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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22

increased. Meanwhile the cat crop
had only grown in the usual ratio, and
the result was that, with the demand
for sacred animals in the new colonies,
at least 80 onions would be given for
one cat. This brought the papyrus
currency into disfavor, and the ruling
pharaoh, Ram Bunkshus Ill, issued a
royal order that cats should be the
sole standard of value, and that onions
should be issued only to the extent that
they could be kept at par with the
"caterwaulers," as the unit of value
was termed.
This did not suit the onion growers,
who at once started an agitation for
the free and unlimited coinage of all
onions at the good old ratio of their
daddies. After passing 3,1S7,642 reso-
lutions denouncing the horrible crime
of 963 the onionites marched in body
to the palace of their pharaoh and de-
manded that the unjust law enacted
at the instance of the catbugs should
be repealed and the bicatallic standard
restored. Ram Bunkshus listened to
them patiently and answered.: "Great,
no doubt, was the wisdom of our an
cestors. But I am in the wisdom busi-
ness myself to some extent. When the
ratio of sixteen to one was adopted,
that was the true ratio of the cat and
onions. Now, owing to a great in
crease in the quantity of onions, the
ratio is thirty to one. All powerful as
am, I cannot make onions worth more
than their market value. The present
standard stays. AS for you, o foolish
onionites, your leaders shall feed the
sacred crocodiles. The rest of you
will return to your farms and hustle.
l have remarked"
Thus ended the first and only cur
rency agitation in Egypt.-Whidden
Graham, in Puck.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
THINK 1T OVER.
Some Points for Farmers to Carefully
Consider.

Consider.
Farmers who think that free silver
will help them TO get rid of their mort
cages should consider carefully what
effect a siXteen-to-one law will have OH
the lenders of capital. The silverites are
telling you beautiful stories about the
great volume of money which will be
ready for loaning at low rates of inter-
est as soon as we adopt the silver stand
ard. But suppose the scheme should not
work in the way they expect? Suppose
that as soon as it becomes likely that a
free-coinage law will be enacted there
is general demand that all mortgages
should at once be paid in full? The
promise of cheap money when free sill
YER comes won't help you now. Where
are you going to get the money TO pay
off your mortgage? Do you suppose
any man is going to make loans while
there is possibility of his being re-
paid in 5o-cent dollars? And if you can't
raise the money when it is called for,
and if your farm is sold at a sacrifice,
where will you be then?
Think these things over Don't be
fooled by the free-silver idea that cheap
money means low rates of interest. The
facts are just the other way. Interest is
far higher in all silver-using countries
than in gold countries. If we go on the
silver standard the men who have capi-
tai to lend will charge more interest
than they do now in order to cover the
risk of being repaid in deprecated sill
yer dollars. So, if you succeed in bor-
rowing under free coinage you win pay
higher interest on the loan. Ask any
body who knows the facts whether in
terest is not much higher in Mexico, In
dia or the silver South American coun-
tries than in the United States, Eng
land or Germany, with their currency
based on gold. Then make up your mind
that you will vote for the financial sys-
tenn which if left undisturbed will ben
eft you far more than free silver will.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
a LESSON FROM ecvpT.
That Country Failed to Maintain the Ratio
of sixteen Onions to ono Cat.

Tnat country faued TO Maintain the hatio
of sixteen Onions to One. Cat.
The ancient Egyptians had a cai-
rency based on cats and onions, both Of
which were sacred objects worshiped
by the people. AS there was some diff
ticulty in storing the cats, and as the
onion was liable to decay, circulating
medium was provided of papyrus
strips, representing certain number
of cats and onions at q ratio of six
teen to one. This was o true double
standard system and is believed to have
been the origin of modern paper cur
rency. For time the cat-onion money
circulated at par, but the historian
Faque Hur records that about 063 b. G..
serious difficulty arose. New col
onies had been established in the re-
gion of the upper Nile, and the savage
Nubians had been taught the art of
agriculture. The rich, black soil Of
the valley which they inhabited was
especially suited to the growth Of
onions, and the production of those
perfumed bulbs was soon enormously
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
A Valuable Prescription.

