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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30
Too Much hustle and Worry.

In this age of Drosaic active business
life, it sometimes seems as though there
were not room for any real romance or
tender thoughtfulness to creep in. All
is hustle and worry. There is continual
talk of how best to obtain the nimble
dollar, and the sentiment is often left
in the lurch, overgrown by the moss
and lichens of ambition and the desire
for worldly prosperity. Of course we
are sufficiently womanly and human to
appreciate the dainty, luxurious sur
roundings that money brings, but we
believe we voice all womens thoughts
when we declare that We would rather
have fewer handsome clothes, less i'm
pressive furniture in cur homes, and
five-cent trolley rides instead Of brisk
spins behind blooded stceds if loSS and
sentiment were brought to bear lit
tie more strongly upon our daily lives.
The anniversaries OF births or of
weddings are allowe9.all too frequently
to pass by unheeded, the father or hHHss=-
band actually not knowing that the all
important date from a woman's stand
point is any different from others that
mark only the rise or fall of certain
stocks in which he is interested If
but, oh! there looms up such gulf Of
natural impossibility after that wee
word of two letters-if men could only
be made to understand that a bunch Of
flowers given in remembrance of a
birthday or wedding anniversary
means more to a woman than a seal
skin coat or a diamond pendant, be-
slowed when business is particularly
fourishing, then, perhaps, they would
try right hard to acquire what seems
absolutely unnatural to them and as
sumo a virtue, though they possess it
not
To e. woman there is SO much in the
memory Of the past. She dwelas upon
it, lives in it, and wonders why it does
not appeal so utterly and entirely to
her husband or lover as it does to her.
We women are really very silly about
some things, but it is our nature to
cherish sweet recollectious and to feel
touched by the thoughtfulness that
plans some little festivity on the ami
Versary Of an occasion which has
marked an epoch in our lives. We do
not demand much. No great gifts are
enyied, no marvellous entertainment de-
sired, but a gift breathing forth the
sentiment with which we are filled, no
matter how humble it may be, seems
sweeter to us than the royal bestowal
Of kings or queens. If we could but
whisper this secret to the great world of
married men, who, though welded, do
not understand women, we would do
more toward bringing happiness into
domestic life than will ever be accom-
plished by crusades or public move
men:s Of any sort.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

the fire. ''Tll tell you, Mac, we are in
luck. You are a genius, and no mis-
take. That plan OF yours was daisy.
How much better it was to knock one
of the coves in the head while he was
asleep and tumble his body down in the
ravine, and get away with the swag
without bothering the other, than it
would have been to knock 'em both
over The cove that's left, as soon as
he wakes, will miss the gold and his
partner, and it won't take him long to
come to the notion that the other has
skipped out with the stuff. That will
throw all suspicion off from us and
save us the trouble of committing what
the newspapers call a double muir
der"
AS | listened to the words a full re-
alization OF the dreadful business came
to me- Poor Jim had been murdered
then while / slept, and the gold taken,
and his body thrown in some deep ra-
vine, to become the food of the mount
ain vultures And the thought that /
had suspected him of dishonesty gave
me a keen pang Of remorse.
| clutched my heavy forty-five re-
volver in my hand, feeling that would
be more than justified in sending bull
let's through the brains of the remorse-
less villains.
II say, Mac" went on the one called
Jake, suppose we hide this stuff and
take turn down the gulch and knock
over deer I am as hungry as wolf.
and our larder is about empty"
THAT will suit me to T." respond
ed the other. and. secreting the bags of
gold In a corner OF the cavern, they
came In the direction OF where stood.
1t was plain that my presence would
be discovered, and knowing full well
what that would mean to me, I
stepped back into q niche In the rocks,
clutchIng my revolver for instant use.
! had no plan In view, 80 sudden had
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

