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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24
EVEN,

Knicker-"Does Jones gamble in stocks?' Bocker-"Not directly; he pays life insurance Brooklyn Life.
 T suppose you are going to Europe ' said one Chicago trust magnate."
 Whats the matter?' asked the oth- CT. 'Ts the grand jury looking me up?'' Washington Star.
 "Queerman is very odd, isn't he?''
 Odd? He's a regular crank. Why, the man actually makes practice of following the kind of advice he gives other people. Puck.
 Where did he catch his wife, any way?' "He didn't. She caught him. " "If that's the case, he caught a Tartar, eh?' Yes, and he's been catching it ever since. Philadelphia Press.
 Mother-Mabel is in love with that Jack Poorley. I do wish I knew of something to cure that love affair.
 Father-Well, there's one sure way. Let her marry yhim.-Philadelphia Pub lie Ledger
 Senator, do you think it is the nat ural bent of man to get married?"
 Well" replied Senator Badger. "I don't know about that part of it, but do know it produces such an effect af- terward. d."-Milwaukee Sentinel. \ Now would be a good time for a naval battle between Russia and Swift zerland.''
 "But Switzerland hasn't any navy"
 q know; that's why it would be a nice even thing g'-Houston Post.
 After all, the old saying There's a1- ways room at the top,' doesn't mean anything" Unless" replied the trav- cling man, 'it means that the lower berths in sleeper are usually taken before you get there. Philadelphia Ledger.
 The Kentuckian-'I never saw a man who thinks more of his wife than Majah Bluegrass"
 The New Yorker-"Loves her some, eh?"
 The Kentuckian-"S Simply worships her! You may believe me or not, but l know for a fact that he named his best horse after her!'-Puck.
 Esther-Wasn't Stella a perfect dear? Did she ever marry that wealthy lob- ster who made such an ass of himself over her?
 Hester-No. He turned lamb and him over and married a social lion, like a goose: they've a duck of kid though.-Brooklyn Life.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24
4 Song of Motherhood.

Sew. sew, sew! For there's many a Tent There's stitch to take and dress For where do her labors end? Sew, sew, sew. For sa rent in dress Then it's needle and thread and an
 aching head And see how the needle flies! Brush, brush. brush: For there's many And start 10 school with a slate and
 rule, With a breakfast to get between. Comb, comb, comb. In the minute she
 has tO spare, For what is so wild-unreconciled As the wastes of a youngsters hair? Sweep. sweep, sweep! Oh, follow the
 flashing broom, As with towel bound her forehead
 round She goes from room to room. Dust. dust dust! As down on her
 knees she kneels, For there's much to do in the hour or
 two Of interval 'twixt meals. Bake, bake, bake. For the cookie jar
 piled high
 But yesterday in some curious way Is empty again, o my. Stir, stir, stir, in roth Of yellow ana
 white,
 For well she knows how the story
 goes Of a small boys appetite. Scrub, scrub, scrub! For the floor that
 was spick and span, Alas alack. has a muddy track Where some thoughtless youngster ran Splash, splash, splash! For the dishes
 of thrice a day Are piled up high to wash and dry And put on their shelves away. Patch, patch. patch! And oh for a
 nantalOon
 That would not tear or rip or wear In tine course of an afternoon! Patch, patch, patch! And see how the
 needle flies, For mother knows how the fabric
 goes Where the seat of trouble lies. ToiI toll, toll! For when do her labors With a dress to make and cake to
 bake And dresses and hose to mend? Stew, stew, stew! Fret and worry and
 fuss.
 And who of us knows of the frets and woes In the days when she mothered us?
 J. w. Foley in New York Times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24
AUTOMOBILES HELP TO MAKE
 GOOD ROADS


