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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-22

legeS to none Inc united states should De
example in all that is good and the leading
spirit in every movement which has for its
object the uplifting Of the human race.
The delivery of Mr.. Bryan's speech
consumed nearly two hours and its
finish was greeted with hearty ap-
plause- The vice presidential nomi-
nee, Arthur Sewall, was next intro
duced, and Gov. Stone presented him
with the formal nomination document
Mr.. Sewal1 made short speech, say
ing among other things:
We demand the free coinage of silver, the
opening of our mints to both money metals
without discrimination. the return to the
money of our fathers. the money of the con-
stitution. gold and silver We believe this is
which we are suffering: the evil that is now SO
fast devastating and impoverishing our land
and people, bringing poverty to our homes and
bankruptcy to our business, which. If allowed
to continue will grow until our very instiru-
tionS are threatened
The demonetizfng Of silver has thrown the
whole primary money function on gold. appre-
chatting its value and purchasing power.
Restore the money function to silver.
and silver will appreciate, and its pur-
chasing power increase Take from gold
its monopoly. its value will be reduced and
We shall then have broad and unlimited
foundation for monetary system commensu-
rate with our country's needs and future de-
velopment, not the unsafe basis OF to-day. re-
duced by half by the removal of silver and
continually undermined by foreigners carrying
from our gold
Upon the conclusion of Mr. Sewall's
address, at precisely 1859, the meeting
was declared adjourned
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-22

In discussing this question. we must consid-
er the capacity of our people to use silver and
the quantity of silver which can come to our
mints. 1t must be remembered that we live in
a country only partially developed. and that
our people far surpass any equal number Of
people in the world in their power to consume
and produce Our extensive railroad develop
ment and enormous internal commerce must
also be taken into consideration Now. how
much silver can come here: Not the coined
silver of the world. because almost all Of it
is more valuable at this time in other lands
than it would be at our mines under
free coinage. If our mints are opened to free
and unlimited coinage at the present ratio,
merchandise silver cannot come here because
the labor applied to it has made it worth more
in the form of merchandise than it Will be
worth at our mints- We cannot even expect
all OF the annual product of silver. because In
dia. China. Japan and Mexico and all the other
silver-using countries must satisfy their
nual needs from the annual products. the arts
will require a large amount, and the gold
standard countries will need considerable
quantity for subsidiary coinage We will be
required to coin only that which is not needed
elsewhere. but il stand ready to take and
utilize all of it, other nations will be PEELED
to buy ut the price which we fix
am firmly convinced thai by opening our
mints to tree and unlimited coinage at the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
AFTER THE ARMADA,
The Combination of Trade and Private
War Under Elizabeth.

The Combination of Trade and Private
War Under Elizabeth.
The defeat of the Armada inspired
England with energy and hope. Our
people, says Blackwood's Magazine, be-
came busy traders. Flemish traders
had been ruined by war, Flemish refu-
gees had focled into England, and
Antwerp, the great port for new world
commerce, had been sacked and taken.
England succeeded to the trade of which
the Dutch had been deprived. Beyond
the ocean lay a vast world of wealth,
of which Spain, united with Portugal,
claimed the monopoly, thereby exclud-
ing English commerce from the larger
half of the planet. Systematic vio-
lence-that is, the combination of trade
with private war-was the only mode
in which this monopoly could be at
tackled.
Elizabeth connived at this covert mar
thine war both before and after the
Armada, and the struggles between Eng
lish traders and Spanish monopolists
were far too numerous and important
to admit of peace between the two gov
ernments, 1t was this spirit of COM
mercial adventure, whether it be called
piracy or a heroic attempt to rescue the
new world from the inquisition and
give it back to the free use of the human
race, which was the first step in the de-
veiopment of three colossal growths-
British trade, British empire, the Brit
ish navy, .:.-,~-------
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DECISIVE WORLD-WAR TO COME,
One More Great Struggle of Physical
Force Before the Era of Peace

