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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-17

Wisconsin will in a very few
years be the leading state in the
union in the quantity and quality of
her dairy products. Wisconsin but
ter has for good many years rank
ed as extras IN the city markets.
Wisconsin cheese is as good as any
made anywhere, and better than
most. This has been proven in so
many contests that there is no room
for any doubt on the subject. AT
the St. Louis Worlds Fair in the re-
cent contests held there Wisconsin
cheese took not only first premium,
but other premiums and nearly all
of them. Wisconsin came near
being the whole cheese when the
dairy products were examined. The
school children who were taught
only few years ago that New
York was lit in the dairy business
will have to unlearn their lessons of
that time and put in Wisconsin
instead of New York. Wisconsin
with only a few years of develop
ment has come abreast of New
York with her century or more of
development and experience. Green
county, Wisconsin, produces more
number one cheese than any other
territory of equal area in the
country.
Newspapers are continually
preaching the ''patronize the home
merchant doctrine, and doing all
in their power to persuade the
townspeople and those who i've in
the country to patronize the local
dealers, claiming rightly that these
dealers do sell their wares as cheap
ly as those in the larger cities.
But what do the dealers in the
smaller towns and villages do to
help their own cause? Not as much
as they should. They do not adj
vertise their wares sufficiently.
They do not keep their names con-
stantly before the public eye, and
the result is that the consumers do
not know that they are in business.
The local dealers do not seem to
recognize the true value Of printers
ink.
There was a heavy electric
storm along Military Ridge in the
Dodgeville country Monday morn
ing. Lightning struck a barn be-
longing to Ed. Evans mile west of
Dodgeville, and burned it to the
ground. Another bolt destroyed
the large Catholic church a mile
west of Ridgeway, Father O'Reilly
is the priest of that church. A new
church will be built in that village.
Misses Leora and Florence
Richards went to Linden Monday,
where they expect to visit relatives
a short time before returning to
their home in Watseca, Ill. They
had nice visit here with their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. P.
Rowden.
1t costs from so to 60 cents a
rod to lay 81 inch tile, and there
is more money in the laying of it
on thousands of farms than in feed
ing twenty cent corn to seven dol
lar hogs.
Mr.. Mulrooney, an old resident
of Patch Grove, while driving into,
this city yesterday, was overcome
by the heat and the effects of the
ride. He recovered all right, how
ever
The ladies of the cemetery as
ISOLATION will serve lunch on the
grounds during the fair. Also, they
contemplate holding rummage
sale some time in October.
There are plenty of men who
think they have done smart thing
when they can cross a railway track
and have the engine skip their rear
wheels by a couple of feet.
If there was no laziness in the
world there would be mighty little
poverty.
F. M. wager from near Bagley
was in town on business Mo nday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-17
One of the Sultan's Snaps.

