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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-05
THE LATE w. H. SMITH,
HIS BUSY LIFE WAS BENEFICIAL
TO THE NATION.
Entered Upon His Work when Mere
Boy-Descend-d From Dutch Rcvoiu-
tionary stoek--His Connection with
the Associated Press.

HE death of Will
lam Henry Smith
ended a long career
of usefulness and
honor. He was de-
scended from two
old New England
families. His faith
er, William DeFor-
est Smith, who
born in Litchield
county. COnnecti-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-05

-. the BANK OF tne
Missouri river from
81. Joe to Sioux City, Ia. This vast
tract is a series of fertile "gumbo prh-
ries, sandy hummocks, sloughs, cotton
wood forest and willow thicket In
high water 1t all overfiows. 1t Is a
formation of sand, soil and decayed
vegetation, that breeds bad water, dig
mosquitoes and malaria. raises great
corn, but not the best citizens that the
great state OF Missouri could boast Oh.
The native grass on these bottom lands
grows to immense hight-four TO ten
i. feet.
Old Bill Lewis was pioneer on the
bottom, gigantic in stature, raw-Doned'
SIX feet four In hight, his smooth-shaV-
en- face was as angular and as devoid
Of beauty as a stump fence. Forty
years ago Old Bill was the king OF The
bottoms. He lived in the northwest
corner OF Atchison county. His domain
reached from the river to the buns,
6.good twelve miles, and Bits land lay
ON either side of the Nashanabotana
river. which here runs its sluggish
course westward across the big bottom
70 join the muddy flow of the Missouri.
Here, in sight of Nebraska and Iowa,
Bill raised corn, cattle and hogs and
considerable trouble, as anyone would
find out who tried to stay on the bot
tom and failed to follow Bills ideas
~ what were the duties of good citi-
zen. Bill first attracted attention be-
yond the confines of his own neighbor-
mood about 1850, when he boarded
down-river steamboat, and after in
,specting her from boiler deck to pilot
humse. he approached her commander.
Capt. La Barge, who stood on the bur
ricane deck. near the big bell western
steamboats, carry on the upper decks.
AS he slouched up to the captain and
peered at him with his foxy little eyes,
he said: Say, Cap. what will you tax
me to ring that bell from here to st.
LOUISE"
"Oh, l guess I could let you do it for
about s25, Bill. and I'd board YOU into
The bargain" replied the captain, who
supposed it was Bits way of asking the
fare to st. Louis
''All right" replied Bill. ITS pretty
high. but guess will trade with you"
You just go down to the office, said
the captain, land settle with the clerk
by the time the boat had backed |
off, and had turned her wide bow point |
ing down the river towards st. Louis, !
Bills tall form doomed up in front of |
the pilot house; he grabbed the rope |
that runs from the pilot house and Is |
attached to the heavy iron tongue or |
ciapper of the big bell Bill began 70
ring out strain that floated over the |
sapd bars and willow thickets, and |
must have been startling to the frogs, |
catfish and mosquitoes.
Here, what are you doing there?"
shouted Capt. LaBarge from the pilot
house where he was swinging the
wheel first one way then another, in his
efforts to keep his boat off the sand
bars and snags.
Ringing this DANCED old bell"
shouted Bill. Didn't pay that galoot
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-05
Largest Telegram nm,

The largest telegraph Office
world is at the general postoa
Martin's-le-Grand. There arr
5000 operators, 1000 of whom
men.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-05

N the well appoint
ed living apart
ments of a New
York city tailor
who stitched his
way into fortune
and sewed his saw
ings in a cambria
bag, is Mr.. John F.
Hobbs, the King OF
the Canni b a !
stI. UhafatlOr'S
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-05

Most OF the canal barges in the south
OF England are worked by women.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-05
OLD BILL LEWIS.

oRTHWEST Mis-
souri, was a new
country forty years
ago. In the north
west county, Atchi-
son county, lies a
tract OF broad. .eyel
valley, part of the
great bottoms that
stretch upand down
the bank OF the
Missouri river from
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-05
SHE WILL WE'D A KING
NEW YORK GIRL TO BE QUEEN
OF THE CANNiBALS.
WIN Soon Marry MIR John Hobbs Lately
Chosen King of iiikan-A Very Re-
m.rksbie Romsnce-wnl lie idoi'Ted
by the savages.

