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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-08-15

He cast his net at morn where fishers toiled.
At eve he drew IL empty 70 the shore;
He took the divers plunge into the sea,
But thence within his hand no pearl he bore.
He ran n race. but never reached his goal;
He sped an arrow, but missed mis- aim;
And slept az last beneath q simple stone,
With no achievements carved about his name.
Men called 10 failure; hzrt for my own part
dare not use that word. for what II heaven
Shall question. ere its judgment'shaIl be read.
Not 81 hast thou won ?'' but only " hast thou
strivenT' Kate Tucker Goode.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-08-15

Father What do you mean by
hugging my daughter!
Jack Ford : | was merely obey
ing the Biblical injunction to hold
fast that which in good.'-Lewiston
Journal.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-08-15

&c
When his es,e & the nev
settler was not eS In bv falls,
statements Of for 1|ership. h,
| had said that he organize .
gang and set No1 la:s chill,
out. But the Is Iowa wa,
brave one and b heed to his
threats.
When CalIie r she MIXED
the COW and rrei Supper. AT
terward she ssi her father,
couch and fann< till he Eel
asleep Night 1ced ia ovel
the prairie. And kars see1net
smiling md = sftin9 nth sh,
myriads Of wild flowers Ill around
A soft wind stirred in the mornins
glory vines aud died away among
the wild indigo and rosin weed down
the ravine.
poor papa /, said CalIie. as sbe
gazed at her fathers thin face. SO
male and death like in his sleep 81
must oat soma fresb water bafore ,
90 to he'd. 80 he can have a nice
fresh drink when he wases nm,
Go saving she tool a small tin
bucket and stole from the lint. about
three hundred wards from which a
clear snrinp issued from, the rocky
eide 80 The rav;ra sha~.aohaa ,ha
snr;no and hal mat f;llad ber bncl
ct with the cold. delic;ous water.
when she heard horsemen approacb.
ing mn the ravine. A ch,ld's nat
ural timiditv causea her 70 dart be.
hind a thick clump of bushes and
wait for the riders to nass.
Instead Of riding on. however.
thew halted bv the spr;ng. only a
few feet from Callie,s retreat. and
began talking. Peering between
the leaves of her covert. she could
dimly see two men. She was not
long in recognizing Bill Simmons
and Jim Dawkins, men who were
not her fathers friends.
Why were they there on her IA
theirs claim that time of night /?
They could mean no good to him.
she felt certain. As'-s.
Callie would gladly have escaped
to the dugout could she have stolen
away without being seen. But that
was impossible, so she crouched be-
hind the bushes, hearing every
word of the dialogue between the
two men.
4 tell you this claims mighty
valyble,' said Bill to Jim.
Il like the looks of it, returned
Dawkins. You're sure there is
coal here.'
Yes; | prospected all along the
ravine before ole Norris came out to
this kentry. / tell Won, Jim, the
whole place is underlaid with coal.
There's fortune in it for the own
er. and the railroads coming near
here and win make easy transport
tation,' assured Simmons.
Does old Norris know there is
coal on the claim p
Don't think he does. You know
he's been sick most of the time since
he came into the kentry, and he
amt had much time TO look round ,
NE, he amt been here long. But
how do vou pronose getting the claim
away from him ?, asked Dawkius.
.Contraet ahead of him.
sHain'thecontracted for the claim
vet p
NO,
sAre Won sure. Bin p
I've been watching the land Of
flee purity close and know Norris
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-08-15

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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-08-15
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22

that the reconciliation of silver would
Cypress the laboring people. If the
goldite is anything he is exclusive. both
in doctrine and habit His claims
upon the public are special, and his
rights and privileges must be exclusive.
What could humiliate him more than
TO lower his demands TO the level OF
the peoples claims? Gold. according
to his idea is for the sole purpose of
maintaining credit and paying bonds
Gold is for the MorSanS. RGthschilds
and syndicates whose business is to
pump it out of our public treasury as
fast as it accumulates. Gold may be
used in settling foreign exchange bal
ances and for purchasing fine imported
liquors. cigars. satins. silks and Jewels,
but for the base use of paying wages
never.
This acrobatic feat Of talking with
his foot in his mouth has fully satisfied
the demand for public address of the
classic variety. No more automatons
need apply at the Illinois club. The
next speaker must demonstrate in adj
vance that his mouth is independent
of his pedal extremities. and that his
native gumption is not wholly obliter-
ated by little book learning.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22
NO PROFESSORS NEED APPLY.

