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Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1908-03-13

Spring shirt time. We've some
choice new patterns at SOC, 75c or
s1.00 Come while they're here.
]. f. THOMPSON G BROS.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1908-03-13

Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. LaBarrer, Of Bal
timore, we're the guests Of Mr., and Mrs.
C. c. Cutler, on South Water street,
Thursday, enroute home from Cumper-
land.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1908-03-13

Mr.. and Mrs. e. W. Dorm, Of North
Queen street, left this morning for
Baltimore, where they will visit Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Brantner for week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
1T LOOKS LIKE KOPP.

From the present indications, it
looks as if A. W. Kopp of Platteville
would be the nominee of the Republic
cans for Congress. There seems to be
a general sentiment against going
north of the river for Congressman
and that the southern tier of count
les, comprising Iowa and Grant, are
entitled to the Congressman at this
time.
All three candidates stand for the
progressive idea in Wisconsin politics
and it is said that Senator LaFollette
will take no hand in the contest,
which means the elimination of fac
tiunaI lines, and the successful candi-
date will have the support of a united
party, which assures victory at the
polls in November. -Dodgeville
Chronicle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
TAFTs SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE.

Judge Taft was yesterday officially
notified at Cincinnati of his nomina-
tion for the presidency. and his speech
in response to the notification is the
key note for the republican campaign.
In it he rebukes the opposition's stand
upon Philippine independence promises
steps toward tariff revision immedi-
ately after Inauguration if elected,
believes in income by statutory law
if necessary for revenue, rather than
by amendment to the constitution,
and declares that the rights of both
organized and unorganized labor
should be impartially upheld. 1t is
an able document and worthy of care
full study and preservation through
out the campaign. The Herald hopes
to print it In its entirety in the Sat
urday issue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
POSTAL BANKS AND STATE GUAR
ANTEE.

Most of the successful bankers of
the state are said to oppose state
guarantee of bank deposits. A few
of the smaller bankers are said to
favor it. How many of them are
private bankers who have through leg
itimate and illegitimate means defeat
ed successive meritorious bills for the
inspection of private banks Nc
doubt they would like to restore conf
dence in such banks through a system
under which successful banks might
be stung for the failure of unsaccess-
full ones.
A recent letter to the editor of the
Free Press defended state guarantee
on the ground that banks are semi
public institutions. They are no
more semi public institutions than
others to which the state gives the
right of incorporation. Why not
state guarantee of loan and building
associations and fraternal life insur-
ance associations and other incorporat-
ed companies and societies
The Denver platform Endorses state
guarantee, but even that document
admits that postal savings banks
would be a substitute. 1t would
be such substitute and an unobjection
able one.
A senate bill providing for postal
banks will come to vote early in
December. The idea is endorsed in
the Chicago platform. Probably be-
fore our legislature is we'll under way
in 1909 congress will have established
postal banks. If it does, little will
be heard thereafter of the freak state
guarantee scheme. Detroit Mich.
Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
A War to Push Along.

President Roosevelt'S acceptance of
the presidency of the international tu-
berculosis congress, called to meet in
Washington in September, again
brings to the fore this organized effort
to stamp out one of the chief enemies
of the race in modern times. This
war cannot have too many recruits,
and 1t is getting them from all coun-
tries of the world. Instead of being
q forlorn hope struggle, as was be-
lieved not many years ago, the cam
paign against the white plague"
shows results every year. Study and
experiment have given the experts
knowledge of the disease, and the
mass of the people have ceased to
despair at the first appearance of the
dread symptoms. E
Two important points have been i'm
pressed upon the public mind by
the successful experiments of doctors
made known through the deliberations
Of congresses and the publications en-
anating from them. oxygen is now
known to be a curative agent and If
taken in it's incipiency consumption
can be cured. Once knowledge of the
first symptoms Of the infection can be
carried to every adult in the land the
rayages of tuberculosis can be reduced
to the minimum. One of the objects
of associations formed. to fight this
war is to spread this knowledge broad
cast as quickly as possible. When peo-
pie know the signs they will also
avoid contamination. A later but not
less important work will be the regu-
lar inspection Of children and youths
and the separation of the healthy from
contact with those infected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
The Dominion Of the Mind.

