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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-16
Band concert Monday night.

Band concert Monday night.
-.dr. and Mrs. Vern Brookens
of Bloomington were in town yester-
day.
Miss Mae Hannum went to
Chicago yesterday on a millinery
buying expedition.
Miss Sue Muesse starts Monday
for visit with her brothers at Gin
ton, Iowa, and Erie, Ill.
Miss Blanche Rothschild starts
this week for Camp Douglas and ST.
Paul for visit with friends and
relatives.
The band gave another of those
delightful concerts Thursday even
ing. The streets were crowded
with the audience.
p. r. Stoffel & Son last week
sold one of their full-blood Short
horn bulls to L. w. Lathrop of
Barnum, Crawford county.
-Fache & Son are moving the
old Reed building to the street west
of the court house. They have torn
out the back end of the first story.
"A jolly fishing party, composed
of Harry Brown, Judge Goodsell,
E. HI. Grifis, Geo. Baxter and Fred
Barnett enjoyed the sport in the
vicinity of Woodman last Thurs
day.
Henry Sutton, a prominent
Wyalusing farmer, died of append
citis at the hospital in Dubuque.
Mr.. Sutton was about forty years OF
age, and leaves a widow and several
children.
Il. S. Sawyer, HI. G. Enke and
Miss Alta Sawyer drove over from
Bloomington Friday morning, Miss
Sawyer taking the train for a trip
to Dundee, ILL.,, where she will visit
|
relatives.
The boys at Clayton Landing
report having caught twenty five
pounds of fish one evening recently.
Will Mullen returned from visit to
camp Friday, and George Sykes and
Walt. Webb went out for a few
days. stay.
The Congregational Endeavor-
ers will serve a complete supper in
the church parlors on Tuesday
evening next, from O'Clock until
all are served. The ladies promise
something extra good, SO all who
can should attend.
Mrs. Fred Vande Wall (nee
Flossie Baldwin, arrived from the
Klondike country Wednesday even
ing. She was about three weeks on
the road, stopping at several Alas
ka towns. Their home is in one OF
the towns near Dawson. Mrs.
VandeWall expects to have good
visit here.
John Dechow and N. j. Tiede.
man, accompanied by their wives,
made a trip to Platteville Thurs
day. These gentlemen were great
ly impressed with what they saw in
mining operations. They were
down in several mines, inspecting
the work and looking over the
! rich deposits of ores.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-16

Country shippers have acted
wisely in taking a recess until
the strike trouble is settled. They
can better afford to hold the stock
at home than to take a, chance of
sending it to market under such
conditions. Naturally the shipping
demand has increased very materi-
ally, for all eastern houses have
made arrangements to increase
their slaughtering capacity to the
highest limit while the strike is on.
The first place to feel the effects of
the strike is the east, which depends
on its supply of meat from Chicago.
This demand is rather uncertain,
however, and until things get to
running regularly it is not safe to
count too much on this demand.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-16

IT. L. Cleary was over from
Platteville Thursday.
Richard Mathews went tx
Dodgeville yesterday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-16
When Dad "Butts In"

There's little bunch of sweetness
That don't care about the neatness,
Of the curtains, the table or the
floor;
He will pull the lace creations
Until they look denominations,
But his mama loves him for it all
the more.
He will crawl upon the table
Just as soon as he is able;
He will paddle IN the gravy with
his feet;
He will tip the furniture over
And think himself in clover
But mama smiles and says, 'Oh!
amt he sweet?"
But the day is surely coming
When the household he'll quit run
ming;
His dad is going to ''butt I'M with a
club.
And baby will be swatted
Until his hide is spotted
When dad decides to butt in" with
club.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17
Is Drunkenness Crime or Disease ?
Is the drunkard q criminal ?

