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THE CASTLE CASE
Wealthy San Francisco Merchant and
His Wife Accused of Shoplifting
A case which has attracted internation
al attention is that of Mr and Mrs Wal
ter M Castle of San Francisco who
have been admitted to 200000 bail in
London to await trial for grand larceny
The Castles who are wealthy Americans
and move in the best society of the Pa
cific coast are accused of shoplifting
Castle is a member of one of the wealth
iest firms in San Francisco and a gradu
ate of London University His wife is
one of the society leaders of the Golden
Gate a woman of gentle disposition and
liighly cultured They went to Europe
this summer and in September arrived in
Xondon They stopped at the Hotel Cecil
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WAXTEK M GABTLK
-and their wealth insured them every flt
tention The couple often went out on
-shopping expeditions One day they vis
ited a furriers shop and after examining
-the furs left without making a purchase
After they had gone the shopkeeper
missed articles and put detectives on the
track Mr and Mrs Castle were fol
lowed to their hotel and there arrested
An examination of their trunks which
had been packed ready for sailing reveal
ed an amazing amount of stuff the pos
session of which is beyond any
k tion the police can offer unless it be taken
-as evidence that Mrs Castle has a mania
for collecting odd triiles Among the ar
ticles were a number of watches all alike
-a plated toast rack that came from the
hotel breakfast table thirteen umbrella
heads and a pair of sheets bearing the
mark of a big London hotel The sable
and chinchilla skins missed by the furrier
were also found
After their arrest 2000000 sterling
was offered as bail but the authorities re
fused to release them The United States
embassy interested itself in their behalf
but without avail They remained in
common cells at the jail seven days when
they were arraigned held for trial and re-
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MRS TTXA CASTLE
leased on 200000 bail Charles Mat
thews one of the most noted criminal
lawyers in England has been retained to
assist in the defense and influential
friends have sprung up all over the king
dom to help save the Castles from fur
ther disgrace but their efforts will hardly
avail Larceny is a felony in English
law the punishment for which is prac
tically unlimited and the charges against
the Castles are so well founded that their
legal advisers are in despair They do
not believe that Magistrate Shell wilL
even consent to consider the case under
the first offenders ad which provides
punishment by fine in liieu of imprison
ment Their attorneys admit the thefts
but will set up kleptomania as a defense
PRINCETONS GREAT DAY
Cleveland Participates in the Cele
bration of a Universitys Birth
President Clevelands address was the
principal feature of the Princeton Col
lege celebration at Princeton N J It
was delivered in Alexander Hall whence
he had been escorted on foot through tha
college grounds from President Pattons
house by the Philadelphia City Troop
Mrs Cleveland riding in an open carriage
with Mrs Patton
The exercises opened with a prayer by
Rev Dr Theodore L Cuyler of Brook
lyn After Dr Cuylers prayer President
Patton made the formal announcement
that what was formerly the College of
New Jersey will henceforth and forever
be known as Princeton University A
scene of wonderful enthusiasm greeted
Dr Pattons remarks He then an
nounced the endowment fund received
amounting to nearly a million and a half
dollars not including the amounts con
tributed for Blair Hall by John I Blair
of Blairstown N J and the new library
The ceremony of conferring the degrees
on the sixty five men elected for that
honor was next on the program It was
learned that President Patton desired to
confer the degree of doctor of laws upon
Mr Cleveland but the President modest
ly declined the honor The degree of
doctor of laws was conferred upon a large
number of European college professors
and scholars After the conferring of de
grees the President addressed the great
assemblage
Thomas Kidd aged 14 sxm of W K
Kidd of Cleveland was mmdered at Dal
ton Ohio by Carl Mcllhiney aged 7
The Kidd boy who was a cripple was vis
iting at the Mcllhiney home The boys
were last together while the Mcllhineys
were at church and thty quarreled
Soung Kidd struck Carl with his crutch
The latter then went into an adjoining
room procured his fathers gun and snot
Kidd blowing off the top of his head
Bishop Henry T Bacham a well
known Moravian preacher is dead in
Grace Hill Iowa
POLITICAL WEATHER FORECAST
Indications point to an overwhelming snowstorm throughout United States about Nov 3 sweeping everything before it
LINCOLN ON EFFECT OF CURRENCY CONTRACTION
From Mr Lincolns speech at Springfield 111 in December 1S59 Addresses and
Letters of Abraham Lincoln Published by Century Co New York Yol I page 21
I have already said that the sub 1
Treasury win reuuee me quauuiy oi
money in circulation This position is
strengthened by the recollection that
the revenue is to be collected in specie
so that the mere amount of revenue is
not all that is withdrawn but the
amount of paper circulation that the
forty millions would serve as a basis
to is withdrawn which would be in a
sound state at least one hundred mill
ions When one hundred millions or
