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money phamplet, Silver and Common
Sense which has just been issued by
Deputy Comptroller Coffin.
The speech of Senator Stewart, from
which the extracts are made, was de-
iivered on February II, 1874. and was
as definite a declaration for the gold
standard as can be found anywhere in
sound money literature. The G
ment then made was the same as now
made by the advocates of honest mon
ey, who are opposed to triling with
International bimetallism. The eX-
tracts given by Mr.. Coffin and verified
from the Congressional Record are as
follows:
Let everybody know what a dollar
how to measure the difference in price
between his whcaC in Illinois and the
wheat in Liverpool. The wheat will
be measured by the same standard
gold-in Illinois as it is in Liverpool,
and any man can figure it up. But
now it is a mystery, and what do we
see every day? We see those who de-
vote their attention to it making large
fortunes out of the mystery"
Mr.. Stewart continued:
Let us do as the people of the world
have been doing from the beginning
measure our values by gold. adopt the
standard hat all can understand and
get rid of this mystery.
Mfr. Logan. What does the senator
want?
mfr. Stewart. | want the standard
gold. and no paper money not redeem
ed in gold. no paper money the value
Of which is not ascertained, no paper
money that will organize a gold board
to speculate with it. Who pays for
this gold board? Who pays these i'm
mense fortunes? How is it that mil
lions and millions can be rolled up
annually there? Did anybody ever
calculate who paid for it? 1t comes
out of the producers? How do these
men exist? By the latitude which your
deprecated currency gives to specula-
tion and nothing else.
Persons who are specializing in
your deprecated currency are making
the money and they will continue to
make it so long as you have a depre-
'ciated currency.
IF the farmers would get rich they
have got to become skilled in this
%fuctuating currency and make corners
and manipulate the market, and if they
do they cannot farm."-Congressional
Record, Forty-third congress-, first ses-
sion. volume 2. page 1892.
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JACOB NORRIS OPINION.

In a letter to a prominent resident of
this city. the Rev. Jacob Norris, for
merly pastor OF the PRESBYTERIAN
church, says:
Mr.. Bryan had everything against
him in New York-n 7rly all the big
demochatic politician and capitalists:
all The press excepi one small ape
the journal; the excessive heat. and
The immense hall. No man could speak
and be heard in Madison Square gar
den. Then he made a mistake in read
ing closely a manuscript. In fact he
was scared and didn't know where he
was at. There is only one side here
just at present. Maybe it will change
personally | do not understand tbe
financial question, but l am mi in
sympathy with the revolutionary e,e-
aients in the platform upon which Mr.
Bryan stands. | think he is too good
a man-not too great a man-to he sac-
rince so young. He should never
nave consented tt be a candidate. Tho
more suitable one would have been
Bland and Altgeld."
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MOULD Make VOTES.

There is a general demand, or rather
there are many demands, that Major
Mckinley shall take the stump soone
or later in the campaign, and opinion
is divided as to whether it is desirable
for him to yield to any extent to the
desire that he shall take the field in
person. There is a good deal to be
said on both sides of the question. Bry-
ans spectacular tour, with incidental
speech-making, in and out of season,
has given to the public a distaste for
that sort of thing. ard it is an open
secret that Bryan made so many bad
breaks between Lincoln and New York
that those in charge of his campaign
advised him to desist. Precedent, too,
is against stump speaking tby the presi-
Dental candidates., and the men who
have spoken the most, although they
may have spoken well. while before the
people as candidates for the presidency
have not been vote getters. Conspicu-
GUS illustrations OF the inutility Of this
kind Of campaigning were Stephen A.
Douglas, Andrew johnson and Horace
Greeley.
On the other hand. there is manifest
propriety in giving a presidential can
didate of McKinley's or even of Bry-
ans oratorical ability and personal
magnetism an opportunity to address
his fellow-citizens under proper con-
ditions, and more at length than is pos,
sible in a speech or letter of acceptance.
With Mckinley at least the experiment
would be perfectly safe. and the result
could hardly fail to be inspiring. 1t
will not be surprising If he should be
prevailed upon to make three or four
speeches. A fitting occasion is thai
presented by the meeting Of the ma
tional republican league clubs at Mil
waukee a few weeks hence. His audi
ence would be composed largely OF ac-
tive republican workers hailing from
every part of the country, but besides
them there would be in attendance
thousands OF people who will have
Travelled many miles simply to hear
Mckinley. II he could speak also in
Kansas. and perhaps in Illinois. 1t
would be worth while. For my part. I
hope he will do 1t, provided, however,
1t is distinctly understood that his ac-
ceptance Of two or three invitations
does not open the way for further
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In the debate at the opera house the
other night, Mr.. Arnold said that the
carrying out OF the democratic plat
American industries than the Mckin-
ley bill, for the reason hat our money
would no pass current in foreign
countries. This is a pretty frank adj
mission that silver would at once go to
a discount should the democrats sue
coed in foOling The people into endors-
ing their vagaries.
, 1896-08-20

