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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-12-08
WOULD KILL cow SCOFFER.
Fun Poked at Bovines Leads to Deadly
Quarrel.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Dec. CT Special. j.
Charles Holman laughed at Charles
Hochm's cows and Boehm so resented
the act that he is said to have tried to
murder the scolfcr Of his COWS with IL
knife. Holman, it is alleged, defended
himself with piece of soft coal, Boehm
thea purchased revolver and started
ont to find Holman. He was captured by
the police and, it is asserted, begged ear
ncStly TO be allowed to XII Iloman, and
then he would 20 To state prison for life
if they wanted him to. He is held under
$1,000 bail.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-12-08
KILLED BY AN
UNKNOWN HAND.
D. A. Doyle Prominent Politician and
Retired Business Man of New
Auburn, Murdered.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, Dec. G-[Spe-
man and prominent politician of New Au-
hurn, was found murdered in his barn
this morning.
District Attorney Cook was summoned
20 New Auburn and went there this aft
eInoon to investigate.
MIR. Doyle was not known to have had
any enemies, and it is supposed that his
wealth in some manner prompted the
crime.
No clue 20 the assassin has been found
and no robbery was committed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-12-08
BEHIND THE TIMES.

Behind the times" expresses pat
My sorroy ease. This last years hat
ANA shabby coat the fact betray.
Her father frowns ana well he may
MY pochetpook is lean and Hat
rms hus.ll1g are can't combat:
us Meeting flames. its fortunes fat
Eiude my grasp. I'm doomed to stay
Behind the times.
I:ut there's n game OF tit for.tat;
IN nj 10 date. AZ least, In thar.
me world may run its whirlng way
! or al O me. since yesterday
l kissed her while her father sat
Behind the Times.
Jennie Belts Hartswlck In Smart set.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-12-08
ST. BERNARD BITES CHILD.
Madison TenYear-Old Lacerated by Dog
Which May Have Had Hy-
drophobia.

Madison. Wis. Dee. 6.--[Special.l !
A. I. Anderson. 10 years old, was fear
fully lacerated by st. Bernard dog and
may not recover The brute was killed
by II policeman and fears are entertained
that il was mad
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-12-08

Madison. Wis., Doc. 6.-I Special !
Some boys found the body Of newborn
baby under the ice in Monona bay. Tie
hod Afterwards disappeared and the po-
lice are looking up tie case.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-12-08
TO PREACH ct STEVENS POINT.
Rev James Blake Resigns at Plainfeld TO
Take New Charge.

PlainGcll Wis. Dec. G. Especial l.
Rev James Blake who has been pastor
Of thr Baptist church in this city for the
pest year, has resigned to accept charge
at Stevens Point.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-12-08
pLAINFIELD BANK CHANGES.
Authorized to Become the "First Ma
tionar with Capital Of $4,000.

Washington. y. c.. Dec. G--i Special. !
The compjroler Of the currency today
approved the conversion of tine Wau-
shara county bank into Tire First Nation.
nj bank or plahlfeld Wis, with a CAPT
tgl OF So GEO
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-12-08
Pioneers Scr aurt in Runaway.

Madison. W.. Dec. q. Special.
Arthur t,ny snn of 4 Hanepr >cttlcr was
hnIiy hud u runaway, but vii re-
COVER
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
KEEP OUT OF DEBT.

TwO-thirds of the people would be
infinitely better off and much happier
if they never under any circumstances
went into debt. Debt with these is the
hegetter of poverty and financial slav-
cry. voluntary bondage often lightly
assumed in the first place, the chains
of which become more tightly riveted
the harder the victim tries to escape
There is no ration of food so poor no
work SO hard or mental, no suit of
clothing SO patched, that they should
demand the contraction of debt to
escape them. PAY as you CO. will
make every poor man independent.
Earn your money before you spend
it. Unpaid grocery bills, chalk score
at the saloon. maturing obligations
which have first mortgage on next
months salary or next years crops,
always make a man feel cheap and
discouraged. 1t is simply surprising
how easy it is to get along without
things which you think you want and
really do not need. and it is these
things for which most men get into
debt. The man who pays cash gets
the lowest price and a discount on his
bills. There is perhaps no simpler mot
to for many people to secure more hap
plness and comfort in living than just
thls-to get out of debt and stay out
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

During the year 1896 the west was
dealing with the problem of ten cent
corn, and it was d. ndy proposition,
take it all round. 1t was used as fuel
in competition with five dollar soft
coal. and one smart farmer in NebraS-
ka saved his corn crop from the clutch
es of the sheriff on the ground that the
law exempted years supply of fuel
for the family. Those days have gone
never to return. The limits of the corn
growing belt are now well known. The
ever hungry millions of Europe have
found out the edible and nutritive value
of corn as food, scores of needed and
most valuable byproducts have been
developed by chemistry and science
from the cereal which twenty years ago
was rated as good for nothing but hog
feed, while today no one subject is at
tracing SO much attention and inter
est as the further development of this
wonderful plant and the discovery of
the ways and means of growing it in
greatest perfection. If you have good
corn farm, keep it: if not for yourself.
at least as a splendid heritage for your
children. If you are raising forty bush
els to the acre. learn how to grow
eighty: for it can be done If you are
wasting all the fodder, learn how to
save it, for every average corn grower
can double his crop and his income
from it. Wake up to your splendid OPP
pOrtunitieS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
TENANT FARMERS.

