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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17
President Of the People.

Appleton Post:
A dispatch from Washington, APP
parently authorized, indicates that
the President will henceforth more
than ever aim to please the people
rather than the politicians in max
ing appointments. If senators aud
congressman recommend only wor-
thy aspirants these will be appointed'
but if not, such persons only will be
appointed anyhow. To this end the
President will, as far as possible, visit
various sections and lie lding cities of
the country, as II means OF getting
information from original sources as
to what representative men are de-
sired to serve in local government
offices and also as to what politics
the people favor, what business
changes are needed through legisla-
ton and what can be done to pro-
mote the happiness, prosperity and
contentment of the whole people.
Out Of this mingling with and con-
sulting the people will undoubtedly
grow recommendation to Congress
for such changes in the tariff as al
tered industrial conditions and the
public interests warrant, for the reg
ulation and control of the trusts and
other regulation involving the gen
eral good, But it can safely be as
sumed that in none of these under
takings will the President run
amuck." That he Will consult with
the representatives of his party from
all states in the Senate and Lower
House of Congress and listen to their
advice when good, rejecting it only
when bad, may also be taken for
granted. Indeed, even Mr.. Roosevelt
would be a failure as President with
out the cordial cooperation and
backing of his party.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17
La Toilette and Railroads.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
II is proud moment FOR Wiseon-
sin.
Wisconsin, first Of all the states OF
the union. has made 1t clear that the
pivot OF modern industrial life Is the
railroads.
La Toilette said that the railroads
should pay their fair share OF taxes
and should be supervised by state
railroad commission.
The railroads. therefore, fought La
Toilette at the Republican primar-
les. Being defeated there, they
fought him in the Republican state
convention. Being defeated there,
they fought him in the supreme
court. Being defeated there, they
fought him by means of Repub-
lican boiling faction.
They are now defeated again. They
will, therefore, in all probability,
paw more taxes and get more super
vision. 1t will not be so easy Tor
them in the future to control legis-
latures by granting low rates to their
friends or by imposing high rates
upon their enemies. They Will cease
to be in so full u sense the masters
of Wisconsin, They will make be-
ginning toward becoming its serv-
ants.
Here Is the fruit of La Follettes
"ambition." He was ambitious to
have Wisconsin to control the rail-
WAYS, and to be the man who should
cause Wisconsin to control the rail-
ways. He wanted to have it done
and he wanted to do it himself This
is his main fault He wanted to do
it himself. He would rather do 1t
himself than have anybody else do
it.
Out OF such faults are successful,
effective statesmen made.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

The potato crop OF 1904 10 one 81
the largest on RECORD. Nhe American
A gricuIturist places it ut ZeS. itUltss,
bushels, as against 255,OOO,0OO bushels
last year, and 272OOOyOOO in 1902. The
increase In the tato-pronucing
states OF the Northwest is remark
ably heavy. Michigan, Wisconsin,
Iowa aud Minnesota raised In the
neighborhood OF $4,000 bushels more
than in 1903. The average yield per
acre, the country through, Is about
ten bushels higher than the yield
per acre In 1903.
The potato crop Is one OF the most
important food crops OF the country.
The vegetable appears on almost ev-
cry table in the land as part OF at
least one meal day, and in the
homes of the poor it figures quite
exclusively as one of the mainstays.
1t is therefore gratifying that the
crop is rs large as it is reported to be
from an expert source, and that the
quality Of the tubers is generally
good
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17
4 Famous Victory.

ST. Paul Dispatch:
The contest in Wisconsin involved
far more than the personality of Gov.
LaFollette, striking and forceful as
that was. 1t went to the very root of
representative, or democratic, gov
eminent. 1t was fought to establish
the law that when the voters of a
party command the adoption and
enactment of needed reforms their
representative in the legislature or
in congress must obey. So habituated
had politicians become to regard
platforms as mere lures to fool the
simple and to be discarded with 9TH
er campaign paraphanalia when the
election was over, that 1t was sorely
needed that they be severely taught
that platform promises AR as sacred
as are individual.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

