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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

What are we to understand by HON
esty' and .'good faith between men?"
That creditors are to be cheated out of
one-half of their property whenever the
! debtors control congress.
Why not benefit debtors still more by
repudiating all the claims Of creditors2
That will come later. The public MUS
be educated into silverism by degrees.
What is a creditor? A fiend in human
shape who loaned 100 cent-dollars and
doesn't want to be paid in dollars worth
| so cents.
How will free silver help the farm
ers? BY causing the withdrawal of all
loans, paralysis of industry, stagnation
| of commerce and idleness of millions of
workers who now buy farm products.
| How will the sixteen to one scheme
benefit the working classes? BY MAKE
ing them pay twice as much for every
thing they buy, while giving them little
or no increase in wages. 1t will also
confiscate half of their savings bank
| deposits.
What is silver mine owner? A good,
kind, unselfish citizen, who doesn't
want higher prices of silver so that he
will get rich, but simply because ne
| loves his fellow man.
Does his love for the workers lead
him to pay more than market rates for
his labor? Not much. Business and
sentiment are two different things. Re-
sides he doesn't have to.
What Is a sound currency? Dollars
with so cents worth of silver and 80
cents worth of fat or paper dollars all
| fat.
What is the chief duty of good citi-
zen? To hate everybody who is indus
trious and thrifty, and to meekly swal-
low all the nostrums of the cheap money
Office seekers.
How can the people be made prosper
Gus? BY setting class against class; dis
couraging the investment of capital;
contracting the currency by running
employers, driving out gold and over
throwing our sound financial system
| Whidden Graham.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21
THE SILvERITE CATECHlSM.
In which FREQ Coinage Theories Are
Plainly Stated.

| IAAlhty CtdsSu' n Z
What is money? Something made OUT
of nothing by government.
Is there any limit to the amount OF
money which government can MAKE!
Only the capacity of the printing
presses of the country.
What kind of money u the best1
That which has the least value.
What does "cheap money meahS
Money that will buy very little wealth.
Why are some people poor? Because
the money they get i'll exchange Tor
their products or their labor will buy
large amount of goods.
How can the poor all be made rich?
BY stamping SO cents worth OF silver
tone dollar and thus decreasing the
purchasing power of money.
What is a capitalist? Awicked sinner
who has worked hard and saved up a
little property. @
What is patriot? A man who covets
his neighbours property and Eants to
get hold of it by law. \
What does Reputation nIesal? It's
a simple scheme for readjustseg the in
CAPABILITIES between the men wha worked
and the men who have lot.
What is the golden rule of the silver.
ties? Do others as they would not do
YOU
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

IF So, You should Vote with Caution This
T. War

Col. Greene. president Of the Connec'
ticut Mutual Life Insurance company
has addressed letter to the 100000 pol
icy holders Of the company, in which ne
says:
1--WE never supposed it necessary TO
provide that you should pay your pre-
miums or that we should promise to
pay your policies in any particular klnd
or quality of dollars; both--with inc
exception of certain Canadian insur-
ances made during the civil war ana
while gold was at premium-are pay
able in ..lawful money" only on the
confident assumption that the American
peopl.. are sufficiently honest to keep its
dollars meaning what they were meant
to mean and always had meant.
But now comes a political party and
avows it's distinct purpose to make u
dollar mean three distinct and widely
different things: 1) A gold dollar
worth as bullion 100 cents anywhere III
the world; (2) silver dollar, worth as
bullion only SO cents at the present
time; (3l all the paper promises OF dol
lars to be hereafter issued by the gov
eminent only, redeemable in either 100
cen. gold dollars, So cent Tor less) silver
dollars or in new promises to pay, at
the option of the debtor or redeemer.
You do not need to be told that only one
least valuable of these dollars would re-
main in use The invariable experience
of all the ages fixes that fact before
hand.
SHOULD this party so led come to
power upon this platform, the govern
ment dues instead of being paid, as now,
in gold at 100 cents, or in paper, which It
now redeems with such gold and never
with silver, would be. paid in silver or
the paper redeemed in silver, which sill
yer we could use in trade at only it's
bullion value of SO cents on the dollar.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

the earth, Is ut the mercy Of lot ~
people who have a lot Of cheapenicg
metal to sell to us to use for new
standard and who have long been care
fully and at great expense organizing
this scheme politically by bringing INTO
one camp all the discomfort, the 7eai-
ousy, envy, end hatred which the IN
wise, unthrifty, improvident, idle ana
self-indulgent are supposed to harpor
toward the self-restrained, industrious,
careful, saving, thrifty and wisely
provident.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

