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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-05

100 acre farm near Bloomington 50 under cuivaion
balance timber and pasture Price 5000; onehalf
An excellent farm miles north Of Lancaster Good
running water dwellings and outbuldngs 100 acres
under ulVauon on this farm and some excellent land i'm
proved It's alsoa choice stock farm will sell this land for
thclow price of SIS on reasonable terms ooh
80
Here IS snap for the person desiring to 90 into stock RAISING
on large scale farm miles fStzer and
mines rom Lancaster under cultivation the balance
pasture ana TIMBER running water good oom and barn
34o ms entire farm can be purchased low price of
$4,000 About third balance time TO snt the ,r
chaser 80 @ Pu-
60 acre farm mile north Of Lancaster an excellent snrno
and spring house two rods from the house acres under c
Vaton balance pasure excellent can be
cd into excellent fruit small dairy the ADVANTAGES he
ing eiose market Don't fail to look at this.
farm miles Lancaster Is acres under cuff
walton, good Improvements Can be had for 81 600
IS miles Of Patch Grove, acres under cultivation
balance pasture with about timber failing snno
runs through pasture Good well house GOOD
new house and barn Can be had for $500; easy terms
An excellent well improved SO farm west Of Patch
Grove bargain at 800; easy terms.
24o acre miles northwest Of Lancaster 100 acres IN
der cutvaton balance pasture and timber Good house
and outbuding Can be had for the low price of S23
per acre; 3 200 down balance suit purchaser
FOR SALE Iwo -four and feed mills one livery stable
two printing offices and three choice hotels
farm that IS farm-Located in the township Of
Patch Grove. Highly improved. 24o acres Of the best
farm land IN Grant County under pow
GOOD house, barns, walks, Easily worth 500 per
acre we will sell same for $45 per If you
$50 acres in the township Of Patch Grove ~ acree
under cultivation. Good orchard. excellent DWELLING oood
outbuildngs; running and we'll This &c tbe ~;
gest bargain IN the county $40 per acre Re sure
and look at it. W
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-05
vo1 Iuserrs1ea.

Anold man and his wife were last sum
mer sailing On q steamer between Black
pool and the isle Of Man As the sra
was rather rough and the old woman
unaccustomed to sailing she said to her
husband:
oh. John, this ship is going down. {"
Well, never mind, said her hus-
band. 1T Isn't ours. London Fun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-05
eave An Rer seantr sarinrs.

Miss Caroline Rustad of Whitehall,
Wis, Scandinavian s. lnster, 65 years
of age, has turned over to Banker J. o.
Melby 5000, nearly all of her scanty
earnings for the last l2 years, to be sent
to the suffering missionaries and Ar
menians in Turkey. The old lady insist
ed on making the donation. and SO Mr.
Melby forwarded the money to the Lu-
theran Missionary society at St. Straya-
gar, Norway. -Chicago Times Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-05
The WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY.

Sing hey for the wind in the barley green,
And the great clouds drifting over:
For the dear brown sails, far out, that lean
To the kiss of the sea, their lover.
Sing hey for the fields of barley green.
with tha mad wind rushing over
Anii baF FER fae lntth tbaj runs between
Where my dearest waits for Der lover.
Black and White
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-05

Inc war with France lasted from
July 8, l79S, to Sept 80, 1900, and the
number Of men engaged, in the naval
force alone, was 4,59C The laad forces
raised for this campaign cut no figure.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-05

The word and occurs IS, 54s times
in the Old Testament and 10, 6S4 times
IN the New Testament.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-05
EXCURSIONS.

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
9aiIn Ea9Ie
NJ. NJ MURDOCH. Editor
AN INTERESTING ITINERARY.

Mr.. Victor Murdoch, of this paper, is
off for a trip through the more wild
and unknown regions and reservations
of oklahoma He left KingfSher yester
day morning, in company with Con-
gresham Flynn and others, going west
ward TO Watonga, from which point
they will strike straight for Cheyenne
City. on the border of the Pan Handle.
From Cheyenne they will go south TO
Mangun, the county seat of Greer coun-
Nv. which was lately detached from
Texas and given to Oklahoma From
the latter point the party VIII turn
northeast TO Cloud Chief and Arapa-
hoe. both situated west of the Indian
reservations. Through which reserva-
lions they will return to some point on
the Rock Island. The trip, which VIII
cover nearly four hundred miles, will
consume twenty days or more, and viii
lie made in light two-horse vehicle.
1t will. for the most part, be made
through a region Of which even the
average Oklahoman knows little. What
it is all like will be told from day to
(lay, the interest in which will depend
upon what that country has that Is new
or worth talking about
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
A TOOTH FOR SUGAR.

