The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

ii ever Improved upon.
1.-THE opening of farms in this
country will will be necessarily
slower than on the prairie, but the
opening is less expensive, the wood
aud logs paying the cost and pro-
viding living for the settler and
his family, and in the end these
farms will be Of the highest value.
The Central Wisconsin takes this
view of the land question:
every man in this city, no mat
ter in what kind of business en-
gagged, no matter how small or how
large his means, should select at
least a 40 acre tract of farming land,
should hold on to in spite of every
thing that may occur 1t should be
his anchor to windward. No mat
ter how humble his circumstances
now, he will In time be able to pay
for it. Should he never have oc-
casion to use it, the investment will
be good one, and should business
reverses come and he still has a
clear title to that forty acre tract,
he need never have any fear that the
poorhouse will be at the end of life's
journey, for there is hardly forty
acre tract in this county but what
will raise more than enough to sup
port family. We know of men
now, old men, who are living on
small farms. They have plenty and
are contented. They probably get
as much pleasure out of life as the
ordinary individual and certainly
more and a greater sense of security
than men of equal age, whose po-
wers are on the wane and who by
toiling in the mills and factories are
endeavoring to keep the wolf from
the door.
+ We know score or more of men
who came to this county twenty or
twenty-five years ago, who came
here practically penniless and with
families dependent upon them. To-
day they own improved farns with
good buildings, live stock and with
money in the bank. On a conserva-
tive estimate we think they have to-
day property worth at least $4,000.
Gould a lahoring man working for
daily wages do as we'll? If he
averages $150 per day during that
period and worked 26O days per
year he would have been fairly for
tunate, and more than frugal if he
succeeded each year in laying by
$50.
''It is mighty poor farm that will
not yield better Lying than man
can make at common labor. If you
see chance to get a farm, get it,
and get it right here in Marathon
county, where you know what the
conditions are. Don't go chasing
off to the far west and northwest,
when more fertile soil soil and bet
ter markets car be found right here
and where less capitol is needed, if
you are honest and Industrious, than
would be required elsewhere.
The trial of Elk Mayor A. A.
Ames, of Minneapolis, for alleged
while in Office, is in
progress, and some startling de-
yelopment are being brought TO
light. Ames is being tried on an
omnibus Indictment, which per-
mits the prosecution to introduce
under all the charges
brought against him in the one
trial. Some of Ames' former
henchmen have testified as to the
manner in which certain lewd
houses were compelled to make
contributions into a fund which
went to the Mayor, and it begins
to look as though things might
go bad with the former executive
of the Flower City. Nothing but
sympathy can save him from
conviction. Owing to the prom
lnence of Ames for many years,
bis personal popularity, and the
wrecked condition of his health,
it is thought barely possible that
he may escape verdict of guilty
at the hands of the Jury. One Of
the jurors, John E. Layne, who
nad been accepted on the venire,