Editor Morrison, of Worthiugion,
Ind, SUP" writes: You have va lu-
able prescription in L ect.ic Bit. ere.
and | can cheerful! Y recon N End it for
Cvnst patton and Sick Headache, aud
as a geae"al sysi em tonic it mas no
equal" Ms. Annie S;ehle, 1928 Cot
la3e Grove Ave-, Chicago, was all run
dow o, could not eat nor digest iood,
had backarpe which never left her
and felt tired and wea7y, bat six bot
ties OF Elect,ic Bittars res. ored ner
health and renewed her streuein-
Price 30 cen,s and 81 90. Get a Boltle
at w. III, Styels Drug Store.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
Masons, Take Notice.

All Masons, with their families, are
invited to attend basket picnic al
Beverly Fair Grounds, on Thursday
August 27th. to be participated in by
the several lodges between McConnels
yille and Marietta. The full Marietta
band and orchestra has been engaged
The Catharine Davis will leave Putnam
street landing at $3.50 a. M, returning
children half fare. 3ts.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
Legal Ratio, Cannot Fix Values.

While the advocates of free coinage
are loudly asserting the power of the
government to raise the bullion value
OF silver from thirty to one to sixteen to
one of gold they at the same time pub
lish facts which prove the very reverse
of their claimAAThus they boast that for
the 20 years previous to 1873, the year
of the alleged crime, the value of silver
bullion ranged from three to seven
cents per ounce above it's coinage value
in other words, the silver in dollar"
coin was worth three or four cents more
than a dollar. Now the preachers of
prosperity. through legislation say that
il is the law that fixes the value of the
money metals, and that if the United
States alone opened its mints for the
free coinage of silver at sixteen 10 one
the commercial value of gold would be
exactly 16 times that of silver. That
their assertion is not true, and that the
bullion value of either metal cannot be
fixed by law, is clearly shown by the
fncts given above in regard to the COM
plete failure of previous free-coinage
laws to keep the real value of silver at a
ratio of sixteen to one of gold.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
silver PRODUCTION and Prices.

In 1873 the total worlds produntion
of silver WIS 61,1oo,6oo ounces, and
the silver in a dollar was worth 81. .O4 in
gold. Last year the worlds product of
silver was 165,ooo,ooO ounces and the sill
yer in dollar was worth only so 7-1O
cents. VIII the silver miners restore
the production of 1873 as the first step
toward restoring the conditions?"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22

Boptist church-The morning topic
will be Gods Withheld Revelations. .
In the evening at $3.50 Miss Mary Mel.
by. Swedish missionary among the
emigrants at Ellis Island, N. Y, will
speak. She is an exceedingly interest.
ing speaker, and her story of work is
full of pathetic incidents. All invited.
Service in Sunday School room in the
evening.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
Government Ownership of silver Mines

WHY'S it that both the populists and
the democrats failed to put plank in
their platforms demanding that the
government own and control the silve-
mines of this country, SO thaHthe profit
which would be made from free coin
age would go to our government, and
thus indirectly be benefit to the whole
people? Why should this profit go to a
few individuals who own the silver
mines and who are already enormously
rich? Is not this building up one of the
most dangerous trusts that the country
has even seen? Think of few men hav-
ing under their control all the silver OF
this country and the government COM
PEELED to turn it into dollars as fast as
they produce It'll Suppose that these sill
yer men combine to shut down work on
their mines when they want to produce
stringency in the money market, then
open them again when they want to
make money abundant Would not this
put the whole business of the country at
their mercy?
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
Plano Instruction.

Miss Florence Hill will remain in
Marietta with the view Of teaching
piano.
Strict attention applied to THEMATIc
MIC; proper grading in the selection of
cultivation of individual taste. One
hour lessons. one dollar. Aug lasts.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22

More money!" is the delusive cry
OF the silverites in their campaign for
cheap dollars. But they do not attempt
to show how sixteen to one free coin
age law, which would put our $500, ,OOo,-
600 gold at premium of nearly 80 per
cent. and drive it ell out Of circulation,
could possibly give rs moremoaey than
we have now.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
q. a. Il. NatIonaI Encampment.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Sept 1st-4th. The
L. & o. G. Elk. r. r. will sell tickets to
st. Paul and return at the low rate of
s15. 90 good going August 3Oth and 31st
and Sept. 1st ana to be limited for re-
turn leaving st. Paul not later than
and extended by Joint Agent to Sept
30th.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
The Republican Party stands
for honest money and the chance
to earn it by honest toll.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.

