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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
TO HELP THE FARMER.
How Maj. Mckinley Would Ac-
complish This.
Can't Cure Overproduction with Free
SiIver-Conscmers Come Through the
Factories and Not Through the
Mfnt-Telling Words.

With a few incisive and eloquent
words Maj. Mckinley cut the ground
from under one of the chief arguments
OF the free silver people. In addressing
delegation of farmers he said:
Free silver will not cure overproduction
nor underconsumption. You don't get con-
sumers through the mint; you get them
through the factories.
The free silver idea was first preached
to the western farmers. who We're told
that the making of an unlimited num-
Der OF cheap dollars would double the
prices of their products, and this would
result in making the whole country
prosperous. It was evident to the
thinking man that this was reversing
the natural order of things. When
times were dull and people were out of
work and able to buy only the most
limited quantities of necessaries, to at
tempt to restore prosperity by doubling
the value of the latter was certainly not
the way to bring relief to either
the farmer or the rest of the nation.
Evidently the only sensible remedy was
to be found in the creating of a larger
demand for the farmers products by
putting it in the power of his Gus
toners at home and abroad to buy more
of them. The way to accomplish this,
Maj. Mckinley pointed out, was through
the restoration of the policies of pro-
lection and reciprocity.
An adequate protective tariff will
open our workshops to their fullest
capacity. and give more steady work
to our own wage-earners at better
rates. Then they will be able to buy
much more of the products of the farm,
and the prices of the latter will improve
with the better demand. The renewal
of the reciprocity policy will open up
larger foreign markets for our produce,
and assist in giving the farmer better
prices. Maj. Mckinley said depression
in agriculture always follows low tariff
legislation, and the farmer is suffering
to-day because the number of his COM
petitors has increased and his best Gus
toners are out of work Diminish the
competition and increase The number
of his customers by a. sensible pro-
tectiye and reciprocity policy and the
farmer will get better prices for what
he has to sell, while the rest of the ma
ton win share in his prosperity. But
prosperity win never come to the farm
er or anyone else by opening the mnts
for free coinage of deprecated silver
dollar, while at the same time we shut
UP our factories by the adoption of a
free trade policy, to both of which ideas
Mr.. Bryan stands Pittsburgh
Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
THE CHIME ScHooLBoY.
He Must study Long Hours Every Day in
the Year.

He Must Study Long Hours Every Day in
the Year.
The Chinese school children have in
stilled into them at an early age habits
Of hard, steady study. saysan exchange.
At the age Of five a boy begins his
schooling. At daylight he rises and,
after dressing as quickly as possible,
he starts breakfastless to school. He
is given task and after it is completed
he is allowed an hour for breakfast
Again, later, he has an hour for lunch
con, but he is at his study nearly IL
hours day, seven days i'll the week.
All this time when he is not receiv-
ing his lessons he is studying aloud at
the top Of his voice. He is under the
eve of his master both in school and on
his way to and from school. The lad
is taught rudimentary astronomy,
physics and natural history, but greater
stress is put upon writing and his lit
erary studies.
"a Thousand Letters poem, is the
study that forms the backbone of his
literary education. In it are taught the
duties of children to parents and ell
such matters. Whatever the study may
be-history, classics or science-every
lesson is learned and repeated word for
word.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
PORTABLE HOUSES.
Made for a Great Variety of Uses and
Exported to Other Lands.

Made for a Great Variety of Uses and
Exported to Other Lands.
Portable houses are made of almost
any size and for great variety of uses,
says the New York Sun. There are
portable dwelling-houses and portable
lighthouses, and portable barracks, and
portable clubhouses, lawn pavillions,
engineers, miners, contractors and
other offices, bathing-houses, stables,
bowling alleys, billiard-rooms, hospi-
tails and so on. There have lately been
made two-story portable houses. A
two-story portable house of ten rooms
costs $500. A house of one room,
ski, with one door and one window,
can be bought for $50; with two cots,
two tables and two stools, for $50.
Sometimes a man who owns port
able house hires land on the seashore or
in the mountains and sets his house up
there for a season, takes it down and
stores it in the fall, and next season
house up there.
Portable houses are set on stones or
blocks, and on posts. and sometimes
they are set on permanent foundations.
People sometimes have chimneys built
where they set up their houses. The
portable house manufacturers sell terra
Gotta chimneys in sections to be stacked
up, and il is not unusual for the house
owner simply TO run out stovepipe for
a chimney.
We export portable houses to Cuba,
South America { South Africa.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
JAPAN'S MONOPOLY.
All the World Must Now Go to Her 70
Camphor.

