davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
ADVERTISEMENT
FOR SALE OF
Kings County Bonds.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT SEALED
- proposals VIII be received by the undersigned
up 70 IL O'Clock NJ OF the 7th day of Febrnarv
1886, for the purchase of thirty-two (321 KinSs1
Couhty courthouse Bonds numbered consecutiye7v
IRON one TO thirty-two 1922, both inclusive OF
tne oeno mlEation of one thousand (SlOOOO dollars
eedcCn, and payable en- the first day of Iannarv
ISoo, or at any time before that date at the
pleasure OF said county, in gold coin OF the United
states with interest thereon the rate of four IA
lier cent per annum, payable semi-annually on the
Ist oay OF January and on the first day of July OF
escn year Bonds and interest PAYABLE at the office
VI the county Treasurer OF said Kings C,onntv
sad bonds having been issued in conformitv with
Oruers and RESOLUTIONS OF the Board of SUPER
VlsorS OF Kings County dated December g. 1895,
ana January o, 1885, and under authority con-
Ierred upon said board y-the provisions of and in
asccor1ance With an act of the Legislature of the
Seate OF California entitled San Act to Establish
oniorm system OF County and Township Govern
ment," approved March "a, 1893
None OF said bonds viii be sold for less than face
yialue ana accrued interest nor shall any sale
1lereof De hnal or valid until approved by said
BOARD Or supervisors, and the right is hereby ex-
preSsly reserved 10 reject any and all proposals.
MARX envelope; Proposals for the purchase OF
Courthouse Bonds"
BY order of the Board of Supervisors of said
hlngS county. W. H. SLAVIN,
County Treasurer
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-20
HEALTH RESORTS.
ST. HELENA SANITAR|UM
(Fermerly Rural Health Retreat)

Is under strictly regular management; a ouet
no nL place. where trained nurses, rest cure
massage, electrical treatments Swedish ,,,o1,a
ments, dieting. baths physical training. and ali
that Is included in modern rational medical treat
ment, with good hotel conyeniences, pure water
even temperature and restful scenery NAV he
obtained. Lay NC
Terms: Room, with board and reeu,or troor
ment, $l2 to $50 per week
oend Tor circular: st. Helena sanitarium, St
Helena, Napa County, Cal. ~
trains leave San Francisco foot of Market St.
~. AZ A. N. ana p NJ, via Vallejo Junction, reach
Ing St Helena at 10:45 a. NJ and 1908 p. NJ
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
Fly That CerrIes . lantern.

One of the largest and most curious
of the many luminous or lamp-bearing
insects is the large lantern fly, species
of the freely, peculiar to central and
northern South America. The great
lantern is hardly as large as the cominon
dragon fly or ''snake feeder" but like
that creature, it has lace-like wings and
an elongated abdomen. In Central
America, particularly in Costa Rica and
\ Panama, the Indians capture them by
thousands, using them as decorations
for their headdresses, saddles, etc. The
Frenchman, Renard, who visited Qua
temala in 1902, declared that the Indians
used the lantern flies and other luminous
insects much in the same manner that
we do torches and lanterns and that
by the light the insects give out they
were able to find their way through
dark woods and swamps.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
Nothing in 1t for wase-Earners.

Mr.. Bryan has claimed that the free
coinage of silver would benefit the work.
ing people. How they would secure
anything from the free coinage of sill
yer he does not say, perhaps because he
does not know. 1t is certainly deep
mystery. In no way that the probable
course of events can be forecasted can
any advantage for the working people
be reasonably shown.
Everything that man buys for con-
sumption in the household would be
raised in price. Would wages be in
creased in proportionP 1t is not proba-
BILE that you wouIs for years, if ever.
AS soon as it became apparent that the
free coinage of silver would be under
taken prices would be advanced, but
wages would remain stationary until
employers could ascertain how they
would be affected. With the heavy
losses that many concerns would be
compelled to meet through thepayment
OF outstanding accounts and notes in
deprecated dollars, it is very probable
that the workingman would have to
wait long time for his wages to be
raised. In the interval he would have
ample opportunity to realize the stu
pendous folly of the United States coin
ing silver dollars at the ratio of sixteen
to one and debasing its money. the life
blood of commerce.-Cordage Trade
journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
Tho Psnaionsr,a Dollar.

