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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-09-29

The state Of Minnesota has paid out
100000 in wolf bounties during a
period of thirty-six years, but in spite
Of this effort on the part Of the author
tiles to protect the live stock interests
of the state the number of wolves seem
to be increasing rather than diminish
ing. The conviction is growing that, in
stead Of serving as an incentive to ex-
terminate the pests, the bounty is look
ed upon as a graft for lot of shiftless
woodsmen and hunters, who so manip-
ulate matters as to have a steady
source of income from the business
1t is thought that if the bounty were
removed entirely those suffering the
most from the inroads Of the animals
would undertake the destruction Of the
brutes without any bounty incentive.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-09-29

"They got married and went away in
their new motor car
ooh! Where did they spend their
honeymoon? ~
"In the hospitaly'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-09-29

The department of agriculture annu-
ally spends $11,000,000 to carry on it's
far reaching and useful work, and with
the employees who will be added to
its working force under the new meat
law the total expenditures
are likely to exceed by good deal the
figure named With the employees
named, in addition to the increased
force required in the work Of exter-
minating the cattle fever tick and the
gypsy and brown tailed moths and the
investigation of dry land farming, the
department will have payroll of 5000
persons, whose average salary is less
than 5000 a year. Over 100000
pieces of literature are distributed each
year, and this amount will be largely
Increased as new lines of investigation
are taken up. Judging from what it
has already done in the past and is
carrying out in the present, the future
work of the department would seem
to give promise of possessing greatly
enlarged scope and practical useful.
ness.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15
Nautical Ignorance

Young Captain Sealby OF the
lines Cretic was talking about
the ignorance Of the sea and of
nautical terms that is some.
times displayed by female pas
sengers.
Last fdll,' he said rhere
was d young lady from War
wick whom l showed over the
steerage. AS we were making
our tour the Storage people
were eating their dinner and
couldn't help marking the
tremendous appetite of a red
haired man.
" Great Jupiter, I said, Just
| ok at the amount of food that
fellow CO.. sumes
1 suppose, Captain, said
the young lady, that he is what
you sailors call ii stowaway.'
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15
Shoot a Priest.

Sioley, Ia Nov, 9 Twelve
negroes today assau ted the
Reverend Father James Phelan,
a Catholic priest of this place,
on Milwaukee, & s. Paul
smoking car, firing two shots,
which took effect in the priests
body, and beating him so serl-
ousIy that he lies IN a crit,cd
condition at tue SISTERS hospil-
al il Mitlnttl TIE bu les
we're probed for. bot not found.
After shooting the priest, The
negroes jumped from the train.
which pulled lnto Wolse},
where the alarm VAS given and
an iuluria'ed mo stated IN
1,u~snit. WOW .~cd To shoot the
- lad d - is made.
Fell $500. llso high,
md twr .1c left 'r
W rlsey rr ,n 'N"ntng train I :
aid ~ caprurl"g the negroes
r 'pr~ YER taken from Wolsev.
aud j. tered II the negroes
are Caught they viii be lynched
The ,r9u1l" Stnrted over a
card gan q in which the negroes
were participating Their fight
ing had driven passengers from
the coach, and trdinmen feared
10 enter, as firearms were dis
played. When the priest at.
tempted to enter the Car to
quiet the dis urbance he was
told to sta out by a burly ne
gro, VIII ) struck the priest over
the heas several times with bis
revolve'.
Y-tner Phelan fell to the
pl torn. He was kicked in the
lace and knocked against the
raj ings Regaining his feet be
gra opled with his assailaut,
whe1 two shots were fired by
another negro 10 the coach.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15
A Football Enthusiast.

w. j. Clothier, the tennis
champion of America, said at a
dinner in Philadelphia:
Tennis is all very we'll in it's
way, but what is the excite
ment-what is the enthusiasm
of tennis compared to that Cf
footballp Perhaps you have
heard of that Pennsylvania
guard who. coming to at the
end of loUtodl, game, whis.
pered 10 the physician over
him:
Did we win, doctorf
Yes. bands down. the ply
stefan answered. "
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

