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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

From tho Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Many clergymen haye pulpit voice,
When they are out of church they speak
as other people do. They do not employ
a deep chest note when they inquire of
the butcher respecting the price Of roast
beef, and they do not use dismal mono
tone when they discuss domestic matters
with their wives and children. But as
soon as they get into church they uncon-
sciously assume an artificial tone; and
they are apt to do this when they haye
any devotional functions to perform. 1t
has often been observed that if minis
ter who is chatting easily and naturally
at table should be asked to say grace, he
will suddenly assume his pulpit voice, ar
ticulate with 1t during the ceremony, and
then resume the conversation in his
natural voice with the dexterity of ven
trilsquist. The pulpit voice is probably
attributable to desire to give solemn
ty and impressiveness to the perfor-
nance. II results from an effort to con-
vey to the hearers the deep sense Of awe
which may fairly be supposed to suffuse
the clerical mind. But the result to the
listener is far more likely to be an almost
resistless tendency to go to sleep. rhe
effective voice always is the natural voice.
The skillful actor touches every chord in
the entire gamut Of passion, and gives
force and effect to every phase of senti-
ment, without putting any undue STRAIN
upon his vocal machinery. A great truth
must be far more impressive when 1t is
urged in the speakers ordinary tones,
modified only by whatever influence Of
sincere feeling may govern the speakers
mind, than when it is offered in an arti-
fetal voice about which there be no sug-
gestion Of genuine passion,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
Conclusive Appearances.

Ayoung Colorcd woman recently attend.
ed an Episcopal Sunday-school in this
city with view of joining the Church.
She had been brought up a Presbyterian,
The minister directed her to learn the
Apostles creed. The clause 81 believe in
the holy Catholic Church" disturbed her,
for she wanted to remain a Protestant.
The minister explained the passage ia
her, and she seemed satisfied, Subse.
quently she attended service at the church
and saw the rector of the parish robed in
white surplice, enter and kneel near the
eagle lectern, or reading-desk. The col
ored woman fed from the church. She
said afterwards; "When seed dat word
Cat lie in print my 'spicions was reused,
but when dat minister cum into dc meet.
In with dat gown on him and got down
and prayed to dat duck, why, bress me,
den | know'd he was a Cattle.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
The Financial Telescope.

From the Tcrre IIaute Express.
The more a telescope magnfes an oh
ject by looking through it from one end
the more it contracts by looking through
it from the other. Just 80 with resump
ton.
The bankers and the usurcrs are now
looking through the specie basis telescope
and see that it magnities every dollar OIL
their interest incomes many per cent. lar
ger than they were when the debtor con.
tracted to pay them.
1t makes the sinners larger and brighter
From their standpoint 1t is magnificent
instrument.
The big end always points to dollars,
while the little end always points to labor
and its products.
From the money end now look at the
other. In the same ratio that the pur-
chasing power of dollars is magnifed from
the creditors standpoint, the means ot
payment are dwarfed from the debtors
standpoint.
When labor and enterprise agreed to
pay the interest dollar to the usurer, it,
and the products from which it, was to be
derived, bore normal relation to each
other. This relation was the basis of the
contract. Justice, and the sacred obliga-
tions of contracts demand that this rela.
ton Should continue till the debts are
liquldated.
II all the farm mortgages Of the country
which amounts to thousands of millions
Of dollars, had, by the terms of their con-
tracts, obligated the mortgages to give a
number Of bushels of wheat instead of dol
lars, and because the farmers are more
numerous than any other class OF voters
they should legisate that 40 instead of60
pounds of wheat should constitute a legal
buShel in the payment ofall wheat obIiga.
tons, it would be manifestly unjust and
unfair.
At the time the present Indebtedness Of
the country was contracted, the surplus
annual products of labor and enterprise at
their then value would have been ample to
meet both interest and principal and leave
a margin for profit.
But as soon as the contracts were closed
a false and treaCherous measure was de-
vised and adopted, called Resumption.
By the and of this machine the dollar is so
magnifed, and the means OF payment 60
contracted, that the former corners twice
as much of labor's products, while the
latter are made to weigh and measure 50
per cent. less than they did when the con-
tracts were entered into.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
Reynolds wife died suddenly that morn