 The crOwning glory of automobile touring, however, lies in the demand it has created, in all parts of the world where motor cares are being used for pleasure or business purposes for good roads. Here in America the good reads movement, within recent years, has become a question of national i'm portance. With the exception of few States, notably New Jersey, and Mas saehusetts, the subject of better roads were the last thought that gave the legislators the least particle of trouble. The Automobile Club of America, in its younger days expended a tremen- dous amount of argumentative energy In endeavoring to convince the law makers of New York that money ex- pended on good roads was a good busi- ness investment. Their appeals brought out a few thousand dollars. somewhat grudgingly given. Finally the generous sum of one hundred thousands dollars was appropriated, and at the forthcoming election constitu- tlonal amendment will be presented to the voters providing that the State may bond itself for five million dollars for ten years for the building of inn proved wagon roads.
 Agitation has been productive of sim- liar good results in 10th States. Gov. Dineen, of Illinois, gave a mark ed illustration of the growing demand for better reads in the West, when in his last message, he made a strong plea for the expenditure of more money and careful thought upon road build Ing. His statement that barely two per cent. of the Illinois roads were suitable for traffic at all periods of the year was no exaggeration and scores .of other States could show no higher average. Departments of Highways have been established in California. Idaho, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mis- souri. Oregon. Tennessee, North Caro- lima, Nebraska and in several of the Eastern States in which the good-roads movement has languished. Florida recently appropriated five hundred, thousand dollars for good roads, and 1t is confidently predicted that within a short time there will not be a State in the Union that will not manifest a just pride in the increasing mileage of Its serviceable roads good all the year round.-H. P. Burchell in the August Outing Magazine.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24
NOT WHOLLY CHEERING.

Rich as we all are, it is not entire- ly pleasing to read that diamonds are going to be higher. New York inn porters who buy rough goods from the London syndicate that controls the greater proportion of the worlds out put have been notified that an advance of per cent. has been made, effective at once, and affecting all grades and sizes of stones. It is also learned that the new Premier mine in the Transvaal, the only mine outside of the syndicates ownership which has been yielding stones in any considerable quantity, has been put out of business for time by g. mud rush which covered the works for 8 mile. Importers say that the syndicate wodld have advanced prices even if the Premier mine were not disabled. The public will feel the ad- vance about the time the holiday trade begins. There were last year four advances, each of 5 per cent, and there was an advance on January 1 of this year. Altogether there have been ad- vances in the rough goods aggregat- ing about 50 per cent. in four years, but some grades of stones have been put up even higher In addition the cost of stones to the cutter has been increased by requiring him to accept in each shipment certain amounts of inferior or yellow stones and large stones which do not cut to advantage.
 Well, never mind. Perhaps the per capita will increase too.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24
nLSrREssErL sPIIN.

Spain seemed to be growing more prosperous for awhile after We took her expensive colonies away from her, but now she is not comfortable. The dis tress in the southern part of the pen insula has become very acute, and famine is producing disorders threlten- ing the peace of the country. There was long continued drought last spring; and the lack of scientific irri- gatton, coupled with the antiquated az ricultural methods employed. has brought about acute misery. As the peasants in Andalusia are mostly ten ant farmers their distress produces i'll feeling against their landlords. Thus all the materials for a class war exist. and such a war is always bitter. Emi- grafton, too, has proved a drain upon the country. reducing the number of agricultural laborers and making it difficult to harvest the crops. There are large sections once cultivated by the Romans and the Moors which are now unproductive.
 Poor old Spain! Here's hoping that better times may soon be hers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24
BOUND TO BE ROBBED.

