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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-03

THEY have agreed together in the coming cam
palgn to igBOre every Issue but one; they propose
to drown the OutcrleS Of q plundered people with
the uprOar Of o sham battle over tariff 30 that
capital, corporations, national banks, trusts
WaGered stock, demonstration OF silver and the
oppression Of uSurerS may be lost Sight Of.-PeO-
ple's Parry address.
For confirmation Of the above read
the following Associated Press dis
patch:
WASHINGTON, d. @. July 26.-In spite Of the
intense heat in the senate chamber to-day the
opening debate In the presidential campaign
took place. Mr.. Aldrich opened it with q deCla-
ration that the tariff question was to become, by
common consent, the leading Issue In the cam
paign.
Mr.. Vest took the gauntlet and announced It
aS the determination Of the Democratic party TO
make lt the Issue In every township In the land.
The debate.Was participated In by Senators ALI
son, Hale aud Palmer. 1t lasted between four
and Ave hours, and at its close the resolution on
which 1t was based, that offered by Hale, as the
relative effects Of the tariff for revenue only, was
laid on the table to be taken up again, when Mr..
Carlisle shall be ready to answer Aldrich.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-03

Let the people of Kansas under
stand once for ali, that all documents
issued by authority of the Peoples
party will be signed in such a way as
to leave no doubt Of their source.
Everything not SO signed should at
once be attributed to the party that
has resorted to forgery and perjury
in the past for the purpose of Great
ing and fostering prejudice among
the people.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-03
THAT CAMPAIGN OF ARGUMENT.
A Few Samples Summers, Aren't TheyG

A Few samples-StunnerS, Aren't TheyP
Lawrence Journal
Mr.. Cleveland Is now called upon to
suppress the idiots who are trying TO
drag Baby Ruth's Jersey calf into the
campaign as an Issue.
Now that the calamity fellows are on
thsfun and Ss good as whipped it would
be too bad for the hot winds to come
sailing In from Texas and help them out.
tls said that lake Of black Ink has
been found In Arizona. This will be good
news for the calamity party. They can
paint things pretty black ii the lake Is
large enough. .3.
.as 4 kansas City JOurnall
x A week OF hot winds in Kansas. and
Capitalist Lewelllng will become jubl-
liant.
Score one for Weaver. Hot winds
have made their appearance In Kansas.
Corn being saved, the calamityites are
hunting for new howl.
kansas City Gazette.l
The calamity party Is having an inning.
The hot weather. is bearing hard on the
corn.
Topeka Capltal.l
The corn and the Republican party are
in need OF q general rain throughout the
Btate. Every inch Of rainfall for the
next two weeks means thousand votes
for A. w. Smith.
Assassin Bergman has not received any
letter Of congratulatlon or coincidence yet
from Jerry Simpson, but Jerry's delay
may be due TO the fact that he finds Il
slow business mastering Russian Or
biography. U.s. a-e ,--s-..J
[Rmporia Gazettel
A. w. Smith has finished harvesting
his wheat crop, and l. d. Lewelling Is
holding down the Ame old goods box.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-03

COUNTY committeeman should see
that the amounts pledged to the state
committee are paid in as soon as pos
sible. It takes money to educate the
people in politics, just as it does to
carry on the public schools, And one
is just as necessary as the other.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-03

TIE only argument left the Repub-
licans to explain away the business
depression of the past five years is
"ovsr production" And the only
weapon they have with which to strike
at the new foe, the Peoples party, is
anarchy and repudiation."
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-03
MONETARY COMMIssION.

