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The herald., 1896-07-05

the United States owes today Is the
gold certificates, amounting to $44 ,3S4,-
4S9, and these certificates are supposed
to be secured by actual deposits of gold
to pay them.
He believes that $346. .6s1, ,016 of green
backs are payable in coin and not in gold
alone. He believes that neither past
Republican secretaries of the treasury
nor the present Democratic secretary
had any authority to construe the word
coin to mean gold alone.
He believes that free coinage of silver
will put it on a par with gold.
He believes, as Virginia did when q
colony in the United States. after her
independence was established, that they
had the power and the brains to coin
such money as they wished, without
any dictation from the powers of Eu-
rope, and that we have the same right.
He believes that the government has
never had any right to retain the $780,.
100000 gold reserve to keep up the parity
of gold and silver or there Is no statute
authorizing it.
He believes that the selling Of $685.
900 of bonds by Mr.. Cleveland to get
gold to pay bonds and certificates pay
able in coin alone. by the letter Of the
law was an outrage on the taxpayers Of
the country.
These are some of the views of Mr..
Bland on the subject of finance and
suppose they are in perfect accord with
the great body of the Democracy and
of most of those late Republicans who
have followed with so much enthusiasm
the able lead of Senator Teller.
While many of the views of Mr.. Bland
are given, we think they represent those
of Mr.. Boies just as well.
The Chicago convention has a score
of honest and able silver Democrats
from whom to choose-Bland, ,Boies. Pat-
Dat
White, Harris, Stevenson, and others.
AS all these are advanced silver advo-
Gates, the question of availability will
be the main thing, If all the free-silver
men can combine. 1t is hardly of any
use to count the eastern states, as Eph-
RAIN is joined to his golden calf. When
the canvass opens, I may give my rea.
sons why / believe as Mr.. Bland does on
these questions.
JOHN SHIRLEY WARD.
The herald., 1896-07-05
AN UNF FORTUNATE REPRESENT.
ALTON

That Mckinley edition, announced for
this long time, has appeared at last, and
its issue may be taken as a formal notice
to the public that the Mckinley cause
in Southern California is the special
charge of the Los Angeles Times, and,
furthermore that in the event of the
Canton CLAIMS success the editor-1n-
chief of that paper is to be the dispenser
of the federal patronage pie in the region
south of Tehachepi, with possibly say
in the distribution of the same fodder in
other parts of the state. Such a con-
tingency as is here suggested is enough
to render the loss of Los Angeles county
to the Republican presidential candidate
certain, and that of the state probable:
1t is the last straw on the California Re-
publican camers back.
The Herald expresses itself thus not
in jest, but in all seriousness. The
chances of the Republican presidential
ticket this campaign are none too good
in California. Running as Mckinley and
Hobart do on a platform which in its
most vital part is in distinct antagonism
to the overwhelming sentiment Of Cali
fornia Republicans, they have no points
of strength in this state to fritter away.
Mckinley and Hobart enter the contest
pledged to a plank which contains
straight out, unequiVocal declaration in
favor of the gold standard; the Repub-
licans of California have repeatedly and
emphatically, in county and state con-
Ventions, announced their antagonism
to a gold standard and their fealty to
the cause of free and unlimited silver
coinage at the 16 to 1 ratio; the Repub-
lican editors and orators of California
have been among the most ardent and
persistent advocates of the silver pro-
gram. Hence, at the outset Mckinley
and Hobart are in conflict with Califor-
mia Republicanism on the question up
permost in the minds of the country at
present. To make the burden of the
fight heavier would seem to be piling
the folly on, but that self-same thing
has been done in making the Times the
official organ in this section of the Ham
ma presidential syndicate and the Times
editor the prospective agent for the Nc
Kinley administration. Unpopular local
representatives are invariably potent
in the killing off OF presidential candi-
dates, and as far as Southern California
is concerned the bogus advance agent
of prosperity seems to have achieved
an eminent degree of success in the Sc
lection of the kind of representative
noted.
The inconsiderate. intolerant. unfair
and often brutal characteristics of the
Times have won for il the most cordial
public dislike ever enjoyed by a paper
in California, so that with thousands of
people its support coDfers no benefit on
but is instead detriment to, the cause
supported.
There is in particular one class of cit
tzens, aggregating enough to hold the
balance of power in any electoral con-
test in this state, that should find if
repugnant to support presidential can
didate who would accredit the editor of
the Times as his local agent The class
referred to is organized labor. The at
The herald., 1896-07-05
212 North Workman street.
Who VIII It Be, BIaud or Boies3

