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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26

rotary of the legation, Lewis Bateman,
a young English gentleman, whose
parents went out to Siam before his
birth, where for many years his father
was engaged in business. Mr. Bate
man was also born in Bangkok, and
spent his early boyhood there, and is,
in consequence, as familiar with the
people and their customs as native
He was educated, however, in England.
minister Phya Visuddha, which, by
the way, is pronounced as though it
were spelled Peer Veesooddah," said
Mr.. Bateman, lis immensely interested
in educational matters, and his trip out
to Chicago was largely to investigate
the western schools. Siam is Weakening
in many ways, but in nothing more than
in her desire to overcome the ignorance
of her people. For many years it has
been the custom of the government to
send few young men to Europe, Eng
land and America for technical educa-
ton, and within the last half decade
several large public schools have been
established in Bangkok, where Eu-
AOPCeIAi Oh -, SClCACCS duu IdIlS llSlScS Stic
taught. The effort is being made to ex-
tend these schools throughout the king
dom and to have them for the girls as
we'll as the boys.
ISLAM is very enterprising. Her ma
tive name is Muang Thai-kingdom of
the free-and, although her people are
a little too near the equator to ever at
tain the Yankees idea of freedom, yet
they have been taking some mammoth
strides toward it of late years. The
last two kings-Maka Monglut and
Chulaongkorn-have both been aggres-
sive men, and have tried to introduce
modern enterprises. There are two
lines of railroad running through the
kingdom now and more are under con-
struction, while telegraph lines inter-
sect all sections of the country. Bang
kol1, the capital, has population of
nearly million, and it has electric
roads and lights, telephones, elevators,
modern residences and business blocks.
While we have but small standing
army and navy, we have that which Off
sets it-no public debt; our exports
double our imports, and our trade with
the western world is increasing every
year."
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
The Monetary Problem.
MONEY.
1t LO1es It's Identity and becomes =
Commoili When 1t Crosses
It's Own Frontier.

It seems to me that in describing
money and the functions of money we
use too many terms that apply with
more force to credit tokens than they
do to money. We speak of money as
the ''circulating medium" and the
"medium of exchange" while the fact
is that 95 per cent. of the business is
done with credit tokens-checks,
drafts, notes of hand, etc., which are
in no sense: money, but must be can
celed with money. Neither are eur
rency'' and money" synonymous
terms Congress coins money under
one law and issues currency under an
other. Currency is a credit token, and
always bears promise to pay money
(dollars). Money is created by the law
of a nation for a special purpose, and
will recognize nothing else as a lawful
tender Of settlement between it's citi-
zens in their business transactions.
Money. therefore, has a nationality
has to do only with it's own people, and
loses it's identity as money and becomes
a commodity when it crosses it's own
frontier. There is no such thing as
international money" and never has
been, and, from the very nature of
money, never can be. The intrinsic
value. of money is vested in the law.
that always recognizes the power of so
much money to cancel so much debt
and never asking if the money is made
of gold, silver or paper. There is no
intrinsic" value in gold, as distin-
guished from it's market value. If
anyone thinks there is ask him please
to define the difference.
Now, it seems to me that with these
facts before the people it will be easy
to understand some of the evils Of the
gold standard, which limits the ma
terial Of which money can be made
to the limited and high-priced prod
uct, gold, thereby depriving money, by
it's scarcity, of it's legitimate function
as medium of exchange, and driving
it to the vaults of banks to be held as
reserve, and forcing the use of ''credit
tokens" in all business transactions,
thus giving the people circula ting
medium of ';credit tokens" and the
banks a reserve of the token of final
settlement AS the ultimate end of all
credit tokens Cincluding currency is
cancellation by final settlement, and
the banks holding all the tokens Of
final settlement, it can only be drawn
from them in exchange for interest
bearing bonds, mortgages, notes of
hand, ETC., creating a stream of inter-
est and discounts, that carries to the
banks hundreds of millions of dollars
annually, and creating demand for
money outside of the channels of trade
that forces the price of money higher
and higher and the price of the prod
ucts of industry, with which money is
bought. lower and lower-money be-
coming concentrated in the hands of
few and industries languishing for
want of its general ohm
H. Graham, in Mississippi Valley Dem
ocrat
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
NEW SIAMESE ENVOY
Mir. Phya Visuddha Chosen for the
Important Post.
He Is n Typical East Indian, and Will
Divide His Time and Abilities
Between Washington and
London.

