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The Portland daily press., 1896-08-04
CURRENT COMMENT.
WHAT FRANK JONES THINKS.

have been chairman of the New
Hampshire delegation to the national
Democratic convention for twenty 10 ur
years. / never cut or scratched q ticekt
Ia my life, but if the actions. the pro-
ceedings, declarations, the platform and
the candidates Of that convention at
Chicago are Democratic, thon have been
dreaming and voting wrong all my life.
If | was the only man In New Hampshire
to do so, l would vote against that ticket
of ruin and Republication. I cannot see
what the laboring men are thinking of
to be carried away with this silver
fallacy. They complain of low wages
now. God help them if the craze is sue
cessful. New Hampshire Democrats took
no part in the nominations at Chicago.
They will take no part in helping elect
them. / hope Democrats will not be so
foolish as to waste their votes on a third
ticket, which will only help Bryan.
There is only one way to crush this silver
nightmare. All other issues, all party
affiliations, all personal feelings must be
put out Of sight in one united effort to
save the honor of this country which can
but be triumphant. 1t is not enough to
defeat it. 1t must be buried.
HONESTY AND DISHONESTY.
(New York Sum-
The silver men say that they want free
coinage Of silver, and at the same time
deny that they are dishonest.
Well, free coinage. of silver at the ratio
of 81 to would produce silver dollars
equal in intrinsic value TO gold dollars.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-04

If abundance and cheRpness of money
with conseq uent high prices of commodi-
ties mean prosperity. then the thing to
do Is to make our money as cheap and
plenty as possible. No matter how little
silver be put in it or how low the price
of that metal a silver dollar can never be
produced SO cheaply as a paper dollar nor
in SO great abundance. II cheapness and
abundance of dollars are the key to pros
perity then let us close up the minis and
instead of coming our money out of gold
and silver set up printing press ana
make it of paper.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-04
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The Portland daily press., 1896-08-04

To establish that system would be foolish
and commercially retrogreasive, but it
would not be dishonest.
Free silver coinage at l6 to /, though,
would produce dollars worth IS cents, &C.
oording to cur financial stand ard of sixty
years. use, and would result in the pay
ment OF all debts, public and private. ON
the scale of so cents to the dollar. That
would be dishonest. The ranting sill yer
mon say the majority of voters in the
United States are IN favor of it. We don
believe them.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-04
FOR PRESIDENT,
WiIliam1CKinley
OF OHIO.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Garret A. Hobart
OF NEW JERSEY.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Llewellyn Powers
OF HOULTON,
OF HOULTON.

The only way that the great majority
of people obtain money. whether it be
gold, silver or greenbacks, is by buying
it with commodities, and they buy it in
order that they may buy other commodi-
ties with it. If it costs much it buys
much, if it costs little it buys little. The
thing is as broad as it is long.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-04

Under the law of 1892 the country
coined gold and silver at the ratio of /
to Is. This at the time it was adopted
was very near TO the commercial ratio.
Yet the slight variance was sufficient
in few years to drive gold entirely out
of circulation. The silver dollar was
Slightly cheaper than the gold dollar, and
Gresham's law soon began to operate and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-23
sTEAMEfts.
ygyAsHINGTON STEAMBOAT corr
w PANY LIMITED

FERRY SCHEDULE
On and after June 18th, 1896. and until
further notice the following ferry schedule
will be in force.
Leave Alexandra. foot of King street. at
6 90, I 80. 5 80. 8 80. 10 so ana II 80
a. M. II 30 80, 2 30 50 30, 30,
6 80 and Z . p. m.
Leave Washin gton. foot of Seventh street,
at 6:15 : 80. : 81. 9 80, 10 80 and / 30,
a. m, II 80. l so. , 30, 3 80 4 sc, 30,
6 80 and : ID p. N.
n. Is. Same schedule Sundays, commencing
5 80 g. IN.
POTOMAC RIVER STEAM
Err WAKEFIELD leaves Washington Mon-
days at 7 90 n M, and Alexandria at 90
a. H., for landings as far as Nomini AMI on
Wednesdays and Saturdays al same hours io1
ST. Clements Bay and Leonardtown.
C. W. RIDLEY, General Manager
John y. PA.p;IErl. Agent.
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alexaas;rss az etle.
WEDNESDAY. EVENING, SEPT. %, 1856.
a Thread Fro-a the Gartl, to Star.

