness, Aug.
20, 1902.
List Of officers and members of
Lancaster Lodge No. 20, F. q A. M,
Masonic.
List of officers of Minerva Chaps
ter No. 50, O. E. S., 1902.
Invitation card to laying Corner
Stone.
Masonic Collar, formerly used by
Glendower NJ. Price, the original
proprietor and founder of the city
Of Lancaster, Wis.
Copy of Judge Clementson's
speech at laying Cornerstone Of
court house, Aug 26, 1902
Grand Army Badge, by Dan el
Doyle.
Grand Army Button, by Col. j,
@. Clark.
Badge Knights of Globe, by A. 7.
Moore.
A list of the articles disposed in
this Corner Stone, signed by the
committee on deposits.
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-08-28

Ed. Schreiner of Two Harbors
was a guest of his parents Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15

troubles of the eye and travelling under ground Is also declared to Do injurious. Then there Is the hurried reading of small print by which the reader lays up for himself impaired eyesight. with possi- ble mental depression.
 The Medical Record has this to say upon the question; If 1t be true that dust is prominent factor in causing defec- tive vision. and that travelling under ground is injurious to eyesight then the outlook for the inhabitants of New York Is the reverse of hopeful. Dust we have with us now, and in enormous quantities, and soon we shall have the underground.
 .'It may be expected. then, that in the course of a few years the man or woman who does not wear glasses in New York will be the exception rather than the rule Perhaps, however, the hurtful influence of dust upon the eyesight has been exaggerated by the English writer. and as to travelling underground so long as the tunnels are kept free from smoke and well ventilated, there should be no reason to apprehend that this manner of locomotion will be a menace to eye sight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
HE HAS NEVER VOTED.
Kansas City World.

From the Kansas City World.
 Charles Scarber of Waterloo, Ia, has passed the ffty-year mark and has never cast a ballot at any election.
 MT. Scarber says after seeing the tricks of the politicians he came to the con- clusion that the political game was too deep for him and he decided to leave 1t alone entirely.
 This man would doubtless resent being called an anarchist. He has no anarchis- tic beliefs or tendencies.
 But suppose every citizen of the repuh- lie should follow his example?
 Eliminate the suffrage and there is nothing left but anarchy rampant.
 In the last analysis in this country, the politicians go back to the people for their power. This power is delegated at the ballot box.
 Break the connection between the power house and the machinery of gov ernment and you have neither power nor privilege.
 MT. Scarber needs to learn that suffrage is more than a right, a personal prerog- ative It is duty.
 The tricks and schemes of politicians cannot absolve a citizen from his duty. The more tricks and schemes the more need for recourse to the ballot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
Rural Delivery increasing.

Three rural delivery routes have been extended in Jefferson county, and year by year Congressman Un- derwood is planning to cover this great county with the new service. No other southern county is so well equipped with free delivery routes, and no doubt MT. Underwood will maintain the county's pre-eminence in that respect.
 The growth of rural postal delivery throughout the country is marked, and it is leading to great social and busi- ness changes. The service is but four years old. In 1898 there were but 148 routes; now there are 11,650. Twelve thousand rural carriers start out daily to supply the postal needs of the rural districts, thus bringing the farmers in close touch with the urban population of the country.
 When rural delivery Is carried to its limit, there will be 40,000 rural carriers, and the service will cost SPA, 900, ,OOO year.s This will increase the postal expenditure heavily, but ir three years the postal revenue will it is estimated, oyertake it. Ten years ago the postal receipts stood at $76, 100000; they are now $13S,000,000 g year, and are increasing every year Rural delivery increases postal re ceipts, but even if it did not the farm CT is entitled to his share of the pos tai benefits. Rural delivery gives ii to him, and the new service is very popular both in town and country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
If OILY 6AiIF asWsPaPTS x illsaaA
Nn Mnra PnnuIIsta-

No populist candidates were pre- sented in the recent state election in this state, and what was left undone by the populists in this state was du- plicated in Mississippi and other southern states in which the populists once were strong and rampant. They have in fact returned in the south te the democratic party, where their en ergy and aggressiveness will be felt and where they have been or will be warmly welcomed back. Circum- stances have rendered a party based on economic ideas only unnecessary, and the undying principles of the dem ocratic party can be made to serve all needful purposes.
 The New Orleans Times-Democrat shows that in the far west, where pop ulism once was supreme. it has almost ceased to exist at all, as the following table shows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
Over Speculation.

