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The morning times., 1896-06-04
Reduced,

The best large, 2-lb. pack
ages OF oats, were l0c
pkg; now.
The large sacks OF Table
Corn Meal, has been sold
for zoe per sack; now
Standard Canned Corn,
sweet and tender, was &C
per can; now.
Quart cans OF Maple Syrup.
was 40c per can; now.
Borax Soap; Oleine; New
Tariff Soap and Splendid
Brand, was 4c per cake;
uO" .-.....-..
Best Sugar Cured Smoked
Shoulders, were &c per
10, now.
Beautiful White Lara, was
1oc per lb.; now. w......
Scotch Smoked Herring, 80
to 90 fish IN a box. were
soc; now. i.t.......
Large, bright Evap6rated
California Peaches. were
l2c per h.; now. .......
The morning times., 1896-06-04

BLACK AIL-WOOL
AND SILK AND WOOL
CREPON FOR MOURN
ING.
Black All-wool Crepon, SO ms,
soc.
Black Au-wool Crepon, 80 ms,
6oc.
Hack All-wool Crepon, "A ms,
75c.
Black Silk Warp Crepon, As
ms, Sl.oO.
Black Silk Warp Crepon, 46
ins., Sl.25.
The morning times., 1896-06-04

Steamer Manchester for Indian Head
Friday and Saturday evenings at $50
The morning times., 1896-06-04

This grand lot of ParasOls consists Of
Fine Quality japanese Silks. with IFesfen
handles. in white and biack-Fine Qualify
Crepe de Chine. with ruif1e, in whIts cream.
black and also tan, with sticks to matCh-Fine
Satin-stripe India silk Coaching Para5Ois-
Elegant Quality Black and White Striped
Silk-AssOrted Styles of the Best Quality SILK
Ia1feta. IN chan@eable stripes, BOrdered and
Plain TatfeIas. in all cOlOrs-Silk-Iined Grass
Cloth, in assorted Standardization Silks, in
coaching and ruffie effects. Regular - 81
and IS ParasOls at
The morning times., 1896-06-04
Lot 2.

Here is the greatest Parasol value
ever offered in Washington. S., 81
and G3 Parasols SI.79.
The morning times., 1896-06-04

Open High Low. Close.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

States 25.8 grains of standard gold or
23.22 grains pure are worth 81, for the
all-sufficient reason that the law re-
quires just that weight of gold to be
put into the dollar. In other words,
the gold dollar weighs 25S grains. So
by the English coinage law an ounce
of gold will be coined into f3 It's 1O19d
Of English money. That amount is the
mint rate; but when gold is deposited
at the mint for coinage there is al
ways some delay in getting returns.
Prior to 1914 the delay averaged about
sixty days. Therefore the owners OF
bullion desiring to have their money at
once would sell it to the brokers for
something less than the mint rate
usually about f3 It's Cd an ounce. Ac-
cordingly in that year parliament
enacted that the Bank of England
should take all money offered at it's
counters and pay for it at the rate of
f3 It's Sd an ounce, the difference of
11a pence between the bank rate and
the mint rate being intended to par
TALLY or wholly reimburse the bank for
the delay. That has been substantially
the price of gold bullion ever since.
The act OF parliament at once raised
the price Of gold bullion about pence
an ounce. A favorite argument With
the gold people is that the value OF
gold is wholly independent of coinage.
And yet We see that simple delay of
GO days in the coinage made differ
ence of Az pence an ounce in the value
of gold bullion. If the delay had been
longer the difference would have been
greater. If it could not have been
coined at all either in England or
elsewhere, we leave some gold wor-
shipper to figure out how much it
would have been worth.
In France the law provides for the
coinage of gold at the rate of 3,1O0
francs to the kilogram. The kilogram
is something over 2H pounds-more
exactly, 267951 pounds troy. We arc
not aware of any law in France SINH
lar to the English provision of 1874.
In that country the mint rate fixes The
price, subject to any small difference
that may result from delay in the COIN
age. as was formerly the case in Eng
land But this difference must be
very slight, because the gold can be re-
allied upon Immediately at the Bank
of England.
The reader will Of course understand
that it is the money" value alone that
is here spoken of. An ounce of gold
/ is worth just as many dollars" as it
will make. But how much these del
| lars will buy (or exchange foD If
something else depends upon their
number compared with the quantity of
that something else. The exchange
value OF gold is constantly varying,
the same as the exchange value
OF other things. If all gold coins
were to be doubled in weight
there would only be half as many
of them, and each one would buy
twice as much of other things as it
does now. but it would take twice as
much gold bullion to buy gold dollar.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
Conference.-The PettifOgging.

