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Thy advocates of the goldtiindaid
are the self styled champions of1 the
honest dollar It ought to be easy to
agree upon a definition of what consti
tutes honesty in the dollar But what
do the gold men give us They say
Lhat honest money is sound moiley
and sound money is honest money
This is a reasoning in a circle When
pressed tcr a more specific answer they1
say that the gold dollar is honest be
cause it is always worth one hundred
eeis or because it loses nothing in
value v hen melted and is therefore
stable in value
The law says that the dollar shall be
of the value of one huulrcdafents How
then could it be worth Jiipujor le si
than thatV The quality Of being worth
one hundred cents is -simply a law
given quality The whole is always
worth neither more nor lesstlian thr
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sum of its parts But does tiui show
that the irold dollar has remained sta
ble Certainly not In order to see if
stability of value has been maintained
comparison must be made with other
things Everything is stable When
measured by itself or parts of itself
The gold men who make that arrange
ment are doubtless the brightest mei
in the world when measured by them
selves but if compared with other peo
ple a different conclusion might be
reached
Under the free coinage 6fsilver in
India up to 1SU3 the silver rupee was
the standard of value It -was always
worth itself no more no less and it
was always worth the sixteen annas
which the law said should Constitute
a rupee But dill that rl6ii0 rovoTliat
the silver viibeemdeifiee coinage
was stable n vahie tTheIhuman body
is compiled of cejjftiu pjirts in child
hood withjke faatrwJttStituting about
2 per cents and the headwe will say
10 per e nfPoY tlte whole- person But
the fact thaPiu maturity the body is
equal to itself aiid the parts that com
pose it these parts bearing each about
the same relation to tjie i whole ap in
childhood does not show itluitljsjmhas
been no growth To lind outitwheiher
the dollar has reiiaiiedstable6r has
as bimetallists cdnteiid riserMu valtte
comparison must lie made not with it
self or i arts of itself but with other
fchimrs
Hoarded Money
It is frequently asked why we need
any new money wheii thera isso much
lying idle The answer is that milch
of the money now idle lias been
drawn from use because -it vas more
proiitable to hold it than to put it into
trade But why it is asked Be
cause the supply of money has been
limited by l nv while the supply of oth
er things has been left to individual
judgment As a result the quantity of
commodities has increased more rapid
ly than the quantity of money In short
money has been made comparatively
scarce by law wlaile jUUir filings
have not Consequenilyruie money has
been rising in value while the--other
things have been falling Obviously it
is more profitable for a roa tto lucid
money which is going up thanltoansrcKt
it in property thaujs going down iv
If ali the money now lying idle in tlu j
country were to be thrown
tion the immediate effect wonld bo to
What Purzc the Trusts
Jl Avonder quoth oniypesident of a
trust to anothen J avonder AA iirui the
people get all the money kveitafceiTrom
them Des J io 1 1
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Pernaps the greatest fqrupe ever
made by actor or actress is Invested
in the estates of AdelinaTPafcy She is
worth to day over 000000 and in the
zenith of her career she AAas rated at
many millions more Every cent of ir
was made behind thbl footlights-
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WHO SHALL PAY THE TAX
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levied upon certain things properties
or acts of citizens without distinctly
specifying beyond peradventure who
shall pay lit would seem at the mere
statement of the case to be a piece of
legislative stupidity of the first water
Yet this is precisely what Congress ap
pears to have done in enacting the war
taxlanv which has now gone into opera
tion Every manufacturer and every
retail dealer every person sending a
telegraphic message and every tele
graph company conveying it is remon
stratmgiganist payment of the tax
levied jiy the law and disputing as to
vJiGe duty it is to find the ways and
Jiiieans ofsatisfyhiff it Our citizens are
confitThatthere shall be a tax but
cvoiVbolyJlJ endeavoring to shift it off
oh somebody else As usual the cor
porations which we have created by
law in order to give the shrewd corpo
rators the opportunity to better them
selves at the expense of individual citi
zens are generally getting the best of
this contest and the citizen consumer
finds himself compelled to meet the ex
action while the corporate magnate
goes clear When the individual ap
peals to the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue as to the tax stamps that
functionary replies that it is the com
pany aidnot the customer who must
