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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08
FIVE POINTS OF FINANCE.
Some Propositions That Cannot BE Con-
troverted.


troverted.
The Courier-Journal has been re-
quested to republish the celebrated five
propositions laid down by Secretary
Carlisle in his speech at Bowling Green
May rs. 1895. Here they are:
"First-That there Is not a free-coinage
country in the world to-day that Is not on
g. silver basis.
"Second-That there Is not gold -stand-
ard country in the world to-day that does
not use silver as money along with gold.
'Third-That there Is not silver stand
ard country in The world to-day that uses
any gold as money along with silver.
"Fourth-That there Is not a, silver
standard country in the world to-day that
has more than one-third as much money
in circulation per capita as the United
States have; and
"Fifth-That there is not silyer-stand-
Erd country in the world to-day where the
laboring man receives fair pay for his
days work"
These propositions have never been
successfully controverted and never
will be. They show that the attempted
Identification of free coinage at sixteen
to one with bimetallism is "barren
ideality. Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08
FROM SOUND MONEY SOURCES.

....f ever the editor of Coins FL.
nancial School" publishes confession
there is no danger that he will confess
to more horrible murders of the truth
than he has perpetrated. : Chicago
Tribune
....Gen. GARRISON says that western
republicansw will support sound money
man, if necessary. The leaders among
the silver democrats say that they will
be loyal to the party nominee. So it
looks as if the more rabid of the white
metal folk would have to secede or take
their medicine like little MENU. Y.
Sun.
Thirty million dollars worth of
gold will be the total of Colorado's pro-
duction this year, according to the most
recent estimates. Apparently the pros
perity of the state does not depend en-
tirely upon silver, and yet the people
out there do not seem to realize that
fact. They are as loud and boisterous
in their support of free silver as ever.
Troy Times.
ITO cut away the meshes OF
sophistry wherewith the apostles of
the Coin school of finance have sur.
rounded the question of the currency
has been the undertaking of Secretary
Carlisle, and to him more than to any
other man, republican or democrat, the
public owes its clearer comprehension
Of the truths and principles at the root
II our financial system. : Rochester
Herald.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08
MRS. STANTON TOOK 1T IN.
Amused by an Inaccurate Description Of
Herself in Early Days.

Amused by an Inaccurate Description OF
Herself in Early Days.
Mrs. Stanton was summering at Sara
toga, eagerly enjoying the delights of
that fascinating young watering place
half a century ago-a merry young
mother, in great demand for her agree
able manners and sparkling conversa-
ton, as well as for her talented perfor-
mances upon the guitar. Chatting
with friend one day, the woman ques-
tlon-that bugbear of the moment
was brought up. 'Isn't it dreadful" he
remarked, ito think of woman so un-
sexing herself as actually to appear be-
fore the Legislature at Albany?" Natur-
| ally enough, the heroine of this very
shocking procedure protested against
this Interpretation of woman's sphere:
yet, amused by her friends faux pas,
mischievously led him on.
what kind of woman is this Mrs.
Stanton?" she inquired.
"Oh, dreadful kind of woman!" was
the reply. "Just the kind of woman
one would expect would do such
thing"
do describe her," replied his tor
mentor. "Tell me more about her."
And he, nothing loath, went on:
"Well, she's large, notwithstanding
woman, with high cheek bones and a
loud, harsh voice-don't you know
just one of those regular woman's |
rights women"
"Have you really seen her, or is thin
taken from the papers?" she asked,
quietly.
"Of course have seen her. Did I |
not tell you that heard her before tie
legislature
How did she speak?"
"Frightfully. 1t was simply awful.
Her strident voice and her masculine
appearance should have been the death
knell to her cause"
"What is her name, did you say?"
"Mrs. Stanton-Mrs. Henry Stanton.
in fact"
"Why, that's my name!" she said.
"Of course-she's your namesake, so
thought you would be interested.
But 1 knew it could be no relation of
yours. Ha, ha, hal"
Mrs. Stanton rose. 81 am afraid 1
I'm she," she said.
OF course there was nothing for him
% do but to confess and grovel.-Har-
)er's Bazaar. ,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08

