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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
HANDY THREAD BOX.
II L. Just the Thing for Boys to Mako for
Mother.

It Ii Just the Thing for Boys to Mako for
Mother.
Probably nothing in the category of
domestic supplies is more productive
of displays of temper than spools of
thread which are left to work their
own sweet will in a sewing basket
Perhaps some of the romping boys
with a patient mother would like to re-
ward this patience in some degree by
a little work of their own in her be-
half. If so, what would be more &C.
ceptable than q ncatly-arranged box
for spools of thread, one which will
keep all tho various ends free from
snarls. The box shown in this cut is
made from n cigar box of sufficient
depth to hold the size of spools to be
used and leave a little more than half
an inch space between the cover of the
box and the spools-
The box will probably be p1astered
inside and out with paper decorations
hardly fitted to your purpose. Moisten
these with a sponge and they can soon
be scraped off with a piece of glass or
q knife, or the box may be rubbed
down with coarse sandpaper and pol
ished with a finer grade. When this
is done tighten the joints and
fasten on the cover with small
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
Breaking It Gently.

Young Wife-My dear, you were
the stroke oar at college, weren't you?
Young Husband-Tes, love
"And a very prominent member of
the gymnastic class?''
81 was the leader
And quite a hand at all athletic ex-
ercises?''
"'Ouite n hand?' My gracious! I was
the champion walker, the best runner,
the head man at lifting heavy weights,
and as for carrying? Why I could
shoulder barrel of flour and
"Wcn, love, just please carry the
baby u couple Of hours; l'sa t!,ed."-
SoutlSou.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
THE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY.
Facts Which Condemn the Republican
PrplRc

Facts Which Condemn the Republican
Financial Policy.
When an imminent danger threatens,
the first thing to do is to avert it. 1t is
time enough to inquire into the causes
of the danger afterwards.
This is plainly the right policy in re-
gard to the exi9ttng financial difficulty.
But the organs of the discarded repub-
ican party are laboring to impeach the
sense and the patriotism of a great ma
jority Of the people by assertions that
''about money the democratic party is
not to be trusted and that the ''heavy
loss of gold'' is occasioned by the fact
that IAN overwhelming prejudice with
in, 4ie democratic party favors silver
1t is due to the truth of history to
neot this misrepresentation at once
with a plain statement of incontest-
able facts:
1. When the democratic administered
ton came into power, the 4th of
March, the ''heavy loss of gold" under
repu blican rule had left but S9S7, 1000 of
''free gold'' in fhe treasury, whereas
when thedemocrats went out of power
four years before the amount of free
gold above the 800, 900, 900 reserve
S74, 1922.
2. There has been no democratic
c1amor in favor of silver payments. On
the contrary, Senators Voorhees, and
Cocl<rel1, prominent advocates of free
coinage, have approved the determina-
ton of the administration to pay in
gold.
8. The most active cause of the pres
ent difficulty Is the republican silver
act of 1890, under which, as Secretary
Carlisle says, 1.-THE government has
been and now is paying gold for silver
bullion and storing the silver in the
vaults, where tits rs useless for any pur-
pose of circulation or redemption as iron,
lead or any other commodity
4. The suggestion of and authority
for silver redemption are contained in
this same republican law, which directs
the secretary of the treasury to "coin of
the silver bullion purchased under this
act as much as may be necessary to pro-
vide for the redemption Of the treasury
notes herein provided for"
In fixing responsibility stick to the
facts. But first of all, let all good citi-
zens sustain the governments policy to
maintain the public credit and keep the
public faith.--N. Y. World
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
CONFIDENCE RESTORED.
Public Faith Has Withstood Cowardly
Republican Attacks.

