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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04
WILL oOOOEED! Mouna n

to disparage honest industry, thrift and
solvency. His whole system is at war
with the best achievements Of civiiza-
ton, and clearly aims at the destruction
of law, individual development and social
order. If need be, through revolution.
His whole case rests on the indictment
against humanity and he seems unab BILE
to detect anything but bad odors in
world full of sweet fragrance. Out upon
such wicked Misrepresentation!
1 have shown that Mr.. Harvey is de-
voting his life to deceiving the people
and that such boys as Coin are fifty
described in Psalm lvii., 3; "They go
astray as soon OS they be born, seeking
lies"
HARVEY CONTRADICTS HORR.
Mr.. Harveys reply to Mr.. Horr's sum-
mary as follows:
I supported my proposition that pri-
mary money only is the measure of val
ues, as will appear on pages 269, 270 and
276, as now published in the official re-
port.
1 made no statement as to the condi-
ton of the people of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth centuries / read a statement
from the report of the monetary commits
sion of 1876, to show what the preface in
the School was quoted from. More re-
cent history was Of more information to
the people. If I had seen fit to defend
the report, my defense would have been
COnploIo. MI. I1OTT SHOWS tI1dC ne ala
not yet know what bimetallism is. The
cheaper metal mostly in use now does not
mean monometallism. Because a metal
is not actually and constantly in circula-
ton does not mean that it is not regulat-
ing our currency. If he were right in
that, we are now on paper basis, for
gold is not in actual circulation. Not
as much as silver was from 1884 to 1862
He is exceeding mixed as to the order in
which 1 presented the crime Of 1873. My
claim was that the bill was surreptit-
iously passed, not that any one was brib-
ed This 1 fully sustained, so strongly
that no one can reasonably doubt there
was corruption.
Hiss per cent fall in prices is 1870 date
of Aldrich reporD compared with 1860
The prices of 1872 are the proper COM
parison; prices have fallen 9 per cent
since 1891.
The book by Suess was written in 1891
and the reader, by turning to pages 90
and 100 of the book on coinage laws and
statistics, will get the answer to his
$3.50, 000,0 900 gold coinage statement. His
statement is not true. Couple with this
also the further fact that a large per-
centage of gold used in arts was gold
coins
I now submit the whole controversy to
the intelligence Of the American people.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04
WILD FLOWERS.
From Chambers ion

(From Chambers Journal)
Oh, beautiful blossoms, pure and sweet,
Agleam with dew from the country
ways,
To me, at work in a city street,
You bring fair visions of bygone days
Glad days, when hid in mist of green
To watch springs delicate buds unfold,
And all the riches l cared to CLEAN
Were daisy silver and buttercup gold.
Ills true you come of lowly race,
Nursed by the sunshine, fed by the
showers;
And yet you are heirs to nameless grace
Which I fail to find in my dollhouse
flowers;
And you breathe on me with your hon.
eyed lips
Till in thought I stand on the wind
swept fells,
Where the brown bees hum DER the
ferny dips
Or ring faint peals on the heather bells.
close my eyes on the crowded street;
/ shut my ears to the city's roar,
And am out in the open with flying feet
Off, off to your emerald haunts once
more!
But the harsh wheels CRATE on the stones
below,
And a sparrow chirps at the murky
pane,
And my bright dreams fade in an over
flow
OF passionate longing and tender pain.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04
CHAMBERS ENCYCLOPEDIA.

We print upon another page of this
Encyclopedia. When the matter was
first brought to our attention it seemed
to us so impossible that thirty volumes
of an Encyclopedia, as famous as Cham
bers' great work, containing over twelve
thousand pages, could be sold for $3.50
that we ordered set sent to us at Hast
ings, expecting to find some sort of
fake" like the man who advertised a
fine steel engraving of George Washing
tom for $1.00, and when the dollar came,
sent a postage stamp! We have three
encyclopedias in our library; one of them
cost us $120 and another something
more; and thirty volumes of Chambers
work at $3.50 seemed so improbable as
to be absurd. But to our great astonish-
ment along came the books, great pile
of them. We opened the package and
found the thirty volumes, each the size
of an ordinary novel, bound in paper,
the type small but clear and the articles
covering the whole field of human
knowledge, and exhaustive in character
Such a work at such a price is one of
the triumphs of modern civilization; and
we feel we are serving our friends by
introducing it into their houses 1t
would not have been possible 100 years
ago to have published such a work for
less than $250.00 per set; instead of $3.50;
but many new inventions have been used
to achieve such surprising result. No
royalty is paid; the copy is, we believe,
transferred to plates by some photo
graphic process; and this once made the
only cost then is the press-work, (made
by great steam presses, running day and
night, and the paper. And yet it would
seem as if the mere paper in these 80
volumes would cost more than $780,
Send in your orders. The work is a
library in itself, and wherever you have
a family growing up they should have
the advantage of access to it. The man
who could read those thirty volumes
through and remember it all, would be
the most learned man in the United
States.
See our advertisement as to terms and
conditions, in another column. Old SUBJ
s scr B srs can Eet them as we'll as new
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04
ANOTHER PREMIUM.
Who Will Try For It-Send In
Names Marked "For the

