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3 Jfl Fall Styles ! ! Tft Men's Shoes In ! |p $3 $3.50 's4 J and $5.00 I? Every ou« knows that IF [ shoes are the baro meter of the •* whole . You can’t atford -to p"** neglect them. And what a pleasure to s know that there is one shoe that saves you all worry on this score. The “ Walk-over' 7 does this. - When . Walk-Overs go on trouble goes off. As we have just received a complete line of Men’s Walk-Overs, we ask the favor of your inspection. L. WEBER, Lancaster, - j Wisconsin. Baled Shavings for the COW or HORSE Try them and you will use all the time.. More - • w , *<e*. sanitary, absorbs moisture aud cheaper per ton than straw. I have them in stock.. Don’t forget the best of all, The “Great Made lia’s Best’’ Flour. New car just received. •t • • • Price is right. It pays to get the bask quality. New crop of Tim >thy and Clover Soed,:!for seoding. Bay now. Yours to please ! - T. F. ORTON. Are You Interested In Groining Orchards > 1 of good varieties of apples? If so read the proposition I have to offer. You cau buy on these conditions: To have purchase price refunded if they ate not whit yon order. To make this assertion stronger I will say, parties buying an orchard from me will hive the privilege of waiting uutil they have proven to be tru9 to mm* before paying for them Bear in mind lam headquarters for evergreen trse-> and strawberry plants. They are mu ;h m >re desirable than st ick shippel from a distance. □ J7IVI~PRINGLE, Cassville, WiT. | .1 Slit. I Edwards Bros., Props, Same Old Place. Same Old Liquors. Same Cor dial Treatment. Best pf Everything in the Drinking Liue. Lioster - Wisconsin «1 Live Stock 1 Auctioneer Call me up v over the Far mers? phone. General Auc tioneering. Stock Sales a Specialty ; Geo. P. Finnegan FENNIMoBE. - WISCONSIN WELL! WELL! WELL! It beata all. What beata all? Why the Red Trunk cig&r 44-ts FARM FOR SALE: 50 acres situated i *4 mile west of city limits of Lancas ter; good frame house 24x32; frame barn 16x20 with lean-to; hay shed and ice house; never failing spring. Inquire of -Geo. E. Bodd 4indc2mo Lancaster, Wis 1 DRILLING Ready to contract for one or two thousand feet for mineral j pros pecting. Gua ra n tee d satisfaction, also cuttings taken care of without extra charge. I 1 have two first class outfits running and I am ? C preparing the third, can attend to your work at once. \Y rite or phone. lk*ll or Farm ! ers’ phones. Thomas Webb, ' UWMSTEfI, For Sale... Twenty pure bred*"Polan3- China brood sows. There are ?££:ihe big type Polands. They will make from 500 to 800 pound hogs. They are well marked, with thick smooth coats of hair. They are of vigorous growth and from big litters. They weigh from 175 to 200 pounds. If you waut hogs of this kind, call me up before you buy. Re member that the Badger Hill Farm herd accord no superi ority to any. Also 25 pure bred sinhle-comb brown leghorn cockerels. Everett A. Cairns MT. HOPE, • WISCONSIN BRANT COUNTY HERALD. LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, JANUARY 9, LW7 (Continued from page 2) tions, and the issue of storks and bonds by them should be under the supervision of the state com minion charge! with regulation of such cor porations. Massachusetts and New York have provided that no stocks or bonds shall be issued by this class of corporations without application hav ing' first been made to the state com mission and its approval obtained after an examination as to the necessity of such issue, aud the methods and pur poses of the investment of the pro ceeds. With capitalization measured by actual investment, just rates can readily be ascertained, and the aecuni inulatlou of large surplus ' fmVds through excessive charges may thus be prevented. ' s Municipal Ownership. There is a growing sentiment in favor of municipal ownership and en conragmient should he extended, in this direction, especially with respect to water works and gas and lighting plants. I recommend the necessary legislation to enable any city or village to establish public utilities, or to ac quire such as may already exist under the power of eminent domain, and to pay for the same out of the proceeds of certificates of indebtedness, which nicy be made a lien on the property so acquired. In the purchase of such utiMties by the municipality, it should not he required to pay an exorbitant sum for the franchises where the satin* have been granted without.considera tion The legislation already recom mended to limit the duration of ex isting franchises would be a material •»id to municipalities contemplating the Miiivha.se of public utilities. T have treated this subject at some length because I am thoroughly con vinced of its great importance, and * It:; t the regulation of these corpora tions by a state commission is a neces sity. The sentiment of'the people of the state, as expressed in lhe several party platforms. Is pronounced and emphatiy far legislation fflviliff iUe UUik CiYeciixc cuuiroi ove» puuijc ’ hire. well as the executive. Stahr! iPledged to the enactment of a law pro \ f«ji 4 he regulation of the rate?? which shall he charged and the serv ices, which shall be rendered by such cprporaticqi&.-fqt: the determination of tlie valuations of. property of a,)l ; cor porations engaged in n puhlic,seKvice. fin* th,e> regulation. of the Issue of apd bonds of such corporations a.mj/for- the restriction of such issue to gctpal value. • . ji Insurance Legislation. At a special session of the legisla ture, held in December. 