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The San Francisco call., 1896-12-19
Cent? Holiday Clothing.

Gents all-wool suits, So upward fine
line of sample overcoats at half price We can
suit every body's pocket Call and see u.s. The
Old 1 X L. L. V. Merle, proprietor corner
Kearny aid Commercial streets and corner
Sixth and Mission streets.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-19
A Maniac's s Leap.

Lee Ching, an insane Chinaman, took off his
clothes and jumped from the upper window
at l00512 Stockton street yesterday morning.
He was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where
he was found TO be suffering SO severly from
concussion OF the brain and spine that ne can
not live.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
Dollar Wheat.
(From the Ohio State Journal.)

(From the Ohio State Journal.)
One of the most clever, and withal a
very practical, illustration of the real
meaning to farmers of free ard unlimited
coinage of silver is the proposition of a
large grain buying firm of Buchanan,
Mich, to the farmers of the central part
of that State. The average farmer believes
times are good when he ca receive 81 per
bushel for his wheat. Recognizing this
fact, the firm spoken of advertised that
they would pay one Mexican dollar per
bushel for wheat in quantities OF 500
bushels or over. They explained that
they would be glad to take small quantities
on the same terms but for the expense and
trouble of shipping Mexican dollars in
small quantities.
By this offer the farmers of Michigan
had al opportunity to sell their wheat at
81 in Mexican money, and as the Mexican
dollar contains more silver than a United
States silver dollar, all that would be
necessary for the farmers to do in order to
realize 81 OF their wheat would be to store
the Mexican dollars away 10 their
~granaries in the place of their wheat until
Bryan is elected and free silver comes in
vogue. Then they can take the Mexican
dollars to the Government mints and have
them melted and recoined into Ameri
can dollars. The excess of silver in q
Mexican dollar over that of an American
dollar, of course, in a large number,
would amount to considerable and would
be enough to coin several additional
dollars.
The grain buyers urged the farmers
who had wheat to sell not to wait fol
money to become plenty by reason of free
silver, but to accept their out-and-o
%merchantile proposition and abide the
time when they could have all their
Mexic an silver coined into American
silver. At last accounts none of the
Michigan farmers had accepted the offer.
The Mexican dollar is an object lesson
that is conclusive every time. 1t shows
just what the Bryan Popocrats mean by
free silver.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
A Pumice Stone Barrier.

A floating barrier of pumice stone 10
miles long, over 1000 yards wide and
Is feet deep, closing a seaport to all
vessels as effectually as a boom could
do, is not the sort of thing one is likely
to forget, and yet that was II of the
results of the Krakatoa eruption, the
port being Telok Retcung, in Sunda
straits. Formed in few hours, it would
almost seem TO be the supreme effort of
nature i'll the pumice making line were
it not that such immense quantities are
found at the bottom of the sea-a queer
place for pumice stone. But pumice,
when produced, is really heavy. 1t is
only the air cavities in it that make it
light, and as it floats it becomes water
pumice we use in Europe comes from
the Lipari islands, north of Sicily, ''the
home of Vulcan" whence Vulcano as
the name of one of them, and u ''vol-
cano'' as descriptive of the natural fea-
ture of which it is the type. Here are
the pumice quarries-at Monte Chirica
and its craters Monte Pelata and Forgia
Vecchia-where over l, 900 men are at
work i'll the narrow tunnels and CALLER
les, lighted by clay lamps of antique
form. The whole hillside is perforated
with groups of these tunnels, which
number between 200 and 800 and are so
narrow that the men can hardly pass
each other i'll them. And just as coal is
found in beds a~lternated with sandstone
and shale, so the pumice is in layers be-
tween harder lavas and ashes. Leisure
Hour.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28

The State election of Maine occurs on
Sept. 18th, aud will be chiefly interesting
because the Vice. Presidential Candidate
of the Democratic party is from thai
State, and also because of the mixed
candition of politics 10 the Pine Tree
State. They held their State Convention
before the Chicago gathering, adopted a
gold platform, and nominated a ticket Of
gold men. The Maine delegation al
Chicago refused to vote, along with New
York and the other gold States. Since
that time the free silver Democrats, undel
Sswall's lead, have pulled off" the gold
candidate for Governor and substituted
a free silverite. What the outcome viii
b, no one can pretend to guess. In 1892
the Republicans carried the State by 10.
900 plurality, and in 1892 they had nearly
80, 900 plurality. Tom Reed is making
some telling speeches to the Yankees, and
there will be no free silver walk over up
there.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
NEWS AT THE COUNTY-SEAT.
SALEM. Aug. 81. 1896.

