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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-03
Our First Bank.

The first bank within the limits of the
United States was chartered in Phila-
delphia in III. 1t was incorporated By
congress under the title: "The Presi-
dent, Directors and Company Of the
Bank of North America"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-03
Separate Skirts

All the newest skirts are in our
stock lined to the top with rustling
moreen, wide helms, bound with vel
vetine, latest gore and full five yard
sweep we have them in
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-03

The prices on all of our childrens
dresses have been greatly reduced in
most cases to cost.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-03
Ladies' Suits

We have made sweeping reductions
on every suit in the house. Here are
a few of them:
Linen Crash Suits with full
skirt and Blazer Jacket,
B f%fl sleeves, stylish and $500
Batiste Suits trimmed in
Cardinal have been re- 40
duced from So to. ....... Ito
Fancy Trimmed Lawn
Dresses the very latest re- > Ok
duced from S. TO. ....... c'cc
White Pique Blazer Suits , IN.
inst received. ......... -.cO
Colored Duck Blazer Suits I 00I
at all prices from $3.50 to I.ooI
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-03

$1.75
$50
l.5O
l.59
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-16

Next 10 a man in the house there is
no such protection against burglars az
dog And some extremists value the
dog highest for the position. Thieves
themselves, who certainly know where's
Of they speak, say that a large Dog Ia
not SO valuable as a protector as a
small one; that, while the first is gen
orally friendly and unsuspicious. and
comes toward them readily, so that Il
may be easily chloroformed. the littic
terrier for example will bark his
small heart out at the least disturb.
ance. There Is no coaSing this tiny,
nervous creature 10 them. Ho will
stand at good distance and call his
loudest for assistance Another con-
sideration in keeping dog Is the ex'
pense. Not only 10 one Of the St
Bernard breed very much In tho
way la most houses, but IL 10 really
quite an important mntter TO supply
him with food enough On the con-
trnry, a rat terrier should not be fed
more than once a day, and has y Lam
tied capacity for tine eatAoles whic1
will disappear as IL by magic before
his larger canine brethren kYut q
ANAL dog N. neriopsly, nssnpst eEspnA
tial 70 the proper guarding of the rp7
erMQs :horan in tiieAe lewl@s& Gsst.t ~
saeak thleseEs y nosk'l8 y sfsA. n. X
1lAe&
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-16
HIS SKIN AN ARMoR.



Bullet Proof
In Berlin a Singalese battles all ias~
vestigations by physiciann by the Ina
penetrability of his skin The bronzed
easterner, Hercules in shape, claims
20 have found an elixir which will
reader the humaa skin impervious TO-
any metal point or sharpened edgesof
knife or dagger, and calls htfpsolf
the MAN with the Iron Skin II is
true that it has been impossible to
even scratch his skin with sharply
pointed nails, with finely ground
knives and daggers. He Is now en-
hibiting ihimself, and his greatest test
is TO pass with his entire body through
a hoop, the inside of which is hardly
big enough to admit his hcdy and Isl
closely set with sharp knife, pointA.
daggers. nails and osher equally pl snAs
ant trifies. Through this hoop he
squeexes his body with abso1iste Inn
punity, The physicians do mot agree
as 10 his immunity, and some of then
think that Rhannin. which is his tasHes
Is fakir who has by long pem@Eiee
succeeded In hardening himself ag;Einet'
the Impressions of meta upon llis skin
The professors Of the Berlin eAInie,l
however, consider it worth while tey
lecture about the mans slzin pre-
ncpneing II an incxplicable usmskhr IS
London Daily Graphic.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-16

