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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1902-11-21
PYRMONV.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars cage;
But gilded walls and luxury
With naught your talents to engage
The haunted bridge" at the ap-
proach to the city cemetery is in bad
repair.
The Uare sidewalks of the city are be-
ing covered with crushed rock, a de-
cided improvement What does the
city intend doing with the sewer bitches
that are washing out and becoming
dangerouss
Let it be said of Fulton county that
they do not talk about things-they dc
things. Robt. Louis Stephenson once
said: Il know what pleasure Is for
have done good work -
An aguculturist is one who theorize.
and experiments The farmer Is he
who puts the formers theories intC
practical effect and profits by his exper
iments The one is paid by agriculiur
al and State societies; the other is rob
bed by spectators and middlemen.
co OPERATION AMONG FARM
Frs.
In the Courier of the 18th inst,
stated there was loss of nearly $500,
600 900 to the farmers of the country
annually ia corn oats and wheat alone
This vast amount is absorbed in 1t.
transit speculation. There was raised
in this country in 1902, according t
statistics ard estimates, 100000 OO(
bushels of wheat on which the farmer
was underpaid 25c per bushel; loss t.
farmer, $3.50, 900 600
1900, 0O0, 600 bushels of corn
Toe per bushel; loss to
farmer 1850, 0OO, 600
81 .525, 900 bushels of oats.
&c per bnshel; loss to
farmer, 81 500, 600
Total loss TO farmers. 40l, 52O, 900
If there was cooperation among farm,
ers, and all of the middlemen and spec
ulators generally eliminated, the loss
figured above would not only accrue tc
the farmer, but as much more added tc
the amount, just doubling these figures
If it was equitable TO the consumer
from the fact that if there was an un.
Outstanding among producers. crops and
prices would both Be controlled. and at
no time would the markets be gIutted
with any commodity, aud a price once
established would be standard, which
could be controlled as easily as the val.
ne of U. S. bank note. Incorporation
was once established among farmers,
farm lands and fixtures would double
in value, making an increase in the
farmers assets of $40, 0O.OOO. OC0 These
are large figures but this is large and
enterprising country. and the figures
are not fancy or overdrawn, and any
,one with a common school education
can figure for himself by procuring sta
tistics and doing little figuring II
farmers do not do some figuring now
they will have TO do some fast figuring
after awhile, as their adversaries are al
it day and night. | should like to hear
from some of the farmers or their
friends on this subject through the
Courier. believe the editor would pub
lish anything short, terse and to the
point. Any farmer interested In coop
Grafton can reach me through Mr.
Warren. ARAGoN.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1902-11-21
Pillow POINTS

Take your Pillow Points to G,oroe
Buck, and have them sharpened. two
or % cents.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1902-11-21

Try pair of our celebrated E. P.
Reede Ladies' Shoes. You will find
them the best in ct. style and quality
ever sold in this market, also the best
school shoe for Boys and Girls wear, at
At MA II. C. AMBERG.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1902-11-21
Fresh Meats

Always at Threlkeld's. wagons
prompt delivery. Telephone lS.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1902-11-21
BRICK FOR SALE.

In any quantity.
coweILL 4 COWGIRL,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16

had omething Of more than usual
moment to tell. By the way, there
are men in the executive departing nts,
many Of whom are worthy to sit in
the senate or any other high public
place, and this man is one of them. He
is a veteran in the civil service, and
also veteran of the civil war. He was
at one time an intimate friend of Gen.
Grant, and of others in that glorious
galaxy of soldiers and; statesmen. He
said:
II am a mere automaton, calcula-
tor of figures by columns; but once
upon a time my brain was used for re-
fiection altogether, and sometimes
even now think thoughts. The COM
missioner Of Indian affairs may be an
honest man, and presume that he is.
The auditor for the interior DEPART
ment may be an honest man, and 1
presume that he is. But, as a govern.
1nent clerk, examining accounts and
auditing them, am well assured that
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
IRREGULARITIES OF WRITERS.
Many Of Them Cannot Do Good Work
Unless Their Fads Are
HUNDRED.