Reynolds wife died suddenly that morn
ing with heart disease.
Walter Gibbs went home with the
nervous abstraction all gone from his
manner, and a hard endurance in it;
stead George Reynolds was free now
free to win Rachel Moffat if he could, and
she who loved him once was free to accept
him. 81 couldn't be satisfied with q
doubtful love, " he sad; III will wait"
He waited until the Judas-trces were
in blossom again, and then he went to
Medbury.
"lt's awaiting on Rachel Mohat,
George Reynolds is" one of the Medbury
gossips told him. And his wife not un.
der the sod year yet! They were old
schoolmates, and knew each other from
childhood, and we used to think it would
make match before he ever married that
helpless city girl, and haven t any doubt in
my own mind but it will make match
now. George Reynolds is going to have
a tea party next week, and that will show
which way the wind is blowing"
Walter Gibbs went to George Reynold' s
tea-drlnklng. He said to his mother he
would not miss it for fortune. Rachel
Moifat was there, walking now and then
with George Reynolds, and talking with
him ever and anon; but then it was
Rachel's habit to be kind to every one
who came in her way. Late in the even
ing Walter Gibbs missed her from the
parlor. He looked around for George
Reynolds, but he, too, was gone. "The
Medbury gossip was right" he thought.
This tea party is showing which way
the wind is blowing" He walk
ed to the window and looked
out, deserving Rachel Mohat's nut-
tering garments down winding
path. George Reynolds was by her
side, and the way they took was toward
the South Away off to the north the
Judas-tree stretched out its pink branches
in the moonlight. "The wind sets un-
fayorably," Walter Gibbs said with
sigh.
Half an hour later George Reynolds
passed Walter in the hall. His brow was
clOuded and his lips worked nervously.
ale looks like one on whom the north
wind has blown" Walter Gibbs thought,
and went IN pursuit of Rachel Motfatt
He found her standing in the moonlight,
her long shadow rejecting from her fig.
ure and the branch of Il Judas-tree she
held in her hand. lie approached her,
and stood where her shadow fell.
"Rachel," " he said, with all his heart
in his voice. 81 would like to walk in
your shadow henccforth, if you are going
that way"
Rachel Moifatt looked up with startled
eyes into the face above her; the pink
flowers with their fatal significance fell
from her hand, and the irregular outlines
of two confused shadows, never henceforth
to be parted, lay upon the greensward. in
the frosts OF the following Winter the
Iudas.tree died, and the place thereof
knew itno more.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04


Charles Langheimer, Dickens Dutch
man, is in prison again. On Saturda!
afternoon he walked into the office of Ad
ans q Story's iron foundry. Ninth street
below Girard avenue, and was helping
himself to some cash from the safe, wher
an employe came in and seized him
When taken to the twelfth District Sta.
tion House, Langheimer gave the name oi
David Sutler, but Lieut.. Axe recognized
him as the veteran sneak thief, and had
him conveyed to the Central Station.
Langheimer, when arraigned before Mag
istrate Smith, said he was seyenty-siS
years old. He was well clad, and very
respectable looking.
The Magistrate demanded $1,000 bail
for ''the Governor, and as Langheimer
could not furnish it, he was sent to Moya-
mensing, and soon after passing through
the formalities of trial will occupy the
cell in the Eastern Penitenhary in which
about thirty years of his life have been
spent. In this cell, thirty years ago,
Charles Dickens had an interview with
Langheimer, and in his American
Notes" the great novelist made such
mention of Langheimer that ever since he
has been known as Dickens Dutchman.
Dickens wrote of the horrors of solitary
confinement, and described Langheimer's
cell and his little garden 'loolSing for all
the world like little grave"
When Langheimer was discharged from
the penitentiary, about year ago, he was
10th to go, and begged the Inspectors tc
permit him to remain. Langheimer is
hale and hearty, and looks as if able tc
stand several years more of solitary con.
finement, with all its evil effects, as de
scribed by Dickens.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
The Prince of Wales Julop.

From the Richmond (Va.) Wing,
Rev. Fields Cook, colored, formerly Of
this city, now of Alexandria, has in his
possession quite an interesting relic in the
shape of a photograph of the monster
julep made by Jim Cook, his brother, 70,
the Prince of Wales, during his visit tc
Richmond in 1853. Jim was the bartender
at the Exchange and Ballard, and was
widely known by all residents and regular
visitors at Richmond for the excellence o.
his mixed drinks and the superior charac'
ter of his turtle soup. The iulep in quest
ion was made in a quart tumbler, was in
closed in a pyramid of grated ice, orna
mented with roses The suckers or straw,
through which the iulep was drawn were
inserted at convenient points in the pyra
mid. The prince is represented to have
been much delighted with the taste dis
played by Jim, and on his departure from
the hotel sent him fiye S. gold pieces,
which Jim rehgiouSly preserved to The day
of his death.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
Sad But Inevitable.

A small boy yesterday stepped upon a
but of plank and had the bottom of his
foot punctured by nail projecting there
from. He had heard that nail wound in
the foot caused lockjaw and lockjaw
caused death. He therefore sat down on
the edge Of the sidewalk and considered
himself goner. Sammy" said he to a
companion, "l've got to die. III be
took with the lockjaw in about mint
then III die. I'd like to see mother first,
but I've got to die and go to Heaven, and
/ cant help it,"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
From tho Terro Haute Express.

