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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16

FOR SALE. One Empire cream
separator almost new; one, 40 gal. re-
volving churn and tread power for
sheep or dog; seed potatoes, (Sir
Walter Raleigh the best variety known
for fall and winter use; 80 Barred Ply
mouth Rock hens and pullets: six
Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels; q
good chance for any one who wants to
start in the Barred Plymouth Rock
chickens; also two varieties of seed
corn white and yellow.
G. G. MARROW, Lancaster. Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Generous crew of die Manchnria.

San Francisco, May 1.-THE steam
err Manchuria has arrived from Orien-
tai ports. The passengers collected a
purse of 81 $50 for the crew, most of
whom live in this city. The crew de-
cided to turn over the money to the
San Francisco relief fund.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Miners Get a Wage Increase.

TamaQua, Pa, May 15.-Commis-
sioner Neil, who was appointed by the
anthracite strike commission to com
pute the rate Of wages for anthracite
miners will be paid per cent. on the
$3.50 basis for May, the average price
of coal at tidewater last month being
S4.93 ton. This is the highest rate at
which the miners have been paid since
the commission made its award.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Children Eat strychnine Pills.

Fort Wayne, Ind, May 10. = Leroy
Scott, aged 4. son of r. J. Scott, and
Loyal Cornwall, aged so months, son
of J. f. Cornwall. are dead from the
effects Of strychnine pills. While at
play they had found a box of the pills
and ate all of them. Commissions fol
lowed and doctors worked all night
over the little sufferers without avail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Their Scheme Didn,t Uorr

Brighton, Mich, May Is. = Calvin
Price, Walter Paddock and John Hicks.
farmers, who were caught spearing
black bass by Deputy Game Warden
Fisher, and who thought to fool Fish
er by having friend making COM
plant before justice, who fined them
ST each, have been summoned to APP
pear in court in Howell on complaint
made bV Fisher
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Coll Is Taken to Prison.

Milwaukee, May 14.-Henry G. Coll,
assistant cashier of the First National
bank, found guilty two weeks AGO by
jury in the United States district
court on charges Of misapplying funds
and making false entries in the books
Of the bank, has been taken to Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, to begin his ten
years sentence in the federal peniten-
tiATV.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Work of the Bastard Agai,

Milwaukee, May 14.-William Selle,
aged 30 years, shot and killed his wife,
aged 30 years, and after vainly at
tempting to kill his daughter shot him
self. He entered the house where his
wife was living through a window. She
was suing for a divorce.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Memorial Church Dedicated.

Richmond, Va, May 1.-THE Reid
Memorial United Presbyterian church.
erected by Daniel G. Reid, of New
York, at a cost of S25O.COO, has been
dedicated. Many prominent clergymen
took part.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Death of a Milwaukee Editor.

Milwaukee, May 1O.-Victor L. Gan
gelin, for many years city editor of the
Milwaukee Herald, and one of the well
known German newspaper men of the
state, is dead after a long illness at
his home in this city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Civil Service i'm WISCONSIN.

Madison, Wis, May 1.-THE civil
service commission has rendered a de
cision that state employees cannot cir
culate nomination papers under the
new primary election law. This is
blow at the present state officers, who
are candidates and are conducting
campaings from their offices through
SnhOrdinatpS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Underwood win Be Leader.

Madison, Wis, May 12-Walter S.
Underwood of Milwaukee will be
colonel of the University of Wiscon-
sin regiment next year. His COM
mand, Company B, won the cCmpeti-
tive drill, giving him that honor for
next year. Company G, Captain Paul
Hammersmith, was second. Lee Hunt
ley, a Company A man, won the in
dividual competition. He will receive
a medal, as will the men of the win
ming company. Major Malloy of the
United States infantry inspected the
regiment and acted as one Of the
Judges of the competition.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Distinction for a Violinist.

Richmond, Ind, May 15.-Theddeus
Rich, the Indiana violinist, has been
appointed concert master of the Phila-
delphia orchestra. He is the youngest
man to hold such a position in the
United States.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Milwaukee Men Best Takers.