more of the circulation we now have
shall be withdrawn who can con
template without terror the distress
ruin bankruptcy and beggary that
must follow The man who has pur
chased any article say a horse on
credit at one hundred dollars when
be reduced to one hundred millions by
there are two hundred millions circu
lating in the country if the quantity
the arrival of payday will find the
horse but sufficient to pay half the debt
and the other half must either be paid
out of this other means and thereby be
come a clear loss to him or go unpaid
and thereby become a clear loss to his
creditor
What I have here said of a single
case of the purchase of a horse will
hold good in every case of a debt ex
isting at the time a reduction in the
quantity of money occurs by whomso
ever and for whatsoever it may have
been contracted It may be said that
when the debtor loses the creditor
gains by this operaton but on examin
ation this will be found true only to a
very limited extent It is more gener
ally true that all lose by it the cred
itor by losing more of his debts than
The Use of Money
Mr Bryan put the essence of the
money question in a nutshell when he
Baid at Washington The gold stand
ard is bad because the man who has
money can profit by the rise in the
value of that money without using it in
commerce or trade
To day in our great cities the oldest
and best established mercantile or man
ufacturing houses find it difficult if not
impossible to secure the credits which
every business house occasionally
needs Though the newspapers are
filled with reports of the influx of gold
from foreign countries there has been
no improvement in the money market
by which enterprises may benefit
Within a week the paper of one of the
biggest millionaire houses in New York
was discounted at the almost usurious
rate of 9 per cent Wall street specula
tors with interest bearing securities to
offer for collateral get money to gamble
with at easier rates but the firms
which employ their hundreds of men
get the cold shoulder in the money mar
ket
Why is this Some with a partisan
point to score will tell you that there Is
a lack of confidence in the money mar
ket bred of fear of Bryans election In
the next breath they will insist that
there is no possibility of his success
But as a matter of fact the evil rests on
a fact which antedates Bryan and will
exist in even more vicious forcn for
rears to come should he be defeated
The evil Is that of a money of increas
ing value and the corresponding depre
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he gains by the increased value of
those he collects the debtor by either
parting with more of his property to
pay his debts than he received in con
tracting them or by entirely breaking
up his business and thereby being
thrown upon the world in idleness
The general distress thus created
wiH tobe sure be temporary because
whatever change may occur in the
quantity of money in any community
time will adjust the derangement pro
duced but while that adjustment is
progressing all suffer more or less and
very many lose everything that ren
ders life desirable Why then shall
we suffer a severe difficulty even
though it be put temporary unless we
receive some equivalent for it
ciation in tae prices of everything else
No commercial enterprise thrives on
a falling market and all markets have
been falling for ten years though never
so rapidly as since the repeal of the
Sherman law in 1S93 put an end to all
governmental additions to the volume
of the circulating medium It has been
only the part of shrewdness for the
bankers to hesitate about lending
money to be used in buying or manu
facturing goods that to an absolute cer
tainty could be bought or made more
cheaply a year later But it has not
been the part of Avisdom even for the
bankers who might be thought to
profit by dear money to urge the con
tinuance of a currency system which
seriously narrows the field of profitable
investment
Money which can earn a profit for its
owner while lying idle in the vault is
the deadly enemy of national pros
perity The money which must be ac
tively employed if it is to be increased
is a spur to enterprise and an induce
ment to commercial activity San
Francisco Examiner
Hard Knocks for Plutocrats
When government is properly ad
ministered there will be no railroad
wreckers to make themselves rich by
bankrupting those who put trust in
them when government is properly ad
ministered there will be no representa
tive of a coal trust sitting by every fire
side to exact tribute from those who
desire to be protected from the cold of
winter when government Is properly
administered there will be no syndicate
fattening out of the governments ad
versities after they have brought those
adversities upon the government for
their own benefit when government is
properly administered there will be no
corporations which assume greater au
thority than the power which created
them when government is properly ad
ministered it will recognize those fun
damental principles set forth in the
Declaration of Independence All men
are created equal that they are endow
ed with inalienable rights that gov
ernments are instituted to preserve
these rights and that governments de
rive their just powers from the consent
of the governed When these four
principles are applied then government
will be what it ought to be
