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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-01
GoId toothpicks at Maley's, tbe iowcler.
injured al Kohlnoor Colllery.

Michael Casper, a miner employed at
Kohinoor colliery was injured yesterday
morning by the premature explosion of a
blast His injuries are not serious.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-01
New Year sociable.

A grand sociable will be held at Robbins
opera house ON New Years Wednesday,
night. Music win be furnished by the Riley
orchestra 10-30-3t
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-01
Englne Brolze Down.

One of the engines at the incandesrent
electric light station broke down last evening
Some consumers on West Centre street were
temporarily deprived Of light, but an extra
engine was put in operation and no serious
delay was caused The damaged engine was
repaired during the night and put in service
again.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-01
serynnt Girl Mnnted.

Good wages will be paid to good servant
girl. Apply at Nos and IL South Main
street, Shenandoah 1t
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-01
SeIeifiy House.

Boston Baked Beans tonight.
Egg Nog. Tom and jerry.
At the bar will be found all the concoctions
Of the festive season served in good style.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-01

We still lead in the line Of fashionable
neckwear At MAN LENITS, Is East
Centre street
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-01

We most heartily express

We most heartily express
our thanks for the kind patron
age you have given us the
past year and shall endeavor
to continue in the new year,
not only to please you as
heretofore, but try our best to
pass our old established record
ant serve you fully to your
expectations
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-01

Buy our New Years presents at MaleyS.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01

are tricky, and the jaguar when he is
fierce at all is es unruly as any. I have
noticed little difference in the temper of
the sexes.
eve have all been to circuses and
have seen the apparently wonderful
feats of animal intelligence. These are
simply mechanical motions acquired
after the trainer has spent months and
years of patience in teaching them. The
few simple devices of playing upon the
fears of the animals and of rewarding
them when tricks are we'll performed,
are alone used.
''The cage life has made all these an
imals of the jungle and the desert eX-
tremely nervous, and it is through fear
primarily that they are taught. Ineed
but make a move, and my lion crawls
away IL the furthest corner. Thus,
when teach him to jump, place hur-
die across the cage, and walk up to him,
swapping my finger. The lion tries to
get away, and in order to do so he must
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
TRAINING WILD BEASTS.
A Trade Requiring Unlimited Pa
tience and Nerve.
How such Animals as Lions and
Tigers Arc subdued-Manngement
of Elephants = Methods Of
Bird Trainers.
Tspeciol Chicago Letter.I

Especial chicago Letter.J
"Afraid of the lion!" exclaimed a
well-known animal trainer, few days
ago, in reply to my inquiry. ''Not a
bit, my friend. why, man alive. the
lion is ten times more afraid of me than
I am of him. It seems that the lower
animals have natural feeling Of awe
for oil mankind, and it Is easy for the
trainer to utilize this feeling by as
Stunning commanding presence. When
the animal is not held in strict subjec-
ton, its awe quickly gives way to rage,
and trainer who would show the least
hesitation or fear would be q lost man"
The speaker was j. T. Sweeny, in
charge Of the Lincoln park (Chicago)
geological garden and for many years
the boss-animal man at one Of the lead
ing circuses. Mr.. Sweeny branched off
into general discussion of animal
training.
Training animals" he said, sis not
single art. The method of training
wild and fepcious beasts differs radio
ally from that pursued with such intel
ligent animals as horses, dogs and ele-
plants. Teaching birds Is an entirely
distinct department, and the system
employed in the training of insects Is
unique. With competent trainer the
danger element Is almost nil. Acct
dents are always due to carelessness of
some kind. When the trainer visits his
lion or panther the first time, the ami
NAL is securely tied to the floor of the
cage. The trainer moves about it, pets
it and feeds it with pieces of meat.
Gradually the ropes are loosened; then
only a collar and chain are used, and
finally these also are removed. Indi-
vidual animals differ in character just
like men. Some are coaxed into the per-
formance of tricks, and others must
have obedience beaten into them. You
may whip stubborn fellow and whip
him hard without mourning the slight
est danger of being attacked. The
strongest lion crouches before you ap-
parently unconscious of his power
Tigers are most liable to give trouble
Lions are comparatively mild; leopards
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
colombis.s Free silver Experience.

