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The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-10-03
TURNING THE TABLES.
Wanted Her Husbands Opinion About
Many Trivial Points of Dress.
PERCY CoRTELYoU.


Many Trivial Points of Dress.
A certain up town Clevelander is the
happy possessor of a marital interest in
very pretty and accomplished lady.
She is fond of nice clothes and always
looks well dressed, and her husband is
just as proud of her as he should be.
But from technical point Of view he
knows nothing whatever about her gar
ments, and it bothers him greatly when
she assumes that he does. She fires
broadsides of questions at him when
ever she is dressing to accompany him.
George, how does my skirt hang"
els it too long in front"' does my
belt cover the pins?' "Do you think
this gown is becoming?" ''Is my collar
down at the back?" "Are there any
wrinkles in this waist?' us my hat on
straight" These and a hundred other
interrogations are fired at him at short
intervals. If he doesn't pay close atten-
ton she gets cross So he pretends to
listen carefully, and answers glibly, al
though always at random.
The other day neat way of getting
even dawned upon him. When he was
dressing that nj yht for a party, he sud-
denly called his wife from the adjoining
room.
Alma" he said, do you think
these new trousers hang just as grace
fully as they should!"
"Why, George" she said. Il don't
know anything about it. Why do you
bother me?"
Hold on" said George, IT was
wondering if this shirt bosom sits quite
right?"
"Of course it does" snapped Alma.
"And these shoes-do you really
think they are becoming to my COM
plexion?"
"What silly question"
"And-hold on, Alma-isn't the coat
little long in the tails--on one side, l
mean-and can't you pin it up?"
"Why, George, l never heard you
talk such nonsense. You haven't been
drinking, have your"
"And-just wait a minute, Alma. !"
He quickly raised his silk hat from the
dresser and clapped it on the back Of
his head. "Now, dear, please pay at
tention. Is my hat on straight"
Then she understood his wicked little
game.
They walked together in silence until
they came within sight Of their destina-
ton, and the deeply wounded Alma
managed to stammer:
well, George, you mean old thing,
is my hat really and truly on straight"
Whereat they both laughed. -Cleve-
land Plain Dealer
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bogus bean is to look for the fiber from
the hull, which clings to the crack in
the genuine bean. The imitators have
not learned how to make bogus fiber
yet. Imitation beans are made Of mo-
lasses, -four and many other ingredients.
AS for ground coffee, it is usually
adulterated, and the only safety of the
coffee drinker is in buying green coffee
and roasting and grinding it at home.
Fresh roasted and fresh ground coffee is
the only good coffee anyway.
PERCY CoRTELYoU.
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IAN NOT A MAN AND A-MoNKEYP"

IAN NOT A MAN AND A-MoNKEY"
have been related to those of the forest
people. He was not exactly the connect
ing link. but he was about as cute and
cunning as the monkeys, and this was
the reason he had been selected to guide
me. At last, after two hours riding
through most beautiful vegetation, all
the while ascending, we reached broad
level in depression Of the mountain
ridge Q, 900 feet above the sea. "Too
late fer de monkey" said my sable
guide, shaking his woolly head. "You
no know monkey, Ell? All, him berry
wise. Him no ketch wiv chaff. "
We waded into the great, silent
woods, where tropical trees overhung a
deep ravine and a steep hillside was
covered with rank and dense vegeta-
ton. There, by the bank of a gently
flowing stream, sat down to breakfast
upon a most bountiful repast of cold
roast guinea fowl and trimmings, ac-
companied with two bottles of ale and
a square bottle of old st. Kits rum.
The last thing my generous host had
said as we left the plantation was,
''Have you got corkscrew?" And i'll
order that 1 should not miss it he had
put one among the provender.
The breakfast over, we climbed the
hillside to its summit, where the tall
trees grew, and there waited again for
signs of monkeys My guide tells me
they have now retired, most Of them, to
the distant mountain tops, where they
breed, constructing nests Of twigs and
leaves in low trees ON the cliffs. They
bring forth one at birth, sometimes
two, and tend the young with all the
solicitude displayed by human mother
for her offspring. At this season they
are more shy than in the dry season and
during the hurricane months. and the
old man adds that I shall be lucky to
get a shot anyway. We conversed in
whispers. and my friend told me great
deal of interesting monkey lore-so in
teresting, in fact, that nearly forgot
the object of my coming here. But all
at once the old darby placed finger
against his lips and shook his head
warningly. "Shu. massa, me heah dem
monkey quarrel. Dey mus be right ober
our heads"
looked ND toward the tops Of the
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-10-03

