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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18

monograph about it, and Prof. j. j.
Quelch has given to the world the re-
suits of IA careful study of it, and its
picture both in the fledgling and adult
state has appeared in the Sunday Jour-
nal and the Popular Science News, its
days are as good as numbered, for sci
entists and menagerie agents don't
mind little thing like travelling to the
remote forests of British Guiana III
order 20 secure a new bird, even if it
does give out an odor that would put
the mephitis Americanus to fight.
The chief popularity of the hoatzin,
according to Prof. j. C. Beard, is that
when it is hatched it possesses four
well-developed legs, the front pair be-
ing of reptilian character, as glance
at the illustration taken from an Off
cial source will show. The parent
hoatzin seems TO be an Indifferent pro-
WIDER, and it is fortunate thing for the
little hoatzins that they are provided
with four legs, which enable them to
leave the nest of their nativity and
climb about over the adjoining limbs
and twigs in search of food, on which
excursions they look and act more like
tree toads than birds.
In early infancy a modification OF
the fore limbs begins. The claws OF
the digits fall off, the claw-like hands
begin to fatten, and in the course OF
time feathers sprout and the forelimbs
of the infant become the wings of the
adult.
Prof. Lucas on this point says that
"the adult birds not only have no claws
upon their wings, as was probably the
case in remote ages-witness the pet
rodactyle with its four-taloned legs,
and its bat-like wings, with an outer
row of claws. The thumbs OF the
grown-up hoatzin are so poorly devel'
oped that one would hardly suspect
that in the nestlings we have the near
est approach to the quadruped found
among existing birds"
Mr.. Quelch says that after Matching
the well-developed claws on the pol
lax and under are constantly in use for
hooking and holding on to surrounds
ing objects.-N. Y. Journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18

was sRown IN the enthusiastic ucInon-
stration at the closing OF the session of
the Bavarian landtag in Munich when
Prince Won Walther thanked the royal
house for watching and jealousy pre-
serving the independence of Bavaria
and her guaranteed treaties. This ex-
preston was received with cheers which
were prolonged many minutes. In adj
dition to this, the patriotic associations
in all parts of south Germany are
sending congratulatory messages and
addresses to Prince Ludwig in great
profusion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
HARvEY's "sclENTIFlc" MONEY
A system That Would Deprive Farmers
of Credit.

A system That Would Deprive Farmers
of Credit.
"Out of the wisdom of man came the
use of two metals for use as money,
these metals to be coined into money at
a ratio in weight of sixteen to one,
or in the ratio provided from time to
time. The option was given by law for
the people to use money made from
either metal, either redeemable in the
ether, but each of itself money. The OPP
ton was with the debtor, the person
getting the money III motion. The debt
or thus controlled the demand, and as
demand gives value, the supply being
limited, this option to the debtor shift
ed the demand from gold to silver or
silver to gold, as each increased or de-
creased in quantity. The debtor used
the one most accessible; so if silver be-
came cheaper, the demand was shifted
toit, and this brought it back to par
ity with gold, and vice versa"
How ridiculous! The idea that we can
have scientific or just system of money
which gives debtors the option of pay
ing in two or more metals at fixed ra-
tiosl The chief work of money is to
facilitate exchanges. Who prefers to
make contracts in uncertain terms
What merchant would care to give
farmers credit and give them the option
of paying in wheat at GO cents, corn at
AZ cents, oats at 20 cents or potatoes at
is cents per bushel? And who but the
farmers themselves would pay for the
risks and uncertainties if merchant
were compelled by law to give credit
emily in this way?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
Nebraska's Plans.

OMAHA, Neb., July lS.-The off,
cIsl train of the Nebraska popu-
lists, carrying the tifty-seven dele
gates from Nebraska to st. Louis,
will leave Lincoln tomorrow after
noon. 1t is expected 5000 popu-
lists In different parts Of the state
will go to the st. Louis headquar-
tiers Of the Nebraska delegation at
the Lindell hotel, st. Louis, but
rooms and other accommodations
have been reserved at the st.
James. A meeting of the Nebras-
ka delegation has been called for
10 o'clock Monday, in st. Louis,
to arrange plans for the endorse
ment of Bryan by the convention.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
Sure Cure for sixteen to One Malady.

