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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-28
Church Notices.

Under this heading will be found the
subjects and texts OF the pastors of the
various churches of Reynoldsville for
the following Sunday.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-28
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.

Rev. j. w. Crawford, pastor. Morn
service at 11.00 o'clock will be Sabbath
school service, in which the junior and
senior divisions of the school will rem
der the singing, assisted by the church
choir. An address will be delivered,
entitled, "The Nine Great Wants of
God for Everyone" A special collec-
tion will be taken for church library.
Evening: "The Four Certainties." !"
Prov. 4: 26.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-28

Wagon castor oil l6c. pint at Stokes,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-28

Come and feast your
eyes and take in the de-
lightful features of our
new spread of toilet
articles.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11

Our consul at Rheims sends the de-
partment of state a clipping from a
leading newspaper of that city giving
a statement of an occurrence in an En-
glish London police court. A driver was
arrested for cruelty to some horses in
his charge. On the trial his owner ap-
peared for his man and, in answer to
the query of the justice as to where
the horses, shown to be decrepit and
manned, were going he replied that
they were being shipped to Rotterdam.
To the further inquiry of the court as
to the use they were there put to, he
said, Sin the most unconcerned man
ner," that at that place and Antwerp,
there were large factories where these
horses were slaughtered and their meat
canned. Labels were affixed represent
ing the contents to be excellent Amer
lean beef, and they were retailed
throughout Europe. 1t would seem as
if European authorities would better
look after the beam in their own eyes
before legislating against the mote in
ours.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
FARCE OF REFORM.
Taxpayer Agrees That 1t May Well
Bear Watching.

To the Editor of the Globe.
Your timely article in G 0 b e of yester-
day, under the caption, "Will Bear Watch
ing" affords me motive and text for this
letter.
The spectacular show ION the boards" at
the court house and city hall, under the aus
is too contemplate for federation. Mr..
Commissioner OF Public Works fenced
in the Office of the board OF pub
lie works surreptitiously captured in
guarded much Of the time by two, and all
of the time, day and night, by one stalwart
works running in the adjoining court room,
full fiedged; altogether affording an object
lesson in reform politics that might well ex-
cite the envy of Tammany. Now, why all
under which the city fathers are moving,
like brood of chickens under mother hen,
reveals several interesting points, for in
stance:
For years the common council ordered by
simple resolution the building of sidewalks,
the grading Of streets ad ibitum. The
devised to "call a halt" and in 1891 the city
charter was amended so that no jurisdiction
vested in the city government to even order
the aforesaid improvements" unless upon
petition of at least one-third of the abutting
owners" and then only after reference to the
board of public works, and a favorable
report from that department as to the neces-
sity and propriety thereof. Since the adop
ton of the amendment named, no
streets have been graded, no sidewalks lex
cept where sidewalks previously existed) have
been laid, as I am informed by an attache
of the city hall. Again, l find return to the
old corrupting revolving fund.-" which out
worn and useless device has been reinstated.
Again, "sewer fund.-" created by taxation,
both devices to deplete the treasury, and sad
die upon the general fund the cost of i'm
provements that ought never to be made
unless paid for by the property specially
benfted. Here is reform with a big "R.'
Evidently the slow-going extravagance-re-
stricting Bell charter must 60" in the opin-
ion of the well-meaning but misled voters
who put this new deal. misnamed reform ad-
ministration into power.
Mr.. Editor, I am not accustomed to vilify
the authorities; I desire rather to uphold
and defend them. / take an old citizens
pride in all that pertains to our beautiful
town. st. Paul will soon be on "dress pa
rade" before, 1 trust admiring thousands.
If my structures induce thoughtful spirit,
disposition to keep in wel-beaten paths,
am content. Publish or not, you deem
wisest the reflections of "A Taxpayer.
st. Paul. Aug. 10.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
MAKING SACRED THINGS COMMON.

