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The herald., 1896-11-22

No one deprived of the benefits of DR.. Shores
Treatment Because of Living at distance fror
the office.
The herald., 1896-11-22
BAGGAGE NOTICE,

Candidate for Council, First
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

AN old and ardent Pupulist said to
a reporter few days since: "Things
have come 70 pretty pass when the
men who built up the party are showed
aside the moment there is prospect
for success, and even the Democratic
and Republican parties are secured to
find candidates for whom the Popu-
lists are invited to vote. They may
nominate them, but l guess they will
find out that nomination does not
carry the votes with it,"
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19
SILVER AND PRICES FOR FARM
PRODUCTS.

PRODUCTS.
1t is a positively proven fact that
there never has been the slightest re-
lation of cause and effect between the
decline in the prices of farm crops
and the decline in the price of'bullion
silver. And this point is the pivot OF
the whole question so far as the farm
ers are concerned, who think to inn
prove their condition through free
silver coinage. They are told by
every free silver authority that the
value OF their crops has diminished
every year, steadily with and in even
proportion to the falling price OF sill
yer bullion. That is not true, as they
can find for themselves by compar-
ing price lists since 1873. And, if that
is not true, then it cannot be true,
either, that to artiticially initiate the
market price Of silver by giving it
free coinage at our mints at ratio
which oyer-values it by nearly 50 per
cent above its market price all over
the world, would give the farmer the
benefit of the same generalization or
fiat rise in the price Of his crops.
The farmers common sense must tell
him that no such magic way Of rails
ing the prices Of his crops can posi- bly,
exist. He will get more or less for
his wheat, cotton and corn, just
as he always has done, according as
there is a larger or smaller demand
for them in the worlds markets, in
cluding those Of his own country. II
he should vote to give the silver mine
owner coined dollar for so cents
worth of silver ore, that will be a
good thing for the mine owner, but it
would certainly not induce the farm
er's customers, either at home or
abroad, to give him 81 per bushel for
his wheat if the supply of it should
be so large relatively to the demand
that it could be bought of our people
for 80 cents or IS cents .-Baltimor ore
Sun. tDem.)
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19
about seven miles North OF Leroy.
The fire was started by spontaneous

about seven miles North OF lie Roy.
The fire was started by spontaneous
combustion In. the hay, caused from
lack Of circulation. Mr.. Cornwell had
no foul air conductor in the roof OF
his barn. He says he has now learned
the purpose OF the cupola on barns
1t was miracle that all his buildings
were not destroyed. s>
Usage News: For many years Usage
has been noted for it's beautiful shade
trees, most OF them being hard ma pie.
They have been so hardy that neither
cold nor heat seemed to affect them,
and they stood several seasons Of dry
weather without showing any sign of
decay. The long dr,uth OF last year,
added to those before seems to have
exhausted the supply of moisture and
left them without sufficient nourish-
ment to sustain life. Many of them
are dying. Some are so far gone that
nothing can save them. Many others
are thinning out at the top and look
pale and sickly as person dying with
consumption. Some people are max
ing an effort to Save them by cutting
of the tops, but time enough has not
elapsed to determine the result.
Moorhead News: (Populist.) The
leaders in the old parties, in order to
save something for themselves, have
put into exercise their trained politi-
cal craft and skill and have very near
ly outgeneralled the less experienced
leaders of the Peoples party. The
question now is, shall the Peoples
party, which is the strongest and the
growing party, confirm political
deal by which they are likely to be
robbed Of all the fruits of victory.
Unless John Lind makes public de-
claration of belief in and sympathy
with all the cardinal principles OF the
Peoples party and makes pledges
that the principal departments of the
state government will be headed by
Peoples party men, he cannot be
nominated for governor by the
Peoples party state convention.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19


very noticeable in many directions.
General Superintendent Scott, Of the
Omaha, who has just returned from
one Of his inspection trips, says: II
see q diminution OF the free silver
sentiment right along. Railroad men,
farmers and laboring men generally
do not favor free silver as they did.
1t promised to be the popular thing
for time, but men are discussing the
issue calmly now and are reading up
extensively. Railroad men discuss
silver questions among themselves a
great deal. You will find, I think,
that the free silver movement
is steadily losing force in the North
west"
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

FROM 1862 to 1879, there was sus-
pension OF specie payments in this
country. For years prior to 1862, silver
dollars had not been in circulation as
they were worth more to melt for bull
lion. Few people under 25 years Of age
in 1873 had ever seen silver dollar. In
1872, year before specie payments
we're resumed, the coinage Ut silver
dollars was commenced again byact OF
congress. That 'c1ime Of 1872 must
have been a terrible thing in the
light Of these facts. It is simple nom
sense to talk such stuff
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19
County Fair Notes.

