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is in itself. a symphony. These graceful
steps and poses are in fact but the keep
ing of time to the sweetest of dance
music. No wonder that our forefathers
went wild over the pirouetting of the
Grisi. In fact one reads with interest
today of the rare charms of Fannie ELL
sler, whose dancing was said to have
been the perfection of acting. 1t was
love-making in the most delicious pam
tomime, and all the world called her
the greatest actress of her time.
But today the requirements are very
much changed. In those days the ballet
told a story. Today it is simply spectac-
ular. In the time of Taglioni the plot
was evolved in the most graceful of
steps. In these times we are inclined to
be athletic, and the best ballet dancer
is she who can dance the most difficult
steps for the longest period of time. 1t
is a queer test but the poetry has been
knocked completely out of the great art
and it is to be hoped that this years
great promises will at least achieve the
beginning of a change to old ideas.
There are periods at these ballet
schools when merriment holds full
swing and the college yell gives evil
dence that Columbia's boys, or, possi-
bly,, a Harvard or Yale crowd, are re-
hearsing their annual ballet. These
are times when the awkward squad in
ballet costumes give madam" mass
of trouble. But the perfection which
some Of them attain shows the rare skill
of the teacher.
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How Youngsters Are Taught the
Intricate Art
SLOW AND ARDUOUS WORK
A Skill That Requires Patience and Pain
to Attain
Many Difficult Grades to Pass Through
Before They Are Allowed to Dance
on Their Toes.

