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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-04-09
$500 SOLD IN this CITY
In Twelve Weeks-Venos Remedies
Are Having the Biggest Sale on
Record-They Are the Coming
Medicines of the World.
FATHER BESSONlES,
OF St. Johns Church, indianapolis, Recon-
mends Them-PhyBioians in New York
I City and Chicago Use Them.
Your Druggist Recommends Them Do
cause Many Sufferers In this city
Have Boon Cured by Them.

In the past twelve
weeks $4,000 worth OF
the Veno Remedies have
gone into the homes OF
our citizens. To the poor
they are a God-send
from the fact that they
do away with big doc,
tor fees. With a supply
of the Veno Remedies In
the house there is no
need for a doctor. The
instructions accompany
ing each of their rene
dies are plain and con
else, nnd no mistake can
possibly be made II they
are followed Be your own
doctor. Don't permit in
experienced druggists or
their youthful assistant
to put up compounds
haphazard to be given TO
your family. The Nono
Remedies are most care
fully compounded after
the formula of Sir Nor
rill Mackenzie, formerly
Consulting physician in
Chief to the Queen,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-15

The warehouses all along the line are
troubled with congestion. Your CORE
spcnd Mt has heard some ugly muir
raurs recently from prominent sugar
men, to the effect that unless the
steamer people arrange TO give this
island better s vice they may wake
mp some fine morning and discover that
others have entered upon the carrying
trade.
The L-akee Sugar Company's mill at
KeoIia shat down last Saturday. CHER
cassie expects to start up next Monday.
= new siE-rGller mill has been order
ed for Hanamaulu, which will be put in
with other improvements in the near
future, and quite a large acreage OF n W
land viii be broken and planted TO cane
by this company this year. All OF which
goes 70 prove that sugar is still king
OF Kauai.
The Hawaiian Circus arrived at Ka-
pa Fer the James Max g, Tuesday
morning ard gave two performances,
tbs ~ C1d Wednesday evenings. TO
slim business. Thursday they showed
at Lihue, IRON which place they go TO
Koloa and Waimea.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-15
& COOKE, Ltd.
GREATER BRITAIN.

Find me a man of the allied race
In his warm heart I'd make place.
A place for Great Britain,
A bold conception not too vast,
This bond of union that shall last.
A view of the future built on the past;
Call we it Greater Britain.
Greater Britain, what does it mean?
Grandest nation the world has seen
Sponsor for peace and truth.
No warrior, then, with armed oppres-
sion,
To disturb the peace of quiet pos
session,
OF liberty true the open confession,
This plan of Greater Britain.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-15
GARDEN ISLE NOTES.
Continued from First PageJ

Of them gave the required bail; the
other languishes in Jail.
AZ - the earnest desire OF this com
n .iJy that the authorities make an
eXar.e.e OF these boys. to deter others.
There is a good law upon the statutes
in regard to furious driving upon the
public highways, but unfortunately it
has been a dead letter here on Kauai,
as is the other law which demands
that all vehicles shall carry lights at
night. The consequence is that serious
accidents upon the road are OF too fire.
queEt occurrence, and he who travels
bout Kauai at night takes his life in
his hands, unless he carries a gun and
takes the other fellows. Perhaps after
a few persons are killed the people will
wake up TO the fact that these laws
were made for a purpose.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-15

"Impute it, / beseech you, to no de-
feet of modesty if insist little longer
on so fruitful topic" as that of Woven
Wire, that sublime combination of iron
and wood; that ready bringer of sleep.
Woven Wire Bailey makes these beds
right here in Honolulu.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-15
ACT TO-
AN ACT
PROPORTIONS OF THE Ma
TO DEFINE THE
TIONAL ENSIGN.