The tenant farmer bids fair to be-
come as much of factor in the agri-
culture of the west and northwest as
he is in England. Men with money
are finding out that good land is first
OF all safe investment and. second,
that the annual return which may be
obtained from renting it is at least
equal to the net profit to be derived
from any other investment. There is
one difficulty in this--that we have not
as yet developed a class of farmers
who are content to remain tenants, the
best ones only renting land until such
time as they can make enough money
to buy farm of their own. Just as
young ladies teach school as make
shift until they can get married. We
have before referred to the great ben
eft to both landlord and tenant which
would accrue if only land leases were
made for longer periods and a definite
system of stock farming put into prac-
tice This would prevent the impov-
erlshment OF the soil which inevitably
results where cash rents, grain raising
and selling are in vogue. We pity the
farm and its owner where there is
new tenant each wear.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
uJNPROFITABLE cows.

When a man sets a standard for the
measure of a days work to be render
ed by the man whom he hires to help
him with his farm work, and most
men do, why is it not equally gOOd
business management to set stand
ard of productiveneSS for the COW
which he feeds and milks? Most dali
ries carry lot of lady boarders who
toll not, neither do they pay their way,
but they are kindly treated. hold re-
spectacle positions in cow society and
eat their heads off every year. 1t is
now an easy thing to test the herd
know just what each COW is doing and
just what she is worth. The average
butter product of two of the big dairy
states, Iowa and Minnesota, is less
than 100 pounds per COW. This l5O
pounds of butter will bring about Is
cents per pound when sold as cream to
the local creamery, amounting to $27.
Now, if a man is keeping his dairy
cows on a farm worth $50 per acre it
costs just about $27 to keep the COW,
and all the net profit he has left for
pulling her teats for $50 days is a calf.
1t is easy to see that every additional
pound of butter which he can make his
cow produce over $50 pounds is net
profit. No cow should be kept MIXED
and fused with unless she will make
at least 200 pounds of butter during
one tactical period Or one year. There
is just one exception to this conclusion,
and that where man keeps very high
grade Angus, ShOrthorns or Herefords,
in which case, if he can secure the low
butter average referred to and get q
calf at nine months old worth $25 for
baby beef, he can pay out with fair
margin of profit. Establishing 200
pounds of butter as the standard Of
product for each cow MIXED would
thin out the dairy herds in great shape,
but it would be done with profit to the
owner just the same.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
Domestic Scholarship.

Little Neil was struggling with the
alphabet. Now it happened that the
cook, whose Christian name was EN-
ma, was called Nj. for short, and that
M. had daughter Sue, who was her
facsimile save in point of size.
So when in the journey down the
line the letter M was reached and Nell's
memory failed her, mother prompted
her by asking:
What is cooks name?"
M" came the answer.
"Well, this letter is M. Now look
at the next one. See, it is very much
like M, only smaller. Can't you tell
me what it is?''
Sue" promptly and confidently re
sponded Nell.-Lippincott's Magazine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
He Got the License
He Was Fishing For

"A GOOD natured German located in
xX certain Pennsylvania town a
Few years ago and apparently
had no definite business. Every morn
Ing regularly he would go to tie creek
that ran through the town and fish for
black bass. The first mess that lie
caught was given to the minister OF the
village church.
Some one, seeing the German on the
bank, said to him, What are you do
ingY'
"Oh," he remarked, Pm fishing for
license
The following day six fine trout were
delivered at the home of the school
teacher. The day after that the lead
ing banker received fine supply of
fish, and SO it went for nearly year.
He caught fish every day and as regu-
larry turned them over to the leading
citizens.
When the spring term of court came
around he put in an application for a
liquor license. Under the rules of that
court it was necessary for twenty citi-
Zens to sign a protest to kill all appli-
cation for license. The protest was
taken around, but to the amazement Of
the messenger he could get no signers.
lie clergyman was much opposed to
the proposed license, but could not find
it in his heart to attach his name to
the paper When the court announced
its decision the German received a
license, and he handy remarked:
1--WE been fishing for license.
got it."-New York Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
Minister Scores Gossipers.

my resignation has been mostly
brought about by the gossip at after
noon teas" said the Rev. III. de
Trevelec, preaching at Holy Trinity
Claygate, Eng. The text of the fare
well sermon was this: "And withal
they learn to be idle, wandering about
from house to house; and not only idle,
but tattlers also and busybodies,
speaking things which they ought
not"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
When First They Met.

