HORR KETS ANOTHER. GOLD BUG IGNORAMUS AGAIN CALLED DOWN. A Keen, Cutting Criticism of Roswell G. Borr Intellectual Pap on Which He Feed the l'eople Ills Utterances Based on Rottenness. The readers of the New York Trib une are much to be pitied, if they have to feed their minds on poisonous twad dle that Mr. R. P. Horr ladles out to them, week after week. (He has not even let up since his inglorious defeat in debate by Harvey of Coin at Chi cago.) For any man who has a thor ough grasp of the money question to read this trash is enough to turn him sick. I should be sorry to subscribe to the paper, bx some one is kind enough to send it to ne, so I have an occasional glance at Mr. Horr's ef fusions. Here is a specimen of his wisdom. June 19, 1S95. He tells 160, 000 intelligent Americans that "the rea sons for the low price of silver since 1873 are two in number. Because of the in creased supply and the diminished cost of production, and because the demand has not kept pace with the larger pro duction." The plain fact that silver could never fall below the ratio of 15 to 1 so long as France kept her mints open and we kept our mint open at 16 to 1 ia kent from these 160,000 intelligent Americans as a fact of little conse quence. Any schoolboy could tell Mr. Horr that if a combination of million aires announced to the world that they would give $1 per bushel for wheat in any city in the United States, wheat could never fall beiow $1 per bushel, because no one would be such a fool to take less. Now, France for 70 years said to the owners of silver bullion: "We stand here to give you 1 ounce in gold money for every loVs ounces of silver you like to bring to us," and we said the same (only we asked 16 ounces). Hence silver could never fall below this price because no silver owner would be fool enough to take less. When France ceased doing this and a clique of European bankers used their influence to persuade us to do the same in 1S73, of course, only one result could follow. Silver had no longer a fixed price, and therefore began to fall, and has been falling ever since. Why? Because two of the best customers for silver put up their shutters and said: "We won't buy any more. If we want any silver for our small shange we will buy it at our own price." To show how truthful Mr. Horr i3, he is condescending enough to admit that "nearly the whole civilized world has refused 'free coinage' to silver upon any ratio since 1S70. Great Britain Ceased so to coin it in 1S16. Other nations have ceased so to coin it because their ablest financiers have not believed it wise to continue such coinage. They feared that the enormous increase in produc tion would render silver an unsafe measure of values. The result has shown that their fears were well grounded. "No doubt such action has had some thing to do with the feeling among the people of the world that leads them to prefer gold to silver." Note the last paragraph! Closing the French and American mints has "something" to dc with it! What babes and sucklings the readers of the Trib une must be to be fed with such intel lectual pap as this. "Something" in deed, why anyone with the least com mon sense can see that it had every thing to do with it. The mints of the civilized world were closed because their "ablest financiers have not believed it wise to continue such coinage." Their "ablest financiers" were simply the tools or dupes of Rothschild and the great money lenders of Europe (Bi3marck himself has admitted that he was badly advised), who foresaw that by persuading the civilized world and their "ablest financiers" to discard one-half th world's money they could double the purchasing power of the other half. "The result," says Mr. Horr, "has shown that their fears were well grounded." Has it, indeed? This is news, to be sure! If there is any fact more patent to any honest inquirer into the silver question than another it i3 this: That all nations that were foolish enough to discard silver and put themselves on a gold basi3 are today in the greatest distress. The agricultural interests of Great Britain, Germany and the United States are well nigh ruined and their manufacturing industries so far as they depend on foreign markets are being wiped out by the extraordinary activity of rivals in silver-using countries, who find that it pays better to make their own cloth and calicos than buy it from countries on the "gold basis" who re fuse to take their silver money and demand just double as much money or produce from their Asiatic and South American customers as they did before 1873. ' Talk of our prosperity, why it should be an insult to the Tribune's readers to' nint at it. It looks like prosperity to have two million tramps, to be selling our wheat for 50 cents instead of $1.20 and our cotton at 6 cents Instead of 15 cents, and to be borrowing $150,000,000 and to have a 'President who In every message has to deplore the unfortunate and' unhappy condition of his fellow