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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-03
FRrITs AND N1frs

APl,l-ES- Missouri and Arkansas 81 I'm,
p. Now York BALDWIN ard spig 50 IN 70,
hhl ialcy New state King s.. -, inter or
stock - .su1.50 '''' VI
bANANAS Per bunch. 50cqH 10
per 100 ' F'''0'
:, SCALiFoRNlA. GRAPEs-Tokay $40;
LEMONS Messina and Palermo ,hoi..
= u. fancy 81 1913 70. ''''N' ""'''e
NUrS Brazn Ice per tn. NIB rts. Sicily
l,e, Naples lZitc: walnuts llQlsc. peanuts
ai1doc; almonds. laragons, Patio per M
IN sacks. California almonds. ioc. n"can n.
tu9c iN'' Puc|hs
ANGES-Meelcar s1,n nor ho
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-03
COFFEE.

st. Louis, Mo-, December 2.-WooI-
Steady and unchanged.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-03
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DRIED FRUITS.

APp1;f3S-fslncy alicod. In boxes 4ian
DC choice evaporated 6l.c; fancy Tc: eli.
ilra 'tc p@r ID cgrrants n bbls .pi5,c:
81 aNed currants. IN boxes sisc. in IN
.hrl9ns Ic; nectarlnes. evaporatej g..
reaches; evaporated. GIsc: near. eyano'
., RAiSlNs- Cal fornia l.. H.. poses new
,Lel, z crown H., NJ. rais.ns. 70 lii. hox.s
~ =; crown J.. NJ. 80 10 boxes. sl.a5slc
grunes. soloos 5a5.c. 50 eos Glsc !5is6n "a
r r M-,os l'9,s a-eos q; silver nrunes 7,se.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-03
LIVE STOCK.

HOUSTON.
F.. X. Hall live stock conmasr,.. y.
chant. reports as follows. ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-03
NEW ORLEANS.

Market suppIied wIth cattle and tilVs
oNerstoolSed with sheep. Cornid 81
'in deinani
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
The Last of the Falstahs.

A correspondent writes: "Apropos of
the latest Falstaff, we'll remember a
memorable performance of Henry W.
on Dec. 10, 1852, at the Princess thea
ter, when George Bartley-called then
the last of the Falstaffs-made his fare
well bow to the public after so years
service. On this very night of the
week, the very date Of the month so
years ago, he said, he had made his
first appearance on the boards Iremem-
Der, too, his saying he had played Or
lando to Mrs. Jordan's Rosalind. AS a
boy was much struck by the trans
formation from the burly knight to the
aristocratic looking old gentleman in
evening dress as he tearfully babe his
audience farewell Charles Kean was
the Hotspur, Ryder the King, Lacy the
Prince, while Harley, Meadows, J. Vim
ing, II. Saker, Miss Murray and Mrs.
DAILY were in the cast. Poor BARLEY
died within six years afterward and
was laid in st. Mary's churchyard, Ok
ford, when was an undergraduate in
that university. - Westminster Ga
Zotto
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
Government Ownership of Silver Mines

Government Ownership of Silver Mines.
Why is it that both the Populists and
the Democrats failed to put plank in
their platforms demanding that the
government own and control the silver
mines of this country, so that the profit
which would be made from free coinage
would go to our government and thus
indirectly be benefit to the whole
people? Why should this profit go to a
few individuals who own the silver
mines and who are already enormously
rich? Is not this building up one of the
most dangerous trusts that the country
has ever seen?
Think of a few men having under
their control all the silver of this coun-
try and the government compelled to
turn it into dollars as fast as they pro-
duce it! Suppose that these silver men
combine to shut down work on their
mines when they want to produce a
stringency in the money market, then
open them again when they want to
make money abundant. Would not this
put the whole business of the country at
their mercy?
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
TROUT HOOKED IN QUEER PLACES.
mr.. Kellogg's Lively Fight With . Fish
Caught by the D0rsal Fin.