Sure Cure for Sixteen to One Malady.
The following suggestion was sent by
the editor of the Valasco (Tex.) World
to a prominent sound money man in
New York:
Can't you get information from
Mexico? The people on the Rio
Grande border are against free coin
age, and our people who go there in
nearly every instance come back con-
verted. You ought to send an intelli-
gent man to Mexico and get the facts.
1 went there and it converted me to the
gold standard.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
The NIonstrous Wrong.

"The monstrous wrong" for which
Gov. Boies arraigns the republicans is,
the Philadelphia Telegraph says, "the
wrong of giving the poor man the best
money in the world and assuring him
that what little property he may pos
sess or may acquire shall not be put in
jeopardy by the uncertainties of shift
ing and questionable currency; the
wrong OF insisting that the dollar paid
to the wage Garner shall be worth 100
cents and shall not be cut down to so
cents"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
CREATES A NEW oUTeURsT.
Gar of Russia Decorates Prince Henry
of Prussia.

of Prussia
The excitement which prevailed
throughout The south German states
over the incident at the banquet of the
Deutsche Verein in Moscow, upon tho
occasion of the cars coronation, when
the president of the banquet alluded to
the German princes as members OF the
suite of Prince Henry of Prussia, was
subsiding rapidly, but it has now re-
seived fresh impulse by the bestowal
of the order of the Red Eagle by the en-
pcror upon the chairman whose words
evoked protest from Prime Ludwig, OF
Bavaria, who resented the presidents
words by indignantly declaring that tho
princes alluded to were neither MEM
bers of Prince Henry's suite nor vds-
sails Of the German empire. The Ba-
varian press In commenting upon the
act of the emperor in decorating the
president of the banquet, interpret IL
as q new act of provocation on the part
of Prussia, although it is clearly Gus
tomary action toward an official receiv-
ing a representative of the kaiser, in
which capacity Prince Henry went to
Moscow. Prince Luitpoid, regent of
Bavaria, has sought to hush up the up
roar caused by the words of the presi-
dent of She banquet and the resentful
speech of his son and the heir to the
Bavarian throne, Prince Ludwig, but
popular feeling has been too strong as
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
SUCKER STATE SILvERITES.
Impudent Claim of sixteen to One Shout
tss ers at Peoria.

Impudent Claim of sixteen to One Shout
tss ers at Peoria.
The Illinois democratic state conven-
ton added hypocrisy and double deal
ing to the silverite doctrine of repudia-
ton and dishonest dollars when it de-
clared in its platform: "We favor the
soundest and safest money known to
man. We demand the repeal of
that republican and plutocratic legisla-
ton which demonetized silver and re-
duced it to the level of token money,
destroying by one-half the stock of real
money. We demand the inn
mediate restoration of the free and
unlimited coinage of both gold and sill
yer as a>standard money at the rate of
sixteen ounces of silver to one of gold
of equal fineness, with full legal tender
power to each metal" This declaration
of free silver was termed the "bimet-
allism which was made the basis of our
monetary system by Hamilton and JEFF
ferson."
OF all kinds of fraud the canting
humbug is the worst. The sincere but
mistaken silverite, who admits that
free coinage at sixteen to one would
put this country on the silver basis, arc
deserving of far more respect than the
men who have the impudence to talk
of sound and safe money" in connec-
ton with their 50-cent-dollar scheme.
Every man who Is old enough to vote
knows that free silver, with the bullion
value of the tive metals at q ratio of
thirty to one, means silver monometal-
ism pure and simple. This is the
standard of Mexico, China and India,
where its frequent and violent fuctua-
tions and decreasing purchasing power
testify to its "soundness and safety"
Is that the kind of money the American
people want?
1t will be somewhat difficult to secure
the repeal of "the legislation which de-
monetized silver and reduced it to the
basis of token money" since there is
no such legislation on the statute
books. What the Sucker state fnan-
ciers referred to was probably the legis-
- --A;-A s.=>A 1874 has given US
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18