countrymen. It looks like the result of the advice of our "ablest financiers," doesn't It? How proud we ought to be of them! ' Why, anyone who reads the papers knows that the people in every gold 6tandard country are up in arms against it and that, public opinion in Europe is demanding the free coinage of silver at the old ratio. j The Tribune with their mop, Mr. .' Horr, might as well try to keep back the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Anyone can see that they are pre paring a soft place to fall oa when the collapse of their conspiracy against the best interests of the people takes place, for Mr. Horr is constantly assuring his readers that he and his organ are act ing from the loftiest motives and the slncerest convictions! Of course there is no money in it. All the tales about $2,000,000 more or less being subscribed by New York and European bankers to buy up the newspapers of America and to hire the pens of our ablest writers in the interests of gold are pure fiction. We all believe this, IT ire is more of Mr. Horr's wisdom: "The enactment of a free coinage law in the United States would simply force the people of this country to do their domestic business with cheap silver dollars. Gold would instantly cease to be used as a circulating medium in the United States. Such action would mean silver monometallism. We now have both gold and silver in use as money. We would then have silver only." There Is not any basis of fact for thia statement. France for seventy years opened her mints to the coinage of sil ver and she did not lose her gold; why then should we? But we learn some thing more from France. After the German war she had to pay an indem nity of $1,000,000,000 in gold and her gold left the country with a vengeance. But what happened? Nothing at all. The French government replaced the gold with paper money (not payable in any coin at all) and the people pros pered just as much as if they hadn't parted with any gold at all! But supposing gold did disappear. What difference would that make to us? Dreadful calamity to "have to do our domestic business with cheap silver dollars." If Mr. Horr knew the A 13 C of mouey he would know that it would not mat ter one cent to the people of this or any other country what their money was made of. All that it concerns any man in America to see is that he can buy all he wants with it, and that means that it is made legal tender by law. Every man is bound by the laws of his country, and is there any man in Amer ica who would be such a fool to defy the law and refuse the lawful money of his country so long as he knew that he could pay his own debts with it? What on earth do we want money for but this? And what utter nonsense i3 i all this talk about the calamity of "cheap silver dollars," the "50-cent dollars," which are in the mouths of every speaker against silver. Just as if we hadn't 500,000,000 of "cheap" dol lars now in circulation only worth 50 cents on the dollar, if melted down. And these are the people who taunt silver men with wishing to give us a "50-cent dollar," whereas if they knew what they were talking about they would know that the moment we had free coinage of silver at 15 to 1 silver would jump up to 100 cents on the dollar. So that It is the silver men who want to give the people a 100-cent dollar and the gold men who want to continue the present "cheap" 50-cent dollar. Why, they even taunt the silver mine owners with wishing to force up the price of silver! Anything is good enough to fool the readers of the Trib une with, according to Mr. Horr. Here is more of the same kind: "The greenback is a promise to pay in coin, and is based simply upon the credit of the nation. Each greenback has nothing behind it except such credit. The silver dollars and silver certificates have both the credit of the nation and nearly 50 cents' worth of silver for each dollar, the silver being in possession of the government. Over half the value of our present silver dol lars and silver certificates is based, it will be seen, upon the credit of the na tion. Such money is kept at par with gold only because it can be readily used as gold and exchanged for gold. Whenever such power of conversion ceases, the value of silver dollars and silver certificates will Instantly change. If greenbacks shall then be redeemed In silver dollars only, they will at once fall in price to the intrinsic value of the silver dollar. Paper money is worth only the value of the money in which it Is redeemed." Observe that the man who sneers at cheap dollars admits that the present dollars are only worth 50 cents! Such money he says Is kept at par be cause It can be exchanged for gold. Will Mr. Horr tell us any law of this country which compels au man or even the government to give $100 in gold for a silver certificate of $100? I am not aware of it. The fact is that most bankers and every tradesman would probably give $100 in gold value for $100 In United States