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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
RUSSIA AND AMERICAN TRADE
Cars China Policy Harmful to the
United States.


United States.
1t is no reprOach to a nation to say
that it's friendship or enmity depends
in great degree on economic
considerations, says the New Orleans
Times Democrat. To say this is sim
ply to state fact as well recognized
as it is reasonable. The day for SEN
timental friendships has gone, as has
been demonstrated more than once in
recent history. Each nation looks
primarily and wisely to itself, and q
tie apparently based ON mutual his
torical good will is usually found to
have a much surer foundation in mu-
tual interest. TO this universal rule
the United States is naturally no ex-
ception; and, from the first, the OBJ
vlous leaning Of public sentiment in
this country toward the japanese was
not less sincere tribute of admiration
to that really remarkable race than the
result of clear recognition Of what
Russian pre-eminence in the orient
means to the manufacturers, and as a
natural correlative, the producers of
this country.
The view that Russian success in
the east augurs i'll for the growth and
expansion Of American trade receives
all the confirmation necessary in GER
tain statistics in regard to American
exports to China, given out by an Of
fetal Of the treasury department.
Comparing the value of cotton cloth
sold to China during the last eight
months of the present fiscal year with
sales for the corresponding period dur
ing 1902 he finds that there has been
a falling off of SO per cent In other
words the total has dropped from $780,
O94,S36 to $2,762,O7
The official in question does not hes
itate to lay the greater part Of the
responsibility at the door of the Rus
slams, who have availed themselves of
the advantage afforded them by the
possession of Port Arthur and Dalny
and their hold on Manchuria, so plain
ly in violation of the treaty, to shut
out American products as far as pos
sible and to substitute therefor goods
Of their own make, in many cases imi-
tatiOns of popular American brands.
Their inimical tactics appear to have
had much effect throughout the whole
country, but in Manchuria their sue
cess has been absolute. For over a
year it has been practically impossible
to get our manufactures into that pro-
vince.
These figures are very timely, and
they come as an emphatic REPUTATION
Of Russia's contention that her sue
cess in the orient means the extern
sion of civilization and the worlds
commerce. It means, as has long been
recognized, serious menace to our
trade in the east, and one which this
country, though it may preserve it's
neutrality, can hardly contemplate
with satisfaction.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
Irrigate from Ice SUNNY.

In Montana the experiment has been
tried of freezing water to be used for
irrigat ton. AS soon as the weather be-
comes such as to melt the ice it is fit
for the operations requiring the wa.
ter.
The plan, which so far is in the ma
ture Of an experiment, consists in max.
ing a series Of shallow basins on the
slope of a hill in such locations that,
when water is plentiful, they may be
filled, each of those below the high
est receiving successfully the over
flow from the one above it.
Once frozen the ice in these shall
low reservoirs is there until the thaw
sets in when it melts so slowly as tc
keep up a supply of moisture sufficient
for the termination and growth of the
early crops. This unique method has
been tried so far only in the vicinity
Of Dillon, but it appears to be success.
full and is to be given a trial in sew
eral other favorable localities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

Two correspondents, one govern
a tradesman III Georgia, recently
opened up their hearts to a New York
paper Both are in comfortable cir
cumstances. Each thinks, however,
that he might have been better off in
a material way if he had dug a little
harder Therefore each concludes that
he has not made much of q success
Of life. Their letters have started a
discussion as to what success is-a dis
cussion which proyokes the reflection
that a good many who fear they have
failed have really succeeded, and that
a good many who think they have sue
ceeded have incontinently failed. Sue
cess consists in being Of some small
use to the community or country in
which one lives. 1t consists in hay
ing an intelligent, sympathetic outlook
upon human affairs. That man has
made at least q measurable success of
his life who loves books, and art, and
nature 1t is success to love ones
work. 1t is success to have friends
and be friend. To have home it
is daily, perennial delight to return
to-this is success. To have rudy,
healthy children who climb upon your
knees and pull your hair and whiskers
when they are young, and who are a
comfort and stay to you when you are
old-this also is success To have the
poise and philosophy to bear with q
light heart and a tranquil mind the
rebuffs and blows of fortune, should
they come--this Is success. If to all
these goods there be finally added
power, or fame, or riches, so much the
better and so much the greater the sue
cess. Power, fame, riches are condiments
that add to the palatableness of the
most savory dish. But the achieve
ment Of power. fame, or riches or of
all of them, is but failure on the part
of him whose usefulness does not
grow, whose circle Of friends does not
enlarge, whose brain does not expand,
and whose heart does not steadily
grow mellow. Who will say that the
success Of "Uncle" Russell Sage, who
is still able, at So, to sit up and daily
clip his coupons, is fit to be compared
with that of Senator George Frisbie
Hoar, poor in purse but rich in heart,
in head, and in public esteem?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

