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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-14
AN ORDINANCE.

TO IMPROVE FRANKLIN STREET IN THE
CITY OF MARIETTA, OHIO, FROM THE
NORTHERLY LINL OF KNOX STREET
TO THE NORTHERLY LINE OF Ian.
CASTER STREET.
Be it resolved by the City Council OF the City
OF Marietta, Ohio, two-thirds OF the whole num-
Der of members elecVed thereto concurriug:
That 1t is deemed necessal : by said City and
this Cot lcil hereby declares that 1t is neces.
sary to improve Franklin street in the city of
Marietta, Ohio, rom the northerly line OF
Knox street. to the nc. .ther!y line of Lancaster
street, by excavating, 6tading, preparing foun-
dations, constructir curb on each side of
the roadway in accol lance with the plans,
profiles and specifications on file in the oifice
OF the city civ Al Engineer of said city.
The cost and expense OF said improvement,
less the cost and expense of so much of said
improvement as NAV be included in the cross
ings and intersectiocs of said improvement
with the streets and alleys crossing the same
or intersecting Herewith and less ne.fiftieth
OF the entire cost and expenses thereof, shall
be assessed per 'front.' foot upon the lots and
lands abutttng thereon; said assessment shall
be payable in twenty semi-arnual installments
and bonds shall be issued in anticipation of
collection thereof.
That the City clerk be and he is hereby di-
rected to cause this resolutioo to be published
for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper
published and OF general circulation in said
city and Carl Becker is hereby appointed to
serve, In a manner provided by law for the
service OF summons in civil actions, ritten
notice OF the passage OF this resolution upon
the awners of the property abutting upon said
Improvement or upon the persons respectively
in whose names respectively, such abutting
property may be assessed for taxation upon
the tax duplicate, who are residents of Wash
ington county, Ohio, as required by law
Passed August llth, 1896
S. ]. HATHAWAY,
President OF city council.
CARL BECKER, city clerk.
August IA, lS963t.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-14
o Id People.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bit.
ters. This medicine does not stimulate
and contains no whiskey or other in.
toxicant, but acts as a tonic and alter.
ative. 1t acts mildly on the stomach
and bowels, adding strength and Civ
ing tone to the organs, thereby aiding
Nature in the performance of the func.
tions. Electric Bitters is an excellent
appetizer and aids digestion. Old peo-
pie find it just exactly what they need.
Price fifty cents and 81. 90 per bottle a,
w. H. Styer's Drug Store.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-14
Some Facts About Money.

]. Money as o. standard of value is an
international. and not local or merely
national, factor
2. Cheap money will always drive
good money out of circulation, and thus
contract the currency.
3. A fixed standard is required to
measure value.
4. Gold money is of automatic issue.
No one determines the limit ofissue.
B. Fiat money is simply forced loan.
1t is government money, and It's value
is alone determined by the proportion
of its volume to the credit of the issuing
government.
6. The words cheap" and "dear"
mean nothing without standard of
comparison.
z. Panics are caused by the overval-
nation of property and commodities
and by general extravaganza, and not
by the so-called variation in supply of
money. In 1898 and 1894 money was
more plentiful than ever before. In
1873 the net deposits in our national
banks were 1878, 400, 900; in 1894 they
were $2,919. 100000. The deposits in
the savings institutions of the country
in 1888 wer, 81 ,024, ,s56, 7S7 in 1894 they
were about $4,000, 100000.
8. Business determines how much
money country needs. What we now
need is an increase in the volume of
business and not in the volume of
money.-New York Mail and Express.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-14

Your dollars are now as good as gold,
and it costs you to send pound (eI) to
10 the old country about s..
If Bryan is elected and we have free
coinage of silver at 10 to !, your dollars
will only be worth 53 cents, and to send
q pound (el) win cost you about s9.43.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-14
A Good Thing to Remember.