The base ball season is at an end and
the Salem team comes out of the contest
with the League pennant flying from its
belt. The three teams were pretty we'll
matched but Salem developed a little
the best skill and managed to gain the lead
and hold it. Most of the games played
were sharp and exciting contests. 10 the
earlier part of the season the games were
pretty we'll ~patronized, but the interest
rather waned toward the last, and Bridge
ton and Millville did not afford paying
grand stands. AS a result the Bridgeton
and Melville clubs quit somewhat out of
pocket, but the Salem management had
good backing, and they quit with a clean
score.
With base ball, the dog days, excur-
sions and several other things out of the
way, politics will now get ready for an
inning. 1t will soon be time to call the
county conventions, and then the boys
will begin to line up. At present the
Republican aspirants are having a walk
Per.
The canning factories are Dot making
much stir yet, and the pack will be q
comparatively light one in this city.
The public schools of this city will
open on Monday, Sept. 18th. The
children are already counting the days.
Congressman Fl. G.. Loudenslager and
ex Congressman George Hires we're
guests this week on the new cruiser
Brooklyn on her trial trip off the New
England coast.
Rev. ]. Ward Gamble left on Monday
f)r his summer outing. During his
absence union services will be continued
by the two M. E. Churches, in charge Of
Rev. j. R. Thompson, who has retarned
from the Malaga camp meeting.
Casper W. Thompson was violently
| thrown from his wagon on Saturday last
by the sudden start of his horse, while
he was standing in the back part OF the
wagon. He was badly bruised by the
fall and the shock was very severe, but
no bones were broken. DR.. Bilderback
attended the case.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
Murdered by Burglars.
TWO COLORED MEN sTRANGLE TO DEATH
A BURLINGTON MERCHANT.

w MEN TO A
A BURLINGTON MERCHANT.
John T. Henke was murdered on
Saturday night by burglars, who cboked
him to death by means Of a piece Of rope.
Two colored men are suspected of the
crime, and the police are on their track.
Henke, who is 30 years old, was the
proprietor of a general merchandise store,
back of which he lived alone. Soon
after closing his store Saturday night
two oolored men were seen to go to the
side door and knock. Henke came to the
door and asked what they wanted. They
said tobacco, and he admitted them. The
three were seen in the store a few min
utes later.
Shortly before IL O'Clock Mrs. Murphy,
a neighbor, heard a noise as if there was
a scuf1s. She thought some one had
fallen down stairs, and raised her room
window just in time to see two men pull
their hats down over their eyes and
stealthily move away. She thought they
We're colored.
On Sunday morning several customers
for tobacco went to the store, and on
finding it closed began an investigation.
They found the side door unlocked, and
OROhAbb Abs O0lICu iOk Mr. n6uk6. n6aI-
ing no response they went to the room
back of the store, and found Henke lying
on the floor, fece down, with a piece OF
cloth thrown over his head and hands
and feet tied.
When the cloth was removed it was
seen that some one had looped a rope
over the storekeeper's head, and, then,
with a stick, had wound up the slack
until he died of strangulation Blood
had run out of the nostrils and mouth,
and the face was black.
There was every evider CO that the muir
der was most deliberate and cold blooded.
Tit two men had evidently bounced upon
Henke, and overpoweripg him, tied his
hands and feet. They then wrapped the
rope around bis neck, and in his defence
less condition they had no dificu in
committing the murder.
Further information showed that the
dead mans pockets had been riff ID ard
all the money and his few pieces of
jewelry had been stolen.
Coroner Fisher arrived, aud after an
investigation, started officers in pursuit
OF the two eolored suspects, The men
were seen or the streets at an early hour
in the morning, and later made application
for trolley tickets for Mount Holly. but
finding no train left for an hour started
toward ~Bordentowp.
John Henke, the victim, has been doing
business in Burlington for the past fopr
years, having come from New Castle,
DEL, where he has q wife and son living .
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
NOTES N

