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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
SQUIRRELS Do NOT
EAT THE INSULATION
Magoon.

A story which had it's origin with
the Railroad Commission News, has
been going the rounds of the state
press to the effect that considerable
trouble has been experienced on pow
er lines because naughty little squir-
rels eat the insulation off of the heavi-
ly charged wires and bite right into
the electricity. One writer even rises
to the defense of the little rodents and
tragically asks did the squirrels de-
stroy the forests and the hazel
brush?" Going further to point out
that these are hard days for the sQuir-
rel family and that they must eat in
sulation or see their little ones dwin-
die and pine away.
AS matter of fact the squirrels
don't eat the insulation off the wires
on the power lines for a very good
reason. That reason is because high
tension lines don't have any insula-
ton on them.
The Lancaster Light & Power COM
pany, the concern pointed out as hav-
ing the most trouble where their
lines pass through woods between
Platteville, Lancaster and BOscobel,
carry on their lines like all companies,
heavy bare copper wire. There is no
exception to this rule any place in the
world where the voltage becomes what
is known as high tension" Squirrels
don't eat the insulation because there
isn't any insulation. 1t would be quite
impossible to insulate a high
voltage circuit short of using a rubber
embedded wire in lead sheath some
thing prohibitive owing to it's i'm
mense cost. The "varmints" do get
on the line between the grounded arm
and the charged wire and by ground
ing the circuit, throw out the breaker
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
WIT AND WISDOM.
Pithy Observations by the Sage OF
BOScObel.
(DiaI-EnterDriSe

1t would indeed be a come down if
the women were adopt the low heel
once more-said to be fashions latest
| degree.
It's all right for a woman to make
herself straight front and curveless, .
but what is the man with an ineradi-
cable bay window to do?
Poodle dogs are very poor and shod-
dy substitutes in any home for nice,
we'll bred babies, being a travesty on
the women Of the land and a foe to a
wholesome order Of society.
The boy who has to be continually
prodded to do the various tasks about
the home, provided he is physically
able, must turn over an entirely new
leaf before he achieves any success
in life.
A newspaper might keep in hot wat
er from one years end to another if
it took the advice of those who are
anxious for the editor to "go for this
fellow" or that fellow, or this institu-
ton or that institution.
A good many folk seem to get along
and be pretty happy simply because
they remain in ignorance of the
things a consciousness Of which might
make them uncomfortable, in which
particular they in some respects re-
semble the fat man who sat down on
a sheet of sticky fly paper in a store
window and was not aware of the pick
lie he was in until someone notified
him of his misfortune
Now, when you come right down
to good, sound reasoning, isn't it a
/ fact that the troubles of the poor
man and the rich man are about even
! ly divided? The rich man has a
square meal and a canary appetite !;
and the poor man has a square appe-
tite and a canary meal. The rich
man hasn't money enough to buy the
appetite and the poor man lacks the
funds to buy the meal. And it then
SINNERS itself down to work, which
is the only thing which will grant
the desire of each. 1t is the law OF
nature and we can't disobey it and
be happy.
The man who is willing that some
body else shall govern him-as the
voter who does not vote is better
fitted for residence in Turkey or
Russia than in free America. There
he might be good subject. Here he
is shirk. The stay-at-home voter
opens the door Of opportunity for men
of sinister purposes and interested
motives who figures in politics for
what it will bring. 1t is easier to
manipulate a fraction Of the body
polite than the whole of it. The hide
bound partisan voter and the stay-at-
home voter are dead easy for the pro-
fessional who is out after graft. He
can count them as we'll before cleo
ton as afterward. The good citizen
lives up to his privileges and oppor-
tunities and does his duty. Be a
good citizen and vote.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
CASEY ON CRAZY CRANKS.
Knoxville, Iowa, Express.)

