gf : ' WHAT 16 T01 MEANS.
V lftSr SILVER DOLLAR 16 TIMES ' AS
K HI' i- HEAVY AS 1 COLD DOLLAR.
P ji Uoth Dollar * Formerlj Had the Suae
Hk iMM I'urcliaalnc I'owor , tint for Many
Bfift Yean Silver Has linen Declining : In
ET * JSm Value
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Hl3 Hb ' -can National Campaign Committee. )
Bflffi A eilver dollar weighs sixteen times
K. as mucx as a sold dollar. This is what
* " * ff Is meant by the coinage of silver "at
the ratio of 1G to 1. "
"Free" coinage of silver means that
§ eilver bullion , when brought to the
mint , shall be coined into dollars at
the expense of the United States gov-
K | ) v rnment , without cost to the owner.
BA JkA/ By toe "unlimited" coinage of silver
K'ju v Is meant that all the silver , American
BffffllaB or forei n > brought to any of our mints
Iwt shall be so coined , at the owner's de-
y /Jfe4 maud.
t I When the ratio of 10 to 1 was estab-
JSf
& ? * rjt * Ilshed by the government , sixteen
Bit Jpfbl ounces of silver bullion were worth , in
• L/U " e market , just as much as one ounce
B f tflf ° eoJd hullion. A silver dollar and a
fl IHH I s ° - dollar were then worth precisely
B" sw&- the same before they were coined ,
) & -
fl mfc when they were coined , or after they
wi Jar were melted. The face value of a sil-
H. , * iw ver ollar was * ts actual value.
H p if \ But of late years pure silver has de-
K iMJJi' clined in value , so that now the comE -
E f * ' Aj ( mercial ratio , instead of being 16 to 1 ,
H' 1d MV is about 31 to 1. That is to say , an
Rk'l'M'F ounce of gold bullion is exchangeable
H oC\ \ for thirty-one ounces of silver bullion ,
K | } % Instead of being exchangeable for only
HRf < &U' sixteen ounces of silver bullion , as it
B * WHY JOHN EULl IS WORRYING.
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pyB& | % formerly was. Silver bullion is thus
JKillS ( Worth in gold only about half as much
R r\ as it was when the coinage ratio was
\ mm } fy made 16 to 1.
BP fini si ver dollart with the stamp of
KSI ifc. tne government upon it , passes for more
flPiliPfc than it is worth , just as a paper dol-
WlSFaB ' * ar PaS6 S * or more than the paper up-
jP"Mfe f on wni ° n it i5 printed is worth. The
B 'JRRr credit of the government is behind the
III iffpaper dollar , and the credit of the gov-
H < L uffc ernment is behind the silver dollar.
Wm * % ne United States government lends its
BB jb \ \ credit to every man with an American
MHjfWT' silver dollar in his pocket , so that he
l gijbi f I can Pay 10 ° cents of debt with 53 cents *
P3Eficj ( worth of silver. But the credit of the
lcipfci $ \ government is not behind the uncoined
WfWIMf silver , in the form of bullion. There-
r/Brgft fere the bullion is exchangeable for
Uh K . other commodities only to the amount
i l * of its actual or intrinsic value.
HUmI Tne " * ree and unlimited coinage of
EflBpJjFi silver at the ratio of 16 to 1" means ,
nBsMaj ? therefore , that the government of the
MJjSp r United States , instead .of pledging its
Mj lL credit for the maintenance of a limited
H8jf \ amount of coined silver at parity with
IflsJwi sold , shall pledge its credit for the
W § 5\ \ maintenance of an unlimited amount
I S ffi $ ° f silver now worth only 31 to 1 , at a
B-jfltiTrf parity with gold , at a ratio of 16 to 1.