ors carried during the war of 1912
were Of this design. Thus the Ameri-
can flags surrendered by General Hull
at Detroit, and those captured by the
British at Bladensburg and Washing
ton must all have displayed fifteen
alternate red and white stripes, as
we'll as the fifteen stars of the union.
In 1918, by an act Of Congress, the
stripes of the national flag were again
reduced to thirteen, and it was de-
clared that the addition of star to
the union should thenceforward rep
resent each new State. A Newspaper
of the time, still kept in the govern
ment archives, said. by this regula-
ton the thirteen stripes will represent
the number of States whose valor and
resources originally effected the Amer
lean independence, and additional
stars will mark the increase Of the
States since the present constitution
From this time on the increase Of
stars in the constellation which formed
the union was steady, and during the
war with Mexico, in 1916, twenty nine
white stars were displayed in the blue
field
The flags borne by the regiments Of
the northern army during the four
years of the great civil war had thirty
five stars in the union. This was the
full number of States then forming the
national federation, as the United
States government had refused to rec
ognize the constitutional right Of
State to secede from the union. The
retention of the stars representing the
Southern States was regarded as a
serious breach of military etiquette by
the more punctilious of the Confeder-
ate leaders, and the capture of one Of
the Federal standards was always
we'll rewarded by the authorities at
Richmond.
The regimental flags carried by the
regular and volunteer regiments dur
ing the Spanish war of 1898 displayed
forty-five stars in the blue field of the
union, ten new States having been
added to the federation since the great
civil struggle which so nearly severed
the republic. This was also the first
foreign war in which the State troops
Of the reunited country appeared in
the field together, and it was the first
occasion on which former Confederate
Officers of high rank resumed the uni
form of the United States service.
The great garrison flag which was
hoisted over Santiago after the sur
render Of the city by the Spanish COM
mandant measured twenty feet in
width by thirty-siX feet in length, the
forty-fve white stars which formed
the union showing distinctly against
the bright blue of the feld.-Philadel-
phia Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

Joy reigns in Russia. Such is the
emotion of the Gar at the birth Of a
son that he has issued a mandate to
the effect that hereafter corporal pun
lshment is abolished in Russia" Pre-
sumably this is to apply to all classes,
and no one will profit more by it than
the little Alexis himself, who will con-
inue to survey the Czarinas slipper
Or the royal hair brush with cheerful
ness and tranquility. With copy Of
the ukase within easy reach the royal
heir will begin life with no greater
impeachment to happiness than a stray
bomb or poisoned bottle. Even the
Czarina will not venture to d.sobey the
imperial decree.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
Higher Mathematics.

James Hogan was no doubt an i'm.
portant person in Branbury, as he was
the only man who could be hired to
saw and split wood or to use a lawn
mower. He never lost a chance to i'm
press this fact upon casual listener.
"I've got to get through this job for
your ma quick as ever | can," he an
nOunced to the small son of one Of his
employers. ''Pm losing sixty cints an
hour right along every minute I'm
here. There's three folks waiting for
me now, and don't know how they're
going to get along till tomorrow with
out me, amy one of EN-
''Why, Mr.. Hogan" said the boy,
respectfully, II don't see how you're
losing sixty cents an hour when moth
er pays you twenty, and you couldn't
be but in one place
Have you got as far as geomethry
in your studiesY' inquired Mr.. Hogan
coldly, resting his arms on the handle
of the lawn-mower.
"N-no, SIR" admitted the boy.
"Whin you do you'll understand a
good nanny things that's hid from you
now," said Mr.. Hogan, resuming his
leisurely progress over the lawn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

Captain Bernier is about to make an
attempt to reach the north pole from
the mouth of the Mackenzie River.
The Canadian government has bought
the German Antarctic ship Gauss for
him, and will take party of mounted
police from Halifax by way of Cape
Horn and Vancouver to relieve the
party at present stationed Oh the
Mackenzie. When he has landed there
be will push toward the pole.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

1t is a bad blunder for the rich men
to try to shirk their civic duties. 1t
creates prejudice against them. They
may not care for that, but it is a mat
ter of serious care to them whether or
not the law is upheld. Without law
their vast property interests would be
worth nothing The more the people
respect the law the better it will be
for the property owners, and if for no
higher and nobler reason it is clearly
in the material interest Of the rich
that law and order shall prevail and
it is therefore in their interest to dis
charge their civic duties with faith
fulness and with willingness and to re-
spond cheerfully to the demands Of
the state authorities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
AMERICAN FLAG IN BATTLE.
Record of the Union Standard from
Brandywine to Santiago,

