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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-09-05
Hospital for Dogs.

DOG physicians ana dog hospitals
are rather numerous In this city now"
remarked n prominent dog fancier and
kennel owner, and they are doing a
good business. Persons who own fine
dogs are their customers, and they find
it to DE better ana cheaper to send
their sick or injured dogs to hospital,
where they can be treated and nursed
by intelligent and educated physicians,
than to give up their own time to them.
The mortality of the dog hospitals,
however, is rather large as yet, for peO-
pie generally are not educated up to 1t,
ana do not send their dogs for treat
ment until they have tried all the reme-
dies known to them. BY that time the
dog Is In such bad shape that there
Is little hope of his recovery. The dog
hospital, therefore, comes In for the
blame, which Is undeserving. 1t Is tho
same way with surgical cases result
ing from accidents, bites from other
dogs and the like. The hospital 10 the
last resort, and In the majority Of cases
blood poisoning has set In before the
dog In sent for treatment. 1t Ia not
surprising under the circumstances
that the mortality IL 40 large."-Wssh'
ingt0R Star.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-09-05
RURAL ELECTRIC ROADS.



medltlss.
Electric railways not q few IRE now
In operation which carry freight aswcll
as passengers and serve rural com.
munities AZ well as city and suburban
dwellers. An example Ii found In q
line In southwest Missouri between
Carthage and Joplin, a distance Of
about nineteen miles. The car fare Ii
d nickel, but as 1t Ii collected five
times between the two places named,
the total fare II % cents. This,
however, Is comparatively cheap, for
each Of the two great railways-the
Missouri Pacific and the ~. Louis and
San Francisco-whlch parallel each
other and the new competitor between
Carthage and Joplin, charge iifty.fivs
cents, or about three cents a mile,
while the trolley rate Is about q cent
and q quarter q mile. A transfer about
midway from one electric car to the
other interferes, however, with the
perfection Of the route as q through
line, and there are those who will pre-.
fer the solid comfort Of the steam
trains to the bounding buoyancy Of the
trolley car, particularly In cold or
stormy weather. But the farmers
along the line are delighted with the
new road, whose accommodating cars
stop wherever the patrons desire, and
which moreover will take the farmers
vegetables to market for a cOnsidera-
ton as cheerfully as they take him
and his wife and children into the city
to church, theater or shop. For freight
transportation the car platforms afe
made very spacious, and one Of tho
loads II said to have consisted Of a
piano and ten trunks. Strawberries
are carried from any point on the road
to Carthage for five cents q crate.
Travelling men find the line handy for
trips to tho villages, carrying their
sample trunks ON the car platform;
though the absence of station houses
must make some Inconvenience In
handling baggage and freight. In q
few weeks this line IL to be extended
ten miles farther, to Galena, Kan,
making the total length-Owned by
two companies-abOut twenty-eight
miles, ana with cheap tariff for farm
products. The farmers along the line
are pleased because now they can ga
Ito town Of an evening just like the
city folks, ana don't have to hitch up
the horses TO take a picking Of berries
to market.-Rallway Age.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-09-05
FIRST FIND OF AMERICAN GOLD.
John Brown the Only Man Living Who Was
One OF the Discovering Party.

OF the considerable number OF men
who worked for Captain Suffer In his
mill at Coloma, Cal, where, on Janu-
airy "a, lsis, James w. Marshall dis
covered gold, only one is living to-day,
and he is James Brown, hardy piO-
neer, now seventy years Of age, who
makes his home with a grandchild In
the Pomona Valley.
He was present when Marshall
washed the yellow grains In the camp
dough pan, and It was he who first
tested the haky scales with fire. In
conversation with Chicago Record
reporter Mr.. Brown said:
II am the oldest miner alive In Call
fornia to-day. don't mean the Oldest
10 years, but as the FIRST miner. There
we're about hundred Of Ms building
Captain Suffers mill on the American
River. We had come upon the rock
when we were digging the race, and
were afraid that II would interfere
with our making an even channel for
the water. Then II was that Marshall
came to me and told Inc about the
hooks about gold and mines which he
had been reading. and on the after
noon OF January %, lsis, he determ
ined to do little prospecting. Hf
asked me to bring him the pan. II
was an ordinary pan that We baked
bread In. He spent all the afternoon
with that pan trying. to lind gold, but
~ set nothing.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-09-05
Tires Fifteen Feet High.