According to G. W. Ogden, who talks as if he knew, Kansas, in seeking to escape the Standard Oil octopus has fallen into the clutches of many small- CT devil-fish. The oil agitation in Kan sas has been the promoters opportuni- ty. The organization of refinery com- panies has become an industry. With an office desk, a pile of stationery, and enough money to pay preliminary ad- vertising, many "Wildcat' enterprises are soliciting subscriptions in the name of the States redemption. Five inde- pendent refineries are now in operation. Assisted by the laws enacted ostensibly for citizen protection, and relieved of competition by the temporary with drawal of the Standard, these are able to pay for crude and to charge for re- fined oil the price that created the hub bub. The gullible, lured on by tales of extraordinary profit, are investing in stock-j -jobbing concerns. One is said to have remittances from 1,500 dupes. As the hope of money-making is based on high prices to the oil consumers and low prices to the oil producers, both classes are asking sdisagreeable ques- tions-are cogitating as to whether it is not more advantageous, if thievery is to be continued, to be robbed by one large and, in a certain sense, responsi- ble robber than a host of little irrespon- sible ones.
 It used to be bleeding Kansas. Now it seems to be bled Kansas.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24
RELICS OF oLDEN DAYS.
Many Are To Be Found in Attics of
 New-England Farmhouses.

Many Are To Be Found in Attics of
 New-England Farmhouses.
 One has only to visit the oldtime at tics of New England farnhouses to re- ceive ocular proof of the fact that "the world do move" along the line of labor saving inventions and of articles of general utility. One here gets proof of the fact that customs change, and if proof were needed of the fact that Dame Fashion is a fickle creature such proof may here be found in abund- ance. If one would harl1 back to the past and find ones self in an atmos- phere reminiscent q days of long ago, one should visit an old New England attic in which the family heirlooms have been preserved throughout many generations. There are many such att tics still uninvaded by the eager searcher for genuine four poster bed- steads and "highboys" that bear the sure mark of real antiquity. There are attics in which these searchers would Ego wild" but not even this de- gree of eager enthusiasm and of long, ing could induce the owners of these ancient relics to part with a single one of them. Endeared and sacred by lifelong associations and by the touch of vanished hands, some of these re- lies are not to be purchased with any amount of money eager buyers may of- fer for them.
 What! Sell my own great-grand- mothers four poster bedstead, that was a part of her wedding setting out and that she slept on sixty years and that she died on? Why, my grand mother and my mother were both born on that bedstead, and so was I. Sell it? Well, guess I'll be a good deal poorer than I be at the present time before I sell it. That bedstead come to me by will, and it's going to my daugh- ter by will along with great-grand- mothers silver spoons"
 There are in the old attics of New England many articles of furniture that
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

4 GOOD CHANGE FOR SOME BOTS.
 Just now service in the United States navy is not as popular as it might be, or as perhaps it ought to be. It has it's advantages. Some of them are men, tioned by Lieutenant Henry B. Soule, who entered the service as an appren- tice at $9 a month and who rose from that position to be an officer He says that mo concern on shore offers more for the intelligence invested than does the navy to the average American boy" Lieutenant Soule puts is this way: As the law stands to-day, a boy can enter the service at seventeen years, reach warrant rank, with a salary of from $1,20O to $1,8OO'a year. by the time he is "A or 25 years of age, secure commission in the line three years later, and enjoy the rank of full lieu tenant at the age of 30. From then on his promotion Is just as rapid and he will just as surely reach the grade of rear admiral as any other officer of similar rank" He adds that there is no snobbishness in the navy, and that af- ter the enlisted man has reached the ward room he will be received just as cordially as though he were graduate of Annapolis.
 This is encouraging to those who would like to enlist in the navy if they thought they could get real good treat ment, and do as well as Lieutenant Soule has done.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

Lord Carew, the English nobleman' is a farmer of renown and owns a herd of Jerseys of rare strain and milk-giVing qualities. It is Lady Carew's delight to %. miIkmaid fashion in short skirts and low cut bodice, and fill bright tin nail with the creamy yield. She is an expert nilker and can put many of the dairymaids to blush in rapidity and in obtaining milk from the most fractious COW of the herd.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

most helpless on a farm or in Q kitch- en Of to-day, while a great. noisy. Odrif- er0us touring car of an automobile would no doubt cause some of them to feel that some of our modern methods of loc0m0ticn are open to criticism and some of our inventions are not unmix- ed biessings.-New York Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