mr.. kell0ggs Lively Fight with Fish
Caught by the Dorsal Fin.
The story which E. Lincoln Kellogg
tells in Outing about five pound trout
hooked foul makes trout fishermen think
of fish they have hooked in other places
than the mouth.
Mr.. Kellogg went a-fshing in early
spring in a stream near the foot of the
Olympic mountain, not far from Puget
sound. The water was cold and ICY, be-
ing melted snow mostly, and the fish
did not bite so freely as they would
have done had it been later, when the
sun had warmed things up. He had
fished all the morning, but without sue
cess. although his companion had caught
a 10 inch fish.
1--WE fished till noon," he says, "us-
ing big and little flies, bright and dark
ones. black. blue and brown, red, yell
low and green ones, but to no avail.
After luncheon we separated. Jack
went up stream and down. Pretty
soon came to a favorable pool. The
river came dashing down over a long.
steep rifle into broad, boiling pool,
with big eddy up one side. cast here
and there for few moments. Then
there was heavy splash out in the
foam, and my reel began to buzz: /
scrambled to the shore and raced down
the stream, entirely unable to stop the
fish s mad rush He came up the eddy,
then went down again three times be-
fore could stop him. Then got him
into my sight, and I saw that I'd hooked
him foul, and saw also how it was that
his rushes had been so powerful The
hook had caught in his dorsal fin. -
When Mr.. Kellogg managed to work
the fish into little cove from which he
was able to throw it out, not having
any landing net or gait, he found that
it weighed five pounds.
Fishermen know how fish hooked in
the side will pull. more especially in a
current. They know further that no fish
makes so good fight as one hooked in
the tail flesh, where the hook will not
readily pull out. More than one trout
fisherman in the Adirondacks has struck
fish and instantly thought it was
monster-a four or even six FOUNDER,
judging from the way it pulled, but at
last, ON getting the net under the fish,
has found it to be little fellow of a
pound or less hooked in the tail
The place where fishermen like to
hook their trout is down in the corner
Of the mouth where the two lips meet.
This is a tough place, and hook fas-
tened there is better than one fastened
anywhere else for hold fast qualities.
Big trout are seldom or never taken
when hooked in the lip, though one
hooked in the tongue fights in an up
hill struggle. But in either of these
places the trout does not make the fight
tail hooked one does.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
The Spread of Superstition.

Some say in Wales that if mare s
shoe is nailed to the Intel of the door
no witch can ever enter the house, and
that if one Of them happens to go into a
neighbours house broom placed across
the threshold by a member of the fam
lily will prevent her leaving. Somebody
has said that two straws laid crosswise
on the threshold viii serve the purpose
quite effectually. A neighbours wife
heard one of them mumbling something
to herself and believed that she was say
ing the Lords Prayer backward. Some
body has also said that they can all be
sent after Pharaoh and his chariots into
the depths of the Red sea if recourse
be had to an expert, but that the latter
must be skilled in arithmetic, algebra,
Hebrew, Greek, Latin and all the origi-
nal (gwreiddiol) tongues before he can
compass this mighty feat.
The belief in these things is rapidly
gaining ground nowadays. It has al
ready crossed the new bridge at Gil
gwyn mill and has crept up from earn
Ingli, past Morfa, along the seashore as
1df DIS Llecu-y -uTyueuu. LII is also maK-
ing its way eastward, having by this
time almost reached that famous old
stone called Arthur's Quoits, and, if its
progress is not checked, it will soon ar
rive at the Seren Office in Carmarthan,
then on to the Diwygiwr (Llanelly),
thence to the Gwron (Aberdare), and
Seren Conner, so that ere long they will
all be full of witches and their works
"reminiscences In Cymra. "
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
WORE THE DIAMOND IN HIS LEG.