What the workingman wants above
all things today is greater demand for
labor. that he may receive better wages
and buy more of the necessities and lux
uries of life.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-14
FRIDAY. AUGUST "a. 1895

For President,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
OF the United States.
For Vice-President.
GARRETT A. HOBART,
OF New Jersey.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-14

Republican State Ticket
Fer Secretary Of State,
CHARLES KINNEY, OF Scioto Co.
For Judge OF the Supreme Court,
MARSHALL J. WILLIAMS, OF Fayette Co.
Tor Food and Dairy Commissioner,
JOSEPH E. BLACKBURN, OF Belmont Co.
For Member Board of Public Works,
FRANK A. HUFFMAN, of Van Vert Co.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-14
Excursion to Beverly

The u. d o. r. will run an excursion
to Beverly Sunday, Aug. 10Th, account
of Union Camp Meeting. Special train
will leave Marietta at 7:30 a. IN.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-14
What Free silver Means.

The attention of the silverites is
called to the five following propositions
and to those who think that free silver
means the larger use of both metals the
study of the third proposition is especi-
ally commended:
First-That there is not free coin
age country IN the world today that is
not on silver basis.
Second-That there is not gold
standard country in the world today
that does not use silver as money along
with gold.
Third-That there is not a silver
standard country in the world today
that uses any gold as money along with
silver.
Fourth-That there is not a silver
standard country in the world today
that has more than third as much
money in circulation per capita as the
United States has and
Fifth-That there is not a silver
standard country in this world today
where the iaboriDg man receives fair
pay for his days work.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

In Hebrew marriages the woman Is
placed to the right of her mate. With
every other nation in the world her
place in the ceremony Is on the left
In Russian Poland all trains must
stop at every station until the chief
of police Tor gendarmerie) of the place
gives permission for their departure.
\ boy of 10 and girl of Is were mar
ried at Ford. KY, n few days ago. There
were two 16-year-old brides ia the same
region recently and several bride
grooms under 20 years
Roentgen is beginning to inspire ter
ror- y French woman writes TO a
Fssris paper asking if it would - safe
for her to continue TO wear her false
teeth set in a metal frame, because"
she says. Il should not like TO have
that frame showing in a photograph OF
my face
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
sARNUM'S LONG PROCESSION.
How He Faithfully Kept His Billboard
Promises.

Il was travelling with p. Il. Barnum
once" said Mr.. Stow. Long before the
railroad shows were in existence. We
travelled by wagons from town TO town
in those days, halting on the outskirts
of the town to enable the circus peo-
pie to put on their show clothes AMI
prepare for the parade. We were to
show in a small town in Pennsylvania.
and | had noticed that a bridge over
which the wagons were to pass was
weak. | sent word to Mr.. Barnum to
put the rhinoceros wagon at the rear
but he did not do so, and as il was in
advance it broke the bridge. The show
did not reach the town in time to make
much of parade.
That night Mr.. Barnum was seated
in the village hotel when an angry lot
of people who We're disappointed at the
size of the parade waited upon him and
told him that he was fraud
How so" said Mr.. Barnum.
WE'LL replied the spokesman for
the crowd, you advertised two miles of
parade and there was only one
Yes replied Barnum, there was
one mile of parade and another mile Of
cussed fools following it. That makes
two miles, doesn't it?'" = Syracuse
Courier
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
ODD AND UNUSUAL.

Part OF a cornfield at Joplin. No.
which has never been undermined. has
settled 20 feet.
Lightning struck wire on which a
grapevine WAS trained in the PelliceL-
vineyard, at Moultrie. Fla. and stripped
the fruit from it. jumping then to an
other wire and repeating the effect.
\ Danbury man has hit upon an orici-
nal and profitable way OF committing
suicide He announces his intention To
enter cage containing a ferocious lion
and permit the beast 10 eat him. Specra-
tors are to be allowed, on paying an sd-
mission fee of five dollars each.
Strange black spots appeared on the
body OF JEFF Wallis. Just before he died.
at Luverne. Ala. Similar black spots
also appeared on the floor, under the
bed ana all efforts to scour them out
have been useless.
The scrapiugs of iron ore are eaten
with great relish by the three-year-old
daughter of James Gardener. of BeSse-
mer, Mich Her parents have yai.Iy
tried to break her OF the habit bv NIX
ing nausrous drugs with the ore.
Attorneys Decgm mber and January are
two Nevada lawyers. who are amusing
the Kansas people Just now. where they
have gone on business. The two men are
distinguished lawyers in Nevada. and
their firm style is January q December,
attOrneNs-at-laNv'
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
THE HOUSEKEEPER.