i Thread From t.,e Earth to star.
Professor Ball, the astronomer
royal OF Ireland and one of the most
popular astronomical writers in
Great Britain, has finished curious
calculation on the distance to the
nearest-of the fixed stars. The
calculation was inspired by visit
to one of the great Lancashire thread
factories. The superintendent one
of the factories inspected by the as
tronomer informed the star gazer
that the combined output Of the va
rious Lancashire thread factories
was 155, 600, 600 miles OF thread per
day. Those figures We're certainly
enough to astonish any one unless
it should be an astronomer. Profess
or Ball has long since passed the
point where he expresses surprise ut
string of figures which represent
even billions of miles. Instead OF
falling stunned at the thread man 5
feet he paralyzed the manufacturer
of cotton flaments by telling HIM
that If all the factories in Ian
cashire should work day and night.
producing 1915, 600, 900 miles Of
thread every y hours, it would take
them 200 years to spin a thread long
enough to reach from the earth to
the nearest of the fixed stars.-St
Louis Republic.
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RAILROADS..
yNASVINGTON. ALEXANDRIA AND
w MOUNT VERNON RAILROAD.
FOR WASHINGTON

FOR WASHINGTON
Leave Alexandra, corner King and Royal
streets also stops at King snd Alfred, King
and Payne streets, ard King AMI Spring
Park. daily except Sunday. al . %. u %,
%. 20 Cexpres }, 5 90. : 30 espress .
. o., 20 90 aud 90 a N. and , 90 m,
and 90. , 90 3 90 90. i Is e Dress
: 80. 500, : 90. 90. 3 90, 10 90 and
II 90 IN
suod4ys : 80. 9 % and 10 , a NJ and
1921. u > u. 3 u i y. n, 8 u
: 21, S 21, 8 II 10 u aad II u p. IN.
FOR ALEXANDRIA.
Leave Washington, firm the corner of
Pennsylvania avenue and 13i,, street, daily
except Sunday, Is 10. 90. : 30 jexpress
5 90, 9 90. 1910 10 30 express, and
/ 90 a. m and II 90 IN. and 90. > 90,
800, 4 ID express. > L. . 45. u 10.
! 90, 5 o. 8 90, 10 90, II 90 and IL OU
Sundays %. 9 o5. 1905 and II C5
a. m and II % m and %, , %. 3 o.
4 05, ) 05, q %, : %, s. % . 90 and ID %
p. IN
Leave Alexandria for Mount Vernon and
way stations daily except SUNDAY. at II.
10 80 and IL 80 IN. and II 30, 30,
= 30. 3 30 and 4 ~ N. Leave Mount
Vernon Is. II s. 8. m. and - IS, IS,
23S, > IS, > OS and . 33 III.
Leave Alexandria for Riverside Park daily
except Sunday at . OF. 10 30 snd II 80
a IN and - 30 N and 30, > 80, , 30.
/ 40 30 30 and 80, II.
For Riverside Park sundays 10 so and
/ / 80 a IN and u 80 IN. aud 30. 30,
3 80. 4 80. &c. 6 so. 80, and 80 p. IN
Leave Ri.erside Park daily eXcep;
Sunday at II 80 a. N. and ~ 30. 30.
> 30. 80, i 80, 30, ; 30. and 10 30
y. m.
Leave Riverside Park Sundays at II GO
CO. > 90 3 90, 90. > 90. Is 90, : 90
90. Q 90, 10 90 and II 90 p. N.
Leave Washington for Arlington and Aqne
duct bridge 10 90 and II 0o n III. and II OC
IN. and 90 90 3 90, 4 90. . 90. 8 90
7 CO. ; 90 and 90 p. m Leave Arlington
snd Aqueduct br dye l 30 Il. III. and , 80
30. > 30. 3 30. i 30. . 30, 8 30, 30.
- and 9 30 p. m
Baggage carrlei and checked at King and
Royal streets, Alexandria. and 1915 ana
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, free. 81
cycle carried p cents each.
Communication tickets are sold at the office
Of the Mt. Vernon Railroad. Royal and King
street. at the following ties
rare. Alexandri4 to Washington 10 cents:
rourd.trip % cents COmmutltion rates ;
Quarte;ly tickets. $1256. monthly tickets.
81 %; school tickets 50 20; familf trip
tickets. So %; workmans ticket. 80 cents;
package ticket, 30 cents.
G. Z. ABBOT. GEO. Z. PHILLIPS.
General Manager Genera Passenger Agt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-23
Baggage Transfer.

