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Japanese sleep on the floor. They
have thick comfortables. which they
spread on the floor at night and
which they pack away in cupboards
in the daytime, and these constitute
the bed. The Burmese also sleep on
the floor, but they usually spread
down mats, instead OF comfortables,
and their pillows are of bamboo. The
same discomfort of sleeping arrange
ments prevails all over the east and
there is not a washstand in any Asiatic
bedroom.
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Not tho eama

A thin. nervous looking man stepped
up to the pastor as the latter came.
down from the pulpit
''You have had good deal to saw.
this moraing" he observed, .about a.
teller that killed man n .med Abel"
Certainly" replied the pastor.
" The Sin OF Cain was the subject of
my discourse"
II visit you'd do mo the favor next
Sunday" said the thin man, in some
excitement, Ito tell the folks that the
man you was talking about this morn
ing amt no relation to the Kane that
keeps a livery stable down by the
grist mill. I don't want none of nv
friends to think that had q hand in
that killin'. That's all Good day."
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knees as they tread the suds, and the
French women pound the dirt out with
paddles. often slapping the clothes
upon stones as the Egyptians.
MONSIEUR roNsoN AGAIN.
Tho Real Sea Serpent This Time and No MS
take About 1t.

Tho Real Sea Serpent This Time and No Mis-.
take About 1t.
Capt. Jim Emmons showed his boat
through the surf and started to sea
few days ago to fish, says Long
Branch letter. At about 6:15 a. M.
while anchored about half mile from
shore between Hoey's Hollywood pier
and ''Tackanassee" Lake, he had an
experience which left an impression
on his mind that haunts him yet.
Looking toward the shore he saw
something rise out of the water. At
first he thought it was sturgeon, but
it kept rising taller and taller until he
plainly saw about twelve feet of the
head and neck of some monster of
the deep. The head was decidedly
snake-like. It was black. the neck
just back of the head being about the
thickness Of telegraph pole.
The monster looked around, as If
getting its bearings, and then disap-
peared beneath the water. As it
went down the body was plainly visi-
BILE. The captain watched for it to
show itself again.
A short distance off the snakes head
and neck appeared above water. This
time the neck was bent backward to-
wards the body. and the head was
curved short, something like a swans
when sailing. 1t was swimming south
broadside to the heavy ground swell.
Capt. Emmons had good view of the
immense black body as it rose and fell
on the seas. He describes it as looking
like sooner bottom-side up.
The captain did not fish any more
that day alone in small boat. He
wanted to 60 ashore, hut was afraid if
he moved he would attract the sea
monster attention. At last, evident
ly finding itself too near shore, it again
disappeared. going to the southwark.
Capt. Emmons says the strange ami
NAL looks like the pictures of the ex-
tinct plesiosaurus.
Capt Emmons is not troubled with
impaired vision, neither is he of an
imaginative mind. He is a well-known
gentleman. He was formerly captain
of Norman L. Munro's fast steam
yacht He nrietta-
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for each ship load OF enthusiastic pur-
chasers. Many have made tidy for
tunes in curios and trade. and an
nounced 1t not by totem poles and
great pottatches or feasts, as in olden
times, but by giving their house
coat Of gay paint. adding bay window
or balcony. The silversmith is the
busiest man in the community. works
to mindight and beyond. and delivers
his spoons and bracelets to the.anxious
tourists at any unearthly hour that he
may finish them. The craze for col
lecting spoons has finally reached west
ward and northward to Alaska. and
the summer visitors gather up horn
spoons and wooden spoons of the native
style and stimulate the Indian silver
smiths to hammering out spoons that
are neither Indian nor wholly Euro
pean. nor much of anything in design.
Left to themselves and their own ideas
the Indians will repeat in silver the
same designs they have always used in
shaping and ornamenting the spoons
or oil ladies' made from the horns OF
muck OK or mountain goat. Some OF
these silver spoons are quite unique.
and belong very properly to a collec-
ton OF spoons, but the common fiddle
shaped. electro-plate teaspoon, made
in q Connecticut factory and merely
etched over with totemic designs is the
trophy carried off in greatest numbers
by the summer tourist.
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CRUEL EMPRESS CATHERINE.
4 Smile at Her Expense Which Cost . Young
Omcer Life and Happiness.

