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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
Gibson Was Sarcastic.

Charles Dana Gibson, the illustrator,
received the other day printed let
ter from a we'll known manufacturer
of soap. The letter said:
You are cordially invited to par
ticipate in a drawing contest for a
prize of $25. The drawing must be an
original composition that will adver-
tise our soap. Only one prize will be
given, and all unsuccessful drawings
will became the property Of the I'M
dersigned."
The letter amused and irritated Mr..
Gibson. He smiled at it, and then he
frowned at it. Finally, having moth
ing to do for the next five minutes,
he sat down and wrote to the soap
manufacturers as follows:
'You are heartily invited to partici-
pate in soap contest that have in
augurated for a prize of $3.50. Each
competitor must submit 100 pounds Of
his best soap, put up in ornamental
one-pound boxes, and all the soap that
is not adjudged worthy of the prize
will remain the property of the under
signed. 1t is necessary that the soap
be forwarded prepaid. "-Cleveland
Leader.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
Cheap Barricades.

It is droll, the attitude of the Dem
ocratic party in the present campaign.
1t has nominated candidates of mod
crate talents as figureheads for the
ventures of the discredited party, and
expects the people to support them,
while the Democratic national commit
tee and Tammany are expected to buy
or steal success.
The Democratic party, with its I'M
sound views, financial and economic,
lies hopefully behind Parker and those
unnamed eXpectancies voiced by Will
Jams, Bryan and other Democrats.
And Bryan promises to reorganize
the party after the election! How?
Evidently on lines of socialism, gov
eminent and municipal ownership of
telegraph and railroad lines, with all
the sequence. What a vagueness of
thought and promise! How may So
called leaders of any party expect to
get the votes of sensible men upon a
proposition so dim as this? The fault
with the Democratic party, this year,
\ is it does not even furnish good dis
solving view.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
Rules for Weddings.

DIR. Charles H. Armstrong of st.
Mary's Protestant Episcopal church,
Philadelphia, has issued new set of
rules to govern weddings in that edi-
flee. This is the result of circum-
stances attending the recent marriage
there of Robert Goelet and Elsie
Whelen. They did not ask permission
to use the church, but swooped down
on the place with decorators and for
lists before DR.. Armstrong, the rector,
had any idea of their intention. They
did not even invite him to assist in the
ceremony. After the wedding party
had gone the church was almost torn
to pieces by a crowd of sightseers who
were let loose in it. DR.. Armstrong
and the vestry have therefore taken
measures to prevent such scenes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
Men of Many Millions.

Assistant Treasurer Hamilton Fish
$4,000 a year. discourages as polite
" as possible visits to the vaults of
the sub-treasury, but may be moved
by diplomatic Importantly Men dear
ly like to say, Eyes, sir, had $4,000
600 in my hands," or II stood sur
rounded by hundred millions, all in
reach of my fingers" Vault Clerk
Edward FL. Hale says:
'Our men are not all affected by the
vast sums Of money they handle. Gold,
silver, notes, and bonds are no more
to them than so much chaff. They are
counting millions Of coin or paper ev-
cry day, yet when they get home at
night and their wives ask them for 3
cents the chances are they haven't got
it."-New York Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
Sold Counterfeit Rare Stamps.

Philatelists have just been rid of
one Of their worst vampires. A Bel
gian dealer named Suru, trading in
Berlin, has been selling for about 81
stamps catalogued elsewhere at EFT,
and a good many unwary buyers
caught at the bait. Microscopic exam
nation proved all the bargains to
be dear at any price.
For instance, stamp of the second
French republic, with the eftigy of
President Prince louis Napoleon, was
found to be nothing but an amalgam
of a wonderful number Of fragments.
A search of the mans premises
brought to light chests stuffed with
several millions of stamps-all "doc-
tored."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
A Child Shall Lead Them.

