* P WCT gi B | BHfflBB3BiBTl BHli > Ufe' * ' ' " " " " "U * * * * * - tt TVTT 7" MllM UMAJUA. JLMSJLLjl' UJklV Ml IN UA. 1C , SMt'TMiUWJlJK U , hiorliac winy a widow , orrban and ag ( I inftii 1 ave their nil In little mortrflKea "Those who hold fixed Investments" v warn Mr. Ufyan , arc a bigger class and 1 larger nurnbers than ho thought. Wo ha ) Klvin the figures for 1SDO , because the re. . estate mortgage figures were for that yea Ihls great army has grown. There are I day' 6,000,000 of savings bank depositor 2 K)0000 ) of building association shareholi ris And 8700,000 of Insurance policies. In a lf.,700.00n , and they hold about $2000.000,01 of mortgages. Mr llryan , this Is a. big nrmy to buc gainst Doming TIM : TIJ .r. FnclN o ( Ili'curil NcMt-r MiMitlimiMl li tilt ; ( Jlirnn Mmu'j ( 'iindlilntis Clilrngo Irll unc Hrjnn In his demagogic desperation truing to foment quarrels and dlstuihanc of the pence Ho Is playing at anarch In his speech lust week In the St. I'airn juiilltoilim. In Eric , I'.a , he said : "Do not let the republican party begul jou about the future. The future Is vvrltU In blood crush ) cl out of you by hold. It going to bo war " In front of the city ball In Albany IIP sa to the eiowd "Vi'p have then to consider this nucstlo Ought the American people to sumnlt lotigi to a gold standard ? The dcinociatlc pirl has begun a war of exturmlnailon afrnln Ihr gold standard. Wo ask no qumer , v Klve no quarter. Wo shall proicouto 01 \\aifare until there Is not an American ell ren who dates to advocate the guld stiudar Tuny Hsk , 'Why ? ' Wo answer that the go1 Etandaid IH a conspiracy against the lium.1 rare nud that woould no more join It ilia vvo would join an nrmy marching to dcspa our homes nnd destroy our fnmlllrg " And jet , as a matter of practical fact , th country has had the gold money standa1 sdnco 1831 sixty-two jears England hi had It eighty years , Germany has had twenty-Unco years , Trance , Italy nnd He Kliim twenty jears , Sweden , Norway , Dei jnnrk nnd Holland for twenty-two voar Austria Is just adopting It , Russia Is prcpai Ing to adopt It next year , nnd Canada an Australia ha\e had the gold standard fi junny years. In the same speech Mr Dry an made ill eicclnrntlon "Wo complain of the gel ntnndaid because nn Increased demand fe gold has raised the price of gold and lo\\cic the prlco of slher nnd those things whlc exchange for money. A restoration of sll\ < to Its place by the side of gold will lesic the demand for gold and thus lessen U purchasing prlco of the dollar , either go ! or silver. " This doclaratlon Is a flat-footed falsehoo nnd can only bo truthfully called so Ha the gold standard lowered the price of labor "Labor Is ono of the things which Is c : changed for money , and Is the greatest c all things which exchange for money L' bor for wages receives more gold for n hour's , for a day's , for a week's , month' ' or year's work than It over did previous t the "crime of ' 73. " Wo challenge Wllllai J. Hrjan , popocratlc candidate for prcslden to clto facts showing that the -vast masse of men and women ever received as muc weight or dollais of gold during the b metallic period as slnco the "crlmo of 1873 Taku the period hack of 73 to 18CO , or bac to 1S50 or 18)0 ) , and the records show tht sinro the gold standard was cstabllshe wngcs have steadily advanced in terms e Kolrt , nnd by that same great and unerrln test gold has actually depreciated not little , but a great deal The prices of labc liavo gone up About the same as the price of commodities and the gcneial average ha declined. Which Is most important to tl : woiklnc wage masses who create thos things that exchange for money advancln wages In gold nnd declining prices of th necessities of life , or itdiiced wages In chca free silver and Using prices of their necess tics ? That Is cxnctly the question the liavo to vote on next November. W. J. Brian nnd all the other ralaralt howlers aie going about denouncing gold n being lee dear , and thcreforp cheap fie Bllvtr must be substituted for It. The recor shows that since in to 1 silver was d < monetized In 1873 , wages have risen moi than one-third in gold The record prove that for every two dollars la gold the vvnge earners' resolved In 1S72 , nnd before the hack to 18CO , they hive received tlneo do lars in gold since 1885 till 1893 , when th hard times began. Wages began to rise a BOOH as resumption In 1478 , when th gold standard was established in this com try. The Tribune has often shown thi commodities have declined on account of th improved methods of production and of c > cess of supply over demand , and at the sam time the wages paid labor have Increased 1 gold. How does Bryan dare to ignore th Increased wages in gold that have been pal ever" since the gold standard was estal Ibthed in 1878 ? Ho never says nnythln about the wages paid to labor dining th last eighteen years , nnd why don't his pollt cnl opponents on the stump force thcso all Important facts down his throat , nnd con pel him to acknowledge them or dlscred ! [ I „ * < him totally with the people ? There has bee " a remlssness In this matter which exhibit bad generalship , but there Is still time be fore the election to correct It and make : warm for the popocratlc candidate. Tim AiiAMMiMJiJ MISSOUIII. ProiiONeil UcvUul ut SteanilxmiliiST < > tinlllnr. . Chlcasro Iltcoril Talk of a steamboat line for the reaches c the Missouri river above Sioux City serves t accentuate the fact that this river one c the greatest on the globe Is virtually dc eertcd of all craft adapted to the trnnspot tntlon of grain. Flowing for hundreds c miles through ono of the greatest grain belt of the world , Its muddy current carrie little save Its own sediment. It would he haul to say why so little us lias been made of this stream It Is tru that It has a shifting channel and that a seasons of low water this channel Is liar rowed to a thread. But this is true of othc rivers of one-tenth the size of the Missouri and yc > t In a hundred such streams llttl flat-bottomed steamers go nosing among th sandbars , picking up lucrative 'trade nm proving of great benefit to the ngrlculturn sections In the cheap transportation affordci for all manner of farm produce In scarce ! ; more likely sections of country than Is till Missouri valley canals even have been cute to form an entirely artificial waterway fo the very smallest of water transports At various times efforts have been mad to build up a river trafllc down the Missouri but for some reason they have failed mon or less completely Now. If over , It seem us If the Sioux City venture should succeed Granaries In the upper Missouri valley nn bursting , and , In many ruses , railroads an BO far removed that grain cannot bo dellv cred at stations at a profit. Along the mull river and Its tributaries hundreds of thou sands of bushels of grain might be pIcUci up by grain boats and floated to a com cnl cnt railroad market. The river his beer exceptionally full of water this season ; then is the grain In abundance and the vvatervva ) Is invitingly ! convenient , nonr.iMi A VITAL < iiiivno\ . " " Tlir MIINH of Statli.ll.