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What Cannot BE Done,
$50 1t is, my friends. We can of our
Selves CT our own wisdom, declare the
unit of values. We can coin silver freely but
we cannot make sixteen ounces of silver
equal to one ounce of gold unless it is.
What Is the next suggestion? 1t Is, my
friends, in the case of free silver, what is
the financial and" moral equivalent of a
declaration that 53-cent pieces are dollars
They might just as well pass a law that so
so. would it? 1t would be legal dol
lar, but 1t would not buy a dollars worth
of anything. What fs the effect of that?
The merchant wotid take care of himself
The workingnan mas got to consult
somebody. He has to enter into an argu-
ment. He his got to get some other mans
consent before he can mark up his wages
Then there is the pansioner, those who are
for gallant deeds" done in the war, and
others for the loss of the loved ones. He
cannot take his pension certificate and
when it reads IS make it read $40; he must
wait for an appeal to Congress, and a Con-
gross that is popufistfc in character would
be rnsympathetic.?1 He must make an ap-
peal to Congress to have his pension raised
to twice what it was before he is made
savings banks. the great company of wild
ows and orphans. the people of small
means who are putting by few pennies
against q hard time in life, what can they
do " hen this change comes? Can they take
their bank pass book and where it says $40
write SO? Not at all.
Take the men who have life insurance
man has providently taken out a policy
that his widow and children might not
come to want when the bread-winntng
hand was stricken in death. Can they
where the policy reads 5000 make it
$4,000? Can the managers of these institu-
tons make it right with them? No. This
policy coerces integrity.
True to the LabOring Man.
my friends, these men surely do not
contemplate the irretrievable and extern
sive chars cter of the disaster and disturb
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RADCLIFFE SUTTON & co. AUCTIoNEERs.
lSuccessors 10 RatclifTe barr & Col
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question further. I am quite as much,
however. opposed to cheapening the Ameri-
am to cheapening our dollars 1 am quite
| as strongly in favor Of keeping days
works at home as I am gold dollars. If
! 1t could he known tonight that the gallant
distinguished and useful statesman, Will
lam Mckinley of Ohio, would certainly be
elected President, how the bears would
take to cover on the stock exchange to-
morrow.
Proud of His Party.
my friends, as a republican I am proud
of many things, but I can sum up as the
highest satisfaction have had in the party
and its career that the prospect of republic
can success never did disturb business.
"In connection with this financial mat
ter. do we all realize how important the
choice of a President is? Do you know
that as the law is now, without the pas
sage of any free coinage of silver law at
all. it is in the power of the President of
the United States to bring the business of
this country to silver basis? All he has
to do Is to let the gold reserve go, to pay
out silver when men ask for gold, and we
| are there already. 1t Is only because the
President Of the United States has
duty to maintain the gold basis, maintain
| ing that parity between our gold and silver
coins which the law declares is the policy
of the government, and because he has had
to him by the resumption act 20 carry out
that declaration Of public law, that we are
rot now on a silver basis. I undertake
| therefore. to say that If Mr.. Bryan, or a
| man holding his view, were in the presi-
Dental chair, without any legislation by
Congress- we should be on a silver basis
| in weeks time.
Three or four years ago, when was in
New York. some one of these reporters who
| sometimes hear things that are not intend
| ed for them got hold Of a remark of mine
| about the wild horses that Mr.. Cleveland
had to handle, and simply meant by that
what has been since demonstrated, that he
| did not have a compact or solidified party
| behind him: that the democratic party in
| Congress represented every shade Of every
| ism that had ever been propounded in the
country. and that he could not manage it.
MY prophecy has become a verify. They
| have left him. They abandoned him. end
now as that caution was meant to Indicate
that we needed to look after our Con-
gress as well as our President, this caution
| is intended to show you at this time that
we need to look after our President if we
would avoid the calamity of having this
country put upon the Mexican basis of
money.
The Silver Question.
1.-The silver question-what is it? Do We
want silver because we want more money,
| larger circulating medium? I haven't
heard anybody say SO. Mr.: Bryan is not
urging 1t upon that basis. If anybody were
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few years later, when he had accumu-
lated little money. he married Lila
Vanderbilt. He was made president of
the Wagner Palace-Car company, and
when in New York he and his wife live
in q handsome Fifth avenue residence.
Their principal home, however, 10 at
Shelbuvne. VT. from which district he
was sent to the legislature. DIR. Webb
has his eye on the United States senate
and thinks this is a stepping-stone to
his ambition. He has a weakness for
horses and owns a large stock, his par
ticular fad being the breeding Of hack
neys. He is unsurpassed as a whip. He
is very domestic man and detests
balls and receptions. preferring his own
home circle. Several years ago the doc
tor published book, california and
Alaska" which was the result Of his
observations during q trip made with
his family and a few guests through
those regions. The train In which the
party Travelled was especially magnih-
cent. being composed Of library. din
ing-room, sleeping apartments. obser-
walton and baggage car and another
car for the servants. DR.. Webb is q
republican. He is in the early 40's
and a very popular man.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-11-12
THE CHINESE scHooLsov.