ANpAASS 1xdl hCA IOI
Chicken Premium"
II will also give to the one sending
in the largest number of paid up SUBJ
scriptions to the REPRESENTATIVE
by October 1st, 1895. A pen of birds
consisting of four pullets and one
cockerel, as fine birds as my expert
ence and Judgment can select.
I do this simply TO if possible stimu-
late effort to secure subscribers to the
best of all ref orm papers-THE REP
REsENTATIvE. l sold cockerel the
other day for 81, have no trouble in
disposing OF my birds or eggs, but do
have trouble, to be able to do all l
would like to do for the paper. am
thoroughly convinced our success in
'96 in this state will depend as much
upon large subs cription to the REP
REsENTATIvE as any other one thing,
and as long as have these convic-
tions, | am anxious to do all l can to
extend it's circulation, and what do
must be done in line with my convic-
tions as to the most effective form"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04
HISTORY OF COINAGE IN ENGLAND.

In glancing at the history of coinage
prior to the establishment of our mint in
1892, shall only refer to England for as
| a distinguished writer we'll says, it's his
| tory in England is substantially it's his
tory in all the nations of Europe.
The original pound sterling was a
pound Troy weight of standard silver,
containing II o. dts pure silver and Is
| dts. alloy.
The standard pound continued sub
stantially the same from the Norman
Conquest in 1906 to the establishment of
our mint, except during the latter years
of the profligate Henry the VIII and the
| first years of Edward the vi, when it
was SO scandalously debased that it at
last contained only 3 OF. silver and or.
alloy, yet from this base pound was coin
ed Y shillings more than was ever coin
ed before or afterwards from the genuine
standard pound containing II o. dts.
of silver
| But while the standard pound of sill
coin made from it steadily, uniformly,
and constantly increased, and this is
| equally true Of the coinage from the
| standard pound of gold.
| From this standard pound of silver
this number of shillings and pence were
| coined during the following periods:
| From the Conquest 1866 to 1900, 20
shillings; from 1900 to 1349, 20 shillings.
q 70 I, n
pence; from 1856 to 1921, Is shillings;
from 1927 to 1864, 80 shillings; from 1864
to 1927, 81 shillings, pence; from 1927
to -, 40 shillings; from - to 1913, Is
shillings; from 1543 to 1549, 48 shillings:
from 1549 to 1851, Y shillings from 1851
to 1900, so shillings; from 1900 to 1717, 62
shillings; from 1717 to 1892, 66 shillings
From this we see that the amount of
| money coined from standard pound of
silver was at every change increased ex-
| cept to correct the scandalous abuse
above referred to 1850, until &c shillings
was coined in 1892 from the identical
| standard pound that made 20 shilings in
| 1866. ........ ft.-.-,
The history of gold coinage is the
same. The coinage from the standard
pound of gold % cents 3k grs fine which
was at, times reduced to % cents from 13
pounds'3 shillings and pence continued
to increase until at the beginning of the
presnt century 46 pounds, and IA shillings
| was coined from the same pound, as will
| be seen from the following table:
From 1874 to 1549. 13 pounds, shill-
| ings, pence; from 1349 to 1856, IA
| pound, no shillings, no pence; from 1856
| to 1927, Is pounds, no shillings, no pence;
from 1421 to 1854, 16 pounds, 10 shillings,
pence; from 1864 to 1865, 20 pounds, Is
shillings, s pence; from 1865 to 1927 %
| pounds, 10 shilings, no pence; from 1927
| to-, "a pounds, no shillings, no pence;
from - to 1913, q pounds, no shillings,
| no pence; from 1543 to 1916,
| % pounds, 16 shilings no pence; from
1916 to 1549, 30 pounds, no shillings, no
pence; from 1549 to 1852, "a pounds, 10
shillings, no pence; from 1852 to 1904 SO
pounds, no shillings, no pence; from 1904
to 1926, 81 pounds. shillings, no pence;
from 1926 to 1866, Al pounds, no shillings,
no pence; from 1866 to lit. A pounds,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04