Editor Herald: Next week will set
tie the question as to who Will bear the
silver banner of the Democratic party
in the coming campaign.
Mr. Bland was the father of a revolt
against the grinding oppression of gold
monometallism, as shown in what is
known as the BlandAllison bill, giving
to us $344, 377 ,504 of silver certificates.
probably in coin and now in active cir
culation, then adding $136, 2S0 of the
Sherman certificates, making clear
addition to our coin of $3.50, ,096, 1884; hence
his long fight gives him pre-eminence.
What does Richard P. Bland stand for
in our financial policy?
First-He is in favor of free coinage
of silver at 16 to l.
Second-He believes every silver dol
lar of the United States is standard
money and does not have to be redeemed
Third-He believes that all the bonds
ever issued by this government are pay
able in coin and that they are fully paid
when paid in silver or gold, at the op-
ton of the government.
He believes that the only gold debt
The herald., 1896-07-05
ANOTHER TRUST

| About the latest thing in the way of
| an important trust is the birthstone
| trust One of the kind has been formed,
| and although its conditions will not go
| into effect before August 1st next, the
price of the stuff it is cornering has gone
| up in this country from $l4.50 to $3.50
| per ton. Sicily is the source chiefly Of
the birthstone supply of the world. The
| annual shipments of the material to the
United States alone amount to nearly
| 400, 900 tons. A syndicate formed by an
| Englishman named Alexander Malcolm
| Chase and Baron Robert Oppenheim
saw the opportunity to make big stake
| by combining the Sicilian mines under
one management, and in brief time
succeeded in tying up 95 per cent of the
mines of the island. OF course, under
| this arrangement only few of the mines
will be operate the remainder being
| held in absolute idleness. Thus the use
F! by mankind of valuable natural re-
sources is regulated by a monopoly.
This is the kind of monopoly which
counts: it is the most dangerous of all
forms of monopoly, is monopoly of
natural resources in fact, it is the only
real monopoly, for no duplicate of or
substitute for natural resources can be
found, but there is nothing useful that
man makes for which duplicate or sub
stitute cannot be furnished so long as
the resources of nature can be easily
tapped for the material. AS the logical
result of this combination the price, not
the value, of birthstone will go up
throughout the world, and the people
xxrI,r, l., 20. ;t-t, oaY
and diverse in the necessaries of life
will have to produce more of something
else in order to obtain birthstone. or the
manufactures into which birthstone en-
ters. In their relation to birthstone the
prices of other things, even including
gold and silver. will go down. The men
who own or hold options on these mines
will alone benefit by the advance in
price. The wages of the men who work
in the mines and plants will not rise
a cents worth, for very naturally their
employers will continue to buy labor at
the rate set by the ineXorable law of
supply and demand. 1t is really proba-
BILE that the wages of the birthstone
workers will fall, for with the suspen-
sion of work on the other mines there will
be more of that sort of labor to be had
than heretofore, and the competition of
the idle with the employed may be relied
on to get in its scaling down effects. If
there existed some arrangement in Sic
lily whereby the holding of birthstone
properties out of use was made unprof-
table the operations of the trust con-
trolling them would be about as salts
factory to it's members as the play of
Hamlet with Hamlet left out to a crit
ical audience.
The effect of the enhancement of the
cost of such an essential material on
the maintenance of the dominion of his
satanic majesty is at present unknown.
1t might be a good subject for the or
thodox believers in that heated realm
to wrestle with. Possibly the price of
admission will be raised.
The herald., 1896-07-05
FOUR MILLION DOLLARS LOST
ANNUALLY