2
DR.. M. b. Wood, Ct Mankato will
attend the Mower County Fair next
week to Judge the dairy stock exhibit
and award premiums. He is an ex.
pert, = ~... 5
: II either Of the days set for the fair
is stormy, the fair will be extended
one day and will close on Saturday in.
stead of Friday s
j See amusement program in anothe,
column. Is ...'.
County Fair next week Wednesday
Thursday and Friday. Send or cal
for a premium list.
Notice the list Of special premiums
in another column.
}. S. Harris, of La Crescent, is ex.
pected to judge the fruit exhibited at
the county fair.
+ Grand industrial parade at the
county fair.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19
Notes From EXCHANGES.

Heron Lake News: Lind, the rene
gade Republican, popocrat for Office
only, is not the popular idol his new
associates deemed him. People of
sense despise man who abandons his
party because it failed to give him
office.
Owatonna Journal: Prof. and Mrs.
G. E. Guthrie left on Saturday morn
ing, at the close of the summer school
exercises, for Austin where they will
spend few days visiting Mrs. Guth-
rie's father, before going to their
home at Luverne.
Dexterite: The present countv Re-
publican nominees were nominated
at legally called andssconducted re-
publican convention and without op.
position, and that men who are repub
licans will repudiate the action of
that convention is something we can
not believe.
St. Ansgar Enterprise: Mr.. A.
Kempfert, "a merchant Of Austin,
together with two OF his children,
visited at the Clausen home over Sun
day. Mr.. Kempfert is believer in the
principles advocated by the Peoples
Party and is one Of the influential
speakers OF the party. His speeches
are all in the German language.
St. Paul Dispatch: 1t was the Mil
lers' association, of which Senator
Washburn is the head, which agreed
to pay Lind's campaign expenses. 1t
was this association for which Mr..
Lind returned to Washington as an
attorney and lobbyist after the cx-
piration Of his last term in congress,
and it is this association for which he
has ever since acted as special counsel
and attorney.
Spring Valley Sun; Miss Majors.
of Austin, made many friends in this
city last week while being entertain
ed by Miss Edith Bontecou.......
Frank Rensberger, one OF our best
young men, favorite in the circles Of
both ladies and gentlemen, was mar
ried in Austin Monday to Miss Regina
keenan,. The bride isn't much larg-
er than pint Of cider, but is as nice
as n ice can be. Il 80
Marshall News Messenger: Shoot
ing inducements might have worked
In the south some years ago, but
there won't be any shooting done in
the west until next Noyem Der, Just
after breakfast on the morning of the
fourth, when shooting under the
Australian system, and there will be
such fusilade In this district that
Mr.. Days candidacy is liable to look
like bicycle tire that has been rid.
den through broken glass-badly
punctured. /. .#..F s.... 1. :.
Spring Valley Vidette: Cyrus Corn
well lost two barns and about fifty
tons Of hay BY fire last Saturday after
noon. The property was on bis farm
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

OUR board of education has a
large share in making our present
taxes 50 onerous and large. They
need to be looked after along the
line OF economy, as we'll as our city
council. Changing text books unne-
cessarily, paying too large salaries
and running large general expense
account ought to quit suumarily in
the interest of economy.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

We like to see the grit ut such men
as D. Bunker of Window who are in
telligent enough to know that there
is a shreWd plan in execution by the
Democrats to use the large populist
vote and grab all the political per
simmons for themselves.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

THE State Agricultural association
will appropriate the entire proceeds
Of the grand stand Saturday, Sept. S,
to the State Editorial association and
the Press Clubs of the Twin Cities
Well be there.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

IL. G. DAY Of Albert Lea was not
even mentioned for congress at the
free silver conference last Friday.
Alas! what base ingratitude after his
conspicuous flOpS.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

