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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

Mrs. Phoebe Filcher OF Warrendale,
Ore, made recent trip, during which
she shot four brown bears and one Gin
namon. The cinnamon, after being
shot, turned upon Mrs. Filcher and was
within ten feet OF her when second
shot from her rife dispatched it.
Miss Bertha Creighton OF Philadel-
phia has received as a gift from Mr..
Tiff Of the United States treasury de-
partment at Washington pair Of
Cinderella slippers made of the ground
pulp Of S100 bills. Miss Creighton
may be said to wear on her feet $4,000.
A recitationist who Is doing very
we'll in London is Miss Helen Mar, as
She is known professionally, or Mrs.
Steele Mackaye, as she Is remembered
in America. Miss Mar went to England
shortly after Mr.. Mackaye's death, and
has been heard in great many draw
ingrooms during the present season.
Mrs. Virginia Patterson Of Philadel-
phia is most remarkable sports
woman. Recently at morning fish
ing" she caught two immense tarpon,
that, when hung from pole, with
their tails touching the ground, meas
ured two feet more than their captor.
She is quite as enthusiastic over hunt
ing as angling.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

If the word boom were not in ex-
istence now it would be hard to find a
word to fittingly take it's place.
1.-THE end Of the Ottoman empire is
near" the foreign correspondents are
saying, just as they did forty years ago.
The roll Of membership of the
League of American Wheelman last
week footed up 57,025. Or these 1861
are Pennsylvanians.
That flowers are generally beneficial
in a sick room, instead of harmful, as
formerly supposed, is fully established
according to many physicians.
Twenty new paper-making machines
are to be added to the New England
mills this year, each machine having
a capacity of fifteen tons daily.
There are about 200 different styles
of forceps made for dentists use, vary
ing in the sizes and forms of the beaks
and in the shapes of the handles.
The favorite team of the emperor OF
Germany is pair Of chestnuts, one OF
which was raised in Susquehanna, Pa.
The other came from Binghamton.
N. Y.
A trout of the Lochleyen species
weighing 11& pounds and measuring
Q feet I inches in length and l6A inches
in girth, was recently taken in King
horn Loeb.
link suitable for loveletters" is adj
yertised by a Partisan stationer. 1t is
made of solution of iodide Of starch
and characters written with it entirely
fade in four weeks
Experiments with plants tend to
show that in clear weather the evap-
Grafton by night as compared to that
which takes place in the day appears to
be in the ratio of l to 5.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

AS said before, without any partt-
san feeling whatever, looking at this
as plain business proposition, | want
the government under all conditions
and circumstances, and our president.
whoever he may be, to have the power
during every moment Of this govern
ment's existence to borrow money by
selling bonds whenever for any reason
it occurs that there is no money in the
treasury. Why deny that power 10 the
governm l know the constitution
says congress shall have power to bor-
row money, but this does not prevent
congress from comforting power on the
president to sell 8 per cent five-year
bond to realize money to pay the debts
of the government when for any rea-
son the money in the treasury is eX-
hausted. This is a wholesome power
to prevent national dishonor and ma
tional bankruptcy, and this is the
power for which | contend Hon.
Stephen B. Elkins, U. S. S. of West
Virginia.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
Explains the Eject of Tariff Changes
Upon the Treasurv--A Prophet Not
Without Honor In His Own Country
Has n Dig mt Cleveland.

The wisest men of the republican
party worked for weeks on their St.
Louis platform. 1t is political Gibral-
TAR. 1t is fortified by right and backed
up by experience taught by the disas-
trous failures of the democrats. The
platform is sound on reciprocity, pro-
tecti,e tariff, pensions, money and the
Monroe doctrine.
What will the democrats do?
Why, they will fight against this plat
form, For they will fight against sound
money, reciprocity and protective tar
If. Thu World has commenced its as
sault, 1t says that Cleveland got $780,
100000 more revenue his first year than
Harrison did during his last year. OF
course Cleveland did; but to get this
revenue. having a tariff 80 per cent
lower than Harrison, he had to snip 50
per cent more goods from Europe than
Harrison did When Cleveland Ship
ped 80 per cent more goods from Eu-
rope, we manufactured 30 per cent less
goods in America. This kept 80 per
cent of our labor idle, dropped wages
80 per cent, and closed down 80 per cent
of our mills, and 30 per cent more Of
our gold went to Europe to pay for
goods that went there under Harrison.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
VICTIMS OF CHEAP MONEY.
Hacnuiay's Description of Those Who
Suffered by Clipped Coins.