Dear money means low wages for labor.
Low wages deprive nine-tenths of the
population Of the means OF purchasing
what they need.
Want Of means to purchase deprives
production of customers. Lack of custom.
ers stop production.
The stoppage reproduction throws labor
out Of employment.
Want Of employment deprives labor of
the means of subsistence, while the in.
stincts Of self.preservation drive the desti-
tute to desperation, crime and violence.
Such Il condition of society the rising
value Of money and the declining prices Of
products have always produced History
is replete with proof Of the truth of this
statement, and as effect follows cause, the
harvest of our present sowing will be dis
aster.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

A horse sold by a farmer living in
Columbia Township, Tuscola County,
Mich, last fall, to man in Ohio, recently
appeared at the gate Of its old home, after
having travelled over 800 miles. 1t left
the premises Of the owner about n month
ago, and was supposed to have beer
stolen
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
Where Ignorance Is Bliss.

Onion parties are popular in Tuscarora.
Six young ladies take an onion with them
into room and one Of the number takes
a bite it. Then young gentleman is
admitted and after kissing all Of them, If
he fails to tell which one of them bit the
''ingun," then the girls are all Of them
compelled To kiss him, or he is compelled
TO kiss all Of them, the chronicler forgets
which
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
Mrs, Burdett COutts,

From the Chicago Inter. Ocean.
We do not know of any more sugges.
tive or helpful menage to send to you,
good friends, during these enervating days
than Il little record of one of the royal
women of the century, Baroness Burdett
Coutts, the woman distinguished as pos
sessing more wealth than any other pri.
vatc woman in the world and a woman
honored throughout the world for her
wise use of her fortune. We are indebted
to Sarah |. Hale for an interesting sketch
from which we condense the following
statement: Miss Burdett Coutts is the
youngest daughter of Sir Francis Burdett,
Bar, a philanthropist and reformer,
whose political career is well known. Her
mother was Sophia, youngest daughter of
Thomas Coutts, an opulent banker. She
was born April 2j, 1914. She was not
educated an expectant heiress, because her
grandfather's marrying with Miss Melton,
the actress, and his gift by will ofhis whole
fortune to the comparatively young wife
must have deprived his children OF any
expectancy from the step-mother, who
subsequently married the young Duke Of
st. Adams. But the Nmiable, atfectionate
and interesting Angela Burdett was ever
a iavoritc with her step.grandmother;
and as the latter had no children or near
relations of her own, she justly determin-
ed the fortune she had received from her
first husband should return to his family,
and wisely selected the youthful Angela
as her heiress, on condition that the heir
ess would assume the additional surname
and arms of Coutts, which, by royal
license, was permitted. In September,
1887, the subject OF our sketch took the
style and surname, and came into posses
sion OF the fortune, she being then 90
years of age" Since Miss Burdett-C Coutts
came in possession of her fortune she has
been indefatigable in her works of benev-
olence. In addition to her varied bequests
to public and private charities, she has
Quilt one church that accommodates 1000
persons, and endowed two schools where
400 children are educated.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

A devoted young mother of Reno has
devised new way of amusing her baby.
She puts the infant on the floor and props
it up with pillows. Then she smears a
few drops of tar on the baby's fingers and
gives it large feather. The baby sits
contentedly all day long, picking at the
feather. AS fast as the little fellow gets
it off one finger it sticks to another, and
thus affords him continual amusement.
Besides diverting the child 5 mind so well,
it is good thing, too, his mother thinks,
to make children handy with tar and
faaihare
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04
The Banks.


From the Terre Haute Express
"How DO banks make money!"
By drawing interest on their own debts,
and discounting their neighbors' debts.
What constitutes their own debts on
which they draw interest?"
Both their issue and their deno8its.
"What is the total sum OF these debts
on which they draw interestP"
The following from the report of the
coLlptroller of the currency for 1878 will
answer:
Total number Of national state
and savings banks. 1870; total
banking capital. al.............S 7O4,541943
circulation n........,...,.,..... 32U,OO0,OOO
Total of deposits '''' .......... 2,120, 1856, ,9s4
Total debts of banks. ,440, 735, 1884
"How did they get possession of so large
an amount Of deposits on so small circu-
lation?"
They loaned their circulation and took
mortgages and other securities. This cir
culatian soon found its way back into the
banks on deposits. The banks reloaned
it, and it was redeposited and reloaned
again.
They have thus reloaned it seven times,
and still have the same money back again
on deposit. So they own depositors $2,-
l20, 735, 1884, for which amount they hold
seen m,ties, and draw from to IL per cent.
interest.
This they have been able to do on IN
original issue of 1920, 100000, witch they
borrowed from the government on twenty
years time at one per cent. interest.
Suppose there was simultaneous gem
eral demand by depOsitors for their mon
ey?"
Nearly every bank in The country would
be obliged to suspend payment within
twenty-four hours. But this they have
guarded against by the contraction and
boarding of money, causing depression of
prices, so there would be no demand for
money until after they rope in the mort
gagged farms at the face of the mortgage.
Then, by virtue of the bank initiation law
of 1875, authorizing the increase of the
volume of bank currency without respect
to aggregate limit, they will not only
have ample means to pay depositors, but
the value of land will become so enhanced
that they can sell their confscated farms
for fabulous prices. Thus they set up the
people by initiation, and knock them down
by contraction, as men set up and knock
down ten-pins for stakes; all men submit
to be the dupcs of their games, all for the
"public credit
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