Some novel and interesting observa-
lions on the action of electricity upon
the human body have recently been
contributed to Nature knowledge by
DR.. Otto Pfordten This German sci
enlist affirms that the action of cleo
trical currents upon the human body
may be modified and even neutralized
by the state of mind of the person in
contact with the current 1t is stated
In the article that when electricians
touch parts of electrical machinery
purposely to ascertain whether there
is any current in them a powerful
current will do them no harm, but an
unintentional contact with the same
current will prove fatal.
A case is cited where an unexpected
shock of $50 volts was terrible, though
not fatal, whereas an expected shock
of 500 volts made little impression.
In another case an expert picked up
one end of a broken wire containing
10000 volts without suffering the least
harm. DR.. Pfordten calls this a con-
troll of electric fluid and adds, There
is something imposing in this idea
that the will power in such case OPP
poses itself to death as an equal force
and comes out triumphant"
A very fine point is involved in this
discussion, for it may be that it is the
nF fIoo faH CHI nd
not altogether the power of the cur
rent which leads to deadly results.
Other students Of the subject have re
ported that electricians have touched
dangerous wires when asleep and es-
capped without serious injury and that
an ordinary deadly current did not
harm rabbits. while they were under
the influence of chloroform. The pow
er of the mind in controlling morbid
physical sensations and in overcoming
certain forms of mental disorder has
long been recognized by scientists and
philosophers. 1t is generally assumed
that one may invite serious ailment
through the Imagination. Conversely
healthy frame of mind or a mind
refusing to believe in danger, sickness
and pain might be able to counteract
evils that would prove serious in the
presence of mental Incidence and pas
siveness Necessity for mental activ-
ity and moral courage has been known
to cause the sick and weakly to be-
come healthful and strong.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
BOOMING CANDIDATES.

The Herald prints in another col
umn, a couple of communicated
articles advocating the candidacy of
G. E. Tuffiey. the present incumbent,
for the republican nomination for
county clerk, and S. A. Cook for ..
S. senator. 1t is understood that
articles printed as communications
do not necessarily voice the opinions
of the editor Under the present
primary nominating system candidates
appeal more directly to the people
than before, and the Herald feels that
all have a right to be heard through
the newspapers if they desire, in nav
ing their merits and arguments placed
before the people whose suffrage they
are seeking We therefore take pleas
ure in publishing these two articles
and other candidates will De given a
similar opportunity for being heard.
We make this explanation now in
order that there may be no misunder-
standing of the situation. When we
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29

Congressman J. W. Murphy, of this
district, a democrat who owes his
election to the Office to republican
votes in a republican district, is
quoted as saying in Milwaukee last
week that he felt perfectly sure of re-
election. and that it makes absolute
" no difference who the republican
candidate against him may be. Such
sublime self confidence is perfectly
beautiful The fractional differences
that existed among republicans in the
third district two years ago do not
exist now and republicans will very
generally line up for the republican
candidate for congress. whoever he
may be.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
A Foreign Study of the ''Panic.'


