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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-07-24
THE GOLD RESERVE.
It is Lower Than For Many
Months.

Washington, July 2o.-The
gold reserve was lower today
than for many months. Al
the close Of business the actual
amount was sS9,349,I78. Oh
the Withdrawals today $3.50,
900 was for export. Treasury
officials look upon this heavy
gold drain as entirely abnorm-
al and are confident it will not
continue, at least SO heavily.
They say there is nothing in
trade conditions to'warrant the
heavy withdrawals, SAYING that
although exchange is almost a
point above the shipping point
in normal times the conditions
are such. in their judgment, as
to make it uncertain whether
it can be profitable at present.
In the absence of Secretary
Carlisle, who will not return TO
the city from his iaunt down
the bay until tonight or tonor
row morning, no one can speak
autlloritatively respecting the
isobability of another issue of
bonds to replenish the reserve
in the near future, but the gen
eral trend OF opinion was that
such a thing was not to be ex-
pected. The rumor reached
the treasury late in he day
that the New York banks had
decided to come to the relief
of the department and pledge
themselves to maintain the re
serve to the 500, 100000 mark.
There was no official backing
to this report.
As to the other conditions,
the officials are satisfied with
the manner in which they have
gotten SO far through the
month OF July. This IS always
a irving month, the beginning
of the fiscal year letting loose
lot of appropriations for mis-
cellaneous objects. as for riv-
ers and harboss and pensions, |
The pensions on account of
the latter have amounted to
So,Szz,coo this month, while
the quarterly interest charges
on the 4 per cent bonds and
others have aggregated So
10000. The total eSpendit-
ures for the month have reach
ed S5LII8,ooo, which leaves
. ieliicf Of I2.o9i,2 o4; but this /
IS no more than was expected. /
slli's eneourag cement IS found
in the fact that the receipts
haze averaged well up in a !.
million dollars per diem, and
hat much Of this increase is
composed Of internal revenue
receipts. an indication that the
wllislsy ii bond has at last BEEN
AE1vE 9sifs
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-07-24
GEETAuER OPERA GLASS.

Opera Glasses are now used NOT
Only ior the concert hall, theatre
I opera house, as being portable
M easily carried in the pocket. but the
posse sor Of one will find it Il useful
companion at the seaside, river or coun.
try excursions and he race course. The
Above mas achroInatic lenses, leather
covered bodies, fitting in flexible leather
case; the latest. Sent registered by mail
Tree on receipt of $500; worth $1,000.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-07-24

EsSs, =. 2. Eess, OesGsCssos,sse, EGre.
wife e TIE editor Of The Grapaic, the lead
ing local paper Of Miami county. writes
sras troubled sUif7s Esoxft ..;ss51se
Tor six years, severe palpitstions, sGoIt-
ness II breath. together with such ex-
IRENE nervousness, that, 81 times woald
yak tho fccr nearly all night We
consulted the best medical talent.
T7scg sGsG there cCac $40 IeEp for 1,1e,
that had organic disease OF The heart Tor
which the-e was M remedy. I had read
your advertisement il The Graphic and
ayearago. rs lastresoTt. tried one bottleof
Ds-. zstses' Req CSsrc Y9s' ss:e KEe1i't,
which convinced me that there was true
merit IN IS. toat three bottles each of the
HearO Cure ind Restorative Nervine and
Il completely Cured ssle. z sleep
wei at night, ny heart beats regularly and
have no HoTe smothering spells. / wish
10 say 10 al wko are suffering as I did;
there's relief untold FOR them II they viii
only give your remedies just one trial"
Or. HiIes Heart Cure Is sold On a positive
Guaran0ee Ehat t.sa iirst bottle viii benefit.
ali druggists sell it . { =, bottles for 3. or
IL WI be sent prepaid, on recent OF price
by the Dr.. Niles Ecdic1l Co. Eli1hart, Ina.
Dr.. Niles Heart Cure
Restores Health
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-07-24
a Vile Opera Glass.