"How did you and your husband first
meet? Did you feel at that very mo-
ment that you and he had been Gre
ated for each Other?"
1--WE met under our automobiles,
which had collided, and I believe, as
l opened my eyes and gazed upon his
features for the first time, l was feel
ing of my left leg to find out whether
it had been cut off or not.'-Chicago
Record Herald
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
An Ultimatum.

NO." said the fair maid in the par
Tor scene, ''I'll not sit on the sofa
with you unless you promise not to
try to kiss me-"
Well" answered the young man,
I'll promise if you insist, but before
allowing you to present yourself with
gold brick l wish to call your at
tention to the fact that l am one of
those individuals who never break a
promise Chicago Daily News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

The possibilities connected with agri.
culture under irrigation are simply
potatoes we think 100 bushels to the
acre fair crop, 200 good crop and
300 big crop where we depend upon
the natural rainfall, yet in Colorado
there have been raised under irrigation
on one acre of land, in Utah ninety
bushels of wheat on one acre and other
crops in proportion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

After all, it is the homely. old fash
toned, common food which tastes the
best and surfeits the least. The fancy
bills of fare of dining cars, high priced
hotels and banquet boards are simply
not in it with the good old bill of fare
mother used to cook at home. Simple
food means good digestion; good diges-
ton means good temper and good
health. Pudding and milk beats pate
de fois gras, and baked beans beats a
French ragOut
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
wilsred,s auestion.

He was only seven His father had
taken him to a political meeting. One
of the orators spoke for two hours. 1t
was a dull, dry speech. The little fell
low, tired of listening, turned at last to
his parent and asked:
Say, pa. when is he going to get
empty ?''-New York Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

A six-weeks-old sucking pig is worth
about So and will dress about twenty
pounds A turkey weighing as much
will sell for more money. When the
pig is properly cooked it is the better
eating of the two. To have him taste
just right he must be roasted with a
cob in his mouth. This is the best pos
sible use to make of the late fall pig.
for If spared be nine times out of ten
passes q miserable winter and comes
out in the spring a hairy, i'll favored
scrub.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
Gently Exnressed.

"The trouble with our boy Josh, y
said Farmer Corntossel, ''is that he is
away ahead of his times
"In what way?'
"He read somewheres that the slang
of today will be the polite language of
the future. and he is trying to adjust
his conversation accordingly."-W Wash
ington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

The farmers in Oklahoma are finding
out that the soil and climate Of that
country are very accommodating when
they learn how to do things A farmer
there the past season had crop Of
winter wheat which the drought used
up. He then sowed the field in April
to spring oats, which also failed from
the same cause. Nothing discouraged,
he then disked the field and planted it
to cotton in early June and raised
crop which was worth more money to
him than both the other crops would
have been had they matured A fellow
has evidently got to keep at it in Okla
homa.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

Those of us who live on the plains,
the prairie regions where a hill or bluff
a hundred feet high becomes land
mark for all the country round. often
have a longing for the hills and noun
tains of other sections--crave a vision
of them as something which lifts us up
from the dead level and mOnotony of
level prairie landscapes. We then en-
w the jewellers among the hills, with
their infinite beauty and variety of
scenery, of cloud capped SUBMITS, Of
vistas of greenery fading away into
the infinity of space. for the sense of
shelter and protection which they give,
forgetting all the barrenness sterility,
the painful effort of man to wrest a
living from themkthe impeded means
Of communication and transportation,
the wrecking floods and all that. Still
we love the hills. and as the Indian
ever sought communication with his
gods from their SUBMITS SO is the white
man lifted up and made better by vi
sions of the hills.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

1t has come to this-that colored men
in the south are getting able to attend
auction sales of real estate, bid in plan
tatiOns and draw their checks up to
$4,000 in payment for them. This
ability to make money will prove the
logical settlement of the much vexed
race problem. When the darby gets
rich the color of his hide will not count
against him, for all prejudice disap-
pears before the dollar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

The newly invented corn huskers are
being given good trial this season
So far as tried they seem to be able
to husk about 500 bushels of corn per
day and do it fairly well. or badly, as
the condition of the standing corn in
the field will permit. 1t will not result
in doing the work so very much cheap
er than by hand, but will enable men
with big cornfields to be in measure
independent Of SO much hired help,
and that is the main thing sought ],
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