The World published on Thursday
some very interesting facts about the
results of free silver coinage in Colon.
bia, as set forth by the American minis.
ter to that republic. The experiment
which Mr.. Bryan and his followers wish
to make here of lifting 53 cents worth
Of silver by legislative fiat to the value
Of 100 cents was made in Colombia a
few years ago. The advocates of the ex-
pertinent were working, as Mr.. Bryan
says he is, to ''restore the parity be-
tween money and property" They
passed law making it optional for the
government to meet its obligations in
either gold Or silver. When the law
was passed gold, which had been at 90
per cent premium, disappeared from the
country, and is now at premium of
100. Wages have advanced about 81
per cent, but provisions have advanced
200 per cent, and house rents from 100
to 200 per cent. and clothing has be-
come so dear that only the poorest quail
says he is seeking to get for the laboring
men of this country dollar which is
as kind to the man who produces wealth
1o ~ 10 w ohS Liti w ~ iioiIo ~ LII ILL
vestment. and he believes silver dol.
lar is possessed of those humane and
thoughtful attributes; but is there any
reason to believe that silver will behave
any better when embodied in cheap
American dollar than it has done in a
cheap Colombian dollar or cheap Mex
ican dollar? 1t has not in either of
these cases been at all kind" to the
producer of wealth or the man who has
held it in investment, but has acted as
q heartless fend toward both. 1t has
not, it is true, run away in the coward
ly manner of the gold dollar; it has
stayed with the people, but the people
do not seem to have enjoyed its COM
pany.-The Nation, July %, 1896.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01

men to handle a single full-grcwn fel-
low. A special structure with ropes and
pullcys must be built, and the feet and
body of the quinbus festrim are tied
thereto. When you give your thick
skinned friend the signnl to rise the
men hoist him up bodily, and when you
want him to lie down his legs are pulled
away from under him. To teach him to
stand on his head, tie down his front
feet and pull on the rear ones When
once he has learned trick like this, he
will take pride in executing it of his
own accord.
"It often comes very handy to have a
trained elephant as the teacher for a
newcomer. This is the regular prnc-
ticc in India. The unframed elephant
copies very readily from others and the
tricks that II may have taken you
months to teach the first animal are
acquired in a few days by imitation.
''To speak Of birds and insects, well.
haven't done much at that. was ac-
quainted with one famous trainer who
Travelled with our circus from. time TO
time.
"The fellow had two dozen birds who
went through a regular sham battle.
They arranged themselves ON two sides
in line of battle and had toy cannons,
which they ignited by pulling string
attached to the trigger. At each shot
one of the birds dropped down US if dead
and was carried out of the way by its
companions Some OF the birds car
,ried sticks and flags, with which they
rushed against their opponents. The
trainer told me that he had spent
months in training q single bird. Hun
ger is the only agent that will overcome
their natural timidity. Thus, while The
cannon is exploding, the bird is sig
nailed and fed simultaneously. 1t will
fly away from the noise, but IL it gets no
other food, it will approach again md
will finally remain when 1t finds that
the explosion does no harm. The bird
learns TO pull string by having its
food placed IN vessel on a sliding
plane outside the, cage. A string tied
to vessel leads into the cage. When
the bird gets hungry it pecks at every
thing within reach, and will soon learn
that by pecking at the string it may
pull its food into the cage. The bird
trainer taught his pets to take things
into their claws by offering them food
which they were not permitted to pick
up with their bills. The fundamental
principles having been taught, an in
finite number of complications may be
evolved so as to make the performance
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
nrrap,s "Taots,. Not Facts.