Camphor.
One OF the unconsidered triiles that
the mikado has picked up as the result
of the Chinese war is the monopoly of
camphor, says the Indian Agriculturist.
That drug is produced only in Japan
and Formosa, and, though a variety
known as Borneo camphor is obtained
from Borneo and Sumatra, it cannot
compete with the product of the ever
green laurel of the eastern Asiatic
islands. Inasmuch as camphor, apart
from its many and varied therapeutic
uses, is an essential ingredient in the
composition of nearly all the new ex-
plosives, the demand for it is very large.
The japanese are well aware of the
valuable monopoly they have blundered
upon rather than sought and have al
ready begun to limit the export by inn
posing duties. AS a natural conse-
quence, the price of the drug has risen
rapidly since the war came to an end
and bids fair to rise higher. Happily.
the commercial instinct of the Japanese
statesmen is as sound as their political
instinct, and they are not likely to abuse
the monopoly they have acquired by
forcing the price up to prohibitive rates.
The chief concern of the Japanese
government will, for some time to come,
be the finding of money to pay for the
ships and munitions of war which win
secure the mikado ii. the possession of
the spoils he has already won. Proper
" handled and wisely administered,
camphor should prove a valuable source
of revenue and contribute a handsome
quota toward the cost of the military
preparations which pertain to the peace
of the dragon kingdom.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01

Send Your address to II. f. Bucklen
& Co. Chicago. and get free sample
box Of DR. Kings New Life pills. A
trial viii convince you Of their merit.
These pills are easy in action and are
particularly effective in the cure Of
constipation and sick headache. For
malaria and liver troubles they have
been proved invaluable. They are
guaranteed to be perfectly free from
every deleterious substance and to be
purely vegetable. They do not weak
en- BY their action but by giving tone
to stomach and bowels greatly invig-
crate the system. Regular sizes 25cts
per box. Sold by. 7 Bennett, drug
gist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
Rhenma . cured in a Day

Mystic Cure for rheumatism and
neuralgia radically cures in one tc
three days. It's action upon the sys-
tenn is remarkable and my arious.
1t removes at once the cause ind the
disease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits, IS cents.
Sold by JOS. T. Bennett and Stone g.
Hasseli. druggists. Lancaster. Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
Your Boy Wont Live a Month.

So Mr.. Gilman Brown of 81 Mill St,
South Gardner, Mass. was told by the
doctors. His son had lung trlable.
following typhoid malaria and he spent
two hun red and seventv-tive dollars
with doctors, who finally gave him up
saving: Your boy wont live a
month He tried DR. Kings New
Discovery and few bottles restored
him to health and enabled him TO go
20 work a perfectly well man. He
says he owes his present good health
to the use of DR.. Kings New Dlseov-
cry and knows il to be the best in the
world for lung trouble. Trial bottles
free at BENEFITS drug store.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
10 Southwestern Arkansas Just Open
ed To Settlement
By the Building OF the New
Road-The Kansas City
Pittsburg and Gulf The
Port Arthur Route.
NsNA, THE new CITY IN POLK COUNTY
To Become the Center of a
Large and Important Trade
Territory.

