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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul.

Departing Trains arriving
No, 122-6:3O a. NJ No, 1O1-12:3O P. NJ
No. 1O4E2:3O o. m. No. 123-8:OO p. m.
No. 1853 7:OOp. m. No. 193-4:0o p. m.
No. 1872 makes close connections at Austin
with through Sleeper,-for st. Louis, Peoria,
and Kansas City, arriving 7:15 next morning.
This train also connects for La Crosse and
Chicago.
No. 1O4 makes connection with Chicago
Sleeper at Austin and Lacrosse.
J. c. MOORE, Agent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
MANKATO STOCK MARKET.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
The Railroads.
Chicago, St. Paul, MINI & Omaha ky

Chicago, St. Paul, MINI & Omaha Ky
GOING WEST DEPARTS
No. Kansas City & Omaha Exp. 11:l3 pm.
No.. :" & Sioux City Exp, 1:25 pm.
No. st. Paul Mpolis & Duluth
local arrives 7:40 p. m
No. Elmore Accommodation $50 q. m
No. 9 " " $50 p. m,
GOING EAST
No, Kansas City 4 Omaha EXP, 4:22 a, m.
No. st. P, NJ. & Chicago 1856 p. m.
No st. Paul M'polis & Duluth
local $50 a. m.
No. 8 Elmore Accommodation 4:O7 p. m,
No. 10 " 1912 p. m.
Nos. 1, 2, 8 and daily,
Nos. 5, 6. 8, 9 and 10, daily except Sunday
No. T. daily except Monday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
STAGE SCHEDULE.

. hON DOIIIID , IIII'
Between Mankato, St. Clair and Minnesota
Lake.
Leave Mankato daily at 7'0n a. m.
Arrive at st. Clair daily at 10:45 a. m.
Leave Minnesota Lake at 600 a. m. Monday
Arrive at St. Clair at q 5 p. IN.
Leave st. Clair daily at 2:45 p. m.
Leave Mankato daily at 6:15 p. m.
Arrive ST. Clair Tuesday at LOO a. m.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

WONDERFUL are the cures by
WI Hoods Sarsaparilla, and yet they
are simple and natural. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla makes PURE BLOOD.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
LOST.

A smalltin box containing a reel and
other fishing tackle. Finder will
please leave in this office.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

For the fair at Blue EarthCity on
Sept. II to 10, the Omaha road will
sell tickets for Sl.90 for the round
trip. Tickets sold on the 16 to 10,
good for return until the Goth.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18

DO you need fall lap robe?. If
20, 90 to w. B. Walker s. Son.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

CIhe figures are official with the eX-
ceptlon OF the three foreign countries
atLer 1891, when commercial data are
used.)
taken with the table OF our wheat
export values before given, it will be
seen that the highest price was in
1882. india was not Lnen serious
competitor, and that period covers an
ABNORMAL demand following the crop
failures in western Europe and the
Turco-Russian war. In the next peri
cd there was a return Oh normal con-
dltions, and with Indias appearance
as an import factor there is a drop of
sixteen cents per bushel. The next
period marks the first important ap
pearance of Argentine, and the drop
OIL three cents would have been greater
out for the Russian crop failure Of
1891.
The drop of 20.5 cents in the last
period, the fall which has SO burdened
our wheat growers and which yet rests
upon them, needs no explanation. The
table speaks for itself. Argentine,
from a country almost unknown to
wheat merchants, sprang at one bound
into the front rank, and her shipments
lor those years average 100000
bushels and in one year of the three
equalled 60,000,000. This sudden de-
priYation of the older countries of SO
large a share of their market, without
any chance for corresponding reduc-
ton in their own exportable surplus,
is responsible for the present position
of the wheat trade of the world.
Trusting that | have made it clear
to you that the price of wheat, like the
price of silver and any other commod-
ty, depends upon supply and demand,
and that the showing that demand has
carried the price of wheat up while
at the same time lack of demand was
carrying silver down is satisfactory, I
Am Truly yours,
B. w. Snow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

