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Warren sheaf., 1905-09-07
Brainy Brute.

Brainy Brute.
An intelligent elephant is attracting
attention in New York. The animal not
only bowls, but, with . piece Of chalk,
keeps record Of the number Of pins ii
knocks down.
Warren sheaf., 1905-09-07

Press
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01

gard Of every pledge that was made to
the European powers at the time the
Kongo government was first establish
ed. This is precisely the source of
these complaints Of traders and mis-
sionaries that come to us from the
Kongo. It is the meaning of the inter-
national movement now on foot to COM
pei fulfllment Of these earlier pledges.
In international affairs it is not JUS
tice but "the accomplished fact"-not
what should be but what is-to which
we invariably bow. In the relations
of the great powers we seem to have
AS yet little more than the mere play
Of natural forces. But sooner or later
the civilized world must unite in set
ting limit to the ruthless exploitation
of native peoples that is now going on
over the whole earth. Economical in
terests demand it, and nothing but in
ternational jealousies and the lack of
an informed international opinion can
prevent it. Why should the powers not
make a beginning here in what at in
ception was called IAN international
colony the Kongo Free State?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
Back to the Farm.

- important change is quietly but irresistiby
| coming about in the Industrial situation in this
I I try. For years the tendency of ambitious young
Amen has been from the farms to the cities lured by
the higher wages and greater opportunities. The steady
migration has resulted in decided effect both upon the
city wages and upon the value Of farm products Wages
standstill; products steadily rising in
value. There is labor congestion in the cities and
growing inability the part of the farmers to meet the
ever-ncreasing demands for their products
The American Agriculturist has prepared compare
tive table of farm values acreage production and selling
prices of the staple crops series of years The three
years taken for special comparison 1904 1901 and
1885, 1901 is taken average year. 1896 low year
and 1904 the prosperous year that American agr
culture has known
The total the of the staple crops ST.
S200000O0 in 1885, 81 00O000 in 1901 and So 27S O0O
coo in 1904 Thus the total value Of the last crops
is almost double that Of the 1896 yield increase in value
out Of all proportion the increase in production Apples
the only crop which less in quantity than in 1885,
but hay rye, wheat aud f1axseed produced in
almost the amount The only large increase in pro-
ducton is in cotton where the crop almost half larger
than in 1896 Potatoes and show Increase but
much. In except cotton and barley has the
crease in production at all Appropriated the increase
population The increase In farm values has not
from increased production increased demand and
consequent higher prices. The comparison of bushe
values makes this marked Corn selling for twice
what did in 1885, wheat for onethd more potatoes
two-thrds more, hay for third
The remarkable conclusion this crop compilation
that in ten there has been hardly any appreciate
crease in the quantity Of staple produced except
cotton Even in such products of less total value onions
year is almost exactly the the production ten
years The meaning Of all this Is that laws above
human control bound to turn the tide of migration
from the cities to the farms-Indanapolis Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01

=" HERE is well-founded theory among crminoogists
that there was never habitual criminal per-
sistent law-breaker who did not have deep-rooted
and positive antipathy for any and every kind of
work They have reversed the old notion that deness
the main of criminal state mind and they will
advance many strong arguments to prove that
something potential for evil the individual who
has constitutional ambition to loaf
1t has been shown In carefully made statistics Of
and criminals that if all of the and women who de-
vote year to the dishonest acquisition money spent
the period working such honest pursuits as they
might be fitted for they would have acquired aggre
gate sum nearly double the total of their populations
This argue that easy times rather than easy
money was the ultimate purpose in view.
Nor is the vice Of ideness confined wholly to the dis
honest A little reflection will convince that in many
other instances Incidence is the rather means
Of sin and that many and their worst
and most frequent ransgessons deliberate purpose
OF experiencing the sodden joys of doing nothing.
The mental and physical torpor which follows
OF cocaine morphine opium and other drugs by
many Psychologists the very ecstasy Incidence and
in this is apparent that Incidence the object and
not the means of transgression.
The gutton feeds himself into a state of semtorpor
which he has come to regard delightful the drunkard
does the same nor is it necessary dozens
OF other vices practced for the seeming purpose achev
ing dleness-Chcago Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01

