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MONEY OF THE MANY. GOLD-STANDARD SUPPORTERS ARE FEW. How Lawb Have Depreciated - Silver The Enemies of That Metal and Their Way of Controlling: Coinage Through Government Officials. (W. H. Linn in Chicago Record.) bnall we abandon silver and adopt a single gold standard for the benefit of the few who do business with and are in direct correspondence with England, or shall we have eold and silver at rates fixed by congress, constituting the legal standard of value in this coun try, and in which the interests of the whole people are considered? T i can readily understand why any creditor nation wants to and can main tain a single gold standard. But the United States is not a creditor nation, and except in finance does not care whether its policies are pleasing to England or not. Indeed, thev are often shaped purposely to be in opposition office-holders and those yet hoping to a single gold standard that the tree coinage of silver is in the special in terest of the mine-owners. Are not tha people interested In the coal mines of Illinois as well as the owners, and if we should have legislation against the use of coal would not the people rise in indignation? Are not the people, then, interested in the development of silver mines as well as the owners? I have, heard men with a virtuous swag ger declare that they did not want a dollar with 50 cents worth of silver in it. Then restore its value by legisla tion, as it was by legislation that the intrinsic value of the silver in the dol lar was reduced. When the facts are considered there 13 nothing very difficult to understand in the silver question, but it requires a great deal of misrepresentation on the part of the so-called "honest-money" men to confuse and mislead the "un wary, rney nave iorcea to tne rront much talent, for by their means they can commanu talent. Jt is a wonder ful aggregation of genius. Wall street stock brokers, money-lenders, pre tended political economists, federal A Deed and a Word. A little stream had lost its way Amid the grass and fern; A passing stranger scooped a well Where weary men might turn. He walled it in and hung with care A ladle at the brink; He thought not of the deed he did. But Judged that all might drink. He passed again, and lo, the well, By summer never dried. Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues And saved a life beside! A nameless man, amid a crowd mat thronged the daily mart. Let fall a word of life and love. Unstudied, from the heart. A whisper on the tumult thrown A transitory breath It raised a brother from the dust: It saved a soul from death. O germ, O fount, O word of love! O thought at random cast! Ye were but little at the first, But mighty at the last. Charles Mackay. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. IXTERKSTn'O ItRAI)IG FOR TUB YOl'XG PEOPLE, The North went AVna Acquired From the British by- Force of A r m n Ilelpfnl Hints for Ille vllsts The Flowers of the Sky. to England. It is a little strange that the greater number of those who now favor a monetary system that will con form to that of England are men who for the last thirty years have been striving to destroy all commercial rela tions with England except when we were the sellers and the English were the buyers. We always have had, and always will have, a disturbing element in this country to interfere with its prosperity. It is the result of insatia ble greed. The so-called industrial states, through their representatives, have fastened their fangs in the agricultural states and have been sucking their life blood. They have not only shaped the revenue policy of the eovernment In their interests, but the financial policj as well, and as a result they have pos sessed themselves of nearly all the money wealth of the country. If our revenue and financial laws are just and equitable, how is it that nearly all the money earned has found its way into the hands of the non-producers? There has been a great wrong here, and now the question arises: Shall we submit to this dictation any longer? Shall we assist in perpetuating their power, or shall we think and act for ourselves? Wall street the bankers, brokers, money-lenders and speculators, who have placed themselves in line for a single gold standard has found in our late presidents willing advocates of its schemes. This was no doubt under stood when, by insidious methods, sil ver was stricken down in 1S73. It was understood when Wall street sounded the alarm of a panic. While Mr. Cleve land was using the patronage of the government and bullying congressmen into the support of the repeal of the Sherman act, the bankers were calling in loans and getting up petitions to congress in the line of their interest until the panic got beyond control, and they were doomed to suffer with the rest, all this to secure legislation that was to at once