Knoxville, Iowa, Express)
A crazy fool in Chicago killed his
bride of month to keep her pure and
spiritual" And now he's in jail and
will probably go to the insane asylum
or the penitentiary. So much for one
fool and his half-baked ideas. He is
of no consequence, but the country is
full Of wild-eyed fellows who are just
as foolish as he, and just as poten-
TALLY murderers. If you have a few
wild ideas that are disapproved by
the common, workaday world around
you, try to get them out of your sys-
tenn. You may be a Christopher Co.
lumbus in the field of philosophy, but
the chances are 100 to l that you are
just a plain crack-brain If you will
keep at work, keep your mouth shut
and think of practical things instead
Of soaring among the clouds of your
vaporing imagination, your friends
may never know it. This is a pretty
good old world, and the consensus of
the peoples opinions is pretty near
right.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
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BLOOD POISONING.
BLOOD POISONING.

Until recently big, strong man has
been employed as fireman by a Mil
Waukee business concern which has
been more than commonly interested
in the welfare of it's employees The
fireman isn't working any longer and
the reasons make very interesting
history and one which should prove
generally instructive.
In the ordinary course of his en-
ployment this man scratched the back
OF his fingers slightly Every en-
plOye had been instructed, under such
circumstances, to go at once to one
OF the convenient first-aid-c cabinets,
cleanse the wound with alcohol and
Immediately apply tincture of iodine,
which is part of the equipment. In
stead of doing this the man ignored
the injury as being too trivial to de-
serve any attention.
A few days later his hand became
red, hot, swollen and painful He
visited a physician who treated and
dressed the hand and told the patient
not to use for few days. Contrary
to this advice, the man went back to
work, grew worse and after a few
more days died from general blood
poisoning.
Spurred on by this sad experience,
the company is now engaging a fac
tory nurse to give personal supervis-
ion and to compel, if necessary, the
cooperation of employees who are
careless not alone of their own lives
and limbs but of the companys in
terests as well. Another company in
a similar case is reported to have
! been compelled to pay full death
claim Notwithstanding the fact that
the carelessness was clearly not that
Of the employer.
Inc latter company, which had prev
iously employed a nurse and provided
It's injured and sick employees with
the best of medical and surgical care,
added new employe to insure them
against similar financial loss. The
man is mounted on a motorcycle and
calls at the homes of employees who
are absent without notifying their
! foremen of an intention to clay off"
4 SO much time of employees has been
saved through this means that the
company now considers the liability
payment to have been, indirectly, the
best investment ever made in their
business.
4 People whose business it is to know
OF the comparatively large number of
instances in which supposedly trivial
scratches result in death are not care
less Of minor injuries that occur to
! them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
SCIENCE OF SEED CORN
DON'T NEGLECT THE MATTER
NOW, AND TRY TO REMEDY 1T
IN THE SPRING BY TEST.

This is the month to save seed corn.
Go in the field and select the best
formed ears, as soon as the kernels
are we'll dented.
See that the stalks on which the
ears grow are strong and vigorous,
the ears hanging about waist high.
Remove all husks and silk. Gather
at least twice as much as will be need
ed for seed next year. Take it at once
to your dwelling house and store in
room that has good ventilation and
artificial heat, that it can be fire-dried.
Place the ears on racks or Slated
shelves or hang them with Irvine that
will insure a free circulation of air
between the ears.
Open the windows in dry weather.
close them in wet or damp weather.
Keep up the fire heat until the ears
are thoroughly dried
Fire-dried seed corn has much more
vitality than air-dried seed, grows
stronger and yields better.
Never allow any dampness where
seed corn is kept. While moderate
cold may not materially injure seed
corn when well dried the temperature
of the room, attic or basement if dry
and warm, where seed corn is kept.
should never fall to the freezing point.
When Smelling seed corn, Just be-
fore planting reject all tip and butt
kernels, also any ears that may have
nodded or appear unfit for seed from
any cause
Sort the ears according to the size.
OF the kernels and shell separately to
insure uniform dropping by the plant
er.
By following strictly the foregoing
methods during more than forty years
on an Iowa farm I never had a poor
stand or replanted on account of poor
seed, and with an almost perfect stand
OF three stalks to hill.
There were three serious fail
u es | was member of the board of
control; the saving of seed corn at
our state farms received my personal
attention and the foregoing method
was the rule.
Result: Not single hill was re-
planted on account Of poor seed and
invariably full stand secured, with
out waste of time in testing.
During the last twenty-five years
the farmers Of this country have lost
hundreds of millions of dollars by
failure to gather their seed corn in
a proper manner
Had my advice in regard to saving
seed corn been taken, now given for
more than an average lifetime thru
the press and at farmers and other
meetings, the additional yield of corn
IN Iowa, if sold at market price, would
have hard-surfaced every public high
way in the state.-John Cownie, form
er member Iowa Board of Control.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
TRUTHFUL TOM.
(Galena Gazette. }