1905, there was adopted a joint resolution known ns Joint resolution No. 1, providing for tlie appointment of a committee to “make a thorough investigation and examination into the methods of transacting business followed by insur ance corporations; to investigate and examine into the expenditures in all matters including their expenditure in curred in the employment of legisla tive and municipal lobbies in making payment of contributions to candidates, committees or others to be used for political or campaign purposes, in pay ing wages, salaries and expenses of of ficers. tyronts, attorneys and employes; tc examine into and investigate tin* methods employed by such companies in securing business and in paying com missions and other compensations to agents, officers and employes; to ex amine into and investigate the nature and condition of their investments. { methods of making such investments. i and the manner in which their funds. ; securities and assets are safeguarded.” A law was passed, investing such com mittee with plenary powers in order to enable it to best carry out tlu* terms of the resolution. The committee, appointed pursuant to legislative enactment has spent no rly an entire year in the discharge of its duties. The report of this com mittee. including its recommendations for additional legislation, will be placed before you. Tile exhaustive mss of Ibis investigation, the calc with which it has been prepared to aid legislative deliberation and the ex tensive legislation recommended, amounting practically 1o a revision of our statutes regarding the regulation of Hfo insurance companies, precludes ih rt v of specific executive rec uon emlations concerning this sub ject. (fiowth of State Institutions. The state board of control, charged \\ Ph the administration of the charita ble. penal and reformatory institutions ,»f the state, in its biennial report describes the condition of these sev eral institutions as very satisfactory. Nothing has transpired during the past two vents which has in any way im paired their efficiency. The health of tin large number of inmates has been unusually goo#.- with the exception of a few cases of smallpox at the North ern Hospital for Insane, the School for the Blind and the Home Tor the Feeble Minded Most active steps were taken by the authorities to pre vent the spread of the disease, and it was* soon eradicated. A persual of the report gives th** people of the state reason to take just pride in the magnificent system of car ing for its unfortunates, which has been developed only through years of labor and the expenditure of la rg sums of money. Every system and method advanced bv science for rhe treatment of these charges of the state has been adopted, and in completeness and efficiency our institutions compare favorably with the best private institu tions equipped for similar work. Th** success with which they have been conducted, both from the standpoint of the officials directly in charge aud through the supervisory administrative agency of the board of control, has at tracted widespread attention aud has caused the Wisconsin system to be adopted as a model by man*/ of charitable and correct: via l institutions of the country. During the last biennial period the atteinlanee at these institutions lu»s in creased from ”.270 to 11,511 on .luue 30. 190*1. a growth of 252. The re|M»rt of the board shews th * urgent necessity of purchasing »*d ‘i tiona! land hi certain of the state in stitutions in order that the inmate? may. Ue provided with labor, .and many of the. an pi fiies necessary for their nialntepmice be grown without ex pense to the state Suitable tracts of land can be .obtained at reasonable prices, but they .will not long remain on the market without a material in crease in value. _ State. Prison. Certain additions and new buildings arc vailed for. which it appears are needed* in order -that the institutions can keep pace with the growth of the 'state. An appropriation of sso.*n:o is needed to complete and equip the-cell house now under construction at the statt* prison. Tender tlic new contract for convict labor, which went into ef fect "''shortly before the last report of tire'board of control, the revenues of the prison have been materially in creased. The receipts for convict la bor for I!m»*> were $74,727.58 and for 1905 were $71,137.99. as compared wbh $47,094.30 for the year 1903 and s<><>,- 322.57 for the year 1904. a gain in the last biennial period of $38,848.05 over the previous period. Home for Feeble Minded. At no institution are conditions so crowded as at the Home for the Feeble Minded at Chippewa Falls. In tile ten years since its establishment, the pop illation has grown to 087, yet the facilities now provided fall far short of these needed to furnish accommo dations for this class of unfortunates. It is estimated that there are 4.<>o<> feeble minded persons In the state. The courts have committed 250 patients but owing to the lack <>f “room, they cannot he received. In addition ta these there are 400 applications for admission, and doubtless large num bers. knowing the hopelessly crowded condition*, for that reason Tail to ask admission. The original plans for this home provided for the aocfljpunodath»i persons. In order to carry out these planX three mure cottages are needed, providing for 300 patients It may be well for the feg islature XO consider the question of materially enlarging this Institution, and T therefore reconiiuen£ that *p pro^rlution be ujjuTJT for two new dormitories, which will cost jvljffn equipped "not to e^cce<TT4b.s6o each. State Hospital for Insane. The board calls attention to the necessity of making certain appropria tion* to improve the sanitation and heating facilities at several of tlh» state institutions. The amounts are not large, and since they minister in so large a degree to the health, com fort and safety of the inmates. I am confident that such reasonable ex penditures will meet with your ap proval. At the State Hospital for the Insane at Miendota there is urgent need for the reconstruction of the plumbing and sewage system, a receiving house similar to the one at the Northern hos pital and a new cold storage and a bakery. Education. The tolal amount expended for in struction in the schools under the su pervision of the county superintendent for tiie year ending .lune 30. 