Is the drunkard criminal2
This is an interesting question
which has been brought up by the
New York State commission of prisons
in its annual report. The commits
sion reports some startling figures;
out Of I02,5Sl commitments for the
year just closed 26,51S Of the persons
committed we're sent to jails and 3, ,6!5
TO the penitentiary for the single Of
fense Of drunkenness. On these fig
ures the commission bases some very
pertinent remarks aud recommends
that the law should devise some other
means for dealing with inebriates.
The commission argues that there
is no element of malice in the offense
of drunkenness, that habitual drunk
enness results from mental weakness
and that the treatment should be sim.
liar to other cases of alteration.
There is difference betweensthe man
who cannot control his appetite, al
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17

= Chicago was about the size Of
Baltimore when in October, 1871 ,l a
COW kicked over q lamp in bar
which act the city on ire. This was
the greatest fire in the history Of the
country. It covered an area of 2,10O
acres and destroyed II, ,45O buildings.
The loss was estimated at $3.50, ,O00,-
600. The Baltimore fire has swept
over an area Of two miles square in the
business center Of the city and the
estimated loss is 5000, 900. A
bill wasointroduoed in congress few
days ago by member from Illinois
appropriating $1,000, 900 for the relief
Of the sufferers from the fire.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17

cues the commission, and the man
who willfully and maliciously com
mi,s an ottense against the person or
property Of another. The law should
recognize the distinction, thinks the
commission and i 50 recommends.
The question which is thus raised
is an interesting one, intere sting not
only in New York but everywhere, for
drunkenness, whether crime or
disease is problem with which every
State and every city has to deal. There
! is something to be said on both sides
OF the question. On the one hand it
is argued that the practice of sending
the drunkard to JAIL where he - con
tincd aud must associate with those
who have wilfully and maiicious!y
sinncd against the law anG their fell
low man, depraves the drunkard,
brands him as criminal, takes away
his self respect and causes his family
to suffer as result of his inability to
provide living. Those who view
drunkenness as crime in that it is G.
self indulgence fear that to treat the
offender too kindly would reduce his
sense of responsibility.
The suggestion has been made that
the prisoners Who are scommitted
for drunkenness be segregated from
the other prisoners. just as in New
York and perhaps other States, the
youthful prisoners ere separated from
the hardened criminals to avoid con-
tamiIation.
The statement and recon nendations
of the New York commission seem
worthy of consideration. Certainly
it would seem that first offender or
maj WHO falls by the way side oc-
oasionally, who when sober, is hard
working and provident, minding his
own business and caring for his fam
lily, ought not to be treated as crimi-
nal. Yet to condone his offense may
encourage its reputition.
1t is q problem which time and
study may partially solve, but the
menace of drunkenness to the COM
munity and the family, to morality
and civilization, whether it be dag
nosed disease, will remain as long as
man is mortal, appetites strong and
whiskey within reach. h.-Atlanta Jour
nal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17
Baruwcll, February 8.
Truly Modern.

The modern bridegroom led the
modem bride to the altar. The mod
ern clergyman Owas:.waiting for them
with his modern wedding ceremony.
"Will you, e he said to the bride
grocm, take this divorced woman to
be yourosooial wife, to have and to
hold until you arc both tired of each
osher?"
II WILL" said the groom, with the
understanding that. she is not to kick
up row, no matter who / bring home
with me, and that she turns over all
her available: cash to help me out of
my scrapes."
And will you, said the clergyman
to the woman, "takc this man to be
your companion"in misery for 80 long
as you think best?"
II WILL" said the woman, "if l
don't have to nurse him when he is
sick, Oh take breakfast with HIM"
SIS there anyone" said the clergy.
man, "who objects?'
NO one, said the spokesman for
the congregation. "We arc all very
glad Of it. 1t makes gossip, and the
mere fact tha. We areohere will enable
us to have our names in the paper. Let
the ceremony proceed"
"Therc" said ithe clergyman, II
pronoucoe'you mans.an wife. Send
me- check or cash by registered mail,
give your names and description of
your presents to the society reporters,
and when youowant divorce, here 8
the card Of the.best lawyer in the busi-
ness. Tom Mason in Life.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17
Mina a M9"!!ee eer

