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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
A.aconic .Instice

"Why did you shoot the plaintiffs
dog?"
Because he tried to bite me.
Even dog is entitled to fair trial.
You should only have tried TO shoot
him. Twenty-Five dollars. american
Grocer.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
Re siz.d son,atl ing.

Did yoa realize anything in that
gigantic watch fnaanfecturlng scheme
yon were Interested III ~
Yes. ! realized that Twas q chump. !"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
a Happy Comparison.

Wagley-Do you know, Miss Wood
en-. your cheeks remind me so much OF
the blessings of the Lord.
Miss Wooden Oh, thank you, but
why?
WagleyL Because they're fresh every
morning, and renewed every evening.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
Doubtful Enjoyment.

@Geed gracious, Harry, what are
you doing to little Bertie?"
ooh, just trying to muse him. >
MlL1lsey'S Weekly.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
Too Previous.

Writing Teacher (watching her finger
movements)-A beautiful hand, Miss
Fair Pupil (blushing) LA, MIR. Serb
son!
us only to be gained by persistent
practice. Hold your pen q little more
loosely, Miss Caroline.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

A STRANGE accompaniment Of q re-
cent snow storm at Deerfeld, Me-, was
the appearance of multitudes of little
black bugs that spotted the surface Of
the snow as if shaken from pepper.
box. They were from one-sixteentl
to one-eighth of an inch long, with two
feelers and six legs. "They skipped
about like feas and seemed to enjoy
burrowing in the soft snow" They
were first observed an hour after the
storm ended and disappeared during
the night.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

WHAT Maine men don't know about
Holsters is not worth telling. Here is
their latest information on the subject
as given by the Lewiston Journal {:
who of our readers ever heard of q
lobster getting mad aud shooting off
one of his claws? If we may RELY
upon the veracity of the old lobster
man, this popular crustacean, like the
members of the human family, is
capable of biting his own nose off to
spite his face He says that when a
lobster gets excited in any way he
sometimes shoots off one of his big
claws. 1t comes out clean as a whistle
and leaves hole clean ont and with
no Jagged edges. In the course of a
few days new claw will grow, and his
lobstership can keep up that interesting
operation as long as he chooses. The
lobster is the only creature that scient-
lists have been. able to discover having
the power to do such a thing. But, ac-
cording to the old fisherman, the fun
niest part of it is if the lobster loses
his claw by any other force than his
own it will not grow again. If you
pull the claw off the lobster will &c
round the rest of his life minus one
o1ow -
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

In man could see himself as others
see him he would pull down the blinds.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
Texas Invention.

Mr. Bulland Steers (of Texas)-I jist
let these bunco fellers git about SO far
with that ERE carpet-sack an then /
set back on 'em and throw EN-. Got
that thing up myself, by gosh"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
Tariff Pictures. =

II we cannot sell unless we buy, bowis t.that
we sold to British Australaaia last year
y. @11,2G6, 4SA
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

The general opinion that China and
Japan are long way behind the Other
nations in point of civilization and
progressive measures is due to lack OF
knowledge upon the subject. 1t is true
that in many things they are behind
some of the other nations, but in
others they are far in advance. Fol
instance, the Japanese Government
adopted the postal savings bank sys.
tenn several years ago, and it is now
working successfully. In this country
this matter is just being discussed.
There are other matters equally pro.
gressive which have been acted upon
by these countries, which have as vet
only been talked of here.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
The Other Side of Life.