Many of the statements made by Can
didate William j. Bryan in his careful
ly prepared speech for free silver are
being riddlel by the business men of
this town who say that the Boy Orator
based his theories upon assertions which
are palpably incorrect. A sample of his
arguments is the contention that under
the gold standard railroad rates have
not been reduced to keep pace with fall
ing prices. Easily obtainable statistics
show that the contrary is true. On this
point President Z. b. Thomas of the
Erie railroad said:
There has been a continued and gem
eral reduction i'll freight rates for "a
years. Take, for instance, the cost of
shipping wheat between Chicago and
New York In 1872, the year before
the demonetization of silver, the rate
was 33. 30 cents. In 1882 it was l4.6),
I'm lS92 1923 and last year it was 1917.
The proportionate reduction has been
greater, therefore. than the fall in the
price of wheat in the same time.
"The same thing holds true in othe'
agricultural products. In 1878 the rate
of cattle east bound was 70 cents,hor
provisions go and on corn 10. Now the
rates are 21.30 and 10 cents. Nowhere
else in the world are freights carried a!
cheaply as il this country. The facts
are all against Mr.. Bryan's statement
and if his financial arguments have nj
better foundation, he is in need of ella
mentary instruction ON the money ques
ton New York Sun.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01

Jump the hurdle. After he has per-
formed the feat, he is rewarded with a
dainty morsel. As the trick is re-
peated and repeated, the sound of my
swapping finger and the animals own
act, of jumping become so firmly CO.
ordinated in his brain that the one
necessarily leads to the other. He for
gets the fear, and does the trick without
being conscious of its meaning. In like
manner my cats seat themselves in
groups. Each is taught individually to
take it's particular position on the ros-
trum by being dragged there again and
again at certain signal. Then all the
animals are brought together, and at
tine signal the whole group arranges it,
self in an entirely mechanical afshion.
with elephants, horses and their
kin it is different. They are intelli-
gent and willing workers, and will
often help you in your teaching, Thus
story is told of one young elephant
who found himself rather clumsy in
class drills and was detected practicing
hiD lessons in his stall.
1T is no snap, however, to teach an el-
ephant. He is so tremendously bulky
that it takes ten, twelve, yes. fifteen
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01

The paper of which Mr. Bryan was
editor until recently, the Omaha World
Herald, published, few days before his
retirement, at the head of its editorial
columns, as below printed, this piece of
advice:
Every one who has money at his dis
posal can protect himself against loss
through free silver by converting his
money into land, houses and merchan-
disc of various kinds, If, besides, he
borrows more money and uses it for tt ,
purpose, he will make profit on the
transaction ct the expense of the man
from whom he borrows.
Note especially that last sentence :
.'If, besides, he borrows more money
and uses 1t for the purpose, he will
make q profit on the transaction at the
expense of the man from whom he bor-
rows" There's morality for .cross
and crown" campaignl - Louisvil', +,
Courier journal (Dem.).
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01

Promptly Denounces the Shameful Mis-
representation 1t Snys That No Such
Al. lie Was Ever Printed Therein and
That It's Whole Tenor Is Directly OPP
posed to the Views Held by That Paper
FREQ Silver In the United States.
The Democratic papers have been
printing beneath bold headlines an ex-
tract purporting to come from the Lon
don Financial News of March 10, 1895.
1t represents The News as saying,
among other things.
"The condition of affairs in the United
States congress demands the immediate
attention CT the British financiers and
statesmen. The trade of the world is
now in our hands, but it will not long
remain there if the United States goes
TO bimeuallic basis with free and m
limited coinage of silver.
with the addition of silver to the vol
ume of money, everything in America
would take OIL a new face labor and in
dustry would gain a new life. The
grip of the gold standard on the prod
ucts of the world would be loosened and
prices would rise. Great Britain would
lose her markets in South America
Asia, Europe, and American ships would
not be long in capturing the carrying
trade of the world.
=
at is GoI.-tful whether the Republi-
can party can be held much longer in
check by sound money statesmen, as it's
adherents are divided by powerful fac
tions The Democratic party is also
breaking up under the weight of the
free silver agitation. 1t matters not to
Great Britain which party succeeds il
the gold standard is maintained, but
either of the old parties or a new party
which goes INTO power pledged to FREE
coinage Will be lninical and prejudicial
to English manufactures and trade"
This alleged quotation bore on its
face indications of improbability. L.
was lying campaign forgery and the
evidence is now at hand to disprove it
It was referred to the London Financial
News and in its issue of Aug. IL that
journal says explicitly:
"No suoh article Was ever printed by
us, and its whole tenor Is directly OPP
posed to the view we have taken of the
effect of free silver in the United States.
So far from advocating free silver coin.
age, We have persistently pointed Out
that it spells repudiation and the with
drawal of ali European capital"
Never was more brazen fraud at
tenpted than this forgery. 1t is evi
dence of free silver desperation no less
than proof Of the utterly unscrnpuloui
character of the hirelings OF the silver
mining kings. 1t is as true as most Of
the statements alleged in support Of
free silver, however The main hope oi
the free silver agents is in forgery and
falsehood.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
B. S-W. RY
TImE TABLE.