WE would like to have Mr. Hilton
give a ruusing sermon on the fate Of
Ananias and Sapphira during the
present tent meetings. II only the
right crowd could be corralled and
impressed, it would he most timely
and Salutary.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

If any one has an idea that this
paper is to lend it's influence in favor
Of any movement which tends to the
decentralization and defeat o!'Republi-
can principles and candidates, he will
find himself nightly mistaken before
the prcSent camDairn is over
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19
Cheap Farms,

Low priced farming and grazing
lands In Virginia, West Virginia and
Maryland, located along the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad and con venient
to Eastern markets, can be purchased
on easy terms.
7 For special list published in the b.
& O. Field, sent free of charge. write
to S. P. Kretzer, land and immigra-
tion agent b. & O. r. r. Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

JUDGE H. r. Wells Of Preston has
just published a letter in which he re.
fuses to support the Chicago platform
and ticket on account OF the 16 to
clause and it's anarchistic declarations.
He says the Altgelds and Tlllmans
manipulated the convention and
arrayed section against section.
Tillman, coming from the same state
in which secession had it's birth In
1860, is but history repeating itself.
Mr.. Wells is an early pioneer of Fill
more county, lifelong Democrat and
the leader of his party. In his letter he
says he will vote for Mckinley. and
advises his party to do the same.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

BRYAN read his speech OF accept
ance at New York in an uninterest-
ing way and it fell fiat upon the rap
idly decreasing audience present.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

AUSTIN, Mimi, August l, 1896.
The partnership heretofore existing
between VIM. J. McAfcc ard J. NJ.
McAfee is dissolved by mutual con-
sent. The business will be carried on
as heretofore by Vim. J. McAfee who
Will collect and pay all accounts.
VIM. j. MCAFEE.
22-24 j. NJ. MCAFEE.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

The Democratic party is evidently
using the populists to the further
ance OF it's own ends,
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair, San Francisco
Free Silver Conference.

Free Silver Conference.
The free silver conference for this
congressional district met in the
Court room last Friday afternoon.
A bout seventy delegates were report
ed present. ]. l. Vermilya was elect
ed chairman, and James Heating. S.
Drum. and F. E. Case, secretaries.
The following were reported as dele
gates:
POPULIsTS.
Waseca Co.-Geo. Dunn, J.. F. Pape NJ
Sheeran
Freeborn-Henry Lang, H. c. Nelson, C. G.,
Johnsrud
steele-W. S. Weatherstone, S. Kinney, c. A.
Hollister.
Houston-D. Bunker, J. X. Vermilya, James
Murphy. ~ J,
Dodge-Geo. Hall, w. D. Ringland, c. E.,
Symes.
WinOna-J. D. Millen.
Fillmore-T. J. Meighan, A. H. Daniels. O.
W. Kingsbury.
Olmstead-O. H. Kingsley, John Hyslop, Rod
| ney Richardson. q.
DEMOCRATS.
"dseCd CO.-1lOS. bowen.
Freeborn-H. S. Day. I. E. Schemer, D. K.
Stacy.
steele-v. Dunbar, B. E. Darby, NJ. NJ. Guth-
rio.
Dodge-A. NJ. Burdick ]. Decker, Henry Rou-
hotf.
Winona-J. H. Johnron, John Kohner, NJ .
McGrath.
Fillmore-R. j. Parker, G. A. Love.
| Mower-J. j. Furlong, Charles F. Ellis, Steve
| johnson.
Wabasha-James Keating. 10.
/ PROHIBITION.
Waseca Co.'s. H. Dunn.
Steele-D. H. Roberts, F. K. Hickok. D. j,
Ames.
Dodge-A. B. Gould, Oliver Thorsness, Vim,
| Norton.
| Fillmore-N. H. Leonard, F. E. Titus, P, B..
| Ramer. 10.
FREE SILVER REPUBLICANS.
| Waseca Co-H. w. Hosmer
| Freeborn-F. E. Case.
Steele-E. L. Scoville, T. R. Symes, j. S. Bixby.
Dodge-JOhn Graves, A. j. Amos Simon Cur
rier. =
Winona-Thos. B. Shaw 0.
Addresses were made by J. I. Ver-
milya, OF Dover, W. S. Weatheistone,
OF Steele county, A. J. Amos, Esq.,,
of Hayfield, o. w. Kingsbury, of Pres
ton, Prof. A. B. Gould, of Wasioja,
and others.
The resolutions passed., endorsed
union Of all elements to down Tawney
and the present state administration
and bring in free silver.
The main business OF the confer
ence was to recommend a congress
sional candidate to the regular anti
Republican nominating conventions.
P. Fitzpatrick. a Democratic lawyer
Of Winona, James I. Vermilya, OF Do-
yer, Hon. III. G. Nelson, of Freedom
county and Prof. A. B. Could, sof
Wasioja Seminary, were nominated.
The others declining, the selection Of
P. Fitzpatrick, a Democrat, was made,
and he was recommended for nomina-
tion to run against Tawney. n !
-. --Hs0--- a.
-.. Book Agents Attention. 80
Are you selling Metcalf's life ,of
Bryan s. Sewall or Halstead's life ,of
Mckinley s. Hobart? We give the
very largest commissions. We give
you $40. 90 in cash besides If you sell
100 books. ~ " III,
We pay .freights to you. We give
credit. We ship books promptly.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19
Book AGENTS Attention,


