FOR SILVER MONEY.
EVERY HONEST ADVOCATE CF
GOllD IS A POOR THINKER.
Simple of th? Ic'riioe Tha' Uon the
Siilf for tVhieh Kowell i llorr t Mit
Down Into Obscurity and Shame A
Bojcott.
C. Smart Patterson, chairman execu
tive con: n.i: tee Sound Money League
of Pennsylvania, recently had pub
lished his idea of what constituted
4-ound rr.ony.'
When Srst published, the Item
thought his idea too nonsensical for no
tice. But as a demand upon the Item
h;s since been made for its analysis,
the nonsensical features will be made
clear:
"Sound money," says Mr. Patterson,
of only one of two possible kinds;
T.rst. that whose market value as a
ommcdity is equivalent to its face
value as money; or. second, that which
is representative in character, and hav
ing little or no market value as a com
modity. i convertible at par into money
of the first kind. Cold alone
is sound money of the first kind."
Let all the governments of the world
to-day open their mints to the free
coinage cf silver and silver at once be
comes as sound as gold, according to
Mr. Patterson, although he does not
say it. He does not say it, because his
definition shows ignorance of what it is
that makes the money of the country;
h is ignorant that fiat of a government
alone makes money. He is ignorant
that fiat alone gives the present com
mercial value of gold; he is ignorant
that there is no such thing as having
a commodity value equivalent to its
face value aside from its fiat value; be
cause the commodity value is alone
made up by the coinage or flat demands
of the world.
All of Mr. Patterson's definition is
based upon the long-ago exploded doc
trine of intrinsic value in money inde
pendent of its minting or fiat value.
No one but a glaring ignoramus ever
now claims an intrinsic value aside
from the fiat value put upon coin by
the various governments. When one
t omes forward again with this old non
sense of intrinsic value, as Mr. Patter
son does, he is not worth heeding; he
knows too little of the subject for print.
Any school boy now knows and can ex
plain to Mr. Patterson that if all the
gold in the wold to-day were demon
etized, its fiat value removed, the com
mercial value of gold instead of being
the present face value of gold, might
drop to twenty cents on the dollar of its
present face value; it would drop to
exactly what it would be worth for
mercantile or manufacturing purposes;
that might be even ten cents on the
rlnllaj or its present value; because
nearly four thousand million dollars
worth of it would be suddenly thrown
upon the market. Naturally, so large
a sum wculd glut and swamp all de
mands for gold for mercantile purposes.
That is all the intrinsic value or
"sound money value" there is in Mr.
Patterson's gold dollar.
Regarding the second kind of "sound
money," there is no soundness in it.
There is not enough gold in the coun
try to redeem five per cent of the de
mand obligations which this second
form of money daily promises to re
deem. Hence, instead of being
"sound." it is rotten with fraud and
corruption, a lie on its face, and the
foundation of panics.
To make the money of the "second"
class sound, according to Mr. Patter
son, no more of it could remain in cir
culation than could be redeemed at any
one moment of time in gold, which
would mean in practice that there
could only be a quantity of "sound
money" in a country equivalent to the
amount of geld in it. In the United
States this might be two or three hun
dred million dollars, which might all
go abroad to-morrow if Europe sold
that much worth of American securi
ties held there. Now without any
money lft in this country, all gold be
ing exported, where would the "sound
money" to carry on internal United
l-itates trade come In?
The truth Is. Mr. Patterson does not
know enough about "sound money" to
last him over night; much less to be
chairman of a "Sound Money League."
Yet this very ignorance which would
disgrace a primary school is consid
ered so "sound" that Mr. Patterson's
"convincing" definition is being incor
porated in a pamphlet: Document No..
7. "one of the Money League's valu
able (?) and instructive (?) publica
tions," says the Public Ledger.
What in the world are these usurer
apologists coming to? Have they no
,-omiaon sense left? Philadelphia
Item.
NOTICE.
THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE
TARIFF LEAGUE REQUESTS THAT
VLL REPUBLICAN. NEWSPAPERS
SHALL DECLINE TO USE THE FREE
SUPPLEMENT SERVICE BEING
SENT OUT BY THE REFORM CLUB.
N ANGLO-AMERICAN ORGANI
ZATION OF NEW YORK. THIS
IS THE SAME CLUB THAT
MNGED CLEVELAND'S CAM
PAIGN IN 1892- KNOWING
THAT THE FREE TRADE CRY
WILL BE Ol T OF THE QUESTION
NEXT YEAR. THEY HAVE HIT ON
THE "SOUND MONEY" IDEA WITH A
VIEW OF DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS.