To the Editor Of the Globe.
Will you please answer through the col
umns of the D al ly Gl be If it is true
Gently held at st. Louis some of the dele
gates carried around through the hall crowns
of thorns and crosses Of gold, and ridiculed
religion in other ways?
William Anderson.
Hendrum, Minn., Aug, s, 1885,
It is stated in the news reports of
the Populist convention at st. Louis,
and Is true. that at the final scene
when Bryan was nominated huge
yellow wooden cross with crown
painted on top of it was brought into
the hall and carried around in the
midst of overwhelming demonstrations
of noise and disorder. 1t is further
true that this reference to the perora-
ton Of Mr.. Bryan's speech at Chicago
has been made common use Of for cam
paign purposes, and we are told that
such emblems have been employed in
that way at other places. We do not
think 1t would be fair to charge Pop
ulists, on this account, with intentional
disrespect to religion or a deliberate
have, we believe, any idea of the sort.
What they do intend is to use the deep
religious feeling that c1ings to the
sacred symbols and illusions to help
their political ends. 1t is impossible
for an ordinary man in a Christian
country to regard the mere emblem of
the cross without a certain feeling of
reverence. 1t has been left for the
Bryanites, however, to attempt for the
first time to turn this to political
purposes.
The reference in Mr.. Bryan's speech
was not original either with the man
or with the occasion. Practically the
SAFE words were used by him in a
previous speech, and still earlier than
that had been employed in a speech of
Congressman Mccall, from which Mr.
Bryan obtained the idea that they
were valuable for rhetorical effect
AS applied by him to the money issue,
they are absolutely meaningless; since.
If there could be such a thing as plac-
ing crown Of thorns upon the brow
of labor, it would certainly consist in
decreasing the purchasing power of
wages without a corresponding in
crease in wages themselves, which is
a necessary consequence of free sill
yer. However, both the depicting of
crosses and crowns for campaign pur-
poses, and such use of them as has
been made in the prevailing oratory
of the time, must be deprecated by
sober people as a real. even when not
an Intentional making light of sacred
things 1t is not permitted to use the
flag e< the United States for advertfs-
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
THEY CAN TEACH HIM

Mr.. Bryan will be formally notified
of his nomination tomorrow. He has
very fifty gone down to the neighbor-
hood Of Wall street to receive it.
He will find large number
Of gentlemen down upon that
much berated street who have
been doing, in a private and semi-pub-
lie way, for years, just what he pro-
poses the United States shall do by
legislation, making money There
should be a row of Wall street men on
the platform in Madison Square when
Mr.. Bryan tells, in his acceptance, how
he is going to have the country's law
makers take fifty, cents and make a
dollar out of it. We doubt not that
numbers of the goldbugs from the
street could give him points on that.
They should be able to, for 1t Is their
life work, and they bring it to a train
ing and an experience that Mr.. Bryan
never had.
There are, for instance, the gentle
men of the Diamond Match trust, who
have put in dime and made it a dol
lar Then there is that coterie Of gen.
tlemen who take insolvent steam and
street railway properties and reorgan-
lie them and make their cents of actual
value into good rouhd dollars. Again,
there is the magnate. of the street rail-
way, who gets his roadbeds graded
and paved for him land takes a dollar
of actual capital and makes ten or
twenty of it. There are lots and lots
of such within rifle shot of Madison
Square. They are ia all the industrials;
tobacco, steel, rails, billets, glass, coal
oil, biscuits. matches, leather, rubber.
cotton and lfnseed oil. Among them
Mr.. Bryan is simple tenderfoot from
the prairies, with his little scheme of
taking fifty cents worth of silver and
making a doIlarF out Of it. One can
imagine the chdckles of suppressed
mirth as they listen to his plan. The
man who shipped Goals to Newcastle
was not as fresh as is the orator of the
Platte in Madison Square retailing his
plan for making money. Ten thous-
and men there can show him easier,
safer. quicker ways of doing more than
that They can see his plan and go it
many points better. Most any Of them
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
MICHIGAN STORM SWEPT.
Heavy Damage Done at a Number of
Places