The Kansas City. Pittsburg &Gulf Railroad
the Port Arthur Route-will complete its
line to Polk county, Arkansas Iabout Aug IS
This will open up one of the newest ana best
portions OF Southwestern Arkansas to settle
ment. This country has been without rail
roads and is very sparcely settled. there be :
ing in this section of the state nearly 600
600 acres of the very finest kind Of govern
ment land for homestead entry and millions
more of magnificent fruit growing farming
mineral and heavily timbered lands can be
purchased at from S2 to $40 per acre. This
is a high, rolling, well-watercd heavily
timbered healthy country with an excellent
summer and winter climate
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
herman Buchner,
ATTORNEY

Practices in all state courts. Loans,
collections and settlement of estates.
Court commissioner for U. S. courts
and for circuit court of Grant county.
Pendleton block.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
Brown & Goodsell,
NEvS

Win practice in all courts in the
county and state. Real estate bought
and sold. Probate business special
ty. Collections promptly attended to.
Office over State bank.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
Lawyers
Lowry g. Clementson,
Clark & Taylor,
ATTORNEYS

anOffice over Postoffice in Clark 5
HPck, Lancaster, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
spEcIAL Low RArE ExcrRsloNs.

Al railroads viii sell half-rate stop-oxer
homeseekers tickets 10 any point on the
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf railroad on
and is October and DO BE sure to buy your
ticket 10 Mena and see all Of Southwest
Missouri. the Ozark apple country and west
ern Arkansas. This will afford home X
ers an unparalleled opportunity to visit this
country and secure homes in this new land.
Papers and pamphlets giving full descrip-
ton OF the country will be mailed tree by
addressing f. a. Hornbeck, Land Commits
sioner, 7th and Wyandotte SITS Kansas city,
Mo.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
7. Godfrey. M. D.

Office over Post Office. Residence
two blocks north Of Grand Central
Hotel.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12

he arrived in this City last Friday. He
acknowledges the interest he felt in May
Smith at one time, but that was some
months ago. and since then, since he
visited San Jose, he has transferred his
ephemeral love to another.
He has been allowed to depart in peace,
and so has Charles Lemarrer, the loqua-
cious barber whose drunken volubility got
him into trouble. Lemarrer declared that
he had had trouble with a denizen of the
tenderloin and had choked her late Mon
day morning. 1t was over 50-cent
piece she had abstracted from his pocket.
This turned out to be true, but Captain
Lees has learned that the woman in ques-
ton was not the murdered one.
The latest development in the case is the
discovery of some long black hairs caught
in the vestment upon the woman after she
was taken to the morgue. This slight clue
is accepted in the sense that her murderer
was not one of the blonde men who was
last seen with her at 1855 o'clock Sunday
night.
The girl was known to always have a
little money about her or her room, as
well as considerable jewelry, and it is be-
lieved that the murderer was well ac-
quainted with these facts, which prompted
him to do the killing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12

United States navy should be splendid
lighters. In point of maintenance they
should not be expensive. The consump-
tion of coal ought not to be great as each
boat has sail area of 1000 feet. A Frank
lin life preserver is part of the equipment.
The principal dimensions and general
features are:
Length on load water line, 174 feet; beam
extreme at load water line, Sd feet; draught
normal to bottom of wooden keel, IL feet: dis
placement, 1000 tons; indicated horsepower,
500; speed estimated, IL knots; coal supply
bunker capacity, $50 tons; com plement of offi-
GERS, seamen and marines, 146
The rapid accumulation of marine vege-
tation and barnacles on the bottoms of
steel-plated warships, the reduction of
speed, increased consumption OF coal, the
great expense of semi-annual docking
have troubled the Navy Department ever
since the new navy began. In the COM
posite vessel-a mixed structure of wood
and metal, with its bottom of planking
coppered without, or, where the greater
strength required it, plated first with steel
as above water, then sheathed with wood,
also coppered, and the whole so fastened
to the metal frames and plating by COM
position bolts that galvanic action should
be averted, system long urged by Chief
Constructor Hichborn, is found means
of avoiding these evils, while adding
greatly to the efficiency of the craft at all
times,
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12
Science In kissing.

The reason kissing is SO pleasant, says
an osculatory expert of scientific tenden-
cies, is because the teeth, iawbones and
lips are full of nerves, and when the lips
of persons meet an electric current is
generated, and, to put it facetiously, you
don't have to have dynamo machine nor
a battery in the house, nor call-box nor a
button to touch to ring up the central
office, and there is no patent on it, and the
poorest person In the world can enjoy the
electric current better than the millionaire,
and it never gets out of order. If Edison
had invented kissing it would cost 500 a
year. like the telephone, and then extra
kissing would be charged up extra. and If
you did not pay for it they would come
and disconnect you from the central Office.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12
STATE DEVELOPMENT.
The State Committees Plans for En-.
larging Upon the Work Now
in Hand.

