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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-12-10
His Intention Mers Good.

Young man." said the stern parent,
with the accent on tie Young" do
you intend to stay here al night holding
my daughters hand ana ooling her in
the face like a sick caf?"
NO. sir"
What do you intend 4 do. then?"
"Well, l had thought when you did
us the kindness to retire | would put
my arm round her waist, and if she did
not object too forcibly, l might risk a
kiss. "-Tit-Bits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-12-10
A Tragic NIIsnrint.

He wrote poem 10 his Kate:
He called her hts red rose.
Alas! The cruelty OF fate.
The printer made Il "noset"
philadelphia North American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-12-10
Tried to Follow the directions.

Jones had been quite Ill. One day
the doctor called and found him in a
bathtub.
Why, man, are YOU crazy? You
must be anxious to die?"
mo, l amt" protested poor Jones;
"but didn't you say that your last med
icine was to be taken in water ?"-Dem-
orests Magazine.
The herald., 1896-09-27
DIFFERENT PHASES OF THE WATER CURE

strengthen the organism. The first part
of my object 1 seek to accomplish by
the use of steam baths and by bathing
in selected herbs. Steam is useful in
all forms of Inflammation, and medica-
ton with certain drugs incresaes it's
healing power.
ITO drive out cutaneous eruptions 1
employ principally cold bandages, the
oouche, and the application of cold
water to every part of the body by
various means.
The strengthening of the organism
is effected by cold water and bodily ex-
ercises, such as wading in the brook
or over wet grass. Very essential fea-
lures of my cure are hard exercise,
fresh air and very plain diet. On these
l insist with all my patients. They must
walk off and work off the lazy feeling
which troubles so many. To make them
do so 1T Is necessary to introduce GER
tain novel exercises. / am not RESPONSE
BILE, however, for the absurd forms of
exercise practiced by some. You see
many people who take the cure at Woe
rishofen have never paid any attention
to their health, and when they begin
mere their enthusiasm sometimes car
ries them too far.
''As to the internal use of water en-
phasize its Importance by prohibiting
the use of alcoholic drinks altogether
kneipp societies are being formed in
all parts of the country, and it will not
pc long before every park will have its
kneipp common
And with all this devotion to waite.
the deVoteeS of the theory should not
forget that the father of the water
cure, leaving Hippocrates out of the
argument, was not Kneipp but Vincent
Preissnitz, farmer, veterinariany. mill
lionaire. M. WELLER, M. D.
The herald., 1896-09-27

| ed upon as an intruder. All Ken hired a
J small, tumble-down house on Mott
street and with what little money he pos
sessed erected a street stand in Paio
Row and began in the tobacco business.
| He sold the choicest Havana goods, i'm
| ported directly from Connecticut and
raised in Jersey, at the moderate price of
| two for cents Unlike the Cinnamon of
the present day, AAh Ken seldom smok-
ed the paper-rolled cigarette. He was
slave to tobacco, but smoked small
cigars. He was seldom seen without one
of these weeds in his mouth.
From the time that All started in busi-
ness the prejudice that was felt against
him began to disappear. His quiet, un-
obtrusive manners won him respect and
esteem and his trade began to grow All
Ken wrote to China of the success with
which he was meeting and advised his
countrymen to follow his example. The
other Chinamel began to arrive, and as
they came they all seemed to meet with
success under All kep's guidance. Like
All Ken they went to Mott street to live,
and soon there was score of Cinnamon
in the city. The small settlement on
Mott street began to be known as China
town.
On their first arrival in the city some
of the Cinnamon established street
stands, just as All Ken had done; others
opened laundries, and a few who had
some money opened stores on Mott
street. One the characteristics of the
Chinaman is to attend strictly to his
own business. This, together with their
thrift, had telling effect on the people
of this city during the days of All Ken
and the early Chinese residents of the
town. They began TO be recognized as
useful citizens. Their laundry work was
superior to the work done by the Ameri-
cans and the Chinese were soon in de-
mand as laundrymen.
Ah Ken in the meantime had amassed
what to Chinaman was a small for
tune. He had an excellent trade, but he
seemed to long for more congenial sur
roundings. He sold out his tobacco.stand
and purchased a small store on Mott
street. In this All Ken was even more
successful than he had been in the first
venture. His countrymen regarded him
about as the Americans regard Colum-
The herald., 1896-09-27
Kneipp But a Follower of Prizes.
snitz, German Farmer
TRIED FIRST ON ANIMALS
Prizes snita Established q Sanitarium for
Wealthy Patrons
Became a Millionaire and Died of the
Effects of Drinking
Cold Water.