Free coinage at 16 to is equivalent
10 clipping from As to so cents from
the present dollar. 1t would give us
q debased dollar of varying value. Tho
world has had experience with clipped
coins. Poorly minted coins during
Queen Elizabeth's time made 1t easy
to clip them Coin clipping was car
ried on extensively during the rest Of
the 10Th and during all Of the
seventeenth century. BY 1896, Macau-
lay tells us, "it could hardly be said
that the country possessed, for prac-
tical purposes, any measure of tho
value Of commodities"
Speaking OF the effects upon the
people at large Of this debased coin Of
uncertain value, this great historian
says that lit may well be doubted
whether all the misery which had been
inflicted on the English nation in a
quarter of a century by bad kings, bad
ministers, bad parliaments and bad
judges was equal to the misery caused
In a couple of years by bad crowns and
bad shillnigs." He describes the work
ings and effects in the following laE-
guage:
But when the great instrument of ex-
change became thoroughly deranged,
all trade all industry, were smitten as
with palsy. The evil was felt daily
and hourly in Almost every place and
by almost every cicss, in the dairy and
on the thrashing floor, by the anvil and
by the loom, on the pillows Of the
ocean and in the depths OF the mine.
Nothing could be purchased without a
dispute. Over every counter there was
wrangling from morning to night. The
workman and his employer had a
quarrel as regularly as the Saturday
came round. On fair day or mar
ket day the clamors, the reproaches,
the taunts, the curses, were incessant,
and it was we'll if no booth was over
turned and no head broken. No mer-
chant would contract to deliver goods
without making some stipulation about
the quality of the coin in which he
was to be paid. Even men OF business
were often bewildered by the confu-
sion into which all pecuniary transact
tons were thrown. The simple and the
careless were pillaged without mercy
by extortioners, whose demands grew
even more rapidly than the money
shrank. The price of the necessaries
of life, of shoes, of ale, of oatmeal, rose
fast.
The laborer found that the bit OF
metal which, when he received it, was
called shilling would hardly, when
he wanted to purchase pot of beer or
a loaf Of rye bread, go as far as six
pence. Where artisans Of more than
usual intelligence were collected in
great numbers, as in the dockyards at
Chatham, they were able to make their
complaints heard and to obtain some
redress. But the ignorant and helpless
peasant was cruelty ground between
one class which would give money only
by tale and another which would take
it only by weight.-"M acaulay's His
tory of England"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

From a dollar country we became a
7O-cent country.
Then why did Harrisons revenue fall
eff the last year?
1t was because importers stopped I'M
porting They said: I'VE will wait
for Clevelands low tariff" When
Cleveland's low tariff came, then our
mills began to cut wages and stop.
Steamships were loaded with foreign
goods, and Cleveland did get a bigger
revenue than Harrison, but it was at
the expense of our home manufacturers.
The result was bad times at home and
$3.50, 100000 in gold has gone out to pay
for this oyer-importation, while our
own labor has been idle Democratic
experience backs up republican theory.
Still the democrats jump up and
shrek:
cleveland with free trade shipped
more goods his first year than Harrison
did his last year"
OF course he did; and the more
Cleveland bought in Engli.d the poorer
we got at home.
Now, to discern the short-sighted ar
glments which the free-traders are be-
ginning to resort to, will give the
horoscope Of the future:
The last year of Cleveland will be
Just the opposite of the last year of
Harrison. A good tariff prevented big
mportations then, but Cleveland's low
tariff will cause big importations dur
ing the last end of his term. Mel-
chants will load up with low-priced
pauper-made English goods
And when Mckinley comes in. What
then?
Why, for the first six months of Nc
Kinley importation will be small The
merchants will have on hand loads of
English goods. Mckinley will not get
the old time revenue. Then the fres
traders will jump up and say: 1--WE
told you sou
When will the good times commence?
They will commence when the Nc
Kinley tariff begins to operate. When
the people begin to use American goods.
When our mills start up. When our
workmen all go to work, and the gold
which has been going to Europe to pay
their cheap labor will be kept at home
to pay our labor Then the good old
times will be back again. When the
people see this prophecy-see our gold
staying at home, see the balance Of
trade in our favor, they will hold on
to the protection policy for thirty
years-as they did before.
ELI PERKINS.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