In recent report to parliament the
British commercial agent in the United
States, Mr.. Seymour Bell, presents a
clear and frank opinion of the main
causes of the acute financial depres-
sion which set in at the close Of 1907.
Among the causes enumerated are high
wages, high cost of living, tremendous
Industrial activity in the way of i'm
provements and extensions, specula-
ton and personal extravaganza. To
quote further:
The situation was peculiar On the one
hand there were the manufacturers with
more orders than they could fill and busy
enlarging their plants, merchants selling
large quantities of goods at satisfactory
prices, labor in such demand that even
with the addition of the 900 in1mi-
grants it was necessary to employ In
efficient workers at good wages. On the
other hand, there was dear money owing
to scarcity
When. owing to failure in New York
light was thrown on the management of
some of the large financial concerns In
the city, public confidence, which had pre-
Viously been undermined by certain in
vestigations, gave way completely, re-
sulting in an acute money panic. Careful
students of the situation had foreseen
collapse before the end of the year, but
did not anticipate that it would come
with such suddennesS.
Fortunately, warning Of the impend-
ing trouble was given early, and it
was possible to take steps to ward off
complete disaster. On this point Mr..
Bell observes:
The panic was entirely financial. 1t
has, it is true, brought about a wide
spread suspension of trade and industry
throughout the country, but there has
been no throwing on the market Of Ener-
chandise at ruinous prices, the usual &C
compartment of industrial panics. The
manufacturers, on the contrary, faced the
inevitable and without delay proceeded to
curtail the supply and thus reduce such
chances as there might have been OF
Cutting the market with unstable artf-
cles
AS to the length Of time the present de-
preston will last, 1t is difficult to form an
opinion. 1t must not be forgotten. that
the farmers, who form the backbone of
American prosperity. have not been af-
fected by the financial situation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
TO SAVE THE FORESTS AND
STREAMS.

Wisconsin was one of the first
states in the union to take steps look
ing to the conservation of it's natural
resources, and now that the general
government through the energetic
action of President Roosevelt is
taking the matter up so vigorously,
Gov Davidson has appointed Wis
consin conservation commission, to
cooperate with the national commits
sion. The Wisconsin commission is
composed of the following named men
who are particularly we'll fitted for the
work.
DR.. Charles Q. Van Hise. president of the
University of Wisconsin,
William Irvine, Chippewa Falls. farmer
and former member of the assembly during
George A. Whiting Appleton. paper manu-
facturer and president of the Wisconsin
Valley Improvement company.
l.. NJ Griffith. Madison, state forester.
Dr. E. A. Birge, dean Of the college OF let
tiers and science in the state university and
president of the Wisconsin geological ana
natural history survey.
]. H. Stout, Menominie, state senator and
former lumberman.
H. P. Bird, Wausaukee, state senator aud
lumberman.
1.-Two of these commissioners are
members of the national commission,
President Van Hise being member
of the division on minerals, and Mr..
Irvine being a member of the divi-
sion on forests. -
Most of the other states will also
co operate with the president in this
movement. The members of the COM
mission will work without salary or
other remuneration because of their in
terest in this important cause.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29

Vice president Fairbanks and the
Prince of Wales were the central
figures at Quebec. Ont, last Friday
In the magnificent spectacle reproduc-
ing Quebec's historic past and usher
ing Ia the 300th anniversary of the
founding of the city by Champlain.
Aside from the spectacular feature of
the event. it was the occasion for
a notable exchange of addresses be-
tween Vice president Fairbanks and
the Prince of Wales, in which each
spoke of the existing relations be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain and the Prince delivered a
message of good will to the American
government. In the early days of
American Independence the appear
ance of such notice in the press of
such a meeting and cognizance of
Americans by En- glands nobility
would have caused or sat CONSERVATION.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
A Lodge In Africa