Report or the United StBCeS monetary
Commission, Appointed by Act Of Con.
grOsS August 10. 1870.
NO. VII.
II the business of the world Is to be
based on metallic money the production
Of either Of the metals would be entirely
insufficient. Both gold and silver must
still be used as money, and the prOduc-
ton of both must continually increase if
the advance of the world In wealth, COM
merce and population ls to continue in an
equal ratio as in the recent past. If me-
t&llic money becomes insufficient, by
reason Of the demonetization of either Of
the precious metals, or from any cause,
one of two things must happen
The commercial, industrial and nu-
merlcal progress Of mankind must be
arrested, and if the decrease Of money
shall be a continuing one and cover q
long period Of time, 1t must end in an ab-
solute check to progress and possibly in
the destruction of existing social and po-
liticsl Institutions
Or, what ls most probable, relief would
be sought In an extension and perpetua-
tlon Of existing systems Of lnconvertible
money, which owe their origin to the
pressure of expanding population and
commerce against the restrictive bounds
Of q stationary and perhaps declining ag-
gregate supply Of the two metals.
During certain periods In the past,
when prices have been falling by reason
of a shrinkage In the volume Of money,
slow and toilsome advance has been made
In the accumulation of wealth. Under
such conditions Its just distribution Ia
impossible. A shrinking volume Of
money and falling prices always have had
and always must have tendency to con-
centrate wealth, to enrich the few and to
impoverlsh and degrade the many. This
tendency is subtitle, active and portentour
throughout the world to-day.
Fluctuations in the relative produc-
ton of the metals do not affect their rela-
tive value under the present conditions
Of the worlds business, so long as the
law of one or more important countries
permits the Unrestricted coinage Of both
metals, and invests both equally with the
money function.
Il is said that changes In the relative
value Of the two metals are caused by
changes In the cost and amount Of theil
relative current production, and thai
from the very chance nature Of mining
changes in the cost and amount of pro
ductlon must constantly occur, and that
consequently, such frequent changes
must be made In the legal relation o.
gold and silver as TO render the malnte
nance Of the double standard extremely
Inconvenlent A 45-.. s-5.- 5..s
It has always been theoretical OBJ
lection TO the double or optional stand
ard that the market relation Of value
OF gold and silver might so divergs from
the legal relation rs to renders re-adjust
ment Of the latter occasionally necessary
We have had but one re adjuStmen
since 1892 in our own coinage, namely
in 1884 The change Of 1887 in the lega
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-03

relation was too minute and trlfing to
be called a re-adjustment. The re ad-
justment Of 1884 was not made necessary
by any change which had taken place In
the market relation Of gold and silver,
but because the legal relation originally
established In 1892 did not accord with
the market relation at that time. If the
proper relation had been established in
1892, it is doubtful If q re-adjustment
would have been required down to the
present time. In the debates In the
French chambers upon the law of 1903,
fixing 151S to as the legal relation be-
tween gold and silver, it was conceded
that changes In that relation mightbe re-
quired at probable intervals Of half a
century; but none has, in fact, been made
in France since then, nor until recently
have any even seemed to be necessary.
The relative value Of the two metals,
which had huctuated considerably dur
ing the middle ages, settled and became
steady about the middle of the seven
teenth century. Whether because the
great opposing forces of the American
supply Of, and the Asistic demand for,
silver had then reached the final ad-
justment of their effects, or whatever
may have been the cause, the fact is GER
tain that from-that time on, and for more
than two centuries, and down to 1874,75,
when the German demonetization of sill
YER began to come into practical opera
ton, the fluctuations were slight and un-
important, except during short period,
when England disturbed the markets by
adopting gold standard.
In the appendix to this report will be
found minute on the Market Ratio Be-
tween Gold :snd Silver in London, Eng
land, from 176O to,the Present Time. "lThe
ratios between gold and silver between
1888 and 1875 are taken from the tables
furnished by Plxley g. Abell, bullion
brokers, of London, to the British silver
commission of 1875. The ratio each year
from 1888 to 1875 Is based on the average
price in gold in each month CT the year
Of one ounce of standard silver. When
the London quotation ls SO pence per
standard ounce, the relative value Of sill
YER and gold in that market is 1898 to l.
This 10 the legal relation that was estSb-
llshed In this country in 1S34,37, and
which remained unchanged until 1t was
sbrOgsted by the demonstration Of sill
YER In 1874. When the London quota
tion Is 6O.S7 pence per ounce, the rela-
tive value of silver and gold in that
market Is 1516 to /, which exactly CORE
spends with the legal relation between
the metals in the Latin Union.
A comparison of the fluctuations In
the relative value Of the two metals with
the fluctuations during the same periods
in their relative production, will show
how small an influence the latter have
had upon the former.
The period from 1888 to 1875 covers
twenty seven years after the California
discoveries and twenty-four years after
the Australian discoveries. There was
an enormous increase after 184S in the
relative annual production Of gold, and
this increase had in 1878 continued long
lSnough TO effect very greatly the relative
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-11-24
THANKSGIVING DAY!