IT IS AN ENGLISH SCHEME ALL
THROUGH AND WILL LOSE VOTES
TO THE GOLD CAUSE. THE AMERI
CAN PEOPLE ARE ALERT AND
WILL NOT TOLERATE FOREIGN
INTERFERENCE IN OUR ELECTION.
THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE TAR
IFF LEAGUE, WHICH HAS ADVISED
A BOYCOTT ON THE REFORM
CLUB MATTER, IS THE BULWARK
OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. HAV
ING CHARGE OF THE PUBLICATION
OF ALL THE PARTY'S CAMPAIGN
LITERATURE. IT IS COMPOSED
ENTIRELY OF INFLUENTIAL
AMERICANS. NOTHING ENGLISH
ABOUT IT. THE LEAGUE HAS
VIEWS ON THE MONEY QUESTION
WHICH MAY FIND EXPRESSION IN
NEXT YEAR'S NATIONAL PLAT
FORM. The Vry for More Honda.
It looks very much as if Wall stieet
were conspiring to compel the govern
ment to issue another batch' of bonds.
It is not likely that the same syndicate
that took the last batch will take the
next. There had been an issue of bonds
prior to the one taken by Morgan and
his associates. The Cleveland policy is
to let these "soft snaps" go around.
Every bond issue puts a big pot of
money in the coffers of the negotiators
of it. That much is in the nature of
things. These negotiators, from Jay
Cook to J. Pierpont Morgan, are bro
kers, entitled to a commission.
Now that the balance of trade ia
against this country. Wall street has hit
upon a very simple plan for draining
the treasury of gold. It does not take
a very heavy drain to get up a scare.
By what may be called the common law
of finance it has come to be regarded
a3 necessary to the parity of the two
coins, gold and silver, that there should
be $100,000,000 of gold in the treasury.
It is only necessary to draw out enougt
to reduce the gold reserve below that
arbitrary figure to create a cry for more
bonds. Two issues were put out by
President Cleveland during the first
half of his administration, and there is
no telling how many more will follow.
Cleveland seems to be at the mercy of
the sharks that swim around the ship
of state.and the ship itself is rudderless.
The administration seems to have mis
taken these sharks for the moneyed in
terest of the country. This is much
like mistaking the bears and bulls In
the Chicago grain pit for the farmers
of the wheat and corn belts of the
prairies. , ; .
Kinrtneft to Horse.
It pays in dollars and cents to be
kind to all domestic animals. An ugly
temper is an expensive thing on a
farm; this Is especially true in the
handling of horses. One of our most
successful breeders of driving horses,
who has built up a profitable trade In
family drivers, his orders exceeding his
supply, says his success has been very
largely due to the fact that he never
allows a blow or a cross word in the
stable, yard cr pasture.
Bad drivers make bad horses. A
horse cannot be screamed at and cursed
without becoming less valuable in every
particular. To reach the highest de
gree of value, the animal should be
perfectly gentle and reliable, but if it
expects every moment that it is in har
ness to be scolded and struck, it will be
in a constant state of nervousness, and
In Hr excitement a liable, through fear,
to do something which is not expected.
It is possible to train a horse to be
governed by speaking to him, almost
as completely as to train a child, and
when thus trained, the horse reaches its
highest value. When a horse is soothed
by the gentle words of his driver, and
we have seen him calmed down from
great excitement by no other means, it
may be fairly concluded that the man
who has such power over him is a hu
mane man and a sensible one.
A gentle horse is worth more than it
would be if not gentle. What is
termed viciousness in horses is fre
quently nothing but sheer timidity,
and almost invariably is the result of
rough treatment. Horses would not
give way to fear when a man ap
proaches them if they had always been
accustomed to receive kind and humane
treatment. Young colts should be
taught not to fear the approach of a
human being. They are fond of being
petted, and with constant kindness will
become quite docile. A nubbin of corn,
a handful of grain, or a little sugar of
fered them occasionally will gain their
confidence, and they will gradually lose
all fear. The spirit of trustfulness thus
inspired and the resulting gentleness
of disposition will last through life, un
less adverse influences are allowed to
interfere.
A horse so trained is worth much
more than one equal in all other re
spects, but lacking the training, or, as
Dr. Curryer calls it, the education. An
educated horse, like an educated man
is valuable for what he knows, as well'
as weight, strength and vigor. Minne
apolis Tribune.