Milwaukee, May IA. = Milwaukee
won the joint debate with Chicago be
tween chapters of the American Insti-
tute Of Bank Clerks on the contention,
upheld by the local chapters, that ma
tional banks should be allowed to loan
money on real estate and MORTGAGES.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Had His Ear to the Ground"

London. May II. - The Times st.
Petersburg correspondent says that
Emperor Nicholas is an assiduous list
ener to all the proceedings Of the ma
tional parliament with the aid Of
micrOphone.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
DEATH OF CARL SCHURZ
Seriously III Only a Few Days, and
Marked by the Reaper from
the start.

New York. May 15.-Carl Schurz is
dead, and in his death ends one Of the
most remarkable personalities of the
country. He had been seriously i'll
only since last Thursday, but it re
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Veteran Preacher Dead.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, May 11,-Rev. Hen
ry Sewell, for fifty-two consecutive
years a Methodist pearcher, is dead at
Evansville, Wis. He was 70 years
old
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16

Found Dead in Shallow Water.
Marion, Ind, May 15.-The body Of
William Conroy was found in three
feet Of water along one Of the fashion
able thoroughfares Of the city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
East Buffalo Live Stock.
East Buffalo, n. Y. Ma

EdsI bUHaIO, n. T., May IA.
Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock
Commission Merchants, East Buffalo.
n. Y, quote as follows: CattIe-Re-
ceipts, 175 cars: market 1Oc lower: ex-
port steers, $5.25@ 5.65; shipping. $500
$3.50; butcher steers, S4.75M5.OO best
heifers, $4.25M4.90; cows, S3.256425
bulls, $3.40@4.40. Calves - Market
higher; best, $65O@IOO. Hogs-Re-
ceipts, so cars; market strong: all
grades, $6.S506.9O. Sheep and Lambs
Receipts. 100 cars; market steady:
best clipped lambs, S6.9O@7.OO: woods.
81 IS, yearlings, $6.0O@6.1O; wethers,
$5.O0@6.00; ewes, $5.25@5.55.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
Live Stock. Poultry and nav.


Hogs Estimated receipts for the
day, $4,000. Sales ranged at $4,000
6.675s for choice to prime heavy, 5000
M660 for good to choice heavy mixed,
$6.00M6.30 for rough heavy packing,
and $5.50@6.55 for poor to prime
pigs.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for the
day, 10000. Quotations ranged at $3.50
0l630 for prime steers, $4.00M5.25 for
good to choice COWS, $4.500535 for
prime heifers, $3.5O04.25 for good to
choice bulls, $5.2OMG.25 for good to
choice calves, $4.65@5.1O for selected
feeders, and $3.G004.0O for good stock
ers.
Sheep-Estimated receipts for the
day, $4,000. Quotations ranged at S5.T
061O for good to choice wethers So. IS
@6.20 for good to choice yearlings,
S625@6.60 for good to choice shorn
lambs, $6.SO07OO for wool shearing
lambs, and $5.50@6.O0 for good to
choice ewes.
Live pOultry-Turkeys, per ID, 121bc;
chickens, fowls, 121ac, ROSTERS. Sc:
ducks, 121h@2Oc; geese, $4.OO@6.CO
per doz.
Hay-Choice timothy, $1,000 1850;
No. 1, $11.5O6 80; No. 2. S9.5Om
1850; No. 5, SS.OO@9.5O: choice prairie,
$4,000 1900: No. /, SS.OO611.5O: No.
2, $1,000 80; No. 8, S6.5O0 100; No. 4,
$6.OO06.5O
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16
THE MARKETS
Chicago Grain.

Chicago, May Il.
Following were the quotations on
the Chicago Board of Trade today:
Wheat Open. High. Low. Close.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-05-16

Cash sales-Winter wheat-By sam
pie: No. red, 91092c: No. red So
@9Oc; No. hard, S3@86c; No. 3 hard,
76@83c. Spring, by sample: No. l
northern, S41A @867Ac; No. 2 northern,
83@S5c; No. 3, 81@S4c. Corn-By
sample: Zee higher: No. 2, 491zc; No. 2
white, sic; No. 2 yellow, sou @5Ohc;
No.3, 1870; No. 3 white, 5Oh@51c;
No. yellow, 4915@5Oc; No. 4, .4SA q
4S1Ac. Oats-By sample: Il @hc
higher; No. 2, 32Ac: No. 2 white, 34A
@341Ac; No. 3, 31%@32c; No. 3 white,
33@34c; No. 4 white, 32@34c; stand
ard. 34M34Mc.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22
He WENT ELSEWHERE.