-M CniuUiliitc ' 111- } nit iKiiort-H. Chicago Tribune A question that Bryan dodges with the peralstonco of supreme prudence Is : "How are the earners of wages and of salaries tc , 1)0 benefited by a change In the currency which Is expressly Intended to raise * tin prlcea of cotton , wheat , pork , hoof , and all agricultural and mineral products ? " Ht > . only attempt to meet this point was In hit Tiludlaou Square Garden speech , when hi Bald- "While the gold standard raises the pur chasing power of the dollar It makee It more dllllcuU to obtain possession of the dollar ; Balarlec In business occupations depend upon business conditions , and the gold standard both lessens the amount and threatens the permanency of such salaries. " Statistics , which Mr. Bryan appears tc Ignore , prove this statement U untrue , itv Specie payments on a gold baals were re- eumed on January 1 , 1879 , and slnco that time wages and salaries have risen , and * certainly have been no harder to get paid. In ISM ) , the year In which the gold stand ard became supreme , the number of em ploye's In manufacturing establishments vvaa 2,732,505 and the aggregate of their wages vas $947,953,795 , or an average of $324. In J890 , after a decade of the gold standard , the number of employes was -1,712,622 and their aggregate earnings were ? ! ,2$3,21G- 629 , on average of $488. Here vvaa an In crease of nearly one-halt under the gold Standard , which Mr. Bryan nays "both lea- \ Bens the amount and threatens the perma nence" of the wages of worklngmen. ' In further refutation of Mr , Bryan's state ment can be urged the flsures reported by Hie committee of the senate which In 18 ! luvDstlffitcd the subject of wages and price Senator Aldrlchwas chairman , and In h report he salil that "In twenty-one selecU Inlustrlcs wages were In money 40 per cei hlghrr In ISSO than In 1860 , nnd 60 per cci higher In Ktl than In I860 , while the prlci of staple articles bad fallen between IS : and 18' 0 In some Instances one-third " Tl facts show , therefore , that Mr Bryan wi nearly exactly wrong What new Inacci raclcs has ho to offer In substitution ? 1IOIHS AM ) TUP .SI-1.IT 1)01,1Alt. Uncle- I lorn r < - Mnlir * n Touching III fur \Voi UlimiiK'ii'K A < > ( < * . Davenport Democrat. In the bid made by Governor Boles for tl presidency In his speech at Kansas Cl Shortly before the Chicago convention 1 bewailed the low prices of products , clalr Ing they had been cut In two by the go standard , nnd favored a return to tl happy f ) times of 1873 , when we had fri coinage nt 1C to 1 on our stnluto hooks nr prices were higher. The prospect of hnl value money and doubled prices bj meat of frco coinage he felt euro would catt the farmer nnd the debtor , but he evident feared It would not please the vvorklngma to whom no corresponding Increase of wagi la promised Now to capture this worl Ingman ho Intimates that under free coli age there will be twice as much work fi him Ho says that under the present go ! standard "with the price of a day's labi } ou can purchase nearly twice as much i the necessaries of lift ; as you could In 1873 "but prior to 1S73 the great nrmy of laborei In the United States could obtain two da : labor where now It can obtain but one" By this statement Uncle Horace Invlti the worklngmen to vote for free silver nn give two da > s * work for one daj's pa > . How kind of Uncle Horace ! And ho thankful the laborers of the country shoul bo ! AL AMI in mifvIM : . The free silver people ore finding a grc : deal to admire In Mexico just now , but the are not emigrating In that direction. Mr Smyser of Summon lllc , Ga , In h ninety-seventh > car , has put seven bulle Into a two-Inch bull's-eye nt a range i sixty feet. 1'adciewskl has some hope of realizlr the chief desire of his life the permanei euro of the spinal complaint which In so long allllctcd his sou The people of the United States spei 120,000,000 last year for chewing gum nil $70,000,000 for bicycles , and } et they woi dcr why times are so hard. The late Charles Stanley Ilelnlmi rankcJ among the most notable of Amcr can Illustrators who have made black an white a distinctive art His drawings l > o sesscd a singular Individuality. Philip T. Colgrove of Hastings , Mich who has just been elected world's supren chancellor of the Knights of Pythias , 37 jcars of age , a native of Indiana , graduate of Olivet college and a practlsln lawyer In Hastings Gcorgo Frlsble Hoar , senior United State senator from Massachusetts , celebrated h seventieth birthday on Sunday. He Is no In Germanj. He was bom at Concori John Hoar , his earliest ancestor In the Ba state , was one of the three brothers wli came with their widowed mother froi Gloucestershire , England , among the earl colonists Thomas II. Vasqucz. who died In Kar s > as City on Sunday night , represented race and rule and occupation belonging t the past. Ho was born In the then froi tlei town of St. Louis In ISl'J , and was th grandson of Denlto Vasquez , n Spanlnn who came to the country with Governc Plernas , who once ruled In St. Louis 1 the name of thu king of Spiln. M. Illbot , the French statesman , vvh arrived In this country on Sunday on visit for health and recreation. Is regarde In Fiance as "the coming man. " He Is a ready ono of the foremost statesmen e that country , having been a political leadc for many years and held Important cablne