Trains leave Marietta rs follows
For Cincinnati, 40: 40 m, s11:25 . m.
For St. Louis s10:40 m s11:25 p m.
For Louisville. sl0:40 m, :25 o m.
For Parkersburg 80: 40 q M, 1900 m, Ass
For Belpre, 6:0,, 10:40, 400, ass, 1l:25.
m, 900 p m, s11:25 D m.
For Chillicothe, sio:4O m. sil:ss m +s:co
For New York, sl:55 p m, sil:a5 D M
sDaily. tExcept Sunday. t4s.
For detail Information regarding rates
time on connecting lines, sleeping, paflor cars
.SxM. PAYNE, Ticket Agent. b. d o. s. "
Rtf5darietta, O., or ~.
GeB. WARTrL, Assistant General Passenger
Agent. Cincinnati. Ohio n = = :
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
THE ISSUE IN A NUTSHELL.
Major McKiniey's Answer to Brysn's
Contradictory Pleas.

If free coinage of silver means 5s-
cent dollar. then it is not an honest dol
lar. If free coinage means a 100-cent
dollar, equal to a gold dollar, as some
of its advocrtes assert, we will not then
have cheap dollars, but dollars just like
those we now have, and which will be
as hard to get. In this case free coin
age will not help the debtor or make it
easier for him to pay his debts.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
Mackinac Island, Toledo and Detroit Ex-
cursion.

September 7th via the T. g. o. C. E. r. r.
Mackinac Island and return, s5. 0 Detroit,
81 90; Toledo, $3.50. Leave Marietta 2;lO p M
IN. via D. g. O. Str, City OF Machinac arrive
Detroit s:45 p. m arrive Mackinac Island at
and only one change between Marietta and
Mackinac or Detroit. Mackinac Island tickets
good returning within Is days, Toledo days
and Detroit days. For particulars call on G..
M. Payne Ticket Agent Union Depot, or e. p.
Morse, City Passenger Agent.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01

On Thursday, Sept Sd, the g. & NJ. Ry. Will
give another OF It's popular excursions to
Mackinac Island, via Cleveland and the Great
Lakes. Rate $500 for the round trip. return
limit ten days. For full particulars see hand
bills and posters
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01

THOSE who have partaken of peacock
declare that gorgeous bird to be decid-
edly tough eating. while it is said Of
The swan that the fact of its ever hav-
ing been familiar dish speaks highly
in favor of English cutlery
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
Great Bargain Sale This Week in all
20 Departments.

Glass Chnaware less than anywhere else
Ladies Chidrens Wraps at lowest prices.
Special prices Sewing Machines All warranted for five
Mazewood s49S worth $500 Seamsess sS9S worth $4,000
Wheeler Wilson Machines half usual prices
Large Pastel Pictures and Frames at SIPS worth $3.50
Bargains in Music Goods
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
SOUTH BOUND.

Trains run daily. except Sunday. Close con
nections for all points north and west. H.
For farther information call on or address @ .
PAYNE, Tieke, Agent, Union Depot, Mari.
a.. G. VINCENT, G. P. at. A.
Il. u. DALE, Receiver
VIM. MORSE, Superintendent.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
Ohio State Fair at Columbus.

