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GRANT COUNTY HERALD TWICE A WEEK Entered April 30. 1903. ai Lancaster. Wis as second class matter under act of Cong ress of March 3, 1b79. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER. Bel Phone No. 12. Farmer’s Phone No. 49. B. J. LOWREY, Editor and Prop. Subscription Price, f 1.50 Per year. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For President— WILLIAM H. TAFT of Ohio. For Vice President— JAMES S. SHERMAN of New York. The Monroe Journal quotes a prom inent democrat as saiyng: ‘ ‘Of course we do not expect to carry Wis consin but we will scare h— out of some of the republicans.” It is asserted that President Roose velt will get into the speaking game some time during the campaign and make a fiew speeches for Taft in the close states if the situation seems to demand it. He’ll stir ’em up some if he does. Notwithstanding his statement a few weeks ago that be could not afford, because of personal reasons, to become a candidate for a second term as governor of New York, the pleasure has become so great, because of the reforms he has set out to accomplish, for his re-nomination, that Gov. Hughes h«s announced that he will again be a candidate. He is making a splendid executive. ' Congressman J. W. Murphy, of this district, a democrat who owes his election to the office to republican votes in a republican distiict, is quoted as saying in Milwaukee last week that he felt perfectly sure of re election, and that it makes absolute ly no difference who the republican candidate against him may be. Such sublime self-confidence is perfectly beautiful. The factional 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. 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 in 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 a notice in the press of such a meeting and cognizance of Americans by England’s nobility would have caused grjat consternation. President Roosevelt is very much displeased over the decision of the United States circuit court of appeals in reversing the .decision of Judge Landis last year by which the Stand ard oil trust was assessed a fine of more than $29,000,000, and although he is not making his plans puolic 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 meted 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. It 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. BOOMING CANDIDATES. The Herald prints in another col umn, a cuuple of communicated articles advocating the candidacy of C. E. Tutfiey, the present incumoent, for the republican nomination for county clerk, and S. A. Cook for U. S. senator. It 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 hav ing their merits and arguments placed before the people whose suffrage they are seeding. We therefore take pleas ure in publishing these two articles and other candidates will oe 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 consider it advisable to express a 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. TAFT’S 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 stand upon Pnillipine 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. It is an able document and worthy of care ful study and preservation through out the campaign. The Herald hopes to print it m its entirety in the Sat urday issue. POSTAL BANKS AND STATE GUAR ANTEE. Most of the successful bankers of the state aie 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 piivate banks? No doubt they would like to restore confi dence in such banks through a system under which successful banks might be stung for the failure of unsuccess ful 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 indorses state guarantee, but even that docuument admits that postal savings banks would be a substitute. It would be such substitute and an unobjection able one. Z A senate bill providing for postal banks will come to a vote early in December. The idea is endorsed in the Chicago platform. Probably be fore our legislature is well 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. 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 its 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 a Wis consin conservation commission, to coperate with the national commis sion. The Wisconsin commission is composed of the following named men who are particularly well 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 the session ot 1907. George A. Whiting. Appleton. paper manu facturer and president of the Wisconsin Valley Improvement company. E. M, Griffith. Madison, state forester. Dr. E. A. Birge, dean of the college of let ters and science in the state university and president of the Wisconsin geological and natural history survey. J. H. Stout, Menominie, state senator and former lumberman. H. P. Bird, Wausaukee, state senator aud lumberman. of these commissioners are members of the national commission, President Van Hise being a member of the division on minerals, and Mr. Irvine being a member of the divi sion on forests. w—■ Most of the other states will also co-operate with the president in this movement. The members of the com mission will work w’ithout salary or other renumerator because of their in terest in this important cause. IT LOOKS LIKE KOPP. From the present indications, it looks as if A. W. Kopp of Platteville would be the nominee of the Republi cans for Congress. There seems to be a general sentiment against going north of the river for a Congressman and that the southern tier ot count ies, comprising lowa 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 tional lines, aud the successful candi date will have the support of a united party, which assures \victory at the polls in November.—Dodgeville Chronicle. Draft and Driving Horses Wanted. F. G. Wright will be in Lancaster Friday, July 31st for the purpose of buying draft and driving horses for the eastern market. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WIS., JULY 29, 1908. A Lodge In Africa. Rome weeks ago James Creelman stated In Pearson’s Magazine that President Roosevelt W’ished 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 Af rican trip. He stated that the presi dent wants to get out of reach of the telegraph and the interview’er 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, w’ho was lost to the world for many years. In Liv ingstone’s day the African continent w’as known to civilized man only along its 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, Speke and Burton, Is now provided with railway and telegraph, and steamboats ply upon lakes which, when their ex istence w’as first announced by the dis coverers, the world refused to believe in. It 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 a 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 w’ho is dar ing enough can lose himself to all in tents and purposes and stay lost if ho chooses during the lifetime of at least one administration. It is only fifty years since the dark continent w r as opened to die w’hite man, and nearly half of that period w’as given to ex ploration and mapmaking as a pre liminary to colonizing and the intro duction of the white man’s methods. Of the millions of natives of Africa the mass are as w’ild 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 w’ho prefers elephant and lion hunting to the customary quiet retirement of a 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. 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 it is getting them from all coun tries of the world. Instead of being a forlorn hope struggle, as w’as 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. Two important points have been im pressed upon the public mind by the successful experiments of doctors made known through the deliberations of congresses and the publications em anating from them. Oxygen is now known to be a curative agent, and If taken in its incipiency consumption can lie cured. Once knowledge of the first symptoms of the infection can be carried to every adult in the land the ravages of tuberculosis can be reduced to the minimum. One of the objects of associations formed to fight this w ar is to spread this knowledge broad cast as quickly as possible. When peo ple know’ the signs they will also avoid contamination. A later but not less important work w’lll be the regu lar Inspection of children and youths and the separation of the healthy from contact with those infected. If you must get busy canoeing, young man, put in at least one sum mer learning how before you ask your best girl to take a chance with you. Incidentally while learning wear a bathing suit and have a life preserver handy. One w’ho rocked the boat w’as drown ed, w hile all the others on the craft es caped. which show’s that the fool killer occasionally sees his duty and does it. Often the pioneer opens a hole and makes an assignment. His successor deepens the hole and makes a fortune. The pace that kills may be as slow as a snail’s and end in one’s getting stepped on. , One sure way to end the losing of money on elections is to abolish elec tions. Boys cradled in the lap of luxury seldom turn out a credit to their moth ers. The Dominion of the Mind. Some novel and interesting observa tions on the action of electricity upon the human body have recently been contributed to Nature-Knowledge by Dr. Otto Pfordten' This German sci entist affirms that the action of elec 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. It 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 350 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 30,000 volts without suffering the least harm. Dr. Pfordten calls this a con trol of electric fluid and adds, “There is something imposing in this idea that the will power in such a case op 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 surprise of the unexpected shock and 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 caped 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. It is generally assumed that one may invite a serious ailment through the imagination. Conversely a 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 indolence 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. A Foreign Study of the “Panic.” In a 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 im provements and extensions, specula tion and personal extravagance. 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 1,200,000 immi 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 a 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 a 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. It 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 mer chandise at ruinous prices, the usual ac companiment 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 glutting the market with unsalable arti cles. As to the length of time the present de pression will last, it is difficult to form an opinion. It must not be forgotten that the farmers, who form the backbone of American prosperity, have not been af fected by the financial situation. 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. As a social reformer alone Tolstoy would never have commanded world wide appreciation. It was as novelist, and novelist only, that he gained the peak of supremacy. The man who does not believe in maintaining playgrounds for the little ones at the public expense has prob ably never been in a crowded residen tial district on a summer day. The death of a veteran of sixty bat tles, more or less, in an auto accident shows that peace also has her perils no less vicious than war. “The man worth while is the one who can smile when everything goes dead wrong.” Against the ocean gambler the trav eler has one invaluable precaution— 'uTt gamble. 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 ber 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 on 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 nr»ost of them if they are set to work producing wood-lots and forests. But knowledge and judgment are nec 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 well off. Fertile acres are usually fairly profitable, but the gravel bars, rocky knolls, marshy swales and ex hausted and eroded slopes are not Scarcely one of them need remain un productive. They will grow timber— pine, locust poplar, osage 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. It 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 plow the quality of the land itself is improved. Forests add humus to the soil, bettering its character, and it has lately been discovered that the decay ing leaf litter has also the power of gathering from the air a 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. 