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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02
The voice came from the churchyard

The voice came from the churchyard
without
Good Godr' cried the old man, re-
memoering the further duty that
awaited him. did really fall
asleep@
ne seized the bell ropes and pulled
them with skillful hand.
rar below the people swarmed from
tue church. as ants swarm from the ant
mn Golden standards reared them
serves In the air of the unborn Easter
morning. Forming as cross, the pro-
cession began to move around the
chureh, amid joyful cries of Christ
mas Risen from the dead"
ers heart. and glancing out he was
exalted In spirit. 1t seemed to him that
the Waxen candles that the people bore
plazed with suddenly increased bril-
lance In the gray darkness, that the
throng moved more and more swiftly,
that the standards waved the more Joy.
ousiy, and that the awakening wind
lltel up the joyful chorus from below
ana turned 1t to the bells brazen peals
with sweetness superhuman.
Never did Micheich ring the bells
Win such JOY and spirit.
IL seemed as If his old heart had been
welded into the dead copper of those
oeiis' which laughed and sang and wept
at the enhancing melody that rose 10
the stars above. And the stars seemed
TO tairly blaze with JOY Of 1t as the
music poured upward into heaven and
fell backward to caress the earth.
What hymn of joy 1t was those bells
pealed forth. The great bass deafened
the sky with the grand brazen cry OF
Christ has risen" And the tenors,
struck to their hearts. shouted sonor-
ously, Christ has risenw while the
changing sopranos, as though fearing
their lesser voices should be lost to the
grand chorus, hurriedly. like gleeful
children trying to outstrip each other.
screamed thousand times, Christ has
risenm
And that sad old heart forgot its
cares, its sorrows. and its insults.
The gray bellringer heard only the
brazen music, now singing, now weep
ing, now floating to the starry sky, now
sinking to the wretched earth; and 1t
seemed to him that he was surrounded
by his children and his grandchildren
and that these were their happy voices
the voices of old and young to-
gether pouring out in one grand chorus
a hymn of Joy and rapture.
So the old bellringer pulled the ropes
with strong. nervous arms while tears
poured down his cheeks and his heart
ran fairly over with a happiness he
had never known before. And below
the people listened, and they said to
each other that Micheich had never
rung so wonderfully before.
Then suddenly the great bass bell
hesitated-and was silent. For a mo-
ment the others sang an unfinished. un-
certain harmony. Then they, too.
ceased and there was silence save for
the low, sad, trembling droning OF their
silled but still resonant threats.
The gray bellringer had fallen nelpg
lessly on the bench beside the ropes,
and two tears silently rolled over his
pale cheeks.
Send a substitute! The old bell
ringer has rung himself out.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02
THE EASTER CHIMES.

A Tale from the Russian Of Kovolenko.
u L WAS the night
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02
when travelling.

Whether on pleasure bent. or business.
take on every trip bottle OF Syrup OF
Figs. as IT acts most pleasantly and
effectually on the kidneys. liver. and
bowels, preventing fevers. headaches,
and other forms OF sickness. For sale
in so cent and 81 bottles by all leading
druggists. Manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company only.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02

ows on the fields beside it. All was
silent The village slumbered.
Hours passed. and long before the
night was gone it's still charm was
broken. Lights began TO glimmer in
the windows of cottages whose wretch
edness was disguised in the bewitching
springtime gloom OF night. A gate
creaked The tread of foot was heard
here and there. Moving figures, darkly
outlined, emerged from the shades of
the wood. A dog barked. and then an
other and another.
Then horseman clattered along the
village street. A passing cart groaned
and creaked under its early morning
burden. The darkly outlined figures
increased in number. The villagers be-
gan to gather in their church to bid
welcome to the spring holiday
1t was quaint little church. II stood
upon hillock in the middle of the viii
lage. All at once its windows glowed
dimly among the shadows. Then their
brightness increased. The church was
all alight.
High into the darkness overhead
reached the old belfry tower. It's TOD
was lost in the azure gloom.
Then the rickety belfry stairs began
ID creak. Old Micheich. the bellringer.
was clambering aloft. Soon his lantern
hung in the bell window, shining like
a new star in the sky.
1t was hard for the old man TO climb
those steep and crooked stairs. His
old eyes no longer served him, and he.
like they. was worn out.
AS he climbed, he pondered. 1t was
time indeed. he thought, that he should
rest. But God would not send him death.
He had seen his children buried. He
had stood by the open graves of his
grandchildren. He had followed the
old to their last resting place. lie had
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02

