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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02

GAS matter of fact, our values in
Mexico are in reality based on gold.
The merchant, whose wares are purch-
ased largely abroad market them in
accordance with the gold cash price /;
the manufacture makes his estimate
so as to undersell the foreign competitor
who pays his labor in gold; the coffee
planter and tropicals agriculturist sells
his produce for gold, nor would he be-
apt to look for purchaser in silver
country unless paid on silver basis
now commonly accepted. Silver is
the currency of Mexico, but ali her
industries are measured by gold just
in accordance as they are in touch
with the world at large, and, after all
is said, It'll only labor that is considered
in silver, and If they derive any of the
comforts of life thev must be purchased
at the rate of gold. Extract from the
Esnenda, Lower California Mexican
Newspaper.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02

Alleged Bimetallism.

The popocratic statesmen tell the
"plain people" they have been robbed
by the goldbugs and plutocrats thus
wise: One-half the country's money
was fraudulently demonetized in 1878.
This contracted the currency, increas-
ing, and nearly doubling the value of
the remainder, to the great detriment
and oppression of the poor. Inciden-
tally, and as a clincher, they always
call attention to the fact that prior to
1873 the silver dollar was worth about
$1O4.
We have said that when the act OF
1873 was passed silver money was no
appreciable part of our coinage. If the
act of 1873 had truly demonetized sill
yer, there would have been no cOntrac-
ton of the currency worth mentioning,
even if we disregard the facts and ad-
NIT that all silver ever coined by the
government was in circulation. The
total coinage of silver dollars for 80
years had not amounted to one-twenty-
fifth part of the gold then actually in
circulation. So it cannot possibly be
true that one-half the peoples money
was destroyed. The truth is that now
one-half the metallic money of the
country is silver while prior to 1873 no
part of it worth mentioning was silver.
We have also said that if there were
any increase in the purchasing power
OF the dollar, the poor man has bene-
fitted by it as much as any other man.
His wages have not fallen. They have,
on the contrary, risen. 1t lis a fact that
the working man has benefited more
than anybody else, if the gold dollar
in which his wages are paid has appre
ciated, for prices of almost everything
but labor have fallen greatly since 1878.
But there is a point relating to the
alleged demonetization of silver and
consequent ontract ction of the currency,
to which we wish to call attention. 1t
was made at Chicago by Mr.. Cochran
in one of the most powerful speeches of
this campaign. Mr.. Bryan and all
the popocrats hark back to the years
prior to 1873 when the silver dollar
was worth $104. They say we then
had bimetallism. Could it have been
possible2 Is it not self-evident that
dollars worth l04 cents were not circu-
lated by the side of dollars worth 100
cents, and freely exchanged for them?
Is not the mere fact that the silver
dollar was at a premium positive and
incontrovertible evidence that it was
not part of the currency? 1t GER
tainly is. Then how in the name of
common sense was it possible to con-
tract the currency demonetizing some
thing which was not part of it?
From the Chehalis Nugget, dem.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02

THE advocates of free silver have
worked themselves up into a wild
frenzy over the ruin which has come
to this country and is destined to
follow if the present financial system
ia continued. but it is well to have the
case clearly stated. This country has
been practically on a single gold basis
since the resumption of 1879. In
these wears there has been alternate
prosperity and depression. Neither
the one nor the other has been due to
our system of currency. The contlnu-
alton of that policy does not mean the
impoverishment of the masses nor o.
the debtor class. 1t does not mean
revolution. The country has gone
through monetary "craze" similar 70
the nresent, and it has survived and
grown rich in spite OF them. Ana
while it is true that there has been
witnessed ia this country in the past
thirty years such a growth OF vas.
fortunes, such concentration ano
increase of wealth as the world mas
never known before, i. ID not true thai
the poor have grown poorer or tna'
the situation OF all the people has mol
4 1<,~
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02

SPEAKING of the wilderness OF con-
tentions, statistics, metaphors and
emotional eruptions with the prevail
ing money question is freighted, a
recent caller at the Lumberman office
wanted to know what was the matter
with resting the case on the simple
annals of past experience. "The flush
times" he added, preceding the panic
of 1893 which, by the way, had never
been equaled in this or any other
country, were achieved under the
present financial and a protective tariff
system. In the light of history, then,
he concluded, "what better can we ex-
pect or hope for, than we had then?
What l want is an exact return OF
those times.n-N. w. Lumberman.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02