affix srai ips but he takes very good
l aro nbtibfsay who shall pay for them
And Congress adjourned Avithout
makingits intent and meaning clear by
saying whoshall pay the tax There
was ptyutypf ime 10 remedy the mat
ter and 11 correct the omission in the
tax law bnt Congress raw away rather
than decide it New York News
ilf PemocratB f the War
With magnificent inconsistency the
Republican party asserts that the war
against Spain is a Republican Avar
Occasionally an administration organ
admits that the Democrats forced Mc
Kirilev tS figlirtltir on the whole the
Republicans ha ve decided to make po
litical capital but of tlie war
With this fact in yiew the people
should read with care and remember
after reading the following plank in the
Democratic platform adopted by the
Illinois State convention at Springfield
We pronounce the present war with
Spain -justified by every consideration
Qjfj jiitujeand sound national policy
AVe congratulate -the Democratic minor
ity in Congress for their firm stand in
demauding thevindication of our na
tional honor indorse the declaration of J
war on Spain and demand its vigorous
prosecution in the cpuc of humanity
There is much of history condensed
in the paragraph quoted Much that
the Republicans would like to ignore
much that Mark Hanna has already at
tacked nraehthat Grosvenor has at
tempted to falsify But the statements
are true in every respect and will be
accepted as time by men who know
what they are talking about and who
MpVoTfirompted to lie in the interests
of Republican politicians Democrats
favor the war with Spain The Demo
cratic minority voted for war measures
Democratic generals and naval com
manders are aiding to conquer Spain
Hence the attempts of the administra
tion to make this affair a Republican
war will fail utterly to win political
Success for th6 Republican party
War a Shield for Swindlers
We must not criticise the bond issue
becaiise it is a war measure It is
nothing -if bonds make the rich richer
and tlie poor poorer it is a war meas
ure We must not conn In in flint Hir
ViejUre bill exempts the rich from pay
ing their just proportion of the ex-
send prices upward This would stim 1 iflss of the war for it is a war meas
ulate production and if the supply of
money were not increased so as to keep
pace with the production of other
tilings prices would soon begin to fall
again profits would diminish andmon
ey would be withdrawn from
When silver was generally demonet
ized in Europe and America the supply1
ot new money was very greatly re
duced while population and busings
steadily increased The resultwas h
heavy fall of prices and business de
pression which subject only F6 brief
periods of moderate revival con
tinued until his day11 Unfortu
nately such reYivalthavlhafa thV ef
fect of blinding tiietidguientrSF manv
well meaning men
money question
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Hon William Sulzer Df tfwYork
was an earnest supporter in tlieHMmsc
of liepresentatives of the Teller resolu
tion for the payment of the bonded
debt and interest in either gold or sil
ver at the option of the GovVhnnieiit
You cannot fool the people as
said all the time They are
watching you and they comprehend
the situation They know that your ac
tion here to day is a futile attempt to
rob industry arrest thrift assassinate
labor defraud honest debtors violate
the obligations of contract and perpe
trate en the masses the mosf rightful
crimes that can be committed in order
to seemingly bolster up anjl perpetuate
ne smgie goiu sranuarqt 0R0
Ilitthe Bond IVIo risers1
No mau should be retifrrted3 to -the
IIousj or Senate o hovJiJhftvf or bonds
for this to pay
instead of tTflSXrycnotlshvliich would
have cost nothing and which would
have enlarged the voluiiie of money
and malce times better Sjlver Knighc
Watchman
urer Wonnust not complain if the poor
have to pay all the taxes under the rev
enue bill to carry on The Avar because
it is a war measure- And so it goes A
wholegist of impositions can now be
practiced ppon the unprotected weaker
eimimuts of the American people and it
is unpatriotic to complain because we
are in the midst of Avar with a fnmism
fxeflAriisfanee maye cited where
fraud may be practiced
and it is regarded as patriotic to keep it
mum Aboirt a year ago the Solvig a
Norwegian tramp steamer ais bought
for 40000 and inbuilt at a cost of 125
000 Last April -she was offered to the
Government as an auxiliary cruiser
but Avas rejected But at the request
of the politicians she Avas bought by
special agents of the Government the
other dayfor J42000 Here is a cold
steal of oA qr 3 10000 that the special
agents could easily explain but in the
name -of patriotism Ave are expected
to ne mum -IL-his Avar is the rich ni ms
taxes Exchange
make money an
poor mdhs cliance to light ant
id the
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Theiwm ifthievus exploiters of the