"You say you want to hear little
about the oldsoldiers. Well, my friends,
the crisis which is approaching now, the
question before the country now, APP
peals to the old soldier as much as it
did in lS61. l am not afraid that any
man who risked his life in his nations
behalf is going to be influenced by the
arguments that are addressed to the SOL
diers now by the finanSiers,' etc.--Mr.
Bryan at Milwaukee, September S.
Not one word in answer to the ques-
tion whether the purchasing power of
the monthly pension payments to 97o,-
coo pensioners would be reduced by the
free coinage of sixteen to one silver dol
lars. Not word as to the effect upon
pension payments hereafter of the sex
termination" of the -200-cept dollar"
because it is worth too much and buys
too much.
We do not assume that the veteran sol.
diers are thinking of nothing but PEN
| sions, but they should compel Mr..
Bryan to say frankly what would be
the effect of free coinage upon the pep
Eioner's dollar,
Make him answer the question one
way or the other.-Exehange
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
TIE GERMAN PRINCES.
Thoy Have to Work Hard and Mus'
Learn Many Things.

Thoy Have to Work Hard and Must
Learn Many Things
IL there ever was day when kings
and queens led a peaceful and happy
life, that time seems to have gone by.
With the possible exception of Queen
Victoria, the potentates of Europe are
continually in hot water, and are kept
busy over matters that do not bother
ordinary mortals. Even in childhood,
royal people undergo unusual trials.
The German emperor is man of un-
tiring activity, and his children are be-
ing reared like young Spartans. They
are graciously allowed to study and
play like children until they arrive at
the age of nine, and then their training
begins in dire earnest.
From that time forward, they are
allowed but an hour and a half day
out of their waking hours to them
selves; all the rest of the day is spent
in study and physical training. Even
in holiday time their tutors accom-
pany them to superintend their studies.
Here, for example, is an ordinary
days work for the crown prince and his
two brothers. In summer, the happy
dreams of childhood are disturbed at
six o'clock; in winter at seven. Break
| fast, consisting of one cupful OF coffee
and a roll, is served at 1880. From eight
until $3.50, they are hard at work at
lessons, to help the digestion of which
they are supplied with second install
ment of bread, with water tinged with
red wine.
Immediately afterward they start on
their books again; but mental eNer-
else is mixed with physical, and an hour
is spent in gymnastics and horse eNer-
else, which lasts till 1915. Thereupon
they accompany to dinner their mill
tary and civil governors of the castle,
and, following this, they have brief
breathing time to themselves.
But the happy moments soon flee
away, and again they have to be at their
eXerciscs-this time science and music
till six o'clock. Then supper is served,
and by eight o'clock they are all snug
= in bed.
In sport and other manly exercises
they are proficient and can ride as we'll
without a saddle as most people can
with. Their military education is also
pushed to the utmost, and, that they
should understand the principles OF
~ar thoroughly, miniature fortress
has been built for them of solid mason
ry. The walls are nine feet high, and
in the revolving towers the beleagured
have the opportunity of repelling hos
tilities by means of miniature Krupp
guns and all the latest implements OF
modern warfare.
A part of their education is also de-
voted to the gentler arts of peace. In
the royal garden each child has plot
of ground, and each is his own gardener,
and is responsible to headquarters for
o the maintenance of the said plot.
After a riding lesson, too, they are
/ not allowed to throw the reins of
d the ponies to groom and then walk off
y Every prince has to take his pony to its
/, stall, unsaddle it and put everything in
q its proper place before leaving.
# DayS.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
Demonstration of sIlvor.

