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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-19

Ten Kee Sing, a Chinaman who has
served in the United States navy, and who
wears two medals given him by congress
for valorous service. was committed to
fine tombs, on Tuesday, last, on the charge
of robbery. This Chinaman was at one
time a policeman in Portland Ore. Under
the name of Charles Tong Sing he served
as steward on the ill-fated Jeannette, and
accompanied Engineer Melville zoo miles
over the polar ice.
Every woman In town knows what her
husband should decides to do as his New
Years resolution. -Atchlson Globe
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Curlosltles About Coins.

Herodotus says that Croesus was the
first ruler to order gold coins made. In
the year $50 b. c. round copper coins
were first made. Each weighed ~
ounces. The most valuable United
States cents are those of 1913. 179a.
1904, 1909, 1911, 1919, 1923 and 1927. The
rnrest and most valuable United States
coin of what is called the regular mint
series" Is the silver dollar of 1904. A
silver half dime of the year 1902 is
worth $40. il in good condition. and
from $40 to SIS if in only fair shape.
The only valuable nickel fivc-cent niece
Is that of the year 1877, which the col.
tectors purchase at one dollar each. The
little silver three-ccnt piece was FIRST
coined in 1851. 1t was discontinued in
1873. One of the first date is worth .
dime. one of the last one dollar. Tba
face ON the silver dollar is that of a
young lady residing in Philadelphia.
Her name is Anna w. Williams. and she
is teacher of kindergarten philosophy.
The very oldest coin in the British mu-
scum is an Aegian piece of the year 700
d. c. It is not dated, of course, dating
being modern innovation, extending
back only 300 veaap.-Philadelphia
Pines
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than its authors intended. Persons of
fled incomes are not merely million
aires or army or navy officers. All who
labor In this country, whether the pay
be called salary or wages, are also per-
sons of fixed incomes, and they decid-
edly object to having their incomes cut
in half for the benefit of silver mine
owners.
The blacksmith who makes SIS q
week, the carpenter at So day, the
salesman at $1,000 year, the agricul-
tural laborer at $3.50 day, the teacher
at $40 per week, all are persons of fixed
incomes. They find their incomes none
too large for their necessities. Why
should they not object to slump to
silver, free and unlimited, for the bene-
fit of those who own silver, but at a
loss of so per cent. in their fixed In
comes?
1t is the labor of the country that
most determinedly demands the gold
basis; that demands stability in the.
currency; that objects most positively
to loss of half its fixed income.
Silver mine owners and agents must
reckon with this element, and it is
mighty element at the ballot box. Let
platform writer's note this fact as well
az silver mine capitalists. - Chicago
Tinies-Herald.
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NUT FOR sILvERITEs TO uRAcK
Why Has Cotton Dropped Fourteen Cents
Pound Ten Years After the sCrimef"

Why Has Cotton Dropped Fourteen Cents
| sPound Ten Years After the sCrimes"
Looking over a file of the Grcenville
Mountaincer for 1s4S, we were aston
ished to find in its market reports from
Hamburg cotton quoted ut to So
cents pound; -four, $4.75 to SIS bar
rel; corn and meal, so cents q bushel;
bacon, 6 to 6H cents.
Referring then to the Lathem, Alex
! ander e. Co. cotton statistics, we found
that cotton was selling in New York
in 1880 at 1886 a pound. In 1910 it
dropped to S.92, in 1S41 it rose to $50, in
1912 it was 7.s5; in 1S43, TBS; in 1S4f,
7.73; in 1S45, S.66; in 1916, 7.s7. In
1S4S, after sharp rise, it was down to
SOB; in 1s4o it fell yet farther to 7.55.
These are New York prices. At Ham
burg, which was then the market for
this section, prices seemed to be from
to 2 cents lower.
Thereat we marveled much. We sup
posed from Coins Financial School"
Joe Johnston, the Anderson Peoples
Advocate, the Spartanburg Herald, Ben
Tillman and other way up yonder free
silver authority, that the "crime Of
1873" had brought down prices. Yet
here we find so years ago, during the
time of free and unlimited coinage of
silver ut Is to /, prices of farm products
were very much as they are now, the
chief difference being that cotton is Q
little higher and bacon little cheaper
now than they were then.
Now we will be glad if the Anderson
Peoples Advocate, the Spartanburg
Herald and the rest of them will tell us
what caused the low prices and sudden
falls from 1880 to 1S49 while we had,
as they claim, the silver standard, while
the silver dollar was the unit, as they
claim, and not the "token" they say it
is now.
We would also like them to explain
If the alleged decentralization of silver
is the cause of the fall in prices
why it is that cotton dropped IA cents a
pound, from 81 to II cents, in six years.
from 1867 to 1873, while from 1873 to
1888, ten years after the "crime," il
dropped only 6H cents-why it lost
nearly so per cent. in six years before
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PEOPLE WANTING FREE COINAGE
No4e of Them Have Any Sound Reason
for 1t.