1T enacted by Legislature Of Republic of
Section The National Ensign shall consist of eight hOr
zOna stripes alternately white red and blue beginning
the having Jack cautioned in the dexter chief angle
point suspension. The Jack shall consist
blue field charged with compound Satire of alternate tine
white and red, the white having precedence
edge white borders each side of the Satire red
bOrdered with white is charged all
The proportion shall be follows:
The fly is twice the hoist
is half II breadth q fly n
length.
the red with border shall be equal
of the horizontal stripes; the white border shall
be one third the width of the red
The of the compound Satire equal in width
the white, border
the proportion of 3 ,. 1 respectively.
Section >. This Act shall take effect
publication
Approved this Sth day pr, \. D.. 1896
SANFORD b. DOLE
President of the Republic of Hawaii.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-15

ITO every land with English speech, q"
You're one and all within the reach
OF this our Greater Britain.
Haste we the day, speed we the time
Our tongue is heard in every cline.
But a greater thought, yes, it's sub
lime;
Greater, Greatest Britain.
]. S. BAILEY.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-15

EDISON LOOKING THROUGH A BLOCK OF WOOD.
in with
yellow
m He
practically night discovery the oengen His
the the Photographic
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06

give you proof that another man killed
don"
Il replied that if the proof was such
as t. convince me of its reliability /
would certainly feel called upon to in
terfere in the condemned mans be-
half.
But, judge he continued, you
will have to give me your solemn as
surance not to divulge what l relate
to you
Il demurred to entering into any
such compact.
Remember he cried vehemently,
while you can wrong no man by your
silence, yet if you do not listen to me
you will allow an innocent person to
die upon the gallows. l swear this
before the living God
His manner as much as anything
else overcame my scruples, and gave
him my promise so long as / live not
TO reveal any statement he might make
TO me. Then he said:
Judge Garrow, the man Amos Biv-
ms met his death as an expiration for
a crime he had himself committed. In
Virginia just before the close OF the
war, with a squad of maraudlng
soldiers, he entered the home of man
who was bearing arms in defense of
the very fireside that was being ruth
lessly invaded and desecrated. Mother
and children had to flee in the night
and she, the mother, met her death
from the exposure and fright. This
man Bivins was the only one recog-
nized, as he had sold goods about the
community from peddler's pack. The
hand which laid the blows upon his
head may not have intended to strike
life away, but reason lost it's sway, and
there was naught to stay the avengers
hand but death
He paused q moment, and, letting
his hand fall heavily upon my shout
der, he exclaimed huskily:
Judge Garrow, l am the muir
dererr
He brought to me the hickory stick,
dark in places with the stains of clot-
ted blood. / reviewed his history, his
conduct of the case, how he had ex-
pended money and devoted his time
with no hope of any remuneration; l
looked into his face, and l knew he
had spoken the truth.
Il believe If it had not been for what
he considered the justice of his cause
and his little children, he would have
surrendered at the first. 1t was un-
doubtedly his intention to have saved
his client even if the last resource
should have been to take the prisoners
place upon the gallows.
There was nothing left for me to do
but to urge the pardon of Hastings, and
that l did. J. G.. GARROW,
Judge Monroe County Court"
1t is not often desired to resurrect
unpleasant memories, but sometimes
justice to the living and to the dead de-
mand that the sepulchers of the past be
invaded. So / have given this bit of
history, believing that l am justified
in doing SO, even If / had to drag from
its grave such a CHASTITY skeleton as
the kuklux klan.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
Free silver Doctors Disa roe.

Presidential Candidate w. j. Bryan
declared in his speech in New York
City: Il am firmly convinced that by
opening our minis to free and unlim-
tied coinage at the present ratio Q6
to II We can create demand for sill
yer which will keep the price of silver
bullion at $1.29 per ounce, measured in
gold''
Judge w. S. Mccain, of Little Rock,
a free silver leader in Arkansas, differs
from Mr.. Bryan in his Interpretation Of
the Popocratic platform. II am some
times asked" he says, IF believe the
reconciliation of silver would increase
its value so as to make the bullion in
q silver dollar equal to the present gold
dollar. l answer no. If l thought so,
would not waste time advocating the
restoration of the unlimited coinage Of
silver. The sole object of remonetizing
silver, as l understand it, is to secure
a cheaper dollar with which to measure
and regulate prices"
Here are two eminent financial doc
tors who agree in prescribing big doses
of 16 to l pills, but widely disagree as
TO the results of the medicine. When
the leaders of the free coinage agita-
ton differ as to the effects of their
scheme, how can they expect the peo-
pie to believe that they know what
they are talking about?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06