Nervous prostration has history al
last. The medical scientist or historian
il we may SO term him, has fixed upon
dates that mark the blending of it's dark
age into the medieval period, and of the
latter into the clear light of modern data
Of exact facts.
This historian is a German, of course,
for while the Teutonic race is the most
phlegmatic and easy-going on earth, its
temperament is just what has made pos
sible thorough study into the nerve
troubles of the world.
So we are told that nervous prostra-
tion became an established disease in
1S4S, and its cause is given in four
words: 1.-The greed for money"
So far no attempt has been made by
the medical world to root out the occa-
sion for all this mundane trouble, but
instead we are given fad that is as old
as Hippocrates, who, by the way, prac-
ticed some 1000 years ago.
The fad is the water cure.
And in the past year the American,
who is a nerve patient, par excellence,
has put his whole heart and soul, not to
The herald., 1896-09-27
OTHER PEOPLES CONVENIENCE.

We ought to think of other peoples
convenience more than we generally do
The home is the place where this
thoughtfulness should begin to be cul-
tivated One who comes late to break
fast admits that he is guilty of an amia-
ble self-indulgence, but forgets that he
has marred the harmonious flow of the
household life and caused confusion and
extra work. How often an important
committee is kept waiting ten minutes
for one tardy member, who comes saun-
tering in at last, without even an apol-
ogy for causing perhaps fifteen men a
loss of time, that to them was very
valuable, besides having put a sore
strain on their patience and good ma
ture Every day life is full OF lust
such thoughtfulness, which causes un-
told personal inconveniences, and Oft
told personal Inconvenience, and Oft
times hurts the best of friends.
The herald., 1896-09-27
NEW YoRK's PIONEER CH1NAMAN
Ah Ken Arrived from the Celestial King
dom Thirty Eight Years Ago.

No battleships with their guns and
thunder belching forth welcome greet
ed All Ken when he arrived on these
shores; no one carried All Ken down the
gang plank. The only policeman whom
Ah Ken met looked at him with suspi-
cion and told him to move on and move
quickly. A few persons looked curiously
at the first Chinaman to come to this city
and some children followed the stranger
up the street, wondering what manner
of man the yellow creature with the
bright colored jacket and loose trousers
was.
All Ken arrived in this city in 1858.
Chinese immigration had never been
encouraged, and the stranger was look
The herald., 1896-09-27
7f~as elec+e,e earH

mention his head. hands and feet, into
aqua pura. boiling hot or icy cold, as the
fad may have struck him.
In New York Central park lawns have
been set aside for the devotees of
Kneipp. In Hot Springs the hot water
and mud bath devotee is following out
his German theories In every part of
the country the water theory in one
phase or another has taken hold of nerve
worried Americans, and a nation in the
very midst Of political campaign has
become hydrooathic.
With this knowledge, 1, a sane medi-
cal practitioner, have devoted the entire
summer to q tour of Germany Austria
and Switzerland, and have seen the wa
ter cure applied in perhaps a thousand
different ways, most of them apparently
much more effective than the nerve spe-
cialist dared hope for.
SOURCE OF THE FAD.
My first visit was, naturally enough,
to Muehlbach, the source of the fad and
there was regaled at the very outset
with history of the water cure by one
of the learned devotees was told that
We were simply going back to first prin-
cfples, to a theory enunciated by Hip
pocrates, who cured rheumatism with
cold water applications. l was informed
that the lives of Emperor Augustus. of
the poet Horace and of the philosopher
Seneca were saved by cold water baths
And the modern father of the water
cure was man of the people, a person.
age without medical diploma and
who had only a. lot of good hard sense to
recommend him to the sick
He was Vincent Priessnitz, a farmer
irving near Muehlbach, who had devel-
oped into a veterinarian by careful
study of the diseases of his own ami
mails. These he cured with cold water
bandages and baths, and later applying
them to himself found them just as
enective as in the case of the animals
He began receiving patients a year
later, but as this was ammo domini 1929.
the nervous individual had not yet made
his appearance. In 1880, notwithstand-
ing the opposition of the medical world.
he obtained a hospital concession and
opened his institution with forty-fiye
patients In 1910 he cared for 1876.
DIED OF TOO MUCH WATER
Priessnitz died in 1852 and left sew
eral million marks to his heirs. German
physicians asserted that his death at
the age Of SO was due altogether to the
abnormal quantity Of cold water he
poured into his stomach daily.
But the medical world acknowledges
its debt to Priessnitz. For while it has
departed largely from his radical meth
eds. science has delyed deeply into the
The herald., 1896-09-27
Amendment Number Five
tsenate Constituti tional Amendment No. 49,
ARTICLE XII.