$3.50, 900 of full legal penuvr sIrvS.
money, not one dollar of which is token
money, and $75,0o0,OOO of subsidiary
coinage. AS there was not $s0,O00,0OO
of silver money of all kinds in the coun-
try in 1873 and less than $4,000, 900 full
legal tender silver coins, it is hard to see
how "the stock of real money has been
destroyed one-half." Since an increase
of 100000 is considered contrac-
ton of the currency, it is easy to under
stand how the cross-eyed silverites can
believe that forcing $625 100000 in gold
out of circulation would give us more
money.
"The bimetallism of Hamilton and
Jefferson" was the coinage of gold and
possible the commercial ratio between
the values of the two metals. In ex-
perience it was found that whenever
one of the metals was overvalued it
disappeared from circulation, the
cheaper money only being used, so that
gold or the silver standard. Under
present conditions, with the bullion
value of silver 80 times that of gold, it
would be impossible to keep gold in
circulation, and the country would go
at once to a silver basis. Americans
who favor real bimetallism, under
which an almost equal value of gold
and silver money is now kept in circu-
lation, must work and vote against free
silver monometallism.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
Potatoes . La Maitrs d'HoteL

Boil the usual quantity of potatoes
for dish; peel and cut them into slices
rather thicker than for frying; put
them in a stewpan with two ounces of
butter, and when that Is dissolved add
two tablespoonfuls of bullion, a tea
spoonful of salt, half as much pepper,
teaspoonful of minced parsley and
chives and half q teaspoonful of vinegar.
Shake the pan round, and when quite
lot serve the slices In the sauce.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
LIGHTNING STROKE NOT FATAL
Iowa Physician Proves That Victim
May BE Resuscitstod.

A homeopathic physician of Dubuque,
Ia, the other day indicated his theory
that electricity would resuscitate man
struck by lightning. His patient was a
man named Benjamin Fern, who re-
ceived stroke during terrific storm.
The hair was burned off his head and
face and his shoes split. After lying
unconscious 20 minutes he received a
charge from galyanic battery and
came oahis senses.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
Horse Didn't Fit the shoes.

A horse was sent up from the farm to
the village smithy to be shod. Having a
number of ready-made shoes on hand,
the job, in the absence of the boss, was
given to an apprentice. After an in
terval the following note came to the
farmer: "This horse don't fit any Of
our Shoes"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18

accounts ror IT'S sdi yiFssi. ~ o.so-s.-~-
habit it owes much of its safety. 1t
feeds upon the leaves of the wild arum.
with the result that it's flesh has ac-
quired such an offensive smell that man
and beast fee from its presence, and the
vulture and buzzards even refuse to fat
ten upon its flesh.
1t is described, when full grown, as a
very large bird, mich larger than pea
cock, and it is very seldom seen. Its
long, wailing cry is often heard from
tine depths of the tropical forests, but
the Guiana native regards it, for the
reasons stated, not only with physical
aversion. but with n superstitious fear,
and not for ~ yards of red cloth and six
strings of glittering beads could he be
induced to hunt it to its lair.
But now that Prof. F. A. Lucas, of the
Smithsonian Institution, has written a
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
Call on National Banks.

WASHINGTON, July 1S.-The
comptroller Of currency has issued
q call on national banks for q
statement OF their condition at the
close OF business, Tuesday, July
A.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
Bryan's Movements.

LINCOLN, Neb., July 1S.-Candi-
date Bryan slept well, arose late
this morning and talked all the
day with callers. Rain kept him
from Omaha. He goes to New
York to be notified the first week
of August. Then he will visit
Mr.. Sewell for q week. Fl
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
Tho Boy Who Borrowed Trouble.

