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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27

of cash is interesting. About 200 b. c.
the Chinese were still using a bronze
currency representing knives 2-5
inches long. with hole in one end of
the handle. BY 500 A. d. the knives
We're is inches long and the hole or
ring was larger. Later the handle dis
appeared and the ring was attached to
the blade, which was increased in thick
ness TO give the same weight as former
~. Still later the blade was gotten rid
of and the ring was pierced with a
square hole for the string. Thus trans
formed the original and cumbersome
knife money became a comparatively
convenient currency, though the value
has deprecated greatly, partly because
of reduced size and inferior quality of
metal used.
Cash is the basis of all price compu-
tations in China. Considerable sums
may be paid in gold or silver, but they
are treated as merchandise and are
bought and sold by weight without a
government stump to guarantee weight
and fineness.
The as was brass coin used in Italy
until after 200 A. D.
2. INTERNATIONAL TRADE. - When
trade became international, there was
still greater need for the most accurate
and reliable counters of value possible.
Real coinage began when governments
first guaranteed weight and fineness
with an official stamp great part
of this immense gain to commerce
/ Z,
awhile, monarcbs began to abuse this
| coming privilege and to break faith
with their subjects Y stamping light
weight or otherwi. debased coins as
genuine. Such coins would continue in
use, but would soon depreciate in value.
Figure IA represents one Of the earli-
est silver coins. 1t was struck in Rome
about 300 b. g.
Gold was coined in Rome in 2o6 p. G.
Figure IS shows the gold solidus OF
Julian III. The solidus weighed four
scruples from 312 A. d. to 1883 and
formed the basis of more modern Euro
pean coins. The form. coined in Flor
ence in the fourteenth century, was
the first regular coin of western Europe.
It soon became the recognized unit OF
value in commerce and was replaced
only by the English sovereign. which
has since remained the standard unit Of
value for international trade.
The commercial world has chosen
gold as money because, all things con-
Fidered. it is better fitted for this pur-
pose than any other metal or substance.
IT ewes its position entirely to its in
trinsic worth. It has needed no special
legislation to sustain it, nor has the al
most unlimited special legislation in
the Interest - silver and other metals
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27
Information
that Informs.

II you are going East-or South
and want to know what the trip
viii cost, when you will reach your
destination, and why you should take
1.-The Burlington" to Chicago, Peoria,
st. Louis and Kansas City, write to
w. j. G. Kenyon. G. +. & p. A., st.
Paul, Mimi, and you will receive by
return mail letter telling JUST
EXACTLY what you want to know.
Reclining Chair Cars-Seat free;
Pullman Compartment and Standard
Sleepers: Dining cars serving meals
from 25 cents up-the combination
makes comfort sure. and it will SHIT
YOU.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27
The Mine. would .rhrIy..

With free coinage OF silver at the ra-
ito of sixteen to one every mine in the
world would be worked TO its fullest
capacity and the entire output dumped
at our mints. Why? Because forevery
1924 of silver bullion our government
would give the owner Sts60-a net
profit of $500 upon 16 ounces. Who
would blame the millionaries who own
silver mines for making this money q?
Common people viii be forced to take
from the rich mine owner a dollar at 100
cents whose intrinsic value is about SO
cents and whose purchasing value is
never higher than its intrinsic value
RichmondylIe (N. W Phoenix.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27
YOU.
DON'T STOP TOBACCO.
How TO Cure Yourself While Using it.


