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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-27
STATE

STATE.
Hon. John r. Long will again be a
candidate for congress in the second dis
trict.
w. L. Wells of Abbott deserts the pop
ulists and Joseph n. Diehl OF Fort Worth
leaves the lily whites,
The Reform Press association visiting
Galveston.
Foster Crawford and Elmer Lewis, the
bank robbers. who murdered Cashier
Dorsey are hanged by citizens of wichita
Fails in front of the bank they robbed.
POLITICAL.
President Cleveland IL said to have de-
clared that democracy can win If 1t Will
declare unequivocaliy for sound money.
First contest case reported In the Ken
lucky legislature ana action postponed
to Friday, when lively times are expected,
Resulted in knife play.
Blackburn one ahead Of Hunter.
SPORT.
New Orleans winners: Dutch Arrow. s
TO /; Ashley 10 to /. Russella, 3 TO /:
Domingo TO /; Dobbins 10 to /; Giee-
some. to ..
San Francisco winners: George c., Grey
hurst, Rosebud, j. o. C.. George Miller,
Rcd Pike.
RAILROADS.
Shippers fighting the Joint traffic as
sociatlon
Trunk Line association roads discon-
tinue paying commissions on Immigrant
business.
Dividends of the Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia.
New Orleans organizing a local passen-
ger association.
Meeting of Southwestern and Western
Passenger associations for March 9.
Commission rulings and affairs.
Meeting Of the Texas Car Service asso-
citation.
Local and general notes and personals
THE MARKETS.
Cotton-A fow points advance in future
at all markets; spots steady and generally
unchanged
South Texas mills advance -four Is cents
a barrel
The trust Will advance nails on the first
Tho tendency OF molasscs is upward.
Wbeat-Went of 5, on reaction from the
high plane.
Cnttlo-Trade exceedingly slow and
prices 10 lower
stocks-An entirely professional market
with a downward movement
LOCAL.
General Coxey viii speak tonight at the
council chamber.
several church entertainments to be
given tonight.
Local gossip caught here and there,
Tho having of the corner stone of the
new county jail and court house.
Meeting OF the Houston Business league.
The arrest Of three men charged with
numerous burglaries
Meeting Of the Gienwood cemetery lot
Owners tonight.
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CrNCINNATI--The hearing Of the pris-
,v,ers Jackson and Waiting, accused OF
he murder Of Pearl Bryan. will take
place today
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ALBANY-The hearing IN the case Of
Ahtho.s ~ Montague r. Leversou VIII
h '.isl ,sIace today. DR.. Loverson denounced
i ,anr siock as a blackmaiier'
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sAyANNAH. Ga,--Thc lnternauonai III,
gral'ol sbin four hundred colored peo-
W! or hoard the Laurada, which leaves
PA iaday for Monrovia- Liberia
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NEW YoRK-The annual dinner Of the
he Held at Hotel Waldorf this evening.
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ELEVENTH YEAR. NO. 800
TODAT'S FEATURES.
rrobasn,,i.. Fair; ,ish, .ou,heriy wind.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN
Rumors OF further inassacres IN Ar
nenia. London News has dispatch
telling Of the murder OF $50 who refused
to desert their faith.
pcrvishes are said to be contemplating
joining the Ahyssinians in the fight
against ltaly.
Revolution In Nicaragua said to be part
OF plan to destroy liberal government in
Genital America.
NJ. Goschcn malc covert animation in
speech tina; Germany would have no
easy task should shc assail England.
CUBAN.
&, Or. Castillo says the insurgents have n
..auv.. 'eNniged army and are constantly
>.Ia,.cs lockout for ilbustorins expodi-
Jose Rctancourt. an insurgent leader,
captured and Will be sumnariiy tried by
court martial.
The insurgents reported to have been
defeated in several small cngagements
Spanish rciuforcements arrived.
Another Cuban expedition out of New
York is rumored,
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YOAKUM ITEMS.