II have often smiled" said the edi-
tor, Eat the peculiarities displayed by
the different people while writing
their stories. Every one has his or
her particular idiosyncrasy. Brown
cannot write decent line unless he
chews at the end of an unlighted CT
gar, Jones is unhappy and FESTIVE I'M
less he puffs at a Turkish cigarette,
while Robinson must always have his
pet brier pipe. One man I know is
very 'dopy' unless he has had his
drink. If he gets that inside of him
he can write like a master of prose.
Another fellow is most particular
aboat the arrangement of the things
upon his desk. 1t even only one OBJ
ject is awry he is unhappy and cannot
go on until he has put them in order.
Still another feels ut home only when
he sits in front of a 1nixed-up mass
of paper, pens and letters. One wom-
an writer I have noticed cannot get
out her stuff unless she eats candy at
the same time. With box of bonbons
by her side she can rattle off quires
Of copy with ease. *.
I'VE, are all creatures of habit" con-
cluded the editor, according to the
Philadelphia Record, sand once in the
bonds Of one it is hard TO snake L pse
the shackles.' .$... ..z. Z.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16

cock, of Wisconsin. They went to the
elevator and followed Speaker Hender-
son. The visitor saw no significance
in this, but the news instinct evolved
an idea. Mr.. Carnegie was stopping
over nj ght at the same hotel. Senator
Mcmillan and Representative Bah
cock are chairmen OF the two congress-
ional committees on the District OF
Columbia, and they are working to-
gether to build up the capital city
along the lines of the original plans OF
Maj. L'Enfant. AS the city expands
with the expansion of the republic,
these far-sighted gentlemen are bend
ing their energies and influences in the
right direction; and it was afterward
ascertained that they had seen Mr.. Car
negie and secured from him a prom
Use of substantial aid in the deyeloD-
ment of the city, as it reaches out it's
hands and gathers to its bosom the
suburbs surrounding us even across
into Virginia; for Senator Mcmillan
has pending bill to take in lands of
Virginia which comprised the orig
inal ten mile square Of this seat of
government.
Then there entered man of mill
tary mien who strobe over the lobby
area with hasty tread. The visitor
asked the name of the soldier. He was
more than six feet tall, athletic, with
iron gray hair and mustache, and with
shoulders squared like commanding
officer on dress parade. And vet, he is
not .n,nan who is ever on dress parade;
PLAIN man of the plain people. It
was Senator Dubois, of, Idaho, who,
Us q young man in 1906, turned against
the political party in which he had
been born and nurtnred, because he
honestly believed that this nation
needed a change in it's monetary sys-
TEN. A.
Therewer other men Of prominence
the mention Of whose names alone
would fill this column, but there came
into the hotel . government clerk WHO
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16

there is, and for many years has been,
a lot of corruption in the Indian Of
flee. This palpable fact ought to be
known to the commissioner; or it
ought to be discovered. by the auditor.
But, as matter of fact, neither one of
these officials seems to go beyond the
routine duty of compelling the clerks
to be at their desks on time; and any
amount of corruption might be car
ried on under their honest noses, With
out their august knowledge
Another clerk came in whom the
writer has long known as leading and
enthusiastic worker for the perpetua-
ton of the glories of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and he also had some
thing of unusual interest to narrate.
He said: II was with Sherman, and
marched from Atlanta to the sea and
then up through the Carolinas to the
national capital. On the afternoon
of the grand review in Nav.
when 'Sherman's Bummers' marched
Town the hill south of the capitol,
we saw a canvas banner stretched
clear across the south front of
that big building on which we
read the words: The nation will never
forget, and can never repay. its debt of
gratitude to the soldiers of the union. ,
We all felt proud then. This afternoon
one Of my old comrades, who lost leg
in battle, was insulted and degraded by
a man who never did thing for his
country except draw salary from it's
treasury. My old comrade works in a
bookkeeping division where clerks
must stand all day long, Because my
comrade was unable to stand all day,
on one leg, and took chair to his work,
he was insulted and browbeat ten by the
chief of his division, and this in one
generation from the time when the
nation was SO grateful to the boys in
blue"
While this old soldier was talking,
in came Representative Wadsworth, of
New York, chairman of the committee
of agriculture. AS he went to the desk
Of the hotel clerk, one of the en-
ployes of the department of agricul-
ture said to the writer: "There goes
an enemy of agriculture. He is not in
harmony with the secretary of agri-
culture. Instead of using his position
to help along our department, he ham,
pers us in every way. He even went so
far as to go to the president, who is
from his state, and make verbal charges
against the secretary. OF course the
president informed the secretary and
asked him what he had to say, and he
demolished the ISLANDERS very quickly.
Then, when Mr.. Wadsworth came to
the department to talk about more
seeds and documents for his district,
what the secretary said to him would
make interesting reading for the
public at large.
Every night there are gatherings of
this sort, and there is limitless caul-
dron of department gossip seething in
the hotel Hobbies. Probably it might
prove to be interesting, with the ap-
proval of the editor ito tell some of the
stories of department life, in the fu-
ture, as they are told by the talented
gentlemen and ladies and gentlemen
who do the actual work of performing
the details of procedure in the govern.
ment, for which the cabinet ministers
receive credit and appreciation. That
would be way of seeing the govern
ment from away inside near the heart
OF the machinery. SMITH D. FRY:
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
Four burned to DEATH

