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The Washington times., 1895-06-22
ABOLISHED STATE AGENTS.
Twenty-One Crop Collection Bureaus
Wiped Out by Mr.. Morton.

Wiped Ont by Mr.. Morton.
Secretary Morton has decided TO issue an
order aboliShinG twenty-one OF the State
agents of the Agricultural Department,
and providing for the reorganization of
the States in question into groups, for the
purpose OF collecting crop reports.
While all the details have not been
perfected, it is intended that when the
plans shall be completed the United States
shall be divided into tweuty-one districts.
Seven of these viii comprise only one State
each, while the remaining thirty eight
States viii be arranged in fourteen groups,
with an agent for each group, or for each
State which constitutes district in itself
tisstill undecided in some cases as to what
agents shall be dispensed with, and NO
names have been given out.
This step is one of the results of the plan
for the reorganization of the method OF
gathering crop returns adopted by the Secre-
taTy as the result of conferences held with the
Department statistician and the committee
appointed 10y the National Board of Trade
whichmet in this city recently.
Steps have been taken, also, for increas-
ing the number of correspondents, who
are required tu report directly to the De-
partmeHt. Some of the delegates to the
Board Of Trade recommended the abolish
ment of all State agents, but Mr.. Morton
has not thought it wise to go to this
extent. The Secretary belives, however
that the change now decided upon viii prove
a wise one. in that it will insure more eff
cient service and save the government over
S10,O0oin salaries. 1t is his purpose to re-
tain only the most efficient OF the State
gents.
The Washington times., 1895-06-22
WANTS HIS RANK AND PAY.
Com mander Quac ckenbush Gets Il Rule
Issued on Secretary Herbert.

Commander Quac kenbush Gets Rule
Issued on Secretary Herbert.
Judge Bradley yesterday decided that
in the case of ex-Comma uder John N.
Quackenbush, of 1926 street northwest,
and directed rule to issue on Secretary
Herbert to show cause why a mandamus
should not be granted compelling him to
restore Mr. euackenbush's name to the
official naval register.
The case was argued on the question of
jurisdiction three weeks ago by William F.
Mattingly and R. R. Beall for the plaintiff
and by Assistant Attorney General Dick
inson for Secretary II erbert.
Commander Quackenbush entered the
navy in 1S47, was promoted in 1871 by
President Grant to be commander and the
action was confirmed by the Senate. In
February, 1874, he was tried by court
was commuted by President Grant to six
years suspension on furlough pay. When
Commander W. S. Schley was put in his
place, just at the time of sentence, the
nominating papers were by mistake made to
read ''yice Quackenbush, dismissed"
Attorney General Devens gave IN opinion
that Mr.. Quackenbush was still in the
service despite the clerical error and when
the six years sentence had expired the
commander reported for service. He was
recognized as an officer, paid and put on
waiting orders, but on August l, 1888,
Secretary Chandler ordered his name to be
stricken from the register.
The Washington times., 1895-06-22
sale of the Mahone Lot Proposed

Judge Cox yesterday made an order al
lowing NJ. NJ. Parker, as trustee, to ad-
vertise the sale of square 673, except lots
Is and 19.
The north half is to be sold first to see
if that may not be sufficient to pay the
loan on account of which sale is to be made.
The property is the Malone lot pro-
posed as a site for the Government Print
ing office. The trust is in favor of
Jacob Tonic, the banker
The Washington times., 1895-06-22
JURY RECOMMENDED MERCY.
Dunan Convicted of Violating the Ed
munds Act-FlorenceK h i'm la II Fled.

Dunan Convicted of Violating the Ed
munds sAct-FlorenceK h i'm ba IL Fled.
Louis A. Dunan, who has for several years
kept a grocery at 2O19 Fourteenth street
northwest, was yesterday convicted of
violation of the Edmunds law The jury
recommended mercy and Judge Cole re,
manded the defendant for consideration of
his sentence. His counsel gave notice of
a motion for a new trial.
1t was shown on the trial that Mr. Dunan
has a wife, Mrs. Rose Dunan, and three
children. He deserted them about nine
years ago for Florence Kimbail, some
times known as Bessie Clark For long
time he has been living with this woman as
his wife. He introduced her as such and
has several children by her.
Two physicians testified yesterday that
they had attended his family and he had
introduced the woman they met as his
wife, but it was not Mrs. Rose Dunan, who
was present with her children as witness.
Florence kinlball could not be found.
An officer who went in search OF her was
told by Mr.. DUnan that she had left the
cltV
The Washington times., 1895-06-22
international Conference Epworth
I.eaune ChaffanOopa. Tenn