4 Smile at Her Expense Which Cost . Young
Omcsr Life and Happiness.
The Veritzins were mobiles OF enor-
nous wealth and power. Paul held a
high Office in court. One night, gilt
tering with jewels and orders. the
young prince. who was one OF the
handsomest men in Russia, danced in
a quadrille opposite the Empress Cath
crime.
AS she passed him in the dance she
fancied that his eyes scanned her gross
figure in q covert amusement. After
the quadrille she beckoned to him. and
with smile handed him her tiny ivory
tables, containing seven pages. one for
each day in the week. On the first
was written:
1.-The imperial ball room. St Peters
burg"
On the last:
"The mines, Siberia"
He read it; his face grew gray as
that of a corpse; he bowed low, kissed
her hand and withdrew, taking"
says the old chronicle. This wife, the
beautiful Princess of Novgorod, with
him." He was heard to say as he left
the ball room:
my minutes are numbered, let US
not lose one"
Flight or resistance was impossible.
The hold Of Catherine on her victim
was memorable as death. Prince
Veritzin was forced to remain passive
in his palace, while each day the
power, the wealth and the happiness
that life had given him were stripped
from him.
First he was degraded from all his
Offices at court; next his estates were
confiscated by the crown; his friends
were forbidden to hold any commune
cation with him; his very name, one of
the noblest in Russia, was taken from
him and he was given that of serf
Then his wife and children were taken
out of the palace to herd with beggars.
The last day." says the record,
paul Veritzin, in rags and barefoot,
chained to convict, babe an eternal
farewell to his home. and departed to
the dark and icy north. He was seen
of men no more. "-Chatter.
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Avoiding . Misunderstanding.

McCorkle-Did I tell you about fish
swallowing q snake. that I saw while
away on my vacation?
McCrackle-No; but before you be-
gin ! want fosask you one, question.
'.Ail right
rs this snake story or q fish
st0ryp''
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Wh,re She Draws the Line.

A won, IN will face frowning world
and cling to the man she loves through
the most bitter adversely, but she
wouldn't wear hat that was out OF
style to save the government Ram
Horn.
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HICKS ct Court.

What did you say when you were
presented to the queenp"
''Oh. put on u big bluff. I don't
knuckle down to royalty. Ibuzzed her
for q minute and then asked her what
her name was Said I hadn't caught
it"-New York Sun.
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bare feet If the weather is warm she
will pull her clothes down to. her
waist and will feel no shame though
the street be full OF people. No blu
ing is used and as for boiling out the
dirt in a tin boiler this is unknown.
The Chinese girls do their washing in
much the same way save there is not
so much publicity about it, and the
pretty short-haired beauties of Siam
wear their gowns on them into the big
river and wash them while. taking
their bath. When they get through
they trot up the steps of their float.
ing houses and wrapping a clean
sheet around their bodies they slip off
the wet clothes from under it and
wiring them out to dry. Many OF the
Indian girls battle in the same way in
the Ganges and the washing in Egypt
is usually done by the men. The
Egyptian washerman stands naked on
the banks of the Nile and slaps the
wet clothes with noise like the shot
of pistol on the smooth stones at the
edge of the running water. and such
fellah women as wash pound the di TT
out Of their clothes in the same way.
The Scotch girls tramp the dirt out of
the washing with their shapely feet,
tucking their dresses up above the
The advocate., 1890-05-14

tens and twenties, and nothing Of o
higher denomination,
For cash exchanges with the industrial
classes, a 800 or $1,000 bin isof no more
service than 800 or $1,000 Of silver bull
lion.
Open your hearts senators, to the suf
Hering Of your oountymon. Pass the
Teller bin and silver will Immediately go
back 10 its old standard Of aiX'ccnto one
Then $l in American silver coin, or the
certificates thereof, will exchange Mt par
with the gold sovereign Of England in
any commercial nation in the world, and
why? Because the nominal value Of all
money, no matter Of what material, Is
fiat value, and the fiat Of congress Of this
great nation will maintain its legal
tender money Mt It's nominal value ms
long as the government exists.
O. +. BURToM
New York. April 2S, 1890.
The advocate., 1890-05-14

A great many of the farmers about
here have been SETTLING up" with the
holders Of their mortgages. They deed
their property for the face Of their debt,
and receive u contract from the mortgage
holder TO re-deed to them within given
time, on the payment Of the original debt,
with costs and interests added provided
the property has not been sold before the
expiration Of the time named in the con-
tract We know Of eleven farms in one
township which have been decided In this
way.
again, great many mortgages are
now being cancelled on the records that
have grown old through neglect in hOv-
ing them released at the time Of payment,
and the old party organs and strikers are
doing vast amount of blowing about
how many more mortgages are being re-
leased than are recorded And the two
fncts OF the matter hero cited show on
what their blowing is based.
Everything possible is being done To
fool the people as TO the condition OF
things, and the most monumental lying
ia done and will continue to be done to
prevent change of the system that has
been and is producing such universal
distress
The advocate., 1890-05-14