The Rev. DR.. w. S. Rainsford of st.
Georges is fond of telling Of the les
sons he learns from the little members
of his flock.
II was not always so keen for open
churches" he confessed recently, "but
a 4-year-old girl settled my mind on
that point. I was walking with her,
listening to her childish prattle, when
we passed a thightly closed church.
81 s'pose God has key to let him.
self in she remarked, looking thought
fully at the barred door, but the peo-
pie have to go to the sexton
II didn't have a church them" con-
tinued the doctor, ''but made up my
mind that when I did have one the
people would not have to lunt up the
sexton to get in."--New York Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
AWKWARD QUESTIONS
Democrats Object to Answering Financial
Undergraduates.

When the 'gold" message of Alton
convention at ST. Louis William j.
Bryan suggested that the currency
views of Mr.. Parker ought to be more
explicitly defined in some detail, and
that the convention therefore should
prepare a list of questions connected
with the various phrases of the cur
rency issue for the candidate to an
swer, but Master of Ceremonies Will
liams rushed to Parker's defense with
the statement thatthe candidate should
not be asked "A LOT OF FOOLISH
QUESTIONS"
This was the same public be
ID" attitude that arrogant corpor-
atoms used to take in refusing to an
swer questions of pertinent interest
to their stockholders or to the gen
eral public, until the Republican party
remedied matters by passing law
compelling publicity, and especially es-
tablished the bureau of commerce and
labor to secure it.
Mr.. Bryan, all the Democrats in the
convention at st. Louis, and in fact
all American voters of whatever po-
litical belief, had a perfect right to
expect detailed and explicit publicity
from Candidate Parker of his views
ON governmental financial policies, so
that they could know whether or not,
or to what extent his views were their
views. But this publicity was denied
them, because the managers of the
convention deemed it of more i'm
portance to project their candidate
from questions which he would not
want to answer for fear of making
"break," than to protect the voters
of the country from possible misun+
Outstanding as to financial views which
might not bear the limelight of public
discussion.
The managers of corporation con-
Quoted on unsound lines are always
apt to consider as foolish" questions,
which, if answered, might result in
an expose. And it is the same way
with the Democratic managers, who
think their only safe policy on the
currency question is to refuse to give
information as to what their policy
really is.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
PULITZER'S MISTAKE
He Does Not Understand the Attitude of
Parker.

He Does Not Understand. the Attitude of
Parker.
Joseph Pulitzer did not attend the
gathering of Democratic editors which
met and communed recently with the
Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency, but he wrote a letter, of which
this was the concluding paragraph:
ut is because / so strongly desire
Judge Parker's election that speak so
plainly on this subject. 1 earnestly
beg of you when you see him tomor-
row at Esopus, to urge that he accept
also the full responsibility of his posi-
ton; that he will not permit the cam
paign in New York-the pivotal state
to be mismanaged by the small poll
ticians who beset him."
"Besetv' "Beset," indeed! Little
is Alton B. Parker "beset" by the
small politicians to whom Pulitzer al
ludes, those who have, for years, been
the vassals of David B. Hill or among
the operators for Tammany. Alton B.
Parker has been one of them himself.
Foxy political manager for Hill, who
repaid him by an appointment. and
who, in the present year, has repaid
him further, he is not likely to be "be-
set" by his own associates. Mr.. Pulitz-
er must be wandering in his mind. II
is upon those from whom he wishes
Mr.. Parker to associate himself that
Mr.. Pulitzer depends for whatever
vote he may get in New York-Tam-
manyites and the, Hill henchmen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
CHRONIC AILMENT.-A small port