10 shilings, no pence; from 1917 to 1900,
46 pounds, IA shillings, no pence.
From these tables two facts appear,
first, that every change in the value of
coins was to reduce their intrinsic value
and second, that all equalization of coins
from the two metals was by reducing
the higher, and never increasing the in
trinsic value of the lower.
Of the last fact we are absolutely sure
for there was no increase of either at
any time HENRY T. NILES.
Toledo, Ohio.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04

EVOLUTION OF THE BOOTBLACK
The old style of street bootblack, whose
only outfit was box slung over his Shout
ders and plenty of push and elbow grease,
used to be one of the most prominent in
situations of the metropolis. Now he is
hardly more than "reminiscences, and will
soon be crowded off the stage by his italian
successor with his leather cushioned chair
how the street bootblack was installed in
business and how his counterpart sprang
up in every part of the country was told
manner by Daniel swee Gs! '" who has
closely watched his rise and fall
IN the Sos or the arkey
who had established routes like millmen,
to go from house to house very early in
the morning. gathering together the
boots and shoes their patrons wished to
time, they were brought back. He was a
and looked as fine as silk in a spic-and-
span white duck suit, carrying over his
shoulder, long pole from which the shin
ing, furbished-up foot ygear dangled and
bobbed about.
"One day in 1853 or 1854 a poor ragged
siSth VAR. urchin by name Patrick Kelly,
and lobbyist, whose memory is still green
with many Of the older public men of this
both belonged to the same section of the
city. When the youngster begged him for
money Mike said:
Money! Why don't you go to work and
earn ito
Cant get no work to do answered Pat
"I'n find you work. replied the politi-
clan.
"He was aman of expedients, and it did
not take long to cipher out plan. He
took the lad into a grocery store, bought
him some brushes and a box of backing
and then with his own hands fitted up one
of the grocer's smaller wooden boxes with
a strap and hinged cover, and footrest
Then he took Pat out INTO the street, put
his foot on the box with an air of proud
satisfaction and commanded his protege to
give him shine.
1.-The boy pitched in, and soon Mikes
boots shone like mirror. That day the
pionee r street bootblack made nearly 49,
He prospered so well that he soon had
hundreds of competitors and their example
spread to the other large cities throughout
the country. Soon bootblacks were as COM
mon in Boston and Philadelphia as in New
York. Mike Walsh kept sharp eye on his
charlie, however, and induced him to save
his money. He finally took Horace Greel-
ey's advice and migrated to one of the west
ern cities, where he is now a highly re-
Spected citizen with a large family"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04
TARIFF!
BELIEF THAT THE

BELIEF THAT THE DEMOCRATS
WILL MAKE 1T THE ISSUE.
Washington, Aug. 31.-President Cleve-
lands candidate to lead the Democracy
next year is Postmaster-Genera Wilson.
And the issue will be the tariff rather
than the money question, SO far as the
Democratic party is concerned. The other
day, Lawrence Gardner, who stands very
close to Cleveland, and who is the recog-
nized leader of the Democracy in Wash
ington, stated that Wilson would come
to the front at the proper time. Yester-
day the acknowledgement came out in
long letter in which he attempted to
show the benefits already derived from
the present tariff BILL This is regarded
by the administration men as the KEY
note for the next campaign. West Vir-
ginia is now doubtful state, and it is
said that Wilson and Gov. Matthews, of
1885,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26
Coal on The Move.

The wholesale price of coal has gone up
75 cents ton within the past two weeks,
and the end is not yet. A prominent To-
cal coal dealer said to a Journal reporter,
yesterday, Tho price on the move, and
will be higher before it is lover. The
wholesale price is now $5.75, and retail
So 90 for egg, stove and chestnut coal.
The paucity Of water in the coal regions
has curtailed the output, and added to
this is the strike fermentation among
coal miners, which threatens to develop
serious difficulties, and naturally, serves
to strengthen prices. The present price
is low anyway. Last year, about this
time, coal was higher than 1t is today,
aud an increase would not be unlocked
for, under natural conditions. An in
crease of from 25 to 80 cents ton is to be
looked for anytime"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26
FOOT BALI.
Kent,s Hill aad Portland high School vii
Play. This Afternoon.

