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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-31
L. r. SPARHAWK,
PHOTOGRAPHER,

PfOlOGRAPHER,
and Dealer in Pictures and Frames, Cray
ons, etc. Call and see samples and get
prices of all kinds OF Portrait work.
Views of residences and out-of-6oor groups
taken on short notice.
No. p Pleasant street,
West Randolph, VT.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-31

r ayqsTnr. cures Licer Complaint,
L cosffTsaess At druggists. Price IS cts.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15
SILK CULTURE.
Directions for Raising the Worms on q
Small Scale

Directions for Raising the Worms on n
Small Scale.
The silk worm is the larva of a small
moth known as the silk-worm 10th. and
exists In four different stages-the egg.
the larva, chrysalis and adult. The eggs
should be procured in cold weather and
kept at sufficiently low temperature to
prevent them Matching until the food In
ready for them, and the weather suita-
ole, the latter being a very necessary
condition for the success of the busi-
ness. When ready to have them hatch.
the eggs should be kept at a regular
heat. seventy-five degrees, when thew
will begin to hatch in five or six davs
The leaves OF the white mulberry. or
Usage orange, must then be gathered
and placed near the little insects. which
should be in shallow pasteboard boxes.
Netting should be placed lightly over
the feeding boxes and fresh leaves
placed on it. The little worms will at
once crawl through the meshes, and
they can thus be removed from the
trash and dry leaves. Fresh leaves
should be gathered two or three times
day, or as often as they appear wilted,
the firmness of the cocoons and texture
OF the silk depending greatly on the fire.
quency OF feeding. The first feed should
be given about five o'clock in the MORN
ing and the last at twelve o'clock at
night. Care must be taken to spread
the leaves evenly.
AS the fifth or sixth day approaches.
signs of the first moult begin to apnear.
The little worms begin to lose their
appetites and dark spots show on the
head Feeding can now be discontinued
and the boxes cleaned. No food should
be given until they have cast the skin.
when 1t should be resumed and given
very freely. The space they occupv
must now be increased, as worms too
closely crowded do not thrive. The
same treatment is necessary for the
three succeeding months as in the first
one. The temperature of the raising
room should now be kept about eighty
degrees, and all variation should be
avoided.
After passing through the last moult-
ing stage, the worms will begin TO shrink
and become restless, and throw out the
SILK. The trays should now be placed
convenient to small branches or limbs
of trees. The worms will mount at
once and commence spinning. In two
or three days the work will be done.
and in six or eight the chrysa1is will be
formed and the cocoons ready for gath
ering Various modes of choking the
chrysalis are used. Exposure to heat
OF the sun, or steaming will answer.
but it is best to sell them before suffo-
cation is necessary.
White mulberry leaves are consid-
cred the best food, the black mulberry
is also suitable and the Usage orange is
quite as good as either Several ex-
cellent books on the subject of silk
culture are published and those desir-
ing to engage in the business would do
well to supply themselves with such. as
a thorough knowledge of the nature
and habits of the silk worm will insure
success in the business. Eliza z. Park
er. in The Home.
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FACTS ABOUT SILVER.

1t Has Continued to BE Money From Abra-
hams Time-Its First Use.
The exact date when silver was first
used as money is not known, but it was
money current with the merchant
in Abraham's time, and has continued
to be money without limit throughout
the world until within short period.
1t is still the money of large part of
the worlds population.
The first use of the metals as monev
was by weight.
Silver was coined at an early period
in Greece, hut no gold coins were struck
till Philips time, about $50 years be-
fore Christ
In ancient Rome copper was weighed
out by the pound, but later coined
money came into use.
Silver was coined in Rome about $50
years before the Christian Era, and
gold about so years later.
Silver was the standard money in
England till early in the last century,
and was full legal tender until 1916
when the gold standard was adopted
From 1857 to 1864 the value of gold
coins, as compared with silver, was reg
ulated in England from time to time by
proclamation. From 1864 to 1717 silver
was the only legal tender money, and
gold coins fluctuated according to the
market value of gold. In 1717 the re-
lations of the coins of the two metals
was fixed at 81 shillings for a guinea
BY this law gold was overrated, the
market ratio being about 2Os. Sd, and
gold, therefore became at this time the
principal currency of England.
Spain, before the revolution which
led TO the independence or the Spanish
American states, controlled nearly all
the gold and silver mines of the new
world, and her coins circulated in near
ly every country where commerce was
known. The Spanish milled dollar, or
piece of eight-eight reels-became a
standard coin in both hemispheres.
During the colonial period of this
country the metallic money consisted
entirely of foreign coins. OF these the
Spanish milled dollar came to be recog-
nized as the money unit and standard
of value in all colonies.
BY the articles of confederation, be-
fore the formation of the new constitu-
tion, the Spanish miIled dollar was
made the unit of value and money of
account
at the close of the revolutionary war,
when the continental paper money
passed out of use, foreign coins again
became the principal full legal tender
money in this country.
Thus, when the constitution was
formed, the money of the United States
consisted of gold and silver coins whol-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15
SIZES THAT SUIT.
Gloves That Suited I'm Size, but Not In
Their Numbering.