Yoakum, Texas, February GA hoie
half an inch in diameter was blown in the
boiler Of the stationary eigine at the
shous here. badly frightening the engineer
aud other shop hands and stopping all
machinery for several hours. No one was
Iiobn Nav. aged about - years. acci-
dentnIlv shot himself in the loft leg win
nSstoi last night. producing very Sc
rious hut not dangerous wound.
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TO-DRTS FORECAST,

wAsUINGTON-Th charity ball for
the Childrens hospital VIII occur AT Ma
tional Rifies' srmory tonight.
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New Orleans winners: Dutch Arrow. s
TO /; Ashley. 10 to /. Russella, 3 10 !;
Domingo. I to |; Dobbins. 10 to /; Giee-
some to .
San Francisco winners: George c., Grey
hurst, Rosebud, J. o. C.. George Miller,
Rcd Pike.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-13

He was settin' on a shoe box at tn corner
NV tn street,
Chawin plug terbacker an waitin' fer a
treat,
While he squirted his terbacker juice at an
inerfensive fly,
He saw an honest farmer come a-walkin'
slowly by,
So he histed up his britches. an he took an.
other chew,
An boldly waded inter him, an this is what
he blew:
"Can you tell me. my friend, why the chInch
bug is eatin' mp your grain?
Have yer ciphered on the problem why we
Can yer tell me, .plodding farmer, why the
army worms around?
Why tn tarnai yeller sunlight Is burnin' up
tn ground?
Can yer ten me s why tn weavll. TIL rust an
Are eatin' up yer substance7 Do yer know
tn reason why?
Why tn price Nv eggs an butter. oats an
corn, an'-wheat an rye,
passin' by?
'The reason why these dismal clouds cast
49, their shadders 'crost tn sun?
Why yer debts are gettin' bigger. as tn
seasons 60 and kun?
TIL reason fer this trouble Is plain enough
ter see,
IT'S that. that orfal, fearful, nasty thing; tn
Tew be sure, yer didn't know Ii fer thirty
years er so,
But It worked this orful havuc. 1t dealt
this deadly blow.
TIL Gold Bugs down in Wall street under
cover nv tn law,
Hav' .gobbied up yer earnings In their
thirsty, hungry nav.
Sixteen TO one VIII cure you-'tls tn allo.
pathic plan"
The farmer stopped and listened, tho II
almost made him laf.
At the stupid, senseless logic Nv this whit.
An his dander gan arlsin' at this ever.
lastin' bore,
An be kracked his heels together an he
shuk his fists an swore:
"You must think us farmers hav' nuthin'
else to do
But stan aroun' an argify with such tarnai
You'll legisiate the weavil, chinch bug an
You'll resolute the raindrop er know tn
reason why,
You'll upset tn laws nv natur, you'll change
tn seasons round,
You'll stop tn golden sunlight from shInin'
one tn ground.
TIL law that fixes prices, you'll change II
with COMM NV tn silver sixteen tew one.
Half dollars worth nv metal win be
worth Jest twict as much,
When melted by tn government an giv'n
lis magic tOucn. .
You'll bust up all tn railroads, shops, an
savings banks,
With tn drivIln' silly nonsense Nv you crazy
silver cranks
SIT seems ter me that i remember when
things were all askew.
Some time about November In tn year NV
'92,
That the same gang Nv fellers promised
That Yer told tn grubbin' farmer that
you'd gin him dollar wheat.
That he'd surely then be happy, an his
forum would be made.
Ef he'd Jest upset tn tariff, vote fer Cleye-
land an free trade.
Now, we don't pertend tn know much, fer
we never had much show.
But there Is quite grist o. things that
even farmers know.
They know when they've been LED to, an
taken fer Ounce,
An they're goin' tew be id keerfui that
they don't git fooled but once'
$780, st Paul Pioneer Press.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-13

