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FREE SILVER IN INDIA
O MAS REDUCED LA ION TO THE
VERGE Of STARVATION.
mmrj White
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la the present ilver campaign one of
m stock claim of the whit metal ad To
ll that in India ilver furnishes a
currency. That the people of that
try are happy with it; that they are
tooi and jetting an increasing
share of the world' trade: that while
-Saver has fallen when measured by gold,
M ha not fallen when meaaured by other
products. The claim cover a wide
aage and are intended to prove that
Silver on a strictly silver basis make
aa ideal currency for a happy and proa
Sereus people.
The silver men hare been unfortunatf
-i-: xt : , . . i f.. ,him
gass Iao loan Hi
tha frt w h.i
Oat of nn . Tail.
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r.'r sjatry. Mexico lie too near our door
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r laoor anu ine mmaie classes iu mm
backward land i too easily accessible.
India a a guide for America is an
equally unfortunate electlon. Like ev
ery other free silver country it i a land
of ignorance, with the great man of it
C potation in wretched depth of poverty
yond the conception of Amerii'an.
For all but the privileged few life ia
M of endfcas struggle for mere exig
ence, and the gaunt spwter of famine
is ever ready to stalk through this sore
atricken land.
,L.L. llauser, a tea merchant of ehi
oaft), who has spent the greater part of
the last thirty-five years in India, where
he ha a branch bouse and is interested
In tea and-;in several agricultural- ma
chine of his own invention adapted to
India, being a close student has made a
careful study of conditions in that land
and this. Long residence has given him
opportunity to carefully watch the vari
olic changes which the past quarter cen
tury has brought about. Seated in his
library, surrounded by curio gathered
in a life spent in the Orient and with
official and private publications concern
ins the country at hand for ready ref
oreace. Mr. Hauser talk most enter
tainingly. 'There is no gold coinage in India. The
nit of circulation is the silver rupee,
which has no fixed value. Its worth va
jijM from day to day according to the
yrice of bullion or bar silver in the Eu
ropean market. To appreciate the
ehauges in the valne of the ruee. its
equivalent in American money in 1K."1
was M cents; 52 cents in lxttl; 47 cents
in 1X71; 41 cents in 1X81 and 87 cents
in 18M. The depreciation in recent years
. as been rapid: in 18!1 worth 31 cent
od in 18! only 25 cents.
"The subsidiary coins are anus, 16 be
ing equal to a rupee; pice (copper) 4
equaling an ana'; pies, also copicr. 12
equaling one ana. The lowest f irm of
currency are cowries, a kind of shell,
384t being counted as equivalent to a
ruiee. or 25 cents of our money. These
cowries are used by the poorest people to
purchase salt, firewood and the barest
necessities of life. It is a fixed law in
nance that the poorer the people the
Jjeaper the money and the smaller the
denominations into which that money i
divided.
-'It is." a stock argument among
silver men that the value of silver
when measured by all other prod
ucts has not fallen. This is an as
sumption that id directly contrary to the
facts. In India,- a strictly silver using
eonntry with no gold coinage, the pur
chasing power of silver when measured
by other products has declined at such
rate as to keep pace with the decline in
the value of silver when measured by
gold. In other words the purchasing
newer of the money of India has fluctu
ated and depreciated according to the
changes in the price of silver in London.
This fact entirely upset the claim of the
white metal men that silver is a stable
atoncy metal and that it is gold that has
Moreciated instead-of ailver that has de
precis ted."
Taking down a large blue bound book
titled "Prices and Wages," compiled by
the Assistant Secretary of 8tate for In
Mu and issued by "the Finance and Com
merce Department," Mr. Hauser turned
H series of tables showing the pur
chasing power of the rupee over certain
ataete products for a long series of years.