Gloves That Suited I'm Size, but Not In
Their Numbering.
81 want a pair of black suede gloves"
said the young lady to the clerk, and the
latter noticed that she was tall and fair,
and evidently from the very crown of
Murray Hill.
Yes, !" he said, in that tenderly ac-
qulescent tone peculiar to clerks who
sell to feminine customers. What size,
please?'
Five and three-quarters," she re-
piled. Then turning to her companion,
who was almost as fair and stylish as
herself, she said: Five and three
quarters is rather large, you know, but
/ never could bear tight glove
The clerk had gone for his boxes, and
presently returned, observing as he did
so that if the lady desired he would try
the gloves on. The lady did desire, and
balancing her elbow on the counter the
clerk proceeded to daintily rub the
glove over her upheld fingers. The
glove was certaidly perfect fit, being
just of sufficient size not to wrinkle in
the least, and yet did not distort the
hand
"Oh, what lovely fit," exclaimed
the companion of the young lady pur-
chasing the gloves. why, dearest,
you've very small hand, haven't
you ?''
well, five and three-ouarters is
rather large for it, as you see," said the
other, smiling serenely and contem-
plating her very attractive hand.
Five and three-quarters," echoed
the clerk. Permit me, MISS" and he
tHned down the wrist of the mate to
the glove the girl had on. Then he
smiled and said: 81 think have made
mistake. These are six and a quar-
ter"
There was silence for moment, and
1t is probable that one of the younp Ia
dies was mortified and angry w hile the
other was exultant.
six and quarter" exclaimed the
purchaser of the gloves. ''Wen,
should think they were large. knew
these weren't right. Why, they are
all wrinkled over the back Give me a
pair of the size asked for In the first
place And you needn't try them ON.
L know they'll fit. My hands are a lit
tie swollen this morning, any way."
The clerk put pair of five and three
quarter gloves into a paper, and the
two young women departed.
Another one of EN-" remarked the
clerk to companion after they had
gone. II knew her hand was a six and
a quarter when l saw it. She'll split
those others trying to get them on, and
then ask us to change them. How soon
will that new lot of false sizes be imp
There's no use of trying to get these
real ones off on women. That girl has
been getting the false five and three
quarters here lately, and we can't sell
her the same glove marked correctly"
1t is fact that sellers of gloves and
shoes have been compelled to mark
their goods with false sizes in order tn
please certain women who are vain
about their hands and feet, and that ac-
counts for the astonishment oftentimes
felt by girl who is innocent of this
when friend, having obviously larger
hands and feet, gives conclusive proof
by showing the marks on the articles
themselves, that she wears both smaller
gloves and shoes.-N. Y. Sun.
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THE IDOL OF GOLD.