81 tea-drinker; and put a cracke,
IN my pocket, too, this morning. for j
knew you'd be all stirred up TO-
cay. It's all + want, certain
'Tisn't SO easy to starve as You think,
and l never was hungry like some
folks. l rather think the Lord knew
when he made me what sort of work
He'd laid out for me-"
And never was back more beautiful.
~ fitted to its burden. On being re-
monstrated with one day for carrying
heavy basket up three long flights of
stairs without stopping to take a
breath, she said, authoritatively, as she
kept on: Don't say word, don't saw
one word! Some folks don't have any
stairsi"
When Aunt Lois was in full yigor and
nearly 70 years old her youngest child.
a lifelong invalid, died suddenly. This
daughter was the cheerer and comfort.
er OF her life, inheriting the high cour-
age and fearless faith of her mother
The neighbors near and far, in tender
appreciation, sent flowers and messages
- 49, NS' ~S~'SN hoAACS duu tWO VenIureu
to go in person, dreading, as all did, to
see this personifcation of strength and
cheer reduced to the pitiful straits of
humanity when it's last prop is gone.
The little house stood quite by itself,
mile outside the town which had
gradually drawn near. Poverty marked
u Tor her own-a little, one-story dinpi-
~ brown house. The tenant was one
OF the folks who had no stairs. Three
rooms and roof to cover them were
all she owned, but these her labor of |
years had paid for. She welcomed her
guests with the same quiet composure
that attended her alike on solemn or
joyful occasions, giving them the two
chairs near the fire, fetching footstools,
begging to remove and dry Their wraps,
for the night was damp.
Her face shone." said one of them
afterward 1--WE couldn't speak of the
dead, but she did. Tears came when
she asked us to take her dear thanks
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08

could watch with the sick without ,
wink of sleep, and no one could per
suade her to SO interfere with the orde,
\ OF nature as to rest by day. Work wa,
her panacea; dash of cold water out
side, cup of weak hot tea for refresh
ment, and her day was we'll begun
She took no sugar in her tea nor butter
on her bread, because these luxuries
We're not afforded at home, and she
could not be persuaded to pamper her.
self elsewhere.
AT spring cleanings she could take
down sooty stovepipe tidily and set
its perverse joints together again with
an unruffled spirit. She could make
wedding cake or clean a cellar, scrub
kitchen floors, or do up laces as if she
had been the proverbial angel called
from governing kingdom to sweep a
street crossing.
Gentle, refined in thought and speech,
with low voice, a quiet step, COM
forting presence, heart that held no
suggestion of wrong, nature of ut
most charity, which believed no fleet
ing gossip, Aunt Lois saw deep beneath
the surface to the honest heart of
things, but could never recognize any
faults but her own.
Hating sin, she loved the sorry sim
ner, and could find ready excuse for
any fault or incompetency outside her
own door. From the very sIenderest
store she gave so graciously that the
gift itself seemed great, whatever it
might be-a marigold growing by her
doorstep. plump head of fennel or dill,
a root of sweet cicel., handful of
checkerberries or wild faspberries in
their season, few radishes from her
garden bed; stick of candy, perhaps,
to child-the saved-up gift of some
lover of her own among the children
.-or bits Of silk to make little girls
eyes shine, bright fragments treas
ured from some wedding trousseau
Of the past.
The world was poorer when she went
cut of it, to meet her Amy, we trust; to
sit resting in the Heavenly place with
folded hands. perhaps, and spotless
kerchief-for we can only think of her
Lumanly--ministered unto at last, but
with the bright hope shining in her
clear eyes of ministering in turn, after
earth's 30 years of tiredness was past.
N. y. Evening Post.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08
TREES in WINTER.

Mid the summers countless beauties
Iurketh many hidden one,
AS we cannot see the stars shine
/ For the splendor Of the sun.
| a The exuberance of foliage
/ binds us to the wondrous charms
In the trees, till winter strips them
"A Gives the sight of their bare arms.
Nov behold the Masters drawing
Clear against the cold, gray sky:
Moi trace Of warmth or color.
/ But fine feasting for the eye.
liar we see the vertebra ton,
All the lines Of radiation.
|All the graceful interlacings
OF the frostlike, fairy tracings.
Have thy summer leaves been smitten.
Beaten off by storm and strife?
Rtand up bravely! Show. in winter,
Strength, grace, symmetry Of life!
-Maltbie d. Babcock. in 8. 8. Times.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08
Their ADVANTAGE.

There are some things in which our
English cousins have the advantage of
us. An American millionaire, accus-
toned to purchase anything he wanted,
tried to obtain from an Oxford garden
CT the secret of the beautiful lawns
which make the pride of England-or
a portion of it. Tell me, my good
man, how you manage it." he said, con-
descendingly, putting his hand sig
nificantly into his pocket. tits VERY
simple, sir" replied the gardener,
quantity. "You cuts it as close as ever
you can cut, and you rolls it and cuts
it for GOO years. Companion.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08
NEW ENGLAND LADY.
BY allyn YATES KEITH.