wine is mockcr, strong drink
brawlcr; and whosocvcr crreth thereby
is not wise Strong drink is the
giant dcceiver. 1t makes many prom
iscs and breaks them all. IT promises
| pleasures, but through tinsclco yes
tibulc ushcrs into pain and misery. 1t
promises good fellowship, but loses
the respect of noble men and true wo-
men. 1t promises boy manhood, but
steals from him his manhood. 1t de-
ludes one into thinking that he is
! "o'cr all the ills Of life victorious,
buS when sobriety comes again he
finds himself less able than ever to
cope with life's ills.
Shakespeare long ago told how it
puts an enemy into the mouth to
steal away the brains" Men who are
fooled by drink are not wise. On
summer evening thick cloud of in
sects and moths circle about the night
electric lights in the streets, but in the
morning it will be found that the gla-
mour Of the light has slain thousands.
The men and boys who circle about
the saloon are as foolish as the moth
and the fly. They are contracting q
disease which, if not stopped in its
inclpiency, or later cured by scientific
methods, means earthly ruin, and
finally eternal death.
The United States is the second
among tie beer-producing countries of
the world, and is striving hard for the
GLORIOUS" honor of first place. Sena-
tor Gallinger, in the United States
Senate, quoted the words Of physi-
clan who had practiced thirty We
years in Toledo among beer drinkers.
1t, too, is "mocker." 1t "daily be-
comes more and more the wretched
mans master. 1t clogs his liver, rots
his kidneys, causes his heart and ar
teries to decay, stupefes and starves
his brain, loads his body with dropis-
cal fluids, fastens upon him rheuma-
tism, erysipelas and disgusting dis
eases, and drags him to his grave when
other men are in their prime"
One recalls the story of the Dund ee
navy, who, one night after regular
visit to public house, had frightful
dream Of big fat rat coming for him,
followed by two lean ones and an old
blind one. He swore some evil was
sure to come upon him. His wife
could not help him to an interpreta-
tion. His bright boy, with the wis
dom of Joseph, was ready, however.
'The fat rat i, the man who keeps the
public house where ye gang see aften,
the two lean ones are me and me
mither, and the blind one is yeasel," >"
i father.
How many blind ones there are
They cannot, or will not, see the need
of stopping until it is e'enmost too
late. They pooh pooh the idea that
they cannot stop when they "get
ready" to do 30. Then, when they
become convinced that they really are
unable to stop they pooh-pooh the
suggeption that there is a cure for
their disease. Others are lot 30 blind
with respect to the latter pre- rcposition.
They hail with delight anything that
promises their freedom from bondage.
They accept and are saved. Thous-
ands live today to tell the story of
their rescue from strong drink through
the medium of scientific and special
treatment, where all other means had
failed again and again.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17
Scnly Leg Disease.

In going about the country one sees
Aocks Of poultry troubled with scale
leg and their owners do not know that
it is disease or that there is anything
seriously the matter with their. fowls.
They do not know the cause and feel
that no damage can come from it and
they do not make attempts to effect q
cure. Minute parasites get under .he
ccales of the shanks and feet of the
fowls which live on tho juices which
keep the scales fabricated. The work
of these parasites causes thickening
Of the scales and the cxudations will
form, giving them rough and unin-
viting appearance.
Aside from the unsightly appearance
the fowl will not do SO we'll as when
the shanks are free from disease. Any
thing that feeds on the vitality of the
fowl is to its detriment. An indi-
vidual fowl cannot thrive when affeo.
ted with this disorder. When one
fowl is affected others will contract
the disease through infection. The
cure is simple and if properly admin
istcred will be an easy matter. The
afflicted birds should be separated
from tho remainder of the fock and
the shanks washed thoroughly with
kerosene. Several applications will
be necessary so as to have the remedy
reach the hidden parasites buried uu-
der the thickened scales. The appa.
rently healthy fowls should also have
an application of the remedy. Every
parasite which comes in contact with
kerosene will surely be put out of
business. Failure will como in lack
of thorough application. So let it be
thorough.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17