salt sprinkled over the carlet viii
effectGaily lay the dust and will make
the color bright and last longer.
To take out iron rust. cover the sr.,+
with fine salt and saturate with lemon
juice and lay on the grass. Repeat if
necessary.
Il pitcher of ice water laid in news
PAPER, with the ends of the paper
twisted together to exclude the air. will
remain all night in any summer room
WIN scarcely any Pereeptible melting
of the ice,
To remove IN oior from barrel half
fiji 1t with cold water. Heat half don
stones the size Of the palm of the hand
until they are red-hot and throw them
mt" the water and let the water remain
"a the barrel until cold Then rinse The,
barrel with clean cold water.
The average watering pot is made Of
tin or zinc. hut fancy watering pots are
made OF china in white and other colors
and decorated The quart sizes in the
decorated china pots are used in a con
~er'aiory for watering plants; ths~..
are also Frequently employed 10 hold
ont flowers IN plas, of the usual VASE.
Never let the laundre-ss. in her com-
mendable desire to give gloss To table
linen. starch 81 To produce a high
Satiny polish on damaSls II Sbould first
he thoroughly dampened and then
Ironed with a heavy fiatiron until II X
absolutely dry. TabIecIoths and nan
kins should never leave the ironins
board in limp condition.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
Bank Note. Make Good Fuel.

The novel spectacle of a steamers
furnaces being fed with bank notes was
recently witnessed at Mediterranean
port. Forty sacks of the apparently
valuable paper were tossed into the fur
mace under the longing eyes of the
stolIers, who stood restively by with an
evidently burning desire to possess
themselves of at least handful of that
which they somewhat inelegantly styled
rum fuel" The notes were Cancelled
notes of the bank of Algiers. whose
manager superintended the operation
of their absolute combustion
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.

1t is estimated that the rails of the va
rious railroads in the country weigh
altogether s3,000,OO0 tons.
When a pound or bushel of corn is
burned it Yields about one-twentieth O t
its original weight in ashes.
1t is said that a room PA feet in cubic
dimensions would hold all the gold
there is above ground in the world.
The onion is a historic vegetable, hav-
ing been used since the dawn of history
by the Greeks, the Romans and the
Egyptians.
Only 20 years have elapsed since the
first railway in the world was finished
During that comparatively brief period
400. 900 miles have been constructed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
EBENSBURG, PA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IL, 1896.

head very determinedly. and made the
most of the exceedingly dimpled chin.
which only represented one third o.
Mr.. Waterburys. During the whole
of that week Dick had never once been
out. The kitchen commented severely
on this point. 1t Savored more of the
man in possession" than anything
else he had done.
Hes been sent, and he's got to stop"
was the cooks verdict. And mistress
is making the best of bad job by treat
ing him as gentleman guest. I've al
ways understood that the poor master
left her comf'able off, and | can't uH-
derstand how she's lost her money. |
suppose it's a mine or something
Thank goodnessi I've got all my little
savings wrapped up in stocking and
locked in my box,''
Seven days had gone - the seventh
night had come, and still Ethel re-
manned obdurate. But she paid, her
mother noticed, considerable attention
to her toilet, and wore her prettiest
dresses
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
THE MUSTACHE.
How 1t Became a symbol of LIber ty an
Fraternity.