cents per ounce or 5000, coo, 600. And
strange to say, the larger part OF this
added wealth would be outside OF our
own country. In gold standard coup.
tries the commercial yaiuc OF
the silver coins in circtiiafen woWd DC
brought nearly to the gold stan1Ard.
This. fiat Of ours would subetantiasV
yer coins in Great Britain; $500, 100000
in France; S215, 100000 in Germany;
$54, 100000 I'd Belgium; $4,000, 600 ia
Italy; $15,000,000 In Switzerland; $5,-
100000 in Greece; $155, 0O0. 900 in
Spain; $100O0,00O in Portugal; $S6, OO0,-
600 in Austro- Hungary; $03.QOO,OO III
the Netherlands; $4,000,OOO' in Sweden;
Turkey; $7,OOO,O0O In Australia; So
100000 in Egypt and $110,000,000 in the
Straits, besides $623, 10000 in this
country, and raise all this money near
ly to par with gold; and yet we are told
that all these countries not only refuse
to join Mr.. Bryan and his supporters,
but even do NOT sympathize with them
in this stupendous enterprise which would
add so much to their wealth, and in
large degree relieve them from
the burden now resting upon them
of keeping their gold and silver coins at
par with each other in their circulation.
But how would 1t work in the silver
standard countries? This government
fat Of ours would at one fell swoop sub
stantially double the value Of Sal ,OOO, 600
Mexico. $4,000, 900 in the Central Ameri-
can states; $3O,000,000 in the South
American states: $3.50, 100000 in India,
and $725, 100000 In China, and would az
the same time double all the private and
public debts of those countries, which
have been contracted on the silver basis.
But Mr.. Bryan,s proposition is more ia ne
believes that this legislative fiat on our
part would not only bring the silver now
in existence TO par with gold at the
ratio of 16 to /, but would keep. It and
the future production there, although
doubling the price would hereafter
probably double the production.
In view of these facts is there any inn
propriety in inquiring how it is that we.
70,0O0,000 strong, can affect the money
of 1850, 100000 people by simple stat
ute. while the 1850, 100000 cannot by
legislation affect us? And are the people
of Great Britain and continental Europe
and many millions of Americans to be
dubbed ''money-grabbers" and pluto
Gratis" il they hesitate to believe that Mr..
Bryan has found and carries Aladdin's
Wonderful Lamp. and can produce these
stupendous results? And are the millions
of people in this country who have made
contracts and investments upon the pres
ent monetary standard which is gold,
and which has been the standard at least
since 1879, and think since 1884, to be
charged with being unreasonable when
they ask Mr.. Bryan to state explicitly
what he believes would occur not only
to their interests, but 10 the business or
the whole country, if his prediction as
to the rise in the price of silver should
not be fulfilled and the standard of ex~
change should suddenly be changed from
gold to silver basis with no. or at
best a slight advance in the commercial
value of silver bullion? j. Il. y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-13
THE MODERN ALADDIN.
Of This and Other Nations with
Free Coinage.

Mr.. Bryan states that he believes the
free coinage of silver, by our govern
ment alone, at the ratio of 16 to /,
would raise the price of silver to $129
per ounce; and he never tires of alleg-
ing that our government is strong, and
rich, and powerful enough to accomplish
this result without waiting or asking for
the cooperation of any other country.
In making this prediction Mr.. Bryan
ignores the experience of this and other
nations of the world in regard to the
coinage Of silver during the past 100
years; but waving that, let us see what
his proposition involves.
l presume 1t will be conceded by Mr..
Bryan and his adherents that the price
of silver bullion in this country cannot
be affected without at the same time
affecting it everywhere, and that the
rise in the price will apply to all silver,
whether in bars or wares as well as in
coin, throughout the world.
The figures l shall give, except those
showing the production of silver since
1892, are all taken from q report sub
mitted by Mr.. Voorhees,, free silver
advocate, on behalf of the finance com
mittee Of the Senate, March 8, 1894,
which report is entitled Coinage Laws
of the United States from 1902 to 1894,
with an Appendix Relating to Coins and
Currency; Fourth Edition, Revised and
Corrected to August j, 1894. Prepared
Under the Direction of the Committee"
According to that report, page 275,
the production of silver in the world
from 1893 to 1892 amounted 10 7,522,-
5O7, ZIG ounces, and there has been pro-
duced since 1892 about 600,000,000
ounces in round numbers. Add this to
the other sum and we have a total of
S.122 5O7.716 ounces. j have no data
showing the production of silver prior to
1903. and hence / cannot give the fig
ures: hut | think it may be safely as
sumed that it amounted to as much as
the whole amount Of silver that has been
lost or destroyed. In order. to. be sure
that we are on the right side, however,
let us deduct 122,5o7,716 ounces. and
var;ous forms in the world at 5000
100000 %sls y %Ssth IN % the cents ats
per To this, according to Mr..
fBrySsns opinion the legislative ia at 81 q
our our = government alone would a0d %
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-13
FARMER BROWNS DILEMMA.

We had public meetin' In the schoolhouse
And a Teller from tho city was invited down
to speak
He'd studied up the subject Of nnancc In
every light
And claimed that he was competent to
show us what was right
He says this whole blamed country is agoln'
straight to smash
Unless we get free coinage and increase our
stock of cash.
He's figgered out daisy scheme and claims
twill work immense
He wants TO make our dollars cost US only
nifty cents.
He'd take flour bits Of silver and would
run II through the mint
And stamp IL plain lone dollar" with the
governments imprint;
The mines would dump their silver and the
nation. slick as grease.
Would grind out brand-new dollars at Just
fifty cents apiece.
That sounds all Fight; but since that night
somehow I've wondered
When I buy dollars for fifty cents who'll
take 'em for hundred2
IF. 8. r., In Chicago Times-Herald.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-13
Has the American Farmer Forgotten

