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Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-04-15
FOUND DEAD IN THEIR BEDS

Milwaukee Couple the Victims OF Ar
senic Poisoning.
MILWAUKEE, April 13.-John Hoefs
and his wife Mathilda were found dead
in their beds in their home on Booth
street. A post mortem examination
showed that death was caused by ar
senic poisoning 1t is believed that the
poison was administered in coffee, but
whether it was taken accidentally or
with suicidal intent, or whether the
couple were murdered. is not known.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-04-15
\ ! penies Alliance win Ch,

p,,n n'es Alliance With China.
|ienisil ilaasBuRd, April Am off.
sssn. ,.'s, las oeen issued here of the
EA,t tpuolished all over the world
IL a. ar.nur has been ceded to
|asis,sS;,res result of secret offensive
'n " alliance between the two
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-04-15
FLOODS IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Continuous Rain for the Past Twenty
four Hours.

HURON, s. D., April l3.-The heavi-
est rain of the season prevailed here
during the night, accompanied by hail
a few miles northwest and south. The
earth over this part of the state is
thoroughly soaked, and much land in
the James river valley is too wet for
seeding. The James river has risen
several inches in the past l2 hours, and
low places in every direction are filed
with water.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-04-15
"en by q Hunrar,an

NAA Il apll p IL: In the swimming
assss NE .ae olympiap games, the
Au B,aaa aace' was easily won by
enttos.ss Fest who defeated over
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-04-15
Haarinr in the Kent Case.

BISMARCK, NJ D., April lS.--The
hear. ng of the appeal in the Kent MUIR
der case by the supreme court will be
had April W.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-04-15
Lake Nav, :atiou Open.

DULUTH, April 13.-Navigation is
open at Duluth. The Booth steamer
Dixon left during the day for Port
Arthur. She is the first boat to depart
from this port.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-04-15
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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
: LABOR'S WAGES And MON0METALL|SM. 8


silver standard is almost as Dao rs
single gold standard. The one virtue
of silver monometallism over gold IS
that it keeps the forces OF productloH
AT work. There is practically no un-
employed in the silver countries
third of the forces of production IN the
gold countries are idle at the present
time.
And again it is organized labor that
keeps wages up in every country La
Dor is thoroughly organized IN nearly
all of the gold standard countries. III
the silver countries it is not. All OF
the gold countries named have hereto
fore been bimetallic countries. Inc
silver countries have always been
monometallic. Wages thrive under the
bimetallic system Wages go down
under the monometallic system-be 1t
gold or silver This country is now on
a gold monometahic system and has
been since 1898. Wages have gone
down 80 per cent. since then. The
daily pay of workmen in tins United
States in 1892 was $12,000,00O; today it
is about $8,O00,00O. We want to get
back to the bimetallic system, not mere
ly as it partly existed prior to 1898, but
as it wholly existed prior to 1873. Then
wages will go up
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08
TO Cypress LABOR.
AldrIch's Committee Misrepresents the
Facts.

AldrIch's Committee Misr epresents the
Facts.
New York Journal: What are these
statistics in which such constant ap-
peals are made, and for which men are
asked to distrust their common sense
and common observation? Fortunate
ly. this question may be briefly answer
ed. because all these labor sympathl-
GERS refer to the same set of statistics
the only set in the world that would
answer their purpose. 1t is the report
made by Senator Aldrich of Rhode Is
land to the senate finance committee in
1893.
Those who know nothing about the
wages accepted the committees sum
mary, but others looked to see in what
industries this astonishing rise in
wages had taken place. They found
that upon books and newspapers
wages had fallen since 1873; in the
building trades" they had fallen; in
"city public works they had fallen; in
cotton goods they had fallen, but that
in dry goods where the greatest fall
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