restore confidence! Dur ing the first nine months of 1893 Brad street gives the liabilities from failures at $274,743,496. against $26,161,414 dur ing the same period in 1S92. Wall street spread its nets so wide that many bank ers got tangled in the meshes so that they had 300 failures, with liabilities of $155,256,729, against seventeen fail ures, with liabilities of $6,501,809, for the same period in 1892. Did Mr. Cleve land and his adherents on this question believe that they could close up the mines in a dozen states and territories that were producing precious metals, giving employment to thousands of men and giving a market for all kinds of merchandise and farm products, with out paralyzing every other industry in the land? Were they fools or selfish knaves? There is still a dearth of busi ness. The people are still waiting! They are waiting for something! They are waiting for the prosperity promised by the president and his adherents that was to follow the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act. I am anxious to see thi3 country re stored to its normal condition. Hence I am in favor of the restoration of sil ver. I will be satisfied with the free coinage plank of the democratic plat form of 1S92 with an honest man upon it who will construe and execute it as was intended. If this plank means nothing, then Mr. Cleveland helped to perpetrate a fraud upon the people. If it means what is on its face he was untrue to himself and false to his party. Had his present policy been outlined before the election he would not now be president. The "robber tariff" was the major issue of the campaign, but It was much subordinate to a mere in cident of the canvass, and congress was called in extra session for the sole pur pose of further degrading silver as a money metal. No device of king or clown has been left untried to destroy Its value as money. Mr. Cleveland has characterized it as cheap money, dis honest money, unsound money, till it looks as if he had exhausted his vo cabulary to find means to turn it black and greasy. Silver was not cheap when it required $2.85 in paper money of this great government to buy one silver dol lar. It wa3 not cheap when it was de monetized in 1873, when it was at a premium of 3 per cent over gold in London? Gold as well as silver can be degraded by legislation. Silver main tained its equality with gold from 1792 until 1873, when the hands of the as sassin were laid upon it. Now, while it is held down by law its enemies jeer and mock and call it "unsound money," "cheap money" and "dishonest money." Who wants dishonest money? No one. Free coinage men do not. "We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metai.;' Is there anything dis honest in this? It is proclaimed by those who favor hold office under the present adminis tration the whole pack in full cry against the money of the people. Here let me suggest that, considering the intuition and knowledge of men dis played by Mr. Cleveland, it is some thing remarkable that he should have chosen only gold men for the offices when this issue of gold against gold and silver had not yet been promi nent. The honesty of their belief , is almost equal to that of Senator Palmer, who in 1S92 advised the "101" to intro duce and vote for a free coinage of sil ver 16 to 1 resolution in the legislature, which, by the help of Cockerill, made hirn senator. He is now reading the honest members of the "101" out of his party. Will be retain Cockerill? Prof. Lawrence Laughlin addressed himself to the Bankers association of Chicago in a manner that must have led some to suppose that what he said had the stamp of deity upon it. He said: "To suppose that the coinage of silver would make the country richer is to suppose that the more bridges we build the more corn and pork we shall have." He also said: "It is an insult to the intelligent people of our land to believe that they can accept and main tain a doctrine that more money creates more goods." Labor is wealth. .But the laborer is obliged to have food and clothing. There are millions of acres ' of wealth-producing uncultivated lands I and thousands of honest toilers "who j are ready to put their hands to the j plow." As they have no money to se- j cure "checks, drafts or bills of ex- j change," if Prof. Laughlin will furnish J the money we will show him how J "more money creates more goods' and ; "more wealth." It is an old and homely j fedjmg, ana yet true, that "money makes the mare go." The Fireplace. Wherefore decorate the fireplace with plants and screens, and photograph racks, fern-backed glass and flower- fronted silks and muslins? asks a writer in the New York Advertiser. Nobody does It who knows better, and all the the people who have truly elegant and artistic homes have learned better. When the city houses of the rich and great who have not merely handsome but artistic homes are closed