A Story of the Way the Orloff Stone Was
Taken From Persia to Russia.
Gus Fox, a dealer in diamonds on
Fourth street, has story about the ia
nous Orlof diamond, named after
Count Orloff, the first European who
bought it. Fox says: sit was originally
the eye of an idol in Trichinopoli. 1t
was stolen, according to the accepted
account by Frenchman, who escaped
with it to Persia, where he sold it for
the equivalent in our money of So, 600
to Jewish merchant.
''The Jewish merchant sold it to an
Armenian named Shafras, who had
travelled in Russia and conceived the
idea of taking the diamond to that
country and selling it to the Empress
Catherine for great sum. Shafras paid
him $50, 900 for it.
Having secured the stone, the next
question with Shafras was how to get it
to Russia, or rather how to conceal it
when he was searched by robbers, as he
was sare to be ON the road. The journey
was long and perilous one, and thieves
abounded everywhere. Shafras thought
Of swallowing the stone when he should
be taken by the robbers, but was Obliged
to give that plan up, as the diamond
was too large to swallow.
"He began to feel he had white ele-
plant on his hands when thought oc-
CURED to him. He procured a sharp
lance, made cut in the feshy part of
his left leg and thrust the diamond into
the wound. He sewed up the cut with
a needle and silver wire. 1t healed,
leaving the diamond imbedded fast in
the leg, quite out of sight.
''Then he started for Russia. On the
way he was seized by robbers again and
again and was thoroughly searched.
Being an Armenian and suspected of
going to Russia to trade, the thieves
marveled greatly at finding nothing of
value upon his person.
''He arrived in Russia at last, and,
after extracting his diamond, visited
the empress. He was willing to sell it
for about $3.50, 900, but the empress had
not 80 large an amount in cash for the
purchase, and Shafras preferred to go
on to Amsterdam, the seat of the dia-
mond cutting industry, where he had
the stone polished.
"Here Count Orloff, an extremely
wealthy Russian, saw the diamond and
was filed with a determination to Sc
cure it for the Russian crown. He did
secure it, but Shafras exacted from the
Russian government $500, 900, an an
nuity of 500, 900 and title of nobility.
He died millionaire.
''The Orloff diamond weighs 1875
carats and is about the size of pi-
geon' egg. It is smaller than the Kohl
moor, in the possession of the English
queen, which is supposed to be worth
So, $50, 900. "-Cincinnati Enquirer
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
Russian Superstitions.

In Russia much rain is considered a
good omen. It is believed that the down
fall washes away the evil spirits, who
would otherwise be lowering in the air
ready to work woe to the monarch about
to place his crown on his head, the bride
on the point of plighting her vows, the
babe on it's way to the font or whosoev-
er might be the hero or heroine of the
moment. Further, the superstitious
moujik believes that each stream of wa
ter has it's Rusalka, or good spirit, a
lovely maiden with yellow hair floating
down her back, who spreads plenty
around, but should the water fail, SO
that her hair dries, she will die and
famine or other disaster ensue. -Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
ONE HEART.

sometimes linger Ger the list
OF friends lost in other days,
And still the question with me stage
"When am gone. shall be missed2"
doubt If others think the same,
Or even wish TO share my thought
That men were foolish who have sought
To leave never dying name.
When thou hast run thine earthly race
Thou wilt not "leave world in tears"
Nor will men come in after years
To view thine earthly resting place.
Thy poor remains will rest as well.
Thy spirit will be 40 less free.
Although it is not thine to be
A Milton or Raphael.
Fret not thyself, but heaven thank
If all the good that thou canst do
May be so done that only few
Need ever know thy place is blank.
Be thankful If but one true heart
Shall feel for thee the moments pain
Ere it can say, stWe meet again
OF knowing what it is TO part.
One loving heart thou mayest crave,
Lest all thou caredst for on earth
Should seem to have no lasting worth
And end forever in the grave
One faithful heart beneath the sky,
In which to leave seed of love,
To blossom in world above
And bear fruit which shall not die.
&C. J. Boden in Chambers Journal.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
One Neglected Detail.

"No, sir, said the man who was
chewing long straw, 81 amt satisfied
yet. don't think airy one O. them con-
ventions went fur enough"
81 thought you regarded the future
very hopefully
81 did fur a time. But in the excite
ment we overlooked things tibet orter a.
been done 1t never occurred ter me at
the time, but we made big mistake by
not havin plank put inter the platform
maxim it ag in the law fur it ter rain
on a mans hay when he's gone ter town
ter tend p'litical meetin. Wash
ington Star.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26

The expenses of the queens house
hold are C172, 500.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
sha Ralievad II.