placed. A single glance showed me
that these were als2 missing.
stood staring about me, stupefied
and bewildered. IN that brief mo-
ment a dreadful suspicion took pos
session Of me-a suspicion that | strug-
gled hard to crush out, but which rap
idly grew into conviction-a suspicion
that Jim Parsons was thief.
1t was a terrible shock to me. To
lose the little fortune for which | had
undergone so many hardships, and
which had cost so much toll, was in
deed hard, but 1 think can truly say
that the discovery of the baseness of
one whom l had regarded as a true
friend, sent a still greater pang to my
soul.
In the midst of my gloomy refec-
tons | tried to comfort myself with the
faint hope that it was only a joke
which Jim had played upon me, and
that he would soon return; but after an
hour had passed this hope died out in
my breast, leaving only the conviction
that my first suspicious were true.
had no heart to eat breakfast, and
after lingering about the place for a
couple of hours, set about for Blue
Rock. After travelling some hours !
sat down to rest in deep glen. Near
where sat small stream leaped over
a wall OF rocks and fell in tiny cat
aract on the rough rocks below.
AS / sat watching the play of the
waters, suddenly espied what seemed
like an opening back Of the sheet Of
water, and on a closer investigation !
saw that 1t was a cavern leading back
into the cliff. I had no sooner made
the discovery than resolution to ex-
plore 1t took possession Of me.
Procuring some torches from a patch
Of resinous bushes that grew near BY,
ieaped through the falling stream
70 the mouth OF the cavern. ! found
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30
How's ThisI

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
f. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known r.
]. Cheney for the last Is years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions, and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio,
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken INTERNAL
iy, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Tes
inUridfS sent ffSc-AZer4oa- a fsz>Jtr.lL 9s
Sold by all druggists.
Halls Family Pills, Csc.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

among the gulches, which had yielded
us small fortune in yellow nuggets.
Ill luck had followed us so long that
this bit of good fortune seemed too
good to be real, and more than once
L fully expected to awake to find it all
a dream.
We were friends and schoolmates-
jim and land had come West two
years before to seek our fortune
among the gold-bearing gulches of the
great Rocky mountains.
Our first days journey lay across a
spur of the foothills that stretched,
bleak and barren, toward the blue rim
OF the southern horizon.
Night was already coming down over
mountain and valley when we stopped
IN small valley, threaded by silvery
stream, which dashed merrily over its
rocky beds.
AS soon as we had eaten a hasty sup
per, we stretched ourselves on our
blankets, and, weary with our days
Journey, We quickly fell asleep. The
gray of carly dawn was just lighting
the mountain tops when l awoke, and
as | turned to call my partner I was
amazed to find that he was gone. l
glanced quickly in the direction of
where our campfire had been built, full
ly expecting to see him reminding the
smoldering embers, but he was not
there. got up and drew on my clothes,
thinking it strange that he was no
where to be seen. At the same time
my eyes wandered instinctively to the
head of our bed, where the sacks con-
tanning the precious nuggets had been
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

Blind Horses.-It is said that there
are more blind horses in America than
in any other country. and these are
found chiefly where they are stabbed
and highly fed for the purpose OF fat
:enlng. Blindness seems TO bear a SYM
pathetic relation. we thus see, with in
digestion. Another serious source ia
from the bad, unwholesome stgOles In
he citles.--Ex.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30
Parker,s GINGER TonIc.

OF the many good things to be found in
American homes, we do not believe that
any are held in higher esteem, or have
done better service than Parker's Gin
ger Tonic. 1t has grown to be house
hold necessity and is serviceable in al
most every case where there is weak
ness and infirmity. Their -- : N"''-
female debility that. vi
DEF. ZtT'he Same IS -....
coughs and colds, and di, Sso7z.-..
ach and nervous iilSg THEY have held
high revel in many homes until ban
ished by Parker's Ginger Tonic and we
are proud of the record that has made
so many hearts grateful.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

The strength Of the common house
ant Is something phenomenal. Sir John
Lubbock has estimated that one OF these
can sustain a weight 1000 times greater
than les own. This is equivalent 10
man holding $40 tons by his teeth.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30
II YOU will cut THU out and .,

Carroll D. Wright says there is between
Pennsylvania and Alabama forty times the
coal there was in Great Britain before
pick was struck.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

Frank Deboe, of Crittenden County, KY,
gave his sweetheart glass of eggnog.
Now he's liable to go to Jail for giving
liquor to a minor.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30
GROW RICH, EVERY FARwr.