Milwaukee Journal; 1t would
much better become Joseph Weeks
Babcock to bide the time when acts
will count than to spend breath
talking tariff revision, as he is doing
now. The country has heard him on
that question and heard enough +;
now il will wait to see something in
the form of vote before eHthusing
over the Honorable Joe BabcOck.
We say with regret that we do not
believe, not yet, that Joseph w. Bah
cock is tariff reformer, or even a
revisionist. And yet why not? II Ii,
is satisfied that the wind blows from
that quarter there is nothing in his
history to show that he would not
be there when the rush came. But to
lead-never The cause demands
and deserves n sincere leader.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

THERE was so much said aDou'
the game wardens--from seventy five
TO one hundred in all-that the pe0-
pie evidently lost track of the five
thousand federal offlceholders, APP
pointees Of u S. Senators and Con-
gressmen, within the state. The nve
thousand were as active and often
siye on behalf of stalwartism as were
the hundred in opposition. The peo-
pie settled the squabble, and now de-
mand that the president settle the
five thousand.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

Small Martin, aged four, ventured A
few steps down the street away from
his own doorway. a big black dog,
frolicsomely inclined, ran after him.
The terrified youngster dashed back to
his own gaze, up the steps and into the
house. where his mother sat sewing.
"oh, mamma, | wish was dead"
he soohed. clinging to her knees.
on Martin, dear, don't say thatr'
cried his mother, clasping her darling
to her breast.
rs do. 'Tause ven I'd be n IittA
angel, an I'd have wings an ven
wouldn't be dog in town I couh1
latch me,"-Lippincotts Magazine,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17
Insurance News.

Insurance men of the West who
read the daily columns of insurance
information in the Chicago Record
Herald keep pace with the times and
are prepared for all emergencies and
contingencies that have grown into
the insurance business. The column
with Insurance Men" gives in COM
pact form all the latest doings in the
insurance world, and is conceded by
insurance men everywhere to be the
best and most up-to-date report pub
lished by any newspaper In the
United States. The Record Herald
does not cory its information from
insurance journals, but secures it
first hand from manag ars, agents
and companies, and by telegraph
from its own special correspondents,
by telephone and in special cable
dispatches from abroad. The New
York service of the Record Herald's
insurance department is equalled by
no other paper. In fact, the Record
Herald is the only daily newspaper
that gives insurance men the first
Information daily on every impor-
tant event in the insurance business
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

THE Chicago Record Herald in
an article on the Colorado election,
saws that Mr.. Alva Adams, the sue
cessful candidate for governor, was
born in Mineral Point, Wis, fifty -four
years ago, and has lived in Colorado
ever since 1871. He has the record of
a highly successful merchant and is
Independently rich. AS none Of the
older residents of this place vouch
for the correctness Of the Record
Herald's statements as to Mr.. Adams
place of birth, it is possible it might
be Stevens Point. He's a son of Wis
sin, that's sure.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17
Looking Ahead.

E9tholic citizen ike.
The three r6iorm' governors, ok
jDamocratie), Beneai, Republican,,
and La Toilette (Republicau), are
elected. la Toilette won rs against
tremendous opposition. Moreover
the primary election reform for
which he battled was firmly estab-
lished by the peoples direct endorse
meut, THE system against which
La Toilette contends, though badly
distigured, is still in the ring. In
many respects the Wisconsin situa-
tion continues to be the most inter
esting chapter of present day Ameri-
can politics for the pbservant stud.
ent. If La Toilette is not killed oil
he is going to the whitehouse.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

COL ROBERT G. INGERsoLL once
said that "When Missouri goes Re-
publican then will ! become a
Christian" That shows how much
respect he bad for christianity, any
how. All man has to do, according
to his estimate, to "become christ
IAN" is to say he is christian; take
a vote on the question all by himself,
so to speak. What the colonel meant
was that he did not believe it posi-
BILE for Missouri to go Republican, or
he would have chosen some other
penalty.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

WE suggest that Mr.. Babcock take
a trip to Madison ard take OIL his
hat to the governor. Reducing a
majority of over twelve thousands
to a couple or three hundred Is CIV
ing Mr.. Babcock a severe lesson. lie
should attend to his own business
hereafter and not use his power to
thwart the wishes Of the people.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

WISCONSIN has been called the
Empire State of the West. Few
commemorative of the American
Union equal it for variety and rich
ness of industrial resources, and in
the enterprise Of its population it is
excelled by none. With m area eX-
ceeding by nearly 1900 square miles
that of the Empire state of the East,
its population is less than one-third
as great, But the settlement of New
York began in 1927, while the settle.
ment of Wisconsin practically dates
from the Black Hawk War, which
was fought ia 1872, Is it hazardous
to predict that long before the lapse
of two centuries from the present
time Wisconsin will be the abode q
seven millions 81? Twos. ro,,yssAs pie
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

