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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-18

iernhardt says she docs not recognize
Guilbcr; when in France. Good heavens
tiammerstein. what nre Won giving na.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-18

IT Is Haid that pr. Max Nordaus yoico
so closely resembles Gladstone's that %
Is impossible 10 distinguish between chem
unless you hear what they are saying
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-03-05

aesg but Estes heart was troubled.
for the kind old man who had done her
such service announced his determine
ton to leave them.
81 cannot tell you, my dear" he said
on his farewell visit to the schoolroom.
show much appreciate what you are
doing for my niece's family. Now I
want You to feel that you have per-
manent friend in me-"
''For which, sir, 7 am indeed CRATE
full"
snow If an emergency happens, If
your path is a little too full of thorns, 1
wantayou to promise to write to me
Marcus Woodgrove, Buffalo. The ad-
dress will not be difficult to remember. :"
''Oh, shall never forget you"
81 wish my dear wife were near at
hand to offer you her counsel. Well,
who knows? Perhaps some day you
may come on a visit with the children.
So now, good-by. God bless you, my
dear"
And he was gone.
If Elsie Whitford had heard him
chant her praises in his home in Buff
falo, she would have blushed crimson
with honest pride. According to him
there never was SO pretty. so charming,
SO sensible a young woman as his
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-03-05
FREE SILVER.

Friends of the White Metal Should Be ON
Referring to the consolidation of sew
eral silver organizations for the pur-
pose of advancing the cause of silver
and the establishment of headquarters
in Chicago, the Salt Lake Herald had
this to say:
''The organization is looked upon as
substantially effected, since the action
of the representatives has only to be
ratified by the several separate assoc
Citations before going into effect, and
that the action of the representatives
will be ratified scarcely admits of
question. It will be the purpose of the
united organization to press the CAM
paign of education on behalf of bimet-
a1lism with the utmost vigor in all
parts of the country. We are glad to
see this consolidation of the silver
forces. It is time that the friends of
silver were not only uniting their
forces, but also increasing their activi-
ty if in the next presidential campaign
silver is to be made living issue. The
forces of the single gold standard doc
trine are very potent, the agents of
that cause very active, and if the be-
levers in bimetallism accomplish any
thing for the free and unlimited COIN
age of silver as well as gold it will not
be by disultory effort. but by more
perfect organization and persistent
off0rf -
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-03-05
GOLD EXPORTS.

Even with Large Shipments to Europe tho
Geld Production Has Met the Export De-
mands.
It is believed that the exports of
gold during 1s93-'94 and '95 were larger
actually. and probably larger rela-
lively to production, than during any
like period for many years. II, there
fore, the export demand, during that
period of general encouragement, has
been more than met by the production,
is it not fair to presume that the excess
of production was greater when the
export demand was relatively small?
And if so, what has become of the gold
except that it has sunk away into all
sorts of private boards? If it has not
been exported, it has certainly not
been destroyed, and must remain,
somehow, in the hands of the people.
Can we never outgrow the habit of
looking to Great Britain for financial
law, gospel and practice? Can we
never come to realizing sense" as
the parsons phrase it of another mat
ter, of the pregnant and momentous
truth that the United States has with
in its ownership more nearly self-sus-
tanning power. independent of all the
rest of humanity, than any other ma
ton on earth? And when we do ''re-
alize'' it, shall not we have the courage
to act on it? Must we, nationally,
sink into that most fatal weakness OF
many individuals, the habit of allow.
ing others to do our thinking?-Boston
Traveller.
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AVOID THE BREAKERS.