The editor thinks it to be the wish Of
everybody to grow rich, not for the SAKE
OF the money, but for the good that can
De done with the money. Now, there
are three new cereals recently created
that will make money for the farmer
One is Silver King Barley, the most
wonderful creation of the age, yieldins
80, 100 to 116 bu. per acre in 1895. and
there are thousands of farmers who he.
lieVe they can grow $50 bu. per acre
therefrom in 1896.
Then there is Silver Mine Oats, yield.
ing in 1895 2O9 bu. per acre. Every
farmer who tested it, believes 25O bu,
possible.
Then there is Golden Triumph Corn,
which produced over 200 bu. per acre,
and $50 bu. is surely possible. .
And potatoes, there is Salzer's Ear.
Hest, which was fit for table in % DAYS
in 1895, yielding tremendously. whilA
the Champion of the World, tested in a
thousand different places in 1895, yield.
ed from 8 to 1000 bu. per acre.
Now, in Salzer's new catalogue there
IS a wonderful arrayal of new varieties
of wheat. oats, barley, rye, potatoes
grasses, clovers and forage plants, and
the editor believes that it would nav
every farmer a thousandfold to get This
catalogue before buying seeds.
If you will cut THU out and send !,
with 10 cents postage to the John A,
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, you
will receive, free, 10 grain and grass
samples, including above and their
mammoth catalogue. Catalogue alone,
cents postage. W.n.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

Some statistician who says the American
people spend $50, 0G0, 600 a year for gum has
been getting rather gay with the truth.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

Walking would often be pleasure
were it not for the corns. These pests are easily
removed with Hindercorns. 15c. at druggists,
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

Since 1880 the South has more than
doubled its railway mileage and earnings,
banking capital and school appropriations.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

K $500 ~ - o
the mountains for
four weeks-Jim
Parsons and L
ard now we were
returning to Blue
Rock, filled with
Joy at our good for
tune. We had dis
covered a rich
pocket far up
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30
A STORY OF JIM.
By Will Lisenbee.

SY2 9K1 RE had been out
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1896-01-30

W. N. U. St. L.-oG7--4.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
REMARKS OF MKlNLEY.
Places the Issues of the Campaign Upon
High Plane.

Major Mckinley placed the issues Of
the campaign upon high plane when
he said in addressing the delegation
from Vermont:
ITO me the question of free trade is
a question of humanity, the voice of Ia
Dor pleading for its own, and the ques-
ton of free silver a question of pub
lie morality, honor, and good faith.
and its success would be a blot on our
hitherto spotleSs national credit"
The money loss to the American peo-
pie by free trade and free coinage can
be approximately measured in dollars.
The figures showing the increased i'm
portation of manufactured goods under
the Wilson tariff law graphically depict
the money loss sustained by the Amer
lean mechanics. Dividing the total as
sets of all building and loan associa-
tions and the total savings deposited in
the savings banks by two will give a
fair idea of the losses that will fall up
on several millions of our people by the
adoption or a debased currency.
There is something else besides math-
ematics in this campaign. AS Major
Mckinley said to the sturdy New Eng
landers from the Green Mountain
state, it is question of humanity and
OF public morals. Shall we deprive
American labor of it's undoubted right
to supply the home maeliet, and after
robbing it for the enrichment of foreign
labor give it a deprecated currency
with which to purchase the necessities
Of life? After doing this shall we re-
pudiate our national obligations and
destroy our credit with the nations of
the earth?
These are questions OF humanity and
morals. Fortunately for the welfare Of
this country they appeal quite as
strongly to very large proportion Of
our people as do questions of mere
profit and loss.-Chicago Times-H Herald.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
Money value of 200 pounds in 1873 at $O.18.SO
per pound, $94.
GEFFFHEfsfrA