Ths' tables cover every market cen
ter in India and show the average pur-
-h.iag' power of the rupee in each for
many years. Selecting Cawnpore as a
typical market it is shown that in 1871
: oae rupee -would purchase 48 pounds of
Wheat; in 1SH1. 4k) pounds; in Ii2. 2H
Minds. Of rice it would buy 34 pounds
k 171; 31 pounds in 1MN1; 22 pounds
ill 1KKL. Of barley it bought (!2 pounds
in 1KT1: ,5ft pounds in 18M; 'M pounds in
1891. Of grain (equivalent to oats) it
bought 48 pounds in 1871; 40 pounds in
11: 38 pounds in J8U1.
"These tables show, and my own per
sonal experience corroborate them, that
as the price of silver went down lessei
amounts of goods could be purchased for
a rupee. The same result would follow
the degrading jof our own currency to
"the Bilver standard. The greaf hard
ship of., such a decline in the value of
Miiey,or what is another .way of put
ting it, such an inflation of prices when
measured by a debased standard of
noney, is that all prices do not fluctuate
iu the same proportion, and the wage
of jlabor change but slowly. This make
drh fluctuations bear most heavily upon
those who are least able to Iwar such a
burden, the people whose daily bread
wpeiicls u;on their daily labor. Their
wages go up slowly if at all. while their
necessities of life advance rapidly, mak
tef. it impossible for them to purchase
nrmucli. This has taken place in India
ntil a large part of the population of
that unfortunate country are perpetually
on the verge of starvation.
"To apprecate the desperate situation
of the natives of India and to see how
the decline in silver has reduced them
(extremities, let us consult this otlicinl
tcpnrt and see what it says about wages.
fcIt gives the wages per month of "able
fcodicd agricultural laborers' in Tiiit
d States money at Lncknow as H.&l in
. 4871. $1.23 in 1881, 1.48 in 18!ll. At
Bombay,. $4.23 in 1871, $3.!Xt in 1HK1.
MJXt in 18!l. At Cahdtta 1.88 in
Sn, It" cetits in 1881, $1.38 in 18!1.
Vftb the single exception of Komlmy,
whore the European population is large,
farm laborers now get less than they
reived in 1871. With cost of living
Wither and wages lower farm laborers
re certainly not enjoying many blessings
Iron a depreciated currency. Let' see
ww other laborers are doing. Take the
following monthly wages, again from
Ifcis oflieial report, and e how three
utoascs of skilled lalmr have fared an
4h detireciated currency similar to
Iwwt which Mr. Bryan ask this conn
tfy to accept. Wage of masons, ear-
' mis and bricklayers:'
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1W. '
I. TOT 13.14
2 8.71
II. 'W 11.84
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laborer ha to eat ha greatly increased.
"This i one. of the beautiea of a depre
ciated silver currency watch the white
metal advocate fail to point out to our
waaswofiw-f when they aek them to
vote for ailver, yet they are results that
will invariably follow any ajiareciation
of the currency, whether in InoU or the
United State.
"If the voter of this country could be
made to understand the poverty, squalor
and suffering which i calmly accepted
in India a a necessary part of exist
ence, and see that these condition grow
worse as their money become more and
more worthless, the possibility of any sil
ver vote amung workitigmeu,-or among
any class ontside of those directly in
terested in silver, would be remote in
deed." , THE PSICK OF WHEAT.
IU DecliM I Dm to the Iatr4 actios of
1. Wor-Mavi Kg MaehlMa.
The advocate of the free coinage of
ilver have made many disciple in the
Wet because they have told the farmer
that the demonetization of silver was
the cause of the fall in the price of
wheat, and tbey have said that if silver
were restored to its rightful place in our
monetary system the price of wheat
would rise to (1 a bushel or thereabouts.
