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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

liable TO decay a circulating medium
was provided Of papyrus strips, repre-
senting certain number Of cats and
onions at ratio Of IS to This was a
true double standard s-atom and Is be-
leved to have been the origin Of modern
paper currency. Fer a time the cat
onion money circulated at par, but the
historian Faque Hur records that about
963 B. G. "a serious difficulty arose
New colonies had been established in
the region Of the upper Nile, and the
savage Nubians had been taught the
art Of agriculture. The rich, black soil
If the valley which they inhabited was
especially suited to the growth Of
onions, and the production Of those per.
fumed bulbs was soon enormously in
creased. Meanwhile the cat crop had
only grown in the usual ratio, and the
result was that, with the demand for
sacred animals in the new colonies, at
least 30 onions would be given for one
cat. This brough the papyrus currency
into disfavor, and the ruling pharaoh,
Ram Bunkshus III, issued a royal order
that cats should be the sole standard Of
value, and that onions should be issued
only to the extent that they could be
kept at par with the "clterwaulers, " as
the unit Of value was termed.
This did not suit the onion growers,
who at once started an agitation for the
free and unlimited coinage Of all onions
at the good old ratio Of their daddies
After passing 9,lSLG42 resolutions de-
nouncing the horrible crime Of 9G3 the
onionites marched in a body to the pal
ace Of their Pharaoh and demanded that
the unjust law enacted 1T the instance
Of the catbugs should be- repealed anC
the bicatallic standard restored. Ram
Bunkshus listened to them patiently and
answered: Great, no doubt, WAS the
wisdom Of our ancestors. But | am in
the wisdom business myself TO some ex-
tent. When the ratio Of Is to was
adopted, that was the true ratio Of the
cats and onions Now, owing to great
increase in the quantity Of onions. the
ratio il 30 to l. All powerful as l am,
cannot make onions worth more than
their market value. The present stand
ard stays. As for you, O foolish onion
ties, your leaders shall feed the sacred
crocodiles. The rest Of you will return
to your farms and hustle. l have re-
marked"
Thus ended the first and only cur
rency agitation in Egypt. -Whidden
Graham in Puck
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

An Object Lesson In Squashes.
Well. here am, Maria! I'm back again, yer
Sec
That Is, oz fur as thet's concerned, I'm back,
what's left Of me-
The more learn and more see since all this
talk began
Makes me the more inclined to be a Bryan sill
yer man.
You know he SCI in that thar speech I read to
you last night
That produce hahn t gone down Bit but gold )
up outer sight.
Well, when got to Louisville, at half past five
o'clock,
There want another man had squash but ne
ON Pierce's dock.
started in a.selling mine, ten cents apiece, I
swar
And at that price I'd say that gold stood just
about 90 par.
Bout six clock three other teams came 81
the dock, by gosh
And every gol durnod one Of EN- was full Of
summer squash!
Well. then and there gad starteA up and she
began TO rise.
Five cents Hpiec. for summer squash jumps
right up and cries.
BY thunder didn't gold go up as quick and
slick rs grease
For them there fellers offered theirn at Just
cent apiece.
But stir gold kept a.going up-a-kiting up
she went,
Till sold ont what had left two squashes,
for cent
You know darned well that squashes ain Z apt
to huctuate,
So Bryan got the thing dead right-its gold
as sure as fate.
II stands TO reason he Is right when he seq
it's because
There's something out Of killer with them
thar silver laws.
So, darn the stuff I'd full as lieye have old BIZ
Ketchums note
And when election comes around Bill Bryan
gets my vote. X H.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04
Government Ownership Of silver Mines

Government Ownership Of silver Mines.
Why is it tIut both the Populists and
the Democrats failed TO put plank in
their platforms demanding that the
government own and control the silver
mines Of this country, so that the profit
which would be made from free coinage
would 90 90 cur government and thus
indirectly bee a benefit to the whole
people: Why should this profit 90 to a
few individuals who own the silver
mines and who are already enormously
rich? Is not this building up one Of the
most dangerous trusts that the country
has ever seen:
Think of a few men having under
their control all the silver Of this coun-
try and the government compelled to
turn il into dollars as fast as they pro-
duce it Suppose that these silver men
combine TO shut down work On their
mines when they want to produce a
stringency in the money market, then
open them again when they want to
make money abundant. Would not this
put the whole business Of the country at
their mercy?
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04
WOULD HURT INSTEAD OF HELP.
How Free Coinage Would Injure the
Farmers.