Siam is again represented at Wash
ington by minister plenipotentiary
and the kingdom of Central Indo- China
is once more to maintain legation at
our capital after an intermission of sew
eral years.
The new Siamese envoy, Phya Visud-
dha, came some weeks ago with quite
a party of his countrymen and their
wives. Phya Visuddha made a visit
to the west to make study of some of
the industrial schools of the country,
and will leave shortly for London,
where he is also accredited.
Minister Phya Visuddha is typical
East Indian in appearance, although
in some respects he strongly resembles
his japanese cousins. He is below me-
dunn height, and while not of stout
build, he has a compact, well-knit
frame. His complexion is of yellow
ish olive hue, his hair jet black, and as
straight as an American Indians; his
eyes are quite japanese in their almond
shape, but they are as shrewd and pierre
ing as they are oblique.
He comes from family of the
Siamese nobility, and through his ia
Their is allied to princely house. He
was born in Bangkok about IS years
ago, and was educated in the native col
leges of that city. After leaving school
he entered upon his profession, the law,
but five years ago was appointed sec
rotary of the Siamese legation in Lon
don. In 1896 he was made charge DAT
fairs, and last spring he was raised to
the rank of envoy extraordinary to
both London and Washington. He is
married and has three children, and up
to this time his family has always re-
manned in Siam. His manner is rather
of the orient than of the occident, but
there is an unaffected cordially in his
handshake, and he speaks English flu
emily.
On his western trip Minister Phya
Visuddha was accompanied by the Sec
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
WHAT DISCRIMINATION COSTS
Bonds to the Amount of $3.50, 600, 900
Have Been Issued Since
1893.

Since 1893, some $350,O00,OO0 in bonds
have been issued. Will it be seriously
claimed that this vast addition to our
Understanding debt has been made
necessary by the falling off in the rev.
enue? Up to the present time the de-
ficiency of revenue is only very little
more than half the amount of these
bond issues. Although the revenue
actually collected has been less than
the expenditures, the government
would have used the silver in the
treasury, as it had perfect right to
do, in payment of every public obliga-
ton. This disturbance of our ma
tional finances has come entirely from
the unwillingness of the government
to use silver as redemption money!
At no time has the silver dollar been
deprecated, nor has it shown any
sign of depreciating. But it has been
persistently assumed that it was unsafe
and even dishonest coin, and would de-
preciate just as soon as the treasury re-
fused to pay out gold on demand. Thus
the government became an important
factor in discrediting silver and instill-
ing into the public mind belief that
gold is the only safe and honest money.
The effect Of this was to intensity the
demand for gold. Having in part, at
least, created this condition, the GOV
eminent then placed itself in the posi-
ton of an exchange broker, furnishing
gold to everybody asking for it, and
not even charging commission on the
exchange. BY these methods the gold
reserve was drained away, and as it
went more was borrowed to replace it,
until $35o,o0o,ooo has been added to our
debt, saying nothing of the interest
charge of $29s, 100000, making total
of $600,0oo,oo0 hung upon the necks of
the people.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26

GA Glimpse OF the Great NOVellSt's Home
in Samoa~)
viously deposed and transported by the
Germans in favor of a nominee OF their
own, was reinstated as king and his
kinsman, Mataafa, the present rebel
leader, was excluded.
The three powers appointed as chief
justice Swede named CedarkEantz
and as president of the council z Ger
man, Baron Won Pilsach. For awhile
peace reigned between Malietoa Lau-
pepa and Mataafa, but Mataafa was not
sufficiently consulted in government
affairs and soon removed, with his fol-
lowers, and set royal court Of his own
outside Apia. From that time on there
were frequent outbreaks between the
rival factions. Stevenson interfered
and several times visited both the royal
claimants. After one visit to Mataafa
sweet old fellow Royal feasts were
given in the novelist's honor and he and
the rebel chief drank ''kava" together
and grew confidential over the cup.
Stevenson had u poor opinion of the
white officials chosen to preside over
the islands, and in November, 1920, he
writes: IF the great powers go on as
they are going and the chief justice de-
lays the war conches will sound in the
hills and my home will be inclosed in
camps before the year is ended"
After Mataafa had been finally beat
en- he says: Yes, of course was sorry
for Mataafa, but good deal sorrier and
angrier about the mismanagement of
all the white officials. cannot bear to
write about that. Manono a., de-
stroyed, one house standing in Apolima,
the women stripped, the prisoners beat
en- with WITHSTAND the women's heads
taken-an under white auspices. Well,
we'll, it is no fun to NEEDLE in politics."
At one time Mr.. Stevenson decided to
write an account of the revolutions and
counter revolutions to which he was
| witness. It was to be called "A Foot
note to History, or Eight Years of
Trouble in Samoa If he were alive
now he would doubtless sympathize
with his old friend Mataafa
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
POiaOned Bakers Bread.