The Dangers of Gold M0nome tallism-Sll.
yer and Gold as Primary Money.
During the recent debate in the sem
ate on the silver bond bill, Mr. Bacon,
the new senator from Georgia, made
his first speech in that body. The sem
ator declared that the irresistible con-
hict over the restoration of silver,
which had been waged for 20 years,
must speedily be settled, and compared
gold morometallism with the true BIZ
metallism, viz, silver and gold as pri-
mary money. The evidences were
abundant that gold alone was not suf-
ficient for all redemption purposes.
The United States continued paying
gold only by continual borrowing at .
ruinous cost. OF the seven great pow
ers, only Great Britain and Germany
had sufficient gold to maintain gold
payments
At the present time the United States
stood begging the world for gold, ale
though the richest nation on the globe.
I'VE are rapidly becoming the vassals
of England" said Mr.. Bacon. Bonds
are being issued for the sole purpose
of maintaing the single gold standard. %
The people should know that these
vast bond issues were the price of
maintaining the single gold standard.
Mr.. Bacon expressed his belief that
there was no law warranting the issue
of bonds, and said If there was it
should be repealed.
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niece's new governess. Mrs. Woodgrove
declared that she was getting quite
jealous of this gay Lothario of hus-
band of hers, and that divorce court
was looming up very largely in the
near future.
''Aye, Grey!" the old man chuckled,
"if you could only win such girl for a
wife you'd be the luckiest dog in the
union. Tell you what, I'd good mind
to invite her down here. It would be
all up with you. man, if once you saw
her"
Frank" suggested Mrs. Woodgrove,
sis engaged already"
I'm sorry for it, for I'm more than
half in earnest
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dressed, but who bore an air of author
ity that babe Elsie hope for an ally,
who would be able and willing to de-
fend her.
My dear Marion" the elderly man
said decisively, you may thank your
fortune that your old uncle did come in
at this minute, for you were about to
lose an opportunity which might not
occur again in your lifetime. If you
have any regard for me you will not
hesitate to secure this young ladys
valuable services"
II am sure" pouted the lady, 81
would 60 anything to oblige you, but
the present extraordinary conduct"
Nay, no butts; let me have my own
way in this matter. Since poor Clar-
ence's death your children have run
riot. You are. like hundreds of other
American mammas, spelling them, my
dear. Why, if they were angels instead
of little bits of human clay, you -"
''Oh. Uncle Marcus, how can you go
on SO? I'm sure l would do anything
to promote the happiness of the little
darlings,' Mrs. Grindlay sobbed.
''Of course you would" he continued
soothingly. $50 well make a begin
ming by securing the friendship and
help of this young lady-is it a bar
gain?'
And thus Elsie gained little triumph
over the illfortune that had logged her
footste2S- Her position, while full of
small crosses. was aneliorated by the
continued supporter the old gentleman
who had SO OPPORTUNITY offered her
protection. The children, quick. to APP
preclate the new state of affairs, ac-
corded their young teacher first sullen
obedience, then willing respect, and at
last, won by the evenness of her tenn
per, aad gentle, affectionate DISPOSE
ton, loved her with all the artlor of
their young natures.
Long before Uncle Marcus. visit came
to an end Mrs Grindlay had begun tosee
what treasure she had in her COVER
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A "NATURAL STANDARD"
VIII Some One Tell Where Such q Law
Written?

VIII Some One Tell Where Such Law Is
Senator Gray, of Delaware. says that
gold is the natural standard of the
world" and that this standard cannot
DE changed by legislative within or fat
We should be glad to have Senator
Gray cite Us the page and volume of
the book of nature wherein it is so
written. We have heard a great many
vague references to this natural law
that makes gold the standard, but
whenever we have undertaken to look
it up our researches have ended with a
human statute. We find that while
our gold standard friends profess a
very profound contempt for the efficacy
of human laws, their gold standard is
propped with legal enactmeats on
every side and they are constantly
clamoring for more law. Senator
Gray himself is to-day trying to put
more statutory props under a monetary
system which he believes to be firmly
founded on the immoyable rock Of
natural law. While INDUCING in all
this meaningless splutter about na-
ture'' and the futility of statutes, Sem
ator Gray is all the time haunted by 2
fear that his Rock Of Ages may be
shivered by some within OF legislation
He knows that gold Is the standard Ne
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cause congress made it the standard
He knows that congress could entirely
strip it of its function If it chose. He
knows that the same is true OF other
countries He knows, for instance,
that gold was standard money in
Germany until about 1850 or little
after; that then silver became the
standard and so remained until 1873,
and then gold became the sole stand
ard; and he knows that in each and
every case the change from one stand
ard to another was in instant obedi-
ence to the fiat of government He
never wearies Of saying that with the
free coinage of silver all the gold
would leave the country. and the
reason he alleges is that the people ii
left to make their own choice between
the two metals would take silver as
the cheaper with which to pay their
debts and make their exchanges; that
all the monetary demand of all the
people and all the commerce of the
country would be withdrawn from
gold and concentrated upon silver. and
that all this would be accomplished by
the mere fat of law! Yet he sneers at
the idea that a mere law that can SO
immensely increase the demand for
one metal and decrease the demand
for the other can have any effect on
the value of either! And this sort of
doctrine passes for sound reason and
common sense among the advocates of
the gold acknowledgements Com
mercial Appeal.
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prrH AND POINT.