one More Great Struggle of Physical
Force Before the Era of Peace.
Many have been tempted to say, in
view of the vain rumOrs Of wars of the
last few months which have affected
four continents, that we have seen the
last great war. 1t mil ht be- so if all
nations were on the same level of civil
ization, writes George B. Adams in
Atlantic Monthly. But with the great
races of the world, those which will
ine7 itably be the leading actors in the
coming drama, still in such different
stages Of advancement, who will dare to
predict that we have yet entered upon
millennium of perpetual peace? The
odds are altogether in favor of one more
great struggle of physical force, COM
pared with which, very likely, the great
est struggles of the past will seem but
child's play, before we enter upon the
era of the peaceful competition of ideas
and institutions and radical types which
will introduce the real millennium
when it comes, If such a conflict of
force should come there is only one
place for us. We must be on the side of
OAR own ideas and institutions and race,
and we cannot afford in the meantime
to be training ourselves to consider our
natural allies our natural enemies, or
to weaken the sum of our resources by
any civil strife that can be honerably
avoided
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
IL HUNG CHANG.
Liberality OF the Views Of the Chinese
Statesman.

liberality of the Views of the Chinese
Statesman.
It is claimed that Notwithstanding
Lii Hung Chang has shown some liber-
atty of views toward modern improve
ments and education, he is at heart IL
hater of foreigners, and has an abiding
faith in Chinese institutions and meth
DDS of government. He is, it is true,
a great admirer of Confucian philos-
ophy, and remembering the enduring
history of his people we can hardly
wonder at his devotion to the institu-
tons which have made that history
possible. When we call to mind the
experience China has had with certain
western nations, it might not be con-
sidered strange if his attachment to
foreigners was not very ardent; but
in all his public life, says John w. Fos-
ter in Century, his conduct shows
that he feels the need of foreign aid,
and is disposed to give it proper well
come, and of all Chinese statesmen he
is the most liberal-minded and free
from prejudice. He is far from claim
ing that the present system of govern
ment is perfect. He has, in fact, urged
upon the authorities at Picking two i'm
portant changes which look to reform
of the most serious defects in the sys-
tenn; to wit, the withdrawal from the
viceroys of provinces Of powers which
should be exercised only by the imperial
government, and such a change in the
method Of admission to the public serv-
ice as will liberalize the examina ions,
and make fitness rather than scholar
ship the test. There are other changes
which he would gladly bring about if
he had the power; but, as he confessed
to Marquis Ito, China is hampered by
Anticipated customs which prevent de-
sirable refOrms,''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12

\ writer in Progress Artistique, in
discussing the music of south Africa,
says the races living there possess to
an astonishing degree the faculty Of
assimilation and imitation. They re-
produce with surprising fidelity the
songs of birds, cries of animals and the
various sounds of nature. Child people,
they receive in their otherwise obtuse
brains impressions of freshness and
vivid intensity. Their loRg solitary
wandering upon hills and prairies, unit
ed with fleeing association with for
eigners, results in a species of melodic
nature plants, as one might imagine,
developed monkey music.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
DOLLY MADlSON'S TACT,
How She Managed to Win Everybody's


Heart.
II was the tact and genuine kindli-
ness of Dolly Madison that made her
one of the most prominent of American
women. Several episodes mentioned
in Mrs. Goodwin's Life of Dolly Madi-
SON. are significant of this. At one of
her levees, her attention was drawn
TO rustic visitor, a youth who was
evidently suffering all the tor1nents of
embarrassment. He had at last ven
tu1ed to help himself to cup of cof-
fee, when Mrs. Madison walked up and
addressed him. In the surprise of the
moment, the lad dropped the saucer and
strove to crowd the cup into his pocket.
His tactful hostess took no notice of the
accident, except to observe that in such
crowd no one could avoid being
iostled, and straightway turned the
conversation to the boys family, and
ended by sending her regards to his
excellent mother, and bidding the serv-
ant bring another cup of coffee. On
another occasion two old ladies from
the country arrived at the white house
while the family were still at break
fast. TO the surprise of the rural Wis
tors, the woman they had come to see
appeared in a stuff dress of dark gray,
protected by a large housewifely white
apron, and with a linen, kerchief pinned
about her neck. Her simplicity of
manner and attire completely swept
away their awe, and before departing
one of them found courage to ask:
"Perhaps you wouldn't mind if kissed
you-just to tell the folks about"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
klPLlNG'S INK SINGING,
One Popularity OF the Great Story Writer
While at Work,