NEW YORK, Oct 9-The opera
season. brilliant as it's music successes
promise to be, will give us ballet re-
Vival much of the nature of the old Eng
lish and French school, and if expecta-
tions are not too keenly pitched, more
successful than anything we have had
in recent years. There are those who
predict the advent of a Taglioni, Of
Calve of the ballet. of Cenisi, of
Grisi of a Fanny Ellsler. However,
whatever is in store for the American
public, it will have two impresarios to
thank for the entertainment, Abbey and
Mapleson, for both have promised us
great things in music aud greater things
in ballerini triumphs.
had been given this information the
other day, and expressed a desire to wit
ness the ballet evolutions which were to
prove so successful. So I stumbled in
to the ballet school, and was chagrined
to find the mistresses Of the art locked
in a room by themselves.
But the tots were there, the second
and third classes We're in full swing,
and only those who had mastered the
art were hidden from the view Of the
pightseer.
So I looked on, intent to expose the
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At the closing of our mints to silver
July, 1891, our debt was 81, SAG, ,961 ,695, and
our record brings us down to November
1, 1885, four years.
These four years we have been on
gold basis and they should have re.
duced the debt very largely. But in
stead of reducing the debt they added
to it $170, 0S4, making the debt on
November 1, 1895, SLIT, ,4S1,779. These
are facts that no gold statistican can
dispute.
SUMMARY
Paid on our debt from 1866-1S73 in
the greenback era, $685. 753, 1870; paid dur
ing the five years when silver was de-
monetized, $00O,OoO,0 900; added to the
debt in that time, $106, 1874, ,239; paid dur
ing the silver era from 1879 to July,
1881, ,s793, ,605537; added during the gold
era from 1891, to November /, 1895, $780,
5201 paid on the debt during the
gold era, $0O0,0 900.
From the above the most ordinary
reader will see that during the five
years after silver was demonetized, we
piled up $106,1S4,2 ,239 on our debt and
during the four years after our mints
ceased to coin silver we piled up $17O,-
520,OS4 on our debt and the natural in
ference is that if we ever intend to pay
our national debt silver must bear It's
part to do this; it must have equal
rights with gold at our mints.
NOT ONE DOLLAR HAS EVER
BEEN PAID ON OUR NATIONAL
DEBT WHILE SILVER WAS DENIED
COINAGE AT OUR MINTS.
Editor Herald: The above article en-
titled 'The Four Eras of Our National
Debt-Paying," by John Shirley Ward,
first appeared in the Evening Record
and the demand for it was so great that
the Record published it the second time
1t was then taken up by the labor organ
izations of the city and several large edi-
tions were published and scattered
abroad, not only in this city, but in the
eastern states. A few days ago the
Evening Express criticised with some
levity the -Four Eras," claiming that
some of its figures We're erroneous. The
Express did not assail Mr.. Wards fig
ing the "greenback era" The entire
debt of the United States being a green
back debt it was possible to pay a por-
tion of that debt with greenbacks.
This was before the bondholders and
bankers through their influence in con-
gress had the words lawful money"
stricken out Of our bonds and the word
"coin" inserted therein.
The Express claims that the debt as
reported by Mr. Ward in 1873 should be
credited with $129,020,932, the amount 1t
reports as then in the treasury. The sta
tisitical abstract for 1895 does not re-
port one dollar of gold OF silver in the
treasury in 1873, but does report, pages
1856, S54,O7S,S01 as money in the treas
ury at that date made up as follows:
Greenbacks ................. .$39, ,O50, ,855
National bank notes .......... 8,304, $50
Fractional currency .......... 6,72S, ,36O
Total ...................s54O7sso .s54 O7s so1
In 1869 the act to "strengthenth the credit
of the United States" was passed chang
ing our entire debt from a debt payable
in lawful money" to debt payable in
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:. All prices Of wallpaper greatly reduced
4. A. Eckstrom. a2l South Spring street.
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"coin," and hence, at that time, not one
dollar of the $54,078, Sol could be used to
/ pay on our national debt. Still the Elk
press claims that 1t should have been
so used. The Express, If loyal today to
the creed of eithee Mckinley or Palmer,
does not advocate the reduction of our
national debt by the use of silver or any
kind of paper currency.
Having established that there was no
money in the treasury in 1873, which
could have been applied to our debt, it
remains as reported in the -Four Eras'
at 1924, 49,, 1893.
Now as to Mr.. Wards statement of
the national debt for 1879. His figures
for the same are from the Worlds alma
nae for 1885, page 145 The Worlds
almanac is intended as an absolute re-
print of the reports of the secretary of
the treasury. If he has erred at all, it is
In using figures accepted by all as trust
worthy. The discrepancy between the
statement of the national debt between
that of the Worlds alamanac and that
Of the statistical abstract is that the
alamanac gives the debt in 1879 as ST.
$40, ,567, 1892, while that of the statistical
abstract is $2,245. 495, 172. Whether the
error is in the figures of the abstract or
those of the alamanac, we cannot tell.
The date of the statistical abstract is
1895, while the almanac is for 1896,
hence 1t is later than the abstract.
-
the figures of the abstract are correct,
we claim that Mr.. Ward has shown
that not one dollar of our national debt
has ever been paid while silver was de-
MED coinage at our mints." The Express
in order to fortify it's position that our
debt was diminished by the payment of
$109,O ,155 during the era when no silver
was coined, has to claim $249, ,0S0, ,167 as
cash in the treasury, while as a matter
of fact only $135,296,415 of this was in
gold, and this could not have been ap-
piled to the debt, because under the rul-
ings of John Sherman and the succeed
ing secretaries of the treasury, at least
S100, 100000 of gold must always be in the
treasury to keep UP the parity of our
paper money with gold coin and it is the
boast of the goldbugs today that gold
dollar is or should be behind every paper
dollar now in circulation. and hence
every dollar of gold in the treasury
should remain there to keep up the
parity of our paper and silver with our
gold coin.
Mr.. Ward has shown that the greatest
reduction of our debt was made while
we were coming from two to four mil
lions of silver per month and at the time
the -Four Eras" was written that our
debt had increased $170, 084 after the
mints were closed to silver. This addi-
tion to our nationaA debt was increased
by later bonds. issued and sold by Mr..
Cleveland to $262, ,000,00
NEVADA,
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BY JOHN SHIRLEY WARD