A U. S. Senator rose in that august
body the other day and delivered
himself as follows:
Instead of spending money in
catching cattle ticks, killing coyotes,
poisoning ground squirrels, doctor
ing wild ducks, treating goats suffer-
ing with Malta fever, sending out
useless garden and vegetable seeds,
passing pork barrel river and har-
Dor bills, and pork barrel public
building bills, would it not be better
to get down to rigid bedrock econ
omy and cut these useless expendi-
lures off and save the people from
the never-ceasing visits of the tax
gatherer?
Instead of increasing income and
corporation taxes and other ordinary
taxes-in fact, doubling them to an
unjust and Objectionable degree and
yet falling short of revenue because
OF constantly increasing demands
| would suggest that we capitalize
the nations credit. Issue longtime
low-rate investment bonds, if neces-
sary of small denomination, and let
the future generation bear it's share
of this preparedness burden
The beauty of this truthful state
ment is that it was made by Thomas
Taggart, Democratic senator from the
state of Indiana. Further comment
is unnecessary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
CHESTERTON'S HYMN.

0 God of earth and altar
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers alter
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us.
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.
From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches
That comfort cruel men,
From sale and proclamation
Of honor and the sword,
From sleep and from damnation
Deliver us, good Lord.
Tie in a living tether
The priest and prince and thral
Bind all our lives together,
Smite us and save us all;
In ire and eXultation
Aflame with faith, and free,
Lift up living nation,
A single word to Thee.
C. K. Chesterton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

Bish wants to know how much Of
his editorial broadside we agree with.
Well, since you ask us, quite a good
deal. We agree with you in your stand
on Americanism, and if the crisis ever
comes the Herald will stand for the
old flag first, regardless of what party
is in power. Bish is such good
fellow that we hate to see him go
bugs" on presidential issues, but we
will be charitable with him because
we like him. Now, Bish, about the
worst calamity possible for this coun-
try, would be to have four years more.
Our little voice is going to be raised
in protest against such an outcome
from now until the votes are counted
in November.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
AFTER ALL.

She's athletic, academic,
But she's the girl for me.
For I've seen her all unknowing
With a baby on her knee.
She Rugged the dimpled kidder,
And she tossed him to and fro.
And the little fellow gurgled,
For he liked it, don't you know.
And then she sang a ballad,
The kind that makes you cry,
But the kiddy-boy lay smiling,
Looking off into the sky.
Then his eyelids closed so slowly,
And my grille laid him down,
Kissed his round head very gently,
Turned-and met me with a frown.
She may beat at golf or tennis,
May do awful stunts of Greek,
But I've seen the real, true grille
She may hide, but I will seek.
She may play at independence,
She may prate Of brains and mind,
But to make that grille love me
The way I'll surely find.
She may jeer and fiout and scorn me,
But yet will make her see
That the best worth while of all her
Stunts is-just to marry me.
Mary Starbuck in Life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