The Merchants and Manufacturers
subject of our coastwise commerce and
finds that is is an exceedingly fruitful
theme, demanding the earnest consid-
Grafton of our business men of all class
es. Some statistics gathered by Secre-
tary VIM. H. Knight are very significant
and should lead to the adoption of some
practical measure for recovering at least
a portion of that trade.
During the year 1892 the merchandise
shipped from the port of San Francisco
to Mexico was valued at 1854, 900, and
to Central America at 50, 242, 200, aggre-
eating s3,606, 900 to both countries. Dur
ing the same period the imports from
Mexico amounted to 1926, 1876, and from
Central America to $3,706,22S, aggregat-
ing 81, 534 424, and making total move
ment both ways of IS, 141 ,024..
The steamers handling this large and
valuable commerce sail from the bay of
San Francisco southwark along the
coast, past the ports of Los Angeles and
Southern California to Mazatlan, 1852
miles distant, thence touching at eight
cen way ports in the next 2100 miles
Thus, while Los Angeles is nearly 800
miles nearer this rich commercial field
than San Francisco, the former city is
entirely ignored and deprived of the
natural advantages which should accrue
to it from it's geographical location.
Many of the goods shipped from San
Francisco come from the east by rail.
They are landed at Los Angeles at the
same cost as at San Francisco, and
could, therefore, be billed at the same
price. We are now engaged in manufac-
turing many articles found in those ex-
port invoices, and could greatly en-
large our facilities and multiply our pro-
ducts. Flour, leather goods, machinery,
wool fabrics, cabinet work, architecture
al iron and other industries would be
greatly stimulated.
On the other hand, the coffee, spices,
dye woods and other articles produced in
Mexico and Central America and now
shipped through San Francisco TO east
ern points would find a much shorter,
quicker and cheaper route via Los An
geles AS it is, the goods coming from
those countries for our local consump-
ton are carried 500 miles north of us
sea. and then brought 800 miles south
by rail. entailing an absurd and need
less cost
1t is reasonable to suppose that at
least one-half of the importing and ex-
porting business now done at San Fran
cisco with the countries named would
be diverted to Los Angeles if we had
steamer facilities. In other words, our
merchants and manufacturers would
handle $4,000, 900 worth of merchandise,
fairly belonging to them, but by a gross
discrimination now enriching San Fran
cisco trade.
The herald., 1896-07-05
CIRCULATION
Sworn Weekly Statement of the Circu-
lation of the Los Angeles Times

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF
Los Angeles, S.
Personally appeared before me H. G.
Otis, president and general manager of
the Times Mirror company, who. being
duly sworn, deposes and says that the
daily circulation records and daily press
room reports of the Office show that the
bona fide editions of the Times for each
day of the week ended June %, 1896, were
as follows:
This is probably the first case on rec
ord where the colonel has made an at
tempt to swear and signally failed.
Even to the disinterested and casual OBJ
server the affidavit is meaningless and
far from being sworn statement of the
number of papers printed. Observe.
"the circulation records and pressroom
reports show" is decidedly evasive.
If the boss of the First street concern
cannot swear to the actual circulation
of his paper he should hire an affidavit
maker who has both the nerve and
knowledge to make a direct and une-
quivocal sworn statement that certain
number of papers have been printed and
circulated-provided, of course, that the
would-be lieutenant of Hanna. Hobart
& Co. is not, as usual, toying with the
truth and trying to deceive the public.
Just how the Times statement of cir
culation may read this morning no NOR
tai man can tell until it has appeared.
but if the quoted clause is not again used
anyone who has not made the discovery
Cling of H. c. is executed by referring to
a copy of last weeks issue.
The herald., 1896-07-05
Dynamisinp Havana a