People who are familiar with mountain
scenery are aware that the greatness Of
mountain appears to Increase as the
| spectator recedes from it and that q
mountain appears greatest when seen
from the SUBMITS of surrounding noun
tains. So it is with the greatness Of
George Washington, who to thoughtful
people appears greater and greater with
every returning anniversary of his birth
day, and greatest Of all when compared
with the other great men of this and
other countries.
Just as the traveller may for a mo-
ment fix his eye on the ground in front
of him instead of the towering mountain
in the distance, so the American Of to-
day, immersed in business, politics or
pleasure, may forget for a time that
Washington ever lived. Yet when his at
tention is aroused and he turns his gaze
again on the father Of his country he
finds him greater than when he took his
last look, and if then he compares him
with the other great men, either of the
Revolutionary period or Of the present
time, he realizes that Washington is CO.
lossal.
Washington's birthday ought to be cell
ebrated as long at least as the American
constitution endures. AS there is much
to distract the mind in a city like this,
too much praise cannot be given to the
Union League Club and the Marquette
Club for calling a halt in our CONNER
cialism and arranging for patriotic cele-
brations of Washington's birthday. Woe
be to this country if ever in its conceit
1t turns it's back OH Washington and
fancies that it has passed him. When
Washington's character and example no
longer charm Americans it will be sign
that free institutions are in the sere and
yellow leaf. The point Of view in this
country from which Washington looms
up most grandly is the White House.
1t Is when he is compared with the great
men who have dwelt there that his tower
Ing patriotism and inspired statesman
ship are seen to the best advantage
Chicago Chronicle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01

trump, and here's proof of 1t. Hold
out your hands. Hold fast all I give
you,'" and Joe poured the contents Of
his mitten into Ralph's waiting hands,
while their owner looked on in aston
ishment.
"Why, WHAT" he began.
"Oh, it's all right. You're no sneak,
we found that OUT" Joe called out as he
backed down the steps, and not waiting
for reply, was out Of sight in no time.
"Whe-ew" whistled Ralph, as he be-
gan to understand, and his spirits rose
rapidly as he made his way back to the
sitting room.
"Well, I neverr' he exclaimed as a
rapid count showed him to be 65 cents
richer than he thought
II believe it paid that time If it was
hard pill to swallow, and know feel
good deal better inside, at any rate.
1t was awful good Of the fellows any
way" he said aloud, and hurried away
to find mother, who had sympathized in
his misfortune and was just as ready to
rejoice in his good fortune as she said:
ct pays to be honest and true, my boy,
even though it is not always as prompt
ly appreciated as this time. Think how
mean you would feel tonight il you had
simply kept still; you need not have said
word and yet your conscience would
have made you very unhappy, I am
sure. Union Signal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
Growing Use OF SpectacIes.

"Spectacles, said an ophthalmolo-
gist, according to the Philadelphia
Record, "are as old as wagons, I sup
pose, or as clothes. Wasn't pair
found recently in a mummy case that.
dated back to something like 300 years
before Christ? But the spectacles Of
the ancients were merely magnifying
glasses, and the modern sorts-the
prismatic, the spherical, the concave,
the convex and the cylindrical, which
correct double vision, refraction, my
opia, hyper-metropia, astigmatism, etc.
are comparatively modern inven-
lions. They are made Of rock crystal,
and they have done more good than
anything else in modern medicine, ex-
cept, perhaps, anesthetics. Medical
records show that there is now 40 per
cent less of blindness than there used
to be in the world, and this improve
ment is due entirely to the use of spec
tacles, which have kept weak eyes from
succumbing, as braces keep weak limbs
from succumbing. There is also much
less Of headache than there was. A
great deal of that came, you know,
from the eyes, and that sort of head
ache spectacles have banished en-
tirely"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
ROYAL RUBBER MERCHANT.
King of Belgium Owns Territory Rich
in Product.

