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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

Madison Journal: If the farmers
really want to prosper why don't they
get law passed providing that the
government shall purchase all the
wheat, corn and potatoes they raise at
the uniform price of one dollar,
bushel? They ought to have as good a
chance at the treasury as the silver
mine-OMnerS.
The sun., 1896-07-05

Ths Discover, .-s N.-,,r or A-.-,o..

Fhe D,seeysry ssa Narire or A-er,ea.
In q large quarto volume, entitled Tns Omit.
Nent of A'nertco, of which only $50 copies have
been printed, Mr.. JOHN BoTD TEACHER has pre-
sented the results Of an inquiry into the nami M
OF America. and into tho growth Of the oosmog-
Faphy Of che New World. He has also under
taken 70 prove that Waiting Island was tho nrst
land In the New World on which Columbus set
foot; and further, that Amerious vespucius
has Justly given his name to the Western
Hemisphere. because he and not Columbus,
was the nrst discovorer of the mainland,
and because he was also tho first man
70 eomprehend that the continent thus
discovered was new world. and not
as Columbus supposed, a part OF Asia. How
It happened that tho now found continent was
named In honor OF Vespucius forms one Of the
Interesting chapters of the volume, in which is
discussed the book that conferred the name.
This book. printed in 1907 at 81. Die Lorraine.
and uneafthod by Alexander Won Humboldt
1887. was the "Cosmographim Introductio."
or Rudiments Of Geography: It constitutes one
Of the most noteworthy documents connected
with American history.
The sun., 1896-07-05

them. to carry forty st = time. In 1859, Capt.
A. v. Beoher Of the royal navy published in
London . work entitled "The Landfal Of
Columbus,n which included . TRANSLATION OF
Navarrete's nrst volume containing the Journal
of Columbus. Capt. Beoher had the best aids
which the HydroRrsphio ofioe Of the English
Admiralty could AFFORD. the plan of Waiting
Island having been sketched by Capt e.
Barnett OF tho royal navy. The true Guanahani.
or San Salvador. was fully identified by Capt
Beoher with Waiting Island, but Mr..
Thacher observes that the subsequent
course marked on tho chart to the
second. third, and fourth islands is not
naturally derived from the Journal. nor the
relative positions OF the several islands. The
attempt however. by Capt Bechor to solve the
problem is acknowledged to have been impor-
tant in viewof the previously setlled belief that,
inasmuch a. tradition had given the name San
Salvador to Cat Island. and such eminent
writer's as Irving and Won Humboldt had there
placed the lnndfall, there could be no room for
like Capt. B echer and Capt. Barnett boldly de-
MED that Colum bus could have landed 30 far to
the westward and made q journey to Cuba on
any such lines as are laid down by his Journal.
tho public attention was arrested. The expedl-
tion sent out by the Chicago Herald, and subse-
ouent researches carried on by Government
authority, have strengthened tho belief In
Waiting Island.as the landfall OF the discovery
&04 years ago.
The sun., 1896-07-05
PORTABLE HOUSES,
Made OF Almost Any Size and Tor . Sarsaa
Variety OF Purposes,

-Seo oh AiAobt any Sizo and for o Gr0aA
Variety OF Purposes.
Portable houses are made Of almost snv siun
and for great variety OF uses Thero are
portable dwelling houses, and portable boat
houses. and portable barracks, and portable
club houses. lawn pavilions. enRinesrs,.
miners, contractors. and other offices: bathins
houses. stables, bowling, alleys. billiard roomS
hospitals ana SO on. There have lately beoH
maae tw9-story portable houses. A two story
portaole mouse or ten rooms costs 81, 800. x
mouse OF one room. Sxll, with one door and one
two tables. and two stools, for 500. N0'->
sometimes man who owns a portable bousa
hlres land on the seashore or in the mountainS
ana sets ms house up there for n season TAI ~
u down and stores II In the fall and next season
up there. $3.50 'e'S A's houoe
Portable houses arc set on stones or blocks.
and on posts, and sometimes they are set on mar,
nh,n msnent foundations, People sometimes have
chimneys built where they set up theie
houses. The portable house manufacturers sell
Terra e9tta chimneys in sections TO be stacked
up. ana II is not unusual for tho hous, owncr
SIMPLY TO run out stovepIpe for chimney,
we export portable houses TO Cuba South
America, and South Africa 'N' S'u'u
The sun., 1896-07-05
III.