This Opera Glass Is suitable for
ladies' use having Mother-of- Pearl
covered bodies. and can be had either
in White. Oriental or Black Pearl. The
mountings are handsomely ffnisI Ell in
nickel plating and gilt. he whole.
hitting in a flexible leather case with
achrOmatic lenses forms useful rres-
eLt. Sent registered free by mail on
receipt OF S5.e0: worth $1,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02

The blessing in disguise often has a hard
time proving its identity.-Puck.
No young man has learned so far TO pail
a plow with his Observation-Disclosures. News.
Bryan does not talk through his hat, but
through his crown of thorns.-Syracuse
Standard.
It is better to have one hand on a post
office than both eyes on a foreign mission.
Texas Sitter.
If mourning is becoming to a widow she
wears 1t until engaged the next time.
-Atchison Globe.
''They say Barrows has writer's cramp."
well. / don't wonder. considering the
literature he feeds n.'-Harper's Bazaar.
A comparison OF the much-used political
adjective is: Positive. Altgeld: compare
tive. Populist superlative. Most.-Boston
Herald.
1t is not always the boy with the driest
the order not to go in
cuse Post.
Treat your neighbors' little hoys well.
Some day you may have a homely little
daughter to dispose of.-New Orleans
Picaylne.
People like occasionally to be told that
they look sick enough to be in bed II
makes them feel heroic because they stayed
up.-Atchison Globe.
It is a blessed arrangement that the
woman of the sunniest temper is generally
the one who has the most to try her.
Philadelphia Times.
It's all right to tell men and women that
they ought to aim high. but the mercury
ought to understand that its place is about
half way observation-disclosures Inquirer.
Hereafter when lovely woman is attacked
on account of her garrulousness she can
Joint to the man whose tongue was re-
moved by an operation. but who is. never
theless. able to taik.-Baltimore Herald.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02

bill to. rechartcs the United States Bank.
in 1915. Madison as a member of the First
Congress. had opposed the Incorporation
OF the Bank of the United States on con-
stitutional grounds, but his veto message
shows that II he had not changed his opin-
ion he had at least regarded the question
as settled in favor OF the constitutionality
of the bank. He spoke of the operations
of the bank with entire respect. and re-
ferred to il as an institution which might
supply at once q circulating medium and
.pecuniary aids 10 the government" Madi-
son took a much broader view of this
question that Jefferson did. The latter S
opposition TO the Bank of the Unfed States
was largely political. In July, 1903. he
wrote: Il am decidedly in favor of MAX
ing all the banks republican Oemocratic)
by sharing deposits among them in pro-
portion to the dispositions they show"
That was the kline OF an anti-bank man
Jefferson was.
When completed this series of volumes
will rank among the most interesting Of
government publications.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02
A PERIOD OF DISTURBANCE.

1t seems to be a season when the phys-
zeal and social forces nave broken away
from the established restrictions which are
called laws. Sections OF the country in
which the parched condition is natural and
a shower cause for rejoicing nave been
saturated with downpours of water. In
other sections. where we lave been told
by those who are se~lf-constituted clerks
Of such affairs that they nave not had
necessary quantity of moisture, by several
inches, each year, and that in this and
other States there would not be such nor
NAL and necessary rainfall until the terri
tory shall be given back to forests, inches
of water have fallen in a few minutes and
small rivers nave spread to inland seas.
Clcudbursts have been for the most part
located in the more arid sections of the
country. but this year they have visited
the whole country. and are reported in
Europe, coming so suddenly that the
weather observers nave not been able to
signal them by their warning flags. much
less officially foretell them.
The same abnormal manifestations are
notable in human affairs. Rarely nave ac-
cidents involving frightful loss of life been
so numerous. Railway collisions. mine hor-
rors, the murder of entire families by some
member and unusual crimes seem never to
have been SO numerous or SO shocking in
their details. II sometimes seems that the
disturbance in the forces OF nature has ex-
tended to human beings, resulting in reck-
lessness and a breaking away from normal
conditions. Such unusual gatherings as
those at Chicago and ST. Louis are polit-
ical cloudbursts-a concentration and
bursting of dangerous elements. In ordi-
nary times men would not act as wildly
and irrationally as did the controlling ele-
ment at Chicago. 1t is only in a season
glory in reputation and denounce that ex-
ercise of authority to maintain the public
safety which. as legislators in Congress,
they had two years earlier unanimously
commended. Such manifestations can only
be accounted for on the same ground that
tornadoes and ~cloudbursts are explained
some extended eommotion in the forces of
nature, apparently in defiance of the es-
tablished laws of nature and unexplaina-
bic by scientists.
1t would be charitable If the abnormal
conditions which seem just now to prevail
in human affairs could be attributed to the
same cause as cloudbursts and tornadoes,
but that task must be left to the scientist
and the philosopher. The one thing which
is sure is that the season of flood and de-
struction is of brief duration, and that
after these forces have spent themselves
a long season Of serenity follows. And it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02

