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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-11
How a Mortgage Was
Lifted.
Steady, Hard Applica-
ton Rewarded.

For the encouragement of young mel
| will state my experience in mort
gage lifting. My father owned To-
acre farm. was given my time at 20
| worked 5 months of summer for S6'
and then went to school. The mex
summer cleared land and cut cord woot
in winter: In Al years had saved
nearly 5000 and was then married
Bought so acre farm for $500, with
poor house and without barn.
Paid $500 down and mortgaged for
$1,000 to be paid in 10 years at per CT,
first payment $l06, last $l6O. We had
span of horses, two cows, wagon, pillow,
harrows, seed, grain and bread paid
for. We settled IN the farm IN the
fail of 1865
Worked years without barn and
then determined to build. Instead OF
building high stacks, covered the grain
and built stacks with square corners,
SO that boards would cover them
Laid floor of plank and sprung the
center i place to make it tight. Shell
ed corn and grain were saved as effect
lively as in any barb. The same boards
were later used in barn building.
Threshers said it was the cleanest out
door work they had ever done. My
little farm was kept in the best cult
walton, although only 20 acres were I'M
der the piow when l took it: the rest
was stumpy, stony, swampy, bushy and
billy. During the yeare we had no
barn payments were made. by selling
wheat and barley
We mortgaged for $500 at s per cent
to build barn, to be paid in years,
$50 annually; both mortgages expired
at this same time. The barn is two
story, stone basement, 80 by So, with
horse stable in one end, cow stable in
the other. root cellar between and feed
room in front of cellar. Dug the cellar
myself Stones had been dug on the
farm during the 4 years and hauled byI
sled during winter. The masonry tori
the cellar thus came from the farm.
After the walls were built | filled In
a bout them and made fine grade.
Hauled the timber three miles. The
barn contained double doors and a
granarv. The root cellar held 1000
bushels. Raised quantities of turnips
and fed them to stock with raw and
chat. Mich cows were fed q bushels
turnips three times daily and what
chaff they would eat
The foulest piece of land was put to
hoed crops. thus the place kept in good
cultivation. My physical health has
never been injured by the use of tobac-
co or alcoholic liquor, learned to
mend the everyda shoes of the family |
which in itself was quite saving. My
brother gave me and old eight horse
power and an old saving machine by |
which ! sawed stove wood, making 81
A day in winter l sawed wood winters
for IS years. My wife was a good
simmer, weaver and sewer, besides be-
ng a good cook. BY getting the wool
.arded I'D pulled she put it on the !
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-11
Henry urady'sI
to Young Nj

Never gamble. OF AL tit
enihrail men this is the
strongest and most ins1t
side OF the morality Of It, Il
est business and poortstfup
is safe that plays at all.
never 10 play. | never knd'
gentleman or man of busting
not regret the time and moi
wasted in it. A man who
is pnfit for every other
earth.
Never drink. love lid'
love the fellowship involved
ing My safety has been
drank At AL. Ills much Il
drink at ali than to drink
had to attribute what | u
life to any one thing sh9
ute it TO the fact that ! am
As sure AS you are born, II
aud safest way.
If you never drink. "e
and marry early, there is
the useful and distinguish
may live. You will be th1
your fathers heart and me
mothers. | don't know u y
happiness on earth worm
side of the happiness oi Sn1'
you have done your duly az
do good. You try to pu''u
are always plenty of Others
all the tearing down that j
You try to live in the suns
who stay in thr shade alwa'
dewed.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-11