From the National Bimetallist, Chi
cago: While reading the recent dis
patches from ST. Louis relative to the
currency plank adopted one scarcely
knew whether to boil over with indig-
nation or to smile in cold contempt at
the bare-faced fraud. The extreme
gold men of the east demanded q
declaration in favor of maintaining the
present gold Standard" The McKin-
ley men said, No! We will give you a
declaration in favor of maintaining the
present standard" In the name of all
the saints and apostles, what is the diff
ference? The question before the peo-
pie is, Shall silver be restored to its
former place in our monetary system
or shall the present gold standard be
maintained and perpetuated? The gold
men Of the east, after claiming for
years to be bimetallists, now declare
unequivocally for the gold standard as
it exists. The Mckinley men, with
less boldness, but more policy, de-
manded precisely the same thing, bat
want TO leave out the offensive word
gold" thinking thereby to hold the
western vote. Absolutely the only diff
ference is that the eastern mems posi-
tion is the more honorable. We are
glad that the platform adopted is so
clear in its expressions for the gold
standard.
1t was merely quibble over the
utterly immaterial point whether the
CT n r1 eh.n ho 1aI III
or not called anything.
Their is not a straight-out silver man
in the country who can be deceived for
moment by any such hairspltting.
We don't care what they call the
present standard. Calling" it does not
change it's essential nature-and that is
what genuine bimetallists object TO-.
The leaders of the republican party
propose to maintain the system that
has practically destroyed one-half the
money value of our great staples,
brought business to a standstill, sub
stantially put an end to all improve
ment, filled the land with idle men,
and cast the shadows of actual suffer-
ing into untold thousands of humble
homes. If there is a man in the United
States who claims to believe in silver
restoration and is prepared to support
the republican ticket upon such de-
clared policy it is to be devoutly hoped
that he will not sing "silver" any
more, but sing as he votes. A declar-
alton in favor Of maintaining the pres
ent money standard is declaration ir
favor of gold-nothing more, nothing
less, and it will prove that the repub-
lican party is no longer the party of
Lincoln and the people, but the party
of plutocracy, plunder and pelf.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
The karaim Jews.

The Karaim Jews number 5000 or
1000 and live principally in the Crimea.
They speak a Tartar dialect among
themselves, and ethnologically are
much more like Tartars than Semites
Their own legends, in fact, permit the
assumption that they were Khazars
| and were converted to Judaism in the
eighth century. Their form of Judaism
differs from that of the 100000 or
more orthodox Russian Jews in reject
ing the talmud and traditional theol-
! ogy altogether and confining itself
strictly to the Mosaic revelation. 1t
has been a favorite amusement with
the Russians for generations to pretend
the greatest admiration and affection
for this obscure little tribe. Nine.
Novikoff had her joke on the subject
here in London when she gravely as
| sured an interviewer some years ago
that there never had been law of any
kind issued in Russia against the Jews.
When this amazing assertion was ques-
toned she coolly explained that she
! referred to the Karaim Jews, as in Rus
sia they did not consider the disciples
of the talmud were Jews at all. Inas-
much as the Karaites constitute only
two-thousandth part of the Jewish
race-if, indeed, it be conceded that
they belong to it at all-the insolence
of the Russian attitude toward them
is peculiarly exasperating to Hebrews
in general and the spectacle of their
being brought forward at Moscow as
the sole representatives of Israel will
smart and rankle just as the genial
Slavonic character deires it should
Saturday Review.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
That's Different.