The II & o. G. L. Ry. will sell tickets to Co
lumbus and return at one fare for the round
trip, good going August 8lst to September 4th,
good returning not later than September bth.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01

BREATHING is an art. We ought to
take in II pints of air per minute. At
the usual rate of breathing we do so.
But if we get into rarifed atmosphere
we take in, at the usual rate Of breath
ing, less than the IA pints. Sedentary
people can get all the advantages to
health of a long walk or other exercise
by SIMPLY increasing the rate of breath
ing one or two hours during the day,
thus adding to the amount of oxygen
that enters the lungs.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
GAINESVILLE & OHIO RIVER
TIME CARD IN EFFECT DEC. ,nd ,se,

All Trains Daily except Sunday
Nos. 20 and ~ make close connections a,
GAINESVILLE with the b. b o. and Pan Handl,
trains for Columbus, Chicago and the West
J. HOPE SUTOR, Receiver.
c. c. HARRISON. General PAssengerAxt
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01

look like an entirely conscious ald In
telligent exhibition.
"Still more mechanical is the teach
ing of fleas. l knew an old crank who
made specially of this. He got good
pay for his crankiness, however. About
all that you can ever teach these
black-liveried gentlemen is to walk and
sit still when placed in certain posi-
tions. Only human heas will do-so
the hea-crank told me-for the others
nre not lively enough. They are held
captive by means of fine thread that
is slipped in moose over their slender
waists. My friend has a score of them
and he feeds them all himself every
morning-by putting them on his arm,
you know. The beginners are first
taught to walk, which consists simply
in unteaching them the art of hopping
This is done by tying the flea's chain to
a round piece of cardboard revolving
on pin for pivot. When the flea tries
to hop he comes down with thump and
he soon finds out that the only way to
get there is to get the card revolving by
moving along in a slow walk. Some
times my friend puts his feas into a
glass jar where they bump their heads
so hard by hopping that they soon give
up the practice. When the fleas had
learned to walk he tied them to Lili-
putian coaches of the most delicate
workmanship. He assigns some of
his prisoners to playing horse and ties
Others in an upright position on the
coachman's seat. The little fellows
are very strong and can pull three to
four hundred times their own weight.
ga comical sight is the fleas' waltz.
The piano plays and the insects, ar
ranged in pairs, move in a circle. 1t is
more cruel than cute, however for if
one will examine closely one will find
| that the unfortunate animals have had
one or more of their legs cut off SO
that they are forced to walk sideways,
The waltz may also be taught by put
ting sound legged fleas on a music box,
When the box begins to play, the tick
ling vibration throws the insects into
peculiar and laughable rotary motion
which may be interpreted as dance
e. t. GUNDLACH.
| -.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-01
1T is A FORGERY.
The Alleged Quotation From
an English Paper.
THE LONDON FINANCIAL NEWS

Promptly Denounces the Shameful Mis-
representatiou-It Snys That No Such
A. 9ie Was Ever Printed Therein and
That It's Whole Tenor Is Directly Op-
posed to the Views Held by That Paper
on FREQ Silver In the United States.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-11-05

So many bicyclists have been observed
suffering from clogged chains that u
word of advice may with propriety be
repeated: Oil the chain-nothing is
more necessary, but be sure not to have
it wet. Each link should be thoroughly
fabricated, and then the chain should be-
rubbed dry. No amount of rubbing, it
should be remembered, can remove the
oil from the parts between the links,
where it is needed, and not particle of
oil is required on the exterior surface.
The drier that is the better. The oil,
if exposed, picks up and holds dust and
adds greatly to the friction. The same
advice applies to all oiling. If so much
is put i'll the bearings that some over
flows and it is not wiped off, dust will
gather ut the spot, and even in the best
made bearings some of it will almost
certainly work into the balls and make
trouble. And even if it does not get SO
far the punches of dust so accumulated
detract from the appearance of an other
wise well groomed machine and render
cult as it need be- The fact is that more
wheels are overoiled than underoiled.
Carrying canary, as the wheel
men" call riding with dry bearing
that screeehes, is not half so common as
a dust buried bearing OF course, of the
two, the latter is preferable, but no rid
er need have either. New York Post.