Out in Nevada they are so rabid
about the silver question that it is real
ly dangerous for a man to wear a Nc
kinley button. A short time ago a
travelling man had the courage to wear
one upon the streets of one OF the
prominent own and was waited upon
by a committee of citizens, who told
him to take off the button or leave the
city
, 1896-08-20

The only hope for a return to pros
perity in Wyoming is through a return
to the policy Of protection. When
workingmen are idle throughout the
country on account OF the closed fac
tories they cannot buy meat. and there
fore the price is driven down upon Wy
omins's chief article of export. Pro-
lection to the wool industry is the next
Important item to be considered. and
there is no hope for this through Bry-
an, who declares against it.
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1t is getting to be quite a fad with
the democrats to advertise non-parti-
san meetings and then explode a lot of
political rot. Even Charlie Bramel be-
came disguised last night and felt call
dispenser of hogwash. the Hon. w. H.
Holiday.
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STEWARDS PLEA FOR GOLD

me declaration of Senator Stewart
OF Nevada for the single gold standard
just aOou. a year after the alleged
crime CT 1873" will be one of the feat
ures OF the new edition Of the sound
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REPUBLICAN, STATE TICKET.
For Prcsicntial Electors.
FRANK w. BRITAIN.
OF Sheridan County.
BENJAMIN HOWELL,
OF Sweerwater County.
MRS. SARAH MALLOY,
OF Laramie County.
For supreme Judge.
II. V. S. GROESBECK.
or Albany County.
For Congressman.
FRANK w. MONDELL.
OF Weston County.
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sHAFFER'S ELEVATED RAILWAY.

SfiAfFERS Ell RAlLWA I.
Evanston News-Register: Mr.. w. 7.
Shaffer, eitor of the Herald of this city,
has just received a new United States
patent on his single-rail elevated rail-
way car. His original patent on this
novel device was issued February 8,
1892. The present patent is dated Au-
gus 4. 1896, and runs for seventeen
years. 1t is much more elaborate and
covers the device and some improve
ments more fully and completely than
did the former patent.
Mr.. Shaffer has already received a
letter from a responsible firm in South
Bend. Ind, in which they offer to pay
half the expense of procuring for him
a patent in Germany. and take their
chances Of getting even by selling the
German patent. In case the patent is
disposed of they ask for 10 per cent OF
the proceeds of said sale.
, 1896-08-20
MY SWEETHEART.

Her cheeks are like the roses,
Her brow is lily white;
And we'll I know the reason,
She takes Parks Tea each night.
She's strong and we'll and happy, too,
Her face is clear and bright,
And la%ughingly she tells the cause,
II take Parks Tea each night.
Sold by Eggleston and Desmond.
If dull, spiritless and stupid; if your
blood is thick and sluggish; If your ap-
petite is capricious and uncertain. You
need a Sarsaparilla. For best results
take DeWitt's. 1t recommends itself.
Chas. N. Settele.
Always in season, Hopkins Steamed
Hominy (Hulled Corn). Elegant lunch
in milk. Quart cans 10 cents.
Many a days work is lost by sick
headache, caused by indigestion and
stomach troubles. DeWitt's Little Ear
ly Risers are the most %effectual pill for
overcoming such difficulties. Chas. N.
Settele.
, 1896-08-20

The whole system is drained and un-
sores. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
speedily heals them. 1t is the best pile
cure known. Chas. N. Settele.
, 1896-08-20

Don't trifte away time when you have
cholera morbus or diarrhoea. Fight
them in the beginning with DeWitt's
Collie & Cholera Cure. You don't have
to wait for results, they are %instantan-
eous, and it leaves the bowels in healthy
condition. Chas. N. Settele.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26
PEN NAMES OF GREAT WRITERS