No1e Of Them Have Any Sound Reason
for 1t.
1t is always useful to analyze the
forces entering into popular move
ment. In this silver movement we
have:
First. The owners of the silver mines
in the 'silver states" seeking to manu-
facture by law a setter market for
their silver bricks and to grow still
richer at the expense of the people.
Second. Honest ignorance. Those
who have not yet discovered that
money is not the whole of wealth and
really believe that more money in the
country means less labor to make q
living.
Third. Those who understand this
thing and know better, but hope out of
much deprecated money the more
easily to pay old debts. Debts con-
tracted in gold values would be paid in
dollars worth so or IS cents. / have
seen this idea openly, impudently and
unblushingly urged by a great Journal
in o silver state, addressing itself to
farmers carrying mortgages ON their
lands.
Fourth. A lot of bright smart fell
lows who are always ready with an in
fallible judgment about all things,
without ever studying or understand
ing anything.
Fifth. Some public men, who under
stand this thing perfectly well, but
have not the courage to tell the peo-
pie the truth, wishing to carry gold Oh
one shoulder, silver on. the other and
votes ON both.
Sixth. Some honest public men who
do not understand this thing and never
will.-George II. Yeaman, in "a Cur
rency Primer"
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There are really no wages in Mexico.
All working people take what they can
gct-that is, what the employer chooses
10 pay. Wage-workers make SO little
that there is no incentive to thrift, no
stimulation of energy. The classes are
the rich and the poor. There is no mid
die class. More hopefully, perhaps, it
might be said that middle class is just
beginning to form. They who see no
hope of independence, or even of small
homes, naturally have no ambition. As
soon as they get a very little money they
quit their employment and squander II.
Many employers make money, but their
prosperity is based on the degradation of
labor. The men who do the heavy work
in the mines of Mexico receive not moro
than fifteen cents to one dollar day in
Mexican money. or from 40 to so cents in
actual money; for agricultural labor
there never is aquotable rate; hackmen
and walters at restaurants depend al
most or wholly on "tips." which GUS
tom makes small, and the money of the
country smaller; house servants get
from two to five dollars month, rarely
the higher price. And let it be borne in
mind that this Is a silver money coun-
try, and that most things except labor
bear high ces.-Correspondence Port.
land Oregonian.
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Ba nix

President Isaac Lewis of Sabina, Ohio,
is highly respected all through that
section. He has lived in Clinton Co. IS
years, and has been president Of the
Sabina Bank 20 years. He gladly testi-
fies to The merit Of Hoods Sarsaparilla,
and what he says is worthy attention.
ALI brain workers find Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla peculiarly adapted to their needs.
1t makes pure, rich, red blood, and
from this comes nerve, mental, bodily
and digestive strength.
~ am glad to say that Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla is very good medicine, especially as
o blood purifier 1t has done me good many
times. For several years I suffered greatly
with pains Of
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-23
A SHORT ROAD TO RICHES.
How the Africans Might Double Theil
Cattle and Goods.