Neillsville Republican: Let him be
right or wrong In his principles OF
government, there must still be a
tingr OF admiration in the minds OF
his enemies for the doughty little
governor, fighting for his political
life, assailed on all sides by a force OF
able and reveugeful foes, each aim
ing u death blow. yet falling just
short Of the tragic end. Right or
wrong he has won wonderful tri-
umph. We think he is right.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

Milwaukee Free Press: We hold
that the triumph of Gov. La Toilette
is the greatest ever achieved in WIS
consin. Against him We're arraigned
nearly every federal otiiceholder in
the state--and there were ' lre than
5000 of them; the two Uh.Lod States
senators, tie quiet influence of eight
or nine of the representatives. in
congress, the big" shippers of the
state, every public service corpora
tion of the state; and so much OF the
business interests rs could be or
ganized to oppose him. 1t was per
sonal fight on one man, in which his
antagonists had every advantage
that organization, money personal
interest, and untiring zeal could give
them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

Have you stopped to calculate
What would have been the result had
Judge Aldro jerks been the demo-
cratic nominee for Congress?
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

THE stalwarts do not explain how
Roosevelt pulled through Democrat
ic governors in Minnesota, Massa-
chusetts and Missouri.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

Linden Dray Line. drayage. ............ 6B
Fire Dept. for attendance. 500
VIM. Saunders, 2lX days a H65. ~ IS
Jesn May. 9 BAYS Alto .....4. $50
yc;z2y sse,,s, 8 gsyq 1000 Do ...S.......a %
Reuben Libby. 2i1a da, ditto. less 1zptx 20 u
Albert Jacka. 2o1z days, do.............. 50 50
q. Ching. 1917 days. do. 81 49,
.yonn L,ncn, 5 days, do. SIS
Geo. Clark, days, do. less p.1.. Il IS
John Tredinpick, ~ days ........... IL IS
Mike Schmitt. 81 days. 10 IS
Ed M1Is NobIe an y Observation-Disclosures observation-disclosures IS
James Prince. ~ days.................. 1
John Foster. DAYS. SIS
l.. Dunn. day I 65
Adolph Meunster. 2 days, less pix. 1H
p. Wiesep. st. Com, 7 days d si.75..... IL Is
l.. Brown, s days with team a $780,. "a
VIII Opie. 10 days team ....... 30 90
l.. Stude, 1871 days team ..... IS 50
Jos. Manley. III days team . So SO
II. McMurrough. 16 days team. Is 90
Sam Penhallegon. 8 days team. Is 90
G. II. Terrili. III days team............ "a %
Fred Opie, 90 days team ............... 20 so
James Harker. IS days a si.G5.......... rs 50
Frank Keehp. 16 days 26 40
r. Hoare. 2 ays..................-...... 30
II. Ovitz. 10 days "a 81 rs, collecting poll
taxes $500. observation-disclosures. 80 30
James Prince & Co., gravel GS loads a
Is cents per load ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10 20
Jos. Branger days team ............ 500
Council adjourned.
Attest: j. II. OSBORNE, Mayor.
J.E. AWKWARD, City Clerk.
BY T. M. PRIEsTLEY, Deputy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17
Council Proceedings.

Mineral Point, Wis, Nov. /. 1904
A regular meeting of the common
council was this day held in the
council chamber.
Present--Mayor Osborne, and AL
dermen Ellery, Engels, Day, Potter,
Horn, Ross and Weidenfeller.
Absent-Alderman Crun.
Meeting called TO order by mayor.
Minutes Of the last regular meet
ing read and clerk instructed to note
in the absence of Alderman Engels
from meeting Of October l4th.
The appointment by James Ayl-
ward, city clerk, of II. M. Priestley
as deputy clerk, approved by coun-
Gil.
The report Of Treasurer Jeuck ac-
cepted and ordered filed.
The following bills were audited
by the finance committee and on
motion were allowed:
j. G. Martin & Son. merchandise. 49,. 81 9
Iowa County Bank. descriptions. ...... 200
NJ. J. Burns. janitor. Observation-Disclosures. 20 80
Eastman Lumber Co.. lumber. ...... 81 81
Oscar Meunster, sand. 30
Wisconsin Telephone Co., message. 90
John Jeuck treasurer mo salary 49,. rs 90
James Thrasher. 1 mo salary. $4,000
burying dogs. si.Oo. tramps. si.5O. $50
James f. Ayward, city clerk. salary IS IS
n. Hartert. assessor. mo salary ...... ~ SO
Electric Light Co., streets S16666; hall
SLIPS: pumping 5000, ............... 227 81
j. ID. Martin & Co., lumber 81 %
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17