one Popularity OF the Great Story Writer
While at Work.
There is one popularity of Kipling's
work, says a writer in McClure's Maya
zine, which I really must mention
throw about. In the heat of summer.
white cotton trousers and thin vest
constituted his Office attire, and by the
days end he was spotted all over like
a Dalmation dog. He had a habit of
dipping his pen frequently and deep
into the inkpot, and as all his move
ments were abrupt, almost jerl1y, the
ink used to fly. When he darted into
my room, as he used to do about one
thing or another in connection with
the contents of the paper dozen times
in the morning, I had to shout to him
to "stand off," otherwise, as I knew
by experience, the abrupt halt he would
make and the flourish with which he
placed the proof in his hand before me,
would send the penful of inlz-he al
ways had full pen in his hand-fying
over me. Driving or sometimes walk
ing home to breakfast in his light at
tire plentifully besprinkled with ink,
his specialized face peeping out under
an enormous mushroom-shaped pith
hat, Kipling was a quaint-looking OBJ
ject. That was in hot weather, when
Lahore lay blistering month after
month under the sun, and every white
woman and half of the white men had
fled to cooler attitudes in the Himalayas,
and only those men were left who like
Kipling and myself, had to stay. So
it mattered little in what cost ume we
ter, when "society" had returned to
Lahore, Kipling was rather scrupulous
III the matter of dress, but his lavish
ness in the matter of ink changed not
with the seasons.
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MADE FROM NIGHTMARES.
Methods Used by Artists Who Desigl
Popular Grotesque Posters.

Methods Used by Artists Who Design
Popular Grotesque Posters.
People who dine late at night in q
certain uptown restaurant may have
noticed a well-dressed, wild-eyed, hag-
gard-faced, dyspeptic man devouring
night after night with apparent relish
dishes which only the ultra brave have
courage to eat more than once month.
That man is an artist, says the New
York World, and eating indigestible
food is a part of his business, for he
is maker of posters. Since the use
of grotesque posters, built on the lines
of Aubrey Beardsley's phantom fam
cies and on the principle Of Chimpanzee
Johannes savage sketches, has become
general as means of advertising news
papers it is no more than right that
the world should know how the de-
signs are conceived.
The case of this wild-eyed, haggard-
faced, dyspeptic artist alone will be
cited. His may or may not be the
method used by all the better poster
makers. Every night he goes to this
uptown restaurant, eats a welsh rab-
bit, a cold broiled lobster, two cream
rolls and dish of ice cream and drinks
quart of cheap claret. Then he goes
home, drinks two glasses Of ice water,
retires and the nightmare does the rest
In the morning he S tches the hor-
rors he saw in his dreams and finishes
them as the orders for posters pour in
He is making fortune in the business
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
A GREAT SNAKE COLONY.
An Australian Enthusiast Has Fine Col
lection of Venomous Reptiles.

An Australian Enthusiast Has a Fine Col
lection of venomous Reptiles.
Mr.. J. McGarvie Smith, an eminent
bacteriologist of Sydney, Australia, is
the proprietor of probably the greatest
collection of snakes in the world, says
the New York World. He is in
the business partly for scientific
purposes and partly for business. He
advertised some time ago for 500 venom
Gus reptiles, but one publisher refused
to permit the advertisement until he
had satisfied himself of the sanity of
the scientist.
The different species of venomous
snakes in Australia, so far as known,
number ~, and Mr.. Smith has speci-
mems of all of them. The poison ex-
tracted from the reptiles is largely used
in the Pasteur institute in Paris,
Mr.. Smith is an enthusiast on the
subject of snakes, and regards them as
the most wonderful of living creatures.
He has in his collection serpents that
have gone nearly q year without food
and are still fat, He has injected some
of their own poison into them without
the slightest ill-cffects to them. AS a
result of his investigations he has estab-
lished the fact that q non-poisonous
snake is not affected in any way by the
poison of the yenomous species.
''Why," said Smith, sit does not kill
one of it's own species while tits so fatal
to other creatures is one Of the mystic
ries Of the tAlmi ghty which we cannot
unrayel,"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
Dn.fO-Dato .Ianan