Republican Attacks.
It is a credit to the people of this
country that all the petty attempts to
create a financial furry and precipit:ate
a disastrous crisis have been unavail-
ing. Never before has the spirit of
party malignity more recklessly assert
ed itself. The relations of the president
and the cabinet have been misrcpresent-
ed and an open rupture between them
made to appear imminent. Repub-
lican organs have exerted their influence
to create a want OF confidence and to
arouse the financial interests of the
west against those of the east There
has been a well-defined purpose to in
jure the administration in the eyes of
the country, no matter what disastrous
consequences might ensue. But public
faith has withstood the cowardly as
sault- because firm in the belief that
those who have been placed at the head
of affairs will do that which is wisest
and best for the good of the govern
ment and the people.
The recent meeting of the secretary
of the treasury and the bankers of New
York removed any disturbing doubts
that may have been created in tho
minds of the business men and the
financiers of the country. 1t threw
light upon phases of the question that
were before obscure, and corrected mis-
understandings that had arisen IL
brought out clearly the fact, which
some have affected to doubt, that the
secretary and the bankers have the
same object in view, and are entirely
agreed as to the necessity of repeating
the silver act of 1890 the only COM
plete remedy for existing evils. There
were some differences of view as to the
details of the action probably required
in the interval before this repeal can
be achieved; but they are anxious to co.
operate with each other in the most
cordial manner.
These facts are of the utmost impor-
lance. because it is plain that no finan-
cial policy can be successful which, on
the one hand, has not the approval Of
the secretary, and on the other does not
meet the requirements of the large
commercial and financial interests rep
resented by the bankers. Secretary
Carlisle has shown clearer conception
of the situation and its demands. than
some even of his friends were willing
to concede to him. He has also recog-
nized the responsibility of the bankers
as trustees for the greater part of the
business of the whole country, a matter
which in itself is of primary impor-
lance. With an1icable cooperation
cured, and with the known broad and
well-considered views of President
Cleveland, the country can look for
ward to the difficulties which must be-
met with confident assurance that they
will be overcome without serious conse-
qucnces to the business interests of the
country.-Detroit Free Press
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
THE FOX.

hinges, strips of leather or cloth
glued on inside. Then get a
piece of half-inch board and saw out a
portion just large enough to fit inside
the box; mark off the squares on this
board so that the lines will cross each
other as near together as the spools can
stand without interfering. At each
point of crossing bore a hole with a
very small gimlct and smooth Off the
board neatly with sandpaper or a plane;
then drive through these holes from
the under side some round wire nails
long enough to reach the top of the
spools.
Put this false bottom in the box and
along the front and ends bore as many
small thread holes as there are pegs in
the board. Put on Il little metal
fastening to hold the cover down and
it is ready for decoration and use. A
small ornament traced on with a burn
ing iron point is permanent and quite
effective if carefully laid out, or it may
be done with some dark wood stain
laid on with Il small brush in imitation
of inlaid work.
After this is all done, varnisll or oil
the box inside and out and it will mako
n very pretty and acceptable gift.-N.
Y. World.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
STORY OF A RING.

Daisy, the White Kitten. Lost 1t, and
Little Frank Found 1t.
Little Frank was almost n year old,
but he could not yet walk Il step Or
speak a word. All he could do was to
sit upon the floor and play with blocks,
and make his rubber doll squeak.
One morning his mamma was going
to mako preserves, SO she took off her
gold ring and put it on the table in tho
dining-room. Then she left Era1lle
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
She Corrected Him.

"You are the only girl in all the wide
world that have ever loved" he said
to the Boston maiden.
81 am delighted to hear you say SO, !"
she answered, ''but 1 think you are
hardly, correct in saying the wide
world. Round world would be better.
The world is round, slightly hattened
at the poles.''-N. Y. Press
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
leo VIII Stay Up.