Editor Herald: The Express, in con-
demning the idea of blowing up Havana
by the Cubans, seems to have forgotten
that dynamite plays a very important
part in modern warfare. We ourselves,
have several dynamite guns for the pur-
pose of blowing up ships or cities. Per-
haps it is the placing of the explosive
where it will do most good, instead Of
firing 1t indiscriminately into the city,
that displeases that very conservative
paper PROBABLY the Express does not
approve of the policy of General Sher-
idan in burning the Shenandoah valley
to make it untenable for Early.
The Express takes it upon itself to
threaten the revolutionists with the vio-
lent opposition of the American people
in place of the sympathy which now pre-
walls in case the war is carried on on
these lines. CT JOHNS
The herald., 1896-07-05

1855, according to official reports, al
monds to the value of $250.oO0 were inn
ported, in 1891 the importation had in
creased to 7,497,193 pounds. valued at
$9S9, 1866, and in 1892 it was 6.731,0
pounds valued at 1895, ,764 The Califor-
MIA crop does not yet exceed one-tenth
of the amount consumed in the United
States, SO it will be seen that there is
liberal and profitable field open to this
state in this single line.
The herald., 1896-07-05
The price of THE HERALD has
not been reduced.

NOTICE-Any bonus offered by the
Typ0graphfcaI Union to new sub
scribers to THE HERALD is bona
fde. The price. of THE HERALD Is
so cents a month. Any rumOr that
q reduction has been made from
this price is untrue.
The herald., 1896-07-05

The markets of the United States are
not yet glutted with the home grown al
mond. The production of the almond
in this country has greatly increased in
the last few years, but it has not kept
pace at all with the consumption. In
The herald., 1896-07-05
THE TIMES CIRCULATION
.JUGGLE

There are sworn statements and sworn
statements, but the saving clause in the
affidavit which has been running in the
Times Looking Glass during the past
week deserves a prominent position
among the literary and legal curiosities
of the age. 1t starts out boldly as fol-
lows:
The herald., 1896-07-05
TO THE EDITOR

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.)
The herald., 1896-07-05

The Herald reaches high water mark
today. Its Sunday edition consists of
10000 copies.
The herald., 1896-07-05
Our Summer


hand
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06
The Chinch Bugs.

From the Iowa experiment station
comes bulletiu on fighting chinch
bugs. In tbs it is advised as a means
of prevention to destroy all old rubbish,
straw, cornstalks, etc. When the bugs
appear in limited areas.npply kerosene
emulsion in sufficient Quantities to de-
stroy old bngs and young larvae. II
large areas ara affected plow under the
crop and roll the field Immediately. De-
coy crops, such as wheat or barley, may
be planted quite early, and bugs which
collect on these early sown grains may
be killed by plowing under, or some
similar process. Migration may be pre-
vented by emitting such Il crop Of wheat
or barley little before maturity, re-
moving the crop and burning the stub
BILE as soon as it is dry. Dusty burrows
may be used when other means are not
practicable. Plow a strip few yards
wide, and thoroughly pulverize this
with harrow. Then in this strip make
two Or three deep furrows, or series OF
shallow ones. with sloping, dusty sides.
The white fungus, or chinch bug dis
ease, proved only partially successful
last year, and it cannot be relied upon
to check this pest to the exclusion OF
other we'll known measures, which shall
be diligently applied whenever neces
sary.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06

I.-wIREwoRM u.-MILLEPED. III.-CLICR
BEETLE.
Cornell station failed TO discover a sin
gle satisfactory method of protecting
seed, or of destroying immature wire
worms in the soil. The scope Of these
experiments was large, embracing all
the known methods. Professor Singer.
land tells, however, in his report that
fall cultivation will destroy the wire
worms ready to pupate, the pupm and
the beetles. The beetles can also be
trapped and killed in large numbers
with poisoned clover bats. Such a short
rotation of crops as will include a period
Of thorough cultivation in the fall will
prove the best method of fighting these
pests yet suggested.
In experimenting with poisoned baits,
instead of these attracting the wire
worms, as was expected, their parents
the click beetles, came to the bats in
large numbers The clover attracted by
far the larger number, 60 per cent. 1t
was found that the beetles We're the
most active at night, and that they seek
their food chiefly by running over the
surface of the ground. The wadS of
poisoned clover bats were placed under
boards in various parts of "A badly in
tested field.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06
Young Mems Suits,