How Free Coinage Would Injure the
Farmers.
The chief strength Of the l6 to agi-
tation lies in the belief that it would
benefit the agricultural classes. This is
scrius error. The facts Of all human
experience show conclusively that free
silver would cause widespread and pro-
longed injury to the farmers Of this
country.
The mere threat Of free coinage would
greatly injure the farmers by causing
an immediate calling in Of all loans
through the natural desire Of lenders to
get back money worth as much as they
lent. Hundreds Of thousands Of farmers
would be unable to pay their mort
cages, and their farms would be sold at
a sacrifice No new loans would be
forthcoming, as the owners of capital
Tould not invest so long as there was
any danger that by change in the
money standard the value of loans
would be cut in two. As the chief COM
plant Of the farmers now is that inter
est is too high and capital too scarce,
the effect of policy which would make
capital scarcer and dearer can be figured
out by each farmer for himself.
A second way in which free coinage
would hurt agriculture would be by the
financial panic which would inevitably
follow the overthrow Of our present
sound financial system and the adoption
of the unstable cheap silver standard.
With the millions of bank depositors
demanding their savings the machinery
Of credits, by which so large a part Of
the country's business is done, would be
suddenly stopped. Merchants would be
unable to buy goods for lack Of credit;
manufacturing industries would be clos
ed down, as in 1898, and millions Of
workers would be idle. Men ont Of en-
ployment do not buy as much farm
products as when they arc at work, and
the farmers who now complain of the
lack of markets for their produce would
find themselves with large part Of
their crops unsold Would not this be
serious injury to agriculture:
Another evil which free coinage
would bring to American farmers would
be the unsettlement Of their trade rela-
ton with the great gold standard COM
mercial nations, which purchase each
year 5000, 600, 600 worth Of our surplus
farm products. The adoption Of the sill
yer standard, with its constantly fuctu-
ating scale Of prices, would prove the
same barrier to commerce between this
and other countries that it has to trade
between gold standard Europe and In
dia, China and Japan. Do the farmers
want to curtail and unsettle our foreign
trade?
These are some of the ways in which
free coinage at l6 to l would hurt the
farmers? No advocate Of 50 cent dollars
has ever been able to show a single way
in which it would help them.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

To man who has no money there are
several ways to get it-namely:
D.

BcNtTH ways " get li-udLlcIg
(a) Beg it.
Oh Steal it,
Co Borrow it.
Id Secure it by gift.
(e) Trade something for it.
If we are to beg for it, we might Just
as we'll do the best we can. Therefore a
dollar based ON gold standard is better
than a 16 to 1 silver dollar, which today
is worth about SO cents intrinsically.
If we are to steal it, we want the best.
A thief who would steal a silver dollar
in preference to a gold dollar would be
acquitted ON the ground that he was in
sane.
If we borrow it, we want that kind Of
money which will go farthest, for so we
can get along with a smaller loan.
Therefore a gold dollar is better to Dor
row than 10 to 1 silver dollar.
If we are to secure it by gift, certainly
we should not dep1eciate that which we
are about to receive.
This brings us to G, which is the
way most money is obtained. A peril
nent question for each Of us to ask at
this time is, What have l got to trade
for money which | want? 1t may be
labor; it may be horse or COW; it may
be lumber or shingles; it may be a saw
mill. At the present time we can trade
any Of the above and get gold dollar
for every dollars worth Of value, as may
be agreed upon between buyer and sell
err. We can get dollar which is worth
a dollar anywhere and everywhere.
Now, your labor or horse or COW or
lumber or machinery will be worth just
as much, or nearly as much, next year
as it is this, but if we have free coinage
at 10 to 1 will the dollar which you get
in trade be worth as much as the dollar
you can get nowl What will that be
worth? Can ycu tellY II may be worth
SO cents or more or less. One day this,
one day that, but can any one telli
These are all pertinent questions, and,
when carefully considered. must guide
us in voting at the next election in No
vember, and 90 not lose sight of the fact
that if all the silver in the world is
coiued into money you cannot get a cent
of II except by a, b, G, d or G, above re-
ferred to.-Lumber Trade Journal
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04
Daniel Webster on Money and Wage Earn