people Vtiid1 perhaps they form a ma
jority Who really tielieye that they
have aperfect righttp elude the mass
es and prey upon pm They have
some sort of notion that it is an essen
tial part of the scheme of creation that
the people at large should labor and
sweat in order that the sleek and the
Aveli fedmay afteifdjto certain AA holly
and unimportdn tlijijgs Of course
these Wlpjj3anliyliuportant and ri
diculous thjugs are miade to appear
very tremendous ami the deluded herd
find the apparent trivality of it all a
proof of the hidden significance alleged
to pertain thereto Thus humbug itself
is accepted as the voucher of its oavii
integrity while truth is actually dis
credited XofQ plie reason that it is so
shnpletraud obvious Twentieth Cen
tury J
A Fundamental Principle
Direct Iegislnjripn is not only a ne h
odout ainynqipje the principle that
the people must rule Without this
principle there is no such thing as lib
erty Kentucky JeAV Era
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It has ever beeu my experience that
fdlks vices have very few
virtues
SKIRfllSH IN CUBA DRAWN FROM A SKETCH ON THE SPOT
Chicago Times Herald
ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE
Louis II Carpenter Has Now Risen to
Brigadier General
One of the most striking examples of
the democracy of the United States
army is presented by the career of
Louis H Carpenter who entered the
army as a private and has risen to be
a brigadier general Carpenter was at
the University of Pensyh ania in 1SG1
when he was seized with the war fever
and enlisted in the regular cavalry
Within six months his soldierly quali
ties won him a commission as second
lieutenant in the regular cavalry Be
fore the civil war closed he was repeat-
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louis u caipkU
campaign and on the field of battle-
to first lieutenant 1S63 for gallant and
meritorious services at Gettysburg
captain 1SG4 for gallant and meritori
ous services in the battle of Winchester
then lieutenant colonel United States
army and colonel of A olunteers for gal
lant and meritorious services during
the AA ar
He was in nearly all the cavalry
fights of the Army of the Potomac In
tlie battle of Fairfield near Gettysburg
he rescued and brought off the field the
colors of his regiment when the regi
ment AAas surrounded by an over
Avhelming force of the enemy His
bravery was so conspicuous that Gen
eral Sheridan one of the greatest caA
alry commanders in history called him
to his side as one of the most trusted
officers of his staff After the Avar of
the rebellion he returned to his
the present war he was made a brlga
ilier general and put in command of the
brigade made by the famous Fifth
Maryland Regiment the crack First
Regiment of the District of Columbia
and the celebrated Second New
Regiment of volunteers
York-
Hoav Slate Pencils Arc Matlo
Slate pencils undergo a number of
processes before they are ready for use
and in making them nearly all of the
manual labor is done by boys First
broken pieces of slate are put into a
mortar run by steam and are crushed
to a powder which is then bolted in a
machine such as is used in flouring
mills A fine slate flour results AA hich
is thoroughly mixed in a large tub with
steatite flour and other materials the
whole making a stiff dough The dough
is kneaded by being passed between
iron rollers a number of times and it
Is then taken to a table where it is
made into stort cylinders four or five
inches in thickness and containing
from eight to ten pounds of material
each
Four of these cylinders are placed In
a strong iron retort which has a
changeable nozzle so that the size of
the pencils may be regulated In the
retort the material is subjected to great
hydraulic pressure and is thus pushed
through the nozzle in the shape of a
long cord As the cord comes through
the nozzle is passes 0A er a knife and is
cut into the desired lengths The
lengths are laid on boards to dry and
are then placed on sheets of corrugated
zinc the corrugation preventing the
pencils Iroin warping during the bak
ing proccr 7 The baking is done in a
kiln Avhich aperheated steam is passed
through pipes
The pencils go from the kiln to the
finishing nd packing room where the
ends are held for an instant under a
tnmnrFMlwC
rapidly revolving emery wheel which
neatly points them
Finally they are packed in paste
board boxes 100 pencils in each box
then 100 of the pasteboard boxes are
pecked in a wooden box and they are
ready for shipment Philadelphia
Times
Tlie
BEAUTY AND THE BEAU
Show of Gallantry Rebuked Iy
Genuine Courtesy
The car was crowded It happened
that only men were standing witlr the
tho handsome face and fashionable
clothes and made way Then Avith a
smile at his neighbors AAhich plainly
said Didnt I manage that well he
leaned comfortably on his stick
The favored one had not noticed the
little play which had beenenacted for
her benefit but a young girl Avho sat
