GAME DOESN'T WORK.
REFORM CLUB OF NEW YORK
DELUGED WITH NAYS.
Country Publisher Do Not Want Free
StareotTp Plate Sample ot the
Hundreds of Letter Being; Received
by the Britlsh-rs Dally.
in reply to liberal offers of free plate
service the Reform Club is being de
luged with hundreds of letters, like the
following from editor of the Press,
Adrian, Mich.
A few days since we received a letter
from the sound currency annex of the
"Reform Club" of New York, a sort of
a mugwump combine, with more mouey
than principle, offering us plate matter
and supplements free, containing gold
standard arguments. We have sent
the following reply:
Calvin Tompkins. Esq..
Chairman, etc.
Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your let
ter of recent date, containing a propo
sition for pushing the -educational
work for a sound currency" and also
sample of the educational literature you
desire to furnish. You say you will
furnish me free, every four weeks a
page of plates, and a 1,000 supplements,
being broadsides for sound currency.
This you do to "resist the efforts of the
free coinage advocates to put this coun
try on a free silver basis." I observe,
too. that you are a section of the "Re
form club" of New York.
I heartily approve of any and every
effort in behalf of sound currency. The
great business interests of the country
demand that we not only have a sound
currency but that we have a reliable
and anti-monopoly currency, ample in
quantity and uniform in quality. ith
power to pay any debt of the country
at any time, and any place, to any per
son, for anything, a currency that is as
ood in a farmer's wallet, as in a bauk;
a currency so sound that it will pay a
bond, or pension; a mortgage or a
month's wages, and one that cannot be
placed at a premium in order that it
may be demanded of the government in
exchange for any other currency. We
want an honest currency, one that will
pay the wage-earner and the interest
taker; one that will pay the gun holder
and the bend holder; one that the
United States alone issues and fathers;
cne that will fight our battles, or buy
our wheat; one as much for the use and
benefit of the producers of the country
who raise the TOO millions dollars ex
ports for our foreign trade as well as for
those who buy the bonds nd clip cou
pons. We need a currency so sound that no
combine of financial thieves can organ
ize a raid on the treasury and embar
rass it in its dealings, and disturb the
business interests of the country, in
order that the currency they hold, may
be turned into an interest-bearing debt.
We need a sound currency, that will
admit of no juggling, nor compel the
United States to keep on hand a hun
dred million dollars in any one kind of
money just to accommodate a class of
men who make their living by raids on
the currency reserve, not because they
need one kind of money more than an
other, but simply to make trouble.
We need a sound currency law which
would oppose every effort to embarrass
the government, by demanding the re
demption of the government's paper
money, and declare such a demand high
treason, punishable with death here,
and damnation hereafter.
The only sound currency I recall, was
the old "red dog" that was in existence
before the war. and which as I under
stand it, your "Reform" club is anxious
to restore, and that you voiced this by
getting such a scoundrelly proposition
inserted into the last democratic na
tional platform and it is favored by the
reform president, the Hon. Grover
Cleveland, an ardent -"sound currency"
statesman, who links arms with Sher
man, McKinley, Fairchild, Koar, Reed.
Brice. Carlisle, and the two Mortons,
one the seed secretary in the cabinet
and the other a political seed in New
York.
Believing in a sound currency and in
the honesty of our forefathers who ron
ducted the government before you
were formed or reformed, feeling that
they made no mistake when they estab
lished silver and gold for unlimited
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. and
knowing that up to 1873 both metals
were a "sound currency" (except during
the war. when gold and a lot of "re
formers" slipped out of the country,
and watched the soldiers and green
backs put down the rebellion), I unhesi
tatingly declare for sound currency .nd
honest money.
I believe the United States in the days
of "61 to 65, made no mistake when gold
and its friends were not "at home," in
organizing the greenbacks, and declar
ing them money and they have b?en
ever since, the only really "sonnd
money" of this country, and that the
man who demands their redemption in
gold, just to get the gold for money to
use at home or abroad, is a thief, and
has less patriotism than Jeff Davis,
whOBe efforts were devoted to destroy
ing the country the greenbacks saved.
The men who ask for greenbacks to
be redeemed in gold, will, if given the
opportunity, demand that the Savior
who died to-save them, may -be prose
cuted for coming to life again.
A perusal of your plate editorials
convinces me that you are masquerad
ing under false colors. You are advo
cating the only dishonest money
known.
You are opposing the best interests
of the people.
You are fighting silver, the people's
money, and you fight it for selfishness.
You oppose it because you do not
wish to see money plentiful.