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backs of the family and did considera
bic weaving for others. Ny wife was
q true help-mate and worth her weight
in gold.
| In the spring Of 1883, we sold our
farm of so acres for $4,000 and spent the
summer looking for another farm In
Ontario, Michigan and Ohio. bought
a $50 acre farm IN Ostario with stock,
farming implements, hay, grain and
crops for $4,000. Paid $4,000 down anc
mortgaged for $4,000 to be paid in IL
years at per cent. Only SO acres was
pillow land, the remaining 100 acres be-
ing stumpy pastuoe land. Sold oak
Eand elm wood and some stock, but not
enough to pay our Hills. My wife was
naturally good gardener and on her
advice we went ito gardening, at the
same time keeping enough stock to eat
/ what the farm produced. We sold
beef, pork, butter, cheese and garden
produce. My boys are all strictly tenn
perate and we have all worked togeth-
err to lift the mortgage. Stubble land
is fall plowed with sulky or other
plow to prevent weed seeding. A sin
gle pillow is then RIM over the field. In
spring, ii is Acme narrowed, sown'wlth
a drill machine and rolled, We hoe ~
to Is acres each year and raise carrots
corn, three or four kinds of potatoes,
turnips, beets, tomatoes and mangolds
Pork and beef are sold when high, the
beef after Easter. The cows are milk
ed heevily during winter, butter made
sent to cheese factory.
We raise variety of small fruits and
vegetables and for picking strawberries
hire 20 to 80 picksrs, We have some
thing to sell the year round. My fami
ly has been we'll cared for and since 49,
SO $4,000 has been paid on the mortgage.
Mortgage payments are made in April,
never in the fall. l never broke a
promise in making payment and be-
lieve my credit is as good as that Of the
Bank of England, where am known
When / started to do for myself | did |
not have coat fit to wear to a country |
church on the Sabbath, but / had a
willing mind to do the best | could 10
~ p h.,l
| now have ii 10000 home
nearly paid for. - Ii. b., Ontario.
We insert this article for the especial
purpose OF impressing upon the minds
Of our people by actual demonstration
must acquire proper ty, and the econo-
NY and persstant industry that every
member of d family must exercise in
order to realize solid independence in
he end. 1t teok our fore-fathers near.
y life time to acquire a competency.
This man worked as boy and as
nan reaps the benefit, and in his old
lge will have comfortable home.
which is not the lot of many; especial
y tho who are SO eager for immediate
'esults as TO loose sight of proper and
,afe business methods as well as future
'ewards. Such facts as the above speak
more potently to people than our ut
erances as advise. Time is no impedi-
nent to success if IA man is living and
acquiring property all the time, espec-
ally when the property is at all times
worth the money
Learn to la Dor and to wait. Rome
vas not built in day but she finally
became mistress of the world
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-11
Kill And Cu|
Meat

Prof. w. A. Henry,
cuaturai Experimen. std
ty OF Wisconsin, presenH
excellent advice in the 4
All who will act upon
of Prof- Henry will reapI 4
cuaiary advantages resuDii
ing a large number Of hdgs
the hams and bacon on
Prof Henry writes as b,
In these times of tn n
the farmers m ust watch 4.
than ever he did before | n
dollars he gets fcom the 1
products. We are told d.
much what one earns as 4
that advances him In thi
ings.
70 sell hogs at present N
back pork Ia various fdfn
ranging from 3 TO Is cents
not exactly businesS-like.
of wisdom with many 4
farmer who has healthy tts
fsed them upon the best
his farm mates pork unI Il,
where This, with u iittIe
put into too hsone hams
ready tor the tabic at ssus
preparation. 'this will IL {
ing ia moaey and the fate
that I've is serving himself
but the very best.
We haze heard a good d n
I" WhtsktS Tiust.' but urlit
whiskey we need not woity
the least: we have likesi.
great de, [ about the Chill
and how they put dpsu VI
hogs when tuyit,g aud CO
prices of pork products Vi W
There is no law which cost,;
er to sell his hogs TO Ar. IA
low price, and 70 buy hi.
hams back froui u al a hif
| know ct several insts
farmers have nan ufact.,
.pork into varb ptAIaaa
of it TO, cato AZ
prices. Ec &c Jtsse
gent, succds' 0pp3ne
binatioa tlSa SEA e8
in chicago
MT every asS aiit
lines I have adieAte
| am sure 4 Ia &c
eau be foun| 4 casriu
some Of whgtu wiz
ter aud see ttes
means ~ b s'itsg b ag
ing 70 carl ne atd
pork produR fof -ir "
home mark retSiet
This is 81 "A faSc aad
lis scope; Il FL kee 2 arf
It Means dt IT'S aga cen
peudance.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-11
Porter's Antiseptic dealing Oil.

