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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

STEERS of 30 years and upward in Mas
sachusetts is nearly 2 per cent. In
Rhode Island it is S per cent, in Con.
necticut 26 per cent, in Maine 80 pes
cent, in New Hampshire 26 per cent,
and in Vermont 10 per cent. New York
shows surplus Of % per cent, New
Jersey 20 per cent, Pennsylvania IS
per cent, Ohio 38 per cent, Indiana 60
per cent, and Illinois 68 per cent. Kan
sss rises to an excess in bachelors Of
1O8 per cent, while Missouri shows a
surplus Of II per cent. Michigan has
an excess of II per cent Of single men.
In explanation Of the hugeness of
these percentages 1t should be made
clear that the mass Of the population
in each State is paired off by marriage
evenly as between the sexes, leaving
only comparatively small fraction of
single persons Of manageable age.
1t is only this fraction that is consid
cred in the present statement, and in
most States the male part of the frac-
ton is much in excess Of the female
part-hence the high percentages Of
bachelor surplus quoted
When the entire population Of the
country is considered, it is shown by
the census figures that there are now
in the United States 100000 more
males than females. The excess in
1890 was only 1,560,O47. This is very
interesting, particularly in view of the
fact that in the Old World the condi-
ton of affairs is quite different, the fe-
males outnumbering the males. In
Europe there are 4S5 males to 511 fe-
males in every 1000 of the population.
Chances for Marriage.
In this country the males Outnumber
the females twenty-four in every 1000,
and thus 1t is Obvious that, If all of
the women do not get husbands, it is
not for lack of available material. In
Idaho there are 223 men for every 100
women. Montana has $50 men for
every 100 women. Nevada has 153
men for every 100 women. Arizona
has 40 men for every 100 women.
These figures, of course, relate to
the entire population, and not TO bach
elors and spinsters. Statistics show
that about three-ifths of the people of
the United States Gncluding children
are single, & little more than one-third
married, and not quite one-twentieth
widowed. The divorced constitute but
a small fraction of / per cent of the
whole number.
Within the last few decades the birth
rate in this country has run down rap
idly. "The idea Of limiting families"
says Carroll D. Wright, ''has more eff
feet upon the growth of population
| than war, pestilence and all other
causes combined" In 1850 the average
| family comprised five and a half per-
sons; now it is only four and half.
People in the Southern States have
| the most children, while in New Eng
land families are smallest. Louisiana,
in proportion to population, has twice
as many children as Maine, under
years Of age.
| Nevertheless, a baby is born in this
country every twelve seconds. Every
| twenty-three seconds a death occurs,
every twenty-four seconds marriage,
and every minute in the twenty -four
hours five cradles are supplied with oc-
| cupants.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

