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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
1T WAS SAFE,

Carried His Money Where Pickpockets
Gould Not Get 1t.
Walter Bradshaw's cousin from Pas
time, Mo-, came up to Chicago last week,
and he didn't come up here to be the
victim of any sharper, either.
Walter took day off and met him at
the train.
They checked the valise and the UNI
brella "a. the parcel-room and started
cut to see the town.
did you bring up much money,
Eluford =" asked Walter, who had been
in town but few months himself.
II brought up about rs P"
SCOT it in safe place."
THAT'S what | have. I've got the
$40 bill in my shoe. / guess no pick
pockets goin' to look for it there"
81 shouldn't calculate he would"
The absorbed Chicagonn who butts
bis way through the crowds with his
gaze fastened on the sidewalk cannot
well appreciate how many sights APP
pealed to Bluford Bradshaw that day.
He and Walter traversed Clark street
from the eiaduct TO the river, counted
tie windows of the Masonic Temple.
went to see the place where the Hay
market bomb was thrown and found de-
light in watching the top-heavy vessels
crowd past the bridges. They became
surfeited with soda fountain drinks and
ended the days debauch with visit 10
the theater.
When they moved toward Walters
room that night Bluford was fcotsore
and weary. Sightseeing IS the hardest
work, and Bluford felt sure that he had
walked 50 miles. With sigh of relief ne
sat on the edge of the bed and pulled off
his shoes.
"Is your money all riSht?" Walter
asked him.
II guess so. I put it in the bottom of
my right shoe"
He turned the shoe upside down and
shook it. There fell ou5 shower of
small ragged flakes of paper like the
of a mouse's nest. All during
the day he had been rubbing that $50
bill to powder and all the mucilage in
the word wouldn't have put together
again.-Chicago Record.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02

Suppose every single one of then
was worth 100 cents here and every
where.
| What good would they do us unles.
we had something we could trade by
which we could get one?
Well, we have something to trade
everybody has.
Some have labor, so much for dol.
lar.
Some have lumber, so much for 6
dollar.
Some have sugar or potatoes or hams
or coal or something else, all so much
| for dollar.
We have advertising and subscrip-
| tions, so much for dollar.
When we want one of those silver
dollars, we cannot go and take it. They
don't belong to us. They belong to
the men who took the silver to the
mint to be coined.
If we took one, it would be steal
ing.
If we asked for one for nothing, it
would be begging.
If the owners gaze us one for moth
ing, it would be gift.
If we borrowed one, it would cost
us interest, and so
Most of us, to get one, must trade
labor, lumber, sugar, coal, advertising
or something to get it.
This is absolutely and honestly so,
isn't it?
Well, being so, why do we take any
chances on the dollar?
We can get gold now.
1t is worth 100 cents on the dollar
everywhere.
So we have supposed the silver to De,
but
Suppose it isn't?
What then?
What is the use of taking chance
unless we can do better? A silver dol |
lar won't be worth more than 100 cents, |
will it?
We are getting that now.
Let well enough alone.
Some say duty compels a democrat |
to back up and vote for a democrat.
You have Bryan's word that he is no
democrat. Let him deny that he said
Il.
Some say it is pretty bad now. We
night as well take a chance. 1t can't
be worse.
What kind of tomfoolery is this?
Are things bad in a business way7
Let us tell you something to try.
Vote down this crowd of regulators.
Tell the world in trumpet tones in
that we want the best money.
hat we win take no other. and bust
Iess viii revive.
lst the capital cut that Bryan and
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02

Is too funny You come VII me. Ivans
yon. and some day 1 put YOU on the
exchange. Nou Judge human nature.
and you know animal nature-de balls
and de bears is de place for you
John went with the old man. and
ever since has had the dollar in one hand
and the snapper on the stick in the
other. He married the old mans daugh-
ter, got into the firm, and now owns
the whole concern. If he ever gets a
coat of arms the device should be q
'schnapper' rampant on field ofgreen,
with, possibly, silver dollar in the
'schnapper's' jaws."-N. \. Times.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
THINGS MIGHT BE FAR WORSE.
Workingmen Would suffer More Under
Free Silver,