Silver was not demonetized by con-
spiracy nor elandestinely; neither have
the results been as they are claimed by
the free silver men.
Silver was demonetized by Great
Britain 100 years ago because it fuctu-
ated, because two yardsticLs of un-
equal length or two bushels of chang
ing quantity is an absurdity, an OBJ
stacle to business and commerce.
All the civilized nations have tried
the same experiment with the double
standard, have found it a delusion and
snare and have come to the single
gold standard as better thing.
The civilized world is now using
more silver, has sounder money and
lower interest than ever before in the
history Of mankind.
The attempt to return to the double
standard is reactionary, illogical and
irrational and will not succeed. Revo-
lutions go forward, not backward
Madison Qnd.) Courier.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10

silver piasters. The German mint Sc
cured the contract to make the coin and
incidentally furnished SO, 600 of sill
yer bullion to Egypt. The matter was
kept very quiet or escaped general no.
tice. Reference to it will be found,
however, in the London Economist of
December 4, 1856, which saw in it
proof of Bismarck's lack of faith in
silver.
With all his faults, Bismarck is
sturdy patriot. To help the German
distiller he was willing to see trichine
in every American pig, and to protect
the German farmer he smelled bugs on
every American potato. Germany has
to-day $1O7OOO,OOO worth of silver
whose value is declining. If the United
States could be induced to follow the
example of Egypt and give Germany a
chance to do some more unloading,
where is the harm, from the eX-chan-
cellor's point of view, in writing let
ter of not entirely disinterested advice?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
HlsMARcK's ADVICE.
IL It UnprS judicod and Can We Afford
to Follow 1t?

Mr.. Bryan appears to set great store
by the letter which Gov. Culberson, of
Texas, has received from Prince Bis
marcl<. The peoples friend" is willing
to receive advice from the MAN of
Blood and Iron," and the champion
of the American farmer" listens to
that famous friend of American agri-
culture who shut the German ports to
American pork in 1884 and to American
potatoes in 1885, and who would gladly
have united all central Europe in a
customs league aimed directly against
all American produce. Bismarck's
rather diplomatic letter is taken by Mr..
Bryan in his recent speeches to favor
the free coinage of silver by the United
States. The devotion of Chancellor Bis
marck TO the cause OF silver may be
seen in the following historical fact,
which appears to have escaped general
notice:
Under his guidance as chancellor of
the empire and minister of commerce
for Prussia the equivalent of 1,0S0,-
100000 marks lover 70,000,0 ,000) in sill
YER was demonetized between the years
1874 and 1881, and over $160,000,00
worth of the bullion into which these
were melted had been sold by 1879, In
that year, finding that the price OF sill
YER was becoming demoralized, so that
his remaining $1O9,OOo,oOO was depre-
ciating, he stopped sales by decree
issued in May, 1870. These points were
frankly stated by his delegation to the
international monetary conference OF
1851, when Germany likewise offered
to suspend sales for time in order
that the price might not be further
depressed. With these assurances be-
fore the monetary powers and with the
decree of 1879 still in force, Bismarcl
saw an opportunity of dumping some
German silver on the sly and proceeded
to do so. In 1885 the Egyptian govern
ment decided to change its coinage ant
invited bids for contracts to coin its
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10