From Is to 10 years old. Our line of
young mems suits is of the richest mate,
rial, in varieties, quantities and quail,
ties which few retailers have courage to
handle. We especially pride ourselves
upon the handsome productions in all
wool Cassimeres Cheviots, Worsteds,
Serges, etc. made in first-class manner,
at prices from S4.00 to S.00 which,
without doubt, would cost you double
the money at other stores.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06

@. i. Morrow, writing to Prairie
Farmer, says:
The depth at which corn should be
planted depends largely on the date and
the quantity of moisture in the soil. In
early spring the surface is warmer than
the deeper soil and shallow planting is
advisable. There is no good reason for
deep planting at any time if there is suf-
ficient moisture in the soil. Deep plant
ing in compact clay soils is undesirable.
If the kernels are covered one to two
inches, this is abundantly deep in a vast
majority of cases
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06
Glover Sown Every Month.

A. A. Crozier reports that at the
Michigan station red clover was sown
during the latter part of each month in
the year. Success resulted only when
seeding was made in February, March,
April and December. The July seeding
failed to come up until the fall rains be-
gan, and the plants from seeding in
July, August, September and October
succumbod 10 the winter.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06
SPR | NC II ATS

We have large line of Derbies
in all the colors, black and three
shades of brown, in all the latest
styles, Youman, Dunlap, Knox,
Miller, 81. 80 to 800.
We want every fastidious dresser
to see our line of Fedoras, in all the
late colors, prices SOC, SOC, 81. 90,
1.5O, 200, 2.25.
We have over 800 dozen of Straw
Hats that we want every person to
see before purchasing straw hat.
Also large line Of Spring Caps.
We are the 0ch'ROWledGed
Hatters Of ReynOidsUille.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06
s.tsS.s sssssz
NEARN% CARDEN
dF5Ss5,abis 49,
clRcuMveNTiNe wIREWoRMs.
Fail Cultivation the Best of All Methods.
p-i-oned Glover Bats.


pci-oned Glover Bats.
Among the most prominent of the
pests that infest field crops are the wire
worms. These are long, slender grubs
Of yellowish white color, and with un-
usually hard bodies. Their wirelike
form and ,he hardness of the body have
suggested the common name. Fig. in
the cut represents wireworm about
twice natural size. Unfortunately the
term wireworm has been misapplied to
certain animals-the millepeds-which
are not true insects, but belong to a diff
ferent class in the animal kingdom
Fig. in the cut represents a milleped.
The true wireworms are the young Of
click beetles, or swapping bugs as they
are more commonly termed. Our COM
mon kinds Of click beetles are mostly
small or of medium size. A few are
larger. They are usually OF uniform
brownish color. Some are conspicuously
spotted. A click beetle is represented
at Fig. 3.
Three years experimenting with both
defensive and offensive measures at the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06
Handling Draintile.

A labor saving implement invented by
an Ohio Farmer correspondent, but not
patented, may prove of interest TO read
ers who anticipate laying tile next
spring. To make it, take two pieces Of
common fenoo G.re, each 52 inches long.
Place them side by side and give them
three twists at the middle for the "top
of the handle. " Then bend around q four
inch block and twist all together fer two
inches, as shown in illustration. Next
draw the ends all together and trim
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06

price OF Mn eh mnt o he thing me in Ryndhvn ean
head
nd
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-06
M1SyX|N|R0I0NNEINVsNm
THE MONEY MAKER.

good form and extra cooking qualities.
Honeoye Rose, also new, it is said, is
"as early as the Early Rose and better
in every way" Our readers, while in
terested in all that is new, will plant
largely of old and well tested varieties
until time has proved the new sorts
worthy of general acceptance. In the
mean time j often pays TO experiment
in small way with novelties as they
appear.