An exchange says that q boy can sit
on a sled six inches square, tied to a
sled moving eight miles an hour. but
can't sit on a sofa five minutes for a,
dollar. A man will sit on an inch
BOARD and talk politics for three hours:
put him in church pew for forty min
,utes' he gets nervous, twists and turns.
and goes to sleep. Man will pouch his
cheeks with filthy tobacco, juice runs
down his chin, feels good but a hair
IN the butter kills him. He stays out
till midnight, wife don't know where
he is, comes home when he pleases;
but II meal is not ready just on time,
pouts, frowns and says unpretty things.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

I'll do it, I'll do It," he muttered:
and at the club the men talked about
him.
Tomorrow" he said, and then he
put 1t off. He must consider the art CT
1t. He left it to bourgeon in his fer
tile brain. And at last, just as he
wrote, action, lighted up by strange
circumstance, began to loom big before
MIN. Such a murder would wake a
vivid world and be an epoch in crime.
III the red earth were convulsed in war,
even then it would stay to hear that in
credible, true story, and, soliciting
deeper knowledge, seek out the method
ana growth of means and motive. He
chuckled audibly in the street, and
laughed thin laughter in his room OF
meeting visions. At night he walked
the lonely squares near at hand, con-
sidering eagerly the rush of his own
divided thoughts, and, leaning against
the ratings of the leafy gardens. he
saw ghosts in the moon shadows and
Deckoned them to converse. He be-
came night bird and was rarely seen.
Tomorrow" he said at last. To-
morrow he would really take the first
| step. He rubbed his hand and laughed
as he pondered near home, in his own
lonely square, the finer last details
which his imagination multiplied.
Stay, enough, enough" he cried to
his separate mad mind; lit is already
DONE"
And the shadows were very dark
about him. He turned to so home.
Then came Immortality to him in
strange shape. For it seemed as
though his ardent and confined soul
burst out of his narrow brain and
sparkled marvelously. Lights show
cred about him, and from q rose sky
lightnings flashed, and he heard awful
thunder. The heavens opened in a
white blaze, and he saw unimaginable
things. He reeled, put his hand to his
stricken head, and fell heavily in a
pool OF his own blood.
And the Anticipator, horribly afraid,
ran down by-street.-The Sketch
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
SOME POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Straw mats snow Wnlcn way inc
mercury goes.-Boston Globe.
A mans idea of dull time is to
play cards with women and nothing
up.-Atchison Globe.
The hand that rocks the boat is the
hand that is in q fair way to leave the
world.-New York Press.
Every man who makes a fool or a
knave of himself hates the newspa-
pers.-Kansas City Times.
The Lord helps those who help
themselves. That is probably the rea-
son he is not more lavish with his fa-
vors.-Up-to-Date.
The average theater hat is bird
(stuffed), whole lot Of flowers (arti-
ficiaD and blooming nuisance (genu-
ine).-L. A. w. Bulletin.
Many European scions of royalty are
insured for very large amounts. This
is probably at the instance of credi-
tors.-Louisville Times.
The fool killer never troubles him
self about the man who rocks the boat
or the one who grabs a loaded gun by
the muzzle.-Philadelph Ledger.
A crying need in some circles of al
legged statesmanship is a systematic
course of instruction in the art of be-
ag funny without being vulgar
Washington Star.
A deacon will pass around the plate
and get more buttons than dimes. but
a highwayman can hold out a gun and
collect everything a man has. This
goes to show that a man will give VI
more to save his body than to save his
soul.-St. Louis Humorist.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

DON'T TALK IDEAL POPPYCOCK."
across a muddy stream, than write the
best of them"
Esplan turned on him.
"Well, WELL" he almost shouted
1.-The man who invented chloroform
was great, and the makers of it are
useful. Call stories chloral, morphia,
bromides, if you will, but they give
ease"
when it might be better to use
blisters"
"Rotv answered Esplan, rudely. "In
any case, your talk Is idle. l am 1,
and writer's are writers-small, IL you
will, but result and force. Give
me rest. Don't talk ideal poppy
cockw
He ordered liqueur brandy. After
drinking it his aspect changed little,
and he smiled.
perhaps it won't occur again. II 1t
does l shall feel that Burford Is very
much in my way. l shall have to
-"
Remove him?" asked Vincent.
mo, but work quicker. / have some
thing to write soon, 1t would just
suit him to SPOIL"
The talk changed, and soon after
wards the friends parted. Esplan
went to his chambers in Bloomsbury.
He paced his sitting-room idly for a
few minutes, but after awhile he began
to feel the impulse in his brain; his
fingers itched, the semi-automatic
mood came on. He sat down and
wrote, at first slowly, and at last furi-
ously.
II was 3 in the afternoon when he
began work. At 10 o'clock he was still
at his desk, and the big table on which
II stood was strewn with tobacco ashes
and many pipes. His hair again stood
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
A Trifling snake Story.