Some weeks ago James Creelman
stated In Pearson's Magazine that
President Roosevelt wished to isolate
himself as far as possible at the ex-
piration of his term in the White
House and would go to Africa for that
purpose The president has since
stated that he has fixed upon Africa
as his destination. Mr.. Creelman's
guess may have been inspired from
the White House in so far as it related
to Africa, and perhaps he spoke by
the card in giving reasons for the At
rican trip. He stated that the presi-
dent wants to get out of reach of the
telegraph and the interviewer and hold
aloof from political events centering
in Washington.
Africa can still offer a wilderness to
the tired man, but not as easily as in
the days of Livingstone, who was lost
to the world for many years. In Liv-
ingstone's day the African continent
was known to civilized man only
along it's margin and here and there
where some venturesome explorer had
penetrated to the interior. The region
which was the scene of Livingstone s
travels and discoveries and of the la
bors of his contemporaries, Spoke and
Burton, is now provided with railway
and telegraph, and steamboats, ply
upon lakes which, when their ex-
istence was first announced by the dis
coverers, the world refused to believe
in. 1t is now possible to travel by
rail and boat east and west through
the heart of the dark continent from
ocean to ocean, and in north and
south direction only about 800 miles
of track are wanting to make con-
tinuous rail and boat communication
between Cairo and the Cape.
OF course the African jungle re-
mains, and there the man who is dar-
ing enough can lose himself to all in
tents and purposes and stay lost if he
chooses during the lifetime of at least
one administration. 1t is only fifty
years since the dark continent was
opened to the white man, and nearly
half of that period was given to ex-
ploration and mapmaking as a pre-
liminary to colonizing and the intro
duction of the white mans methods.
Of the millions of natives of Africa
the mass are as wild as they were
when Livingstone was among them.
The work of missionary and teacher
has just begun. AS for big game,
there is enough left to furnish sport
for a man who prefers elephant and
lion hunting to the customary quiet
retirement of White House graduate.
AT any rate, in Africa the strenuous
Roosevelt need not chafe in inactivity,
as he might feel compelled to should
he accept the traditional role of an
American ex-president.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
A Good Word For Trade Schools.

A Good Word For Trade Schools.
The fact that a green boy who wants
to do right will be given instruction
in the average machine shop does not
solve the apprentice problem, accord
ing to a writer in the current Engi-
neering Magazine Preparation for do
ing right is back Of the success OF
many, and want of preparation ac-
to become mechanics Technical schools
furnish at once a proving ground and
an improving ground, according to this
writer, who says:
The boys from these schools are some
what different from others. A young man
who has ambition and persistence enough
to go through one of these schools is
worth more than the ordinary "scrub"
and is more capable, but in justice we
must recognize that our shops have many
youngsters made of just good timber
However, the shop trained boy is
liable to get false ideas of the value
of his "card" and, moreover, is affected
by his home training, whereas the
trade school boys enter the shop know
ing that they have much to learn. To
quote further:
They will try to run their tools and pro-
duce the work as directed by the foreman.
You will notice that they have learned
the lesson to obey at school, while the
other boys have not learned this either in
school or at home This defect of home
training is being felt throughout the
whole country in all departments of work,
and what we shall do in the future for
good all around mechanics is mystery
to me. Many of our shops are willing TO
teach boys, but what do they get in re-
turn? When the apprentice has been In
the shop about two years he becomes dis
satisfied with his pay and leaves to enter
another shop as a journeyman. believe
that manufacturing concerns should re-
ouire a written certificate as to the past
whereabouts of men applying for posi-
tons 1t would tend to correct this evil
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29

President Roosevelt is very much
displeased over the decision of the
United States circuit court of appeals
In reversing the decision of Judge
Lands last year by which the Stand
ard oil trust was assessed a fine of
more than 500, 600, 600, and although
he is not making his plans public at
this time it is certain that the
government is decided to make a re-
newed effort to convict this company
and bring it to punishment. The
president feels that the decision
means a miscarriage of justice and
that the big company is escaping the
punishment that would have been melted
out to any weaker defendant. While
the twenty nine million dollar fine was
no doubt excessive and many assign
ments of error in the district court are
made by the higher court, public
opinion will never stand for letting
the Standard escape from the penalties
of its misdoings. 1t is to be hoped
that the retrial may result in find
ings that will stand and that the
offending company may be brought
to Justice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
Trees as Soil Builders.