Are you selling Metcalf's life ,of
Bryan s. Sewall or Halstead's life ,of
Mckinley s. Hobart? We give the
very largest commissions. We give
you $1,000 in cash besides If you sell
100 books. IT, -% MI,
We pay .freights to you. We give
credit. We ship books promptly.
Every Halstead or Metcalf book sold
In the country comes from our place.
We are headquarters. Deal direct
with manufacturers. Books sold at
Sl.5o. Outfits Free. Send six cents
for postage and save expressage. .spS
b. i. 4. McGRRAL 4& Bro,
Philadelphia, Pa
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

We notice in the Minneapolis Jour-
nal of last week a list comprising a
few OF the leading silver mine own
ers of Wall street and their com bined
wealth foots up to over $500, ,OO0, 900.
These are the men who have put up
millions OF dollars to run the free
silver campaign with, and the free
silver organs and orators are evident
ly strictly in it financially. The coun-
try is being flooded with free silver
literature at the expense Of these
mine owners. There is an additional
annual profit of about $4,000, 900 for
the silver mine owners of this country
il free silver is enacted. .
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

A NUMBER Uf nondescript campaign
papers have been started up to run
until after election and then quit
Subscribers for them need to look out
or they will be swindled out of part of
their subscriptions. Somebody who
wants a campaign organ puts up a
few hundred dollars to start it and
when the campaign is over the organ
is dropped and subscribers to it are
left. A word to the wise ought to be
sufficient. People right in Austin
have thus far been swindled.
Mower County transcript., 1896-08-19

The reaction against the free silver
craze has surely commenced and is
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-19
The Sultan.

European writers describe the sultan as
q very suspicious man. Granting that he
Is so, show Inc one man who would not
become suspicious under similar circum
stances. There are the ambassadors Of the
six great powers, each trying to play the
game of his own country and repeatedly
misrepresenting the ideas of his rival
The sultan believed and suffered. Chris
tian Europe has done littlo to abate his
difficulties. When he knows a person,
he believes him, but unfortunately the
person does not always deserve to be trust
ed. There is another popular error re-
garding the sultans character. 1t is be-
lieved that his majesty yields only through
fear; hence some people always advise the
British ambassador to bully the sultan.
No greater mistake could ever be commit
ted by diplomats. asked q Turkish gen
tleman who is intimately connected with
his majesty how it was that Fronch and
Russian diplomacy succeeded better than
British diplomacy, more especially when
the English are known to be the best
friends of Turkey He assured me that
somehow Or other the French and the Rus
sian ambassadors manage to become pri-
vate friends of his majesty. Tho sultan
hates official pressure of whatever kind.
Tho French and the Russians got many
things done in the name of friendship
more than in the namo of their govern
ments. His majesty is an extremely kind
hearted man, and when an appeal is made
to his friendship, or to his generosity, he
cannot resist 1t.
On the other hand, he is a very sensitive
monarch, and he resents any encroaoh.
ments upon his dignity as an Independent
sovereign. 1 wish Englishmen would
take little more pains than they do to
learn oriental nature. The sooner the pol
icy of bullying oriental monarchs is abol-
ished the better it will be for this country.
--Fortnightly Review.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-19
Parkhurst on College Athletics.