Parties who reside in Japan wishing
to obtain sawmill machinery, with all
the modern appliances and improve
ments for skillfully saving lumber, sent
word recently to Menominee, Mich,
through the japanese consul at Tacoma,
Wash, asking the works to make bids
at their regular rates. The bill calls
for full equipment The letter laid
great stress on the fact that they wanted
labor-saving machinery of the very best
quality. The. natives are the only
parties interested, and they are pushing
the matter with vigor. They want a
big bandmill, with it's accompanying
machinery.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
MARVELLOUS CURE OF LOCKJAW,
Recovery of a Man Who Has Suffered for
Twenty-Five Years.

Recovery of Man Who Has Suffered for
Twenty-Five Years.
A cure that borders on the miracu-
lous has been effected in the case of Will
liam White, a well-known carpenter of
this city, who had suffered from lock-
jaw for almost a quarter of a century,
says the McKeesport (Pa.) Times. Mr..
White recently arrived home from the
hospital and the improvement in his
condition was simply wonderful.
When a boy of five years Mr.. White
was attacked by fever. The disease
settled in his jaws and locked them
tight. For 20 years he had been I'M
able to eat anything except food which
had been especially prepared for him
and which he forced into his mouth
traction of several teeth. While he
could converse in a way with his friends
it was an extremely difficult matter to
understand him. After consulting with
numerous specialists, he left several
weeks ago for Chicago, where he was
treated by noted physician VITA
great success.
Mr.. White was kept on the operating
table for eight consecutive hours, dur
ing which time an incision was made
in his cheek and the jaw bones sawed
apart. The bones had become jointed
and had grown together during the
progress of the fever. Mr.. White then
gave up a strip of skin from his breast
which was pasted over the parts that
had been operated upon. He is now
able to use his jaws and his teeth as
well as any person who has never had
the misfortune to 60 through such
siege,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
MICROBES ON STAMPS.
The Philatelist's Collection as Source
of Danger.

EuH EAAHCeAl6C'S CO1oCClOn as q source
of Danger.
Having successfully disclosed the n.y.
gienic dangers adherent to the kiss,
the telephone receiver and the towel,
medical science has now turned it's at
tention to the perils that beset the
philatelist's art. According to DR..
Unna, says the Science News, patient
was recently attacked by a peculiar
parasitic growth in the beard. On MAX
ing a minute examination of some of
the hairs, the doctor recognized the dis
ease as ''picdra," which is chiefly met
with in British Columbia. The doc
tors friend had never been in Columbia,
but he frequently received letters from
correspondents there, and, being a COL
lector of postage stamps, he was in the
habit OF removing them from the let
ters. In Dr. Unna's opinion the gum
on the postage stamp is an excellent
material for retaining any disease
germs that it may receive from the APP
P]ication of the tongue, and in remov-
ing stamps-even when moistening is
done with the sponge-there is always
a danger that the collectors fingers
may receive and communicate the con-
tamination.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
NOTICE..

u s. Land Office Duluth MINI. Sept. "a, 1896
Complaint having been entered at this office
by Carl A. Lofquist against Joseph Bussiere for
May "a, 1892. upon the seq OF ne14 and ne4 of
SEA section 21 end swA of nwA and nwA ofswA
section g. township SO north range 4 west, in
collation. of said entry, the said parties are
hereby summoned to appear at this Office on the
22nd day of December, 1895 at 10 o'clock A. M.
to. respond and furnish testimony concerning
said alleged abandonment.
A. JTaylor Register.
Skuse g. Nichols Atty 1881
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
ROUBLED WITH INSOMNIA.
A Drummer Tells OF a Bad Case-Why
He Quit the Farm.