The tobacco habit grows on man
until his nervous system is seriously
affected, impairing health. comfort
and happiness. To quit suddenly is
too severe a shock to the system, as
tobacco to an inveterate user becomes
a stimuant that his system continu-
ally Graves. .sBaco-Curon is a scien-
tific cure for the tobacco habit, in all
its forms, carefully compounded after
the formula OF an eminent Berlin ply
stefan who has used it in his private
practice since 1872, without failure.
1t is purely vegetable and guaranteed
perfectly harmless. You can use all
the tobacco you want while taking
.'Baco-Curo. 1t will notify YOU
when to stop. We give a written
guarantee to cure permanently any
case with three boxes or refund the
money with 10 per cent interest.
.'Baco euro" is not substitute but
scientific cure that cures without the
aid of will power and with no incon-
venience. 1t leaves the system as
pure and free from nicotine as the
day you took your first chew or
smoke.
Cured by Baco-Curo and Gained Thirty
Pounds
From hundreds of testimonials, the
originals of which are on file and open
to inspection, the following is pre-
scented:
Clayton. Nevada Co. Ark. Jan IS 1895
Eureka Chemical & Mfg. Co. La Crosse
Wis,-Gentlemen: For forty years | used
tobacco in all its forms. For TWENTY-FIVE
years of that time / was great sufferer
from general debility and heart disease.
For fifteen years tried to quit but / could
not. took various remedies among others
'.No-To-Bac.' the Indian Tobacco Antidote
Double Ch ride of Gold. etc etc. but none
Of them a. ne the least bit of good. Fin
ally. however r. / purchased a box OF Your
..Baco-Curo.i and IL has entirely cured me
of the habit in all its forms. and / have in
creased thirty pounds in weight and am re
leaved from all the numerous aches and
pains of body and mind. Icould write a
qnire OF paper upon my changed feelings
am condition.
Yours respectfully. p II. MARBURY
Pastor G. Il. Church Clayton. Ark.
sold by all druggists at 81 90 per
box; three boxes (thirty days treat
manD $3.50 with iron-clad written
guarantee or sent direct upon receipt
of price. Write for booklet and
proofs, Eureka Chemical & Mfg. Co,
Lacrosse. Wis. and Boston, Mass
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27

several ways 10 BetAl--HdultIy'
(a) Beg it.
(b) Steal it.
(c) Borrow it.
I'D Secure it by gift.
(c) Trade something for it.
If we are TO beg for it. we might just
as well do the best we can. Therefore a
dollar based on gold standard is better
than sixteen to one silver dollar,
which to-day is worth about SO cents in
trinsically.
If we are to steal it, we want the best.
A thief who would steal a silver dollar
in preference to gold dollar would be
acquitted on the ground that he was in
sane.
If we borrow il, we want that kind of
money which will gro farthest, for so we
can get along with smaller loan.
Therefore gold dollar is better to Dor
row than a sixteen to one silver dollar.
If we are to secure it by gift, certainly
we should not depreciate that which we
are about to receive.
This brings us TO the e, which is the
way most money is obtained. A perth
nent question for each of us TO ask at
this time is: What have got to trade
for money which / want? 1t may be
labor; it may be horse or COW; il may
be lumber or shingles; it may be a saw
mill. At the present time we can trade
any of the above and get gold dollar
for every dollars worth of value, as may
be agreed upon between buyer and SELL
or. We can get dollar which is worth
a dollar anywhere and everywhere.
Now, your labor or horse or COW or
lumber or machinery will be worth just
as much, or nearly as much, next year
as it is this, but if we have free coinage
at sixteen to one viii the dollar which
YOU get in trade be worth as much as
the dollar you can get now? What will
that be worth? Can you tell? II may
be worthless cents or more or less. One
day this. one day that, but can anyone
tell? These are all questions.
and, when carefully considered, must
guide us in voting at the next election in
November. and do not lose sight of the
fact that if all the silver in the world is
coined into money you cannot get cent
of it except by a, b, c, d or e, above re-
ferred to.--Lumber Trade Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27

fuctuating silver standard and declare
for the stable and world recognized gold
standard of value. Possibly we may, by
foolish legislation, make silver legal
tender for awhile and drive gold out
of circulation, but our commercial in
terests will continue to use gold, and
soon all interests will be glad to drop
Mexico and China and TO return to the
society of civilized nations.-Byron w.
Holt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27
Beware
OF the Knife.

Mr.. Lincoln Nelson, of Marshheld, Mo-,
writes: "For six years / have been a
sufferer from a scrofulous affection of
the glands of my neck, and all efforts
of physicians in Washington, d. c.,
Springfield, ILL.,, and St. Louis failed to
reduce the enlargement. After six
months constant treatment here, my
physician urged me to submit to a re-
moval of the gland. At this critical mo-
ment a friend recommended S.S.S.,
and laying aside deep-rooted preju-
dice against all patent medicines, be-
gan its use. Before had used one bot
tie the enlargement began to disappear,
and now it is entirely gone, though am
not through with my second bottle yet.
Had l only used your S.S.S. long ago,
would have escaped years of misery
and saved over $3.50"
This experience is like that of all who
suffer with deep-seated blood troubles.
The doctors can do no good, and even
their resorts to the knife prove either
fruitless or fatal. S.S.S. is the only
real blood remedy; it gets at the root of
the disease and forces it out perpla-
nently.
& G (o..o,.,.,f,,J A,...T,, -,,1r,k,by,N
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27