Boyne City, Mich, April 7;-sunday
evening the frame dwelling of DR..
Boyne, and occupied by two families,
was totally destroyed and four per-
sons were burned to death. The dead
are Mrs. James Thompson, Mrs,
Frank Littlefield, a six-year-old girl
and an eight-year-old boy. "
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
Cut Into Small Pieces.

Manila, April 9.-Fifty Ladrones,
armed with rifles and bolos, recently
attacked five members of the constab-
ulary of Sarsegon, southeast Luzon,
captured three of them, and treated
the captives with hedeous barbarity,
eventually cutting them into small
pieces. A large force of constabulary
went in pursuit of the ladrones.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
Death of Il millionaire Negro.

Philadelphia, April s:-Col. John
Mckee, aged 81, one of the wealthiest
colored men in the country, died Sun
day night. His estate is worth about
81, 100000. At one time he owned more
than 100000 acres of land. He con-
Quoted a restaurant in this city until
1866, when he retired and engaged in
real estate operations. At the time
of his death he owned between 300
and 400 houses in Philadelphia. He
was the founder and owner of Mckee
CITY. n. !,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
KING LEOPOLD MOBBED.
Unpleasant Experience at Hands al
Socialists Of Ruler of Belgium
on His Return to BRUSSELS.

Brussels. April 1o.-King Leopold
was mobbed by socialists Wednesday
afternoon on his arrival here from
Biarritse. The meeting between the
socialists and the king was quite acct
dental, but it was none the less un-
pleasant for his majesty whose auto
mobile was surrounded by excited So
cialists. who shouted: "Long live the
republic!" Long live universal suf-
frage!" and waved red flags in the
kings face.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
Miss Stone VIII Lecture

r New York, April Maj. Pond has
closed a contract, through Charles A.
Stone, of Boston, with Miss Ellen M.
Stone, the missionary, for series of
100 lectures to.be given in the prin-
>cipal cities of the United States.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
News in Brief.