silver simply because the silver is made legal tender by law and they can't refuse to take It, though they can refuse to give gold for it, and Wall street would always re fuse to part . with gold so long a3 Uncle Sam 13 such an imbecile as to go on issuing bonds in exchange for their gold. Mr. Horr says whenever the silver certificates can no longer be converted into gold "the value of silver dollars will instantly change." This Is not the fact, and he knows It, or ought to. The silver dollar will never de preciate and can not depreciate be cause congress has made it legal tender all over the Union. This is the plain truth, and it teaches a lesson Mr. Horr does not want his readers to "catch on to." It teaches that congress can make a 50-cent dollar legal tender for 100 cents. Mr. Horr ha3 the audacity to tell his readers that the nations who want sil ver coinage are a small minority, whereas he knows perfectly well that the gold standard nations are in a minority of one to four. Anything is good enough for the readers of the New York Tribune, apparently. FREDERICK A. BINNEY. IN QUEER FORMOSA. THE ISLAND RECENTLY ACQUIRED 1V JAl'AX. It Is About ftm Large f Massachu setts, Connecticut and Ilhotle Isl and and About as Larure a Popula tion Qneer Custmos of Natives. Naval officers and diplomats are es pecially Interested in the effort which Japan Is making to get possession of the island of Formosa as a part of the result of her victory over China. They consider it a very shrewd move and as showing how far seeing the states men and diplomats of that nation of "Eastern Yankees" are. Formosa Is the most southerly of a long range of islands stretching southward from Ja pan parallel with the coast of China. Graduallj' and very quietly Japan has Matlve Fnrninnn. for years been extending her intlu euce and ownership along this range j of islands, which command the sea i coast of her ancient enemy. China. and now she proposes to seize as a prize of war the most important of all. Formosa. Controlling most of the U'ii!ru part of this range of islands already, it will be easy for her, if slu obtains this one, to gather in the re- maiuder and thus t-oinmand to a large Formosa, although spoken of as an island, Is as large as Massachusetts. Connecticut and Rhode Island, and has about as large a population as they have. Probably the man who would add that the population was of equal intelligence would not be safe In New England, and It must be ad mitted that as a whole the people of Formosa are a little behind the latest developments in cultured New Eng land. For instance, when a Formosau wants to make a trip to the uelghlwrj ing village or to see his best girl or otherwise he does not travel by rail way or trolley or 'carriage, but quietly saddles and bridles his ox and makes the trip in a style that would be at least novel In this country. Horses are an almost unknown luxury In For mosa, especially in the eastern part of the island, where the natives still hold away. It Is about luO years since Europeans became aware of the existence of For mosa, and those intrepid navigators, the Portuguese, gave it the name "Ilha Formosa," which is translated to mean "Beautiful Island." Since that time it has been called by the Chinese Tai wan," which means "Terraced Har bor," by the natives, "Kaboska" and "Gadiva," by Europeans "Formosa." and also Is often spoken of as "the granary of China," because of its fer tility and large production of wheat, corn, rice and many other articles of food, which it supplies to the main land in enormous quantities, taking iu exchange the manufactures of the peo ple of China. Formosa may become, it Japan gets possession of it, an interesting spot to American tourists. Visits to Japan have become quite popular of late, and with Japanese steamers plying be tween Tokio, JapaD, and Tainsui. For mosa, those Americans who want to enjoy the luxury of riding upon oxen. Foklrn F listening to singing fishes, making the acnuaiiitaiue of monkeys in their na- tive forests, sleeping in "skull chain- , bers" to tone up their fighting noali- ties, or making their own supply of eamphor gum. will find the visit to Formosa pleasant. As already indi cated, ox riding is the popular method of traveling there, singing fishes are found in the rivers, as are also flying fishes, and the making of camphor Is an Important Industry, and the natives of the eastern , part of the island all have their "skull chamber" attached to their houses, where they display the skulls of all the Chinese that they and their ancestors have killed, and In which their young men sleep In order to tone up their nerve and make them valiant in battle. There has been for generations a constant hostility between the natives, who are of the Malay type, and the Chinese, who have for 250 years lorded It over them as best they could. The warfare has been bitter, very bitter, nrd it is sa'd tint the Chinese even went so far as to transport tigers