For this occasion the Seaboard Air Line
will sell round trip tickets TO Chattanooga
at rate of $40 on June 25, 26 and
27 good returning within days from date
OF sale, with provision for extension Of
3 days if tickets are deposited with agent
at Chattanooga on or before June 80.
For further Information apply VIM B.
Clements, D.P "A, Room 1, No. col Pa Ave
The Washington times., 1895-06-22
Mod Dog Shot

A large Newfoundland dog with the
rabies caused much excitement on d street
near First, northeast, about3 O'Clock yester-
day afternoon. 1t ran into the yard of
huuse No. las d street, where it was shot
by Officer Buschel. No one was bitten
The Washington times., 1895-06-22
s1.25 Excursion to Baltimore s1.25

Excursion tickets to Baltimore, Satur-
day, June 22d, and Sunday, June 23d,
good returning until June oath, at 81 20.
The Washington times., 1895-06-22

The Washington Times March (FuIl
Piano Score) viii be printed in sun
days paper. It's the March hit of
of the season.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17

wise they are large. square white cards.
Win merely the name OF the owner as
clearly written as possible.
LADIES', who themselves have been pre-
sented, have the privilege Of presenting
one Iaay annually TO her majesty. In
auuition 10 daughters or daughters-in-
law, exceptions being. Of course. made
IN the case Of ladies in official positions
VINO are especially privileged TO make
presentations 70 her majesty. Marriage
ana elevation Of rank necessitates a fresh
presentation, but II you have been pre-
scented before you can present someone
else the same day; and mothers, when
only presented for the first time, can pre-
sent their daughters on the same occa-
sion.
The several ambassadors and their wives
present the ladies Of their own countries
ana the wives Of secretaries Of state and
colonial secretaries and others make
many official presentations. The ladies
OF the diplomatic circle being first pre-
sented 10 the queen by the mistress Of
the robes, or her representative, those
having the privilege Of the entree appear
ing before the sovereign ere the general
company are admitted.
Those who wish TO max a presentation
under ordinary circumstances have to
send in writing the nameof the lady to the
lord chamberlain's Office at least two days
previous 10 the drawing room, in order
that Jney may be submitted for her majes-
~ approval, when the necessary cards
VIII be forwarded and printed forms for
TINS purpose are to be had from the lord
chamberlain's Office, St. James palace
Every obstacle Is thrown in the way Of
gentlemen appearing at drawing rooms,
ana they are not supposed TO do so unless
they are attending the ladies of their
family. Occasionally gentlemen are pre-
sented at drawing room. according to
the same regulations as at the levees.
There have been great many changes
OF late years in these matters and il is
only recently that any limit has been put
on the number which each lady could pre-
sent. This season the presentations at
each court reception is to be restricted to
200
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17
WOMEN AS BAILIFFs.
Gentle Process Servers Whose Com
ing Is Almost "a JOY.
From the London Exchange.


From the London Exchange.
1t will come as a surprise to most peo-
pie to know that quite one-sixth of the
servers of writs and people in posses
sion" employed in London are now
women, MISUNDERSTANDING and smart
women being especially successful in serv-
ing processes upon men who have been
found most difficult Of access when called
upon by men.
81 should never think, nowadays" said
a land agent who collects the rents Of
several thousand houses, "of putting a
house where there are women and chill
dren.
Il used to receive hundreds of complaints
that men were rough and overbearing; but
since l have employed women-most of
them widows, who have known plenty of
trouble themselves-the remarks have Just
been the other way.
"Of course, where rough treatment
might be expected, / should never send
woman"
One of the smartest solicitors in London
says, in regard to women writers:
I'm case of very slippery customers
women writ servers are absolutely indis-
pensabie. and, strange though it may
seem, / have seldom known one to be in
suited. You see. a slippery fellow would
deny himself to any man he did not know:
but when he hears that a lady is inquiring
for him, he is off his guard at once"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17
The Grass Widow.
From the San Francisco can.

According to recent researches, the
phrase grass widow is corruption OF
ss.o-ace widow which is a term for one
who becomes a widow by grace or favor,
not of necessity as by death. 1t origi-
mated in the early days of European
civilization, when divorces were but sell
dom granted, and then only by author
itv of the church. When such a decree
was granted to a woman the rescript
stated: "Viduca de gratia," which in
terpreted is widow Of grace" A woman
receiving such a divorce was commonly
called grace widow" and the transit
ton to grass widow" was easy. This
latter term is in the United States ap-
pled to woman whose husband has
been away from her for considerable
length Of time, or who has deserted her.
In England it is applied to an unmarried
woman who has borne child.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17
AT ENGLAND'S COURT.
DRAWING ROOM REGULATIONS
LAID DOWN By QUEEN VICTORIA.

