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Why This Favoritism?

Silver can be profitably produced in
this country at so cents an ounce. It
is now selling here for fraction over
50 cents. The mine owners ask that
the government shall make their prod
uct worth $1.29 for coinage purposes.
Why this fayoritism? If the govern
ment-which means the taxpayers-is
to double the value Of silver bullion,
why may it not logically be asked to
double the value of wheat, corn, cot
ton and potatoes by making an "un-
limited" market for them at fictitious
price?
The silver product of this country is
relatively of minor Importance. It's
real value in 1895 was about $50, OOO,-
900. The copper product was worth
$3S,O0O,OOO, pig iron $1O5, 100000 and
soft coal $115,OOO,OOO. Why should
these products be sold sold at CONNER
cial rates and silver be doubled in
money value by act of Congress? The
silver craze is, at bottom, the most un-
just paternalism ever attempted in this
country.-New York World.
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~ G. -
CHAPTER Xxx

The summer bega, to wane, and as
August drew to close the world of Lon
don at large forgot the murder of Walter
Cundall.
1t forgot it because it had so many
other things to think about, because it had
it's garden parties and fetes, and Henley
and Goodwood; and because, after that,
the exodus set in, and the Continent,
Scotland and Cowes, as we'll as all the
other seaside resorts, claimed it's atten-
ton.
1t is true one incident had come to
light which had given FLIP to the dying
curiosity of the world and society, but
even that had scarcely tended to rouse
fresh interest in the crime
This incident was the discovery that
Lord Penlyn was the heir to all of the
dead mans vast wealth.
The news had come out gradually
through different channels, and it had set
people talking; but even then-at this ad-
vanced state of the London season-it
had scarcely aroused more than passing
futter of excitement.
And society explained even this fact to
it's own atisfaction-perhaps because it
had, by now, found so many other things
of more immediate, and of fresher, inter
est.
Cundall had been, it said, man of
superbly generous impulses, one who
seemed to delight in doing acts of munifi-
cence that other men would never dream
of; what more natural thing for him to
do than to leave this great wealth to the
very man who had won the woman he
had sought for his wife?
Was it not at once splendid piece Of
magnanimity, a glorious example Of how
one might heap Goals of fire on those who
thwarted us-was it not a truly noble
way Of retaliating upon the woman he
loved, but who had no love for him?
She would, through his bequest to her
husband that was to be, become enorm
ously rich, but she could never enjoy the
vastness Of those riches without remem-
bering whence they came; every incident
in her life would serve to remind her of
him.
So, instead Of seeing any cause for Sis
picion in the will Of Walter Cundall. the
world only saw in it magnificently GEN
erous action, splendidly noble retalia-
ton.
For it never took the trouble to learn
the date of the will, but supposed that it
had been made on the day after he had
discovered that Ida Raughton had prom
Used herself to another.
Go be continued)
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Scotch Farm Laborers.

During the last ten or twelve wears
we have witnessed in Scotland an enor-
nous decrease in the number of
"hands" employed in agricultural work.
In 1871 there were in Scotland 165, O96
farm servants, in 1881 there were 49,
765 and in 1891 only 12O,77O. Doubt
less more than one cause has contrib
uted to this result; but in the main it
must be traced back to two great CEN
trail facts. a. During the last twenty
years large tracts Of arabic land have
gone out of cultivation. ~ During the
same period there has taken place an
enormous displacement of hand labor
by machinery. Take the effect of but
one single invention. During the past
few seasons self binding reapers have
rapidly sprung into popularity.
According to the Agricultural Econo.
mist. reaping and tying corn by man
ual labor used to cost from S. to los.
per acre: but with the new machines it
costs only from Is. Sd. to Is. Cd. per
acre. In other words, some twenty ;or
thirty youths can now perform the
work that formerly required fifty able
bodied men and an equal number of
young lads and lasses. This is but one
example out Of many. True it is, a linn
tied number of these crowded peasants
may, and doubtless do, find employment
at some of the various kinds of un-
skilled labor, even in comparatively
overstocked city market. Nevertheless,
the inevitable result of all this must
be the intensification of the unemploy-
ed problem in town and country alike
Westminster Review.
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FACTS ABOUT SILVER.
Cut This Out and Carry 1t in Your Pocket for
Ready Reference.
FIRST.

