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crush the hand-sorted ore, which is then run through screens of from six 10 six teen meshes per inch. After that the tin is concentrated and shipped off to England In the past the ore has been taken out of the earth in the most waste full ways. Much of it was carried out of the mines in buckets of rawhide. up ladders, on the backs of Indians. Thou sands of tons of the richest ore were crushed between stones and then washed out in streams of water by the Indian women. Much of this ore so treated car ried from 40 to 50 per cent of metallic tin: the lower grades were rejected because they would not pay for the labor.
 Before leaving the subject of Bolivian mining I would say that the future of the country depends largely upon the passage of the laws advocated by the President and Congress. Just now the protection of mining investments in Bo- livia is not so good as in Peru. There is regular business in the contesting of titles by the lawyers and in fighting for mines that other men own. I am told that there are many shyster lawyers and others who make practice of laying claims to every mine supposed to be good and of contesting it's title as soon as il is denounced. Said one Of the leading railroad men of Bolivia to me yester- day:
 ''T might go to the heart of the back woods in the eastern part of this coun- try and lay claim to mlne hundred miles from where any white man ever trod If I did so I venture that within two days after that mine was a matter of record there would be half dozen applications filed, disputng my title and swearing that the contestant had record proof that he owned it. This is especially so of any mine, thought to be good and that even long after the mine has been profitably worked. Not long ago the engineers of the largest American copper syndicate came to La Paz and spent s'S months looking over the ground. They found plenty of good prospects. but re- fused to invest under the present laws and went over the border to Chile where they could be sure of their titles"
 One has also to watch the papers that his own lawyers prepare making his claim this man continued. .tI know of one case in which a big proposition was almost lost by an error in the de- scription. The lawyer in giving the feet or meters from certain point used the word northeast, where he should have used the word north. When the error was called to his attention he said il was a slip of the pen. but had it beer so recorded it would have resulted ii vitiating the title to a property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. l have no doubt that that error was intentional
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assers and the heavy guns, they rsgained by night fall all the ground lost during the afternoon by the Belgians and Ger mans.
 The only advanced ground kept by the French was a farm at Gemaiucourt
 While this was going on the Emperor and Butcher were trying each other out at the three places already named. For six hours the French, greatly outnum- bered, had given battle with singular bravery and skill. It would have gone hard with the mhad not one of Butchers aids failed to come up. Butcher now real ized that Wellington must have his hands full and that he himself would have to fight without English aid.
 Almost at the close of the days battle the Prussian center was compelled to give way and Butcher found himself forcei back all along the line. Under cover of the night and a part of the next day he retreated in good order toward Yelling ton.
 When the latter learned this and the DO sition of Butchers defeated army he de cided to give battle at Mont St. Jean. Butcher sent word that he would dispatch aid to him. About noon Wellington wa between Brussels, Quatre Bras. and the enemy coming from the vicinity Of Ligny m a neaVy shower or rdlT.
 To defend his right from attack Vel lington sent Prince Frederick N ith about 2o,OoO men to Hals, 12 miles away. The main body of the allies had now been joined by Bulow's division, which was quite fresh. and news had come that Butchers whole army was on the way.
 The place of battle was little valley with hills on each side. The English oc- cuped the northern, the French the south ern sides. with their artillery. The Brus- sells road run through the position of each force and Napoleon had intended to proceed thence to Brussels. The English wings were protected. the right by ravine and a village called Merk Brsaine, the. left by two other hamlets. Before the right flank was strong body of al es in the Housoumont farmhouse, while pc fore the center was another known as La Have Sainte. The village of La Hay was away at the end of the left wing po- sition. Behind the French right was a village called Plsnchenoit.
 June 1S the day of Waterloo, opened with heavy rain. and it was not until o'clock that each side could see the others position. The English formed in two lines, the cavalry behind the centei and right of the first line. Learning of suspected Belgian treason, Wellington had scattered the Belgian allies among his various divisions.
 The French formation was practically the same as the English.
 About noon the Hougoumont garrison received a fierce attack from the left French wing under Jerome Bonaparte The French occupied the wood around it, but could not take the house from the British.
 The French left and the British righl engaged in an artillery duel while Ney attacked the allies center and left This was to carry the allied position at La Have Sainte and at Mont Saint Jean cutting the enemy off from Brussels.
 Supported by artillery Ney had 1S,00' infantry in four cobumnA One attacked the left. the remainder the left center.
 The Dutch and BeKians in front ne{ t. before them, but two brigades under Pie
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them a general advance was made against the French squares, who, after gallant stand were cut up and thrown into confusion.
 The time had come to retreat and Napoleon reluctantly gave the order. It was accomplished first with a sem blance of discipline, but. soon, as the victorious allies pressed on them. the French abandoned their arms and fled in a rout towards the border
 The battle was over, and the power of Napoleon, which had flared up in February, flickered and expired for- ever
 Broken by his defeat Napoleon en- tered Paris three days afterward, and if he still retained any hope of mak- ing another stand it must have van ished when he discovered that Paris had executed another volte face and had turned sourly against him as ; commander who had lost his power win victories. He knew, too that tha allies were again on the way to Paris and 1t was too late. A last humiliatioil was an official warning to leave Parisl
 For short time he. entertained thd idea of escaping to the United States| but no ship could have delivered hinI here.
 On July Ia he was received on board a British man of war. and after thd powers had agreed to leave him ir| british custody he sailed on Octobe} I for St. Helena where he remained until his death in 1927. So. born oI| an island, banished to an island, con quered by the army of an island (witlI the assistance of it's allies). he died upon an island. 4.
 Napoleon had some of the qualitie| cf great ruler. He caused to be col iected and formulated the Code Napol. of Ia xnrI,; ;ob 11a- France so we'll. but he was so con t'nually at war during his reign thaI he had no time to demonstrate to tn world what civil administrative abilX ity he had. and it is as military con. r-afsder that ne Is chiefly considered.
 His genius in that line will not bX discussed here. He certainly originated his own tactics and it was long tim before his enepies discarded their owl obsolete methods Of warfare and ad lusted their movements so as to med hia
 He gave the world surprise at t rapidity with which he moved all struck. and by his willingness on man occasions to meet a force much sl perior in numbers to his own
 In diplomacy. which ne coLducf+ without advice from anyone, s,e W. usually far-seeing but unscrupulo, and relentless. As to this, however. h faults were those of his time. Wh< one had men like Stein lad Mette mich to deal with it did nat pay cherish too fine a sense of honor.
 Of course the fabric of states trib tary to France which he erected frs the Mediterranean to the Baltic a from the Atlantic to the Russian bo der. was destined to fall at his d ea whether he had won at Waterloo not. It was too unwieldy, too seq n nd ff,, Itxa it, rf.ne .,.,.1 terests to exist longA
 Europe breathed more easily fc time when he sailed off to his
 prison in the south Atlantic, bu was not destined very long tor pea The element which had made Napolt as dictator possible was not del Liberty, the seed which tho revolut had planted in mems breasts. wur fructifying in every land of r;ur0be
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Typical tin miners