The advocates of the present gold
standard are fond of asserting that
wages are higher in gold standard
countries than they are in bimetallic
countries. They quote the daily wages
paid in Brazil, Belgium, Denmark,
France, Germany, Italy, Holland,
Great Britain, Argentina, Norway and
Sweden, Spain, Turkey, Portugal,
Canada, Switzerland, Venezuela, United
States, Chill and Australasia, all gold
standard countries, as against Austria,
China, Russia, Central America, Per-
STA, Peru, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia,
Japan, India and Ecuador-all silver
standard countries. 1t will be noticed
that not one of the countries named are
on bimetallic system, except it be the
United States Ghe figures are for the
year 1890 when this country was on
a partial bimetallic basis) which they
nevertheless put in the gold standard
column. Today all the countries named
have either a single silver standard or
a single gold standard. Not one of
them has financial system like the
United States had up to 1873, and, in
a measure, from that time to 1893,
when the Sherman law was repealed
by a forced panic and under which
wages advanced SO much. A single
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

O.-What advantages are claimed for
free coinage?
Alt would break the existing cor
nor in gold and cause the dollar to re-
turn to it's old value.
O.-What would be the effect of that!
A.-Prices for all products OF laoor
would advance, business would revive
debts would be more easily paid, labor
would be in greater demand, and
strikes and riots would cease. Pros
perity would be restored to the country.
O.-Then the support of free silver
does not mean anarchy and repudla-
ton?
A.-Far from it; the intelligent and
conscientious free-silver advocates have
solely in view the prosperity of the
nation.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

Queen Wilhelmine of Holland attains
her majority next year and it is pro-
posed to signalize the occasion by the
celebration of the ceremony of corona
ton. With this object in view the gov
eminent has ordered that all the jew
els contained in the treasure recently
captured by the Dutch troops at Lom-
box and other places in Sumatra shall
be sent home from Java in order to be
used in the construction Of Il royal
crown for the young queen. AT the
present moment no such insignia OF
ROYALTY is to be found in the Neither
lands, all the Dutch rulers having un-
til now dispensed with crowns and
coronationS.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

The newly opened field for female
labor in the practice Of stenography is
already sadly over-cultivated. one
New York paper alone few days ago
had twenty-six advertisements for stu
ations wanted, while only one person
advertised for a stenOgrapher. And
competition has made the wages offer
ed very low, as this curmudgeOn would
pay only SIS a week, and required the
applicant to furnish her own machine
at that.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08
Demonetizing Silver.

l will take it on myself to answer
Mr.. Edward Helliwell, who inquiries
about what is meant when it is assert
ed that silver has been 'demonetized."
His letter, published in the Record
Aug. 6, refers to two objections often
stated, as he says, which he gives as
follows: l. 1--WE were not using any
silver in 1873, and therefore silver
could not have been demonetized." 2.
eve are using more silver money than
ever before N our history"
1t is a technical word. One might
say the silver coin now has no indie
pendent purchasing power, whereas
once with us all the silver coin of the
United States did have such independ-
ent purchasing power, and from 1853
to 1873 the silver dollar possessed it,
while the fractional silver coin did not.
The Independent purchasing power Of
the fractional silver coin was taken
away in 1853 and that of the silver dol
lar in changes that occurred from 1873
to 1878. That is 'demonetizing" The
taking away of the independent pur-
chasing power of any of the precious
metal coinage by law is the 'demone-
tiZing" of such coin. While we did not
actually use the silver or gold coin as a
part Of the volume of the circulating
medium in 1873 the law permitted the
gold coin and the silver dollar to be
carried on Independent purchasing
power, and after that this privilege was
taken from the silver dollar. While
the silver coin now has the same pur-
chasing power as gold coin it is so be-
cause they are in the volume of the
circulating medium as the solvent rep
resentation of the gold coin. The sill
yer coin changes purchasing power
with the change of the gold coin. and
not with the change of silver bullion.
It may then be true that in 1873 we were
not using the silver coin in our vol
ume of the circulating medium, and vet
the silver dollar was privileged to be
coined and used on it's own purchasing
power, but after 1878 it could only be
used as the solvent or insolvent repre-
sentation of gold coin. The silver dol
lar was restored in everything but it's
Independent purchasing power in 1878.
The silver dollar therefore remained
"demonetiZed."
Nor does it make any difference about
the volume of silver coin, for be the
issue few or many, the question involv-
ing the "demonetizing" of precious
metal coinage is whether or not
it is issued on Independent or
dependent purchasing power. Pur-
chasing power alone is standard of
prices" and any money to perform the
office of a standard of prices must
have sufficient independence of pur-
chasing power to fill this Office. Sol.
vent representative money never has
any purchasing power of it's own, and
therefore can only be subordinate
money and is "demonetized. "-Ebene.
ger Wakeley in Chicago Record
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