rum, ginger, olive oil, eggs, indigo and
molasses are some of the products that
have been used in different countries.
The friends of tobacco and corn tried
hard to prevent these ''crimes against
humanity" but the copper, gold and
silver bug conspirators came out on
top in spite of special Legislation in
the interest of tobacco and corn. This
was hard blow to our country. There
is plenty of tobacco, corn, eggs and
molasses to give us all the per capita"
wecould carryit if the crime of demone-
tization had not been committed
against them, thereby causing prices
of these and other articles, except the
precious metals to fall precipitately.
Economists tell US that these articles
ceased to he used as morey because
they lacked some essential quality.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27
Manufacturing Stage.

in China and
they are to-day
in Anam, Lit
tie hoes, such
as the one here
figured, ok
the place of
real hoes and
became t t u e
money.
Hand made
nails once cir
culated as mon
ey in so m e
Scotch villages.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27
HISTORY oE MONEY.
Showing Kinds of Money Used in Different
stages OF Civilization.


\ study OF the growth of money may
be useful just now in order to give a
more definite idea of exactly what
money is. and to learn why certain arti-
eles or substances have been discarded
and others retained. The natural and
general tendency well understood, we
have only 10 Judge the future by past
experience to predict what will and
what viii not be the principal money
metal of the near future
Hunting and Fishing Stage.
The kind of money in use in many
countries indicates the degree of civ
ilization attained. Man probably FIST
became trading animal in the hunting
and fishing stage. Weapons of war and
the chase, together with skins and furs.
we're then the most important kinds of
property. Hence we find that the more
useful, stable and portable of these
articles were first used as money and
are so used to-day in barbarous coun-
tries.
Beaver skins, or beaver" was tie
unit of value when our forefathers
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27

They say that some were perishable:
others bulky and hard to transport:
others could not be easily divided for
the purpose of making change; others
were not uniform in size and quality.
while nearly all lacked stability of
value. But every tobacco, corn, mo-
lasses or egg producer and every lover
of the weed, of omelets or of johnny
cake and sorghum knows that they
were demonetized because they were
so plentiful that the Shylocks could
not monopolize them as easily as they
could the precious metals.
Manufacturing Stage.
The manufacturing stage is not
clearly defined. Hoes were once money
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27

cattle as money. Similar words in
nearly every language testify to the
once general use of COWS and sheep as
by his herds and fiocks.
1t was in this stage that conquerors
stopped eating captives because it was
discovered that they were worth mere
as shepherds and carriers of water.
wood. etc. Hence also slaves often fig
Ilred az money
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27


ever, pieces of bent II; F 5 H II Q Ok.
wire were substi- III WAMPoM.
tuted for real hooks. Wampum was
the currency of the more civilized In
dian tribes in New England and Long
Island. 1t consisted of white beads,
made from the ends of periwinllle shell
or black beads made from clam shell
arranged in strings or belts. 1t became
the official money in New England and
New Amsterdam and lost its place as
money between 1850 and 100, when the
"Smart Alecks" among the whites De-
San to debase it by leaving the beads
unpublished or unpierced or by making
them of bone, horn. glass, and even of
wood. The colonists legislated much
trying to fix prices, and to save wam-
pun from declining in value, but it was
being produced too cheaply. Natural
law was against it, and it had to so
down.
The use of shells as money is still
common on many tropical coasts. Their
wide use is probably due to the strong
passion, common to primitive man, for
personal adornment. This gives shells a
~ 1iihSiiC felAuC. b0SluSs ihCg ehc NSiJ
durable, comparatively light, and are
convenient for small change. Whales
teeth, arrowheads, beads, tusks of ivory
aud engraved stones are some of the
other money materials of this later
stage of civilization.
The Pastoral Stage.
Man early tanned the domestic ami
mails. The sheen and the COW being the
most useful, they naturally, with their
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27
Commercial Stage.