There have been four debt paying
eras in our national debt since 1866. The
first era was from 1866 to 1878, and we
call it the 'greenback era" because the
currency was greenbacks and there
was but little gold or silver in circula-
ton.
The second from 1873 to 1879 is the
era in which the mints were closed
against silver coinage. ...,
The third from 1879 when we were
coming silver, to 1891, when we ceased
coming it under the Sherman act, and
this we call the ''era of silver"
The fourth was from July, 1891, to No
vember, 1895, after silver coinage had
ceased and we were on a gold basis,
and this we call 1.-The gold era"
HOW MUCH PAID.
In the greenback period from 1860 to
1873, we reduced our debt from $2,773,-
236,173 to $2,234, ,4S2, 1898, having paid on it
$53S, 1853, 1870. This was done in the six
years while on paper basis.
Silver was demonetized in 1873, and Mt
the time, our debt was s., 2,234, ,4S2, ,993. How
much did we pay on the debt from
1873 to 1879? Instead of paying a dollar
making the debt in 1879 $2,340, ,567, ,2S2.
This was what was done in the era
when we coined no silver.
In 1879. under the Bland act, the mints
began pouring out silver dollars and
continued coinage till July, 1891, though
the Sherman act was not actually re-
pealed till November 1, 1898. Let us see
how our debt Jared during these years
when our mints were flooding the coun-
try with silver.
Our debt in 1879 was 50, $40, SCI, ,232, and
in July, 1891, when the mints closed
again, was $1,546, 961, ,695, having been
reduced in that period by the payment
of $793, ,605,537.
This is what the SILVER age did
toward the reduction Of our public debt.
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THE GIRL WHO WORKS.
If She Is a Dilettante She Is Injuring
Her Sisters.

"Before any girl determines upon out
side training for outside work, would she
not do well to weigh and measure strict
ly her capacity, opportunity, need and be
relatively sure of all?' inquiries Mrs. A.
d. r. Whitney in September Ladies,
Home Journal. Are you capable in any
marked and special degree for one par
ticular pursuit and use? Is it right and
feasible, in the apparent providential
ordering, that you should take time and
money to fit and equip yourself for it,
and then can you reasonably expect
chance and scope to do your chosen er-
rand? Is there need of others to meet,
need of your own to supply? Answer
truly. Do not resolve to be this or that
because you think it a pretty thing to be
or because some one else has succeed
ed in it. 1t may have been her work, and
yet not be yours. A young girl once wrote
me, L have set my heart on being an
authoress. fl cannot be one my life
will be failure Her letter and the
specimens of authorship inclosed, were
themselves argument for, at least, very
patient study and practice. She needed,
also, to live longer and deeper before
she would find true message to deliver
and told her so in the solicited answer
I told them so, for this was only one ap-
peal of many. To you and to others who
only have little more time than money
and would like something to busy you
and help fill your portemonnaie, there
are different things to say. Compare
your need with that of others before you
take up occupation that may be their
livelihood. To intrude into a crowded
rank of workers only to add pleasure
or an elegance to your comforts would be
the extremist fracture of the Eighth
commandment. Forbearance from this
might leave many a chance open to real
necessity which now Is barred or neu-
tralized by cheaper competition. Make
conscience of this If you would make
conscience against robbing direct"
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to overcome this corrosion. The cost Of
this amount of copper cable is $12,852. 1t
secured to the engineer of the road that
there were some 500 tons of old car rails
on hand which might be employed their
scrap price as old iron being only $S per
ton delivered. These rails were bolted
together and arranged so that the end
of one rail was the center of it's mate.
These rails were also provided with a
plastic bond and laid in wooden trough
filled with an insulating compound. The
total weight of rails employed in the two
lines was 26O tons, valued at $40O. The
total expenditure for laying, bonding,
etc., did not exceed s2500, securing re-
suits which are the equivalent of $15,-
900 copper cable including the expense
of laying.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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A NEW USE FOR OLD RAILS.

A novel use of old rails has recently
been made by the Buffalo street railway
company in employing them in place of
copper cables to increase the carrying
capacity of the return circuit Of the road
formed by the tracks, which experience
has proved to be inadequate to carry the
large current necessary during hours Of
heavy travel. 1t was found that serious
electrolytic corrosion of water and gas
pipes within a radius of half mile of
the power house was resulting. from this
fact Careful measurement showed
that it would require two copper cables,
one containing 3.55 square inches of cop
per and 1900 feet long, and the other 12.4 .4S
square inches of copper 1900 feet long.
The herald., 1896-10-18
CHINESE TELEGRAPHY
1t Is Conducted in Very Curious Man.
ner