Jinglepop-I saw you buying an alarm
clock yesterday. Have you to get down
early?
Chidwidler-No-o. I bought it for
the purpose of being waked-up, so that
I can enjoy the bliss of turning over and
going to sleep again.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

SERIOUS and extensive floods have
occurred i'll parts of Lower Bengal
through which crops were destroy ed,
live stock drowned, and homes washed
away. 1t will be some months before
new crops can be grown, and the dis
tress of the poorer classes is painful
Committees of missionaries and native
pastors have been appointed to dis
tribute the means of relief furnished
by the people of Calcutta and other
places. Many of the floods were
caused by the bursting of weak places
in the river entertainments and through
the obstruction to the natural flow OF
the water caused by the railway grades
having been built without sufficient
waterway through them.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
sTURGIS ADVERTISER.
sTuRaIs. MEADE co.. 3. D.

|. h. CROW. PusIrsHrn|
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

The use OF forks was introduced into
France, with many other refined meth
DDS of living, by Catherine de Medici,
and from France was introduced into
England, where Ben Jonson ridiculed
their use as beggarly fashion, i'm
ported from Italy "to the saving of
napkins" The first person who is re-
corded to have used fork was a
daughter of a Greek emperor who
married Doge of Venice, and whose
luxurious way of living was the scan
dial of that City of the Sea. "She ate
her food" says the Venetian chron-
icler, with a golden fork, and yet in
spite of all this luxury she died of
loathsome disease" The knives and
forks did not come Into common use
among the nobility in England till the
seventeenth century; and as late as
the eighteenth century gentlemen, in
travelling, carried their knives and
forks in a case, as inns did not furnish
such Injuries.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

A RECENT microscopical study by
Herr Schultz of the skin of toads and
salamanders has yielded some inter
esting results. There are two kinds
of glands, mucous and poison glands.
The former are numerous over the
whole body, while the latter are on
the body and limbs, and there are
groups in the ear region behind the
eye, and in the salamander at the an
gle of the jaw. The poison glands
are, of course, protective, and the cor
rosive juice is discharged differently
in toads and salamanders on stimulat-
ing electrically. In the latter it is
spurted out in fine jet, sometimes
more than foot in length; whereas
in the toad after long action of the
current, it exudes sparingly in drops.
There is no reason for supposing that
the mucous glands become poisonous.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
No. 2.

The average wages paid In the silk factories
Of England, according to the Board Of Trade re.
turns, arc @131.39 pcr year.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

"You look prosperous"
"Iam prosperous"
what line are you in 2"
II manufacture a complete assort
ment Of silver antiques" Z
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

worth Of goods, and imported therefrom only
s4,277,270
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
Maple Sugar Enuntv.

9esc York Press.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
1zEsi \
in 1880, fell to
y cents q pound
a.
In 1890.
No. 4.

our fish exports In 1890 were s8,O4O, see.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23
FREE COINAGE.

The Double Standard Of Bi-MctaIIism
would Automatically Keep the Two
Metals at q Parity With Each Other.
The Boston Herald sprinkles its ed
itorial columns with reference to "a
sound currency and honest cur
rency. This ''sound'' and ..honestn
currency, of course, means the cur
rency measured by the single gold
standard Such talk may satisfy PEG
pie who are gullible, and it no doubt
satisfies the goldolators whom our Bos-
ton contemporary represents, but the
people, know, if the Herald does not,
that the adoption of the single gold
standard, in response to Great Britain,
was not only the most dishonest piece
OF legislation the country has ever seen,
but has resulted in system of robbery
that has cost the wheat growers and
cotton planters of this country hum
dreds OF millions of dollars every wear.
Inc people know that the single gold
standard is essentially dishonest one.
1t Is standard that robs the debtor for
the benefit of the creditor, and places
the money power of the country in the
hands of a few money sharks who
flourish off the blood of the poor. It is
dishonest, because gold has long ago
passed beyond the true money value,
and is too precious to be used as a
measure OF values. The most frequent
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23
WHY NOT?