factories. If the people OF Nebraska
pay their share OF federal taxation, the
government collects for the bounty
from all the people Of Nebraska about
$50, 900, and pays over to two corpora
tons $4,000. 1t is thus seen that tho
state of Nebraska pays out twice as
much as it receives, and that, while
everybody pays, only the two factories
receive. / have yet to learn the duty
of representative il | am under any
obligation to plead for two sugar fac
tories because they receive large sums
and disregard the rights OF more than
million people because they pay IN
small amounts If | demand bounties
for beet sugar in my state, cannot OPP
pose bounties and subsidies for indus
tries in other states, and thus. to secure
a special advantage for two factories
III Nebraska, / must subject the people
of that state to burdensome tax upon
everything.
Il dissent, too, from the postticn
taken by some, that we are compelled
bounty to remain for the period named
in the present law. Such position IL
wholly untenable. II the Fifty-first
congress could pledge the revenues for
the government for fifteen years, 1t
could just as we'll pledge them for fifty
or hundred years, and surely no one
will say that one congress can thus
give a perpetual bounty and impose
obligations on subsequent legislatures,
The present law provided when the
bounty should terminate, but it could
not guarantee its continuance until
that time If congress cannot properly
give a bounty directly to the sugar in
dustry, neither can it properly impose
a tax upon sugar for the avowed pur-
pose of protecting the sugar industry
ct IS AS EASY TO JUSTIFY A
BOUNTY AS A PROTECTIVE TAR
IFF, AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO
JUSTIFY EITHER"
when | was called upon to choose
between a tax upon sugar which would
raise the price of it to every consumer
and bounty reduced gradually, !
chose the latter. / preferred TO lei
the bounty fall by degrees, and raise
the needed revenue in way that, in
stead OF taxing the poor man as much
as the rich man on the same number Of
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
ODD SPOKES.

The number of wheels ridden in Chi
tago is variously estimated at from s5,-
900 to 100000
Bicycle footmen are now the proper
caper in aristocratic wheeling circles
at Washington.
Cycling is playing an important en-
gagement this spring in the training
of baseball men.
The only cycles exempt from taxa
ton in France are those exclusively for
sale and those owned by the army OF
government offices for the use of their
messengers
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
WHAT TO DO WITH CARDS,

Cards of coincidence are sent week
after death occurs. One card is left
for family-no more.
To ask for a sick friend leave q card
with the words, "To inquire" written
across the top. Expect no reply
Cards of coincidence need not be an
swered Cards of courtesy or con-
graduation should be replied to
promptly.
When card is left for a stranger
who is stopping at hotel, "F'or Mrs
'' should be written on the top of
the card
To write regrets" or accepts" on a
card is very bad form. A note is the
proper way in declining or accepting
invitations.
Strangers in town should send their
cards with their address to friends, and
call sh ould be made on them as soon
as possible.
Cads of courtesy should be sent with
all gifts. such as books, fruit and flow
ers or any trifing remembrances sent
by friends to friends
Cards of courtesy should be sent with
left in person, and if the family is at
home the visitor should go in and ex-
press her good wishes.
When a young lady is to be married
she leaves her card in person about
four weeks before the event. Her
mothers card accompanies her own.
AT an afternoon tea or reception
every one should leave her card with
the servant on entering. If unable to
attend she should write note the next
morning giving the reason.
It Is reported that in Birmingham
and other industrial centers in England
thousands of skilled mechanics who
used to make guns, etc, are now work
ing double time and earning big wages
in the new bicycle factories.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

The silver men give away their case
when they say that free coinage will
increase prices" The one universal
human interest is cheapness. The ideal
condition would be one wherein all de-
sirable things were produced without
any cost at all. Every advance toward
that condition-that is to say, every
cheapening of the necessaries of life
is a great gain for everybody. On the
other hand, every increase in the price
of the necessaries of life is a direct and
grievous hurt 10 the people.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
FIoS AND THIsTLEs.