FIRST.
gold.
2. That by which something else Is
: measured Is the standard of value. The
I number of ounces of silver an ounce of
gold would buy has always been the
} ratio.
: 3. Like all other values the ratio Of
silver to gold has been controlled by
supply and demand.
4. When this government was founded
the commercial or true ratio was be-
lieved to be Is to /.
S. At that ratio silver was admitted
4 free and unlimited to the mint. Gold
dollar, 24A grains fine gold; 24Ax15
yer dollar Of the daddieS"
6. The intent and belief of the ''dad-
dies was that 371A grains Of pure silver
D would buy as much of anything as 24A
\ grains of gold would buy.
Z. Or that Is ounces of fine silver would
pay as much debt as one ounce of gold.
SECOND.
1. The ratio of 10 to 1, fixed by law, re-
h NAMED actually correct but very short
time
2. Owing to admission of foreign coins
4 which were Inferior, no American gold
or silver coins circulated. Coinage of
silver dollars was suspended in 1904, and
was not resumed until 1920. Then 1000
were coined.
ceased to exist. The weight Of the silver
dollar was changed to 4121h grains. This
= altered the ratio to 16 to I.
4 A. Silver then became more profitable
to export than to coin.
5. Thus we went to the single gold
standard, on which we have been down
to the present time
g. Dropping the silver dollar legally
from coinage in 1878 was only making u
mere record Of what had been actually
true from 1884 Silver declined to be
= coined during that entire period except
IN small quantities.
Z. The whole amount Of silver coined
s from the foundation of the Government
to 1873 was about So, 900, although its
coinage was free and unlimited.
/. From 1878 to July 1, 1896, under linn
= tied silver coinage we coined, in full
legal tender silver dollars, $429, 2S9, GIG,
! at the ratio of 1G to /.
2. In the eighty-1ive years prior to 1873
= the whole amount Of silver coined by
I the United States under free silver coin
age was 1920, 5S5,921.
= 3. In the eighteen years from 1873 to
1896 the whole amount of silver coined
under limited coinage was 71,927 ,729.
A. More than S27, 100000 more Of silver
was coined in eighteen years Of limited
coinage than during the eighty-ive years
of free-silver coinage.
4 5. All the silver dollars in our cur
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AN ELECTION RIOT.
Populist Kills Democrat in Ala
bama and Cuts Off the Vic
tins Head.

Atlanta, Ca, Aug. ga special to the
Journal from Opelika, Ala, gives the
following particulars of the political riot
at Five Points, near there, yesterday
afternoon: About Z o'clock yesterday
evening George Cumbie, Democrat, ar
rived at Five Points from Fayette on
horseback and rode up to crowd which
was discussing politics and yelled "Hur-
rah for Johnston" This enraged Jap
Trammel Populist, who was one of
the crowd and already "sore" over the
down from his horse While Cumbie
was lying on the ground dying the Popu-
list gang cut his head from his body.
AT this point young White and Frank
Cumbie, Democrats, set in to fire on
three Trammels and Sadie White, all
Populists. The following are wounded:
George Cunrbie, Democrat, killed.
Milt Trammel, Populist, shot, condition
unknown.
Jap Trammel Populist, shot, will die.
Young White, Democrat, shot, seriously.
All the parties concerned stand well
in the community.
Birmingham, Ala, Aug. 5.--The ma
jority of Johnston DemocraD for gov
ernor is placed at 39,668. The official
canvass of the vote Saturday will, it is
thought. not vary from these figures.
For the Legislature, later reports show
that the House stands IA Democrats "a
gain of 10 members), 20 Populists and 6
doubtful.
In the Senate the Democrats have
elected ID members, the Populists and
is in doubt. This gives the Democrats
over three-fourths of the Legislatures
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Smerdon at all. If he did so suspect
him, / believe that he would himself cause
him to be arrested, even though they are
such friends"
what motive would Smerdon have to
kill Walter except to remove him from
the others path? Do you think he would
have done it without consulting Lord
Penlyn?"
II am certain that if he did do it, as
you think
"As | am as convinced as that we are
sitting here!'
"Well, then, am certain that Lord
Penlyn knows nothing Of it, He is hasty
and impetuous, but he is the soul of
honor
Perhaps" Guffanta said; sit may be
so. But it is not with him that l have
to deal. 1t is with the man who struck
the blow. And it is him go to seek"
How will you find him?"
Through you. You will find out for
me where he is gone with his father-if
this is not lie invented to aid his fur
Their escape-and you will let me know
everything. Is it not SOP
eyes," Stuart said; II myself swore
that l would find the murderer if
could; but, as I cannot do that, will
endeavor to help you to do so. How
shall l communicate with you?'
Write, or come to the Hotel Lepanto.'
And when you once tell me where that
man is, there shall be afterwards. Even
though he should go to the end of the
world, will follow him.
Then Senior Guffanta went back to his
hotel, and told Diaz Zarates that he
should soon be leaving his house.
Il have to make a little tour upon the
Continent, and I may go at any moment"
ION tour Of pleasure, Senor" the
landlord asked
mo! on voyage of Importance"
And three days afterwards he went
letter had come to him from Stuart, say
ing:
rs. has really gone with his father. He
has left London for Paris on the way to
Switzerland. They are to pass the sum-
mer at some mountain resort, but the
place is not yet decided on. At first they
will be at Berne. If you meet, fer Gods
sake be careful, and make no mistake"
"Yes! Senior Guffanta muttered to
himself as he packed his portmanteau,
and prepared to catch the night mail to
Paris. Eyes, I will be careful, very care
full! And l will make no mistake!"
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Choose Your Metal.