All the principal cities Of China are
now connected with one another, and
with Pekin, the capital, with telegraphy.
1t seems, however, that telegraphing in
that country is laborious and an ex-
pensive process, and the lines are a
charge upon the state treasury, instead
of a source of revenue.
AS the Chinese have no alphabet
their literary characters, numbering
many thousands, being partly ideo-
graphic and partly phonetic-it is i'm
possible to invent telegraph signals that
would cover the written language. A
cypher system, therefore, had to be
adopted. The sender Of the message
need not bother himself about it's mean
ing. He may telegraph all day with
out the slightest idea of the informa-
tion he is sending, for he transmits only
numerals.
1t is very different with the receiver
however. He has a code dictionary al
his elbow, and after each message is re-
ceived he must translate it, writing
each literary character in place of the
numeral that stands for 1t. Only about
an eighth of the words in the written
language appear in the code, but there
are enough of them for all practical pur-
poses,
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cruelty Of those ballet teachers, who to
the lay world were supposed to torture
the limbs Of the little ones to make them
as agile as q cat and as graceful as
swan. The simile is perfectly correct,
as far as the grace and agility are con-
cerned, but when it comes to cruelty
pas de tout.
They are sweet and exceedingly clev-
er, this class of six-year-old girls and
boys for they seem to be the pick OF a
hundred or more who had tried TO
enter this bevy of twenty.
Further on are the advanced classes
of girls, ranging in ages from ten to
fourteen, and going through series Of
exercises, monotonous to the sightseer,
but evidently Of the greatest impor-
tance to themselves.
IN THE SCHOOL.
The hall itself Is worth word or
two by way of explanation. 1t is large
enough for three classes of twenty, and
a single teacher devotes an hour and
half daily to all of them. Along the
wall long thin poles are ranged, ad-
Unstable to the average height of II
class, and here it is that the much
talked of leg exercises take place. The
classes practice by turns. A minute
exercise is followed by five or ten
minute rest, the classes of little ones
always getting the benefit of the long
rest and the short exercise. Then there
dre DeHcHeS Ior the InotHeTS, WHO seem
To take special delight in the progress
of their offspring.
The very first things taught the bal
let novitiate are what Taglioni called
the five ballet senses, the five primary
positions Of the feet. They are difficult
to master, even for the cleverest of the
little ones, and very often the older ones,
who begin their. daily work with this
exercise, find that they have forgotten
q little here and there
This exercise is followed by body and
arm and by knee and leg exercise, the
latter the most trying at the outset. But
the "rondes de jambes a bas" and the
"petits battements" are the prettiest of
these exercises to the onlooker In fact,
there Is much to admire in every move
ment, for it is only the constant repeti-
tion that pals on one. The "rondes de
jambes bas" is circling of the toes of
one foot around the other foot, and but
for the dust that 1t raises always requir-
ing plentiful sprinkling, would be in
teresting even If seen dozen times. It
Is the "petits battements" that bring the
glow to the cheeks of these learners for
It is quickness that counts in this sud
den throwing of one foot back of the
other. But then the movement is not
repeated too often, and the rest after it
is long, and, as a rule, we'll earned.
But there are the entire chats and the
pirouetting to be learned before the pu
Pill reaches the goal Of dancing on the
toes. To the little ones that is far off,
and they sit In wonderment at the mar
velous work of their elders.
WHERE TIME COUNTS.
To the lay mind the simplest and cas-
lest part Of this work, but as matter of
fact, the most difficult, is the keeping in
accurate time with the music. To those
who have no prediction for tone har-
monies the task is almost insuperable,
eer ballet dancing, Ia prima ballerina,
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One II
Bottle
Cures
One Bottle Cures

rbou sands Of reliable cltlsens testify {het
the above peculiar sn'd distresslug- com.
a conqneror tn McBurney's Kidney and
Bladder Cure. u III.
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SHOP TALK

Purple is one of the favorite winter COL
ors.
Dresden and Persian ribbons are decided
ly passe
Curled quilts are among novelties in hat
trimming.
Golf has brought all things Scotch to the
fore in fashion.
Moire silk brocaded in large patterns
is regaining popularity.
A. charming prize for an early fall card
party is a pair of gold grape scissors.
Some pretty new handkerchiefs have a
running vine. daintily embroidered, above
a narrow hem.
If your house has been newly painted, a
few sticks of Japanese incense burned in
the most used rooms will deaden the smell
of the oils.
The herald., 1896-10-18
A NOBLE BRITON