CHRONIC AlLMENT.-A small port
ion of suffering which humanltyis heir
to, arises from acute diseases. These
yield at once to the ordinary practice
of the schools, or they soon battle all
medical skill. But there is class of
complaints with which men and
women are afflicted, that, without
producing any apparently alarming
symptoms, linger along for years per-
haps. but, unles arrested, Invariably
sooner or latter prove fatal. These are
the chronic diseases which DR.. F. B.
Brewer makes, and has made for
years, speciality. And for the treat
ment of such complaints, there is
probably no physician of the present
day more successful than he. He has
made regular visits for years, and
such has been his success in cases he
has treated, that we can safely recon-
mend him to those out of health.
1t will be seen that DR.. Brewer makes
his next visit at the Grand Central
hotel on Monday September Goth.
Consultation is free.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

only by cutting down the prosperity
Of all our people.
There is not policy, foreign or
domestic, which we are now carrying
out, which it would not be disastrous
20 reverse or abandon.
This government has been true to
the spirit of the fourteenth amend
ment in the Philippines. Can our OPP
ponents deny that here at home the
principles Of the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments have been in ef-
feet nullified?
If continued in power we shall con-
tinue our foreign policy and our hand
ling of the navy on exactly the same
lines in the future as in the past.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
POINTED EXPRESSIONS FROM
ROOSEVELTS LETTER,

We intend in the future to carry on
che government in the same way that
we have carried it on in the past.
We are content to rest our case be-
fore the American people upon the
fact that to adherence to lofty ideal
we have added, proved governmental
efficiency.
No other administration in our his
world, has more consistently stood for
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

The element which leads and domi-
mates the Democratic party today
stands not for tariff for revnue but for
ultimate free trade. There is no use
trying to dodge that fact. The work
ingmen Of America must take note
of it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

: If our opponents come into
I power they can revoke this or
! der pension order No. 49, and
{ announce that they will treat the
! veterans of GO to 20 as pre-
I sumably in full bodily vigor and
! not entitled to pensions. Will
/ they now authoritatively state
! that they intend to do this? If
/ so, we accept the issue. If not,
! then we have the right to ask
& why they raise an issue which,
I raised, they do not venture to
j meet?-Roosevelt's Letter Of Ac-
( ceptance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

During the last Democratic admin
istration the government borrowed
hundreds of millions of dollars during
a time of profound peace, to pay cur
rent expenses. During the Mckinley
administration it prosecuted a foreign
war to a successful conclusion with
out borrowing a cent and since the
war closed all of the war taxes have
been removed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

The Democratic party has been
fatally wrong on every phase of the
money question from the resumption
of specie payments after the war to
the establishment Of the gold stand
ard both of which it opposed. 1t is
constitutionally unfit to deal with
financial questions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

When the industries of the country
prosper coal is in demand and miners
get their full share of the general pros
perity When the mills and factories
close or work on short time for lack
of orders, railway traffic falls off and
the mining industry suffers. Miners
are as much interested in maintaining
the Republican policy of protection as
any other class of workingmen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

The practice OF eating arsenic is
very prevalent among the peasantry
Of the mountainous districts of Aus
ro-Hungary and France. They say
that this poison enables them to
ascend with ease nights which other
wise they could only climb with great
distress to the chest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
Prosperity at Home, Prestige Abroad

prosperity at Home and Prestige
Abroad''-was campaign phrase
that appealed with great force to the
American people in 1900. 1t should
appeal to them with still greater
force in 1904, for during the last four
years of further Republican rule there
have been still further great gains in
the prosperity of the United States,
and still further great increase in the
respect entertained for the United
States by all the nations of the world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

There is one truth that seems beyond
the comprehension of the Democracy.
that ''the old order changes, yielding
place to the new" Otherwise it
would not try to fit the Jeffersonian
knickerbockers of 1904 on the lusty
American giant of 1904
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

1t is conceded that the Democrats
are not on record on the tariff question.
This being the case, would it not be
unwise to trust tariff revision to the
party opposed to the principle of pro-
lection, the result being practically
free trade, bringing industrial depres-
sion, hard times and the inevitable
lowering of prices on farm products?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

