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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-06
A Modern Oueen.

Four little girls who live in a suburb of
Boston We're playing together one after
noon, and at last one of them suggested,
Lets play we're queens. and have a
court"
"Pll be Queen Elizabeth" said one,
land have big ruff round my neck"
"rll be Marie Antoinette, before it was
time for her to be killed." said another.
"And I'll be Mary Queen of Scots, be-
cause she was so pretty" said the third
who will you be, Elsie'" asked Queen
Elizabeth of her 5year-old sister. IL shall
have to tell her the name of some queen Of
course" she remarked confdentially to
Mary Queen of Scots.
"Nobody'll have to tell me-" said Elsie.
with dignity, II shall be a Queen Anne
cottage Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-06
A LOVELY TIME.

Oh dear, mamma, we've had such fun
Since you have been away;
We got the brand new microscope
That aunt bought yesterday.
And took drop of vinegar
To look at, and, oh dear,
The things we saw a-wiggling round
Were very, very queer
Some had no heads, and there was scarce
A leg among them all,
And many of the bigger ones
Kept swallowing the small
It scared us awfully to see
Them act so strange and bad,
But, oh mamma, you can't think what
A lovely time we had
-Arkansaw Traveller
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-06
Abraham's Binplace.

Not far from Aleppo iatuated the little
village of Orfah (the cient Ur of the
Chaldees), which is of gat historical in
terest, it having been birthplace of the
patriarch Abraham. he inhabitants,
mostly Arabs and jews still point out a
small building lying itside the town
which they declare TO the place where
Abraham first saw the sht. 1t is known
among them as 1.-THE hoe of the friend of
God. st. Louis Repulc.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-06

Some hunters will noeat the meat of a
deer that has been ri and worried by
dogs, but only of thoseeh ich have been
killed by what is called ill hunting-thas
is, which are shot and lied, and so don't
suffer much before theyie.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-06
Human Eyesirht.

In collision on the Hudson river seven
different men swore that a boat had a light
out. Eight swore she had none As a
matter of fact a light was burning, and
the instance shows how one can be deceived
in his own powers. Detroit Free Press
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-06
People Who Eat in Trees.

The natives of Sakara never partake of
food while on the ground, but sling the
meal into woven grass bag and mount to
the thick foliage at the top of some high
tree, where the meal is eaten in solitary
silence st. Louis Republic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-06

A small vessel was lying at anchor off
the coast of northern Africa Upon a mat
tress laid upon the deck was stretched the
form of a man, whose worn and haggard
features displayed the marks of premature
old age, while a blood stained bandage
crossed and recrossed his chest, showing
that he had something more to contend
with than the usual ills to which flesh is
heir A young girl was kneeling beside
him, supporting his head on her arm while
young man grasped his hand with look
of intense anxiety on his face, and a little
further off stood three sailors gazing with
the utmost sympathy at the wounded man
"My children" said Thomas jackson,
"do not grieve, all you did was for the
best. 1t was a chance shot fired in the
gloom, which marred all your plans, but
die happy, for am ! not with these dear
ones whom | had never hoped to see on
this earth again? Do not weep, Nell. Bob,
my brave boy, you must not get into trou-
BILE over this. There is nothing but cir
cumstantial evidence to connect you with
it, Do not return to Gibraltar-make as
you originally intended, for Marseilles,
and get to England as soon as you can.
When | am dead bury me at sea, but re
member, that as sure as am about to ap-
pear before my Makers tribunal, | am IN
innocent man, and have suffered for IA
crime | never committed"
"Father, we know it," exclaimed the
brother and sister, not for "A moment at.
tempting to restrain their tears
smile of inelfable happiness passed
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22

dollar must contain 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 1873, and justice to labor de-
mands the restoration of these meas
ures, Senator Sherman to the contrary
Notwithstanding. Vernon Ulls. }
Progressive farmer
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
FIGHT AMONG SAILORS.

ChIiian and American Sailors Engage In a
Deadly Fight i'm the Streets of ysIpa-
raiso.
New YORK, Oct 1.-THE Herald has
Valparaiso special which says:
Three, perhaps four, men-of-war's
men were killed and several more or
less injured in a desperate fight there
with number of Chilian sailors.
The Chilians did not do all the fight
ing, for when the fight was ended a
mum Der of them were found to be pref
ty badly hurt, though so far as can be
ascertained now none of them were
killed.
The American blue jackets who were
engaged in the battle were from the
United States cruiser Baltimore and
the Chilians were from the various war
ships now in the harbor.
1t is impossible at present to get full
particulars of the fight or the names of
the killed and wounded.
There are several accounts as to the
origin of the difficulty. One of them,
which seems plausible, is this: Ever
since the triumph of the junta there
has been a feeling among the lower
classes of the people of marked hostil-
ity to the Americans. and the blue jack
cts from the American war ships were
sometimes subjected to insult
1t is alleged that party of men from
the Baltimore, ashore on liberty, met
with the Chilian men-of-war's men.
The hatred of the yankees" led to
some insulting remark, which was re-
sented by one of the hotter-headed
Americans and this brought on the gen.
eral fight which was attended with
such fatal results.
There was much excitement in the
city when the news of the fight spread
The unfortunate affair is much regret
ted in official circles and among the
better class of citizens.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22

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 a result
would demonstrate beyond all possi-
bility of doubt that gold has grown
too valuable to be employed as a 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 approxi-
mate the true money value. Silver, on
the other hand, having restored to it
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 60 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
(Dem)
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
FREE COINAGE.