The London Times has capped the eli
max by publishing letter from an
English military officer now in Havana.
who advocates, or at least givesyit as
his opinion that the thing to do is for
the United States to purchase Cuba.
Ignoring he awful crime of Spain and
the murder and rapine running ram
pant in that fated island, and only ap-
parenuy looking to the business advan-
tages to be gained, which is so like an
EngLlshman, he points out that much
OF the depression of the sugar trade
would be avoided should Cuba become
one Of the states Of the Union. He
suggests by purchase or otherwise"
The otherwise" is suggestive. The
time is past for purchase but not for
otherwise" Cuba will be free and
once free can come into the Union,
everything being satisfactory, but not
by purchase. 1t is the richest spot on
the globe, but it has some drawbacks.
The writer says that under q stable gov
ernment Cuba would produce all the
sugar required by this country. This
is essentially an Englishman's views.
1t is the basis of all the colonial policy
Of Great Britain. Take in the lands
which can be turned to a profit That
English officer sees nothing in all the
Cuban situation but sugar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
GOLD COMING IN.

The large importations of gold at the
present time come a. a surprise to
many persons. The contraction of the
currency. caused by uncertainty as to
the future and consequent boarding Of
money of all sorts for contingencies.
has created demand for money which
renders the Importation of gold profit
able. Everybody is laying aside all
the money he can for q possible pinch.
Business men are strengthening their
position, apprehending severe string
ency, in case Bryan should be elected.
Few expect his success but they deem
it well 10 be on the safe side. Natural
IL the rates of interest go high in New
York under such circumstances and
gold comes in 10 ill the void. That
the gold is imported for q business pur-
pose is shown by the exchange one day
last week of $4,000 Of il for green
backs thus augmenting the gold re-
serve 10 that extent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
CRACKED NUTS. IS

Thomas F. Byres. a commercial trav-
eler, living at Emporia. Kansas. Is the
author Of n little vest-pocket souvenir
OF eighty pages with the above tide.
The little book. two inches wide By
four and half inches long, is dedicat-
ed % Marx HAMA IN the interest Of
good money and Mckinley and IL Jam
fun OF jokes and statistics Of fua sri
facts, so sandw1ched a. TO leave the
reader cxciain1iny Where am I az
Very many important facts are put II
nutshell for handy reference % CON-
mercial men. who talk As they travel.
always in a hurry Copies may be
Rad 10y addressing the author. o. by
writing 70 Curtis Mef5ke, lock box 20,
Chicago, I'll TIE Eagle acknowledge
It's receipt % n copy Of the valuable III
Tie csofur.slz-Soz-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
BRYAN'S ORATORY.

If Mr.. Bryan was older, and under
stood more of human nature, he would
leave out his rhetorical fOuriSheS and
talk more plain common sense to those
who go to hear him. His declaration
that 1.-The future is written in blood
ground out of the people, is fair sam
pie of the balderdash he is laundering
into the ears Of intelligent New York
audiences. In the first place the state
ment is utterly devoid Of meaning. The
idea of grinding blood out of the peo-
pie would be ridiculed by child taking
its first lessons in the use of language.
Then how does Mr.. Bryan know that
the future is bedaubed with human
gore, ground or unground? Does he
come of a race Of prophets that he is
able to look down the corridors Of time
and take a mental photograph Of what
is to be? Is he prophet, priest or peda-
gogue, whose business it is to proclaim
from every stump the portentious edict
of some impending doom? Intelligent
NOttTo Will lLdIuly dllIlUulC w I1lh SuOA
gift. Such declarations are the
mere babbling of the untutored, hot
headed, blow-hard, intent upon catch
ing votes by his senseless hyperbole, ig
noring common sense, common honesty
and even the semblance Of fairness To-
ward his hearers.
Bryan seems to be suffering from a
surcharge Of this kind of oratory. He
reckcns that facts and figures are too
commonplace for his style Of campaign
He figures that the lessons Of history
and experience are absolute factors in
his self-appointed style of meeting cur
rent issues His is a campaign OF
aerial flights OF grandiloquent nom
sense and the people are rapidly finding
it out In plain, homely, Anglo-Saxon
terms: he had better shut up and go
home. The ills that afIict the Ameri-
can people now need more substantial
treatment than his sophomore periods,
In short. they want less Bryan and
more facts
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
OUR WHITE SQUADRON.