for the summer, the fireplaces are closed to prevent air sucking down the chimneys, the dampers being turned across the chimney, and heavy paper pasted over them. But the fireplaces are never closed while the family is ocupying the house, whether in the winter in town or In the summer out of it. Imagine the John Jacob Astor place, on the Hudson, with its fireplaces filled in with plants, or artificial flowers tumbling over the grates, or printed silks stretched across the openings in the walls. Fancy William Chase, the painter, or Bier stadt, or any other one of the artists whose summer homes are a delight to the eye, letting muslin stop a gap in the house, as if it had been made by ac cident instead of by design. There are fireplaces all over the Stokes castle at Lenox, every one of them ready for it when not in actual use. Decorations for fireplaces, indeed faugh! Any master or mistress of a home lucky enough to have it either old-fashioned er new-fashioned enough to contain fireplaces need not bother themselves about decorating the fireplaces in summer. The common people must not be mis led by men with high-sounding titles. Their theories, like their conclusions, are often based upon false premises, and lead to startling statements which 'have no support either in reason or in common sense. On this financial question their point of view embraces the few instead of the masses, which is not just, patriotic or wise. They do not fully define their position on the question. They declare for "sound money" without explaining what they mean by "sound money," while they at heart are gold monometallists and favor an increased circulation of cur rency based on our debts. Those who have their country's and their own good at heart must use their own good sense and the knowledge they have gained from experience in determining which is better for the people at large gold monometallism or gold and sil ver bimetallism, with or without inter national agreement. THE OYSTER'S TREASURE. A Poetical and Also a Commercial Con sideration of Pearls. Eleven thousand five hundred pounds sterling for a pearl necklet! It is at the rate of 32 a pearl, and, if some of them were of noble dimen sions, others were, of course, compara tively minute. At the best this "treas ure of an oyster" is really neither a gem nor a jewel. It is neither more nor less than a concretion of carbonate of lime which the bivalve deposits so naturalists tell us to cover up some speck of grit or sand which incon veniences him as he lies in his house of nacre. Pearls can be easily spoiled by acids, and it is perfectly true in a sense that Cleopatra might have melt ed the lustrous gift of Antony in the sour wine of the Nile. And yet, so delicate is the undulatory texture of the skin of the pearl, so subtle and in imitable by art the shifting iridescence of the tiny satin sphere, that all the world, and especially the fairer part of it, has always been in love with the oyster's product, which suits equally well the white skin of the blonde and the dark complexion of the brunette, and which is prized by queens them selves as a daintier adornment, when in perfection, than rubies, diamonds, sapphires and chased gold. Keeping Vomit;. American women might learn an ad vantageous lesson of their French sis ters in the art of keeping young. But it is no receipt for cosmetics that they ! would acquire. First of ill, French i dames do not worry, or if they do they ! conceal the fact admirably. They are j apparently on the crest of the wave of ' good fortune perpetually. Next, and ! almost equally important, they decline j to hurry. They take life moderately, I perform their duties without haste and linger over their pleasures. And in I tliese two simple rules lies a mine of j wealth for her who is wise enough to j apropriate it. ! The daily nap is a valuable auxiliary ; to preserving youth. And, speaking of ! rest, Mrs. Alma Calder Johnson de ' plorer. the fact that the little flap of j flesh once wont to cover our ear ori- fices at will is no longer in working or- der. "It was at one time, you know," ! she says, "just like our eyelids, and could thus shut out sound as readily as the former could shut out sight. Now, however, we must resort to artificial means to rest our tired tympanums. I often think what a blessed privilege it would be to stop up our ears when ever we wantea. l nere is notning that rests me like closing my eyes, and I make a practice of always doing so in street cars and like places. Thus I gain odd minutes of repose, with com paritively little expenditure of time." Philadelphia Times. In 1776, when Independence was de clared, the United States Included only the original thirteen states on the sea board. With the exception of a few hunters there wore no white men west of the Alleghany mountains, and there was not even an American hunt er in the great country out of which