Passenger ION the vcstibule III
tied Porter, does this train stop =
DinkeyvilIe2 e. PortSr.sNo, sab; Nh
doans even hesitate dar, sal. Harper'l
Baxar.
Still Time.-Bobby-'T had three
fights to day, and / didn't get licked
once Bingo (reaching for q strap
-Well, my SON. the day is not yet over.
Puck.
-McSwilligen-"Are you and Misa
Iromewood acquainted?" Squildig
'Not yet. I have been introduced r.
her only five or six times 50 far. Pitts
burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Lady at the Door, believe In my
heart you are the same tramp gave =
large piece Of pie to . few days ago!
Tramp-'No, ma'am, you are mistaken.
Hes dead. Statesman
Providing for the Future. Pitcher.
what made you move back to that little
town." 81 want to die where my obit.
unry notice win have . chance for . REL
spectacle show" Chicago Record.
Katie, why haven't you warmed
my study better? The thermometer
shows only IS degreesi" "But, profes.
sor, for so small room it seems to mo
So degrees are enough" - Fliegende
Blaetter.
"A Bargain.-"Why," he demanded
petulantly, do you talk when talk =
Of no use to you?' because" she am
swered, with the confidence in the com1
mand of logical sequence that has made
her sex justly celebrated. "talk II
cheap."-Detroit Tribune.
Mrs. Matchmaker-sI wonder you
do not make up to Miss Singleton. She's
a splendid girl, q bargain for any man
who gets her." Tom Allen-'tDid you
ever notice that bargain is almost all
ways disappointing when you get ID
home ?"-Boston Transcript.
What you want" said the prac.
teal man who had gone to China as .
missionary, els civilization" sHow do
you propose to give it to us?" inquired
man who had served against the jap
anese. "Well," was the thoughtful Re-
ply, prayer books are the most LAST
ing. But gunboats are great deal
quicker. Star.
AupoTtdnt An1oTmdtiOn.-W u6S u
the cause of this illumination 2" asked
q travelling Englishman OF the waiter
at hotel in q German town. Her
royal highness the grand duchess has
just become the mother of grand
ducal infant" "Is that SO 2" responded
the Englishman, taking out his note1
book; ssI must make note of that. Sos
In Germany whenever the city is illum-
mated the grand duchess becomes the
mother of grand ducal infant
Texas Siftings.
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sour FROM NATURES cALpRon

bpxanS Twelve Hundred Feet Deep Which
Tastes Like Chicken Broth.
The free soup houses might have
oeen dispensed with during the hard
times if the people of Nevada had only
put up barrels of the chicken soup
that bubbles from the foothills of the
Sierra Nevadas in Ell<o county, Neva-
da, and had dispatched it to the poor
i'll cur great cities.
Incredible as it may seem, it is never
tiieless fact soup is natural prod
uct; and have often satisfied my hun
ger from this boiling hot spring,
which. judging by the palate, is simply
natures hot soup tureen.
The pool, scarcely 100 yards in diam
eter, lies just off the stage road among
the foothills of the Sierra Nevada
mountains. The traveller comes upon
it just after crossing the toll bridge
over the Humboldt river, which rushes
like cataract through the Humboldt
valley far below, making Chicken
Soup spring seem rather insignificant,
but in reality this wonderful little
body of water has been sounded to the
depth of 1000 feet, while the turbulent
son.
Tie south side of the pool is deepest,
and seems to be the source from which
the peculiar solution flows, for the bub-
bling, boiling water on that side will
cook a goose egg in two minutes. 1t is
a common sight to see tourists wend-
ing their way with bags of crackers
and cups in their hands.
The neighboring roadbed is ballasted
OF one side by what appears to be
covering of hardened lime, but it is in
reality pure crushed lava of unmistak-
ably volcanic origin, for lying in close
proximity are evidences OF volcanic
eruptions.
The pool has been dragged many
times, but nothing has ever been taken
from its depths but cedar. Cedar trees
once abounded in this locality, and the
bark, which bears marks of consider
able age, was probably thrown in by
the Indians while building their RATS
ana canoes.
This wonderful freak, lying about
3h miles from the rough little mining
town of Elko, is never visited by the in
habitants unless they are passing that
way and feel hungry. The miners and
the rest of the matter-of-fact popula-
tion have long ceased to wonder at ma
lures partiality, and accept the exist
cnce of this boiling soup caldron as
convenient fact. Whether it is due to
the mineral properties of the soil or
to the close proximity of lava beds
or is itself volcano in a mild state Of
aqueous eruption I know not. But
there it is, and anyone who will come
TO Ellso can easily find the spring and
sample the soup to corroborate my
tatements.-Chicago Chronicle.
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NEBRASKA MOVING.