Bicycle riders, football players and
athletes generally, find sovereign
remedy for the sprains and bruises
and cuts To which they are constantly
liable, in Dr.. Thomas Eclectric Oil
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02

Images on the altar frowned sternly
upon mans sorrows and mans injus-
tice.
But all this was long, long passed
All this was far away in the old times
And now all the wide world for him
was this dark tower, where the wind
sighed gently among the swinging bell
ropes.
Let God Judge you! God will Judge
you!" whispered the old man. thinking
of his enemy. Silent tears ran down
his cheeks.
"Micheich! All, Micheich. What is
the matter with you. Are you asleep"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02

followed the young there. too. But
still he lived and lived. 1t was hard.
Many a time had he welcomed the
Easter morning-so many times that he
could not recall them all. He had even
forgotten how often in later years he
had hoped for death in this same old
belfry, as now he hoped for IT, And
yet this early morning God had brought
MIN there once more.
1t was not yet time for him to ring
the merry peals and the old man totter-
ed to the belfry window and leaned out
over the railing. Below him In the
darkness ne could dimly see the neg
iected graves. The white wooden cross
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02

No greater thing can be done than
to love God and keep his command
m-1ta.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02

There IS no such thing as becoming rici
without giving away anything.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02

Ambtion-a kind OF egotism-is behind oil
achievement and all excellence.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-02


before the Easter
morning. The lit
tile village by the
murmuring creek
was half hidden in
the mystical. va
pory. starry gloom
of a Russian night
in springtime. The
neighboring wood
flung blacklist shad
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what Stewart rhought in 1904.

What Stewart Thought in 1894.
Senator Stewart of Nevada made a
.neech in Congress february II, 1874, in
Which he said:
To, everybody know what dollar is
worth. The farmers will then know how
to TO- measure the Offence in price be-
tween ~ his wheat in Illinois and the wheat
+; I" liverpool. The what. will be meas
mred by the same Aandard-gold-in
illinois as it is in Liverbol and aay man
can figure it up. But bw it is mys-
terry; the whole su6Jectpf finance is g
VIZ w acc those who devotatheir attention
tn H making large fortues out of this
mYs .at ,;s do as all the peop, of the world
hava heen doing from til beginning
maasnre our values by g&, adopt the
standard that all can UNDERSTAND, and
get rid of this mystery;
Mr.. Logan-What does he senator
want? uon+ tho ~
and no paper money not r&eemed in
@oid. no paper money the valti of which
r. not ascertained, no paper .nney that
w;lI organize gold board tospecuIate
with II. Who pays for this sol board |?
Who pays these immense forums? How
i that %iiGns t ana %l Bid can be
ever calculate who paid for \? Il
comes out of the producers. low do
these men exist? By the latitudawhich
your deprecated curreacy gives tdspecu.
fation and nothing else.
Persons who are spfculating Il your
deprecated currency are maxim the
money, and they Will continue. tomake
| Il 20 long as you have deprecated cur
re9nseyi The farmers won get rich tbev
III have rot to become skillSd In this fiucSat.
inc currency and make, corners and nm.
| inSlste the market AMI IL they do DAT
they cannot farm Congregational Re.
| "a fortythird Congress, first ses6i4,
voi. q 3. 1927
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a Pointer for Farmers.