Mr.. Mcknight, of Downey,
California, who visited his son,
E J. Mcknight, in this city last
June, died about two weeks ago.
He was paralyzed and died in
less than twenty-fCur hours.
E J. Mcknight and family had
moved to Downey and the old
gentleman died within a week
after his sons arrival.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

Galveston, Texas. Nov. 2
Negro churches ia Galveston
are advocating hostility to the
white population because of a
"jim crow" law passed a few
months ago. The ordinance was
passed by the City Commission
ers upon the petition of reputa
BILE citizens. None of these can
now get colored servant. aud
the names of all of them are
read every Sunday morning in
negro churches, while members
of the congregation are extort.
ed not to serve them. The re-
suit is that great numbers of the
blacks have quit their jobs, and
there is now some sentiment to-
ward no employing negroes at
all.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

A North Missouri editor pro-
fesses to have discovered that
mighty few women are as pref
ty as they look IT he contin-
ues his investigation he will
find that there are a whole lot
of men who are not near so
handsome as they think they
look.-Brookfield Gazette.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

Baton Rouge, La, Nov. g.
Democratic Cougressman-elect
Judge George K. Favrot last
evening shot and killed his life.
long associate and former school
mate, DR.. Fl. Fl Aldrich, one of
the best known citizens of Bat.
on Rouge, while hundreds of
persons were near the scene of
the shooting, but none knew
what happened between the
two men. Judge Favrot refused
to talk beyond letting it be
known that the matter was a
private quarrel.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15
Tall MisSOOri,

Now this is not our story, but
as Charley M. Sullivan tells it:
Jim Christian and 1 went to
the sale yesterday and comm
home-you know where the
Rose McAllister farm is-well,
the biggest tree, cottonwood, in
the state is on that place. We
saw three squirrels in the top
of it, and how do you reckon
we got 'em?
You know it is forty feet
around that tree at the bottom
and two hundred yards to the
top of it and of course the SPUR
rels were in the top. Well, we
just began to shoot in that di-
rection and finally scared them
down to shooting distance, aud
even then when we killed 'em
it took 'em twenty minutes to
tall 10 the ground.
Great sport, that, but we had
TO waste too many shells to get
the beauties down to shooting
distance.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15
The Law of Averages.
ON the Philadelphia Bulletin

From the Philadelphia Bulletin
The average man is bald at
40.
The average minister marries
one thousand couples.
Glasses for ola age are adopt.
ed en- the average at 43.
The average cat mother
blesSes the world with one hun
dred k,ttens.
The yearly sale Of newspapers
throughout the world average
$50. 900 tons
The worlds g"ld mines yield
on an average $500, 900 or %, 900
ounces of gold year.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15
List of Letters.

Remaining unclaimed in post
Office, Monroe City, Mo-, on
Nov. 70, 1906.
Mr. McCombs,
Walter Lankiu,
Mr. J L German.
Persons calling for advertised
letters will be charged one cent
additional postage.
r. K. MEGowN,
Postmaster.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

After the election, the st.
Louis Republic said: With a
candidate of the Seymour or
Tllden type the Democrats
might have beaten Hughes by
$4,000. To compare Hearst with
those two, is an insult to the
dead.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

The guard flushed with Joy.
Never mind that fractured
thigh, then, doc, he said. Just
take these broken teeth out of
my mouth sos | can hoIler -"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

If the Palmyra Spectator
guesses right, that village by
the big spring will have new
postmaster inside of ten days
and II J. Bernhard will be 1T.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

Mr.. and Mrs. H.-W.- Ely left
Friday for Novelty and other
places in Knox County to spend
some two weeks with relatives
and friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15
Back Home


