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received it's metallic supplies for CEN
turies, and that the silver dollar became
everywhere known. But it is said, and
appears to be true, that Spain received
the dollar from Austria during their
union under Charles V, and that it was
first coined from the silver Of the Bohe-
mian mines as the "thaler," which name
it yet bears in Germanic countries.
If there are Americans who are graft
fed to concede that the pound sterling is
and must remain the worlds unit of
monetary value, there are Englishmen
who reluctantly yield the palm to the
silver dollar. Jevons, discussing the
question of the probable international
unit Of the future, says Money and Ex-
change, page 170) of the Spanish and
Mexican silver dollars, that "these COINS
have hundred years past been received
by tale almost without Question in most
parts of the world" On page 172, he
says that "the Americans might have
much to say in favor of the dollar. 1t
corresponds to the coins which have for
two or three centuries been most widely
circulated and treated as units of ac-
count, SO that there is much weight OF
experience in it's favor" And again, on
page 179, he says that "the fact that the
dollar is already the monetary unit of
many parts Of the world gives it large
Odds"
For us, this question was settled by
our revolutionary ancestors in 1855, and
by the mint act Of 1892, which bears the
approving signature of General Wash
ington. And it is noteworthy fact that
General Washington is connected with
the silver dollar, not only by his ap-
proval of the act Of 1892, but by his in
dorsement of the memoir of Mr.. Jeffer-
son which led to the adoption Of the
silver dollar unit Of 1856. (Washington,s
letter to Grsyson, in Sparks "Life of
Washington" volume 9, page 1861 The
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-11
NEW SERVICE no NEW YORK.
The Memphis to Put on a Fast Train
From the South to Gotham.

The Memphis to Put on q Fast Train
From the South to Gotham.
The Memphis road has completed all
arrangements for fast vestibule train SER
vice between Memphis and New York by
way of Atlanta and Washington. The sasts
bound train leaves Memphis at $50 each
night, reaching Atlanta at II the next morn
ing and arriving in New York at noon Of the
following day. The run from Memphis to
Atlanta will be made in fourteen hours,
which is pretty lively gait, and the record
from Memphis to New York will be broken
by about three hours. The trains to be used
in this service are as fine as anything in
the country, and are fully equipped with
the necessary conveniences Of modern
railway train. To the business men of the
southwest, and to patriots enroute to WASH
ington about the 4th Of March, Presi-
dent Nettleton's improved service on the
Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham line
will prove Of much benefit.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-11

silver dollar has thus the sanction Of the
solid and practical sense Of General
Washington, added to that of the learn
ing, genius and philosophy Of Mr.. Jeffer-
son. 1t is as much a tradition of the
United States as their national military
air, or their national flag, and it is
policy as we'll as a tradition.
ITO be COntinued)
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-11
A Perfect Baking Powder.

The constantly growing demand for Dr. Prices
Cream Baking Powder the standard tartar powder
for forty years, is due to two causes
FIRST-The extreme care exercised by the manu-.
facurers make perfectly pure uniform in quality and
of highest raising power.
SECOND:-The recent Investigations exposing the
fact that certain other brands of baking powder contain
ammonia and still others that found contain alum
These unscrupulous manufacturers being found out
and the consumers are giving them wide birth
Nothing is left to chance in the manufacture of DR.
Prices Cream Baking Powder Chemists are employed to
test every ingredient to purity and strength Hence;
its marvellous purity and uniformity Each is like
every other 1t never dssapoints BEST is ALWAYS
the CHEAPEST
Dr.. Prices Cream Baking Powder is re-
ported by all authorities as free from Ammonia,
Alum, any other adulterant In fact, the
purity Of this ideal powder has never been ques-
toned.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-11