Dick Blue, t-large
from Kansas, IN speaking of possible
future troubles, said that 1t was in
every Why impossible for the United
States to have any war with any nation
save England in which an army OF
land forces could be employed. but that
some day the American navy would be
called upon 10 meet and blow some di-
crossing power S6y-high. on the sea. It
win, according TO that estimate. be the
navy and not the army Of this country
which viii take precedence. Dick is
unquestionably right. Britain is great
er in her navy than are any OF the
other European powers in their armies.
respectfully.
In this connection the White Soma
dron made an imposing spectacle the
other day in receiving Ii Hung Chang.
The ST Louis, the great American mer-
chairman. bore him across TO our shore
and the Dolphin met him down the bay
and his course. until the pier was reach
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
The adia Daily Eae guslay a1oruue, september 1886

The kicker has had his say, the boltel
has made his bolt and there are liberal
threats that the independent voter will
vote his vote according TO his particu-
lar private notions. This will be his
great American privilege, but there re
mains ample time to consider the issues
and their present bearing upon the fu-
ture welfare of all the people. 1t is
pre-eminently the time for deliberate.
conservative thought Every voter
should weigh the responsibility attach
| ing to his ballot-hOw far 1t goes to
ward maintaining our national honor,
and how much it may become factor
in precipitating a state OF financial
chaos and ruin. There is no denying
that the people are honest The ex-
ceptionabIe faction, attaching itself to
a misguided though well-meaning divi-
sion of the conservative class my throw
the balance Of power into the hands OF
INSCRIPTIONS and vicious rulers. This
is the danger now confronting the
American people, and this direful re-
suit may follow the summers cam
paign. There is time yet for mature
thought and there are hopeful signs
that the leaven of honesty is doing its
work.
The business situation remains IN
changed, save, possibly, the gradual
tightening OF the screws of the Cleve-
land tariff and financial policy. All
hope Of defraying expenses by the ma
TONS income was given up long ago.
The treasury balance and the deficit in
the expense account has been kept up
through the issue of new interest bear
ing bonds. This, by so much, increases
the burdens of the people. They pro-
ready heavy burdens, but breathe freer
as the end of this administration ap-
proacheS. Autumn Will come and go,
and the winter months will soon give
place to the ides of March, and with it
the exit of the nearest approach to i'm
perial authority that ever came to this
nation.
Abundant rains, phenomenal heat
and much electric disturbance have
prevailed throughout the summer.
Crops of almost unprecedented magni-
tude have rewarded the industrious far
mer. Low prices prevail, but the
situation is, in fact, relieved by cheaper
carrying rates, and the general decline
in the cost of supplies. There yet re-
mains gross inequalities in wages, sala-
ries and a few highly protected COM
modities, but time must even up these
privileges and the whole people must
be placed on an equality so far as it
may be accomplished through legisla-
ton.
This year Of grace '96 has been an
epoch maker. What with political up |
heval and party reorganization, with |
wise conservatism opposed by the spirit |
OF communism, with the most intense |
heat and the greatest crous, and wind |
ing up the heated term by throwing |
wide open the doors of welcome to our |
guest from the Orient
the summer has been fruitful of events
and prolific of issues long to be remem-
bered. Happy the child that is born
this year, lucky the man who survives
It's catastrophes and thrice blessed the
nation that withStands the forces
which have been arrayed against it |
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