/ HHOuHleu VI To@,7oVtoi 'io'
will not burden the reader with other
contradictions in other reports, in other
years, but / will introduce some testi
mony that may explain TO you why such
differences exist / will now quote from
History Of National Loans, p. l53 bay
Iloy) "Loan Of July and August, 1861,
authorized &25O,OOO,0OO, amount issued
$l8O,32l,35O. The cash received by the
treasurer ON the first S50,0O0,OOO was sl6,-
O3,12775. Deduct from this $7,G503j
Misc. cor. warrant No. 330 and 100000
Misc. warrant No 2l2) enormously cred.
tied to this loan and 81, ,l4,2i075 accrued
interest and tho result is $A4,G ,23iOl,
the true sum received as principle. Page
l55, same volume, 1885 loan 1861, act
authorized $2JO,OOO,OOO The cash re-
ceived by the treasury in 1862 O3 on ac-
count OF this loan (receipts and expendi
lures 1861, page %, 1863, page 22) was
&ls8,G7G,O353L
In an examination Of this account
several discrepancies have been discoy-
cred G?
Corrections have been made as follows:
To the amounts before stated has been
added S3O,4OO enormously covered as 60
day treasury notes Of 1861; also S500,OOO,
part Of warrant No. 210, first quarter 1862
enormously covered as $40 Of 1862; also
$50, amount short in the account Of N. w.
Goodhue, subscription agent; also 1886,
erroneously covered as interest by differ
ent warrants. These additions Il have
omitted some) make total Of $l8i,4lO,-
427 .3S, from which the following deduc-
tions have been made: $44,&5,0OO,
amount deposited by the associated
banks (when0 on account Of this loan,
but returned to them in moRey, etc, etc,
and S3t, 1887 get remaining uaddjusted
alcaitiRg investigation, etc.
Brother Haysoeders, what do you think
Of such records, and such bookkeeping?
Remember that it is not Old Fogy that
says this. | am quoting word for word
and give the chapter and verse Of their
own publications and made 10y sworn
officers.
This reading is 50 entertaining that |
will quote you more Of it (same page);
"These deductions will leave Sl30,099,750
as the amount received There was S45,
600 in notes received by the treasurer and
not issued, but returned as statistical.
These differences, amounting to $685.
GOO, will account for an apparent Issue to
this extent, as shown by prior account
undertake to say that / could fill an
entire issue of the Progressive Farmer
with quotations Of similar character.
But have given enough TO show why 1t
is that different figures are frequently
given.
We all remember when the cry re-
sounded all over the land: "Turn the
rascals out" "Llet us examine the
books" "We will expose the frauds"
AT last the party in power was turned
out Was there an examination Of the
books? Did Mr.. Cleveland's administra-
ton expose the frauds? Or did his ad-
ministration hob-nob with banks, bank
ers and government bookkeeping ex-
perts?
The people were disgusted with his
The advocate., 1890-05-14

! nntrg but the nhnt EAcuhr NHhNOt AkNH "'
Advanced.
From the National yiewl
The great crime Of 1878, abolishing the
coinage Of the siyor standard unit OF
value IN our monetary system, establish
cd by the fathers Of our republic In l792,
was accomplished sureptitously by one
United States senator, In secret conclayo
with agents Of foreign and domestic
bankers.
The amendment which abolished the
standard silver dollar passed both houses
without reading and nota dozen members
knew that they were voting 70 demonetize
silver, and even the president said he did
not know the purpose Of the bill when he
signed IL.
n the senate compromise bill should
become law, let no member Of congress,
nor the president plead Ignorance Of the
crime attached to II, nor Of lbs far.reach-
ing evil effect upon every industry In
the nation except banking and gambling.
The passage Of the compromise bill
would continue the evils which the in
dustrial classes have borne for seventeen
years, because II would not increase our
currency materially, nor prevent England
from purchasing our silver bullion ut a
price which would yield her from % TO 30
per cent profit when coined into rupees
in India, and with that coinage purchas-
ing the wheat product Of Ryot labor at 5
cents day.
Under this system Of cheap silver and
Ryot labor, our farmers cannot obtain
paying prices for wheat nor n foreign
market for their surplus product This
system Is bankrupting the farmers, and
as they have no profit in their business,
they have no money to purchase maRu
lactured goods, and hence a wlthering
blight falls upon trade and commerce all
over the nation.
When the great farming interest Is
placod in competition with foreign labor
at 5 cents per day, and 25 per cent profit
is given on American silver to pay that
labor with, farmers cannot purchase
goods Of merchants and manufacturers
for their products, and consequently a
small and Improbable business for the
great transportation companies
The act Of 1878 abolishing the coinage
Of the standard silver dollar continues to
steadily pauperize tho industrial classes
and multiply crimes Of all kinds.
The senate compromise bill would give
no relief to our present condition. The
evil purpose Of that bill is plainly shown
in published interview with Senator s.
He said:
The chief division Of opinion was on the mode
OF redemption OF the treasury notes Issued t0I
the purchase OF the bullion. The solution OF thls
question, / think, is happy one, making tht
treasury notes payable In lawful money
Making the certificates payable In law
full money makes them unlawful money
and hence there would be no increase In
our currency, because the bankers would
exchange the certificates for legal tender
notes as fast as they were issued, and
there are legal tender notes enough ia
keep the certificates out Of circulation,
The senate is too aristocratic body tc
legislate for a republic. 1t is constantly
leglslatlng in the interest Of foreign mon
arches. Will it not at this critical period
The advocate., 1890-05-14