to 1921, as at present, when they signify
gold sovereigns. The availability Of such
acceptsnces depends upon the fact that
London became early the central point Of
the wealth, banking and commerce Of
the world, and has banks, bankers and
commercial houses, the solidity of whose
credit is everywhere known. The pre-
eminence Of London in these particulars,
fairly won and fairly maintained by solid
traits of national character, must be ad-
mitted to still exist, but it is weakened
sensibly by the advancing rivalry of New
York, and may soon be by that of San
Francisco. "Who shall say" to quote
the words of Governor Morgan report to
United States senate, June 9, 1863, ''that
the course of trade may not make an
American city, New York or San Fran
cisco, the center of exchange, and confer
upon us the advantages so long enjoyed
by European cspital?"
In the United States senate, March 8,
1870, the pending proposition being to
authorize the refunding of the national
debt in bonds payable in London, Paris,
Amsterdam and Berlin, in pounds,
francs, and thalers, the late Mr. Sumner
opposed it, exclaiming:
I cannot forget my own country, nor
can l forget that great primacy which ]
hope to see her assume in the money
markets Of the world. New York is our
natural money center. Why should we
revolVe about European money centers?
Let us keep our own center here at
home.
There may be merchants, welded to an
accustomed routine, who believe that it
is only through the circuitous and
clumsy expedient of bill of exchange on
London that America can pay silver in
China. But this will not be credited by
the active men of the present generation
who can better realize that we have now
great and opulent city on the Pacific
within thirty days steaming Of Japan
and China, which is the gateway of our
silver mines, and which would hold their
products always in large stock if silver
were remonetized. London, at any rate,
realizes it, and it is stated in a recent
number Of the EcOnOmSSt of that city,
that "London merchants now pay for
their tea and spices by telegraphing to
San Francisco orders for the shipment
of American silver" And if it is not
true to-day, the time is not distant when
it will be true that to whatever extent
commercial and bankers acceptances are
used by us in the east in lieu Of coin,
they can be obtained in San Francisco
more Rdvantageously than in London.
Some Of the greatest banking houses in
Europe. including the Messrs. Roths-
child, are already represented by agen-
CleS In Oan frBnclSCO.
1t is no disparagement to the pound
sterling, which represents the opulence
and good faith of English merchants and
the unvarying integrity Of the English
coinage, to say that the silver dollar has
been longer known, is more widely used,
and is more familiar to mankind than
any other coin of either metal. 1t was
in common use in 17S5, when the Ameri-
can congress adopted it as the unit of
account. The credit of our decimal
money is due to Mr.. Morris, but it was
Mr.. Jefferson who proposed the dollar as
the unit of account, and, in his paper
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-11

energetic language of an English econo-
mist Nondon Statistical Society, volume
81, page 352):
England is the peculiar seat Of none
tary crises, just as Egypt is Of the plague
and India of the cholera. The monetary
plaques are the bane and opprobrium of
our country.
In addition to the irregularities of its
production, gold lacks sufficiency of
mass to give it steadiness. 1t is neces-
sarily so subject to "jerks and changes"
that to use it as an exclusive standard
must reduce all business to gambling.
No merchant can buy goods with gold
to be sold for gold year sfterward, or
even few months afterward, without
being subjected to heavy risk. If he
covers the risk by extra profits in the
nature of insurance, he must impose a
heavy tax upon those who deal with
him. Whoever enters into contract to
pay gold in one, two or three years can
not, by any possibility, foresee what it's
value may be when the contract natures.
Gold, when unsteadied by silver, is as
unstable as water. The long experience
of England has shown it to be one of the
most fluctuating, treacherous, and dan
gerous currenciss ever devised. The
present head of the British ministry said,
three years ago, that England did not
become rich by adopting gold, but
adopted gold because it was already rich.
He might have added that it was only
the great wealth acquired by England
under a sounder and better system
which has enabled it to endure the mis-
chiefs of currency which has made it
''the peculiar seat of monetary crises,
just as Egypt is of the plague and India
of the chclera." II England was not the
creditor of all the world on gold con-
tracts, and if that consideration did not
really dominate over everything else in
determining its policy, it would abandon
a system which is it's "bane and oppro-
brium."
1t is one of the admitted advantages
of our present system of irredeemable
paper, that it shelters us from the recur-
ing demands for gold by the Bank of
England. The London revulsion Of 1866,
when one banking house (Overend &
Gurney) went down with liabilities of
$900OOOO0, was scarcely felt here. With
a currency of gold, or Of paper converti-
BILE into gold, we should feel instantly
every change in Europe, and especially
in England. We should not altogether
escape that influence with the double
standard of gold and silver, but at any
rate, with such standard, one part Of
our currency would be secure from Eu-
ropean perturbations.
The dollar and the pound,
1t was suggested in various forms of |
language by some of the witnesses ex-
amined by the commission that the
British gold sovereign, or pound sterling,
is for the world the generally accepted
monetary unit of value, and is the best
known and most widely used form Of
money, and that this is reason for the
adoption of the single gold standard by
the United States. And in this con-
nectlon it is said that even our purchases
in the east, when made with money, are
not made by sending silver, but by send
ing bills of exchange, drawn on, accepted
= -ll. - L L.. IA - Al.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-11