The Union Transfer Company's wagons
will call at the Mount Vernon Railroad Of
fee, 1875 street aud Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, hourly for the transfer OF bag
gage to the several depots. charge for such
transfer being FifLeen Cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-23

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A
IN special meeting OF the stockholders OF
the CONSOLIDATED QUARRY COMPANY,
request for which has ben duly made. will he
held at 800 p N. OH the 9TH DAY OF OCTo-
Der, 1896 at the Braddock House, hlvxsn-
drla Va The object OF the meet is to ratify
the previous action OF the Board of Dlec'or-
in executing deed of trust conveying the
property Of the company to secure an issue of
bonds aggregating $4,000. and the disposi.
ton Of said bonds, made by said board also 10
au h rize the absolute aIsier Of certain Of
said bonds now held By so ae of the creditors
of said company 10 said directors in full sstis
faction OF their claims said meeting will
also consider such other business as may
properly be brought before it. BY order OF
the board.
II. P. GILBERT. President,
Attest: J. C. PRATT. Secretary
sep9 1aw4w
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-23
The Ostrich.

Instead of being a stupid bird, the
ostrich is one of the wisest and most
wary. About the dwellings OF white
settlers, who have neither the time
nor the inclination to disturb him.
he becomes so tame that he uncon-
cernedly mingles with the poultry
and milk cows as if he, too, were do
INVESTIGATED. He is always fearful of
men on horseback, but is not at al
disturbed by the approach of people
on foot unless they are followed b.
dogs. These ne greatly fears On the
plains he often associates with the
deer or the euanaco, and al alarn
of any kind Will send them rusA.n:
away togother-Foresf AID Stream.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-23
MEETINGS.

N0Tioz-
The annual meeting of the stock holders Of
the SPRING LAKE PARK COMPANY. of
Virginia, will be held in this city at 421
King street, SATURDAY, October 10th, al
2:3O p N.
WASHINGTON DANENHoWFR,
sep12 1ew4w President
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rain No eciatCa lveron Waunon
No Danvile and
Mountain dintme te
5:o H. Train No.
Warrnto
and inter
station returnng arrive Alcxand ia e:51
for andin
N
SLEEPING
Ykan Memphis York
Car 5erwee Greensboro Montgomery
United
Also Sleeping Car between
andAug
ulmn seryaton
THOMAS gent Alexandria Va
H GREEN, w. TURK,
General Supernte General Passenger agent
c. d.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-23

Ayers sarssparilla is not 4 secret p'epsra
ton. Any physician may have the formula
on application. The secret Of its success as
a medicine lies in its extraordinary power to
cleanse the blood of impurities and cure the
most deepened cases of bl Cd disease
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-23
E. S. LEADBEATER 4 SONS,
HoLEsALg AND RETAIL DRUGGIs,
1O5 and 1O7 south Fairfs1 stroet,


1o5 and 1o7 south Fairfs1 stroet,
-eslers in Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Med.
nee, Paints, OILS, Dye Stults, Spices, Mug
,sts' Fancy Goods and Specialties.
Wholesale agents III Northern Virginia fol
; c. ayers Medicines and John Lucas & Co.'S
nte- Gloss and Prepared Pats, &c.
manufacturers of Standard Pharmaceu :ica
operations.
We have made large additions TO our stock
= ID are buying leading Proprietary Articles,
aemicals, &C., direct from the manufacturers.
81 9 are therefore enabled to supply the trade
nth all goods usually carried by well lap
pnintei WHOLESALE DRUG HOUSE al
ices as low IS those given by the best houses
. iarger cities All goods forwarded by first
light or express after receipt of order.
!'roniptness IS our speciality. We guarantee
80 purity OF ali druga furnished. Core.
.ouaerce invited.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-12-18
WINTER SKIRTS.
Warm and Comfortable Garments for the
Cold Season.