How the Africans Might Double Their
Cattle and Goods.
In some South African tribes the use
of money is unknown, and trade is
carried on by the primitive method of
swapping cattle or grain for calico,
guns, etc. But, although they have
no money, these people have system
OF keeping accounts by cutting notches
on stick, SO that when a trader buys
cattle for which he cannot pay when
they are delivered he gives the seller q
piece of wood with as many notches
as there were head of cattle. These
sticks are afterward redeemed in cloth.
guns or rum, according to the wishes
OF the cattle raiser, aud thus serve as
medium for exchanging goods.
We're the schemes of the free silver
and fiat money advocates of this coun-
try to be adopted in Africa there would
be an easy way for increasing the
wealth of the people. We are constant
ly told by the cheap-money orators that
under free coinage everybody would be
twice rs rich as he is now, and that
doubling the country's money would
double its wealth. If this were true,
all that would be necessary in Africa
would be the cutting of a great many
more notched sticks, when there would
be twice as much grain, cloth, ETC., and
twice as many cattle as there are now.
OF course the American silverite will
say that such q proposition is ridicu-
Ious. 1t is. But it is just as sound and
logical as the idea that the people OF
the United States would be richer II
they stamped Zone Dollar" on lot of
pieces Of silver worth only so cents.
Anyone who can understand that by
cutting notches to represent cattle
would not make more cattle should be
able to see through the claim that
doubling the means by which wealth II
measured and exchanged would in
crease the total quantity of wealth.
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BY local applicationk, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of che ear. There ID
only one way to cure deafness, and that d
BY constitutional remedies. Deafness u
caused by an infamed condition of the mu1
cous lining Of the Eustachiau Tube When
this tube gets infamed you have rumblinq
sound or imperfect hearing, and when It y
entirely closed deafness Is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed foreveri
nine cases out Of ten are caused by catarrhJ
which Is nothing but an infiamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars fco
any case of Deafness Caused by catarrhl
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free L
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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"Crouching behind a bowider, I
waited. / have waited so often for big
game, from Alaska to the gulf. Jack
says have seen more than he can ever
hope to see, il he lives to be hundred
My hand was steady. Jack often gets
buck fever. / never do. took DELHI
crate aim. The elk came toward the
bullet and dropped dead without a
struggle. Blazing the trail, as l re-
traced it toward the camp for the pack
animals, l saw that there were new
bear tracks. was not out that day for
bear, and did not care to come upon
one alone, although i had no thought
of Sinking the encounter were it forced
upon me.
~ bear in bear pit is clumsy crea-
ture. In the woods he challenges your
admiration by his clever fashion of coy
ering the ground without apparent eff
fort. The one | soon deserted ahead of
me was numbering along like bunch
of tumbleweed, frightening the dis
lance between us at rapid rate.
'Foolishly l INDUCED myself in a
shot at him, striking his shoulder. He
turned upon me with roar of pain. At
that instant needed all my nerve. This
time / chose tree for cover and waited.
He came on, without halt, straight
toward me. fired again, missing him.
| was just about TO try third shot
when the test came, of which have
spoken"
''The test?" murmurs the society,
breathlessly.
"The test of my courage to which I
had always felt l should be unequal.
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unequal. 1t came on the Big Muddy.
Listen:
We were camped in the quaking
aspen. Snow had fallen, and the elk
were coming down. You could hear
them bugling on every side just before
dawn. 1t is easy to stop band of elk, as
they pass near your camp, by initiating