III
-Frcsh material fot iihe djoeS Il IN
Is to what there may or may ii<,f NJ
name Is afforded by AiderfnAts IL fAsxs.
nerjohn. one OF the masx N1rnt sud
eloquent takers in the lsoouvyiis fse.
city council a 4.
--Lack OF money il said ~ ND fhe|
only reason why the catalogue Ut fs.S
great national library ia PARIS ~ rnt
printed. IL is ready for the prchs pnt3
successive ministries have pefa@eG ~
appropriate the sum needed.
"A horse that had been pulling i
plow on one farm for fully thir.y yeAsA
died near Fort Deposit. Ala, reoently
The horse was thirty-three years old.
and had been owned by one man and
used on his farm constantly since 1854
Attention is being called TO the faet
that 1896 win be the last leap year that
we shall have for twice the usual time,
as 1900 will not be leap year Not
that it means any particular difference
the joSesmiths
--Alligators grow slowly. AT fifteen
years of age they are only two feet
long. A twelve-footer may be snip
posed TO be seventy-hve years old. H
is believed that they grow as long as
they live, and probably live longer than
any other animal.
Guys hospital in London, the i'm
come OF which. derived almostentirely
from land, amounted to $500, 900 few
years ago, now can dispose of only half
that sum, and must reduce the number
of its beds by nearly third, unless
helred by contributions.
There is a species of humming-bird
in Gsrrucaa, East India. that is about
twice the size of pigeon. 1t is very
vicious, and the natives gay It subsists
almost entirely upon hard-shelled
nut, which IL breaks open with blow
OF its wings, all the tiine hunining
loudly.
Bangor, Me, has lately beaH in
vaded BY an army of skunks, and the
unpleasant visitors are so numerous
and, naturally, SO objectionable that
the residents are at q loss what to do.
The state authorities have been asked
for advice and assistance in getting rid
of the animals, though just what the
state can dois not very clear.
Game IS unusually plentifnI in
northern Michigan this year, bat St the
present. rate at which it is being killed
there is not likely to be much there
next season. In two days OF last week
the carcasses of one hundred and sev-
enty-five deer were shipped from Che
boyRan alone, and similar slaughter
is reported TO be going on In ether
regions.
"a tiger with purple stripes and 4
short, bushy tail was discovered in
May on the roof Of bungalow about
twenty miles from Calcutta The
strange creature was shot by q native.
and when 1t was examined everybody
was astonished to find that one OF It's
teeth was filled with gold. The story
Is told on tho authority of the MahAra-
jah Ram Bambah.
Ginseng Is scarce this year In this
Big sandy valley, Kentucky, from
where much of the ginseng produced
in this country usually comes. For
some reason the mountaineers have
neglected the industry during the fast
year or so Ginseng is now worth
three dollars and fifty cents pound,
but the price is likely to increase
very considerably soon.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29

ana unvarying in It's output and con-
Sumption. How does it c0mnare With
Solu: For the last Twenty-Five wears If
nas slowly but surely advanced in price.
MMIhlch shows that gold has deprcciatcd'
aneh mere are farming lands. City lots
ere subject TO violent fluctuations. but
haa n lal1s are reasonably stable. How
~ s"ia compare with them? Since
So uie farming lands in the United
,.h;aL h'Fe RISEN very much in value
"nich shows that gold has deprecated.
Then there are wages Waors Huc-
tua,e more or less. OF course. hut arc con-
Sluered Tar more stable thar most com
XW,yyuitieS' because of their adaptability.
,Nhat ITO mean by that? If n man
loSes one Job he tries to find another as
H as he can at just as good wages.
ms power of adaptation therefore
llakeS wages reasonably stable. How
No. .hey compare with gold: Since 1873
1WrE nave very scnsibly increased. In
io'l me common laborer could demand
~ Io.u as compared with S14S.3O
~ 1910. tor skilled labor the difference
- even greater. which shows that gold
mas either deprecated or that wages have
Increased. But, my friends, ! venture
l." assert that a slow-moving standard.
w or down., IS infinitely better for every
po1y than Il constantly huctuating stand
arI' Inc manufacturer and merchant
To-Day calculate to the least fraction of
proflt the price for which they can sell.
trustlng to IN aggregate of little profits
TO make up the credit column. We want
inns to be so, do we not? 1t gives us
everything we buy at the lowest possible
pilce. Very well. If these men, in adj
dltion to their other calculations. were
Obliged to speculate on the value of the
money for which they bought and sold.
1t would add greatly to their perplcxity
ana would end by making us pay for
Whatever risk they imagined they as
sumcd. Modern commerce annot tolrr-
ate that, and the nation which adopts a
changing, tuctuating standard to meas
ur" It's values will take a back seat.
whether that nation be the United States
or MeXico.-From Henry d. Este
brooks Spopch
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29