The Double Standard OF Bi-Metalllsm
Would Automatically Keep the Two
Metals at n 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 "honest"
currency, of course, means the cur
rency measured by the single gold
standard. Such talk may satisfy peo-
pie who are gullible, aud it no doubt
satisfies the goldolators whom our Bos-
toa contemporary represents, but the
people, know, II 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 a system of robbery
that has cost the wheat growers and
cotton planters of this country hun
dreds of millions of dollars every year.
The people know that the single gold
standard is essentially a dishonest one.
It is a 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. 1t 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 Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
cOHfIOsNcE UNAeATEo.

nun's Report shows That surprising Aot'v-
tty Prevails Busines. iE t;Ie south and
West Impr"-.ax.
NEw YORK. Oct 17.-R G. Dun & Co. p
Secl,,y review of tradeasavs:
business throughout the west aud
south is strong and improving At east
ern centers there is less satisfaction
and the expected results from the har-
vesting of large crops are more slowly
realized. Yet the volume of all trade
is as large as it ever has been, and for
October may even surpass the unpre-
cedentcd record Of last year
The prevailing confidence in the
future of business continues unabated
and is seen even in some branches
which complain most of dull trade at
present The iron industry illustrates
the contradictory conditions The out
put of furnaces in blast October was
1sI.6l5 tons weekly, yet this enormous
production is marvelously absorbed.
the demand for use in produc-
lag all kinds of farm machinery
and implements is far greater than
it has been in any previous year and
the quantity of iron thus used is enor-
nous. Ga the other hand the wool
manufactures are short of orders in
the mems wear department, though
Chicago clothierS are buying more
freely But, on the whole, clothiers
have not taken nearly their usual sup
ply of goods and many of the mills are
closing The demand for dress goods
is strong, while knit goods are dull as
we'll as carpets Cotton manufacture
is active without change in prices.
The demand for copper is large, but
q rumor of resumption by the Ana
conda put down the price of the lake
| to 4215 cents, and tin is weak at 20.l
cents, with lead 4.45. The market for
anthracite coal is better, but circular
| prices are not realized.
The reports from other cities are al
most uniformly encouraging. At Pitts
burgh the demand for manufactured
iron and for structural forms is im-
proving, but the coal strike continues.
| At Cleveland trade exceeds last years
considerably, and is brisk at Cincin-
natl and especially in dry goods At
| Chicago the clothing and dry
| goods trades are active, and the
movement of farm products large,
though receipts of cattle fall be-
low last years. At Detroit mauufact-
uring is active and factories running
| full time. At Milwaukee, St Paul,
Minneapolis, Omaha and Kansas City
business is very active, especially in
lumber at Minneapolis, with advance
in prices, while the output of -four is
1875, 900 barrels per week, against 16l,-
600 last year. At St Louis trade is un-
usually strong. at Jacksonville the
| largest orange crop ever grown prom
| ises improvement.
Speculation has not been very heavy,
| though corn and oats are sustained in
the face of great crops and wheat rs a
| shade higher. Cotton is a quarter
lower. Pork products are lower, coffee
unchanged and oil half a cent lower.
The supplies of money are ample here
and at all western centers. Foreign
trade though smaller than a year ago
when the movement was extraordinary
is larger than in previous years and the
heavy exports of breadstuffs promise
further reinforcement of gold from
| Europe.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22

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 con, sntion
said substantially the same thiflg. 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 a 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; a 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.
ing."-Missouri World
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Money is the creation of law.
The privileged classes must go.
-Republicanism leads the people to
poverty, poverty to crime, crime to per-
dition.
If the peoples party are calamity
howlcrs, the republican party are ca
lamity creators.
The prosperity yawpers are trem-
bling at the ever-onward march Of the
calamity howlcrs.
If it had not been for silver money
the contraction in two years must have
been S47, 740. 1877 instead of the claimed
expansion of $3.50. 2ls, 159, or a differ.
ence of SIT, 95s, 900.
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
Pittsburgh 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 Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
Declaration of Purposes.