No free trade in this campaign. It's
all free silver.
What Mckinley means is: Take care of
the mills, and the MINIS will take care of
themselves.
The enemy has not been very greatly
alarmed by the excursion of candidate
Bryan among them.
Henry M. Teller, Colorado's free silver
IDOL, seems to be a man without a Job
even in this stirring campaign.
Senator Hill continues to be a Demo-
crat, with no desire to fall outside the
breastworks when the final snuff comes.
The corn crop of Kansas this year is
reckoned at more than 200, 900 bushels.
and the farmers would be glad to get a
dollar a bushel for it even In 53.cent
dollars.
Explorer Nansen almost found the
North Pole, and Lieutenant Peary is try
ing another excursion in that direction.
The Pole is about the coolest place around
the way it cuts acquaintance.
The sound money Democrats are trying
to flock by themselves, and the result is a
new %party-the J~effersonian. Political
parties are becoming SO numerous that it
is quite puzzling to keep up with them
all. All shades of political opinion can
be accommodated this fall.
If any Democrat wants a third tick ct,
why, let him have it. But really what
need is there of another ticket when the
one all-controlling issue is squarely
Joined in the two tickets already nomi-
mated? Are you for an honest dollar and
an honest country? You have Mckinley
to vote for. Are you for reputation and
a cheap and dishonest dollar? Then Bryan
is your man. There is a ticket for each
side already in the field, and there cannot
ba three sides to that question Sun.
Major McKinley's remark to the
farmers, "You don't get
through the mint, you get "them through
the factories" was more than an epigram.
1t was the statement of a profound truth
which must come home to every man
when he thinks that his wealth comes from
the work he does in the world and the
market he is able to find for the fruits of
his labor, and not from the amount of
money in existence. All the money
coined will not do him any good unless he
has something to give for it and unless
other men can use what he has to give
Tribune.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
Rich Discoveries of Gold

AT Cripple Creek, Colo, and elsewhere,
are being made daily, and the production for
1896 will be the largest ever known, esti
mated at Two Hundred Million Dollars
Cripple Creek alone is producing over One
Million Dollars a month, and steadily increas
ing. Mining Stocks are advancing in price
more rapidly than any other Stocks, and many
pay dividends of IS to so per cent. They
offer the best opportunity to make a large
profit on a small investment.
]. | TALLMAN & CO., As Broadway.
New York, are financial agents for the Pru
Dental Gold Mining Co., and others in the
famous Cripple Creek district. They will send
you free. interesting particulars OF the Mining
Companies they represent also their book on
speculation in Stocks, Grain and Cotton, con.
tanning many new and important features.
Send for these books at once il you are
interested in any form Of speculationtor
investments. They may prove profitable o
you.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
The New Jersey Farmer.
HOW HE is LIKELY TO ooK AT THE FREE
SILVER CRAZE,
Newark "Adyertiserr lRep.l

Newark advertiser" (Rep.)
AS the free silver propaganda is alleged
to be in the interest of the farmers, it is
interesting to inquire what sections of
this State would be most largely affected
by free silver sentiments, supposing that
New Jersey agriculturists should be as
susceptible to the c%aptivation of the
Bryanites as the West and South have
appeared to be.
The largest area in farms is Burlington
County, which has 314, 972 acres divided
into 1914 farms. The largest number of
farms is 3109 in Hunterdon, which has
a farming area of 252, 4s2 acres. The
highest value of farms and farm buildings
is in Monmouth, namely, SIT, O04. ITO.
Monmouth has 1873, 943 farming acres,
divided into $3.50 farms. Burlington leads
with 1881, $50 in the value of live stock,
only the counties of Hunterdon,
Monmouth, Morris, Salem, Somerset and
Sussex exceeding the million figure.
Burlington again exceeds all other
counties 10 the annual value of the pro-
duct, namely. So. 61S, $50. Gloucester,
Hunterdon and Monmouth exceed the
two million figure, and Bergen and Cam
den, Cumberland, Mercer, Middlesex,
Morris. Salem, Somerset, Sussex and
Warren exceed the million.
The smallest farm area is in Hudson,
which has 1885 cultivated acres, divided
into 1874 farms. The next smallest is
Uuion, with 25. $40 acres and 491 farms.
Cape May has Al, 066 acres and 500 firms.
Ocean has 81, $50 acres and 6S7 farms
Essex has only 90. 900 cultivated acres,
divided into 500 farms. Cape May is
lowest of all the counties in the value of
of its farms and farm implements and
machinery, as we'll as of products, and
Hudson is far below all the counties in
the value of live stock.
The total farming area of the State is
comprised in 2 ,662 900 acres, divided into
80, 1928 farms. OF this area ten counties
have 1858. ITO acres and 20. 1856 farms.
These are Burlington, Cumberland,
Gloucester, Hunterdon, Monmouth,
Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Middlesex and
Warren. In these counties, having about
two thirds of the farms of the State, there
is a total population of 470. 910. out of
1.672. 942 in the State, or about one-fourth
of the whole population. 10 the Guoer.
Material election last year eight of these
counties gave an aggregate Republican
majority of 5000, aud two counties,
Hunterdon and Warren, gave an aggregate
maj ority of 1887. These figures may help
the voter in making estimates of the proba-
ole vote of New Jersey in the November
election.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
Portraits and pictures"

