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The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-12
A Grea, Germans prescriptions,

Diseased blood. constipation and hid
ney. liver and bowel troubles are cured
by Karl's Clover Root lea. N. b. Dan
forth, cor. End and Market.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-12
Annhr,n Lifa anxed

MY baby hod Group and was saved by
6hiloh's Cure" writes Mrs. j. b. Martin.
OF Huntsville, Ala. N. d. Danforth, cor.
2nd and Market.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-12

]. Henry Showalter is suffering from Q
fracture of a rib caused by fall as he was
descending the cellar steps In hls house on
Wednesday evening.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-12
Consumption Can be Cared.

By the use of Shiloh's Uure. This great
Cough Cure 10 the only known remedy
for that terrible disease. N. b. DAN
forth, cor. 9nd and Mark ct.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-12
u.uue,.,raor,he yx.,m,na,o..

City Councils committee to select q
Whining on la dy to cLriston the gunbost
Winnings ton will not have the duty to per-
form. lhs Secretary of the Navy has
selected Miss Annie b. Gray, daughter Of
Senator Gray. to christen the new craft,
and the committe is satisfied. This letter
has been sent out by Mayor Jefferis;
Mayors Offlce.
WILMINGTON. Del, Oct. 10. 1895.
DEAR SIR:-You are respectfully Invited
to attend a meeting OF the represen tatiye
business men OF this city 10 be held In the
mayors office on Saturday, OetobDr ~. at
4 p. M, to consider the manner in which
the city shall he represented at the coming
launch OF The gunboat Wilmington on
Saturday. October 10. 1895. Very truly
yours. @. X. JEFFERIs, Mayor"
Every effort will be made to have .
representative delegation of Wilmington.
iane ct the launch II Is believed that II .
proper effort was made reduced rate Of
fare could be secured and q big delegn.
tion could be sent there.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-12
Threading Engine Erpiosioa Kills Four

Threading EnEIns EHpIosion KiiIs Four
SPRINGFIELD, MINI, Oct ia thresh-
ing engine neor Mount Lake, blew up
Thursday, killing four men. The dead are;
Joseph Schumacher, jasper Mallatte, and
two unknown men.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-12

The Marine SCENE,
Now on sale at the REPUBLICAN ONCE. N
equal TO any oil painting. Prioe 81.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-12
STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

CLOSING Quotations OF the New York and
1 Philsdelphis ExchangeA-
!, NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE volume of stock
speculation fell short of yesterdays total by
lroom traders accounted for the greater part
lof the dealings The irregularity which has
been a feature for the last week or two was
again evident. Closing bids:
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-12

Two More Appiicnt ions for His Grad
mates
We're made to Goldsy College Thursday;
five (of both sexos) since Saturday.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-05-22
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to get s 90 and Perhaps Make

We secure patents and to induce people to
keep track OF their bright ideas we offer a
prize of one hundred dollars to be paid on the
first of every month to the person who sub
nitS to us the most meritoriOuSi invention du-
ring the preceding month. We will also ad-
vertiSe the invention free of charge in the
National Recorder. a weekly newspaper, pub
HShed in Washington. ID. c., which has an eX-
tenSive circulation throughout the United
States and is devoted to the interests of inven-
tors.
Nor so HARD AS IT SEEMS.
The idea of being able to invent some thing
strikes most people as being very difficult;
is the simple things and small inventions that
make the greatest amount of money and the
complex ones are seldom profitable. Almost
everybody, at some time or another, cOnceiveS
an idea, which, if patented would probably be
worth to him a fortune Unfortunately such
The simple inventions like the car window
which could be easily slid up and down with
out breaking the passengers back, the sauce
pan, the collar button, the nut lock, the bottle
stopper, the snow shovel, are things that al
most everyone sees some way of Improving
upon, and 1t is these kind of inventions that
bring the greatest returns to the author.
The prize we offer VIII be paid at the end of
each month"; whether the application has been
acted upon by the Patent Office or not. Every
competitor must apply tor patent on his in
vention through us, and whether he secures
able patent.
THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY,
JOHN WEDDERBURN, Genl Manager,
6lS St. N. w. Washington, D. C.
P. S.-The responsibility OF this company
may be judged from the fact that its stock is
held by about seventeen hundred of the lead
ing newspapers of the United States.
dee l9-tf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-05-22
The Art of Pleasing.