And this leads me to remark that
sound currency must bear a lower rate
of interest.
The farmers and wage earners get It,
simply to exchange it for labor
They are willing to work and trade 1
labor.
They do not want the interest in the
exchange, to rob them, of their profits.
Now sir, I suggest that you reform at
once.
Adopt honest methods. Men have
been sent to prison for less than your
"reform" proposition to me. I am a
poor man. I, however, own my own
office and have been taught politically
that bribery is a crime. I am not
willing to sell out my views to a rich
syndicate, able and willing to debauch
the press of the country. You can pur
chase my plant, but not my ideas or my
views. You cannot furnish gold
enough to get your plate editorials in
to my paper, either.
The Press is for sound currency, one
that is good for all classes, at all times;
a currency of the United States nd
good for the world.
It is for the free coinage of silver as
an honest and sound currency, and to
place the law of 1S73. back on our
statute books should be the first d.:y
of every true, loyal citizen.
The enemy of silver is the enemy of
this country.
The man who attempts to disrupt the
union, is no more a traitor than he who
disrupt our currency, or who opposes
its restoration.
I am fully able to write my own edi
torials and express my own views.
If I want manufactured pewter-prepared
editorial utterances, I can pay for
them. The shameless heresies you put
forth, under the guise of "sound cur
rency" ought to convince every loyal
democrat of the country that you are
conspiring with the republican party
to maintain the robbing gold standard,
and that the only hope that the farmers,
workmen and business men of the
country have is to repudiate your "re
form methods, and denounce you as the
germ of all monopoly, trusts, aristocracy
and caste, and as dangerous to a gov
ernment of the people, as a wolf is to
a flock of lambs.
I do not wish your plates, nor your
broadsides. I know the devil's hoof
when I see it. and a "reform" cloak
does not hide it in this instance.
Yours for silver, greenbacks and
gold, irredeemable and interchangeable.
W. STEARNS.
How It Works.
Straws show which way the wind
blows, and here are a couple of straws.
On Thursday. April. 2. there were two
petitions presented to Congress. One
of them was from the Massachusetts
State Board of Trade of Boston, and its
object is the maintenance of the single
gold standard in coinage. The other
was from the Drill Press and Milling
Machine Union, No. 6503, American
Federation of Labor, of Toledo, Ohio,
praying for the free and unlimited coin
age of silver. The fate of these two pe
titions is highly complimentary to the
spirit of American fair play, the prin
ciple of Republican justice, the theory
of liberty and equal rights for all,
which is by a somewhat fantastic flight
of the imagination supposed to pervade
this ideal land. The gold standard peti
tion was very courteously referred to
the Committee on Finance, and will
doubtless be utilized when needed in
the future to brace and sustain the rec
ommendations of that astute commit
tee. The other petition, that or the la
boring men for the free coinage of sil
ver on the same terms as aie extended
to gold, was ordered laid on the table,
or in other words snuffed out of exist
ence then and there. It is worth noting
too, as an instance of the irony of fate,
that the plea of the iron workers was
presented by Senator John Snerman, of
Ohio, himself .the Judas Iscariot of fin
ance, who has done more than any ten
living men to prostitute the coinage of
the American Republic to the base uses
of European money lenders. There is
at the present time but one satisfatcioa
connected with this incident, and that
is the irony of fate in another direction
in casting down the ambitious and
withering the hope of the Ohio states
man, whom nature generously enrich
ed with gifts, whose life work was the
attainment of the Presidency, but who
is to-day standing on the threshold of
another world, with the ashes of Sodom
in his parched mouth, with the honors
of the Presidency cut off by his perfidy,
and with a keen realization gnawing at
his heart that his treason to the honest
toilers of his native land, while it may
have made him rich, has also made him
more to be pitied in the evening of life
than the pauper dying in squalor and
rags.
An Allen Policy.
The action of the Manufacturers
Club, of Philadelphia, several evening3
since in the matter of passing a set of
resolutions, which gave the negative to
the report of the club, or the manu
faeturers of Philadelphia, were willinj
to barter with the silver Senators for
free silver in exchange for additional
protection, and further and more im
portant, declaring that question of bi
metallism could be permanently settled
only by international agreement; and
opposing the free coinage of silver by
the United States alone, was not alto
gether a surprise, especially so when
the result of the "Washington confer
ence" became known, and the situation
understood. It seems strange, how
ever, that citizens of a great common
wealth, such as Pennsylvania, with its
resources and present industrial devel
opment could acknowledge themselves,
or their country to be dependent on the
wealthy classes of England and other
European nations, yet in effect, the
Manufacturers Club of Philadelphia
did that very thing when it adopted the
resolution opposing independent action
on the part of the United States in the
matter of its monetary system.