Friends of Silver In that State Preparing
for Active Work.
The friends of free silver in Ne
braska are moving on the works of the
enemy. The non-partisan free silver
executive committee of the State Silver
league, in an address to the people
urges the friends of bimetallism to en-
roll in one organization. so far as pos
sible, all of the believers in bimetal-
lism at sixteen to one. The address
says: ''This is not a new party, but
an association of the friends of free
silver. regardless of party utilization,
for the purpose of bringing the money
the state. Gold standard advocates
are already organized for the purpose
of propagating the gold standard idea
We cannot hope to make a sue
cessful resistance to them unless
there is some channel through which
literature upon the subject may be
conveyed directly to the voters, and
there is no reason why differences of
opinion upon other political issues
should prevent cooperation in educa-
tional work among those who believe
in the restoration of the gold and sill
yer coinage of the constitution The
address further says: 1.-THE election of
1896 may determine whether this ma
ton will return to the bimetallic prin-
ciple or place itself in the absolute con.
troll of the money changers Bimetal-
lism means a return of prosperity to
the producers of wealth. prosperity
which will reach and benefit all classes
of society; the gold standard means an
indefinite extension of the present
financial depression, with enforced
;dleness among the laboring classes
and gross injustice to all debtors"
An appeal is made for funds to pro-
vide free silver literature for the peo-
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Greatest Natural Gift.


The man who pretender to be stu
dent of human nature was discoursing
on natural gifts when the young man
interrupted him.
1.-THE greatest of all is the gift Of
clever fiattery," said the young man.
''Oh, no." replied the student. THAT
does very well in polite society. but ont
of it"
.'Out of il the gift is of even more
value. Half of the men who are really
successful in life owe their success to
their ability to fiatter cleverly and with
apparent sincerity"
Not at all. Dipomacy-"
That's flattery as general thing.
Nearly ell diplomats are fiatterers on
"a large SCALE"
"Ah, but in business"
I'm business the man who can fatter
has a great advantage ever the one who
cannot. F1attery very often securef
promotion and gets trade"
well, in politics you must admit"
s.The successful politician is the one
who knows how to fiatter the public.
II 1 had the gift of fiattery I'd be in
congress now."lChicago Post
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1he Coinage.

The monthly report of the director
of the mint shows the total coinage
during January to have been 81, $685.
$50, classified as follows: Gold, S12,-
GA, coo; silver. $4,000; minor coin,
s53, $780, Beginning February ! the
minis at Philadelphia, San Francisco
and New Orleans commenced the coin-
age of silver dollars at the rate of ST..
500, 600 per month. The Philadelphia
mint will coin 5000. 900 month. San
Francisco $500, 600 a month and New
Orleans sloo. 900. This is in accordance
with the late order of Secretary Car
lille for the coinage of 10000, 600 silver
dollars
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SOME WINTER FRUITS.