We conclude our notice of these volumes ~
reproducinR part of tho most important de-
snatch penned by Arthur Paget In his whoie
Diplomatic career. IL is addressed TO Loro
Mulgrave, and is dated at olmntz, Dec. B. 1910.
Curiously enough. the name Austerlitz aoes nos
occur In tho letter: Having closed my 10
spatches of yesterday. set off to join the army.
Before my arrival nt wischau. tho second poss
from hence, from the number OF soldiers anu
wagons met upon the road,I concluded tnas
there had been q battle. and that the issue OF it
had not been favorable. l am truly RrieVeo
10 inform your lordshlp that my conjecturoe
wer. too we'll founded. Soon after my arrival
at wischau 1 fell in with Gen. Winzengerodo.
and the information 1 received from thas
Officer enables me to lay. the true following anu
affecting details before your lordship." Paget
proceeds to nurrate that, "agreeably to the
decision of council OF war and tn
plan of attack suggested on tho pre-
coding evening by Gen. weyrothen. the COM
bined armies lof Austria and Russial marched
ia five columns at day break yesterday morning.
having. the villages OF Pelnitz and hooei-
nltz In their front. The plan was to attack tho
enemy. who were supposed TO be a, Schlapanitz,
in their flank. The columns were marching by
sections On their arrival at the above Villages
they found them occupied by the enemy. who
had remained totally concealed, and who. AZ
the very instant. presented themselves in order
OF battle. This unexpected reception led to the
most fatal consequences. Tho hattle COM
menced at o'clock in tho morning, under all
the advantages for the French and all the dis
advantages for the Allies which have do
scribed. BY l2 the centre OF the combined
army. after an obstinate resistance was
put completely to the rout Fortunately the
French had no cavalry whatever In this part OF
the field Of battle; It is otherwise probable that
few would have escaped" PaGet adds that the
Emperor Alexander was at the centre when the
attack took place, nor would he consent to re-
tirc until forced. II were. away by the en-
treaties Of those who surrounded him. or the
Emperor OF Germany Gen. WinZengerode knew
nothing. This officer. who was sent BY the En-
peror OF Russia to the centre. did not leave the
field OF battle until there were not two men
together for him to give his orders to. With
this disastrous news left Wischau last night
at IL o'clock. and arrived at the Vice-Ch
ceiior's nj ) this morning. since which OlmutS
has beer declared to be in n state Of SIEGE"
The sun., 1896-07-05
The Cat Flower n,sir,s,-

In the short block of West Twenty eighth
street. between Broadway aud Sixth avenue
there are now seven wholesale commission dsal'
,r ers IN % egt no @owers; this may he said to DO the
Wboiessie dsss.n ius mower district There are two
W", WSys"esm broadway and sixth Avenue; sIS in
St est lhirtleth street, between Broadway and
SfL SSfIsJntn nsSnue. and ono or two more "A faS
taSi.h Iorthes uP town. There is one large ~.
MMosnment dealing In cut doWers in W.
NNentx-tnra street just west OF sixth aycnsS.
The sun., 1896-07-05