positions undci several administration : lie IH a republican , but a conservative on not so radical as ricnch republicans at qpt to be , but an advocate of a stable go. eminent on fixed republican principles II Is In the prime or life , being 54 yeat old. United States Consul Buford , at Paso di Norto , has made the Mormon colonists th subject of a bpeclal report to the State dcpan mcnt. Hf > finds that thereIs a good openln for American goods among the colonists , an Eajs that the Mormons are exceeding ] piosperous and highly regarded. There ai ten colonies of Mormons in Mexico , nearl all Americans Their holdings , are in tli finest portions of not them Mexico Tli soil Is verj ilch and productive , and wit the advent of railroads , from the nearcs of which they arc removed from 125 to 2 ( miles , these lands will gradually enhnnc In value mmnsric IDYLS. Puck : Jack I'm going up now to sc Molly Mnnlove. Bob Siy. give mo those clgnrs , old mm they will only get luoken In jour pocke I've been there myself. Detroit Tribune' F.ithei Do jou thin you ran support her In the style to whlc she has been accustomed ? Suitor Not In the atyle to which she hn been accustomed ulnco we became er gaged. Life : He Go homo now ? Why , you use to let mo stay two hours longer than thi ! "I know It , dear. But tlm was befor vvo were engaged. " Buffalo nxprcss ; Mrs Jlmsmlth Geoigi vvhixt does 'curt blanche' mean ? Jlmimlth- It refers to the way a man ft els when h hns got J25 In his pocket nnd his wife hn gone awny for a week. Cincinnati Enquirer : "Has Maude's hoa been turned by Unit fortune she Inherited ? "No , only her nose. It has turned u about 15 degrees " Chicago Record : "Theso golden Septem ber days always mnKo me feel pecullail sad , Mrs. 1'crklnn" "So they do me , somebody IB always boi rowing my catsup Uettlo when I want t use It myself. " Detroit Free Press ; Manager How man ; Hindu daughters has that man Boomer ? Clerk Three. Maimgei Add $5 to his gas bill and sc that the meter at his house Is gcarci higher. Chicago Journal : "I hoar that lira Mar ner Is mirfprlnn from heart trouble again , ' "Oieut Scott ! She's been married 11 v tlims already ! " Indianapolis Journal : "Did you knov this was rny birthday ? " nuked KVo "Is that so ? " replied Adam. "Lcmmi seo1 how old are you twelve ? " "You hateful thin ? . I'm only nine , anc you know It. " TWO SNAP SHOTS. Homirvllle Journal , This Season : Blinded hnmmock ; Moonlight night ; IIl sful lovers- Out of Bight ! Next Benson : game old hammock ; Same old nioqn ; Different lovers ; Same old spoon , OK YOUTH. Brooklyn Life. Birds nro piping down the orchard , As If calling me to see AVhat the llttlo ones are playing By thu gnarled old upplu tree. There I vsntch them , buying , selling. Busy every ono who plays Is ; And their gold Is dandelions , And their silver daisies , daisies. AH I see their happy faces Still another throng appears , Jtosy play mil tea of my childhood. Come from out the burled years. Have they wandered back to tell ma Of our play-time's merry phases , When our gold wau dandelions And our silver was the daisies ? How the outer world's unquiet Dies uvvay at words they apeak ; Oh , my heart , with all Us burdens , Is u child's , now , blithe and mecki 'Tls thuvision of a moment , railing down the orchard's mazes , Mid thu cold of dandelions. And thu silver of thu daisies ! "I have bought , oh , happy children , At your pltasniit little store , Ono brlKlit Kllmpse of my own childhood With Its hopes and Joys of yore ! " Then they look at me with wonder , With a amlle each one. up Kuze.s , Whllt ) I pay with dandelions And take chunge In stiver daisies ! IIOKE SMITH'S ' SUCCESS01 Active and Eventful Career of David ] Pmncis of Missouri , SUCCESS IN BUSINESS AND POLITIC 1 * Iteooril til Mayor of St. Iioiiln nn ( im-riior of Mlxxourl KOMHUP I'nlliinto ( ! < > t ii 1'lne-o In ( litCnliliict. . Hx-Oovcrnor David Rowland Francis , wl has stepped Into the cabinet office vacated 1 HokoiSmlth of Georgia , has had an cventf career In the city nnd state of his ndoptlo writes the St. Louis correspondent of tl New York Sun Ho was born In the tow of Illchmond , Ky , and when n boy of was aided b ; his uncle , D Pitt How land \ obtaining his education His uncle nt th : time was n prosperous wholesale grocc Young Frnncls lived In the homo of M How land and on going to St. Louts It wi his Intention to nt himself for the profe slon of the law. Ho had not then the r molest UU-aJof remaining In St. Louts , at n business caiccr was the last thing 1 dreamed of. As he has often told his friend ho wnnted to bo graduated In the law nr go back to the Dluo Grass region of Kci tucky to practice hla profession. He a tended Washington university In St Loul and among those who were his schculmnti nro some of the most prominent buslnci nnd professional men now In the Mound clt lleforo the future mnyor , governor nnd cal Inet officer fairly knew what ho was doln ho met and fell in love with Miss Pen daughten of the late banker , John D Pen of St. Louis The'result / ' was that your Francis concluded to abandon the law , man Miss Terry , settle down In St. Louis and f Into business He took a junior Interest ! his uncle's firm , and the style was change to Shryock , Rowland & Co , the young Kei tucklan representing the company. For a time the firm did very well , but siu ilcnly reverses overtook It , and there was failure John U Perry , fnther-ln-lnw < Mr Frnncls , was nt that time a man < considerable means , but Francis icfuscd 1 accept nny help from him. He made up h mind that the Chamber of Commerce w the place for him , so he at once set up grain brokerage business , and nlmost li stantly commenced to make money. He dl not plunge Into wild speculation. He let tli other fellows do that Mr. Francis kcj on the snfe side nnd In less than two jcai It was universally conceded that no youn man of his age In all the west knew mot about prices nnd the markets than hi Once on the high tide of success his fortun was assured ; nnd within less than ten ycai Mr Francis began to accumulate lots e solid property. Ho became Interested in th huge elevators on both sides of the rlvei acquired bank and other corporation stocl and his real estate holdings Increased , unt today he