him with her body, pushed her aside, say
ing: mo, no, cannot permit this. You
must not be injured. Let me pass" at
that moment a musket was discharged,
and the officer, perceiving that Thankful
was reeling. supported her In his arms
She had received the shot intended for
him.
moment later there was mighty
shout, a great rushing noise, the door was
burst open, and Captain Folsom and some
of his company entered. What Is this!
What Is this9" he said.
"Ah, uncle, Ben Williams and his gang
are trying to capture the officer, and they
have shot Thankful as she tried to prevent
It," said Abbie, crying bitterly.
"Willamss Take him away; bind him,
nut him in the guardhouse with his gang
the captain shouted, and then kneeilng
down over the body of his daughter he
moaned, saying, "My Thankful, my Thank
full. oh, my daughter, they have killed
youi"
They have killed her, sir while she was
trying to save my life,' said the officer,
and he wept like child.
But she was not dead. They lifted her
tenderly and carried her to her bedroom
under the gable roof, and when they saw
that she opened her eyes and that her lips
moved they were rejOiced, and there was
prayer Of thanksgiving to God that he had
spared her life that night.
\ few days later the order came from the
general instructing Captain Folsom to de
liver the prisoner under his charge to the
outposts Of the British army at the Bronx
in exchange, for it was demonstrated that
he had told the truth when he said he had
strayed within the patriot lines by accident.
rs he was about to 20 away he said to
Captain Folsom: Il have one favor to ask.
May see Mistress Thankful for an in
slant alone" 1t was permitted. He went
and stood by her bedside aid took her
hand. Thankful" said he, II am going
away 1t is not right that | should speak
to YOU except in thanks for am an officer
in an army opposed to yours, but may say
this: | heard your unconscious confession
when you babe me go for your sake and
your sweet words then uttered will be in
my memory until | come back again when
these battles are over" and then he
kneeled tenderly over her and touched his
lips to her forehead.
When be looked at her he saw the glance
of exquisite Joy which she could not con-
ceal, and he perceived that gentle tears
were coursing down her checks which she
did not care to wipe away, and be knew
that they were tears Of Joy.
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Six years later, on the afternoon OF
Thanksgiving day, Il traveller dismounted
from his horse in front of Captain Folsom's
forge-for the captain was Il blacksmith in
time of peace. The traveller looked curl
ously about, as though not sure that this
was the place he sought, when his eyes
rested upon maiden who was standing in
the doorway. 1t seemed TO him as though
the picture which he had seen in that
identical spot six years before on the day
of his capture was there again. He went
ND to her and said Thankful, my Thanks
giving. have COME"
"Iknew you would" she said and with
such gentle sweetness Of manner that ne
took her to his arms
If was grievous sorrow to Captain Fol-
som that his daughter Thankful was com
PEELED to leave him when she married this
man whose life she had saved, but it was
Joy for him to know that she had husband
worthy Of her She had married Sir John
Sterling and he took her TO his estates in
England, which were great, and there, as
long as they lived. and to this day among
their descendants, the last Thursday III
November in every year is celebrated as Il
thanksgiving ceremonial, and in the even
ing to the children every year is told TINS
romance Of theday when their grandfather
and great grandfather met his ThanksglV'
inc. f. JAY EDWARDS.
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81 gave your father my word Of honor that
/ would not leave the house till he re-
turned"
But you must Ben Williams is a
brute. He will take you ont and kill you.
sir. Go under the escort of the guard and
he will take you where you can be COLI
cealed"
But the officer would net stir. He would
only say that he had given his pledge and
he would not break Il. In an instant
Thankful seemed changed, and the officer.
even in the suspense and terror of the nc
ment, perceived that she had assumed the
manner OF one who has authority and can
exercise it. She stood erect, her head
thrown back, her eyes very bright, her
checks now somewhat pale, and she said:
You must 90, sir; command it. Go with
him. Hark Don't you hear that mob
Shouting? You have not a moment TO
lose" And then as he did not stir she went
up to him pleadingly and with gentle man
ner, not knowing seemingly what it was
she said or did; she put her hand upon his
arm with gentle touch, and she said, go.
go; for my sake, 60"
For your sakeY' he murmured. and
seemed 10 hesitate, and then she turned 10
the guard and babe him lead the officer
forth. But at that moment the cry of the
mob was so distinct that it revealed TINT
escape was impossible. Thankful babe
the guard step in and bolt the door and
commanded him TO use his musket IL any
one should try to force an entrance. And
even AS she spoke the door was forced and
al ugly face was protruded and some one
shouted, Come out, you redcoatr' and
would have said more had he not been
felled by the butt of the guards musket.
The door was closed and bolted, aud the
guard stood with the manner of defiance.
In an instant Thankful had made DISPOSE
tion of the officer. Before he was aware
what she was doing she had led him TO
the settle In the chimney corner, and she
babe him to be seated there. None too
soon, for the window was forced open and
some one shouted, Come out, you cur, or
we will shoot you where you arel'
"Oh, you eoward-you coward. Ben Will
liams He has done you no harm and he is
unprotected" and Thankful speaking thus
placed herself SO that she stood directly
before the officer. There was crash, q
confusion Of sounds, for they were trying
to force the door. The officer, then realil
Ing that this fair maiden wAs protecting
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1--WE GAVE HIN A VERBAL DESCRIPTION"