Finding it necessary TO choose between
her husband and a ladies' social and liter
airy club, Mrs. Goetter, of Chicago, prompt
ly decided in favor Of the club, and the re-
suit is a suit for divorce from Mr.. Goetter.
Being desirous of diverting her mind from
family cares, Mrs. Goetter. ii seems, joined
the club in question. and no sooner had she
done so than her husband went TO the off,
GERS and asked them to expel her. This, of
course, the ladies, with loyal determine
ton to stand by an oppressed member Of
their sex, refused to do. Then Mr.. Goetter
became loud in his de%nunciation Of the
new woman" whom he defined as one
who joins clubs, and also said mean things
about the organization to which his wife
belonged. He would not permit her to talk
door this set of house rules and reguIa-
tons"
!. There must be no Whispering.
z secret society affairs must not be
talked about.
3. The new woman, has nothing to say
here. 1900
\. After 5 o'clock at night this house is
strictly private and IL Is time TO lock the
doors.
Then Mrs. Goetter openly rebelled, left
home and applied for a divorce. Mr.. Goet-
ter, apparently not at all sorry that he has
no longer got her, is still defiant and talks
rudely about club women. Members Of
women's club throughout the country will
look with interest at the outcome of this
divorce suit. sin &c it will. in a measure. de-
fine the metes inc bounds of their own-or
will it be their husbands ?-liberties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02

Drumtochtv) Free Church there now lies
u visitors book and a correspondent
finds that fifty had signed II. during the
month OF May from places SO far apart as
Belfast. Leeds. Edinburgh, AUSTRALIA cape
Colony and America.
A letter of S~outhey's just uneartheo mas
this reference to The Lay Of the Last
Minstrel: MY profits upon this poem
CMadoc) in the course of twelve months
amount precisely to G3 lis Id. In the same
time Walter Scott has sold 600 copies OF
his Lay and netted over El.oOo. But my
acorn will continue 10 grow when his tur-
key bean shall have withered.
Sir Walter Besant's The City OF Refuge
is 10 be published in the early autumn IL
deals with the supernatural 10 some ex-.
tent. and its chief incidents occur in a
community situated near the city OF Alder
manbury. N. Y. The heroine is said 10 De
n young girl OF great beauty. who is a
member of the community and who has the
power OF conversing with the dead.
William George Jordan. who has edited
Current Literature almost since Ii was es-
tablished. has resigned his position. and
will devote himself 10 the completion of
'Jordan's Guide 20 Poetry and Verse a
enterprise on which he has had
a corps of assistants 1T work for the past
eleven years. Over n5.0 600 slips have al
ready been written. and the purpose OF the
work will be to make IL possible 10 locate
every poem and prose selection IN over LOCO
anthologies published in England and
America. There is no book of just this
kind in existence. and IL viii be valuable
Tor purposes of reference.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02
THE NATION OF RACES.

