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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14

" That hideous and deafhfy
&~f&e-demon of sickness-constipa-
ton, is an easy enough thing to cure if
you take the right medicine. Constipa.
don is one of the commonest things in the
world. It Is really one of the most seri-
Gus things. Fully nine-tenths of all the
ordinary sickness of mankind is due to
this one cause. If you place an obstruc-
ton in the gutter, it will stop the flow of
Gus, putrefying matter will accumulate.
That is exactly what happens in the
digestive organs when constipation be-
gins. Poisonous matter accuinulates and
is forced into the blood. 1t goes all over
the body and causes all sorts of symp-
toms. A few of these are dizziness, flatu-
lence, heartburn, palpitation, headaches.
loss of appetite, loss of sleep, foul breath,
distress after eating, biliousness and erup-
tons of the skin. These things are un-
pleasant, but they are not serious. The
serious things come afterward. Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are for the cure
coated granules, easy to take, mild and
efficient in their action. One is a gentle
laxative, two mild cathartic. There is
nothing else in the world like them.
There Is nothing that takes their place.
There is nothing Just as good" although
Icing and INSCRIPTIONS druggists may
sometimes tell you so for their own profit.
Do you want to lose your health so that
the druggist can get rich?
kSs The Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser, In plain En-.
&3Ha&N giish, or Medicine Siuipliied BY
nesIS R.V. Pierce, NJ D.. Chief Consult.
Z: I
Hhaas. E@sei Ing Physician to the Invalids' Ho.
ID 1$SH zTzrs tel and Surgical Institute Buffalo,
NEGw S N Y, 1908 pages. illustrated.
n $4,000 copies sold at $3.50. Now
sent, paper-bound, ABSOLUTELY
Hssard FREE on receipt Of al one-cent
MtTA stamps to pay for mailing orrs
Kks Address the Author, as above.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14
SKATING STORIES.
They Were Good Enough to Toll but
Their Truth Was Doubted.


Their Truth Was Doubted.
The group were talking about skating.
Il don't pretend to be much Of q skat-
en-" said tho man with his feet on the
mantelpiece. 1.-THE last time 1 INDUCED
in the pastime, though, had the good
luck to slip into an airhole."
You don't call that good buck, do
your" asked the man who'had been try
ing to break into the conversation and
tell story himself
"Well, under ordinary circumstances
wouldn't call it good luck" replied
the man with his feet ON tho mantel.
"but IN this instance iS led to my catch
ing the largest fish ever found in this
section of the country. 1t happened this
way: was skating around the airhole,
and at last ran plump into 1t. The low
er part of my body went under the ice,
but was able to hold myself up by the
arms At last man came to help me
out but one Of my skates seemed to
have become entangled In something
below the surface, and he had to call
for assistance Several persons respond
ed, and by their united efforts pulled
me and four pound rock bass through
the airhole. The jaws of the fish were
held apart by one Of my skate bladea 1
suppose, ~ he added by way of explana-
ton, THAT must have struck my foot
in his mouth when first went down"
1t was the unuttered consensus Of
opinion that the speaker was liar.
There was short pause, and the
man who had been waiting for chance
told of an adventure ON Lake Superior
He said that while skating there one
evening, far from shore, he was pur-
sued by monstrous gray wolf. 1.-THE
wolf chased me about considerably,
he said, but l wasn't afraid, because I
always was good skater and could
beat any wolf that was ever created
when it came to getting around ON the
ice. After had little fun with the
animal. making figure eights' and
things like that around him, thought
/ would put him to some use So made
dash around to his rear and caught
hold of his tail with one hand. I had O
shiny stick in the other and beat him
across the back with it Well, gentle
men, that beast was so shocked and sur
prised that he didn't know what to do.
he jumped around just like colt that
was being broken in held on tight,
though, and he finally came to the con-
clusion that he wanted to go home, and
lit out for shore.
Gentlemen, / know you will believe
me when say that that was the su-
preme moment of my life. There was
a-holding to the VOLTS tail with one
hand, beating him with the shinny stick
which l held in the other, and flying
over the CLASSY surface at the rate Of
about 40 miles an hour. AS we neared
the shore he slowed up some, and on
reaching the land lay down and died
from exhaustion.
have his hide at home now" con-
cluded the narrator, land you can see
it if you want to.
This seemed satisfactory proof of the
truth Of the tale. At least no one ques-
TONED it. and the meeting adjourned. -
Washington Star.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14