Money value of 500 pounds in 1896 at sO.Or 81
per pound, $50.
or Ga. 5S cents per pound, in eight years,
Under our present financial system the
price has only fallen $50 per bale, or l
cents per pound, in 29 years. In face of
these official figures how can any intel
ligent man pretend that it was the
change In our currency laws in 1878
which has reduced the money value of
cotton?
The advocates of free silver may at
tempt to answer this exposure of their
low price for cotton argument by show
ing that there was great increase in
the cotton crop between 1865 and 1878.
This is true, but there has also been q
far greater quantity of cotton produced
every year since 1878 than ever before,
the crop for 1892 reaching 9,035, 379
bales as compared with $3.50, sos bales
in 1878, the largest crop during the
period from 1865 to 1878, so that if in
creased production caused the great de-
cline in price in one case it is surely
fair to credit it, and not the stoppage of
free silver coinage, withthe lower prices
Of the past % years.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
THE CAUSES OF lDLENESS.
Threatened Free Silver Measure Is One
of Them.

Mr.. Bryan, in his Chicago speech on
Labor Day, referred to idleness as the
cause of the increase of crime Any
legislation, then, actual or proposed
which causes idleness amonE men who
but for its influence would be at work,
must be held responsible for whatever
increase of crime we behold. In this
view of the facts, it is Democratic leg
islation actual and proposed, on the
tariff and on the silver question, that
is filing our roads with tramps and
highwaymen, our towns with burglars
and pickpockets, making business for
our criminal courts, filing our jails and
penitentiaries and ripening fruit for
the gallows.
However calamitous the effect OF the
Wilson bill in curtailng the field of
employment for our woTkingmen, it Is
quite certain that the threatened free
coinage measure has done immensely
more than any tariff changes to put
a stop to industrial enterprise and to
check the flow of capital into the pur-
suits that furnish employment for
workingmen. Both together include
All the causes which have shut up our
mills and factories or reduced their
forces to the lowest limit. For all the
forcel idlenesS in the country they are
responsible, and Mr.. Bryan represents
them both. AS the champion of free
trade and this accredited representative
of the cause of free coinage he stands
for the two things which, in many diff
ferent degrees, have brought upon the
country all the calamities 1t has been
suffering for the past three years. And
when the hundreds of men who can
not find any work at living wages in
quire the reasons for their misfortunes
they will not be long in finding out
that Bryan represents not only all the
evils that betide them, but a hundred
fold more calamities in the future
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
FREE SILVER AND THE PRICE OF COT
TON.
Populist Statistics Which Prove Sound
Money Statements.

Popuiist Statistics Which Prove Sound
Money Statements.
The Arena, a Populist magazine, pub
fishes series of pictures intended to
show the great decrease in the purchas-
ing power of bale of cotton, owing to
the alleged characterization" of silver.
The money value Of the first bale is given
as "a 10. 90 in 1865. The next in the
same series is for 1870, when the money
value had Shrunk to $lI9. 90. Other
pictures give the varying values down
to 1894, the conclusion from the whole
being that the lack of free silver has
caused the fall in the price of cotton.
How false this argument is can be
seen by looking at the figures quoted.
Between 1865 and 1870 the price of cot
ton fell from SO. 38 cents per pound to
23. SO cents. By 1878, the year of the
crime" the price had gone down to
1880 cents. In other words, the money
value of bale of cotton shrank from
$4,000 in 1865 to $94, difference
of $500. 80, while the country had free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1. Since that
time the fall in price has been much
less, having been only from $94 in 1878
to $50 in 1896 at the present quota
tions of 2. 80 cents per pound.
The history of cotton prices shows,
therefore, that under free silver the
price of a bale of cotton declined 1922. 90,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
English Labor Needs Protection.