Ia6ODOR6 IsOOoIs LILLE
the broadcast spirit Of brotherhood in
our common humanity, or has held
more resolute attitude of protest
against every wrong that outra ged the
civilization of the world, at home or
abroad.
1t has behaved toward all nations,
strong or weak, with courtesy, dignity
and justice; and is now on excellent
terms with all.
Our foreign policy has been not only
highly advantageous to the United
States, but hardly less advantageous to
the world as a whole. Peace and
good will have followed in it's foot
steps.
Within the limits defined by the
national constitution the national adj
ministration as sought to secure to
each man the full enjoyment of his
right to live his life and dispose of his
property and his labor as he deems
best, so long as he wrongs no one
else.
1t is but ten years since the first
attempt was made, by means of lower
ing the tariff, to prevent some people
from prospecting too much. The at
tempt was entirely successful.
To uproot and destroy the protective
system would be to insure the prostra-
ton of business, the closing of factor
the ruin of the capitalist and the
starvation of the wage-worker.
During the last five years more has
BEEN done for the material and moral
well-being of the Filipinos than ever
before since the island first came with
in the ken of civilized man.
We did not take the Philippines at
will, and we cannot put them aside at
will.
We have striven both for civil right
eousness and for national greatness
and we have faith to believe that our
hands will be upheld by all who feel
love of country and trust in the up
lifting of mankind.
II 4
We hold ever before us as the all
important end of policy and admins
tration the reign of peace at home and
throughout the world; of peace which
comes along by doing justice
The constitution must be observed
positively as well as negatively.
We do not have to guess at our own
convictions and then correct the guess
if it seems unpopular.
A party which, with facile ease.
changes all its convictions before cleo
ton cannot be trusted to adhere with
tenacity to any principle after cleo
ton.
Ao AOA tlC luN y, IL Uccu dIlu Is
now the most potent guaranty of
peace; and it is such chiefly because it
is formidable and ready for use.
If on one great issue they (the
Democrats) do not mean what they
say, it is hardly safe to trust them on
any other issue.
Free trade and reciprocity are not
compatible.
They Ghe Democrats have occu-
pied three entirely different positions
ION the Philippines within fifty days.
Which is the promise they really in
tend to keep?
Since the close of the war with
Spain there has been no substantial
change in the rate of annual ex-
penditures.
Where there is no respect there can
be no trust. A policy with so slender
a basis Of principle would not stand
the strain of single year Of business
adversely.
If a tariff law is passed aimed at
preventing the prosperity of some of
our people, it is as certain as anything
can be that this aim will be achieved
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

Balfour, the prime minister of Eng
land, in speech delivered at Sheffield,
declared that Golden, the apostle of
free trade, was "a great man, but he
failed to foresee the developments CT
the last half century which had made
free trade an empty name and vain
farcp"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

The annual report on the coal in.
dustry of Illinois, furnished by the
state bureau of statistics, shows that
miners were never so prosperous as
under the Mckinley and Roosevelt adj
ministrations. The coal output Of the
state now is nearly twice what it was
under Cleveland; $4,000 more men are
employed than six years ago, and
wages are fully so per cent. higher
than in 1897.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

I Sir, hold to the opinion that
! all war is barbarous. am I
Z against war, civilized or un- J
7 civilized except it be necessary to
: redeem people from oppression, !
I or be for national defense, or to
Z sustain the national honor in the !
y nrotection of American c;+izan- !
4 ship.-Senator Fairbanks in the !
Z senate, May 20, 1897.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
A Sure Sign.