The recent publication of views on the
European situation. which have been attrib-
uted to Bismarck. has caused the subject
of a struggle for international supremacy
in Europe TO be again discussed. For years
the European war cloud and the impend-
ing struggle which would recast the map
of Europe have afforded correspondents
topics for MANY columns Of matter. Hap
PLY, the war cloud has not burst over Eu-
rope. consequently these periodical predic-
tons of map reconstruction by bloody
wars do not greatly distress the world. The
recent publication of views on this subject
would not attract attention If they were
not attributed to Bismarck.
These views represent that the policy of
Great Britain is dictated by anxiety about
the result of the war which it is assumed
that England must fight out with Russia
and France. Great Britain. it is assumed,
is the natural antagonist of these powers,
because the former covets India and the
true that there is a powerful element in
every European nation hostile to Great
Britain. represented in Germany by Bis
marck. 1t does not seem probable that the
other nations could afford to remain pas
sive while Russia and France should at
tempt to humiliate Great Britain, since the
breaking of the power of the latter by the
former would make Russia and France the
dictators of the Eastern hemisphere. Ger
many. Austria and other powers could not
afford to see England Inundated by pow
ers which, after the setting back of Great
Britain. would dictate the policy which
Germany must pursue.
Out of this assumption that Russia and
France will try conclusions with Great
Britain has arisen the proposition to estab-
lish what its advocates are pleased to call
the union OF the Anslo-Saxon peoples for
mutual defense. In a recent article in tho
Atlantic. Professor Adams. of Yale. set
forth 1.-The drama of international politics.
whose stage is the world. and whose actors
are no longer nations. in the sense OF a
hundred years ago, but OF great races or
nations, n a worldwide position"
Filled with the conception of 'the Anglo
Saxon world" Professor Adams advocates
an alliance Of the United States and Great
Britain to maintain the supremacy Of what
these writer's are pleased to regard as the
Anglo-Saxon race.
So far as the proposition Of an Anglo
Saxon alliance has been noticed. it does
not meet with much favor in this country.
Commercial alliance is vastly more poten-
tial than the assumption that the Anglo
Saxon race Is an overwhelming element in
&h;. o,pfrx A ,,o%<ar 80 <o~s A. -.
valries between Great Britain n Russia
are those OF rather than the
mere holding OF territory. The United
States might be very useful as an ally Of
Great Britain when her Eastern possess
siops should be threatened by Russia. but
we could have no possible interest In the
matter. Commercially we might fare bet
ter with Russia than WITH Great Britain.
Blood may be thicker than water. but IL
may also be so mingled by the fusing OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02
FOODS.
Important Report on Preparation.
for InvaIids and Children.

for InvaIids and Children.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The report on prepared foods for invalids
and infants made by Special Agent T. y.
Moore, OF the Department OF Agriculture
of pennsylvania is valuable for the report
fessor of chemistry at the P%ittsburg Col
lege OF Pharmacy. Professor Aschman has
Analysed the eva porated creams. condensed
milks. liquid foods and peptonoids. and
sold in Pennsylvania, and his report should
be in the bands of every physician aho
prescribes these foods and every parent
who buys them at the grocery or drug
store and uses them without consulting a
physician. Professor Aschman says that
many Of the foods are seriously defective.
The so-called evapo. sted creams turred
out to be milk eSaporated 20 one-third
products were made of SKINNED milk. The
liquid foods and beef peptonoidS, he says,
are to be looked upon as condensed beef
teas and should be considered as stimu-
lants, rather than FOODS. requiring other
nourishment to be taken at the same tine
they are used.
In the foods for infants and invalids Pro-
fessor Aschman found a wide diversity in
their component parts. While some were
rich in.the important protein or heterogeneous
substances. and among these are several
OF the foods in most frequent use by ply
slcians. others are remarkably deficient in
carbohydrates were found 10 be nearly all
~insoluble. starch being present in large
quantities and the sample practically con-
sisting of very finely bolted wheat, oats, or
barley, a food which is Objectionable for
infants and gives rise to dfarrheas and
similar ailments. to say nothing of the i'm
possibility of the infant building UP bone,
muscle, and teeth out of these defective
foods. Many OF the foods are also lacking
in fat. the food principle which. after diges-
ton, furnishes the most potential energy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02
L