the President, by sending troops to Chi
cag0, did not in any way interfere with
the strikers or in any way thwart the
plans of their leaders. He merely sup
pressed a riotous outbreak and restored
order. One would suppose that the lead.
ors of the strike would be grateful to
President Cleveland, who relieved them
of the unwclcome and damaging coop.
GRAFTON of rioters, and left them free to
work toward their goal by their own
peaceful and law-abiding methods.
There are several ways of regarding
President Cleveland's action. If we re-
gard it as an act Of good in itself, but
one which the President was not compe-
tent to perform. then we are extreme
states rights mon. who can find in the
constitution no warrant for our views.
If we regard it as an act bad in itself,
then we must believe that the best way
to treat a riot is to let it alone. If we
are indignant at the suppression of riot,
then we must be friends of riot. If we
ask organized labor to be indignant, then
we must hold organized labor responsible
for these riotous acts which the Presi-
dent put an end to. and the responsibility
for which was disayowed, in the name
of organized labor, by the leaders of the
strike.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29
BRYAN'S RIDE.

Out from Chicago this later day,
bringing to citizens fresh dismay.
The anri@hted Press with a shudder bore
like II youth who had never heard it before
Thr terrible tumble and humble galore,
Stating mat silver was up once more
Stating that Honor had had its day
And Bryan was only five miles away.
But a protest came from the Eastern gates.
Tvo good. old-fashioned and sturdy states
InhccIing the ignus fatuus light.
Cast ballots rs thick as the stars Of night;
Hill rose and fell and was heard to say
lie was sorry. indeed. he could not stay,
Eut BRYAN was then ten miles away.
Tbcn ont from Watson issued a shrek
That blighted the smile on each Porocrat'S
cheek:
And the heart of the people beat ever faster
Eorcbodiug a terrible scene OF disaster,
The thought of Watson as possible master
Sutiice. 20 steady all wavering eyes.
They had looked enough at the light tina
They ionged for that great November day,
And Bryan was fifteen miles away.
".
Under their spurning scorn inc road.
Supposed to be paved from a Silver lode,
Grew dark and furnished. nor longer glowed
The rear-car platform that Travelled Ger
The continents breadth from shore to SHORE
Appealed TO sensible folk no more;
II sped along in the silence gray,
And Bryan was twenty miles away.
".
Then at last the Public caught a sight
OF n vanishing face at a platforms height;
And November came with its chilling blight
The people emerged with a mental growth
And. polling their votes with Il solemn oath
They swore thar the right should still sue
coed.
They stood by their country in time or need
NIL u.,n GA muse In thnir n fu1 MIGHT
And William Jennings was out Of sight.
&C. n
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29

piece. l paid So cents for that. 1t cax.
RES a little less silver than the Amert-
can silver dollar. France and the Uni
ted States are both gold standard coun-
tries. They keep in circulation a thou
sand millions of silver, and Mexico and
China and Japan have not got one dol
lar of gold in circulation. The gold
standard country can keep silver in cir
"ulation. The silver standard country
IAN keep no gold. That is the example
Ct every nation to-day. Gold all leaves
the free coinage country. Gold and sill.
yer both circulate in the gold standard
countries.-From a speech by Senator
Lodge.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29
A VICIOUS DELUSION.
Promise of Free Silverites of an Advance
on Farm Products