Warm and Comfortable Garments for the
Cold Season.
The incest winter skirts are those
made of some glace, dust-shedding
wool. with a little stiffening, like an
alpaca, and lined with flannel. Black
alpaca is the best. Cut the skirt with
two breadths at the back and wide
front breadth, which should be just
about double the width of one of the
back breadths. Gore the front breadth
on each side. Cut the back breadths
with one gored side and one straight.
The straight side of the back breadth
should Join the front breadth, and the
two gored seams be united together
in a bias seam, which must be strongly
stayed with a stout tape of black cot
ton. Cut out breadths of flannel TO
correspond with the breadths of al
paca. If you have an old flannel or cloth
dress Of any color, clean it thoroughly
and use it for lining, by cutting
bieadths from it. Basic the black al
paca front breadth on the one of fan
mel. Lay the back breadths of alpaca
over on the front breadth of alpaca and
the flannel on the flannel. Lay the four
edges of the two seams carefully to-
&c ther and basic them closely. Stitch
up the seams and turn back the back
breadths over each other. Press these
seams with a damp cloth aud hot iron
ard then stitch up the bias seam in the
back without concealing it. Cover the
one raw seam thus left inside with
a cotton tape that acts as a stay and
Tor that purpose must be stitched down
edge, covering the seam. Put row of
feather bone across the bottom of the
front breadth of the petticoat on the
Inside, and ornament it on the outside
with a box-plaiting, about six inches
wide, of black alpaca This plating
must be hemmed on both edges and put
on with a slight heading. Put yoke
or band on the skirt. Fit the skirt to
either by six little cores in the top
OF the front breadth and by plaits in
the back breadth. When alpaca of a
fair quality for this purpose costs but
25 cents a yard, and an old flannel dress
skirt is utilized for lining, an inexpen-
siye, as we'll as useful, skirt may be
easily made.-N. Y Tribune.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-12-18

Even if this is your first appearance
at the public table, find pleasant
"good evening" for your neighbors. 1t
IS possible that a gruff man may not
answer you, but persist in that greet
ing, for, just as certain as that you are
you, your politeness win have its effect
upon him. Remember that the world
should be better because you live in it.
There are duties in life,as well as pleas
ures, and you have no right to shirk
these dutiec because your home, for the
present, differs from that which you
would call a real home. Do not throw
your dinner down your throat as if
-ie were so much coal pitched in the
furnace, but, out of respect for yourself.
observe the table etiquette that OBJ
tains among well-bred people. 1t is
possible that the man opposite you may
WELD his knife and fork in an awk-
ward way, or that the old lady at tho
end of table may be a bit greedy in
her desire to get an extra plate of pud
ding or a specially fine pear. What
other people do must not influence you.
unless it should be for good. but what
you do will, unconsciously, have its eff
feet upon other people. Do not hurry.
and if you can, without seeming eager,
chat pleasantly with your nearest
neighbor, about the many impcrsonal
subjects which rise up in a great city.
Ladies' Home Journal
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-12-18
AEALIA HlNrs FoR eoYs.
food everyday Rules That May 81
Easily Followed.