The working people Of England FIND
that competition with countries employ.
ing cheaper labor is too oppressive to
bear longer and are demanding, i'll the
interest of themselves and families to
be saved from the further degradation
it will entail. 1t is not American com
petition they dread. 1t is the COMPETE
ton of France, Germany and Belgium,
countries whose labor is even more
poorly paid than the labor of England.
They have come to appreciate at last
that nothing but tariffs which are de-
fensive in their characters will save
them from utter ruin and restitution. ---
Hon. William Mckinley.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
THE CLIFF RUINS or COLORADO.
A Region of Especial Interest to Students
of the Prehistoric.


The cliff ruins of the San Juan and
the Mancos have been the center Of at
traction, have been viewed from all
sides, and their wonders have been told
and retold to the world time and time
again. Scientific men have visited the
region, have penetrated southwestern
Colorado and have considered that Sec
tion a place of especial interest. because
the cliff and cave dwellings are probably
the oldest in this strange land, being
the first built in that mysterious journey
southwark of great but unknown peo-
pie. For 90 years the prospector has
followed the San Juan river and gazed
with careless unconcern on the rough
and broken walls, so full of interest to
the arch@ologist.
But the mind Of the prospector has
no room for curios, and he has no time
for archaeological investigation. He
sees only the glitter of the gold in the
sand, and thinks only of the time when
he shall have made his stake. In No
vember of 1899 hundreds of gold hunt
ers rushed madly into the canyon north
VI tlC 4NdNdJO luOuhbdluy tloNCiOo WV
miles over bleak, desert tablelands, suf-
fering terribly from the cold, hunger
and the long, wearisome journey. In a
few days they had staked off all the
available land for 80 miles up and down
the river and then returned home with
out having obtained so much as a color
of gold, and today have nothing to show
for it but the stakes.
1t is one of the most wildly pictur-
esque and beautiful regions in the
world. The bleak old Navajo mountain
rises abruptly and towers like q grim
sentinel over the surrounding mesas,
while in acanyon gorge more than 1000
feet below its base the Rio San Juan
appears like silver thread. The canyon
is several miles wide, and descent can
be made to the river only by precipi-
tous trail, but as the river approaches
the great Colorado the canyon becomes
mere narrow and the wall more pcrpen-
dicular, and when it merges into the
Grand canyon it is scarcely more than q
deep, dark channel.
A few miles from the Colorado river,
where the canyon is not more than 500
or 1000 feet from wall to wall, and
where the walls are perpendicular and
smooth, on the right wall are the pic
lures Of seven warriors with bows
drawn to the last notch, while across
the river on the opposite side are the
pictures of seven antelope, apparently
in full run to escape the hunters. These
pictures are we'll executed and are in
the most inaccessible places. Evidently
the artist had to be lowered from a
ledge hundreds of feet above the picture
and held suspended while he performed
his tedious task. There are many places
in the mystic southwest where such
paintings are to be found. Denver
Field and Farm.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
"The Duty on Coal Is Indefensible.-

This remark was made by the free
trade presidential candidate of the
Democratic party, Hon. William ].
Bryan, in the Fifty third congress when
the Wilson bill was under discussion
Bryan is of the regular Wilson free
trade brand. He would either close our
coal mines and stop giving employment
to labor in our coal producing states, or
he would make our miners work for the
lower wages that are paid in foreign
countries on the basis of the women coal
miners who slave in the bowels of old
England.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-02
Bryan in 1858.

mo people except the greedy own
ers of silver mines, anxious to make
inordinate profits, are interested in
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. No peo-
pie except those avericious owners of
money. who profit by contracting the
currency, are interested in prohibit
ing honest free silver coinage at the
ratio Of 20 to /. We have no silver
mines in Nebraska and the interests
of the people of this state simply re-
uuire free and unlimited coinage OF
silver upon the basis of its reasonable
value, which cannot be far from i
part of gold to rs of silver. Word
Herald, Bryan's papevs July 81, 1893