their call upon an empty cartridge
shell. Ihave learned the trick, and Jack
had no hesitation in permitting NE to
choose my own trail one morning and
follow it alone afoot, he and the guides
scattering in other directions. The
taste of the camp coffee was still upon
my lips; my cheeks tingled with the
frosty breath of the morning air as [
kept cautiously to the windward of the
elk, whose trumpeting stirred me like
martial music.
"A stray bear track showed here and
there in the fresh snow. But was
after elk. A hundred miles lay between
our camp and the nearest settlement.
All! the solitude of those woods!"
Mrs. Jack leans back in her chair and
signs reIniniscently as she gazes into
the blazing hearth fire-a charming pic
ture in her house gown of old blue.
frightened with CLEANS of Persian en-
broidery, inwoven with uncut jewels.
Il had gone three miles, perhaps four,
over fallen spruce, mp the steep side of
ragged mountain. when crash, across
my trail came band of elk. headed by a
bull
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The thing had dreaded in my forest
wanderings with Jack"
'What?" the society demands, with
one voice.
II had raised my rife when felt
something futtcring in my hair. 1
fancied leader had slipped from my
hat rim. Oh, horror, it was spider
and as shook my head violently to dis
lodge it, it struggled into my ear.
Il have meyer been conscious of hav-
ing fired that third shot. Somehow the
rife was discharged, and by the same
chance the bullet laid the bear low.
Il tainted, and when came to my
self, was lying across the bears body.
with six strange men standing around
me.
"Ten thousand boiler factories were
at work in my brain. Hear the noises,
cried. will no one stop them?'
And now comes the strangest part
of my story.
The engineer of Jacks yacht once
got a mosquito in his ear. 1t drove him
quite mad before we could find doctor.
lie hung over the yachts side, held
by Sin of the crew, begging for death.
When the doctor arrived upon the scene.
he applied a handkerchief, wet with
ether, TO the mans ear, quieting the
mosquitoes struggles and restoring the
loan to sanity.
II believed myself in the mans pligbt
stark, staring mad, when, upon this
peak of Darien, 500 miles from an am
bulance and a surgeon, heard one of
the men to whom | had so wildly an
peaied reply, quietly: Have no fear.
madam, you are in safe hands, for we
are all Doctors
"They deluged my ear with water
from nearby stream, which they
in tin cup. Finding the
spider still unsubdued, one of the doc.
tors asked for hypodermic syringe.
Five were instantly proffered. An lev
aifow penetrated, seemingly, TO The
seat of the gray matter, still without
erect upon the spider, whose pernicious
activity caused me indescribable agony.
Ether is the only remedy said,
ut last, and as coherently as / could
repeated the story of the engineer.
Enthusiastically returned tba
doctor who was attending to me-
why. OF course. Brown, fetch out your
ether-bottlc, and If Brown did not pro
luce from the depths of his waistcoat-
pocket a small bottle of ether, may I
be instantly retired from the presi-
iency OF our society. 1t transpircd
alter that Brown was a physician with
an alien hobby-entomology-- car.
RED ether with him everywhere to an.
iesthctize his specimens.
In an instant relief came = such
blessed relief as only one who has
passed through an experience like mins |
IAN appreciate.
THE rest of the story is soon told. |
when l had gathered myself together,
he six doctors presented themselves
o me with due fornality. They dined |
hat night at our camp, on my elk.
Jack was thoroughly ashamed of
ne. For what did the elk and the bear
natter, with the memory of the spider
resi- in our minds?
mo, decidedly" Mrs. Jack repeats,
IS the maid fetches her second cup of
ea, 81 shall never dare to Icol tiger
q the face, after my Waterloo on the
Big Muddy. 1t would have been a
leasing legend for my tombstone
his:
lone
To whom the forests were an open book;
Who joined to Diana's daring he skill OF
her spear
Lies here
Slain by bug In her ear"
Mary Wakeman Botsford, in San
Francisco Argonaut.
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FIxEDINcoMEsA NDFREEsILvER