Attest: j. X. OSBORNE, Mayor
J. f. AYLwARD, City Clerk.
BY II M. PRIEsTLEY. Deputy.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

stupid tor former experiences have
taught her to keep her eye on tho
groom and with her help he puts in
his Il Wills to the satisfaction of Mr.
Brown.
Here is a story you'll hear in case
you happen to have five minutes to
spare when you so to get married
John Smith came in to have the knot
tied, and being tCld that the charge
was 81 he almost dropped and ex.
claimed:
i've never paid over $1.50!"
There are no frils on these mar
riages while you wait. Your ducky
cannot wear liberty satin frilled up
with chiffon, neither can she float a
long white train and a tulle veil that
hides her bushes. Instead if, as you
are, she is hurrying through to get
back to work. she will probably wear
blue and white calico wrapper with
slippers down at the heel and her hair
up in curl papers. She has been too
Industrious in putting the house to
rights before she met you. and mas
much as she expects to go back to her
work, just as you have gone back to
yours, sac thinks it waste of valua.
bic time to go to the trouble of taking
down her bangs" and changing her
wrapper.
A good, sensible, matter-of-fact
wedding it is. You want no flummery.
There are no decorations in the apart
ment where the marriage ceremony Is
performed with great eclat, unless it
be lacy cobweb in a corner and the
wedding music is supplied by the
musical click of all the makes of
typewriters under the skillful fingers
of various employees and making yarl-
Gus sorts of noises.
1t may be that you will spare min
ute to take drink of matted milk or
| other refreshing beverage after going
| through the ordeal. You have gone
and got married in nine minutes, and
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