WARNER will not be candidate be-
fore the Democratic Congressional con-
vention at GAINESVILLE and it is under
stood that Hon. Frank Southard, OF
that city, will be nominated without
substantial opposition. VanVoorhis
will find his victim near home
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22

Every day symptoms of digestive dis
orders-acid stomach, distress after eat
ing, burning at pit of stomach, dull,
heavy feeling gTBurdock Blood Bitters
never fails to correct any troubles of
this sort.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22

Why continue to pass your nights in
scratching, and your days in misery?
Doan's Ointment brings instant relief,
and permanently cures even the worst
cases of Itching Piles. 1t never fails.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22

Thousands of people are subject to
bowel trouble in some of its various
forms. DIR. Fowler's Ext of WildStra W.
berry is an unfailing remedy in all such
casas
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22

r. c. Joiner Allen p. O., Hillsdale
Co., Mich, says: Nothing gave my
rheumatism such quick relief as DR.
Thomas Eclectric Oil"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
Church Services.

First NJ. E.-Topic, SERIOUS Self De
ception." Union service at Z p. m
The public invited.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
DO you EAT BREAps

Jacob Pfaff's is unexcelled. az are
also his Cakes and Ioes. Finest
Neapolitan Ice Cream that can be
made. Particular and personal at,
tention given to serving parties
receptions. weddings or public din.
ners. JACOB PFAFF,
Putnam st.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-22
SATURDAY, AUGUST ~. 1896
For President,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
OF the United States.
For Vice-President.
GARRETT A. HOBART,
OF New Jersey.

Republican State Ticket.
For Secretary of State,
CHARLES KINNEY, OF Scfoto Co.
or Judge of the Supreme Court,
MARSHALL ]. WILLIAMS, OF F'ayette Co
FOR Food and Dairy Commissioner,
JOSEPH E. BLACKBURN, OF belmont 20
For Member Board of Public Works
FRANK A. HUFFMAN, OF Van Vert Co.
For Circuit Judge,
HIRAM L. SIBLEY, of Washington Co.
For Common Pleas Judge,
JOSEPH M. WOOD, OF Athens 20.
Congressional Ticket.
For Congress, 18th District,
h. e. VAN VOORHIs, of Muskingum Co.
ounty Ticket.
For Probate Judge
D. r. ROOD, OF Belpre.
For Sheriff.
"A. PATTERSON, of Waterford
JOHN W. ATHEY, Marietta Towns p.
For Commissioner,
JOHN RANDOLPH, Wesley Township.
For Inflrmary Director;
WIN. SCHNAUFFER, Newport Township
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-15
Contagious
Blood Poison.

Mr.. Frank B. Martin, who is engaged
in the jewelry business at 926 Penn.
sylvania Avenue, Washington City,
where he is we'll and favorably known,
was victim of that worst form of dis
ease-contagious blood poison. He
realized that his life was about to be
blasted. for this terrible disease has
baff1ed the skill of the physicians for
ages, and they have never yet been
able to effect a cure. His mental
despair can better be imagined than
described.
In recent letter he says: "About
four years ago 1 contracted n severe
case of contagious blood poison, and
1t was not long before l was III Il terri
BILE condition. Immediately placed
myself under treatment of two of the
best physicians in Washington city.
Their treatment, which I took faith
fully for six months, cost me just three
hundred dollars, and left me worse than
when 1 began it. My condition can
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-15
vIRGINIa'S GOLD.