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Based upon a romantic legend OF MS
native land Z. w. e. Hart has written
"Jason-Nova Scotia" story of love
and adventure OH sea and shore.
Mrs G. r. Alden, the creator Of the
famous "Pansy" books, has written
novel for fiction readers which the
Lothrop Publishing Company is bring
Ing from the press. Its title is Mara"
News comes from Rome that the
Pope has blessed Ben-Hur. This bless
ing, it seems, has not been bestowed
ceremonially, but it will be none the
less welcome on that account to the
venerable author and his publishers.
The Lothrop Publishing Company an
Anounces the early issue of novel by
Fl. G. McVickar and Percy Collins. It's
title is "a Parish for Two" and the
story will be told in the form Of let
tiers between a clubman and clergy
man.
Charles Battell LOOMS author of
''The Four-Masted Catboat" and also
well known as a humorous reader,
will issue shortly through Henry Holt
& Co a new book entitled Cheerful
Americans" This volume viii include
his stories Of americans Abroad" and
a number Of other tales.
Charles Majors new novel is now
nearly completed. 1t is an entirely diff
ferent style Of story from Dorothy
Vernon and when Knighth00d Was
in Flower" and those who have seen
the book believe it will greatly en-
nance the authors already wide repu-
tation and great popularity
D. Appleton & Co. will publish this
year new book by Hezekiah Butter
worth under the title Of Brother
Jonathan" 1t will have as its central
character Governor Jonathan Trum-
bull, Of Connecticut. All Of Mr.. But
terworth's stories have served as back
grounds for pictures of great historical
characters.
Two years ago Alice Browns novel.
Margaret Warrener, was one Of the
best of the year. Her new book, 1.-THE
Mannerings," is, SO far, only surpassed
by Lady Roses Daughter in this
seasons fiction. It is at once an enter
tanning story and thoroughly salts
factory presentation of a number OF
interesting characters. Life.
George Ade is thoroughly represent
alive of the men who have entered
literature by the highway of the news
no off IIic G,vct Tnu I'm
print was made at the tender age Of
- years, when he contributed an es-
say to his "home paper" the Gazette,
Of Kentland, Ind. 1t was called "a
Basket Of Potatoes and, Oddly
enough, was in the form Of fable.
Anna Chaplin Rays new novel has
for it's hero Cotton Mather Thayer,"
whose father was q Boston blueblood,
and whose mother was Russian mu-
stefan. The latter gave to him his
musical temperament, and the title Of
the book suggests the authors main
motif-the warning strains, Puritan
and Slav," in her hero. The central
idea is> the mistake woman makes
who attempts to reform a man after
marriage. Beatrix Dane the heroine
of the book, discovers during her en-
gagement that Lorimer, her lover, has
an inherited appetite for drink, but
from a mistaken sense Of duty does
not break her troth, and her intimate
friends shrink from any interference
Much Of the novel has a decidedly
musical atmosphere, and the attitude
Of some portions Of New York society
toward musical people is well de,
scribed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22
The Camern Habit.

eyes, that man has been in my gal
lery seven times during the past two
weeks to sit for a photograph. He's
a puzzle to me-"
II should go a little farther and call
him poser. "-CleYeland Plain Dealer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

de older er man gits," said the col
ored parson, "de hahder it am ter pull
de wool ober his eyes"
"How does yo' all account fob dat,
parson?" asked Deacon Flatfoot.
"Ah accounts fob it on de groun dat
de older er man gifts de less wool he
have" answered the parson with a
grin
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

1t Is problem, says the Baltimore
News, that means much to the indus
trial and physical well-being of large
portion of our populatlon-the problem
of mastering and using the rainfall in
the Mississippi watershed, instead of
permitting it to go on an annual ram
page, a menace to the numerous popu-
laton skirting the banks Of the river.
There are arid lands along the course
of the Missouri which need badly each
season the flood water sent down to
swell the lower Mississippi torrents in
the early spring. In all the territory
drained by the upper MissisS ppi
scarcely season passes when there is
not lack of rainfall at critical time.
Forests throughout that region have
been swept away. Swamp land has
been drained. Every channel is open
and free, and as soon as the winter
SHOWS melt the waters hurry over the
frozen ground into the rivers, and
there is a food Scientists of to-day
have found that not only are the for
ests important IN the preservation of
life-giving moisture, bur they also tend
to prevent floods. Even the dust of
the desert plays its part, for meterolo-
gists tell us that without it rain clouds
would probably not form. Men, in
their rush for wealth, seem to have de
nUded the country of forests and de-
ve1oped drainage system which
means alternate flood and drought. 1t
might be we'll if they would now try
to learn something Of the conditions
under which nature will supply mois-
ture without a deluge. Bringing about
these conditions would seem more adj
vantageous to a symmetrical develop
ment and much safer for jewellers up
ON great rivers. Levee building must
be supplemented by more extensive at
| tempts to hold food water where it
| falls.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22
Which Ran First 2

Waggsby-Here's an absurd state
ment-'"The ship ran before the wind"
Naggsby-Well, what's wrong with
it?
Waggsby-Doesn't every person Of
intelligence know that the wind start
ed to run before the ship did?-Bal-
timore American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22
Uncle Rastus.