DETROIT. Aug 1O-A heavy electrical
storm swept over Michigan early this morn
ing. Many buildings were struck by light
nlng, and several were destroyed by FIRE
lasted an hour. Many windows were blown
IN, smokestacks. fences and trees Ieyeled
ana wire communication badly demoralized.
AT Lansing and other Central Michigan
points, the storm was terrific but the dam
age not great. The loss was greatest in the
saginaw valley region, many large and small
aged. o'oA iso ualn-
SAGINAW, Mich, Aug. 10-Lightning and
a wlad bordering on the proprtions of a tor
naoo' did terribly destructive work in this
Jenerson Avenue Methodist Episcopal church
was struck by lightning, and damage to Sc. .0O0
was uone. Fifty other buildings and fac
torles les were unroofed and badly wrecked Hum
areds OF trees were blown down, wires pros
trated ana street traffic suspended. The dam
age will reach 500, 900. No uS'in
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11

day few Eastern Democrats understood
the full scope of the work the sound
money leaders had in mind. Many
were opposed to another ticket on the
ground that 1t would divide the sound
money vote in the East. They were
not aware that it would cause a greater
division in the Democratic vote in the
middle Western states, where the bat
Tie is to be won or lost.
The statements from IndianapoIis
were a revelation to most New York
Democrats. They had been looking
entirely at the effect a third ticket
might have in this state. Some feared
the result here might be too close TO
make a further division of the sound
money strength advisable The state
ment in the Indianapolis conference
that third ticket would make it prac-
tically impossible for Bryan to carry
any of the states in the middle West
considered doubtful carried conviction
to them.
If the sound money men can keen
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Kentucky, Missouri Iowa and
other nearby states from going for
Bryan" they argued, "the third ticket
idea is not only wise, but the best
kind of politics"
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
THOSE PLAIN PEOPLE.

Mr.. Bryan continues to ring the
changes on the one form of speech,
which, as we stated some time ago,
he evidently intends to make the key
note Of his campaign. He talks every
where, in his flight across the country,
about tthe plain people, the "toiling
masses" and assumes in general every
where that it is ''the people" whose
cause he, in particular, represents. This
is a specious mode Of campaigning, but
we have an idea that Mr.. Bryan will
find that the voters are not to be fooled
make his cause a cause of 1.-the peo-
ple?" Who are ''the people" anyway?
Who, If not "all of us?" There are not,
or, at least, there ought not to be. any
classes in this republic of ours. The
people are the men who furnish brains
and the men who furnish capital and
the men who furnish labor-all of them.
He who asserts or assumes that a blow
can be struck at the interest of one
of them without affecting injuriously
that of the others, is ignorant Of the
first laws that govern the association
of individuals in communities and in
industry. The people-the plain peo-
ple-of this country are all those who
labor honestly for a living, no matter
In what sphere or with what tools their
work is done. That which most con-
duces to the we'll being of these people
is stability and certainty of condition.
Whatever a time of revolution may be
politically, it is industrially a time Of
destruction and of loss.
Now. all that we can see that Mr..
Bryan proposes to do for "the people"
is to let loose upon them financial
revolution. The course of the markets
and the condition Of industry already
show that this is utterly disastrous to
the well-being of the employed. After
we had got little way into it and
found ourselves dealing with a dollar
that may be one thing today and an
other tomorrow and another on each
succeeding day, we should find out
what terrible brake upon progress is
this fuctuating unit of value. More
than that, 'the people would learn
what they can know now if they will
look at the course of prices of commod-
tiles and wages Of labor in the period
between 1860 and 1866, or at any other
time in the history of any country in
the world when prices went up, owing
to a debasement of the currency. They
will find that the price of everything
rose enormously more rapidly than the
wages of labor. The difference is the
cost Of such an experiment to every
man who labors, whether in the factory
or in the field or in the counting room;
that is, to all "the people" of this coun-
try It is a common attitude of schem-
ing politicians to assume that they and
they only are 'the peoples" cham
pions. Judged in the light of the issue
that he represents, we find no man less
qualified to. wear that title than he
who would bring upon the toiling mil
lions the multiplied and manifold cal
antilles that await them under free
ooina
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