chusetts the labor report for 1894 show
ed that in two years the nominal rate
of wages in the factories of the state
had fallen per cent and that even this
lower rate was received by fewer hands,
working fewer days. Wage-earners who
do not know the statistics know the
facts from hard experience, and those
who depend upon statistics to persuade
the wage-earners to take the side OF
money lenders and tighten their grip
upon the industry of the country have
a difficult task before them.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

Here are some rather clever proverbs
of Assam: THE best crops grow on
others fields; but the best sons are at
home" "A bird is a little thing; but
it builds its nest on a lofty hulunS
tree" Buy land which slopes to the
middle. and marry girl who has
good mother" The biggest jack fruit
always hides under the leaves" If
\ man slips down, it is always his cid
est wife's fault; but If his youngest
wife makes a mistake, he says he will
see about it. "A hasty cook, a hasty
broom. and the husband goes fasting;
n slow cook, a slow broom, and the
husband eats three meals a day.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

Cycling rOmances are becoming the
order of the day. The only modern
invention which has not been used as
a motive by the novelists seems to be
the Roentgen rays. This, in the opln-
ion Of recent critic, would be
topic full of sensational possibilities.
1t will. no doubt, be soon seized upon
by some rOmancer.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

was expected, wages were reported to
have risen over 40 per cent!
Turning to the employers reports in
another volume to learn where the
wages of clerks had been rising at such
a phenomenal rate, it was found that
but single dry goods store, up in New
Hampshire, had made a return. Less
than twenty clerks were employed by
it, and yet the Aldrich committee as
sumed that all clerks throughout the
country had had a similar advance in
wages. AS clerks are more numerous
than cotton operative, for example,
rise of 40-odd per cent in the wages of
a score of clerks was made to offset a
fall of about one-siXth in the wages of
over a thousand cotton operatives and
leave handsome balance to be applied
to other industries as needed. Other
methods likewise extraordinary were
used by the committee, such as the
separation of the foremen from the
hands, and the making a rise in a fore
mans wages offset a fall in the wages
Of score of men under him. By these
means the desired results were secured.
What the employers returns really
showed was something very different,
according to an Independent investi-
gator, who went over the returns few
months ago. The summary for all the
persons employed in all the industries
covered was as follows:
Average Average
Aggregate daily daily
Persons, wages wages wages
Date Employed. (dailyl currency. (gold)
January, 1860. -, 651 1886 $1.18 $11S
January, 1873 O. 153 1856 2.04 1.S1
January, 1891 .7,765 1925 1860 169
In other words, between 1860 and
1873, under bimetallism, gold wages
rose SO per cent in thirteen years; be-
tween 1873 and 1891, under the incom-
plete monometallism, gold wages in the
most favored establishments fell Z per
cent.
Since 1893, under complete monomet-
allism, the decline in wages has been
at much mora rapid rate In Massa-
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

Paul Marguerite, the French writer,
has finished a life of his father, Gen.
Marguerite, who met death in re-
markable manner in the cavalry
charges before Sedan. He was shot
through the tongue The wound pre-
vented his taking any nourishment
and he died of starvation.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain is now on
his way to this country. Although he
insists that there is no political reasons
for his visit, the quidmunc will have it
that he is empowered to do something
with our government in the Venezue-
Ian affair. Think of Lord Salisbury
sending his colonial secretary on such
a mission! He knows Joe too well for
that.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