If England Can Adopt Land Loans to Free
Irish Tenants From Landlordism, Why
Cannot the American Farmer Be Freed
From the Shylock?
Our so-called great fnanciers delight
to initiate the financial legislation of
Great Britain. and one of the most i'm
portant measures which passed the
commons of the last parliament was a
land-loan scheme-a scheme for the
government to aid the Irish tenant to
purchase his home. 1t passed the COM
mons June 18th, by majority of 1919
out of a total vote of 321. The measure
provides that the English government
shall advance the money needed to buy
out the landed estates, and allows the
tenants to purchase their holdings by
paying annual installments. To this
end one hundred and sixty-6ve million
dollars is to be appropriated. The pur-
chasing tenants will be required to
pay such installments as will complete
their payments in forty-nine years. AS
fast as installments are paid the money
is to be used in other purchases. In
payment for the lands the government
is to issue to the owners stocks or
bonds at 2M per cent and payable in
not less than thirty years
This is to all intents and purposes
government loan on real estate, and if
Great Britain can make such loans to
free the Irish tenant from landlordism,
might not the government of the
United States make similar loans to
free the American farmer from Shy
Farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23
a UNITED PLuTocRAcY.

Propositions of Ohio. GOld-Bugs to Unita
on John sherman. For United States
Senator.
From present indications there is but
little doubt that the moneyed interest
will force the democracy of Ohio to
join the republicans in returning John
Sherman to the senate. This idea has
taken shape in Cleveland among the
bankers, and will doubtless spread
throughout the state. It is done under
the pretext that business conditions de.
mand the experience and guidance of
Mr.. Sherman in national affairs. Such
a course would be in perfect keeping.
with the well known position Of the
money owners. since the only interest
they have in politics is a continuance
of their control over the emission Of
money; but just how they will, recon
Gle Mckinley and Campbell to such g.
bargain is somewhat difficult to decide.
With a campaign on the question of
tariff between the nominees for govern
or, and union of the two old parties
against the peoples party on nominees
for the legislature for the avowed pur-
pose of re-electing John Sherman to the
senate. political situation would devel-
op that might lead to considerable
misunderstanding. The point is be-
ing developed, which will appear
more plainly as the canvass pro-
crosses. that Wall street will only fur
nish money to run the contest upon the
assurance that Senator Sherman will
be sent back to the senate. This fact
should put the peoples party on its
guard against hard-money democrats
as well as republicans, as the intention
doubtless is to join issues in the legis-
lature and return Sherman In the
meantime the people will have word
to say in regard to the matter, as it is
the first open declaration of war of the
classes against the masses. Sensational
Economist
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23

cry of the goldolators and their organs
is that the free coinage of silver
would make that metal the standard
of value. What of it? Such result
would demonstrate beyond all posi-
bility of doubt that gold has grown
too valuable to be employed as money
standard. What would be the result?
Simply this: Gold, ceasing to be the
standard of value, would thereby be
deprived of the functions that add to
its value, and would gradually approx
mate the true money value. Silver, on
the other hand, having restored to it
the potential money value, would grad
ually grow in this direction until gold
again became the standard of value,
the two metals alternating. The grain
of truth in the contention of the go ldo-
lators that the double standard is inef-
fective resides in the fact that bimetal-
ism does not result in the double stand
ard, but in the alternating standard
that prevents both metals from rising
above the true money standard at the
same time. When silver becomes more
valuable than gold, the alienation Of
the double standard makes gold the
standard, and so on. All the financial
sense does not lie in the north and
east, nor among the money sharks and
goldolaters. The people know that
the only sound. safe and honest cur
rency is that which is the result of the
alternating standard growing out
of bimetalism. Constitution
(Dam\
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23

wonderful contraction by causing the
boarding of all the gold and that the
silver dollar would then be deprecated
in purchasing power. The Nebraska
republicans at their state convention
said substantially the same thing. A
contraction of the currency, by hoard
ing or otherwise, will largely increase
the purchasing power of those dollars,
whatever kind they may be, that are
left in circulation. If by some means
all the money now in the United States
was lost, and the government should
issue one hundred million dollars in
paper money, does any one doubt for a
moment that one dollar of this paper
money would buy at least as much as
two dollars will now? Gen. A. j. War
ner in answering Cleveland's ante-inau-
guration veto, said his assertion that
the money volume would be contracted
by the withdrawing of gold and that
the purchasing power of the money re-
naming (silver) would be scaled down,
was equivalent to saying that both
sides of the balance will go down at
once. Cleveland's warning that the
further coinage of silver would result
in deprecated silver and premium on
gold, was made over six years ago, and
yet silver dollars are worth 100 cents;
gold dollars are not worth more than
100 cents; silver dollar is just as good
as gold dollar. Yet, Notwithstanding
this utter failure of fulfllment of
Cleveland's prophecies. the Nebraska
republicans now utter the same "warn-
missouri World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23