81 stand for an Americanism that
KNOWS no Interior purpose, for a pa
triOtism that is single and complete.
Whether native or naturalized, of
whatever race Or creed, we have but
one country, and we do not for an in
slant tolerate any division of alIegi-
ance."
CHAS. Il. HUGHES.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
1000

A few years ago we heard a great
deal about billion dollar congress.
Now two billion dollar congress ex-
cites only passing comment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

Now the word comes that cats and
dogs spread infantiIe paralysis. We
have always felt that unless Tabby
.or Towser are washed thoroughly at
regular intervals and have Clearly
habits, house pets of any kind are
"a positive menace.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
+ Plattayi11p

at Platteville. Methods now being
worked out will undoubtedly overcome
this trouble. But the squirrels don't
eat the insulation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
OOO-

Now, we are going to ask you, what
are you going to do with all the filthy
1ucre you will save on revenue stamps e?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
1000

That Long Island justice who re-
fused to fine a woman speeder because
she was pretty, should find his prop
er place among the shippers in the
fox trot.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

Don't become frightened, but frost
is on the way and winter just few
months around the corner.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

Good morning! Have you enrolled
in our circulation campaign?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
600

Get busy on your seed corn this
week; dry it out, keep it dry and
warm all winter; don't let it get cold
enough to freeze-and next winter you
won't need to test and test, perhaps
rejecting number of ears. All grain
is fertile nOw-it won't be if it gets
frozen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
1000

Doesn't it seem like we go to ex-
tremes sometimes in our protection of
the working classes and forget some
thing of the rights of the employing
classes? For instance, we have an
admirable industrial act which pro-
vides for accident insurance and COM
pels employers to carry insurance at
their own expense or else shoulder
their own risk. This is a good law
and fair one. But how about the
employer himself? In nine cases out
of ten he has risen from the employed
and finds himself without protection
of any kind. You say let him take
out regular insurance. Very good,
but why should he have to pay rates
far in excess of what he has to pay
to insure his own help? Why should
not some legislation be enacted for
the employer, who shoulders all the
risk, provides the capital, acquires
the gray hairs and sits up nights wor-
rying how he can keep his employ
es rrOftably occupied so he can fur
nish them means of making a living?
True he does these things for the pur-
pose Of gain. On the other hand, he
wonders sometimes where his own
living is coming from and whether
his effort is properly appreciated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20
CONSCIENCE DOTH MAKE COW
ARDS OF US ALL!

In the long run it doesn't pay to be
thief Winfield Beacon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

The Herald has no disposition to
open old sores or to rake up bitter
feeling over the result Of the primary
election. Couldn't make us sore at
all, because. there is no use for feel
ing badly no matter how things turn
ed out. On the other hand, just as a
friendly tip, we want to say to our
progressive newspaper friends, that
any attempt to drive the conservative
republicans, who happened to differ
with Senator LaFollette, into his ranks
worst kind, is likely to cause a revul-
sion in November. Hard names and
mudslinging are not going to make
votes for anybody and don't you for
get it,
900
Now, since the SOLDERING "confes-
sions of a wife" seem to have run
their day as the woman in the case
has practically nothing more to con-
TESS, we are being treated to a new
series, called '"The Confessions of
Roxane." Roxane, it seems, is an in
nocuous little idiot who is illustrat-
ed each issue in different attitudes
wearing only her night dress. Roxane
is having trouble with her husband,
evidently a young roue, and as she
has been caught doing few things
she ought to be spanked for, she as
sumes the pose of cruelty deserted
wife. Roxane's husbands name is
Arthur. We would advise ROxane and
Arthur to make up, raise a family, and
''for the love Of Mike" quit writing
for the newspapers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