The capital delusion of the free 81,
yer victim is that there will be an adj
vance in the market value of farm pro-
ducts Immediately upon the adoption of
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
The silver price, they believe, will CORE
spond with the premium on gold. This
is no more vicious a d~elusion than that
of Bryan that, if anyone has acquired
money or property he has acquired it
by stealing or robbery. the possession of
wealth being prima facie evidence of
the guilt of a man of theft.
SO far as the first delusion is con-
cerned. the free silver champion always
insists that the farmer will be the chief
beneficiary. The ordinary wage-earn-
er may whistle for benefits. The farm
er is the fellow who will be certainly
favored. The American farmer is rep
resented by the Bryanites as a pauper of
of the act of 1873 which ''struck down
silver" None of these "victims" is even
able to tell how he was stricken down
with silver. but they have all been taught
to attribute their disabilities to low
prices said to have been thrust upon
the country concnrrently with the
striking down of silver" in 1917.
Every postulate of Organism is an
economic and financial untruth. Prices
Wv " uNBth' tlph thN N''hNiNv ~
money in circulation. nor is it true that
the act of 1873 struck out of the ~circula-
ton half the money in use. 1t didn't
impair the value of a single dollar in cir
c~ulation in this country, and so far as
silver is concerned. the country, within
of silver" had fifty or sixty times as
much silver as it had had in the eighty
years previous. In 1873 there was in
circulation in this country money and its
representatives a~ggregating S751 .SS1, 500,
and in 1895 we had S1.6O1, 96S.473. In
1878 there were only about S.000,000 sill
YER dollars in e%xiste -S e., co On 1uly /;
circulation. Potential facts squarcly
against the assumptions of Bryan! Mr..
Bryan keeps on saying that, with free
coinage silver will jump to S1.29 an
ounce. 1t may be worth that in silver:
What does that amount to? No act of
Congress can pull silver up to the par
OF gold, however. The act of 1890 didn't
81. 04633 an ounce. and when the act was
repealed it was S.1S031 an ounce. Gov
ernment fiat annot make values. If it
could raise silver to S1.29 there would
be the same "too valuable" dollar which
Bryan says must give way to a cheap
dollar" to "help the farmer" All Bry.
antics in fact want to see the present
1OO-cent dollar knocked out and the prop
withdrawn and every man with his
wage worth 80 cents on the dollar.
After all the talk about big prices
for the farmer what would be accom-
plished for him? In 1860. taking the
index figure 100 to Indicate all prices.
in 1865 wheat was 140.5: corn, 1924,
oats, 1859, and the general average OF
did the farmer fare? His clothes in
creased the same time to 299.2; fuel tc
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29
THE SILVER QUESTION lNANUTSHElC
free Coinage Of Bricks Would Not Raise
Their Price.

Inelr Ir1Ce.
Did you ever stop to think what
would be the result if the government
should by legislation determine that or
binary building bricks 2 by A by 8
inches in size should be legal tender in
any amount for ST. each and should ar
range to have them so stamped in any
quantity free Of cost to the persons pre-
senting them?
Under such circumstances the price
Of building bricks would at once advance
to 81, 600 a thousand, for if they could
be coined without cost the bricks
"uncoined'' would be worth just as
much as the ''coined'' bricks-$1 each.
But did it ever occur to you that it
would not be an advance in the value of
the bricks, but a decrease in the value
of the dollars, which would thus estab-
lish a new parity between money and
property - that under such a system
81, 900 would be worth only 1, 900
bricks; that that 1, 900 bricks would
exchange for no more commodities or
labor than it does today, and conse-
quently that 81 900 would mean no
more to us than /, 900 bricks do now?
In other words, our government can
determine by legislation what commod-
ity and what amount of that commodity
81 shall be, but it must leave it to the
laws of comparative supply and de-
mand, cost of production, etc. to de-
termine what the value of that COM
modify shall br 1t may declare that a
brick shall be a dollar, in which case
81 will be worth whatever a brick will
exchange,for. 1t may declare that 1873
grains Of gold shall be a dollar, in
which case 81 will be worth whatever
%. s grains of gold will exchange for,
or it may declare that 4121a grains of
silver shall be a dollar, in which case 81
will be worth only what 4121a grains of
silver will exchange for, the same to-
day as 50.3 cents in gold, or, ''giving
the debtor the option" as to what dollar
he shall use with which to pay his
debts, it may declare that each Of these
three shall be a dollar, in which case
81 will be worth just as much as the
least valuable Of the three, which under
present conditions would be the brick.
Il. Carroll Root.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29

River
Lawrence
in depth;
|.adually in
nee in level
y it does ~
|elared you
judge
|. | thipk, TO
av"-PbH
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29
Only Spectators Would Gain.