BjBraflf By this the United .States would under-
IHk take to double the value of every ounce
HH9f ' of 6ilverr coined or uncoined , in the
BfgKw\ ? world , and extend an invitation to all
K flllnMP tne nati ° ns to send their surplus sil-
B C 1 Ter nere to be coinea into silver dollars
K : r QK , at a ratio of 16 to 1.
j V These silver dollars , if coined in an
K XjPfe unlimited quantity , would not be worth
L * l yf * as much as gold dollars , because it is
Bm Wmul' " tne credit/of the government which
m p & tJ makes those we now have equal in
k sHr purchasing power to a gold dollar , and
B" " B tne cre it of the government is not
5
H 4 W without limit "Unlimited" coinage of
'J"1 'silver would exhaust its credit
' " jMc , Dy ex-
B . " SHJ iiausting its power to redeem its pledge
H WmK to maintain silver at a parity with gold ,
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at the ratio of 16 to 1. . The consequence
quence would be that the silver dollar
would soon decline in purchasing power
to the commercial value of the bullion
It contains , and would be worth little ,
if any , more than half-a-dollar in gold.
As all private and public debts not
explicitly payable in gold would then
be * payaMe in these half-rate dollars ,
our gold would disappear from circula
tion and would quickly be drawn out
of the country in paying our obliga
tions and purchases from gold-using
countries where our silver coins would
not be accepted. As a consequence we
should in a few months lose all of our
$612,000,000 of gold , leaving us with a
much contracted and greatly depre
ciated currency. A disastrous panic
would ensue , followed by the suspen
sion of thousands of factories and busi
ness houses , a general business col
lapse , and the loss of employment by
hundreds of thousands of wage-earners
and laborers.
Under our present monetary system ,
and until the agitation for the free
coinage of silver became a dangerous
menace to business and labor , we had
the most prosperous years ever known
in American history.
Concerning : Farm Mortgages. *
One of the favorite assertions of the
populists , both of the St. Louis and
Chicago variety , is that the southern
and western farmers are groaning un
der the burden of mortgages held by
the people of New England and the
east.
"Pitchfork" Tillman is particularly
fond of expatiating upon this topic , and
among the populists of Kansas and Ne
braska the theme never grows thread
bare. According to them , the east is
living in idleness and fattening off the
.labor of the west and south. j
'
Some interesting figures have been
collected in regard to this subject. They j
are those of the census bureau and , al
though that institution is not alwaj's to
be relied upon when the tariff is in
question , there is no reason to doubt
its substantial accuracy in mortgage
statistics. '
So far from showing that the farms
of the west and south are more heavily
mortgaged than those of the east , the
figures indicate that the reverse is the
case. The farms of New York , for ex
ample , are mortgaged to 43 per cent , of
their value , while the Kansas percent-
age is but 35. In Pennsylvania f'ie
amount of incumbrance is 40.65per !
cent of the total valuation , as against
only 33 per cent in Iowa. New Jersey J
farms carry a burden of nearly 50 per I
cent , while Candidate Bryan's state-
Nebraska is down to 32 per cent. In
Delaware the percentage is 44 , while in
Illinois it is 34 and in Indiana but 30.
So much for the claim that a ma
jority of the w > stern farmers are mort-
gage-riddpn. But when the average !
incumbrances upon mortgaged farms :
are investigated the difference is even J
more pronounced. In New York this' '
average is $1,749 ; in Pennsylvania , j
$1,716 ; in Rhode Island , $1,525 , and in '
Delaware $2,147 ; while in Nebraska \
it is only $ \084 ; in Tennessee , $667 ; in '
Missouri , $853 , and in South Carolina ,
the home of Senator Tillman , it is $830.
These , of course , are only sample-
states , but the average holds good for !
them all. The west and south are , as '
a matter of fact , better off as to farm j
mortgages than is the east In Missouri - !
souri , for example , there are more un
incumbered farms than in the whole
six New England states.
The facts cited do not require any
comment It is only necessary that they
should be borne in mind when the
calamity-shrieking sectlonalists begin
as they surely will to repeat their
stock misrepresentations during the
campaign. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A Champ.
First Summer Girl I haven't any
use for that young Mr. Atherton that
you introduced to me. Second Sum
mer Girl Why not ? First Summer
Girl Oh , nothing ; only he asked mete
to take a walk with him down the
beach last evening and when he came
after me he was carrying a cane.