Houselseeper-1ce will be very cheap
next summer, won't it?
Ice MAXWELL, I don't know, mum.
You see. we've got a good deal of dear
ice left over from the year before, and
we'll have to sell that first, because it
might spoil, you know, and I'm afraid
by the time the old stock is gone, tho
cheap ice will all be melted.-N. Y.
Weekly.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

Business Man-I'll buy nothing more
from YOU. The last suit of clothes you
sold me shrank terribly after a single
shower of rain. The coat now doesn't
reach as far as tho waist and the
trousers are up to the knees.
Travelling Sa1csman-Then you have
frst-claSs bicycle suit, and the best
thing you can do is to buy a wheel
Eliepe nde Blaetter.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
PRACTICALLY INDESTRU(

Miss Fadctte Flower have q great
affection for that church, profcssor-as
a child, played about it. while it was
building!
Prof. Solomon StifT-Is it possiblc?-
and it seems to be still in remarkably
good repair:-Puck.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
A Slur on the Medical Profe

A Slur on the Medical Profession.
Squils-A doctor never makes a visit
after his patient is out of danger.
Bils-I've heard of them doing so
many times.
Squills-No, guess not; for 80 long
as a doctor continues his visits the
patient is in danger. - Des Moines
Argonaut.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
Nemesis.

Little Brother--If you mock anybody
that shutters. you'll become a sufferer
yourself.
Little Sister-Will I?
Eyes, you will; and If you mock any.
body that limps you'll get lame, cause
that's punishment"
''Then guess that's why ladies has
to begin wearin' hoop skirts They's
been laughin at folks that used to wear
'em."-Good News.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
IncNrablc.

HicAs-And you say that Styles was
shot at by n niscreant in the public
street. What a fright it must have
given him. don't suppose he'll get
over it for years.
Wiclxs-Hc'n never get over it. He
is proud as Lucifcr about it. he fiat
tiers himself that he was mistaken for q
millionairc.-Boston Transcript
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
Making 1t Black for Hi

Making 1t Black for Him.
The Cook-See heah, you idiot, what
you mixin' SCOT inter dat coffee fur?
Is you done gone crazy?
The Waitress-Crazy? No. A gem
men in de dining-room dar said he
didn't want any yellar dish watah in
his'n, but if I'd bring i'm a cup of
black coffee he'd glib me a quartah.-
Harper'S Bazaar.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

Wife-That new gown of mine is a
perfect poem, isn't it?
Husband (.vho writes)-No, it isn't.
I've been trying for an hour to make
passementcrie, or furbelow, or bout
FAINT, or some of those other words in
the bill, rhyme with dollars, and l
can't do it to save my neck.-Det1oit
Free Press.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
A Good Excuse.

Judge-Why didn't you give the
purse to the police when you found it.?
Prisoner-Because it was late in the
evening. Ae
Judge-But why didn't you give it on
the following morninS7
Observation-Disclosures there was nothing
more in it then.-Fliegende Blaetter.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
Poor-NIusfcal Politics.

Irate Politician-You shan't have .
nickel of your bill, confound you'll
Enthusiastically not?
Irate Politician-Why' not, yQQ idiot?
What made you play ''Die Rdht Am
Rhein" whenever we got into an Irish
district and ''The Wea1ngxof tho
Green when we got intoEh6
wards?''-Chicago Record.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
Pats Joke.

Pat was digging in a deep trench.
''Hullo, Irish!'' cried man from
above -
''Oi was Oirish befoor OF got In herp,"
returned Pat, ''but now Dim 1Ditch-
man."-Judge. -
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
Tho Explanation Accepted.

She-Have you doctors any feelings?
Hc-Oh, yes. When my own brother
is sick I call in another physician.
Doesn't that show it?
Shelves A man who has no COM
Functions about murder, but avoids
fratrieide, must have some feelings
Life.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

The democratic administration
turned over to its republican successor
four years ago nearly ten times as much
free gold as it received back from Sec
rotary Foster last March. And yet
the republican organs assert that .
return to the old regime is necessary
to restore s'confdepcei''-N.Y Y. World.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
Made a Great Fit.

II was immensely pleased with Ham
phat in that last act"
'Why, he doesn't come on then at
all"
mo, I know he didn't" Chicago
Record.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
Needed Strength.

