Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-23

way for the coming of Rev. T. NJ.
Hare of Ohio, where the fighting on
this line has long been very active.
Mr.. Hare has been at the head Of
the work for eight years in that state
and is expected to make things move.
Mr.. Colman looked the typical
preacher, tall, spare, with long ha.'
and benevolent face, as he went from
town to city in the interest of his
reform. During his forty-five years
work in the Wisconsin conference Dr.
Colman has been stationed in the
southeastern section Of the state. in
the Milwaukee and GAINESVILLE districts
He has achieved much good work. He
was a familiar figure about the sue
cessive legislatures. The liquor and
like reforms are slOW-mOving but
something has been accomplished. Mr.
Hare. the new man, is said to be a
fighter and means to carry anit-saloon-
ism into politics.
Milwaukee's 800 Saloons.
In Milwaukee there is an effort to
place the granting of the 1880 saloons
in the hands Of the mayor. This pow
,er was lodged in the hands of the may
or Of the city until the council took it
away, about twenty years ago. There
is now a scandal in the council by the
discovery that a ring composed of it's
members has been eXtorting money
from keepers of wretched dives as a
condition of the granting of licenses
enabling them to continue in business.
Fond of Historic Curios.
Not everybody knows there is a
Wisconsin archa Biological society with a
monthly magazine. A recent issue has
as fronts piece picture of triangular
stone adzez" fwo) from A. H. Ellis
worth collection. The motto of the
society is given as ''to study, to pre-
serve, to record Wisconsin antiquities"
The contents are thus listed: Pro-
ceedings of the monthly meetings;
1.-THE Triangular Stone AdZe," Henry
A. Crosby; Commercial VS.. Scientific
Collecting" Warren K. Moorehead;
''The Occurrence of Obsidian Imple-
ments in Wisconsin, Publius v.
Lawson; George P. Delaplaine," Julia
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servation of LocalArcheolOgical Data"
Charles e. Brown; Archaeological Re-
search and Literature" "Notes from
the Wisconsin Field" :.
There is monthly meeting, held in
the milwaukee museum, which, in
fact, is the nerve center of the move
ment. Nearly 100 sometimes attend
-, no Hc
Henry A. Crosby.
Classification of Local Evidences.
The following convenient classified
ton of Wisconsin's prehistoric works
has been adopted by the society:
Solitary mounds and mound groups;
Enclosures; village and camp sites;
cave habitations; cornfelds and garden
beds; quarry sites; refuse heaps, shell
heaps, etc0 caches; cemeteries; kane
gravel and sand pits burials; trials;
miscellaneous works. IN
Selling the Last of the Land.
There is some delay in the sale Of
the public lands, which were on record
by legislative enactment to take place
between October Is and November 10
The listing of the lands has proven a
big job. The printed circular will be
circulated early in November and the
sale will extend into December.
The Copper Range.
Calumet Mich, is in the center Of
the copper mining country. The cop
per range, AS it is called, extends in a
northea sterly mad Southwesterly di-
rection from this city and is about
siXty-fve and seventy miles in length
and from three to seven miles wide
Copper is found at depths ranging
from a few feet below the surface to
5000 Or 1000 feet in depth. Copper
| is distinguished under several different
names, by the miners, as it is found in
the ore, as follows for instance; mala-
cOnite, meaning black copper; azurite,
blue copper; chalcopyrite, copper mica
Or pyrites; tetrahedrite, gray copper;
malachite, green copper; bornite, varie-
gated copper; cuprite, red copper. The
thickness of the various veins of cop,
per as it is found at different depths
varies from a few feet up to twenty
feet and more. 1t takes an immense
amount of timber to serve as supports
where the ore has been removed.
Sometimes as high as 100000 feet
are used in a years time. Just at
present there is good deal Of anxiety
over the condition of things in the
stock market as there has been a good
deal of specula ton in western copper
| stocks here of late.
Postal Service a Life Work.
The postal service offers opportuni-
ties for the young men rarely to be
found in any other line of industry.
These positions are all under the civil
service and when one enters the
service it usually means life emoiu-
ment. The examination for admittance
is comparatively easy, partaking of the
common school branches, geography,
arithmetic, spelling, writing, grammar
and the reading of addresses on enve-
| 1onoS When one enters tho service ha