Studies of the various regions Of the
country and of the trees adapted to cul-
ture in each are made by the forest
service at Washington, and one aim of
these studies recently has been to point
out how waste and neglected spots
may be turned into wOod-lots to serve
the double purpose of furnishing tim
Der and improving the soil. Results
Of these studies and experiments may
be had by application to the agricul
tural department.
Many poor soils now waste spots Oh
the farm would become profitable If
planted with the right kind of forest
trees and cared for in the right way.
Trees will often grow where grain and
grass will not, and certain forest trees
thrive in the very soil where fruit
trees fail. Swamps, stony ridges, ex-
hausted fields and washed hillsideS
need not be abandoned. There is mon
ey in most Of them if they are set to
work producing wOOd-lots and forests.
But knowledge and judgment are nee
eSsary, and a bad guess may be costly.
Many trees do well in these soils
cone bearing trees in particular. The
farmer is fortunate whose land has
no poor spots. Few landowners are
SO we'll off. Fertile acres are usually
fairly profitable, but the gravel bars,
rocky knobs, marshy swales and ex-
hausted and eroded slopes are not.
Scarcely one of them need remain I'M
productive. They will grow timber
pine, locust, poplar, Usage orange, oak,
chestnut or some other kind. But the
soil must be studied and the species
selected to suit it. Failure might fol-
low the planting Of walnut on soil
suited to white pine, or vice versa.
1t is decidedly worth while to keep
all of the farm at work. The owner
pays taxes on all his land and is out
of pocket for whatever Is not earning
him something. Further, by growing
a tree crop on land which is too poor
to pillow the quality OF the land itself is
improved. Forests add humus to the
soil, lettering its character and it has
lately been discovered that the decay
ing leaf litter has also the power of
gathering from the air certain amount
Of nitrogen, the most important of
plant foods In this respect the forest
does for the soil what leguminous crops,
like clover and alfalfa, do. Wood
growing on wornout land thus be-
comes doubly profitable The land is
made useful and improved at the same
time
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29

Notwithstanding his statement a
few weeks ago that he could not
afford, because of personal reasons, to
become candidate for second term
as governor of New York, the pl essure
has become so great, because of the
reforms he has set out to accomplish.
for his denomination, that Gov.
Hughes has announced that he will
again be Z candidate. He is making
a splendid executive.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29

On the famous Pixies Peak COG
Railway in Colorado, the steer
grades of the mountain necessitate
the use of cog wheels to control the
train, and vibration often SO Injuries
ordinary watches that an expert
repairman must readjust them.
A conductor on the Pixies Peak ROAD
mode O 7linety-dGy test Of the South
BEND Watch last Summer.
No adjustment of the watch was made
for the whole period, but at the end OF
the test, examination showed variation
of less than o11e-hdlf second per day. Do
you think the watch yOW carry could
stand test like this?
awe will be pleased to show you op'
ire of these watches at any time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29

The decay Of any real power OF
thinking is an adequate explanation OF
a great deal of the mortality of pros
porous middle life, says the London
Lancet. The business man of forty
is often content to live in the mere
practice of habit that he has acquired
and dies from stupidity. There is
nothing left to keep him alive.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29

According to the New York Tribune,
there are nine Confederate major gen
erals of the civil war surviving and
nine surviving Federals of the same
rank. AS the Federals Outnumbered
the Confederates three to one at the
time, it is a little singular that the
southerners show up so well on the
survivors list.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29

consider it advisable to express pre-
ference for any candidate, for any
office editorially, we shall, of course,
do SO. At the present time it is an
open field and no favor, so far as our
news columns are concerned.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For President
WILLIAM II. TAFT of Ohio.
For Vice President
JAMES :. SHERMAN of New York.

The Monroe Journal quotes prom
inent democrat as saying: "Of
course we do not expect to carry Wis
consin but we will scare h out of
some of the republicans. !"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29

It is asserted that President Roose-
velt will get into the speaking game
some time during the campaign and
make few speeches for Taft in the
close states if the situation seems to
demand it. He'll stir 'em up some
if he does.