it, too. shows bewildering variety of
colOrs-from the sombre black. or
black and gold, or black and red, to a
startling combination of all the hues
of the rainbow
Taken all together, the outfit of black
underwear has it's advantages. 1t is
far from inexpensive, but if the mater
ial is a good silk it wears very well,
and to that extent is a good invest
ment. To the economically inclined
the first cost is rather startling. One
set, consisting OF one garment Of each
kind, means an outlay of $50. and one
set is very little better than no set at
all. Modest imitators of the rich and
great will be cheered to learn that
black outfit of wool, or wool and silk,
can be bought at about one-third of
the price mentioned. This means that
$50 will buy three or four sets of black
underwear made of less expensive ma
terials. and no self-respecting woman
will try to get along" with fewer than
these.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
ALL BLACK UNDERWEAR
Newest Fad Prevailing in the Fash
ionaDisH World.

Black underwear will be WORN this
winter by half The women in New
York
So says Fashion, and Fashions, fiat
when obedience TO it 1Heans. the COM
bfnatfon of comfort, beauty and econ
ony, is not to bee lightly disregarded.
The black night gown was the van
guard Of the new whinn 1t came from
the other side early this spring and
has been quietly making it's way
throughout the summer months. This
fail no fashionable wardrobe is complete
without half a dozen Of the filmy.
garments whose texture and color set
off SO well the beauty of a perfect skin.
After the night gown came the black
chemise, followed i'm quicR succession.
by tights, skirts and corset covers,
and finally by the modest pantalet
All these differed in fashion and text
ure, but wer8 uniform in color Now
the complete set is here, and the fash
fonable woman has decided the vexed'
question as to whether her black night
robes shall be Of silk or tu11e
Some very beautiful robes seen in
New York establishments are of the
tulle, almost hidden by festoons of fine
black lace. A few OF the gowns are
trimmed with white lace and ribbon,
but this innovation has not yet become
popular. All the gowns are shorter
than usual, as to step on one would
mean to cause tear which could not
be readily men0ed.
The tights are of silk, Of course
some Of them with a thread of pale
pink, blue Or crimson. The petticoats
come in tu11e or silk, much ruffed,
and, like the night gowns, heavily
trimmed with costly lace. Many of
them have deep lace flounces and few
come from Paris with fioances of con-
trastlng tints. Corset covers come
in silk or tu11e, cut square in the neck,
edged with lace and finished with
dainty little shoulder knots Of black
silk.
But the pantalet-the coy and mod
est pantalet-is the flower Of the col
lection. 1t is very wide and very loose
and very long, and it has ruff1es upon
ruff1es which would have been seen by
the world in years gone by, but which
are now hidden by the long skirts of
the wearer It comes almost to the
ankle. It, too, is lace trimmed, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
WANTED AS A WITNESS.

Employed in a certain Toledo hotel
is a night porter, one of those whose
duties is to make the early morning
"calls." Among the guests of the ho-
tel few days ago was a drummer,
who left a call for $50, as he wished
to make the 4:25 Lake Shore limited
for the east The drummer either was
not aroused to the getting-up point Or
his call was missed, for he showed up
at the office at a. m. with a great
big kick about not being called. Of
course the porter was hauled over the
Goals, and made protest that he
knocked on the mans door, an
nounced the hour, and the guest an
swered.
1t SO happened that the drummer
got on track of some more business in
Toledo, which occupied his attention
all day, and when night came he again
left duplicate call OF the night before
The porter was apprised of the fact
and warned that failure to arouse
the man would mean his dismissal.
The porter made the call all right,
the drummer that he was fully awake
and aware of the fact, but, stepping to
the next door, pounded violently there
on. The following conversation en-
sued:
Porter-Three-t thirty; get up
Innocent Victim-Go To left no
call for the middle of the night
More thumps on the panel. II say,
get up"
ct say, go to"
But you must get up"
What for?'
IT want you to witness that called
the man in the next ROOM
By this time the cause of all the
trouble was able to afford ocular DEM
onstratfon at his door that he was up
and half dressed, and the victim was
not pressed into service as 81 witness
but stTll the porter had another kick
to help the clerk adjust.-Toledo Blade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
FOREIGN.