No man who understands society or
the necessity of government will ever
raise his hand against government It
is against the abuses of government
and we shall not be driven from our
purpose to eradicate these abuses al
though every man intrenched behind
a special privilege shall heap abuse up
on those who attempt to rob him
From Bryans St Paul speech
Is It a Craze
The goldbug papers are in the habit
of speaking of the demand for free
coinage as The Silver Craze
Language of this sort is really a slur
upon the intelligence of the American
people The demand for the free coin
age of silver in many sections is over
whelming and insisted upon by Repub
licans and Populists as well as by the
Democrats To say that the masses
can be led off by a craze can be made
to seriously demand an absurdity is to
impugn American intelligence and
practically to claim that the American
people are incapable of self-government
If the demand for the free coinage of
S iW R I A II l E L
tions and which has disrupted the Re
publican party in many States is a
flighty visionary impracticable scheme
The rapid spread of the demand for
the free coinage Is the strongest of
arguments in its favor The American
people are not easily humbugged they
cannot be made to follow fads and ab
surdities There must be something
beneficial in it something which brings
relief to the masses else the latter
would not support it
The silver question is one that every
American should carefully study and
with careful thought comes conversion
to the cause No craze can succeed in
this country and the earnest demand
for free silver reveals that the Ameri
can people recognize in It a cure for
many of the evils they now endure
Europe Ready for Silver
When Czar Nicholas was in Paris re
cently he was addressed according to
a special cablegram in the Chicago
Tribune and the New York Journal by
the French minister Meline as fol
lows Your majesty silver is in
disputably the best money of the world
Russia and France being the greatest
agricultural and industrial producers
should stand together to reconquer sil
vers natural position and replace it on
its old footing Our alliance in that re
spect would be beneficial to the na
tions
The correspondent quoting the woras
of a member of the Czars staff then
says Aside from this French states
men and many others tried to influence
the Czar and the Russian ministers in
favor of bimetallism on all possible oc
casions during our stay As a result
you may announce that Wittes posi
tion is shaking as he alone is uphold
ing the gold standard in the govern
ment He will meet with decided op
position in the imperial councils The
minister of agriculture is especially out
spoken against any financial change
Bryans election will undoubtedly find
Russia and France ready for interna
tional bimetallism
The Indianapolis Ticket
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The Hannacrats Atlantic Constitution
As to Business Men
A great deal has been said during this
canvass about the business interests of
the country An attempt is made to
identify trade with usury and make
their cause by common consent one
As a matter of fact as Mr Bryan said
in his great Chicago speech the artisan
who fashions a brick is as much of a
business man as the manipulator of op
tions
It Avould be amusing if it were not
that it endangers the prosperity of the
country to see the coupon clipper to
whom a dear dollar means greater pow
er appealing to the green grocer on the
BRYAN ON PRIVATE DETECTIVES
O In his speech in the House of Eepresentatives May 12 1894 Mr Bryan
said I only desire to say Mr Speaker that this resolution ought to
pass It is simply to investigate whether there has been any violation of
the Federal Constitution or laws by the action of these men I believe
in law and order but I believe that the law and order should be main-
tained by the lawful authorities and not by the private armies Govern-
ments are organized to protect life and property These functions should
not be transferred to private individuals and hired detectives until we
areready to acknowledge government a failure
It is not fair to compel corporations to protect their property in this
fy way nor is it right that the safety and even life of the citizen shall be
imperiled by a private and irresponsible soldiery Let the public order
be preserved by public authority
silver is a craze then the leaders of
the movement the men who have gain
ed high places in American pontics are
lunatics If sober judgment would re
veal the folly of free silver then the
great mass of American citizens are
not fit to have a voice in the govern
ment of the affairs of this country No
sensible reasoning mind will admit
that a financial policy which is demand
ed by millions of Americans which has
swept over the entire country and
which is now invading the East and
making thousands of converts daily is
a craze The thoughtful American will
perceive that a movement which has
enlisted the support of so many bright
minds and which has swept the Demo
crats from its old leaders and
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score that both are business men and
therefore have a common concern and
a common profit in sound money
Both are not business men One is
while the other belongs to the parasite
class
Which is the retail merchant in favor
of small profits and slow sales or large
profits and quick sales Another thing