A GERMAN in South Africa writing
to a friend tells the reason for the re-
cent Matabele uprising. Fifty per
cent of their cattle were seized on one
oc casion and 40 per cent. on another
all by the British South Africa Co.
Such disregard for the rights of others
would induce most people, black or
white, to revolt. The Matabeles have
right on their side, but might is on the
side of the British South Africa Co.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

NEMESIS in the case of Theodore
Durrant, who murdered two young
girls in San Francisco church, is de-
layed at present by the printing of
2,421 pages of the transcript on appeal.
If this work, in three ponderous vol
umes, fails, the able lawyers for the
defense have several other devices for
carrying the case over to the next
century.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

THE report that the Canadian author.
tiles, under a British survey, have
taken possession of strip of Alaskan
territory containing some of the rich.
est placer mines in that region seems
Incredible, yet it calls for prompt in.
vestigatiou by the American authori-
ties The story is told ly Capt. William
Moore, who says that the new survey
was made by party of English sur
veyors under Prof Ogilbee. and that,
acting Immediately on the strength OF
his report, the Canadian authorities
took possession of the territory and
SOLICITED mining tar from the miners.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

How FLEETING is fame! The body of
away Honolulu, where she died. AL
though in her last moments she re-
quested that letters be sent to certain
of her friends in the United States,
notifying them of her demise, not a
single answer has been received by
Consul Mills. The poor remains of
what was once Kate Field are as much
at the mercy of the world as those of
an unidentified tramp at the morgue.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

A NUMBER of wealthy bans in New
York city who have supported the
junta heretofore are getting tired of
the struggle, and would welcome an
honorable termination of the war.
These men expected moral support
from the United States government,
and the recent proclamation of Presi-
dent Cleveland seems to have cooled
their ardor.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

SEVENTEEN single tax advocates have
been arrested, fined and committed to
Jail in Dover. Del, on the technical
charge of obstructing the streets, but
in reality for advocacy of the'single tax
doctrine. 1t is reported that the clerk
of the county in which Dover is stu
ated is advertising for bids for the
services of these prisoners with those
of Others arrested for vagrancy and
various petty offenses.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

THE Italian press, recalling the
lynching of Italians at New Orleans,
in 1891, and referring to the lynching
in that city of three Italians recently,
urges the Italian government to call
the attention of European powers to
the strange position of foreigners in
America, and to promote the collective
action of the powers
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

The tendency toward slang is becom-
ing notable even in the fiction of the
day. In new story two of the char
acters are discussing boat race, and
one makes this remark: $50 he got it
that time where Katy wore the beads. ;"
How far must phrase go in literature
before it becomes standard?
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

SOMEONE has come forward to prove
that the bicycle is an aid to crime. 1t
enables the criminal to escape with
speed and leaves no track behind. This
is one of the disadvantages of the
progress of civilization. But for the
knife we would have no cutting af-
trays. and but for the revolver we
would not have as many shootings.
And as it takes thief to catch a thief,
so it takes an officer on bicycle to
catch the criminal wheelman. And
may be the machine will be more use
full to Justice than to crime.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

The sympathy of every man who has
q regard for freedom is on the side OF
Cuba. Neither bribery nor malice can
aid Spain in her attempt to crush its
struggle for home rule. Cuba may be
weak, but she finds consolation in the
recollection that thrice is he armed that
hath his quarrel just.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21
Gresham,s law.

When two kinds of coin are current
in the same nation Of like value by de-
nomination, hut not intrinsically- e..
in market salue-that which has the
least value will be current and the other
as much as possible be hoarder, melted
down and exported
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

PRESIDENT KRUGER has determined
that in the future the children of Uit-
landers, as the foreigners in the Trans
yaal are called, shall be allowed the
opportunity of studying their own Ian
guage in the public schools. Hitherto
Dutch has been the only tongue taught
Mt the pu bile expense.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21
frnIlation.