That under President Harrison's adj
ministration the prohibition against our
meat products by Great Britain, Ger
many, Denmark Austria, France, Italy
and Spain were removed!
Has he forgotten the high prices he
received during the times reciprocity
and protection were in force!
Has he forgotten that our trade in all
agricultural products was extended dur
ing this time?
Has he forgotten that our exports OF
bacon. hams and lard was Increased
$19,O00,000 in one year by this same
Has he forgotten that we exported
So. OOO, 900 more of American beef
products in a single year?
Has he forgotten that we exported
$16,OOO,000 more Of live cattle annu-
ally?
$3.50 900, 900 Of cereals, namely, wheat,
$115, 100000, -four $2s,O00,oOo and corn
81, 600, 600?
Has he forgotten that we Increased
the foreign sales of all our aSricul'
tural products $275, 100000 ann1ally
over what it had been previously?
Has he forgotten that four years ago
Mr.. Bryan and his free trade friends
promised him that if the Mckinley bill
was repealed better prices would be OBJ
tanned for all of his products?
Has he forgotten that all these prom
Uses failed of fruition, and that instead
of receiving better prices all agricultural
products have deprecated in value!
Has he forgotten the good times that
all classes, the farmer, the wage worker
and the business man enjoyed pnder
protection and reciprocity?
Does he propose to accept the promises
of this same Bryan crowd, who make no
references to their pledge of four years
ago that the repeal of the Mckinley
bill would bring relief to all classes In
this country, and who shamelessly ig-
more all reference to those promises, and
now seek his votes under pledge that a
debased and deprecated money will
remedy the hard times?
The American farmer should not for
get that protection and reciprocity
brought him prosperity.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-13
Total In Mexican money. SO
Shelter operation In United States.
Total in United States money. -. .ssl. 80
Exchange, 90. .............. 1885

IOtal IN MeAicuu %
The cost of running the same smelter
would be in Mexican money $154.S5 for
labor on the American side Of the Rio
Grande. 1t is SOB in Mexico ninety
miles from railroad.
''rhe present cost of smelling in Mexi-
CO." said Mr.. Harrison, sis only about
one-third of what il is in the United
States. This shows that n very low
grade Of silver ore which would be smelt-
ed at loss in the United States can be
treated here at a profit. Our furnace
smclts twenty tons of ore day at
cost of S2.54 a ton. for labor. The
price and reliability of labor is an i'm
portant factor in smelling. Here in
Mexico we have cheap and steady work
ers. The average income of an adult
in the state of Nuevo Leon is 10 cents
a day. There is scarcely day l do
not have to turn applicants away. The
entire population is offering service in q
fearfuliy overstocked labor market. The
cost of mining in the Cerralvo district,
ms compared with the western part of the
limited States, is about one-sixth what it
is in Colorado and one-eighth what il
is in Arizona"
Ore Mine and It's Output.
If YOU ask who is the richest man in
Durango, the reply will be:
"Maximiliano Damn"
The case of Maximiliano Damn Is one
of the answers to the question how cheap
" can silver be produced at profit In
Mexico. Mr.. Damn Is merchant. A
few years ago he owed $500, 900 to Euro
pean creditors. The story Of Maxipiliapo
49,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-13
The Working Mans Vote is His Own.
Bryan and his shouters make much Of


the charge that efforts are being made
to control the labor vote. The labor
vote cannot be controlled. 1t is free.
A secret vote must of necessity be free.
1t was to make it free that legislators
made it secret. There would be ample
ground for criticizing the writing of let
tiers to working people by their employ
ers on the subject of election, if such
action by the employers involved COM
pulsion; for this is free country, and
the right of every citizen to freely ex-
press his own views by his own vote
should and must be sacredly maintained.
Under existing circumstances letters Of
advice written by employers to their ems
ployes are no more to be regarded as
attempts at compulsion than is the cir
culatiOn of any other class of campaign
literature to be considered as an attempt
at compulsion. They are a legitimate
part of the campaign of education"
to be judged by the arguments they con-
tain, and acted upon as the recipients
may decide to be best for their own in
erests.-Milwauke Evening Wisconsin.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-13
The Silver Basis.

In wages on silver basis, the mine
owner of Monterey finds his margin. In
wages on a silver basis, the smelters of
Mexico figure out great advantage over
those of the United States. The Omaha
smelter Is one which offers fair com
parison with this Guggenheim plant of
Monterey. They are, probably, the larg-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-05
THE SLEEVE QUESTION.
Women Do Not Know Whether 1t Is to
Be Large or Small.
Philadelphia Press.