People have been poisoned with bread
containing salts of lead, which came
from the timber used to heat the oven.
The Paris council OF hygiene has, there
fore, forbidden the employment of
painted or implanted wood from old
houses, old sleepers impregnated with
creosote or sulphate of copper, and dis
used blocks of wood paving for heating
ovens, on the ground that poisonous
volatile salts may arise from them and
deposit on the roof or floor of the oven.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
broke Pages spell. He looked up ar

broke Pages spell. He looked up and
smiled.
$'Sure enough?"
Eyes, she nodded, and then was
swept away.
But there were no more figures, and,
when little later Page reproached
her with it, she only laughed.
"Did you know it," he demanded.
"Tell me-did you?"
She ran her fingers caressingly over
the petals of withered rose.
"Perhaps-I did," she said.
I'm fool" said Page savagely.
''We're all fools; We
81 am so tired of all this-the heat
and the glare. Won't you take me
out?' she asked pleadingly. Her eyes
were an appeal, and while he knew they
lied he could not repress the eagerness
that crept into his voice.
''Surely. Where shall it be?''
Miss Whiting drew her silk scarf
about her.
"Where should we go but to the ro-
tunda steps?' she answered, and she
smiled again.
Chriswold left the brilliantly lighted
building soon after Maury had come to
reclaim his partner. He wanted to be
quite alone.
He left Jeff hall, wandered through
the college grounds and went past the
chapel. On, until he was close to the
rotunda steps. The dim outline of two
fgures-a woman's and a man's-rest-
ing there stood out from the blackness
of the night. He smiled rs he passed
them quickly. He had grown good
deal older in theselast five hours. Down
the long arcade he went, until the foot
of the quadrangle was reached. There
he paused and turned and faced the
great rotunda. In the east faint streaks
of light foreto]d the coming of the
dawn. Never had the majesty of the
long arcades and the great white col
umps looming up before him appealed
to him as they did now.
II told her was coming back to
study, and she smiled and said she was
so glad" He paused. He could see,
even at that distance, that the man and
woman had risen from the rotunda
steps and were moving toward the ris-
ing and the falling cadence of the last
waltz.
The boy laughed blithely in the soli-
tude.
And she chose me-" he said.-The
Criterion.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
HAS A FINE RECORD.
officer Who Captured the Fill
ipino Capital.

Maj. Gen. Arthur Macarthur, who
was in command of the portion Of our
army moving against Aguinaldo at NAL
olos, is native of Massachusetts,, and
is one of the brilliant soldiers who en-
tered the army from private life. When
he was appointed he was citizen of
Wisconsin. He lived in that great state
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
A Substitute for Lnmher

The latest in the building line is the
aluminium hut for Klondike miners.
When packed for carriage it weighs ITO
pounds. 1t is composed of four sides
and roof of thin sheets of aluminium.
and when put up it contains 100 cubic
feet.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
An IInDOSSible Feat,

It will be as easy for a, camel to pass
through the eye Of a needle as it will be
for the Hanna, Mckinley, Wall street,
British crowd to fool the American
people again. - Silver Knight-Watch-
man.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
GEN. ARTHUR MARTHUR.
Geader Of the Army Now on the March
Against Aguinaldo)

Against Aguinaldo)
when the civil war broke out, and he
became volunteer lieutenant when
Abraham Lincoln sent out his call for
soldiers. After two years of service
in the field he was made a major of vol
unteers, and very soon afterward he
was promoted to a colonelcy He
fought in numerous battles, and the
records of the war department show
him as having been mentioned for gal
liant and meritorious SERVICE on several
occasions. In 1.-The Records of the Re-
bellion" Gen. Macarthur is honcrablv
mentioned on several pages. Few
drawer or more able men have been re-
cruited from the ranks of private cit
izenship to make officers in the Amer
lean army.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-04-26
Copper Near Eel Caney

An immensely ricl> copper mine has
been located near Ell Cancy, in the prov
ince of Santiago de Cuba
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19

The new club directory of the Wisconsin
State Federation shows the federation to
be composed of 10l clubs, a gain of nearly
20 over last years directory. with mem-
bership increased from 3.bA2 Of last year
to 3,947 for this year. The Wisconsin wO-
men are proud of the fact that they are
to act as hostesses to the next biennial,
to be held in Milwaukee in 1900.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19
In Boulder.