The Jewish quarter OF Fee burned.
Several persons persisted.
At Montreal Lee Tung, a Chinaman,
who died of a mysterious illness, has
been found to have been a victim of
leprosy.
Serious rioting mas occurred at Delhi
in connection with the rise of grain.
Grain riots are also reported at Agra,
Canpur and Nagpur.
During the recent storm on the
French coast two fshing-boats belong
10 Cunyincec were lost near Brest and
fifteen fishermen were drowned.
Advices received in France are to the
effect that there hav been further out
breaks of lawlessness in Madagascar.
Through Able Proult of Rome, now
in this country, Mr. Laurer has asked
that papal ablegate be appointed for
Canada This will be met with the
strongest disapproval of the Quebec
hierarchy.
The Australian budget for 1897 was
presented today in the lower house OF
the reichsrath. 1t provides for expen-
ditures to the amount of 692, ISL, 1S3
FORMS The estimated revenue is 692,-
703,959 forms.
Alexander Salvini is dying from
hardening of the stomach and mites
tines at his fathers home, Monte
Catini, near Florence, Italy. He is SO
years of age. The last time that the
elder Salvini and Booth were together
the son acted as stage manager. Sal
vini was married about three yers ago
to Maude Dixon, who acted with him,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
MECHANICS OF THE PRESIDENTS.
All Of Them Were Known by Pseudo
myms Indicative Of Character.

Washington was Father of His
Country American Fabius,' the
'Cfnc5nnatus of the West,' '"Fhe At
las OF America" Lovely Georgius, -
Flower of the Forest" ''Deliverer of
America ''S5epfather of His Country
and Savior of His Country Adams
was the COLOSSUS of independence"
Jefferson was the Sage OF Monticello
and Long Tom" Madison was The
Father Of the Constitution Monroe
was the Last Cooked Hat" and John
Quincy Adams the "Old Man Flo
quent''
Jackson was, of coarse. "Old Hick-
Dry" big Knife ard Sharp Knife
the Hero of New Orleans, - ''Gin'ral''
and "Old Hero" Van Buren, was the
Little Magician" the Wizard of Kin
6erhook, - Follower in the Footsteps y
Whisky, Van,'' King Martin the
First Sweet Little Fellow 'ePolit-
zeal GTimalkEn'' and Weasel" W. H
Harrison was '1Tippecanoe, "Old Tip"
and the Washington of the West. :"
Tyler was Young Hickory and "Ac-
C1uSACd1 IISSiuSuI. Olh WaS dISO
''Yoang Hickory" the sobrfqnet being
used to resurreet the Jaeksonian ele-
ment. Taylor was odd Rough an
Ready" +'Old Buena Vista and 'Old
Zach" Fillmore was the American
Louis Philippe" Pierce was Purse
Buchanan was "Old Public Function
ary," the Bachelor President" an
'fOld Buck"
We have now reached Lincoln, the
Rail Splitter" Honest Old Abe"
<'Uncle Abe 'sMassa Linkum,' Father
Abraham" and the Sectional Presi-
dent the last name being given by tn
southerners who maintained that b
people. Then comes Johnson-''Sir We
to-" Grant was Unconditional Surren-
der" 'Old Three States Hero Of Ap-
pomattox" and the American Caesar"
Hayes was the president de Facto,
a name given him by the defeated
democrats. Garfield was the Martyr
President Arthur was Our Chef"
and the First Gentleman in the Land"
Cleveland is the Man of Destiny"
Grover" and Stuffed Prophet" Har-
rison is Backbone Ben" and Grand
fathers Hat."-New York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
Gold

The gold price represents the aver
age purchasing value or exchange val
ue of each bushel of wheat exported
in each period, and as the export value
of this grain fixes it's home value, it
follows that the domestic value has
fuctuated on the same scale.
With the single exception of the past
three years the value of wheat has
averaged higher since 1873 than it did
in the five years preceding that date,
and the highest value we have had
was in the period covering the fifth to
the tenth year after the legislation
complained Of
Wheat Goes Up While Silver Goes
Down.
These figures alone show the lack of
truth in the claim of free coinage adj
vocates that wheat has declined be-
cause their pet metal sells lower in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