The very man, Of all others, who
has the deepest interest in a sound cur
rency and who suffers most by mis-
chievous legislation in money matters
is the man who earns his daily bread by
his daily toll. $50 His property is in
his hands. His reliance, his fund, his
productive freehold, his all, is his la
Dor Whether ne work on his own small
capital or another's, his living is still
earned by his industry, and when the
money of the country becomes depreci-
ated and debased, whether it be adul-
terated coin or paper without credit,
that industry is robbed Of its reward.
He then labors for a country whose
laws cheat him out Of his bread. |
would say to every owner of every quar-
ter section Of land in the west, | would
say to every man in the east who fol-
lows his own pillow and to every me-
chanic, artisan and laborer Of every city
in the country-I would say to every
man, everywhere, who wishes by honest
means to gain an honest living, beware
Of wolves in sleeps clothing. " Whoever
attempts, under whatever popular cry,
to shake the stability of the public cur
rency stabs your interests and
your happiness to the heart.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Both the Tribuna of Rome and the
Secolo of Milan assert that Pope Leo
XIII is a very i'll man, whose sufferings
wrought by rheumatism are something
terrible. DIR. Lapponi, the special ply
stefan at the Vatican, will now allow
no interviews. The pope rarely ventures
out into tine gardens and when be does
he is supported. almost carried, by his
attendants. The last public audience
was given by the pope on Aug. 4, when
he was visited by the American pilgrims.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Property is the fruit of labor Prop
erty is desirable, is positive good in
the world. That some should be rich
shows that others may become rich, and
hence is encouragement to industry and
enterprise. Let no man who is homeless
pull down the house Of another, but let
him work diligently and build one for
himself, thus, by example, assuring that
his own shall be safe from violence
when it is built Abraham Lincoln
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Train 40s connects at Harper's Ferry with
Fast Limited Express trains Leaving az BIB
p. m. arriving at Cincinnati at sij o. NJ. ana al
st. Louis at 600 pm. and connects al Viewer
ton with tain arriving al HagerstOwn az
23j p. m. and az Washington Junction with
train arriving at Frederick AT 23U p. III.
Train 40 connects with fast yestibuled
trains at Harper's Ferry AZ 9i4 p. m. tor
Chicago; iV:2l p. m. for Pttrburg and l:i6 a.
m. for Cincinnati and 81. Louis Arrive AZ
Pttsburg at $50 a. m. Chicago az 800 =. m,
Cincinnati at SD p. m. and st. Louis az ,:l2 a.
m. ParlOr cars on trains Nos. 4Os and 4O5 be-
tween StauntOn and Baltimore.
Pullman Palace Sleeping cars run through
10 Cincinnati 81. Louis Chicago and Pitts
burg. on all express trains.
For rates, tickets. baggage checks apply
10 any Office OF the b. * o. K. r.. or 10 &. Z.
DudrOw travelling passenger agent Ninches-
ter, Va. or 10 c. T. Hammond. city ticket
agent Staunton. Va.
CHAs. . SCULL, NJ. NJ GREENE.
Gen Pass Agt Gen Man
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Some of the free coinage men still
say that all they want is to restore the
conditions that existed prior to 1878. "
In 1878 the total worlds production Of
silver was 6l,lOO, 900 ounces and the
silver in a dollar was worth $l.O4 in
gold. Last year the worlds product Of
silver was 1865, 600, 600 ounces and the
silver in a dollar was worth only
80 40 cents. Will the silver miners
restore the production Of 1878 as the
first step toward restoring the cOndi-
tions?"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Design suggested for the free sill
yer" dollar. The American eagle will
not stay on a debased coin. The man in
the moon likes it because it gets its
shape from him, and the trombone suits
its sliding value No charge for design.
Free coinage, free design. So the silver
trusts are bound to get rich.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04
ReIlef IN SIX Hours.