The State Development Committee met
yesterday. w. M. Bunker, chairman of
the executive. was elected chairman of the
local committee and D. M. Carman was
selected as secretary.
Mr.. Bunker stated that as the result of
recent efforts the State was now working
in harmony as never before. This is
eviIced by the fact that when San Fran
cisco wanted the Republican convention
all California was ready to subscribe to-
ward the fund for securing it, and in the
present effort to improve the harbors and
rivers all sections of the State are show
ing an interest, but in nothing is this unity
of feeling SO apparent as in the expressions
of Endorsement of the State Development
Committee. They have come from prom
inent men in every county of the State.
The general committee is now ready to
push its plans to ultimate success and to
utilize the advantage gained by the work
at the Atlanta Exposition. San Francisco
should do her share, and it will be the
work of this local committee to see that
she does.
The drawings for the topographical-cl
matte map that the general committee is
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12

having prepared ewere on exhibition, and
the chairman called attention to the fact
that it would be ready within two weeks,
and that every county in the State would
be asked to subscribe for as many copies as
there are people in the county, the price
being cents each, cents additional being
asked in the form of subscription for the
general work of the committee, including
the mailing of the maps. He said that the
committee occupied a unique position in
that it is the first effort of the kind for the
advancement of the interests of the entire
State. Heretofore some of the sections
have worked together, but usually to the
detriment of others. Now all sections are
cooperating. Chairman Bunker said:
Wehave the largest and most representative
committee that has ever been formed in the
State probably in any State, for that purpose.
There is no political bias, no one has an ak to
grind, and no member of the committee re-
ceives any compensation, directly or indi-
rectly. San Francisco is more directly inter
ested in the work of the general committee
than any other section, in that it has more
money invested all over the State and
erty than any other county Oakland,
representing Alameda County, is in the
vanguard of this movement. The Mer-
chants Exchange has taken up the matter en-
Enthusiastically They called a meeting two
weeks ago, which was largely attended, and
they now ask us to send representatives to
attend another meeting, called for o'clock
change rooms Oakland.
A representative at their former meeting
told of the enthusiasm displayed, and said
that the Alameda County Committee, COM
posed of the following gentlemen, ex-Mayor
w. r. Davis, W. ". Witcher, George L. Fish,
president Merchants Exchange, J. w. Weilbye,
c. r. Yates, George w. Arper and j. R. Remmel
had promised to make a personal canvass for
subscriptions to the fund for the general pur-
poses of the State development committee and
to have solicitors secure subscriptions for the
maps of which their committee would take at
least 100000. One member promised to take
his team and drive to Livermore, stopping en-
route to enlist the cooperation of outside
towns.
The chairman added that it would be
necessary to prepare descriptive matter of
the City ana County OF San Francisco to
be placed on the backs of 800, 900 maps, and
on the motion of Mr.. Rich he was author
lied to appoint a committee for the pnr-
pose. He appointed Wendell Easton and
David Rich for such committee.
Mr.. Truman moved that circular letter
be prepared and signed by each member OF
the committee, asking the business COM
munity to cooperate in this important
movement by subscribing 81 per month
and ordering maps. Messrs. Truman and
Buckingham were appointed. Contribu-
tions are coming in freely from the City,
and assurances are pouring in from the
counties
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12
Realized the Injustice of 1t.

"Do you know" said Representative AL
drich OF Chicago, meeting General Greedy
recently reminds me of day at the
Worlds Fair, when we all stood with OPEN
mouth wonderment and interest looking
upon that scene SO graphically illustrated
of Greely and his little band OF surviving
explorers struggling with death and worse.
At the some time we were listening with
sadness to the eloquent recital which was
given to groups of visitors every few mo-
ments by the attendants, when suddenly.
during pause in the proceedings, an old
granger-that was his appearance-brolSe
out feelingly: i allus thought it was
shame that Greeley want elected Presi-
dent, and said so to the Grant crowd to
hum at the timss' Washington Posi-.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12