It's queer how things look to some neople. The Conamoner (Bryan) ques' tions the quality of the prosperity of which the Republicans are boasting. "Go into any great. city or factory town at morning or evening, and you will find an army of girls with dinner basket in hand trudging to and from work. Is the country prosperous when the girls have to become breadwinners at an early age in order to piece out the fam ily incorne?"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
sssued ThuEsGays. One Dollar xsAs' ADVERTISING RATES

Situations. Wants, Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each insertion. Five Cents word Tor a full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch' one insertion. S1.aO; each subsequent inser- tion 40 cents: one week. SS.2Oi one
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

NO" said the actor, q can't say that the critics have ever said anything ! unkind about my acting; but to tell you the truth, it is somewhat monotonous Ito find myself continually included among the rest of the company who do not call for special mention ''- Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

MT. Wentworth, of the New FIamr- shire fish and game commission, says that nine times in ten the stories of damage done on the farms by law-pro- tected deer are bosh. He cites as an instance a recent complaint from the Greenfield region. The commission in- vestigated; deer had nibbled off a few beet tops, possibly 50 to 75 cents worth. Last year Vermont man offered to pay out of his own pocket for all actual damage done to crops in that state by the deer, and the offer cost him less than $75. As to another recent com plaint about the killing of edible fish in pond, Commissioner Wentworth says he knows all about it. Cold Pond, Andover, with it's shores, was bought by a club of citizens, "as true sports men as New Hampshire contains" |" They stocked the pond with brook trout. Some person or persons un- known slyly stocked the pond with pickerel. The ponds owners thereupon cleared out the pickerel with vitriol They had perfect right to- says the commissioner.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, g CENTS A WEEK. 50 GENTS A MONTH, ss FOR SIX MONTHS. ss a YEAR THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES. CENTa
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB- LIsHED IN CONNECTICUT.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

One of the proudest women in New york State is Mrs. Eva Maria Hahn of the town of Callicoon, Sullivan county, who has just become a great-great- grandmother. The great-great-grand- mother is S4 years old, the great-grand- mother 6s, the mother 22 Mrs Hahn has two sons and three daughters liv- Ing also twenty-one grandchildren, dren, twelve great at-grandchildren and one great -great-grandchild.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24
CLEARANCE s A L E 70 F Fishing Tackle

" LAST year our 'bargain
 4 sale" was a big success. IIIgNlII We closed out our tackle
 s and so were able to get in an entire new stock last Spring. We won't carry over any tackle if low prices will prevent it. On a large part of our stock we have cut the prices right in half although the goods are new and fresh and the fishing season not more than half over. .s
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

A grim story of Napoleon is told by Christian Waas in a Frankfort review under the title of Napoleon at Jaffa." A great number of the soldiers were down with the plague, and one day Bonaparte sent for his chief sur geon, Larrey. "If were you" he said to him, 1T should put our plague pa tients out of their misery: it would save them from having recourse to opium to soothe them" ''But my duty is to make them live" replied Larry. Bonaparte then revealed the grim truth. He and his staff were reduced to travelling on foot because the horses were all being used for the transporta- tion of the sick. He must, therefore either abandon the plague-stricken to the cruelty of the enemy or get rid of them. MT. Waas maintains that the order was carried out accordingly There is an end, observes the Journal des Debats," to the illusion of the fam ous picture in the Louvre of Bona parte Visiting the Plague-Stricken Soldiers at Jaffa.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-24

It is reported that Hungarian chem- ist named Brunn has discovered a SUD- stance called zorene, which renders cer- tain kinds of matter practically inde- strrctible. It is liquid chemical com- pound, and doubles the density of near " every kind of stone and makes it waterproof, if11barts to metals qualities which defy oxygen and rust, and is the most powerful germicide known. He made the discovery through studying specimens of mortar, taken from ruins in Greece, which were 2,OO0 years old, but were as hard, fresh and tenacious as if they had been made but year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-14
AMONG The LEAD AND ZINC MINES.