A StickIer for observation-disclosures.
Gloves, Fan, Veil, COrsage, Train,
cards and All Must he Of "A Pre-
scribed Kind and Used in "A Par
ffcuInr WAY.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17

Fast Color PerCales. ......4 Al
Yard wide Percales. ...... II
Cambria Long Cloth. ... G.
Fine White Lawn ...... 81
STANDARD Calieoes. ......5
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17

-"Oh, Mrs. De Jones, where do you get
such beautiful gifaffes?"
"Giraffes. Mrs. Hunks? At a manag-
erie, ! suppose, If you really want to make
greater show Of yourself than you are
AT last the wooden horse was finished.
HOW" unused Agamemnon, the king.
can we get the thing within the walls
Of Troy and not arouse the suspicious Of
the enemy?" II suggest" quoth the willy
Odysseus, that we tell them that Il IS
a folding bed.-Puck.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17

The Hon. Mrs. Strongmind (rfsirsg
in her place and speaking in a deep, res
onant, cOntralto VOice)--"I wish now
Madame Speaker, TO move that we pro-
coed to the consideration of the bill TO
Prohibit Men from Going Out Between
Acts at Theaters.' Chicago Tribune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-26
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-26
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-26
Gold a Commodity.

Is gold money in its true sense!
We say no. 1t is not money in its
true sense. Money is medium by
which the products of one set of
producers is exchanged for the pro-
ducts of other producers. Gold is
seldom found employed in this
work.
From June list 1867 to September
3Oth 1876 the government sold
$522,000,000 Of gold. BY the ex-
change of this gold at par for green
backs, the premium on gold would
have been broken and specie pay
ment resumed without a jar to
business. Even after that famous
presumption act" was passed, the
government sold $40,O00,000 of
or rather the Secretary of the
Treasury did,-he being one of the
national bank class, and interested
in keeping up the swindle which
was being practiced on the honest
industrial classes of the country for
the benefit of the banking usury
takers.
Within a year the government
has purchased 1856, 100000 of gold
from the gold spectators. The
last purchase from Morgan, Belmont
& Co., was plainly a commodity
deal and nothing else. That trans
action was the purchase of 3, 100000
ounces of gold as a stipulated price
to be paid for in cash at the end OF
30 years, the debt to draw interest
as any other promise to pay debt
draws interest till it natures. Gold
is not money in the true and
practical sense of the term, but is
purely commodity, used as wheat
or cotton, meat products or any OF
the commodities are used by specu-
latOrs to corner the market in that
particular artical and beat the
public. Gold is used to corner the
money market in the same way and
beat the public. 1t is shipped
from one country to another to
balance accounts and is weighed to
determine its value as other mer-
chandise is, that value having been
established by a law of the British
Parliament requiring the Bank OF
England to pay CD. lis. Sd. per
ounce for all fine gold offered. De-
casiOnally gold coin is used as
money among business people but
so rarely as not to justify its claim
on the public to be considered true
money but a dear commodity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-26
Shamel Shame!

Mr.. EDITOR Il attended a game of
base ball in the beautiful village of Rising
Sun on Tuesday of this week-and it is a
beautiful village and one where good
health is the rule, am told, to say moth
ing of good morals. The game was a
pleasant one, even if one-sided, and the
ever-to- be-desired feature of courtesy and
politeness mutually prevailed on the part
of both the visiting and home teams.
enjoy such a game, but l don't, when
"scrapping" and bad blood are exhibited.
Base ball players can be gentlemen and
should act as such, extending to each
other the courtesies of good breeding,
each side being willing to accede to the
other minor points, and in the end all
will even up nicely. I found many fair
women and pure young girls and misses
as lookers-on to enjoy the great national
game Would 1 could say no worse
saw saw one citizen of the town dead
to all the world it seemed, on the edge of
the ground, wallowing like pig in the
dirt in full view of all these fair women
and pure girls. That was not all 1 saw
another insane and possessed with the
devil, to the disgust of all humanity, re-
curing a half dozen men to restrain his
hands from doing violence-bloody faced,
almost naked in his rawlings, and l count
ed scores upon scores of loud and wicked
oaths and sickening vulgarity. 1t lasted
for long time. These ladies and young
misses from pure homes we're thus put to
shame. The visiting club said they never
saw such an exhibition. Many asked
where the town authorities were, where
the officer of the law was, where some
body or something could be found to pro-
tect society from insult, shame and deg
radiation? But, alas, no one, nothing,
no power existed to save society or to pro-
tect.. morality; a town without the least
means to protect its people or its reputa
ton Would not any other place in all
Cecil county have such protection at any
cost? Let good citizens answer. Where
is the cause of this disgrace to be bought i?
Let he who can answer. If he does not
he is as bad as he who sells it.
VISITOR.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-26
Sound Money in a Nut Shell.