Our free silver friends tell us that sill
yer is just as good as good as gold. If
so, what harm results to anybody from
allowing the creditor Of bank or govern
at any rate, object to paying debts in
the kind of metals borrowed? If silver
man prefers silver to gold either gov
eminent or banker will pay it to him,
and for all debts, all taxes, all obliga-
tons due the nation, State, county or
municipality silver is now full tender
and to all intents and purposes primary
money.-Me1ina (Ohio) Gazette.
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rency are full legal tender at 100 cents
each except VI redemption of gold GER
tihcates, whicA are not legal tender).
=. Subsidiary silver (half-dollars quar-
ter-dollars and dlmes) are legal tender
to the amount Of $40 In any one transac-
ton.
Z. The total limited legal tender silver
coined is $179, $50. 2SS.6O.
8. Total silver coined by the United
States down to July 1, 1896, $500, 464.-
FOURTH.
|. The reason a new demand for free
coinage Of silver by the United States
has arisen is that owing to increased
production, caused chiefly by improved
methods of mining and better facilities
for transportation, the output of silver
became so large as to diminish its value
In relation to gold.
2. Down to 1873 silver was more profit
able to export than to coin, and that
year only 900 was offered for coinage
in the United States
3. In 1856 the worlds production of
silver was 81, 100000 ounces; real ratio
to gold, 1888 to l.
4. In 1876 the worlds production of sill
yer was g. 1852 900 ounces, or more than
double. Ratio to gold. 17.SS
.. In 1886 the worlds production of sill
yer was %, 900 ounces, trebling that
of 1856. Real ratio to gold, POTS
6. In 1895 the worlds production of sill
five times what it was in 1856. Real
ratio to gold, 31.56.
z. That is to say, an ounce of gold Is
worth to-day nearly 30 ounces Of silver.
8. Yet owners of uncoined silver want
us to accept it for free and unlimited
coinage at the proportion Of IL ounces
Of silver to 1 ounce Of gold.
FIFTH.
1. The effect would be to flood the
country with silver dollars worth 50 to
So cents.
2. When the Government was founded
the 'daddies" believed and intended
that fifteen ounces Of silver would pur
chase as much as one ounce of gold, or
that fifteen ounces Of silver would dis
charge a debt which one ounce Of gold
would discharge.
3. To-day one ounce of gold will pur-
chase as much as 80 ounces Of silver. If
we coined silver at 16 to I, therefore,
we would be forcing OH ourselves dollar
Of a purchasing power or debt-paying
power Of only one-half the present dollar
of our currency, all its dollars being kept
up to a value Of 100 cents each by the
existing gold standard.
4. Free coinage of silver would put us
on the silver standard with China Japan
and other countries in which labor is in
practical serfage, and civilization is
scarcely begun.
s. There Is not in the world to-day q
first-class nation that opens it's mints to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
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GOVERNMENT DEFEATED.
English House of Lords Persists in
an Amendment to the Irish
Land Bill.