cost of about $50 ton. It has installed the most modern machinery, and it is saving money by employing anthracite gas engines that give a 70 per cent fuel efficiency, using one pound and half of anthracite per hours power per hour. This saves a great deal in a re- zion where the coal freights from the seacoast are from s25 to $50 per ton.
 l have already written of the mines of Potosi that were opened up by the Span iards Since their beginning they have produced 8 COG, ,000,000 or $4 000, GOO worth of silver. and it is now thought millions of dollars more were thrown away in the tin which was mixed with the silver. The people did not understand the value of the baser metal. They could not realize that it might some day be worth SLIGO a ton, which has been its selling price within the past year. although it Is now very much less. So they took out the silver and left the tin on the dumps whence it has been washed away by the streams. All this is changed and the great profit is now in the tin, the Potosi owners having origi- hated a syndicate to operate the property on a silver basis. They will work the mines almost solely for tin and will capi- talize them largely on their fame in the past as silver producers.
 
 value in the Potosi district La Salvadora has produced as much 1.700,000 pounds Of pure tin in a month and the Tnca mines are now yielding more than 800 coo pounds of that mineral every F hours. The uncia mines are the property of Simon l. Patino. who might be called the tin king of the world. He is worth many millions, and it all comes from tin
 It is only d few years ago that Patino was poor clerk, working for few dol lars d month. He had Indian blood in his veins, and no one supposed he would ever be more than a hireling. Then he found this prospect and tried to get his employers to work it. They had no faith in him or his property, and so he de- nounced the claim for himself. In some way he managed to get a small capital At first he practically lived in the mine laboring there with the few Indians he could hire at low wages He finally struck q rich vein and since then the mine has paid as high as $5, 5,000000 a year. It some times yields as much IS $300,000 a month.
 Patno has suddenly jumped from pow erty to eXtravagant riches and he has hard work to invest the surplus. He is in- teresetd in banks and he has bought houses and haciendas and mines of va rious kinds. He has built a railroad from the Antofagasta line to Uncia to get his ore out to the steamers; and is installing the best of machinery. Of late years he has been living in Paris and his proper ties are now managed by agents. I have already referred to the great blocks
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Those which Kemp has. at their face value. are worth at least S12500o.
 I have already written of the Bolivian Exploitation and Development company, the president of which is Mir Horace G. Knowles, our former minister to Bolivia MT. Knowles tells me that his prospec- tors have recently discovered a wonder ful deposit of stream tin in one of the Bolivian rivers. The most of the tin now mined here is in quartz, but this stream tin is in nuggets and Jumps from the size of an egg to that of your two fists or larger. It is said to be very rich, containing 5 per cent of ovlde of tim The deposit runs through the bed of river for distance of 26 miles.
 Mir. Knowles thinks that the tin of Bolivia has scarcely been toucbed; he says that h.s engineers are sending in reports of many finds that promise to pay big dividends upon their develop ment. He believes that when our canal is completed the tin ores of Bolivia will go to the United States rather than to Europe. We are now using 40 or 50 per cent of all the tin mined, and the tin we get from Bolivia is taken down to the seacoast in the and shipped off to England, where it is smelted and then carried across the Atlantic to be used In our factories. NIT. Knowles thinks that the enormous canning industry of California should establish it's own tin plate mills. and that the tin ore should go north along the Pacific coast from the mines to the mills.
 At present 1t costs about S60 to get tin from these mines to Liverpool, and of this $15 covers the freight to the sea- coast The other s45 is taken up in various charges. including $13 for carry ing the ore from Antofagasta to Liver pool The distance to san Francisco. Los Angeles or Puget sound is very much less. and the great saving in the charges of the go-betweens who handle the tin between England ard the United States would make fine profit for the American factories. We are now using almost S50. 0.000,000 worth of tin bars and blocks every year. The export of Be- lvia is worth much less than this, and the United States could take all of it's product and still not have enough to satisfy it's demands