A dispatch from Constantinople
says the Sultan drowned four of
his wives, one day last week, in the
Bosphorus, for intriguing with a
young Turk party. We don't know
exactly what intriguing with a
young Turk party is, but probably
it is good deal like flirting here in
the states. When an old mans
wife, here in this country, gets to
intriguing with some young Ameri-
can party, the old man does not
have any such snap as the Sultan
does. Ee has to grin and bear it,
and scold, and eventually get gun
and go cunning for the young
American party, and as often as not
the young party gets the drop on
the old man, kills him, gets off on
the ground of self-defense and goes
on intriguing as though nothing
had happened. But the Sultan
does not have to worry about these
little matters. He rounds up a few
hundred wives, and looks at them,
and if one of them has her lips
chapped, as though she had been
intriguing, he gives her a look that
cuts a hole in her, and if she
bushes, he has her stand aside, and
when he gets enough for a fair
sized boatload, he orders a trusty
eunuch to load them in a skiff, coil
some leadpipe around them, run
the boat out of his private chapel
into the stream, and throw them
overheard, and all that there is to
show for it is some bubbles on the
water, which soon disappear, and
then the eunuchs dive for the lead
pipe, and sell it for junk. Most
people will complain and make
sarcastic remarks about a Sultan
that has the power and takes
pleasure in drowning his wives,
but they should remember that he
has to maintain discipline in his
domestic army, or he would not be
the commander. How many men,
living in other states than Wiscon-
sin, have seen the time they would
like to drown one wife, because she
intrigued, but it being unlawful to
do so, he has had to live with her
until some epidemic came. The
Sultan is probably a bad man.
Nobody seems to doubt that. But
who wouldn't be, with a thousand
or fifteen hundred wives, with
different dispositions, and a thous-
and young Turks around the house
making eyes at them, and taking
them out boat-riding, and playing
lawn tennis. No husband can watch
fifteen hundred wives the way they
ought to be watched. No husband
can have more than a calling
acquaintance with so many wives,
and when he is engaged in the
affairs of state, it is not strange
that these young devils get to fiirt-
ing with them. Probably the only
way to keep peace in the family is
to drown few wives every day,
and it seems as though more charity
should be shown to the Sultan. He
certainly has troubles of his own,
and if drowning is the method OF
relieving him it shows an advance
ment in the civilization of Turkey,
as in former years they used to kill
them with scimeter, and get blood
on the carpet. There is nothing
much better than water, if used in
moderation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-17

Harry Carthew accidentally
overturned b1ue-fame stove at
home Monday evening, and for
moment there was a large blaze;
but Harry had the presence of mind
to use a piece of carpet, which sue
cessfully smothered the blaze.
IS. III. Taylor and Wesley Weir
are home from Indian Territory for
a short vacation.
Isaac Deller of Mineral Point
is in the city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-17

Father Schleicher was in Fenni-
more Monday.
Leo Jeidy went to Baraboo
Monday to resume work on the
railroad.
John Jordan killed dog in
the western part of the city Sun
day morning, which appeared to
be having an attack of hydropho-
bia.
Miss Hattie jackson of Bloom
ington visited at NARROW Manor
Sunday. She came over with Algie
NARROW, who visited a week in
Bloomington.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-17
Baptist Locals.

Lancaster. The prayer meeting
will be at the home of the pastor
this Wednesday evening.
There will be a praise service,
consisting of Psalms, duets, solos
and choruses, next Sunday evening.
The hand of fellowship will be ex-
tended to new members.
The Boys Brigade will give a
public reception to their friends in
their new quarters, the City hall,
next Friday evening. Luncheon
will be served at 10 and Is cents.
There will be a short program of
music and tableaus.
Dyer School House: Service
next Sunday beginning at 10 a. m.
with sermon; then Sunday school,
followed by picnic dinner. Then
c. E. meeting and illustrated child
ren's service. General invitation
to all. DANIEL SPRAGUE, Pastor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-17
LIVINGSTON.


Jesse J. Ruble of Platteville was in
town Saturday.
Miss Jones of Barneveld, who
was visiting Miss Amy Jacobs, re-
turned to her home Saturday.
The new schoolhouse will be
ready for occupancy by Sept. l. 1t is
expected to do high school work, so
that students can finish in first
class high schools in one year.
Stacking is well under way, and
threshing begun in earnest.
The camp meeting is being well
attended.
The new stone crossings will be a
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-13
ABOLISH OR LIMIT 1T