There Is now in process OF recon-
struction at Boston a tricycle. which
will weigh when completed 800
pounds. The dimensions Of the big
tires are fifteen feet In diameter ana
the small tire six feet. The machine
Is gcared to forty-threc, and Is analO'
g0us to a locomotive. Four men on
one side are geared to enc wheel ana
the four on the opposite side TO the
other wheel. II was built from plans
drawn by John o. de Wolfe, me-
chsnical expert, who conceived the
idea Of the big machine. 1t IL now be-
ing rebuilt, and the steering apparatus
changed SO that the two front men on
either side will steer the wheel. This
viii do away with the ninth man.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-09-05
THE ,ext morning carly he started

The Hext morning early he started
out with the pan again. We boys were
excavating the ditch when he came up
from the hole where he was working
and told us he had found some mineral.
He had 1t In his hat-a whole lot of lit.
tie nake.like scales. They were all
small bits. and all scaly. and he wasn't
sure what they were. He handed the
hat to me. and took one OF the flakes
aud bit 1t. I thought I could tell by
biting II that 1t was gold. but wasn't
sure. SO I took 1t into the cabin where
a log fire was burning. and l tested It
in the fire to see IL 1t would melt. But
IL wouldn't melt. and then I knew 1t
was gold sure. Then came out with
it to where the men were working.
Boys said I. 1t Is gold"
THAT was the first announcement
of the discovery Of gold in California,
and I was the first man to test the
metal and the first to proclaim It."
Neither Brown nor Marshall nor any
Of the other mill builders went to Co.
Iona to look for gold. They were
working with the vaguest hope Of re.
ceiving pay for their labor. As the
old pioneer put II: "Old Captain SUIT.
ter owes me 500 cold cash yet for the
work put In on the mill race, and I
know Ill never get It, seeing as he Ii
dead"
when the discovery had once been
made we tried for awhile to keep It
quiet, and Suffer. who wanted to see
his mill completed. was particularly
anxious to keep the secret close. The
workmen completed both the grist and
the lumber mill. and did not desert
their posts or the work they had orlgi.
nally contracted to do to seek the yell
low metal.
Though tested the first grains Of
gold In the fire. and with my teeth,
nevertheless. TO be sure about matters,
we went to Sacramento. to make Ger.
tain. They tested them there, and
finally decided that they really were
gold. Then they sent the news to San
Francisco. where the announcement
was published for the first time by a
man named Sam Brunnan, who had
brought n lot Of type and press and
| OIOuuu tue
Did stay long Mt Coloma after the
completion of the mill. you ask? No,
sir: only n few Of us did: myself and
most Of our people only remained long
enough to dig up enough gold to equip
ourselves for marching back over the
plains to meet those Of our people
who were coming out to join u.s."
"How much did you all makeY"
"Oh. II was all according to luck
some made 5000 or $500; some made
$4,000 or 5000. guess I had some
thing like $500 In dust. Marshall
who found 1t first, had none ut all
Marshall was not lucky. somehow
He was one Of the original bear flag
men-one Of the filibusters who
thought he owned the country. They
had selected the bear flag rs their ban
ner because bears were 40 plentiful
out here In those days. The flrsa beaI
flag was nothing but an old strip Of
canvas on which the men daubcd q
picture Of bear with tar. their palm
brush being their own fingers"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-09-05
GUN MAN FAILED TO STICK.
Wealthy Tutti.Frutti Maxcr Sued for
Breach Of Promise.