Workingmen Would suffer More Under
| Free Silver.
1t is frequent excuse of unthinkinp
men for Leaning toward free silver that
things can't be worse than they now
| are"
| This is a mistake. Matters can he
very much worse, especially for the
workingman.
First.-They would be worse if wages
were paid in 53-cent dRlar or in dol
lar worth less than 100 cents. How
ever it may be with mine owners and
mortgage debtors, men whose capital is
their labor are not interested in having
the purchasing power of their dollar"
diminished
Second.-Things would be made
worse for the 1,732,382 savings bank
depositors in this state alone if their
S715,o32,So of savings were made pay
able in deprecated dollars.
Third.-Things would be worse for
the nearly 100000 pensioners il their
monthly stipend were to be pad in S.
cent dollars.
Fourth. Things would be worse for
all the millions of benefciaries of stock,
mutual and cooperative insurance com
panies and all the 1,745, 725 shareholders
in building and loan associations if
payment were to be made to them in
any money less good than the best.
Eifth.-Things would be worse for
everybody in case a panic caused by
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02

XEo A y of tine Silver Question
.- ..- .N a-..4 Clearly Put. L..-. -Ml .M1-.-...

TEo u q Of tine Silver Ouest,o,
Clearly Put.
| Let us not get mixed up with compile,
matters i'll connection with tie FIRE,
| silver idea.
Let us rot befog our brain with
arguments about the crime of 1873 o,
bother with the many theories which
the advocates of free silver are giving
us.
But let us take common-sense view
Of the situation.
Now, to start with:
Suppose Bryan was elected and the
free coinage act had been passed and
that free coinage was an actual fact.
Suppose that silver could be taken to
the mint and coined into silver dol
lars at the ratio Of sixteen to one.
How would that affect us?
We haven't got any silver bullion.
A whole lot of people who. own silver
mines have it, and SO they could have
1T coined into sixteen to one dollars.
but not having any ourselves we could
not have solitary, single dollar coined
under the free silver act.
Now, suppose, however, that all the
silver mine owners and others who had
silver took it all to Washington or
Philadelphia or to some other United
States mint and had it coined into
sixteen to one dollars, and
Suppose so much had been coined
that all the silver in the world was
made into sixteen to one dollars, and
Suppose that everyone of these dol
lars was piled in one heap right on
the next block, and
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
COST HIM NOTHING.
some OF the Things That Are Furnished
the President.

some OF the Things That Are Furnished
the President.
Ibe following is a fair idea of the
many incidentals that come free to a
president: Every bit of linen, bedding,
towels and such things are furnished
de is shaved by the white house barber,
says Harper's Round Table. His table
spread with the finest, daintiest
oamask, set with the most exquisite
en'na' and bountifully supplied with
powers from the white house conserva-
tories. II he sends a telegram, it is
uohe from an instrument in the white
house, for which the government pays.
nus stationary. postage, ETC., cost him
nothing. Should he desire a game of
pnhards, there is a beautiful table at
nand; or il he wants to take a drive. his
'aoles, which the government paws the
ent for and takes care of, are amply
EQUIPPED. When he enters his business
mce, man is stationed at the door to
Ppen and close it; and a private secre-
ta,y to whom the government pays a
siary OF $1,000 year, assists him with
s correspondence. The services of
spewriter are also furnished. He is
projected from the curious by a number
I private watchmen. Should he want
cruise, magnificent steamship from
" navy is placed at his disposal.
mere are many other things that
~ MIN nothing, such IS the culinary
engagements, his steward, who does
marketing. the many delicacies sent
- oy enterprising firms. This, by
way. Is sort Of nuisance, for II |
sms to be the desire Of every manufac-
.rer OF some new eatsble or drinkabIe
get it into the white house Things
value that find their way there arr |
ever accepted.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
FANclEs OF THE AUTUMN MAID.
She viii Exercise Individual Taste in
Choosing Her Frocks.