If one can give the portrait and make
a picture at the same time, so much the
better, but if the portrait be given with
frankness and sincerity, if the model be
rendered with knowledge and truth, the
result will be a picture-a work of art
whether the painter so designs it OF
not. Holbein and Velasquez told the
exact truth about their %sitters, and their
simpler portraits are today their better
pictures, Lawrence and his followers in
devoting themselves to stunning" eff
fects not only compromised the likeness,
but made the picture bizarre by en-
phasis i'll the wrong place. The tale has
been more than twice told in the history
of art. A simple truth is always better
than an ornate falsehood. -Scribner's.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28

The strange doings Of the ickle god
dess of success and the mutations OF
trade were never more forcibly illustrated
than in the failure of Hilton, Hughes u
Co., of New York, the successors of the
merchant prince, a. T. Stewart, who
bailt up a colossal business. the largest
in the world, and made the name of A.
T. Stewart famous throughout the CON-
mercial world. Mr.. Stewart did a bust
ness of $50, 600, 600 a year, and made a
fortune of $50, 900, 900, the greater part
of which he left to Judge Hilton to
continue the business. The firms
liabilities are said to be 81, 900, 0OO,
witt, assets 81, 500, 900. Impossibility to
make collections and realize on securities
are given as the cause Of the failure.
The firm has been shaky for some time,
and the failure had little effect in trade
circles. A prominent business man, in
speaking of the causes for the failure,
said that ''besides the changed condi-
tiops of the trade, I believe there was
another cause for the failure of the bust
ness. I believe the downfall OF the firm
dates from the time the Hebrews were
excluded from Judge Hilton's hotel in
Saratoga. You may remember how
much offence that gave to the Jewish
| race. and 1 understand that since that
time Hilton, Hughes & Co. have not only
lost many Jewish customers, but have
| actually been unable at times to buy
| advantageously from Jewish firms"
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
Raw Bones

Wnen properly treated are without
doubt the most desirable source known from
which to derive AMMONIA and AVAILABLE
PHOSPHoRIC ACID; and when scientifically
compounded with high grade chemicals they
furnish the most successful complete man
ures obtainable.
Baugh's Raw Bone Manures contain the
very life and essence Of animal bones.
They are the OLDEST of all brands Of
Animal Bone Fertilizers manufa ctured in
the United States.
They were introduced by US in 1855,
over 40 years ago, and ever since then
they have been accorded a constantly
growing patronage.
The combined capacity Of our works at
present is about $4,000 tons per annum.
A completely appointed laboratory is
located on the premises, and our own chem
lists analyze the crude materials received
into, and all manufactured fertilizers
shipped from Baugh's Delaware River Chem
zeal Works, situated at the foot of Morris
TO Moore Streets, Philadelphia.
We do not think there exists the wide
world over any brand of Animal Bone Fer
tilizers, enjoying such a long uninter-
rupted honorable record as Baugh's Raw
Bone Manures.
BAUGH & SONS COMPANY,
20 South Delaware Avenue,
ofg Rar p saeu nsaufs,, PHILADELPHIA.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
HUM MING BIRDS.
1t Is a Mistake to Think They Cannot Re
Tanned.