Is Interested In some of the Iar { cst office buildings In the city. "A GREAT DRAL IN DAVE. " Congressman McCrcary lives In the sam Kentucky town In which Mr. Francis wa born. Mr. McCrcary Is an ex-governor e his commonwealth. Some years ago h dropped Into the office of a newspape friend in Washington , and In speaking c St Louis and Its rapid advancement said : "Perhaps you never knew that I once trie to locate In St. Louis I had graduated I law , nnd was anxious to move to some plac further west , where there would bo gieate opportunities for a young and ambltlou man. I went to St Louis with strong Icttci of endorsement , but nlmost every one tel mo the law was overcrowded. So I the went to Chicago , and It seouied to be wora there. Finally I went to Louisville , an absolutely received not a word of cncoui agement. Despondent and weary , I sllppc back to my old home at Richmond , an have lived there over since. However , liavo done pretty well , and the chance are I would never have been governor e Missouri or Illinois had I cast my lot wit the people of St. Louis or Chicago " "nut , " replied his friend , "there Is c this moment a native of Richmond who I governor of a s'ate greater than Kentuck In wealth , resources and population " "That Is so , " remarked Mr. McCreary. " had forgotten about Dave Francis. Ho' well I remember him as n boy In my ow native town' ' His old grandfather , Davl Rowland , after whom ho was named , use to say that there was a great deal in Davi and while he might not live to know of I the boy was bound to come to the front , sincerely wish that good old man coul have lived to appreciate the honors the have been conferred upon his favorite granr son. " FRANCIS IN POLITICS. Mr Francis did not seek the mayoralt nomination in St. Louis In April , 1SD5 , bu there had been some talk about him as possible compromise candidate on whom tli democratic convention might unite ; and th Kentucklan was like the famous old fclloi In California In ante-bellum days who dc clared that he would not seek the Unite States scnatorshlp , and explained his prc enco at the state capltol by saying that I the office was hunting for him It was hi duty to be handy , so It could find hlir Thcro were three candidates before the con volition. It met at 10 o'clock ono mornlnr remained continuously In session all thrnug the night , and did not finally reach nomination until about 9 o'clock the nex morning. Frnncls was the man on whom th convention finally agreed after probably hundred ballots. The three avowed candl dates were Judge Edward C. Noonan , a nattv of Reading , I'a. ; Major C. C. Rainwater , wholesale- hat merchant and nn ex-con federate soldier , nnd ex-Mayor Drown of SI Louis Francis bad first attracted public at Icntlon la St. Louis by his race the yea before for president of the Chamber o Commerce. After one of the hottest con tests In the history of that great com morclal body ho defeated Frank Galennle , i Tormcr resident of New Orleans , who wa thought to have a walkover. Sitting 01 the Dlatform In the democratic conventloi at about 2 a. in. , when It was necessar ; to awaken for every ballot one or the othe of two German delegates from what wa mown ns nn outlying "cabbage" ward Francis said to a friend : "How do you think this will end ? " "You will bo nominated , Dave , " was tin reply. "Nonsense , " said Francis. "I am not i candidate " "Perhaps not ; but complimentary vote ! lave been cast for you , and you mlgh as well leave your pledge the same as tin others to abide by the action of the conven Ion. " Whether or not such a pledge was left Mr. Francis was the nominee , and ho put ip a rattling fight , carrying the city by i good majority In face of the fact that thi man ho.defeated had been elected four yean previously by nearly 14,000 majority. His opponent was William L Kwlng , a membei af one of the oldest , wealthiest and mosi nfluentlal families of the city. ENTERTAINING CLEVELAND. The same year Mr , Francis erected Ir /andoventer place ono of the finest resi liences then to bo seen In St. Louis. The icxt year he entertained President anc Mrs. Cleveland , Private Secretary Lamonl nd others of the party who visited St. Louis luring the memorable "swing around" made iy Mr Cleveland. The mayor did not then know the president very well As the chlel axecutive of the city ho felt It his dut ) o show thu chief executive of the nation A hat Kentucky-Missouri hospitality was , ind right royally did the young mayor en- crtaln his national guests. Some amusing hlngs happened while the president wat n St , Louis , and one Incident la worth tell- ng The local committee got up a reception t the Exposition building. It was a hot ay for that time of the year , and the great lumber of people crowded Into the ball nado U almost stilling. The ClevelanJs , ho Francis family and several others oc- upled a combination box. Mayor Francis otlced that the president was fatigued , BO 10 excused himself to the rest of tbo coin- any and whispered a few words into the resident's left ear , "You must be pretty dry , Mr. President , " 8 what he Is reported to have said. "Dry ? " exclaimed the head of the na- Ion. "I am very dry.1' "Wo have & restaurant In tbo building , there Is n room back of the box a tnbln handy , and you can hiivo anything jou el sire Now , what bca , of wine do you pr for ? " . "Wine the dcvllMlrcMarked the prcslden "None of U for nict t will thank you i have ordered up a big drink of fine Uourbc whisky. " . The president , Mnydr Francis , Colonel D Lament and Colonel Have Cnruth. who wi then n police commissioner of St. Loul excused themsehca nnd went to the roe In the rear of tho'b&tt. Colonel Caruth also a Kcntucklan.fdtld Is n brother of c- Congressman Asher 0 Caruth of Loulsvll and Gcorgo William Cnruth , United Stnti minister to Portugal In a short time v came four drinks ot'"democratic ' eye-water , ns ex-Senator Tom Pi > liper of Michigan cal whisky When the glasses were placed c the table President'Cleveland Is said to ha' grabbed two of the glasses , one In cae hand , and with n "Hero's to you. pent ) men , " emptied both as qtiu.kly ns posslbl remarking ns ho did so , nnd with a sly win nt hiprlvnto secretary 1 Daniel doesn't drink , jou know , gcntl men " TURNED DOWN TUB GRANGERS. Although Mr Francis carried St Louis I a snug majority when ho was a candldnl for mayor In 18S5 , ho lost It by nearly 12,0 ( In 18SS , when ho was the cnndldnto of h party for governor of Missouri. Seven cnilecs then operated against him He ha been BO long In the grain business , wit largo Interests In the elevators that they gi a cry against him which Induced thousatu of the grangers to scratch hli or clsooto outright for the 11 publican or prohibition candidate. H republican opponent was a countt lawyer , who , on account ot being n local ni torney for n railroad , was styled the co- coroner. That wns the year when Colom Charles tlcnry Jones removed from Florid to St. Louis , obtained nn tntercbt in the ol Missouri Republican , and changed Its nam tei Republic. No sooner had the colom landed In the big town on the west bank c the "Father of Waters" than he began t Imagine that the city was reeking with vice nnd lie entered upon a moral crusade. H wanted all the saloons closed , ho was oj posed to having the beer guldens , musl halls and theaters run on Sunday , nnd I many other ways he tried to let the peopl of the wholn Mississippi valley know that h had lately arrived among tl em As mnyc of the clt > Mr. Francis was cx-ofllclo pics dent of the St Louis pollco bonrd. Ther were four commissioners and on the saloo and Sunday question two voted with th church people , two for the prevailing cu : torn of having everything run wide opci and the mayor cast the deciding vote to or force an old Sunday closing law. The coi sequence was that the democratic ticket me with a sweeping defeat Three congrcssme were lost , and their loss gave Tom Reed' ' house In the Fifty-first congress just mm gin enough to organize and unscnt stinicler e'omocrats to provide him with a comfortabl working majority. Jones had simply playc hob with his moral racket , nnd St. Loul democrats could not find words stron enough to say what they thought of him. THE JONES FEUD. Francis wns elected governor , nnd ho an Colonel Jones got along pretty well unt' ' the middle of his term In 1SUO they had falling out. Colonel Jones Immediate ! turned the batteries of his newspaper o the governor. Ho made It warm for th whole administration at Jefferson City Along In 1S02 Colonel Jones Is said to hav been pressed for rcddy cash and to hav hypothecated or sold some of bis newspape stock , with the understanding that th banker who advanced him the money h needed was to let him have it hick prc \ided he could redeem It within n certal time. As the story goes , Colonel Jonc was unable to redeem It , and Governo Francis gobbled It up , and , with othe stock that he anjl his friends controllet used it one fine morning in Juno to brin Colonel Jones' connection with the Republi to an end. It Is .understood . that none o the Republic stock appears In the name c Mr Francis , and he does not figure aroun the establishment , but , whether true o false , many well Informed people In th city have a firm belipf that he and hi friends , have a considerable block of th stock. What greatly angered ( ho friends of Mi Francis was that It was generally reportc that early In the winter of 1893 Mr. Clove1 land had him slated for a cabinet place It was said that he was to be either posl master general or secretary of the navy Not only was Mr. Cleveland very fond o the ex-governor , but , further , he recos nUed in him a man of fine executive ablllt and considerable political experience , whil In addition to such recommendation Governor Francis possessed plcnt of money and could take th place of Mr. Whitney In the firs Cleveland administration ns a lavish entei talner. Hut just then Colonel Jones had pull with Mr. Cleveland and It is understoo that he , Governor Btone , Major Harvey Sal mon , chairman of the Missouri' ' democrat ! committee , and others united In a 3,000. wor telegram strongly protesting against the ar polntment of Mr. Francis It Is believe that they prevented bis appointment. Aftc that the president is s-ild to have offere Mr Francis the choice ot any of the forelg missions , outsldo of the British. The offc was declined , ns Mr. Frnncls did not care t go abroad. Mr. and Mrs Francis have six chlldrer all boys. The youngest Is less than 2 yejr of age an < f the oldest wasi IT oni May 31 lasi Ho takes after his father and most of th Francis side of the family In height. He I something mora than six feet tall. On th subject of boys the next secretary of the In terlor can aptly be compared with the Her James Kerr of Pennsylvania , who , when hi last boy was born , while he was clerk of th house of representatives , wired to Speake Crisp that a fifth son had been born to hit : and Mrs Kerr , adding"You see we ar against the policy of the administration o ; girls " Mr. Francis has just completed ono of th most magnificent residences In all the west crn country. It has nearly two acres o ground surrounding It and is located In th western portion of the city of St. Louis 01 Maryland avenue , not very far from bcautl fill Westmoreland place and In the fine nov residence section , The mansion is colonla In Its style of architecture , with masslv white pillars on the eastern and wester : sides. nn.vij MUSIC i.v TRX\S , Kttect of .Spliiiliort'N .Scrciiiiilv nil i Wiieo A u ill < ! ! ( > < . The leader of an up-town orchestra was returning from an engagement recently when ho fell In with another man who hat known him years before , relates the Ncv York Sun. "I thing , " said the latter , "that the las time we met was In Waco , Tex " "So It was , " said the orchestra leader "That was a longtime ago , when the towi of Waco was a typical frontier place. Then were board houses ami shanties everywhere [ was leading an orchestra In ono of tin board shanties then1 ! It was a wlld-eyci crowd , nnd the s-hotv was the kind tha Ihey liked I had. struck , , the town In t Irost , and the management hired me to leai the band , as he called'It , I found that th ( members of the orchestra knew the 'Arkan sas Traveler. ' 'Old .Dog Tray , ' 'Pop Goea tin Weasel.1 'Dixie,1 and other familiar musli In the southwest. ' They hadn't a score o any kind before them. I remember durinf a brief Intermission you came to the placi whore I was and asked