1t Is we'll known that tho name America was
conferred on the new world by little treatise
on geography called the "Cosmographie Intro
ductio." published in April, 1907. at st. Die. In
Lorraine. Mr.. Thacher allots three chapters
70 an account of the little town. and nine chap
ters to a review OF the alleged four editions of
tho book. We shall hero only reproduce trans.
lations of tho two important passages. In ono
OF these we read: ''In the sixth climatic region
towards the Antarctic are situated the extreme
part of Africa lately discovered. the ISL
ands OF Zanzibar. Java Minor, and Soula, and
tho fourth part of the world (which. because
Americas discovered 1t. tits proper to call Amer
igen, that 10 the land NJ Americas. or America"
Such is tho simple sentence composed by an
unknown biographer and printed in an
obscure town in a remotu corner OF the earth,
which chrstened hew world. and fixed upon
It its attractive name. A young German stu-
dent, enthusiastic and Imaginative. reading Q
narrative OF distant voyages and mAgnifying
the leeds of n skilful pilot and learned Astrol-
abist, deemed II act of Justice to forever den-
tify marvellous . land with the discoverer of
. continent The notion that no COMPOUNDED
Americus with tho first discoverer OF tho New
World. that is to say. OF tho islands adj jacent
TO tho mainland, Is pronounced absurd for
the reason that Americas, in his narration. dis
honor.
Tho second passage from tho "Cosmographius
Introductio" runs as follows, And now, In
deed. these parts have been moro widely OK
plored, and another, fourth part of which we
will presently speak moro particularly. has been
discovered by Americas Vespucius; l do not
why 1t may not be permitted to call this
fourth part after Americus, tho discoverer, .
man OF sagacious mind, by the name OF Ameri-
gen, that Is to say the land or Americas, or
America, since both Europe and Asia have OBJ
tained their name from women. Its situation
and tho customs of Its people will be readily un-
derstood by tho four voyages performed by
Amerious." On the wide margin to the left the
and prints 1t in the nominativo case America.
This is the first time the memorable word was
written by pen, or engraved by tools, or stamped
by type. The nominatiys name 10 used again in
tho margin OF tho StrasburR 1909 edition. HAr-
risse, IN his BibliothocA Americana Vetustis-
sima," observes that, but for this paragraph,
quoted from tho Colmographiso Introd uctio,"
the Western hemisphere might have been called
THE Land OF the Holy Cross" 40 1t onoe was,
or Atlantis" or "Hesporldes," or Iberioa."
or Columbia" or New India" or "The In
dies" as It is still officially designated in Spain
unto this day.
BY this work on tho lAndfall OF Columbus.
aud on the discovery of tho North American
mainland by Amerious Vespucius In his nrst
voyage, Mr.. John Boyd Thacher has made q
valuable contribution TO American historical
literature. His name hereafter wiz b. slAAsed
The sun., 1896-07-05

ro,,,,or ,or IN. battle vhion is thought Of. and.
to say the truth. think this latter tne %oss oss
probable case 1t Is meant to detenu .n's 80 -
(olmuts), but. to this moment, no notice on nns ~
such intention has been given 70 ms III
habitants of IL. 1t is reaiiy oos The
crcdib,litv what one secs and hears. ine
French are at PresbourG, and had pushed the,I ns
advance posts as far as stampfen. l nave "
doubt that at this moment they are hHlt ~
on their road to Olmntz. They have take-
900 sabres intended for the Hunoa,mN ~. =,
mt,rectton (the levy that had been orderea y.
Hungary. II ia pretty evident that this latter
measure. which, by the by, had not oommon
sense. was by this time pretty well raralysea' a
am informed that tho losa sustained oy oon'
Meerfeldt is much greater than what me.>
toned in my last. We have no accounts W..
over from vienna In general the state OF III
norance In wbich this Government 10 OF Whss
regards their very existence Is perfectly Az
tonishing,"
The sun., 1896-07-05

with tboss Of Mr.. Henry Harrisse. Mr.. John
Fiske, Mr.. Payne, and Mr.. Justin winsor. In
the front rank OF the students Of the era Of
American discoveries. NJ, w. H.
The sun., 1896-07-05
III.

Besides printing the frst voyage Of Amerious
VespucIus In the italian. Latin. and English
The sun., 1896-07-05

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,vould coat b.r har I,,o ana avn r.ran.aod
you nerer copld po- could forg,vo vonr.o,S sh.
ia bepinnino IN cot ono n, her nos,v co,oI,o
again. prav wr,to and ,rs,ch nm sir w.,,.r
ana overvth,ne that "a nron.r nrt ar, .sr.Id
there ia bnt ono rem.dv that could ho ~ ,ny o.
sentiaI avail ana that ,rouId h. vorr.slt" 7,
subseonsnt n,..oon ~ IN. ,amo ,o,,.. n,,
Royal Hipbnesa nasses from affected ssnti.
mentality to n more conqenial vein. "Ay,er
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
FACTS IN THE CASE OF MARK
HANNA.