DISTRESSING Kidney and Bladder diseases
relieved in six hours ! y the New Grea;
South American Kidney Cure" This new
remedy is great surprise on account OF
its exceeding promptness 10 relieving
pain in the Bladder, kidneys, back AMI
eVe cry part of the urinary passes IN male
or female. Ii relieves. IL relieves re-
tention Of water and pain in passing Il
slmost Immediately. II you want quick
relief and cure this IS your remedy. Sold
by +. X. IRWIN, Druggist Woodstock,
Va. nov. 30-lyr.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

With the unlimited coinage Of silver
at the ratio of 10 TO the value Of the
dollar would sink to the price Of the
silver bullion in coin, containing S7lA
grains Of psre silver, or about 81 cents.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04
Honesty Lad. 70 Prosperity.

Nocountry can prosper that habitually
tells lies. If the United States stamps
the lie "This is 81" ON pieces Of silver
worth SO cents, IL will have taken the
irst step away from the straight path
Of national truth and honor.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04
Artificial Ivory.

Another wonderful substitute for ivory
has Just been discovered and put on the
market by Norwegian cb-nist. 1t is
called lactite and is such perfect imi-
tation of real ivory that nothing but an
elaborate chemical analysiS will dis
cover the difference. II Is made -
ground bone and skimmilk.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04
HOW WILL you VOTEl
The Lines of Division Between the Parties.

a" AHAA H" ~ - a O."
Every body who
wants less money, or
wants his money 70 DO
worth only one-half u
its present value,
should vote for the
party which promises
10 give u 50 cent sill
yer dollars, which will
drive our 10000 90
u gold out Of circula-
ton.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

The Gold Dollar and the Silver Dollar.
The value of every dollar earned by
the wage Garner and paid TO the farmer
under present conditions is 100 cents.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

ticed. He put off his official robe. He
put on the garb of a miller. He went to
the village where that trial was to take
place. He entered the courtroom. He
somehow got impaneled as one Of the
Jurors. The brides came around, and the
man gave ten pieces Of gold TO the other
Jurors, Int as this was only a poor
miller the briber gave to him only five
pieces Of gold. A verdict was brought
in rejecting the right of this returned
brother Hewas to have no share i'll the
inheritance. "Hold, my lord, said the
miller. Hold We are not all agreed on
this verdict. These other men have re-
ceived ten pieces Of gold in bribery and
have received only FIVE" "Who are
you? Where do you come from?' said
the Judge on the bench. The response
was: Il am from Westminster hall my
name is Matthew Hale, lord chief jus
tice Of the kings bench. Of OF that
place, thou villain" And so the inJus-
tice was baked, and SO the young man
got his Inheritance,
1t was all for another that Sir Mat
thew Hale took off his robe and put on
the garb of a miller. And so Christ took
off his robe of royalty and put on the
attire of our humanity, and i'll that dis
guise he won our eternal portion. Now
we are the sons of God. Joint heirsl
We went off from home sure enough,
but we got back in time to receive our
eternal inheritance. And if Christ was
so kind to us, surely we can afford to
be kind to each other.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04
A LESSON FROM EGYPT.

Showing How That Country Failed to
Maintain the Ratio of sixteen Onions to
One Cat.
The ancient Egyptians had currency
based on cats and onions, both of which
were sacred objects worshiped by the
people. As there was some difficulty III
storing the cats, and as the onion was
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Every body who
knows that congress
cannot create a dol
lars worth of proper
ty and that IL the gov
eminent makes some
men rich by law It
takes the wealth 1t
gives them from some
other men should vote
for the party which IS
opposed TO the idea
that the governments
Hat makes money val
liable.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Every b ody who
thinks that men who
borrowed 100 cent dol
lars should be enabled
by law TO pay their
debts In dollars worth
So cents should vote
for a debased and huc-
tuating silver curren-
Cy.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Every body who
thinks his wages are
now too high. OF that
the prices Of his neces-
stiles are too low
should vote for the sill
verite candidates.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