As write the words, quaint, small
|ure steps noiselessly out of the past
slight figure, too, though well knit,
sighing scarcely 30 pounds. The
Z is gently old and withered like a
e hanging peach. keeping still a
ade of it's youthful pinkness. The
In, brown and fine, with a wide,
Lite parting and snug twist that curls
len released, is kept in unvarying
Ice by an old-fashioned BACKBONE.
10 small, fiat curls are held close
the delicate ears, partially covering
I'm, by modern sidccombs.
Fhe eyes, gray-blue and clear, look
on world that has been hard to
Dir owner, who has not repaid it in
ID. She must have wondered often
it's hardness in the years before
accepted it brayely as something in
general plan.
fhe gown, clean and becoming, is of
old-fashioned calico-always of
leo and always clean-chocolata
wn in color and lightly sprinkled
b tiny sprigs of white. A gingham
on of blue check is tied with smooth
Foned tape strings around the waist,
ch is trim as young girls. About
neck kerchief of thick muslin,
might be cousin to the Breton
carries with it the thought of
Hess purity that always attached to |
BIT Lois.
be was aunt to the town--never in
q, but always hidden to it's festiv-
to take the part she loved best;
bout which Jeopardy, sleighride,
per, winter dance and wedding feast
I'D be incomplete. When she APP
fed, serene and capable, responsible
dropped at once into her hands,
the satisfied house mother took
more thought for the day or the
row.
|lnt Lois was by no means the
lde dame, the fine lady of whom we
I and speak vaguely. She was too
too grand for careless speech.
b her early youth she had been the
er of almost incredible burdens
lens borne in silence, with such
Fly and sweetness that they be.
! blessings.
lou see l never had rheumatism OF g
not even a headache, SO I
always work right along, dag
day." MY back was strong, or l I
mt have done great many things ,
were necessary" "Many time 4
I'd my first baby two and three Q
/ to do housekeeping and back
at night. He was SO good l could
nim to sleep and tuck him away in n
king chair where nobody could sit 0
pa. So, you see, he wasn't much q
'ance. But I went a little early y
'tayed late, of course, to make up II
pme l lost, and right thankful 1 n
70 be able to do it," o
pit Lois had nhothered not only u
children, but good natured, -
nless husband to boot, who sawed 8
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08
KEPT THE KETTLE BOILING.

to the people who had been so kind t,
her. She had not expected sucf
things. She said Heaven had Away
been rather a lonesome spot to her
There seemed to be little to do there
according to all she had heard and
read. But now that Amy was there
as she hoped, t was a good deal to look
forward to. Other people had moro
ideas about it, she supposed. A good
many of her babies had gone before
when they were little things, but
Amy" Not word of her sore grief,
of her utter loneliness.
In straits of unexpected guests, in
honsecleanings, weddings, funerals
nothing was ever quite orthodox with
out Aunt Lois, who lived on alone in her
desolate house. Her husband had died
years ago, so little missed that the
neighbors soon forgot him; her one re-
naming child had married hundreds
of miles away, into poverty more dreary
than any she had ever known at home,
and her going was to the mother like
going out of the world. The son-in-
law was undesirable in various ways,
but Aunt Lois when questioned said
serenely: Susan likes him and she's
the one that's got him to live with.
so il she can put up with his ways it
isn't for me to complain. 1t does not
become me to be talking about their
affairs. Most children marry away
from their home. and why should be
treated different from other folks?'
Mother confessor was Aunt Lois to
lalf the village, but never. did anointed
'riest guard more sacredly the secrets
# the confessional than did she. No
however unsuitable, how
YER queer, could surprise her, for had |
he not stood sponsor to the fancy in its
allow infancy, long before it hardened |
nto fact, and attended the shrinking
ictim through long course of chills
nd fever preceding the consumma.
ion? All heartaches and backaches
nd fingeraches went to Aunt Lois for
onsolation. and the least of them
ever went in vain. She knew the
idden virtues of all simples,- and her
cad carried an endless-chain process.
on of recipes Of all sorts, from wine
Iaking to root beer, and from rasp.
cry shrub to catnip tea. Measles
nd chicken-pox. mumps and whoop-
g-cough lost their terrors when Aun.
DIS appeared, confident and CHEEKY, i
charm away crossness and f1dgets
tn stories of when she was a little ,
RI. A plain and homely enough little
rlhood, but one that made the ut II
ost of everything, and saw more
in sand heap than mod
n children find in a fully equipped /
II house. 1
The rocking chair creaked contented- I
as she crooned tired baby 20 sleep.
T own ealmness going out to the q
sped serves and setting them in a
der and harmony. All night long she I
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08
A CHEAP LESSON.
Inflated Dollars Brought Only an Increases
In Price.