Young Wife-I am surprised to have
a strong man like you ask bread of me.
Weary Wanders (w;ch dignity
Madam, if l were not a strong man
should not ask for your brcad.-Judge.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

81 like to lunch with Barrowa His
conversation is very bright"
''Thar's all right, but it's cheaper Il
get it direct from the comic papers,
Harper's Hazar.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

Oh, a satin SAIL and q silver ~c4I
Over tho purple waves to float:
For path OF gold from the sunset west
Shines out tho way that VIC love bestl
Shut dear eyes that have drowsy grown.
Dreams arc waiting my sweet my own;
Mother pilots her babe alone
To the wonderful Islc of Mid Nodi
On the shores OF pearl we will roam all night,
Watching tho dream elves. wee and bright;
They will sing q song for my baby dear
Dance for my darling: do you hear7
Gifts they'll lay ut these dimplcd feet.
Stars ana roses, all woven sweet:
Oh, the prcttics that we shall meet
In tho beautiful Isle of Mid Nodl
When the scarlet glow OF the dawn shall wake,
Homcward again our sail Wen take:
And we'N say goodby to the wee folks all,
Promising every night to call!
Soon my precious will COO with glee,
Safely moorcd will our drcamboat be:
Come, my little one, sail with mo
To tho far away Isle OF Nid-NodI
George Cooper. in Our Little Ones.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

SENATOR Cullsm, Of Illinois, is
rallying around the flag which was low
cred ut Hawaii. The senator is always
ready to rally in times of peace.-St-
Louis Repu bile.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
The Difference

Papa-Why, May, you IRE too big &
girl to play with dolls.
nIay-Oh no, papa. This is a big
doll.-Harper's Young People.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

The republican newspaper CORE
sf,ondents must get together on their
stories before they can hope to pull the
cabinet apaJt.-N. Y. World,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

When a man gets eff pun he Is al
ways anxious for some one else 10 set
on to it,-TTutla.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

Democrats understand very well the
pressure to which Secretary Carlisle is
subjected by the millionaires and gold
spectators, and he will find all demo-
Gratis ready to support him in carrying
out a just and honest policy. He need
not ask from these insolcnt and dicta-
torial people a single dollar either a
loan or as a favor. If he wants another
hundred million in gold, or if he needs
two hundred million three hundred
million, to do what the plutocrats call
maintaining the public credit the
democratic party and the democratic
congress will see that he gets it. Let
him give these people to understand
that it is inconsistent with the dignity
of the United States under democratic
administra ton to beg from them to
accept favors from them and that it is
Inconsistent with both law and justice
to borrow from them to help them cor
ner money against the people. He can
rely on 1t that the democratic. congress
will give the treasury all the gold that
can possibly be called for.-St. Louis
Republic.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
cLEvELAND's FINANCIAL POLICY

A Declaration Which Leaves No Room
for Doubt Uncertainty.
The following authoritative statement
by President Cleveland clears the
financial atmosphere. 1t follows up
specifically the pledge of the inaugural
address. 1t meets boldly situation
which has thrown into uncertainty
many positive men. The president
says:
1.-The inclination on the part of the
public to accept newspaper reports con-
corning the intentions of those charged
with the management of our national
finances seems to justify my emphatic
contradiction of the statement that the
redemption of any kind of treasury
notes, except in gold, has at any time
been determined upon or con tenplated
by the secretary of the treasury or any
other member of the present admins
tration. The president and his cabinet
are absolutely harmonious in the deter
mination to exercise every power con-
ferred upon them to maintain the pub
lie credit, to keep the public faith and
to preserve the parity between gold and
silver and between all financial cbliga-
tiOnS of the government.
''Whi1e the law of 1890 forcing the
purchase of a fixed amount of silver
every month provides that the secretary
of the treasury, in his discretion, may
redeem in either gold or silver the
treasury notes given in payment of sill
| yer purchases. yet the declaration of
the policy of the government to main
tain the parity between the two met
ais, seems SO clearly to regulate this
discretion to dictate their redemp-
ton in gold.
"Of course, perp1exity and difficulties
have grown out of an unfortunate
financial policy which we found in
vogue. and embarrassmentsh have arisen
from ill-advised financial legislation,
confronting at every turn, but. with
OH FIJI ha
and patriotic disposition to cooperate,
threatened dangers will be averted,
pending n Legislative return to a better
and sounder financial plan. The strong
credit of the country, still unimpaired,
and the good sense of our people, which
has never failed in time of need are at
hand to- save us from disaster."-Al-
bany Argus.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24
HARRISON AS LECTURER.
His War Policy Will Have to Undergo =