King of Belgium Owns Territory Rich
in Product.
The King of Belgium to-day, accord
ing to the statement of NJ. Wander
velde, socialist leader in the Belgian
parliament, is the greatest rubber mer-
chant in the world, says the Boston
Transcript. The story Of how the king
gained that proud position is the story
Of how he made himself absolute mas
ter Of 100000 Of people and 1,O0O,-
600 square miles Of the richest terri
tory in the world. Quite as marvellous
in it's way as Stanley's discovery Of
the great Kongo basin is the story of
King Leopold's conquest Of central At
rica-more marvellous in some respects,
since the king has accomplished this
great enterprise by the mere strategy
Of diplomat without ever setting foot
upon the soil of Africa.
Stanley dreamed of founding a great
international state in the center Of At
RIGA, but it never occurred to him to set
up kingdom Of his own there, and
make himself absolute monarch Of the
whole vast region to which his dis
coveries would seem to have made him,
If any one, the natural heir Stanley
knew the wealth Of the Kongo, and
saw there great future for the enter
prise and trade of European nations,
but it never occurred to him to treat
40 oc,f
habitants as his personal property, con-
verting the country into a plantation,
and making the natives serfs.
This has been the special mission of
the royal rubber merchant of Belgium
and he has accomplished it by the sim
plest possible Of political devices. By
the decree Of 1885 he dispossessed the
natives Of all the land except the lit
tie strips Of titled soil about the vii
lagos, making it in theory as it has
since become in practice, a crime for
natives to gather rubber or ivory in
the forests and for the traders to buy
1t OF them. AS it was by playing off
the powers one against another that
the king obtained his first foothold in
central Africa, SO it has been by pit
ting the savage tribes Of the interior
against each other, arming one tribe
and employing it as a policeman for
the others, that he has been able with
a handful Of white men to subjugate
the country, establish state slavery and
enforce the rubber tax.
True, this has only been accomplish
ed with terrible destruction Of tho ma
tive peoples and with a cynical disre-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
BpLEMDlD TO LIVE SO GRANDLY.

"Tls spaendid to live so grandly
That, long after you are gone,
YA1 things you did are remembered,
And Teeounted under the sun;
To 1--we 80 brayely and purely,
That @ nation stops on It's way,
An0 once q year. with banner and drum,
Keep the thoughts Of your natal day.
>Tls splendid to have a record,
So white and free from stain
Tint. held TO the light, 1t shows no blot,
Though tested and tried again;
That oge to age forever
Repeats Its story Of love,
And year birthday lives In nations heart
Asl other days above.
Ana thfs Is Washington's glory,
A ssea1fast soul and true,
Wa9 stood for his country's honor
When his c0untry's days were few.
And now yThen Its days are many,
And Its nag Of stars are flung
TO the breeze In defiant challenge,
Ma name Is on every tongue.
Yes, AKA splendid to live so bravely,
To Do SO great and strong,
That yo1r memory Is ever a tocsin
40 rally the foes Of the wrong;
TO 1--we so proudly and purely
That your people pause In their way,
And year by year, with banner and drum,
Keep the thoughts Of your natal day.
Margaret e. Sangster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
Churches and Theasers.

- VERY little while preacher deplores what he
ia believes to be the fact that the theaers are more
successful in securing audiences than the church Is
- it true? 1t be doubted if in any given city
persons attend the heaer than go to the churches
all things considered may be said that the sue
coed better than the theaters
The theater has these advantages: 1t changes its
actors and it's performances frequently It Is always pre-
senng something The church has same message
and the in the pulpit from Sunday to Sunday
And yet the churches filed In another important ea
ture the theaer has advantage 1t adverses thorough
~ and successfully large percentage Of its earnings go
into modern advertising Seldom does the church spend
dollar for advertising; it does spend little money
1t is njudiciously spent
And yet the church draws. There must be a reason
There is reason The church ministers great human
need It appeals to what is highest and best in life
great vacuum requires to be filed great longing clam
ors to be satisfied. Men and realize that they are
beings and that to cultivate body and mind alone
IS only twothrds Of culture The whose spiritual life
Is arophed may not feel this but the normal man does
This is the churchs opportunity and the reason for its
existence.
The church makes mistake when it fails TO advertise
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01

fourth generation" Pedigree in hui
manity, as in the lower animals, is a
vital factor. Thus a family or a ma
ton will certainly progress or degen-
crate as the issue of heredity. 1T
needs but to repress the numbers of
the better and higher and to multiply
the numbers Of the lower and less fit
for two or three generations to make
national degeneration terribly real.
Prof. Pearson's tabular results showed
the universally Of the laws of Inherit.
ance, not only in animals like horses
and dogs, but in lowly insects, and
even in plants.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
Milwaukee Journal.
DOdged the Blow.