The art of pleasing, which used TO be
| considered quite enough of a profess
sion to satisfy the soul of any female,
seems to-day in the reaction against
such an extreme view in some danger
| of being thrust into a place dishOnor-
able.
True, it takes time to acquire this
gentle and valuable art, and true, it
takes money indirectly, for time is
coin for the modern woman, whose
| work is worth its hire. But no amount
of direct money earned or inherited
| can buy the genuine art to please. 1t
is born with some women, as intangi-
BILE as a gOssamer web. seemingly a
nothing until it clings about the face
in forest walk, not to be lightly
| brushed aside To deliberately ac-
quire and weave so delicate fibre
takes, not coin, but heart aud hand
labor
Now" asks the modern woman, lis
it to be demanded of me to keep up
my public career. my home lifa, my
social duties, my power to dress well,
and cultivate also the art of pleasing?''
Unless you do all this and more
madame or mademoiselle, you are not
a typical modern woman. The blown
feminine flower of this decade must
have the broadening influence of a
public career, the sweetening of home
life, the power which social influence
undoubtedly gives, and the arts of
dressing we'll and of pleasing must be
included under the general heading
"womanly."
How one human body can support
this many sided strain is an end of the
century marvel, but women are noted
down the ages for their powers of en-
durance, and certain it is if they now
let slip but a single one of all these
gradually acquired attributes, they
will miss it sadly at every turn.-Har
DeT'S B0zGr.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-05-22
I,Ocip of PODuliS7n.

Mr.. s. B. Cook of the Democratic
State Executive Committee says in his
Mexico Intelligencer that 1.-The value
of silver has been seriously affected by
| hostile legislation and before there can
| be a consistent demand for a change of
| ratio silver should be restored to it's
| rightful place in the mints and its value
as money metal honestly and fairly
| tested"
We are willing to suppose that Mr..
| Cook admits that great party cannot
safely take position on a question of
| deep interest without squarely meeting
the facts of general knowledge.
| In the article from which the above
quotation is made there is no apparent
recognition of what the hostile legisla
ton of France, Germany, Belgium,
Italy, Austria and India has done to
affect silver. Standing by itself, the
article would lead the reader TO sup
pose that the United States law of 1878
was the only legislation which disturb
| ed the relation of the two metals and
| that if we repeal that law and re enact
the coinage act of 1887 the equality of
gold and silver at a ratio of Is to 1 will
| be restored.
Mr. Cook. we submit, should state all
the facts of characterization before he
reaches a conclusion upon remonetiZa
| ton.
If he means to be fair, let him tell his
readers whether the United States can
undo what was done by Germany, the
Latin Union and India. A mere re
enactment of our law of 1887 will not I e.
enact the mint laws of France or India,
either of which has used more silver
coin than we ever did and has had
| "a h. Dl1k H.
| metals
Suppose that both France and India,
in addition to their present suspension
of free coinage, should divest silver of
| legal tender quality. 1t is not improb-
able that such action would send the
price down to one half it's present gold
price-that is, to less than 25 cents on
the dollar. Suppose, next, that Japan
and China concluded to abandon silver
as money and to adopt gold standard.
| The result might be that the CONNER
cial ratio of gold and silver would be
| 100 to 1. Are we to think that Mr. Cook.
under such circumstances, would assert
that the United States, by re- enacting
the law of 1887, could restore the rela-
| tive values of the two metals If so,
we must think that he would assert
that by declaring copper to be equal
| to gold at l6 to the United States
could maintain both as money at such
ratio If he would go that far, he
goes at once to the position that tbs
Government can use irredeemable pa
per as money of final redemption at
ratio of IS to 1.
The Republic has never asked the
Democracy to do more or less than to
follow its traditional policy of free coin
| 90 at q ratiO which will piva Tn tho
people a concurrent or alternating use
OF both metals.
If the logic of 16 to when the com
mercial ratio, fixed by the action of all
nations and not of one, has reached 80
to 1, is not the logic of the Populist
fiatist. we are open to conviction to the
contrary. We would like to read Mr.
Cooks estimate of the effect produced
by the hostile legislation of India, Ger
many and the Latin Union.-&. Louis
(No.) Republic.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-05-22
A Stupid Butler.