The spectacle presented today by the
Minnesota state board of pardons is a
disgrace to the commonwealth. We say
this without any mincing of words and
without any criticism Of the members
of that body. They are the victims of
an utterly evil, inexcusable and intol-
cradle system. If the legislature of
the state has any sense of duty or any
respect for law and its observance, it
will at the earliest opportunity either
abolish entirely the present pardoning
system or so limit it that it will no
longer remain a public scandal.
AS it is now the board of pardons
peals. The very worst effect of this is
that all criminals are taught that after
conviction they have one more trial
coming. The work of the board Of
pardons is no longer limited to those
who may have suffered some injustice,
to cases where new evidence has been
discovered or to those pathetic eXcep-
tions where incarceration threatens
death to the prisoner or destitution to
his family. Application for pardon has
ceased to be the exception and become
the rule. 1t needs but little more
progress at the present rate in the
present direction to make it sure that
every individual sentenced in the
courts of this state will have his case
brought before the board of pardons
for review.
This is an expansion of the duties of
the board which we are sure is as dis
with the administration of justice and
due observance of the law. 1t has
come about by the gradual extension
Of the pardoning power in this state,
by a good-natured yielding to the i'm
portunity of the friends of criminals
that is bound, if not checked, to sap an
respect for law and to make our courts
a mockery. The remedy is easy, but it
must be sharp and decisive.
We would, not abolish the pardoning
power altogether, though we frankly
confess to a firm belief that its imme-
diate and total abolition would be bet
ter than the continuance of present.
conditions. We should limit the par
doning power by law to cases where
new evidence tending to establish the
innocence of the convicted person has
been discovered. or where reprieye can
be shown to be matter of immediate
life or death. All other appeals for
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-13
LEASE OF FRIAR LANDS
is PROVIDED FOR
Philippine Commission Enact Requia-
tlons Also for Sale of PROPERTY

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 1.-THE
bureau Of insular affairs of the war
department has received a COPY of an
enactment of the Philippine commits
sion providing for the administra ton
and temporary leasing and sale of
friar lands, for the purchase of which
the government of the Philippine ISL
ands recently contracted. 1t provides
Tor surveys and permits the present
occupants of any such lands either to
BUY or lease them. no leases to be for
more than three years, and to be at a
reasonable rental. Those wishing 10
purchase may do so at the actual cost
to the government and will be allowed
ten years in which to pay for the same
In equal annual installments. with in
terest on deferred payments at the
rate of 4 per cent. All unoccupied
lands, or lands which the present oc-
cupants do not desire to lease or buy,
will be offered for sale by the govern
ment to other parties. All irrigation
works, common to all properties, shall
remain under the exclusive control of
the government of the islands.
All money derived from the leasing
and sale of these lands is to constitute
a trust fund for the payment of prfn-
clpal and interest of the bonds issued
by the Philippine government for the
purpose of raising money to pay the
purchase price of the friar lands.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-13
A. CURIOUS VAeARY

OF all the vagaries peculiar to the
so-called independent mind that dis
played by the Chicago Chronicle is the
most singular. The Chronicle has been
a gold standard paper from start to
finish. 1t has. nevertheless, through
the last eight years supported in gen
eral the candidates and policies of the
Democratic party. 1t belted Mr.. Bryan
and the Chicago and Kansas City plat
forms and fought against the national
ticket in the last two campaigns. 1t
still asserted its claim to place in the
Democracy, avowing its faith in re-
turn Of the party to what is consid-
cred right and reason
The time has now come when events
have brought about the fulfIlnaent of
what the Chronicle professed to de-
sire. The money question has been
settled by events. The Democratic
party has formally abandoned it. The
Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency has publicly announced that he
considers the gold standard as irrevo-
cably established. The enc single issue
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-13
MOST AMERICANS
ARE FOUND At WORK
Census Bureau Says Those
Employed Number Almost
Thirty Million