If the only use of money is TO ''mea-
sure values, as claimed by Professor
l-aughlin. then what becomes Of his
claim that gold has inherent intrinsic
value: The gold champions have con-
tended from the beginning that this
metal was. in and, ef itself. worth 100
cents On the dollar. because" rs they
triumphantly assert, lit VIII sell for
as much in bullion as in coin" Now
comes this walking encyclopedia of
financial wisdom and saws. that the
true function of nj money is to measure
values as a yard-stick is used to mea-
sure length or distance. Assuming
that gold has intrinsic value. aud that
its only office is 10 measure the value OF
everything else. then let us at once
monetize the yard-Sticz II their office
i the same il is cheating the ward
stick 10 make gold the one most desir-
able thing on earth. and TO let il repre-
sent the value of every good thing the
world affords. In its first estate il lies
buried in the clay and rocks of the
z
stick stands perpendicular in the trunk
OF the majestic oak or the gracefully
nodding pine 1t is the act of lecisla-
ton, and that alone. which desicnates
gold rs money. and consiSns the handy
three-foot rule 20 the isnominious ser
vice Of measuring tape.
This little inadvertauce. however. is
hardly 10 be named with the professor
claim that gold is the poor mans
money: and that every mothers son and
daughter east Of the Rocky mountains
We're in imminent danger Of being for
ever ruined by the grasping monopoly
OF few mine owners. How the en-
thusiasm 81 his diamond-studded sup
porterS muSt have wilted when he
jumped over into the serted ranks OF
the blear-eyed populace and claimed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

There are SO quarter sections in the
kickapoo country.
1t is said there is hardly elbow room or
the Kickapoo border.
The Kickapoo country is just big enough
to make one good county.
The revised statutes of Oklahoma are
now ready for distribution.
When the Republicans of Oklahoma talk
there is no installing what they mean.
The Choctaw ran a special from Okla
homa City TO the Ell Reno convention.
Now watch the struggle over the frs;
paper published in the Kickapoo country.
Crocker's Nicaragua colony is liable 10
lose its head and become a Kickapoo
colony.
The Canadian river with its treacherous
quicksands will get in its work next
Thursday.
Jack Stillwen. the pioneer Of Oklahoma,
has been married TO Miss Esther White
of Braddock, Pa.
The boys attended the Republican con-
vention just like there were lot of NOM
nations TO give out.
The Oklahoman OF Oklahoma City got
a scoop on the other Oklahoma papers
the Kickapoo opening.
After that convention. II will take three
months for Isenberg to accumulate
enough courage TO write a Democratic
editorial.
The Kickapoo Indians as rule know
what they are about When they took
their allotments they gobbled al the bot
tom lands.
Il Is said that Shawnee had poulation
o9 . 10 hFf0rN a u
next it will mount up 10 about 500. Then
it will drop.
The boomer who is going to make a
race for land ought to keep from wanting
a claim very bad He is liable to be dis
appointed.
The Kickapoo rush will be exciting. but
It will rot compare with the opening OF
the first United tSates senatorship from
Oklahoma.
Dennis Flynn IS visiting all the Indian
tribes in The territory 10 discover their
needs. And won't the Indians remenbe.
Dennis when they get TO vote
The Tecumseh Republican says tia;
Judge Scotts decision on the Chcctaw in
junction contained 100000 words. Not
much that would make 1000 columns.
The Choctaw road ought 10 put on
train and run il over 20 the kickApoo
country. and make enough money IN one
day 20 ballast the track its entire length
Beatrice LoefIer. whom the dentist got
awy with IN Oklahoma Ia row IN charge
Of Professor Morrow OF kansas. he
will not put her in reform school but
viii give her another chance IN private
family.
okIahomar: Zachariah Ross. for The
past eight years post tailor az Fort Reno.
will cepsrt <or Philadelphia. Pa. Sal
urtay. 10 sperd the remainder OF his days
with his family. Mr.. Ross has been n
the government service thirty-eish; years.
and IS the oldest soldier az the fort- he
retired from active service Il 80, AlieE
thirty years OF soldier hfe- he spent
eighteen months in AnderSo1vills prison,
and vas in Utah a The time OF the Noun
tain Meadow massacre He Is vel known
81 the frontier .osjz His wife i buried
a. Fort sill
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22
CHICAGO'S DEFICIENCY.