Choosing Her Frocks.
With the coming, of September and
the oyster the summer girl has laid
away her laced and ribboned frocks OF
organdie, and like diaphanous material.
folded up her re Sc and cream Dresden
silk petticoats, consigned her gayly be-
lowered hats to their bandboxes, anil
transformed herself into a demure au-
tumn maid. And she is queen.
| Her robes of state are varied, for it is
the day OF individual taste, but whether
the autumn girl appears on the golf
links at Wheaton or on the tennis
| grounds at Kenwood, she is seen in tho
trimmest and cockiest of frocks and
hats, and is chic" from crown to toe.
1t is easier to tell what she will not
wear than what she will. The prophe-
cies of the autumn styles are careful as
yet, because fashion is such capriciocs
thing the prophets are finding their
position trying one. 1t seems to be
settled that all the notifications posi-
BILE in the big sleeves are to be intro
duced, and the sleeve shown most fire.
quently so far is a long, rather close
one, not skin tight. but little wrinkled,
with all sorts of puffs and plaits to rec
oncie the friends of the big sleeve to
its gradual passing.
Until now Dame Fashion has rele-
gated the wear of the shirt waist to the
summer months, but this year the au-
tumn girl has had her own sweet way
in this. as in many other matters, and
the coming fall and winter will see her
and her pet shirt waist almost as close
companions as in the summer time,
1t may be made of corduroy, smoke
colored being the favorite, or Persian
figured velvet. or any of the new heavy
loosely woven novelty goods, but the
autumn girl observes an unwritten law
which says it must be worn with white
collars and cufrs.-Chicago Tribune.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
Silver, Copper, and Then Paper.

The owners of copper mines need not
be elated with the idea that the argu.
ment for cheap silver dollars is still
better argument for cheaper copper
dollars. We shall not drop TO a copper
basis. The ultimate resting place for
the popocrats is PREDETERMINED in their
platform assertion of the right of the
government to issue legal tender paper
notes. That is the cheap money para
disc into which all the advocates of re.
pudiation are logically drawn.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
Paper Toilet Tables

A crepe paper toilet table is great adj
dition to cottage, inexpensive and
easily made. Have your carpenter man.
ufacture circular or square table, ~
you desire. Tack piece of cloth around
its edge deep enough to come down half
way to the floor; sew to this fiounce Of
the crepe paper, covering the rest of the
distance to the carpet. Cover the top
of the table with the paper and finish
itwith another founce of the paper deem
enough to overlap the lower one. Set il
en- with liberal number Of paper
bows or rosettes. and the effect win he
really astonishing.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
Even If II were trne that free cni

ageat sixteen to one would raise the price
of silver, how would that benefit the
great majority of the American people &?
Not one person in a thousand owns a sill
yer mine or has silver bullion for which
he wants higher price. But everybody
wants to buy silver in the form of man
ufactured articles of use or ornament,
and therefore wants it to be as cheap as
possible. A scheme for making glass.
ware or hardware dearer would not re-
ceive much favor from the consumers of
those goods. Is il at all likely that the
consumers of silver manufactures are
anxious IN pay more for them?
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
We cannot by law fix the value

I'VE cannot by law fix the value of
either metal or coin or of any of the
articles that enter into the wants of
life. The great law of demand and sup
ply affects the value as it does iron.
copper or zinc. All have fallen in mar
ket value by means Of new discoveries
and improved methods Of production
Senator Sherman.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02

his followers have scared under cover.
and prosperity W.! come. - Lumber
Trade Journal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02

How contemptibly men kick and
wrsngle over dollar, and how mael
nihcently they throw IL awsyi
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
Poker Terms.

Twins, your, majesty" announced
the'nurse, "and both girls
The king started violently. "weu.
that beats mel" he exclaimed. with
emotion.-Detroit Tribune.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-04

critical situation, but the result was
eminently satisfactory. Meade took
the command and, a few days la'er,
won the decisive victory at Gettys-
burg. Later in the war, Hooker was
brilliant corps commander at Lookout
Mountain, he rendered conspicuolsly
useful service with Sherman in the
South.
Dying about sixteen years ago.
Hooker was buried in a Long Island
town. But he is a son of Massachu-
sets And while he had glazing faults
due to great personal conceit and to
tongue too ready in criticism Of armies
and commanders and policies, he was
nevertheless a brave soldier, and there
are those who will say that the charge
made by Colonel Curtis is unfairly
harsh.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-04
4 Pd-cnt on Boomers.