Somebody asked President Robert Ell
lis Thompson of the Central High school
If Judgment is sacrificed in the cultiva-
ton Of memory, and he, in unhesita-
tingly affirming such to he the case, re-
lated a story or two at the expense of
his own memory. Said he: II came
very near speaking of Jonah as What
you may call him in the pulpit once,
and at another time in the course OF a
conversation I said to woman:
j" DO you believe that Jonah swal-
lowed the whale?
"'I do, she said unhesitatingly. -
Philadelphia Call
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
An Eminent Bimetallist,s opinion.

Professor Edouard Suess, the leading
bimetallist of Austria, states briefly but
with great force the objections to free
coinage by this country alone The re-
suit would be, he says, ''the loss of all
your (our) gold, and the obligation to
buy in England the gold necessary to
meet your (our) obligations in foreign
countries. He declares that ''one ma
ton alone is too weak to take such a
step, which must lead to financial
and perhaps an economical crisis. -
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
A LESSON FROM EGYPT.

Showing How That Country Failed 20
Maintain the Ratio Of Sixteen Onions to
One Cat.
The ancient Egyptians had currency
based on cats and onions, both Of which
were sacred objects worshiped by the
people. As there was some difficulty in
storing the cats, and as the onion was
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26


was provided Of papyrus strips, repre-
senting a certain number of cats and
onions at ratio Of Is to /, This was a
true double standard system and is be-
lieved to have been the origin Of modern
paper currency. For time the cat
onion money circulated at par, but the
historian Faque Hur records that about
963 B. G. a serious difficulty arose.
New colonies had been established in
the region Of the upper Nile, and the
savage Nubians had been taught the
art of agriculture. The rich, black soil
Of the valley which they inhabited was
especially suited to the growth of
onions, and the production of those per.
fumed bulbs was soon enormously in
creased. Meanwhile the cat crop had
only grown in the usual ratio, and the
result was that, with the demand for
sacred animals in the new colonies, at
least 80 onions would be given for one
cat This brough the papyrus currency
into disfavor, and the ruling pharaoh,
Ram Bunkshus III, issued a royal order
that cats should be the sole standard of
value, and that onions should be issued
only to the extent that they could be
kept at par with the "caterwaulers, " as
the unit of value was termed.
This did not suit the onion growers,
who at once started an agitation for the
free and unlimited coinage of all onions
at the good old ratio of their daddies.
After passing 8, 1877, 642 resolutions de-
nouncing the horrible crime of 963 the
onionites marched in a body to the pal
ace of their Pharaoh and demanded that
the unjust law enacted at the instance
of the catbugs should be repealed and
the bicatallic standard restored Ram
Bunkshus listened to them patiently and
answered: "Great, no doubt, was the
wisdom of our ancestors. But l am in
the wisdom business myself to some ex-
tent. When the ratio of Is to 1 was
adopted, that was the true ratio of the
cats and onions. Now, owing to great
increase in the quantity of onions, the
ratio is 80 to 1. All powerful as am.
cannot make onions worth more than
their market value The present stand
ard stays. AS for you, o foolish onion
ties, your leaders shall feed the sacred
crocodiles. The rest of you will return
to your farms and hustle. I have re-
marked. "
Thus ended the first and only cur
rency agitation in Egypt. -Whidden
Graham in Puck.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
Conditions Prior to 1873.

Some of the free coinage men still
say that all they want is to restore the
conditions that existed prior to 1878 "
In 1878 the total worlds production of
silver was 81, 100, 900 ounces and the
silver in dollar was worth $1.O4 in
gold. Last year the worlds product Of
silver was 1856, 900, 900 ounces and the
silver in a dollar was worth only
30 TO cents. Will the silver miners
restore the production of 1878 as the
first step toward restoring the condi-
tions?''
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26

If the fact that some farmers are poor
is used to justify the confiscation of the
property of creditors, would not the pow
erty of the Coxey armies Of tramps and
unemployed workers justify them in de.
handing share of the property owned
by the fa1mers2
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26

More money" is the delusive cry Of
the silverites in their campaign for
cheap dollars. But they do not attempt
to show how Is to free coinage law,
which would put our 5000, 900, 900 gold
at premium of nearly so per cent and
drive it all out of circulation, could pos
sible give us more money than we have
now.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26

Language is a solemn thing. 1t grows
out of life-out of its agonies and costa
sizes, it's wants and it's WEAKNESS. Every
language is temple in which the soul
of those who speak it is enshrined. %.
w. Holmes.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-08-26
Free Information.