remember one instance that bears
particularly upon this question that came
to me today as sat here, and that was
this: My father came from the New
England states upon this prairie in 1897.
He told me this instance once: That
after sowing crop of wheat by hand,
cutting it with the cradle, binding it with
the rake, and threshing it with the ball
upon the floor, he put it upon a wagon
and drove it to this city of Milwaukee,
ninety-six miles away, and sold it here
for Al cents a bushel. This was in the
SOS, and silver then was $1.3O an ounce.
Now tell the silver men to explain to you
how it vas that in the early SOS wheat
was 46 cents a bushel, and silver $1.3O
an ounce, if the price of silver always
carries with it the price of wheat. And
when he hems and haws, say to him:
at is not, only confined to wheat, but
that other eommodity you yoke up with
silver, cottq; and tell him that for the
four years ending in 1916 cotton in the
city of New York averaged only cents
n pound; AM that for the four years
ending in 1884 the same class averaged
s cents a pond. Tell him to explain
that to you. That was when we had
free coinage aid silver was then $1.3O
an ounce. He sannot explain it. That
one illustration. my friends, utterly de-
stroys the whde silver heresy.-Con-
cressman FowleNof New Jersey.
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used to Pay the expenses Of the govern
saries of life might be reduced, and the
deficit made up by an issue of money!"
Or, If this is not deemed advisable, 'gov-
eminent paper can be issued to pay for
special improvements; harbors can be
deepened and rivers improved in this
way. He introduced q bill to issue
$IO,O00,0OO of United States treasury
notes, with which to ,inaugurate the con-
struction Of the Nicaragua- canal. He
further suggested that I'VE can use any
available coin on hand to take up ma
tured bonds and replace the coin so used
with paper money! He introduced an
other bill providing in this way for the
payment of the 5000. 900 outstanding
per cent. bonds. He did not stop even
at that point, but gravely proposed that
the place Of national bank notes, as they
are retired" His theory Of the ultimate
redemption Of government obligations,
as stated by himself, was that the larger
the issue of treasury notes, the smaller
will be the "cOin'' reserve required with
which to meet them. BY "coin'' he ex-
planned that he meant both gold and sill
yer, wilfully ignoring the disparity in in
trinsic value between the gold and silver
dollar. 20 j
And this is the lfinancier and states
man for whom honest and sensible men
are asked to cast their votes, next No
vember!
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If the Mckinley law had been
plone, the American farmer In 1896
the American market. The farmel
wife would have felt encouraged to
crease her stock Of poultry. on viii
she depended for pin money to clY
herself and her children. Whc1fc,
i Mckinley law was repealed and W
If on eggs reduced from 9 ce Yn ;n.
fsats Dozen Dozen in m ans the
creased price Of $125, 600: be his in.
American farmer can see " and the
terest to vote for McYen eggs, the
Canadian and other 100000 dozen q
soon again ship us 6mestic eggs will
year and the price they nave done
continue to declirs.
Aol tue 1ast 8uld Democrats Legis-
Question. wkfhe Canadian rs against
late In fav9< Farmer9
inc Team farmer could not sell
The !Hnada, even If they had no
eggs american eggs. There are only
n f1the Canadian cheap farms. The
nefdozen small markets in Canada
total population only one-quarter
large as that of the city of New York.
few election districts in the city Of
lew York, or in philadelphia, or in
'hicago, afford better market for
eggs than the whole of Can
do. Yet Canada imposes a duty of 5
ents dozen on our eggs, while we inn
ose duty of only 3 cents a dozen on
er eggs.
The Canadians have protection, but
nder the Wilson bill we have not.
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62,112,22SO
2.4s3,5Oe.6s1
1,s19,44e.3o6
ee4.oGo.37
Cheap Dollars.

Everything is cheap or dear according
to what we have to pay for it. Sugar is
cheap at cents q pound, but would be
dear at 10 cents.
A cheap dollar, therefore, is one that
the merchant buys with less goods than
lar. If merchant now gives twenty
pounds of sugar for dollar, and the dol
lar which he gets is a 2OO-cent dollar;
and if the 2OO-cent dollar is a dishonest
dollar and ought to be replaced by Il 100
cent dollar, worth only half as much; in
half as much sugar for the cheaper dol
lar us he now gives for the dishonest
2OO-cent dollar. That is clear, is It not
This is precisely what ''cheap money"
means.
Is this what the farmer and the work
ingman really want?
Apply this illustration to labor, if you
with labor. Does he want cheap COL
lar, for which the merchant will give
. only ten pounds of sugar? Or does he
want 2OO-cent dollar, for which the
merchant will give twenty pounds of
sugar? Cheap dollars would cut his
wages in half. He surely does not want
that.
'.Oh, no." says the workingman, "that
is not what want; but, if dollars were
cheap, would get twice as many of
them for days work."
Would you, indeed? Not on your life.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver, at
the ratio of 1G to 1, is simply a scheme
to reduce your wages without your know
ing it or having an excuse for striking.
What good would it do you to get twice
rs many dollars for days work if 81
would buy no more sugar, and no more
of anything else, than 81 will now buy ?
Besides, if prices go up, under free
coinage, as they will-we admit that
does not the workingman know that the
first thing to go up will be rents, the
next thing will be food and clothing, and
coinage, instead of being better off, the
workingman Would be worse off than he
is now.
Think this over, and see what it all
means to you and to your little family
Springfield (Ill.) Journal.
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yiduals. A man who has repudiated his
debts is never trusted again and is re-
garded with contempt by all his neigh
bOrs. And so is nation.
"A free-coinage law is Population. and
dicated by such letters as the above.
For if under free coinage the silver dol
lar is to appreciate to the value of gold
dollar how will the farmer get more of
them for his thousand bushels of wheat
How can he pay his debt any easier than
he can now?
No, it is reputation the silver mon
want. and population is dishonor.- Chi
cago Times Herald.
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F|'A|R '| l(G'BA KIT
Tha MoK q nlsy Iax b Checked \ I'm q
y portation and Gsye =
Home Market.
eF1 EcT or THE WILSON BILL,
TR Canadian Farmer Has Protection
but the American Farmer
Has None.