l. INTERNAL TRADE.-When men be-
gan to live in cities, to have regular
markets where products were ex-
changed, and to have shopkeepers or
merchants and professional traders,
there was great need of more exact
and scientific money such as could be
supplied only by the metals. These be-
gan to be cast or stamped into the reg
ular forms, sizes or weights. Bronze
bars and stamped bronze pieces were
nsed in Greece and Italy. The bronze
piece here represented shows the ev-
olution from cattle money to stamped
metallic money. Weights in the form
of sheep indicate that sheep were in
Biblical times the unit of value in
Palestine
Iron was used as money in Sparta.
Pieces of bent iron ready for the black
smith pass as money in west Africa
and elsewhere.
Cash" or ''sapeks" or lie" is the
only native coin and the only legal
tender Of China as well as the principal
money of small accounts. Cash consists
0 round disks of kind of brass with a
square hole in the center The evolution
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27

skins land some
times with their
milk orr me d
the currency and
the unit of value.
Our words fee,
pecuniar y a n d
C a pital come
from the use of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27

Some of the other money articles that
may perhaps belong 10 this stage are
cotton cloth, straw hats. cubes of salt,
tea, beeswax. knives and silk cloth. 1t
was probably in this stage that the
precious metals began to be measured
and weighed more accurately and to
be cast into standard forms.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27
Agricultural Stage.

In the agricultural stage man owns
land, has fixed habitations and is pos
sessed of a far greater variety of pros
perity than when he was a nomad.
Though he continued to use cattle.
slaves, ETC., as money, yet he sometimes
added staple farm products and began
to use metals, especially copper and
gold, which at first were usually esti-
mated in terms of cattle and were meas
ured roughly instead of being weighed.
Wheat, barley and oats are now, as
they have been for 1000 years, a medi-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27

=" - r" -
dams. Thus one
beaver equals one
brass kettle; one
beaver equals two
shillings; six bea-
vers equal one gall
lon brandy, etc.
FishhookS formed
the currency on the
northern shores of
the Indian ocean
from Persia to Cey-
lon. Latterly, how
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27

UNI OF exchange
in Norway and
other r e IN o t e
parts of Europe.
Maize, or Indian
corn,once formed
the currency of
Mexico, Central
A N e ri ca and
some of the early
colonies. Tobac-
co formed t h e
principal money
Of Virginia and
Maryland. 1t was
leg al tie n d e r
in Maryland in
1882. The price
of wives varied
from 100 to $50
pounds of tobac-
co. Dried Goldfish
was once curren-
cy in Newfound-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-08-27
A TRADE JOURNALS SUMMARY.
Various Ways in Which Money May Be
Obtained.

To man who has no money there are
several ways to get.it-namely:
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
THOUGHTS OF THE THINKERS.
OUR MILITARY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

~ MILITARY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
"Nor shall they learn war any more"
Despite earnest protest, the G. A. r.
and ex-President Harrison have largely
had their way in introducing military
tactics and arms into the schools of
the nation; and we see tho active be
ginning of a movement calculated to
turn this professedly most advanced
nation of the earth into IA vast military
camp, in this last decade of "the 10Th
century since the Man divine taught
and was hated in Capernaum."
1t IS noticed, too, that this move
ment is promoted and advanced for
the most part, by the professed follow
ers of the Prince of Peace.
Manifestly, it is serious discredit to
II profession that we lend the pro-
gress of the world and a threatening
shadow Oh tho worlds future, besides
being a direct violation of the promise
and teaching of the Christ.
Any nation that delights in and ap-
proves OF playing soldier, is almost GER
tain to play bully as we'll aud thus to
seek and find a real and barbarous and
bloody war.
The whole movement is simply going
backward instead of forward and has
no other fitness for this nation and
this era. than to illustrate, forcibly as
did the gaudy military dedication of
the Worlds Columbian Exposition in
80, its utter unfitness to remain or
\ ever be again.
The excuse that it is fit aud neces-
sary to develop patriotismand physical
culture, is wholly untenable, since both
a be better promoted for both sexes,
by a marching and flag drill, with good
strong stats and small flags that will
make just fiutter enough to appear at
tractive without impeding the move.
ments. This will also give full oppor-
tunity for the study of the history and
construction of the flag, concerning
which nearly all our people are still
grossly ignorant, and will thus furnish
u much better incentive to patriotism,
and Il much better example, of progress
than any number of shining muskets
or cleaning swords. Let us see this
and consent to act upon it at once.
ALBERT G. HOPKINS.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
MESSAGE.