dollar must contain q gold dollars
worth Of paper. These things Mr..
Sherman does not pretend to contend
for; he singles out silver as the victim
OF himself and his co-conspirators, who
are determined that his gold idol shall
rule without rival.
The people, on the other hand. con-
tend that the law shall fix the amount
OF metal in all of these coins, and gold
and silver shall be equal before the
law and at the mints; then the gold
dollar will be worth just as much
as the silver dollar, and the silver dol
lar as the gold dollar. Neither would
play second fiddle to the other, and both
would be used to measure the value OF
labor and its products. so that given
amount OF labor would represent a
greater number of dollars Labor and
its products were thus measured previ-
GUS to 1878, and justice to labor de-
mands the restoration of these meas
ures, Senator Sherman to the contrary
notwithstanding.-Mt Vernon (Ills)
Progressive farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23
the sole regulator of price. There is
another consideration. The supply and

the sole regulator OF price. There is
another consideration. The supply and
demand of money. -Weekly Toiler.
The alliance is raising multitude
of leaders as safeguards for the peo-
pies rights in the future It is sur
prising to see how intelligent some of
these hay-seeders are.-Alliance Echo.
-'I have some very cheap farms for
sale, taken on mortgages, which want
to sell at just exactly what they cost.
This is a chance to get farm cheaper
than you will ever see again. ADV.
in Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
Roger @. Mills has heard from the
late New York democratic convention
which met in Saratoga, but was ma
nipulated by Wall street. and has gone
back on free coinage of silver, and now
declares it will afford no relief-tariff
is the only issue. Missouri World.
The busy season is over and the
nights are growing longer Now is the
time to rally your forces. Let every
allianceman be at his post and be there
for purpose, make things lively, set
the world afire with your enthusiasm
and the case is sure to win.-Alliance
Echo.
There is but one condition upon
which we would consent to a con-
tinued demonstration of silver, and
that is that gold shall also be demone-
tized. While the two metals are used
for money, their position must be the
same as to coinage and tender. There
&c fo%x O%1
Union.
Gold is not recognized by any value
save that made by law. which is it's
stamped value, that regulates it. Silver
was made commodity in 1873, hence
it fluctuates in price just as any other
commodity will do. Had it fixed
value by the fat of the government it
would be as stable in price as it was
before 1878 when its value was so reg
ulated. Weekly Toiler.
-Alliancemen, keep COOL Be calm.
Keep your nerve. But stand to your
guns like men. Be as firm to your
principles as the rock of Gibraltar.
This campaign of lying, vituperation
and base SANDER. is only carrying out
the plot that was deliberately planned
months ago in New York city, notice
of which was given through the Pro-
gressive Farmer at the time Let the
other fellows do the lying. Let us
stand by truth and principle
Raleigh, IN. CO. Progressive Farmer
Soon after the gold discoveries in
California a move was made in Europe
to demonetize gold. The German states
and Austria demonetized the yellow
metal in 1857. Failing to get England's
cooperation England had gold stand
ard) the movement was changed to one
for the decentralization of silver. Had
the proposed gold demonstration in
Europe succeeded, we presume John
Sherman would have secured the de-
monetization of gold in the United
States, and would allege as a reason
why gold should not be remonetized
that it had deprecated. Missouri
World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Money is the creation. of law.
The privileged classes must 90.
disqualification leads the people tc
poverty, poverty to crime, crime to per.
dition.
If the peoples party are calamity
hcwlers, the republican party are ca.
lainity creators.
The prosperity yawpers are trem.
bling at the ever-onward march of the
calamity howlers.
If it had not been for silver money
the contraction in two years must have
been SAT, 74O, 1877 instead of the claimed
expansion of $3.50. 21s, 159, or a differ.
ence of SLIT, 95s, 296.
We give the republicans to under
stand that we will howl, howl, howl,
till the last privileged thief is driven
into his den or hung up by the neck
Pitts burgh Kansan.
Our debts stand for our investments,
and not for our losses. They represent
our enterprise and not our misfortune,
our prosperity and not our poverty
Kansas Republican League.
The law Of supply and demand, as
relates to all products of labor, is not
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23
GOLD.