Tho Wonderful Virtues Of GrapeAl
Oranges and Pumelos.
She had just returned from q foredgm
grape cure, with bloom on her cheek
and a light in her eye worthy of Hcbes
'sIt is the esthetics of medical treat1
ment," she said. There il none of the
paraphernalia of battle for healthl
but sunshine, fresh air and grapes. Ono
can live on them from morning tin
night: at first could only eat a pound
day, but before long I progressed to
ten pounds and even beyond that1
Fancy it"
Although we cannot all visit foreign
cures, still at this time Of the year,
grapes are abundant and within tho
reach of most persons, who would uni
doubtedly find a pound day good econi
omy. We must let our imaginationa
furnish the surroundings Of the curc-i
the vines laden with purple clusters4
the pleasant hotel, the high, pure air.
and devote ourselves to the practical
details of eating all the grapes possible
Very few people are aware of the
medicinal qualities of grapes, but these
they possess. The pulp is nutritious
end the juice contains sugar, tannic
acid, bitartrate of potassium, tartrate
of calcium, common salt and sulphat9
of potassium.
Without doubt the woman who cul-
tivates the habit of eating a great deal
of fruit is the gamer in health and APP
pearance.
The grape fruit or shaddock, so-called
from it's discoverer, Lieut.. Shaddock,
or, to mention its soft Chinese name.
live in malarial localities. 1t is q charm@
ing rival to quinine and boneset, and In
driving them from the field. She who
eats her grape fruit with spoon from
the natural cup, or relishes it served az
a salad, may gladden. her heart with
the reflection that she is not only pleas
ing her palate but benefiting her health
Like oranges and lemons, the grape
fruit has great medicinal virtues. IL
you are of bilious temperament, eat
grape fruit, if fevers threaten, eat
grape fruit, but In this latter case do
so only at the advice Of a physician. a.
there may be certain tendencies which
the grape fruit would only aggravate.
The complaint is often made that this
fruit il extremely bitter and unpleas-
ant. It is only the white inner rind
which is SO, and this should always be
carefully removed.
To refer to "eating" cures, quite ono
of the prettiest salads have seen lately
was green pepper salad. The largs
peppers had been opened and the see<ts
removed, then Russian salad, com.
posed OF various vegetables, was heaped
within the shells and covered with q
delicious mayonnaise. These pretty
green boats lay on bed Of lettuce
leaves and about the btssr OF them aud
through the curled leaves shore vivid
f1ame-like nasturtium blossoms.
How very pretty and artistic!" axe
claimed.
1.-THE cook does not think so, |" replied
my hostess, with smile. Neither sho
nor I knew that the peppers must be-
cut or the seeds taken out under water.
consequently she burned her hands,
Chicago News.
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Pending q Thaw.

ats no trouble for one of my depth
to lay over mere hanger-on like you."
sneercd the snow on the roof to The
icicle at the caves.
..That's all right" responded the
icicle; 'just you wait till / get little
.bioeer and then watch me get the drop
ON somebodY."-Truth.
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HIDDEN AWAY IN RAT HOLES.

Some Strange Articles Purloined from
Householders by the Rodents.
All house demolishers, drain repair
ers and SO on know well that rats have
as keen an eye for bright objects of
metal and glass as ever raven, parrot or
any bird has, and they look out accord
ipgly when disturbing rats about dwell
lighthouses, said the sanitary inspec-
tor of one of the districts of London.
Take it as fact from me, after 40 years
ofexperience in routing rats from their
holes, that finds well worth considering
are often lighted upon, for not only are
coins, rings and other bright and yalu-
able objects dragged to their nests by
rats, but scraps of paper, designed
either for lining the nests Or for nib
bling at, are also acquired, and within
the last two years partly nibbled ten
pound note was taken out of a rats hole
in Great Ormond street, Holborn.
1t was the property of the basement
lodger of the house and had been missed
several months before, its disappear
ance causing not IA little trouble. L
could name two other cases of bank
notes within my own experience, but
I have often seen other very curious
scraps of paper found in the same way,
one of these only the other day, being
a part of a ticket-of-leave. But it is for
small articles of jewelry and coins that
the workmen always look, and 1 myself
have always had to do indirectly with
IA case where a workman found in rat
hole in an old house in Lambeth dia-
mond worth $3.50. This spade guinea
wear on my watch chain was found
in an old rat hole at New Cross, and it
must have been there for many years.
] am speaking of cases where the coin
could not possibly have rolled into the
hole-cases where the articles have
been carried through all sorts of devil
Gus turnings. In one hole there will
often be a variety of objects, as though
the owner had an eye for collecting,
and have seen in one nest child's
coral necklace, a three-penny piece,
some card counters of mother-of-pearl
end glass button.-Boston Traveller.