CAPTAIN BOND.
Japan, Egypt, Persia, the West Indies
and other parts of the world, but the
disease had such q hold upon my sys-
tenn that it was impossible to get relief.
After trying all remedies l could get IN
different countries, and nearly every
blood remedy in this country, without
the slightest benefit, some one recon-
mended s. S. S. This remedy promptly
reached the disease, and has driven II
entirely out OF my system. certainly
pronounce ). 5. S. a blessing to hui
mainly, and heartily recommend tito all
suffering from that most dreadful disease,
malaria. | have frequently been at the
point of death, with a temperature OF
io6, and when began the use of ). ,. >.
I was so reduced in health, that my con-
dition seemed hopeless. Now am en-
loving the best of health"
S.S.S.uever fails to cure blood trouble.
Scrofula, eczema, cancer rheumatism,
contagious blood poison, and in fact any
disorder Of the blood is promptly wiped
out and cured by it. Do not rely upon
a simple tonic to cure a deep-seated
blood disease. S. S. S. IS guaranteed
purely vegetable, and for real blood dis
eases has no equal.
Our valuable books will be mailed free.
Address Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga
Some Facts For Farmers.
In 1877 the average value Of the hay
crop in the United States was $. go per
ton. The following year it dropped to
1920, and in 1879, the year next ensu-
ing, it jumped up to 50 2 per ton.
Again. In 1891, when this country
wa firmly on a gold basis, the average
value O. the hay crop was $. 80 per ton.
In 1882 it fell to s.. % per ton, and in
1898 it rose to $S.GS per ton. Last year
the average value was $. % per ton.
Assuming that the fall in prices is
due to the crime Of 1873" how are
these fluctuations to be accounted for?
Will some Bryanite explain also why 1t
is that the average value Of the hay crop
per ton was greater in 1895, when we
were on a gold basis, than it was IN
1873, when gold was at premium?
Hay has undoubtedly declined IN price
since 1873, but why should it not have
done so? Apart from cheaper methods
of production and cheaper rates Of trans
portation, the annual hay crop increased
from 25, 0S5, 100 tons in 1873 to 65,-
76G. l5S tons in 1898. Last year it
amounted to about 100000
At the same time the number OF
horses in the United States increased
only from 9,222, 40 in 1873 to 10, $685.
3lS in 1895. 1t is estimated that there
are nearly LOO 600 fewer horses in
this country today than there were three
years ago.
These plain facts and figures should
not be hard TO comprehend Let the
farmer study them before he allows
himself to be hoodwinked by free silver
I.,,,.1grscrn
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SOUTHWARK. 4l3 400 443
Pass Pass Mix
CONNECTIONS.

40 MIXED TRAINS SOUTH
Leave Woodstock Sunday at 1885 p m. arrive
at Harrisonburg at 3OOp.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Everybody who be-
lieves in common, ev-
eryday honesty and in
the Obligation Of debt
ors TO return as good
money as they borrow
ed must Of necessity
vote this year against
the party Of repudia-
ton.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04


Every b dy who
wants cheap money
that H.. money which
Is loaned at low rates
Of intcrest-should
vote for the party
which is pledged 20
maintain the present
standard Of value I'M
der which our stock n
money has increased
and interest rates have
steadily declined dur
ing the past 3 years.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

the iconoclast, or by the sword Of the
conqueror, or by the torch of persecu-
ton, hut by the plain. simple, over
whelming force of 1.-THE soft tongue that
breaketh the bone"
We All Need More Kindness.
Kindnessl We all need more Of it in
our hearts, our words and our behavior
The chief characteristic of our Lord was
kindness. A gentleman in England
died, leaving his fortune by will to two
sons. Tie son that stayed at home de-
siroycd tho fathers will and pretended
that the brother who was absent was
dead and buried. The absent brother,
after awhile, returned and claimed his
part Of the property. Judges and jurors
were to be bribed to say that the re-
turned brother and son was no son ct
all, but only an impostor. The tria'
came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the prize
of the English courtroom and for 20
years the pride Of Jurisprudence, heard
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Everybod y who
wants e. SEQ h ard
times, brought on by
lack OF confidence on
the part Of investors
and business men, and
q financial panic, caus-
ed by the general call
ing in OF loans, should
vote with the silver
agitators who are un-
settling trade and in
dustry.
Everybody who be-
lieves that the govern
ment can and ought TO
make some men rich
by issuing fiat paper
dollars or half fat sill
yer dollars should vote
for the party which
will try TO carry out
those schemes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Evcryb ody who
wants a stable meas
uro OF values which
will be just 10 both
debtors and creditors
and Will best serve as
o medium Of exchange
should vote for the
gold standard. which
the experience Of all
countries has shown to
b. haff.r than silver.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

Every DO dy who
wants the country 70
be prosperous. conf
dence restored. capital
abundant and banks
willing and able to
make loans sh ould
vote with the men who
stand for honest mon
ey and n stable hnan-
cial system.