-, .n,,,y,,17 N the well appoint.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16
SOME QESTIONS.

The question now presents itself
to every man who has attained his
majority asto whom be should give
his vote, Most party men deter
mine this at once. But the CON
scLent1ouS man, whether he belongs
to party CT 10, must need have
presented to him some related
questions. Among than is the
plain one - TO whether d Christian
and a Baptist can vote for any
man who is q whisky drinker or
is IN the least connected with the
sale Or licensing Ct whiskey. This
ought to be settled at once in the
mind Of the earnest Baptist. No
man connected with the liquor
business should receive his suf-
fr'ge for city, county, state or fed
eral office. The liquor interest is
the strongest foe of Christianity
and humanity. He who is a part
of the whiskey business of the
country is in 10 way entitled to or
should receive the confidence of
the men who give their time and
means for building up their coun-
try on a high moral basis. The
time now is, and should have been
all along, for the honest voter 80
to declare himself that political
parties should not dare nominate
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16
DIR, Veal of Cotton Plant is in

DR.. Veal of Cotton Plant is In
town.
Mrs. n, M. Lamb is quite i'll
with fever.
H. L. Kelly of Rock Springs
was in town today.
DR.. Ed Delcuest left this alter
noon fer Jacksonville CT business.
TO Cure a Cold i'm One Day
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. Al druggists refund the
moEey if 1t fails to cure. CSC.
A. l.. Delouest ard wife went
to NV York this afternoon to
visit and while there Mr.. DeIouest
viii repIcrish his hardware stock.
l.. L. Converse, mgr. Ct the
Yankee Novelty Works, leaves to-
night for Warren, Mass, TO visit
his sister who, is dangerously i'll.
He will be absent two months.
At the Racket-fne shoe brush,
zoe; spectacles and case, zoe; fine
razor strop, zoe; pair pillow shams,
zoe; gallon galvanized oil can. zoe;
white metal watch chain, zoe; 8xIO
mirror zoe; Is inch doll zoe; II
machine needles 200.
At the adjourned meeting cfthe
county commissioners held Mon
| day fully 1890 names were struck
off, the registration books of people
who have died CT moved away
from the county, fully 500 of them
came from Ocsla. 1t is Nd small
job for J. NJ. Barco 10 prepair
the new registration be oks.
We have. secured the entire
Ocala fish tr: de for Hay & Paul of
Crystal RIVER. We will keep &
full supp'y of fl esh mullet and
b. tom FISH, kept well iced. These
fish arel eceived fresh every d2y.
Fresh oysters will be kept little
later. Edwards B os., city n arket.
Rafael Garcia Luque, Cuban
reader in ]. E'linger & Co.'S c gs1
factory in West Tampa, shot al q
KILLED imself day or two ;go in
the presence Of 200 emIl ,yee s.
He made short speech b. fore
committing the deed, in which be
stated to&t his pay was net suffi-
Gent 70 live upon end he bad de.
I, cided to XII i him self.
! If you want TO enjoy a pleasant
cutting where ycu can have a gocd
time be thing, fishing and boat rid
ing, you will not find a better place
than Capt E. F. Whe eler's, near
Ozello. HIS place is near the
gulf and he, with the assistance Of
bis pleasant family, will make your
stay pleasant. Charges are reas
enable. If you are thin king CT
going down, address Mr.. Wheeler
at Ozello.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16

at thsir primaries men who are
morally corrupt Or who are con-
nected with the sale of liquor. But
the question penetrates even deep
or than this. Should the Christian
Baptist cast bis vote fer any man
fer office who will in turn vote to
license the saloon? We believe
not. Ii the candidate wines at
such a position of the voter, let
him give place to a better man.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16
WANTED.