Only SPECTATORS w OuIu OaIn.
The wage earners and the salaried
men would find very soon that gold
prices remained with little or no change.
II that prices expressed in silver
rose with more or less irregularity,
Il a they were nearly double what
they are now, and that domestic pro-
ducts rose about as much proportion
ately as imported goods. If import
ed cloth, for example. were doubled in
price, domestic cloth would rise in
much the same proportion, though it
might not go so far. And these same
wage earners and salaried men would
find that their incomes were not rising
nearly so fast as their %outgoes, and
many of them would wait a good while
FOR any increase.
If we stopped here we might con-
clude that whatever was lost by other
classes would at least be made up by
the farmer, but this would be a mis-
take. The farm mortgage is 0 SO
universal as the silver men pretend.
Less than one farmer in five carries
one; in the South the percentage Of
mortgages is extremely small. and The
m~ortgaged farmers spend much more
money In buying supplies and tools
h they do in interest and INSTALL
ments on their mortgages. In the pay
ment of their mortgages the cheap sill
yer dollars would go as Tar as any,
but more than four farmers in five
spend all their income, exclusive of
possible Investments, and the rest spend
the greater part Of it, not in paying
deferred obligations, but in paying
groceries and calico and harness and
implements, and il repairing the house,
and in other forms of current pur-
chases. Now, for all these pos
the cheap silver dollar would not be
nearly so useful as the present dollar.
The farmer who got twice as much Tor
his wheat and corn and cotton would
pay twice as much for his uga coffee,
calico, harness. reaper, paint and Hag-
on So that we would be no better off
than he is now.
But If the farmer made nothing and
he laborer lost who would get the
difference? The Spectator would get
a great deal of it; such changes as the
clleap-money men threaten ODCn I'm
great opportunities for speculation,
The legitimate business man would
get some of It: with prices going up
much faster thar wages the margin
for profit would be increased. But the
disturbance of business would be so
great that an element of chance. or
gambling. would be introduced into all
business, n success would lie largely
a matter Of luck or skill in spccula-
ton. With prices advancing much
faster than wages. the number OF GUS
toners at the stores would fall off.
Men whose wages were unchanged
could not pay double prices for things;
some things they would get Of in
ferior quality, and other things they
would go without. and the merchants
would be complaining that trade was
falling off, and they would begin to re-
duce the number Of clerks. What with
lettering people who had money from
lending. and raising prices beyond the
meanS of the masses of the popula-
ton to pay, the change to the silver
standard would check trade and throw
men out Of employment as nothing in
our history has ever done ver.-Ths
Iron Age.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29

There is an American silver dollar.
There are two Mexican dollars. There
Is more silver in each Of them than in
the American dollar. | bought both Of
them for that. What is the reason: The
sole reason Is. that our dollar is a limit
ed coinage, backed by gold. There is
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29
Sam Jones Makes 1t Clear.

Suppose, p" says the Rev. Sam Jones
Of Georgia, ''the government owned all
the gristmills in this country and CON-
gress should enact Il law that all corn
should be ground by the government
mills free and that while corn was
worth bSt IS cents a bushel the govern
ment would stamp the sacks Of meal so
that it would bring 90 cents a bushel
and do this for nothing. 1t is a very
hard matter to keep meal above the
price of corn
I'VE must do something for silver"
say the cheap dollarites. Why? The
value of the annual production of eggs
in the United States is twice as large
as that of IN silver bullion. Yet no
body claims that eggs should be made
a legal tender for debts.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29
re-.

the Gov
icy orden
tied to th.
few years
drew from
Pf $50.
the credi,
Of the DE-.
hst year
Fred 10 the
Ice in the
TO the
in New
|e working
what
o,+
profits No
r be mad.
ear on the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29

Ter, as il il
Fnit of time
Therefore,
every
notes and
, years old;
d been due
|plicated by
the money
out by the
Idication Of
loft on the
/ years ae
|j.709,0S9.77
I,344,4G0.21
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29
RUNKO THE FARMERS.
COLD BRICK SWlNDLE GIVES WAY
TO THE SILVER DOLLAR.

.. ~Uusbandmen should Not be De.
,,led by the Silvery Promises of the
..,i,;cal F~akir->one Plain aud Proven
Truths.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-29

S36i,G29.58
o the Gov
rders. But,
in the
ID the Gov
900 a year
hey orders.
Id not keep
.ited States
and a half.
ur 10 carry
government
y year, but
.yeral thou
considerable
p collectors,
Fps were is
calculated
aew designs
well as the
!. the larger
pur-
disappoint-
-om collect
e estimated
poke freely
his report.
= very little
the stamps
some incon-
the United
9ns and de-
stamp col
x collector.
ependencies
lal issue Of
atoms; and
Islands and
designs Of
r additional
atelists pro-
.othing.
every year
The deStruc-
! envelopes
NV few take
from a mis-
good margin
on
Depart
$ on under
en- there is
the Gov
it would
records Of
v hIch
by treasury
I'd members
But those
ngress may
ay and pay
IN.
of Frarce'
he VOsgeS
ed the cross
,ich will be
rs, in honor
ey made to
arS ago. M
rance no"
n of Honor
nee River