Boulder. March 1S.-The big event of
the week was the entertainment and
hall given on the evening of the 18th
under the direction of the ladies or the
Catholic guild. 1t was largely attended
and enjoyable in every particular, and
all those who took part in the mus cal
programme and in the farce acquitted
themselves creditably.
s. Ryan and daughter, Miss Ryan,
were here Thursday TO meet Miss cara
and Charles Sharkey Of Glendale, Who
came to make visit at the Ryan home
down the valley. Miss Emma Coy and
Miss Kellogg of Butte also came for a
few days visit with their friend, Miss
Ryan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sinsel of Butte are in
this vicinity to make their home for a
time, he having lease and bond on a
mining claim in the Amazon district.
NJ. j. Foley. formerly of Anaconda,
but more recently clerk at the Boulder
Springs hotel, went to Butte Thursday,
where he expects to make his home.
Mrs Powell made a trip to Helena
the latter part of the week to see her
husband, who Is in the hospital there
and who is reported to be improving in
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Barendes and
daughter went to Basin Thursday after
noon for a short visit.
Miss Hampke. a sister of Mrs. Dahl
man, and her cousin. who visited here
a few weeks ago. arrived from ST. Cloud,
Mimi, THU Sday evening to remain a
few weeks.
Mr., Sigwein of Helena, who spent
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19

several weeks here on mining business,
has returned to Helena, and later ex-
poets to go to the northern part of the
state. .3
Senator and Mrs. D. G. Warner and
daughter, Miss Lottie, started Tuesday
for Los Angeles, Cal, where they Will
spend the spring months. and will be
near the family of MI. Betcher. who
have spent the winter al Long Beach
near Los Angeles.
Mrs l.. V. styles, on account of poor
health, has gone to Helena TO remain
a few weeks.
Three representatives from Boulder
went to Deer Lodge to be present at
the NJ. f. conference held there this
week.-Mrs. Rollie Gillian, Miss jamie
Hall and Rev. j. r. Hubhs.
Mrs F. F. Finch was called to Como,
in the Bitter Root valley, the first of
the week by the illness Of her daughter.
The families of J. n. Wallace and Mr..
Babien were here from Elkhorn Thurs
day, the former on their way to Iowa,
where they expect to hakc their home,
and the latter to reside in Basin.
J. c. McDonough is in town this
week endeavoring to organize a local
branch of the Modern Woodmen of
America.
T. Hayes returned Thursday evening
from business trip to Winston.
| A number Of Elkhorn people were
| here Thursday. Mrs, Duval and Mrs.
| Mcdonald were on their way to visit
with friends in Basin; Molle Harring-
| ton, George Slater and Matte Riley
went to Butte; Mrs. 1vey and Mrs. Bell
were returning to Elkhorn after a visit
in Basin; Mrs. Michigan came to spend
a few days in Boulder,
| Mrs Arno Hammer is in Butte for a
| few days visiting with the family OF
| Mr.. Hammers brother.
Judge Parker returned Friday morn
| ing from Virginia City.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19

The "Golden Medical Discovery has
been said to cure consumption. 1t sure
" and infallibly cures all bronchial and
throat troubles It strengthens weak
lungs and cures lingering coughs. 1t lisa
healer and builder of tissue 1t cleanses
and enrictes the blood-regulates the
heart action-puts the whole body in
tune with nature.
Mrs. Kerr's trouble was probably bron-
chial It was painful-dangerous if let
run-dangerous i'll the hands of an in
competent doctor. Don't take local
doctors word for everything. Write to
DR.. Pierce. Tell him your symptoms.
For over thirty years he has been chief
consulting physician at the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo,
N. Y. Consultation with him will cost
you nothing.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19
you nothing