No one drives in Russia without a
thin cord with a running moose around
the neck of his horse. A pull on this,
when the horse bolts or starts, by its
pressure on the Windpipe, etfectually
prevents all runnaWayS.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

Quite a list of French marquises,
comics, vicomtes and barons is pub
lished whom the vicissitudes Of for
tune have brought to the necessity OF
earning living in all manner OF hum
BILE employments, from that of labor
er to that of gas collector or cab
driver.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

The strike at Cleveland is ended. The
strikers have gained nothing, but the
town has lost considerably in reputa-
ton owing to it's apparent inability to
put down the riots.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

The publication of another Venezue-
Ian blue book suggests that the bound
airy question is likely to be completely
buried from understanding pretty soon
by the mass of information" about it.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

The managers of the match and bis
cult monopoly are still denying that
they were bankrupted by the recent
crash in their speculative securities.
But they are not denying the bank
ruptcy of those who Were foolish
enough to trust them.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

The poems of Robert Burns have
been translated into all the languages
of modern Europe, and enjoy the still
higher honor of having appeared in
the Arabic version.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08

Instead of knocking a victim down
in the old way, the up-to-date fOotpad
of Chicago holds the ran up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
HOUSEHOLD eREVITiEs.


French Fry.-Pare small potasoe,
rnd cut into strips as thick as the fore
finger. Drop into boiling lard (usiDa
basket and fry until brown and ten.
ter. Sprinkle with salt and serve I'm.
Inediately.-Good Housekeeping.
"A Delicate Pudding. - Cream n
pound OF butter and sugar, add eight
Tvell-beaten eggs. favor the mixture
with nutmeg. Line a pudding dish
with thin puff paste. pour in the prd-
ding. aud set in a very hot oven FOR ter
minutes. Serve without sauce. Boy
ton Budget.
DO not allow dust and Other In.
purities 20 remain upon the foliage %
house plants. 10 choke them. Almost
81 Plants require 70 D. washed 81 leas;
Gnce u tsvo weeks. Clean foliage looki
brighter. as well a. being healthier
Never Use water colder than tie ten,
perature OF tie room.
DR.. NJ Hammond gives So 81 b,
experience that. il ooHvuirious a
children. % turn them upon tie left
vide VIII cut short Ike magic the coz
vulsiOn. One case was remarkable.
The child had BEEN IN commissions con.
tinuOusly. more or Iess severe. for p
hours. ! made this change, and thc
relief was .fnE3e,iiste. Epileptics treat
81 IN the same way are always -
promptly relieved
-Eseailor~d Potatoes -Butter a.
farthen BAKING cish. Lipe with layef
a sliced raw pOtatOes. Dredr- sight
" with eour. and sprinkie salt snc
p-pper. b.ts q b8tfsr a1d q feF slioc'
81 onion over II. CORtinE- thr layers
until the dish - nearly fail Pouf
sweet milk over this. covering q one
inch. Bake or and oBe-quzrfer bourA
--Oood Housekeeping.
-Cold s!zw.-Chop half hez-d q .
-frasu ca5csre aur- Feat tTo egyk
XIX -TIth q tabi@zpoonfai % melted
butter. = te2spooLful q xsgzr. half
teas poonful q mustard. q rzlt~suoo-s
IT, 81 salt. four fzoi-saoonfsis 81
vega. tsFo % kot ~user a-a thr Eui..
q half ieIuon- Six oser The Ire fr.,T
Thick. poor oFer ire csbaaer. r.,fx r.r.t.
sad 81 on see untl rrzdy 20 se-ve.-
IAdiez' cODpazsg..
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
LATE NEWS ~ WIFE
items OF Geu,-ti s-erast From All Over
the inverse,