"Stidder huntin' fer trouble" said the
sable philosopher, take de number Off
yo' door, SOS he can't fin whar you at
wen he look in de directory Atlanta
Constitution.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Grafton or two Of the higher social life
to face the divorce court as one OF
those annoying but necessary incidents
which should be encountered with q
lofty scorn and a superb Indifference.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Clerical gentlemen who assume to
sit in judgment upon other clergymen,
not even Of their own denomination,
need to be reminded that there is an
eleventh commandment, which is of
great value even though it was not
craven on the Sinaitic tablets. 1t
reads: Mind your own bu mess"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22
WlCKS FOR MINERS MADE
IN THIS OLD Mill

Although in active operation for
about sixty-six years, the old Rose
Glen mill in Delaware County, Della
ware, is still far from showing the
effects Of time, and is one Of the few
mills in the country maintaining a
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

F1uorine gas has at last been lique-
fed and solidifed. This only leaves
one gas, helium, to be experimental
upon. Helium only exists in the so
lar atmosphere, and it will be hot
work getting any.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

AS long as your sweetheart finds
fault with you, you are safe. But when
she finds fault in you, be sure to look
for another girl.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Solomon in all his glory was nowhere
beside the boy in uniform who comes
home on his first vacation from the
military academy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Senator Lodge says that our peril to-
day is irresponsible wealth. A little
Of this brand of peril would not go SO
hadf l-.lE.-I !. 81
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

A New Jersey man has found $500
pearl in an oyster. Still, it will not be
advisable for any man who has good,
steady job at something else to give
it up for the purpose Of hunting pearls.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22
No Time for Them.

Bragg says it keeps him busy these
days keeping track Of his social obli.
cations"
THAT may be true; at any rate he
doesn't seem to have time TO bother
with his financial obligations. phil.
adelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

The young men who argue that there
are germs in ice cream are the ones
who combat the theory that there are
microbes in kisses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

It is all right to tell us it is not al
ways wrong to tell lies, but will the
eminent gentlemen who advance this
theory and go farther and advise US
now to compel others to believe the
[inGo
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Some men are so confidential that if
they were going to file saw they
would take every man in town Off to
Dne side and tell him about It
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22
Not the Same.

You don't mean to tell me he's O
pugilist?"
mot at all. 1 said he was a light
weight boxer y
"Well?"
"Well, he's a packer OF strawber.
ries.' -Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

The Russian bear believes in the
open-door policy SO long as he sits in
the door, it would seem.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

In due time the Servians will become
tired Of shouting Long live King Ka-
georgeyitch" It is harder to say.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Some men stick to thing like 8
postage stamp-all the better after be
ing licked into a realization of what is
expected of them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

If men were compelled to sit in the
hot sun and fish all day they would
consider it hardship.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

The racing automobile is the dead
Hest toy that millionairism has ever
amused itself with
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

There is this difference between a
house and woman: A coat of paint
improves the house.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

The new King of Servia became
greatly excited when he was Informed
of his election We can't blame him.
Being elected King Of Seryia is no
laughing matter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Housecleaning is never as bad as
the poems written about it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Following the Karageorgeyitch dy-
nasty may come in a short time the
Krag-J orgensen dynasty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22
Strictly Business.

Busy Merchant-Well, sir, what dc
you want?
limit Youth-Y-your daughters
hand.
Busy Merchant give it to
you, sir. Either take her entire or
leave her. We are not doing an in
stallment business
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