be seen shaking hands with her and
on his way to his office, while she
boards a trolley car and makes a call
on her new mother to acquaint her
with the facts of the case. There is
no useless waiting all day for a mar
riage in the evening and no crowding
oyt of bed on cold morning, at an
unheardof hour to participate in a
morning wedding. You choose SEN
sible hour and like sensible man
after consuming nine minutes you re-
turn to your office married man, at
tend to your days duties, and then in
the evening you hunt up Polly at her
new mothers, or her own mothers,
and you are now in position to pay
a board bill for two instead of one,
as a result of nine minutes lost from
the office that morning.
After you have made several kinds
of fool of yourself at the marriage
license office by tripping over your
age, nationality and so on you move
on to Mr.. Brown in the prothonotary's
Office, who was at one time preach
er. If there is anything that Mr..
Brown does love it is weddings He
is so fond of then that he is always
armed. In his pocket he always car
ries the little book so indispensable
to functions of this kind. Through
some wireless telegraphy the same
Mr.. Brown hears murmurings Of your
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15
The Marriage a la Mode
How Loving Couples Are Quickly Made
Happy in Phsbure - Nine Minutes All
the Time Required for Ceremony
~~~~~~

IL you are in hurry to get married
this schedule ought to prove helpful
There are always plenty of hints on
how to live on 81 week; how to
catch husband; how to procure
wife; how to make beef stew and
clean ivory-handled knives, in the
newspapers. but, sad to state there
has been no one to get up an official
schedule or guide for the use of young
people who want to get married. Most
men think it takes all day to tie the
knot. 1t might take all day or all
year to unite it, but it takes just nine
minutes, by the watch. to tie it.
You might be standing on the cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Smithfield
street at say 10 o'clock in the morn
ing, heart whole and fancy free, and
you might return to the same corner
in exactly nine minutes with all the
cares and responsibilities on your
shoulders as married man. OF
course you must needs have provided
yourself with the girl, but if what men
say is anything to Judge by, you can
get the girl in less time than it takes
to go from the corner and get mar.
ried. Be that as it may, for the fel
low who wants the whole thing over
in very short space of time there is
plenty of opportunity.
The hurry of Americans is proven
bial. They are always up and doing
and never waste more time than is
absolutely necessary on any one er-
rand. Thus you see with the aid of
this schedule the busy man Of Pitts
burg makes an appointment with his
future wife. They whisk off to the
marriage license window, thence to
the apartment of the fellow who ties
the knot, and in nine minutes he will
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15
n Man Feels Like Ten Cents and a
Pluqqed Nickel.

lover. A man feels, in the yernac-
ular Of the street. like 10 cents and
plugged nickle.' His hands seem
to have grown SO that he doubts
whether at any time, either now or in
years to come, he will ever be able
to get gloves to fit them. Why n the
world has he never noticed in all these
years that his hands are in The road?
How has he ever managed to arm a
livelihood?
In shutfiing around trying to make
known his wants his feet assume the
proportions of an elephants tootsies.
That settles it. They are cara boats
pure and simple He is positive that
a man with feet like that hasn't any
right to live, and at this he gets
look at his face in yonder mirror.
Red isn't the color that describes it.
1t is a clear purplish pink aud his
eyes are protruding. Oh. yes. he is
sick. He is satisfied with that Why,
he hasn't looked that way since he
had scarlet fever!
Yes, he Is sick unto death. No well
man ever looked like that And the
sad part is that his poor little wife
will be left alone in the ~orld To pad
die her own canoe. Has anyone ever
heard Of such pathetic tale, An
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

applying for license. He stand mp,
brushes down several imagnary
flecks of dust from his well-f'Ing
coat and srasps the little book Tighter
the urbane usher who is postei at
the door to guide the trembling loot
steps of strangers. Poets have said
that all the world loves a lover, bus
the poets are wrong. They Should
have said that all the world ridipIcs
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15
Glass Eyes for Animals.

Glass eyes are now made for horses,
cats and dogs. as well as for human
beings. These animals use a larger
eye than man. and several are ordered
for them at the same time, as a new
one is necessary about once in six
months. The edges become roughened
and produce irritation, from the acids
of the sccretions affecting the enamel.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15
Famous Bocr Scout Here.

Capt. p J. Wiser late chief of the
Boer scouts. has come to this country
to live. He is % years old and stands
six feet eight and half inches in his
stockings. He wants to go West and
see the rough riders there, and thinks
he has seen about as much rough rid
ing as any man who ever straddled a
horse.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

While picking pocket horse chest
nut to ward off rheumatism. Frederick
Blabaum, a Pennsylvania farmer, fell
from a tree, fracturing his right leg
and left arm. Presumably he hasn't
falt the rheumatism since.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

England is disposed to admire
Americas public school system. Ev-
cry now and then England discovers
something worthy of attention in this
country.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

If new nicknames should be given
the various states now, it is q fore
gone conclusion that New Jersey
would be known as the Great Trust
State.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

It may interest Explorer Baldwin's
~angel," Mr.. Zeigler, to learn that
the Duke Of Abruzzi Is an inveterate
smoker of cigarettes.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

Pietro Mascagni and General Booth
came over in the same steamer Per-
haps Pietro has agreed to raise the
level of Salvationist music.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

It is reported that the Princeton
geological expedition to Montana
found there, among other fossil re-
mains, a dinosaurs with tail four
teen feet long. This is indeed re-
markable story.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

Prof. Robert Hill, scientist, hav-
ing inspected Mont Pelee, is going on
to Texas. AS between Pelee and Tex
as, the professor seems disposed to
Jump out of the frying pan into the
Gre.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15
Has Had Enough of Politics.

Gov. Gambler of Georgia, whose term
of office soon expires, says he will
hereafter stay out of politics, IF the
boys will let him"
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

A New York paper says that trusts
are as old as man. 1t will be remem-
bered that the serpent in paradise or
ganized a trust in apples.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

Mr.. Hanna says he has been in
formed that "stand pat" is a phrase
used in poker. Mr.. Hanna has been
correctly informed.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

If New York had not spent SO much
money on monkey parties over at
Newport last summer 1t would have
more dollars now with which to tran
Sact business.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15

1t is reported that the Cubans are
finding it difficult to obtain work.
What happiness the average Cuban
must be enjoying.