The late James H. Bresin, the
noted hotel man Of New York, believed
profoundly in courtesy as a means OF
success.
mo matter how you are worried,
how you are provoked" he said to
a hotel clerk one day, keep your tenn
per. Don't retaliate. To retaliate, TO
give discourteousy for discourteousy.
if to lose always.
81 know a very independent hotel
clerk who, thirty years hard work, is
still only a hotel clerk, This instance
will show you why.
"a gentleman, accompanied by his
wife, children and a maid, descended
from a cab and approached the clerk
one evening.
3" want the gentleman said, to
engage rooms.
" I'm not accustomed to this kind
Of treatment said the gentleman in
dignantly.
/" How many? What price? Look
sharp, said the clerk frowning.
/" DO you want rooms. or don't you
My times precious, said the clerk.
Look alive Look alive
THE gentleman turned to his wife
helplessly.
d" That beats all" he said Come
my dear. Wen go elsewhere.
And the party started out when
the independent clerk, smiling and
beaming said:
One moment, sir, before you 60
You are the box Office man of tne
Star theater, and, when ! came to buy
three tickets of you last night, you
treated me just as l have been treat.
ing you. Let Us now cry quits. How
many rooms is it you desire?
But the box Office nan glared at
the clerk and replied:
+" There was nothing to prevent
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22
A ROYAL HOUSEWIFE.

Every morning the Princess of
Wales is up and about at a surprisingly
early hour. She knows not only the
duties of every employee, but she
sees to it that they are fulfilled; and
woe betide the servant who thinks TO
hide a mistake or careless action from
her quick glancing, bright blue eyes,.
The princess is wonderfully prompt
to see and to reprimand. An artist
who was called to Marlborough
house in order to paint the portrait of
the prince gives an amusing little bit
of evidence as to her housewifely care
and thrift.
The prince in full uniform was pos
ing in one of the big drawing rooms
when a call from the king came. The
artist said that he could paint in the
tall, shiny military boots If the prince
would leave them behind him. Ac-
cordingly valet soon returned with
the stately objects and quite on his
own responsibility placed them in one
of the satin upholstered chairs that
adorned the long salon.
II was in the opinion of both artist
and valet a splendid position from
which to view and paint the boots, but
not so did it seem to the princess. AT
that very hour, unfortunately for
These masculine culprits, she was
making her daily rounds of inspection,
and on entering the big, fine room
her sharp glance lighted first on the
boots in one Of her most costly chairs,
1t was the wrath of the careful
housekeeper that flashed in her eyes
while she ordered the boots down on
the floor, a buster brought forth and
in no uncertain tones reprimanded
the crestfallen valet for his i'll treat
ment of one Of her choicest pieces Of
furniture. She has little or no pa
thence with carelessness, and if the
Prince of Wales were a mere salaried
bank clerk instead of the son of a
king no keener care could be taken
of his expenses and his income by
his wife.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22

Washington-An investment yield
ing a return of six dollars for every
one invested seems a business propo-
siticn that guaranteed beyond per
s3Veature G. failure would find ready
takers Yef Uncle Sam, astute bust
ness man though he is on occasion.
is accused IF persistently refusing to
take full agantage of just this propo-
sition. Tt a degree he has enjoyed
its benefit. His experience in a linn
tied fashin, indeed, it is argued, has
itself priced the accuracy of claims
made inAls behalf.
"AfteIa careful study Of the sub
ject, n convinced that water rates
under favorable conditions are only
one7sixh as high as those by rail, and
that eery dollar prudently expended
in imfoying and perfectipg the navi-
gatio Of our waters will save six dol
lars er annum to the people in re-
duce rates." says an authority, Rep
resetative Joseph E. RansdelI of
louisiana, a member of the house
counittee on rivers and harbors, and
chlrman of the executive committee
ofle national rivers and harbors con-
g;ss. Mr.. Ransdell and the mem
trs of his organization, which in
AIDES commercial associations in
hme thirty-four states of the union,
iold that our government has failed
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22