in the next seat Avas an observer and
saAV the warm red deeply flush under
the black skin of the other Avoman and
the tears come in the dark eyes She
saAv the mouth quivering and her oavii
eyes snapped With a glance at His
Complacency unmistakably express
ive of her scorn and indignation she
quickly rose touched the woman on
the arm and gently said
Take my seat Im getting out at the
next corner
Then flashing a look at the man un-
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ment and again became conspicuous as ix-
an Indian fighter At the beginning of firltuIatlon rapidly changed to some-
Liiinji ncur lu siieepiHimess sne passeu
out of the car and more than one man
there would have bet that she had not
intended to get off at that corner
New York Sua
Chat ol the War
Spain has 50000 Gypsies
Patti made her rebut in Cuba
Frisco to Manila GGOO miles
Cadiz to New York 2800 miles
Key West to Havana ninety miles
Spain has 2S022G09 inhabitants
Russias common soldier gets 225 a
year
Our daily output of powder is 1G000
tons
Cuba has 16000000 acres of virgin
forest
War has doubled the price of army
horses
Frisco Chinese are making soldiers
clothes
During our civil Avar there were 3125
battles
Italys Avar department utilizes S45
000000 a year
Cuba has 1031000 inhabitants Phil
adelphia 1350000
Prior to tlie war the annual net rev
enue of Cuba was SO000000
Every Spaniard is liable to be called
to military service on attaining 20
years of age
Policemen in Boston have been in
structed to salute the flag whenever it
is carried past them in a parade
A Cuban insurgent in order to get
cigarettes risked death by going into
a town Avith Spanish soldiers
A Salt Laker who writes poetry first
rate thinks there AA as a Merry Mac in
the White House when the news came
that the Santiago bottle had been
corked by that coal ship Philadelphia
Record
No one who Is compelled to buy It Is
I very fond of champagne
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THEY WALK ON THE CEILING
Two Heiresses with Inherited T ove
for Gymnastics
Perhaps the most daring perform
ance to be seen in all the many places
of entertainment at Coney Tsland New
York is that given by two girls who
seem to be altogether out of harmony
with their surroundings These are
the Austin sisters each of them re
fined well educated and of charming
personality in every way Their home
i is a beautiful place at Bath Beach
old beau who was seated hear the con- f01mers
since early childhood In the
ter was obviously fascinated by the
appearance of this beauteous female
and bobbed his head to catch her eye
Finally succeeding he arose beckoned
to her and murmured
N Wont you take my seat madam
The Colored woman standing direct
ly in front OivWD lid thjs and
turning thanked mm gratefully as slm
made a movement toward the vacant
space With indignation wrinkling his
tinted nose and spoiling for a moment
the gracious air which he had assumed
he pushed her back with both hands
at her elbows as he exclaimed
Oh no not for you maam
His adiustment of expression wns
edly brevetted for bravery displayed in I rajft a he turned once more to her of
T T txr1inio flinlv nnvnnfo litrn rPlm
exception of a colored woman in the i o rl n
middlo of tle car But at a corner a
woman dressed in the top of the mode
got oh She stood next the dcor and
plainly here was a chance for some
masculine person to bs gallant An
iuiti iuu ihlshjus jl jjuuu luiiuucis auu
easy deportment many years of travel
in all parts of the world having given
them the indefinable polish which your
stay-at-home can never hone to attain
Mr and Mrs Austin were trareJle per-
course of their professional jouxuey
ings they met and InarriocV fraveling
rnd peyfojjnhig Together for years
tjsjuess
they took care ot their earniugsp
creasing the same handsomely by sev
eral judicious investments When their
two daughters were still little erirla
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WATKIXG OX THE CiiilXG
they retired and purchased their pres
ent home at Bath Beach
The two children were sent to a first
Jass school in Brooklyn from which
they recently graduated with marked
credit From their earliest childhood
they were carefully trained bv Mr
Austin his object being to develop
their frames so as to make them
healthy and hearty young women In
this he has been entirely successful
but the training the girls received in
the spacious gymnasium at Bath Beach
also developed the love for such exer
cise which they inherited from their
parents and last fall they obtained per
mission to prepare themselves for pub
lic appearance Noav they sIioav daily
in a daring trapeze act and also as
ceiling walkers The latter perform
ance is especially thrilling
The girls make a harming modest
picture when seen together dressed for
their act Aimee the elder girl has a
great mass of chestnut hair beautiful
blue gray eyes and an exceedingly
dainty appearance Marie the younger