Barry Cornwall" was the assumed name of B. ". Proctor. Some of Barry songs will probably live as long as tn English language is spoken.
 Robert Southey's pen name was "Es priella Alvarey." It was used in his let ters from England. Most of his worki were published over his own name.
 J. Fenimore Cooper began to writ, under the pen name of "A Travelling Bachelor" His travels and social con dition probably inspired the selection
 Francis Mahoney was long know1 among his acquaintances as Father Prout," his best-known book having been entitled, "Reliques of Father Prout."
 John RuslSin published his early writ. ings under the pen name Graduate o1 Oxford" the selection being obviously influenced by his place of education.
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ABOUT THE SENSE OF HEARING

In the Indian statue of Guadama the lobes of the ears are so long that they reach the level of the lamp.
 Deafness is more prevalent in cold than in warm countries, the ears being sensitive to changes of temperature.
 The number of suicides among fhe deaf and dumb is said to be greater than among any other class of unfor tunates.
 Sea slugs not only hear, but are said by naturalists to emit sounds some. what like the ticking of clock.
 In 17o3 Dr. Thornton, of Philadelphia, published an essay on Methods of Teaching the Deaf and Dumb"
 h 1876 the first deaf mute clergyman was ardained. He was an Episcopalian, and the ordination took place in Phila- delphia.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26

the name was changed to Lake Moraine. This has an area of over 90 acres, and has been stocked with brook trout. From Lake Moraine, the water flows along the natural channel of RuXton creek to point near the Halfway house, where it is carried in pipes along the side of the cog-wheel route, as far as Manitou. Thence it is conveyed in two pipes, the smaller one being tapped at Colorado City, located between Colorado Springs and Mani tou.
 The system just described will be greatly enlarged by the Stricller sys- tenn. The source of the new supply will be reservoir No. 8, now building just above the western portal of the tunnel. It will be emptied through the tunnel into reservoir No. 2. at which point the old and the new plants will be connected into one system. The point where the tunnel makes it's exit from the mountain is lodge of granite about 30 feet thick. The words sStrickler Tunnel" will be cut into this lodge just over the eastern portal. WILL c. FERRIL.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26

The sailor hat l have mentioned. 1t has a wide brim and is generally pat tern of white and dark blue. Climatic reasons doubtless render it more uni versal here than it will be in the states, but it will everywhere have a great and glorious run.
 Tan shoes are quite as much favored as ever and tan or brown leggings are added by bicycliennes, with whom tan or drab skirts find favor because of their reluctance to show dust. The bicyelist wears q sailor hat and odd-loolSing tan gloves or none at all. She has an Easter lily at her belt and is altogether an adorable creature.
 A Tam O Shanter cap and a knit blue or gray white sweater is costume more athletic-loolling.
 have left nothing to say about the governer-general's receptions, but it doesn't matter. They are like any oth- CT receptions with plenty of uniforms, and tea in a big dining-room overlook ing green shrubbery, big palms and blue water. ELLEN OSBORN.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26

The water wheels are the generators for the plant and will be placed near Manitou, at the base of Pilxe's Peak. \ copper wire will be run to the peak, following the route of the cog-wheel road to Windy Point, and then extend cd to what is known as Reservoir No. !, near the tunnel, and about midway between the two portals. From this site the main receiver will pump air for the drills at both ends of the tunnel. Thus from opposite sides of the noun tain the men will drive the work to- wards the center, and thereby hasten the construction. It is a wild and TO- mantle region, where the mountain sheep and the mountain lion still roam. Sometimes the workmen find the tracks of mountain lions near their camps-for the lion quickly scents meat in the camp. A herd of about 30 mountain sheep frequent this part of the peak, and some of them have the finest horns to be seen in the Rock ies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26