The Finaneier publishes letter by a
president of a Wall street bank and conl-
mends it as "a clear presentation of the
subject" Sound money!. We quote the
following paragraph from the letter:
"The standard of value in this country
is gold, and the limited amount of silver
that is used as money, in consequence of
its limitation, is received as being equal
10 gold. But, if a great amount of silver
should be so used consequent upon its free
coinage, then silver wonld take the place
or gold as money, and would not cores
pond i'll value with gold, unless what now
seems to be the impossible should
happen"
''rhe standard of value is not gold,
but the relative value that one article of
merchandise bears to another is the stan
dard. The price of merchandise is regu-
lated by the quantity of money i'll circula-
ton. If money is Peterborough to float
the full volume of business by the ready
and rapid exchange of products-prices
are good" and times prosperous. Ifthe
volume of money i'll circulation is made
quate TO move the business, prices are low
and times dull as at present.
If free coinage of silver would take
place, this Wall street bank president
says: Salaries and wages would be paid
i'll silver and neither salaries or wages
would be increased proportionably to the
lesser value of silver" Salaries were
fixed at about the rate they are now when
gold was not worth nearly as mach as
now. Those salaries would not purchase
nearly the quantity of the products of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-26

labor then that they do now. Why were
they not scaled down as the price of
products fell? This fact is always care
fully avoided i'll all Sound money"
homilies
Let lis try the honesty of this question
by another test. Suppose the same
amount of gold at ratio of IS to or to
10 were added to the currency of this
country or that of the world in place of
silver, will the FIRaRcier or the Wall
street banker dare to claim that the same
result on prices would not take place We
do not think they will. 1t is the quantity
of legal tender money which affects price,
and not the material money is made out
of If the United States adds the same
amount of money to the volume at pres
ent in circulation which would correspond
with the amount of silver that would come
to the minis under free coinage, whether
that addition be gold, silver or legal ten
der paper, mot promise to pay or an
equal proportion of each, the result on
prices would be the same in this country
and ''every dollar would be as good as
every other dollar" as they are now.
The difference in favor of silver, how
ever, would be that free coinage would
effect the value or purchasing power of
silver i'll all the gold standard countries of
the world by raising the purchasing and
debt paying power of silver and lowering
the value or purchasing power of gold
until the two metal moneys were equal.
Such a result would effect salaries debts,
interest, ETC., by their fixed nature not
allowing them to rise or fall as merchan-
disc, as the volume of money increased or
decreased And this is the whole reason
those gold standard money loaning peo-
pie contend for gold. 1t is the scarcest
article money is manufactured from, and
they want money scarce, because then
prices are low and the purchasing power
of their money, their salaries and the
debt obligations they hold will command
more property. But look at the condition
it places the producers in. The truth is
coming to,the surface. You can't hide it
much longer, gentlemen, with your half
truths, sophistry and specious arguments.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-26
That Revival of Business 4!

The pause in the upward march
of production, consumption, price
and profit of which we spoke a
week ago grew palmer last week.
Gold was exported, as a "commer-
cial transaction" but still exported.
Stocks continued on a level for
another week as they have been
for Il week. Cotton purchases
by mills have ceased. Wool pur-
chases have slaekened. In iron
and steel there are no longer adj
vances and acute observers, like
the Pittsburg "American Manufac-
turer," point out that unless rail
road building begins current pro-
duction will more than equal con-
sumption. The great agricultural
products, wheat, corn, lard, pork
and cotton, fell last week. New
York bank loans shrank, although
this is a time when they should
expand and "money" in New York,
as in London, remains at the low
level at which it has hung so long.
Mondays Phila. Press.
Add the above to the strikes and
threatened strikes oyer the country,
and compare the above with the
goldite paper paragraphs on the
rushing return of ''gOod times"
that were running over the country
like a prairie fire and you may be
able to estimate the value of
opinions Of these goldite, slave
daily papers.