for himself that invariably he viii
spend less than he makes. Then he
is safe. No man can be happy in this
life for any length of time if he does
not>live up to this principle. no matter
how dazzling he starts out or what
his prospects are. If he deviates
from this rule he viii come sooner or
later to grief.
He must save to succeed. He
must succeed in something to be
happy.
That man surely faces acute misery
who at 80 is not better of than he
was at 20. It is a simple process, and
for It's nonobservance there can be no
possible excuse. Let the boy or man
i've so economically that he always
has something to lay by, and he is
certain to have in the end compe-
tence to protect him against all ordi-
nary worries. OF course there may
come unavoidable accidents, but even
these will be combated more easily II
as young man the habit of economic
ing has been cultivated. l wonder
constantly when l meet examples OF
misery caused by unthriftiness how
such things can be with a human be-
ing whose brain is normal"
Keynote of His Life, Thrift.
Although his income was reckoned
at $4,000 a day, at least. and by some
people at twice that amount. he lived
at the rate of $4,000 G year or less
and his personal expenses were never
more than 500 a year. That is a
liberal estimate. He had two suits of
clothes, one for week days and the
other for Sunday, and he wore them
as long as anybody can remember
He did not buy new overcoat for fif-
teen or twenty years, and his hat was
quite as old as that If not older.
A few years ago he sent for mac
who had done him a favor and in
confidential way said that he vas
going to reward him with Zip" chat
be could work for a profit. Then, to
the mans establishment, Mr.. Sage
gaze him the address of store On
Seventh avenue where he could get
shoes for 81 pair.
One of his great minor joys was
the discovery once of shop where he
could buy three 90 cent neckties for
so cents.
dr. Sage did not like the word
death" If anybody in his circle
died he or she had been removed"
and he referred to his own departure
as when I am removed"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22
II Served Them Right.

Lallas Wexford, the English coined
ian whose American success has
been so phenomenal, described at the
Players club in New York the diff.
culties that beset a provincial actor
trying to get on the London stage.
IAN the great London managers, {"
he said, SAY to you, If could only
see you act 1t is rather mean of
them to say that, for you are in their
presence solely to get a chance to
be seen acting, and you desire in your
disgust to play some such trick on
them as the painters played on the
old lady; but you know how, in the
end, you would have the painters
luck and so you refrain.
Once, in the early summer, three
painters were painting the inside Of
a house in the country. Towards
teatime these painters began to wish
for something to drink. According
II they put their heads together. ard
the result of their conference was
that their leader went to the mistress
of the house and said
e The frames of your oil paintings
are very dingy, ma'am. Wen clean
them for you if you've got any whls-
ky
" How much whisky will be need
ed?' the guileless old lady asked.
About quart, ma'am,' said the
painter.
so the old lady brought to the
three painters a quart of whisky, and
they drank it up. and cleaned the pic
ture frames with water.
ION towards sunset the old lady,
coming to inspect the frames, ex.
pressed herself as delighted with
them.
Oh she said. they look beauti-
full. And who'd have thought a
quart of whisky would clean so
many? 1t was lucky l saved it. 1t
was what l washed Fido in last Sun
day
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22
Fighting Machine DESIGNS.

Heretofore the British Dreadnaght
has been the greatest fighting machine
afi)at. She has not been afoat very
long, but it has be en- long enough to
show that she wi be theoretically
obsolete in another year. Already Col
onel CuniDefa. chief naval constructor
of Italy and the acknowledged great
est living designer of warships, has
made plans for battle ship which
makes the Dreadnaught look like a
tugboat, The weight of the metal the
new ship will throw ahead, broadside
or astern is SO per cent greater than
the Drearnaught can throw. She via
be three knots faster and she could
keep outside the zone OF the Dread
naught's efficiency and sink her with.
out trouble.-Detroit Free Press.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22
SAVING DOLLARS FOR
PRODUCERS PROFITS
What Uncle Sam Has Gained Through I'm
provement of Waterways.