Final preparations have been made for
the much talked OF foot ball match which
will come off this afternoon. at 3 clock,
at the driving park between the Kent Hill
and Portland high school eievens There
is rivalry most intense between the two
teams, and each has been striving for
some weeks to work up all kinds of
strategems 50 the contest will be one of
science as well as strength. This game
will be the game of the season, and all
interested in the sport win be sure to wit
ness good sport, this afternoon.
The Kent's Hill eleven will be made up
rs follows: c. L Graves, right end
Morrison. right tackle; Mitchell, right
guard; Wight, centre, Berry, left guard !;
Cocbrane, left tackle; Pullen, left end !;
Gould, quarter back J. f. Wing, right
half back; Bennett left half back; +.
Wing, full back. This team is the same
makeup as the one which played and beat
Portland, $50, two weeks ago.
1t is reported that the Portland eleven
has been changed TO good advantage and
that it will come Gil the field with an ex-
ceprionaljy strong team.
Captain Bennett, with c. L. Graves, J.
f. Wing and Frank e Wing Of the Kent
Hill foot ball eleven, registered at the
Cony house, last evening.
Captain Bennett If Kcnt's Hill, ex-
pressed himself rs perfectly confident of
winning, ard said that his team was in
the very best Of spirits and condition. The
balance OF the eleven will arrive, early this
The Portland eleven is expected on the
train which arrives in Augusta at 10.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26
MRS. hAsoa'S Poems
Are Winning General Recognition for Their
Gifted Author.

The Bangor Commercial prints the
following appreciative notice Of Mrs
Nason's recent volume of poems.
Augustus charming singer, Mrs
Emma Huntington Mason. belong, NOT
only to Maine, but she has struck chord
In her recent verse which has been heard
and recognized far beyond the local c;rcle
for which most of our Maine authors
write. ln It's notice of her recent volume,
'Ihe Tower" just issued By leading
Boston publishing house, the New York
LINES says: These poems are above the
average verso that il SO copiously
iannched upon the market tThe author
displays warm arr, delicate fancy, and
writes with a sinsularly happy choice of
words and figures The first poem The
Tower, in which the personifled tower of
baius speaks, is a dianifled piece Of work.
."ith some Passages Of uncommon
strength. Occasionally, as in Body and
soul the author displays too great readi-
ness to fall into metaphysical reflection,
bu6 III the very next poem, Two Faces,
she redeems herself with genuine lyric
OF real beauty. Most of tue poems IN this
volume show deep womGnly feeling but
toe touch in some Of them is almost mas
culine in its boldncas. The fullness and
loyeliness Of a w0mans Imagination,
however, Is shown in such a poem as A
Child ) Question, and that is, pcrhaps,
the authors trucst lyric. ~ 1t was the
opening poem in this volume, THE
Tower, which won its way to the pages
Of the Atlantic Monthly when Mrs Mason
was comparatively young which received
the praise Of DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
in an autograph letter to the author and
which secured for Mrs. Mason invitations
to those celebrated dinners of the Atlantic
publishers in the glorious days of its ex-
istencc when Lowell, Longfellow,
Agassiz, Whittier and Holmes were its
leading spirits--an honor extended we
believe to no other Maine writer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26
WORK PROCEEDS.
Masons and Carpenters Now Well Started on
City Building.

Work on the new city building is
rapidly progressing and the stonework on
the foundation is nearly completed AS
fast as the stoneworkers make room, the
brick masons will be set on, and by next
week o. Il. Sanford, who has charge of
that work, expects to have 90 men at
work
The inner brick walls or Innings to the
foundation walls are well started OH the
eastern side, and on the river side, near
the front part Of the building have reached
a height Of over eight feet The stonework
being done is confined mostly TO the angle
on the river side and the PARTITION walls.
Iron girders 25 feet long have been in.
serted at the southeast corner, which are
to support the basement floor; these
girders will be used in various parts Of
the building where the strain demands
Across those In the basement timbcrs
have been placed, on which the floor will
be constructed.
The window frames for the basement
are being made at Bangs saw mill and
will be carried over to the building as fast
rs wanted These frames are of western
pine, with hard pine panels.
Many passersby who had become tired
of watching the stone workers gather in
numbers to view the masons and carpen-
tiers as they hurry along the work
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26

Rev. and Mrs. j. 5. Williamson re
turned, yesterday, after a few weeks vaca-
ton. Mr.. Williamson attended the Ma
fional Council Of Congregational churches
held at Syracuse. \. Y. He reports that
the council was not only the largest ever
held but the most progressive, and sub
iects were there brought up and checred
to the echo, which, three years ago, would
have been Kissed. Mrs. Williamson has
h4en visiting friends in New York and
New Jersey
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26
Merchants Week al Lewiston.