tyrannized over Catholics in regard to
Catholic literature; it was the chief OBJ
struction to Catholic literary movement.
And yet sodalities were good in them
selves-when they kept out of Catholic
literature Father Mcdonald cited one
instance of an English writer whose book,
1.-THE New Antigone," was not kindly re-
ceived by Catholic critics, one of whom
wrote that it twas not a book fit for the
shelves of ayoung ladies sodality library"
One is inclined nowadays, while hear
ing so much OF education, to look back
with longing TO .olden times. There are
untold blessings in the ignorance of the
alphabet. Persons weary of civilization
of the sehoolmaster and the tons of mod
ern literature, magazine and otherwise;
and then they we'll may long for "a lodge.
in some vast wilderness" with only one
weapon the jawbo of an ass to kill the
first schoolmaster that comes along.
Still the speaker said he did not wish his
audience to think that he was opposed to
education. On the contrary, he believed
in it. But if education be wanted large
latitude must be gwen the reader and the
writer. The Catholic church has always
fostered education, and whatever civiliza-
ton men now possess is due to the church.
She has never obstructed the light of
learning or scholarship. at the same time
there have been and are some few mem bers
of the church who have distrust and sus-
picion of profane learning. The history of it
began in the early days of monasticism,
when monk gave up everything the world
held dear to save his own soul.
The monk did not teach, but did penance
and wept for his sins. But In time the
monks became priests, and at first taught
sacred literature. Very soon, history tells,
'sheathenish books" were smuggled into
monasteries,
The smugglers, if found out, were pun
ished; but withal the love of profane lit
erature spread in these monasteries. A
story TO exemplify the state of literature
in monasteries of these early DAYS was
told by the speaker. 1t was about a monk
named Altsmann who disobeyed his su-
periors to gain profane learning which
men are now told was unknown in mon
astic institutions.
Returning to the sodality the lecturer
said 1t had very good reasons for classify
ing books; although the new command
ment-thou shalt not read novels-is pre-
posterous. Teach people the beauty OF
virtue and the ugliness and deformity of
vice and every decent person can distin-
guish between good and a bad book
Catholic literature is badly wanted, but
how is it to be obtained? The classic Eng
ilsh literature is Protestant, for, with only
three or four exceptions, the great Eng
llsh writers are not Catholics. And yet
Catholics should have no reason to be
ashamed of this fact. for the English penal
laws absolutely debarred Catholics from
prominence in English literature. 1t was,
though, no fault of theirs.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12
TENOR GUILE.
Something About the Great Tenor with
the Tavary Company.

Something About the Great Tenor With
the Tavary Company.
Among the distinguished members of
the Tavary Opera Company is Albert L.
Guile, the celebrated tenor of the Patti
concerts of America.
Guile was born in Avignon, France, in
1854 and studied with the great tenor
Audran, father of the famous composer
of 1.-The Mascot and 'Olivette." He has
had a most remarkable and interesting
career, one that would read like romance
more than history of real life. M. Guile
has sung in all the leading theaters of
Europe, including those of the Russian
empire, with all the greatest artists of the
age.
For six seasons he was with Patti and
for three years he was court singer for the
King Of Portugal, Dom Luis I. by whom
he was created "Chevalier of the Legion of
Christ" a Portuguese military order,
favor conferred only upon the most dis
tinguished personages, and which Mons.
Guile received under the most fattering
and complimentary circumstances
From his profits on the stage Guile has
built a castle near Geneva. Switzerland,
with all the latest American improvements
and at cost Of $50, 900. He has a family
Vi thiCO SHlloItIl, duO 1OuE years ago he
engaged an American governess and sent
her TO Europe to educate them in the
language and ways OF "Uncle SAM" Guile
is great admirer of America, where he
made many friends, and he says frankly
that of all the audiences he has ever sung
for, the Americans are the most intelligent
and appreciative.
His greatest operas are "The Huguenots,
Faust" "Aida," "Pagliacci," "L'Afri-
caine." and the great production, "The
Jewess," in which as the old Jew he en-
frances every body. Even his associates on
the stage tremble at the dramatic inten-
sity of his Interpretation.