An Antique love Affair ut Chicago.
Franz Gottesleben and Paulina
Mueller, inmates of the German Old
People's home at Chicago, eloped last
week. Franz is 78 years old and Paul
ina 75. Franz is an educated man,
having been a school teacher for years'
and his fluent talk captivated the sep
tuagenarian maiden. They began to
make love as ardently as if a third
their years. The trustees told them
they were violating a rule of the home,
but couldn't stop the billing and coo
ing. So Franz was given the key to
the street. A few days later Paulina
was missing. They were discovered,
separated and Paulina taken back to
the home.
! TALMAGE'S SERMON.
STORY OF GIDEON'S BATTLE
AT MOUNT GILBOA.
"And the Three Com panto Blew the
Trumpets, and Broke the Pitfhtn
and Held the Lamps In Their Left
Hands" Judges. !!, SO 81.
HAT is the strang
est battle ever
fought. God had
told Gideon to go
down and thrash
the Mldian ites.
but ' his army is
too large; for the
glory must be
given to God, and
not to man. And
so proclamation is
mad that all those of the troops who
are cowardly and want to go home may
go, and twenty-two thousand of them
scampered away, leaving only ten thou
sand men. But God says the army is too
large yet; and so he orders these ten
thousand remaining to march through
a stream, and commands Gideon to no
tice in what manner these men drink
3f the water as they pass through it. If
they get down on all fours and drink
then they are to be pronounced lazy and
incompetent for the campaign; but If, in
passing through the stream, they scoop
up the water In the palm of their hand
and drink and pass on they are to be
the men selected for the battle. Well,
the ten thousand men marched down
in the stream and the most of them
come down on all fours and plunge their
mouths, like a horse or an ox, Into the
water and drink; but there are three
hundred men who. instead of stooping
just dip the palm of their hands in the
water and bring it to their lips, "lap
ping it as a dog lappeth." Those three
hundred brisk, rapid, enthusiastic men
are chosen for the campaign. They are
each to take a trumpet in the right
hand and a pitcher in the left hand and
a lamp inside the pitcher, and then at
a given signal they are to blow the
trumpets and throw down the pitchers
and hold up the lamps. So it was done.
It is night. I see a great host of Mid
ianites, sound asleep In the valley of
Jezreel. Gideon comes up with his three
hundred picked men and when every
thing is ready the signal is given and
they blow the trumpets and they throw
down the pitchers and hold up the
lamps and the great host of Midianites.
waking out of a sound sleep, take the
?rash of the crockery and the glare of
the lamps for the coming on of an over
Tvhelniing foe; and they run, and cut
themselves to pieces, and horribly
perish.
The lessons of this subject are very
spirited and Impressive. This seeming
ly valueless lump of quartz has the
pure gold in it. The smallest dew-drop
on the meadow at night has a star sleep
ing in its bosom, and the most insig
nificant passage of Scripture has in it a
shining truth. God's mint coins no
small change.
I learn in the first place, from tuis
subject, the lawfulness of Christian
stratagem. You know very well that the
greatest victories ever gained by Wash
ington or Napoleon were gained through
the fact that they came when and in a
way they were not expected some
times falling back to draw out the foe,
sometimes crossing a river on unheard
of rafts; all the time keeping the oppos
ing forces in wonderment as to what
would be done next.
You all know what strategy is in mil
itary affairs. Now I think it is high
time we' had this art sanctified and
spiritualized. In the church, when we
are about to make a Christian assault,
we send word to the opposing force
when we expect to come, how many
troops we have, and how many rounds
of shot, and whether we will come with
artillery, infantry, or cavalry, and of
course we are defeated. There are thou
sands of men who might be surprised
into the kingdom of God. We need more
tact and Ingenuity in Christian work.
It is in spiritual affairs as in military
that success depends in attacking that
part of the castle which is not arml
and intrenched.
For instance, here is a man all armed
on the doctrine of election; all his
troops of argument and prejudice are
at that particular gate. You may bat
ter away at that side of the castle for
fifty years and you will not take it; but
just wheel your troops to the side gate
of the heart's affections and in five min
utes you can capture him. I never knew
a man to be saved through a brilliant
argument. You cannot hook men into
the kingdom of God by the horns of a
dilemma. There Is no grace in syllo
g!sm.J. Here is a man armed on the sub
ject of perseverance of the saints; he
does not believe in it. Attack him at
that point and he will persevere to the
very last In not believing. It. Here is a
man armed on the subject of baptism;
he believe in sprinkling or immersion.