The prevalence of a belief in this argu
ment ia a curious illustration of the will
ingness of men to accept theories w hich
promise to them what they want even
when they have the proof of the fallacy
of those theories at their doors. All the
Western farmer ha to do if he wants
to learn why the price of wheat has
fallen is to go into his barns and look at
his reaping and threshing mschines. It
is not many years sim-e the first reaper
vii put on the market. It would do
the work of several men and it reduced
the cost to the farmer of raising his crop
of wheat. Then the reaper and binder
was invented ind soon came the combi
nation reaper, hinder and thp-sher. which
still further reduces the cost of raising
his product. In 1888 wheat could tw
produced on the big Dakota farms for
18 cents a bushel. There is a para
graph going the rounds of the newspa
pers this summer describing a combina
tion harvester and thresher that has
recently been shipped to a farm at Ya
kima, Wash., to be used in harvesting
a big crop of wheat. The machine will
cut a swath twenty feet wide, will thresh
the grain and put it in sacks ready for
the marVet as it moves over the field. A
the labor cost of a product fixes its prii
it was inevitable that the price of wheat
should fall when labor saving machinery
was used in its cultivation. The West
ern farmers have welcomed every inven
tion that reduced their labor. They have
lint been backward in buying the reaers
and binders aud threshing machines.
They have ussl steam engines for pow r
and have burned the straw for fuel to
make the steam, utilizing every particle
of the product; but they have forgotten
that all these tilings have forced the
priiv of their product down. They seek
a remedy now in tlie free coinage of sil
ver, which they are told would double
the price of their crop in dollars, but
which would certainly cut the value of
every dollar in two and leave them in a
worse position than that in which they
find themselves today. They are just as
mistaken as the sawjers of England who
burned the first sawmill run by water
power that was set up and hanged the
proprietor. These men did not seek a de
tmsement of the enrrency. Tbey object
ed to the introduction of labor savmg ma
chinery because they did not know that it
would ultimately increase their wages
and improve their condition. The West
erners have accepted the labor saving ma
chinery which has been the making of
that region and they want to keep their
products at the price that prevailed before
the introduction of the reapers. Brook
lyn Eagle.
THE WONUtHrT'L HKTAX.
"Who Is this Mister Bryan. p.
That some folks call him grest?"
"Hp thinks," the father made reply,
"That he's a candidate."
"And does he look like other folks.
And does he drink snd eat?"
"His looks and acts ire common, and
He walks upon his feet."
"He has no wings, then, hss be, pa,
To cleave the ambient air!"
"He has no wings, my son, but he
Has wheels beneath bis hair."
"And can yon hear them rnmhle. pa.
The wheels of which you spesk?"
'They do not rmnhle much, my son,
They are the klad that squeak."
"And did yon see and hear him, pa
This wonder from the West?"
"That I did both, my weary look,
I fancy, will attest."
"Then tell me of the silvery soug
This warbler tins lo sing."
"He simply saved his arms and yawped,
liut didn't say a tblng."
Cleveland Leader.
Who the ' Toilers" Are.
Who does Candidate Bryan mean
by the "toiling q asses." in whose be
half he presume to spenk?. 'Does he
moan that only t.llers of the soil (cine
under that head Doe he mean that,
the 5."i00,U0O periiins engaged in mana
factnring. njiniiii and mechanical in
dustries are not toiler? Does he mean
that the 3..'MNfl ierons eng-i-ied in
trade and transpiration do not belong
to that class? Doe he mean that the
Its'l.O's') teachers in schools and fpi
versities. the HO.tiOO ministers of the
gospel, the 120,0s) physicians and sur
geons and the mu titude of other per
sons engaged in professional service in
the United States sre not toilers? L.jcs
he mean that the 4..'S.(SSI men sod
women engaged ia domestic and per
sonal services are "plutocrats" and
drones? Such is apparently the drift
and intent of his issertion.
It is time that such demagogic twad
dle was dropped. The "toiling m:MsW
consist of the great bulk of the Ameri
can people. The ntunber who are tot
toilers are, as scarce comparatively as
common sense in tne ranks of Populism.
New York Cotaoiircial Advertiser.
BY ilU(H).
I'm a Popocratlc candidate
On a Jingo, bun,, buncombe plnn.
From the coast of Maine to ttie Golden Gate,
There's scarcely such another man.