 In the meantime tin prospecting is go- ing on in many parts of this country, and the new railroads, now building. will open up highly mineralized territories that will probably increase the tin prod uct The old mines are being re-equipped with modern machinery, and many think that the future output will be such that it will drive the more expensive Ma laysian tin out of the market. At pres ent they are using 120o-pound stamps to
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for them that Wellington and Butcher waited, the object being to advance on Paris as soon as the junction had been formed.
 Napoleon therefore determined to strike at Wellington immediately. The British commander had his base at Ostend and occupied west Belgium, while Butcher was in the eastern part, resting on Coblenz. After he had disposed of these forces it was Napoleon's design to strike the Aus trians and Russians coming in from the east. The first blow he hoped to de- liver in a way to separate Wellington and Butcher These allies had between them about 100000 troops under Yelling ton and l15,000 under Butcher.
 Early in June the Emperor's army be- gan oget together, and by the i4th he had at Solre, Philippeville. and Beau mont 12400O men before the enemy had the least suspicion of it.
 Tn earmy which he had marshalled with which to give battle, although much hmaller than that of his opponents, was composed entirely of Frenchmen, q large proportion of whom had been with him during soce of his most trying and vic- torious campaigns.
 The absence of Murat, however, was greatly felt among the commanders. He had played the traitor, had asked for giveness and had been refused.
 By the time battle was ready to be given the army had come together from Lisle, Metz Mezeres, Valenciennes, and Laon, while the imperial guard had been dispatched from Paris, arriving few days before fighting began. This whole force was disposed about Avesnes, on the Sambre river. June 15 spirited advance kwas made across the frontier in the di- rection of Brussels, the object being to divide the allies.
 He struck, and struck quickly, crossing the Sambre at the point of the bayonet and driving Butchers forces before him. At the same time he had advanced on Fleurus, pushing back Butchers forces there. Another wing of his army had reached the Chatelet bridge. His plan was to throw his center and right on Butchers main force while his left under s Ney would guard against the coming oI English aid News troops. which had been A hours on the march before they got this order, were Slow in occupying Quatre Bras but at last took up their position.
 Meanwhile Wellington had learned ot the French advance and rode over to Butchers command at Quatre Bras, where S0.o00 troops lay in readiness behind st. Armand, Ligny, and Sombref. There was a dispute as to the allies plan. but Well lington agreed to bring his force tt Quatre Bras by the Namur road if lie was not himself attacked.
 French force of 1S,00O men supported by artillery began the attack on the Prus- sians at Quatre Bras. Ney would have had double that number, but the other, had been drawn off by the Emperor te Ligny At that he had numerical ad vantage over the allied force he imme diateIy attacked and which was decfdedl, getting the worst of 1t when reinforce ments appeared. The Duke of Bruins wick had been killed and the Prince o1 Orange was being hard pressed at Pierre mont. The heavy French advantage ol cavalry with artillery suppiort was agair gaining the day as the English allies cam' up. The guards under Picton. will Prussian aid, contested the bloody hel(
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left and within less than two years his fortune was gone. He then came back to Chile, expecting to get another $100,000 by the sale of his stock In the meantime the price of tin had fallen, and the shares that Kemp took at par were each worth Is cents instead of $5. He thought he had been tricked and threatened the company with a lawsuit. The officials replied that there was now no money in mining and that he could have the property back as a gift He took it and for time almost starved. He could not get enough food for his Indian laborers. Then the price of tin rose and he was able to recapital- ize the mine. He organized a new com- pany and the shares are now above par
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l hear other romances of tin fortunes made on these Bolivian highlands. One relates to a German mechanics named Kemp, who opened mine when tin was selling for $1100 a ton. He had no trouble in disposing of the property to a Chilean syndicate, which paid him $100,000 in cash and an equal amount in the shares of the mines, which were then estimated at par.
 Kemp had no knowledge of the value of money, and he supposed that his sl0000J would last him forever He took 1t and went off to Europe. He spent right and
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Olufo. BOIlNIa. IN is now king in Bolivia. This country once produced one-third of all the silver mined in the world. It is now turning out
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-31