DR.. Parkhurst, in The Ladies' Home
Journal, says relative to college athletics
1t is therefore encouraging that our schools
and colleges are making physical culture
obligatory and the encouragement lies
less in what such institutions have al
ready done in the way of cultivating the
body than it does in their making it part
of academic confession of faith that man
oan never altogether get over being an ami
NAL, that there is no Inconsistency be.
tween intelligence and DUST and that the
more man wants to make of himself in
the upper strata Of human possibility the
more careful he must be to keep in whole
some condition Of repair the platform of
tissue and blood corpuscle, into which, as
so much bud into so much stock, later un-
foldings are inseparably knit.
should be sorry to have this interpret
cd as an approval of all or nearly all of
what passes under the name of college
athletics. 1t is ono thing to train the body
for the sake Of the man and it Is another
thing to train the body for the sake of the
body. l regret that there is so much ten
dency among college authorities to shape
the physical curriculum to the end of pro-
ducing physical experts-football baseball,
rowing match professionals. That kind
of thing is a craze at present. and it is a
pity that among our college presidents and
professors SO many have so far succumbed
to the mania as to be willing to indorse it
as a form of advertisement and as a draw
ino card
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-19
China Waking Up.

China is positively waking up. She is
rubbing her eyes and yawning and stretch
ing herself. The Japanese war gave her
such terrible shaking that she has deter
mined to do something to prevent like
disaster in tho future. 1t seems as though
civilization were being literally crammed
down her throat, and she takes to it about
as kindly as a boy takes to dose of salts
and senna. She has engaged the service
Of lot of European military officers, who
will try to bring the army up to some sort
of discipline and effectiveness. She is 60
ing to build roads wide enough for two
vehicles to pass each other, and for the
first time in her history will be heard tho
voice Of the teamster on his way to mar
ket. The few railroads now existing are
to be repaired and others are to bo built.
Telephones and telegraphs are to spring up
and magical changes are to take place.
Poor Chinal 1t took an awful drubbing
to make her see that stupidity can't hold
its own against enterprise, and that fif-
teenth century machinery doesn't work
we'll against smokeless powder and repeat
ing rifles.-New York Herald.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-19

and-was reflected from the family pictures
on the wall. Then tho neighbors came in
two by two. They sat down, their faces
to the fire. which ever and anon was stir.
red with tOngs and readjusted on the and
irons, and there were such times of rustic
repartee and story telling and mirth as the
black stove and blind register never
dreamed Of Meanwhile the table was be.
ing spread, and SO fair was the cloth and
so clean was the cutlery they glisten and
glisten in our mind today. And then the
best luxury Of orchard and farmyard was
roasted and prepared for the table to meet
the appetitcs sharpened by tho cold ride.
On, my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ is the worlds fireplace, and the
woods are from the cedars of Lebanon,
and the fires are fires of love, and with
the silver tongs Of the altar we stir the
lame and the light is reflected from all
the family pictures on the wall-pictures
OF those who were here and arc gone now.
Oh, come up close to the fireplace. Have
your worn faces transfgured in the light.
Put your cold feet, weary Of tho journey,
close up to the blessed confagration.
Chilled through with trouble and disap-
pointment, come close up untl you can
get warm clear through. Exchange ex-
perience, talk over the harvests gathered,
tell all the gospel news. Meanwhile the
table is being spread. On it bread of life.
On it grapes of Eshcol On it new wine
from the kingdom. On it thousand lux
uries celestial. Hark, as a wounded hand
raps on the table and tender voice comes
through saying: "Come, for all things are
now ready. Eat, oh, friends! Drink, yea,
drink abundantly, oh, belovedl"
My friends, that Is the way the cold
world is going to be warmed up by the
great gospel fireplace. All nations will
come in and sit down at that banquet.
While was musing the fire burned.
Come in out of the cold! Come in out
of the coldI"
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-19

To make cheese straws, put half pound
Of sifted flour in mixing bowl. Make
hollow in the center and In it put
ounces of butter, 2 ounces of cheese, an
egg pinch Of red pepper and gill of
milk, added slowly. Mix all we'll togeth-
er. Roll out the paste till it is about one
eighth Of an inch thick. Cut it into strips
one-q quarter of an inch wide and six inches
long and place in moderate oven until
colored light brown. Serve very hot.
Ladies' Home journal.