Spanish people seem to suffer from
the stupidity of some of their servants
as much as we do in America, if the
following story, which appeared in a
Madrid journal, is true. 1t seems that
a lady ordered her butler one morning
to tell all visitors that she was not at
home. At night, when enumerating
the persons who had called during the
day, he mentioned the lady's sister,
when his mistress exclaimed: 81 told
you, man, that l was always at home
for my sister You ought to have
shown her in"
Next day the lady went out to make
few calls. and during her absence her
sister came to the house.
us your mistress at homer she
asked the butler.
Eyes, madam" was his reply.
The lady went up stairs, and looked
everywhere for her sister. On coming
down stairs she said to the butler,
s'My sister must have gone out, for
could not find her."
Eyes, madam, she has gene out, but
she told me last night that she was al
ways at home for you."-Haape,'s
Round Table.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-05-22
Sailing ON to Heaven.

The Rev. John Riley Thompson, of
the Washington Square Methodist
church, New York, says that certain
people remind him of the men who get
up at church prayer meetings and
make louder professions than any one
else. when you've been Methodist
preacher as long as l have" he says,
"you will know enough to-steer shy of
them At the Lincoln Club dinner in
Jersey City recently, says an exchange,
Mr.. Thompson told the following
story by way of warning to any of the
class who might be present
Zone night, at one of the prayer
meetings, good brother got up and
said We'll, brethren and sisters, to
me the sky is clear, the ocean is smooth
and a gentle breeze is blowing. l never
was so happy before in my life and
feel that am going to heaven at the
rate of six knots an hour" Then he
sat down amid a chorus OF amens.-
There was silence for a moment, and
another good brother got up and said :
Il feel like shouting glory all the time.
To me the sky is clear, too, and the
sea is smooth. A stiff breeze is blow
ing and / am going to heaven at the
rate of ten knots an hour Then be
sat down amid amens. Another broth
err got up and said: Heaven be pleas
ed, brethren The sky is opening to
me and the way is clear. Many ships
are in sight but there is clear passage
for me. A gale is blowing and l am
sailing to heaven at the rate of fifteen
knots an hour He sat down and
there were more amens. Then fourth
brother got up and said: The breth-
rem who have spoken are going fast,
but feel as though | was going even
faster. The sky is all clear, the sun is
shining, and the waters are not ruff
fled, yet a cyclone of glory is blowing
me on to heaven at the rate of twenty
knots an hour The amens could be
heard block away. Then followed
dead silence. Finally little old
woman, who had been sitting quietly
in a corner, got up and said We'll,
brethren. l don't want to discourage
you I'm glad you're getting along so
fast AS for me, I've had my troubles
and my trials, I've had my good times
and my bad times, my joys and sor-
rows, and I'm not all through with
them yet. I'm on the right path,
though, and the Lord has got my
hand. A good many people amt
travelling my way. l may not be going
as fast as some of you are, but l feel
that I'm getting there. Before | sit
down, though, | want to tell these
brothers who are getting along SO fast
that if they don't look out they'll bust
their b'ilers and won't get there at ALL
Strange to say, continued Mr.. Thomp-
son, as his audience rOared with
laughter, there wasn't an amen when
the old lady sat down."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-05-22
For the Staunton Spectator.
A MEMORIAL ODE.