A True Description of the Internal Metal
What Mr.. Ingalls, Thought of 1t in
1878.
In the debate in the United States
senate February Is, 1878, on the Bland
silver bill, Mr.. Ingalls,, who voted for
the BILL, said of the gold basis:
mo people in a great emergency
ever found a faithful ally in gold It
is the most cowardly and treacherous
OF all metals. 1t makes no treaty it
does not break. It has no friend it
does not sooner or later betray. Armies
and nations are not maintained by
gold. In times of panic and calamity.
shipwreck and disaster, it becomes the
agent and minister of ruin No nation
ever fought great war by the aid
of gold. On the contrary, in the
crisis of the greatest peril, it becomes
an enemy more potent than the
foe in the fields; but when the
battle is won and peace has been
secured, gold reappears and claims the
fruits of victory. In our own civil war
it is doubtful if the gold of New York
and London did not work us greater
injury than the powder and lead and
iron of the rebels. It was the most in
vincible enemy of the public credit.
Gold paid no soldier or sailor. It was
worth most when our fortunes were
the lowest Every defeat gave it in
creased value. 1t was an open alliance
with our enemies the world over, and
and all its energies were evoked for
P,p$ I'll,
danger had been averted and the vic
tory secured, gold staggered to the
front and secured the supremacy"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23
Free Coinage.

The statement is sometimes made
that gold and silver can never circu-
late side by side on an equality, be-
cause the cost of the two metals varies
greatly; in point of fact, the cost has
nothing whatever to do with the ques-
ton. Statistics seem to show that
each dollar of silver that is extracted
from American soil costs more than
one dollar in gold. It is likely, also.
that each dollar of gold costs moro,
than dollar for its extraction. The
ratio of gold and silver can be fixed by
government now as it was fixed by the
Latin union in the past, and if the
minis Of the world be open to free
coinage of both metals there will be
no danger that they will part company,
or that either will command an APP
probable premium. Mt Vernon (Ill.)
Progressive Farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23
SHERMAN'S OBJECTIONS.
They Are Unpatriotic, Frivolous, Falla
cious and Easily Answered.

They Are Unpatriotic, Frivolous, Falla-
cious and Easily Answered.
The active part that Senator Sher-
man is taking in the Ohio campaign,
and the fact that upon the result Of
that campaign depends his reelection
to the United States senate, gives him
a prominence that must be recognized
all over the country. He is naturally
devoting himself largely to the fnan-
cial question, and, as might be expect
ed, champions the cause of the gold
monopolists against the cause of the
people. But the only objections Mr.
Sherman has yet made to the free coin
age of silver are, that England and Ger
many have not agreed that we may
have free coinage. and that the legal
tender silver dollar does not contain a
gold dollars worth of silver.
The first of these ought to be salts
factorily and conclusively answered by
simply pointing to the flag of our coun-
try, and asserting our national indie
pendence. The manifest fallacy of the
second ought to answer itself. It is
Mr.. Sherman's idea that the gold dollar
shall not only measure the value of
every days work and every product Of
labor, but that it shall measure all the
other dollars. If the silver dollar must
play second fiddle to the gold dollar, and
must have agold dollars worth of silver
in it, then the nickel dollar composed Of
twenty five-cent nickel pieces must con-
tain gold dollars worth of nickel, and
the copper dollar composed of q hum
dred copper cents, must contain gold
dollars worth Of copper, and the paper