Is the best remedy for Piles, Burns,
Scratches, cracked Heel and all kin DIS
of Inflammation on man or beast No
cure No Pay. Price ~ cents.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-11
Money to Loa|

Plenty of money 70
terms. to suit the borrow
Apply 1
Atty
Canton. Miss.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

and unworthy seemed the hands of
the producer! Now the untitled
mouth has discovered who owns the
hands. This book will show you that
this has been the history of nations, a
hundred times; nay, it has been the
history of our own nation half score
of times in our short life. Like the
Spanish Grandee in the Cemetery we
were well and wanted to be better,
took medicine, and here we are. Is
it worth while to undergo this death
and resurrection again? We shall
never do it if we lay fast hold on the
facts of the universe. There may be
time come when nations will be no
more, when the brotherhood of man
may be established, when communi-
cation may be so rapid, when we shall
be so equally advanced in civilization,
that nobody will care where he lives
or is buried; when distance shall
break no ties, and when the universal
language is spoken by everybody with
out accent; in that time we may lose
nationality and become citizens of
the world Then free trade may reign.
But such time may not happen
within the hundred years which CEN
tire in that week when two English
speaking nations were ready to clutch
each other by the throat about a
boundary thousands of miles away, and
the German emperor was ready to
fight the kingdom of his grandmother
about some people in Africa whose
left the fatherland so long
ago that history is not quite sure that
they did leave it. Nationality is
fact, brotherhood is hope. Perhaps,
if we live up to our fact, that may be
the best way to arrive at our hope.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

IT is not so much our per capita of
money, as it is in whose hands it is,
that troubles us. If the wealthy own
it and can withdraw it from circula-
tion at any time they choose, they
car cripple commerce and close every
work shop in the land, and shut off
the supply of food and raiment.-W Va
bGshG Herald
Well how are you going to make it
any different if you double the volume
of our circulating medium? No one
will be able to get any of it unless he
has something to exchange for it,
that some one else wants. 1t Owill
find it's way into the banks when not
in use, just as 1t does now Men of
large means, operating large enter
priSes will control great sums just as
at present. How then will you keep
conditions different than at present
unless you interfere with the natural
laws of trade. Or do you so intend to
interfere with legislation that will
prevent such accumulation? Is that
the POpocratic idea?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
WHEAT, EXPORTS AND INCREASE

A free silver organ makes the asSer-
tion that the exports of wheat and
flour from India and South Ameri-
can countries to Europe have been
increased SO in the past twenty years
that the United States has been
practically driven out of the market.
The inference which it wishes to draw
from this, is that this change is be-
cause of silver and that those coun-
tries have got the trade because they
are silver using countries. The
whole inference is wrong. In the
first place the United States is not
practically shut out Of the market,
as we shall show, and in the second
place India and South American
countries are not getting the wheat
trade of Europe or any portion of it
because of silver, but because of their
cheap labor and cheap lands they can
produce it SO much more cheaply than
our farmers can. Wheat can be pro-
duced in India for thirteen cents
per bushel. And it probably does
not cost any or much more to pro-
duce it in the South American coun-
tries. But in spite of all this the
United States has not been practical
ly driven out of the market as the
following export report of wheat
from the United States, including
that shipped in the form Of flour, in
five year periods show. These periods
close on the Both of June of the year
named:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

Gle on the st. Louis Fopulist conven-
tion in speaking of the efforts made
to force Bryan on to them as presi-
Dental nominee, says: "The dele
gates knew perfectly we'll that the
silver miners were spending great
deal of money and politics to get them
to do just what they were doing.
They knew what the Democratic poll
ticians were doing with the same OBJ
ject. They knew that with some of
their own politicians the anxiety to
return to the old political home was
not ASSOCIATED from visions of posi-
BILE fatted calf. But though they
knew all this, they went on by an
overwhelming majority to do what
the mine owners and the Democrats
and the traders wanted them to do,
and the acquiescence of the mass of
the party in their actions is now be-
yond question" In other words they
have sold themselves for the posi-
bility of spoils.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
Republican County Ticket.
THE REVOLT FROM BRYANISM.