Religious services of very solemn nature
were conducted in the Cemetery grounds at
Cisco. Texas, Sabbath morning, April the 2oth'
1se5. Tt was the anniversary Of the destruc-
tive cyclone, that Visited the town two years
ago, The following lines, prepared for the oc-
casion, were read just before the conclusion
of the services
IT'S Sabbath morning! and the harps OF heaV-
In silver tones to suit an angels ear,
With bells on earth, call us, at morn ana eve i
To worship God in Christ, who Will again
appear.
IT'S Sabbath morning! and tide Of feellng.
Now pulses from the fountain or the hearG'
And Hope, expectant, is to Faith revealing
The glory yet to clothe our merely mortal
part.
Ye heavens blue! bend DER us in Goods Acre.
While here, as friends, on this memorial day,
We mourn the dead, and worship 1ou' our
Who loves us, when He gives, and when He
takes away.
Thought wanders back. We see the light
ning'S flashing,
And hear, again, the thunder's maudeneu
And with it, the unearthly crushing, crashing
OF yielding boards and walls OF many a
home and store.
Again we feel the wild tornado's rushing,
Whose ruthless havoc brought us death ana
woe,
flushing unwarned-the voice forever hush
OF friends and loved ones in the narrow
depth of sorrow, and of woe abysmal.
That swooped upon our town that ratelul
Those hours of darkness, how deeply dis
NAL, 1T.
thinning ligltu
Rest, sleeping ones, upon your earthly pillows
Since there's needs be for it, and must,
And though we lowly bow, like weeping VIII
lows,
the dust.
Come, beauteous Spring! come with the grass
To robe and deck each gently heaving
And, Summer clouds! distil your fragrant
And blow, soft winds, upon, and kiss this
halloWed ground.
Ye angels too, that guard the dead and liv-
Watch DER these sleepers till the Morning
Until the Judge no mercy longer giving,
Awakes the sleeping world-to Judgment
Day awakes.
And us, o Father, through the Savior, save US
And lead us gently down the pilgrim way;
And, Holy Spirit. wash with blood, and lave
us, .
That we may joyful rise, when earth shall
pass away.
Our tears, and footprints, and t1owery token,
We leave behind us on this sacred sod;
And we, Loves "alabaster boxes broken,
Would give ourselves away to serve the
living God.
Adieu, adieu to all the dear departed
Until another year has made its round;
Adieu, adieu! repeat the brOken-hearted,
Until we meet above on the Celestial
Ground.
r. NJ. FUTILE.
Cisco. Texas. April Goth, 1895.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-05-22
Money, Banking, and Currency.

1t is asserted by the advocate s of the
free coinage of silver that what is
known as the decentralization" of sill
yer has caused the general decline in
prices that has gone on for many years
throughout the world. There has. in
fact, been no demonstration of silver.
In all large commercial countries, ex-
cept Great Britain, there is to-day a
large supply of silver of full legal-ten-
der value. So far as silver has been
affected by the laws, additions to this
supply have been stopped. Even in
Great Britain there is $112, 100000 OF
subsidiary silver; in other words, there
is very nearly as much silver as there
is paper currency in the United King
dom. In this country, as we have
seen from an examination of the re-
port of the Director of the Mint, there
is full legal tender silver currency
amounting to $549, 700, 600. In France
there is $434 300 900 in fall legal tender
silver; and in Germany there is $780,
100000. The estimated stock of full
legal tender silver in the whole world
Is So. 434, 100000. Therefore prices have
not gone down because silver is not
used as money of full purchasing
power. 1t is so used Moreover, in
this country the era of low prices has
come since silver began to circulate as
legal tender. In 1872 there were no
silver dollars in circulation. In speak
ing of silver l never refer to the sub
sidiary coin, for it is mere token money
used for purposes OF change. Silver
dollars and certificates began to cir,
culate in 1878. In that year dollars to
the amount of $1,000 251 circulated,
about S15,000,00O being in the Trea
sury. Silver certificates of the value
of 81 ,462, 800 were engraved and print
ed, but only $7O80 got into circulation.
In 1880 the silver dollars in circulation
amounted to $50 10 557. and the silver
certificates to So 7S9, $50 In 1880 the
amounts of silver coin and certificates
ia circulation were respectively $50,
278 749 and $297, $50, 23S-a total of $685.
S34 1887. This amount was slightly in
creased in the following years, and in
1894 the total amount of silver in cir
culation in this country was $379,555
1893. If low prices are dependent on
the scarcity of silver, it would folio "
that prices ought to have risen during
these years. The fact that the prices
of nearly all commodities, including
silver, fell, however, tends to show
that there is no relation between the
employment of silver as money and
what are known as the market values
of commodities.-Harper's Weekly.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-05-22
An Independent Barber.