I'm the brand-new freak wish the limber
Ani I travel all ibe land shout.
With a gold-bug psiidy stuffed with straw.
And you ought to see me punch bis snuut.
I belt him here and I licit him there.
Till the sound Is bonw across Hie sea.
And Queen Victoria tears ber hair
Till she's just as bold as bald can he;
And the English syndicates all quail, v
As I beat the unicorn about;
And the Hon squats upon his tall
for fear I'll come aud twist It out.
From Msard Point to the Baltic shores
All KuroDe soon will stand sghast.
When they find the lords of the sliver ore
Hsve got a cincn on rne minis it last.
Then we'll bnlld a great financial wall
As high as the Unlit of.llarnegat.
And we'll close the door against them ill
Except a bole for the free-trade cat.
And whit care we though our gold be made
To tike It mgnt scrims ins sesar
We will just repeal the Isws of trade
And ran our msrkets is we nleise.
Then the silver cranks shall about thereat.
wita tne ton oi i. nin ana Jipin;
"Btf laiuu. thit, from the bounding Plitte.
And nine bee koosli Melllcan maa."
Memo, lu laeliiopolli Journal.
H Qowtaa Um JMM.
It ia erktent that JBMktal qOotatioa la
not OaaawaM Bryaa'a iferte A; few
mrt a)a hw , 9?mm W k tU
Wi5.o. wWaka. lis
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won pointed out to him anal it waa ex
pected that ia the future he woahi earn
fully verify hia excerpt from the faad
book before uttering them. But he has
gone on from blunder to blunder. Hia
latest misquotation placed Demetriw in
a false light. Kvery Sunday icwihiI
scholar is aware that it waa not Dcmc
trina who made the famous eaclama
tioq: "Great ia Diana of the Ephe
sians.' but the workmen whom be called
together. Of course, owing to circum
stance not under hi control, Demrtriu
is unable to come out in a card and act
Mr. Bryan right. They used to tell a
story of "Prince" John Van Bnren which
may interest Bryan. John also waa a
little shaky when it came to quotations.
On. in the course of an addres to a
Sunday school, John undertook to tell
the children the story of Jacob and Esau.
In the middle of bis narrative the man
who sat behind him on the platform
polled his coat-tail and whispered: "Be
careful, John; you are getting the hair
on the wrong man." Rochester Post
and Express.
CAUSE OF HARD TIMES.
Foreigner Withdrawing Mosey la Foot
of Free Coloa aot Populism.
Financiers tell us that the vault of
Eurojie are full of idle money and that
foreigners, who bare more clearly per
ceived the dangers of free coinage than
our own people, hive been withdrawing
money frim this country for years. The
older civilizations of the world do not
offer favorable opportunities of invest
ment and until our people show a prom
ise of honesty this gold will continue to
be boarded in Eurogs-an banks and safe
ty dcjiosit vaults.
Those who are attributing the hard
times to the present monetary system
of the I'nited State have only theory
upon which to base their arguments.
The country never enjoyed I more pros-
isrous era than during the four year of
larrison's administration under the
same sound money standard. In fact, all
through the '8(s times were generally
gixid. The election of a man pledged to
destroy the protective feature of our
revenue system and the presence of an
overwhelming majority of "revenue men
only" in Imth houses of Congress, mak
ing certain the repeal of the McKinley
tariff bill, first excited distrust and in
security among Cie manufacturers and
capitalists of the country. Nothing is
so timid as a million dollars except two
millions, is common phrase cmlsidying
a great truth. The want of confidence
itfvomiiig general cnpital became scarce.
Foreign investors withdrew their funds.
Credit was hard to get. Failures fol
lowed ami down the tolwiggan slide we
went until the people were eager and
reaily to accept any theory, no matter
how hair-brained or visionary, as a so
lution of the impending difficulties.
Then it was that those malcontents
found their seed sown on fruitful soil.