John Morley said recently that as a man
grew older there was no branch OF ltera-
ture which seemed calculated to give more
refreshment or exhilaration as the study or
Greek.
yerestchagin is about to publish a new
book called "A-utobiographies Of Unimpor-
tant People 1t is a series OF sketches
with realistic portraits Of beggars. soldiers.
priests and ether common Russian types
Alfred de Musset's sister refuses TO have
any of his works in her possession pub
,ished. as she says they will not add to his
fame as a poet. She likewise refuses to
let his letters be seen. among which is
the correspondence between the poet and
George Sand
The success of women as designers of
book covers is worthy of m The
Pocket Magazine thinks it is safe to say
that most of the recent beautiful book Gov
ers which have been made by the leading
nuhIishinC houses have been patterned
after the graceful and original drawings
made by women.
The Marquis of Lorne is said to be en-
gagged upon a historical survey OF Wind
.or Castle on a somewhat ambitious liter
airy scale, material which he collected when
writing a little guide book recently having
led him TO desire to pursue his researches
under the favorable conditions involved in
his Office as Governor
In 1865 four lads occupied the same room
on the ground floor of the first division of
cadet barracks at West Point Since then
they have made their names more or less
we'll known in current American literature
They are Capt. Charles King. Arthur Sner-
burne Hardy. John Brisben Walker and
Richard Henry Savage.
Mr.. George W. Nanderbilts library on
forestry. which. according 10 reports. had
been held by the custom house authorities
for duties to be paid. Is already at Bit
more. Mr.. Vanderbilt's secretary paid the
duty. under protest. and the appraisers
have decided that duty was rightly charged
en- twenty of the volumes
The scene OK Beside the Bonnie Briar
Bush has already become a literary
! shrine. In the vestry ct Logteaimond
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02
Rcmarkable Phenomenon.

About ten years ago-yes; just ten years
and seven days-I pulled a bass out of the
water that looked to weigh about a pound.
and the line broke at a distance of about a
foot from the hook" said the latest of the
liars.
And then about five years a~fterward."
the thin liar FASTENED TO interrupt, you
caught him again. with the hook and line
still in his mouth. and the fish had grown
to weigh ten pounds"
The fat liar looked panied at this ruth
less capture of his best story and an
swered. mo. sir, He weighed less than
two ounces. His vitality had all been con-
sumed by the line, which had grown to
twenty-eight feet. two and three-eighths
inches of clothesline."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02
SCIENTIFIC.

A new German lamp chimney has the
bulb in the upper instead of the bottom
part, and the upper rim is cut obliquely.
II is claimed that thiss shape makes II safer
improved by being made taller and
steadier.
One American beetle-zopherus melicanus
has been accidentally discovered to be
strong enough in its mandibles to cut
metal. Specimens of the insect received
from Brazil by Mr.. F. w. Devoe were tenn
porarily placed I'm a glass jar with a pew
ter top. and in less than forty-eiSht hours
had cut holes in the metal large enough TO
protrude their heads.
The chemist test for acids and alkalies
is now supplied In the form OF a pencil,
which is simply the ordinary wooden rod
with a core of chemically pure red and
blue litmus instead OF the usual graphite
core The Itmus pencil is said 10 be so
sensitive tina IL will detect one part OF
100. 600. whereas lii mus paper can only de-
tect oQe part In l.4e0.
In more than LOCO cases. it is stated.
surgeons have successfully used magnets
in drawing out snlinters of iron or steel
that ave entered the eyeball. In one case
a piece of iron about two-thirds OF an inch
long was removed. and in another case the
splinter remained in the eye severa. lays
before the operation. suppu-aton having
commenced, but the eye was saved
Ceal tar is recommended by a French re-
port as a substitute for oil as a vehicle for
colors in the cheaper kinds of painting.
The coal tar paints cover a surface one
fourth larger than the same weight OF oil
colors. dry very quickly and require no
vanishing. They may be applied on iresn
plaster. damp walls. cement, wood or
metal. and the carbolic acid they contain
gives them decided disinfecting QUALITIES.
A colossal statue of Saint Fedele just
erected on a tower in palazzolo. Italy. is
~twenty-three feet high. but weighs only
l.76o pounds. Had it been cast In bronze
its weight would have been at least nifty
TONS The work was modelled In clay. .