How 1t Became symbol OF Liber ty an
Fraternity.
The mustache, that questionable
adornment OF a mans upper lip. Is
trembling in the balance. The fashion
able man of the hour who eSchews this
tlme-hOnored ornament will tell YOU
that il Is a crying and unnecessary evil,
and Is bound TO 90. And where can one
find a better criterion of such momen-
Tous subjects than the fashionable man
OF the hour? In years to come the
grandchildren of a beardless race may
have to turn to their encyclopedias to
hnd out what 4 muStache was. Antici-
p;1ing this, says the Cincinnati Enyuir-
er, a sort of advance sheet may be- found
in the following:
The home of the muStache Is in Spain.
After the Moors first invaded the coun-
Try the Christian and Moslem popula-
ton became SO mixed that il was diff
cult 10 say which were Moors and which
were Spaniards.
The Spanish then hit upon a means
by which they could at once distin-
guish their brethren They did not
shave their lips any longer, and they
allowed a tuft of hair 10 grow below
the mouth, so that their boards formed
the rude outline Of a cross.
Thus the muStache became d symbol
OF liberty and fraternity
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
Down on Him.

Young Mr. Cum1Uphen. who has one
of the cunningest little cream-coIored
mustaehes in the world. so FAINT and
modest that he has TO color il in order To
establish its identity. called again last
evening.
I've just been dying to see you.
Maud" he gushed. soon as he had got
his cane through the parlor door.
Maud looked him over with critical
y unfavorable eve.
81 see you have" she said. coldly:
there's lot of it come off on your
chin
And young Mr.. Cumauphen was 81
abashed that he didn't know what to
say But that wasn't anything un-
usual.-N. v Recorder
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
The Next Preach Census.

The visitors who are living in hired
villas on the Riviera are all to be in
cluded in the next French census
Among those who will fill out the SEN
sus papers are the queen of England.
the empress dowager of Russia, the
czarowitz and her two youngest chill
drep. the grand duke and duchess OF
Meckienburg-Sehwe the duke and
duchess of Parma. the duchess dowager
of Coburg and Lord and Lady Sails
bury. The king of the Beigians, the
prince of Wales and other birds of pas
sage in hotels or yachts will be ex-
empted.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
why He Came Early.

Mother tsitting down just as the train
starts)-Oh, would you mind changing
srats with me. sir? My baby wants to
look out of the, window.
Mr. Haven Hartford with sarcastic
politenessl-With pleasure. madame.
| have been saving this scat for him for
half an hour.-Bay City Chat
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
EXERCISE A NECESSITY.
Early Decline of Physical Powers Due to
Neglect of Athletics.

Neglect of Athletics.
Beyond the age of 40-at a period
when SO many are physically lazy-the
superior value of exercise is apparent,
but ordinarily this is just the time
when the hyg,ent of athletics is neg
lected, aptly observes Rev. L. s Root.
There is no reason why a punching bag,
rowing machine, pulley weights and
90 ser apparatus should be relegated to
eoi7$ge boys and clerks. But, having
lk a good deal of work in his time,
fit ea@nost impossible to persuade
n am or professional man turning
ed ME any sort of attention to phys
Isture if such training has been
IS lHsly neglected 1t is an inexora-
physiological law that we can only
US In our bodily or mental powers by
V. mrly using them. Exercise is not
nd liter of choice, but of necessity.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11

+, by hook or croOk" recalls the days
when the poor of the English country
districts were allowed to go into the
forests and pick up such branches As
had fallen from the tree As hook at
the end of short. stick Was frequently
brought TO assist in this labor. ard
rs the straight branches must be left
for the landlord. the expression. by
hook or crook" came TO mean the ac-
complishment of an end in one way or
another.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11

The department of agriculture esti-
mates that in the state of Connecticut
it costs S26-34 to,raise an acre of wheat.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11

Dick Waterbury had been with the
FieIdings a week. and still showed no
signs of departing from his resolution.
He had soon made himself at home;
he had broken the ice over the dinner
table during the first night of his stay.
Mrs. Fielding and her daughter had
opened the ball by treating him with
rigid politeness; but Dick had pre-
tended not to notice their manner, and
ratified on so gayly that he effectually
dispersed the cold barrier which the
ladies had attempted to place between
themselves and their self-invited guest.
After dinner he regaled them with
comic songs, anecdotes and news of the
dav which had failed to penetrate to the
Businesses of Market Norbury. So very
agreeable did he make himself, indeed,
that bv bedtime he had quite won Mrs.
Fielding over to his side. Ethel kept
very close to her mother all the even
ing. he noticed, and would neither play
nor sing. although she could do both
very nicely. On the following day his
clothes arrived. and on the third day
u letter, addressed To him in a bold mas
culine hand. He appeared to peruse
This letter with much interest. and the
one he wrote in reply he delivered to
the housemaid with special instruc-
tions that il was to be posted before
six ID. m, at which hour the Market
Norbury mail cart was dispatched The
housemaid told the cook that, for
man in possession, the new conner wrote
n very elegant hand. This letter, too
was addressed to that low place, ERfs; n
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11