WASHINGTON, D. c., July ia
special report of the census bureau ON
occupations shows that in continental
United States the total number of per-
sons engaged in gainful occupations in
i0oo was 29.O73,233, which was one
aall Oh the population ten years of age
ana older, and nearly two-fifths of the
ehllre population. The total number
comprises 22,4S9,425 men, 4.s33 $40
women and 1,750,17S children. of whom
i'zo4'4ll were boys and 4S5, ,767 girls.
Ihose of foreign birth aggregated
9,So1, ,Ss9, or one-fifth of the total mum
per OF galnful workers, and the immi
grafton of twenty years has not in
creased the proportion of the foreign
porn IN the working population of the
y country. Ihose of foreign parentage
aggregate 11,166,361, or over SO per
cent, almost equally divided between
lnlfnl grants and children of immi-
grants. Manufacturing, trade, trans
poFtatlon and the professions show an
increasing number of workers of each
sex, While the agricultural class rep
resents diminishing proportion.
All the statistics given are for con-
tlnental United States, which excludes
Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the
lnlltary m and naval stations abroad.
Inc aggregate increased over "a per
cent since 1890, during which decade
the total population increased almost
Il per cent. The proportion of those
galnfully employed to the total popu-
latlon increased almost per cent. AL
most 40 per cent of the men EMPLOYED
We're in agricultural pursuits. "a per
cent IN manufacturing and mechanical.
IL per cent in trade and Transportation
almost 15 per cent in domestic and
personal service and 3H per cent in
professional service.
About 40 per cent of the females en-
pioyed We're in domestic or personal
service, 25 per cent in manufacturing
and mechanics, Is per cent in agri-
culture, per cent in trade and trans
portatlon and 8 per cent in profess
slons. The percentage of female
workers is especially high wherever the
negro element is prominent. Of the
men DO per cent of the single. "a per
cent of the married, II per cent of the
widowed and SO per cent of the di-
Vorced were employed, while among
the women 81 per cent of the single. s
per cent of the married, 32 per cent of
the widowed and 55 per cent of the di-
Vorced were employed.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-13
NOTHING BUT BOLIVARS
CAN SOOTHE CASTRO
He Makes Heavy Demand Upon an
Asphalt Company

WASHINGTON, July 12.-President
castro of Venezuela has demanded So
100000 bolivars from the New York (S
Bermudez Asphalt Company, and has
given notice through one of his cabinet
ministers of his intention to proceed le-
gally before the Venezuelan courts to
secure the money The president bases
his claim on the allegation that the
asphalt company gave material aid to
the late revolutionary movement, and
especially TO Gen. Mateos, whereby the
Castro government was put to the me-
cessfty of expending the sum of money
named to suppress the rebellion.
The suit is the elimination of a long
series of litigations growing out of the
claim of a rival concern-the Warner
Quinlan syndicate-to part of the as
phalt lake, at Felicidad. Last winter
the supreme court of Venezuela gave
judgment in favor of the New York
company. The suit for damages which
Gen. Castro is now about to institute is
said to be the outcome of the failure
of the proceedings before the supreme
court
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-13
Britons Are DiIatory

WASHINGTON, D. c., July IL
Owing to the procrastination of Great
Britain, the American members of the
international commission to investi-
gate conditions and uses of the wa
ters adjacent to the boundary lines be-
tween the United States and Canada
have been unable to begin their dl-
ties. The work of the international
commission will cover very wide
field, embracing the question of the
effect of the raising of the level of
the lakes by the construction of dams.
The American members are Col. O. Fl.
Ernst. corps of engineers; Prof. Gard
ner. S. Williams, of Cornell university,
and Judge George Clinton, OF Buffalo.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-13
TODAY'S WEATHER

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 12.-Fore-
cast:
Minnesota-Warmer Wednesday, show
ers in east, fair in west Thursday show
eTs, cooler, fresh southeast winds, in
creasing.
Wisconsin-Fair and warmer Wednes-
day; Thursday warmer. with showers in
west portion; fresh southwest winds.
Upper Michigan-Fair, warmer We'd
nesday; Thursday fair in east; showers
and cooler in west portion; light variable
winds, becoming fresh east to south.
Iowa-Fair, warmer Wednesday; show
ers in west. fair in east; Thursday, show
ers and cooler; fresh southeast winds, in
creasing.
North and South Dakota-Showers
cooler Wednesday; Thursday fair, warmer
in west portion.
Montana Showers Wednesday, cooler
in east portion; Thursday fair, warmer.
st. Paul Yesterdays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, w E. Oliver, observer, for
the twentyfour hours ended at O'Clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tempera-
ture so; lowest temperature, SO; average
temperature, 70; daily range, 10: barem-
eter, 29.S humidity .63; precipitation. 0;
Z p. m temperature, rs; p. m. wind,
north; weather. clear.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-13
BALKS THE VATICAN
Premier Forblds Prelates to
Obey Order From Rome