London, Aug. 6.-The government suf-
fered defeat in the House of Lords to-
day, where the Irish land bill was being
considered in the committee stage. The
amendment of Viscount Templeton ask
ing that the several classes of each
holding should be ascertained and that
fair rent should be based on the assump-
ton that all the improvements were
made or acquired by the landlord. The
government refused to accept the amend
of Lords-127 ayes to 81 noes.
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Whore Our Trade Interests Are.
1ANNNNNNwANNNNNN

In declaring for tho free coinage of
silver independently Of all other copn-
tries the Chicago convention in effect
declared for different and lower money
standard than that used by the great
commercial nations with which we
trade. Trade and commerce follow the
lines Of least monetary resistance, and
out of total merchandise imports and
exports last year of 81, 539, sos, 1870 only
$163, S93, 827 was from single silver
standard countries-less than II per
cent.
Even in our South American trade,
about which SO much has been said, out
of a total of $145, 693, O55 only per
cent, So, 991, 853, was with silver stand
ard countries, while 70 per cent, $685.
217,864, was with single gold standard
countries, and $31, 483, 33S was with BIZ
metallic countries.
Practically speaking, all bimetallic
countries are on gold basis, their
legal tender silver being exchangeable
for gold, but the bimetallic trade is
small. Let Europe serve as the example.
While much less than half of its popu-
lation has the single gold standard, the
following table shows our trade:
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Hard Times and Free Silver.

There is not first-class commercial
country on earth now that has free
coinage There is not free silver cOun-
try on earth that has as much as S. per
capita in circulation-all kinds of mon
ey There is in circulation in the United
States $24 per capita, or $3.50 per
capita more than any free sill
yer country on earth. We have
more silver in circulation to-
day than ever before and more per CAPT
ia than any free silver country on earth.
Our dollar will buy more sugar, coffee,
-four, meal, meat, medicine, hardware
and clothing than in 1878. A barrel of
corn, a bushel of wheat or 100 pounds
of tobacco will buy nearly double as
much of the article that farmers con-
sumo as the same kind of corn, wheat
or tobacco would buy in 1878. The
wages of the laboring man will buy
double as much Of the necessaries of
life now as in 1873, and his wages have
not been reduced one-fourth as much as
the purchasing power of his money has
been increased.
All Of the above propositions we as
sert without fear of intelligent contra
diction. Then, if it be a fact that no
free silver country on earth has as
much as 5per capita. and if it be fact
that we have about So4 per capita; and
If it be fact that we have more silver
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in circulation per capita than any free
silver country in the world; and if it be
a fact that the purchasing power of
our dollar is now about double what It
was in 1873, and that the products of
the farm will purchase more necessa-
ries Of life than in 1878, our free silver
friends will have to hunt farther for
the hard times complained Of. They
can't charge it to reduced circulation
or to higher prices.-Galveston News.
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Mexico,s Silver Dollar.

Mexico has free and unlimited coin
age, and yet the Mexican silver dollar,
although larger than ours, is quoted in
New York, Paris, London, and Berlin
at 50 cents. 1t should be said also that
in Mexico it is worth but SO cents in
gold and that it passes there and else
where at it's bullion value as measured
by the money of commerce.
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FATALITIES AT A FIRE.
One and Perhaps More Lives Arc Lost
at Kansas City, Mo-

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 7-One man
was killed outright, two were perhaps
fatally injured and five others sustained
more or less serious injuries in fire
which started from lard and meats be-
coming overheated at Swift's packing
plant at midnight last night and burned
till late this morning. The property loss
is nearly 100000. Joseph Hoblowitz,
night Waterman, was suffocated or
burned to death. His body is still in
the ruins. The fatally injured were:
Harvey Biddleman, horseman, who fell
from the third story to the ground, and
Stephen Reynolds, Waterman, whose
face and hands were terribly burned
The fire started in the meathousc. ap-
parently from spontaneous combustion,
and the watchmen tried to put it out
without calling on the fire department.
Whlle thus engaged a terrific explosion
occurred, throwing the men in all di-
,oc+ionS
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SHE SUES FOR DIVORCE.
The Wife Of Henry E. Abbey, the
Theatrical Manager, Alleges
Cruelty.