They cure all diseases of the stomach,
Bowels, Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys and
Urinary Organs, and $500 will be paid for a
case they will not cure or help, or for anything
impure or injurious found in them-Hop Bit
ters. Test It. Bee "Trpth-' or proverbs" in
! another column.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

The sporting papers make a great ado
about the Grand Circuit Trotting Meet
ings. The general public, however, does
not believe that there is an honest race
trotted at any Of them and are not intor
ested
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

If the government can't create money
for the banks, why not for itself and the
people?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

If greenbaCks are money, how can the
power of the government to create money
be denied?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

In 1866 the aggregate state debt OF the
United States was $39O,0OO0OO, and now
eleven states owe nearly $55O,00O,OOO.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

If bank notes are not money, from
whence do they derive their money quail.
ties2
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

If greenbacks are not money, then what
are bank notes?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

WE need no public credit" at u pre-
MUM. We can paddle our own canoe
If the government will give us the pad
die.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

If greenbackS are not money, did the
bondholders ever loan any money to the
government, having loaned nothing but
greenbacks?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

WHY should the money power that has
ac umuated colossal fortunes solely
through government protection and favor
iteism, be exempt from all government
support, when those out of whom it has
made these fortunes are compelled to bear
all the public burdens In addition to be.
ing robbedP
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

WHEN gold dollar basis is required tc
support paper dollar superstructure, il
takes two dollars to make one, and he
who has interest, principal Or taxes to pay
is obliged to pay two dollars for one; but
he who labors, or produces, receives really
but fifty cents for each dollar he earns Oh
produces.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

TIE most discreditable feature OF our
government is, that our statesmen depend
more upon the public credit, and national
honor, than they do upon the labor and
enterprise of our people, and their ability
with our boundless resources, to become
independent and defy the opinions of the
world,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

ALL we need is tools, and at the touch
of labor's hands our resources will yield
up their untold wealth, and give us credit
without sacrifice.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

THE greenback both possesses a value
and represents the value expressed upon
its face. When the government issues q
greenback, the man who receives it must
have delivered to the government for the
benefit of all the people the value of prop.
erty or services expressed on its face. 1t,
therefore, represents the value deposited
with the government by the holder, and as
this value deposited with the government
was for the benefit of all the people, every
person in society becomes debtor to the
holder, and by unanimous agreement ex-
pressed and recorded in the legal tender
act, every member of society is bound to
redeem it in anything he may have to
spare, or that the holder may desire in
place of the property or service he gave
for society to the government.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

TIE New York Public, a prominent
financial newspaper of the bullion school,
furnishes statistics to demonstrate that
the purchasing power of gold has in
creased "a per cent. since 1878, and that
there has been corresponding shrinkage
in wages of labor and the general prices
OF products,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

WE hear much of the danger of ou
credit being injured in the money markets
OF the world; but we never see in the
money'mill pass any recognition of the
fact that we have lost caste in the labor
markets of the world Yet labor creates
all and pays for all. Labor is the goose
that lays the golden egg of wealth, and
our government is killing labor. Let us
give some attention tothe labor market as
well as the money market.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

THE financial struggle now upon us il
to decide whether England shall pursue
and perpetrate this ruinous policy, OIL
whether the people will rise in theil
might and strike for second indepen
dence from the yoke Of British bondage.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

BUSINESS is like the animal organism.
After hog has nearly bled to death, it is
no sign of his immediate restoration be-
cause he bleeds less the last minute than
he did the minute he was stuck
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

The war of the revolution was fought
with irredeemable paper money, portion
of which for a time was what is known as
continental money" and the balance is
now issued by the state or colonies in the
form Of money.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

IT is as inconsistent to reissue Unit
ed States note after it has once been re-
deemed as it would be to reissue note
of hand after it had been paid, as the
goldites claim, why will not the same
principal apply to bank notes?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-04

HARD times, suspension of business,
failures and bankruptcy, tramping in
search of work, pauperism, crime, desttu-
tion, despair and suicide have increased
steadily as the value of currency arose to
an equivalency with gold.