We each told our lies about turkeys as large
as the site of a town,
And Smiley he sat there and listened, an
swallowed the anecdotes down.
It seems that in England the turkey is scare"
as the horns on dog
The bird wasn't built for country that's
made up of rainfall and fog
So Smiley was overly anxious TO know how a
turkey might look,
And we gave him verbal description as clear
as you'd find in book.
Then what did be do but invite US to dinner on
Thanksgiving day;
'"The turkey I'll have" he assured us, "and
cooked in the old fashioned way.
You tell me wild turkeys are met with some
times in the woods about here?
All right; I'm prince with the rifle. Remen-
Der, don't fail to appear"
Time passed, and It was soon November; the
morning OF Thanksgiving came;
We hadn't forgotten the turkey, and started
to tackle the same;
We soon reached the Englishman's dugeut,
and Smiley war there with his feast;
His face was all lighted with pleasure and
rosy as dawn In the east;
n killed tia beautiful turkey" he cried,
land as plump as grouse;
I cooked it. and warrant the cooking. l was
chef IN nobleman's house,
Sit down to the feast, though it's early; give
thanks for the luck have had;
This Thanksgiving day is a feature tbs Eng
land should copy, egad"
Well, stranger. we ate and we wondered. that
bird had taste that was strange
Wed eaten tame turkeys so often wild ono
went queer as change.
The dinner was lengthy, reckon; 1t took US
two hours TO get done.
And then we went out Of the dugout to loaf
for awhile in the sun.
And what should we see but the feathers that
bird we had eaten had worn
All, we'll had ii been for the Briton were his
mother and father ne'er bornl
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went away, and so he said as he held me
up: 1t is Thanksgiving day. The Lord
has been good 10 me these many years, but
be has been best TO me today. So her name
shall be Thanksgiving, since she is born
upon that day. and that, sir, Is my name,
although they call me, for the sake OF
shortness, Thankful"
She said this with such modesty and
with such delicious suggestion Of grace,
and her cheeks were so gently flushed and
her ewes so bright, that the young officer
could not conceal the admiration for her
which had seized him, and when she per-
ceived il she turned away with gentle CO.
uuetry Thus this Thanksgiving after
noon, which had promised to be so dreary
time for him, was one of joy, and when
the shades of evening came and the candles
wer. lighted the maidens and the young
officer were like those who had been long
acquainted.
in the evening the girls brought apples
and nuts and cider, and they were having
a merry time when of a sudden Abbe arose
and went to the door. Her quick ears had
detected q strange sound. A moment later
lad came painting into the room.
look out. Thankful. they are coming
to attack YOU" he said, scarcely able to
speak for lack Of breath.
"They? Who? Who can attack us"
otis Ben Williams and his gang. Twas
yesterday that the cowboys captured lad
"a cousin of Ben Williams-and for some
reason they hanged him, and now Ben IS
bound to have revenge, and he has heard
that there is a British officer here, and he
swears he'll have him hanged to tree for
revenge" =
A moment later a young man With n
musket in his hands entered the door and
he said: Mistress Thankful, your father
left me here on guard unbeknown to you.
There's trouble brewing. fear. They are
coming to take the officer away and TO do
him harm. Let him so with me and
will hide him"
Thankful brought the officers cloak and
hat and babe him go. but to her amaze
ment he refused 81 cannot Co." he said.
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Rev. J. Walkup, who commands her, Is
a captain as well as a missionary, who has
passed twelve yeats Of his life among the
Gilbert islands. Internally the vessel is all
cabin, rs the crew is composed entirely OF
the missionaries who intend to work among
the islands, and the vessel is designed for
a sort of tender to the big missionary brig
Morning Star. IL is built, therefore, 10 run
In and out among all the channels and
harbors where the large vessel cannot 20,
and an odd feature about 1t Is a l0horse-
power gasoline engine and attached screw.
so the vessel can navigate the narrow chan
nels by steam in a calm.
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"JrM ssfITHERs EXPLAINED 1T TO sAiLEf'
Jim smithers explained It to Smiley, that
while it was painful TO do.
We felt II our duty TO hang him. and that
when tho swinging was through
We'd see that his body was planted: ned GOV"
cred us all with disgrace,
And unless he was hung we could never again
look q man in the face.
He acted the man that we thought him and
lent us his clothesline, and said
He hoped that we all would forgive him and
speak Of him kindly when dead.
The crime he committed? Well, stranger.
guess may tell it to you
The turkey be fed US was buzzardl We hung
him; what else could we do2
WALT MASON.
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had found favor in his sight, for he looked
upon them with admiring glances, al.
though with the greatest courtesy and
Difference. He told them stories Of Eng
land which they were pleased to hear and
of life among the nobility there and how
the WAYS of those titled people differed
from the simple customs Of their kindred
in the American colJnies, and he asked the
maidens many things about their manner
of life. and it was plain to see that Mistress
Thankful had already won his high regard.
"Tell me" said he, chow is it that they
call you Thankful IT'S a pretty name,
and we'll given to you, should say, but
never heard It before heard them call
you by it."
But it is not my name" she said. 81
have heard my mother say that on one
Thanksgiving day they sent to my father
who was in the church and babe him
hurry home, and when he came ne found
me there, though | was not there when he
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AN ENGLISHMAN'S TURKEY.
Tho Thrilling Tale Of a Fatal Thanks
giving Error.