Joseph Conner. a Sugar lake farmer
and fisherman, had a peculiar expert
cnce few nights ago while camping
out. A snake swan from the lake
to the shore and made for the campfire
Conner took blazing stick from the
fire and held 1t toward the snake. The
reptile rushed at the firebrand and,
wrapping itself around 1t, was burned
to death. 1t seems almost needless
to state that all this happened in Mis-
souri,.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
Hoods pills are easy to take, easy to operate.

"E have used Burdoclx Blood Bitters
in my family for two years. 1t is the
best medicine l ever used. 1t cured
me of, erysipelas in very short time;
also cured my son of scrofula after the
doctors had failed" Louie s. Wood
ward, Laurel Hill, Fayette County, Pa.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

febrile excitement, a red spot burnt on
either cheek, and his bitten lip quiv-
cred. "Confound Burford, and his par
ents, and his ancestors! The tools to
him that can handle them" he added
after a pause, during which his friend
Vincent curiously considered him.
It's your own fault, my dear wild
man." said he; 'you are too lazy. be-
sides, remember these things-these
notions, motives--are in the air. orig
inality is only the art of catching carry
worms. Why don't you do the Things
as soon as you invent them"
'Now you talk like bourgeois, Ike
a commercial traveller" returned ESP
Ian angrily. why doesn't an apple
tree yield apples when the blossoms
are fertilized? Why wait for summer,
and the influences of wind and SKY!
Why don't live chickens burst new
laid eggs? Shall parturition tread sud-
den on conception? Didn't the noun
tain labor to bring forth a mouse?
and shall"
your works of genius not require
a portion of the eternity to which
they are destined?"
'Stuff!' snarled Esplan; but you
know my method. / catch the sugges-
ton, the floating thistle-down OF
thought, the title, maybe; and then
leave it, perhaps without a note. to
the brain, to the subliminal conscious
ness, the subconscious self. The story
T,f
petual sleepless soul. 1t may be reject
ed by the artistic tribunal sitting there
it may be hidden to stand aside.
the outer l, the husk-case or hered-
tiles, know nothing Of it, but one day
| take the pen and the hand writes IT,
This is the automatism of art, and Il
am nothing, the last only of the con-
cealed individualitles within me. Per
haps dumb ancestor attains speech
and yet the Complex Ego Esplan must
be anticipated in this way"
He rose and paced the lonely club
smoking-room with irregular steps
His nerves were evidently quivering
his brain was wild. But Vincent, who
was a physician, saw deeper. For
Esplan's speech was jerky, at times
he missed the right word-the loco
motor centers were not under control
What of morphine?" he thought.
81 wonder If he is at it again, and is
to-day without his quantum?" But
Esplan burst out once more.
81 should not care so much If Bur
ford did them well, but he doesn't
know how to write a story. Look al
the last thing of mine-of his. I saw
it leaping and alive; it ran and sang
a very Maenad; it had red blood. With
him it wasn't even born dead: ii
squeaks puppetry, and leaks sawdust
and moves like lay figure, and smells
of most manifest manufacture. But
can't do it now. He has spoilt it for
ever. It's the third time. Curse him
and my luck! I work when l must"
your calling is very serious to you,'
said Vincent lazily. after all, what
does it matter? What are stories
Are they not opiates for towards
lives? l would rather invent some lit
tie instrument, or build a plank bridge
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

81 burned my fingers very badly.
The pain was intense. DR.. Thomas
Eclectric Oil brought relief in three
minutes. 1t was almost magical. L
never saw anything like it." Amelia
Swords, Saundersville, o.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
Pussy's Happv FAMILY.

c. o. Barnes has a cat at his home
in Goldendale, NJ j., which is sucking
three young squirrels, which were
caught near town. She also suckles
one kitten, the others having been
killed to make room for the SQUIRRELS.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
Fixing the Price Of Cold nv LAW

From the National Bimetallist, Chi
cago: In reply to questions by many
correspondents the National Bimetal-
list will state that the money value or
price of gold is absolutely fixed by law.
In the coinage system of the United
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
An Outrage.

"It is an outraged" the Spanish gen.
eral exclaimed. what has happened?"
"That war correspondent insists on
publishing untruths Of his own compo-
notwithstanding Post.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

Shade of the Period-"In your day,
as 1 understand it, there was no glori-
Gus death except in battle" Shade of
Achilles-"That is substantially cor
rect. They did not operate for appen-
d!citis then" Detroit Tribune.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
An Old Rule RefuteL.