A Drummer Tells OF a Bad Case-Why
He Quit the Farm.
"Was ever troubled with insomnia %
exclaimed the Chicago drummer, in re-
ply to the question of an acquaintance,
relates the Detroit Free Press. "Only
one season, when I was about Is years
old, but that was enough. Don't care
for any more of it in mine, thank you"
do you mean to assert that you had
the insomnia at the early age of 1872"
demanded the other.
"Didn't assert anything of the kind.
l said I was troubled with insomnia,
not that had it. The pQlty who had
it was an old farmer for whom I was
working at that time, and he had the
queerest and also the most persistent
and malignant case of it ever heard
CT. Couldn't sleep mornings after four
o'clock, and he used to get out under
my window and begin splitting wood
and singing like whole camp meeting.
mo use trying to sleep after that, so
I used to take the hint and get up and
go to work.
''Then evenings his insomnia would
come on again so he couldn't get to
sleep, and to kill time he would take 4
lantern and go out to the barn and
thrash grain oe musk corn until about
midnight, and course was expected
to go along and keep my end up.
"Well, things kept on in this way
until that insomnia of his came plaguey
near wrecking my constitution, and
then I collected my back pay and quit.
That was my last experience on farm
Keeping awake 10 hours a day, not to
mention the hard work, was trif1e
more than I could stand, so I decided
to get out and go into some business
where I wouldn't have to hang around
the premises and help sit up nights with
my employers insomnia, in case he
happened to have it. That's why I like
traveling-my boss can have insomni1,
or fits, or anything he likes, and won t
know thing about it until I come to
draw my months salary"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-12-12
PARIS DRESSMAkERS.
There Are Enough of Them to Form q
Good Sized Town.

There Are Enough OF Them to Form q
Good Sized Town.
Paris is the city where the dressmak-
ing trade fourishes as it does in no
other spot in the world. In 1850 the
Annuaire du Commerce, the CONNER
cial directory of those days, was only
1853. There were besides 81 shops for
the sale of ready-made feminine appar-
ell, but there were none, as there are
to-day, which sold lingerie or certain
articles exclusively.
In the Bottin (as the Paris direc-
tory is Familiarity known) of 1895 there
are 1886 couturieres and 296 CONNER
cial houses for the sale of ready-made
garments, besides many establish
1nents which manufacture and sell
jupops de desous or under-petticoats
alone. The number of working dress
makers in Paris is estimated at 5000.
In all France, according to NJ.
Georges Michel, the industry of manu-
featuring the various articles of wom-
ans dress is in the hands of 81 400 male
and 1868 female owners of shops Or
factories. These furnish employment
to 700,801 persons, of whom over $780,
900 are women.
In addition to these there are 925, 1856
persons who make their living from in
dustries which are tributary to that
of the manufacture of feminine appar-
Ell, The total value of the product of
this labor from so many hands is esti-
mated at G 20 600 600
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Timber Land, Act June 3, 1879,-Notice For Pub
lication-U. S. Land Office, Duluth Mimi.

Timber Land. Act June 8. 1s7s,-Notice For Pub
Ication-U: s: Land Office, Duluth Mimi.
October 81, 1896.
Notice is hereby given that in compliance with
the provisions of the act of Congress of June 3.
1873. entitled An act for the sale of timber lands
in the states of California, Oregon. Nevada, and
Washington Territory as extended to all the
Lee, Of Duluth. county of St. Louis state of
Minnesota, has this day filed IN this Office his
sworn statment No. tor the purchase of the
lot l ne of neA, -swAof nel4 of section u
in township 81 north, range west 4th P. NJ !,
and will offer proof to show that the land
sought is more valuable for its timber or stone
than for agricultural purposes and to establish
his claim to said land before the register and
receiver Of this office at Duluth Mimi. on
Friday, the 18th day of January 1897.
He names witnesses:
Joseph Couture Swan Norquist. John Fag-
uett and Ole Wcstling all Of Duluth Mimi
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above-described lands are requested to file their
claims in this Office on or before said 18th day Of
January, 1897.
1881 A. J. Taylor Register.
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