1900. was $5,497,3i2.79: in eities. $3,485,049.92. or a total of $8,082,992.02. The state shows its interest in maintaining pub lic education by making provision for 'distributing among the public schools of the state $1,870,000, as aid in main taining the common schools, the free high schools, the state graded syhools. the agricultural schools and the county training schools. The state university represents the culmination of our system of public education. The biennial report of tee board of regents shows the same large annual increase in attendance which during the last ten years has amounted to an almost marvelous growth. The state has dealt liberally with this institution, and so generally have the people of all classes in this state availed themselves of the excellent facilities for higher education thus pro vided. that, its beneficent influence is felt in all parts of the state. Its ef fects have been of great practical value. While the College of Agricul ture has added an immense sum to the wealth of the state, as a result of its investigations in scientific agriculture, dairying and stock raising, the School of Commerce. College of Law and the College of Engineering have been pre paring the young men for business and professional walks of life. Even with the great additions and extensions to the university during recent years, the facilities are still inadequate, and its requirements for the next bieunlal period will he strongly urge# before the legislature. Dairy and Food Commission. Wisconsin ranks among the foremost dairy states of the union. In the ex tent and variety of her dairy products she is excelled by ty>ne. They yield an annual income of upwards of $57,- 000,000 going to enrich the farmers of the state. The importance of this In dustry extends beyond the producers and affects the entire population. Suitable inspection of the methods and materials used in the manufacture of these p-o lin ts is a matter of concern to the state both from the standpoint of promoting the (laity industry and protecting the public. The legislature of 1905 ga*e evid<*nce that tins srate was to adopt \ leva# and comprehensive fo«»d and dal «r policy, adequate in some just sense to our needs. Ten officers were added to the department who were required to l»e experts in th»* field of dairy au# Total inspection. Noi until the of the foregoing provision by the legis lature, au»l by amendments to prev iously existing statutes. did Wiacoii sio enter upon a comprehensive protec tive policy. The report of the dairy and food commission for the last biennial period shows a result which must be most gratifying to the people of the state. A total of 10,187 samples of food pro ducts have beeu analyzed by the chemists of the commission: 12,98 b samples of milk have been tested by the dairy experts; 4,200 inspections of cheese factories, cremeries and skim ming stations have been made; 6,000 meat markets, groceries, and other places for the sale of food were in spected. and the milk supply of sixty cities and villages was thoroughly ex amined. For the violation of the dairy and food laws 235 convictions were secured and tines imposed, which to gether with inspections and other lines of work by the commission have re sulted in a revolution in food matters in Wisconsin. Needed amendments to existing food and dairy la ws should be made, neces sary new laws enacted and the commis sion so strengthened that the impor tant duties entrusted to it may be so discharged as to give the largest meas ure of protection to the public. [The governor here refers to the bureau of labor and industrial statis tics and recommends that the commis sioner he authorized to employ addi tional clerical assistance In cases of extraordinary demands upon the de partment and that there be made available for this purpose a fund not to exceed $2,500 annuallly. The gov ernor advocates the semi-annual ex amination of banks in tbe state and legislation eoneeming branch banks. He also recommends the passage of a law permitting railway employes to re cover damages fov injuries received if their negligence was less, than the rail way companies. The governor also tecum mends the reorganisation of the state civil service, 1 #’*■ T Commission. The educational work represented by the activities of the free library com mission has beeu carried to many heretofore unreacited sections of the state during the laat biennial period. Tim traveling librarloa have, been ainb tipned several roW and now rtmre than 50i> stations in al! sections of Wisconsin. The number of public libraxiea which been with the aid of the eotamlsstym. now reach tlte gratifying total of j»l, rap** reseating a larger numlter than any other stay hi the northwest tmd in proftortiou to population compaiing favorably with any state in the union. fThe governor here tells of tin* work ; of the state geological survey and the state board of forestry. PH in ary Election. The primary election law' passed by the legislature of 1903. and adopted by a vote of the people at the general election in 1904. was given its first trial in 1900. While opportunity had been previously afforded to observe the operation of the law in the nomina tion of municipal officers, it remained for the general election of 11*a; to sub ject this measure to the severe test of state wide application. In general the law