The remaining electors were nominated
by both sides.
Harvey NJ. La Toilette, formerly
state officer in Indiana, spent one night
in Ludlow street iaii, New York, in
default of $4,000 BAIL His arrest was
in action brought by Henry E. Mooney
to recover s27 1873 for fraudulent repre-
sensations alleged to have been made
by La Toilette that 122 bonds of the
Connorsville Gas end Electric Light
company, sold by him last December
and April to Mooney, were first mort
gage bonds, when n fact there were
prior liens ON the company's property.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
NATIONAL DEMOCRATS COMING

Chicago. Oct. 3.--Chairman Usher,
OF the national democratic state cen
trail conamittse, IS IN Chicago arrang-
Ing vita the national headquarters for
a, number of speakers of national rep
Iptation- As soon as he returns the
dates for the speeches by Gems.
Palmer and Buekner, as we'll as the
places where they Will appear in Wis
consan, and the dates for Carl Schurz
will also be announced. In addition
TO these speakers Chairman Usher is
arranging for the presence in this
state of half a dozen others of national
prominence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
GOOD FOR GROVER.

Washington, Oct. 3.-In denying the
application made for the pardon of
Irving A. Pulze, sentenced in northern
Illinois to year and five months i'm
prisonment for embezzling postal and
money order funds while postmaster
at Glen Ellyn, H., the president said
in part: "The embezzlement OF gov
eminent funds by postmasters is so
common that do not feel that l ought
to interfere with the lenient sentence
imposed by the court. I believe any
deliberate embezzlement of public
money by a postmaster is lightly pun
ished by a years Imprisonment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
WILL SUPPORT MCKINLEY.
I uIy yours,
B. w. Snow.

Columbus, Oct. 3.-George L. Con-
verse, who for twelve years was the
democratic congressman from this dis
trict, replying to a letter from Prof. w.
H. johnson Of Denison university, urg-
ing his acceptance of the congressional
nomination in the seventeenth district,
announces his intention to support
Mckinley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
Export Prices in CURRENCY.

Bearing in mind that the value of
wheat to it's owner is its purchasing
power, and that this can only be meas
ured in coin, it is necessary to reduce
the currency values for 1868 to 1879
to the gold basis upon which prices of
wheat and all other commodities now
rests. This is done below by taking
the average gold value of currency for
each Of the tiVe-year periods, so that
the currency price is reduced to it's
equivalent in gold
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
Of 1 ounce of silver.
Gold Value of
wheat exported

Instead of wheat declining in SYM
pathy it advanced while silver de-
clined, so that if it were legitimate to
argue by analogy, as free coinage men
are apt to do, we might say that as
wheat advanced when silver was de-
Ginning, therefore a decline in the
price of silver makes better prices for
wheat. So far as analogy goes there
is a better basis for this conclusion
than for the other, but neither is JUS
Tifp1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
Why Wheat Is Low.

AS a matter of fact, there is no ne
cessity for any search for hidden in
fiuences responsible for the present
low prices for wheat The truth stands
out clearly. We grow more wheat
than we can ourselves use. 1t must
be sold in the worlds markets, The
worlds market for wheat is narrow
and circumscribed. Every nation
strives to feed itself, and most of them
succeed. The market for wheat is al
most entirely in western Europe, Great
Britain and Holland drawing the larger
part of their supply from abroad, and
France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and
a few other smaller countries buying
each year small fraction of their
consumption, the amount varying as
their own crops are good or bad.
To supply this limited demand four
countries are in competition as wheat
growers, the United States, Russia, In
ola and Argentine. There are a few
others like Chilli, Australia and Can
ada that furnish a small amount, but
their contributions cut little figure,
The struggle among the four great
producers Tor the privilege of furnish
ing cheap bread to European artisans
has reduced the price of wheat to the
present figure, and until one or more
than one OF them gives up the contest
prices must rule low. Back of this
main cause is the further fact that in
the past twenty years the cost OF grow
ing and handling wheat has been much
reduced, so that a smaller selling value
may represent as great a profit as was
Secured when prices and cost OF pro-
duction were each higher.
On account of the lack of uniformity
and certainty in the various esti
mates Of the worlds wheat crop, it is
not possible to determine accurately
just how much production has in
creased in the past 20 years. Neither
is it necessary, as the commercial
value is determined by the commercial
supply, and this commercial supply is
practically the amount exported by the
four great producers.
Again adopting our five year periods
it appears that the average annual con-
tributions of the four countries, going
to supply the wants of importing Eu
rope, have been:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