This mornings Washington dispatch
es recate the fact that. after six months
of investigation in ancient and modern
history, the patent office has granted
to a Mr. Royce of Brooklyn, patent
on bIoomers. A wonderful instance TINS
of the caprices and injustices of life The
woman who invented the things and
from whom they took their name, died
last year without ever having gotten
anything ou: Of them but ridicule. Along
comes a man who had nothing whateV-
er to do with the case-who probably
doesn't know enough to invent 50 much
as a pair of carriers, or corset clasp
or even a legitimate excuse for Interior
ing with a lady's wardrobe anyhow
and steps in and selzes a fortune. To
this upstart every Lady who puts on
boomers must pay tribute. Poor Mrs.
Boomers lies a-mouldering in the
ground, but her new and improved
style of wearing apparel goes marching
on, and smart Mr.. Royce reaches ou'
and gathers in the profits.
The original inventor never applied
for a patent She was willing and anX-
ious that the world should adopt free
and unlimited boomers. Like reput-
able, old-school. igh-principled physl-
clan she published her formula and IN
vfted the sorority TO try 1t. But the
world turned a deaf ear and shut eye
No more than Calico could convince
his contemporary that the world NOV
.,f Falls. y.
Y, convince womankind in her day thas
it ought to live and move and have ITS
being in bloomers. So sharp and pow
erful was the antagonism to her teach-
ings, that womankind leaped into
hoops; and the bigger and broader ana
more ungainly and preposterous the
hoop, the purer, chaster. modester its
| occupant was supposed to be. After
the hoop came the hustle. and then al
| ter an interregnum of feminine mons
| trocities of several years, fashion de-
| creed big sleeves and boomers; ana
went TO overloading the arms at the ex-
pense of the legs.
| Mrs. Bloomer had the consolation OF
| living Just long enough to see the first
| steps taken in the utilization Of her in
| vention. We are glad she had tha'
| comfort; not a few of the worlds greaI
people have died without ii. There Is
something sad wtthal in the world
unapprec.a tion and ingratitude. VINO
was AmerigO Vespucci that he should
steal Columbus thunder and give ms
| name to a continent! Who is Royce Of
| Brooklyn, that he should rob Mrs
Boomers heirs and levy a tax upor
the women OF the world. even If he can
not force his name upon them! o tenn
pora! o mores o pants!
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-04
MEN AND MAT I ERS.

Prince Henry was not Princess Bea-
trices first passion. In 1877 she was re-
norted TO have fallen in love with
Young man who mas since attained uls
tinction as "a preacher. among lhe eI'9I
HE men who are said to have aspired 10
the hand of Beatrice are Prince os@ar u
sweden. Amadeo. late king Of SPAIN ana
Touis of Battenberg, an elder brother 81
Prince Henry
Professor Mark w. Harrington, late
chief of the United States weather pu-
reau. and now president OF the OnlNeIsieS
of Washington, proposes 10 rstanllsh u,
the university a depa,C ment Of terrestrlaI
sh,.stcs and geography. and he would be
glad IL authors and publishers would sehh
70 the university publications relating TO
these subjects.
II p Tibbitts, General Harrison's pri-
vata secretary, has double. lie is the-
atrical man, and white staying at 'iie
same hotel in New YORK win me 9.eHl-
dant was so often mist len Tor Mr.. o.
bits as to find the mater rather annoy
inc as all disclaimers that he dld not
Lnov ANYTHING about General Harrison 5
movements were received with 'ncreuuI-
| ity. =. ~ -rr,rs
When President Kruger OF the Trans
| wal maid his visit to England ne reluSsd
| TO go TO a theater deemlns IL lintiloi al
| lie was accustomed from force OF habit
| "a rise AT & o'clock in the morning, ana IL
| MI his entertainers to vast inconNeni-
| cree TO have his breakfast served TO him
| a. that unseemly hour. Mrs. Kruger APP
| neared TO be a typical Dutch housewife,
| dfsdaining dress and amusement OF any
| kind.
A workman had a perilous experience
| when repairing the cage in the Schuylkll
| shaft AT Ashland. Pa. the other night
| Lewis Huntsinger was at work in the
| cage when the bottom dropped out of II
| Huntsinger threw out his arms an'
| crashed a prop. clinging to ii until h'
| was rescued by other workmen lie Wa'
| thus suspended in the shaft. which Is 90
| feet deep.
| IL is claimed in behalf of DR. Samue
G. Dixon, who has just been eiectt'
| president Of the Philadelphia Academy o
! Natural Sciences. that he really anucl
mated Or Koch in the theory OF prevent
! ing tuberculosis by the fact that IN 10
he published results of his Investigations
! which il was subsequently shown Wtr
| on the same lines as those on Whlch II
| Koch's lymph was afterward produced
| Professor Adler. in an address upo
| marriage. said that one of its very Erea
| advantages Is that il makes YOU luii
| known 10 some human BEING Just a. No
| are" Another of his ohserN atoms Wa
/ thar caniuraI peace IL likely 10 be dis
| t1rbfd If any other consideration Iha
1 love and affection. respect and cor
ndence induce the marriage MaFFNlh
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-04