THE ocean steamer st. Louis, which
has Just cut down the record OF run
from Southampton three hours, was
turned out at an American shipyard
The world is compelled to admit, after
witnessing such a feat, that our ship
builders have no superiors, and per-
haps no equals.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

A p1soUIETING report comes from
Mexico that the British have selzeo
the Mexican island of Clarion, belong
ing to the state OF Colima, and that a
coaling station is to be established
there. The report, however, lacks con-
tinn
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21
BaCkedbyGOId

q We oy mi1 Pay $780, 90 in Gold tSs d r.
digestion not cured by the use of DR.. Caristedt.s
GERMAN LIVER SYRUP. Has cured others, will
cure you. Each bottle guaranteed. so cts. and
vi. 90 bottles. ey- For sale by all Druggists.
CARLSTEDT MEDICINE CO.. Evansville, Ind.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-21
HUMOROUS.

-She-"You know you would be just
as happy if you didn't kiss me-" He
But do you suppose am selfish enough
TO think only of myself -Rehoboth
Sunday Herald.
Yes" said on" theatrical manager.
that artists salary is $500 a week"
''Indeed!" replied the other. do you
mind telling me how much she gets 2"
Washington Star.
II wish those electric sleighs were
in use in Pittsburgh" remarked Miss
Point Breeze TO Miss Schenley Park
'Why?" Il understand they can be
guided by the feet alone" Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph
Say, Jack Perkins has asked me
to lend him ten dollars" well, do it.
AS personal favor to me let him have
it, Personal favor to YOU" Yes.
If you don't let him nave it, he will
come to me for it.''-Harper's Bazaar.
-Ragson Tatters-''Talk about hard
luck, if didn't get it proper!" Rolling
stone Nomoss-"What waz DATE" Rag
son Tatters->"Why, swiped damon
necklace, an alter all me trouble /
foun' it belonged to a actress. "-Phila-
deiphia Record.
Brother Jack (savagely) YOU'D
better drop that Tom Highly, Maud.
He's little better than a card-sharp."
Maud-"Why, Jack; how can you say
that?" Brother Jack I'VE played
poker six hours last night and quit
even."-Leslie's Weekly.
II remember" said Mrs. Wickwire,
inpressively, you once said that if you
had the world you would gladly lay
it at my feet" "Oh, did II" asked Mr.
Wickwire. YES, you did. And now
have to nag at you FIR three days to
get you to lay carpet. indianapolis
Journal.
-Invigorating Atmosphere. -"No,"
said the gentleman from Margate. Il
shouldn't like to brag about the invig-
Grating quality of the atmosphere down
our way, but l will simply mention that
teller in our town is making a good
living by COMPRISING it and sending
il up to London for bicycle-riders to
use in filing their tires. 1t has such
elastic and lively qualities that the
speed of the machine is increased from
&c to so per cent."-Tit-Bits.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-21
SCHOOL AND cHuRcn.

One million two hundred and eighty
dx thousand eight hundred and sixty
three persons visited the Atlanta expo
sition.
Indiana Baptists contributed last
year to all denominational purposes, as
reported in the Annual, an average OF
four dollars per capita.
Miss Gertrude Simmons, the Sioux
Indian girl who carried of the oratori-
cal honors at the Earlham (Ind.) col
lege the other day, was educated at a
Quaker school in Wabash, Ind. She was
born on the Sioux reservation near
Dcadwood, s. D., % years ago.
DIR. William Awdry, bishop-suf-
fragan of Southampton, England, has
accepted an appointment as Anglican
bishop of Japan, the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts having offered TO provide the sup
port.
The Greek government has issued
permits allowing the American school
OF archaeology to conduct excavations
at Corinth for historical and scientific
purposes. Worl. will commence as soon
hs the weather permits.
Miss Helen Culver, who recently
gave $1,000,00O to the University of Chi
cago, Inherited property vlriously es-
timated at from $1,000, 900 to SIC, 600, 900
from her cousin, Charles j. Hull, for
many years prominent in large real
estate transactions in the west, whose
confidential secretary she was. Miss
Culver possesses extraordinary BUSH
ness ability and is greatly interested i'll
works of charity and education.
-Corea has only enjoyed one decade
of Protestant missionary work, and yet
here are AZ regular congregations, be-
sides some 20 places where services are
held, 52S communicates and SGT cate
chunens.- There are nine Sabbath
schools with 455 scholars, who con-
tribute above 81 900. Six churches have
native pastors, and 202 communicates
were received during the past year.
Pagan persecution has broken down,
and recently the hermit kingdom senr
Christian man as its minister to Wash
ington.-United Presbyterian.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-21
After-Enects of grippe.