open market, but to finally puncture
the argument examine the course of
the value of silver and value of wheat
as shown below. The years are divid-
ed into the same periods of five each.
and in the last two columns the value
OF an ounce of silver and a bushel of
wheat in the period 1852 is taken
as 100, with the average value for each
of the following periods expressed in
percentage on that basis:
Average price
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
WHEAT AND SILVER
DID SUSPENSION OF FREE COIN
AGE CAUSE FALL IN PRICES?
A False and Outrageous Claim Made
by the White Metal Conspirators to
Deceive the Farming Element
Demonstration Had no Effect
Whatever on Grain Rates

The following correspondence be-
tween f. E. Baker, a well-known farm
er OF White Hall, H., and B. w. Snow.
for many years assistant statistician
OF the department TO agriculture at
Washington, and now connected with
one Of the leading agricultural papers
OF the United States, will be read with
interest by every farmer and every
citizen interested in the relation of sill
yer to prices Of our products. Mr..
Snow has made a careful study of
these subjects for many years, and the
fact that he held an important posi-
ton in the department of agriculture
for more than a decade, shows the
value of his judgment and the relia-
bility and accuracy of his statements
and deductions. Every farmer and
everybody interested in this subject
should not only read this letter care
fully, but see that his neighbors read
it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

Chicago, ILL.,, Aug. 5, 1S96.-Dear
Sir:-The claim that the low price of
wheat is due to the so-called demone-
tlzation of silver in 1873 is without
support. In the first place, silver was
not 'demonetized' IN 1913. To de-
monetize means TO deprive of value, to
Withdraw from use as money, and
neither has been done with silver. Up
to 1913 CnIs country had Only coined,
since the opening Of the mlnts, $780,
900 silver dollars; since that year it
has coined 423, 100000, every one d full
equal to gold. That year, instead OF
marking the stoppage of coinage of
silver, really marked it's beginning 50
far as it's large use is concerned, as
81 GOO, 900 OF all classes of silver cur
rency were coined in that year against
81, 100000 in 1872, and followed by
nearly $7,000,O00 in 1874, $4,000, 900 in
1875, and constantly increasing until
S39, 200, 900 came from the minis in
$780,
Wheat Did not Decline.
The records of wheat prices during
the last thirty years demonstrate the
talsity of the claim that values de-
ciined as a result of the financial legis-
latlOn OF 1878. In the period Of five
years, covering the fifteenth to the
lWenCleLn year alter chat legislation,
the value OF wheat averaged higher
Than in the same number OF years lnl-
1nediately preceding 1873.
A large surplus of wheat is always
grown in this country, and that sur
plus must be marketed abroad. The
price at which this surplus can be sold
likes the price Of the whole crop when,
as in this case, the surplus is an I'M
portant part OF the whole production.
The changes in export prices are,
therefore, an accurate index of the
TO avoid minor fluctuations caused by
matters Of no, permanent Importance,
L give below the average export price
Of wheat in 1ve-year periods, begin
ming with 1868, so that the first period
covers the period up to and immedi-
ateiy preceding the crime of 1873"
while the second period covers the five
years Immediately following. During
the years 1868 to 1879 inclusive, the
period of deprecated paper money, the
prices given are in this debased cur
rencv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

White Hail, Ill, Aug. L, 1S96.-Dear
Sir:-The advocates of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver are telling
our farmers that the present low price
of wheat is the direct result of the de-
monetization of silver in 1878 Wheat
is certainly very low now, and l would
be glad to have your opinion as to the
cause, and If you think 1t is not due
to the characterization of silver, please
give me the facts upon which you base
your opinion. Truly yours, f. E. Ba-
ker.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-03-10
For CONGRESS.

Judge w. M. Beckner, of Winches.
ter, who so ably represented this dis.
trict in Congress when he filled out
the unexpired term of the late M. c.
Lisle, is candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Congress at next
November election. Judge Beckner
is a sttong and an able man and will
make representative of whom the
district might well feel proud. Mr..
John G. Patrick, of Jackson, is also a
candidate for the nomination as is
Judge John E. Cooper, of this place.