Three live, energetic, relia be
men 10 sell sewing machines and
collect in Marion and adjoining
counties. Applicants must fur
nish a horse and give bond for
honesty. ST ady employment and
good pay to the right men. Ad-
dress J. r. Wells, Jacksonville,
Fla, 10
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16

Spanish Carlists are said fl
fomenting rebellion. Carlist
porters have withdrawn from
ticipation in the deliberatior
the Spanish parliament, and 0
to the restless state of the 7
lace. it is feared open insurre'.
may occur at any time.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16

The reports OF the last massacre
Ct Armenians in Constantinople
are almost too awful to publish. Is
there no remedy tor such horrors?
Is all Christendom going to stand
idly By while a people is annihi
with barbarity that Apaches
never equaled and devils coulc
excel?
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16

Train leaving Ocala I47 pm via Gainesville and High
Springs Solid Train Without Change, making direct
ton at Waycros with Pullman Sleeping Cars for New Yonk
Pullman for Macon Atlanta atanooga and Nashville;
also fer Montgomery Birmingham Nashville ST. Louis with
change connecting with Pullman Seepers for Louis
ve Cincinnati Memphis Kansas City and all principal points
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16
LOCAL AND Personal
Local Items of Interest
to Our Readers
Wednesday, Sept 10

Wednesday, Sept 10
A pair of Baby Shoes. I5c-
Rowell's bargain counter.
A. r Griffin of Anthony is in
the city.
Five hundred lamp chimneys,
nj sizes &c, at Pittman & Co.'s.
Arch McIver of Bit chton is in
the city.
New Surgar cane, two stalks fer
s cents,at Williamson & ConstaIs.
Business in all Ines is picking
up wonderfully.
For Sale, Cheap.-A neat roller
top desk at A. Pittman & Co.'S
F.P. @. ffney is out today after
zpainfui Illness.
Go to No. IS Exposition street
fer the cheapest groceries in the
city.
L. Hitler came up from the Pied
mont mines today.
For best values ever given see
Rowell's bargain counter full Of
shoes.
L. M. Henderson of Gambler
spent yesterday in the city.
New York World, daily. 1 cent,
Sunday, 5 cents, at Martin & Nc
Connell's.
Mrs. W. A. Hooker has gone to
Atlanta to visit for a few weeks.
The cheapest groceries in the
city at J. B,. Sutton's. 2S Exposi-
ton street.
, The indica' ions are that we will
have splendid season for truckers
this fall.
Little GeLts' Black and Rus
set Oxfords, worth s., cut to ST IS
-Rowell did il.
J.R Mzrtin- has purchased a
new horse, the finest one in the
county.
Everything Beeded to furnish a
house going cheap this summer at
Pittn1an & Co.'S.
NJ A Reich has returned to his
home In Savannah for a short va
cation.
Anew lot OF School Shoes that
stand steady wear have just rolled
In at RoWelrs.
Don't fail TO attend the Bazaar
stores big opening today, tomor-
and Friday.
The Post Office drug store will
give you the finest cream and best
drinks in the city.
The city council tried to hold q
meeting last night but could not
Got quorum
At the Racket.-Boys' pants
RSc; youths pants CSC; mems
pants 65; all bargains
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16

w. l. Cason was down town to-
day fer the first time since his Sc
we're bilious attack.
If your purse is short. prices are
cut short to matCh-beSt dollar
Shirt in town at Rowells.
Will Hooker, the popular young
attorney, has returned from a pre-
fessic nal trip to Levy county.
Every body should visit the
Bazaar Stores Grand Opening 10Th
to Is inclusive.
J d. William, our city marshal,
is improving and will be able to
resume his duties in few days.
The choicest ice cream in the
latest and most delicious havors at
the Post Office Drug Store.
Mrs. J. p. Hilburn left this after
-
noon for Micancpy to visit Ter
mother, Mrs. Pease, who is quite
Ill.
Rowell is still turning his Straw
Hats into cash-one half the cost
of making ard the hat is yours.
The refreshing rains that are
continuing through September are
very bene fetal to the health + cur
city.
nnkI5T Fail to look 1t the
HIN Racket window, II
North Magnolia ST.
She you always acknowl-
edge it when you know you are
wrong? He-Nojonly when othe T
people know Tx
You are not compellfd to buy.
We want you TO see cur goods.
Visit the opening at the Bazaar
Store.
Mrs. F. G. B. Weihe ard chill
dren have returned from Fernan-
dina, where they have been spend
ing the past two months.
SeEd your orders for groceries,
fresh meats, fish ard produce by
phone No. 20, at L. S. Backs,
Stalls II, IL and IS city market.
Mrs +. w. Agncw, who has
been visiting her mother at Eliza
bethtowD, Ky, during tie sum
mer, will return home on ire 1st.
Remember an examination I'M
plies TO obligation to buy. There
fore visit cur display of fail goods
at the Bazaar Store, 10Th 10 18th.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Stevens died yesterday
morning ard was buried late in
the afternoon in the city cemetery.
The New York Journal, the
only big free silver paper publish
ed in that city, l cent per copy
daily at Martin & McConnell's.
AT the Christian Church-Sun-
day school every Sunday at 10 a.
m. and regular church service at
II a. m. All are cordially invited.
At the Racket-sheet iron pans,
7cu I2c. and I5c; meat broilers,
I2c; yellow bakers, I2c; shawl
straps, I5c; mems linen cuffs, I5c;
cloth bound books, I5c; mems
leather belts, I5c. and age; shoulder
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16