bre0C0 Oh GrOmiSes
Among the most successful entertain
ers on the Eastern vaudeville stage Is
Miss Myrtle Thurlow. who though but
~ years Of age. has been somewhat of
public favorlte for some five or six
years. Recently she commenced suit
against Thomas Adams. Jr.. the cliow-
ing gum millionaire. for 100000 dam
ages. charging him with having broken
his promise to marry her. The fact
TINT Mr.. Adams already has wife
does not seem to have deferred Miss
Thurlow from instituting legal proceed
ings. The plaintiff. who Is tiny per-
son. with fair hair. regular features
and soft blue eyes. Is reserved Of man
nor and gentle Of tone until she gets to
discussing what she calls the perfidy
Of the wealthy gum maker. The latter
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-09-05

A G34-karat diamond, the finest ever
found In Africa, was discovered at
Jagersf0ptein, in the Transvaal, on
the day after Christmas. When cut Il
10 expected II will be worth u. 900. ono.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-09-05

asserts that the suit is simply an at.
tempt at blackmail. This Miss Thur
low and her mother Indignantly deny.
The young wOman's eyes snap when
she speaks Of this charge. Adams. she
says. visited her often and sent her n
great many letters full Of endearing
phrases. At length she discovered he
was already married and had fam
ily. lie assured her, she says. that h.
would soon obtain a divorce. This he
appears to have failed to do. and the
result Is the suit for breach Of prom.
tvn
The record-union., 1896-09-26
What the PopuIists Demand,

The proposition to debase and cheap
On our money is found in the demand Of
the PopuliSts for the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver at the ratio Of 10 to /.
The avowed object Of this is to scale
down all the debts both national and
private 90 per cent.
In the war for the preservation of the
Union we contracted a national debt Of
nearly three thousand millions CT dol
lars; we borrowed this money upon the
best terms that we could the rate de-
pending from day to day upon the sue
cess or defeat of the Union armies, and
the faith Of the world as to our success.
We pledged the world that we would
pay our debt In the honest money Of the
world. When the war closed some
faint-hearted and dishonest people ad-
vised the population Of the entire debt;
others quite as dishonest at heart, but
not so bold In statement, demanded
that the debt should be paid In green
backs or fat money; but the loyal men
OF our country vastly outnumbered the
dishonest towards, and we have gone
on paying our debt and interest in gold
or its equivalent, until to-day less than
one-third Of the debt remains to be
liquidated.
After this record for honesty and fair
The record-union., 1896-09-26

Republicans are wrong. If the bolting
newspapers are wrong, then their ap-
proval Of Thatcher's course is dema-
gogic and insincere. 1t is simply I'M
possible to approve Thatcher's course
and not condemn Republicans who leave
their party, abandon the principle Of
protection and principles underlying
human rights, the right to earn and pos
sess; the duty of the Government to
preserve itself from destruction; the
right Of the Federal authority to enforce
the Federal laws anywhere in the
Union, regardless Of the wish and fancy
Of an incompetent or traitorous State
executives; the right Of American ship
ping interests to restoration to their
ancient place and condition Of prosper
ity; the duty Of Government to protect
the industry Of the country from ruin
GUS foreign competition.
All these and other things the Repub-
lican spurns who goes over to Bryanism
and 16-to-1 ism, and noninterferenceism
and Supreme Court reconstructiontsm,
and free tradeism, and all the other fads
and isms that crankiness incivictsm and
incipient communism have jammed in
to the Chicago platform.
The record-union., 1896-09-26

fraught with danger
and distress. 1t Is perfectly natural
function, and should be performed In a
natural way without undue suffering.
Nature never intended that women
should be tortured when doing the one
thing which makes them wholly wo-
manly. The perversion of natures laws
has brought this suffering about, and a
return to right living will stop it.
Nine out OF ten women are troubled
more or less by weakness and diseases
peculiar to their sex. 1t Is so because
they do not take proper care of them
selves-because they neglect little ills
and little precautions. A woman in per-
fectly hearty health goes through her
time of trial with comparative ease. The
thing to do then, is to make all expec-
tant mothers healthy to strengthen
them generally and locally. The medi-
cine and tonic to do it with is Doctor
Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
1t is powerful invigorant and nerviue.
It soothes and strengthens the nerves and
acts directly on the feminine organism in
a way which fits It for the proper and
regular performance of all It's functions
at all times.
Taken during CESSATION it robs child
birth of its dangers to both mother and
child, by preparing the system for de-
livery thereby shortening labor, lessen
ing pain and abbreviating the period of
confinement.
Diseases" and telling how to cure them
with home-treatment, 10 cents (stamps) to
part cover postage. WORLDS DISPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N, Y
The record-union., 1896-09-26
IT CUTS BOTH WAYS,