Exports of copper pyrites from Spain
last year fell off nearly 37,000 tons as
compared with 1894, the figures being
504,407 tons and 541,320 tons respec
i tively.
MAINE'S TALLEST MAN.
Paints Houses Without a Ladder Be
Also Rides a liicycle.
The tallest man in the state of Maine
rides a bicycle, says the Lewiston Jour
nal. He's also general repairer of bi
cycles for the village of Phillips.
These two facts may not especially be
long together, but they immediately
answer a vague question that arises in
the mind of the reader. If the bicy
cle gets discouraged at any time Maine's
champion tall wheelman can do his own
doctoring.
Mr. W. H. Kelley, of Phillips, is a
modest man. Although he has many
accomplishments and in his character
of head surgeon of the village repair
shop, can mend anything from a watch
to a jigger wagon, he doesn't boast of
his acquirements. But as to his height
he feels that he can safely lay claim to
being the champion giant of Maine.
Many tall men have come and seen
and braced shoulders and chalked with
him on his shop door until the scratches
of the intertangled lines look iike a
spider web. But loftily above them all
is the scratchmark of the towering man
of the house. He never yet has to look
up to gaze into the eyes of a man stand
ing on his level except once when a cir
cus brought a giant to town. The
giant heard that there was a citizen out
side who was taller than he. So, by
his request, Mr. Kelley was passed in.
The circus giant stood on the vantage
ground of an ascending slope, he woie
a bearskin cap, high-heeled shoes, and
had his shoulders padded elaborately.
But even under the disguise the by
standers could see that he was not a
fair match for the local Polyphemus,
had he stripped off his plumage and
"come down off his perch" on the em
bankment. Mr. Kelley, dressed for the street,
measures from the ground to the top of
his head six feet and ten inches as
near seven feet as any man in Maine
has ever grown. He is symmetrical,
too, weighing considerably over 200
pounds, yet without any superfluous
flesh.
Mr. Kelley is a muscular man, and
some feats of strength that he has pei-
formed surprised even his townsmen.
At a lifting match not long ago the
weight was a stone post weighing 225
pounds. Several alleged strong aien
had tackled it and had wiggled it along
a few feet at a hitch. Mr. Kelley, how
ever, grasped the iron link, affixed to
the post and walked nearly 200 feet with
the weight, finally tossing it carelessly
a considerable distance. "I could have
carried it further," said he, nonchal
ently, "but I thought 'twas far enough
for a sample."
Mr. Kelley's workshop is fully as in
teresting as its owner. He is a me
chanical genius with a knack for fixing
anything that may be brought to him,
and he can make almost anything that
he is requested to, whether he has ever
seen it before or not.
For instance, much of his machinery
was improvised by him. The little,
two-horse power marine engine has
been rigged up to drive a hand-saw
that plays over two widely dissimilar
wheels. The upper is a bicycle wheel
with ball bearings, the lower is one of
the wheels of a mowing machine, the
combination working excellently. Mr.
Kelley also has his grindstone rigged on
ball bearings, and has recently com
pleted a sand-papering machine that is
exciting the admiration of all the neigh
bors.
Besides his general work of repairing
Mr. Kelley is a paiater, and it is on rec
ord that he painted the side of one cot
tage house in the village without using
a ladder.
All of the Phillips giant's shop appur
tenances are suited to his height and
the benches, horses and vices "are as
long-legged as a giraffe.
CliouRine w Novel.
A writer lets out a secret regarding
the w-ay in which younk women read
novels.
It was in the tram-car, that place in
which the experiences are varied
enough to make a man cosmopolitan it
he will studv them. Two girls are
alking of what they real.
"Oh, I choose a novel easily enough,
one said. "I go to the circulating li
brary and look at the last chapters. If
I find the rain softly and sadly droop
ing over one or two lonely graves, I
don t take it, but if the morning sun
is glimmering over bridal robes of
white satin, I know it is all right, and
take it, and start to buy sweets to eat
while I rad it." London Standard.
Cap ami Cap-Hearer.
The cups of the Assyrians closely re
semble our saucers. Every nobleman
and gentleman had his own cup and
cup-bearer, the latter of whom always
accompanied him to a feast, carrying
before him the cup of gold, silver, crys
tal or marWle, which his master used
only on state occasions. Saucers for
cups were introduced in the latter part
of the eighteenth century, and at first
greatly ridiculed, the person who em
ployed them being said not to be able
to drink without having two cups.