The growler is poor travelling COM
panion.
The fatter the pig. the better 1t likes
the mud.
The broader the way, the more 1t Is
Travelled.
God waits to help every man who
needs help,
No grave can be made deep enough
to hold the truth.
What subtle enemy to greatness Is
the newspaper portrait.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14


lar menst ruation, whites, etc.
She probably is not SO fortunate as
to know that all female ailments are
indicated by these never failing symp-
toms, and are controlled by Lydia =.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; all
female weaknesses quickly disappear
by its use It has been the thinking
woman's safeguard for twenty years,
and all druggists sell large quantities
of it because it can be relied upon
Still another woman speaks:
Il wish you would publish my name
with your testimonials. | want every
one to know that your Vegeta BILE Com
pound has made me well and strong.
/ sing it's praises all the time. When l
was first married was very weak and
had female troubles badly; Oh, was
so weary, sick and melancholy, but the
Vegeta bic Compound built me up, and
now have dear baby girl, and am
so happy. No home is complete with
out dear little baby and Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to roll
the clouds away -MHs. Gro. CLAUS,
IS Danforth ST., Buffalo, N. Y.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
Sound Sense on Small scale.

The smallest paper in the United
States is the Bernardsville, n G. Times.
published every Monday morning. Its
pages are only six by eight inches, but,
email as they are, they contain such
sound sense as the following:
Give us sound protection. sound
Americanism. sound patriotism, and
place sound sense at the helm, and the
"Old United States" will glide merrily
Oh and continue to be the home of free
men, the refuge of liberty and the
abiding place of freedom.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
silver Question Brought Homo.

Mr.. Retail Salesman! Your salary Ia,
we will say, SIS per week; you pay 81
for board; a suit of clothes costs you
$12: underwear so cents per garment,
you still got the same SIS and had to
pay nearly SIS for board nearly $24 for
a suit, nearly 81 per garment for I'M
derwear, and so on? That's what free
silver would mean to you, for some
time, at least.-Dry Goods Economist.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
Fryan Against Beet Sugar.

n the house of representatives, on
Saturday, January IS, 1894, Hon. Will
liam J. Bryan, of Nebraska, said:
There is no reason for bounty on
sugar which will not apply to any other
agricultural product. If the bounty
paid went to the farmer directly, in
stead of the manufacturer, he has as
much right to ask for a bounty on
wheat. oats, or cattle. as upon sugar,
heets, or cane; but so much of the
bounty as goes to Nebraska finds its
way, not to the farmers, but t2 twc
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

Our Populist brethren say there isn't
gold enough in existence to pay what
we owe. We don't pay debts with
gold We use gold as a measure Of
services, and VIC pay debts with our
cotton and our wheat and our cora
and our cattle and our manufactured
nroducts-Belton (Tex) Journal.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Opals remain fashionable and GER
tainly lend themselves we'll to the lapi-
dary's art.
The most conservative persons now
admit that American cut glass is the
finest in the world.
The peculiar greens and blues that
prevail in dress fabrics are shown in
enamels on gold and silver.
Birthday watches claim attention.
These have dials enameled with the
flower of the month or set with the
natal atona
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
Low Rate Excnrsion south.