AhcJ SdnhOC BE
Tanned.
1t is popularity supposed that hum
ming birds are too delicate to endure
captivity, but this is a mistake, as I
personally know, says a writer in the
New York Home Journal, and can give
account of several that have been tanned.
Living specimens of these tiny members
of the feathered tribe were owned by a
friend OF mine awhile since and exhib-
tied III the window Of the late proprietor
of Taylor's saloon, Broadway, New
York. In fact, instances are numerous
in which they have been kept for
months, and even for a year, incaged,
IN England as well as in this country,
and | believe that a large collection has
for some time existed in the Geological
gardens, Regents park, London. A
young lady of New York has for some
time amused herself with these delicate
creatures as pets. They build their nests
in the lace curtains and have raised
little families i'll the parlor. There are
plants for them to fly about in, and ev-
cry day the florist sends a basket of
flowers for them to extract honey from.
They are like little rainbows flying
about the room, and they light on the
head of their dainty mistress with per-
feet freedom.
The humming birds shown in Broad
way were caught by a German, who
succeeded in tanning them very easily.
They subsist, when Gagged, upon honey
| or sugar and water. He had them placed
in little crystal cages, with pretty spray
| perches and punches of glass flowers, in
whose cups their food was placed. After
being Gagged two months they became SO
tame that they readily learned to thrust
their long, slender, ~threadlike tongues
between the lips of their keeper for the
sweets on which they subsisted. In their
natural state they also feed UPON the
minute insects which infest flowers, and
no doubt, if this sort of food We're sup
piled to them, together with honey, by
these who held them in confinement,
they might be kept alive for as long a
| time as some of the more hardy pets of
the aviary.
The birds at Taylor's attracted a
crowd of people from morning till night,
who seemed to never grow weary of
watching them. They were evidently at
that time a 'new sensation" to the
habitues of Broadway. Nor is this to
be wondered at, for, what with the
flashing iridescence of their plumage,
changing with every motion, from en-
erald to ruby and gold, their marvellous
delicacy of form, their extreme rapidity
of flight. now lowering over the honey
laden calyx, now darting from spray tC
spray or perching upon "a twig, coquet-
tishly pluming themselves with their
long, slender beaks, they are really OBJ
jects of grace and beauty, worthy the
| admiration of every beholder,
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28

The sound money Democrats Gas they
are now termed, to distinguish them from
the adherents of the Chicago platform) OF
New Jersey held their State Convention
&C Trenton on Wednesday, and adopted a
platform, which declares for an unyary-
ing maintenance of the present gold
standard, and opposed to the free coinage
of silver, and generally condemnatory of
the Chicago platform. Delegates were
elected to the indianapolis Convention to
nominate Presidential candidates, T.. w.
Acton, of Salem. being one of the dele
gates from the First District. This looks
as if the Salem county Democratic organi-
cation was to be found on the side of
sound money.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28

President Cleveland's first Minister to
Great Britain, Hon. E. J. Phelps Of Ver-
mont, has come out openly for Mckinley
and Hobart. He says "This IS my pat.
riotic duty, and should be the duty of all
loyal and patriotic citizens to support the
sound money candidates in this cam
paign. You may quote me as saying that
10 this campaign l am first, last, and
always in favor of Mckinley and Hobart,
and shall do everything to futher their
election. l am utterly opposed to every
thing that tends to reputation and
anarchy"
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28

Ex-Presidsnt Harrison made a valuable
contribution to the present campaign of
education in a speech at Carnegie Hall,
New York, last night. There was a vast
audience present, and as one of the audi
tors exclaimed, during a momentary
pause of the speaker, "We are all here"
and they remained until the final word.
No extract can do the speech justice;
it should be read by every one who is
honestly seeking light on the great CUES
tions of the day.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
Prices in Mexico.

The Silver orators will steer clear Of
Mexico.
In that republic a laboriDg man earns
in the deprecated currency from rs cents
to 81 .25 q day. II he is a farm laborer,
according to the Mexican Minister, the
most he can earn is 25 cents a day.
And yet how much does the Mexican
laborer haye to pay his ~storekeeper for
articles in general household use ?
Here are a few comparisons !: Breakfast
bacon, 80 cents a pound, against III in
the United States; ham, 50 cents. against
III in the United States; cheese. 30 cents,
against 1873; coffee, 40 cents, against 20
cents; -four, $3.50 a sack of 100 pounds,
against SO % a sack . home, and 80 on
throughout the whole list.
Not much in this to encourage the
American workingman TO vote for free
silver
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

The intense itching and smarting incl
dent to eczema, letter, salt-rheum, and other
diseases ofthe skin is instantly allayed by
applying Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Oia6aent, Many very bad cases have been
permanently cured by it. 1t is equally
efficient for itching piles and a ~favorite rem
sdg. for sore nipples; ehapped hands, chill
kaaiHs, frost bites, and chronic sore eyes.
For sale by druggists at rs cents per box.
Try DR.. Gady's Condition Powders, they
are Just what q horse needs when in bad condi-
ton. Tonic, blood purifier and yermifnge.