Messrs. G. A. Snow & Co., OF
Washington, D. c., lawyers and
agents fer procuring patents, will
send free to any address, pamphlets
with information about home and
foreign patents, caveats, copyrights
trade marks, infringements, design
patents, abstracts of decisions, etc., as
we'll as the cost of patents in the
United States and foreign countries.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-07-02
EARLY Paner Making.

For the art of paper making, the
world is indebted to the Chinese, who,
with their usual liberality when deal
ing with their own historical dates, as
sign It's invention to a Chinese king
about $4,000 years ago. AS a matter
of fact, it was probably made in China
before the Christian era. The inven-
ton was taken to Samarcand, whence
1t was introduced into Europe in the
seventh century. In 712 the Saracens
were making paper in Spain from cot
ton fiber. Its use became general a
little later, and most of the bulls of the
pope in the eighth and ninth centuries
We're written on cotton paper. Linen
and cotton rags instead Of raw cotton
were first used by the Saracens, and
the earliest dated document on linen
paper is a treaty between the kings of
Aragon and CASTLE, in LIT.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-07-02

TO submit to an operation, is to vo1un.
tari1y endanger ones life, without the
slightest hope of being benefited.
Mr.. William Wa1po1e, is a wealthy
planter residing at Walshtown, South
Dakota, and is well known all over the
state. .aUnder date of January goth, 1896,
he writes; "About threeyears ago, there
came under my left eye little b1otch
about the size of small pea. It grew
rapidly, and for the past year, shooting
pains ran in every direction. became
who pronounced it cancer, and said that
it must be cut out. This I would not
consent to, having little faith in the in
discriminate nse of the knife, though
was alarmed at my condition. Reading
of the many cures made by S.S.S., I
determined to give that medicine trial,
and after had taken it a few days, the
cancer became irritated and began to dis
charge. This after awhile ceased, leaving
a small scab, which finally dropped off,
and only healthy looking little
scar remained to mark the place where
the destroyer had held full sway Words
are inadequate to express my gratitude to
the great blood purifier, S. S. S., and I
write this hoping that itmay bethemeans
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lancer Is HOT 1uCuIaDle, DuI Iue only
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ing conditions that the doctors think an
operation necessary. Scrofula, for in
stance, often diseases the glands of fne
neck to such an extent that an operation
is looked upon as absolutely the only
relief. This is also grave error, as the
disease is in the blood and real blos~1
remedy is the only cure.
An operation never did cure blood
disease. Beware of the knifel
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-07-02
Too Much Knife F!

The use of the surgeons knife is be.
coming SO general, resulting fatally
in such large number of cases, as to
occasion general alarm. The press al
most daily announces the death of some
unfortunate whose system could not
Withstand the shock of an operation,
and whose life was cruelty sacrificed to
the keen blade of the surgeon.
Of course, in some instances an
operation is necessary, and is the
only means of saving life, but such cases
are exceedingly rare. So many deaths
occur under these conditions, however,
that the public is beginning to realize
that the doctors are too hasty in resort
ing to the knife, and if such a state of
affairs continues, there will before long
be general uprising against such meas
ures It is but reasonable to believe
that the majority of operations are
unnecessary, but when the fatal mistake
is discovered too late, only the doctors
ever know of their error, and though a
precious life is given up, the public is
assured that death would have resulted
in spite of the operation, and who is
ever the wiser3
The folly of resorting to the knife in
cases of cancer, is demonstrated eyery
time it is undertaken. The disease IS
in the blood and the cancer or sore is
but the outward manifestation of a
terrible condition of the entire circu1a-
ton. To cut out this sore, therefore,
does not in any way effect the disease,
and it can easily be seen that the only
correct treatment is to get at the seat of
the disease, and purify the blood; the
sore will then heal up naturally. S.S.S.
is the most powerful blood remedy made.
and is the only cure for cancer.