To the Editor Of the Globe.
Please answer the following questions in the
next issue of the G | o e:
1. When did Germany demonetize silver;
in 1871 or 1873?
2 Is our silver that is in circulation at
the present time redeemable in gold?
g. What silver coins are being struck at
the present time, and to what amount?
A. Did overproduction of silver cause the
demonstration of 1t in 1873?
Edgeley, N. D.. Aug. 6. 1896.
1. The decentralization of silver in
On the 23d of November in that year.
law was passed providing for the
single gold standard with a silver sub
sidiary coinage only. 1t put an end to
the silver standard and discontinued
the coinage of silver on private ac-
count In 1873, another measure was
brought forward for Withdrawing the
old silver coin from circulation alto
gether This was carried out with
reference to all except the thalers.
The government is authorized to with
draw them from circulation at it's
: pleasure, but has not yet done so.
2. Silver dollars are unlimited legal
tender for all debts, public and private
and are not, therefore, "redeemable," ;"
by law, in anything else. They are
primary money, standard" money
and redemption" money, according to
the various terms that are now in use.
If any one, however, should present
silver dollars at the treasury and ask
for gold in exchange, 1t is not prob
able that it would be refused; because
the government is pledged not to
forms of money in circulation
Both the unrepealed portion of the act
of 1890 and the repeating act of 1893
declare it to be the purpose of this
government to maintain the two met
ais at a parity. This can be done
only by paying out either for the
other indiscriminately on demand.
1t is this parity which free coinage
would utterly destroy.
g. The government now coins silver
in quantities required by the CONNER
cial demand. Thus, If it is found that
there is shortage in business Of
small change, demand is made upon
the mint for such pieces, and the mint
coins them accordingly. The treasury
notes of 1890, which we use to pur-
chase silver bullion, are redeemable in
either gold or silver dollars. When
silver dollars are demanded in ex-
change for these the government can
coin enough of the bullion to meet the
case. In this way there were coined
in the year 1895, So. SOS. 900 of silver dol
lars, halves, quarters and dimes, and
$685., 430 of minor token coins.
4. We do not know any reason for
supposing that the over-production of
silver had anything to do with
the passage Of the act of 1873 On the
contrary, it was because silver was so
overvalued with reference to gold at
that time that none was coined or
circulated. that the silver dollar was
dropped from the list of coins.
The great increase III production has
taken place since that time In the
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
MORE STORM DAMAGE.
Grain I'm Field and In Stack sufYer.


Grain i'm Field and in stack Suffers
From Hail.
Special to the Globe.
MANKATO, Mimi, Aug 10.-The storm
Yesterday afternoon did considerable damage
to stacked grain throughout the county.
Several stacks were struck by lightning.
Special to the Globe
MADISON. Mimi, Aug. 1O.-The heaviest
rainfall OF the season occurred today. with
heayy wind. Crops uncut were laid fiat
BALDWIN, Wis, Aug. 10.-A wind rain
and hail storm Of unusual fierceness struck
TINS town at p. m. yesterday The rain fell
IN torrents and was accompanied by a most
terrific wind. Hailstones as large as hens
eggs fell, and much damage to window lights
resulted from the hail. Many buildings were
unroofed and large trees were snapped like
pipe stems Hay and grain stacks were
blown over and windmills torn from their
towers.
ATWATER, Mimi, Aug. 10.-The heaviest
rain for years, accompanied by violent
wind, visited this section at II a. m. yester-
day. Numerous windmills were blown down;
also slight damage done to some buildings
The small amount of uncut grain is badly
damaged.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
INDIANA CLOUDBURsT.
Great Damage Done by Water ana
High Winds.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Aug. 10.-At
o'clock tonight Fort Wayne was Wis
tied by veritable cloud burst. Rain
fell in torrents for half an hour and
was the heaviest rain fall In 26 years
Streets were overf1owed and cellars
in all parts Of the town flooded There
was an electrical storm in the midst
Of the torrents of rain and lightning
struck in several places, but did little
damage. Mrs. Fred Kayser and Mrs
Will Leech were Frustrated by shock
Mrs. Kayser has lost her power Of
speech.
WARSAW, Ind, Aug 10.-At 4
o'clock a cyclone struck Winona park
near here. Trees and tents were blown
down. The amphitheater is a mass
of ruins. Two people were injured
and the assembly grounds were DESC
lated. The money loss will reach $40.
900.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
GOLD MEN DRAW OUT.
Their Policy to Ignore the Iowa
Democratic Convention

DES MONIES To-. Aug 1o-Tbe neroo-
cratic state convention. which will assemhIa
at Ottumwa Wednesday, will be dominated
oy the silver forces. The sound money Demo
hawk county. where one of the earliest county
conventions was held. gave up further at
tempts to control the selection of delegates.
ana the conventions held Saturday were with
out exception controlled by the silver forces
through the declination of the sound money
Democrats to take part in the primaries.
Inc honest money Democrats have turned
10 the national organization formed at In
dianapolis as the conservator of Democratic
principles, and look upon the free silver
crowd as a new organization.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
FIVE DROWNED.
Small Boat Capsized I'm the Delaware
River