1t is encouraging indeed to see the
way in which Mr.. Hughes states his
views on the railroad question. No
trimming here even though certain
unthinking voters may be alienated.
Right is right" regardless of exped-
iency, and Hughes declares boldly for
the principle of arbitration. In his
New Hampton, N. H., speech. Hughes
spoke as follows:
1--WE cannot afford to surrender
what we have won for our institutions
in this country" the nominee said
What have we won? We have won
the right to free discussion, a free
press, a democratic form of govern
ment, free assemblage, free legisla-
lures and an executive chosen by the
people We have left autocracy. We
have left tyranny. We have left force
They shall not come back if we can
prevent it.
1--WE have recently seen what I re
gard as a very deplorable surrender
of that principle. l am for the arbi-
tration of industrial disputes. That
is in the interests of labor. Labor
cannot afford to surrender that prin-
ciple.
I'VE have recently had the proposal
of the executive act passed by con
gress, cOnfessedly in ignorance OF
what justice demands. 1t is not al
eight-hour a day law. 1t is a wage
law and nobody knew whether it was
just or not.
"Now, l am for justice in everything
but l propose that in all we do we
shall investigate first and then legis-
late. Our methods in this country are
of priceless Importance to us because
they are methods which conserve oul
peace. 1t is only one step from peace
full settlement Of such disputes to the
denunciatiOn of our courts and all the
machinery of peaceful settlement Il
is only another step to the abdicatior
of government itself"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

Take slant at the new Buick and
look over those Juicy merchandise
orders. Win first prize if you can,
and, if not, remember that if you win
second, third, fourth or fifth prize it
will go long ways on your grocery,
lumber, coal or clothing bill. A free
field for all and no favorites.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

Jake KlaUer of the Cassville Rec
ord, comes out with a personal letter
from Hon. Gift. Pinchot in which the
truly progressive Pinchot outlines his
reasons for supporting Hughes and
opposing Wilson. Now, Jake, if you
don't stop we are going to begin
Dragging about our personal invita-
tiOn to the Hughes notification and of
the weekly letters we receive from
Mr.. Wilcox Of the national committee
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

Now comes the word that Vernon
Castle, the apostle of the foxtrot, bun
nyhug, maxixe, hesitation and San
Francisco glide, has been killed in the
European war. For the benefit of peO-
pie who have to work with their hands
instead Of their feet it may be said
that Mr. Castle is the worlds leading
exponent of the art Terpsichore War,
as Gen. Sherman once sagely remark
ed, is certainly hell-and repeat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

The trouble with a great many very
well-meaning and Individually excel
lent people is that they expect reforms
too quickly. We hope and pray for
changes and very frequently achieve
them, only to find the fundamental
conditions about the same as before
Your true reformer says, Nov if we
can only do this thing, bring it about,
we will be greatly improved, every
one will be much happier, corruption
will be less, folk more honest and the
world much better place all around"
We take his advice and pass a law.
Then we find after the law has work
ed a while that the evils it was meant
to do away with were basal rather
than on the surface and dealt more
with the fundamental knavery of hui
man kind than this or that condition.
Then the refOrmer curses and walls
and tears his hair because, he thinks,
a cog slipped somewhere The wise
man who doesn't take all things too
seriously, even reform or uplift, smiles
and knows that the mills of the AL
mighty grind slowly, and, perforce,
sometimes not at all, and that the
Lord, to whom a day is even as a
thousand years, regards our little
span as only speck in the sands of
time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-31
NO GENERAL WAGE INCREASE

Pennsylvania Railroad clerks to-
day heard more reports from Phila-
delphia that salaries would soon take
a rise. This rumor has been in circu-
lation for several weeks. Inquiries by
local officials brought a statement
from Philadelphia that no general in
crease would be Forthcoming at this
time.
1t was explained that in some de-
partments salaries had been read
justed, so that employees received pay
for full time they worked. In some
instances it is said, freight clerks are
on duty for twelve hours, but receive
pay for ten hours. Further adjust
ments will be made where conditions
warrant, is the announcement to-day
from Altoona.