Tillman in South Carolina. A It geld in
Illinois and Bryan Is'jond the Mississije
pi exercised their baleful influence to
excite clnss against clnsa, the employe
against the employer, the West against
the East. They have been instrumental
in breeding discontent, in causing strikes
and creating a condition of affairs that
must ultimately lead to anarchy. When
the Chicago rioters stopped the govern
ment mails, stoned trains and attacked
those who did not sympathize with them
in their lawless actions, a leader of this
movement and the governor of a great
state denounced the federal government
for interfering with their destructive de
signs. It is such men as Altgeld who have
done more to prevent the return of pros
perity than anything else. The people
must crush out now and forever the ele
pielit of society represented by the candi
date of Populism. It will . not do to
merely defeat them. They must be over
whelmed. Then and not until then will
the dawn of prosperity reappear. Then
as the silver lunacy fades from the pub
lic view and general confidence returns,
our markets will again fall under the
control of nntiir.il developments and the
gold now stored up in the vaults of
Europe will return to America to be in
vested in our various enterprises, creat
ing a hew demand for labor and all in
dustrious people will prosper. Elmira
(N. Y.) Advertiser.
Want More of This?
The election of the Bryan ticket would
mean four years more of the industry
wrecking. hilHir-robbiug, business-killing
Wilson-Gorman tariff. It would mean
fonr years more of imjioverished rev
enues and increasing deficits. It would
mean four years more of what we have
had during the past three years.
Have not the people had enough of
this kind of experieiii-e? How is it with
the farmers? Whnt is the Wilson-Oar-man
law doing for them?
Let us briefly cite; It knocks the
farmers" wool market out with free
trmle club.
It knocks off 20 cents per bushel on
every bushel of onions he sells.
If knocks iff 2 cents per pound on his
butter.
It knocks off 2 cents a pound on bis
cheese.
It knocks off ? cents a pound on hie
hams and bacon,
It knocks off 18 cents on every bushel
of his barley.
It knocks off 10 cents on every bush
el of his apples.
It knocks off 3 cents on every dozen
of his eggs.
It knocks off f0 cetits on every one
of his sheep. '
It knocks off 8 cetits on every bushc)
of his oats.
It knocks off 9 cents on every b'ish
el of his wheat.
It knocks off 10 cents on every gallon
of his honey.
It knock off t'-i per bead on his cat
tle and $15 r'r head on his horses.
It knocks off 10 cent on every bnshe!
of his potatoes.
It knocks off 7 cents on every pound
of his hops, aud 5 cent on every bushel
of his corn.
It knocks off 'Z on every ton of bis
hay.
It docs more knocking off than this,
bnt this is enough to show that it is
time for the farmers, as well a the
re resentatives of all other American
industries to go to the polls and knock
out the party that proposes to continue
in force the Wilsoii-Gorman tariff law.
The knocking off figures here given
show the difference in the duties on
inv orts under the Republican protec
tive tariff and the present non-protective
tariff. They show thnf the farmer
is hard hit h$ the Wilson-Gorman law,
and that is what ails him today.
The sooner we get back to protection
the sooner will all American industries
revive and prosperity be restored.
Plenty of Gold.
There is no scarcity of gold. In the
forty-five years from 1851 to 18MJ the
totnl production of gold has been $5,
870.382.2r:), which 1 nearly twice the
totnl production of the world in the 368
vear before in ltwr the nroduc
tion of gold w 1205,00(1,000, and for
1WXI It Is estimated by the di reel or of
the mint at 9220,000,000. This produc
tion la fa in exceaa of what the mine
of 'California and Australia turned out
at the time of their greatest productive-
The rtrodoetlou of ailver bn creatlr
Increased ince I860. The trouble with
silver, aa aseney for general transaction.
ia that no coin can be made of It larger
thafl fl. A maa caa carry fiooo of
fM la Mi pocket aa eaatty aa be eaa
aniay pO of aUrer, LsMsiarilie Com'
GOWNS AND GOWNING
WOMEN OtVt 'MUCH ATTENTION
TO WHAT THEY WEAR.
rUf Olaacea'nt Vaatcfen Foauialask,
rriTelowo, Mayhap, nasi Tot Owere
ia Use Hope that the Komotaa Pro To
B antral to Wsnrto4 Womankind.