Here is an entertaining story abou
Frenchman who was too proud to dc
things which were against his princi
pies. The story is vouched for as ar
actual fact by the man to whom the
incident happened. While travelling
in Europe he stopped overnight al
Caen, and noting that his hair was
unduly long he went to have it cut by
the local barber. He told the barber
to take off very little. but before the
scissors had been at work many sec
onds he noticed favorite lock fall on
to the calico jacket in which he had
been arrayed. Whereupon he reprov.
ed the barber for not following his in
struct1ons. upon which the man OBJ
served, in mingled tones of reproach
and dismay.
Monsieur must permit me to do my
work in the way which seems best to
me; and what is more, shall take off
some more.n
mot at ALL" said the traveller; 81
tell you l want very little taken off,
and must insist upon your doing as l
direct you"
The barber, however, was not to be
put down in this way. and said, Mon
sieur, it is possible that this is how
things may be done in England, but
here in France we are not slaves. /
shall cut off as much as | please. y
HdTper'S Round Table.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-05-22
". d. HoweIls on Novellsts and their In
spiratiOl.
From Harper's Weekly

rIOh per ) w eek1y.
l know that the reader dearly loves
miracle in the things of art, and make
bold to offer him this, for it is as near
ly like miracle as anything l know
concerning them. | suppose that at
the end of the ends, the author of a
novel has actually made it, out and out.
But for his imagination it would not
have been, yet if he has truly imagined
it, he has not wilfully imagined it, but
has imagined it in obedience to law
which it began to have almost from the
first moment it began to take form in
words. The law is perfectly recogniza-
BILE to him, however impalpable; and
he must be guided by it, if he is to work
artistically, and in a certain measure if
he is to work morally. The more he
truly finds out, or the more he invents,
the more the effect will conform to this
law, SO mystical in origin that | should
not be able to trace it to its source. |
say mystical, though l am rather shy
of the mystical, and would like to have
things in the plain day from the begin
ming, if ! could. 1t is not altogether
fiattering to ones vanity, to find some
thing in ones work, and always the
best thing, that one cannot claim to
have done with full sovereignty, but
this artistic law which each novel has,
and which every character in it makes
a bylaw to himself or herself, is some
thing Sd reconcile that one cannot
claim to have given it, though l dare
say one has given it, and it merely
| transcends consciousness in its history.
Perhaps it comes in a moment of what
we call inspiration, and this moment is
no doubt much the same as that in
w q ut fHn NJ I,
is to play. 1t then takes such shape in
| his love as he cannot afterwrds mar
without blame, and without being I'M
| true to his own instincts. But. after
all, the part does not. rule him, and the
novel does not rule the novelist. In
each case the work is subject to the
artist, though the art is not; and per-
| haps this is what l have been feeling
my way to throughout. At any rate it
seems to me such very good notion
that | will leave it to the reader here,
for fear of spelling it by an attempt to
gloss it. What should like to add is,
that these moments of inspiration have
not the habit of coming to the person
who is not skilled in his art that the
experiments or essays in all arts are
voluntary and conscious, and that
genius, which is supposed gift from
heaven direct, is the result of not only
a great deal of fasting and prayer, but
sweat of the brow and grease of the
elbow, too.
From this it will be seen that would
be willing to withdraw even the small
concession l have made to the love of
the marvellous, in the matter of an in
voluntary law of being in the works of
imagination; and to be frank, really
would like to throw so much doubt up
on it as would keep the artist in any
kind from expecting a miracle in his
behalf