from the mainland and turn them loose in the woods of the island in order to re - duce the number of natives. As they grew more thoughtful and expert in me ways ui i-inn,auuu, lhj vvcici, these cunning Chinese substituted a cheaper and more deadly destroyer, and one much more easily Introduced brandy. The natives are gradually succumbing to It in combination with opium, and although they still retain control of the eastern portion of the Island, are not very troublesome, es pecially as the section which they oc cupy Is of little value. A long range of mountains run the entire distance of 400 miles which the Island stretches from north to south. The eastern slopes are rugged, steep, picturesque in their tropical products, and a good retreat for the natives, whom the Chinese have thus been un able to dislodge. The western slope, from which the mainland of China is only nlnetv miles. Is fertile and pro duces wonderful crops of rice, wheat, corn, barley, millet, tea, sugar. Indigo, peanuts, jute, hemp and many other articles. So it has been peopled by Chinese who have come over from the quiet agricultural provinces of Pekiu and Swatow just across the channel on the mainland, and they have brought their customs and dress and st vie" of houses and ways of living with them. They are Chinese in ap pearance, though some of them Inter mingle and intermarry with the na tives, adopt some of their customs, while the people east of the mountains cling to their Malay habits and dress, In part, at least, wearing a scanty cos tume of blue eloth. staining their teeth red with the betel nut, burying their dead on the very spot where ihey ex pire, ornamenting their chain'. !s with the skulls of their slaughtered ene mies, but gradually giving way to the . A Snaton FaruioHU. I inroads of the Chinese, either by be j ing killed off in war or with brandy and opium, or by Intermarrying with t them and adopting in part their dress U1IU nil nil u. The illustrations show the various classes of people now Inhabiting For mosa. No. 1 is a group of the natives who have made little progress toward accepting Chinese ways; they dwell In bamboo cottages, raised on terraces, have no written language, and' live un der a sort of tribal or patriarchal sjs tem. using lances, bows and arrows and a few guns In their wars. No. 2 ormoMnns. shows a group of Fokien people who have so largely populated the western part of the island. No. is a type of the Swatow people, who have also added largely in making up the Chl- nese population in the island. Japan, if she gets Formosa, will con trol tlie camphor trade of the world. Fomosa has been for years the chief source of camphor supply, though of late a good deal has been made In Japan. Outside of these the only sup ply 'f camphor In the world is that of Borneo and Sumatra, where It Is ob tained by splitting the trees and ex tracting the gum from cracks and fis sures in the trunks and branches. In Japan and Formosa, however. It Is pro duced by boiling the wood of the cam phor tree and obtaining the gum by distillation. "I conclude that's a fly," said a young trout. "You are right, my dear,", said its mother; "but never jump ft conclu sions." Household Words. l A rpTTT? STTND A Y SCHOOL , j LEggoN IX SEPT. 1 THE FALL . OF JERICHO JOSH. 6:8-20. Golden Text: "By Kalth the Walls ot Jericho Fell Down, After They Were Compassed Several Days" Hebrews 11 : SO The Conquest. INTRODUCTORY i This section Includes chapters 5 and 6. Jerico fell before the Army of Israel, 1451 B.C., within three weeks after the last lesson. The con quest of Canaan was continued for six years thereafter, or to 1445 B. C. The Israelites were en camped at Gilgal. three miles from Jericho (1 Corinthians 1:25-31. He brews 11:30-34). The institution of a form of religious service was now established. The peculiar covenant with God was renewed by the Sign of Circumcision. 8 "And it came to pass when Joshua had spoken to the people that the sev en priests, bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns, passed on before the Lord, andblew with the trumpets: and the Ark of the Covenant of the Liord followed them." The Israelites thus began the march against Jericho, the proud capital of the Valley of the Jor dan. 9 "And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rearward (1 Numbers 10:25) came (went) after the ark. the priests going on (blowing with their trumpets as they went) and blowing with the trumpets." 10 "And Joshua had commanded the people saying, 'Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed (be spoken) out of your mouth until the day I bid you shout: then shall ye shout." The Orien tals take a peculiar delight in noise, es pecially when they are about to do something which they are determined to accomplish. Just the opposite of Western peoples. 