All your discussion of ecclesiastical
hydropathy will not change him. I re
member when I was a boy that with
other boys I went into the river on a
summer day to bathe and we used to
dash water on each other, but never got
any result except that our eyes were
blinded; and all this splashing of water
between Baptists and Pedo-baptlsts
never results In anything but the blur
ring of the spiritual eye-sight. In other
words, you can never capture a man's
soul at the point at which he Is es
pecially intrenched But there ia in
every man's heart a bolt that can be
easily shoved. A little child four years
old may touch that bolt and it will
spring back and the door will swing
open and Christ will come in.
I think that the finest of all the fine
arts is the art of doing good, and yet
this art Is the least cultured. We have
in the kingdom of God today enough
troops to conquer the whole earth for
Christ if we only had skillful ma-
tioeurerlng. I would rather have the
three hundred lamps and pitchers of
Christian stratagem than one hundred
thousand drawn swords of literary and
ecclesiastical combat.
I learn from this subject, also, that
a small part of the army of God will
have to do all the hard fighting. Gid
eon's army was originally composed of
thirty-two thousand men, but they went
off until there were only ten thousand
left, and that was subtracted from until
there were only three hundred. It is
the same in all ages of the Christian
Church; a few men have to do the hard
fighting. Take a membership of a thou
sand and you generally find that fifty
people do the work. Take a member
ship of five hundred and you generally
find that ten people do the work. There
are scores of churches where two or
three people do the work.
We mourn that there is so much use
less lumber in the mountains of Leba
non. I think, of the ten million mem
bership of the Christian Church today,
if five millions of the names were off
the books the Church would be
stronger. You know that the more cow
ards and drones there are In any army
the weaker it is. I would rather have
the three hundred picked men of Gid
eon than the twenty-two thousand un
sifted host. How many Christians there
are standing in the way of all progress!
I think it is the duty of the Church of
God to ride over them and the quicker
it doe3 it the quicker It does its duty.
Do not worry, oh Christian. If you
have to do more than your share of the
work. You had better thank God that
he "has called you to be one of the picked
men, rather than to belong to the host
of stragglers. Would not you rather be
one of the three hundred that fight than
the twenty-two thousand that run? I
suppose those cowardly Gldeonltes who
went off congratulated themselves.
They said: "We got rid of all that fight
ing, did not we? How lucky we have
been; that battle costs us nothing at
all." But they got none of the spoils of
the victory. After the battle the three
hundred men went down and took the
wealth of the Midianites and out of the
cups and platters of their enemies they
feasted. And the time will come, my
dear brethren, when the hosts of dark
ness will be routed, and Christ will say
to his troops: "Well done, my brave
men, go up and take the spoils! Be more
than conquerors forever!" and In that
day all deserters will be shot!
Again: I learn from this subject that
God's way Is different from man's, but
is always the beat way. If we had the
planning of that battle we would have
taken those thirty-two thousand men
that originally belonged to the army
and we would have drilled them and
marched them up and down by the day
and week and month, and we would
have had them equipped with swords or
spears, according to the way of arming
In those times, and then we would have
marched them down in solid column
upon the foe. But that Is not the way.
God depletes the army and takes away
all their weapons and gives them a
lamp and a pitcher and a trumpet and
lells them to go down and drive out the
Midianites. I suppose some wiseacres
were there who said: "That is not mili
tary tactics. The Idea of three hundred
men, unarmed, conquering such a great
host of Midianites!" It was the best
way. WThat sword, spear, or cannon ever
accomplished such a victory as the
lamp, pitcher and trumpet?
God's way is different from man's
way, but it Is always best! Take, for In
stance, the composition of the Bible. If
we had had the writing of the Bible wa
would have said. "Let one man write it.
If you have twenty or thirty men to
write a poem, or make a statute, or
write a history, or make an argument,
there will be flaws and contradictions."
But God says: "Let not one man do it,
but forty men shall do it." And they
did, differing enough to show there had
been no collusion between them, but
not contradicting each other on any im
portant point, while they all wrote from
their own standpoint and temperament;
so that the matter-of-fact man has his
Moses; the romantic nature his Ezekiel;
the epigrammatic his Solomon; the
warrior his Joshua; the sailor his
Jonah; the loving his John; the logi
cian his Paul. Instead of this Bible,
which now I can lift in my hand in
stead of the Bible the child can carry
to Sunday School instead of the little
Bible the sailor can put in his jacket
when he goes to sea if it had been left
to men to write, it would have been a
thousand volumes, Judging from the
amount of ecclesiastical controversy
which has arisen. God's way is dif
ferent from man's, but It is best, in
finitely best.