lie Must study Long Hours Every Dsy
In the Year
The Chinese school children have IN
stillcd into them at an early age habits
Of hard. steady study. says an exchange.
At the age OF boy begins his school,
ing. At daylight he rises. and. after
dressing AZ quickly a. possible, 10
starts breakfastless to school. He II
given a task and after It 10 completed
he Is allowed an hour for breakfast.
Again, later. he has an hour for lunch
con, but he Is at his study nearly twelve
hours q day. seven days In the week.
All this time when he 10 not reciting
his lessons he 10 studying aloud at tho
top of his voice. He is under the eye
of his master both In school and ON his
way to and from school. The lad II
taught rudimentary astronomy. physics
and natural history. but greater stress
is put upon writing and his literary
studies. "A Thousand Letters" q POI
EN-, Is the study that forms the back
bone of his literary education. In It
are taught the duties Of children to
parents and all such matters. What
ever the study may be--history. classics
or science--every lesson is learned and
repeated word for word.
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Nathan Gutman, widower. a well-to-
do German saloonkeeper of PIT Avenue
B, New York, and Eliza Fass, widow, of
II Amberg street, Brooklyn, were mar
lied at the residence Of the latter the
other evening, thereby winding up
romance begun in Germany a good
many years ago. In days long gone
by Gutman was a schoolmaster in the
market village Of Birkenau, Hesse-
Darmstadt. Eliza Goldman, the pretty
sixteen-year-old daughter of a prosper
Gus burgher, thought much Of the
handsome young schoolmaster and the
young people became engaged. The
girls parents objected and the lovers
separated. Gutman. respondent and
broken hearted, came to the new world
to forget his unfortunate attachment
and to win fame and fortune for him
self. Time healed his wound and he
married Miss Helena Wolf, and by fru-
gality and hard work saved money and
established himself in the liquor bust
ness at 217 Avenue B. For fifteen
years he devoted himself to business
and accumulated a fortune. Three
years ago his wife died. The dainty
Eliza Goldman, in the meantime, at her
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LADIES or the HAREM.

The Aasssin's Call - Prayer - 4 0sfa~
lisus Preesssioa Described.
We had hardly taken our places
when some one said: Here come the
ladies Of the harem." and procession
Of about six closed carriages. Splendid
~ appointed. descended from Yildis.
and, passing In front Of our windows.
turned in at the iron gates of the court
Of the mosque. says L0ngman's Mag
axine. Here they are drawn MP one be-
hind the other, the horses are taken
out, and the ladies see what they can
from the half-drawn blinds. Each car
riage has Its own hide0us black attend
ant. The Valdez sultan. the sultan's
mother. takes precedence. The present
Valdez sultan ID really Abdul Hamid's
nurse: his own mother died when he
was born. Az the carriages passed ~
we could catch . glimpse Of the bril-
liant pink and blue and yellow bro
cades worn by the ladies, except that
on one occasion . young daughter OF
the sultan. not yet old enough to DO
yelled. passed in one Of the carriages
and looked up 1T ~ with an express
sion of great curiosity and interest BY
this time the court Of the mosque Wa
filled by pashas, aids-de-camp and Of
hcials Of all sorts in glittsring uni-
forms, only leaving room for the sui
tan's carriage and those who are In his
procession. And now We look up q
the minaret and zee that tho mue1sin
has appeared ON the gallery which rune
round It high up. for It IL some time
past II, and he only awaits the mo-
ment Of the sultan leaving his palace
to begin his shrill call to prayer. All
this time various bands have been
playing. one after another. entirely Eu-
ropean music, but now they pause. and
We hear family borne on the breeze,
for he has turned toward the south and
has the minaret between w and him
the muexzin's flrst call:
God Is great. bear witness there
Is no god but God. l bear witness that
Mohammed Ia the apostle Of God. Come
hither to prayers. Come hither to sal.
walton. God ia great. There is no god
but God" As the muezzin moves round
the cry becomes more audible. Harkl
there Is a tramp Of feet on the fresh.
strewn gravel, It IL the long line Of
pashas who head the procession. all IN
splendid uniforms. covered with orders,
marching one behind the other ON each
side OF the road. down the hill from
| the palace to the entrance OF the
mosque, where they draw up In front q
| those already waiting there.
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THE TAAL.
Language Spoken by tho Boer Of To-
d-y-A Shrunken Vocabulary.