tender money MT It's nominal value ms
long as the government exists.
O. +. BURToM
New York, April 2s, 1890.
-s e----.---
GOVERNMENT BOOKKEEPING.
Good Reading for Farmers and ThOught'Food
for Editors, iy Old FOgy.
From the Progressive Farmer
have had 40 many requests for infor-
nation IN reference to the national debt,
and the amount Of currency in actual cir
culaton, that have taken the time, af-
ter the days work in the office was done,
to compile for the Progressive Farmer
the statements made by the officials,
supposed to be authority on the subject
Ere you will have finished this article
you will understand why say "oillcials
supposed TO be authority etc.
Twill now quote from the report on
finance, 1884, page 27:
THE PUBLIC DEBT AND THE CONDITION OF
THE TREASURY
On August 81, 1865, the indebtedness
Of the United States, not including the
bonds issued To the Pacific railroad com
panies:
Debt bearing coin interest. .,,.o,oSl ,i0S3i0,l9l
Debt hearing currency Interest,", l,2732O,lOj
M0tured debt etC, ,,,,',,,,',''' ii1V5iVsV
Debt bearing no interest"o'r,'''' 4bl,OlO'Jll
S9,Sii,Gl0,O20
sIgnedl HUGH MCCuLLocu, Secretary.
(The discrepancy apparent at the right
of the column Is due to the fact that |
omitted the cents from the table,
will now quote from the treasury OF
facts edited by A. r. Spoirord, librarian
Of congress, 1889, page 30; "Public debt
of the United States, $2,OSO,0l7 1862"
You will please note that there is n
triamg difference Of si040Oi, ,757, and the
Pacific bonds are supposed tobe included
in Mr.. spoGord's tables.
On page GO, Mr.. SpolFord says
Total debt bearing interest. st..,..oS2,iS ,iSi $50, ga
! Debt on which interest hnS ceased, l,2l61ll
| Debt bearing no interest ,,,.,,,,,,' FSUJO,lSU
(NIy tOtaD aD..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..,,S2 W, $40, 500 2lb
Outstanding ciple,.,,,,.,,".,'' 2,6SO0i,SggI
| Or a difference Ot.",,.,,,,,,,,,''' lVN2lnfo
This difference seems immense to us
poor hayseeders
Again there is difference Of S3,1S3OSl
as compared with the report first quoted
(Finance report
Mr.. SpOfford claims that these figures
are from the official statement OF the
treasury, and they are, On page 5O8,
finance report, you will find the figures
just as Mr.. Spofford gives them, although
contradictory to figures on the same sub
iect in the same volume ofreports. All OF
these figures relate to the debt in 1865
and at the same time Of year.
Now to the amount Of the bonds issued
by the government to the Pacific rail
roads. PC. xxx, report Of secretary OF
the treasury, 1880; Statement Of thirty
year per cent bonds issued to the Pacif-
ic railroad companies under acts Of July
1, 1862, and July 2, 1864 Amount OF
outstanding bonds, $64,623,512." For
fear the word outstanding" might lead
to the impression that some had been re-
deemed, would add that on the same
page tho amount paid by the govern
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-28
An odd Civil Service Move.