suchm o admiration all it'll whom
We arr notw waiting;
An Up-to-Date Printing Office.
of the COWS
effect, if he owned
clean, least by
comparison hardly of the for he
has learned Immediately
beginning and over it all
like houekeeper dutesbut not like
washing his face because it will get
again. printing establishment just
light and
And he vowha been
We Do Not Believe
is which sends such small
blank books Northern
fiendsa Roanoke 20
ism all o We little, as this
In Our PreSS-ROOm
be dmnutve and monster cylinder
thousands
largest best cutting
IL ouia ou IieL
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14
Stopped the Elopement.

An elopement in Texas hos been de-
clared off under exceptional conditions.
The father not only killed his daughter
and shot down the young man who
sought to take her away, but sat down
on box of dynamite and blew himself
to atoms. Under the circumstances
there was nothing left of the elopement,
and it was O very clean affair all
through. philadelphia Times
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14
GROWING THE CAR.
THE IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES IN THE
MOSCOW CATHEDRAL.

How tho New Car VIII BE Crowned-rhe
British ambassadors Daughter Describes
the Coronation OF tho Late Car Of
Russia.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14
p The War In Cuba.

Hostilities in Cuba must soon cease
on account of the rainy season, but
Weyler will doubtless be thoughtful
enough to devise system of rain checks
which will enable the spectators to re-
turn.--Chicago Times Herald.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14

What's the Use Of Waiting?

things but We have
waiting propose wait We KNOW our prices
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14
Pride and Prejudice.

I'D be ashamed to go around beg
ging, said the prosperous citizen.
"Pride's a funny thing, amt itP'
answered Mr.. Everett Wrest Here you
are. too proud to beg, and here 1 am,
too proud to work. Takes all sorts to
make world, guess. "-Indianapolis
Journal: ~
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14
Our National Game.

AS against the Greeks, along with
pther field pastimes America also ex-
GELS in the gold brick as game played
On the green. -Phiiadelph Times
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14

11I"7I1IIIo' '110 ''01'o e '1''
ener, and tableting appurtenances are on
this floor. The wonderful and powerful.
electric motor, which propels the machines
on all three floors, is also on this floor. Over
in one corner, hardly noticeable, is kept in
readiness, as a supplementary power, an
improved Gas Engine, to be attached at
momentary notice, in case of accident to the
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-14

are right, our work AL, and If you don't
bring us work we will come after 1t, in ono
way or another, either by bringing TO your
notice our prices, facilities and quality OF
execution, or personal interviews. We are
not grumbling; far from it. We've had our
share; we are still getting our share. But we
have placed at your disposal a modern, and
almost ideal, printing establishment, with
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01
52,712,2S0
2,4s3,5O6,6s1
1.S19,446,306
Cheap Dollars.
G64,OGO,375

Everything is cheap or dear according
to what we have to pay for 1t. sugar Is
cheap at cents a pound, but would be
dear at 10 cents.
A cheap dollar, therefore, is one that
the merchant buys with less goods than
he would have to give for de;Her dol
lar. If merchant now gives twenty
pounds of sugar for a dollar, and the dol
lar which he gets is 20O-cent dollar;
and if the 200.cent dollar is dishonest
dollar and ought to be replaced by 100
cent dollar, worth only half as much; in
that case, the merchant will give only
half as much sugar for the cheaper dol
lar as he now gives for the dishonest
2OO-cent dollar. That is clear, is it not ?
This is precisely what "cheap money"
means.
is this what the farmer and the work
ingman really want?
Apply this illustration to labor, if you
please. The workingman buys dollars
with labor. Does he want cheap col
lar. for which the merchant will give
only ten pounds of sugar? Or does he
want 2OO-cent dollar, for which the
merchant will give twenty pounds of
sugar? Cheap dollars would cut his
wages in half. He surely does not want
that.
"Oh, no." says the workingman, that
is not what want; but, if dollars were
cheap, / would get twice as many of
them for days work."
Would you, indeed? Not on your life.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to /, is simply scheme
to reduce your wages without your know
ing it or having an excuse for striking.
What good would it do you to get twice
as many dollars for days work if 81
would buy no more sugar, and no more
Of anything else, than ~ will now buy
Besides, if prices go up, under free
coinage, as they will-we admit that
does not the wOrkingman know that the
first thing to go up will be rents, the
next thing will be food and clothing, and
the last thing will be labor? Under free
coinage, instead of being better off, the
workingman would be worse off than he
is now.
Think this over, and see what it all
means to you and to your little family
Springfield Qll) Journal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01
A Pointer for Farmers.