About month ago the stock mark ct, with no regard for republicanism, began to show lower and still lower prices, and not even all of Secretary Shaw's remarkable and unprecedented and to some extent unlawful relief measures, could do more than check the movement. Between Secretary Shaw and the coal strike settlement the republican party was saved from disaster at the polls, but the course of prices in Wall street was not really changed.
 Each week brings a stilL-lower level of prices, and the end is not yet. If gold exports become heavy-for such things are impending-the down ward course of prices will be acceler- ated. and by January there will not be much water left in securities.
 But where is Secretary Shaw? Why has he so suddenly lost all interest in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
NO TAMPERINo WITH NAMES.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
 Universal sympathy will be extended to Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who. stirred to Justification indignation on beholding in letters of electrical fire over the door of the Boston theatre where she was play ing, Mrs. Pat Campbell rushed in to the box office window and exclaimed: What does this mean? My name Is not Mrs. Pat Campbell, but Mrs Patrick Campbell and unless that sign Is taken down I will not appear" Further in- formation is that the sign came down and that the light of Mrs. Pat Camp bells" presence was withdrawn from the theatre-goers, who had to find their way into the theatre in the darkness But they could patiently endure this rather than put so gifted an entertainer to the mental anguish of an amputated and abbrevia- ted name, and name that. while it might be suitable enough as term of familiarity or endearment for men, gives an air of levity to a serious actress like Mrs. Campbell. It is in stopping the first encroachments that dignity is kept unim- paired, and single night of blazing in electricity might have set all Boston to speaking of her as Mrs. Pat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
THE GREATEST FUR MARKET.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean,.
 The greatest fur market in the world is at Leipzig, Germany. Nearly the whole fur trade of the world eenters there in one way or another. Even the big mar ket of London is really only feeder for Leipzig, for more than one-half of the furs bought in London are sent on to the German city. where they are again sold to the merchants who offer them to the consumers
 Furs reach Leipzig from all the strange parts of the world, some Of which are hardly known to white men except by name. The Alaskan Indians and Eskimos, Canadian half-breed trappers, Siberian hunters and Australian bush dwellers all work indirectly for the German mer- chants
 Their catches may go through many hands, but they finally reach Leipzig The primitive hunters of China and Indo- China, who kill their small fur-bearing game with pointed bamboos and catch it in pitfalls, as they did centuries ago; Tartars and Arabs, Abyssinians and Zulus, all are working TOT this city The greatest quantity of furs comes from Bokhara, in Turkestan, which produces almost one million of the beautiful as- trakhan skins every year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
City Offices and Popular Action.

City Offices and Popular Action.
 The charter of this city curiously permits an outgoing board of alder men to select a city engineer, street tax and license collector, a tax col 1ector, a treasurer, a city clerk, an auditor, chief of the fire department, and street commissioner. Why an outgoing board in December should select these officers to serve under an incoming board is something past finding out.
 Why any board should select these officers of the people when the people desire. to do their own selecting is a still greater mystery. Each and ev- cry one of the officers should derive their authority directly from the peo- pie, and the board of aldermen should let the present officials hold over un- til the democratic primary can name their successors. Tn the meanwhile the charter should be amended by the next session of the legislature, so that the filling of these places will be handed over to the people.
 This city needs more popular pow CTS. All experience goes to show that the people make the best appoint ments, and the trend of political ac- tion is toward the people and not away from them. No doubt some will oppose a popular change. There always is opposition of that nature when such changes are proposed. The Age-Herald suggests to the board of aldermen that in deference to public opinion they let the present officials hold oyer until the democratic pri- mary designates the men whom the people desire to fill the offices named, along with the mayor and half of the board of aldermen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
FATHER OF THE TWINS.
Death of Noted Artist, Author and
 Lineuist In New York.