The last annual message of Grover
Cleveland to congress is a disappoint-
ment. 1t has less vigort than any of his
previous documents. He is by far too
conservative on the treatment of the
Cuban question and says almost moth
ing of the financial andtarif questions.
1t is too much of a school boys essay.
He says nothing about his course in
disregarding the law to appoint COM
missioners to another international
monetary conference. tie renews his
recommendation for the retirement of
the greenbacks, which he should know
will not be done. He defends the Will
son-Gorman bill that has produced u
deficit of two hundred millions since it
enactment. Altogether it is not much
of a state paper. Vox PopuL1.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11

Clarence McCaubrey visited Edge
mont Friday.
Mrs. John Williams and Miss Jessie
went to Hot Springs Saturday and re-
turned Sunday.
George Browns cattle drifted to
Minnekahta during the recent Thanks
giving storm.
A herd of sheep passed through here
Thursday on double quick time for
Wyoming.
A dance was given at the home of
Charley Heppner on Mast Monday even
ing.
Mr.. Cox and family visited with Mr..
Schreckendgust's Thanksgiving day.
The sewing machine which was lost
by Jackson last week, was found by
John Schreckendgust in the Cheyenne
river.
A dance will be given at Bells on the
18th inst.
MIR. Trompeter is busy now a days
killing coyotes.
Ed Kent spent last week in Edge
mont.
The storm drove some of Kolter-
mans cattle to Oelrichs.
L. A. Duerson and family spent Sun
day in visiting with Trompeter's.
James NJ. Brady and Vim. Culligan
were hunting cattle up by Chilson can
yon this week.
Mrs. Brady and Mrs. VIM. Culligan
were visiting Browns on Sunday.
The late storm drove a lot of cattle
out of the country.
Mrs. William Trompeter and Miss
Maggie Landers visited with Miss Kent
one day this week.
j. Bell overlook the L o Bar cattle
north of Chadron.
The stormtooli part of James Brady's
and William Culligan's cattle across
the Northwestern railroad track.
If you want a %goodcounty paper now
is your time; the Hot Springs STAR for
only one dollar per year. COB.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11

R;ERRHs50
Ie(ihkG1

Every Thursday AFTERNOON, a tourist
sleeping a for Salt Lake City, San
Francisco and Los Angeles, leaves
Omaha and Lincoln, via the Burling..
ton route. 1t is carpeted; upholstered
i'll rattan; has spring seats and backs
and is provided with curtains, bed
ding, towels, soap, etc. An experienced
excursion conductor and a uniformed
Pullman porter accompany it through
to the Pacific coast.
While neither as excessively fur
nished nor as fineto look at as q palace
sleeper. it is just as good to ride in.
Seconds class tickets are honored and
the price of a berth, wide enough and
big enough for two, is only s5.
For a folder giving full particulars,
call at the nearest B. & NJ. r. r. ticket
office, or write to J. Francis, General
Passenger Route, Omaha, Neb.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
SMITH WICK NEWS.

Miss Pearl Belts is visiting friends
ON Horsehead this week.
There was quite a crowd out to the
Literary last Thursday night. The
program was good and we'll carried out.
Miss Mamie Thompson, from the
Gap, and Miss Carrie Wilson, of Hot
Springs, are visiting at VIM. loops.
Jim loops made a flying trip down
on White river Monday and reports
cattle looking fine.
Some of young people attended
the dance ut Mr.. Schlieves on the Chey-
enne last Friday and report a splendid
time.
Mrs. Sickles and daughter Mary took
dinner at VIM. loops on Tuesday.
Rev. Stoneman had a large congre-
cation Sunday evening.
Mrs. Major johnson has returned
from Georgia and is renewing old ac-
quaintances. Major is husking corn
down in Nebraska and will be here
later on.
Henry Lymans sister and daughters
arrived Friday morning from Wiscon-
sin.
Mamie Thompson, Ada and Rob
loops took a twenty miles horseback
ride Sunday. TORNADO.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Tourist Car 20 Californta.

An upholstered Pullman tourist car
is run every Wednesday by the North
ern Pacific. This car leaves st. Paul
2:45 p. m., Minneapolis 800 p. m.,
reaching San Francisco the following
Monday morning. Double berth only
5000. For tickets and reservations
write to any ticket agent N. P. r. r.
Co., or Chas. s. Fee, General Passen-
ger agent, Paul, MINI.