Language Spoken by tho Bosr Of To-
d-y-A Shrunken Vocabulary.
language spoken by the Boer of
to-dc, IS called "the Taal," says the
Fortnightly Review. 1t is not French,
nor is 1t Dutch. nor is it even in the
usual acceptation of the word a dia-
lect of Dutch, but it is broken form
OF speech based on that language. 1t
is used at the present day all over
South Africa by the Beers and half
castles eS their only speech; it is found
in it's greatest purity in the Free State,
Transvaal and frontier districts, where
1t has been least exposed to scholastic
and foreign influences during the last
lew years. To analyze fully this tinv
but interesting variety of speech would
take US far beyond our limits. It diff
fers from the Dutch of the Hollander
not as archaic forms of speech in
Europe often differ from the literary.
as the Italian of the Ligurian peasant
from that Of the Florentine, or the
Somersetshire or Yorkshire dialects
from the language of the London
newspapers; these archaic European
dialects not only often represent the
earlier form Of the language, but are
often richer in varied idioms and in
the power Of expressing subtle and
complex thoughts than are their allied
literary forms. The relation of the
iaai to Dutch is of quite different
KIND. The Dutch of Holland is as high
~ developed language and as volumi-
nous and capable of expressing the
hnest scintillation of thought as any
IN Europe. The vocabulary of the Taal
mas shrunk to few hundred words,
winch have been shorn of almost all
their infections and have been other
wise clipped. The plurals, which in
Dutch are formed in various and COM
PICK ways, the Taal forms by an al
most universal addition of an "e," and
'he verbs, which in Dutch are as fully
ana expressively corrugated as in Eng
I'sh or German, in the Taal drop all
persons but the third person singular.
mus. the verb ito be-" instead of be-
ing corrugated, as in the Dutch of
hoiiand and in analogy with all civil
!-eo european languages, thus runs: TX
49, 'e Is. Hill is. Ons is, Yulle is, Hulle
rs. which would answer in English to
u.s. thou is" "he is" "us is" "you
Is" they is"
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parents command, married Samuel
Fass, and with her husband came to
America, and made Brooklyn their
home. After ten years of married life
Fass died.
One OF Gutman's friends who knew
the story of his early disappointment
in love told him four months ago that
the one-time Miss Goldman, now the
widow of Fass. lived in Brooklyn, and
Grtman began to act as II he were
young again. He bought a gay neck
tie, fancy vest and lovely crash
clothes. Then, after visiting the barber.
he went to Brooklyn with electricity in
his step and an oldtime longing in his
heart. Eliza Fass received him in her
best widows gown and her bushes
were as noticeable as in the olden days
A little bit Of color and bright ribbons
here and there had frightened up her
attire when he called again, and after
q third visit Gutman told his friends
he was a happy man, and the engage
ment was announced. Only a few in
innate friends were invited to the long
deferred ceremony. at the conclusion OF
which the reunited lovers started for
the west on wedding tour.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-11-12
DisposinS Of Smoke.