| ed, was lined ON either side with great
warships and monitors The Brook
lyn WAS not there but the New York
was as v~S the Terror, tiie double tur-
reted monitor and the queer and pow
| erful ram Kahadin and a number of
other crafts belonging to Admiral
Buncie'S North Atlantic squadron, in
Guiding the battleships Indiana and
Massachusetts, the cruiser New York,
the raZor-bowed commerce-deStroye
Columbia, the cruisers Cincinnati, Raj
eigh and Newark, eight of the most
modern and efficient men-of-war Of
their respective types in all the navies
of the world.
Admiral Bunce has just closed three
weeks drill in demonstrating the skill
and destructiveness OF our navy. The
reports of the drill convey vivid idea
of the wonderful effectiveness of the
squadron. Admiral Bunce's expert
ment in having the ships all cleared
for action and handled in their battle
trim as though in actual warfare prov
ed decidedly commendable scheme.
There must have been displayed a won
derful naval skill and prowesS, as
testified by the remarkable rapidity
and accuracy of the gun firing and by
the perfect handling of all the varied
types of ships. The old Yankee in
stinct for seamanship has by no means
degenerated, TO judge from this mimic
showing. The target practice was, in
fact, striking feature of the cruise
throughout. The target, only about
twenty-five feet high and fifteen feet
wide at the base, was battered and rid
died most triumphantly. Such marks
manship would leave little to the hull
of an enemy's craft A vivid example
of the blast developed by the discharge
Of the great 13-inch guns of the Indi-
ana was also Unexpectedly given, when
by the violence Of the shock its 1000
pound anchor, unbent from the cable.
was blown from the port bow thirty
feet into the air.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

OF that island. The dispatch went on
to say that the young princess. now in
England, had been notified that she
would be placed upon the throne Of LII.
but that in the event of refusal the
islands would be annexed TO this coun-
try through n protectorate or other
wise. The story is probably a pure
canard. With the succession OF Re
publican rule in this country Hawaii's
troubles will end. That Mr.. Cleveland
and Minister Willis would reOice IN the
downfall OF the Hawiian republic does
not admit or doubt, but that they are
willing to dabble in any trcacherous
scheme To accomplish that object as
hardly probable. They tried it once
and they have not, we think, forgotten
the experience.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
LINCoLN,S LOST SPEECH.

McClure's magazine has furnished
the literary sensa ton Of the day in re-
producing IIncoln's so-called lost
speech" 1t was speech delivered at
state convention in Bloomington, ILL.,
nois on May %, 1854. and was called
the lost speech from the fact that
the newspaper reporters. among whom
WAS Joseph Medill. were SO carried
away with the earnest eloquence OF Lin
coin THAI they totally failed TO take il
down Lincoln refused To attempt TO
reproduce it on paper for political req
sons IL was the speech howeer, that
proved the first stepping stone 20 the
presidency. Judge J. $. Emery, OF
Lawrence, Kansas, IL mentioned by
McClureis as the man who parity inspir
ed the wonderful patriotic outburst,
and which people are Dow everywhere
reading Emery, one Of the very EARL
est settlers. had gone east and was on
his way back ID Kansas. He had been
east making appeals on behalf Of the
struggling free state settlers He BE-
Ing n the convention Was called upon
TO tell the delegates what he knew of
the condition o. Affairs which he seeusl
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

The TineS-Star wants 10 know
'eWhat ails all the PopocTstic big guns
that they should leave the oyerworked
Boy and poor Mrs. Lease 10 bear the
brunt OF battle unsupported That =
easy. They are short on guns There :
Tfllman and Coxey and Debs and Tom
Watson. but they are spise.i-42l heaYi-
IL charged but the fuse Is drawn and
the muzzle damned full OF cold steel
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
GEoRGIA'S ELECTORAL VOTE.

The Atlanta Journal publishes an ar
ticle from the state code to show that
in Georgia presidential electors must
have majority of all the votes cast and
that when no ticket receive q majority
the choice of electors devolyeS upon
the legislature. The law reads: "On
the twentieth day after said election
shall have taken place it is the duty of
the governor to consolidate the several
returns and Immediately notify those
persons Of their election who have re-
ceived vote amounting to a majority,
and 10 require q attendance at the CAPT.
tol on the last Monday before the first
Wednesday in December thereafter, to
cast the vote Of the state on the We'd
nesday lowing at II o'clock m. In
the event all or 4 majority of said cleo
tors may not have received a maiori-
ty the governor shall communicate
the fact to the general assembly. if in
session, and if not he shall issue his
proclamation converting them in time
to secure the vote of the state in the
electoral college. The general assem-
bly, shall, by joint ballot elect as many
electors as have not received said ma
jority." The Journal says in every
other state a plurality of the popular
vote is sufficient for the election OF
those who are 10 cast the vote for pres
ident There are three electoral tick
cts in Georgia-one for Bryan and Sew
all, one for Bryan and Watson and one
for Mckinley and Hobart In order
to elect the Bryan ticket by the people
the silverites must poll for it more
votes than are cast for the other two
tickets combined.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01
THE SUMNER IS ENDED.