'More men fall from the want of
force than from want Of judgment,
said Dr. Smith, who preached the bac
calaureate sermon at New York Uni
versity, land it would appear that els
ucation often tends to reduce rather
than add to mans fOrcefulness.
This very deftly hits the nail on the
head knowledge develops caution
and an indisposition to take risks. 1t
also develops sensibilities that are so
finely attuned that the possessor of
them is apt to go long way round to
avoid q shock to them, and thereby
loses the race. Some ignorant man
with narrow vision has seen nothing
but a short cut across, and has taken
1t. While knowledge, confused and
rendered timid by it's breadth Of view,
is weighing complications and considr
ering chances, ignorance, seeing moth
ing but the end to be attained and the
means, plunges blindly and recklessly
onward and triumphs. The educated
man is apt to spare himself at crucial
times. He is apt, too, to place q far
lower estimate upon material successes
than does the ignorant man. He sees
far more in life than warm back and
a full stomach, and SO his aspirations
and efforts are divided. 1t is perhaps
not so much a lack Of force as a di-
vision of it, DR. Smith has scored q
strong point against higher education,
If we are to look upon mere selfish
achievements as the standard of sue
cess. But, OH the other hand. the edu-
Gated man has sub, ectiye delights in
dependent Of material achievement
that must be counted into the reckon
ing
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Arbitration should come before, not
after, strike.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

Some merchants won't advertise
even on a circus elepllaaA
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22

There are lots of women who are
kept so busy with husbands and ba-
bies and homework, that it must be
positive luxury to be sick in bed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-22
S4.OOO,OOO in I!icepses

Ohio collects over 100000
licenses from 1879 saloons.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-07-24
Orchards in Sod.

In most sections of. the country tie
accepted plan of orchard culture is to
cultivate the soil until midsummer,
then put on a cover crop, which is
plowed under in the spring. These
cover crops are usually leguminous
plants, which gather nitrogen from
the air, SO that in blowing them under
both humus and nitrogen is added to
the soil. Lately much has been said
in favor of keeping the mature orchard
In sod-the mulched orchard, as it is
called. While the plan is not generally
looked upon with favor by or%chardists,
the arguments in favor of it have con
siderable merit, and are worth serious
consideration. Some growers have
claimed that the mulched orchard has
given them a yearly crop of fruit be-
cause the trees are strong and vigorous
throughout the season, the sod con-
serving to the soil the Immense amount
Of moisture required by the growing
trees, and, in times Of drouth. making
it possible for the tree to grow and
ripen the fruit, yet retain sufficient
vitality to form the growth necessary
for the fruit buds of the following
year. The arguments are logical, es-
pecially as they come close to the con-
ditions surrounding the trees of the
forest, which, under normal conditions,
bear a full crop annually.-Indianapo-
lis News.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-07-24

OF the several orders of reptiles, tur-
ties are the least repulsive to most peo-
pie. Among them, however, may be
found those which may not be handled
with IMMUNITY. I shall never forget
my first interview with a swapping tur-
tie. ! was a schoolboy at the time and
I was engaged in fishing for cells in a
brook, when 1 had a bite" a good one,
and to my joy I hauled out on the bank
a kicking, struggling, four-legged crea-
ture with a ~mud-colored, moss-covered
shell and with horny spikes on the
upper edge of his tail. 1 put out my
hand to remove the hook, a bent pin,
when the wicked head shot out like a
streak Of lightning and the jaws came
together with a snap. Luckily my fin
gers were just out Of reach. or / might
have lost one or two of them.
The f~at-shelled painted turtles, the
round-shelled spotted turtles, and in
fact nearly all our common turtles
with the exception of the snapper and
the alligator-snapper. may be handled
and examined without the slightest
fear. Most Of them are water-turtles,
and feed chiefly on animal food. hui
the interesting box-turtle lives upon
the land and feeds chiefly, If not alto
gether, on vegetables.-Woman's Home
Companion.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-07-24
AGRICULTURAL.
Fowls For the Market.