There is nothing small about Chica go.
Not to be outdone by the United States
government. she has a deficiency of 81.
100000. Her ingenuity has been at
work for some time trying to devise
a plan for bridging the chasm, but none
have, as yet, been adopted. 1t seems
that no step can be taken without legal
authority from the Illinois legislature.
This body will remain in session a few
days longer. but it is late now to intro
duce new legislation. Besides this,
| Chicago is in bad odor with the law
factory at Springfield She has Hec-
tored over her legislature till every
| thing bearing the Chicago brand is in
continently thrown into the waste bas-
| ket of committees. Meanwhile the
| crisis is at hand and something must
be done. Her board of aldermen and
city officials are at their wits end. Her
bankers, brokers and financiers know
not which way to turn for help. Her
/ best legal talent is unable to point the
way out. Altogether the big munich
pality is in sorry plight financially, and
her executive officers are suffering the
double agonies of a stew and sweat.
; Poor old Chicago. She has the SYM
PATTY of her real friends, but is being
numerically guyed by her enemies and
rivals. New York calls her up every
morning at the opening cf banks. Chi
cagO's hello response is answered back:
''TeSting your balance" st. Louis
holds out to her a standing proposition
TO put up the little balance on good
collaterals, but everything of value
seems to be in soak.
1t al comes of eXtravagant living.
This takes in public plumber and a
regular system of stealage by the gang
who have been conducting the city's
finances. Offices have been created
without number, simply to take care
of the ward heelers and party roughS.
The city has paid out millions for
which she has had no adequate returns.
Bogus elections and corruption in Of
fee have been the order for years, but,
like all such abuses, the end was in
evitable. This long municipal debauch
is over, and while her trusted guard
ians are sleeping off their terrible head
ache, the taxpayers are hunting up the
bills, and begging creditors for time.
1t is TO be hoped that, under the new
administration, there Will be less extrav-
agance and rapid pruning down of
overdue bills. Chicago has learned
a lesson she will not soon forget.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22
THAT NESBRASKA NEsToR.

That political farmer, whom Mr.
Cleveland named as his secretary of
agriculture, ostensibly in the interest of
the west, but who at the very first op,
pOrtunity turned loose upon the meat
markets of his country herds of lank,
long-horned steers of Old Mexico,
| thereby robbing the western producer
of the only chance in years to free him
self of debt, is making himself quite
conspicuous of late by posing as a
financial oracle. The ambition of this
man Morton is TO he regarded as one
of the gold-bug trinity. He is out in
another epistle in which, with great
show of solemnity and Of superior
wisdom, he tells the average mortgage
ridden serf of the west whose holdings
have Shrunken until they are no longer
of any money value. as measured by
the only standard recognized by his
masters. that he must grin and bear ii
for the general g0od-of the Coldbug
Like 4 philosophical level-headed pa
triot. lie must abide the consequences
of the worlds imperfections and its
rulers short comings, is the counsel and
only consolation that this man Morton
has To offer the victim of the most
gigantic and far-reaching conspiracy
ever conceived or directed aginst man
kind. Most of this man Morton :
mummery consists of the worn out as
sumption that il is impossible 10 circu-
late silver. Ignoring the fact that the
great debtor majority of the country
are perfectly willing and anxious for a
silver circulation. and conceding that
silver circulation is an impossibility.
is that any argument against it as a
money of final redemption? Does gold
circulate. either? If it circulates any
where, except between the banks Of
New York and the sub-treasury. and
between Wall and Lombard streets.
will MFR. Morton have the kindness TO
tell Us where and when: Does the
government at Washington ever pay
out silver for ordinary expenses: Is
It ever used as bank reserve deposit:
No. Mr.. Morton. all your twaddle about
a Unit Of value based on average prices
of other commodities: all your whining
over the enrichment Of mine owners.
by making silver valuable; all your
plant that the rich are going 70 be rob-
bed that the poor may prosper: al this
cant about driving gold out OF the
country, is all clap-trap and balderdash
intended IS dust for the eyes of the
people. but efforts TO side-track de
mand OF the people for whom govern
Inents were only Instituted and money
only coined.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22
THE WALLER GAL, ARGUMENT.
} the Editor of the Ea gle.