The north and northwest
country looks cool to most any
one on paper, good TO a real
estate man and good, gooder,
coolest" TO the fellow who is
stuck aud wants TO get back to
Gods country, Northeast Mis-
souri,.
John Hardy is back from Will
liston, N. Dakota. 1t is by far
just the reverse socially and
otherwise, to what he has been
accustomed to, hence he thinks
Missouri is real nice place:
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

Mrs. j. L. Evans attended
the funeral of John s. Clark in
Hannibal, yesterday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

Samuel Miller, formerly of
Monroe now Of near Paris. was
iu the city with friends Friday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

Agents mistakes do not occur
when you buy monuments from
Reid g. Shearman, as they do
not employ an agent. Shop
South of News office.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

Miss Mabel McMasters, of
Quincy, has been spending the
week with former schoolmates
in Monroe.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15

You get an easy shave at
Streams.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-15
An Easy Matter

The man was p aging euchre
with the latest belle of the
Mountain house, while his
bride of three months was try
ing 10 busy her mind is we'll as
her fingers with a piece of en-
broidery.
Suddenly the husband turned
toward his wife with a patron
izing air,
Pardon me-" he exclaimed.
II hadn't noticed that 1 was be-
tween you and the light"
"Oh, pray don't mcve" the
little woman replied 1 can see
through you perfectly well"-
Lippincott's.
The sea coast echo., 1906-07-07

A little croft owned-a plot Of corn,
garden stored with peas and mint and thyme.
And flowers for posies, oft Sunday morn,
Fuced while the church bells their earliest chimes.
The sea coast echo., 1906-07-07
FOR THE TOWN BEAUTIFUL.
Missouri Women Begin Campaign
for Cleaner Cities and Villages
columbia Herald. !

columbia Herald)
The club women of Missouri have
taken up in earnest the campaign for
cleaner cities and towns. In ST.
Joseph and other large towns organ
izations of women have done much to
promote a general sentiment for. clean
liness and are planning more. In Ma
con a women's organization virtually
manages the street cleaning depart
ment. collects the money from mer-
chants, superintends the work and
disburses the funds. The members of
the club at Trenton, a women's club,
have started a campaign that is being
watched with interest and initiated in
other towns. At the annual meeting
at the home of their president, Mrs.
T n. Witten, the club discussed plans
for the promotion of a sentiment for
better care of lawns and gardens,
cleaner streets and alleys and general
improvements. The subject of the
opening paper of the meeting, read by
Mrs. J. A. Asher, was this appropriate
one: ''The Towns Opportunity-How
Can It Do More Than the City for a
Beautiful merican Life?' One of
the plans decided upon was to offer
cash prizes to children in the various
wards of Trenton for the best show.
ings under prescribed conditions, in
the growing of flowers and care OF
premises. Seeds for the competitors
are to be furnished practically free by
the club. The mayor was asked te
issue proclamation for neral
cleaning-up day, asking citizens to de
vote few hours Systematically to dis
posing of the accumulated rubbish.
What the women are doing in some
Missouri towns the school children
have been urged to undertake in others
At various ward schools of Joplin the
pupils assisted in the cleaning up OF
the grounds In readiness fl the liant
ing of shrubs and flowers. At Perry
in Rails County, where Professor J
F. Osborne has the prettiest public
school campus i'm the state, the schoo
children helped in the good work. Al
Joplin Principal S. A. Baker has beer
leader in the observance of Arbol
day and the inculcation of the senti
ment for the civic beauty.
A town must first be built in G
wilderness and then made beautiful
The Missouri wilderness has gone, the
towns are here and are now bein.
made beautiful.
The sea coast echo., 1906-07-07