PARIS, July 12.-The Matin today
says that eight days after the recall
of M. Nisard, former French ambassa-
dor at the Vatican, a number of
French bishops received an order from
Cardinal Vannutelli, acting for the
Vatican. to tender their designations
by return mail. The bishops, it is
added, consulted the minister of public
worship and Premier Combes, who di-
rected them not to tender their resig-
nations on the ground that the con-
cordat required the assent of the state
before removals were enforced. There
after the papal secretary of state,
Cardinal Merry Del Val, threatened
the bishops with the termination of
came to Rome within fifteen days.
This also was submitted to NJ Combes.
who forbade the bishops leaving their
posts. The paper asserts that the dis
missal of the bishops without consult
ing the governments wishes will be
considered as a formal remuneration Of
the relations between church and
state.
Bishop Geay, of Laval, was asked to
forward his resignation Bishop Nor
dez, of Dijon, was directed to suspend
the performance of his episcopal func-
tions, ana four archbishops and two
bishops were ordered to Rome, namely
Archbishops F7uzet, of Rouen; Mignot,
of Albi Sueur of Avignon and Oury,
of Algiers, and Bishop La CroiX, of
Tarentaise and Boquet, of Mende. In
each case the orders were not carried
out. owing to the intervention of the
minister of public worship. The cab
met has also formulated a protest
which will be forwarded to the Yati-
can against the effort to remove bish-
ops without reference to the govern
ment's rights under the concordat. An
answer has been received in the case
of Bishop Geay that it was a disci-
pIinary measure not intended to test
the states right under the concordat.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-13
ALL IN LINE

There could be no happier augury
of Democratic success than the testi-
monials of satisfaction and the prom
ises of enthusiastic support of Judge
Parker that come from every quarter
of the country. Business men in the
East are solidly behind him. His char
acter is such that he can be depended
upon to administer the great office for
solute impartiality and with an eye
single to the nations welfare There is
no man, save him who has an itching
palm or hopes to thrust a thieving
finger into the public treasury, who
fears the elevation Of Judge Parker to
the presidency.
On another side it may as well be
admitted that there is almost equal
satisfaction. Senator Tillman voices
best of all the sentiments of the radical
element of the party. They feel an
actual relief at the final disappearance
VI dH iSSQS " WHICH, ltSy were
in honor to give the support of their
votes, but which they themselves have
admitted for long time past was
without the range of practical affairs.
1t was unreasonable to ask those who
had fought for free silver for years
past to renounce their faith publicly.
This they would not, out of regard for
their own consistency, have done. Yet
they as intelligent people knew, as
everybody knew, that the issue itself
was dead The world had moved on
| beyond it; and, whether rightly or
wrongly, it had been settled for all time
to come. No conceivable possibility
could ever again bring the battle of the
standards to the front in the United
States.
This being admittedly the case, the
best men on both sides were almost
equally anxious to get away from dead
issues. Senator Tillman has always
been regarded as one of the most rabid
of the radical leaders. He is an ardent
and passionate man, unbridled in
thought and speech. Yet Senator Till
man was one of the strongest powers
for harmony in the convention He
helped adjust the sensible compromise
agreed upon; he insisted upon taking
Judge Parker at his word and accept
ing his telegram; and now he says,
with that honesty which outweighs so
many faults, that he is glad that the
! party premises are swept clear of dead
timber and i5S face set toward the liv-
ing future.
Harmony thus reached will be real
and lasting. Nobody is Inundated;
| nobody is asked to make a recantation;
but the Democracy of the country has
agreed to quit squabbling over issues
| as dead as the Caesars, and take up
the work of reform and defense of the
republic created for it by corrupt and
reckless political party and a usurping
| executive. That is Democracy's mis-
sion. To discharge it Democrats are
standing shoulder to shoulder all along
| the line.