TO the Editor Of the Eagle.
L see the "gold-bugs" are applying the
same 10 to fad to you, for opposing the
sale OF an Indian girl for fifteen ponies,
mat they are on the silver question. They
argue that it was on account of the low
price OF ponies If il had been 81 to ],
1t would have been all right in their esti-
nation. That is the way they fix the
value Of the yellow metal" On the
same principle one foreign prince is worth
sixteen American princesses, one unicorn
teXtlncD is worth twenty American Amer
lean eagles. mot EXTINCT and "one crown"
IS worth from sixteen TO thirty 'Colum-
bias" or "Goddesses of Liberty" Using
the same argument, "one yaller gar
(nearly extincD is equivalent to thirty
American girls, because of their increased
oVerproduction. In fact that is the way
rates of value were fixed between civil
lied g and uncivilized tribes, centuries
ago-that is long before gold was coined
In this country. History teaches us that
gold was first coined in this country only
100 years ago. And the dollar mark repre-
sents 3" eight Spanish reals making one
real % dollar. So ii is this mark that
is "the representative dollar" after al,
And according TO the aboriginal gold-bug
argument-scarcity makes value-and one
Indian girl is worth sixteen American
girls, hence one English Norman horse
is worth fifteen Indian ponies and one
unicorn is worth sixteen American buff
falos. Thus the value of everything on
earth from a silver toothpick to the souls
of civilized and unciviliZed men and
women is fixed by the strength of the
British proctectorate that is established
over them.
But in America a silver is worth more
than n British crown, and an Indian girl
Is worth more than a European princess.
OF course in our early wars with England
they armed the Indians and fought us
fifteen to one, and in that way attempted
to establish the British protectorate over
us on that ratio. Again they tried to
colonize the negro slaves in Canada and
thus gain their friendship and help in
establishing their protectorate over the
United States. Now they are trying to
make gold the established money of
the world and get a thirty-two to one
advantage over us in that way. But We
licked the redcoats in the revolution with
the silver Spanish milled dollar and We
licked the redcoat and redskin combina-
ton in 1872 and by the Eternal we can
lick 'em every time on an American silver
and paper money basis.
ONE OF THE CARS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22
THE DEAD WERE EVERYWHERE.

a gentleman writes us from Law
renee offering to furnish the Eagle an
| account of the dedicatory ceremonies
| OF the monument erected TO the memory
| of the victims of the Quantrell mas
Sacre, which ceremonies are to take
place on the Both of May, the massacre
having occurred. according to the
| writer. on October 26. 1862. We have
very vivid recollection of a raid and
massacre in that town, led by Guam
treil, about the Dist of August. 1863.
As we were penned up on Massachu-
sets street within an hundred feet of
the Eldridge House, it is impossible
that we should be mistaken as to the
incident AS for the date. if it was,
as our correspondent claims. in Octo-
Der, it was the hottest autumnal day
that we ever experienced There was
Missouri brute by the name of Skaggs
or Skeggs, killed on the August morn
ing To which We refer, who had three
hours before in cold blood shot down
and robbed of his pocket book, a
=
pany, young man with whom we had
slept the previous night. That pocket
book, with its contents, just as it was
taken from the body Of the raider, was
shown us last Saturday by brother Of
our companion of that morning, and
which brother laid Mr.. Skeggs out.
Or that pocket-book, which we recog-
nized instantly, and Of that morning
and its tragedies. as witnessed from
our especial standpoint we have never
written, but hope to some day. We
never left Massachusetts street from
the time the first shot was fired-and
the first shot fired on that street was
at the young man mentioned and our
self-until the last raider had disap-
peared, and when we stepped out into
the street it was entirely deserted by
the living, except two horses and
wounded mule-the dead were every
where.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22

There are 4 per cent of people in
this world whose heads are round. This
class of individuals never discover any
thing for themselves. They are ortho-
dox in everything and accept nothing
rs being true except from accepted
authority, from which source they will
swallow anything religious, political.
financial or otherwise. \ gold-buc
editor of southwest Kansas declares
that 1.-THE United States has about fif-
teen tons Of silver coin and bullion.
piled up in The treasury" Another
southwest editor quotes. in double
leads. the brilliant % editorial of the
'.fifteen ton" text Fifteen ton" or
five thousand ton, its all the same To
these und-headed cuckoos. Why
didn't our brilliant contemporaries use
their fabers for fifteen seconds in de-
termining just how far fifteen tons of
silver would go If divided up equally
between seventy millions OF people
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22
CURE FOR THEOSOPHY.