Copyright, 1892.
Bill Smiley You're looking for Smiley Well,
pardner. that strikes me as strange.
Say. where do you live that you didn't know
Smiley's gone over the ranger
He departed this life last November, on the
evening Of Thanksgiving day.
And his farm Is a range for the rattlers, his
dugout is gone TO decay.
Poor Smiley You see, he was British; mob
right from London s'pose:
He used to go round wearing glasses and loud
and excitable clothes;
And that land that he owned he prc-empted
and farmed It in glittering style,
The mem'ry Of which sort o. makes me dis
solve in vast. shoreless smile.
One day all the boys were a-sitting and talk
ing In Higgins store,
And somehow the argument drifted to Thanks
giving dinners of yore.
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The smallest missionary vessel afoat re-
GENTLY left San Francisco for the Gilbert
islands. She is fifty feet long, fourteen
feet wide aud six feet deep, is two mast
oil schooner, was built at San Francisco,
and her name is the Hiram Bingham. She
was paid for, however, by the American
board of foreign missions, Of Boston, and
Is registered in that city.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-11-24
Things OF Glass.

A glass factory at Liverpool now has
glass journal boxes for all OF its machinery,
a glass door, glass shingles on the roof,
and a smokestack u05 feet high built
wholly OF glass bricks. each foot square.
st. Louis Repuhlic.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-11-24

BLASTING FAT GOOSE ON TIE SPIT"
The company had come as near to the
farmhouse as the meadow which adjoined
it on the west and there they halted, and
the maiden saw that one was with them
who was not Of the company when they
marched away the night before. He stood
alone, erect, constrained, and she per-
seiYsd that his hands were tied with
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-11-24

For Coughs and Throat troubles us
Brown.s Bronchial Trochcs.-"Ihey sop an
attack OF my asthma cough verv promptly
n Fo,eh. Miomsrlne. Onto Adv
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THANKSGIVING LOVER.
Copyright, 1921

EFORE the great
bakeoven built
into the huge
stone chimney OF
Captain John Fol-
sons house there
sat a fair young
lgirl on a lowery
morning Of NO
vember, IN, and
near her, basting
a fat goose on the
spit before a log
fire, stood another
even fairer than
she. These maid
ems, clad in coarse