me If I could plaj Schubert's Serenade Vou don't know hov it thrilled me to WnoW there was ono mar n that crowd wbq knew what music was Only an artist can appreciate that. I toot up my bow and played that exquisite coin- - lositlon as I never"played ' It before Ii mil beauties I had liefer discovered before And the members , of the band laid dovvr heir fiddles and listened And the painted icautlcs on the stage peeped out at me from the curtain , and the beer vendors quit busi ness In the aisles , and the ugly looking audlcnco Eat still till I had finished They they got up and left the theater and the show was out. It was the first time they over heard any music , That was the great est triumph I ever had Know you ? Well can never forget jou" Thcoilcs of cure may b ? discussed at ength by physicians , mu the suneieis want julck relief ; and One Minute Cough Cure vlll give it to them , A safe cure for chit- ren. It Is "tho only harmless remedy thst reduces Immediate results. " Floston Globe ; "If we weren't In a c.inoe , 'el kUs you ! " "Tuko mo ashore linineill- itely , sir ! " CHEAP MONEY IN 1BEIAN1 Dean Swift Starts a Eovolt Against D < based Copper Coinage. THE STORY OF WOOD'S ' UALFPENC Timely HltiNtrntloiit from Jnttnllut lrnilcr | IoM T " --lrlKln of ( Inllojoott ami tin S In 1724 , In Dublin , appeared the first ( the famous "Draplcr s Letters" written J ) Jonathan Sw 1ft , dean ot St. Patrick , again ; the Introduction of n deba cd copper coir ago Into Ireland In the light of preser political events , rclitcs the New York Ever Ing Post , these old pamphlets have a specif Interest , quite apart from their lltcrnr merit and some slight account ot them ma be Interesting to the newspaper reader of te day The occasion of Swift's letters wns the nl tempted Introduction ot "Wood's halfpence Into Ireland William Wood was nn Englls Ironmaster , who , by divers underhand de > a Ings with Wai polo nnd the duchess nt Kci dal ( Involving , It was said , a bribe of 10,00 to the latter ) , had obtnlncd n patent trot the English government to coin 108,00 worth of copper money for h eland. Eae pound avoirdupois ot copper ( worth 1 pence ) was 10 be coined Into half pence nn fnrthlngg vnlulng half a cro\vn. His piten was to run for fourteen years only nnd th quantity for the whole term wns limited t 360 tons of copper. A rent of 800 per annul was to be paid to the king nnd 200 to th comptroller of the curiency H was allege by those Interested In < hc patent that Iris Industry was mucli Inconvenienced by th lack of copier coin , but , ns the whole clt culnttng medium of Ireland nt that pcrlo was icckoncd at no more than 100,000 , th utmost amount of copper necessary wu calculated at less than 25,000 In addition t what was already In use. To coin nnd fore Into circulation 108,000 of "brass , " as Svvlf contemptuously calls It , meant that the stor of gold and silver , too small already , woul Inevitably be driven out , that foreign ex changes would be turned against the coun try , and that Irish commerce , strugglln and precarious at the best , would be deal a staggering blow. A universal agitation at once arose ngnlns "Wood's halfpence. " Not only the finnn clal part of the scheme was hateful to th people , but the overbearing attitude ot th English government In enforcing n prlvat contract against national protest roused Iris popular feeling to fever heat. Swift , throw ing himself Into the controversy with hi usual wit nnd bitterness , became the mouth piece of the nation The first "Uraplcr1 Letter" was published early In 1724 nnd It effect wns immediate In rousing nnd en couroglng the people , who felt that a power ful leader was now at their head. In this letter , published , of course , anony moualy , Swift Introduces himself to th "tradesmen , shopkeepers , farmers , and coun try people In general of the kingdom of Ire land , " as "a drapler , by name M n , " wit ! "a pretty good shop of Irish stuffs and silks and a love for his country that prompts hlr to write , though with no learning or fin language at his command , against "th brass , halfpence coined by one Wllllan Wood , hardware man , with a design to hav them pass in this kingdom. " He begins b telling his readers of the doubtful mean by which Wood has obtained his patcnl and the debased coin which he Is now Issu Ing. and advises no one to receive It. "For the common soldier , when he goes t the ale house , or market , will offer thi money ; and If ho be refused , perhaps he wil swagger and hector , and threaten to beat th butcher or nlowlfe , or take the goods b force , and throw them the bad halt-pence In this case the shopkeeper , or vlctuallei or any other tradesman , Jias no more to d than to demand ten times the price of hi goods , If It Is to be paid In Wood's money and not part with his goods till ho gets th money. "For suppose you go to an ale house wit ! that base money , and the landlord gives yoi a quart for four of those halt-pence , wha must the victualler do ? This brewer wll not bo paid In that coin or , If the brewe should bo such a fool , the farmers will no take it from them for their barley , becaus they are bound by their leases to pay thel rent In good nnd lawful money of England which this Is not , nor of Ireland cither ; an the 'squire , their landlord , will never be s bewitched to take such trash for his land so that It must certainly stop somcwher 01 other ; and wherever It stops It Is th same thing tnd wo are all undone. " Swift gives his humor full sway in th next passage : "The common weight of thes half-pence Is between four and five to ai ounce ; consequently , twenty shillings wll weigh six pounds , butter v eight. Now thcr are many hundred farmers who pay 200 year rent ; therefore , when one of thei : comes with bis half-year's rent , which I 100 , it will be at least COO pounds weight which Is three horses load. If a 'sriulrc ha a mind to come to town to buy clothes am wine and spices for himself nnd family , o perhaps to pass the winter here , he mus bring with him five or six horses well ladei with sacks , as the farmers bilng their corn and when bli > lady comes In her coach t our shops , It must be followed by a ca loaded with Mr. Wood's money. "They say 'Squire Conolly ( then speake of the