Senator Teller of Colorado continuous to
be a thorn in the flesh of the republicans
of the body TO which he belongs lie
blurted out in full senate few weeks
ago that they secured control OF the
committees of that body by a bargain
with the populists and the free silver
men. lie has followed this up the pres
ent week by sending another shot into
their ranks. In this last he has told them
that their professed attempts at tarin re-
form is only buncombe, and given notice
that he. as member Of the party can
not be relied upon to aid in carrying IL
out. Senator Teller does not mean to he
a marty to devices to deceive the people
and his frankness on this point is to his
credit.-Boston Herald.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-04
Two OF a Kind.
harsh.

Senator Tillman's speech of last
Wednesday is admitted to be very
coarse work. The public expected that
he would throw mud at the president
and he met this expectation; his own
promise was that he would go at the
administration with a pitchfork.
Tillman is set down as an ill-bred
knave, and perhaps he answers that
description He called the president a
bull-headed tyrant and a self-idoli-
trous man. Worse than that, he re-
ferred to Mr. Cleveland as a be
sotted rufIian." He kept up his TRADE
for two hours. His speech was a tor
rent of invective. The like of 1t had
never been heard in the senate, and to
make matters worse his speech was
carefully prepared. Indeed, by way
Of innovation, Tillman read most OF
his speech from proof slips. He picked
these up with the remark: Il know
you will laugh at me, but l got just
little bit frightened, and to keep from
saying things in an unparliamentary
way | took the precaution to prepare
a. little bit of an essay of my own
The whole speech was brutal, but
that was expected-it came from vul-
| gar demagogue. But, after all, Till
man Is not so far out of the way If he
! is nut i'm comparison with others of the
| presidents critics. The New York
Evening Post affects to be an extreme
! ly prlnkish publication, it is low
| ra,lyad ,,ucv-1Imn organ II pretendS
to be too clean for everyday wear. it is
a cad in newspaperdom. Yet the Even
ing Post mas been as ready as Tillman
is with dirty filings at the president-it
used to laud him as a being a little
| lower than the angels; that was be-
| fore the president opened on the En-
glish
Recently the Evening Post, which
once was William Cullen Bryants
newspaper, referred to Mr.. Cleveland
as a fool of violence" 1t said that
his Venezuelan message was "a crime
against civilization" it alluded to the
political drunk" on which the presi-
dent was alleged to have gone; 1t
mentioned him as man who, for his
own purposes, would sacrifice his coun-
try at any time.
We do not see wherein Tillman is
more indecent than is the high-step-
ping publication on lower Broadway.
The difference is that Tillman knows
he is a conceited boor and he is frank
about 1T; the Evening Post is an ego
tistical hypocrite.