Somerville Journal.
Mrs. Arazlma Fleming of Waterloo ,
N. Y. , will be 102 in September. She
has always lived in this state. "
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CHILDEEN'S COENER.
TIMELY TOPICS FOR OUR BOYS
AND'GIRLS.
God la Oar Greatest Teacher A Shepherd-
Boy'a Prayer Is God too Busy to See ?
The Deadly CIcarette Kven In Affllc-
tlOEU
taught the
bees , when first
they take
Their flight
through flow'ry
fHO fields in spring ,
To make- their
hives , and
straight to
Their sure re
turn , sweet
stores to bring ?
"Who taught the ant to bite the grains
Of wheat , which , for her winter's
store ,
She buries , with unwearied pains ,
So careful that they grow no more ?
"Who taught the spider's curious art ,
Stretching from twig to twig her line ,
Strengthening her web in every part ,
Sure and exact in her design ?
"The God whose work all nature , JS
Whose wisdom guides her vaf „ \ *
sign. * \ ,
Man sees but part ; but what he \ * ls
Tells him this wisdom is divine. "
Selected.
A Shepherd Boy's Prayer.
The following story , as told in Our
Sunday Afternoon , is an excellent illus
tration of faith :
A little lad was keeping his sheep
one Sunday morning. The bells were
ringing for church , and the people were
going over the field , when tap littltf fel
low began to think that he , too , would
like to pray to God. But what could he
say ? He had never learned a prayer.
So he knelt down and commenced the
alphabet A , B , C , and so on to Z.
A gentleman happening to pass on
the other side of the hedge heard the
lad's voice , and , looking through the
bushes , saw the little fellow kneeling
with folded hands and closed eyes , say
ing , "A , B , C. "
"What are you doing , my little man ? "
The lad looked up. "Please , sir , I
was praying. "
"But what were you saying your let
ters for ? "
"Why , I didn't know any prayer , only
I felt that I wanted God to take care of
me and help me take care of the sheep ;
so I thought if 1 said all I knew , he
would , put it together and spell all I
want. "
"Bless your heart , my little man , he
will , he will , he will. When the heart
speaks right , the lips can't say wrong. "
Is God Too Bnsy to See ?
The following is from the Christian
Observer :
"Do you suppose , " said Johnnie , as
his little cousin laid away the largest ,
rosiest apple for a sick girl , "that God
cares about such little things as we
are ? He is too busy taking care of the
big folks to notice us much. "
Winnie ehooh her head , and pointed
to mamma , who had just lifted the
baby from his crib. "Do you think , "
said Winnie , "that mamma is so busy
with the big folks that she forgets the
littles , ones ? She thinks of the baby
first , 'cause he's the littlest. Surely ,
God knows how to love as well as moth
er. "
Even In Affliction.
A girl , belonging to a church society ,
went to call upon a cripple , says Young
People's Weekly , taking some sweet
spring flowers to the invalid. After a
little conversation the visitor asked :
"Don't you get tired of being tied to
that bed day and night , Miss Grey ,
week after week ? "
"Yes , I think I do sometimes ; that is ,
I grow bodily tired , " was the response.
"But I try not to think of that I only
want to remember that God is good and
merciful. In his love he spared me ,
even though I am a cripple , to live that
I might learn to know him here. You
see , before I was hurt I never thought
about him as being a real friend and
helper. But since I have been com
pelled to lie here quiet and helpless I
can find joy and thankfulness In my
affliction ; I live to serve him , and that
crowds almost every other thought
out"
And the one who had come to minis
ter went away feeling that she had re
ceived more than she had given during
that brief visit. "Joy and thankful
ness in affliction. " Truly , only those
who know him for the loving Savior
that he is can say this.
A Good Man's Wish.
"I freely confess to you , " said Dr.