From the New York Herald.
 pr. Albert Leighton Rawson, who died Saturday evening. was known in this country and in Europe as portrait art ist of considerable ability, but was per- haps better known as writer and illus trator of Biblical works. He spent many years of his life in the Holy Land and received degrees from a number of ih- stitutions of learning. He was also an able linguist.
 About 1872 pr. Rawson married the daughte CT of Laura Keene, the actress, who came into fame through being the leading woman on the stage of Ford's theater, in Washington on the night President Lincoln was assassinated, Dr. Rawson's wife inherited a considerable fortune from her mother and among the legacies was the dress that Miss Keene wore on the night of the tragedy.
 Miss Keene entered the box after the shot was fired, and while assisting in car ing for the wounded president her dress became stained, and those stains were ever afterward visible.
 In 1873 Mrs. Rawson gave birth to twin boys, Albert and Alpheus. The Rawson twins. as they grew up. made record for themselves that brought much sorrow and chagrin to their scholarly father They were widely known as the Jersey Twins" Dr. Rawson was living at that time in Hillsdale, N. J., and for several years scarcely a week passed that the twins did not furnish an interesting story for the newspapers of the country Their pranks were not of a criminal character, but the brothers seemed to possess the liveliest genius for keeping themselves and the community in a peck of trouble. They caused uncanny ghosts to walk about the town, dug caves in the hills, from which all manner of sounds pro- ceeded, mysteriously disappeared and as mysteriously returned. In later years they abandoned their notorious caprices and the public lost sight of them.
 Dr. Rawson was a. thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and was one of the founders of the Mystic Shrine,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
IN HOTEL LoBBIBs.
hrnlna h Alabama.

Alabama ranks fourth In tho list of states, but in the cotton sections the agricultural conditions are not good on account of the short corn crops this year and last" remarked prominent cotton factor yesterday.
 ''rhe small country merchant will have all he can do to keep himself ahoat be- tween now and next fall. If our cotton farmers would only use the disc turner blows and adopt ali the other modern methods of deep blowing, they could make corn crops every season. But with the old way failure will be as frequent as ever. We have fine agricultural lands when they are properly treated by up-to- date farmers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
LUxURlEs FOR TIRED CONGRESS-
 MEM

Washington Cor. Boston Transcript.
 Statesmen of the Jerry Simpson type who wish their constituents to believe that they are the same simple minded rustics in Washington they always were at home would do well to suppress the report of MT. Woods the superintendent of the capitol, who writes thus of the luxuries he provides fer overworlxed mem bers of congress in connection with theic hath facilities.
 This bathing room. as well as that in the senate wing, is supplied with rest Ing room containing large template static electrical machine driven by a motor. It seems that certain classes of minor ailments affecting the human body yield to this electrical treatment, and the machine affords harmless and beneficial tonic even to the well. Both machines have been much patronized during the rsst season."
 It is such a nice thing to have a place where the human bodies' of the com gressmen can get refreshment while their astral bodies are mixing with the immortals or hustling through the de- III SedTCn Ol pdbiollA5S. AS only thing still needed is the installation of a complete rest cure in the dome and a serum treatment for sore throat in ths anteroom of the supreme court chamber. But to return to the report:
 'The bathing rooms now present a pleasing and cleanly appearance. With the exception of one room the fixtures arc of porcelain of the highest grade. The walls throughout are wainscoted with the frest Italian white marble nine feet and one inch high. In the excepted room the walls are lined with the so-called Eng fish vein Italian marble. The tub is or the same handsome material"
 And yet there are members who, like "Uncle Joe" Cannon, grunble over every dollar spent for improving those parts of the national capital which are open for the enjoyment of the whole people!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
HUMANEYEsIoHT.
Various Causes to Which Its Deca.
 dence Is Attributed.
the New York World.

From the New York World.
 There is not the slightest doubt that the eyesight of the human race is rapid- ly failing. For years the fact that the Germans were the most spectacled of all people was rightly attributed to their close application to study and painstaking research that involved continuous eye strain. But there are other contributory causes. A London writer recently said: Recent inquiries by oculists and op- ticians in England and on the continent have developed the opinions that few generations hence there will scarcely be a man or woman not wearing glasses. . This does not mean apparently. that the eyes of each generation grow weaker. It is rather that the environment of modern civilization is inimical to healthy sight Dust or fog play no small part in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
THE MOLlNEUX CASE AND
 SOME OF ITS FEATURES

