Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-29
EDITORIAL CHAT
Interesting Notes From Our Special
Political Correspondent.

Political Correspondent.
Secretary Cortelyou has visited
New York city, gone up to the
wreck of the burned Gen. Slocum,
and seen some Of the bodies of the
dead brought to the surface. It
was gruesome sight for the young
secretary, and will doubtless help
to spur him on to see to it that a
full and rigid investigation Of his
inspectors Of steamships shall be
had, not only in New York but
throughout the land. This the
travelling public demands that it
may have some assurance that in
SO far as the Federal government is
concerned everything has been
done which can be to insure safety
and provide for means of escape in
case of an accident.
The ''cattle kings of Nebraska,
who have violated the law, or may
do so, in the matter of fencing in
the public lands for grazing
purposes, will continue to be pro-
secuted by the government just as
fast as Marshal Mathews of Omaha
can get witnesses and money to pay
the jurors.
Senator William Clark of Mon
tana, who is now in Paris, says he is
neither married nor engaged, and
he will thank the American papers
if they will refrain from marrying
him every time he goes to Europe.
He adds that he cannot complain
of hard times since his United
Verde mine gives him an income
each month of one million dollars.
And he adds that a man who
deserts his party is a traitor to that
party. Which is such a self-evident
truth that no comment is necessary.
An up-to-date Weather Bureau,
like the one in Washington, D. c.,
which can predict thunder shower
at sight, is very badly needed in
Rumania, where two thirds Of the
crops have been lost owing to a
prolonged drought. Prayers have
been ordered for rain. Not many
years ago the Governor Of Nebraska
gave out similar orders. The
trouble was that the good people of
Nebraska wouldn't pray for rain,
but preferred to rely upon MANILA
postal card to tell them what the
weather ought to be. In Rumania
they do these things better, and
really get on their knees and pray.
A dreadful suspicion begins to
haunt the New England mind that
the students and graduates of the
agricultural colleges in the six
states of that section of the earth,
never intend to become flat-footed
farmers. To dig the dirt with ones
own hands is thought in old Eng
land to be degrading, according to
Mr.. Balfour, and he ought to know,
The same idea appears to be gain
ing ground in New England. Agri-
cultural students learn nothing
practical about farming in an agri-
cultural college. The only place to
teach that is on the farm, where
the conditions Of soil, insect pests,
drunken farm hands, weeds and
hysterical weather, confront the
farmer: for practical solution. The
college graduate expects to become
a biologist, a mosquito expert, a
boil weevil exterminator, a traveller
to China to hunt for parasites, an
ornithologist, a geologist, a student
of the migration of birds, or some
similar scientist with the title OF
Professor" before his name.
Astronomers are just now in
terested in the 'cosmic fog" out OF
which stars, suns and planets are
made. The great question is
whether this fog is composed OF
radium or helium, and when an
other star will be evolved. Politi-
clans are also interested in the
"cosmic fog" which is slowly
gathering over st. Louis, in advance
of the assembling of the Democratic
national convention. Exactly what
will come out of the fog, a radium
candidate or a bel (D ium, no one
is now able to say.
When Lord Roberts, of England.
visits the United States, as he says