Whereas, the general condition of our coun
trr inperativcly demands unity OF action on
tho part of the laboring classes, reformation
and economy and the dissemination of prii-
ciples best calculated to encourage and foster
agricultural and mechanical pursuits. en-
coura9ing the toiling maSscs leading them
in the road to prosperity, and providing a
Just and fair remuneration for labor. a just
exchange for our commodities. and the best
means of securing to the laboring classes the
greatest amount or good: We hold 10 the
principle that all monopolies are dangerous
to the best interests of our country. tending
10 cns!ave free people and subvert and
finally overthrow the great principles pur-
chased by the fathers of American liberty.
We therefore adopt the following as our
declaration of principles:
/. To labor for the educ ,tion of the agricul-
tural classes in the science OF economical
government, in strictly nonpartisan spirit
and bring about a more perfect union OF said
classes
2. That we dem1nd equal rights to all, and
special favors to none.
3. To endorse the motto: an all things
essential. unity; and in all things charity.
4. To develop better state mentally,
morally. socially and financially.
3. To constantly strive to secure entire har-
mony and good will 10 all mankind and
brotherly love among ourselves.
g. To suppress personal. local. sectional
Ond national prejudices, all unhealthy rivalry
and all selfish ambition.
:. Tho brightest jewels which it garners.
are the tears of the widows and orphans, and
ITS imperative commands are to visit the
homes where lacerated hearts are bleeding:
TO ssSuage the suffering of a brother or
ha
and educate the orphans; to exercise charity
towards all offenders; to construe words and
deeds in their most favorably lighf. granting
honesty OF purpos, and goo1 intentions to
others and to protect the principles of the
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union until
death. Its laws nre reason and equity; its
eariinal doctrines inspire purity of thought
and life. its intention ia: ION earth, peace
and good will to man."
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
M'KlNLEY AND VETERANS.
He Says the Old Soldiers Are Principally
Interested in the Maintenance of the
Present Money Standard.

He SAYS the Old Soldiers Are Principally
Interested in the Maintenance of the
Present Money Standard.
EATON, O., Oct. 17.-Maj. Mckinley
addressed an audience of several thou
sand people here yesterday. He spoke
of the immense consequences of the
coming election in Ohio and its effect
on national issues, There were many
old soldiers in the audience and
he spoke of the effect upon them of a
deprecated silver currency. The
men of opulence, he said, ''are no
longer the principal creditors of the
government but the soldiers. In 1867
the creditors of the government were
men of wealth. They drew from
it s147, 900, 900 every year inter
est on the bonds they held,
while the old soldiers drew from
the public treasury as pensions, s2o,-
900. 900. To-day the conditions are re-
versed. The pensions amount to slS5.-
600, 900, and the soldiers should see to
it that no party be put in power which
shall depreciate the purchasing power
of those dollars. We paid the bond
holders in gold-in dollars worth 100
cents-and who shall say that the old
soldiers shall not be paid in as good
coin?"
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
SHERMAN'S OBJECTIONS.
They Are Unpatriotic, Frivolous, FalIs
cious and Easily Answered.

They Are Unpatriotic, Frivolous, FalIa-
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 inan-
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 q
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 inde-
pendence. The manifest fallacy of the
second ought to answer itself 1t 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 II the silver dollar must
play second fiddle to the gold dollar. and
must have agold dollars worth of silver
in ii, 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 hum
dred copper cents. must contain gold
dollars worth Of copper, and the paper
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
Fatal Fire In a London Tenement.

LONDON, Oct. IA tenement house
caught fire early this morning in the
dock district of London known as Mill
wall The fire originated in the lower
part of the house. The rickety wooden
stairs leading to the upper floors were
almost Immediately burned away, thus
cutting off escape by that means The
firemen learned that these were still sew
eral people on the upper floors. They
made several gallant attempts to reach
the endangered people, but all efforts
failed. When the fire was subdued the
tiremen found the bodies of a woman
of 20, young woman and three chill
dren huddled together as they tried to
escape from the smoke which had suf-
f0cated them
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
County Alliances.

Madison President, T. J. Alsworth,
Canton Secretary, David +. Wood
Sharon.
Hinds-President, d. X. Brown, Utica
Secretary, c. 5. Spann, Raymond.
n-President. Dallas Watts,
Pink; Secretary, L. e knight, Pela'
hatchie.
mpson-President S. NJ. William.
son. Westville; Secretary, J. j. Hilton,
Harrisville.
Copiah-President, A. b. Guynes,
Gallman: Secretary, J. ID. Miller, Hazle-
hurst.
Claiborne-Presidc Caleb Lobdell,
Port Gibson; Secretary, /. ID. Magruder,
Russum.
President, Robert Mcbride,
Mcbride p. o.; Secretary, T. l.. Darden,
FIyette.
Lincoln-President, E. P. Douglass,
Wesson; Secretary, Edward Smith,
Brookhaven.
Franklin-President, A. NJ. Newman,
Meadville; Secretary, Juan Nix, Nc
Calls Creek.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-22
The Bomb Finders.

VIENNA, Oct 1Z-An investigation
made into the finding yesterday of a
dynamite bomb on the Reichenburg
railroad bridge in Bohemia resulted in
the discovery of an iron vessel which
contained quantity of loose dynamite.
some dynamite cartridges some gun
powder and some fuses In addition to
this another bomb with fuse attached
was found in the frame work of the
bridge. 1t is believed these had been
concealed there in order to avoid seiz.
ure as result of domiciliary visits by
the police