I remember one instance that bears
particularly upon this question that came
to me today as l sat here, and that was
this: My father came from the New
England states upon this prairie in 1887.
He told me this instance once: That
after sowing a crop of wheat by hand,
cutting it with the cradle binding it with
the rake, and threshing it with the ball
upon the floor, he put it upon a wagon
and drove it to this city of Milwaukee,
ninety-six miles away, and sold it here
for 46 cents bushel. This was in the
sos. and silver then was $1.30 an ounce.
Now tell the silver men to explain to you
how it was that in the early sos wheat
was 46 cents bushel, and silver S1.30
an ounce. if the price of silver always
carries with it the price of wheat. And
when he hens and haws, say to him:
at is not only confined to wheat, but
that other modify you yoke up with
silver. Cotton. and tell him that for the
four years ending in 1915 cotton in the
CITY of New York averaged only cents
a mound: and that for the four years
ending in 1894 the same class averaged
cents a pound. Tell him to explain
that TO YOU. That was when we had
free coinage and silver was then $1.30
an ounce. He cannot explain it. That
one illustration, my friends, utterly de-
stroys the whole silver heresy.-Con-
eressman Fowler of New Jersey.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01

used to pay the expenses of the govern
ment." The tariff on some of the neces-
saries of life might be reduced, and the
deficit made up by an issue of money.
Or, if this is not deemed advisable, gov
eminent paper can be issued to pay for
special improvements; harbors can be
deepened and rivers improved in thisl
way" He introduced bill to issue.'
S70,0O0000 of United States treasury.
notes, with which to inaugurate the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal. He
further suggested that 1--WE can use any
available coin on hand TO take up ma
tured bonds and replace the coin so used
with paper money" He introduced an
other bill providing in this way for the
payment of the $25,000,00O outstanding
per cent bonds. He did not stop even
at that point, but gravely proposed that
government paper should be issued iD
the place of national bank notes, as they
are retired" His theory of the ultimate
redemption of government obligations,
as stated by himself, was that the larger
the issue of treasury notes, the smaller
will be the "coin" reserve required with
which to meet them. BY ''coin" he ex-
planned that he meant both gold and sill
yer, wilfully ignoring the disparity in In
trinsic value between the gold and silver
dollar.
And this is the fnancier and states
man for whom honest and sensible mem
are asked to cast their votes, next No
yember!
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01
what stewart Thought in 1904.

Senator Stewart of Nevada made a
sneecb in Congress February IL, 1874, in
which he said:
Ter everybody know what dollar is
vortb The farmers will then know how
70 measure the difference in price be-
tween his wheat in Illinois and the wheat
in Tiverpool. The wheat will be meas
nred by the same standard-gold-in
Illinois as il is in Liverpool and any man
can figure it up. But now it is mys-
tery. the whole subject of finance is a
We see those who devote their attention
70 il making large fortunes out of this
LET ms do as all the people of the world
have been doing from the beginning
measure our values by gold, adopt the
standard that all can understand, and
get rid of this mystery;
Mr.. Logan-What does the senator
want?
Mr.. Stewart want the standard gold,
and no paper money not redeemed in
GOLD no paper money the value of which
E not ascertained, no paper money that
will organize gold board to speculate
with it. Who pays Tor this gold board?
Who pays these immense fortunes? How
is il that millions and millions can be
rolled M annually there? Did anybody
ever calculate who paid for it? 1t
comes out of the producers. How do
these men exist? BY the latitude which
your deprecated currency gives to specu-
iation and nothing else.
Persons who are specializing in your
denreciated currency are making the
money. and they will continue to make
il SO long as you have deprecated cur
rency.
If the farmers would get rich they
have got to become skilled in this fiuctuat-
ing currency and make corners and man
innate the market, and if they do that
thew cannot farm.-(C congressional Rec
ord forty-third Congress, first session,
jyol. 2, p. 1922 .-- 49,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01
Bryan shown to be Uncertain.