In Price.
| The advocates Of cheap money do q
great deal of loose talking about the adj
vantages which they say this country
would derive from the free-coinage of
silver; but they overlook all the object
lessons in the matter of deprecated.
currency which have practical bear
ing upon the case. For instance, they
10 not turn their eyes toward the Sou
dan, where the process of cheapenin.y
money for the purpose Of raising priccs
and promoting prosperity has been ap-
plled Tor all it is worth, so to speak.
When the Mahdi came into power liz.
| had a coin made which was composed
OF seven parts of silver and one part
of copper. 1t was very satisfactory to
the people and promised to answer eli
If their purposes for all time to come.
But soon the piIlaging of the crops and
the decline Of various industries
changed the situation. Something had
to be done to relieve the prevailing
depression, and the expedient Of de-
basing the coinage was adopted. Tha
relative proportions Of silver and cop
the former to one of the latter; and
then the ratio was successfully made
five to three, four to four, two and one
half to four and one-half, and finally
two to five, thus adopting means to ends
with resolute logic and confident per.
severance.
This policy had the desired effect in
q II r.nsc
very rapidly. Cotton stuff that had
previously been sold for the equivalent
OF IS cents advanced to six dollars; linen
that had formerly been sold for one dol
lar went up to eight dollars; and there
was relative increase in the prices Of
ali other kinds of imported goods. I'm
fortunately, however, the result was
not the same as to things produced at
home. They remained at about the old
nominal value. The people had cheaper
money, but it only served to raise tie
prices of all the articles that they were
obliged to buy without giving them a
increase in the prices ot
the commodities that they sent to mar
ket.. Their inflated dollars did not
bring good times. The theory was q
pleasing one, but it would not work.
They could not defeat the laws of trade
by diluting the currency; they could
not make themselves prosperous by les
'ening the value of the medium of ex.
'hanges. Their experiment is instruc-
i've. 1t teaches that there is nothing
% be gained by increasing the number
If dollars in country according to
he cheapening method. The free sill
'erites will do well to study it carefully.
t represents the practical operation Of .
he theory to which they are so ar
ently devoted and they can hardly
nil to see that there are some very
orcible objections to the proposed IN
reduction of such policy in tho
United States.--St. Louis Globe-Demo-
rat
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08

We have seen how capricious were
the tender laws Of the colonial period
Virginia, for example, varied her prac-
tice in the following manner:
1653-Gold and silver the only legal
tender.
1642-Tobacco the only legal tender.
1865 = Tobacco, silver and wheat
equally legal tender at fixed rates.
1666-Peas, Indian corn, barley, oats
and wound silk added to the preceding
articles as legal tender at fixed rates.
1727-Tobacco notes legal tender for
tobacco debts within the warehouse dis
trict, but not elsewhere.
1730-Tobacco notes the sole lega:
tender for tobacco debts in the ware
house district.
1755-Silver legal tender for tobacco
debts at a fixed rate. Maryland like
wise had several varieties of legal
tender, including this:
1753-Inspected tobacco legal tender
for debts at one-fourth higher rates
than uninspected.-Horace White, in
Money and Banking.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08

-Intrepidity is an extraordinary
strength ofsoul which raises itabove the
troubles, disorders and emotions which
the sight of great perils can arouse in
IT.; by this strength heroes maintain
a calm aspect and preserve their reason
and liberty in the most surprising and
terrible accidents.-Rochef oucauld.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08
'ooSED A TIRED BABY TO SLEEP.

ooNED A TIRED BABY TO SLEEP.
pod for home use and kept the
boiling whenever he could be
from the more hilarious pas
pi the tavern. No work was too
TOO disagreeable for Aunt Lois,
ther too wet or cold, She was
tppiest perhaps at those en-
ing times when one family was
out as another moved into a
nd she as capable high priestess
srge OF the lares and .penates of
what are you going to do for
nnerY' one would ask. There
tseiy nothing to eat in the house
'at last load went, not SO much
spoonful of teal"
child. don't you give IL one
1ought," Aunt Lois would re-
iortably. There's a kettle full |
eter. Its better for most folks |
you know. 1 never was much |
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08