Pile who meet him and his name, 10
those few, is Paper" Smith.
Years ago, when he was young, pa
per- Smith met with an accident and
was confined in hospital for many
months. With no friends to visit him,
nothing to read, hardly anything to
look forward to but the doctors next
visit, he found it dull place.
Some of his companions were worse
off than he. They spent the weary
hours in brooding over their miseries.
Smith knew what pain was; but it did
no good to think about that. He was
man who took an interest in other
people, and at the worst of times there
was always something to be interested
about.
Thinking of the unhappy ones, as he
often did, Smith saw a way to Tighten
their burdens. The trouble was that,
even after he was cured, he could not
put it in practice. He had to earn his
living. When the days work was done
he had neither time nor strength to
carry out his plan.
So the toilsome years went on until
at the age of 80, Smith inherited small
annuity. 1t was barely enough to keep
body and soul together; but the chance
to act upon his cherished thought was
the only personal luxury he craved.
Then, in the true sense, he began TO
live.
1t is Is years since the post Office peo-
pie first heard of Paper Smith and
began to save their papers for the eager
old man with the basket. For Is years
no infirmity of age and no desire for
rest and ease has caused him to neglect
his mission.
He does not know how many of the
suffering and sad have been cheercd
and comforted by the contents of his
basket. Very likely lie has never wished
to estimate. His duty-and it is his
pleasure also-is to fit tire basket.
There is no waste in Gods universe.
Neither the thoughtful effort of great
organization nor the impulsve kind
ness of little child is ever thrown
away. When we commend, and right
ly, the deeds of association, perhaps we
fail to do complete justice to the possi-
bfPities and power of the individual.
And yet the one thing that helps to
better the world is the steady purpose
that waits for the opportunity, and
then the patient, loving, faithful service
| That makes the most of ft.--Yorgth's
7 Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
SILVER in A NUTSHELL.
Free Coinage of Bricks Would Not Raise
Thelr Price.

Their Price.
Did you ever stop to think what would
be the result il the government should
by legislation determine that ordinary
building bricks two by four by eight
inches in size should be legal tender in
any amount for one dollar each and
should arrange to have them so stamped
in any quantity free of cost to the per-
sons presenting them?
Under such circumstances the price
of building bricks would at once adj
vance to $1,000 n thousand, for if they
could be coined" without cost the
bricks "uncoined" would be worth just
as much us the "coined" bricks-one
dollar each. But did it ever occur to
YOU that it would not be an advance in
the value of the bricks, but n decrease
in the value of the dollars, which would
thus establish u new parity between
money and property" that under such
system $1,000 would be worth only
1000 bricks; that that 1000 bricks
would exchange for no more commodi-
| ties or labor than it does to-day. and
consequently that $1,000 would mean
no more to us than 1000 bricks do now?
In other words, our government can
determine by legislation what COM
modify and what amount of that COM
modify one dollar shall be, but it must
leave it to the laws of comparative sup
ply and demand, cost of production,
ETC., to determine what the value of that
commodity shall be. 1t may declare
that brick shall be dollar, in which
case one dollar will be worth whatever
a brick will exchange for. 1t may de-
clare that 25.s grains of gold shall be II
dollar, in which case one dollar will be
worth whatever 25.s grains of gold will
exchange for, or it may declare that
4l2H grains of silver shall be dollar,
in which case one dollar will be worth
only what 412Hs grains Of silver will ex-
change for, the same to-day as 5o.3 cents
in gold, or, giving the debtor the OPP
ton" as to what dollar he shall use
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
NOW AND THEN.

Oh, now and then there comes a day
When all our skies are bright,
And all of life's appointed way
Is bathed in golden light;
when roses hide no thorns beneath;
When love holds no alloy;
And zephyrs full of perfume breathe
From out the hills of JOY.
Tho present is fleeting thing.
Tho past WIN live for aye.
And all its stories of treasures bring
Forever and day.
And softer shall the echoes come
From times receding shore;
Each day will CLEAN a pleasure from
The days that are no more.
oh, memories of such, awakel
And glad the weary now;
A wreath of recolleetions make
To crown the dreamer's brow.
oh, silent voice and vanished hand,
Bring back the golden sheaves!
Tho ripple of the waters and
The laughter of the leaves.
Nixon Waterman. in L. A. w. Bulletin
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10

''pouched jumper" and it is a member
of the kangaroo family. 1t moves about
much as the kangaroo does, but it can
outiump it any day.
1t lives on squirrels, birds and small
animals, and is so quick in it's move
ments and can jump SO we'll that it has
little trouble in getting all it wants
to- eat. When it is in hot pursuit of its
prey ii has been known to jump 70 feet
ON a level, and il is not at all unusual for
it to make jumps of so feet.-Chicago
Record
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
SMALL AND GREAT.