| immense trees and saw a something that
appeared no larger than a cat crouched
upon a limb picking seeds from the
twigs and eating them. This object was
long shot off, but drew up my gun
and let it have the left BARREL then as
il slipped over the limb and recovered
itself gave it the right, both barrels
charged with duck shot. The second
shot caught the animal in midair. and
it fell into thick topped tree, where II
lay quite still and out of sight. Great
drops of blood battered down upon the
leaves around u.s. and my guide eXcitedly
shouted: Hes shotl He done gut dat
He dead monkey TO shuah, sah!" But
although he may have been dead mon
key he wasn't destined to by my mon
key, it seems, for, despite of all our eff.
forts to dislodge it, there it staid, sus-
pended between heaven and earth, out
Of sight in that giant tree. At sound of
my first shot there was rustling of tree
tops all around us as the troop of mon
keys to which the one had killed be-
longed slipped out of range without q
single cry. They had been feeding all
about us, but SO sly were they and so
quiet that we had not suspected their
presence.
Leaving me watching the tree in the
hope that my game would fall, old
Tucker went off after the monkey band
In about an hour heard gun report,
and some time later the old man came
back, bearing with him monkey which
tipped the scales at nine pounds. 1t was
still warm and bleeding, its mouth full
of seeds, which it had been eating when
shot And ON its semihuman counte-
nance was an awful grin, which seemed
to me to bode anything but good for its
slayer. | was glad then that my monkey
had not fallen to the ground, for at
sight of its horrible face l should have
felt like the murderer Of baby. But l
went to work and skinned the specimen,
and it is to be preserved in museum
in the United States. All the while l
was engaged in this operation old Tuck
er was smacking his lips and feeling
the tender flesh. like cannibal gloat
ing over a missionary banquet. "Will
me eat um, massa? Yis, sab, eat um
all, an crack de skull fer de brain. Fo'
de brain, sab, mex me wise like mon
key an heah um long ways off. An eff
you no want de skin, sab, me glib um
to ma pick ny to sleep on an mex um
spry, like de macaque himself"
The flesh looked like good meat. but
the resemblance of the skinned animal
to fayed infant was too awfully sug
gestive for me to relish it, l declined
the old mans invitation to the prospec-
tive feast, much to his satisfaction APP
parently, for, as he said, his family
was large, and they all dotted Oh mon
key. He said they would not only eat
all the meat, but make a soup of the
bones, and this reminded me Of what a
planter told me-that the sight Of the
monkey skulls as he once saw them
bobbing about in the soup was too ghast-
ly for anything. But the flesh is said to
taste like the tenderest veal.
o. A. FURBER.
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SWARMS OF MONKEYS
HUNTING STRANGE GAME IN THE is
LAND OF ST. KITS.
Experience of a Taxidermist In West
Indian Isle-Shooting Odd Game-The
Man Who Shot a Monkey and How 1t
Affected Him.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
BAssE TERRE, st. Kits, Sept Al
had intended to sail direct from the
Venezuelan coast to the United States,
but meeting with the captain of tramp
steamer, who offered me passage to this
island, 1 changed my mind. And I'm
mighty glad 1 did, for l have gained
thereby an experience which falls to
but few in the course Of lifetime. ST..
Kits is a small island but one Of the
most beautiful in the West Indies. 1t
may be said to consist of a volcano lex
tinct) which is surrounded by great for
ests and these again by broad circle of
cultivated land devoted to the culture
of sugar cane. A good road, smooth and
hard, encircles the island and gives &C.
cess to every part, while the numerous
sugar estates are the abodes of some of
the most hospitable planters of Scotch
and English origin that the whole world
can show.
Having letter to one of them, lost
no time in getting out to his planta-
ton, and the very next morning he sent
me into the woods to look for monkeys,
for, in truth, with the taxidermist's ar
dor, that was what 1 came here for,
having heard that the island was liter
ally alive with them, as it is. In this
island and the near island Of Nevis
they fairly swarm, living in the forests,
but descending upon the canefelds and
committing great havoc.
Now, while there may not be any in
terest attaching to monkey such as
we see in company with the hand organ
"dagos" or in the Central park menag-
erie, the real wild article has a great
attraction for me- In the first place, he
is wild and shy and roams the forest
trees with the sagacity of a human be-
ing. 1t takes good hunter to get one,
SO alert and cunning is the animal in
his native wilds, and that fact put me
on my mettle, for l have shot about
every kind of wild game in these
islands, including the great parrots,
pigeons deer, cartridges, iguanas and
wild guinea fowl, and wanted to have
a shy at the monkey. But don't want
another.
The hospitable planter, brawny
Scotsman, Mr.. Mercer, sent out with
me his best monkey hunter, an old
black man, whose shrewd face suggest
ed that perhaps away back in the dim,
distant past some of his ancestors may
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-10-03
Whiskers and Mourning.