There is abundant proof that Mr..
Bryan Is an insincere politician and sn
unreliable adviser of the people. He
was bolter in 1893 and in that years
too, he made speech in which he de-
clared that the exchangeable value of a.
dollar depended on something besides a.
congressional edict.
When Frank Irvine was running on
the Democratic tickc for judge of the
Supreme court of Nebraska Mr.. Bryan
supported Populist. In reply to let
ter from Mr.. Irvine, calling Mr.. Bryan's
attention to his unexpected position, the
present candidate for President on the
Democratic ticket wrote a statement of
his reasons for boiling which contained
the following cool remarks and assur-
ances of personal and peculiar esteem
for the Democratic candidate:
/ regret that our people chose for slaughter
so deserving q man. They ought to
have selected some one Of the numer-
Gus Democrats who are responsible
for the falling or Of the Democratic
vote. ! have spoken to you thus
frankly and coDidentially, because \
feel that you deserve better fate
than the one which fear awaits you
this fall.
Congress of 1893, called by President
Cleveland, Mr.. Bryan made a speech in
which he declared that:
While the government can say that given
weight of gold or silver shall consti-
tute dollar and invest that dollar
with legal tender qualities. Ii cannot
NIX the purchasing power or the dol
lar. That must depend upon the
law OF supply and demand.
IL the number OF dollars increases
more rapidly than the need of dol
lars-as II did after the gold discover
les Of 1S49-the exchangeable value Of
each dollar will fall and prices rise.
Thus it appears that Mr. Bryan knew
what the exchangeable value of n dol
lar depended on. His change of tune,
therefore, is not because conditions have
changed, but because he shifts his prin-
ciples with the varying political breezes,
and that he is willing to do anything for
In the spring of 1892 Bryan declared
in n speech made by him on the tariff
question that the fall of prices must be
attributed
a thousand times, In many instances,
the strength OF a single arm and
enabled us to do today, with one man
waat nf5y S en co WGat NOT 40 fy
prices down In this country and else
where.
At this time another change has come
over the spirit of his white house
dream. He and his fellow Popuiists
ascribe the fall in the prices of commod-
tiles 10 the fall in the price of silver.
Mr.. Bryan and his associates declare
that "the crime of 1873" which the
News has shown to have been no crime
at all, has pulled everything down with
it.
How can the people believe man
who thus stultifes himself and puts him.
self on both sides of vital questions.
while, at the same time, he proves un.
true to his party associates buffalo
News.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01

1t would evidently be impossible for
farmers fifty miles in the interior of any
of the states bordering on the Great
Lakes, TO compete with eggs shipped by
water from Canada.
The Mckinley tariff imposed a duty
of cents n dozen on eggs. This law
went into effect October 1, 1890. Dur
ing the year ending June 80 1890, we
imported nearly 100000 dozen eggs less
than in the year previous, when there
was no protection. The importation of
eggs steadily decreased until the repeal
of the Mckinley law in 1894, so that
insteoi of nearly 100000 dozen eggs
being brought into this country, as here
tofore, in 1901 we imported 5000. 900
dozen; 100000 in 1892; 100000
In 1922; 100000 in 1894. BY 1894
nearly S2,000000 had been taken from
the foreign shipper, which now went into
the pockets of the American farmer.
The following table shows the importa
tons of eggs since 1888:
Annual importations Of foreign eggs, 1883
1895.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01
FARMERS EGG BASKET
The Mckinley Law Checked I'm
.portation and Gave q
Home Market.
EFFECT OF THE WILSON BILL.
The Canadian Farmer Has Prote
I, but the American Farmer
Has None.