From a tiny acorn
A forest giant grows;
From a little streamlet
A mighty river flows.
Many fleeting seconds
Go to make the day:
Days glide into years, and
Ages pass away.
Many tiny blossoms,
SprlnlSled DER the lea,
Make it one vast garden
Beautiful to see.
Many little songsters,
Warbling mid the trees,
Send a choral concert
Floating on the breeze.
Many grains of knowledge,
Added day by day,
Lay store of wisdom
In your minds away.
Every time you conquer
Passion in the strife,
You are one step nearer
To noble life.
Who will stand the highest
On the judgment day?
He whose valor conquered
In the bloody fray,
Round whose brow is circled
Garlands fair of fame?
Nay! But he of whom the world
Knows not cen the name,
Who, when passions battled,
Conquered in that fight
He 1t is whose name will show
The highest and most bright.
Kate Clyde, in Golden Days
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
The Bargain Counter Candidate.

Some of the reports say that the
women went wild over Bryan at differ
ent places along his route" remarked
the horse editor.
THAT'S natural replied the snake
editor. ''He is the bargain 9onnter can
didate"
"How sop
''He wants to mark rhe dollar down
to 53 cents. s."-Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tel-
egraph.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
AN OLD MANS WORK.

Why the Poor of New York Bless Paper
Smith and His Basket.
1t stands in corner of the New York
post office. The clerks drop into it the
wise throw away, and the attendants
add every scrap of reading matter that
is left in the long corridors. The spe-
cial policeman watches to see that no
one disturbs it.
At certain hours every day little Old
man appears. He empties the basket
Into a bag, and this he carries to red
box placed at the corner of Broadway
and Vesey street by the associated hos
pitals." He is known to few of the peo
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
NILstaken

"You women folks" complained
young Mr.. Sypher, ut the supper table,
always laugh at the least little thing"
"You wrong III" returned the beau-
tiful Miss Koolson, earnestly. "Whep,
Mr.. Sypher, did ever laugh at youf"
And while they We're removing the
soup plates young Mr.. Sypher looked
into his napkin and thought and
thought and thought.
As well as ne could.--N. Y. Recorder
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10

Beds are quite an innovation in Rus
sia, and many well-to-do houses are still
unprovided with them. Peasants sleep
on the top of their ovens; middle-class
people and servants roll themselves ur
in the sheepslsins and lie down near the
stoves; soldiers rest upon wooden cots
without bedding and it is only within
the last few years that students in
schools have been allowed beds.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10

with which to pay his debts, it may de-
clare that each of these three shall be a
dollar, in which case one dollar will be
worth just as much as the least valuable
of the three, which under present con-
ditions would be the brick.-L. Carroll
Root
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
The Deciaratlo4 of Independence

Was written by the man who said:
Just principles will lead us to disre-
gard legal proportions altogether, to
inquire into the market price of gold in
the several countries with which we
shall principally be connected in com
merce and to take an average from
them" But w. J. Bryan says it is dis
graceful TO talk about adjusting our
currency to the currencics of theworld.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10

One of the rooms in the government
factory at Enfield, England, where
small arms are made, is said to be the
largest in the world. 1t is so vast that
y shout at one end of ii would only just
be heard at the other. 1t contains 1000
separate machines of 1sO different pat
terms.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10
THE CHAMPION JUMPER.
When Closely Pressed This Queer Creature

When Closely Pressed This Queer Creature
Covers Seventy Feet.
The champion jumper of the world
lives in Borneo, which is one of the
largest islands in the world.
This leaper can jump 20 feet when II
is pressed hard and it is no trick at all
for him to go 40 and so feet in single
bound. The name of the champion is
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10

"It made my blood boil!" he ex-
claimed.
"Yes," returned the family physician,
coldly, "your blood needs boiling, too.'
-Chicagc Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-10

Benjamin Franklin was n chess
player. When in France or the mission
from thc continental congress he made
himself popular among the courtiers by
his skill at the game.