Potent Arguments Against the Advisabil-
ity and Justice of Maintaining the Single
Gold Standard-Bcth Gold and Silver Arc
Insufficient.
In view of the fact that the Kansas
City Star, on April IA, contained a
lengthy communication from Mr. Ed
ward Atkinson, the same being an elab-
crate argument in favor of the single
gold standard or gold dollar" 1 offer
the following facts as potent arguments
against the advisability and justice Of
the maintenance of a single gold stand
ard as a measure of values"
No matter how ingenious may be the
arguments, or how plausible the state
ments offered by Mr.. Atkinson in sup
port of the single gold standard, he cam
not escape from or evade the funda-
mental and axiomatic laws governing
money as defined and laid down by po-
litical economists of the school of which
he is such jealous advocate. The
fundamental law controlling money Is
tersely and forcibly set forth by Fichte
in the following language:
'The amount of money current in a
state represents everything that is pur-
chasable on the surface of the state. If
the quantity of purchasable articles in
creases while the quantity of money
remains the same, the value of the
money increases in the same ratio; If
the quantity of money increases while
the quantity of purchasable articles re-
mains the same, the value OF money de-
creases in the same ratio"
What then. must be the disastrous
effect upon the economic condition Of .
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15

The crop of 1S80-'S1 was S,O3s, 645, 600
pounds, or sixty pounds per capita
Price, 11.S4 cents.
The crop of 1SS5-'S9 was 1924, s72. $50
pounds, or fiftyfour pounds per capita
Price, 1911 cents.
The crop of 1ss1-'S2 was 2, 455, 226. 900
pounds, or forty-seven pounds per cap
ita- Price, IL. 16 cents.
The crop of 1sS7-'Ss was 3. 291. s71. OH
pounds. or ffty-four pounds per capita.
Price, 1925 cents,
Average price for pound of cotton,
for sixteen years, in gold, 1167 cents,
being 5.S3 cents less than in 1878.
Average price for pound of cotton,
for sixteen years, in silver bullion fcom-
modify or market value of silver). az. 81
grains, being 13. SO grains, or 2.77 cents
less than in 1873.
Average per cent increase in pur.
chasing value Of gold, 81. as per cent.
Average per cent increase in pur-
chasing power Of silver bullion at its
commodity value, 80 per cent.
These figures prove conclusively that
not over-production of cotton but un-
der-production of gold has caused the
steady rise in the value of the gold dol
Lar, commonly termed a fall in the
price of commodities But it may be
very pertinently asked if the value of
the silver dollar Is not also steadily ap-
preciating, and whether it is certain
that the free coinage of silver would
afford us anything like an adequate
measure of relief.
1t must not be forgotten that debased
and de@onetized as silver has been
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15
Partisan Ilaa

A friend sends US a copy of the
Mercer County (O) Observer, with sew
eral paragraphs marked, which he la
conically denominates partisan lies. He
is right, and they are the very same
kind of lies that have been told by the
party papers from Dan to Barsheba
wherever the farmers organization
has approached. AS soon as the organ
ization is old enough to prove these lies
by the people becoming better ac-
guainted with it, they will then drop
off on different series. And so it
goes The fact is, the politicians are in a
worse fix than was the hungry dog that
kept swallowing the piece of bacon sus-
pended by strong string. He could
swallow it all right, but every time he
moved on he had to give it all back.
These fellows have been swallowing
and taking back the same old lies for
several years. Vernon Qll) Pro-
gressive Farmer
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THE RESTAURANT BEAT.

How He Secures His Meals without Cost to
Himself.
81 think that man has an understand
ing with the walters" said a little man
with a big steak in front of him, as two
men at the next table got up and left
the restaurant.
What do you mean2" asked his COM
panion.
Notice the big man at the head of the
table?"
''Yes."
"Notice he didn't pay the check? Of
course you did. He never does, and I'll
tell you why. He comes in with a COM
panien every night-seldom the same
man. He lets the other man order first,
generally, and then takes the same.
When the order is served the waiter in
variably asks; One check or two, sir?'
and he invariably addresses the query
to the big mans companion.
Now the result of this great Amer
lean treating is that one hesitates to
say Two under those circumstances,
although there was no expectation of a
double check when he came in. But the
remark is addressed to him and he has
to answer-especially as the big man
becomes deeply interested in newspa-
per about that time. Ninety-nine men
out of a hundred are afraid of appearing
niggardly, and will answer One check
I've seen that played here a good
many times, and, as ! say, have never
seen the big man pay check, nor have
| ever heard the question, One check
m tyVOp' vxyIr I
think he has an understanding with
the waiter. Perhaps others have also.
"Why shopld the question be put, any
way? Let the waiter bring two checks,
and if one man wants to grab both off
he has all the opportunity necessary
Chicago Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15