- -, 's,nt. nit.sss...5uoRsg that he, thus left
!. =! = z,tzekys merely alarmed by the omin-
Gus weather signs, l cheerily called
out:
whoa, Petei Whoa, good fellow; it's
all right
On hearing my voice, the sagacioui
beast ceased to pull, and stood quietly,
though still gazing intently ahead, and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23
Social Effect of Bicycling.

The skilled cyclist who has developed
the proper muscle and has got rid of the
sense of fatigue which haunts the begin
ner, Just as it haunts and daunts the man
who Is learning to swim, can Keep on his
bicycle all day, and if his frame is not shak-
en- by fall or his temper tried by the
pricling of those Internal tires he will re-
turn in the evening with his nerves in per-
feet order and his limbs as little tired as II
he had been strolling for the same time up
and down a terrace or n lawn This means
that he can choose friends or do business
within half a county instead of within
two villages, and that his powers of loco
motion at will are multiplied at least five
fold, or in the case of the really skilled and
healthy eight or ten fold. That is a new
freedom, great multiplication of power
for men, and especially for women, who,
we notice, enjoy it much more than men
do, and cuntrive somehow to avoid the
look of care which is the special mark of
the bicyclist, and we shall be curious to
note, when time has been given for the
change to operate fully, what its precise
effects are. 1l.ey will not all be good.
They will probably increase the general
happiness, for, let the cynics say what they
like, friendship is great sweetener of life
really enjoyable occupations, but they will
impair neighborlness, which rests in u
degree we none of us like to formulate up
ON the sense that we must not quarrel
with or avoid or even sharply criticise
those among whom it is our lot to live
The constant habit of the bicycle dissi-
pates the mind just as constant INNER
sion in society does and for the same rca-
son-it renders reflection less frequent
and less enjoyable Why think when you
can reach pleasant circle five miles off
In half an hour and with no pcrceptible
fatigucg Let those who doubt that this eff
feet will be produced in the country note
the curious Increase the cycle is causing in
the habit of meeting ut lunch, and indeed
in the substitution of lunch for dinner.
You cannot cycle back on dark
night with your wife or sister in full
dress, but you can lunch at 2 O'Clock and
cycle back in the cool of the evening with
great enjoyment and no danger.
Cycling, In fact, will increase the scat
tering and movability Of country society,
TO the increase of its pleasures and the loss
of much of it's stcadfastness and quiet. Tho
ancient "rootedness" of the countrysidcs
will be greatly diminished, and we are old
fashioned enough to believe that in that
quality was much not only of charm, but
of utility London Spectator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23
The Melancholy Cuckoo.

Tho American cuckoo belongs to the
woodpcckcr tribe and is only summer
visitor, coming about the 1st of June and
leaving early ia the iull for Florida. I'm
like the English cuckoo, ours builds its
own nest and raises its young to whom it
is a most devoted parent. We have two spe-
cies in this country, the yellow bill and
the black bill, the latter being best known
in Pennsylvania.
Both arc smaller than the old world spe
cies and differ from it in color being
greenish olive above and blush white be-
meath, while the European bird is black
winged. The American cuckoo has u tail
longer than its body, which gives it a
hawklike appearance, and the plumage is
soft and silky like that of the owl, which
enables it to fly without making any
noise, so that we often hear its call with
out being able to see the bird.
Burroughs says, "This call Of the cuckoo
has solitary hermitlike sound, as If the
bird was alone in the world and called on
the fates to witness his desolation. He
has never heard the call answered, nor has
he ever seen two birds together. The call
is heard most in cloudy weather and before
rain, from which the bird gets the name
of rain crow.-Pittsburg Dispatch.