This is not the last rose but the last
day OF summer-Ihe memorable sum-
mer Of 1896. The ninety days preced-
ing have been fruitful OF events. some
OF national importance. many OF seri-
Gus moment % individuals. -Four or
i've national conventions, nominating
three candidates for president and four
for vicsNpTes.ient- The unusual spec
taele Of splits. divisions and waIk-outs
has been feature OF these conventions
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

Mrs Hetry Green. the richest woman
in America, has offered 10 d0nate a
site on the lake front In Chicago for the
location OF n $1,000 home for aged
and fnffrrn actresses Verify, this il =
wear Of surprises The neat thing We
shall be hearing that Russell Sage has
founded q home for retired plutoc1ats.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

"Ah- Ii viii tell the Chinese emperor
as ne pross-aues himself: The whole
world Is Jour vassal why, .aey rest
81 me everywhere a. their equal. save
Tire f-.sidentof The United States. lie
was queer. Maybe he thinks ne - %
strong as a Jap"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

Mckinley when be Is through with
the farmers % Llss,on county, the com
u1ercil travellers u Chicago, the Ger
rnan-Annericans % Cleveland and the
knights OF Pythias Of MaSSilion viii
recesve ne stasesmen 81 Kansas in a
body. This vast assenl1lage viii con-
sis< OF Tom Anderson alone.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

LET IL come. l repeat it, sir; LET it
Gomez said Patrick Henry. 1t did
come and when the time for oratory
was passed Henry was of little use. 1t
is a good deal that way with some of
the orators today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

In Mexico the people spend their
Sundays at bullfghts and the society
girls smoke cigarettes, and the presi-
dent holds his Office indefinitely. You
can now see what would become of US
were we Mexicanized.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

John Feast, 2oI n Main
M. ]. Parrett, IS3 N Main
Geo. Kayser, II3 N Main
S. w. Norris, Io4 N Main
R. c. Mccain, III N Main
]. P. Johnson, IS8 N Main
Geo. Van Worden, 328 N Main
Chas. We'll, zig E Douglas
John Goodyear, 42o E Douglas
Geo. R. Parham, COZ E Douglas
B. B. Herndon, Ala E Douglas
Henry Ozanne, I42 N Main
Shoemaker & Miller, 248 N Mail
D. v. Donnelly, Court House
L. II. Kistlcr, 238 N Main
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

That Is a queer story which TIE
dispatches contained ne other day -
coming from Hawaii 70 the eferf that
Minister Wills. who lately returned
from Honolulu, lad bern ordered -
President Cleveland 10 do his utnsss< 10
oyerShcys tie Reoub.can xoTesnmeat
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

Confidence IS prosperity" Dis
trust is ruin" Saying this Tom Reed
sits down. Whether you believe it
or not. he knows You viii believe it
some day and he is willing to wait
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

1t may DC possible that Ii Hung
Chang viii not buy a thing He bought
nothing in Europe. Perhaps China is
not buying. All the homage that has
been paid To Ii, has been counter and
trade politeneSs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

Il bet You Bryan viii be elected. I
bet you $780," said the siler man. "Au
right" the gold man answered. And
if you don't mind" continued the silver
man, I'VE viii make the bet payable iii
zoldr,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

The question Ii Hung Chang asks
the most frequently is: How much do
you get for a salary" The English
have probably limited to Ii that we are
a very greedy people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

At one place in New York the
crowd became so wild Bryan refused
to speak. Bryan refusing to speak was
so strange that the crowd was at once
awed into silence and order.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-01

The Atchison Globe runs a headline
of great interest at this time in Sedg-
wick county: zone thing the matter
with Kansas is that the business men
let the politicians run the primaries