people II not only the quantity of pur-
chasable articles increases in an enor-
nous ratio as compared to increase Of
population, but at the same time the
volume of standard money does not in
crease at one-half as great a rate per
cent. as the population increases
especially if such money is the standard
of value by which not only the value of
commodities, but also the value of all
other kinds of money, is measured?
Yet, disastrous as must be such con-
dition upon the fortunes and happiness
of people, such has been the condition
for the past seventeen years, which
condition is just now becoming aggra-
vating and unbearable in its intensity.
Mr.. Atkinson is very solicitous for the
welfare of the creditor, fearing that he
may be paid a cheaper or less valuable
money than he loaned; but he entirely
overlooks the fact that for the past
seventeen years no debt has been con-
tracted and paid that has not been paid
with dearer or more valuable money
than that received. Does he think it
perfectly just and proper that de btors
should be forced to pay their debts with
a much more valuable equivalent than
that for which the debt was contracted?
l submit the following tables and
facts as eloquent witnesses to the in
evitable calamitous result, and suffer
ing and disaster which must surely
overwhelm us as a nation if we persist
in maintaining a single gold standard
of values. The tables will prove con-
clusively that not only is gold by itself,
but also that gold and silver together
are entirely inadequate in their supply
to maintain steady and uniform scale
of prices.
Mr.. Atkinson's standard of values"
is no standard at all, having itself no
stable or invariable value, and being
subject to the same laws as is the
cheapest and poorest paper money that
can be imagined This gold dollar" is
a cruel hard master, tyranical despot
who will keep grinding and squeezing
the toilers of the world until all are re-
duced to condition of servitude, la
boring for a meagre, miserable subsist-
ence and the payment of tribute to
the golden king.
l have prepared the following tables:
GOLD STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES.
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The Octonus.

New York Is the great octopus that
sends its fingers into every nook and
corner of this country to gather an
nually $500, 900. 900 as interest alone on
the bonds, mortgages and notes it
holds against the people Boston.
probably, collects annually one-half as
much Is it any wonder that they de-
sire to keep the volume of currency re-
duced to the minimum, SO that their in
terest will have greater purchasing
power? Yet there are some people
silly enough to believe that these east
ern gold bugs have SO much sympathy
for the people and so little selfshness
that they will submit to the reforms
that will work to their disadvantage
and loss in the same ratio they will
prove beneficial to the people,-Alli-
ance Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15
Tne ,,a..e. ,or rorrun,-

Some southern city papers assume
that opposition to certain oficeholders
is opposition to democracy. If they
will analyze the situation they viii dis
cover that the opposition is democracy
Nobody believes that the masses of
either party are corrupt; that would be
to despair Of the republic. But it is
now being generally belieEed that both
parties are corruptly led; that belief
will cause reform and save the republic,
National Economist
Can the government loan money?
Yes She loans it to national banks.
Well, if it is right to loan to the banker.
can it be wrong to loan to the farmerf
Certainly not. State Alliance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15
High school BOYS.

A venerable Instructor was speaking
the other day of the high school gradu-
ates. He thought it was gratifying and
interesting to note the prominent posi-
tions held by the graduates of this in
stitution throughout the city. There
are high school boys everywhere. In
the banks and law Offices and all busi-
nesses they will be found in large num-
bers. The many high school boys in
the newspaper business is surprising
A large percentage, If not a majority,
of the men who furnish the local public
with their daily journals. are those who
claim the high school as their alma
mater.-Albany Argus
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15
CHURCHES.