1t is needless to ask those who are
going to vote for Bryan to read the
story on another page of Mark Hanna.
But it may be worth while to ask some
of those Democrats, specially young
Democrats. who are tending against
7 the Democratic nominee, to read the
story.
Hitherto, in these parts at least, it
has, indeed, been The wont Of these
young men to point out what they
thought to be wrong in the policy rep
resented by Mr.. Bryan, but, on the
other hand, little attention seems to
have been given by them to the char
acter of the man who is standing spon-
sor for Mckinley and McKinleyism.
We appeal to these young men to
let their sight take in the whole ho-
rizon that surrounds the situation, the
horizon that lis as vast as human strug-
CLING life. Let them specially apply
the fight against Hannaism TO the
conception of this Republic, and see
if it or Mckinley stands for the peo-
ple-people in the sense of the men
and women that must be the bone
and bear the brunt Of that advance
which involves hard hands and humble
homes.
If the free coinage of silver be the
immediate remedy brought to bear,
there is a grievance yet beyond this
remedy which appalls those who
Will be honest in looking at the condi-
tion and the deserts of the country
plain people.
If i'm reading the story above referred
to one does not lift his eyes from the
picture of helpless, quiyering flesh with
a pity and a panacea that are new
born within him, then culture of
mind and warmth of body will have
been but mere draperies about heart
entombed.
Mr.. Lewis has done his work brill
liantly, and in nls story he has had
Davenport's deeply human pencil to
help in the telling, These two men have
gone to the hearts of poor people here
abouts in a way they know not of, and
we cannot put a. higher estimate upon
their work than by using it as last
appeal to our young friends who,
honestly, mo doubt, espousing the
money plank in the Republican plat
form, are yet refusing to give their
own home-people help when the help
is sorely needed, and in a greater sense
failing to grasp the stupendous living
fact that This continent is the
decisive battlefield of the common
people--people, in whose gradual up
lifting lies, as far as we can see, the
plan of Him who marks the sparrow's
fall.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
BUTLER SENDS WORD
Continued from list page

pressed of the whole world, we ask
you not to forego this chance to do
good and help mankind. Let all uu-
worthy thoughts perish. The cen
tury's aloe flowers to-day
1.-THE tremendous power put forth By
our opponents teaches us that if we
fail now we may fail forever. We feel
the pressure OF the chains upon your
limbs but they are not riveted. Shall
the cunning artifciers have you years
more to finish their work
Shall NOT we strike them down now
and forever? Shall our children bless
us in our graves; or shall they rise up
in their miseries and curse our dis
honored dust?
Remember that when liberty dies in
the United States, it dies in the whole
world. This is mans one, last, great
opportunity.
Forget every thing else and do your
whole duty.
(Signed) "MARION BUTLER,
Chairman Populist Committee.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
WE'LL ALL TAKE SUGAR.

Eagle, Wis, Oct. 24.-The Wisconsin
Sugar Beet Refinery, of this county,
the only establishment Of the kind in
the Northwest, has opened it's doors
for the manufacture of sugar from
10000 acres of sugar beets, grown from
carload of seeds imported from
France by Waukesha county farmers.
1he beets are being delivered at the
rate Of $500 wagon loads per week,
and the outcome of the experiment is
awaited with interest by growers and
dealers of Wisconsin, Illinois. iowa,
Michigan, and Kansas.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
! poprn1sr WHO RINGS CLEAR

Mr. John A. Waller, of Granville,
was one of the delegates from North
Carolina to the Populist National con-
vention. He came home anxious to
secure a union of the silver forces.
He favored the acceptance by the Pop
ulists of the Democratic proposition
which was declined in Granville coun-
tv He is indignant because the local
machine of his party has made
trade by which certain Populists get
county offices and two Republican ne
oroes are to be elected to the Legis-
lature. He writes a strong appeal III
this weeks Public Ledger urging the
defeat of the negroes and the election
of two SILVER men in the Legislature,
and calls for united action by "all men
regardless of former political afiilia-
ton. who favor the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
/. and who believe that the silver
forces should be united and who be-
lieve that every honorable means
should be used to the end that gold
bugs and Republicans shall not be
elected"
This has the right ring. 1t sounds
like the utterance of a man who
wants silver legislation. We have re-
liable information that there are many
Populists throughout the State who
take this view, and who have resolved
. to vote for no gold-bugs or Republi-
cans. The Populist who does other
wise is "a traitor to the cause of sill
ver," if the Caucasian utterance is to
be believed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
SPECULATION IN WHEAT Will,
NOT FOOL THE FARMER.