the engineer for the tunnel, and has drawn the plans and specifications for it's construction. 1t is known as the "Strickler tunnel" so named in honor of eX-Mayor William NJ. Striclller. The length of the tunnel, it was at first esti- mated, would be about 6,242 feet, but it will more probably be 6,45o feet. At the source of the new water supply 1t will have an altitude of 11.565 feet, and the exit will be at an elevation of about 11,500 feet, making grade of 0.5O. The tunnel stations are numbered from the entrance at the western portal Sta tion No. 10 represents q di$ance of 1000 feet into the mountain; No. 2n. 2,000 feet, and No. GO, 6,O00 feet About 5,350 feet from the western portal the tunnel will be 425 feet below the sur faee-probably it's greatest depth. The
 surface changes will be the most marked between stations Nos. 50 and so, representing the distances of 5000 and 6,000 feet from the entrance. At 5000 feet the tunnel is 3s0 feet below the surface: at 5,350, it is 425, and at 6000, only 13s feet. The rock forma- tion is the toughest, hardest granite, and it is thought that but little tim bering will be necessary. The tunnel will be 61a feet high and feet wide. Tn the rock section or solid formation. the arch begins at 3h feet from the floor; in the timber section, or loose formation, at 41a feet The timbers will vary from eight to ten inches as may be considered necessary. and the lagging from three to four inches. Ex. pensive machinery and the best drills will be required to cut the granite.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26

mountain at an altitude of 11.500 feet only 2,647 below the summit, which has an elevation of 14,147 feet. 1t will be about mile and quarter in length, and the cost of construction is esti- mated at $410,000. The contractors are Wilson & Jackson, of Chicago, who are to complete the work within 21 months from January 1, 1896. This wonderful piece of engineering, exc cuted at an altitude of more than two miles, will turn the snow-fed waters of the east fork of West Beaver, which now flow into the Arkansas river be- low Canon City, from the western to the eastern slope of Pike's Peak, to be utilized as a part of Colorado Springs water works system. The waste water will be turned into the "Fountaine-qui- Bouil]e," which winds it's way plain wards to the sea. The many thousands of tourists who annually visit Colorado Springs and ManitOA will soon find this great tunnel added to the wonder land of the Pike's Peak region.
 Colorado Springs owns it's water works plant, and the proposed tunnel is but an addition to that system. In the seventies the town was little sta- tion on the Denver & Rio Grande rail way. It had it's first real boom in the days of the Leadville excitement; and now through the recent rich gold dis coveries in the Cripple Creek mines, if has become city of about 10000. Col. orado Springs has already expended the sum of $700, 900 on it's water-works, and one of the officials says that the plant could not be bought for $2,000,000. It is the county seat of Fl Paso county, which includes the rich gold fields just mentioned The rapid growth of the town requires a larger water supply; hence Pike's Peak must be tunneled. The city government represents the water-works system. J. c. Plumb is mayor; II. l. Reid, city engineer, with Delos Durfee as assistant, and Edward w. Frost, water superintendent. By virtue of their municipal positions they are deeply interested in the progess of the especially Mr. Reid, who is
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26

Isolated as the men may appear to be, yet they are within few miles of d large population. Below them are nestled Colorado Springs and Manitou, gem cities at the foot of the peak. A few miles in the mountains is seen Bull Hill, celebrated in the Cripple Creek war, and other peaks, crested with new mining towns. In this Cripple Creek district 10000 people make up the great est gold camp in the world. To the northward is the West Creek district, where many are now rushing to the recent finds. There is now popula- ton of about 75,000 people clustered around Pike's Peak.
 The system of waterworks which now supplies Colorado Springs from Pil1e's Peak has its highest source in reservoir No. 7, at an elevation of abou5 12,000 feet. The waters of this reser- voir, covering an area of 40 acres, are carried by Hume to reservoir No. 3, which was small natural lake. An open channel connects reservoir No. ?, the latter having an elevation of Il, 300 feet, whence the water is conveyed again in an open channel on branch of the Beaver. It is then carried in a 16- inch pipe about two miles to Dead lake, where it is emptied over the divide into the open channel of Ruxton creek. This stream, named for the celebrated traveller and explorer. conveys the wa ter to Lake Moraine, also known as reservoir No. 4. It was originally called Mystic lake, and is about three miles from the Seven Lakes, new well known to tourists. The old Mystic lake had an area of about eight acres, and was a favorite resort as a hunting and camp ing ground for the Utes.
 Somethingof of the superstitious seemed to be associated with it's placid waters, sheltered under the summit of the great peak. Mystic lake was about g feet above the bed of Ruxton creek and 100 feet back from it's bank. The geologists now explain that the lake was of glacial origin; hence, when a dam was con- structed, and the old Mystic lake be- came part of the waterworlzs system.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26

