Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-21

was an angel with whiskers, looks
like a personal thrust at DR.. Park
hurst and DR.. Dowie.
The Mutual Life has paid Presi-
dent McCurdy and members of bis
family something over $4,000, 900 in
salaries and commissions. One pur.
pose of the investigation seems tC
be to show that Violet" Jimmy
Hyde was a mere ''piker" at the in.
surance game.
Some men are born rich, some
achieve riches, and some get ious
under their fathers in the life in.
surance Office.
Some day, let us hope, the college
will produce a graduate who is a
happy compromise between the
football player who is all Drawn
and the physical wreck who is all
brain.
Count Witte will probably &c
down in history as the man who
saved the Russian bear from being
skinned. after it had been licked to
standstill.
Mr.. Thos. Ryan of N. Y. has en-.
gagged private chaplain. AS Mr..
Ryan has been dabbling in life in
surance syndicates, the private
chaplain has a big job cut out for
him.
Young Leonard who secure d
$4,000 worth of securities from a
N. Y. band by working bluff,
ought to try and get this case before
a jury composed of dummy direc-
tors of life insurance companies.
M. Witte has one cause for con-
graduation. He is barred bv both
birth and brains from being made
Russian grand duke.
Russia threatens to abolish the
Finnish constitution and establish
martial law in Finland. If reports
are true, the Firms will have diff
Guilty in noticing any difference.
''The only trouble now to be
feared, is that before long money
will be too plentiful" saws a N. Y.
report. The public will refuse to be
scared.
1t is formally announced that
"Great Britain has no intention of
making an aggressive movement in
Central Asia" Certainly not. Brit
ain always leaves the work of max
ing aggressive movements to he1
a lies.
One insurance company has been
paying an agent $3.50 year to
keep quiet. That seems more like
a punishment than a reward.
AS he went down the chute Mr..
Ramsey Of the Wabash railroad,
did not even have time ito explain
that he was resigning.
Beer and whisky are not the only
things for which Milwaukee" and
Peoria" are becoming respectively
famous just now.
While the British lion" and the
Russian bear" may lie down to-
gether, it is safe to say that each
will keep. one eye open.
On the surface Of things it appears
that to be son-in-law of the presi-
dent of a life insurance company is
a good-job to hold. =. ..., $500
Miss Brehm says that she has a
correct sense of the value" of
Grover Clevelands article, andleaves
it to be understood that said value
is just 80 cents.
That the beef trust should find
the various counts" in the indict-
ment unsatisfactory, is not so sur
prlsing. They were not prepared
especially to please.
With M. E. Ingalls, at the head of
a commission to examine into the
merits OF municipal ownership, we
should think that municipal owner
ship might be justified in calling
loudly" for help.
When man wants to change his
features so as to disguise himself
Instead of shaving off his mustache.
he should play a few games IN a
football team.
1t is hard to understand the fall
ing off in the population of Iowa.
since it is not in the Chicago auto