Now we know that David B. Hill in
tends to quit politics next January, for
he has disclaimed calling President
Roosevelt ga fraud" That a little in
nocuous fling like that when he has ex-
hausted the vocabulary of vituperation
upon the Republican half of the Ameri-
can people for ''nigh on 40 years. is
surely sign that David is setting his
house in order and wants to depart
political life at peace with all men.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

"Sow character and you reap a
destiny" was one of the beautiful but
meaningless apothegms flung into the
lap of Judge Parker by Editor Knapp,
of the st. Louis Republic, in introduc-
ing his Democratic brethren of the
shears and paste pot to their candi-
date. With about equal relevancy and
more wit he might have said 'Plant
a corpse and raise tombstone"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

After you see the Majestic Range at
Ziegler Bros, you'll wonder how you
have managed to get along without
one. Don't get left.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

Judge Parker is said to have writ
ten his financial views so as to not Of
fend Bryan. He voted that way, too,
a couple Of times. n
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

Silence has grown weary listening
for the reply that comes not from
Esopus to Tom Watson's query, "What
is Judge Parker's position on the negro
question:?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

"The best is always the cheapest"
The Majestic Range is best and we
want you to come in and let us tell you
why. Don't get left.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

political empires" well describes
the species of constitutional hair-split-
tiers who see the constitution rent in
tatters every time new condition de-
mands the exercise of some govern
ment power not dreamed of in the phil
osophy of Thomas Jefferson. Ii the
political empires of 1861 had had their
way there would have been no union
left for their successors to weep and
groan over in 1904.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
4xF4 Xxx OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES \ \

A man who is weak enough to
put his candidacy in their (Hilrs
and Belmont's) hands before the
convention would not be strong
. enough to resist their influences
after election, if he were by any
possibility successful.-William J.
Bryan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
What He Saw.

The youthful scion of German
town household succeeded in putting
the family physician to blush few
days ago.
Something was wrong with the
young hopeful's vision and the doctor
was called in. The family assembled
and several optical tests were made.
Finally the doctor held up his hand.
"And what do you see now, my
boy?'' he inquired.
81 see a dirty hand' piped the lit
tie fellow.
The doctors departure was followed
by a Pittsburg Dispatch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

; We have a large commerce
; with Germany, which good rela-
: tons will tend to promote; but
: beyond this, and above this, we
: are bound together by thousands
of ties of kinship and associa-
: ton, which should stimulate rela-
tons of enduring cordiality.-
: Senator Fairbanks at Indian
apolis, Sept. 3, 1899.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

We want you and your friend to
come in any day this week and see the
Great Majestic Range bake biscuit in
three minutes-At Ziegler Bros
Don't get left.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21


Mr.. Parker, Democratic nominee for
president, has never journeyed west of
Buffalo, n. Y. What does he know of
the great west, it's people, their
achievements, their possibilities, their
needs? How can he reconcile the de-
mands of the different sections, and
decide great questions properly and for
the good of the whole country? OF
limited experience, narrowed hOri-
zon, he is not comparable with Theo-
dore Roosevelt, who has travelled the
country over, lived east and west,
knows the people, the country and is
president of the people, not con-
trolled by Wall street and it's indu-
encoS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21
Notice for Tax Deed.
OFFICIALLY

OFFICIALLY
OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK,
Lancaster, Grant Co. Wis.
September A. 1904
Notice is hereby given that the following
described lands and village and city lots,
IN the County of Grant and State of Wiscon-
sin, were sold by the treasurer of said
county on the goth day of May, 1902, for the
delinquent taxes of 1901
The amount set opposite each description
is the amount of taxes, interest and charges
due thereon, computed up to the last day
of redemption.
NOW, therefore, unless the taxes and
charges are paid on or before the
TWENTIETH DAY OF MAY. 1905.
the same will be conveyed by tax deed to
the purchasers according to the provisions
of law.
Abbreviations:-e east, ne northeast. Sc
southeast, west. NV northwest, sw south
west, north, south, com commencing
cor corner, acre, add addition. blk block
# feet, frac fractional, sec section, und un-
divided, I'D bounded.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

If tariff law is passed aimed at
preventing the prosperity Of some of
our people, it is as certain as anything
can be that this aim will be achieved
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-21

Where there is no respect there can
be no trust. A policy with so slender
basis Of principle would not stand
the strain of a single year Of business
adversely.