Sharp , "that I would rather , when I am
laid in the grave , some one in his man
hood would stand oven me and say :
'There lies one who was a real friend
to me , and privately warned me of the
dangers to the young ; no one knew it ,
but he aided me in time of need. I
owe what I am to him. ' Or I would
rather have some widow , with choking
utterance , telling her children : 'There
is your friend and mine. Ke visited
me in my affliction , and found you , my
son , an employer , and you my daugh
ter , a happy home in a virtuous fam
ily. ' I say I would rather that such
persons should stand at my grave , than
to have erected over it the most beauti
ful sculptured monument of marble.
The heart's broken utterance of reflec
tions of past kindness , and the tears of
grateful memory shed upon the grave ,
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arc moro valuable in my estimation ,
than the most costly' cenotaph ever
reared. "
God Is Here.
An infidel was one day troubled in
his mind as he sat in his room alone
while his little Nellie was away at Sun
day school. He had often said , "There
is no God , " but could not satisfy him
self with his skepticism , and at this
time he felt especially troubled as
thoughts of the Sunday school and of
the wonderful works of creation would
push their way into his mind. To quiet
these , troublesome thoughts he took
some large cards and printed on each
of them , "God is nowhere , " and hung
them up In his study. Nellie soon came
home and began to talk about God ; but
her father pointed her to one of the
cards , and said , "Can you read that ? "
She climbed a chair and began eagerly
to spell it out : "G-o-d-God , i-s , is ,
n-o-w , h-e-r-e , here ; God is now here.
Isn't that right , papa ? I know it is
right God is now here. " The man's
heart was touched , and his infidelity
banished by the faith of Nellie , and
again the prophecy was fulfilled , "A
little child shall lead them. " Ex.
They Knew Ills Place.
A saloonist innocently reveals one ol
the principal difficulties in the way
of enforcing laws against liquor deal
ers in a trial before Justice's court , ac
cording to The Templar.
On being sworn one of the attorneys
in the case said :
"Mr. , where is your place of
business ? "
"What for you ask me such things ?
You drinks at my blace more as a hun
dred times ! "
"That has nothing to do with the
case , Mr. . State to the jury where
your place of business is. "
"De shury ! de shury ? O , my shim-
iny ! Every shentleman on dis shury
has a sdring of marks on my cellar
door just like a rail fence ! "
His honor.here interceded in behalf
of the counsel , and in a calm , dignified
manner requested witness to state the
place of his business.
"O , excuse me , you honor ; you drinks
at my blace so many times. I dinks
you knows very well vere I keeps mine
blace. "
The Deadly Cigarette.
A Philadelphia physician , writing to
the press a few days ago about a young
man taken to the hospital , ruined in
health from excessive cigarette smok
ing , said :
"Were it unique of its kind , were it
the only case on record , we might be
wail it with passing expression of pity.
Within the last ten days , however ,
there have come to my notice twelve
cases of boys and young men dying
from diseases directly related to a habit
of smoking paper cigarettes. The phy
sical derangements engendered by this
habit , that are not infrequently con
summated by death , are as nothing
when compared with the moral con
tamination. It permeates society , and
admits no discrimination of age , sex
or position. It blights and demoralizes
the boys , it .sullies the purity of fair
women , and it deteriorates manhood. "
MlstresB of the Kobe * .
Of all the official banquets in London
that are organized each year on the oc
casion of the birthday of Queen Vic
toria , there is none more curious than
that given by the mistress of the robes
to her majesty. The mistress of the
robes is the feminine head of the royal
household , and has under her orders
all the ladies in waiting , the maids of
honor , the bedchamber women and the
read&rs. She receives a large salary
and perquisites , and is regarded as pos
sessing such an amount of influence
that , since the days of Sir Robert Peel ,
fifty years ago , her tenure of office has
invariably been co-existent with that
of the cabinet.
Naturalized at OO.
Ned Riordan , 90 years of age , waa
granted his first naturalization papers
by United States Commissioner Nueh-
ols at Kansas City. Riordan has lived
in this country seventy years , having
come from Ireland when twenty years
old. .In the civil war he served in the
Seventh Missouri volunteers under Col
onel John F. Philips , now United
States district judge. He is over six
feet tall and is remarkably well pre
served for one of his advanced age. At
present he is living at the coldiers'
home in Leavenworth.