firing of these distractions, he discovered
more serious friends who again awakened
in him his taste for science
The rest of Descartes life was told at
length and the manner of his death de-
scrihed
The art paper, "paolo Veronese." was
written by Mrs. Odson. who gave an en-
tertaining and Instructive account of the
Venetian painter. Paolo Neronese was
born in 1928 in Rome. He was the son OF
a sculptor. He early showed talent for
painting. The coloring of all his pictures
is most rich and vivid. The Louvre pos
sesscs his masterpiece. called the MAR
riage at Cana In this picture there are
1870 figures of life size.
Neronese H"Cepted but small remunera-
ton for his work. The Marriage at Cana"
solu for a sum equal to about 5000 in our
money.
Veronese died at about 60 years of age.
He has been called the most Venetian
of Nenetians."
Pictures were shown of this artists
principal work.
Mrs. McGinnis read an interesting paper
on THE French Presidents. -Siving ac-
counts of the lives of Felix Faure and
Louhet
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19

clubs, on the contrary" said Mrs. Sage,
"are organized with a serious purpose,
not for mere personal comfort
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19
CURRENT Rours THE FROST KING
Electricity Quickly and Safely Thaws
Frozen Mains and Pipes.


Frozen Mains and Pipes.
The electrical engineering department
of the University of Wisconsin is re
sponsible for the method thawing out
frozen water pipes by electricity. The
results are reported to be highly salts
factory. Not only are pipes thawed out
more rapidly than when the plumber
has spent large part of the day tink-
ering with them, but the process also
has the merit of being inexpensive. All
that is done is to attach wire at the
meter if the freeze is outside of it and
another at the nearest hydrant. A cir
cult is secured by means of the frozen
pipe and the electricity being turned on
the pipes are thawed out in less than
10 minutes. BY this system no pipes
burst as they often do when the plum
Der is called in
The process is the invention of Pro-
fessors Dugald C. Jackson Wood and
Burgess of the university, and was first
tried in Madison just a week ago, with
the result that water flowed in from
Il to 20 minutes after the current was
applied.
The power used in these tests varied
from u ITO 20 horse power used for
about quarter of an hour and in
eacn case tne pipe operated on was
warmed sufficiently so that it was COM
Portable to the hand. The process.
when properly applied cannot possibly
cause injury to the pipes or property in
the vicinity or to the persons or pass
ers near by 1t is now in regular use,
by the consent of the inventors. by the
Madison Electric Light company, who
is carrying out an organized crusade
against frozen service pipes in Madison.
There are reported to be as many as
400 frozen pipes in Madison. The work
| is adaptable to the conditions in any
| city, and requires a suitable generators
| of electricity, controlling devices and
conducting wires. After the process is
| properly understood it can be expe-
| ditiOusly operated by two intelligent
| Workmen with a conveyance to carry
around the appliances, and the invent
Ors estimate that from 10 to 30 separate
service pipes may be thaWed out by
such an outfit in day. In thawing
service pipes two are cleared out at
one 'thaw," where two frozen pipes
are on the same block.
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sides, Bozeman; r. S. Clark, Willow
Creek; ]. r. Hubbs, Boulder; B. e. H.
Warren, East Helena; j. NJ. Settle,
Butte; ]. 3. Lister. Big Timber; D. B..
Price, Helena; A, A. Walker, Deer
Lodge. Lay members: Charles Nc
Pherson, Butte; Newton Wood, Ste
vensville; B. D. Lear, n. P. Evans, Mr..
Council, Deer Lodge.
Miss jamie Hall and Mrs. Rollie Gil
liam of Boulder were visitors to the M.
e. conference held in this city the past
week.
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Doctors are often wrong.
The local doctor is an overworked indi-
vidual. He hurries from a case of scar
letina to case of diabetes and from tina.
to the anputation Of leg. He must act
quickly-sometirnes hurrledly. 1t is not
strange that he makes an occasional mis-
take. But mistakes are dangerous and
should be avoided.
Mrs. G. E. Kerr, of Fort Dodge, Iowa,
recently had some experience. She says:
Last spring was taken with severe pains in
my chest, and was so weak I could hardly walk
about the house tried several physicians and
they told me had consumption. Before had
taken the FIRST bottle of DR. Picrce's Golden
Medical Discovery, very much better.
took five bottles Of it and have not yet had any
return of the trouble -
Was it consumption? rS%SIN
Probably not (1II11Tf