The Bryanites would like to have
che impression prevail that the revolt
against them is not of dangerous
character, and that in stealing the
name Of Democracy to cover their
Populistic schemes they had not shat
tered the party, but had simply car
ried it along with them. But at the
same time they are greatly alarmed
at the revolt that has taken place, and
well they may be, for it numbers
within its list about all the old tried
war horses of Democracy, as we'll as
large proportion of the younger men.
At the head Of the column OF Demo
Gratis who remain true to Democratic
principles stands President Cleveland,
who telegraphed his regrets at being
unable to be present at Louisville Sat-
urday night at notification Of Palmer
and Buckner. He is followed by his
cabinet, all of whom are distinguished
Democrats, and three of whom, Car
Isle, Lamont and Harmon, have
given clear and pronounced reasons
for their revolt from the Chicago
ticket and platform. Secretary ID. Il.
Francis has also made his reasons
plain, as has Robert A. Maxwell,
fourth assistant postmaster general.
And following them are long line OF
leading Democrats. Among them
are found such men as Gen. Bragg
and Senator Villas, of Wisconsin,
Sterling R. Holt, chairman Indiana
Democratic state committee; also
Rufus Magee, of the same committee,
both Of whom have resigned their
positions. Congressman J. X. C0uen,
OF Baltimore, is another. John A.
Lee, of ST. Louis, Democratic elector-
at-large; 0. +. Biglin, Of the Nebraska
Democratic state committee; D. e.
Kelley, Democratic electOr, tenth
Indiana district; Thos. +. Frawley,
member Wisconsin Democratic state
committee, Eau Claire; Joseph Sar-
bach, eX-mayor Fairbury, Neb., a
prominent politician; W. q. Perry, u.
5. district attorney, Topeka, Kan: o.
A. Click, prominent Democratic
leader in Howard county, Indiana:
John E. Fellows and Bourke Cochran,
New York, are a few OF the many
throughout the country who renounce
Organism. In our own state we find
among others such men as Dan Law
Ter, f w. NJ. Cutcheon, Judge Wilson.
Judge Flandreau, p H. Kelley and
Michael Doran, who will not ACCEPT
Bryan and reputation.
1t has been charged by the Bryan
ties that these men are leaders WITH
out Il following The convention at
indianapolis proved that false. a
straw vote on one Of the trains here in
the northwest few days ago, re-
suited, Mckinley, 1853: Bryan, 81: Pal
mef. 81. with a number scattering.
This indicates that the NaLipDal
Democratic ticket will have quite
following, thing that strikes terror
into the hearts of the Popocrats.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

bushels of wheat in 1873, and increas-
ed it to 39,704,000 bushels in 1891, OF
an increase of about so per cent.
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, In
diana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee
during the same period increased
their crop from 116, 900, 900 bushels to
POI, 418.000 bushels, or over 10 per
cent.
California, Oregon and Washington
increased from 2S,OO6, 900 bushels to
81, 800, 900 or about 120 per cent.
Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas, Missouri and Texas
produced in 1873, 5S,067,000 bushels.
In 1891 this was increased to 1857,
900 bushels or nearly 400 per cent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

The Wabasha Herald in speaking of
Vermont attempts to give it's Popo-
cratic readers little consolation by
stating that the Republicans carried
the state at the recent election by
10000 majority and two years ago by
$4,000. The Republican majority in
Vermont two years ago, was less
than $4,000, and never exceeded
those figures since 1872.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
A TOM REED GEM.