While the corn crop of 1904. take the
whole country over. is not quite as
large as that of 1899, still it is doubt
full if more profitable corn crop was
ever raised owing to the good price
which the corn demands and the very
superior quality of the crop. The crop
this year is made up of well matured
ears. full of oil and fat forming prop
critics. and is therefore worth more to
feed than usual.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

The center of gravity is something
which we all have to recognize, wheth-
er in locomotion or business, and the
closer this center of gravity. is to the
earth the more safely will the lOcomo-
tive run and business be conducted.
This is one reason why farming is one
of the safest businesses on earth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

When you feel like signing sing,
Signing will never pleasure bring,
Learn to laugh, you can laugh and
laugh right
By taking Rocky Mountain Tea at
night. J. T.Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

Notwithstanding that the disk lar
row has proved to be one of the most
useful farm tools ever invented it was
very slow in coming into general use.
The same thing is true of the manure
spreader, which is close second to
the disk in point of value and useful
ness. Where thirty head Of stock are
kept, be they cattle or horses, on any
farm, the manure spreader will easily
pay for itself every year. 1t makes
the most valuable product of the farm
Immediately available for succeeding
crops, and while thus increasing the
yield also insures cleaner and neater
premises and greatly economies the
labor of utilizing the manure
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

Fire has been almost as great an
enemy Of our forests as the AK. Not
a year passes that large tracts Of valu-
able timber are not utterly destroyed.
The very wasteful processes of mod
ern numbering provoke these fires and
greatly increase their frequency and
destructiveness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

A friend went and looked over his
cornfield after a killing early Septem-
Der frost. The field looked sick, and he
looked blue. He intended to cut the
field and put in his silo, and he feared
the crop was spoiled for such use.
Being hard pushed for rough feed. he
finally decided to put this frosted corn
in the silo and take his chances. When
cut the leaves of the corn were white
and shriveled, and the whole field had
a bad smell. The silo was filled and
not opened until February. when, to
his great surprise he found that he
had most excellent silage. apparently
just as palatable and good as though
the corn had not been frozen This
result is worth nothing, for many
man has found himself in just the fix
Of our friend. with a cornfield blighted
prematurely by frost and a lot of soft
corn and worthless fodder on his
hands. The silo is a savior in such a
case
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

One bad feature connected with labor
in all large cities is it's uncertainty, its
lack of continuity. SO many things op-
crate to lay the city workman off
strikes. overproduction, business fail
ures, firesAand idleness in large city
is never conducive to either the moral
or financial we'll being of the work
man. Another trouble is that all city
employment is SO intensely specialized
that one man can rarely fill another's
place. nor is lie permitted SO to do. The
daily wage of a city workman. while it
may seem large. becomes often pitiful-
ly small when totaled al the end of the
year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24
The Rolling Stone.

The Father-A rolling stone gathers
no moss, my son.
The Boy know it, pop, but it does
strike some "rOcks" now and then
YOnkers Statesman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

1t would be hard to beat this granger
for gall He had been owing a coal
bill for two years and when the coal
man wanted to buy his load of hay he
had to ante up the money for it in or
der to get it. The plea of the granger
was that if he did not get the money
from the coal man he could from some
one else
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

Until lately it was never supposed
that the best soldier in the world
would be the product OF dried fish.
sake, rice and 81 per month. Japan
has greatly surprised the world in this
particular, especially the Russian peo-
ple
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

The worst feature in an economic
way about bank failures is that they
greatly discourage the habit of saving
on the part of the people. When a
man once loses his savings he is very
apt to think that he had better spend
his money as fast as he earns it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

A reader wishes to know if he can
grow red clover and blue grass togeth-
er. These grasses may be sown tOgeth-
er with advantage where permanent
blue grass pasture is desired. The first
two years the field will be mostly clo-
yer, which will mostly disappear at the
end of the second year, when the blue
grass will fully occupy the ground
Where blue grass meadow has be-
come weedy and barren in spots there
is no better treatment for it than to
disk it both ways thoroughly with four
horses and well loaded disk. then har-
row it smooth and SOW about four
quarts of medium clover seed per acre
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

Canada places duty of 81 per ton
on steel rails and never las yet made
rail and is not likely to make one
This would seem to be worse than
useless tariff protection.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

The corn belt proper really covers
but limited area of the vast territory
of the United States. The Pacific coast
will never raise any corn to speak Of.
marks the northern boundary of the
territory where the crop may be de-
pended upon. The eastern states are
not suited to the production of the
crop. Neither are the southern states.
The eastern half of Kansas and Ne
braska. the north half of Missouri.
limited section of South Dakota and
the states of Iowa. Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio embrace about all of the
available corn growing territory.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-24

Typhoid fever is strictly a filth dis
ease. the outcome of conditions which
are entirely within the power of man
to prevent and remove. Typhoid at a
farm home means criminal neglect
near by, usually in the water supply.