The arrest ut the instance Of tho Civil
Service Commission OF two members OF
the Old Dominion Republican Club Of
Washington for levying campaign asscss.
mcnts for the campaign OF last autumn
Is explained to be for tho moral effect 1t
may have. Iii Is further explained that
there Ia no intention 10 prosecute the
men. Tho explanation Is, Of course, un-
official.
1t also does not explain whether the
Civil Service Commissioners iairly up-
prccialo tho figure they would cut by
such mocsery rs Ii credited to them.
Unless they intended to prosecute they
should not have begun tho proceedings.
Tho levying Of political assessments
may 10 4 great evil, but a mockory Of
Justice will always BIO a greater one.
More over so long as there arc political
parties and politica! campaigns political
partisans will DO asked to contribute and
they will do 1t. aa'..
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IN MEliOHIiaI.
Resolutions of Regard md Respect to the
Memory of Brother Samuel Richardson,
of Washington Camp, No. 1, r. o. s. OF a.,

Resolutions OF Regard md Respect to the
Memory of Brother Samuel Richardson,
of Washington Camp, No. /, r. o. s. OF ~,
of Wheeling, W. Va.
,WHEEEAs:I y has pleased the Great Girer OF all
innings III HIS beachclcnt wisdom. 10 remove
from our mids: our dearly beloved brother and
companion, samuel Richardson, who departed
the scenes Of earthly strife on the afternoon OF
March 10, 1870.
WHEREAS, wctecl that In the death OF Brother
hichhrdson, we have one and all lost II true
friend, ana this Camp, and the Order at large, n
Most jealous, active and earnest CHAMPION of
American institutions. 1' - =
We recall with feelings Of s0rrow anl be.
renvcment the sad circumstances OF his un.
timely taking of; aud yet, when we LOOK into
tue notable events OF tho lrnn, there is pleas.
ire, although melancholy one, IL recalling
the EAnd traits OF his character, As Il man, he
stood above aud beyond the criticisms OF the
and his many acts OF bcneyolcnce and charity
townrIs his brethren will be remembered long
alter his cones arc crnmblcd te dust. As Il
member CT The great Order OF Sons Of America
ms ie s1, nay been ns bright MS the MONDAY
sun MS hcart WIS In the cause, his purse WAS
ever ready at his country's call. Memory has
woven bright Caslunds over his bier, mud his
name VIII 80 onward to tho Grand Camp on
high 70 ION the laundering hosts who gave
tleir lives TO their country, aud It's freedom and
10 posterity. Bu 1t therefore,, 49,. ~
Reso!rtd. Tint while We bow In humble and
l3Wly submission TO the Will OF b I'm, who .oclh
all things well, we feel that our broiher and
comrnde has gone TO his lust reward, into the
eternal GLORY Of God, where neither moth nor
rust corrupt. "
Rtsorett, Tint copy OF these resolutions be
spread upon the records OF this camp; that a
copy be sent TO hls bercavcd widow and dear
children. and that the newspapers Of the cfty be
requested to publish them liz iull.
+. JOSEPH Il. DEGAET,
JOHN &. MANLEi,
WM. ". ROGERS,
Committee.
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declaration Is unworthy Of the nan
who uttered it, and was made with q
deliberate intention OF incorporating
honorable antagonists. lie should hide
his iaco In shame after making 1t. The
only bill passed by tho Legislature pro.
viding for reforms in elections was re,
publican measure.
These things, together with the "two"
crime committed by Governor Wilson,
the ballot box outrage in Wetzcl county,
tho contingent proceedings in Ohio
county, and tho many other Democratic
crimes In connection with tho Congress.
ional elections, the Republicans are
ready to discuss, but they did no. expect
90 bitter n Democrat as General Sprleg
10 give tho cue.
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BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Metal ties for railroads are proving
very satisfactory, ''' w, 9.
-Four silver salt cellars OF tho sixteenth
century sold In London lately for 500.
The Rainbow fire company OF Read.
ing, Pa. celebrated It's ll7th anniversary
recently.
In the cemetery near Detroit aro tho
graves OF three husbands OF the same
woman-all In row. .. l. z
Zachary Taylor Is the historic name OF
man who Is TO be hanged ut Wayncs.
burg, Pa, In April. 4
Twelve hundred disabled Confederate
soldiers draw pensions In North Caro-.
lima, and $500 widows.
An immense ilumc, four and onchali
miles long, Is to DO built ut Spokane.
The Pipe IL to DO made OF steel and will
DO twenty-five inches In diameter.
Ono Of the big lie insurance com.
panies OF New York intends to put up q
building In Salt Lake City that will cost
81 100000.
An exhibition OF q thousand different
sorts Of horse shoes, including some
made by tho ancient Romans, Is now 20.
Ing on In London.