The price of the " Memorial Of Samuel
N. Wood" written by Mrs. Wood, is 81
for paper binding, and $1.5O for cloth.
The paper binding will be given with
each club Of FIVE subscribers to the AD-
vocATE, and the cloth will be given with
clubs of six. All those interested in the
history of Kansas politics will want the
book.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-11

For SALE.-A lot of reform books,
containing Bondholders and Bread
winners" .@.,Sevep Financial Conspira-
cies," and other standard works. viii
sell considerably below wholesale cost
price to close out lot, Will send list Of
what is in'stock. Address, ~. E." care
ADVOCATE office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-01


The grape growers 90 Noultrlc are Jublhnt
over the coming crop.
The congregation OF the First Presbyterian
church at Tampa is 20 erect q fine new church
coluCe. 20 occupy nearly the site OF me old
building, and 10 cost about $500 Work VIII
be commenced In Juno.
ON saturday last Isaac Nettles. foreman Of
the gas works at Orlando. was engaged lu some
repairs 60 the furnace thcre. when suddenly
the fame shot out. burning his beard anu eye
bruW-. hdir and arms and Milling his eyes
with SCOT and Cindcrs He was carried home
suffering tho most cNCruCl ltlug pain ana Dr.
kllmcr was summoned. The doctor aNayed
was at iirst feared that at least one eve was
ruined. he now says that the sight Will be re-
stored
Ocala New Capitol; The old saying that
lit is on III wind that blows nobody any
good proved truc yesterday The owners
particularly arc TO he congratulated. and the
people are thankful that the accident hap
pencd on sunday. About clock light
gust OF wind from the southwest struck the
Semi-IrOpiCal Exposition building, and after
"a few rounds of tusslinc managed 10 lay II
fiat on the ground. Al first the immense
and suddenly il gave way. the main part tall-
ing in first and the immense dome came down
afterWdrd crushing tina lumber INTO
kindling wood. The fall made very little
noise and 10 was some time before all Of Ocala
knew OF it, In the building was a family Nv
ing, who, seeing the building shaking, man
aged 20 move out leaving an old man by the
name of Ware inside. and who was too sick TO
move. The building fell on him. but fortunately
he was not hurt beyond a few scratches. The
building was owned by j. w. Pearson and r.
l.. Anderson and originally cost 5l5OD. II
was built ia 1883 for exhibition purposes, but
was complete money sinkef every year TO
those who contributed to its purposes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-01
A DEEP SEA MONSTER.
Thrilling Experience of a Diver OF
Newfoundland.

NeW1OuuQAanOs
From the New York Sunday Advertiser.
St John, NJ b. May 11.-Sailors are
said 10 be superstitious, and perhaps they
are, yet who is the landlUbber who has
not read Jules Verne or Victor Hugo's
',Toilcrs of the Sea- The monster de-
scrioed was identical with the octopus. or
giant sqUid. Once in u while newspapers
contain articles about sea monsters and
their doings. So, too Newfoundland men
and men living on the coast of Maine re
late that living in the deep and silent
caves of the sea is a huge lobster resem-
bling the smaller fish in structure. but
being very VI racious. 1t is said that he
seldom comes near the shore, but that
enormous lobster shells are sometimes
found thrown up ga land after a gale. All
northern fishermen have heard of the
monster, and ] have seen them SILVER in
the cuddles of their fishing smacks as
some one described the size and appear
ancc Of the fish, Never having seen il
myself, | do not know how far the gen
eral impression is correct, but have no
doubt thar it exists, and | will relate the
story as It was told to me by a Newfound-
| land diver:
when the Anglo Saxon. a ship laden
Yfstn costly merchandise, rs many win re
member ran into Chance cove on the
/ Newfoundland coast striking a reef and
/ sank, the government at once took
| steps to have ali that the unfortunate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-01