Ooooia froOa Onr Ootnaaa.
Mew York correspondence:
L'CIl that la orna
mental about fall
dresaea will be of
ribbon, and ao
novel device for
laying on such
trimming are at a
premium. But the
recently popular
ribbon collar are
to be retained,
and ilnce they
are to be very like
thoae that we
have been wear
ing, a change In
the weave and
color of the rib
bons used la no
ticeable. Women wtiowe desire for con
stant change 1 so great a to make
them uureconclled to this, may turn
tbelr collars around till the bow Is un
der the chin. That bow make the en
tire circle of the neck about once In ten
years. First It was right In front, then
under one ear, next at the back, tben
under the other ear, and now It may be
In front again, only tbls time we have
kipped one ear in the circuit. The
bow under the chin ii not a generally
becoming as Is the smooth collar and
the bow In the back, but the coming
fancy will tie It In loops that extend
prettily to either side of the chin. Even
this framing of the race will fail to
please a great many, and these may put
the bow at the back and be entirely
correct
The favored colors are at first rather
a startling lot Mirror velvet appears
FASHIONABLY nKHIHUOSg P.
In all aorta of beautiful solid shades,
which hare a bloom upon them that
softens what, at ft rut view, seems to ba
a shade of almost primary vividness.
Coral red, emerald green, brilliant pur
ple, blight chamois yellow, startling
blue white. Ivory, corn color, amber,
cream and all the shades of yellow, save
only the band) butter color that we
learned to dislike sen son before last
are among the new solid shades. A
black aud white check ribbon with a
wide satin or velvet edge of some one
of these already named brilliant shades
Is one of the novelty effects. Dresden
coloring-! and dvslgua wtll be a drug on
the market. They will, of course, be
away down lu price, liecnuse: fickle
Dame Fashion h:is turned up her pretty
little nose at the very thing she could
not seem to get enough of a little while
ago. But.dtvsdeu rlldxiu will make a
dainty finish to petticoats, will finish
off a liftle negligee jacket, will serve
as inside ruftlu to a house dross, and
will be Just the thing for tunny pur
K)ses where silk Is serviceable nnd
dressy and where the very latest color
tug and effect Is not Imperative. So
take advantage of the low prices and
sele"t.
To-day's first two pictures present at
tractive methods of using ribbon th.it
advertises Itself as Lew and up-to-date.
In the first example the ribbon. Is em
erald gfNjn satin, and the skirt's seam
and hem are piped wllb It. A puffing
of wider 'rlblwn lu the same shade trims
A OAWIloaOCOH SDOOBITIOa.
the jack la front and back, and big
bawa araaauant Um ribbon collar. Wbaa
tlw bow ia worn baoaath tha chin, tt to
ka oaa daabia loom, Bfcaral
tailto to tba fabric trtaa-
Two gm ttoaia ajv pat oa
JiaoHsr yaat abora tks rsaaT. aasj
allk cwS isMnC. from taw wrhM
to wail atoor the olbow.
Baahea have bar iweocntaod for arr
eral most tha by tbo woO-laformod, ani
will be generally warn this winter. In
tbo second Ulaatratioa tha saih was
white satin ribbon, and tha collar and
bow upon the sleeve war of -the
same. Then gathered ribbon showed
between the puffs of tbo ahtrred yoke.
The material her waa figured cballie,
and below the shirred yoke of the good
waa a richly embroidered girdle-like
portion. Bell epaulettea of pleated
chiffon topped the fitted ateerea. An
indication that aaahea will soon have a
rush of . favor Ilea In the fact that so
many made ones are offered. These
consist of sash bow made and attached
to a folded sash belt Borne very heavy
and rich brocade weave saabes will be
SHOri.PEBS MASKED BY ri.RATED CAPS.
tied. The great ditllculty in tying a
sash Is that heavy rlblwu drags so at
the knot that there Is a sagging whore
the tie Is made, and Just now spicK and
pan exactness Is the rule.