for the new mill and iigs are all in,
and carpenters started to work on
the frames Monday. Ore is looking
better in both the east and west
end. Considerable stock has changed
hands a 81. SO share.
The Johns Mining company
shipped sixty-fve tons of sulphur
last week. They are still getting
some jack, and will install the air
compressor in a short time.
Workmen in the Eclipse have dis
covered a pitch carrying some ex-
cellent ore, that promises if followed
to lead to larger deposit far be-
low present workings in the up
raise.
The amount of ore which has
been discovered in the Baxter mine
can only be comprehended when one
is reminded of the fact that nothing
but ore is taken from the shaft.
They have actually been forced to
go to quarry to get sufficient rock
to build foundation for their
mill. A leading miner of this town
reports the Baxter mine as a
wonder. They have breast Of dis
seminated ore 125 feet wide by 30
feet high which runs back indie
finitely.
G. w. Arson has agreed to find a
purchaser of the Eberle mine for
$21, 900 and desires a 6-months'
option on the property at this figure.
Stock holders are apparently will
ing as they are signing the contract
without any great amount Of solicit
alton.
Work on the Wicklow mill is
nearing completion. The buildings
are finished and the jigs and ma
chinery are being put into place.
The company expect the mill in
operation by Nov. LIST. Every foot
of ground opened shows better and
richer ore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-14

Unum," thirteen letters in the word
quarter dollar" thirteen stripes on
the shield, and on the front of the
silver piece thirteen stars surround
ing the liberty head and thirteen
leaves IN liberty's crown. This
array of thirteen is in commemora-
ton of the original thirteen states
which comprised the union.
Next Thursday morning at
eleven o'clock the Madison district
of the United Norwegian Lutheran
church will hold its semi-annual
meeting at the Blue River church.
It will close Sunday with so year
anniversary celebration for both
the Blue River and the Hickory
Grove congregations. Rev. j. A.
Bergh of Beloit, the president of the
district, will preside and many
other notable divines of the church
will be in attendance and take part.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-14
Wyoming.

At the opera house on Thursday
night, 10Th inst, will appear for the
first time here the r. E. Magnus
players in their most recent sue
cess "Wyom1ng," breezy comedy
drama of the west play somewhat
on the same lines as Arizona.
No company of a higher standing
in the theatrical world has ever be-
fore played here, and the engage
ment will therefore be an event.
The management states that since
the organization Of this famous
company five years ago, the small
est town it has appeared in was
Woodstock, ILL.,, where the old
English morality play "Everyman''
was presented at a guarantee, en-
gagement, to an audience that
packed the house. Their tour last
season included "A performances in
Chicago, a week or three nights
each in st. Louis, Kansas City,
Omaha, Louisville, Nashville, At
lanta and all the other large cities
in the middle west and south.
The manager Of the Magnus play
ers is this season ''bucking" the
theatrical trust, and sooner than
play syndicate houses in the large
cities is trying the experiment of
playing the independent theatres in
the smaller cities.
The entire scenic equipment which
the company carries will add to the
of the engagement.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-14
OLD TIMERS DEAD.
Death Angel Removes Land Marks
from Earth.

Two aged settlers of this locality
passed away this week on the same
day.
Richard E. Reynolds, the oldest
resident of Lancaster, died at the
county home Tuesday night at the
ripe age of 95 years. Deceased was
a native of New York and was born
Sept. Is, 1910. He came to Wiscon-
sin when II years of age and land
ed at Potosi. After mining for a
long term of years he was a farmer
on Boice creek, moving to Lancas-
ter several years ago. His wife died
a year ago. Four children were
born to them, but none are now
alive. Funeral services were held
at his late residence in the first
ward Thursday, Rev. Morgans Of
floating.