a real beauty was born in Vienna Her
eyes are dark and she Avears her haip
pompadoured over her face The girls
are attended by their father at all per
formances and are at present attract
ing much attention by their topsy
turvy feats
Plea for Beer on Siindi s
An extraordinary argument for Sun
day opening was quoted by one of the
speakers recently at a temperance con
vention He related that at a public
meeting once held in Coventry Eli
gland an orator urged that public
houses should be opened at noon on
Sunday In order that workingmen
should have an opportunity of discuss
ing together the sermons they had
heard in the morning
Wl
hen Hot
DONT sweat and fret but keep cool and
take Hoods Sarsnparilln This is good
advice as you will find if you follow it
noods Sarsaparilla is a first class sum
mer medicine because it is so good foi
the stomach so cooling to the blood
so helpful to the whole body Make nc
mistake but get only
Hood
pan Ha
America Gn iliU Mrdieui
liUUU 1 Ilib
MkCf wlsy toow TUc
Remember the name
when you buy
again
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Tho jucen and Ijucly MUl its
It is related that when Sir John
Miiiis fell ill the queen sent tbe Priu
ss Louse to the dying man to in
quire what favor she couli4 accord him
that could alleviate bis sorrow if not
his pin Sir John thereupon called
for hia wrting tablet and inscribed
upon it tee word I should like the
queen to see m wife Then the
queen broke through her iron rule not
to receive any woman whose marriage
tie had lecn once dissolved whether
tters be bUmc or not -graciously ac
ceded to the request an accorded the
sorely tried lady a tender and sympa
thetic interview St Jimes Gazette
Ileal Warm Weather ft st and Com
fort
There is a powder to be shaken intc
the shoes called Allens Foot Ease in
vented by Allen S Olmsted LcUoy
N Y which druggists and shoe deal
ers say is the best thing they have evci
sold to cure swollen burning sore ami
tender or aching feet Some dealers
claim that it makes tight or new shoes
feel easy It certainly will cure corns
auil bunions and relieve instantly
sweating hot or Smarting feet Allens
Foot EaTe costs only a quarter and tlit
inventor will send a sample free to n5
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Wc Anricups said the physician
are not careful aliOtit our eating A
man ought not after eating a hearty
breakfast and lunch go home and
I try to eat a hoi heavy dinner ovn y
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WTIicre Hcnrluttii said Air
U trilinihantly that is what I haVfi
been tcllingyU SXSi the base ball
season opened- AYaSI iitori Star
Halls Catarrh Cure
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Is taken infernally Trice 75 cents
Tic Uelicf
We wont have to go away this sum
nor
Why not
The girl next door has had to stop
playing the piano to read the Avar news
to her grandfather
TUr Vinslowi KooTinm Stpup for ChtUlren
tectums Roltenn tlie iimn rcancps inflaninutiou
aliaj h pain cures wind colic 25 cent a boftlo
Ancient Carioatures
Caricatures are found among the
sculptured monuments of Thebes
Egypt made 2300 years before Christ
WANTED Cafe of bal health that IfIPA -Swill
not benefit Send to Itlpans Chemical CoM
New York for 10 sample and 1000 testimonials
If it AAasnt for the pleasure of telling
it lots of people wouldnt acquire
knoAvledge
A mans best capital is his industry
Stephen Girard
AIDED BY MES PINKHAM
Mrs W E Youngtown
North Dakota Avritcs about her strug
gle to regain health after the birth of
her little girl
Dear Mrs Pixkham It is with
plcacrre that I add my testimony to
year list hoping- that it may induce
others to avail themselves of your val
uable medicine
After the birth of my little girl
three years ago my health was very
poor- I had leucorrhcea badly and a
terrible bearing down pain which
gradually greAV worse until I could do
no work Also had headache nearly
all the time and dizzy feelings Men
struations were very profuse appearing-
every two weeks
I took medicine from a good doctor
but it seemed to do no good I was
becoming- alarmed over my condition
when I read your advertisement in a
paper I sent at once for a bottle oi
Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound and after taking two thirds of
the bottle I felt so much better that I
send for two more After using- three
bottles I felt as strong and well as any
one
I think it is the best medicine for
female weakness ever advertised and
recommend it to every lady I meet suf
fering from this trouble
Maternity is a wonderful experience
and many women approach it Avholly
unprepared Childbirth under right
conditions need not terrify women
The adArice of Mrs Pinkham is freely
offered to all expectant mothers and
her advice is beyond question the most
valuable to be obtained If Mrs Pax
ton had written to Mrs Pinkham be
fore confinement the trould have been
saved much suiTeriu Mrs Pinldiams
au Jrcss i3 Lynn Mass