So it Is in regard to the Christian's
life. If we had had the planning of a
Christian's life we would have said:
"Let him have eighty years of sun
shine, a fine house to live In; let his sur
roundings all be agreeable; let him have
sound health; let no chill shiver
through his limbs, no pain ache his
brow, or trouble shadow his soul." I
enjoy the prosperity of others so much
I would let every man have as much
money as he wants and roses for his
children's cheeks and fountains of glad
ness glancing in their large round eyes.
But that is not God's way. It seems a3
if man must be cut, and hit, and pound
ed Just In proportion as he is useful.
His child falls from a third-story win- .
dow and has its life dashed out; his '
'. most confident investment tumbles him ',
: into bankruptcy; his friends, on whom
he depended, aid the natural force of ,
gravitation in taking him down; his
life is a Bull Run defeat. Instead of
twenty-two thousand advantages he has
only ten thousand ay, only three hun
i dred ay, none at all. How many people
! there are at their wits' end about their
livelihood, about their reputation. But
they will find'out It Is the best way after
awhile; God will show them that he de
pletes their advantages Just for the
same reason he depleted the army of
Gideon that they may be induced to
throw themselves on his mercy.
A grape vine says in the early prlng:
"How glad I am to get through the win
ter! I shall have no more trouble now!
Summer weather will come and the gar
den will be very beautiful!" But the
gardener comes, and cuts the vine here
and there with his knife. The twigs be
gin to fall and the grape vine cries out,
"Murder! what are you cutting me for?"
"Ah," says the gardener, "I don't mean
to kill you. If I did not do this you
would be the laughing stock of all the
other vines before the season is over."
Months go on, and one day the gardener
comes under the trellis and the grape
vine says: "Thank you, sir; you could
not have done anything so kind as to
have cut me with that knife." "Whom
the Lord loveth he chasteneth." No
pruning, no grapes; no grinding mill,
no flour; no battle, no victory; no cross,
no crown!
So God's way, In the redemption of
the world, is different from ours. If we
had our way we would have had Jesus
stand In the door of heaven and beckon
the nations up to light, or we would
have had angels flying around the earth
proclaiming the unsearchable riches of
Christ. Why is it that the cause goes on
so slowly? Why is It that the cbalnr
stay on, when God could knock them
off? Why do thrones of despotism stand
when God could so easily demolish
them? It Is his way, in order that all
generations maj' co-operate and that all
men may know they cannot do the work
themselves. Just in proportion as these
pyramids of sin go up in height will
they come down in ghastliness of ruin.
Oh, thou father of all Iniquity! If
thou canst hear my voice above the
crackling of the flames, drive on thy
projects, dispatch thy emissaries, build
thy temples, and forge thy chains; but
know that thy fall from heaven was
not greater than thy final overthrow
shall be when thou 6halt be driven dis
armed into thy fiery den, and for every
He thou hast framed upon earth thou
shalt have an additional hell of fury
poured into thine anguish by the ven
geance of our God, and all heaven shall
shout at the overthrow, as from the ran
somed earth the song breaks through
the skies, "Hallelujah! for the Lord God
Omnipotent relgneth! Hallelujah! for
the kingdoms of this world have be
come the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus
Christ!" God's way In the composition
of the Bible, God's way in the Chris
tian's life, God's way in the redemption
of the world, God's way In everything
different from man's way. but the best.
I learn from this subject that the
overthrow of God's enemies will be sud
den and terrific. There Is the army of
the Midianites down in the valley of
Jezreel. I suppose their mighty men are
dreaming of victory. Mount Gllboa
never stood sentinel for so large a host.
The spears and the shields of the Midi
anites gleam in the moonlight and
glance on the eye of the Israelites, who
hover like a battle of eagles, ready to
swoop from the cliff. Sleep on, oh army
of the Midianites! With the night to
hide them and the mountain to guard
them and strong arms to defend them
let no slumbering foeman dream of dis
aster! Peace to the captains and the
spearmen!
Crash go the pitchers! up flare the
lamps! To the mountains! fly! fly! Troop
running against troop, thousands
trampling upon thousands. Hark to the
scream and gron of the routed foe.
with the Lord God Almighty after
them! How sudden the onset, how wild
the consternation, how utter the de
feat! I do not care so much what is
against me If God is not. You want a
better sword or carbine than I have
ever seen to go out and fight against
the Lord omnipotent. Give me God for
my ally, and you may have all the bat
tlements and battalions.