Some Hindoos wear mustaches and
boards turned up, but all wear whiskers
which are shaved off once when an adult
of their connection dies. The shaving of
of whiskers Is thus sign Of mourning.
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-10-03
Poorly Paid Justice.

A Greensboro IN. G. justice of the peace
states his profits from the Office so far at
30 cents cash In costs and half soling Of
his boots by a cobbler litigant against
whom costs were adjudged.
The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-10-03
Degenerate Toes.

An Italian criminologist has discovesSd
that criminal degeneracy shows itself IN
the toes of its subjects, webbed and pre-
hensile toes being common among con-
yicts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-30
ovERsTREEr FOR CONGRESS.

Hon. Jesse Overstreet the Republican
candidate for Congress in this district, is
entitled to the vote of every Republican
and of every voter who believes that full
prosperity cannot be realized in this coun-
try until the tariff shall be revised upon
the basis of protection. On every other
ground Mr.. Overstreet is entitled to the
support of those who desire to have man
in Congress because he can be useful to
the country and to his constituents Dur
ing the first session of the present Con-
gress Mr.. Overstreet led in securing the
passage of an act which requires that ali
PENSIONS shall be paid by checks. 1t is a
measure which the veteran organizations
had been asking for years, but Mr..
Overstreet was the first man to take up the
project in earnest. AS the result the PEN
sions of several thousands of old men who
have come to the agency in the past to be
robbed are now paid by checks sent to them
where they can be under the control of
those who must care for them. He is
man who conscientiously attends to his
congressional duties. Mr.. Overstreet has
made an admirable canvass. He has seen
all the people He has gone to the school,
houses in the country and to the factories
in the noon hours to present the issues of
the campaign. His addresses have been
logical, clear and forcible presentations of
the issues. Wherever he has spoken the
Republican cause has had conscientious
and able exponent Whatever can be done
for the district at Washington Mr.. Over
street can do as well as any man who can
be elected
There is not a particle Of doubt in re-
gard to Mr.. Overstreet's election, since Mr..
Woollen will receive the votes of all the
sensible Democrats and the somewhat re-
markable Cooper the votes of all those who
have no appreciation of the qualif cations
of a Congressman. Mr.. Overstreet's name
will be at the head Of the county ticket.
In order to vote for him stamp in the
square which has the picture of an eagle.
BY SO doing the entire Republican ticket,
which Mr.. Overstreet heads, will be voted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-30