The board of aldermen of St. Paul
gave unanimous approval to an ordi-
nance authorizing the construction OF
an armory and the issuance of 500, SOC
bonds to meet the expense.
Governor Van SAINT has come down
hard on the boxing exhibitions which
have been put on in Minneapolis, St.
Paul, and other Minnesota cities re-
Gently, and has declared that they
must stop. He has instructed the
proper authorities to see that no more
prize fights are pulled off anywhere
throughout the state.
Corbett, the Winona baseball pitcher,
has signed with the Minneapolis
League team this year.
The North Star Shoe company will
absorb the Shaft-Picrce Shoe company
Chicken thieves have been raiding
South Minneapolis.
One hundred and ten members of the
team owners union of Minneapolis
quit work because the contractors by
whom they were employed refused to
pay them $3.50 for an eight-hour day.
April Is will be observed as Arbor
day in Minnesota.
Alden will probably have three sa-
looms at 81 900 each.
Minneapolis mills are experimenting
with fuel oil from Texas.
Hexel Campbell, daughter of Post
master Campbell of Taopi, is dead as
the result of vaccination. Blood poison
followed.
A woman passenger on the Northern
Pacific at Crookston became insane and
chewed her ticket up. She was going
from Iowa to Ulen, and it is supposed
the excitement of the journey and the
care of several children had unbalanced
her mind.
The month of March just passed
broke the record for building permits
in Minneapolis, 400 being issued, the
largest number ever granted in that
city in March.
A Crookston girl beat off couple of
highwaymen with her escorts umbrel-
Ia while the latter stood speechless
and motionless with his hands high in
the air.
The store of Rogers e. Rogers, at
Waltham, was broken into by burglars
and boots, shoes, gloves, etc., to the
amount of 800 were stolen; also S. in
cash.
The state board of control will soon
add several branches of industrial
training to the instruction now given
girl inmates of the Red Wing training
school. The girls now attend school
at the institution, and in addition tend
to their own rooms, mend and make
much of their own clothing, and are
! taught to cook. ~. =. :
The Commercial Club of Minneapolis
will offer prizes for the best kept yards
in the city. ~ =
The March report for smallpox will
show a decrease Of about thirty cases,
as compared with February. =.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
DobcOck Elected

Washington, April 1o.-'The repub-
lican congressional campaign commit
tee has unanimously reelected Rep
resentative Babcock, of Wisconsin, as
chairman.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
New School of lIinen

Plans for the new School of Mines
building recently authorized were ap-
proved by the building committee Of
the university regents. The building
is to cost SAL, 500, and will be built upon
a site in the rear of the main building
and in front of the protesting plant
located on the east bank of the Missis-
sippi. The plan of the new chemical
building at the school of agriculture
was also approved. This building is
to cost approximately $4,000. Both
are to be ready for occupancy by Sep
TENDER. 1909
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
IeDerS.

There are twenty lcpers in Mime
sofa, according to the report of the
marine hospital service. They are all
imported, however, and DR.. Bracken.
of the state board of health, says there
are no cases on record among native
born Americans of Minnesota. There
is no fear, therefore, that the disease
will spread. There are fourteen cases
in North Dakota, three in Wisconsin
and one in South Dakota,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
Golden Jubilee.

One of the greatest events in the his
tory of Mower county is soon to take
place. 1t is the golden jubilee of the
county, and elaborate arrangements
are being made. Mower county is the
first county in the North Star state to
celebrate golden jubilee, and arrange
ments will be made to entertain thou
sands of visitors on the gala day.
Fifty years ago the first settlers took
up their residence there, and since then
the county has made rapid Roadway,
until today it ranks among the first in
the great northwest
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
SCANDINAVIAN !. NEWS
Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS In THE FATHERLAND.
Principal Events That Have Occurred
In the Old Countries About tho
North Sea Within II Week
or So just Past.
DENMARK.

Jes Jcssen. the editor of Flensborg,
Avis, was elected to succeed the late
Gustav Jolannesen as member of the
German reichstag from the first dis
trict of Slesvig. He was the cand-
date of the Danish party. AS COM
pared with the returns of the election
OF 1898, the Danes lost 800 votes, the
Germans gained EOS, and the Social
Democrats gained 1870.
Bicycle Statistics About $4,000
bikes are in use in the Danish capital,
and 600 OF them are appropriated ev-
cry year by persons who dispense
with the usual ceremony of giving
something in return.
Captain Fisher, the treasurer of the
Aabenraa linguistic club, who has
been German subject since 1861, has
been declared to be a Danish subject,
and must leave the country within
two weeks.
The druggists and the physicians
have been waging little war Of their
own. About two hundred country doc
tors reside so far from drug stores
that they have been granted permits
sion to sell medicines at profit of
twenty-five per cent. The druggists
thought this was too much, and
agreed to cut the profit down to ten
per cent. The physicians, on the
other hand. refused to submit to this
cut, and the two parties found them
selves at loggerheads. The country
doctors have sold medicine for about
$4,000 a year, making their pront
$4,000
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Butter Scorers.