11 "So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about it once; and they came Into the camp and lodged in the camp." 12 "And Joshua rose early in the morning (Dueteronomy 31:25), and the priests took up the ark of the Lord." 13 "And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horn before the ark of the Lord went on continually and blew with trumpets: And the armed men went before them: but the (Num bers 10:25) rearward came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on and blowing with their trumpets." 14 "And the second day they com passed the city once and returned into camp. So they did six days." The num ber seven as here preferred had a re ligious meaning. 13 "And It came to pass on the sev enth daj that they rose early, about the dawning of the day and compassed the city In the same manner: only on that day they compassed the city seven times." It took all day to make the seven circuits. The maneuvers gave the Inhabitants of Jericho great amuse ment. "The wicked think God Is In jest when he is preparing for their judg ment." Bishop Hall. 16 "And it came to pass at the sev enth time when the priests blew with the trumpets Joshua said unto the peo ple. 'Shout, for the Lord hath given you the city.' " (See vs. 10-20.) 17 "And the city shall be accursed (Leviticus 27:2S). even it and all that are therein to the Lord: Only Rahab the Harlot shall live, she and all that are with her In the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent." How- JERICHO AS SEEN TO-DAY. ever bad this woman's conduct had previously been she seems to have re pented. IS "And ye In any wise (Deuteron omy 7:26) keep yourselves from the ac cursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble It." 19 "But all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and Iron are consecrat ed unto the Lord: They shall come Into the treasury of the Lord." All the treasure was for the treasury of Israel. 20 "So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: And It (Hebrews 11:30) came to pass when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up Into the city, every man straight before him and they tooic the city." Just before the fall of the walls of Jericho there was expe rienced a shock or earthquake which followed quickly "a long blast from the ram's horn." leaving not the slightest doubt but that the hand of God wrought the miracle. The prophecy, "At a long blast with the ram's horn the walls of the city shall fall" (Joshua 6:5) was ful filled to the very moment. COUNSEL. TO YOUNG CONVERTS. Pray for the unsaved and try to win them to Christ. Adopt a golden text and ask God to help you live it. "Pray without ceasing. in every thing give thanks." Be faithful in your attendance upon the means of grace. Keep your testimony bright by speak ing whenever you should. Have a good Bible of" your own if you have to go without bread to buy it. Head your Bible thoughtfully and prayerfully. Find time to pray In IIP' a- The Most Sensitive Thin on Earth Is a human nerve. This la a state of health. Let it become overstrained or weakenea. and i he sensitiveness Is Increased tenfold. For weak or overwrought "m H ter's stomach Bitters Is the best tonic la existence, since It invigorates quiet them at the same time. It ilo Posee superlative efficacy ia dyspepsia, constipa tion malarial and kidney complaints, rheu matism and neuralgia. The Art of Breathing It is perhaps one of the signs of tha times, to those alert for indications, that the art of breathing has become more and more a subject of Attention. Oculists as well as physiologists go deeply into the study in a way hardly to be touched upon here. Physicians have cured aggravated cases of insom nia bj long-drawn regular breaths, fever-stricken patients have been quiet ed, stubborn forms of indigestion mada to disappear. A tendency to consump tion may be overcome, as some author ity has within the last few years clear ly demonstrated, by exercise in breath ing1. Seasickness, too, may be sur mounted, and the victim of hypnotic influence taught to withstand the force of an energy directed against him. There is a famous physician in Man ish who has written an extensive work upon the subjeetof breathing'. lie has, besides, formulated a system by which asthmatic patients are made to walk without losing breath, while sufferers from weaknesses of the heart are cured. At Meran, in the Austrian Tyrol, his patients (almost every royal house of Europe is represented) are put through a certain system of breathing and walking. The mountain paths are all marked off with stakes of different color, each indicating the number of minutes in which the patient must walk the given distance, the breathing and walking being in time together. As the cure progresses the ascents are made steeper and steeper. The wiliest men have never in any age been the test men. Every man is full of philosophy which he is unable to apply to his own necessities. The angler may forget his lines, but the amateur iet, never. g Can't Sleep Is the complaint of many at this seasoa. 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