"Don't you think a blonde woman
ought to marry brunette man."
"Of course not. His neckties would
not suit her at all. ll."-lndianapolis
Journal.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

For Pin Worms, Eczema, Hives, in
fact, any of the various torturing, itchy
diseases of the skin, Doan's Ointment
is an instant and positive remedy. Get
it from your dealer.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
PesSiintsIn.

The pessimist is freak. Pessimism
is the child of a day or mood, optimism
is the great under current of human
life. Pessimism is abnormal. It IS a
ron
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

DIR. Woods Norway Pine Syrup is
pleasant to take, positively harmless
absolutely sure to cure the most obsti-
nate cough or cold. A household boon.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

The first horse was brought to this continent
in 1913. Now there are. in the United States
alone, 1f,056,7o0 horses, valuedsat 94l 100000.
A fireman who undertook To fight fire the
other night was severely licked by the flames.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

Ly0ld L. Plnk0dM VegetdDic SOiupOuuu
Will cure the worst forms of female
complaints, all ovarian troubles, in
flammation and liberation, falling and
displacements of tho womb, and conse-
quent spinal weakness, and is pecu-
liarly adapted to the change of life.
Every timc it will cure Backache.
It has cured moro cases of leucor-
rhoea by removing the cause, than any
remedy the world has ever known; it
is almost infallible in such cases. 1t
dissolves and cxpcls tumors from tho
uterus in an early stage of develop
ment, and checks any tendency to can
cerous humors. Lydia E. Pinkham's
Liver Pills work in unison with tho
Compound, and are o sure cure for
constipation and sick headache. Mrs.
Pinlxham's Sanative Wash Is of great
value for local application.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

shall recommend Pisos Cure for Consump-
tion far and wide Mrs. Mulligan, Plumstead,
Kent, England, Nov. g. 1885,
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

Greek ladies had steel and brass mirrors,
parasols fans and smelling bottles.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
IL the Baby is Cutting Teeth.

Almost any man is inclined to permit his GUS
toners to keep their own opinions.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
THE ANTICIPATOR.

+ course, l admit
it isn't plagiarism" ["
said Carter Esplar
savagely; it's fate,
it's the devil, but
is it the less irri-
tating on that ac-
count? No, no."
And he ran his
hand through his
hair till it stood on
end. He shook with
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

The wishes of the improvldcnt mortal are
his wants
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

Be euro and use that old and wel,tried remedy, MI
wINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP for Children Teething
The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10

Goes Cough EaIsam
Is the Oldest and best. 1t will break up Cold quicker
than any thing else. 1t is always reliable. Try it,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
DANGEROUS SURGERY.
DEATH FOLLOWS THE SURGEONS
KNIFE-NOT THE SURGEONS
FAULT, OF COURSE, HE
CAN'T HELP IT-YOU
Quickly, Painlessiy, Without
Danger. - s&.G

People go along for years suffering with
piles. Then try this, and that and the other
thing; from carrying a buckeye to getting
treatment from a physician. They obtain
temporary relief, maybe, but they are never
quite cured. little strain in lifting, ex-
cessive fatigue little constipation or lit
tie diarrhoea and the piles come back.
They don't seem to amount to much, but
they Danish sleep and appetite. No position
is comfortable. There Is intense local pain
and that dreadful feeling Of weight in the
perineum.
Maybe in the early stages some Of the
many salves on sale will afford temporary
relief. If the case is Of long standing there
is only one speedy and sure remedy. 1t is
Pyramid Pile Cure Even in light cases 1t
is the safest thing to use. Other applica-
tions may cure and may not. Pyramid Cure
is always certain. always reliable, always
brings comfort at once. It's prompt use
saves months of severe suffering. In ex-
treme cases 1t will save surgical operations
and the attendant dangers and discomforts.
1t is better than knife. Will cure easier
quicker and safer. Thousands have used 1t.
Thousands have been cured by it. The cost
is trihing compared with what it does. The
price is 30 cents. Most anybody would
gladly pay ten dollars to be rid of piles
Druggists sell Pyramid Pile Cure. II
yours hasn't 1t he will get 1t for you from
the Pyramid Drug Co., of Albion, Mich. sole
manufacturers.