Some of the new fashions are hideous ex-
amples of the evil of trying to be two things
at once. This is particularly noticeable in
the matter OF sleeves. There has been sort
of sleeve panic among the promulgators Of
fashion.
"Cut up your old balloons" they say, land
make half-dozen new sleeves of them, for
the day of the discovery of the arm is at
hand"
BY such prophecies as these they have set
the world all agog, and everybody has gone
to surmising as to whether this revolution
in women's costumes is really. threatening
us or whether 1t is only kind Of war scare
like some OF those which have recently set
our navy to drilling and our boys to learning
battle songs.
The real truth of the sleeve question is,
than they were last year. But thew are not
the gloveftting arm tights of ten years ago,
notwithstanding some of the pictures which
certain London designers have sent over here
for adoption by those unwilling Americans
who fly at the first light that fiickers UP from
the other side. These people who are always
the first by whom the new is tried" usually
find themselves burdened with gowns and
other things which have proved either too
eccentric or too common for the well-dressed
woman to appear in.
The London sleeves are good instances of
the attempt to stradGle the question. They
are tight all the way up with some ruff1es
are simply hideous. There is no possibility
that any woman clothed in her right mind
WI supplement- her attire with any such
freaks-the products of the evolutionary pro-
| cess of development-which few freaks OF
| the genus homo may wear long enough to
| connect the former species with the latter
but which will go out Of existence before
anybody realizes that they have been with
| us.
The gigot sleeve that is tight to the elbow
and then bulges out into moderate sized
puff, will be the street sleeve for early
spring. But for gowns of ceremony. for
dinners. soirees. concerts, etc. the balloon
puff win continue in favor so saith the
French oracle. Chiffon draped sleeves are moi
| to be relegated to the garnet or the '.old
| clos" man yet. They are altogether too dear
| to the feminine heart to be. discarded even
| at the edict of the oracle.
| One small sleeve that may find favor As
| the summer progresses into autumn is the
| kind that fits the arm to a point severa
| inches above the elbow and is then draped
| to. or rather from, the shoulder with a puff
| Of not very large dimensions. This sleeve ls
relieved of it's excessive slimness by wrink-
| ling the outside material on a plain lining
/ Such sleeves are usually very long, extend
| ing over the back Of the hand in extreme
i cases.
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couples are selected for the reel. and the
sixteen riders arrange themselves in two
lines down the hall, standing with their
wheels at their right hand. As In the regu-
latlon Virginia reel the leaders at opposite
ends or the lines advance on their wheels
toward the center, circling about each 9TH
e s and resurning to. their positions. Then
the head couple advances down the center
and around the outside. followed by the
ether riders. and down center again., taking
sneir positions at the opposite ends OF the
Two lines The figure is repeated until each
couple has had its turn. and then the reel
Is at an end. The evolutions OF the Michaux
hat oniv vs appsar 20 De eAcsSslinsy s,npis'
Inc music is brisk, riding is fast, and a
snsnt nav In guiding or turning might lead
70 serious injury. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-05

Howard Hall will be the Easter week at
traction at the Park, opening with Mondays
matinee in Monte Cristo' and presenting
a repertory Of standard plays. Mr.. Hall has
appeared here in support Of Robert Mantel
He is supported by a strong acting company.
which includes Miss Laura Alberta, late or
Charles Frohman's forces Miss Cecil Morris,
a pretty and charming actress, VINO grad
uated under the direction OF y. NJ Palmer,
is also a member of the company Among
others are Frank Binkhurst, late OF the Ala
hama company; j. Frank ferris, whose Work
in "An the Comforts OF Home. and -.fhe
Private Secretary was commentaries Fred
erick Hoey. George Secor and Will III. We'd
der.
The opening bill to-norrow matinee , ana
night will be Alexander Dumas Monte
Cristo" The remainder OF the week VIII
be Allied as follows: Tuesday; an adaptation ,s
of the French story isle of St Tropez, en-
titled '.Blighted Lives" wednesday, The
Corsican Brothers," being the same version
OF the play as produced by Henry irving;
Thursday, a dramatization OF Tom Taylor.s
story Of "The Serf," entitled slaves OF
Russia" Friday. Buried Alive" play lay
which tells a story of Naples during the 5s
plague. and Saturday, new COMEDY enutiea
THE Attorney" which closes the engage