All the Bryantte papers are very
busy and very enthusiastic In commend
ing the letter of Mr.. Thatcher, the Tam
many nominee for Governor of New
York, because he says that while he is
not In accord with the Chicago platform.
Is not free coinage man, and does not
like the thought of the experiment,
nevertheless 1t is easier to pull down
than build UP great party, and there
fore he viii bow to the Will Of the ma
tional organization and vote the Dem
ooratic ticket straight
The opposition are shouting. Here is
nobility of character for YOU here is
loyalty This man is no bolter He Is
a courageous and brave man, whose fe-
atty to the party Is not shaken because
It has taken up proposition that he
cannot approve and holds to be bad
policy for his country. No. he is leal and
true. and will stand by the party
These or like expressions appear in
EDITORIAL and In approving flame head
lines In papers that have Topped clear
over, got into the free coinage feed
trough with both feet and to the neck,
and are now kicking. abusing and op-
posing the party OF their lifelong at
tanhment into which they were born
and bred.
In short, these influences are doing
precisely what Mr.. Thatcher, whom
they laud, refused to do There are
some Republicans who stand in the
same attitude, opposing their party and
supporting its traditional foe. spurning
tho tickets Of their mother party and
putting all its vital principles under
foot simply and solely because the party
suggests a method for settling the silver
question differing from their ideas and
those of Mr. Bryan and the declaration
of local conventions.
II Mr. Thatcher 10 right then these
The record-union., 1896-09-26

dealing shall we scale down the re-
msinder Of the debt to so cents on the
dollar, and thus forever tarnish and
blaoken our record as a people?
The Populist platform demands that
the Government shall be permitted to
liquidate this debt in a deprecated cur
rency. We still owe a great debt to the
soldiers Of the late war in the form of
pensions. Shall we scale down that
debt also to fifty cents on the dollar?
That Is what the Populists demand. Or
shall we continue to pay these pensions
in the came money with which we have
paid our bonds and the interest?-F'rom
THE Duty Of the Hour" by the Hon.
Warner Miller. in North American Re
view.
The record-union., 1896-09-26
THE CURFEW LAW.
Its Benefits Conceded by Every Com
munity In Which It is in Effect.

Edward w. Box, in the Ladies' Home
Journal" reviews the provisions and
operations Of the curfew ordinance
which. in variously modified forms. has
been adopted by municipal legislative
bodies in the West He gives hearty
Endorsement to the law, and asserts that,
although It met with general opposition
at first there Is not city or town In
which it has been enforced, that would
have It abolished. Wherever the cur
few ordinance has gone into effect" Mr..
Box contends, Its advantages have
been conceded. This Is true now OF
over three hundred towns and cities,
some as large in population as Omaha
and Topeka. In each case the excellence
of the law has become apparent, oppos-
ing parents have conceded It's Wlsdonl,
and even children are said TO De pleaSeo
with II. It has placed In the hanoS ot
the police a most effective weapon Tor
clearing the streets or hoooluHs dt
night, and in many cases where dlsoroer
retened at street corners Quietness, law
and order now prevail. So well has the
ordinance worked that reports, gathered
from not less than forty Of the towns
where 1t Is q law, show that the nne or
Imprisonment penalty has not been In
ftcted in a single case. The first caution
has served the purpose. These reports
show. too, that the ordinance Is not en-
forced in any oppressive manner. IN
the case Of evening winter or summer
entertainments, which would keep the
children out later than the curfew hour,
authority Is easily obtained and readily
granted by the Mayor or town Official
for an extension of time. Its rigid en-
forcement is applied most strictly to the
hoodlum element, and with this class
the police claim they have never been
able to deal successfully. 1t Will be at
once obvious to all right-minded par
ents. I think, that they should give the
weight of their influence to the cur1ew
ordinance wherever it may be presented.
Taken from any and every
standpoint 1t Is an excellent thing, and
q NAV wisely be encouraged by parents
all over our land"
The record-union., 1896-09-26