I saw the defrauder in his splendid
house. It seemed as if he had conquered
God, as he stood amidst the blaze of
chandeliers and pier mirrors. In the
diamonds of the wardrobe I saw the
tears of the widows whom he had
robbed, and in the snowy satin the pal
lor of the white-cheeked orphans whom
he had wronged. The blood of the op
pressed glowed In the deep crimson of
the imported chair. The music trem
bled with the sorrow of unrequited
toil. But the wave of mirth dashed
higher on reefs of coral and pearl. The
days and the nights went merrily. No
sick child dared pull that silver door
bell. No beggar dared sit on that mar
ble step. N5 voice of prayer floated
amidst that tapestry. No shadow of a
judgment day darkened that fresco. No
tear of human sympathy dropped upon
that upholstery. Pomp strutted the hall
and Dissipation filled her cup, and all
seemed 6afe as the Milianites in the val
ley of Jezreel. But God came. Calamity
smote the money market. The part
ridge left its eggs unhatched. Crash
went all the porcelain pitchers! Ruin,
rout, dismay, and woe In the valley of
Jezreel!
Alas for those who fight against God!
Only two sides. Man Immortal, which
side are you on? Woman immortal.
which side are you on? Do you belong
to the three hundred that are going to
win the day, or to the great host of Mid
ianites asleep in the valley, only to be
roused up in consternation and ruin?
Suddenly the golden bowl of life will be
broken and the trumpet blown that will
etartle our soul into eternity. The day
of the Lord cometh as a thief In the
night, and as the God-armed Israelites
upon the sleeping foe. Ha! Canst thou
pluck up courage for the day when the
trumpet which hath never been blown
shall speak the roll call of the dead
and the earth, dashing against a lost
meteor, have its mountains scattered
to the stars and oceans emptied In the
air? Oh, then, what will become of
you? What will become of wa9
1. 1 i
Prince George of England is aa In
veterate cigaret smoker. He consumes
from forty to fifty of the little rolls ef
taper and tobacco each day.
. r ..rtinr Art.
Miniature Fainim - - ,
Thosflwhoknovr only the ishea
,.nnppive of the labor that it repi
sentl Stof these tfny masterpieces
!!?hese ornaments with human identi
naUotTese concentrated expressions
of pictorial art-stands for more , tort,
of a ueculiarly exacting- sort, than tne
rarest clnvsl The brushes some of
them containing scarcely half a dozen
hairs, make strokes so f at 0;
the rjaintin"- must be done under a
minTfy" glass. And the touch-on
the frail bit of ivory must be as unerring-
as they are light. for the m lest
mistake may destroy the characteristic
translucence that constitutes the mini
ature's greatest charm.
Appropriate to the election season U
an article written by Mr. Edward J.
McDermottof Louisville, for theOcto
ber number of the Century, entitled
"Fun on the Stump; Humors of Polit
ical Campaigning- in Kentucky." Mr.
McDermott has gathered many anec
dotes of amusing experiences at the
polls, but he laments the decline of
public speaking, which he declares is
by no means up to the old-time stand
ard in Kentucky.
Daniel lioone'e Clan.
The gun of Daniel Boone has beeu
taken to Charleston, W. Va., and it is
said to be still capable of good execu
tion. Its stock and barrel are five feet
long and it carries an ounce ball. It
is a flintlock, of course. The gun ha
been in the family of Nathan Boone
Van Bibber, back in the wilds of Nich
olas county. Matthias Tice Van Bib
ber received the -.run from his friend
Boone and he carried it at the battle of
Point Pleasant in 1774 and through the
war of 1812. The original powder horn
and bullet moulds are with the gun.
Matthias Van Bibber left these relics
to Capt. C. K. Van Bibber, who left
them to his son, Nathan Boone Van
Bibber, the present owner. New York
bun.
It Will Pay.
To make some provision for your physi
cal health at this season, because a cold
or cough, an attack of pneumonia or ty
phoid fever may now make you an in
valid all winter. First of all be sure that
your blood is pure, for health depends
upon pure blood. A few bottles of Hood's
Sarsaparilla will be a paying investment
now. It will give you pure, rich blood
and invigorate your whole system.
Hood's
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IHuetratod cataloeru showing WEXLy
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Successors to IVh Jitg. Co.
JSIonx City. Iowa.
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