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 10-Five persons
were drowned last night in the DeIawera
river opposite Bridesburg, suburb of this
city, by the capsizing of a small rowboat.
ine victims are Amelia Holman, Rose Bren-
niger, Rose Breninger all three of this CITY:
charles Minnick. Cincinnati, o. John t. Rex
Ter, address unknown. None of the bodies
nave been recovered. The three women and
tWo men started out about O'Clock last
night for a row on the Delaware They had
not gone far before heavy wind storm came
upon them The men. seeing the storm an
proacn1ng, endeavored to reach shore. but
ndu not gone far before the boat was caught
In the squall and upset The women sank
out OF sight almost Immediately, but the men
held on to the bottom OF the boat until their
strength gave out
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
THE SUMMER CROP OF FOOLS.

Men may come and men may CO. but
the fools go on forever. They have all
seasons for their own, but summer
seems to cause them to multiply and
ripen more rapidly. The parachute
fool is not as numerous this season as
usual. The uniform disasters which
have attended men and women who
go up in balloons and give trapeze
performances at the height of several
hundred feet above the earth to amuse
gaping crowd seem to have slightly
discouraged the industry. A few score
of aeronauts crushed out of human
semblance have thinned the ranks of the
profession" and turned the stomach of
exhibitions. But the fool has endless
varieties of opportunity Two of him
set out, on the 9Th of June. in an open
boat, to row across the Atlantic. After
a passage of sixty days, they have
reached their destination, which will
possibly have the effect of stimulating
some other fool to try the same exper-
iment on even more unfavorable terms.
We have not the heart to wish that
these particular fools had met with
disaster, because even the most trifling
human life is too sacred for sacrifice;
yet we could rejoice exceedingly if the
penalty of the bad example which they
have set to other fools should be a
couple of years of Imprisonment at hard
labor. For of practical value or re-
suit, or of possible meaning in the
world, their exploit is already desti-
tute.
Another fool has been speeding over
a board track in the rear of a locomo
tive to see if he could, with his bicycle,
cover a mile in a minute. He came
within three seconds of it, and we are
told that he proposes to make another
trial and get down to the limit. Just
why any railroad company should per-
nit track to be boarded over for this
experiment, and offer locomotive to
run in front of the rider that he may
get the assistance of the indrawing
rush of air, we cannot perceive. For
this, too, puts his life in jeopardy for
nothing. Everybody knows that the
slightest accident to his machine or
the slightest impediment in it's course
would be fatal. The consequences of
alighting from a wheel running at the
rate of a mile a minute are precisely
nf n
railroad car or any other vehicle trav-
cling at the same speed. Who is to be
benefited if this fool should make q
mile in a minute? The conditions are
good Of it if a man should prove that
he could ride around a race track at
the rate Of mile a minute. But when
he has to have an especially prepared
track and mechanical device, produc-
ing suction that drags him for
ward, in addition to the impulse of
his muscle, the performance be-
comes mechanical and worthless for
even comparative purposes.
The whole race Of bridge Jumpers
ana trapeZe aeronautS ana IOOlharQy
mariners, and the rest of them, repre-
sent one of the least worthy of all hu-
man aspirations; that is, the mere
craving of notoriety for the sake of
notoriety. To do something that others
have not done in order to get the name
of it, no matter how little 1t is worth
the doing, is trait of human nature
opinion, at least, should do what it
may to exterminate, by it's disapproval.
the perpetuation or enlargement of the
tribe of fools
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11

ner. The absolute correspondence be-
tweea the free silver argument and the
high protection argument, as address
ed to the laboring man. should cause
him to open his eyes little. The fact
urged upon him, must trust in Cod
for the other AZ cents, is already ap-
pesling powerfully to his understand
inO
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11

year 1870 the silver production of the
United States was 1876, 900 ounces,
and the ratio Of the worlds produc-
ton of silver to gold was 905. In
1892. the silver production of the Unit
ed States was 63,5OO,0O0 ounces, and
the ratio of the worlds silver produc-
tion to that of gold was 2156.