Section 81. 1t shall be competent. in all
charters framed under the authority given
by section eight of article eleven of this
constitution, to provide, in addition to
those provisions allowable by this consti-
tuition and by the laws of the state, as fol-
lows:
/. For the constitution, regulation, gov
ernment, and jurisdiction of police courts.
and for the manner in which. the times at
which, and the terms for which the judges
Of such courts shall be elected or appoint
ed. and for the compensation of said
Judges and of their clerks and attaches.
Q. For the manner in which. the times at
which, and the terms for which the men,
bers of boards of education shall be elected
or appointed. and the number which shall
constitute any one of such boards.
g. For the manner in which, the times
at which, and the terms for which the
members of the board of police commits
sioners shall be elected or appointed; and
for the constitution, regulation. compen-
sstion and government of such boards and
of the municipal police force.
4. For the manner in which, the times
at which, and the terms for which the
members of all boards of election shall be
elected or appointed. and for the constitu-
tion. regulation, compensation and gov
ernment of such boards, and of their
clerks and attaches; and for all expenses
incident to the holding of any election.
Where city and county government
has been merged and consolidated into one
municipal government. it shall also be
competent in any charter framed under
said section eight Of said article eleven,
TO provide for the manner in which, the
times at which, and the terms for which
the several county officers shall be elect
ed or appointed, for their compensation.
and for the number OF deputies that each
shall have, and for the compensation pay
ahle to each Of such deputies.
The herald., 1896-09-27

curative properties OF water appliances.
and so in all the water institutions of
Europe hydrotherepeutics may be re-
garded as a well-developed branch of
medical practice. For this we must
thank Priessnitz.
Father Kneipp is a Priessnitz imita-
tor. but not his disciple. The priest,
while adopting many of the Muehlbach
ideas and getting what may be termed
the ground plan of his theory from the
farmer, applies them differently. Both
men believed in ice water At Muehl-
bach the plan was to pour it into the
body. At Woerlshofen you walk on it
and apply it to the body at brief inter-
walls during the day.
kneipp, as did Priessnitz, claims to
cure all bodily ailments. But Priessnitz
knew little of nerve troubles, and Kneipp
knows much about them, hence his spe-
cialty is nerve patients.
OWES MUCH TO PRIEsSNITz
Science has done more with the water
cure, thanks to Priessnitz's initiative,
than the general public has any con-
ception of. We owe the more modern
Turkish and Russian baths to this half
century's study of hydrotherapeutics
The steam box baths are later develop
ments, as are the 'sitz baths" the half
baths, the Chapman bag baths, the
electric baths the mud baths, etc.
One of the most peculiar of these re-
GENTLY invented water cures is a COM
bination electric cold water affair. The
patient is wrappe1 in sheet moistened
with ice cold water. A blank->a' then
wrapped about this. Through holes in
the blanket an electric current is ap-
piled to the head and the base of the
spine While the current is on the pa
tient Is forced to drink glass of cold
water. He is then given a rub down.
and, after sleep of eight hours. awak-
ems without a vestige of nerve trouble.
FATHER KNEIPP'S METHOD.
Father Kneipps water cure is of
course very much different. He does not
velieve in electrical appliances, but ex-
plains his meahod as follows:
MY object is to dissolve and extract
the acrid humors in the blood and
The herald., 1896-09-27

element or misappropriation of public
money, and no person who shall not be
able to read the constitution in the Eng
lish language. and write his or her name,
shall ever exercise the privilege of an cleo
tor in this state; provided, that the pro-
visions of this amendment relative to an
educatieral qualification shall not apply to
any pc 'on prevented by physical dis
ability from complying with its requisi-
tions, nor to any person vino now has the
right to vote, nor to any person who
Shall be sixty years of age and upward
at the time this amendment shall take
effect.
NOW. THEREFORE,. Pursuant to the
provisions of the constitution, and an act
OF the legislature entitled IAN act to pro-
VIDE for the submission of certain proposed
amendments to the constitution of the
state of California to the qualified electors
Tor their approval" approved March Z, A.
ID. 1883. the said amendments as submit
ted, to be separately voted upon by ballot
py the qualified electors of the state. on
The herald., 1896-09-27