lias been a success, and gives ev ery indication of accomplishing the re sults promised for it. [The governor here tells of the work of the live stock sanitary board and the commissioners of fisheries.] State Militia. From personal observations at the annual encampments of ■ the state guards, and from an examination of the report of the adjutant general, I am able to state that the \\ iscousin soldiery has been improved to a stand ard of efficiency, unsurpassed, if equaled by the national guard of any other state. The uniformly high de gree of efficiency attaiued by the Wis consin militia is attested by United States army officers, detailed as in spectors and instructors of state mili tary forces. Stale Capitol. The commission charged with the procurement of plans tor a new cap itol under the acts of the last legis lature. have, after much care and con sideration. accepted the design pre pared by George P>. Post & Sons, archi tects of New York city. The plans contemplate eventually, as the legis lature shall direct, the construction of an entire building which it is believed you will find promises to be L.g.oy satisfactory. i Conclusion. In conclusion let me express <lc» hope that in all your deliberations y >u will be actuated by the supreme desire to legislate in the interest of the pub lic weal. Numerous and varied de mands will be made upon your atten tion. The absolute growth of the state, and the increasing ueed for the further exercise of its supervisory powers will, of necessity, add to the cost of government. All extravagance Kill That Cough or it will Kill You! We handle the standaid Remedies for all diseases of mankind. Our Pre scription Department is our Personal Pride and receives most careful attention. JOS. T. BENNETT, Druggist Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Never Suspect it How To Find Out. Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or set - tling indicates an -sunhealthy con dition of the kid */f 'if ne >' s ! if if stains your linen it is ynj evidence of kid rr!J2L ney trouble ; too frequent desire to pass it or pain -—j n the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys • and bladder are out of order. What To Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer s Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy, ful rills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of l.iquor, wine or beer, aud overcomes that unpleasant ne cessity of being compelled to go often during the da)', and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most dis tressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by drug gists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle and a book that tells all about it, both sent free by mail. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing hamton, N. Y. When writing mention this paper and don’t make any mistake, but remember the name. Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y. S CHESTER’S ENGLISH YROYAL PILLS THE DUMOXII Ba&XO. /X .adie?. J Ask your Druggist for /A Fill* in Bh1( A\ M Gold metallic boxes, sealed ith Blue Ribbon. Take no other. W tuy c« your Druggist and ask for ▼ ’HI.CHES-TEB’S ENGLISH, the lIAUOXO BBANO PILLS, lor *8 ears’ regarded as Best, Safest, Always leliable. Sold by Druggists everywhere.’ V €bea!o»l Co., Philadelphia, Pa. __ _ """"pip"*. should 5c avoided and appropriations made only after careful scrutiny. Th® spirit of watchfulness oyer the public treasury, however, should be a true oc+nomy, one which tenjls to a wilt expenditure of public money's,/:rather than a parsimonious provision for th® discharge of those lofty duties em bodied Id conception statO- The legislature is tbe highest ftfuntalk* of law. and to you the attention of the people is directed for the solution of those vital to their welfare, Th® people desire a short session atld jU trust that you will fg expedite raat t<M;« a* duejeonsifioration of the a|> fairs of state will permit. It is a honor to be chosen to represent, one's fellow citizens. An important truab Is thereby conferred. In ai! your ef fort 8 to discharge this trust for the ad vancement of the inoral and material welfare of the people, you are assured of heavy executive co-operation. JAMES O. DAVIDSON. —*■— ■ ■ Statue of General McClellan. Washington, Jan. 8. —It is announced at the Avar department that the com mission having in charge the erection, in this city of the equestrian' statue of General George B. McClellan had fixed upon Maj' 2 as the date for the unveil ing. instead of May 15, as previously announced. Nominated by the President. Washington. Jan. S.—The president has sent to rlie senate the nomination of Thomas C. Elliott, as surveyor at the port of Cairo, 111. COWS HAVE HYDROPHOBIA Mad Dog Starts It and Now the Bo vines Are Biting Each Ot her. Saginaw, Midi.. .Tan. 8. Smith’s Crossing, live miles beyond Freeland, this county, is in a turmoil of excite ment over an epidemic of hydrophobia. Eight weeks ago a mad dog came down the river road from the direction of Midland biting everything in its path. It was finally dispatched by a farm er. whom it attacked, after a fierce battle. So vicious was the dog that the farmer’s horses would not pass It in the road trembling in their tracks. He beat it off and later with a neigh bor killed the animal. Within the last few days every dog in the hamlet has gone mad, four foaming-mouthed canines being killed in one day. Three hogs belonging to me man went mad from hydrophobia and five cows owned by another vil lager have become rabid. The rows went rearing and plunging about the barnyard, bellowing with all their might and biting each other. It I* believed that many other cattle and hogs, and possibly horses, have been bitten. Home ot Bwamp-Root.