Tho Boy Who Borrowed Trouble
Though extremely fond Of coasting, this
most peculiar lad,
While flying swiftly down the hill. would
wear a look Of pain;
For already he was thinking-and It really
made him sad
That very soon he'd have to climb the
whole way UP again.
-Fredertck 3. Opper. IN st. Nicholaa.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
ATTENTION

Contractors, Carpenters and Consum-
ers of lumber. Get prices from VIM.
Cameron & Co. before buying.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-18
PieH RED BLOOD is the fOun-

w dalton of good health. That is why
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the One True
Blood Purifier, gives HEALTH.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

1--WE therefore confidently appeal Ia
the people of the United States, that,
leaving in allegiance for the moment all
other questions, however important,
even momentous, they may appear, and
sundering, if need be, the former party
affiliations, they unite in supreme eff
fort to free themselves and their chill
dren from the domination of the money
power-a power more destructive than
any which has ever been fastened upon
the civilized men in any race and in any
age. And upon the consummation of
their desires and efforts we invoke tho
gracious favor of Divine Providence"
The following is the report of the
committee on organizations: THAT q
convention of the qualified voters of the
United States who believe in the prin-
ciples this day enunciated by this con-
ference, and who are willing to subordi-
nate party allegiance and fealty to those
principles, and to support the nomi-
nees of the national convention provid-
ed for by this conference, shall be held
at the City of ST. Louis, Mo-, on the 22d
day of July, A. d.: 1896, at the hour Of II
o'clock noon. That the apportionment
to such convention shall be one dele
gate for each senator and representa-
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

prominent Nebraska sheepman is
quoted as recently saying: 1--WE are
feeding at Wood River about 10000
head and at conservative estimate
100000 will be fed in Nebraska this
year. which is up to the best year Ne
braska ever had. Feed Is very plentiful
and cheap and feeders who were COM
PEELED to drop out last year are in it to
make up for lost time. We intend
TO export our sheep direct this year,
and have already engaged space from
Baltimore to Glasgow at the rate of
1000 head every boat, one of which
will sail every ten days. l think that
the restrictions recently made by the
British government will make diff
ference of 81 per 100 to the American
shipper, and the outlook does not seem
very favorable for the next two or three
months. I believe more sheep are on
feed now than were ever on feed before
in this country"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

tive in the United States congress from
the several states, and one delegate for
each delegate in congress from the sew
eral territories, and additional dele
gates for the several states and terri
tories based upon the silver strength as
ascertained from the American BIZ
meallic Union.
THAT this conference appoint q pro-
visional national committee, consisting
of one member from each state and ter
ritory, said committee to possess all
powers usually possessed by national
committees Of political parties; said
committee TO serve until the holding Of
said national conventions; said commit
tee or portion thereof appointed by
this conference shall have full power to
fill all vacancies, whether from the fail
ure of this conference to appoint a full
committee or from death, resignation,
or otherwise. Said committee shall
have its headquarters in the city of
Washington, d. c.
1.-THE mode Of selecting delegates to
said national convention shall be as
prescribed by the national committee,
subject to the following regulations:
"All delegates shall be elected at
public convention or at public meetings,
to be held either in the several states
at large or in the several counties or
districts of such states, as the national
committee may prescribe.
mo person shall be eligible as a dele
gate to any such convention or meeting,
or shall sit as delegate in said nation
al convention, who is not in favor Of
the declaration Of principles this day
enunciated by this conference, and who
is not willing to subordinate party allie
glance to the advancement of such
principles, and to support the nominees
of said convention.
THE national committee shall pro-
coed at once to organize the several
states and territories for the success of
this movement"
DR.. j. j. Mott of North Carolina was
unanimously elected chairman of the
national executive committee. A COM
mittee on finance-one from each state
was also elected. After a number of
other speeches the silver conference adj
journed.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