Tho Attention of Capital Being Directed
to THIS State.
w. P. De Saussure, counsel for the
Piedmont Gold Bolt Chartered Com
pauy, returned Wednesday niQhtfr
New York, where he had been to attend
business meeting of the corporation
The president and directors of the com
pany are highly encouraged with the
outlook. More than three fifths of the
stock offered has been sold. The re-.
porter has learned that the we'll. known
geologiss, the Hon. John R Peo,tor,
who Is as present the president OF the
United States civil service commission,
will probably accept tho position Of
consulting geoligiss of the company.
He is we'll informed on the gold fl slds
Of Virginia, and he speaks In terms of
highest praise OF the gold deposits in
Buckingham. where the interests OF the
company are located. The attention of
capital is directed to Virginia gold as
never before, and in the near future
thousands OF pc ople will be em ploy cd in
Buckingham county in mining and mill.
in: the precious metsl.-Richmon
Times
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-15
PUBLIC BUILDING NOTES.
Messrs. Wilson & Co. VIII Probably Finish
by Msy 1,

Messrs. Wilson Co. VIII Probably Finish
by Msy L.
The contract OF ( A. Wilson G. Co.
On the construction OF the public build :
ing is CON pleted, with the exception of
cleaning down, washing and painting
the stone and applying q cost of linseed
oil to the brick work. With good
wesiher Mr. Wilson's contract will be
completed by Msy1.
The contractor for the heating ar
ranRement has not yet been made
known. The bids were opened by the
Treasury Department on the 9th ins,. -,
but no information has been received
here regarding them.
The roof OF Spanish tile, which was
put Oh by Messrs. Huddleston g. Co., of
Washington. d. c., has been completed,
with the exception OF cressing, which
did not fs properly and WAS turned
down by Superintendent Garry. Had 1t
not been for the mis6t the entire roof
would have been flnished yesterday.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-15

best be appreciated, when 1 state that
my throat and mouth we're full of sores
and my tongue was almost eaten away;
I had not taken solid food for three
months. My entire body was covered
with red blotches, my hands and feet
were sore and my hair was falling
out rapidly. was in i truly pitiable
condition.
81 felt that I was incurable. and
was in great despair, when Il friend
recommended S. S. S., stating that it
would certainly cure me. I began its
use, and when had finished the fourth
bottle, began to improve, and by the
time had finished eighteen bottles,
was thoroughly rid of the disease; of
course, was not sure that was cured,
but am now convinced, as no sign
of the disease has ever returned for
four years. S. S. S. is the best blood
remedy in the world. and my cure was
due solely and alone to it.''
Contagious blood poison is the most
horrible of all diseases, and has been
appropriately called the curse of man
kind. 1t has always baffied the doc
tors, and, until the discovery of 5. S. g.,
was incurable.
For fifty years s. S. S. has been cur
ing this terrible disease. even after all
other treatment failed. 1t is guaran-
teed purely vegetable, and one thou
sand dollars reward is offered for proof
to the contrary. S. s. S. never fails
to cure contagious blood poison, or
any other disease of the blood. If
you have blood disease, take a rem
edy which will not injure you. Be
ware of mercury; don't do violence
to your system.
Our books on blood and skin dis
eases, will be mailed free to any adj
dress. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-15
SALEM news

L. M. Smead has returned from visit
to West Virginia.
Capt. w. ". Brand, OF Cstawba, WA
in town yesterday.
D. B. Strouse returned yesterday
from business trip to New York.
DR.. L. A. Fox will preach at the Pres
byterian Church to- day at IL Q. m.
Dr.. j. B. Taylor will address the
young ladies Of Hollins Institute to-
night.
Misses Kate sbipman and Bertha
Hannah, of Rollins, were in town yes
terday visiting.
Tomorrow Is court day. Several iu-
terestinR cases will come up before the
grand jury at this court.
The Salem Lsymen's Union will begin
o protracted meeting st the Bend Chapel
next Saturday, the 21ss.
james Chalmers, president OF the
Farmers National Bank, 10 confined to
his room with Q mild attack OF pleurisy.
President j. D. Dreher, OF Roanoke
College. left yesterday for Richmond
and Washington cities on business
trip.
Evangelist Clarence B. Strouse, &C.
companied by bis sweet singer. Mr..
Burnett, is in Fincastle conducting .
series Of meetings.
The Tyree Missionary Society holds
it's regular monthly meeting In the
Baptist Churcn to night at 7:30. DR. S.
G. Wells, Of Roanoke College. will de-
liver the address.
The Holstein Wooden Mills are NOV
Ing right along. Every day and at aim oss
all hours of the day their wagons are
-
shipped North, South, East and West.
Licenses were issued from the clerks
office to Henry Clay Crowder and Miss
to William Swanson, of franklin county,
and Miss Anna Elizs Hartman, of this
county.
Rev. Mr. Campbell. OF Berkeley
Springs, w. Va, who was recently in
vited TO preach to the Presby terian con-
Rregation here with view of extend.
ing him 9 call, has written accepting
the invitation, and will probably preach
here on next Sunday, the 2sd OF March.
Rev. C. a. Miller Resigns.
At q called meeting OF the church
council Of the Lutheran church held
yesterday at 4 p m, Pastor G. Armand
Miller submitted his resign alton as pas
tor OF the College Lutheran Church. A
committee consisting of DR.. s. c. Wells,
Col. A. M. Bowman and VIM McCauley
was appointed to submit resolutions Of
regret before congregational meeting
to be held to-day after. the morning SER
vice. Mr.. Miller has been unanimously
called to Holy Trinity Evangelical
Lutheran Church in New York city, and
will leave for that city about the mid
die of April. It Is with reluctance that
the Salem congregation and town gives
Pastor Miller up During the eight years
OF his pastorship he has endeared him
self by his Christian zeal and piety not
only to the members of his own congre-
CATION but to many others, but when The
enlarged sphere OF his usefulness is con-
sidered and the much greater need of
him in that city, then Salem lows In
submission and makes the sacrifice.
Holy Trinity Church has . membership
Of about nine hundred memb ers. two
thirds OF whom are young people, and
is considered one OF the most promising
fields in the Lutheran Church
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-15
THE PLANS RETURNED.