vert the damaging evidence against his
client. His address was mainly pas
sionate appeal for mercy for an limo
cent man who was the victim Of Pc
culiar circumstances. He ended his
speech by holding the Bible high above
his head and saying:
AS true as the Holy Book / hold in
my hand, so true is this man innocent.
say to you, / know it. You may call
1t intuition If you like, but so sure as
you convict him you will have the
Dlood OF an innocent man upon your
heads"
The verdict was guilty and Hastings
was sentenced to be hanged. The case
was appealed to the Supreme court,
and the decision of the lower court was
affirmed. An application was made to
the governor for clemency, and petit
ton bearing the names of many promi-
nent citizens of Monore county was
sent to the chief executive. Col. Palmer
was leaving no stone unturned to save
his client. The strain and hard work
was telling on him. He had grown
emaciated, and more than once had
been Ill from nervous prostration.
The governor refused to interfere,
but intimated that he might give the
case more favorable consideration II
the presiding judge recommended
communication of the sentence. This was
regarded as forlorn hope, the deter
mination of Judge Garrow to suppress
crime being so well known.
The day of the execution was near at
hand and Monroe county was preparing
to witness its first hanging in many
years. Then. like thunder clap came
the news that the governor had par
doned Andrew Hastings. Not even a
communication of the sentence to life
imprisonment had been looked for, but
here was an absolute pardon. and the
murderer with shadow Of the gallows
already over him was free man.
1t was some time before the people
could be made to believe that the news
was true, and many did not believe it
until Hastings was allowed to walk
from the prison unshackled.
The only reason the governor as
signed was that Judge Garrow had re-
quested it in private letter, and the
appeal was such as not to be disre-
garded.
But why did Judge Garrow make
such request? His honesty was above
suspicion, his integrity was undoubted,
toned. Yet, after declaring it his pur-
pose to check the lawlessness then ex-
listing b. the strong arm Of the law,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

No death warrant has been signed by
a sovereign of Great Britain during the
last $50 years.
Says fertilizer concern in Nashville,
Tenn: I'VE buy your bones and pay
you the highest market price"
Train robbery is punishable by death
in Arizona. The supreme court has just
upheld the constitutionality Of the stat
ute.
Pulaski county, Missouri, presents as
a candidate for the leadership of the
populists man whose beard Is five
feet long.
A new hypnotic has probably been
found in the Jamaica dogwood. The
in dentistry.
1t IL reported that white whale was
seen recently in Long Island sound
This animal is rarely seen outside the
Arctic regions.
Luminous inks may now be used to
print signs to be visible in the dark
Zinc salts and calcium are the me-
diums generally used.
From ninetyfour, flock of sheep
owned by p. A. Porter, of Mt Norris,
Wis, has been reduced to sixty since
last spring by wolves.
The Donor-Now, don't go and spend
that in the nearest saloon. The Recip-
ient-No. sir; dere's a better one
around de corner.-Puck.
Paderewski has some hope of realiz-
ing the chief desire of his life--the
permanent cure of the spinal complaint
which has so long afflicted his son.
1t has been suggested that as a mem
orial to Harriet Beecher Stowe ma
tional institute and hospital as train
ing school for colored nurses shall be
erected ia Washington.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
Webster on Money and Wage Farmers.