he has made an acceptable judge in many
respects, he has made partisan decisions
when the interests of the Democratic par
ty have been at stake. In the
early days of the contest to over
throw the legislative apportionment
law. which the Supreme Court
has since decided unconstitutional, Judge
Brown reiterated the stump-speech heresy
that the courts had no right to pass upon
legislative appointments, even after the
Supreme Court in other States. in decisions
written by Democrats, had declared that
it was the first duty of the highest tribu-
nails in the State to pass upon the constitu-
tionality of the acts of legislatures af-
fecting the representation of the people in
legislative bodies. In the Wayne township
case, respecting the right of paupers 10
vote for trustees in that township, he re-
fused to admit the whole case and to decide
against a custom which is an outrage upon
an intelligent ballot, but wrote
partisan decision, which he closed
by a quotation from the argument
of an ex-Attorney-general which he had
made counsel in an election contest in
the national House, as if it were an au-
thority in law. He had an opportunity to
put an end to an iniQuity, but he continued
it, presumably, to make himself solid
with his party. Judge Brown left the Re-
publican party years ago. and got an Of
flee. Since that time, while often posing
to Republicans as being better than his
party, he has been an active politician
even a precinct challenger, when judge.
IL Circuit
Judge, accepting. apparently, all the Bry-
an heresies. This being the case, why
should he not be treated as his associates
on the ticket? Mr.. Allen has the indorse-
ment of the prominent Republican lawyers
of the county, is man of high character
and is commended to Republicans by
good record of four years in the Union
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-30
"RUIN AND MISERY"

The howl of the orators of the silver
mine trust is that ruin has marked the
twenty three years which have passed since
1.-The crime of 1873" Let us briefly consid-
err a few of the marks of ruin.
Since 1878 the population of the United
States has increased 30,0o0,00O. But there
might be ruin and misery with an in
crease of population.
Between 1880 and 1890 the assessed value
of the real and personal estate in the
United States increased from $17,00G 600, 900
to $25, 900. 900, 000 and the true value from
s43642 OOO OO0 in 1880 to s65 O37 O91 1877 in 1890
an increase of 40 per cent. In 1870, three
years before the crime the actual value
of the real and personal property in the
United States was $50. O6S, 51S507. This means
that the wealth of the country has more
than doubled during the period of the great
crime. We can stand lots of that brand of
ruin and misery"
The year the great crime was committed
there were SIT savings banks in the United
States, having 1,902,047 depositors and $780,
745.442 Of deposits. In 1896, the number of
savings banks was 1,017; the number of de-
positors, 4,S75,519, and the aggregate of de-
posts $1,S10, 597, 023. If this is 1.-The trail of
ruin and misery let the trails become
highways.
In 1873 there were few building and loan
associations in Philadelphia Now the
shareholders are 2,5OO.OOO and their assets
$500 O0O, 900. The country will be resigned to
more of that brand of ruin.
In 1873 the whole circulating medium of
the United States was $751;, SS1s19, worth
about IS cents a dollar in gold. Sept. /,
1896, there was 81, 6G3 $50, 023 of money in cir
culation. If this is indicative of ruin, may
the indications multiply.
Between 1873 and 1892 wages advanced in
gold about 20 per cent. and in purchase
power 80 per cent.
The people of this country stand ready
and even eager to be overwhelmed with
such misery" the foregoing figures i'm
ply. The crowds of people which will come
out to greet it will exceed the turnouts
of the people to Republican meetings.
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ing them to write to these firms warning
them OF, the withdrawal OF their patronage
If they did not restore their advertising to
the Post-Dispatch. The paper on which
these letters were written has the head of
the Democratic national COMMITTEES. One of
these fell into the hands of Mr.. c. Z. Utley,
of Warsaw, in this State, who is we'll
known travelling man. He saw the purpose
OF the letter and at once notified both
houses and sent the lamp letter. Before
hearing from Mr.. Utley both firms had re-
ceived letters from the country asking if
it were true that they had Withdrawn their
patronage from the Post-Dispatch, which
greatly puzzled them. Mr.. Utley's letter
made 1T clear that it was a conspiracy to
force the firms to go back to the Post
Dispatch in order to save their business
This is in the nature of coercion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-30
THE EXCELLENT STATE TICKET.