= Burglar-proof pay cars are to 10
put in service on the ~Pennsylvania
Railroad. The cars will be covered
with steel sheeting which no bullet
can penetrate. Another blow to the
business Of the picturesque train rob.
Der. If he is to succeed in this pro.
se;c sge be will f1d war balloons and
sixteen inch guns necessary.
- You oan lift the load from your
heart by lifting your eyes to God
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17
Congress May Object.

Washington, Feb. Cit is entirely
unlikely that the good roads bill of
Senator Latimer, of South Carolina, OF
any other bill that provides for an ex-
tensive appropriation from the United
States treasury will 60 through this
session Of Congress. The Repub-
!iosns DC not intend TO permit auy
bill to 60 through that will swell the
expenditures Of the government,
which are now running neck and neck
with the receipts. Such q thing as
deficit at the close of this fiscal year
would be huge platform against Re
publican management Of the govern
ment, as would show enormous ex-
penditures and waste of money. The
appropriations to be made at this Con
gress would not come out Of the
Treasury this fiscal year, but the
Democrats will watch the total amount
that is appropriated and by estimating
the expenditures will be able to tell
whether the Republicans will have a
deficit in the next fiscal year.
All efforts to secure river and har-
Dor appropriations, new public build
ings and similar measures will receive
no considerations whatever. The
only thing advocates of good roads
bills can do is to try to get favorable
action upon them from committees
and then press them at the session OF
Congress next winter.-Special to
Greenville News.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17
Jobn.Brown. of.Lake Citv ella;

-John'Brown, ofLake City, claims
the distinction of being the shortest
soldier instht.se army. He is four feet
six inches. (which is two and one.half
inches; ;shortersthan any other United
States soldier!wno served in the Civil
War.
- The fellow who rides a hobby
should be careful that it doesn't run
away with him.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17

DOnt IOrget the Old man
with the fish on his back.
For nearly thirty years he
has been travelling around the
world, and is still travelling,
bringing health and comfort
wherever he goes.
TO the consumptivc he
brings the strength and flesh
he SO much needs.
To all weak and sicklv
children he gives rich and
strengthening food.
To thin and pale persons
he gives new firm flesh and
rich red blood.
Children who first saw the
old man with the fish are now
grown up and have children
OF their own.
He stands for SCOTS Emul-
sion of pure cod liver ola
delightful food and a natural
tonic for children. for old folks
and for all who need flesh and
strength.
:ScoTT 8 BOVINE. Chemists.
.;oo. and s1.5oe1:s 5oe1ssfi s'i drussises. MsX ncrk- :
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17