The very man, of all others, who
has the deepest interest in a sound cur
rency and who suffers most by mis-
chievous legislation in money matters
is the man who earns his daily bread
by his daily toll. His prop
erty is in his hands. His reliance, his
fund, his productive freehold, his all,
is his labor Whether he work on his
own small capital or another's, his liv-
ing is still earned by his industry, and
when the money of the country be-
comes deprecated and debased, wheth-
err it be adulterated coin or paper
without credit, that industry is robbed
of it's reward. He then labors for
country whose laws cheat him out of
his bread. / would say 10 every owner
of every quarter section Of land in the
west, | would say TO every man in the
east who follows his own pillow, and
TO every mechanic, artisan and laborer
Of every city in the country would
say to every man, everywhere, who
wishes by honest means to gain an
honest living, beware of wolves in
sleeps clothing" Whoever attempts,
under whatever popular cry to shake
the stability of the public currency
stabs your interests and your
happiness to the heart.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06

he deliberately used the power of his
office to free man convicted of a
most foul murder. What could it
mean? The judge would explain. But
the judge did not explain and his ST.
lence through all these years has kept
the Hastings case one of the strangest
of the unexplained murder mysteries
of Alabama. When questioned at the
time the judge said: Il had just and
sufficient reasons for acting as I did"
Time and time has this case and its
strange denouement come before my
mind, and often have / tried to reach
a solution which would be satisfactory
to myself and leave no suspicion upon
the memory of member of the jul
dietary, whose character had always
been above reproach.
1t is all clear now. Judge Garrow
has passed to stand himself before a
Judge whose justice, 1t is TO be hoped,
will be tempered with exceeding great
mercy for us all. / have before me this
statement, published in a Monroe
county paper. and / give it here as the
sequel to what I have already re-
corded:
"To Those Who May Be Living
When I Am Dead: / believe il any
shall desire to look into my life his
tory they will find nothing that pos
terity shall be ashamed to read upon
my gravestone. Yet there is one trans
action of my career as criminal Judge
which demands of me an explanation.
In truth, l should have been ready to
meet that demand before + passed
away, but l was so placed that my
lips were sealed. The wrong Gf wrong
did was in allowing myself to be
hampered, but justice to an innocent
man weighed in the balance against
unjust suspicion toward myself.
This single act of mine for which
may have borne public condemna-
ton was the part l took in securing
pardon for one Andrew Hastings, ar
raigned and convicted of the murder
of Amos Bivins at the fall term of the
Circuit court in Monroe county, Ala
bama, October. 1867.
Without any attempt to criticise the
motives of those who thought it wise
amid scenes Of desolation and lawless-
ness to hold in check the passions of
suddenly freed slaves by an appeal to
their superstitious fears. l. with others
of the judiciary, determined that the
time had come in the south to restore
law and order. With the determina-
ton to make an example of the first
case that came under my jurisdiction,
refused to interfere in the death SEN
tence of Hastings. To this decision I
chung. although daily importuned by
Col. George II. Palmer, Hastings at
torney. Never in my experience on the
bench had seen such persistence and
logged perseverance as that lawyer
displayed.
He came to me one day-a week be-
fore Hastings was to be executed-and
said:
Judge Garrow, suppose ! should
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06

es and especially upon farmers and
wage-earners. 1t presents vivid pic
ture Of the present hard lot of many
farmers and shows what kind of mon
ey will be for their best interests.
This little 4S-page magazine contains
more Of monetary history and facts
and more of sound argument than
many books which cost 100 times it's
price. 1t makes it possible for any
intelligent laborer or farmer who can
spare one cent to become we'll informed
on the money question before he casts
his vote. Ten or fifteen copies can be
ordered at once for ten or fifteen per-
sons. Otherwise it will cost two cents
to send one cent. Address Present
Problems Publishing Co., 81 Park
Place, New York City.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
Plants Growing Under the Microscope

Plants Growing Under the Microscope
This is something that We read Of in
most books on the microscope, and al
though it is not by any means true
plant growth, it is very curious and
beautiful. Procure a little Collomia
seed, which may be had from seed
men. Take one of the seeds and with
a razor or very sharp knife cut off a
very thin slice. Lay this slice on a
slip of glass Gan ordinary slide), cover
it with a thin glass cover, and, the
microscope being in a vertical posi-
ton, lay Ii on the stage. If you wish
to incline the microscope you must
use square glass cover and not a
round one, and hold the cover to it's
place by means of very fine rub
Der ring. Now, bring the thin slice of
seed into focus and then apply drop
of water to the edge of the glass. The
water will penetrate between the
glasses and moisten the seed, which
will at once throw out a very large
number of spiral fibres, giving it the
appearance of veritable termination.
Beginners will find it easier to perform
this experiment if one will apply the
water while the other looks through
the instrument. A single drop is
enough.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06