All Who Labor VIII Find Their Wages
Cut In Half by tho Silver Dollar.
The Denver chamber of commerce,
replying to the appeal for sound money
issued by the New York chamber of
commerce, says that resumption of free
coinage of silver is Objectionable to per-
SONS of fixed incomes.
This is true, but in sense broader
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Wherever there is now the free
and unlimited coinage of silver there Is
silver monometallism, and it would
surely come to lis If the United States.
without the cooperation of the other
great commercial nations, should at
tempt to coin all the silver that raight
be brought to its minis at the ratio Of
alxteea y oRe-A Albany yoprasl,
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NeuraIgia

in one eye and about my temples, espe-
cially at night when had been having Q
hard day OF physical and mental labor.
took many remedies, but found help only In
Hoods Sarsaparilla which cured me Of
rheumatism, neuralgia and headache.
Hoods Sarsaparilla has proved itself true
friend. also take Hoods Pills to keep
my bowels regular, and like the pills very
much." ISAAC LEWIS, Sabina, Ohio.
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the "crime" and not quite SO per cent.
in the ten years after the "crime."
And when they have finished that let
them tell us why, if England became
the richest country on earth with the
gold standard and all the other coun-
tries got in debt to her, with their sill
yer or mixed standards, it would not be
good policy for us, if we desire to be
rich and money lenders instead Of
money borrowers. to try EngIand's sys.
tenn awhile?-Greenville Is. CO. News.
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....H the silver senator's would abb
stain from making more speeches, the
boon would be SO precious the country
wonld promise not to hint that their
silence IVES golden, Chjcago Tribune,
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&C. w. M. Reynolds selected sAIas-
ter Timothy when writing his choice
essays, which bore the tide rMaster
Timothy's bookcases"
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No ONE will dare maintain that It is bet
ter to do injustice than 10 bear it.-Aris@
totle.
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The SHERIFF -"You say that fellow who
broke Jail left a message behindin The
keeper-'Yes, sir; here 1t is on this paped
Excuse the liberty take I Truth.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
TO REVISE CITY CHARTER.
Commission Organized and Sub-COmmit-
fee Appointed.

The commission appointed by the Mayor
and President Kendrick OF the Common Coun-
ell met yesterday afternoon at the executive
department and organized, with His Honor.
the Mayor. as chairman, and Council Clerk
Hayden as secretary.
subcommittee, consisting of Arthur l..
Brown. Esq, President Robert B. Littloyof the
Board of Aldermen, and Councilman Ra:h-
bone Gardner was appointed to formulate
charter and submit il to the commission for
discussion. Councilman Gardner was the
member who introduced the bill which re-
suited in the creation of the commission.
The charters of great many of tho larger
American cities are to be considered, with
the view of taking from them suggestions of
what would best be adopted to the conditions
peculiar % this city.
1t is hoped that the labors OF the commits.
sion.will bo completed instime TO. submit some
form of charter 10 the present City Council
TO actiongandsthens ask for the ratification
OF he General Assembly at the January ses-
sion of 1897.
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A SPLENDID TRIBUTE.
Memorial Volume In Honor of the Late
Augustus Woodbury..

The gentlemen OF the Westminster Unitarian
Church who constituted the committee that
arranged for the public services of December
l5, in memory of Rev. Augustus Woodbury.
have completed thor services by issuing in
elegant form memorial volume containing
the address delivered -hy-R -Rex-TheIass-
Slicer, together with an account Of the pro-
cesdings Of the COMMITTEES, and abstracts from
tho LEGAL press relative 10 the occasion.
The book is bound in heavy olivc tinted
paper, with the plain and significant title. in
red ard black ecclesiastical lettering, "In
Memory of Augustus Woodbury."
The frontispiece Is a fine portrait Of Mr..
Woodbury. over the fac-simile of his auto
graph. The complete title on tho next page
IL, "A Service in Memory of the Reverend
Augustus Woodbury., ID. d., Held in the West
minister Congregational Church, Providence,
Il. l., Sunday. December Is, 1885,
The simplicity of the birth and death lotice
is most appropriate II IL In heavy black type.
conferred on one OF the large pages:
AUGUSTUS WOODBURY.,
In Beverly, Massachusetts,,
December 4, 1925.
In Concord, New Hampshire,
November 10, 1895.
TIE action of the society with the resolu.
tions passed, December I, 1885, follows, and
tho following signatures of the committee:
Nicholas sheldon, James Tlilinghast. Frank
lin II. Richmond, Albert l.. Calder. Frederick
". Seabury. Charles Edward Paine, George I.
Calder, Frederick W. Arnold, Joseph &. John.
son, James r. Field
full page engraving OF the exterior OF
Westminster Unitarian Church is the second
illustratios, and on tho opposite paao il the
copy OF the advance notice of the services.
a he ordor Of the service follows. with the full
toxt of tho Congregational hymn, LEAD,
Kindly Light" tho invocation by Rev.
Augustus NJ Lord. the Scripture lesson by
Rev. James q. Vose. ID. d., tho prayer by
Rev. james DE Normsndie. tho words OF the
closing hymn, Onward. Christian Soldiers"
the complete report OF the address by Rev.
Thomas X. sliccr and the ucnediction by Rev.
Herbert ". Mott, the successor to Mr. Wood.
bury at We minister Church.
An abstract from the account OF the service
In THE EVENING News OF December. 10, 1856
follows the order a..d on the next page is IN