Irish House of Commons ) has 10,00 a year ; now he must hnve 250 horses to hrlni up his half-year's rent , and two or threi great cellars In his house for storage. Hu what the bankers will do I cannot tell , fo I am assured that some great bankers keej by them 40,000 In ready cash , to answc all payments ; which sum , In Mr , Wood' , money , would require 1,200 horses to carry "For my own part , I am already icsolvei what to do ; I have a pretty good shop o Irish stuff and silks , and Instead of takim Mr. Wood's copper , I Intend to tralllc will my neighbors , the butchers and bakers am brewers , and the rest , goods for goods ; am the little gold and silver I have I will kcei liy me , like my heart's blood , till bettei times , or until I am just ready to starve and then I will buy Mr. Wood's money , ai my father did the brass money In Klnj James' time , who could buy 10 of It with i guinea ; and n hope to get as much for i pistole , and so pure chase bread from those uho will be such fools as to sell " In the second letter a boycott ( the first , we may notice , in Irish history If , Indeed , II may bo rightly called so , since Captain Hoy- cott was yet unborn ) was advised by Swift , 'Let us mark nnd observe those who pre sume to offer these half pe-nco In payment , Let their names and trailer and places ol abode bo made public , that every ono may jo aware of them as betrayers of their : ountry nnd confederates with Mr , Wood , Let them be watched at markets and fairs , Hid let the first honest discoverer give he word that Mr , Wood's half pence have : icen offered and caution tbo poor , Innocent people not to receive them , " Wood's representation tnat there was the utmost need for a copper coinage Is treated lladalnfully by the Draplcr : "Several gen- lemen , It U represented , have been forced o tally with their workmen and give them jits of card sealed and subscribed with their lames. What then ? la not a landlord's land and seal to his own laborers a better iccurlty for S or 10 shillings than Wood's irass , ten times below the real value , can | jo to the kingdom for flOS.OOO ? I will nalntaln that 25,000 would be a sum fully iulllcleiit to answer all occasions I am 10 Inconsiderable shopkeeper in this town ind have discoursed with several of my own ind other trades , and also with a great num- > or of farmers , cottagers and laborers Ily he largest computation a sum more than icccssary for all dealings would amount only o 125,000 , whereas this honest , liberal hard ware man. Wood , would Impose upon ua > ver four times that sum " Swift then attacks Wood's proposition to 'take manufactures In exchange , and that no person be obliged to receive more than 5H pence at one payment , " as follows. "To remove our direful apprehensions that he will drain us of our gold and sliver by his : olnage , this little arbitrary monarch most ; raelonaly offers to take our manufactures n exchange. Are our Irish understandings ndced so low In his opinion ? Is this not he very misery wu complain ot , that UU ; urued project will put us under the ne cessity of selling our goods for what Is-equal to nothing ? How would such n proposal sound from Franco or Spnln , or any olhei country with which wo trnfllc , H they should offer to dral with us only upon this condi tion , that tve fihoutd take their money nt ten times higher than the Intrinsic vnluo ? Surely there was never heard such n com pound ot Impudence , villainy and folly. Soon after the second letter appeared , In July , 1724 , the Kngllsh government , through n special committee of Inquiry , recom mended the restriction of the proposed coin age to 40.000 Instead of 103.000 surely R great concession , nnd hardly consistent with the-lr as ertlon In the same' report that "the copper money coined by Mr Wood , when compared with the coppci money coined for Ireland In former iclgns , considerably exceeds coeds them nil In vvcUht , nnd very far ex ceeds them nil In goodness , fineness nnd value of the copper" The Irish people , however , would have none of these superior half-pence , nnd the Drnplcr's third letter was received with Increasing enthusiasm A declaration wns now advised by him to bo drawn up "expressing In the strongest terms our firm resolution never to receive or utter nny of Wood's half-pence or farth ings , and forbidding your tenants to receive them , " nnd such a document wns nccord- Ingly finmed nnd signed by the most con siderable persons In the kingdom. He compares the unfortunate Wood tc Goliath of Oath "for Goliath had a helmet of brais upon his bend nnd ho was nrmcd with a co-it of mall , nnd the weight of the coat was 5000 shekels of brass ; and be had greaves of brass between his shoulders In short , ho was like Mr Wood all over brnss and ho dellbd the armies of the living God ' And again , characteristically , "My own poor endeavors to prevent the rulu of the country by the admission ot Wood's coin were called 'flying In the king's face. ' which I directly deny , for t cannot nllow that \llc representation of the roynl countenance In William Wood's adulterate copper to be his sacred majesty's fncc ; or , If It were , my flying was not against the Impression , but the baseness of the metal , because I well remembered that the Imago which Nobuchid. nczznr commanded to bo set up for all men to fall down and worship , It wns not ot copper , but of pure gold And I nm heartily sorry we have so few royal Images ot that metal among us ; the sight whereof , although It could hirdly Increase our veneration for his mnjcsty , which Is nlrcady so grcnt , yet would very much enliven It with the mixture of comfort and satisfaction " The dean could be serious e > nough , how ever , when ho came to the kernel of the argument , and one of his most weighty paragraphs has lost none of Its weight by the passage of n century and a half. "The histories of England , nnd ot most other countries , abound In rclntlng the miserable , and sometimes the most tragical , effects from the abuses of coin by debasing the metals , by lessening or enhancing the value upon occasions , to the public loss It Is the tcndcrest point of government , affecting every Individual In the highest degree When the value of money Is arbitrary or un settled , no man