Albany. y. Y, March l2.-The Raines
LIQUOR tax BIZ tonight passed the assembly
by a vote Of 81 ayes and 80 nays
London. March 12-The senate OF Cam
bridge university has rejected PROPOSE
ton 20 consider the question OF comforting
degrees upon women.
Columbus. o. March 12-The Union
Clothing company, one OF the largest
houses in this city, assigned today assets
and liabilities are nos stated.
New York. March 12.-Rev. Elliott y.
Toupkins, for tweuty-three years rector
Of 81. James Protestant Episcopal church
at Long Branch, died there today aged g..
Vicks6urE Mss. March 12.-The Clarks-
dale oil mills burned yesterday with an
immense quantity OF seed The loss ep-
proximates $1,000. only partially insure j.
Cleveland. March IA meeting OF the
international conference OF tne Methodist
Episcopal church which VIII be held iu
this city IL May, has been called to- next
week.
Baku. Russia. March l2.-Fire in the
NelkOf petroleum works has caused The
destruction Of eight wells and -wO fac
tories Two employees were burned 20
death and five were seriously injured
Washington. March The apartments
Of Represeut ative Grove l. Johnson OF
California. At The Cochran hotel. were en-
tered by professional sneak thieves yes
ter5ay while he and rs family were az
dinner, and money jewels ana see3l-t-ss,
valued a. $-.Eo were stolen
London. March ls-TLe house OF com
mons adjourned a. 5-l5 A. m Naval esti-
mates were discussed until late nour-
The votes on the navy estimates "a TIE
house OF. commons were 0Ds-r-rtet ~ TIE
Irish members. who called 1cr numerous
divisions Under tle c-oture- l-a-ly. the
vote for wages FOR zesueu. amounting 20
nearly EaU.ls. was ai-oTsl % pass On
Mr. fTzrr175rsz ,s-o--,s s5uE 20 adjourn -Ee
debate on .ne army estimates a. = O'Clock
or Friday night 20 enable AT. L'-c1 60
raise the question Of Catholic -aas.---rs ID
the navy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
DURABILITY OF THE CYPRESS
Instances Known In Which IL Has Lasted
for More Than One Thousand Years.

Instances Known In Which IL Has Lasted
for More Than One Thousand Years.
The cypress is a VIGOROUSLY slow
growing tree, and its wood In Just az
VIGOROUSLY durable. IL Is capable OF
not only resisting the action of the
weather in a manner totally different
TO all other woods, but il wholly unin-
huenced by immersion in water over
a long period of years. II has many
curious chemical properties. which
hold its fibers and other constituents
together so indissolubiy that the ordL
nary changes which break down the
tissues of ordinary woods are in cypress
wholly resisted.
Instances are known where the wood
os the cypress has endured for more
than 1000 years, leaving 10 still in
solid condition, subject only 20 the at.
triton of the elements, such as the
gradual wearing away one sees in en-.
posed rocks. In the lower valley OF
the Mississippi species of cypress u
extremely abundant And in New Or
leans lately, while some men were ex,
cavating trench, a cypress stockadS
was found which was erected in 1876
by the French as a protection against
the Indians. Some Of the pieces n1en<p
ured 81 inches in width, with n thick.
ness of about IL inches. and. though
10 had been buried for 30 many years,
II was in perfect condition when ex.
humed, even the tool marks being stu
clearly visible.
BY series OF experiments extending
over many years, it has been found that
Tho cypress wood endures the varying
conditions of Greenhouses better than
any otherwood. Greenhouse exposed "a
all the vicissitudes of heat, moisture
and changes of tcnperatur-, show Oh.
cypress timber uAed in their construo
ton 10 be practically unchanged aftsl
moro than 30 years OF use; and, beina
sufficiently tough for the purpose. it h
probable il viii como more generals
into use for building where "A wood %
great resisting power - required
Many old doors made BY the early
Spaniards in America are stiH a. s~r~
Icsabls a. ever. although exposed to-
-irr' trying climate Pittsburgh D1s
sf.