Bids Solicited aud tho Now Norfolk and
Western Onioes win Soon be Erected.
The plans for the office building Of
the Nor ok and Western Railro.d Com.
psny have arrived, and Testers have
been sent to various parties, ssking for
bids for the construction OF the same.
The bids must all be submitted by the
2Slh instant, as none will be received
later than that date.
The plans were drawn by Architect
Geo. T. Pearson, of philadelphia, spd
call for building 1873 feet long and
sixty five feet wide. The height on
the Shenandoah avenue irons from
the basement to the esves 10 to be
seventy-five feet. and 10 Great OF the
roof 100 feet.
The building is to DO ak stories high,
Including the Easements, which will be
used ss offices and occupied by the gem
eral passenger agents department., be-
side an attic, which will be divided into
rooms bus not for Office purposes.
The main entrance to. the building
will be loolted midway ON the Jefferson
street side and the entrance TO tho pas
sesger department. will be from the
Shenandoah avenue front. The pitch
of the rooms will be. from floor to cell
ing. eleven feet in she clear and the
building will contain about ninety
rooms. some Of which will be very large,
measuring thirty by fit,y feet
Each floor will be furnished with two
fire escapes, which will be located on
the outside of the main line of the
building. The interior finish for vesti-
bules and halls will be in brick and the
Orders and column frames of steel,
which will make It prac tically fire proof.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-15
He is in Favor oft.

EDITOR TIMEs:-I am glad you are
giving our people through your vAlua-
BILE paper the information we need In
regard to cheaper telephone service.
Give us this service at sl2 a year and
our business men will find at once an
increase in trade. The merchant can
reach trade in all parts of the city, saw.
ing expense of solicitors, not to men
ton the great economy OF time. All
c.Asses OF business men will find aid
and avenues opened for increased BUSH
ness. Our private families all over the
city will at once subscribe. Our people
cannot afford longer to pay $40 year
for their service, reaching only few
citizens a. a cost of SIS. 600 year, while
others. for the same number of 'phones
pay only $4,000. LIE. US have a service
at slS that all Roanoke can enjoy.
Respectfully,
A Poor BUSINESS MAN.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-15
How to Cure aheuma,ism.

ARAGo, Coos Co, OREGON, Nov. 10,
1901 wish to inform you Of the great
good Cham berlain's Pain Balm has done
my wife. She has been troubled with
rheumatism OF the arms and hands for
six months, and has tried many reme-
dies prescribed for that CON plant, but
found no relief until che used this Pain
Balm; one bottle Of which has COM
pletely cured her. 1 take pleasure in
recommending It for that trouble
Yours truly, q. A. BULLoRD. so cent and
81 90 bottles for sale by The Chas. Lyle
Drug Company.