THROUGH agitation for free silver
the wage Garner is threatened not only
with an increase in the price of all the
necessaries of life, but with the greater
evil of having a deprecated dollar
paid him, with which he must buy the
higher priced necessities. The prices
of commodities will go up, but wages
will remain stationary for long time.
There is no person who would directly
suffer more from free silver than the
workingman.-P.I. l.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02
NO.. Al
Keep ON the Safe Side.

The republican party proposes to re-
tain the present system until some
thing better is in the prospect. We
know that during the past twenty
years the people of the United States
have enjoyed good times, and have
been prospering for fully three-fourihs
OF the period. If individually, we real
ly wish to know the causes to which
we can attribute our present troubles
most of us can trace them to causes
within our immediate control, and
which no proper legislation can remedy.
Whatcom may be the objections to the
present financial system, we know that,
with a reasonable protective tariff, con-
tidence will be restored and the wheels
OF industry begin to move, employing
labor,-and that is absolutely necessary
before we can have prosperity under
any financial system. On the other
hand we are asked to experiment again,
to indulge in system that has not
proven practical. Independent coin
age at l6 to l never proved practicable.
Both metals cannot and never have
circulated side by side at an arbitrary
ratio when either one was undervalued.
When the mints were open to free
coinage few silver dollars were coined
because the amount of silver in dollar
was worth $1.O3 elsewhere. Now sill
yer has fallen about one-half in value:
to give it free coinage at 16 to l,
would operate the same with the gold,
and we be on practically The basis of
the cheaper metal.
With the cooperation of number
oft he other important nations with
which we have extensive trade rela-
tions, we feel sure that "free and
unlimited coinage of silver" at a
proper ratio, can be maintained.
Our independent free coinage" men
assert that the United States is strong
enough to go alone and that England
and the other countries will be forced
to come down to it; yet they say in
the same breath, that you can't have
international bi-metallism because we
are not strong enough to force Eng
land into the agreement.
With the double advantage of free
trade and free silver, we can neither
force nor cajole England into anything;
she would have too good snap; but
by means of the power of protective
tariff and reciprocity, England must
come into the agreement and treat
silver equal, or yield its advantage
over us in the present and trade rela-
tions. The history of the past, which
is clearly and fairly shown by authentic
statistics, gives no hope that "independ-
ent free coinage at 16 to L." could be
successfully carried out, especially
when taking into consideration the
changed conditions and the greatly in
creased production Of silver, and must
convince the honest student that it
would, at least, be a very rash proceed
ing.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02
Reward! Reward!

Wilbur's Puget Sound Cough Cure
positively cures la grippe, coughs,
colds, hoarseness, woooping cough,
lung and throat trouble, and consump-
ton. Can be taken by the most deli
cate female or child Every bottle
guaranteed to cure. Price 80 cents.
Sold by Druggists.
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u,ELCOME CHAPTER, NO 40.
w ORDER EASTERN STAR.
Meets every Saturday after Full moon of each
mouth ALI members in good standing are
made welcome.
R. s BARGER ROSE E. DURREL,
Sec Worthy MatrOn.
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CT BARNABAS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH
y REV. R. J. MOONEY. PASTOR.
Services held in Masonic Hall each alternate
Sunday at IL A. NJ and 80 p. NJ.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02
Society Cards.