The orange crop in De
countyis larger than was expo
Oranges find ready sale on
trees at IL a box. IL
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

LAUl
You are cordially invi ted to
attend our Grand Fall, Opening Of
Dress and Fancy Goods, Notions
Of all kinds, Shoes, Hats, ETC.,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
Sept Is, II and Is, 1896.
Come one and all and see the
Grandest Display in FLORIDA.
respectfully Yours,
THE BAZAAR STORE,
F. P. Gadson, Mgr.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16

LEAVE.
c,nf Am. daily except Sunday for Juliette
OIUU and intermediate points, cor meeting at
Juliette for lstachatta and intermediate
local points; also for NeUberry and in
tern ediate local points.
C,nE Pm. daily for Juliette Port Tampa and
OIVJ POINTS south, and daily EXCEPT Sundays
for Homossssa.
Int PM. daily for Palatka,. jacksonville,
tiTf Gainesville, High Springs, Waycross, "a
vannah. New York, Macon, Atlanta,
Chattanooga and Nashville; Thomas
ville Montgomery, Birmingham, Nash
vile, St. Louis, Louisville and Cincin-
natl, and all points north, east and
west.
ono PM. daily for Leesburg, Fitzgerald,
LUZ Tampa and all points south.
11.AE Pm, daily except Sunday for Rochelle
i ITO and intermediate local points.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16
GOttlieb's =.
:. Carbonettes :.

=. prize winners
Exa min e his display an d
compare with the Old
Style Photos Of others.
Prices no Higher than
he Ordinary Photo.
Studio opposite Montezuma.
n. b
Babies
Quick
as
Wink
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-09-16
S II O Z F A G T S

We sell shoes. We sell them
fer Just as low prices as we can.
We buy from the best makers.
We would like your shoe trade.
We will serve you SO that we
will keep it. We make these
prices as an entering wedge.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-07
That Object lesson.
TO the Editor Of the Press:

Was very much interested in the &C.
count given in your issue of the 4th of
the object lesson a business concern of
our city, which employs large number
of persons, gave their employees Of the
effect which the free coinage of silver
would have upon the wages Of labor in
this country. l sympathize with the
wrongs of phs laboring classes, and any
palps-taking attempt for their benefit
like that of the company in this city who
bought Mexican dollars to pay of their
employees, meets with my warmest APP
proyal. 1t is rare that employers are
found SO much interested in the welfare
ana prosperity of those whose labor they
purchase as to give them instruction
upon the economic questions of the day
and direct their political action SO as to
give practical effect TO their teaching.
I think, however, the object lesson
would have been more effective If the
paymaster had given them their week "a
wages in Mexican coin. dollar for dollar,
instead of two dollars for one. The obyi-
ous teaching of the lesson seems to me to
be that if we are to Mexioanize our cur
reney by the free coinage of silver the
wage Gamer will get two silver dollars
where now he gets only one which would
be result much to be desired by him.
Allow me to further remark in regard
TO the outcome of this economic lesson,
viz: the sale of these Mexican dollars by
the recipients Of them at less than 80
cents, that my keen commercial sense is
greatly shocked that a commodity that Is
saleable in New York at from 531 to
54% cents should be parted with for less
than so cents. But money changers
have always been hard on the unsophis-
Gated and unwary.
Serious though, this Mexican dollar OBJ
ject lesson seems to me clumsy and far
fetched, and j would advise In Elaoe Of it
the files of your paper for the past six
months in which you have SO persistently
taught that free coinage OF silver means
so cent dollars. S. W. T..
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-07
PoPULIST OPINION OF DEMO
Gratis.
maine Popalist. }