control the legislature would use to
get control of and destroy every acre
of unreserved timber land in those
territories. The country owes a debt
of gratitude to Senator Burroughs OF
your State for his aid in preventing
that bill from passing the Senate.
1t seems incredible that these
things should be done by Congress,
but there are reasons for it.
In the first place the people at
large take no interest in the preserva.
ton of their own property.
What is everybody's business is
nobody's business"
In the second place we have not
yet, as people, risen far enough
above the mere worship of Mammon to
realize that we are deliberately sac
riicing to the Golden Calf the re-
sources without which we cannot ex-
ist as a nation.
And worse than this, we are crowd
ing our working people, both native
and foreign born, into an environment
where congestion of population is de-
generating our workers and rotting
Where will you find any citizenship
in the s1um and tenement districts
of our cities to whom you can effect
lively appeal for help to stop the waste
of our forests? They know nothing
about it and care less. The first need
of any nation is an intelligent citizen
ship, and the slums and tenements of
our great cities are maelstroms into
which the citizenship of the country
is being drawn to its destruction in a
steadily increasing volume.
We are suffering just now from a
spasm of national hysteria because
what everybody who ever took the
trouble to go and look knew long ago
the revolving conditions under
which the great packers of Chicago
have been operating their plants, and
because diseased meat has been sold
for food.
But you may draw the worst pict-
ure that your imagination can paint
of the horrors of the slaughtering and
packing of meat in those establish
ments and nothing you can imagine
equals the horror of blighting the
lives of thousands of children who
are condemned to live and grow up in
the foul physical, social and moral
miasma that permeates the whole
slum district of Packingtown. 1t is
national disgrace and is bound to
prove a national curse.
There is only one remedy for those
The sea coast echo., 1906-07-07
DESTROY THE FORESTS AND FLOOD AND DROUTH
WILL DESTROY THE FARMS"
.8@n

horrible conditions of life for the
children, and that is to get the work
ing people and their children out of
the sIums, and into the suburbs
where they can have sunshine and
fresh air and pure and nourishing
food from a home garden.
Let US realize once for all that this
problem of the children of our work
ing people is our greatest national
problem and go at it's solution with
the same patriotic and self-Sacrific-
ing national heroism that led the
Homecrofters of Japan to go into bat
tie with their lives in their hands, like
hand grenades, to throw at the enemy
that sought to crush out their ma
tional life
Let us catch the inspiration of the
slogan of the Homecrofters' Move
ment in this Country, and never cease
our work until we have
every child in garden-Every
Mother in a Homecroft-and Individ-
ual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in a Home of his own
on the Land"
The Creed and Platform of the
Homecrofter tells how it may be done
and anyone who wants a copy of it
can get it without charge by sending a
postal card addressed to me, at the
Fisher Building in Chicago.
The Great Cities are our most
serious menace in this Country. Our
greatest national danger lies in the
Capitalization of wealth and popula-
ton and trade and industry. The
hope of the nation is in the farm and
suburban home and in the country
and suburban town and village.
Let us go seriously to work to Gre
ate and upbuild them. Let every
student who goes out from this
splendid institution go with the spirit
| of soldier to fight the great battles
of peace for higher national ideals
for a purer public service, for the
preservation of our national resources
| for better educational system, and
above and beyond all for the multiple
| cation of Homes on the Land where
| the children can grow to manhood
| and womanhood in the uplifting en-.
| vironment of rural community
where the evil influences of the cities
can be forever kept at bay. In such
1 Il
reared to citizenship next to Nature
| from whence they can draw health
and vigor both moral and physical for
| the discharge of all the duties of life.
| 1t is not in the cities that this country
now needs the service of the flower OF
its patriotic manhood. 1t is in the
country where the great national
problem of the Improvement of the
rural life is to be solved. where more
beautiful towns and villages and bet.
! ter roads are to be built. better
schools to be established, telephones
and trolley lines constructed, and all
the influences put to work that will
socialize the country, and drive away
the isolation and hardships that were
formerly its drawbacks.
We must not only stop and reverse
The sea coast echo., 1906-07-07
A H0necron Garden.