THE free silver bunco-steerers
who tried to put the Philadelphia man.
ufacturers into compromising posi-
ton upon the currency have now an
opportunity to consider whether their
little game was altogether the success
which they imagined it to be. Less
than a dozen votes were cast at the
meeting of the Manufacturers cluo
against the resolutions. This shows
how feeble the free silver sentiment in
that organization really is, yet, through
the misplacedactivities of the secretary
Of the club and the ingenuity with which
the free silver bunco game was worked.
the position of the club was badly com
promised.-Boston Journal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-08

Having failed to catch the Penn
sylvania manufacturers, the free silver
sawdust operators will now send their
"come on" circulars into other COM
munities.-Chicago Times Herald.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-15
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT.
$40 18th street, 6 rooms; $40.
Park avenue, between 10Th and Goth
streets, 5 rooms; 500.
Woodlawn, rooms; IS.
Store, 10Th street; $780,
Store, goth street; $50
18th avenue and Goth street, Z rooms; $25.
1920 9th avenue, 3 rooms $40. tlt -
FOR SALE.
Two lots at Woodlawn; each $780,
Two lots at Fulton station; each SITS.
One lot at Fulton station 5000.
150x190 feet, nearly an acre, one block
from dummy and two blocks from electric
car line, elevated and level, accessible and
desirable for nice home, all cash; $500.
50x240 feet, room house, 18th avenue be-
tween 18th and 18th streets; $3250.
60x200 feet, 18th street, between 10th and
18th avenues, 5000; one-third cash, balance
one and two years.
5 room cottage, good well water, newly
painted and plastered, good picket fence
price $3.50, all cash.
50x240 feet, Sth avenue, between 18th and
18th streets, with story brick house $4,000.
r. j. TERRY,
9la goth street.
10-A-1r1
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-15
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT. -
5-room cottage on Huntsville avenue, be-
tween 18th and 18th avenues; lot 150x30O
Fruit trees, stables etc.
No 1909 18th avenue, rooms; $40.
No 1124 4th avenue. rooms $3.50.
No. 931 LIST avenue, rooms S..
Northeast corner of 18th avenue and 10th
street, south, rooms s2250.
FOR SALE.
$685. 3-room houses in Woodlawn rent
ing for $40 per month; on dummy line;
houses alone cost 1920.
No. 1415 9th avenue, rooms; lot 100 feet
deep; $500. Easy payments.
40 acres joining Cleveland, on pike and
dummy and A. G. S. r. r.. will sell very
cheap for cash.
-Three-room cottage, Cleveland, lot
5Ox15O, good well, ~ blocks from electric
car very cheap.
Twenty acres fenced with wire; large
stable; well; two-room cottage; small cash
payment, balance easy, within short dis
lance of city, down the valley. A BAR
GAIN.
L. G. PETTYJOHN,
1864 Third avenue.
Telephone 465.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-15
Hons. William Richardson and R. H. Low
PUBLIC SPEAKING.

The following speakers will address the
people on political issues al the times and
places named:
Irondale, Thursday, October IT, p. m.
j. II. Montgomery and r. l.. Thornton.
Union Church, Friday, October 16, IL a.
m.-F. S. White and Reuben Kolb.
Adger, Friday, October 16, p. NJ
Wilson Brown and Ross Smith.
Cardiff, Saturday, October II, p. NJ
r. M. Cunningham.
Warrior, Tuesday, October 20, 8 p. M
r. M. Cunningham and W. K. Terry.
d. A. GREENE,
Chairman County Campaign Com.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-15
Appointments of Hon. w. I. Bullock.

Winston county-Addison, Thursday,
October 15; Double Springs, Friday, DC
tober 16; Lynn, Saturday, October IT;
Haleyville, Monday, October 10.
Franklin county-Phil Campbell, Tues
day, October 20; Bell Green, Wednesday,
October FL; Burleson, Thursday October
%; Pleasant Site, Friday, october 30;
Frankfort, Saturday, October "a; RUSSELL
vile, Saturday, October "a, at night.
DeKalb county-Sulphur Springs, Mon
day, October 26; Valley Head, Tuesday,
October 27; Fort Payne, Tuesday Octo-
Der 27, at night; Lebanon, Wednesday,
October %; Lathamville, Thursday, Oc-
tober 20; Collinsville, Friday, October 80.
Cherokee county-Maple Grove, Sa tur-
day, October 81; Spring Garden, Monday,
November 2.