Lev iston merchants week will begin,
Monday next. Tuesday, there will be
the big trades procession, expected to sur
pass Lewiston historic record for such
PROFESSIONS Wednesday, Prof Myers
will ny-by the aid of his skycyclc.
Thursday, that l300-pound OK will be ser
ycd whole Friday, there will be more
" skylarking' with that flying machine.
every dav there will bs heaps Of fun.
rhcrc viii be half fares on the railroads
aud plenty of opportunity to patronize
Lewiston : fine stores.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26
DAMAGES AWARDED.
What the Town OF Reaofield is 10 Pay on &C.
count OF Town Way.

In the case of J b. Gordon against the
town of Readaeld for damages in laying
out town way across the plaintiff land,
which was heard a short time ago hy a
committee consisting Of Hon o. b. Cha
son of Gardiner, VIM. H. Libby, Esq Of
Augusta, and John r. Brainerd, Esq, of
Winthrop. the committee have filed their
report in court, awarding the plaintiff
Si75 damage and full costs.
The sclectmen of Readfield had awarded
Mr.. Gordon only S25, and from that award
he appealed tc the supreme court, with
the above result
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26

Winthrop Street Uniyer5alist Church
Services as usual.
Gospel meetings at 81 Capitol street on
Sunday at 1880 NJ. and p NJ
Sunday school at 0 clock.
st. Mark s Church: Holy Communion
at z o clock; second Service and sermon al
1880; evening service at :; sunday
school at L.
Unitarian Church: Services at 10. 30
A. NJ, with sermon by Mr.. Newbert
Sunday school at 70 o'clock. Mrs. Mary
a. Carver, superintendent
Sc. Barnabas Episcopal Chapel, Ban
gor street: Twentieth SUNDAY after
Trinity; sunday sahool Mt 2f5 p. NJ.
evening prayer and sermon ne 800 p. VI.
baptist Church: Morning worship at
1880, with sermon by Rev. A. Il. Ringold
or Gardiner; Sunday school at noon; Y.
+. > c. f. meeting at 6 O'Clock For
other meetings see notice Of the Union
services.
Congregational Church: 10 80 morn
Ing worship with sermon ny the pastor;
~ NJ, Sunday school; 2 p M, Junior
Endeavor; 7. NJ, union service at Bap.
A'A VIZ u - L Va +. y. u r. con
secratlon service; 80, union service at
Baptist church.
Free Baptist Church: Worship at
10 80 a. NJ, with sermon by the pastor,
the prcsenrc Of the teachers and members
or the Bible school is particularly desired
AZ this service; at 70 NJ, the session Of the
Bible school; Junior A. F. C. K. meeting
at $50; a. F. Il meeting at Is.
There viii Do a religious meeting held
today at ~ Grove street, at 9 80 p. NJ,
conducted. by Eli NJ G Huffman
Seventh Day Adven'ist) He will also
preach in the Red Mems hall tomorrow
Sunday at 3 O'CLOCK p NJ, subject,
> The Only True God, and How He May
be Known
Green Street Church, (Mcthodist Episco-
pail: Services in this church, Sunday, as
follows: Worship with sermon by the
pastor Rev C. S Cummings at 10 80 A.
NJ. especially adapted to those who have
recently entered into tho Christian life
and to our present needs. Sunday school
at noon. League meeting for consecra
ton aud prayer at o'clock. Mass meet
ing at the Baptist church at 100
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26

William II. Holmes, Jr., Colby '97. has
been coaching the Cony High school
eleven. the past week, and great i'm
nroyement has resulted. Mr.. Holmes has
made speciality Of up-to-date stratagem
and has been working hard at the points
where the boys We're weas' lie says .iiaV
there is plenty OF GOOD material on .he
o,eva, chat the boys know lots about foot
hal, and he is greatly encouraged over the
way the; have shown up after little
coaching.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-26
UNION Revival SERVICES
Continued at the Baptist Church. Led by Mr..
Gale. The Evangelist.

As already announced, Mr.. Gale will be
vices. The morning services Will be CON
Quoted as usual at the several churches.
The other services of the day will be a
follows at the Baptist church;
Union morning meeting fer prayer at
Qt5; general mass meeting ut 3 o'clock
mass meeting also at 7.30 in the evening.
announcements " i'll be made Sunday
for tho meetings of the week.