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 counts for failure in others who try 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 as 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 a mystery to me. Many of our shops are willing to teach boys, but what do they get in re turn? Whfen 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. I believe that manufacturing concerns should re quire a written certificate as to the past whereabouts of men applying for posi tions. It would tend to correct this evil. The decay of any real power of thinking is an adequate explanation of a great deal of the mortality of pros perous 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. livery foreign observer, says the London Spectator, believes that the grand struggle between the “haves ’ and the “have nots” which is to mark the century will be fought out first of all upon American soil. Beef is up because cattie are scarce, but the russet shoe, w r hile lower in cut, Is higher in price. Seems to be just a scheme to get more of our money. King Solomon was never sued for breach of promise, observes a contem porary. Being a wise man, he proba bly never wrote love letters when his intentions were not serious. That “pretender” to the throne of Morocco seems to back up his preten sions with the real thing in bullets. That aeroplane capable of carrying two men will probably be capable es dropping the game number. | WANT COLUMN | VVOULD be pleased to have mv accounts ” settled soon as possible. Those indebt ed please call swn as possible. Mrs. F. C. Burr. LpOUND —In Lancaster, two weeks ago, be x tween the residences of Mrs. Bieg and Mrs. Block, umbrella. Owner «an have same byjcalling at this office and paying for notice. FOR SALE OR KEN'T-Either or both of two ‘arms located in the nor beast cor ner of Beetown on the Bioomington-Lan. caster roal. One of 100 acres belonging to Edward Kiley Sr., aid one of 160 acres be longing to Wm. Short. These farms join and can be rented or purchased together or separately. Inquire of either Mr. Kiley or Mr. Short. TpOUND—A lap robe and side curtains for J- a buggy. Owner can have same by cal ling at this office and paying for notice, it LOST— Gold ring nosefglasses in case south end of Ryland blk. - Leave at this office TV ANTED—A couple of young men to learn, the butcher business. Inquire of L. Alt & Sons. TpOUND—GoId locket. Inquire at Heralcv T office. T ADIES desiring wholesomefacial improve -L‘ ment, meet Miss Lincoln at Wright House, July 23. IfOR SALE or trade for western land , General store building and dwelling house, well located. The rent will pay in terest on $4,500 at 5 per. This is a genuine bargain. Address. Box 137. Ridgeway, Wis. T OST—During home-coming week in Lan caster, sectional gold oval pin, with large amethyst set in center. Reward. Leave at Herald office. Ip ARMS FOR SALE— I have two good farms x situated in Grant county, that I will sei* on reasonable terms. 51tf Jos. H. Bennett. rpHE HERALD can place your order for all kinds of engraving—cards, wedding stationery, announcements, etc. Save your money. T OST—Lady’s gold watch, with initials F -L c. on case. Finder please leave at Herald office and receive reward. Ellsworth AA ilcox . I OST—On July 4. diamond shaped gold -U class pin, with initials L. H. S. ’O9, Finder please return to Leila Bidwell cr leave at Herald office. Pd. TpOR SALE—2OO cords good hard wood: 1200 -L good second-growth white oak posts; 8000 ft. oak saw logs. Inquire of Nick Adams, Lancaster. 47t6 FARM FOR SALE—On easy terms; 240 acres, three miles from Lancaster 125. acres under cultivation; balance good pasture land with running water. Good 10- room house and outbuildings, Address all inquiries to Lock Box 3. Lancaster, Wis. 33-ts. TpOR RENT—Two 5 room houses in the sec- T’ ond ward, near the depot. $5.00 per month. Inquire of J. S. Wright, at Wright- House. Lancaster. 42-w2 TTOR SALE—Good work mare. Inquire of J? 32tf Harley Garner, Beetown. IfONEYito loan on real estate secur ty it* itl sums to suit borrowers. 24-40sw 8- H. Taylor. FARM FORSALE—I2I acres, situated J- miles west of Lancaster. Easy terms. Harry F. Barnett, 103tt Lancaster, Wis. A GENTS WANTED in every town or city. -A to devote all or part ot time to selling White Hand Stove Polish: no italking need ed: sells on* sight. Write today for parti culars- White Hand Polish Co.. Battle Creek. Mich, It WELL! WELL! WELL! Itjbeats all. What beats all? Why the Red Trunk Cigar.44tf TpOR SALE:—Six room house and two lots- J- situated in 4th ward, city of Lancaster. Apply to J. €T. Welsh. sCtf Bloomington, Wis. fpOR SALE—A light wagon in good condi tioja. nearly new. Also a span of mules coming two years old- Enquire of John Weber or at Weber Bros. WANTED girl tert go to Clarion, la. In » V quire of Mrs. A. O, Lee at Albert Bud worths. On the famous Pikes Peak Cog Railway in Colorado, the steef grades of the mountain necessitate the use of cog wheels to control the train, and vibration often so injures ordinary watches that an expert repairman must readjust them. A conductor on the Pikes Peak roaa made a ninety-day test of the South Bend Watch last Summer. No adjustment of the watch was made for the whole period, but at the end oi the test, examination showed a variation of less than one-half second per day. Do you think the watch you carry couid stand a test like this? will be pleased to show you otv line of these watches at any time. For sale and warranted by F. P. BARNETT The Lea’ding Jeweler. P. A. BISHOP Live Stock AUCTIONEER PLATTEVILLE, WIS. Over 500 success ful sales. Inquire by mail or phone. Cheerfully an - swered. ’NUFF SED.