Minnesota is again at the top of the
heap in butter honors. B. B. White,
of the state dairy and food department,
received a proposition from the COM
mittee in charge of the National Cream
cry Buttermakers' association, to assist
in scoring in the six-months national
butter contest which is to be held soon.
Prof. L. L. Hacker, of the state school
of agriculture, received similar prop
osition. If they accept, this state will
have the honor of two members on the
scoring force of this most important
contest.
When the contest was first suggested
the committee, in estimating the pos
sibility of securing the necessary num-
Der of entries, counted on Minnesota
to furnish ore-third of the total num-
Der. Within week it was plain that
their estimate was none too high. Out
OF the first fifty entries this state had
twenty-four. Out of the first 100, Min
nesota had forty-one, and now that the
contest is assured, Minnesota has more
than one-third of the total entries.
The contest will be the first of it's
kind ever held, and viii bring the but
termakers of the United States in po-
sition to compete with each other
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
Anniversary.


The forty-fourth anniversary of Min
nesota's admission to the union will be
celebrated by the Territorial Pioneers
May 10, at the log cabin on the state
fair grounds. The anniversary day,
May IL, falls on Sunday. The Terri
torial Pioneers Woman's club will serve
banquet at the log cabin. Governor
Van SAINT will attend, and as his birth
day falls on May II, the ladies will
make birthday cake in his honor.
The society will hold its annual
meeting, and in the evening will meet
In the house chamber of the capitol.
The woman's club will also assist in
receiving the First Minnesota at their
reunion June q.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16

of his home at st. Paul.
The Washburn-Crosby Milling Com
pany has given up, for the present at
least, the proposition of milling Can
adian wheat in bond. This announce
ment was made officially at the OFFICES
of the company and will be source
of some disappointment to many mill
ers in Minneapolis.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the secretary> of state by three
Roman Catholic churches, the Church
of St. Hyacinth, Owatonna; Church of
the Sacred Heart, Adams, and Church
of St. Francis Xavier, Window.
w. B. Anderson of Winona has filed
his certificate, with the secretary of
state as republican candidate for
district Judge in the third district.
This district is composed of the coun-
ties Of Winona, Olmsted and Wabasha.
The annual Iowa Minnesota debate,
which was held in the university
chapel, resulted in a victory for the
Minnesota team.
The March report of the U. S. land
Office at St. Cloud shows So homestead
entries on 6,776 acres; II final proofs
on 4,s44.6s acres and 20 cash entries
on 1,ss3.41 acres. The total receipts
for the month were $3,629.o1.
Passenger Train No. on the Great
Northern was wrecked near Avon. The
train ran into a washed out culvert
and was 9ditched. The passengers were
severely shaken up, but none was in
jured. -.. ~-- :
A postoffice has been ordered estab-
lished at Myran, Beltrami county,
MINI, and Franz 3. Gustafson has
been appointed postmaster.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16

monument. A committee of twelve
men have been appointed to raise the
necessary funds, and an address
signed by eighty prominent citizens
will soon be published, asking for a
national subscription.
Both branches of the storthing have
voted in favor Of granting women the
right to serve as jurors and judges.
Verdens Gang says: ''The Germans
are yelling about the suppression of
the. Beers by the English. We would
think more of the sincerity of the
Germans if they gave their ancient
Danish province back to Denmark.
The Germans ought to pay little less
attention to South Africa and little
more to their own home affairs
The deficit of the Roros copper mine
for the year 1901 was $4,000. This
means so much out of the national
treasury, the plant being owned and
operated by the state. The loss was
largely due to a protracted strike
among the employees. -. 49,.
A lawyer named Sahlberg seems to
have offered the Russian government
to act as a spy in the Norwegian
capital, and the affair has caused
quite Il sensation. - & r s Sz* :. s. s.
Premier Steen has manifested no in
clination to resign and let some
one else construct new cabinet.
The surplus of the Kristiania cleo
trio power plant for the year 1901 was
about $135,O00, which amount exceeds
the estimates by $23,0C1. 2%s4 &
One and a half million Goldfish were
caught in Lofoten during the week
ending March and he prospects are
*encouragin @