Bryan has now made 146 speeches
In not one Of them has he explained
what the communistic and revolution
airy plank Of his platform means from
his standpoint, regarding the power Of
the Government to suppress insurrec-
ton and protect its property and inter-
state commerce. Good reason why-the
only explanation possible damns him
and the men who voted for 1t In conven-
ton. Some Of these, thank heaven.
have confessed their error and admitted
that 1t was crammed down the throats
of delegates who ventured to suggest
that it was unamerican and unpatri-
otfc
The record-union., 1896-09-26
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Mexican Silver and United States
Gold Paid WOrkinYmen.

"Object lessons in which the Mexican
silver dollar is utilized are becoming a
familiar feature Of the present Presi-
Dental campaign. The Atkinson Fur
nishing Company, with headquarters at
Boston. and five branches in Maine,
abs for some weeks past been paying its
employees alternately in Mexican dol
lars and $5 gold pieces. Every employe
who received his pay in Mexican coin
got with 1t a letter in substance as fol-
lows: ITO Our Employees: The company
pays your wages this week in Mexican
dollars. We bought them in the open
market at a cost of 30 cents each. We
pay them to you at the rate Of two for
one Of United States money. When you
come to pay your bills with these dol
lars you will have good illustration OF
the real value and actual purchasing
power of the 420 grains Of silver con-
tained therein" With the gold coin
the employees received letter In part
as follows:
ITO Our Employees: Last week we
paid you in silver dollars at about the
real value Of silver contained in them.
You received twice as many as you do
this week; your wages, measured by the
number Of dollars received, were in
creased 100 per cent. We have given
you what the silver orators say you
need-cheap money and plenty of it.
This week we pay you In gold coin.
II any of you believe that the
silver party will be successful and you
want to make money on the plan which
they advocate you can keep this gold
until the good times coming when the
new plan becomes law, then exchange
your gold for>silver bullion, carry 1t to
the mint, have 1t coined without charge
and get twice as many dollars as you
had before If you find you cannot
buy any more with them than you
could with half that number before,
don't mind a little thing like that You
have got more dollars and that is
what you want. Any Of them you don't
spend Immediately will be found useful
IN the household as stove lids and din
ner plates
It is humiliating, indeed, to our ma
tionaI pride to be obliged to admit that
such object lessons arc necessary
among people who have boasted so
much OF the efficiency Of our public
school system and the superior intelIi-
gence Of the average American as COM
pared with the average European
But the spread Of the silver coinage
craze seems to show that when brains
are lacking no school books can be Of
much service-Trale Review.
The record-union., 1896-09-26

Mr. Gladstone In his Liverpool speech
sounded the note that will assuredly
be taken up by the English people and
result In a command to the Turk to
stay his hand and cease Sitting the
throatS Of Armenian Christians. That
England as a government should have
hesitated thus long is a shame to her.
That the Cabinet will be able to hold
out in its position OF apparent coward
ice against the rising demand of the
English people is not to be thought Of.
Mr.. Gladstone does not advise threat
Of war, but he would not shrink from
that il necessary. He believes that all
that is needed at present to check the
Porte is to withdraw the English Em-
bassador from Turkey and give the
papers. This would be q severance Of
diplomatic relations the Sultan could
not afford TO ignore. II he did so, how
ever, Gladstone would have the nation
employ force to protect Armenians.
That would mean Of course a costly and
by no means brief war. 1t might in
volve the present guest Of England as
foe, for the Czar will not permit Tur-
key to be crushed by any one but him
self, and just now he has good reasons
for maintaining her national integrity.
However, 1t ought to be possible to COM
pei the Sultan to desist without wag1ng
q war with q view to parceling out the
Empire or reopening the Eastern ques-
tion That Is the kind Of an armed
interference Gladstone means evident
ly; one for a single purpose and with
all other possibilities excluded by prior
express declaration.