The following is said TO be one of the
most pungent paragraphs Of the many
Tom Reed has written and is his
introduction TO Protection and
Prosperity"
Somehow or other times like these
are great educators. How very fine
used TO be the sneer about lifting
ones self by the boot straps How
clear used also To seem tne demonstra-
tion that taxes could create notting!
What fine, large mouth the con
sumner had those days, and how pnny
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

THE board of trade of Winona has
offered to raise 5000 to secure the
meeting of the National Butter
Makers association in that city next
winter. The secretary Of the asso-
citation says the attendance will be at
least 1000, and it is estimated that
each member will spend on an average
of $40 while in attendance. What is
Mankato going to do toward get
ting it?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
What They Were Up To.

Slayton Gazette;
The Demopop congressional COM
mittee has completely flunked. They
would not accept the challenge issued
by the Republican committee for a
joint debate between Congressman
McCleary and Frank A. Day, Demo
pop candidate for congressman in this
district. They dare not meet Nc
Cleary for a discussion of financial
and other issues Of the campaign.
They wanted, however, to divert at
tention from Day by striving to get
up debate between McCleary and
some other fellow.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

In these vast increases of wheat
production we have one reason why
wheat has kept below S1.00 per bushel
and silver has nothing whatever to
do with it. But in spite of this vast
increase this country up to 1893 held
it's own in exports, while the great in
crease in our home army of consumers
has taken much of the increase left.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

THE value of our egg output is grea-
ter than that of the American silver
output. Why not pass law to put
the stamp of the government on
every egg in the country, certifying
"This is two eggs" and thereby
double the income Of every hen
raiser?- Senator ThMStOn.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

If the Republicans had been allow
ed the representation upon the cleo
tion boards in Arkansas which the
laws provide, the Democratic major
ity in that state would not have
climbed SO high. 1t was a pure case
of count, and not true representa-
tion of the peoples views.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

1t will be noticed that instead Of
falling off our wheat exports steadily
increased up to 1893, and that they
lave been far greater since that alleg-
ed crime against silver than before
that date. And in The meantime
there has been great increase in the
worlds production of wheat. Senate
document 81, OF the second session of
the SD congress, prepared by the
treasury department., shows the ex-
ports and imports of certain coun-
tries for the last quarter Of century.
This report shows that in 1873 Russia
exported wheat to the amount of
6,957, l64 chetverts. In 1891 her eX-
ports had increased to 16,206, 900 Chef
verts, or considerably more than
doubled, and this had come in compe-
tition with American wheat.
In 1873 India exported 1894, 0l0 hun
dred weight while in 1892 her exports
had risen to 80, 306, 100 hundred weight
or nearly eighty times as much
In 1913 Argentina did not export
bushel OF wheat, nor did she until
1876, which year she exported 2O,S6S
kilos. Since then she has kept right
on increasing her export and in 1892
exported 40, l09,6l7 kilos, or more
than twenty two Thousand times as
much.
And while this foreign Increase in
exports Of wheat coming in compe-
tition with our wheat, has been going
Oh. the production of wheat in this
country has been going on. Turning
to Congressman McCleary'S speech de-
livered n the house on Feb. 18th
last, we lind the following figures, he
having divided the states in groups.
The states of Maryland, New York
and Pennsylvania produced 22,272, coo
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

HON. BOURKE COCHRAN spoke in
Chicago Saturday night under the
auspices of the Honest Money League.
The meeting was held at the Audi
forum which has seating capcity of
$500 and over 40, 900 tickets of admis-
sion were applied for.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

THERE is one thing certain, there
will be true blue Republican party
in Montana-a party true to Nc
Kinley, sound money and protection.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

A POLL of Bryan's precinct in Lin
coin gives Mckinley 2l0; Bryan II;
doubtful IL. And that is where they
are we'll acquainted with Mr.. Bryan.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

*This represents 2h years instead of 5-from
July i, 1890, to January 1, 1898.
This takes the exports up to 1898.
Since then there has been a falling off
as the following from the bureau of
statistics, of the treasury depar tment
shows:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

The Madison Lake school house
was locked up yesterday. There is no
telling what the next move will be.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

81 believe that it is good deal better to
omen the mills of the United States to the
labor of America, than to open up the
minis of the United States to the silver OF
the world William Mckinley