There is no reason, why Canada, Mexi.
Cd China or any other country should
spply the United States with a single
eE. Canada does not buy single egg
fbm MS; and there Is no reason why we
sbuld buy from her. When we do, the
American farmer loses the benefit OF pars
o. his natural market.
The purpose Of this article IL to show
! few figures the benefit which the
american farmer derived from the Nc
Finley law; not merely because the
l}w stopepd imports from other countries.
ut because under that law he received
q average of Is cents q dozen for his
Eggs all the year around. Under the
resent Wilson-G German bill, he hardly
4uld better afford to pay IL cents o
4zen in 1892, than they can 5 cents q
FROM 1883 to 1890, there was no tariff
bon eggs. The Canadian farmer could
End his eggs across the line from Maine
I California. Mexico, China, France.
fermany and other countries supplied
ually, on the average. We paid every
far to the foreign farmer on this small
foduct alone, at 10 cents dozen, 81
10000. This importation Of over l.
10000 dozen month or $4,000 dozen a
NY was felt, in the way of competition,
y our farmers chiefly in the large cities.
farmers cen get the best prices for eggs
md their products in the large cities;
ut when New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
Francisco and many other markets are
hpplied. with eggs. shipped at cheap
fates of transportation BY water, how
ban the farmer expect to compete who
has to ship his eggs by rail?
The following statement shows impor.
tations Of eggs, by countries, the year be.
fore the Mckinley tariff went into effect
flor the year ending June 30, 1889:
l1S88 to June 30 1850.
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Bryan shown to be Uncertain.