Change.
Ex-Presidcnt Harrison's services have
been secured as a lecturer on interna-
tional law at the Stanford university in
California, and Senator Stanford is re-
ported saying that he had an alb
horrence of war, and had suggested to
Gen. Harrison that in his lectures he
should devote himself to any extent he
desires to arguments for peace and arbi-
tration.' It will be interesting to hear
GC.1. Harrison lecture in favor of arbi-
tration, considering how much he did
when in power to uphold, in his deal
ings with Chilli, that view of national
honor which makes arbitration, a
means of settling international dis
putes, difficult. The Chilians We're in
great trouble when the Valparaiso riot
occurred; there was no reason for be-
lieving that the government authorized
or approved Of it, We're reluctant to
p,l nish the rioters. There was no doubt
OF our capacity to conquer the country
in a single campaign. if we chose. The
case was one, therefore, which eminent
ly called for delay, and patience and
forbcarance, for, in short, the dis
play of faith in peaceful meth
DDS. President Harrison, however,
from the very first, permitted
the navy department to shower threats
on the ChilianS. in such volume to
make it very difficult for a high-spirited
and to commit the American press and
public to war policy towards small
feeble power. His getting in Il war
message on Monday because he had no
telegram on Saturday is fresh in every
body's memory. Should he come out
now a supporter of arbitration, we
trust that he will bear in mind that a
peaceful, peace-loving state of the pub
lie mind is necessary to make arbitra-
ton successful, and that to produce
this state the duelistic view of honor
has to be laid aside. 1t was Us difficult
to persuade people, when they found
we had n nice new navy, that honor did
not require us to fight the Chilians
promptly last year, it would have
been to convince South Carolina gem
tlenan in 1859 that as good gentlemen
as he here at the north kept their honor
in good condition without either occa-
sionally shooting at anybody or being
occasionally shot at. In short. in order
to have peace peaceful modes of set
Ting differences, we have to cultivate a
peaceable disposition.--N.Y Y. Post
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

The emphatic statement Of tn
president as to the determination to
continue the payment of the treasury
notesiin gold will set at rest thedoubts
which the timid ones have had as to the
policy of the administration in that re-
gard. The statement is of value in an
other aspect. It calls attention to the
fact that the existing trouble, concern
ing which his republican critics are 50
voluble, is Of republican origin. 1t is
the Sherman law more than any other
agency-more indeed than all others
combined-that has brought about tfse
present situation. The practical effect
of that measure has been to compel the
government to exchange its; gold for
silver, and it was idle to expect that
this could be continued indefinitely
without depicting seriously, if not dan
gerously, the stock of gold. Detroit
Free Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-06

"A man who has never been in
wreck wouldn't believe how long it takes
for the cars to get through piling up"
said another. After the first crash
there is rebound clear to the back Of
the train, and then the whole thing takes
another lunge, something gives way, and
maybe three or four more cars telescope.
Then there's another jerk backward and
another lunge, and it seems as if tho
cracking and groaning and tumbling
keep on for five minutes. When a man
is mixed up with the trucks under the
whole stack it seems like an hour"
"Make it an hour and half" said an
ex-brakeman as he scratched his nose
with the only clawlike finger remaining
at the end of twisted and shriveled
stump of hand. The crowd knew how
he had been dug out with derrick and
laughed at the joke.-Chicago News
Record