bus. His counsel was sought by the 9TH
er Cinnamon, and he became known as
Ah Ken, the wise.
All Ken, in spite Of his associations
with the Americans, did not acquire any
of the American habits. He stuck to his
native dress and encouraged other Chin
ameN to be strictly Chinese
Ah Ken is now dead, but he will al
ways be looked upon as the founder of
the Chinese settlement in this city.-New
York Evening Sun.
The herald., 1896-09-27
BY HIS OWN SHOWING

The question of free silver" says Nc
Kinley, ''is question of public morality
honor and good faith, and its success
would be blot on our hitherto spotless
national credit" Prior to 1893 Mr. Nc
Kinley. by his own showing. was dis.
honest, immoral and unfaithful to his
duty as citizen.-Chicago Dispatch.
The herald., 1896-09-27
PROCLAMATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
ExEcUTIvE DEPARTMENT.,
SACRAMENTO, July 20, 1895.

WHEREAS. THE LEGISLATURE OF
W thestate of California,at it's thirty-frst
session, beginning on the seventh day of
January n. ID. 1895. two-thirds of all the
members elected to each of the two houses
Oh said legislature voting in favor thereof,
proposed the following described amend
ments to the constitution of the state of
California, to wit:
The herald., 1896-09-27
A number of illustrious visitants ha

A number of illustrious visitants have
of late interviewed Dr. Jameson and
his comrades in Holloway prison. Re-
Gently Lord Rosebery and Sir F. Lock-
wood attended the Jail and among other
notable sympathizers have been the
countess of Dudley and Lord Annaley.
Each of the prisoners has apartments
specially fitted up.
The herald., 1896-09-27
Amendment Number Six
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No,
rs ARTICLE II. ~Ilr.sssP

Section l. Every native citizen of the
United States, every person who shall
have acquired the rights of citizenship
under or by virtue OF the treaty of Quere-
saro and every naturalized citizen there
Of who shall have become such ninety
davs prior to any election, of the age of
twenty-one years, who shall have been a
resident of the state one year next pre-.
ceding the election, and of the county in
which he or she claims to vote ninety days,
and in the election precinct thirty days,
shall be entitled to vote at all elections
which are now or may hereafter be au.
thorized by law; provided, no native OF
China, no idiot, insane person. or person
e.o-,-icted OF any infamous crime, and no
person hereafter convicted of the embes-
The herald., 1896-09-27

Lilienthal was the first flying machine
inventor who really succeeded in fiying
for even a short distance The attempt
to make a more ambitious flight has
cost him his life.
The herald., 1896-09-27
Amendment Number Four
(Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 25.)
ARTICLE XI.

Sec. 6. Corporations for municipal pur-
noses shall not be created by special laws;
but the Legislature, by general laws, shall
provide for the incorporation. organization
and classification in proportion to popula-
ton, of cities and towns. which laws may
be altered, amended or repealed. Cities
and towns heretofore organized or incor-
porated may become organized under such
general laws whenever a majority of the
electors voting at general election shall
so determine, and shall organize in con-
formity Herewith; and cities and towns
heretofore or hereafter organized, and all
charters thereof framed or adopted by au-
thority of this constitution, except in mu-
nicipaI affairs, shall be subject to AMI con-
trolled by general laws. 7o.
The herald., 1896-09-27

ARTICLE XIII.
Section /. Al property in the state not
exempt under the laws of the United
states, or this constitution. shall be taxed
IN proportion to its value, to be ascer-
tanned as provided by law. The word
property" as used in this article and Sec
tfon, is hereby declared to include moneys,
credits. bonds. stocks. dues, franchises,
and all other matter and things, real. per-
sonal. and mixed, capable of private own
ership: provided. that property used Tor
free public libraries and free public muse
ums. growing crops, mortgages. trust
deeds, property used exclusively for pubic
schools, and such as may belong to the
United States. this state, or to any county
or municipal corporation within this state
shall be exempt from taxation. The leg
islature may provide for, d reduction from
credits of debts due bona tide residents az
this state.
Sec. 9. Section four of article thirteen
OF this constitution is hereby repealed.
Sec. g. Section five of article thirteen
OF this constitution is hereby repealed.
The herald., 1896-09-27