Record of the Union Standard from,
Brandywine to Santiago.
Although the resolution by which
the flag became a national standard
was not officially promulgated by the
secretary of Congress until Sept. 3,
17TT1, it seems we'll authenticated that
the regulation stars and stripes was
carried at the battle of Brandywine,
fought Sept. II, 1777. This shows that
the contract entered INTO by Betsy Ross
must have been carried out with great
expedition, and that the flags had
been distributed among the line regi-
ments of The revolutionary army early
in September. The flag first dis
played in battle at Brandywine Greek
had thirteen stripes, alternate red and
white, and as union thirteen white
stars were displayed on blue field.
The flag which was carried by the
men in blue and buff during the bat
ties of the revelation remained IN
changed until the first day of May,
1895. when, by previous act Of Con
gress, rwo additional stripes were add
ed to the body of the standard and
two stars to the union. These addi-
tons were made to represent the
States Of Vermont and Kentucky.
which had just been admitted TO the
federal union. AS no further change
was made in the national flag until
1918, it follows that the regimental col
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
For the Poor.

A lot of MINISTRIES went to a coun-
try town and advertised to give a per-
Torrance for 'the benefit of the poor;
tickets reduced to % cents" The hall
was crammed full. The next morning
a committee for the poor called upon
the treasurer Of the concern for the
amount the said benefit had netted.
The treasurer expressed establishment
at the demand
Il thought" said the chairman of
the committee, "you advertised this
concert for the benefit Of the poor?"
Replied the treasurer:
Didn't we put the tickets down to
a quarter SO that the poor could all
come"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
.'Why be satisfied with three or fou

''Why be satisfied with three or four
per cent from savings bank when we
offer you dividend on your money of
two to three per cent a week." You
may have seen this advertisement.
The wording was used by one Of those
Get Rich-Quick concerns recently
closed by the authorities. Did the
suckers bite on this proposition? Did
they? The firm took in more than a
million dollars inside Of two months.
1t is stated that the people Of one Ohio
town contributed about $4,000. Of
course, few weekly dividends" were
paid. The people who received these
dividends confided the fact to their
friends. And the suckers grew keener
for the hook. Should one pity the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

After many years the obvious retort
has been made to EmersOns remark
that not only was England an island
but each individual Englishman was
an island hemmed in by wall. Am
bassador Choate quoted the remark
at the dinner of the Pilgrims in Lon
don in honor of Lord Roberts. Mr..
Justice Darling, in the course Of his
speech, said that Emerson's view
might be correct, but that she, when
he had met an American, had always
felt that every American was a con-
inent."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

victirns7 Not q bit Of it. They have
learned a lesson worth all it has cost
them. They will not rise to the bait
again. But there are others. "A
fool" 1t is said, "is born ey cry minute"
and then some. Every one knows
or ought to knOw-that no concern can
honestly pay two or three per cent
weekly dividends. Every financier will
tell you that when an investment Of
fers more than four to five per cent
annually the factor of speculation is
more or less present. 1t ought to be
patent that when extravagant offers
are made for the use of money a swim
die is contemplated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

Massachusetts has a law providing
a fine for those who display words,
figures, advertisements or designs" on
the national flag Under this law the
sale Of two magazines was recently in
terfered with in that State because
grafton on the cover. The New York
penal code makes it misdemeanor
publicly to mutilate or defile the flag
or to use it in connection with a
trade-label, trademark or advertise
ment Of merchandise. The highest
court of the State has recently de-
cided that the use of the flag in q
trade-label or trademark is not a de-
Element of it, and that the law which
so fOrbids it's use violates the national
Constitution, as it does not apply uni.
formly to all citizens Of the State,
But the court holds that it is consti-
tutional to forbid the printing of an
advertisement OH the flag. In Color
ado, where the law is similar to that
Of Massachusetts,, an officer Of the
Western Federation Of Miners was
arrested last winter because he issued
a strike proclamation printed on a
representation of the flag. The object
of this arrest was not SO much the
protection of the flag from Dissertation
as interference with the activities Of
a leader in the unfortunate labor dis
pute in the State. There is no ma
tional law for the protection Of the
flag; but the American Flag Associa
ton, organized in 1893, has been urg-
ing the passage of such law. In the
meantime the sentiment against the
degradation of the flag for advertising
purposes is growing in all the States.
Little objection is raised to the use of
the flag or representation Of it in
an ornamental design, but it is gen
orally admitted that it is as uniting
to print advertisements upon it is as
upon the dome Of the national capitol
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

After the high-handed way in which
Russia, in Manchuria, has broken
every canon of international good man
ners it is refreshing to hear her pro
tests against Japanese violations of
the same code.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
Appetite of the Eskimos.