On the first and third Tuesdays of
each month till October about half
rates for the round trip will be made
to points in the South by the Louisville
e. Nashville railroad Ask your ticket
agent about it, and if he cannot sell
you excursion tickets write to G.. p.
Atmore, General Passenger Agent,
Louisville, KY, or Geo Is. Horner, D..
Y. A.. St Louis. Mo
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The otter IS the favorite animal
rmong the Chinese.
Coal ID dearer in South Africa tn
any other part Of the world. lt
heapeet in China.
About 100000 trees are annual
planted by Swedish school children. =!
Ter the guidance Of their teachers.
In the public schools OF Germany Z,
fright pupils are separated from n
stupid ones. Medical men do Il
snrt ting. wv
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
London Endorses Protection,

Mr., McKinleys protective policy
will, of course. check the ef1uX of gold
as no doubt it will cause failing off
in the imports Of British and European
goods, and there will. consequently, be
less gold required TO pay for them
The Financial Post London, June "a.
1895.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
A Hundred Millions Lost.

The Tariff for rcYenue only" of the
free-raders brought slo2 ,275, 791 less
money into tho treasury during the
first twenty-five months of its opera
ton than the Mckinley tariff did dur
ipg it's iirst tweuty-two a!aHths,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
Where Ignorance Bliss.

Mr.. Slimpurse What! Want to get
new maid for Fashion Beach? Why don't
you take the one you have?
Mrs. Slimpurse- She knows how we live
when we're at home.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
where Our Trade Interests Ave,

In declaring for the free coinage OF
silver independently of all other coun.
tries the Chicago convention in effect
declared for different and lower
money standard than that used by the
great commercial nations with which
We trade. Trade and commerce follow
the lines of least monetary resistance,
and out of total merchandise imports
and exports last year of 81, 539, sos, 1870
only s163, 827 was from single sill
yer standard countries--less than II per
cent.
Even in our South American trade,
about which so much has been said out
of total of s145, 500, 055 only 6 per cent,
$8,991 1853, was with silver standard
countries, while y per cent, $105,2 1I,
S64, was with single gold standard
countries. and $31 4S3,33S was with BIZ
metallic countries.
Practically speaking, all bimetallic
countries are on gold basis, their
legal tender silver being eXchangeable
for gold. but the bimetallic trade is
small. Let Europe serve as the exam
pie. While much less than half Of Its
population has the single gold stand
ard, the following table shows our
trade.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

Gladstone is under pledge to his ply
s;cians never to make another public
speech He has more than once asked to
haYe it set aside but without Success
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

The Western Patent Office, Des Moines,
reports the following patents issued to Iowa
inventors Aug. 4: Joseph s. Hogan, Men
To- pillow clevis; Nicholas Kolle, Dubuque,
plate for burial casket; Mark A. Reploge,
Cedar Falls, electrical governor. Patents
have been recently allowed, through this
office, to Lambert Sternburg, Mitchellvlle,
potato cutter; H. l.. Gamble, Perry, furni-
ture castor. WESTERN PATENT OFFICE.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

pounds of sugar, would make wealth
bear it's share of the expenses of ger
crnment In other words, | would
rather give free sugar to the people
and make up the deficit by an income
tax"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
BY steamer, Train or Boat.

Which of these have you selected as
means of travel, No matter. Whichever
it is, recollect that for sea sickness, disord-
ers of the stomach, liver and bowels, en-
gendcred by rouge locomotion and bad
food or water. and for malarial troubles,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the most
useful specific you can take with you. 1t
is invaluable also for rheumatism, kidney
complaints and nervous trouble.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

ANY ONE who has been benefited by the
use of Dr. Williams Pink Pills, will receive
information OF much value and interest by
writing to Pink Pills, 2. O. box 1892, Phila.
delDhia Pa
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
Totals 1881 500 s4sl, 5l5o72 s16S sos s27
Uncla ssified ST. ,1O5

Our trade and commerce are not only
on "a gold basis, but are on "a single
gold standard To adopt silver mono
metallism, which Independent free
coinage would surely produce here as
it has everywhere else, would be to
permit Europe TO fix the price of our
surplus products on a gold basis. while
it could pay us in our own legal ten
der silver dollars coined freely out OF
SIS cents worth of bullion. Is this bust
ness?
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

French paste,' out of which artificial
diamonds are made, is a mixture of best
glass and oxide of lead.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is constitutional cure. Price, 75c.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14

A boy in Brunswick, Me-, has two art
fetal legs, and yet he is an expert bicycle
rider