The Democrats are Just now banking
on Populist capital For years we have
been abused by them for teach ing the
doctrine of free coinage. Now, when
these gentlemen think that they can
scent an Office they immediately change
front and shout themselves hoarse for
this reform. We do not wish to bs too
severe on them even though their sud-
den conversion is too transparent to de-
ceive. Better late than never We wish,
however. to place ourselves ON record as
not claiming that all our ills oan be
cured by Free coinage. 1t is one of the
very least important of our demands
and will do but little towards bringing
back prosperity to our unhappy country.
Coin every ounce of silver bullion In
the country, and it will not add over
three dollars per capita to our circulation.
The effect will hardly be perceptible in
starting business. We must have d sup
Elementary paper money that shall he a
full legal tender and Issued directly by
the government The per capita circula-
ton should be not less than fifty dollars
instead of six or eight dollars as we now
have. The government should own and
operate the railroads SO that the farmer
will not he obliged to give three peoks of
his grain in order to have the other peck
carried to market.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-07
CURRENT COMMENT.
Iron Harper's Weekly

If silver is added again to the money
the only money. There is now in the
country about So, 224, 600, COO in money
and its representatives. of which about
5000, GOO, 600 is in gold, and $3.50, 600, 900 is
in silver. The gold will loave the coun-
try, for men will not pay their de is in
10O-cent gold dollars when they can pay
them in 50 cent silver dollars. So, for
time at least. this effort of the SINE
men to provide more money will result
IN less money. After many years t. OF
might be able to coin enough silver dol
lars to take the place of the gold sha
will be expelled from the country by the
triumph OF free silver, but for Ion
time there will be contraction of the
currency. MIR. BFyan's effort is not the
first one to remedy hard times by means
of cheap money. ncr is free coinage OF
silver unknown to the country. Trea
eoinge of silver was authorized by the
coinage laws of the United States from
1892 to 1873, but gold was underyalGen
when the ratio between it and silver was
fixed at 10 to /, which was the first ratio
adopted in this country. An ounce CT
gold was then worth more than Is ounces
Of silver; it was worth 1917 ounces
Therefore gold did not circulate. while
the circulation of silver was so limited
TINT lis coinage was suspended from 1906
to 1876. During the first 80 years of is
existence the government did all in its
power to make the money Of the county
cheap and abundant. 1t even permitted
the circulation of certain foreign coins
that were so cheap that they drove our
own coins ont OF the country. FINALLY.
We had the wild cat bank notes and the
disaster and ruin that always wait up9r
such financial experiments as that into
which MIR. Bryan is endeayoring {.
tempt the people of this country Hag.
ing thus tried free coinage of silver
and cheap money Of all kinds. having
seen clipped and abraded Mexican d0!-
lars drive our own gold and silver into
retirement, having seen wildcat bank
notes and then greenbaciSs take the place
of coin, having suffered all the troubles
that result from initiation, We do not bs-
lieve that the people of the United States
will again make trial of WORKOUT de-
vice.
Before closing We will state, for the
benefit OF those who are confused by the
expression, the meaning of free coinage
at-the ratio of 10 to |. In some parts of
the country it is thought that this means
that the government will give sixteen
silver dollars to every holder of q gold
dollar. Elsewhere it is thought to mean
that the government will present each
citizen with sixteen silver dollars. These
are more tempting propositions to some
minds than the proposition of silverites,
which is that the people of this country.
for all the governments money comes
from the people, be compelled to pay one
dollar for every fifty-three cents worth
of silver, and to coin it into money: in
other words. when one ounce of gold Ii
worth thirty ounces of silver, that the
government shall treat it as worth only
sixteen ounces.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-07

Mr.. Reeds nomination by reclamation
was a foregone conclusion from the mo-
ment he consented to permit the use of
his name. SO the business of yesterday s
convention in the First District was dis
patched in short order amid great enthu-
siasm. The great features of tbs gather
ing were the magnificent reception givento
the Speaker, and his clear and convino-
ing exposition of the currency question
he entered into more minute and de-
tailed consideration than at Alfred, but
his effort was no less happy. 1t was an
educational speech, addressed to mem
reason and common sense, and not to
their passions and prejudioes. 1t was
just the kind of speech that is needed
ut this time to clear away the cloud of
sophistry that ingenious and sometimes
not over scrupulous men have succeeded
in throwing around the silver question.