witnesses were missing. A defense was made. Experts eontradicted the experts of the state. Molineux had not written the address on the poison package, they said. He had not written the Barnet and Cornish letters. Emma Miller was posi- tive that a man other than Molineux had bought the silver bottleholder sent to Cornish. A woman testified to having seen the poison package mailed by a man other than Molineux 'Molineux," tes- ufed Professor Vulte of Columbia nni- Versity' was with me in club at the hour and on the day that the poison package was mailed" The defense was successful No jury could say in the face of such testimony that the crime was fastened upon Molineux beyond a reasonable doubt
 Yet there is the strong suspicion, the formidable chain of circumstances, which. though declared not legal evidence, must still influence the opinion of the public. But two men can be considered as pos sibly having "a hand in the murder of Mrs Adams. It was committed by Ro- land B. Molineux in trying to murder Cornish, or 1t was committed by Cornish in a manner so infinitely artful and with such prodigious skill as to throw strong suspicion upon Molineux. Until Cornish is proved the culprit suspicion can hardly be dispelled.
 There were other remarkable points about the case. The fight that Gen. Les lie D. Molineux made for the life of his boy is one of the most striking recorded examples of parental devotion. His trust in his son's honor was sublime One inc volutarily remarks that keeping an in- nocent man in prison for nearly four years, nearly three years under sem tence of death, was terrible injustice It was, if Molineux was really innocent If, on the other hand, he was guilty and was fighting for acquittal it worked in his favor. It gave time for public senti- ment to cool. Witnesses dropped out or became indifferent. Recollections became hazy. Every month that elapsed made 1t easier for the skilled lawyer to pick flaws in the new case The delay mili- tated against justice. It did not neces- sarily initiate against Molineux We re- turn to the conclusion first arrived at whether innocent or guilty Molineux, in view of all the circumstances was lucky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15

the stock market7 Before election he stood ready to bolster 1t up. but now he knows It not
 The secretary of the treasury has either forgotten that 1soz Is approach ing, or else he thinks that the sooner the water is let out of securities the better 1t will be in 1904. He may have concluded that slump has been rendered inevitable by the trust pro motors. and that It Is better to have it culminate in 1902 than in 1908 or 1904.
 Altogether the situation is a lively one. both in Wall street and in Wash ington. It has Q political as well as speculative side, but neither side need distress those who are engaged in le- gitimate business under legitimate cir cumstances. The crops are large, the railroads overcrowded. and the con sumption is immense. There are no indications of any change in trade or manufacturing when conducted in ac- cordance with well known economic laws. Fhe present slump Is strictly gamblers slump, and as such it should be treated and regarded, no matter how severe it's course may be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
The Land of the Telephone.

From the London Mail
 To show how far Stockholm is ahead of other European capitals in the matter of telephone facilities 1t may be mentioned that while London has 47 telphones per 10000 inhabitants, Paris Il, New York 15o. and San Francisco FOG, Stockholm reaches the figure of 9SO. In every bedroom in every hotel there Is a telephone; every tradesman. warehouse, shop and private dwelling Is connected. Hven the ordin- ary washerwoman Is on the exchange. In the strets at nearly every corner Is a public kiosk. where on payment of a small coin one can speak not only to anl local subscriber, but even to one IT any other town throughout tho length and breadth of Sweden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-15
THE FALL OF THE LEAF

By H. D. Thoreau. The evening of the year draws on, The fields later aspect. wear; Since Summers garishness is gone Some grains of night tincture the noon-
 tide air. Beholdl the shadows of the trees Now circle wider bout their stem, Like 1sentries by slow degrees Perform their rounds, gently protecting
 them. And as the year doth decline. The sun allows a scantier light; Behind each needle of the pine There turks a small auxilar to the night. hear the cricket's slumbrous lay Around, beneath me. and on high; It rocks the night, 1t soothes the day, And everywhere Is Natures lullaby. But most he chirps, beneath the sod, When he has made his Winter bed; His creak grown fainter but more broad, film of Autumn o'er the Summer
 spread. Small birds, in fleets migrating by. NOW heat across some meadows bay, And as they tack and yeer on high, With faint and buried click beguile the 
 way. Far in the woods, these golden days, Some lear obeys it's Makers call And through their hollow aisles 1t plays With delicate touch the prelude of the
 Fall. Gently withdrawing from its stem. It lightly lays itself along Where the same hand hath pillowed them, Resigned to sleep upon the old years
 throng. The loneliest birch Is brown and sere, The furthest pool is strewn with leaves. Which float upon their watery bier, Where is no eye that sees, no heart that
 grieves. The tay screams through the chestnut
 wood; The crisped and yellow leaves around Are hue and texture of my mood And these rough burrs my heirlooms on
 the ground. Tho threadbare trees, so poor and thin They are no wealthier than I; But with as brave e core within They rear their boughs to the October
 sky,
 Poor knights they are. which bravely wait The charge of Winters cavalry, Keeping a simple Roman state; Discunbered of their Persian luxurv.