man advised me to try Lydia E. Pink
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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-31
Hero of War of 1872.

One hundred years ago Capt David
Porter, one of the naval heroes of the
War Of 1872, was given a great pop
ular ovation by the people of Philadel-
phia. Ten days previously Captain
Porter had reached New York after
long and hazardous voyage from
Valparaiso, where on March %, he
had commanded the frigate Essex in
her gallant, but unsuccessful fight
against the British ships Phoebe and
Cherub. Upon their arrival in New
York, the surviving officers and men,
bers of the crew of the Essex were
given an enthusiastic welcome. From
New York, Captain Porter proceeded
to Philadelphia, where another pop
ular ovation awaited him. On his ar
rival in the suburbs of the city the
horses were taken from his carriage
and it was drawn to the hotel by the
populace.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-31
Believed Him Honest. But.

Mayor Hunt of Cincinnati said the
other day of notorious political boss
"They who call this fellow honest
have to stretch the truth little. They
have to stretch it like the old colored
farmer of Paint Rock.
"This old farmer said to a young
chap:
LOOK, heah, Calhoun, All dom min
yore co'tin' NAH gal Lillian, but Aid
ruther yo' wouldn't come round nah
house no mo-.
"'Time fo' de las wot yo' wuz heah
Calhoun, All missed a watah bucket
and de las time de bride wuz gone
and now as All has use TO- de saddle
Aid ruther yo' wouldn't come roun
no mo-.
"'Ah don't say yo' hain't honest, TO
All b'lieves yo' is; but SIGH cuts
things happens while yo's in de neigh
borhood; SO, jes' ter please an ole
man, wot amt enj'yin' de best el
health, please dom come round dis
house no mo-"
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Makes Trouble for Berlin,

The father of unrest, as Bal Gan
gadhar Tilak, Chitpavan Brahman
and at one time member of the
Bombay Legislative council, has been
styled, has lately been released from
prison. In 1908 he was prosecuted on
a charge of seditious Indictment in
connection with articles in the
Kesari, newspaper owned and con-
Quoted by himself. This was just
after the Muzafferpur outrage, when
two English ladies were killed by the
explosion of a bomb, and in the ar
ticles which formed the basis of the
charge assassination by such means
was spoken of with approval. A high
court jury found Tilak guilty and he
was sentenced by Mr.. Justice Davur to
six years transportation. In view of
his age and health this was COM
muted to simple Imprisonment at Man
dalay.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-31
ECZEMA lTCHED AND BURNED

R. T. D. No. 4, Box IS, Holland,
Mich.-"My child's trouble began by
getting red and sore around her neck,
and her face, behind her ears, under
her arms, and different parts of her
body were affected. The eczema ap-
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and looked as if it was sweaty. 1t
seemed to itch and burn SO that she
could not sleep or rest. 1t got SO bad
at last that behind her ears was one
crust or sore so that had to cut her
hair There was a hard crust cover
ing her neck. She could not have her
clothes buttoned at all. could hardly
change her clothes. 1t caused an aw-
full disagreement for the time. She
would cry when I had to wash her.
1--WE had her treated for some time
but without success. l got one cake
Of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuti-
cura Ointment and l had not used
more than half of what bought when
she was all cured" (Signed) Mrs. G.
c. Riemersma, Mar. 81, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
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