In a device for disposing of the
smoke from boiler fires brought for
ward in Germany the American Ma
chinist says that the waste gases of
or combustion are drawn
through a conduit at the end of which
is ventilating fan, which forces them
into the lower part OF gasometer.
Here they bubble through a sheet Of
water, where they are cleansed of the
solid particles held in suspension and
collect in the upper part Of the gaso-
meter, whence they may be set free
into the atmosphere or used for any
purpose desired. The wash water is
continually renewed. and, as a meas
ure Of economy. the combustible solid
matter contained In it may be extracted
by decantation CT evaporation and
used a second time for fuel. The draft
is regulated simply by varying the
load upon the bell of the gasoneter
The system Is applicable only where
power is available for operating the
venti,ator.
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A WOMAN AS AN ORATOR.
Voters Of tho East Being Instructed ny
Mrs. Sheldon Tillinghast.

Voters Of the East Being Instructed ny
Mrs. Sheldon Tillinghast.
The West has always had its full
share of women who spoke from the
platform on politics and other public
questions, but the East has been little
shy and backward in this respect. Now,
however, a full-tledged woman orator
has blossomed out on the Atlantic
coast and they are making much of
her. She is Mrs. Edward E. Tilling-
hast, and is better known as Elizabeth
Sheldon. She speaks on the political
situation and her audiences are exclu-
sively men. Mrs. Tillinghast is %, a
bright, intellectual woman VINO looks
better fitted to grace parlor, and her
husband is Yale man. Their home
is at New Haven. When a schoolgirl
she was noted for her brilliancy in rhet-
oric. but devoted herself after gradua-
ton to interior decoration. She did
the decorations on the Connecticut
building and the interior Of the wom-
ans building at the worlds fair. Her
first public address was a political ef-
fort before the woman's council in
Washington and her first big audience
was the women's congress at tho
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being convinced from reports received
that these will thrive on the Oregon
coast. and he has notified Fish and
Game Protector Mciuirc TO this effect.
A shipment Of eastern oysters will be
sent out by the commission to Oregon
some time this fall and in the mean
time Mr.. MCGUIRE will make a personal
investigation to find a suitable loca-
ton to plant them. Eastern oysters
require water of just a certain
temperature. neither too fresh nor too
brackish, otherwise they will not
thrive. Mr.. Mcclure thinks that good
beds can be found at Yaquina bay, and,
to make sure, he will make a trip
there as soon as he has the time
Portland Oregonian.
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FARCO's DIVORCE INDUSTRY.
1t Pays the Town About . Quarter Of .
Million Dollars Aunuauv


Million Dollars Annually
North Dakota has gained consider
able notoriety through the east for the
ease with which divorces are secured
within it's borders, says the Minneap-
Oils Journal. Fargo has more fame in
this direction than any other town. for
various reasons. 1t is most easily
reached and affords the pleasure loving
contingent greater opportunities than
any city in the state, except Grand
FORKS. Its hotels are new and up to
date and there are numerous private
boarding house that cater especially to
those who are here to end their marital
troubles. The modus operandi is
simple. In nine cases out Of ten the
defendant in the suit is as willing that
a decree should be secured as the plain
TIN and aids in every possible way by
accepting service and employing local
legal light to look after his interests
In such cases the decree is often Sc
cured within ten days after the ninety
day probation has expired. In fact, it
has sometimes occurred that the d.
vorce was granted within ninety one
days after the applicant arrived in
Fargo. In these cases, OF course, per-
sonal service was secured and there
was no contest in the way of alimony.
In cases of desertion or in others, where
the residence Of the defendant is I'M
known, six weeks additional is re-
quired for the publication of summons.
The attorneys fee varies from $50 to
any higher amount with the trouble
necessary to secure the decree and the
ability Of the plaintiff to pay. The COL
ony includes people in all walks Of
life. Even labOring men come to Fargo
and work while establishing their resi-
dence. These are the exception, how
ever. The seekers after single blessed
ness are, as rule, we'll supplied with
funds and able to pay literally for what
they get. Some distinguished people
have been temporary residents Of the
state and are men and women in all
walks Of life, and titled foreigners are
not an exception. Another noticeable
feature is the haste with which some OF
the plaintiffs again rush headlong into
matrimony after having been granted
divorce. One case is on record where a
trip was made directly from the judges
chambers to the license room and re-
turn and the second marriage per-
formed by the kindly court in fifteen
minutes after the decree had been
granted and before the ink used in
signing the divorce papers had time to
dry. Indeed. the majority marry again
within six months after being divorced
All kinds of schemes are worked ia
| avoid publicity. Members of the colony
often live here under assumed names
| and do everything possible to keep cor
respondents Of eastern papers from
learning their history To deceive Their
| friends the contingent sometimes rents
boxes in the Moorhead postoffice, across
| the river in Minnesota, so eastern
| friends won't know what they are do
| ing out west.
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QUEEN WILHELMINA.