Hard to Please.
Some people are never satisfied. An
umbrella maker in Paris has been in
terviewed on the subject of a sudden
change in the weather. "Well," re
marked the interlocutor, "things are
looking well for you. I suppose you
are selling enormous numbers of um
brellas?" "Very likely," was the
trader's surly reply; "but what about
my sunshades?"
The Book of Hooks.
I have heard preachers argue that in
these times of wide thinking a man
who keeps close to one book will nar
row himself. It may be so with other
books, but the minister who sticks
close to the Bible has a wide knowledge
of the whole range of history. It deals
with all human experience. Bishop C.
W. Foss.
A Dop of Christian Principles.
At Wednesbury a do has been dis
covered which its fond mistress consid
ers a Christian both in principles and
conduct It accompanied her regularly
to church, never disturbed the congre
gation, and always left the sacred edi
fice in a quiet and orderly manner,
obviously having derived much benefit
from the service. Daring the week it
behaved as so exemplary a dog might
be expected to do, doinp- wrong" "inten
tionally" to neither man nor beast. It
was certainly' an insult to expect so
enlightened an animal to wear a collar
with his owner's name, but the Wed
nesbury authorities mulcted the priv
ileged owner in costs. However, the
possession of such a treasure must be
well worth the money. Birmingham
(Engr-) MaiL
, Hall's Catarrh Cnre
Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c
Women in Germany.
German women have sent a petition
to parliament protesting against some
clauses in the new civil code. According-
to this code, a married woman, for
instance, has, if no special contract has
been made, no ricrht to dispose of her
own fortune without the permission of
her husband. Moreover, the latter is
solely entitled to administer and to
have the usufruct of her money, even
of that which she earns. Every finan- :
cial transaction entered upon by a
Woman Without the knowledge and i
consent of her husband can be cancel-
ed. Except in a few cases, women are
unable to act as guardians. They are
also excluded from family councils,
and so on.
A Successful Doctor.
We take pleasure in calling- your at
tention to the advertisement of Dr.
Marsh with regard to his cure for the
opium and morphine habit to be found
in another column of this paper. The
doctor has been eng-aged for twenty
five years in this specialty, and is well
and favorably known for the cures he
had made of these habits. We take
pleasure in commending him to any
and all who need his services, having
been personally acquainted with him
for the past twenty-five years.
A Roumanian Fleet.
Koumania has upset the plans of
treaty powers to have only two fleets
on the Ulack Sea by setting up a little
fleet of its own. It contains one fast
cruiser, Elizabeth, ana niteen smaller
crafts. The Roumanian flag has been
recognized by the Russians, who re
turned salutes when the fleet appeared
off SebastopoL
Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best
of all cough cures. Georce W. Lotz, Fabu-
cher. La., August 26, 1?95.
Funeral monuments are exported from
this countrv to Australia.
The name of Cripple Creek should now
be changed to Cripple Town.
FITS All Fit stopped tree by Ir.Klln' Great
Nerve Restorer. Su Fitaa'ler tu first day's use.
Marvelous cure. T realise an. 1 1-1 rral bottle freet
k 11 c&e&. bend to Dr. Kline Ail Area &U,itula., 1'-
One of Maine's curios is Machias, a town
of 200 inhabitants without a debt.
A So miner Resort Book Free.
Write to C S. Crane, general passen
ger and ticket agent Wabash Railroad,
St. Louis. Mo., for a summer resort
book, telling all about the beautiful
lake region reached by the Wabash
Railroad.
United States Patents.
A curious patent has just been issued
to Frederick Lehner, a bwiss. for a
process of makinc imitation silk. An
ordinary cotton thread is run through
several solutions of silk substances and
nitro cellulous, the threads after treat
ment being woven into a fabric which
is much cheaper and has all the qual
ities of a good grade of silk. The
cheapness of this new fabric would
bring it within the reach of alL
Laban Everest, an Omaha inventor,
has received a patent for an electric
railway signal which is noticeable be
cause of its cheapness and in which he
overcomes some of the objections en
countered in so many signals. The in
ventor has been enabled to sell his pat
ent at a good profit to a corporation
who will place the invention on the
market.
Peter Smith, of Cincinnatti, Ohio,
has invented a bed castor which
just above the wheel has an in
sect trap, the purpose of which is quite
apparent.