Cyclinjj In the Desert.
I journeyed along some main came\
tracks , for example the Palestine road ,
and noted that often a soft rock lies
but an inch or two below the sand ,
and that where many spongy-footed
beasts have passed the path is at least
as hard and as even as a cloHe-cropped
English lawn. Nor is the desert by any
means all sand. It has broad tracks of
overlying shingle , and much-outcrop
ping rock , and vast salt pans whose
beds are incrifsted with a hard depesi.
of glittering flakes.
Experienced Teacher * .
You can only teach what you know or
can do. For example , a guinea hen can
teach other birds how to cackle , but
she can not teach them how to faing.
So the self-righteous professor can not J
tell others what true religion is ; for he !
has never experienced it in his own
soul. He can only teach them h . - r tc
strut and brag about how good he i
the same as did the Pharisee , who
prayed in company with the publican.
A golf course has been opened in
Switzerland at a spot 5,000 feet up in ,
the mountains. ?
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1 "Np , " said the tall , blonde one. * 'l
< ! o not like her , because she is so dramatic -
matic in her ways. "
"She is no such thinp ! " said the pe-
tito brunette one , rallying to the de
fense of the absent "She has boon
married to the same man for more
than ten years. Dramatic in her ways ,
indeed ! "
The assembled persons had to admit
that the point was well made.
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price , 75c
The One Exception.
"Ah , my younf , ' man. " said the fond
father , "in giving-you my rlaugliter I
have entrusted you with the dearest
treasure of my life. "
The young1 man was impressed , then
he looked at his watch. "Really , " he
said , "I had no idea it was so late. The
cars have stopped. Could I borrow
your wheel to ride home ? "
"Not much ! I would not trust any
body on earth with that wheel. " Up-
to-date.
Coe's Coagh. Balsam
Is the oldest and best. It will break up a Cold nulclc
er than any thine else It Is always reliable. Try It.
People cheerfully pay 25 cents for a 5-cent
cake of soap , if it isell advertised.
II the- Baby is Cutting Teetn.
Secure and use that old and veil-tried remedy , Hns.
Ku.suow' & Sootuikq Sxsur for CUldren Teething-
There are now over 50J horseless car
riages in use in Paris.
Thn I.nrilm. I
The pleasant effect and perfect enfcry I
with which ladies may use Syrup of I
Figs , under all conditions , makes It
their favorite remedy. To get the trua-
and genuine article look for the nam *
of the California Fig Syrup Company *
printed near the bottom of the pack-
age. For sale by all responsible drug-
Cists.
M
Do you know that pcoplo lio'iovo , if joa I
are a gossip , that you are not very bIc -
yourself.
| Blood Pure ? | I
* i Is it ? Then take Ayer'a Sar- I
] > > saparilla and keep it so. Isn't % I
( \ ) it ? Then take Aycr's Sarsa- % I
I1) parilla and. make it so. One < I
< | ) fact is positively established $ I
J and that is that Aycr's Sarsaj j ' I
\ > parilla will purify the blood ( > I
J ) more perfectly , more cconomi- J , *
v cally and more speedily than < | fl
? > any other remedy in the marY - * > I
Y > ket. There are fifty years of j | I
( ( cures behind this statement ; a \ * I
> record no other remedy can < \ H
< | ) show. You waste time and ; > H
] > ) money when you take anything \ \ B
a to purify the blood except 2 I
ji ) Ayer's Sarsaparilla. ] | I
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| "It Bridges You Over. " 8 I
w "Battle Ax" bridges a man over ft | I
gS many a tight place when his pocketjsj I
/ | book is lean , A 5-cent piece of i& fl
m "Battle Ax " will last about as long as m ! fl
sz a JO-cent piece of other good tobaccos. @ I
gj This thing of getting double value for g I
m your money is a great help. Try it and 3 | I
@ save money , @ '
I Look Out I 1
iS | | For Imitations of Walter Baker & Co/s B I
jf Premium No. i Chocolate. Always I
J | | ask for , and see that you get , the artiI I
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