New York, Aug. 5.-Papers in a suit
for separation have been served on Hen
ry e. Abbey, the well-known thea trical
manager, by his wife, Florence e. Alb
hey, alleging cruelty and abandonment.
Mrs. Abbey, who in former years was
well known on the stage as Florence
Gerard, was married to Mr.. Abbey in
Boston four years ago.
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Lively Blaze at Bessemer.

Bassemer, Mich, Aug. 5.-While the
local fire department was away attend
ing the tournament at Sault Ste. Marie,
a fire broke out in a tenement house
occupied by ten families, one of them,
John Biasiz, wife and child, who lived
on the second floor. having narrow
escape from death. They were rescued
from a window Mrs. Biasiz had her
hair burned off and Mr.. Biasiz was seri-
onsly burned saving his child
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Golden Wedding Celebration.

Cedar Grove, Wis, Aug. 6.-[Speciall
Mr.. and Mrs. Ell. Heinen, formerly Of
Milwaukee, are celebrating the fiftietb
anniversary of their marriage today.
Relatives from Milwaukee and Baldwin,
Wis, besides other friends of the fam
lily from this vicinity, are taking part
in the celebration. The venerable couple
are hale and hearty and are enjoying
the feast as well as any of the rest.
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No Wild Rush to Ship Grain

Omaha, Neb, Aug. 6.-There is con-
siderable grain being moved out of Ne
braska, but the outgoing quantities are
not so great as to tax the equipment of
any of the Nebraska roads. there is a
steady movement of grain eastward, but
there is no wild rush to ship the grain
OFT of the state.
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hole, or declivit?, near the wall and
dropped the suit into it, and arranged the
weeds and long grass above it, and then
slowly he went to the house, and, taking
again the key from his pocket, entered the
door,"
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Jacob Frost was among the arrivals
at the Imperial Hotel, New York, the
other day. Mr.. Zero Snow was also a
guest there.
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Totals sS91, e47, 500 s4s1, 072 sle3 1893. s27
Unclassifed So, Isl, 7O5

Our trade and commerce are not only
on ga gold basis" but are on "a single
gold standard. To adopt silver mono
metallism, which independent free coin
age would surely produce here as it has
everywhere else, would be to permit
Europe to fix the price Of our surplus
products on gold basis, while it could
pay us in our own legal tender silver
dollars coined freely out of 53 cents
worth of bullion. Is this business?
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KBARBY WAS RABIp.

Denounced the Democracy and Vlidei
Farmer liil shaw.
Dallas. Texas, November The III.
| formed and mlsshapen crowd which has
been brought together by coalition OF re-
| publicans gold standard people ana popu-
lists held n rally tonight which almost
terminated IN n riot
The rally follow ed tho torchlght pro-
man. first spoke. ard. while he adroitly
avoided n mention OF McKinleys name
he closod by saving. "Vote where u viii
hurt Bryan and the Chicago platform
worst"
w. II. Atweil. republican followed, John
W. Springer, an Illinois gold standard
man. followed. and then came Barney
Gibbs Earney promised to sink over a
million dollars In the Trinity If he Is elect
Cd TO congress. While Gibbs was speaking
and lust rs he was about to close, dele
gat,on of hoodlums arrived at the en-
trance to the wigwam- They We're pro-
vIded with horns and torches and began
TO howl. They kept IT up for quite awhils.
This 1nterruption was charged TO free
silver democrats" as come choose to call
them, The horns and torches, however,
were conspicuous In abe republican parade
held before the meeting, The crowd that
did this interrupting was composed mostly
Of boys. a populist and n gold standard
man called for volunteers. and. heading
n mob OF negroes ana whites they rushed
ON the disturbers. Sticks few fast and a
squad Of police were needed. with their
r. ght clubs, to quel the riot II was final
ly settled. few cracked heads being the
result.
when quiet had been secured. Paul Van
dervoort. the fat man of Nebraska, made
a talk which was very den inciatory of the
democratic party. A more vituperativc
speech was never made
Jerome Kearby followed. He was sent
when he arrived he started out by de
claring that he was mad and hoped he
would stay mad. He then drifted INTO
the sensational. Pointing toward thofS
who had interrupted tho meeting. he said:
THAT is the very gang that burns negroes
at the stake that In the crowd that robs
houses by night and murders negroes by
day" and he charged 1t all to democracy.
He said to elect him governor and he
would stop them. "rhe man who inter-
feres with your liberty" he declared. ".s