''The rise in wheat will not do the
Republicans any good among the West
crn farmers" said Mr.. j. A. WEIGH, OF
Kansas, at the National. "The wheat
growers understand very well that the
present advance is due to manipula-
ton by spectators, and they are not
going to be deluded into the idea that
the gold standard is to be given any
credit for the increased value OF their
products.
1.-THE farmers have made up their
minds that he double standard is ne
/ cessary to the preservation Of stable
prices, and they are going to vote that
way. This is no new idea with them,
no craze of the present campaign. The
agricultural class in Kansas viii give
Bryan almost solid support, and he win
carry the State by at least 10000 ma
jority. w Washington Post.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
THE NEGRO RIOT IN PERSON.

The Radical riot in Person county
has been shown to have been premedi-
tated, and to have been worked up by
corrupt and base white politicians for
bad purposes. A poll of the county
shows q majority for the Democratic
and Populist joint ticket of about
four hundred of the legal voters. The
Republican politicians thought to unite
the negroes and make the white afraid
to challenge the unqualified negro
youngsters and convicts who have
registered. A letter from a leading
citizen of Person county gives some
additional particulars, and statements
in regard to the horrible race trouble:
THE conflict was due to the
money used to incite the negroes.
$. p. Satterfeld is the tool in the
hands of the Republicans, sand he
is infiaming the negroes, in public
and private, to these acts of riot
if not of blood shed. /. The negroes
attacked the white people, showed
the worst spirit, and called them
vulgar names 1--WE cannot print,
shook their fists in their faces, and
when Col. Cunningham mounted the
stand to reply to Satterfeld, the
negroes whooped and yelled so he
could not speak.
"The people of the State should
be aroused and made alive to their
interests. Holden and Kirk have
been resurrected, and their spirits
are in the lead again. The rule of
Radicalism in the State is in sight.
Money is being used among the
negroes to keep them drunk and in
furiated, night meetings, with
drunken orgies, are being held, and
day and night negro leaders are
riding over the county to stir up
a spirit to denounce the white
men,"
In the face of these actual riots and
incendiarism, not to speak of the ether
evidences of race antagonism evoked
by Russell's teaching, there are I'M
patriotic fellows who shut their eyes
to the dangers and seek to get office
by means Of such lawlessness. The
white man who does not take WaIser's
and Cooks advice, ''Stick to your
color" in the face of the solid negro
array confronting his people, is I'M
worthy ito belong to the Anglo-SaXon
race.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
NONE OF YOUR DAMNED BUS
NESS"

The Biblical Recorder of this Week
oontains a very excellent editorial on
the close relation candidate to the
General Assembly bears to his consstl
tuents. 1t says:
sT'he candidate in his canvass
may easily come in contact with
all the people. Amy citizen may
hear him, may question nm, ana !
may come to know hlm personal
ly by questioning those who do
know him. The General Assem-
bly, is, therefore, closest Of all leg
isiative bodies to the people; and
it should more nearly express
their wishes. The General Assem-
bly, ought to be the expression OF
the highest common thought OF
the people. If we mistake not
there are good principles in the
minds of the people of North Car
DINA which have never found ade-
auate expression in the Iegisla-
ture. They have chosen men who
could not frame bill or present a
cause. men who could do nothing
more than their party caucuses
ordered-sit in their seats and
saw Ave" or No. Let us strive
that our coming General Assem-
bly, may be composed OF intelligent
men, and that the people may see
that they know what the citizens
of North Carolina desire before
they are selected to the office"
These are words of wisdom and
ought to be well considered by all vot-
ers in the coming election.
In marked contrast to these wise
words was the reply of Ambrose I.
Hileman, of Cabarrus county, the fu-
sion candidate of the House from that
county. A gentleman connected with
the Concord Standard met Mr.. Hile-
man on the stretes and asked, In case
YOU are elected to the Legislature will
you support free silver Senator or
will you vote for Pritchard? This
candidate for the peoples suffrage,
the ma who must come nearest
to the people made this brutal reply:
81 consider that that is none of your
damn business" The standard ex-
plains Mr. Hilemans irritation and
profanity by showing that in CONVEX
sation with Mr.. VIII Heglar in Con-
cord on the same day, Hileman said:
I'VE are honor bound to support a
Republican for United States Senate. Z