DAPTIsT.-Preacnlng each sunday at IL u.
DIN. aud at Z 80 p. m, ut the courthouse. Sun
day school at 10 O'Clock, n III. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week. Rev. w. a.
Cain, Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry Streets.
@HRISTIAN.-Preac every Sunday at
~ IL O'Clock, a. m, and 30 p. m, by Elder
j. K. Nicholson. Prayer meeting every Weds
nesday night. Sunday school at 10 o clock u. III.
every Sunday. Pastors residence at the par
Honage study at the chapel,
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Services every
xN1 Sunday at IL 100 n. IN. and : 80 p. IN. sun
- py school every Sunday at 10 Il. III. Prayer
nc. 'tinA every Thursday evening at 1880.
Stps,. -ers invited. ID. w. PHILLIPS, Pastor.
T-DppSD TTERIAN.-Serviccs every Sunday at
~ - IN and 80 p. IN. Sunday School at
10 a. IN. ~ N'' '
CATHOLIC a. LTURCH Services on End
I S,,S y, Nn Sonth at Sherlock's hall,
~ sunday OF every l. SSV BITTER PastoI
at 1000 a. IN. h W. A"0'0i
GERMAN BAPTIST BREl utsSSmno6u srbor on,,n,S reS'
" uar services at Mingona, SScb month
the second and fourth Sundays L. - sIitdaI !.
At Forrest school house on the secO 1SSIndav
Cedar Greek school house on the thir,
BY Elders Shamberger, Smith and NeheI.
GT. Marks MISsION.-Sunday School Gs
~ $3.50 O'Clock on every Sunday afternoon,
the g. A. X. hall. Children please come.
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Half AccIimatI.ed.

A lady up town has a fine pair of
horses and very intelligent coachman.
Yesterday morning he reported that
one of the horses was lame.
(which one?" she inquired
''Same one dat wuz lame las week"
he replied
Il don't see how that can be;
thought he was all right"
We'll, Miss, tell you wot my pin
ion is bout dat hoss. He's acclimated
to de climate, but he ain't acclimated to
desc yer pavements yit Washington
Sfar
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15

"Yes," said the hostess, ''both my
sons have inclinations toward art One
paints very well and the other has done
some beautiful carving"
Ny boy is pretty good in the last
mentioned" said one of the visiting
ladies'
''Indeedp''
"Yess he can do . chicken or turkey
beautiful. though I must say . duck
kind Of floors him. -n-Washington Post.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15
On bargain Day.

Clothing Salesman-Well, sir, what
can we do for you?
Mr.. Maintenance want my seven
dollars change!
Salesman-Why, we don't owe you
anythingl
Mr. Mainchance-Yer don't, eh?
Hain't you advertisin' your late SIS suits
now for IS? Wa-al, this ere is one l
bought three weeks ago! Whack up
yer change!-Puck.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15
How He Valued IL

Mrs. Banl1s-I bought Mrs. High
tones cute little dog for FIVE dollars To-
day,
Mrs. Brooks-How did you manage
1t? She told me she wouldn't take fifty
dollars for it
"oh, easy enough. I bought It from
her husband. Jury.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15

Average annual production for seven
teen years, $50, 450,972.
Average annual increase for sixteen
years, S476, 100.
Average percentage of increase for
sixteen years, SO per cent.
Average increase of population, per
cent
Average per capita production of gold
for seventeen years was 7LO1 cents, or
14.62 cents less than in 1879.
Average price in gold for bullion in
silver dollar, for term of seventeen
years, was 1914 cents, or just IA cents
less than in 1878.
PREDICTION OF SILVER IN UNITED STATES
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15

why should money be tight in the
richest country on earth?" asks the
New Nation And this is its answer:
Because the people in that country
have not learned to make common
sense banking laws"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15

The total number OF members in
the United Presbyterian church has
grown in the last year fr9m 10s, Gal to
IO6, 1856.
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Average per capita production of sill
yer for seventeen years, s7.4 cents, or
just g. cents per capita more than in
1878.
Average price in gold of bullion in a
silver dollar, Sc 4, or just IA cents less
than in 1878.
COTTON STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15

A number of subscriptions
have expired. We are carry
ing them a while to give them a
a chance to renew. Don't de-
lay too long. 1t costs money
to buy paper.
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DELPHIA LODGE, No. l4O, x. of P, meets ON
Monday evening of each week, at the X. of p.
hall. Visiting Knights in good standing invi-
ted to attend. @. ID. CODDINGTON G. T..
II. A. BROWN, X. of Il. & s.
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Barber County omeers .
SOCIETIES.

n u @ LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 39
Os liz NS Regular Communications, first
and third Monday evenings In each month.
MRS. FRANCIS ELLIS, W. NJ.
MAMIE v. O'DRYAN, Sec.