No one has, up to date, been able sat
isfactorily to diagnose the aftcr-effects
of this remark;i bic epidemic. An emf
nent authority, in commenting on it's
peculiarities, says that fresh air is the
best tonic ard restorer. Among the
more serious symptoms Of conya-
lescence is the extreme depression 70
which the patient is liable. In this state
suicidal tendency is often developed.
and hysteria is not uncommon. This
is specially noted in cases where there
has been a great deal of pain in the
head. Pleasant and absorbing oecupa-
ton is one of the best helps to recovery
Nourishing food, not too concentrated,
a reasonable amount of exercise, stop
ping far short of the point of weari-
ness, are also advantageous. -sbave all,
indulgence in depression should BE-
avoided, as this may develop into a
chronic melancholia, and end in a men
tai disease of a serious character. AS a
summary of treatment, take plenty OF
fresh air, simple tonics, nourishlng food
and laugh and enjoy everything that
comes in the way.-N. Y. Ledger.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-21

to help him up, when bis arm was cut
clean off at the shoulder by the negro.
\ splash in the water told the rest.
In the bow the defeDders had done
good work, but Capt. Drake was
stretched on the bits, covered with
blood. The last pirate had run out on
the jibboom and fired his pistol just as
a musket ball took his life, but he had
done his work, for poor Spain got his
bullet in the head and never spoke
after. They were beaten, and under a
parting volley the ruffians sprang to
their sweeps, and, with the loss of half
their crew, made for land.
Suddenly the mainsail gave flop. Nc
orders were needed. The topsail hall
yards were manned. up with the fly
ing jib, trim sheets, round in starboard
braces!" was the cry, and the little brig
began to surge through the water.
See! see! the schooner's making sail.
Up goes her gait and foresail. The
fights not over, men! She'll cut us to
pieces with her long Tom" Just then
came the sound of a heavy gun, and so
intent were the crew watching the pi-
rate vessel that they had not seen, half
on sail up to royals. She was a flyer,
too, and inside of five minutes swept
down on the brig, hailed and was told
what had occurred.
The pirate craft was intent only on
saving her men in the yawl, but it was
too late. The corvette ran her down
and at 100 yards gave the marauders
shower of grape that tore the boat and
crew into splinters. The schooner made
off, followed by the man-o'war, and
both disappeared in the southern board.
The second mate took command of
the brig. Her captain had broken
thigh and a shot through his body,
while the mate and four of the crew
lay dead. The breeze kept steady, and
on the 4th of January they came to an
Choir in Spanishtown harbor. Capt.
Drake lived to get well and quit the
sea. But before the Christ church
chimes rang for another Christmas
poor Emma Drake had followed her
lever to a better land.-Philadelphi
| Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-21
no, Make Good TO-

Tea should never touch metal. II
should be kept in paper, wood, glass o.
porcelain To make it, put a small
quantity in porcelain cup, fill the lat.
ter with boiling water, cover it with a
porcelain saucer and let it stand three
minutes. Then, if you desire to be an
epicure, drink only the upper layer OF
the golden liquid, throw the rest away.
rinse the cup and begin again. Never
use sugar. Do not use milk. It ruins
the favor of the tea, and the comhipa4
ticn Injuries the stomach. So the Chi
Dese say, and they ought to know their
own beverage. Above all things, do zaa
boil the tea.--N. 7. World.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-21
LACKED APPRECIATION.
A Man Who Didn't Know When He Was
Well On.