Call tel. 243 for ambulance Kregelo
q Bresee. Sixth and Broadway.
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1ueSd0y, November Ihe ThITd, A.D, 1895


The said amendments are respectively
designated
Amendment Number One.
Amendment Number Two.
Amendment Number Three.
Amendment Number Four.
Amendment Number Five.
Amendment Number Six
Each ballot used at such election must
contain. written or printed thereon. the
words:
For the Am sndment Number Ore" and
Against the Amendment Number One"
For the Amendment Number Two" "and
Against the Amendment Number Two"
For the Amendment Number Three"
and Against the Amendment Number
Three
"For the Amendment Number Four"
and Against the Amendment Number
Four"
For the Amendment Number Five
and Against the Amendment Number
Five"
For the Amendment Number Six" and
Against the Amendment Number Six"
Witness my hand the great seal of the
state, the day and year first written.
JAMES H. BUDD,
Governor.
Attest: l. II. BROWN. Secretary of
state.
(seaD BY w. T. sEsNON. Deputy.
The herald., 1896-09-27
Amendment Number Three
(Assembly Constitutional Amendment NO
49,
ARTICLE XII.

Section 8. The liability of stockholders
of corporations or joint-stock associations
shall be limited by tho face value or the
shares OF the subscribed capital stock OF
shares Of such corporation or association;
and whenever any shares have been 1uiiy
paid up the holder of such shares shall not
be further liable to such corporation or as
ISOLATION or the creditors thereof, on that
account. Each stockholdcr of a corpora
ton or joint-stock association. whose cap
ital stock is not fully paid up shall he in
dividually and personally liable for such
proportion of all It's debts and liabilities
contracted or incurred during the time he
was a stockholder or shareholder, as the
amount unpaid upon the stock or shares
owned by him bears the whole amount un-
uaid upon the subscribed capital stock
or shares of the corporation or association.
The directors or trustees of corporations
and joint-stock associations shall be joint
ly and severally liable to the creditors and
stockholders for all moneys embezzled or
misappropristed by the officers of such
corporation or joint-stock association, dur
ing the term Of office OF such director or
trustee.
The herald., 1896-09-27
Amendment Number Tv

Amendment Number Two
ARTICLE II.
Section s.. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot or by such other method
as may be prescribed by law; provided
that secrecy in voting be preserved.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-24
JOHN M. HORNER'S GREAT CROP
Forty Tons the Estimate
for This Season.
w. n. Richard Reports Progress on
His Plantation-High Prices
Obtained at Coast.

William II. Richard, who has settled
down as a coffee planter in Honokaa,
is in the city, and is enthusiastic over
the prospects of coffee in his district.
Mr.. Richard has a large plantation,
the highest part of which is at an alti-
tude of 1900 feet. Some of the trees
are old, but majority are four and
five years, and are in full bearing.
Being interested" he said yester-
day, Il may be prejudiced in favor of
seen, there is no place to beat 1t for
raising really good coffee. l have had
reports from other parts of Hawaii,
regarding coffee, and the more get of
Hamakua.
81 have good prospects, il trees
loaded down with berries are an in
dication. / know that in other dis
tricts where the trees are the same age
as mine, they have quarter of pound
of coffee to the tree, while mine have
five pounds.
1.-THE last shipment / made to San
Francisco brought 81 cents, while Kona
was selling slowly at 10. This in itself
speaks well for the quality of our cof-
fee. AS to the yield in our district IL
is hard to estimate it; we are young in
the business, and the land is not set
tied. Mr.. Horner's plantation at Ku-
kaiau will yield 40 tons of the best
coffee you ever saw. This is undoubt-
eddy the largest crop ever taken from
an Hawaiian plantation, and is only
forerunner of what is to come.
"The people in our district are cof-
fee wild, and | consider they have rea-
son to be. Those who have not al
ready taken up land there, intend to,
and those who have done so are letting
contracts for the clearing.
81 do not say that Hamakua is the
best district for the coffee grower, but
it has advantages which some of the
others do not possess. The best of Mr..
Horner's coffee is grown at an eleva-
ton of about 1000 feet, just at the edge
of the forest The trees are well shell
tered, and we do not have either the
fierce heat which prevails in one dis
trict or the incessant rains which are
found in others. We are well satisfied
in Hamakua, and we believe our yield
will be as large in proportion to the
number of trees, and probably larger,
than will be found elsewhere"