There is abundant proof that Mr..
Bryan is an insincere politician and IN
unreliable adviser of the people. He
was bolter in 1893 and in that year,
clared that the exchangeable value of
| dollar depended ON something besides q
congressional edict.
When Frank Irvine was running ON
the Democratic ticke for Judge Of the
supported Populist. In reply to a let
ter from Mr.. Irvine, calling Mr.. Bryan's
attention to his unexpected position, the
present candidate for President on the
Democratic ticket wrote statement of
his reasons for boiling which contained
the following cool remarks and assur-
for the Democratic candidate:
l regret that our people chose for slaughter
so deserving man. They ought to
have selected some one Of the numer-
GUS Democrats who are responsible
for the falling of Of the Democratic
vote: have spoken to you thus
fee AND
than the one which fear awaits you
During the extraordinary session Of
Congress of 1898, called by President
Cleveland, Mr.. Bryan made q speech in
which he declared that:
While lie the government can say that given
weight Of gold or silver shall consti-
tnte dollar and invest that dollar
Mt9 9b Legal tender Qualities II cannot
jar. That mase d Rg@ed up sas the The
law Of supply and demand.
II the number Of dollars increases
more rapidly than the need of dol
iars.as It did after the gold discover
les Of 1S49-the exchangeable value Of
each dollar Will fall and prices rise.
Thus it appears that Mr.. Bryan knew
what the eXchangeable value of a dol
lar depended on. His change of tune.
therefore, is not because conditions have
changed. but because he shifts his prin-
cip!es with the varying political breezes,
and that he is willing to do anything for
Office.
In the spring of 1892 Bryan declared
in a speech made by him on the tariff
question that the fall Of prices must be
attributed
To the inventive genius that has multiplied
thousand times. In many instances.
the strength Of single. arm and
years ago. That is what brought the
prices down In this country and else.
where.
At this time another change has come
over the spirit of his white house
dream. He and his fellow. Populists
ascribe the fall in the prices Of commod-
tiles to the fall in the price of silver.
Mr.. Bryan and his associates declare
that 1.-THE crime of 1873" which the
News has shown to have been no crime
at all, has pulled everything down with
How can the people believe q man
who thus stultifies himself and puts him.
self on both sides of vital questions.
while, at the same time, he proves uns
true to his party associates ?-Bu6al0
News.
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/. It would evidently be impossible for
farmers fifty miles in the interior of any
of the states bordering on the Great
Lakes, to compete with eggs shipped by
water from Canada.
4 The Mckinley tariff imposed duty
of 5 cents q dozen on eggs. This law
went into effect October /, 1890. Dur
ing the year ending June 80, 1890, we
imported nearly 100000 dozen eggs less
than in the year previous, when there
was no protection. The importation of
eggs steadily decreased until the repeal
Z of the Mckinley law in 1894, 80 that
instead Of nearly 100000 dozen eggs
4 being brought into this country, as here
tofore, in 1901 we imported 5000, 600
\ dozen; 100000 in 1s91-92; 100000
in 1923; 1,75O, 600 in 1894. BY 1894
nearly $2,OO0,OO0 had been taken from
! the foreign shipper, which now went into
!; the pockets of the American farmer.
The following table shows the importa-
I, lions of eggs since 1888:
1895.
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A question for Farmers.

If the volume Of silver money controls
prices, as the free coiners would have
us believe that 1t does, 80 that the more
silver coin there 10 In circulation, the
higher is the price Of wheat, and the
less silver coin there il in circulation,
the lower the price Of wheat; then will
ae n9 .ve Mh g 9eoe IN the free
How. did It happen that wheat was
lower In price In 1894 than ever before,
while the amount Of coined silver In the
world was greater than ever before?-
Illinois State Journal. ~ si
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Bryan a Greenbacker.

Mr.. Bryan is not so much silverite
az he is a greenbacker. He said, on the
fioor Of the House of Representatives in
Washington, June 5, 1894:
'The issue of money by the govern
ment directly to the people gives us a
safer currency than national bank bilIs)
and saves to the people as whole the
profit arising from its issue. When a
bank issues money, you must pay the
market rate of interest to get 1t; but
when the government issues money, the
people save the interest, IL the money ID
afterward called in; and they save the
principal also, If the money Is kept 10 cir
Culation." at e
He asserted that greenbacks "can Be
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FIGURES FOR FARMERS
-s----
Arithmetic for Wheat Growers
Which Neglects Tax and In
terest Considerations.
A.FREE SILVER MATHEMATICIAN,
Silver Accountants Concede Double
Expense in Mexico and As
sumo Equal Profits

Warren, MIMI, Aug. 6.-To the Editor:
I enclose comparative slips circulated by
an advocate of free silver, which subject
would like your opinion on. 1t, Of
course. is intended to catch the farmer
who raises wheat, and deductions of this
trict, which is largely wheat growing.
would like the going wages in Mexico
and the rates of interest in countries on
silver basis as compared with the gold
standard countries. l.. Lamberson.
The first slip processes to show the net
profit to farmer of raising 5000 bushels
of wheat in the United States:
5000 bushels. Mt &c cents per bushel Z. 81. 500
EXpe9seS .....s.. 81 ,OOO
Freight ........ ............. 500
Interest ................... 80, 900
Aaxes ...... .................. 40
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$3.50

Reducing this to gold. rs in the original
statement, the net profit of the Mexican
farmer would be $500, exactly what that
of the American farmer would be. This
is fair specimen of the illnsory and
silver men to deceive American farmers
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A gain during four years of
Republican rule Of. .........
During the last two years.
under the second admins.
tration Of Mr.. Cleveland, and
under proposed and accom-
plished free trade and sweep
Ing tariff reductions, values
again decreased from (1893.
To the comparatively insigni-
ficant total of.....
Showing the enormous loss
In two years Of Democratic