Mower County transcript., 1903-12-30

them were the most important of the
session. #." ., ?
St. Paul Times: Education to the
man is very much the same thing as
the emery wheel is to the diamond, or
the grindstone to the scythe. It brings
out som mething that was there all the
time but it creates no new power and
confers no new abilities All the
sharpening you might give piece of
cast iron, all the grinding you might do
on the surface of aquartz pebble, would
neither fit them to cut nor to sparkle.
Unless the boy and the girl has grit
and ambition the root of the matter
within them-all the lessons and all
the reading in the world will not fit
them to be leaders in the race of life.
Albert Lea Times: The q cream
cries in Freeborn county have all told
1862 patrons, that according to the
estimate of the buttermakers and
secretaries of the various creameries
own 3O5O COWS, and these COWS furnish
ed to the creameries during the month
of July ana August an average of
352, 800 pounds of milk per day. The
average butterfat test of this milk was
1853, and the yield of butter at this
time 4.3O per cwt. of milk, which would
make a daily output of butter of ap-
proximately $1,000 pounds bring a
revenue to Freeborn county of nearly
$4,000 per day for butter alone, with
out counting the value of skim milk.
Providence Journal: Voting mach
ines are still used in the city of North
ampton, Massachusetts,, and the elec-
tion officers have to meet after the
ballOting and correct any errors they
discover. Last fall the Councilman
who led his ward ticket was declared
defeated and might not have taken his
seat unless friend had demanded all
investigation. Tuesday one machine
recorded eighty-three more votes than
were registered in the district, the only
conclusion being that it slipped ahead
an even hundred. AS with flying
machines, the ideals are very salts
factory, but in actual experience most
voting machines have so far proved
failures.
Dairy Record: The wheat grower
himself, the farmer, did not and is to-
day not receiving one hundreth of a
cent more for his wheat on account of
this centralizing system than he did
before-in fact, he is to large extent
at the mercy of the wheat buyer. The
same would.be the case if the central
plants should acquire control of the
creamery business; of course, such in
tentions are disclaimed by the wiser
ones of these concerns, but the men
who own them are only human, and
there is not the slightest reason what
ever why they should be less greedy
than the rest of us, and why they
should not, whenever the opportunity
presents itself, raise the price in certain
localities in order to down a local
creamery and get the business.
St. Louis Globe Democrat: All the
questions of Importance regarding the
Panama republic propounded by the
Hoar resolutions were answered by the
President in his message. Senator
Culberson's query as to whether the
people of Panama had a right to form
an Independent government is answer
ed by the fact that they have formed it.
They did this under the right of re-
volution which every community has,
which the United States exercised in
1776, and which Culberson's own
locality, the Texas republic, put in ef-
feet when it separated from Mexico in
1895. For few days or weeks the
takers will have the floor in the SEN
ate and in the press, but the flag which
the people of Panama have set up will
remain up.
Preston Times: The Lacrosse lob
bers, who we understand are agitating
change in the time to the train which
now leaves La Crosse at $40 p. No..
should go slow until they have tested
the temper of their many patrons along
the S. M. For the first time in the
history of the road the people up this
way are getting decent train service
out of La Crosse. The fact is that the
change pleases everybody, or should,
with the possible exception of the
theaters and saloons of La Crosse.
People from Austin east can now 90
down or up the line and return to their
homes in the late evening. People from
Rushford to Spring Valley can visit the
county seat of an afternoon and return
home for early bed time. People of
Preston can visit their neighbors east
and west and likewise return home the
same evening.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Upon proof
OF the charges which have been made,
Schwab and the rest of the gang who
were engaged in the nefarious U. S.
Shipbuilding Co.'S proceedings which
have been exhibited could be sent
where they belong-that is, to Jail.
This is the only way in which such
men can be reached. A fine, however
large, is nothing to them. They would
pay it gladly and think themselves in
| luck to get so easily off. But they
would quail before vision of the
prison stripes. And it is time that
they should be made to quail, time that
they should be made to reap as they
nave sown, and to pay the penalty for
the misdeeds from which the com.
munity has SO greatly suffered. The
safety of the people, the interests of
the business world and the honor Of