rIRsT BAPTIST CHURCH
REV. F. H. WEBSTER, PASTOR.
Preaching services every Sunday at 1890 a. m.
aud 7:30 D. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p, m B.
Y.P U. at $50 D. m. Prayer Meeting every
Thursday evening at o'clock followed by G. c..
Cclass All are made welcome at these services.
Corner Fifth and Gotta SITS.
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E Z. Cross Post No. 80, G. A. R.
Meets in l. o. o. F. hall first and third Saturday
nights of each month. Comrades are cordially
invited to visit and join.
FRANK MUNSON, J. B. RITNER,
Adjutant. Commander
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pACIFIC LODGE, NO. 66,
! X. OF p.
Meets the first and third Friday evenings OF
ofeach month at the Masonic Hall. Visitin
Knights cordially invited to attend.
ThoS McLarty, F. D. SHELTON,
X. of r. Is &C.
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WANTED-SEVERAL FAITHFUL MEN OR
a. Women to travel for responsible establish
eH e.. house in Washington. Salary $3.50. payable
fSto Sa, weekly and expenses. Position permanent.
nJler roi ence Enclose self-addressed stamped en-
.elops. The National, Star Building, Chicago.
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clRST METHODIST-EPIsCOP CHURCH.
Preaching every Sabbath at TO- 80 O'Clock A. M.
and $50 P. M. Sabbath School at 80 A. NJ
Hnyer meeting at 7:30 P. NJ. every Thursday
Ererybody is invited to attend. Seats free.
REV. F. NJ. WHEELER, Pastor
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-02
An Absent.Minded Man.

There have been great many stories
about absent minded men, where one
forgets his house address, and another
what business he is in, and where
ano ther has to refer to the mark on his
h am ndkerchief before he can remember
his own name, &c. There is lawyer
in Fort Atkinson. Wis, by the name of
Rogers, who possessed Jersey COW,
which he used to drive, morning and
evening, to and from the pasture, few
blocks away from his home. One morn
ing as one Of his neighbors was passing
along the street he met Mr.. Rogers
walking in the middle Of the road, his
mind apparently engrossed with some
weighty question. Then the neighbor
called out:
"Good morning, Mr.. Rogers; where
are you going ?"
"Why," said Mr.. Rogers, in sur.
prised way, "I'm driving the COW to
pasture" and he waved his hand to
ward where the COW ought to have
been.
"Well, where is the COW ?" asked the
friend
~ guess forgot to let her out Of the
barn." answered Mr.. Rogers, humbly,
| % he realized hia position. And be
| had.
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4l,ooo n Pri.es


Use the letters contained In the text
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For example the words: see, ON, none,
weeds, etc. The person forming the
greatest number OF words, using the
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Hundred Dollars in cash. For the next
largest list We will give $75 In cash, for
the next largest list $50 In cash, for the
next $25 cash, and for each Of the next
ten largest lists we will give $40 in gold.
II you are good at word making you can
secure valuable prize, a. The Monon
Seed Co., intend giving many hundred
special prizes to persons sending them
lists containing over twenty five words.
Write your name on the list OF words
(numbered) and enclose the same post
paid with six two. cent stamps for .
lage combination package of Monon Seeds
That Grow, which includes the latest
and most popular flowers of endless
varieties, also particulars and rules OF
distribution of prizes. This word CON.
test will be carefully and conscientiously
conducted, and is solely for the purpose
Of further introducing our seeds in new
localities. You will receive the Biggest
value in flower seeds ever offered, and
besides II you are able to make . good
list Of words and answer promptly you
will stand an equal opportunity to se'
cure valuable prize. We intend spend.
ing large amount Of money in the dis
tribution Of prizes in this contest. We
assure you that your trial order with us
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possible. Address,
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MOnOn Bldg, Chicago, Ill.
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Marveloas Results.

From letter uritten by Rev. J. Gun
derman, of Dimondale, Mich, we are
permitted to make this extract: II have
no hesitation in recommending Dr..
Kings New Discovery, as the results
were almost marvellous in the case of
my wife. While ! was pastor Of the
Baptist Church at Rives Junction che
was brought down with Pneumonia sue
ceeding La Grippe. Terrible paroxysms
of coughing would last hours with LITTLE
interruption and it seemed M II abe
could not survive them A friend recoms
mended DR.. Kings New Discovery 4
was quick in its work and highly sxti6I
factory in results" Trial bottles free 4
Fullerton & Co.'S Drug Store. Regular
size 80 cents and 81.
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Cars to California via "The
True Southern ROute.''