Bishop Henry G. Potter tells story
of a clergyman out West who address
ed a Sunday school class. After a
short discourse he wound up by say
ing in very paternal and condescend-
ing way:
And now Is there a-a-n-y little boy
or a-a-n-y little girl who would like to
ask question:"
Getting no response, he repeated his
query, and then a shrill, piping little
voice, in the rear Of the room, called
out:
please, sir, why did the angels
walk up and down Jacobs ladder
when they had wings?'
"Ah-yes-I see," said the non
plussed preacher. "And now, is there
a-a-n-y little boy or girl who would
like to answer little Mary's question ?"
Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
LAWS OF HSREDITY.
"Three Generations to Make a Gentle
man, Is Fact, Not Fancy.

"Three Generations to Make a Gentle
man." Is Fact, Not Fancy.
Prof. Karl Pearson, F. r. S.. who
has taken leading part in founding
the doctrine of evolution on a statisti-
cal basis, explained to a deeply inter
ested audience at the Royal Institu-
ton some Of the results which have
been arrived at. Two of these are Of
special Importance, says the London
Telegraph. 1t is shown by examina-
ton of large numbers Of persons that
mental and moral as we'll as physical
qualities are inherited, and to the same
extent Taking school children and ex-
aiming them minutely with respect to
curliness and color Of the hair, length,
breadth and height of the head, color
Of the eyes, the cephalic index, and
health. on the one hand; and, on the
other, testing them for intelligence,
viyacity, conscientiousness, popularity,
temper, self-consciousness shyness and
handwriting, the degree Of Inheritance
in the two categories came numerically
as close as 521 to 522. Secondly. it is
proved that two Of three generations
will suffice to create Il new stock. Sta
tistics of large numbers show that
there Is more than is often supposed in
the saying, 1T takes three generations
to make a gentleman" and in the ex-
preston, Visiting the sins Of the faith
ers upon the children to the third and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
1 MODERN george Washington
BY M. LOUISE FORD.


4 z was fine snow-balling, and the Glen
wood school boys made the most Of it.
4 Tfhs drifts in the school yard were
deeper than they had ever been known
10 be. and two wonderful snow forts very
soDn put in appearance at either end of
sAs school yard.
"COpne on, let's have battle!' was the
%xy AS school dismissed. The boys flock
sa out at o'clock, and the opposing
4Dzeeg were soon piling up ammunition
wsaM a speed that would have delighted
Azr. Holt, the principal, If it had been
lessons they were attacking so vigorously.
He booked on good-nat uredly as he pass
"a through the yard on his way home,
sayang:
'4Keep at this end of the yard, boys,
sana hook out for the windows
AYES. sir" was the chorus, and with
a fair Geld and no favors the boys
"HSsaeAe0 In" to each other.
The hard balls flew back and forth
AnsA merry shouts, and more than one
asrxIsSeil head had to be nursed for few
sRDments, but who ever knew a boy to
sseaBs snowballing because he was hit?
The excitement ran high, and the fun
wA8 Increasing, when a sudden crash
startled them all, and In dismay they
discovered broken window In the front
~ &Ae school house.
"Aygho did IT'D" questioned several at
Dnce.
WYE were all plugging the other way;
ws couldn't have done it." said one.
NNo1 we," said another, on the oppo-
site Bide These don't bounce like a
Na2i."
Only one boy knew just how 1t hap
speae0. He had seen a good chance for
q side shot, and, without thinking, had
aazn1dl straight towards the school house,
Rasssi0g his mark, of course, with this
Sfnxk2sng result.
III ne kept still no one would know,
aaa they would all "chip In" and pay
asr q. For minute there was a strug-
wse, bat Ralph Noble was true to his
Maxne.
az did It," he called out bravely. "It's
a2 nay fault. was trying to hit Joe
wsah n side shot," and he laughed to
Alf2D his discontinue.
ADThAt's too bad" rejoined one, sympa-
sAsafeally, and then the game began
agA2H- ''aa Ss@
Bot the fun was spoiled for Ralph
ana no soon went home, saying to him
ssaxs "Well, couldn't act a lie anyhow
Ans there goes rs cents out Of my new
Aaka, I s'poss. Catch me snowballine
agalGs" Ns@ =
''Easay, fellers," called out Joe War
gsa, rs Ralph turned the corner, Ralph
HSbsS's no shirk. He could have got out
@G aAAt easy. Let's chip in and help pay
3Dg A."
AAE right, beer goes" And the pen.
naes and 'nickels began to drop into Joe'a
sap Rs the boys dived in their pockets
40 ssRd them. Some Of the boys were not
sRreeSsgul in their search, but the result
wRs quite a little sum, 05 cents, which
JSs volunteered to leave at Ralph's door
ON his way home.
When the bell rang Ralph answered II
I'm rot very. happy frame of mind
Esysniy-iiye cents was good deal fol-
Aka to lose, and he felt pretty sore
over *.
-4Issso, old fellow, we all think you're
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
HOW SECRETS ARE LEARNED.
Institution of Which All Governments
Make Use.