FOWL OE ln0 0A0IAoAs
Many who raise poultry seem to get
along with them all right until it comes
to finishing them off for market and
here they fail. OF late years cooked
foods have been somewhat Of a fad,
though in some localities they have
been tabooed. There is virtue in
cooked food for fowls, but experience
has shown that they must be fed In
conjunction with raw food to obtain
the best results. In preparing fowls
for market, where they were fattened
in coops or small houses, it has been
found that a ration consisting of mixed
grains with corn in the largest propor-
ton, produces the best results, but it
has, also been observed that green food
and plenty of clean water are also
essential for the best results. 1t is not
possible to get that plumpness of car
cass which the market demands by the
use Of corn alone; corn will make the
fowls fat, too fat, in fact, but it does
not evenly distribute the flesh as does
a mixture of grains combined, as
stated, with green food and water.
Then, the cost is no more for this
proper treatment than for the exciu-
sive corn diet, while the receipts are
largely Observation-Disclosures News.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-07-24
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
The brosouito il Doomed.

The Jersey mosquito has cause to
tremble in Its lair. A permanent or
ganization, formed by representatives
of the Boards of Health of Newark and
q dozen other municipalities Of the
State, has declared official hostilities
against it and will wage a warfare Of
determination. DR.. F. w. Becker, the
Newark Health Boards special COM
mittee OF mosquitoes, has been chosen
temporary President and David D..
Chandler, Health Officer Of Newark.
temporary Secretary. For some time
the Newark Health Board has been agf-
tating the mosquito question, and with
Professor John b. Smith, State Ento-
mOlogist, has been carrying ON expert
ments on the salt meadows east of this
city. Professor Smith and DR.. Becker
assert mosquitoes breed only in stag
nant water. To drain off this stag
nant water or to give the tidewater ac-
cess to the ponds would solve the prob
lem, they say. The promoters Of the
movement say the expense of eliminat-
ing the mosquito-breeding areas will not
be a farthing in comparison with the
good results that will be accomplished.
1t may take years to eradicate the pest.
but thorough and vigorous work will
do it.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-07-24
A ~self-Feedinr Manager.

The trouble in feeding loose horses
or cattle in an open manger without
stalls is that one master animal will
frequently ~monopolize from ten to
twenty feet Of the manger just for the
fun Of it or an animal will be at the
manger and take up a mouthful Of hay,
another comes along, drives him away
and he drops the hay outside of the
manger. By my stall plan the animal
does not see and is not crowded by its
neighbor, cannot root out the feed or
take up a mouthful and turn his head
from over the manger and drop it out
side to be tramped on. The stalls be-
ing only three feet to three feet and
four inches, as may be preferred, in
width and coming out two feet from
the manger, the front edge Of the stall
being perpendicular as shown in the il
%lustration, there is NJ danger Of ami
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-07-24
Mysterious Slaughter OF Sheep.

A sensation has been caused in the
district Of Orpington. a small town
about nine miles from Woolwich. Eng
land, by the mysterious slaughter Of
nearly eighty valuable Southdown
sheep. The flock, mastering about 300.
the property of a gentleman farmer
named Miller-H allett were gathered
in a field near the road, but when the
shepherd visited the place on the fol-
lowing morning he found the whole Of
the sheep piled up in a struggling mass
to the height of about five feet against
the doors of the farm yard, many being
dead, and all being paralyzed with
fright. An examination showed that
the dead and wounded had been bitten
through the nostrils, and in many in.
stances frightfully worried. Altogether
seventy-three Of them were dead, while
one had to be- killed at once. One Of
the suggestions is that performing
bears were the culprits.-Philadelphia
Telegraph.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-07-24
ARMY PROMOTIONS.

Announcement Of Advancement of Gem
erals Young, sumner and Wood.
Washington, D. C.-The President
has given directions for the prepara-
ton of commissions for tile following
promotions In the army:
Majors General Samuel B. NJ. Young
to be acknowledgement, vice Lieuten-
ant-General Miles, who retires August8.
Brigadier-G General Samuel s. Sum-
ner, to be maJor-general, vice Major
General George W. Davis, to be retired
July 20.
Brigadier-G General Leonard Wood, to
be major-general, vice General Young,
to be promoted.