The Iron Mountain Route, in con-
nection with the Texas and Pacific and
Southern Pacific Railways offers to tour.
list and home eseekers contemplating
trip to California the following features:
From st, Louis, daily Pullman Palace
Buffet Sleeping Cars to Los Angeles and
other California points without change,
and every Wednesday and Thursday
evening, Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars
to Los Angeles and other California
points. The Tourist Cars used On these
weekly excursions are modern, and
built especially for California travel.
The excursions are personally conducted
and the object is to enable those who
do not wish to purchase first class
tickets, the privilege of sleeping car &C.
commodations and no change of cars.
No high attitudes and free from ice and
snow, forming an ideal winter way to
the land Of sunshine, fruit and flowers.
Via this route the dangers of snow
blockades and delays are obviated. For
maps, time tables and full particulars
address N. r. Warwick. Agent, 2l7 Vine
treet, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Models That Threaten Us.

If rumors from abroad are correct, the
fashionable woman of the spring of '96
will be wonderful to behold, says the
Philadelphia Enquirer: Fol-. the past
five years fashion has been subject to
but few radical changes. This spring
a revolution is to take place.
Here is list of the new fashions
which have already appeared in Paris:
The hoopskirt.
Large bustles.
Small, tight fitting sleeves.
Hip pads in various sizes.
High heels.
Collars of enormous size. t~
Hats worn we'll over the forehead.
Marie Antonette curls dangling from
the back of the coiffure.
Such is the array Of horrors which
the fashionable woman must coutem'
plate before planning her spring ward
robe.
If she is sensible woman she will
take decisive stand in the matter al
the beginning and adopt only the least
Objectionable of the new fashions. Thf
hoopskirt is sure to cause here more
sorr ow than the late balloon sleeve. 1
will be equally unmanageable and more
than twice as expensive, skirts with 81,
cores will be out OF the question. Double
the number will be required, which
means that the modiste's bill will b.
larger than ever.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-02
Dr.. Pisrsoa's Baptisn.

A cablegram from London on Febru.
ary A, announcing that Rev. James A.
Sp urseon had baptized Rev. A. T. Pier.
son, D. d., the noted Presbytsrian
preacher, at Croydon, ON Saturday, Feb.
ruary l, occasioned great surprise. Il
will be remembered that after the death
Of Rev. Charles II. Spurgeon, Dr.. Pier.
son suppliei the Metropolitan Taber.
nacle for two years. and 90 far won the
hearts Of the congregation that there was
an attempt to make him Mr.. Spurgeon's
successor. This might have been sue.
cessful, but for his ecclesiastical relations.
It was reported at the time that DR..
Persons ministry at the Tabernacle had
greatly deepened his conviction with
regard to immersion as the Scriptural
mode of the ordinance, and that he had
even applied to DR.. A. J. Gordon for
baptism. When this became known,
the apparently sudden change of views
seemed 30 much like "bid" for the
Tabernacle pastorate that DR.. Pierson
pSOutly uOhlCu VA0t tuCIo was any tEutA
in the rumor, and affirmed his purpose
to live and die in the church with which
he had been 30 long associated. Not
withstanding this, strong party, head.
ed by Rev. James A. spurgeon, stfll
supported DR.. Pierson for the pastorate.
The majority of the church, however,
united upon Rev. Thomas spurgeon, who
has filed his place acceptably, and &C.
complished the difficult task of holding
the great church together. 1t is gratify-
ing to know that DR.. Pierson has at last
seen the way clear to follow his convic.
tions, and that his friend, Rev. James A..
Spurgeon, has had the privilege of ad.
ministering to him the ordinance of bap.
tism. We heartily welcome DR.. Pier
son to the number of those who hold to
believers baptism" administered as
Christ ordained and Paul preached
New York Examiner.
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While travelling in Virginia some time
ago with doctor we came upon an old
colored man who was standing by q
mule hitched to an old two-wheel
vehicle. "Dis mule am baked, boss"
said the old man, "an' I'll jist glib dol.
ah to de man what can start 'im."
II will do it for less than that, uncle"
said the doctor. He took his case from
the carriage and selected a small syr.
inge which he filed with morphine.
He went to the side of the mule and
quickly inserting the syringe in his side
pushed the contents into the animal.
The mule reared upon his hind legs,
and giving an astonishing bray started
down the road at break-neck speed.
The aged colored man gave look OF
astonishment at the doctor, and with a
loud "Whoa |" started down the road
after the mule. In the course of ten
minutes we came up to the old man,
standing in the road waiting for US.
The mule was nowhere in sight.
"ssy, boss" said the darkey, show
much is that stuff you put in dat muleP'
"Oh, about ten CENTS" laughingly re.
piled the doctor.
swell, boss, yo' kin squirt twenty
cents wuth in me right away. Here am
de cash. must ketch dat ar mule"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-02