There is trouble among the theoSo
phists. We are glad of it. The theoso
phiSt is man or woman who monkeys
with his or her imagination until he
or she gets it out of whack and breaks
the handspring, and upSets the whole
mind. But the trouble among the
theosophiStS is funny. Madame Bla-
Eatsky started the theosophy business
She said it originated with the Mahat.
mas Of Thibet or the Desert of Cobb
| She could be inspired by these Mahat-
mas and talk with them instantly,
without paying telegraph toll. When
Madame Blavatsky uncoiled her NOR
tally and slid up among the stars she
left Anna Besant as the chief theoso-
phiSt, and gave her the exclusive priv
lege of swapping lies with the Mahat-
mas. Now there is a blear-eyed bunco-
steerer in New York named Judge,
who launched out in the Mahatrnas in
dustry. He hit the air with his men
tally couple of raps and stirred up
| a Mahatma in Cobb, named Maraya
communicated to Judge that the crops
in Cobb were backward, and that wheat
was jointing too close to the ground.
Judge told about this and then Anne
BeSant came to the front She had n
copyright on the business and she
didn't propose that any lop-eared, pug
nosed Mahatma was going to elbow in
I Shn
Maraya and Judge. Judge got mad
and has withdrawn from the Theoso-
phiStS society. He is now running his
Mahatma TO suit himself, and Anne
Besant is also managing hers-and
there you are.
AS q matter Of fact, no Mahatmas
exist And still great many people
believe in them. These are the people.
who are trying to be spiritual. They
are the people who are ''all soul, They
cultivate and fool with their minds.
until they imagine they have a mental
insight and mental attributes which
common mortals do not possess. They
see visions, and are transported great
uiSIauces III the ar, ana read peoples
minds like an open book.
Which is, TO speak gently. all rot.
The fine mental problems and spiritual
possibilities Of the soul are solved by
men who like to side uD to a thick
beef-steak and wipe it out of existence.
The fellows who know most about the
subtle inricacies of the invisible. IN
tangible, insensible soul, are the men
with mouths built on them for the de-
vastation of pumpkin pie. The great
est writers on spiritual and mental de-
veiopment. have been men who slept
without visions and travelled by horse,
coach or rail
TheoSophy is 4 disease. Beef-steak
and exercise Will cure il.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22

But their attempt to break down and
discredit the Republican government
by dismissing its representative, Thurs
ton, deserve the contempt of every
American citizen whatever his political
views. The scheme was to reinstate
the native monarchy as everybody
knows. But despite the littleness. the
meanness of the action Hawaii sur
wives; and the spunky little republic
has likewise Informed Great Britain.
which country has been seconding all
of Growers underhanded work. that
the two men imprisoned on a charge OF
treason, and who claim TO be British
subjects. are full-fedged Hawaiians
by virtue Of their oaths of allegiance.
1t is diverting to see such n bantling
government twigging the eagles pin
feathers with one hand while twisting
The lions tail with the other.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22

The Kansas Breeze takes occasion to
remark that when a Sunday school con-
vention elects a profane, fOul-mouthed
man for president of the concern, and
then censures Governor Morrill, for not
making people stop drinking, it makes
the Breeze thankful that it is not a
Christian, but only an old fashioned
Presbyterian.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-22

ATExPERANg-r Towx-He (raptu-ousiy)
-"HoTv beautiful yoT are jus. - gaze
into your eyes incoxicates ne" She n
alarm -~HaSa-sh-sh- Don SPEAK o. Il
This IS q Local option town and ,iAE oe ar
rested and fine! --Detroi. Free Press.
"SwASpxs.-- sad Mol.ie, loasirK 3. the
wrinkied face Of the dear old lady, Il fsrks
Foa ouch; 70 50 20 tine lazndwy aoa dst jog,
head lro1ed. --HarYer's Bar