Man Who Didn't Know When He Was
Well on.
was sitting with the sheriff in front
Of the town courthouse when he sud-
denly stood up, shaded his eyes with
his hand and looked across the street.
and then called out:
'Heah, yo'! Is that yo', Jim?"
A colored man, about so years old,
who was slouchlng along the other side,
came across the street and replied:
Eyes, Mars Renfog, dis am me-"
"And what ar yo' doing hcah?"
''Ize jist walkin' out, sab. L dun
thought I'd drap down and see my
carter
How did you get out?''
''Jist made hole through the back
wall, sah."
''Look-a-heah, jim said the sheriff,
as he sat down ard picked up a stick
TO whittle on, Il amt g'wine to stand
this fussin' no mo-. This is nigh about
seven times you's broke out O. Jail"
Eyes, sab; nigh bout seben times,
sab, but don't be hard on me-
''You's got out b.! the doah, the win
dow, the floor, the ceiling and the walls,
aEd you's put me to trouble and the
county to expense Now yo' can't go
back thar no mol"
please, sah!"
''No, sab, 20 can't do it. I've given
yo' a fair show aid yo' can't expect no
mo-. Yo' can jest take yourself Off"
but, Mars Renfog, Pze dun bin put
liz jail Oh a hog case, an I'ze got to stay
dar till de cotehousc meets!" protested
the man.
81 know you We're arrested and eX-
a,nined and bound over, and all that,
but I'm tired of the fIIssing. I amt go
ing to stand by and let nobody damage
the jail. You's got out and come back,
and now / won't abide it no mo-! Jist
take yo'self right off and don't come
back to my Jail again unless you want
to be hard used. If I find yo' break;n'
in I'll shoot yo' shores yo'r bo'n!"
Won't yo' try me jist once mop
pleaded the prisoner.
mo, sab! I've draved the line and
now you's got to GO and take keer OF
yo'self. I'm tellin' yo' to scatter befo'
I make yo' turn in and stop up that last
hole in the wall!''
The man scattered" in discour-
aged, detected way, and as he was lost
to sight down the street the sheriff
growled:
'Durn teller VINO don't know when
hes being used like BON gentleman
Detroit Free Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-21

Here her good luck ended. A norther
set in, driving them 200 miles off their
course, and then head winds blew for
week, so that it was the last day In
the year before they came in sight of
the Cuban coast, and not over ten miles
off Cape ST. Antoine the wind failed and
there came one of those dead Gains pc
culiar to these attitudes; the sails hung
without a SILVER and the pennant was
as straight down as a yard of pump
water. But this was not the worst.
Capt. Drake knew that be was in the
track of the pirates and was practically
helpless to keep away from them, and
at this moment he was doubtless sig
nailed off shore to some of their yes
sells. Everything depended on keeping
stout heart.
His six 24-pound carronades were
loaded with grape and kentledge, the
arm chest was opened, cutlasses and pis-
tolls were served to the crew, muskets
were loaded and the cook filed his cop
pers with hot water, ready to repel
hcarders. All hands kept watch that
night, and in the morning Mate Spain
went aloft with a glass. He at once
hailed the deck. There is a topsat1
schooner lying behind that point of
land off the starboard quarter. I can't
make out any sail on her."
Cali right, come down. Well have
breakfast. There's trouble ahead. But
there are 30 of us, all good men, and we
ought to make a tidy fight for our lives"
A strict watch was kept at the mast
head, and at ten o'clock hail came:
There's a boat full of men putting off
shore. It is yawl with a tug. She's
coming fast under sweeps"
The ensign was seized union down to
attract some passing vessel, and all
waited and watched. There were not
less than 40 men in the yawl.
When it was within about 20 yards of
the brig the captain cried 'fre!" But
as usual two of the carronades missed
fire, the other scattered ten feet wide
of the boat, and next it swept under
the bow, the leader, white man,
springing into the chains, followed by
gang of mulattoes, negroes and Span
iards, all big men. Their captains head
just came above the bow, when he was
run through the neck by a pike and
dropped overheard, but his men man
aged to get on the bowsprit and some
aboard. Two of the pirates mounted
the channels and tumbled in to the
waist. The cook, negro giant weigh
ing 300, rushed at them with cutlass
beat down their guard and hewed them
down. A third had grasped the swifte1
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-21
A Remarkable Youth.

Have you any offspring?" inquired
the severe, long-haired passenger.
through his nose, of a stranger by his
side.
"Oh, yes, sir" was the polite reply.
"a son."
'Ah, indeed! Does he use tobacco o.
''Never touches it in any form"
I'm glad to hear that. Tobacco is
monstrousiy sinful. Does he indulge
in spiritnous liquors?"
''Never tasted drop in his life
Excellent. Stay out nights?"
mo, sir. Never thinks of going out
after supper"
I'm very much pleased to know this,
sir. Your son is a remarkable young
man."
''Oh, he's not a young man. He's 4
two-months' sold baby. bay City Chat.