Make Use.
Although all the governments DENY
1t, there is not a government under
which a cabinet noir does not exist
and has not existed since letters were
written, writes Vance Thompson in
Success. At Washington, as at Berlin
and London, no correspondence of i'm
portance escapes this administrative
inquisition. In spite Of all denials,
every government maintains a dark
chamber in which letters are opened
and read before being sent on to their
destinations. In the turmoil prelimi-
nary to the Spanish-American war a
secretary Of the Spanish legation at
Washington discovered this to his
cost. Without the cabinet noir the &C.
cret police could hardly exist. Through
it the chiefs are enabled to spy upon
their agents, who are recruited in all
ranks Of society, and paid in proper
ton to their standing and services. 1t
Is, however, in politics and diplomacy
that the cabinet noir works most ac-
lively. Often it is Of supreme import
ance for nation to know the instruc-
tons sent to this ambassador or that
and the contents of his dispatches. OF
course these communications are in
cipher, but for the cabinet noir there
are no cryptographic mysteries. Even
cipher can be read. Documents of very
10 q 20 hxvI i'll =
ic couriers and kings messengers"
but this is exceptional. In the papers
which have thus been stolen, read,
copied and preserved in the secret
archives of the various States lies the
real history that some day will be
written. Buneau-Varilla' letters, filed
away in the cabinets noir of Paris and
Washington, will some day shed
knocking light on the recent occur
rences at Panama and many another
historic event will take on an unex-
pected color.
Never, perhaps, did the cabinet noir
work more diligently than a few years
ago, when all the great powers inter-
vened in the affairs of Crete. Many
and diverse interests were at stake.
England, France and Italy, though os-
tensibly working together 10 redeem
Crete from Ottoman misrule,' were
suspicious and distrustful allies; Rus
sia, as usual, was in doubt and ignor-
ance; Germany was for the Sultan.
and so, while the ships of all nations
lay off the Cretan shore, the real bat
tie was fought by innumerable agents
and spies in the dark underworld of
politics. Insurgents were bribed, first
ON one side and then on the other;
spies were outplayed by subtler spies;
ally betrayed ally. That out Of this
coil freedom came to Crete was due
to the dOggedness of one man-that
stout, French sailorman, Admiral Pot
tier-to him and an efficient, cabinet
nOir. Against him We're the two most
autOcratic rulers in the world Of to-
day-the theatrical German Kaiser
and the dark and bilious little man
who from the heights Of Yeldiz glooms
over the Ottman world-William H.
and Abdul Hamid Khan 1.-THE
strangest pair Of friends that one can
imagine. Nor could any one have
fOreseen their defeat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

1t has the best thing in the world The demand is already
created There be substitution 1t has a monop-
oily Therefore should advertise The church
mistake when it permits its ministers whine
church attendance and call attention to the ths
theater and other worldly entertainments. You
catch a theater manager deploring small house. He
whnes in public He talks big houses And works
for them. And gets them.
The church is doing very well. Indeed when
sders its methods it does surprisingly we'll If with its ire
mendous advantage would adapt itself somewhat to the
plane of the age achieve greatest success
ever known-Kansas City World
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01
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Russians and GamhIin

The gambling propensities of the
Russians are indicated in the fact that
more than $1,50O,000 Is spent i'll Rus
STA for playing cards. The Tsaritsa
Maria charitable institutions have q
monopoly of the manufacture, and
they make large profit, as the pro-
duction costs only about $250,00O.