into the hands Of the railroads and a
much greater sum annually from traf-
fic of other kinds were it not for
water transportation; but that is not
all. Railroad men admit that the
Erie canal, in conjunction with per-
fected channels in the Detroit, St.
Clair and St, Mary's rivers, regulates
and controls freights from the Missis-
sippi river to the Atlantic and from
tie Lakes to the gulf.
The Mississippi river itself plays a
part of much significance as a money
saver. Grain routed for Liverpool
from st. Louis via New Orleans cost
at an average from the five years
from 1899 to 1905, inclusive, 1899
cents per bushel, whereas it cost 1888
cents per bushel via New York. This
is saving of 5,S4 cents per bushel
for the Mississippi route-an addition,
it is estimated, to the income of the
farmers of the valley states of more
than S100,000,000 year, or 100000.
900 in the five years. And yet this is
but a portion of the freight reduction
for which the Father of Waters is re-
sponsible, even while in a condition
which admits of great Improvement
to raise to full capacity his freight.
carrying possibilities.
Grain, it happens, is most readily
singled out for illustration by the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22
CLASS PROBLEM IN FRANCE.

Socially, the millions of French work
men stand over against property
holders in way to which there rs
nothing comparable in the Northern
and Western United States, with all
their labor difficulties. They form a
separate class in society, because.
French proI srty-holders form an ex-
elusive caste. And now there is .spon-
taneous upheaval of this excluded. I'M
privileged, inferior class. The work.
men have caught up from the Hfa
around them aspirations to social
conditions which circumstances forbfg
them to hope to attain All chance in
dependence of money, all social rising
OF petty tradesmen and educated
peasantry, the unyielding bourgeoisie
steadily assimilates to itself. But the
entrance within the walls is by a
painfully narrow gate; and rarely In
deed Is it passed by the Frenchman
born to labor. The American social
experiment has so far aimed at bring
ing every citizen, high or low, within
aceaseless circulation of classes. The
workman of today, or at least mis- soo.
is the millionaire or professional man
or prosperous business man or warY
politician or tomorrow; and our work
men, In the immense majority. are
proud Of America and feel they have
place In the sun.--Stoddard Dewey IN
Atlantic.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-22

government engineers as feasible AMI
worthy of completion, the average ap-
preparation per annum for the past
ten years has been only SIS, 250,O0o
At that rate the projects already ap-
proved could not well be completed IN
less than twenty years and develop
ment beyond these approved projects,
demanded, in the opinion of expert
students of the problem, by all the
urgencies of national economy aCd
the needs of the sections clamorins
for them, is absolutely out Of all hope
of receiving attention.
Our European brothers are not
equally neglectful. The little country
of Holland. proverbial for its thrift,
has spent two billion dollars in the
improvement of its waterways. Today
that country is without debt, the rich
est country in money per capita, in
the world. Antwerp's budget for
this year calls for fifty millions Of
dollars for the improvement of her
hsrbor. Hamburg and Rotterdam,
with Antwerp, as the direct result OF
expenditures surprising those made
for river and harbor improvements
for our entire country, are threatening
London's supremacy as ports. To the
excellence Of the internal waterways
of Germany is ascribed much of her
recent progress.
What is promised at Antwerp shows
by comparison how small is the al
lowance made annually in this coun-
try for rivers and harbors. For the
past ten years the average annual APP
preparations for Notifications have
been something like s6.600.000; for
rivers and harbors, 19,250,000; for
legislative, executive, and judicial ex-
penditures, s24, 100000; for the navy,
$66, 900, 900; for the army, $4,000 900;
for the postoffce service, 1927 1900, 600;
for pensions, STAB, 200, O0O-an annual
total for the seven items of about
s46S, 100000. OF this amount, the
rivt.rs and harbors which serve the
ns.Ional commerce received per
cent The arts of war and their out
growth, pensions, got $2S6,0000O0 or
GA per cent. The appropriations,
moreover. have been made in a desul-
tory fashion once every two or three
years, with consequent disad vantages
in the prosecution of projects.