n O Excuse for Buying Single I5uslcl E'ro1n
the We

To the Editor of The New, y Cou
rier: Your good paper has done a gen
erous part by the farmers of this
State. and sincerely trust that the
future may show tha, it will be even
so-seed sown upon good ground--
whatever the past and the present
may make patent to the contrary.
And now ar the season approaches
for pitching the next crop, and the
horse and mule dealers and some Of
the merchants are doing their utmost
to encourage the farmers to plant
big cotton crop, and many farmers,
nothing 10th, are buying animals aud
fertilizers at credit Gsurcs, and later
will be compelled to purchase corn on
like terms, allow me space in your
great paper to urge my fellow farmer,
to so set their crops that this Will be
the last year that they will ever buy
corn to farm with.
Let me warn farmers that even
should cotton sell next winter at
figures hoped for now, and should :hey
make as fine cotton crop as they
anticipate, yet there will be no profit
coming to them from the crop if they
must buy corn to run their farms next
year.
Some farmers have said to me: ct
will not pay to raise any more corn
than we actually need for home con-
sumption. If we make surplus We
cant sell it at paying price.
answered: "Why cant you sell
corn at profit here when your rival
in the West produces and ships it by
rail thousand miles, passing through
several hands, at profit, selling it to
your"
They reply: ooh, that is corn
country aud they can make it so much
cheaper"
Now l hope that every farmer who
reads The News and Courier will pay
strict regard to the rcjoindcr that l
made to that proposition, which was
as follows: "You arc mistaken about
that. 1t has been demonstrated that
more corn per acre and at less cx-
pense per bushel can be made and
has been made in the South-ycs, in
South Carolina-than in any part of
america.
In 1896 the American Agriculturist
offered prize in gold for the greatest
yield Of corn, with method of ferti-
lizing and cost Of production, open to
the whole country. There we're many
competitors, limited to an area Of one
acre each. The four greatest pro-
ducers of your corn producing West
made total Of 429 bushels of crib
dried corn, at q cost of 37I cents per
bushel.
The four largest producers Of the
prosperous North made total Of 507
bushels, at an average cost of 374
cents per bushel
The four largest producers Of the
cotton growing South made 57l bush
els, at an average cost Of 3Gl cents
per bushel.
Three cf the fonr farmers "ho pro
-.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-17
Tic iiirich System Tur Planting Corn
aud Cotton.
Southern Cullivator.

southern lultlvatOr
Believing that it will be Of service
to my fellow farmers, | wiil report my
system Of cultivating corn and cotton
together on the same land, which sys-
tenn is now known in this State as
"Thc Aldrich System" Lay off land
after being well broken into rows four
feet wide At = proper time to plant
corn, drill seed in rows and 2 at the
rate Of as many hundred hills per acre
as you expect to gather bushels Of
corn from your experience with the
land and the fertilizers used on the
crop. Leave rows 3 and 4 for cotton
to be planted later Plant row ) and
q in corn, leaving Z and 8 for cotton
and so continue until the field is all
planted in corn. Then plant the rows
that were left in cotton, and cultivate
as usual. BY this system you utilize
all Of your land for corn, and yet have
half Of it in cotton. In other words
you double your corn crop without di
mlnlshing your cotton crop. Where
it has been the custom to divide the
land between the two crops, you make
more corn per acre than you ever
made before, and also more cotton and
cheaper cotton, because the plowing
OF the cotton is done when you are
cleaning the corn middles. BY this
system, horse can tend thicty-six
acres better, and keep it cleaner than
he can thirty by the other way.
Corn ceases to draw from the land
after tho first of August, so the cotton
has from the first OF August till frost
to feed on double the soil that it
would have if all the land were in cot
ton, hence it makes q better late crop,
that is, more top crop.
The farmer who uses this system
does not have to plant oats. He
must either sell corn or raise more
stock to consume the surplus.
am a small farmer running one
and half horse farm. feed four
horses, six COWS and few pigs, and
from October to January, seven hun
dred to one thousand head Of fowls,
and it takes about bushel Of corn
per day, with unlimited range Of rye,
vetch and Bermuda grass and burr
clover to do it, but yet 1 have Eve
hundred bushels of prime corn for
sale, and on part of the same land
on which that corn grew, I made q
thousand pounds Of seed cotton per
acre.
The bushel Of corn per day above
mentioned is for the fowls. From
January to April the fowls rapidly di-
minish in number by sales, until by
May there are not more than twenty
five or thirty hens and two or three
cooks, but the horses and COWS are q
fixed quantity. My system shows up
| splendidly in drouth.
Last season we had too much rain
from May until the 18th Of July, after
which it turned dry and hot with
plenty Of wind until the night of the
Both of July, but I made o full crop
OF corn, and my cotton shed less than
that of any of my neighbors, many
of whom did not make shousand
pounds Of seed cotton per acre where
all the land was in cotton.
BY this system cotton becomes in
deed q surplus crop You will have
corn enough to sell to pay operating
expenses. Alfred Aldrich.