we nave since maue me stales or Illi nois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Wis consin. All this region north of the Ohio river then formed a part of the Province of Quebec. It was a wilder ness of forests and prairies, teeming with game, and inhabited by many warlike tribes of Indians. Here and there through it were dot ted quaint little towns of French Creoles, the most important being De troit. Vineennes on the Wabash, and Kaskaskia and Kahokia on the Illi nois. These French villages were ruled by British officers commanding small bodies of regular soldiers or Tory rangers and Creole partisans. The towns were completely in the IKjwer of the British government; none of the American states had actual pos session of a foot of property in tho Northwestern territory. The Northwest was acquired at the time of the Revolution only by armed conquest, and If it had not been so acquired It would have remained a part of the British Dominion of Can ada. The man to whom this conquest w:i3 due was a famous backwoods leader, a mighty hunter, a noted Indian fight erGeorge liogers Clark, lie was a very strong man, with light hair and blue eyes, of a good Virginian family, who, early in his youth, embarked on the adventurous career of a backs woods surveyor, exactly as Washing ton and so many other young Virgin ians of spirit did at that period. He traveled out to Kentucky soon after it was opened up by Boone, and lived there for a year, either at the stations or camping by himself iti the woods, surveying, hunting and making war j against the Indians like any other set- j tier; but all the time his mind was ; lnt on vaster schemes than were ; dreamed of by the men around him. lie had his spies out in the North- western territory, and became con- ' vlnced that with a small force of res- j olute backwoodsmen he could conquer . it for the United States. When he j went back to Virginia, Gov. Patrick i Henry entered heartily into Clark's , schemes and gave him authority to tit ; out a force for the purpose. Theodore j Iloosevelt In St Nicholas. often called the Scorpion's heart. This star has a minute green companion, far too close to the red primary star to bo seen alone by any arrangement of tho telescope. On one occasion, however. an eminent observer toon auvainage of the passage of the moon over the red star to discover whether the com panion star was truly green in color. For a moment the reel star was nia- den by the moon, leaving the other shining alone, and then it was seen that the small star was unmistakably green. This experiment was tried, be cause it had loug been supposed that the more strongly marked colors. In the case of small companion stars. were due merely to contrast. The colors of the double stars, then, are real, so that if we could nay a visit to one of these systems we should find colored suns red, orange and yel low ruling suns, and green, purple or blue minor suns, or, as the case might be, lilac, mauve, russet or olive suns of the smaller kind. Nor must we think of these smaller suns as really small in themselves. In reality, many of them are very much larger than all the planets of the solar system would be were they united into one vast planet. The Sworn Tormentor Of tho Spanish inquisition never inflicted fl-I"rE,;rfrenfi:il than t hose e nd ured i". 1 V nf inflammatory rheumatism- The chronic iorm oi n -iV sufficiently painfull. A nest it ut the itart with Iloystetter s Momnrb imt"s ami avoid becoming a life on mar; vr 1 he IJit- marina anu kiuui j rJafntV dvsDensla. onstlp itlon. nenous SLsLnddynuralia. remedy deoillty and hasten convalescence. A Curious Weather Prophet. A means of forecasting- the weathet from & cup of coffee is given by the hirh asserts that it has proven more trustworthy than the official guesses. Drop two . lumps of sugar carefully into the middle of the cup; if the air bubbles remain in the renter of th r it will be fine; if they rise rapidly and go to the sides, it will rain all day; if they gather in the cen ter and then go in a cluster to one side, look out for showers. in Weak an If! 17 oary -' !i VW 17, 'vtii 11 tc Because of a depleted condition oa the blood. The remedy is to be found in purified, enriched and vitalized blood, which will be given by Hood's Sarsapa- rilla, the great blood purifier. -It will tone the stomach, create an appetite and give renewed strength. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the only true blood purifier prominently In the public eye todaj. SI ; six for $o. Hood's Pills cure liabitunl constipa tion. Price 25 cents. Li", If U' )" '. i. tow1 3IIt Rnth Cleveland on a Wheel. R the Children teething yrup. Dead Fluh br the Thousands. The recent rains washed so much Chicago sewage into the Illinois River that thousands on thousandi3 of fish have died. So many lodged against a swing pontoon bridge at Lacon that It was opened with the greatest difficulty. Lavish Hospitality. "He sure you let me know If you ever come to " said a pretty little western woman who had received a good deal of attention in New York, to her various acquaint ances, when she bade them adieu. So when Mrs. Z decided to go to California for the winter, and concluded to take en route, she enlarged considerably to her party akin her friendship with Mrs. S. "I am sure Mollle will do everything in her power to make It pleasant for us," she said again and again. "It is so nice to have some one you know well when you go to a strange place." So immediately on her arrival she sent a note to her friend, who ar rived promptly next morning and gave her a most effusive greeting. "Shall you be here long?" she inquired. "Over Sunday? How delightful. How many are there in your party? Four? O, that is just a pleasant number, isn't it? I want you all to come," and as Mrs. Z. listened expectantly for an invitation to a dinner or some sort of festivity, she continued, "to our pew at St. G.'s Sunday morning. It is very large, and there Is plenty of room for you all." Poor Mrs. Z. has not yet heard the last of the great advantage of knowing her ' friend, Mollle S Boston Saturday ! Evening Gazette. Helpful Hint for Ulcyrlintn. 1. A good bicyclist is careful of his roads, therefore when taking a header be careful not to hit the road too hard with your forehead. You might make a dent in the pavement. J. In falling off your wheel do not fall on loth sides at once. Failure to observe this rule will result in divid ing you against yourself. 3. Always In? courteous. If a trol ley car has the right of way over the track do not dispute with it. A boy In Massachusetts who broke this rule broke his right arm and his cyclome ter at the same time. 4. Ite cautious. In riding from New- York to Brooklyn keep to the drive way. Don't try to wheel over the sus pension cable. You might slip and fall into the smokestack of a passing ferry boat. i. Keep your lamp lit when riding at night. The boy who thought he was safe because he had a parlor match in his pocket came home with a spoke in his wheel that didn't be long there. 0. Do not be rough with ice carts and furniture trucks. If you must run Into one of them do it as gentry and tenderly as if it were a baby car riage. 7. A merciful ruler is merciful to his wheel, so do not force a bicycle be yond the point of its endurance, unless you want to walk back with your wheel on your shoulders. S. Keep cool. If In the course of a ride you find yourself in a tight place, with a skittish horse to the left and a steep ravine to the right, and a bull dog directly to the fore, take ravine. ; You'll go Into it anyhow, and if you take it alone without dragging the Tender-llenrted Dotty. LIppiucott's Magazine gives a sketch of how a little girl in Philadelphia in terested herself in the fate of some motherless kittens found an the door steps of her home. Our Dotty, who constituted herself the foster-mother of the broken-winged sparrows, and of all other creatures that came to grief iu the neighborhood, descended on them like a brooding, sheltering dove, and bore them loving ly Into the house. Milk was warmed, and this, with the freedom of the kitchen, given in a whit china saucer having a blue edge. The cook gave the milk ungrudgingly; but as for the freedom of the kitchen, this she soon revoked and pronounced a sentence of banishment Instead. Wlu-it to do Dot didn't know. I suggested that she write to Mr. Bergh (president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). A day or two of deliber ation and -sharpening of lead-pencils, and then this carefully printed letter went to that gentleman's address: ; "Di:i:n mr bfg j "Von DOANT KNO Mi: BUT My j PApA SAYS HH KXOS You TIIAUK j WAKE 3 BLIND CITTK.VS BOUXK ; oN OW'KIt DOR sTAP WITIIOT ANA ' MAMA AND i CANT BK THAKK i M A. MA AND Cl'K SAYS SHE CANT I AND PApA SAYS HE IIASSENT ! GOT TIME WoXT You PLEAS CoM I WITHE A BACIT AND TAK THEM AWA AND TAK GUD CAR ol' THEM "Dotty DimpLE -No 500 EST Kid STRET" With every ring of the bell that day Dotty ran to see if it were not "Mr. Bug." Hardly had the loiter been five minutes posted ln-fore she looked for ' an answer. j Anil one came sooner than I cxivet ' cd. Next morning, while we were s-.till at breakfast, a tap came at th : window. The maid who answered it said that a colored man bearing a bas ket en bis arm wanted to know if "Dotty Dimple" lived there. "Oh. it's Mr. Bug! Mr. BugP shout ed Dot. and was at the window in a jifTy, leaving a hot mullm untouched on her plate. The colored man ex plained that ho was not Mr. Bergh that is noi exactly. But he had been sent by that gentleman to take care of three motherless kittens which, ac cording to a letter received by Mr. Bergh. were at this house. Regulates the bowels: assists dentition; cures dia rhea and dysentery in the worst forms; cures canker sore throat; isa certain preventive of diph theria; quiets and soothes all pain; invigorates th stomach and bowels; corrects all acidity; will cure griping in the bowels and wind colic. Mothers, try this good safe Syrup. Prepared by the EMM LR r PROPRIETARY CO.. CHICAGO. s 1 1 ,t - V u if I -r"lJ V'v V rr j fop your n m in" Mze yon want, so to bt Inrre h 1 jj h. Tirpj 1 to N Id chrs wide hut-u to fit any aile. 