The business man should consider that
we now have a gold standard and yet
he never before in his business career
saw the people so slow to buy nor his
bills so hard to meet Will he vote to
perpetuate present conditions
A single British county yielded34
867444 ions of coal last year
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A REMARKABLE POND
Blasted Into Existence and Notr liar
an Uncanny licputation
Cradled at the foot of a circling group
of hills lies the most mysterious and
at the same time ghostly sheet of wa
ter in Alameda County California
For years It has borne the name of
Blairs pond and during its exist
ence has bidden beneath its dark sur
face more human bodies than any simi
lar patch of water of its size in these
regions Indeed there has not been
a coroner in Alameda County since
1S75 until the present time who has
not been obliged to record on the death
rolls some victim of the weird pond
and strangest of all each one of the
martyrs to the dismal hole has been
a good swimmer
Prior to 1S72 there was not even a
suggestion of water on the spot At
that time a firm of stone contractors
named Bates Wells realized that
hidden in the hills was a quantity of
very valuable paving rock which
then commanded a big price from the
city of Oakland They conceived the
idea of opening an extensive quarry
and getting the citys contract for the
paving which was to be done A
long lease was obtained from Blair
the owner of the land Then the first
quarry in Alameda County was open
ed
With time the bettor quality of rock
became scarce so orders were given to
sink a wide shaft and work out the
lower stratum This task was under
taken in the summer of 1S73 and had
progressed with such good results that
the hole was gradually enlarged until
it covered a considerable area Then
again it became necessary to go deep
er into the hill
This time extensive preparations
were made for blasting When all was
ready a mighty charge was adjusted
and with the explosion which followed
a vast torrent of water spouted forth
from the excavation
Before the astonished workmen had
time to realize what had happened
they were knee deep In the flood Their
tools were submerged and it was with
difficulty that the mules attached to
the carts were rescued The cars on
the tracks remained laden with rock
and to day if the pool were drained
the complete equipment would be
found in the pit
So sudden was the deluge that with
in an hour where once stood a pros
perous quarry nothing was to be seen
but a rising mass of water
As soon as possible every effort was
made to empty the new lake but in
vain It is always full of water but
never overflows San Francisco Ex
aminer
Shallow Plowing for Wheat
It used to be said that wheat would
bear deeper plowing than ony other
grain crop If the furrow brought to
the surface one or two inches of sub
soil that made the soil firmer and less
pervious to water thus lessening the
Injury by freezing and thawing But
Western winter wheat growers and
spring wheat growers also have learn
ed a plan that Is even better than deep
plowing because it costs much less
They do not plow at all merely culti
vating the surface among the grain
stubble and seeding on that The
wheat makes Just as good a fall growth
and even better than where the stub
ble is turned under thus drying the
soil Most of the wheat roots are kept
near the surface for the rains do not
penetrate farther than the cultivator
has gone This saving of plowing en
ables a farmer cheaply to get a large
acreage into wheat and if he gets a
fair crop he Is ready to undersell the
Eastern wheat grower who keeps on
plowing for wheat in the expensive
old fashioned way-
Unluclcy Quarter to Six
Seventy five per cent of the people
we discharge every year remarked the
head floor walker of a mammoth dry
goods establishment which employs
over a thousand people lose their places
on account of a quarter to six
A quarter to six is the hour at
which preparation is made for closing
the days business At that hour the
male clerks begin to cover their stocks
and the female clerks commence to ar
range themselves to go home Usually
a number of ladies come in at this hour
and the clerks eager to go home in
answer to questions of customers
ally say We are just out of what the
customer happens to want
Day after day we discharge girls for
this reason and fifteen times out of
twenty you ask a girl why she lost her
place and she will invariably answer
on account of a quarter to six-
Met an Old Friend
I cannot but admit my condition
your honor said the dignified old gen
tleman who had been carried to the
police station the night before in a state
of collapse but the circumstances
arose from my meeting an old friend of
younger days an old friend from Ken
tucky
I have the honor of being a Ken
tuckian said his honor and I will
let you go By the way who was the
old friend He may be a friend of my
self
The dignified old gentleman first got
himself near the door and then said
in a soft voice
John Barleycorn Indianapolis
Journal
Rather Public
Lord Forgivuz Seems to me some of
your actresses make their matrimonial
status rather public
William Ann How so
Lord Forgivuz Advertising in the
dramatic papers as not engaged
Judge
Its Meaning
TeacherWhat is the meaning of tho
sentence They fared forth
Tommy It it means that they ate at
the fourth table Indianapolis JournaV