can well bo said to have any property at all ; nor Is nny wound so suddenly felt , so hardly cured , or that leaves such deep and lasting scars behind. " At this third letter the English govcin- ment decided to prosecute the writer. Swift's authorship was universally suspected by this time , but nny Informer against him would hnvo been In peril of his life , so fully was the Drnplcr supported by the people The printer , Harding , however , was arrested and tin own Into prison. At the same time , thinking It wisest to try conciliation as well as coercion , Wnlpole recalled the lorel lieu tenant , the duke of Grafton , a man of llttlo ability , and sent Instead a personal friend of Swift's , the able and brilliant Lord Cnr- teret. It was determined to press the case against Harding The grand Jury , however , when the matter wns brought before thorn , threw out the bill The chief Justice , Whit- shed , dismissed them , with a furious de nunciation unworthy of his station , and an other grand Jury was summoned They proved more obstinately patriotic still , for their first act was to present Wood's half pence as a common nuisance. "The popu lar outcry , " says Coxe , In his "Memoirs of Walpole , " "wns so violent that the lords justices refused to issue the orders for the circulation of the coin A general panic seized even the king's bust friends , who were apprehensive of popular commotions. People ple of all descriptions and parties flocked In crowds to the bankers to demand the money , and diew their notes with an express - press condition to be paid In gold or silver. The publishers of the most treasonable pamphlets escaped with Impunity , provided Wood and his patent were Introduced into the work. " Ucatcn at last , the Englisn ministry gave up the fight. Wood's patent wns cancelled , and he was allowed a pension of 3,000 a jcni for eight u ri > as a compensation for the IOM of his \pietcd profits So ended | the brilllnnt campaign ot the dean ot St. ; Pali Irks ftRtinsl ll'p detested halt-pence ' 'n triumph fhlih taught Ireland for the * Hi si tlmo In r hlitory to subslltulo const- ) \ tutlonnl Agitation for the old system of re- | bclllon , and which united every clttt , churchman , Catholic and dissenter , Into nn : IrtCfslstiblo phnlriiiN" So grcnt wns the j power of the "Drnplcr s" name henceforth \ that iniiny venrs after. In 174 * . when Swift , < $ In n stnto of absolute Imbecility , was fn t i sinking Into his grave a new "Urnplcr's let- j tci ' was I "sued by some unknown hand , to * ' dUMindo the Irish from listening to the In- suirccttonary appeals ot the Jacobites , anil t wns entirely successful , the Diaplcr'a nd- vlco being held In nlmost superstitious cn cratlon by the common people , who supposed that Swllt hail milled long enough to com pose this letter In a lucid Interval U wns probably however , vvilttcn by Chesterfield certainly not by the dcnn ot St Patrick's , who e caustic nnd potent pen hnd been lalfl down foicvcr jcnrs before. sii.vnu rorvriur.o. Tin- I'oiintrjhleh I'miocintu Ic Mro ftir t nolo sum , Mexico Is n silver standard country , u.ayt the Iloston Commcrclnl Hulk-tin She ha n large national debt The Interest on 20GS7 , OGO is payable In London It Is not even payable In Mexico The London In debtedness Is greater than the Mexican In debtedness Guatemala Is n silver ntnndaid country. Of her debt , SS7,700 Is owed abroad. Honduras Is n silver standard country. Practically the wholo'of her debt Is owed 1 abroad and not n cent of Interest IIHS lion- s durns been able to pay since 1872. i Nicaragua Is n silver country She owes 2riOOO In London on which she hns been obliged to default payment of the Interest , Salvador Is n sllvci country She Owes 254 000 In London Paraguay Is n silver country She de clared herself bankrupt to her foreign cred itors In ISM ! nnd Issued new bonds In exchange changefoi her old ones nt about 50 cents on the dollar Paraguay has Juat defaulted the Interest on the halt of hei debt which she hnd not previously repudiated. She owes now In Europe fc3,5BO. ( ! with defaulted Interest amounting to over 70,500. Peru Is a silver country. She had n foreign debt of 31 579.0SO , with ai rears of Interest nmotintlng to 2.1,198,651. Doing utterly unnblo In P.TV. the > European bond- holdciH hnd deeded to them in exchange nil the stntcs' rnllwnys , gunno deposits , mines nnd Innds for a period of sixty-six years. Bolivia Is a silver country Her "ex ternal" debt to foreign corporations Is 2000,000 bolivianos The debt owed at * homo Is 4,428 703 bolivianos Forty per 1j cent of the customs dues nt Arlca nrc by Inw seized by the foreign bondholders. China Is n silver country It Is a mnttcr In the memory of every citizen that the money to pay Chinas vvai Indemnity was raised by a loan In Europe The Jap.aneso commission has just gone to London to col lect It Her February loan of 1885 was 3,000,000 , payable In gold , and her customs revenue Is today mortgaged In terms to foreign syndicates The United States pavs la gold and borrows nt 3 per cent. Chlnn's foreign loan of December , 1S94 , ot $8,000.- 000 , payable In silver , cost 7 per cent In Interest. Janan the most prosperous of the silver countries. Is paying nt the rate of 7 per ceut for a foreign Indebtedness of 2,110,112 yen. The bulk of her debt loaned her In silver by her own citizens costs her 5'/z per cent per annum Japan's financiers favor the adop tion of a gold basis. India Is on n silver basis Of n total debt , funded nnd unfunded , of 227,351,398 rupees , 108,111,792 Is foreign debt owed to England. 'Sixteen ' million pounds sterling n year must be paid ill England This Is paid In gold , while the taxes raised In India ale silver. Is It extraordinary that India has stopped the coinage of silver In order to got upon a gold basis nnel relieve herself of a heavy yoke that was yearly growing heavier' Russia Is on a silver basis , but she has been forced Into nn Indebtedness of gold rubles of l,89S)07,49fi ) Russia -vas forced to ask permission of foreign bankers betoio she went te > war. Wo didn't liav. to able that permission. Russia Is about to adopt the gold basis I \\oinli-r AVlij- . 30 | < I j.ijuais oqj 8,11 Osniiooo. i oi | . . 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