PaSsengers hoIdlng TICKETS or milenge books
are allowed to ride on all freight trains of this
company.
Tickets sold at Central Railroad Ticket
Ofices savannah, and Union Ticket Offices
Albany and Montgomery.
For further information apply to the under.
signed. c. b. WILBURN
Gen, Pass. Agent Americus Ga.
CECIL GABBET1, General Manager
Americus Ga.
j. NJ. CARtlIJAN Cont Act savannah Ga
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-01
SHIPPING.
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New York, June IL, Sam
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SHORTEST and most convenient route to
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transfer by tender.
For rates Of passage and other information
apply to
INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION CO.,
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-01

7 Daily except Sunday.
Trains D and Il carry thrOl
Port Tampa, connecting at POT
Trains Is and IA carry throl
INDIAN RIVER STEAM
Leave Titusville daily, exc,
landings; returning leave Melb
Leave Titusville for Jupite
following day, connecting will
Returning leave Jupiter Tgesd;
q I
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-09-09

The query Is often asked, What
causes bees to swarmy.. - Miss .Atohley,
in The Live Stock Journal. answers as
follows:
at Is an abundance Of sealed brood
that causes them to awarm, as l never
knew a natural swarm to issue without
an abundance Of sealed brood, both
drones and workers. But sometimes
they may swarm without drone brood at
all. Still they are likely to have sealed
drone brood at the time the swarm Is
sues. Whoever knew a natural swarm
to issue without plenty Of sealed broodi
Even II they have full hive Of unsealed
brood they show no swarming sign.
When III bees are ON a swarming ram
page. l always hnd the hive solid full of
sealed brood. In short, bees nearly al
ways have sealed brood, sealed drones
and sealed queen cells. Then look out.
''If you wish TO keep your bees from
swarming, keep their sealed brood taken
away until they become SO weakened
that they r willing 70 give Il mp, and
I viii bet You q nickel You can control
swarming. Use the brood In strength
ening weak colonies. or build mp good,
strong colonies with the sealed brood,
and give them a case of sections and a
queen cell or q young laying queen that
is not bent on swarming. and you have
got EN- | should like to strike that
apiary with a swarming fever that |
could not control. Try my plan and
see,"
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-09-09
e.at.y's pianos and organs,

Hon. Daniel F. Beatty, the great Or
gan and Piano mar OF Washington, N. j.,
lie buster than ever. In 1870 Mr.. Beatty
left home a penniless pillow boy, and by
his indomitable will he has worked his
way up SO as to sell go far, nearly 100 900
of Beatty's Pianos and Organs since 1870.
Nothing seemsto dishearten him obsta-
Icles lay in his way that would have
wrecked an ordinary man forever; he
turns to 81 advertisement and comes out
OF 1t brighter than ever. His instru-
ments are in use everywhere. We are
informed that. during the next ten years
he intends TO sell 100000 more OF his
make. That means a business of 500
600 900, If we average them at 800 each.
II is already the largest business of the
kind in existence. Read his advertise
ments. h
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-09-09
&GFsRsRMh
FlELDsNp GARDEN
cAeeAeEs FOR WINTER MARKET.


How These Arc stored by Long Islands
Progressive Truck
The gardeners of Long Island have
made a speciality of cabbages, and hun
dreds of tons are shipped to New York,
Brooklyn and other places all through
the winter. These cabbages are grown by
progressive methods on soil we'll adapt
ed to their culture. Then their meth
DDS Of storing cabbages to keep them
fresh all through the winter are worth
considering. for probably they send as
fresh looking ~cabbages to market in the
middle Of winter as they do in Novem-
Der. It Is described as follows in The
American Cultiyator:
Late in the fall. before the garden is
hard frozen. the location that Is well
drained should be selected. and in the
land thus marked out the cabbages are
stored. Sometimes the storage pit Is
made carefully and used only for this
purpose every season. II naturally
drained, artificial methods are employed
to keep the water from collecting In the
soil. This is q very important point, for
nothing causes cabbages to rot quicker
than damp, wet soil.
burrows are then thrown open with
q deep plow. although on a small scale
the spade Ia sometimes used for this
work. Make the burrows deep and
scoop out the loose earth In the middle.
The cabbages are placed In the burrows
with the head down, although this Is
contrary to methods Of many farmers In
other parts Of the country. who place
the roots downward. The stems are
placed at an angle Of 45 degrees, which
almost brings the cabbages on their sides
instead Of directly perpendicular. The
leaves are kept close to the heads, and
then the earth Is packed closely around
them. The pillow and spade can be used
for packing the earth around and ever
the osbbages.
Beware Of too deep covering. for
this ID. worse than too shallow. Two fur
rows with the pillow are considered suf-
icient. These large gardeners never
use straw or leaves on the cabbage for
protection. They consider dirt sufficient,
and surely their results are enough to
prove Che wisdom Of their simple meth
dds. Generally for the winter store
cabbages that are not fully ripe are
selected. as they keep better, and the
dead ripe ones ara marketed at once. In
this way fresh cabbages are had the year
round. and as the market demands them
they are dug mp for use."
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-09-09
improving Grass Land.