The Eskimos have enormous appe-
tites. An arctic explorer relates that
he saw boy eat ten pounds of solid
beef food and drink gallon and q
half OF liquid with much gusto. This
same explorer observed an adult eat
ten pounds Of meat and two candles
at meal. Sir p. Phillips tells how
lad of II years ate twenty-four
pounds Of beef in twenty-four hours.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

Professor Ricket thinks the TWEEN
tieth century will rival the nineteenth
in the killing line. He must have been
reading the yellow journals which kill
10000 Japanese every morning with
cut qualm-or q bit of evidence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

The birth of the Cars son is expect
ed to weaken the influence of Pobye-
donostseff. That will be something
worth while if the boy never does any
thing else of Importance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
Speed Away.


Speed away! speed away on thine errand
Of light
There's young heart awaiting thy COM
irg tonight;
She will fondlc thee close, she will ask
for the loved,
Who pine upon earth since the "Day
STAR has roved,
She will ask if they miss her, SO long is
her stay.
Speed away! speed away! speed away,
And, Oh! wilt thou tell her, blest bird on
the wing,
That her mother hath ever sad song
to sing;
That she standeth alone in the still, quiet
night,
And her fond heart goes forth for the
being of light.
Who had slept in her bosom-but who
would not stay?
Speed away. speed away! speed away!
Go. bird of the silver wing! fetterless
now;
Stop not thy bright pinions on yon
mountains brow;
But HE thee away, DER rock, river and
glen,
And find our young "Day STAR" ere
night close again;
Up, oaward! let nothing thy mission de-
lay,
Snsed away. speed away. speed away
-lsaac B. Woodbury..
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

It's better to be poor man and a
rich Christian than q rich man and a
poor Christian" said John Wanamak-
er. This is expert testimony, for no
doubt Mr.. Wanamaker has been all
four at some time in his life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

The population of the world, accord
ing to the latest estimate, is 1867, 49,
233. But these figures were published
before Col. Alexis Romanoff was born.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

The only kind of diplomacy that
causes the Sultan to hurry is that pre-
sented by the yawning muzzle of 49,
inch gun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

The first time a woman has a touch
of indigestion she wonders why she is
so sad, and decides that it is pre-
monition that something nwful is
about to happen to him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

If King Edward were to meet the
Emperor of the Hottentots would he
wear the uniform of a Hottentot ad
miral as a mark of courtesy?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

1t is announced that Patti will tour
the United States in an automobile.
This may prove to be her real fare
well tour.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

It's mighty foolish to get so anxious
about saving the whole world that you
haven't time to do thing for your
own ward.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

Some men are never happy except
when they think how much worse the
other fellow has it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

1t is noted that all of Japan's vic
torious generals are upwards of fifty
wears old Fifty isn't old after you
mass it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

1t is always the fellow who has not
been straight himself who is the first
to impugn the motives of others.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

The man who puts his head into
barrel does not eclipse the sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

No matter how good a man is, If
he and his life get along well all the
credit is given to her patience.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

Even when the worm does turn 1t
doesn't create very much excitement.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
OLD
FAvORlT IS
@NN~.~~e N>~~~~e
Tao Old Familiar Faces.

Tao Old Familiar Faces.
| hive hsst playma:e.;, have had COM
psaUns,
In my da;rs Of childhood, in my joyful
sciurol days
All, all sra gone the old familiar faces.
have been laughing have been carous-
ing,
Drinking late, sitting late, with my
btscm cronies--
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I loved a love once, failest among
women;
Closed ar, her doors on me, must not
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
l have friend, a kinder friend has ne
Like an migrate, left my friend alb
rrptly;
Left him to muse on the old familiar
Ghost-lke I pace round the haunts Of
ray childhood,
Earth seemed a desert was bound to
traverse,
Sseking to find the old familiar faces.
Friend Of my bosom, thou more than q
brother,
Why vert not thou born in my fathers
dwelling?
SO might we talk of the old familiar
low some they have died, and some they
have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are
departed
All, all are gone. the old familiar faces,
Charles Lamb.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

A man feels a grievance because his
wife wants to go everywhere he goes
except when he comes to die, and then
he feels wronged because she is to be
left behind.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
OPEN AIR FOR BEAUTY.

The votary Of the open air treatment
for beauty is well wrapped up and oc-
cupies a lounge chair out of doors,
with her feet raised from the ground,
every day and in any weather, but
especially when the sun shines.