ION this issue we declare ourselves to
be in favor of distinctive American
financial system. We are unalterably
opposed to the single gold standard,
and demand the immediate return to the
constitutional standard of gold and sill
yer, by the restoration by this govern
ment, independently of any foreign
power, of the unrestricted coinage OF
both gold and silver into standard mon
ey, at the ratio of 16 to I, and upon
terms Of exact equality, as they existed
prior to 1873; the silver coin to be a
full legal tender, equally with gold,
for all debts and dues, public and pri-
vate.
1--WE hold that the power to control
and regulate a paper currency is in
separable from the power to coin
money; and hence that all currency in
tended to circulate as money should be
issued, and its volume controlled, by
the general government only, and
should be legal tender.
eve are unalterably opposed to the
issue by the United States of interest
bearing bonds in time Of peace, and we
denounce as a blunder worse than
crime the present treasury policy, con-
Cured in by a Republican house, OF
plunging the country in debt by hun
dreds of millions in the vain attempt
to maintain the gold standard by bor-
rowing gold; and we demand the pay
ment of all coin obligations of the Unit
ed States, as provided by existing laws,
in either gold or silver, at the option OF
the government and not at the option OF
the creditor"
The resolutions closed with the fol-
lowing appeal to the people:
Resolved, That, over and above all
other questions of policy, we are in ia
vor of restoring to the people of the
United States the time-honored money
Of the constitution-gold and silver;
not one, but both-the money Of Wash
ington and Hamilton, and Jefferson and
Monroe, and Jackson and Lincoln, to
the end that the American people may
receive honest pay for an honest prod
uce, the American debtor pay his just
obligations in an honest standard, and
not in standard that is appreciated
100 per cent above the great staples of
our country; and to the end, further
more, that silver-standard countries
may be deprived Of the unnatural adj
vantage they now enjoy in the differ
ence in exchange between gold and sill
ver-an advantage which the tariff
legislation alone cannot overcome.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

A press report from Washington says
that Mr.. Northway Of Ohio has intro
duced in the House bill directing the
Secretary of Agriculture to establish
six silk, flax and ramie experimental
stations, to be located, one in the mid
die states, one in the northwestern
states, one at Washington, one in the
north Pacific coast states, one in the
south gulf states and one on the Pacific
coast. The bill provides that the work
at the stations shall be carried on by
appointees of the Secretary of Agricul-
ture. For some time experiments in
growing ramie have been going on in
the public grounds of Washington, and
it has been shown conclusively that
ramie can be grown successfully in this
latitude, three crops Of excellent quality
having been grown the past summer
at the botanical gardens, and the prod
uct is now on exhibition in Washington.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

The silver conference at Washing
ton Thursday decided to put ma
tional ticket in the field for the ap-
preaching presidential campaign. The
national convention is to be held at
st. Louis July %, the same day as the
meeting of the Populist national con-
vention. Senator Jones of Nevada,
from the committee on resolutions, pre-
sented. the" following declaration Of
principles:
"The paramount issue at this time in
the United States is indisputably the
money question. 1t is between the gold
standard, gold bonds. and bank cur
rency on the one, side and the bimetallic
standard, no bonds, and government
currency on the other.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

Another steamer has been chartered
to carry 400 negroes from Savannah to
Monrovia, Liberia. Those who will go
will be presented with from ten to
twenty-five acres and town-lot. But
if they don't like it they can't get back
unless they can pay their fare.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

A Wichita judge heard twenty-one
divorce cases in four hours one day last
week, and out of the batch only two di-
vorces were granted. The Wichita pa
pers try to account for it by remarking
that the judge is a new one. Members
of the divorce colony have been busy
ever since packing up to go to Okla
homa, where the DEGREES come easier.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

There is great Indignation in Okla
homa because a new judge refused nine
teen out of twenty-one applications for
divorce. At that rate, the Oklahomans
argue, rich people of shady morals Will
stay in q civilized country to apply for
divorce.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

Jim Cash-Cash, rich and influential
Umatilla Indian, of Oregon, is suing for
a divorce on the ground that his wife
paints her face. Every husband is
watching Cash-Cash's case with re-
markable interest.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31

No wonder you never received an
answer to the letter you wrote to
Georgetown, Ind. Wagon loads of un-
delivered papers and letters that have
been lying in the office for years have
just been discovered. What did you
say about the fast mail?