There are several ways In which worn
out grass lands may DO restored to pro-
ductiveness at various degrees Of ex-
pense. The most efficient, perhaps, says
The Country Gentleman, is to pillow the
field, pulverize the sod and add manure
and such a quantity Of ashes as may
have been found beneficial or may be
had. Other crops may be introduced.
One Of the best, without blowing, is to
scratch the surface thoroughly and pull
verize it with a slightly sloping tooth
harrow with sharp teeth, reseed and roll.
with "a fine top dressing Of such ferti-
lizers as have proved valuable on other
crops. Simply top dressing with COM
mon barn manure with Kemp spreader
will be useful, the value varying with
the amount applied and with its free
dom from Jumps. Scarifying alone with
the sharp tooth harrow, or with added
seeding If required, may prove beneficial.
In connection with this treatment a top
dressing with the adjacent soil will in
some instances greatly add to the prod
net. Much. however, will depend on
the character Of the land In all these
s~uulications.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-09-09
Beatty's Organs P p1! WrIis i tss
Catalogue. Address or call on Daniel +.
Beatty, Washington, New Jersey.
Are You Going East?

~
; If so, why not combine
speed and safety with
comfort? In travelling,
yonr convenience is we'll
looked after by the great
Rio Grande Western Rail-
way. See that your tick
cts read via that road,
which offers choice of
three distinct routes and
the most magnificent
railroad scenery in the
world. Send 25 cents to
J. FL. Bennett, Salt Lake
City, for copy of the beau
tiful illustrated book,
"Utah, a Peep Into the
Mountain Vailed treas
nry of the Gods"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-07

Pounus - go
was .~..a
s'realh lsai W ~ ,0 -.
"ns -. :.
s.a...a a.;,v from
$500 aov-
.u0 ~ a...-..-s. III
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-07
A Young Man. Awful Death.

Mr.. Alexander Belliveau OF Lower
Town has received information from
Michigan that his son was eaten by
wolves a few days ago. The uniortu-
nate young mar was foreman of a gang
working on the construction of a rail-
way in the northern part of the state.
He and a t. lend while out hunting were
attacked by a band of wolves, and al
though they discharged their rifles into
the pack the wolves oyerpowered them.
Befiiveau's companion climbed a tree to
escape them, and from there he saw his
companion torn to pieces by wolves at
the foot of the tree on which he was
perched. For several hours the wolves
kept around the tree and did not leave
until a number Of men from the camp
came and drove them away.-Cor. To
ronto Mail.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-08-07
A Boom In Rabbits Feet,

IL will be remembered that when Vice
President Stevenson was c~anvassing
North Carolina last September he was
presented with the traditional ''left hind
foot Of a graveyard rabbit" the animal
from which this token of good luck was
taken being captured, it is alleged, in
the old city cemetery at Raleigh. Stew
enson '.got there and this evident full.
fllment of the traditional good luck OF
the possessor of a graveyard rabbits
hind foot has evidently struck some in.
genious Yankee with an idea. A firm in
North Carolina, which makes q specially
Of rabbit skins and handles thousands
Of them every year. has received an or
der for 100, 900 rabbits feet, ''hind feet
preferred" The natural inference ID
that this order means that rabbits hind
feet" will soon be on the market al
charms. Who knows but that this an.
nouncement is the forerunner of a new
'.fadY'-Syracuse Journal.