Not much attention has been given to
comparing the candidates the State
tickets. If there had been, it could have
been easily shown that the Republican
ticket from top to bottom is superior to any
other in the field. Mr.. Mount. who heads
st. in force of character, in a practical
business which mark the quality Of men,
is positive quantity where his opponent
is a negation. He is an acknowledged
leader in the most prominent industry of
the State; his opponent has no reputation
in his chosen profession. The Republican
State officers who are candidates for re-
election are all efficient men who have rem
dered the State excellent service. With
much smaller compensation than was paid
their predecessors they have done much to
improve the administration of the States
affairs. To these State officers is due the
admirable management of the States busi-
ness. For the first time in years the pris-
ons have noe exceeded their appropriations
Under the last year of the Democratic re-
CINE the expenditures were $4,000 in excess
of the appropriation. The discipline in the
prisons has been modernized by a classical
ton of convicts upon the basis of behavior
In other respects the States business has
been done on business principles. Thanks
to the persistence of Secretary of State
Owen and Auditor Daily. the majority of
the printing board, the cost OF the public
printing is 900 year less than it would
have been If Governor Matthews could
have had his way. When Mr.. Mount be-
comes Governor the apartments of the ex-
ecutive will no longer be used as the head
quarters of man who imagines himself
political boss.
Vote for the Republican State ticket and
secure the best This can be done by
stamping in the eagle square of the cleo
toral and State ticket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-30
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

Vote for Mckinley, confidence, good
money and prosperity-Brookville Ameri-
can.
What our country needs is a Republican
President Congress and confidence re-
Stored.-Cambridge City Tribune
If the few prominent Democrats that are
left to Bryan in Indiana should desert him
Tom Taggart would raise Bryan's majority
to about 100 0OO.-Terre Haute Express.
The Indianapolis Sentinel is the discoverer
of more deep, dire, dastardly and diabolical
plots by the Republicans this campaign
than history could hatch in a thousand
yearS.-Richmond Item.
The election of Bryan will be followed by
a business crash and panic without pre-
cedent in American history. Labor will be
the first to suffer and the last to recover
from the disastrous effects.-Muncie Times.
After Nov. 3 it will be interesting to study
the majorities of the localities covered by
Mr.. Bryan's peregrinations, and when his
campaign speeches are published an an
alytical table Of the vote should be given
as supplement to the work.-Hammond
Tribune
Every voter, when he goes to the polls
next Tuesday, should understand that he
will vote either to sustain the present mon
etary system, which provides for the cir
culation of gold and silver, or he will vote
to put the country on a. silver basiS.-Hun-
ington Herald.
The charge preferred against railroad
Iuel ny liic IOpOtIdlS lHdI OI
them were being coerced into making be-
lieve they were for Mckinley and will vote
for Bryan, is resented in the bittereSt terms
by the men, who do not choose to be looked
upon as amenable to hypocrisy.-Muncie
News.
We appeal to the sober Judgment of
peaceable, law-abiding people to say wheth-
err not they want man at the head of
this government who is an advocate of dis
Sension and sectional strife, who would let
mob rule hold sway and refuse to interpose
in favor of law and order? II that is the
kind of a President you prefer. then vote
for William Jennings Bryan.--Noblesville
Ledger.
Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Teller, both high
priests il the free-silver temple, confess
/ that the adoption of a free-silver coinage
will precipitate a panic. The Republican
leaders and the ableSt sound money Dem
ocratS predict that the defeat of Bryan
will bring about an immediate improve
ment in financial and industrial conditions
1t is incredible that a voter. upon this
presentment. should hesitate in making a
choice.-Wabash Plain Dealer.
Organism means something worse than
free silver worse than resistance to fed
eral authority. corruption of the Supreme
Court or debasenent of the civil service,
bad as these are. 1t means that a formid-
able party in the United States. If in
ern the country of Washington. jefferson
and Lincoln according TO every wildcat
scheme of finance, every within of passion
and prejudice, every reckless experiment
in government. that promises present party
success.-WarSaw Times.