There Is no reason why Canada, Next
co, China, or any other country should
supply the United States with a single
egg. Canada does not buy a single egg
from us, and there is no reason why we
should buy from her. When we do, the
American farmer loses the benefit of part
of his natural market.
The purpose of this article is to show
by few figures the benefit which the
American farmer derived from the Nc
Kinley law; not merely because the
law stopped imports from other countries,
but because under that law he received
an average of 10 cents a dozen for his
eggs all the year around. Under the
present Wilson German bill, he hardly
averages cents dozen; and the people
could better afford to pay 10 cents a
dozen in 1892, than they can cents a
dozen in 1896.
From 1888 to 1890, there was no tariff
upon eggs. The Canadian farmer could
send his eggs Across the line from Maine
70 California. Mexico China, France,
Germany and other countries supplied
us with 15,500,000 dozens of eggs, an
neaily, on the average. We paid every
year to the foreign farmer on this small
product alone, at Is cents q dozen, ST.
100000. This importation of over L.
OOO,OOO dozen a month or $4,000 dozen a
gay was felt, In the way of competition,
~ our farmers Chiefly in the large cities.
Farmers. cen ert the best prices for eggs
and thcir products in the large cities;
but Nnen New York, Philadelphia, Boz
ton, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Sab
francisco and many other markets are
supplied with eggs, shipped at cheap
rates of transportation by water, how
can The farmer expect Ia compete who
has to ship his eggs by rail?
The following statement shows impor-
tatiops of eggs, by countries. the year be-
fore the Mckinley tariff went into effect
for the year ending June 30, 1889:
Importatlons OF eggs by countries, July1,
1883, TO June 80 1889
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01

viduals. A man who has repudiated his
debts is never trusted again and is re-
garded with contempt by all his neigh
bors. And so is a nation.
A free-coinage law is reputation. and
that ii is understood in that sense is in
dicated by such letters as the above.
For if under free coinage the silver dol.
lar is to appreciate to the value of gold
dollar how will the farmer get more of
them for his thousand bushels of wheat!
How can he pay his debt any easier than
he can now?
No, it is reputation the silver men
want, and reputation is dishonor.-Chi-
cage Times-Herald.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01
BRYAN a Greenbacker.

Mr.. Bryan is not so much a silyerite
as he is a greenbacker. He said, on the
floor of the House of Representatives in
washington, June 5. 1894:
"The issue of money by the govern
ment directly to the people gives us a
safer currency ,(than national bank, bills)
and saves to the people as whole the
profit arising from its issue. When a
bank issues money, you must pay the
market rate of interest to get it; but
when the government issues money, the
people save the interest, if the money is
afterward called in; and they save the
principal also, If the money is kept in cir
culation."
He asserted that greenbacks "can be
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01
A Question for Farmers.

II the volume of silver money controls
prices, as the free coiners would have
us believe that it does, SO that the more
silver coin there IS in circulation, the
higher is the price of wheat, and the
less silver coin there is in circulation,
the lower the price of wheat; then will
some farmer. who believes in the free
coinage of silver at 16 to /, answer the
question::
How did it happen that wheat was
lower in price in 1894 than ever before,
while the amount Of coined silver in the
world was greater than ever before!-
Illinois State journal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01
The Irishman and the Potato Bug,

Mr.. Tenney's story at Madison of the
freshman who swallowed u potato bug
and then dose. of Paris green, in the
hone of killing the bug, is very pat to
the political situation. The American
workingman swallowed free trade in
1892, and now, to cure the misery which
he has suffered ever since, the Populist
quack doctor Is trying to induce him TO
swallow an unlimited dose of free silver.
But IL the workingman takes il, he will
find, when it is too late, that the cure 10
worse than the disease.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01
Question. Why Should Democrats Legis-
late in favor of the Canadian as against
the American Farmer?

The American farmer could not sell
eggs In Canada, even If they had no
tariff on American eggs. There are only
few large cities there, and they are
near to the Canadian cheap farms. The
half-a-dozen small markets in Canada
have total population only one-quarter
as large as that of the city of New York.
A few election districts in the city of
New York, or in Philadelphia, or in
Chicago, afford better market for
American eggs than the whole of Cam
ada. Yet Canada imposes n duty of 8
cents dozen on our eggs, while we inn
pose duty of only cents dozen on
her eggs.
The Canadians have protection, but
under the Wilson bill we have not.