Even IL it We're true that free coinage
at IL to l would raise the price of sill
yer. how would that benefit the great
majority of the American people? Not
one person in a thousand owns a silver
mine or has silver bullion for which he
wants higher price. But everybody
wants to buy silver in the form of man
ufactured articles of use or ornament,
and therefore wants 1t to be as cheap
as possible. A scheme for making glass
ware or hardware dearer would not re-
ceive much favor from the consumers
of those goods. Is it at all likely that
the consumers of silver manufactures
are anxious to pay more for them?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
Free Coinage Problem"

"The Free Coinage Problem" is the
title of penny magazine or pamphlet,
by Lewis N. Lembitz of Louisville,
Ky. 1t contains one of the fairest and
best discussions OF the money ques-
ton to be had at any price. 1t con-
tains in very brief space and in sim
pie language as much of the early his
tory OF money, especially in this coun-
try, as is necessary to understand the
present situation. 1t discusses in a
logical, unbiased and impartial man
ner the probable effects of the proposed
frea coinage legislation upon all class
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
Condensed POetrv.

boil IL down" is pretty good news.
paper maxim, but even a newspaper
maxim needs to be obeyed with dis
erection.
Charles Metcalf, who has been writ
ing advertisements for drama in New
York City, had an unpleasant expert
ence in connection with a compositor
of one of the great dailies of that city.
Metcalf wrote poetical advertisement,
as follows:
From half-past eight till half-past ten,
You laugh and laugh and laugh again.
Imagine his surprise when a matter
of-fact compositor set up the adyer-
tisement and it appeared:
From $50 to 1890
You laugh and laugh and laugh again.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
An Immutable Law of Trade.

1t is not merely the women who like
to buy things cheaply. No one cares
to pay anything more for an article
than he can help. Men who work for
wages or on salaries naturally desire
that their income should go as far as
possible in the satisfaction of their
wants. Farmers, too, in behalf of
whom the plea for high prices is most
frequently made. are not overload of
paying high prices for the things they
buy. And they are buyers as well as
sellers. The whole tendency of civil
cation is toward lower prices and high
err wages.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
In n Nutshell.

Let us all be thankful that the finan-
cial question has at last been finally
settled.
1t is so easy that anybody might have
done it.
All that is needed is that the govern
ment of the United States shall agree
to pay $1.29 to any one who will bring
it 60 cents worth of silver.
If this is done, our financial troubles
will Immediately disappear. Prices
will advance. Wages will go up. Every
body will have plenty of money. We
shall have at once the only perfect
financial monetary system known in
history.
The age of miracles is not past
New York World.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
How do you find business? II v,

How do you find business? If you
want to borrow money, are you not
told that this free silver racket is
soaring investors? Don't manufacture
ers complain that they have difficulty
in getting loans with which to buy
raw material, pay wages and carry
stocks of goods? Isn't the uncertain
ty about the money in which loans will
be repaid playing the dickens with
credits and confidence among business
men?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06

Mr. Bryan says railroad rates have
not been reduced to keep pace with
falling prices. In 1872 it cost 1875 cents
to take bushel of wheat from Chi
cago to the seaboard by rail, and in
1895 it cost 12.17 cents. Even Mr.. Bryan
will not assert that average prices are
less than half and only little more
than third of what they were in 1872.
How mere fact will overthrow
whirlwind of eloQuence.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06

l hold sound, stable currency to be
among the greatest encouragement to
industry and business generally and
an unsound and fluctuating-now ex-
panding and now contracting, so that
no honest man can tell what to do
as among the greatest discouragements.
John C.. Calhoun, 1888.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06
p
Worst of All Misfortnnes.

The great trouble about population
is that you cannot pay debts with 1t
wolves the crucifiXion of credit on a
cross of rascality, and the loss of
credit is the worst of misfortunes.-
ST. Louis GObe-Democrat.