M. Forster of Berlin, Germany, gets
a patent for a smokeless gunpowder,
comprising wavy flakes, which, it is
claimed, ignite more quickly than those
of any other conformation, and so, of
course, is more valuable on that ac
count. Inventors desiring information rela
tive to tqe law of patents or how to se
cure their inventions, should address
Sues & Co., attorneys at law and in
ventors' counsellors, Bee building,
Omala, Nebraska, for free book on
patents and information.
A copy of any U. S. Patent, includ
ing full drawings and description will
be mailed on receipt of 10 cents.
Half Fare Excursions Tia the Wabash,
The short line to St. Louis, and quick route
East or South,
Excursions to all points South atone fare
for the round trip with F2.00 added.
JU.XE 16th,
National Republican Convention at St
Louis.
JULY 2d,
National Educational Association at
Buffalo.
JULY 9th,
Christian Endeavor Convention at
Washington.
JULY 22nd,
National People and Silver Convention at
St Louis.
For rates, time tables and further infor
mation, call at the Wabash ticket office,
1415 Famam St., Paxton Hotel block, or
write x Geo. N. Clattox,
K. W. Pass. Agt., Omaha, Neb.
A mill whistle at Fillmore, N. Y., blows
the weather signals.
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XotUxrao suddenly aad completely
disables the mnscles as
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ST. JACOBS OIL i;
i csret tiem as
The Farmer and Mole.
An ill tempered farmer one day had
a quarrel with his wife. He was afraid
to assault her. because she was a new
woman and had studied the are of self
defense, so he went to the barn and
started a quarrel with his mule. That
poor beast did not know what it was
all about, but he kept his eyes open.
Soon the farmer, having1 worked him
self into a frenzy, approached the mule
from behind with a view of kicking the
patient animaL Then the mule reach
ed out his left foot, and ten seconds
later the new woman was a widow.
MoraL There is much virtue in the
first kick. New York World.
Tbe Sig-nlflcanoe of a Gray Overcoat
Upon the tongue, yellowness of the skin and
eyeballs, nausea and uneasiness beneath
the right ribs and shoulder blade, is that
the victim of these discomforts is billious.
The "proper caper" under such circum
stances is to take Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters, which also cure chills and fever, con
stipation, dyspepsia, rheumatic and kidney
complaints and nervousness.
Politeness is such a strain that every one
is clad when a pnest poes home.
Feme Konien always :ook ready to
scream.
liegeman's Camphor Ire with. Gl ycerine.
The original and only freouin. Cures Chap pd Hands
and Face, Cold Sores, &c.
C. U. Clara Coaiaveo.cx.
A hen in her lifetime rarely lays more
than MH) eps.
u the Baby is cutting Teetn.
g TOPe ad nse that old and well-tried remedy, Ks.
(Vixslow's Soothing Snntor Children Teetfcin-
In .Arabia milk
is not measured, but
sold by weight.
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The New York Journal
recently offered ten bicy
cles to the ten winners in
a guessing contest, leav
ing the choice of machine
to each &
ALL OF THEM CHOSE
Columbia
Bicycles
STANDARD OF THE WORLD
Nine immediately, and
one after he had looked at
others. And the Journal
bought Ten Columbias
Paid $100 each for them.
On even terms a Columbia will be chosen
TEN times out of TEN
POPE MANUFACTURING CO,
2896 Art Catalogue free from the Columbia
agent; by mail far two 2 -cent stamps.
The Woman
The Man,
ArThe Pill.
She was a good woman. He
loved her. She was his wife.
The pie was good; his wife
made it; he ate it. But the
pie disagreed with him, and
he disagreed with his wife.
Now he takes a pill after pie
and is happy. So is his wife.
The pill he takes is Aysr's.
Moral : Avoid dj spepsia
by using
Ayer's
Cathartic Pills.
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I W Successful 'v Prosecutes Claims.
I Late Principal Exj.m:ner V S. pension Uureaa.
Is 2yrs valabt wr, ljaUjiuLii:.uu2 claims, uttj buce.
BJGG1ES Stirrer f..r STV.
lOjstvies. GimhI vart-ty i f
-et.nd-Land Carri:tf nd
Wajrona. Nobody !.-
do r manrins.
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lfetb &ud Harney fc. Otu-L
OPIUM
HahltCared. K.--C In 1871. Thou-an!s
cured. Cheapest and best cure. I'Ktc Tuiau
State case. Da. Mak&h. Oninry, Mich.
LIIIDSEY OMAHA RUBBERS!
now decides that
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in stre than anv
of tobacco7 but the .
ever saw7 and j
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