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Mnliroomi n Food fn I'nropp, j As an article of food mushrooms are ; Incoming more widely ar.d favorably known each year. Immense quanii ties are grown for market in caws ' near Paris, some of the beds being deg or horse after you your chances seven miles long. One grower has Feeding Values for Pigs. The Western Agriculturist says: "While grain Is the chief feed for growth for pigs, grass and a variety of feed Is de sirable for health and good vigorous condition. The feeding value of 100 pounds of corn equals: Oats, 118; cot ton cake, 117; linseed cake, 119; pota toes, 360; parsnips, 618; clover, 665; buttermilk, 508; fresh milk, 865; skim med milk, 721. Wheat Is worth seven or eight per cent less as a fattening food, and is better for growing ani mals. Wheat middlings and corn makes a good ration. Give fattening pigs as much food as they will eat up clean. will be improved. 9. Never use spurs on the pneu matic tires of your wheel. Tha use of spurs in this manner is likely to leave your bicycle in a winded condition. Bpurs are not comfortable, either, in case of a throw. 10. Do not be stubltoru with a b:ilky wheel. If the front wheel gets in a rut going east, and the hind wheel in another going west, dismount and ar gue the matter standing unless you are tired and want to lie down by tho roadside without making the effort to do so unassisted. Harper's Round Table. A Rare Chance. Terhaps. Daughter Here's a queer advertise ment in the Trumpet: "A well cul tured baby for adoption." Don't you think that means well nurtured? Mother I don't know. Perhaps it'g a Boston baby. To Destroy Ants. Cupboards and places infested by ants should have all the shelves washed with carbolic acid and water or carbolic soap. If the scent of the carbolic is offensive, as it is to some persons, use the following: A large lump of ammonia dissolved in hot water, and cold added. The pro portion is ammonia the size of a hen's egg to a quart of water; brush the shelves well over with it; the ants will soon leave, as they greatly dislike the scent of amorania. The Flower of the SUy. We admire their delicate tints, and to cherish them as silent friends, j writes Mary Proctor In the Chautau- j quan. How few learn to love and be- i come intiraatolj' acquainted with the j "flowers of the sky." Far more beau tiful and varied are they than the flowers of the earth; but only to the patient astronomer who searches the nocturnal heavens with his telescope, are these wonders revealed. He knows exactlv when and where to look for ; them, and by patient toil has added many newly discovered colored stars to those already known. Let us follow him. in his ramble In Starland, as he gazes at some of the well known double stars, the twin flowers of the heavens. He will prob ably turn his telescope toward the con stellation Scorpio, which forms a mag nificent object in the south during the summer months. It is easy to recog nize this constellation, with its long winding train of stars, bearing a sup posed resemblance to a huge scorpion with extended claws. In tlw heart of tho Scorpion is the rudd) utares, twenty-one miles or mushrooms grow ing at Mery. In Italy the trutiie-beds are so valuable that they are guarded as carefully as are game preserves in England. But the poachers, quite equal to the necessity, train their dogs to go among the beds, dig up tho:-e mushrooms of marketable value and bring them out to the edge, where they are waiting to receive them. Mushrooms bring in a revenue of 4.CHH) a year to Rome, and M. Roquos calls the despised toadstools the "man na of the poor." Mr. Julius Palmer, our own author ity on mushrooms, says: "Were the poorer classes of Russia, Germany, Italy or France to see our forests dur ing the autumn rains they would feast on the rich food there going to waste. For the harvest requires no seedtime and asks no peasant's toil. At the same time the value of mushroom diet ranks second to meat alone. America is one of the richest countries in mush room food." Margaret W. Leigh ton in St. Nicholas. EDUCATIONAL. AGflD&AW OF THE SAGRED HEART Tb roarxe of lntro tlon in thlf Academy, conducted by thm HfUi iou-of the ared Heart, embrace the whole ran ire or subjects neees ary to constitute a soli 1 and refined education. Propriety of deportment, p r sonal neaiDei and the principles of morality are ob Ject of uiu ea-int; attention. 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