khereof April is not one. The bicycle Esrs is legion, but she is just the same ss she summer girl. with her skirt cut S.eee inches shorter. No boomers
 sRSn in the land Of the lily and the sse
 lust as she is. the summer girl IS by fzs the most interesting of the lot. She <s seally prophetic of the summer Etefes in the states. because she brings Aaur here, wheedled in advance from MEss dressmakers. She has brought kish her summer silks for lawn parties. kn Dresden and Persian designs; but riieiy she has added unto herself ksaists-waists better fitting than last ksar's. waists with removable linen col k9s for which ribbon bands and bows ksn be substituted; waists with tucks a front and tucks behind, waists with ksrong tabs sewn on behind, from which kAe skirts may more securely hang. Eany of them are of Persian effects in ERds, or grass linens, beautifully em- 1oidered with forget-me-nots or little kasebuds. The waists are more elabor- Ice than last year. They have frquently s3ses of Valenciennes lace on grass Fnen orsnainsook, the yokes cut square, ise sleeves big and white and breezy kad lacey. X pretty waist in nainsools s quite white behind, the big sleeves Ire white, bat the front is all embroi- fered in faint tints of delicate fawn or tlne.
 l Such a waist would go well with | awn or blue skirt. But blue will not bean the standard navy blue serge khich was so convenient. The full Skirt of nine gores and a box pieat is [afe for the season; it's colors are much kaser than of old. checks and stripes %.sxing the place of solid colors and .sie tints substituting the darker ones ke have known so long. The summer iris skirt becomes gay indeed in silks. Enc chief fault of the all prevailing Persian designs is that the figures are.
 any of them. So blg as to be less be- Ion. ng to the little yenuses than to llie big Junos.
 The military element is strong al pwn parties. and upon riding parties Ind picnics, but at balls it is positively The Hotel Hamilton, cu- fiously, belongs 10 the town. and is thus
 local institution which doth not lack fieers of dancing girth and the most anned faces it $ possible to conceive Iandsome fellows they are, though,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26
BLLEN OSBORN'S LETTER,
olonial Modes as Seen at the Func-
 tions of Sunny Bermuda.
ne Prevalence of the waist-Maidens Fair, Though Sunburned. with a Background of '.the Mili-
 tary Element"
TcopYR1eHr. 1s96. l

Hamilton, Bermuda.-There be those tho. stationed in Bermuda by military .ecessity or stress of business, rail at j as dull place and long and long for tundon drizzle, despite the Eden skies hat smile on them and the odor of the Easter lilies in the fields and the Eeanders in the hedge rows.
 1 And others there are who, chasing the
 bring all about the world, come hither br | few months or weeks, on the way
 trhaps from St. Augustine to Lake Food or Tuxedo, before Newport wakes rom it's winter sleep; and these find in
 he whitewashed villas reminiscenee ' Italy, in the blue skies foretaste of
 eaven and in the palms and palmet= bes. bamboos and mangroves all the
 petry of tropie jungle.
 l What were even ar Eden without
 less and Irritation? There is no finer nign of vantage whence to view the
 hammer girl in all her glory, months kfore her perigee Ill New York, than Eamilton of a sunny afternoon. And e for Irritation! There are more sol Eers in these little toy islands than
 either New York or Washington, and
 he pretty girl who does not receive
 elicate attentions from two or three
 Commissioned servants of her Britannic
 6ajesty is singularly unenterprising. 1 There are three phases of Bermuda tEnininity; the summer girl on the Erect; the ceremonial dame at Gov. Fen. Lyons receptiore.and the dancing irl at a regimental ball or hotc' hop There ought to be more varieties, but here aren't. There is very little {achting. considering the unequaled Opportunity; there is no sea bathing E all for women. though there ought to ke. golfing interest is as yet but faint butter. and tennis has it's seasons.
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EARNINGS OF THE RAILROADS.

The Southern railway reports gross earnings for last February of S1, ,794, ,91s, and net $43o, ,464, against s1, ,261, ,9o8 gross in February, 1895, and net $383, ,346.
 The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad company reports gross earnings for last February of s2.384,172, an increase of s491,554 as compared with the same month last year.
 The Philadelphia $ Readings gross earnings for last February are given as $1, 1,350,3O6, against S1, 1,444, SAP in 1895, and net $526,363 in February, 1896, against $568, 8,547 in 1895.