heir of great dynasty; she Is quick,
bright and gracious and her Dutch
subjects would not exchange her for
any king that lived. Her parents his
tory Ia very romantic. Old King Will
liam Ill.,, her father, who died In 1889,
left behind him very unsavory repu-
tation. In fact, he was about the only
ruler OF whom Holland has had cause
to be heartily ashamed. He had his
favorites like Louis XIV. and was proud
OF the scandals afioat concerning him.
He had no shame, no conscience and
no scruples and no domestic affections
he was a satire on monarchy His
first wife, whom he married while he
was yet prince of Orange, was Sophia.
daughter of the king OF Wurtemburg,
and she managed to keep him within
bounds till he succeeded to the throne
and lost his head in his new-found
freedom and great wealth. Two sons
were born from this marriage. but the
eldest died, wrecked by a career like
his fathers, while the second had
spinal disease which rendered him an
invalid unfit for ruling Sophia had
died and at the age OF 62 the king fell
deeply in love with Princess Helen OF
Waldeck- Pyrmont. who is now the wild
owed duchess OF Albany The princess
laughed at the king when he asked for
her hand.
The old king was sadly hurt and
soon after heard the princess younger
sister, Emma, saying reproachfully:
"Helen, l should never refuse to be-
come a queen" The old king turned
and saw a pretty girl OF 10 and his
hckle heart was once again smitten. AS
| soon as possible he proposed, was ac-
copied and almost Immediately mar
r!ed. The young queen was childish
| ~ pleased with the state in which she
lived in Holland and scandalized the
| courtier by clapping her hands and
dancing with Joy, but she soon learned
dignity and proved herself entirely
| worthy OF the high honor. She de-
veloped into capable, majestic woman
and since the death of her husband has
ruled Holland as regent, while train
ing her willful and headstrong daugh-
| ter to be a queen as well as a woman.
| Once when out driving with her
| little daughter, then but Z the horses
| ran away and death stared them in the
face. When the horses were caught by
| citizens and stopped at the palace the
regent gave orders for them to be re-
| harnessed III we do not start out
again" said this Spartan mother
my daughter will learn what fear is -
Trembling like leaf the little queen
endured that second drive without a
| word OF remonstrance.
Wilhelmina Is OF very nervous
high-strung temperament and doctor
who has studied her says that the pact
Of her nervous emotions is such tina
che has already lived as much as com
people of 80.
Until she was Wilhelmina spok
nothing but French and was thel
taught other languages to the exclu
sion Of German in Difference to he
fathers wishes. 1t is rather a Joke tina
she Is now to marry a German prince.
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MRS. TILLINGHAST.

fair. Politics is not foreign subject
to her, as her father was judge and
used to discuss politics at the family
table She says it is not embarrassing
to address audiences of men, for as soon
as the men discover the speaker knows
something, though a woman, they set
tie down respectfully. Mrs. Tillinghast
did not have to enter the lecture field.
but she thinks IL one has clear ideas
and patriotic impulses and does not
voice them he or she is a coward. when
ones convictions are strong enough to
sway others and to really count" she
says, zone will work and speak because
the inward moral necessity is SO great
that they must
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Tobacco In America.

oaricaturists in depicting a German
are IN the habit Of putting a big pipe
~ MS mouth. The pipe is national,
'ndeed. but the Germans as a nation
are lar from being the greatest smok-
cts They do not smoke more than
frenchmen. Russians, Swedes or Hun
sd.ians. The men of the United States
and the men of Switzerland are the
most inveterate smokers in the world.
II ,hese two countries the consumption
" 'ooacco per head is three times
@'ea'er than in Germany.-Exchang