The Homecroft Movement is grow
ing in strength and many leading
newspapers are editorially advocating
the idea that every family, though
living in the city, ought to have a
garden. A reader of maxwell s
HOMEMAKER MAGAZINE, in
Westbranch, Iowa, sends us the fol-
lowing editorial clipped from the Des
Moines Daily News, which is so fully
in harmony with what this magazine
stands for that we take pleasure in
reproducing the same. The editor OF
the News says:
A little garden, if properly cared
for, will save the city dweller many a
dollar.
But that is by no means the chiefest
good. Even if he has more money
than he knows what to do with he
will still find rich profit in welding
the spade and hoe for exercise. And
the rarest pleasure comes from follow
ing the primal instincts of nature.
It is not alone the plants and flowers
we long for.
An inner something impels Is to put
our hands at work in the earth, to
bathe our bodies in the sunshine and
TO open our souls in devotion to Things
that are not gross, but sweet aud
pure.
To be pitied is [ man who Goes
not drink in with delight t. e fragrance
of the flowers after having breathed
all day the stencil of a city, and VINO
does not learn a lesson from the noise
less. orderly, benefcent processes Oh
nature that are constantly going on
around him.
Every city dweller who has blC OF
ground ought to have a garden.
1t may be only five feet square, out
he can plant it in green peas, succuieIlt
onions. radishes or lettuce, and still
| find room for a flower or two to throw
little color and a little fragrance into
| his life.
There are ; any reasons, economical
physical, esthetic and moral why
every man should be his own gar
dener, if he can.
Thousands of dwellurs in hotels,
flats and tenements can't be. Their
existence is as dull and cherries IN
the season when all nature is gay as
is that of bird that is Gagged.
They may laugh-and so does the
Gagged bird sing. Butt 1t is not true
living, for all that.
The sea coast echo., 1906-07-07
sn,#a,

bare Of soil, and reforestation becomes
impossible
We are told by experts, and no one
contradicts the statement, that at the
present rate of consumption, our en-
tire forest resources will be exhausted
in less than forty years. [ have re-
Gently seen it stated at thirty-fiye
years. If we are to guard against
this national danger the Timber and
Stone Law must be repealed, and all
public timber lands included in perm
anent Forest Reserves, the title to the
land forever retained by the National
Government, Stumpage only of ma
tured timber sold, and young timber
preserved for future cutting, so that
the forests will be perpetuated by
right use; and the National Govern
ment must, by the reservation or pur-
chase of existing forest lands, and the
planting Of new forests, create in
every state National Forest Planta-
tions from which, through all the
years to come, 4 sufficient supply OF
wood and timber can be annually
harvested to supply the needs Of the
people of each state from the Forest
Plantations in that state.
Unless we take time by the fore
lock the next generation will see the
United States practically a treeless
nation, without wood or timber for
the uses of our people, and devastated
year after year by ruinous -oods. Al
ready the scarcity of timber is being
felt and every man who builds a
home must pay the increased cost. In
Michigan I understand that some OF
your most important industries are
crippled by the shortage of timber.
And yet, in the face of this con-
dition which is nothing more than a
crisis threatening the complete de-
struction of one of our greatest re-
sources as q nation, Congress busies
itself with a multitude of matters of
infinitely less Importance and refuses
to repeal the Timber and Stone Act,
under which the last remnants of our
unreserved national forest lands are
being fed into the Unsuitable maw OF
the timber spectators for less than
one-tenth of their actual value.
We are told by the men in Congress
who make Committees and shape leg
islation that the money cannot be
spared to acquire and save from de-
struction the Ca1averas Big Trees in
California, or to create the White
Mountain and Appalachian Forest Re-
serves, and preserve their forest re-
sources and save the water power
used in the manufacturing industries
of New England and the South; and
the same men in the same moment re-
fuse to stop the most shameless waste
of nations resources that ever dis
graced a national lawmaking body by
refusing to repeal the Timber and
Stone Act.
Not only this, but in Arizona and
New Mexico where the forests are the
very life of the country, the joint
Statehood Bill proposed to give float
ing grant of several million acres
which the land spectators who would