Miss Octavia Hill, rich Epglishwoman,
Isl directing her charity toward providing
comfortable homes for poor but worthy
people. She buys up each year some neg
pair, adds some comforts and conveniences
and then let's them to such poor families
as commend themselves to her. excluding
Call tel. 243 for ambulance. Kregelo
& Bresee, Sixth and Broadway,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-11-06

Porter futile, Geo. Hoistetter Sumner
Bush and Henry Harrison were home from
the university To vote.
j, + Newton had the misfortune to break
his collar bone last Friday lie was get
ting ont Of his buggy and slipped. He is
doing as well a could he expected.
Mr,.J. VI Wood and daughter came near
meeting with scriOu, accident last Friday.
They were drawing water from the cistern
when the platform gave way and both went
down into the water. They were immedi-
ately rescued by neishbor, and happily
neither OF them injured but both received n
thorough ducking and quite severe shock.
| q LaCIear is entertaining his father
this week 1ne old gentleman lives at Ash
ley and has lately been VISITING in the up-
per peninsula. The Gladstone Delta has
the following 10 sy.. Of him. Mr.. Shubaol
LaClear, OF Ashley, this state, is in the city
Mr. LaClear was in Green Bay this week,
his first visit in seventy years lie went
thither i'm 1926 ON the steamer Enterprise,
Captain Mead, which carried troops and
supplies to build Fort Howard. There was
AT that time no city on the upper lakes
Detroit was but a village Chicago was but
Fort Dearborn, and the post at Mackinac
was about all there was of civilization ON
the whole stretch of waters. jeff Davis
was still a cadet at West Point and Lincoln
had not yet served his brief apprenticeship
aS a soldier in the Black Hawk war The
changes since that brief visit to our bay are
the most wonderful in the annals OF the
world Mr.. LaClear stayed at Green Bay
but two days and returned to Buffalo and
became "A boatman ON the Erie canal Six
year, later he travelled through the wilds Of
Arkansas, It Louis being then but a Strag-
Cling vi lage Of less han "A thousand souls.
Later he made his home in the lower PENN
sula, and though nearing his nineteth year
he had desire to see the place he had visit
ed in his youth. He brought with him a
quantity of merchandise and is as keen at
bargain as any drummer ON the road. It's
interesting to converse with one who gazed
upon these shores when they were yet UNI
known to civilization and who recOunts the
adventures OF a long and useful life with
faculties vet undimmed by his extreme age.
Mr. IaClear returns to his home on the Ann
Arbor.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-11-06
UNION VETERAN UNION
And Veteran Rsiief Union Will Hold Their
Next State Enc 4mpm ent AT st. Louis.

The annual encampment of the above or
week with some 300 in attendance In adj
dition to the regular business and the elect
ion of officers, i'm which 1t. Louis Jared well,
thi, city was selected a. the place for hold
ing the ~ encam1meht providing the pro-
per rates could be obtained from the rail-
roads. The following are the officers elect
ed; Dept. Com. George NJ. Mead, South
Camden; First Dep. Com, George Turner,
Bay City; Second Dep. Com, q. + Hall,
It Louis; Chaplain, Charles X Davis, South
Camden; Surgeon General, DIR :. :. French,
Battle Creek; Executive Committee; Frank
Berdan Bay City; F. NJ Frear St Louis;
\. II. Boies, Hudson; Ashley Clapp, Kala-
mazoo; Oscar Driscold, Jackson; K. w.
Jackln, Detroit and DR. 4. w. Alvoid,
Battle Creek. The V. X. t. officers are:
President, Mrs Lydia Sprague, Greenville;
Sen. Vice, Mrs. Lotte Plat, Ray City; Jun
Tor vice, Mrs. Maggie Morse, Battle Creek;
Con-, Mr., Alice Spaulding Gaeenville;
Treas, Mr., Jessie Hayden, Greenville; In
side guard, Mrs Lucy y. Hall, 1t Louis;
Outside guard Mre Barbara Weller, Bay
City.
st. Loui, secured three Of the grand Off
Ger, in the deal. The encampment will
bring two or three hundred person, from all
parts Of the state to our city and will prove
a good advertisement. Everyone should
help in making it success.
80, 80 LtIl,t. :. Lou.