General A. w. Greedy, of Arctic fame,
begins, in the March Ladies' Home Jour
nal, his article on George Washington,
which creates considerable discussion.
General Greedy has read over 1000 Of
Washington's private letters, and he
writes in frank, unbiased way of the
personal side OF Washington. His first
article will deal with the loves and
courtships of Washington and his final
marriage to the widow Custis. General
Greeley's articles are not likely to con.
firm the estimate of those who regard
Washington in an ideal way. But they
are truthful and admirably portray the
man as he was,-in reality.
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Mother Have You a Baby Z

If 30, get from your druggist today for
25 cents, bottle of DR.. Hands Collie
Cure. Every baby often has distressing
collie. DIR. Hands Collie Cure gives i'm.
mediate relief by removing wind from
the stomach and quieting the nerves,
giving restful sleep. Mother, think of
the worry and anxiety this saves you.
If your baby is teething DR.. Hands
Teething Lotion for 25 cents, sooths and
relieves all pain. Sold by all druggists
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W. =. GLADSTONE
THE FUTURE STATE
AND THE CONDITION OF MAN IN IT.
The series will begin in the January
number.
SO Cents q Copy; $500 a Year.
THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW,
3 East 18th st., New York.
sam Jones ON Politics.

sam Jones on fOuClCSs
used to be Jim Dandy Democrat;
carried torches burned my hands, went
home drunk, and was q good one.
Political orators tell how all men are
created equal. God did not create them
equal any more than he did horses, and
il you think he created horses equal,
Just hitch the old nag, Bud, and trot
him heat against Nancy Hanks. They
say the poor are growing poorer and rich
richer. That's half lie and half truth,
and half truth is like half brick
only good to knock o fool down with.
There is no such thing as class legisla-
ton. Show me one clause of it and you
may use my head for foot ball.
Populists are the most down trodden
people in the world. The weeds get his
crops, the buzzards get his horses and
the sheriff gets him.
l know q lawyer that makes $4,000,
a year, and there's little pettifogger
that can't pay his board. Her 'sa doc
tor that has princely income, there's a
little quack that don't earn his salt.
Here's girl that has twenty beaux;
there's one who never had q fellow.
Il It class legislation ? The trouble is in
your noggin, Bud. Did you ever have
It examinined
II there's crowd on earth am sorry
for, it's the preachers. I used to run q
saw, mill, and once . man asked me fo'
job hauling logs. His team was com
posed Of . mule, goat, bee and
skunk-a kicker, q butter. . stinger and
stinker. Every preacher has q team
OF this kind in bis church. He MAJ
succeed In getting hls team TO heaven
but he will never get his team In
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Free Information.

Messers. @. A. Snow & Co., of Wash.
ington D. O., lawyers and agents for
procuring patents, will send free to any
address, pamphlets with information
about home and foreign patents, caveats,
copyrights, trade. marks, infringements,
design patents, abstract Of decisions,
etc., a. we'll q the cost of patents in the
United States and foreign countries.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-02

"Give me liver regulator and I can
regulete the world" said a genius. The
druggist handed him bottle Of De Wits
Little Early Risers, the famous little
pills. w. R. Smith & Go.
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One Minute Cough Cure touches the
right tpot. II also touches it at the right
time if you take it when you have a
cough or cold. See the point? Then
don't cough. W. R. Smith & Co.
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"Are the residents OF your fiat intel.
lectual?"
"Yes, everyone of them has folding
bed that looks like bookcase
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His Mother You zee. your srandpapa
b very sick. Say something to him.
The Son. Grandpa. would you like 70
have soldiers at your funeralf