The new lace trimmings, too, are very
attractive. If they do not abound In as
striking effects as those of ribbon. One
Is shown In the third picture that is par
ticularly pretty. It consists of draitery
and epaulettes, with wrist ruffles to
match, and Is put upon a dress of black
surah. A draped vent of old rose silk
covered with uioussellne de sole is In
cluded In the Jacket bodice, whose
fronts and basque are finished with
bias folds. Taste buttons bold tli-e
wired collar together, a rosette of black
satin ribbon Is put at each side an-1
puflings of the same show on the
sleeves. Thi hat la Indicative of a
change In millinery styles that Is tak
ing us back to genuine Gainsborough
effect This means wide, graceful
brims, crowns low or high as yon
choose, and for trimming a sweep of
graceful plumes, or one heavy spray of
blossoms, or a handsome knot of rib
bon. Imagine one of the girls whom
you have always thought a little slow
and positively homely, not a bit of turn
to her rather thin black hair, feature
long, high forehead, aud eyes "nothing
In particular," mouth "old" that Is,
the lips thin and the curve down at the
corners, the chin rather long and tlilu.
Well, this Is the girl who will cut you
out entirely for beauty this season If
AGATX THE KPACI.KTTES WIPKX.
slie Is half as sensible as homely girls
usually are.
Though sleeves that are tight from
waist to elbow are worn, they are not
entirely iir sight, for the upper portluu
of the arm should he masked. The
method of doing this that Is shown by
the final two pictures Is a popular aud
attractive one. Iu the first dress It con
slsts of triple epaulettes of accordion
pleated shot taffeta; In the other, tha
epaulettes are green silk, belt and col
lar matching. It-jtli are suitable for
afternoon reception wear, but the sec
ond can be worn longer than the other,
so economy Is lu Its favor, A gray
green woolen suiting was the fabric
of the first, the skirt being plain and
the bodice having a bnck of suiting.
The front Is whllo silk covered with
shirred and puffed white chiffon, and
the boned corselet belt Is entirely of
shirred chiffon with points at the top
and bottom. The bolero Is pink and
green shot taffeta, la entirely covered
with rich lace and la edged with che
nille marabout Wood brown suiting
glvea the skirt of the other costume,
and IU bodice la red -nu green shot
allk. A red chiffon Teat and an em
broidered chiffon Jabot ara tba remain
ing trimmings.
OopriaUt, law, ,
Tha Dnlvsraltf praaa at Oxford baa
aapllaaeaa for artattaa 1M diCaraai
OTPEIUNCE TALKS.
THEJtUHj TWAmO HOULD BE
DaafaTnnt . Alwaya Xarfc- la tba
. Flowtaa atowt-Xaw srltM aasl J
.IagaaaHal.Paa nUvoBoen Draawaa
Down a th Dosnon Brink.
- ' Na-Whiakj Ado Go.
Tha edltar of the Murray (Ky ) Led
ger makes this public announcement of
his conversion:
"All contract for whisky advert laed
in the Ledger have expired, and from
thla date no whleky advertisement
hall appear in these columns at any
price. If the saloon people wleh to ex
patiate on the merits (7) of any pecu
liar brand of ther damnation, they can
look elsewhere for a medium through
which to extol Its virtue. The Ledger
makes no claim to eanctlneatkm, but
when a saloonkeeper tells us that a
six-dollar ad. In the Ledger has sold
for him tl,200 worth of whisky, It
makes us feel that we have been In a
small measure responsible for the
damage done,' and we promise to 'sin no'
more.' "
Another paper says:
"Our opinion of Kentucky editors
continues to Improve. The example of
the editor of the Hustler of Jackson
might well be followed by the proprie
tors and managers of many city and
country papers making loud claims as
respectable, moral organs, and yet who
regularly advertise the products of the
brewery and distillery for money."
The Hustler, upon receipt of a propo
sition to print the advertisement of a
large liquor firm, replledltbnt the ad.
would go in free of charge If the edi
tor were allowed to write It himself.
He submitted the following:
"Hell aud damnation put up In bot
tles from a quart up to a. barrel, sent
to any address on receipt of price. Our
stuff Is the best, at least tne devil says
so, and he knows. It will make a man
steal from the blind, wreck his home,
lie, cheat, burn; In a word, if there U
anything mean It can't make him do,
Just name It"
His kind offer has not been accepted.
American Issue.
Pon't Give Brandy.
The moral effect of early acquaint
ance with .scientific truth Is Illustrated
by a little story .which the Ilev. Dr.
Plumb tells in the Boston Transcript:
A millionaire bre.wer, a Senator In an
other Htute, said to Mrs. Hunt: "I
shall vote for your "bill; I have sold
out my brewery, and am clean from
the whole business. Let me tell yon
what occurred at my tablev-' A guest
was taken dangerously 111 at dinner
Insensible and there was a call for
brandy to restore him. My little boy af
once exclaimed, 'No, that Is Just what
he doesn't need! It will paralyse the
nerves and muscles of the blood-vessels
so they will not send back the blood to .
the heart.'
"When the liquor was poured out b
give the man, the lad Insisted on push
ing it back.
" 'You will kill him; he baa too much
blood In his head already.'
"How did you know all that?" hia
father afterward asked.
" 'Why, It Is in my physiology af
school.' "
It seems the tcxt-liooks, preiared by
such men as Trof. Newell Martin, F. R.
8., of Johns Hopkins University, had
succeeded In giving the lad some def
inite information which was proving
useful.
"Senator," said Mrs. Hunt, "are yon
sorry your lioy learned thaf at school?"
"Madam," the map replied, raising
hia hnnd, "I would not take five thou
sand dollars for the assurance this
gives me that my lioy will never be a
drunkard."
A Sharp Hejolniter.
Some years ago Rev. E. Kluuipu, now .
of Elm, Wnyue County, Mich., whlUt
seated Iu a village store, accosted a
saloonkeeper with the remark:
"Come over to tue church to-night
and hear me lecture on temperance."
The reply was: "I won't;' you said
whisky sellers were robbers."
"I didn't," replied Mr. Kluuipu.
"What did you say?"
"I said you were worse than a rw
ber. I said you took my Innocent boy,
and sent me home a maudlin fool. I
said you took an Intelligent man, and
scut a lunatic to the asylum. I said
you took a respected citizen, and sent
a criminal to prison. I said you took
a kind father, and sent a Ueud to throw
his family Into the street. I said you
took a loving husband, and sent a de
mon to kick bis wife. I said, you took
the Immortal soul, and sent It to. hell.
1 said you were worse than a robber."
Sharp and yet terribly true.;",
Union ftlutial Notes.
I-ondon consumes yearly 45,000,000
gallons of malt liquor, 8,000,000 gallon
of wine, and 4,500,000 gallons of spirits:
News-of the drought In Khama'a coun
try, Bechuamtland, tells of groat lose of
cattle and suffering among the people
of the brave Christian temperance
chief. Gifts of money for neccesarlee
are being sent from England.
The synod of the Dutch Reformed
Church In Johannesburg has entered
Into a cruaade for total prohibition of
the sale of Intoxicants to -natives.' In
one mine alone no leas than twenty per
cent of the native are dally Incapaci
tated for work throogb Intoxication.
The Synod of the United Presbyterian
Church of Scotland . baa condemned
and protested against the cultivation
and aale of opium In India (exoept for
medicinal purposes) and Its export to
China. It racomvanda ministers to In
t oral and ffde their Meats with raf-
tmaa ta ayeatVO f taw
trafie.
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