food everyday Rules That May BE
Easily Followed
In the first place always rise at the
same time in the morning Lying abed
Sunday morning three hours later than
any other day in the week is not real
ly any pleasanter, and, besides, i
throws the whole scheme of your meals
out for that day. know family
and they ought to know better-who
have breakfast at eight on all week
lays. lunch at one and dinner at SIX.
On Sundays, that is once in seven days.
they have breakfast at ten, dinner at
bne and a hearty supper at five. The
result is that by seven o'clock Sunday
night every one in the family feels
stuffed, unnatural, tired, cross and
everything else that is disagreeable.
Don't do this. Eat breakfast at the
uame time every morning in the week.
If at eight on Tuesday, then at eight OH
Sunday. And the same with lunch aii
dinner, or dinner and supper.
When you get out of bed in the morn
ing, strip and go through five-minute
exercise, after studying what partie-
uIar parts of your body and what mus
cles are weak. By going through these
exercises, whatever they are, for i've
minutes, you will end by being IN
glow, perhaps in perspiration. Then
take a bath. Don't make the mistake
some people make of thinking that the
water must always be cold as it runs
cut of a cold faucet or as it comes out
of the pump. That is wrong. English
men very often do this; but the temper
AZURE in England is much evener than
in the middle ATTITUDES of the United
Btates, and consequently "water the
temperature Of the air. does not mean
water that is nearly ice one morning
and comparatively warm the next. a
good plan IS to let cold water run until
the bath is perhaps three inches deep
Then put in little warm water. That
takes the chill off the water, and then
II will not give anyone a shock.
A bath can be had in any house on
The earth, and no one can say that he
cannot battle every morning because
there is no bath tub in his house. There
is always water near Il civilized house,
Or any house, for that matter, and you
can pump it or carry it to your room
the night before if there is no running
water in the house. If there is no bath
tub, get "a chat bath" or, if you cannot
well do that, take big tub, but on no
account give up the bath.
Afterwards give yourself long and
hard rub until your skin is red-and
then the day is well begun.-Harper's
Young People.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-12-18

In the ideal society the host will not
entertain the stranger guest with as
tonishing statements of the money-get-
ting achievement of the neighbors and
fellow-revelers. When a noble por-
trait, painted 'by some great foreign
artist, of the hosts wife or daughter is
exhibited, the guest will not be allowed
to know the amount of the check rem
dered in lieu of it, If the host has writ
ten a rather successful book upon po-
litical economy or finance, he will not
confide the retail price of the volume
in question when about to offer to
present a copy to his friend. If a man
takes a stranger for a drive behind
beautiful and covetable pair of we'll
bred horses the stranger will not need
to know the price paid for them in or
der TO appreciate their merits. If
new room-some grand salon fitted
with tapestries from a decayed palace
of the old worlds thrown open, the
astonishing cost of these sumptuous
draperies will not be whispered about
among the guests. When lovely
woman is pointed out at the ball, the
shain of jewels around her swan-like
neck VIII not be appraised ~ her ex-
hibitor. I almost think that, in your
ideal society, there should be no such
word as dollar.-North American Re
view.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-12-18
pRoLL soRT oE puEL.
How a French sparrow Fought with
aBlackblrd" Up Tree.

How French sparrow Fought with a
"Blackbird" Up Tree.
One day the famous duelist, Pierrot
d'Isaac, went to see his friend, MAR
quis Merle de Sainte-Marie, says the
ST. Louis Mirror. 1t should be ex-
planned that in French pierrot means
sparrow ana merle means blaclbird
Marquis" said d'Isaacs, u am Bona.
partist and you are a royalist. More
over. am the sparrow and you are
the blaekbird. DoesS't. it strike you
that there is one bird 6rus too many ?''
ut precisely does" said the marquis;
''my choice is pistols, and, as is. APP
propriate for birds of our species, let
us fight in the trees" As if it We're
not a sufficiently ridiculous thing that
one man should challenge another be-
cause his name was Sparrow and the
other Blackbird, the duel was actually
fought from trees, the seconds standing
on the ground below. The pistols were
fired at the signal. There was a rust
ling among the leaves of one of the
chestnut trees. 1t was Pierrot d'Isaacs
who, wounded severely in one leg, came
tumbling to the ground. Atthis point
the marquis began 10 chirp triumphant
~, initiating the song Of the blaekbird.
This was fresh insult, to be at0ned
in only one way, and d'Isaacs waite6
for his wound to recover to challenge
Sainte-Marie for the chirp. This time
the duel was fought with swords, and
was badly wounded-the
sparrow had avenged himself on the
blackbird.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-12-18
CAB coNsuMPTIvgs


Not to BE Permitted to Land-A Sanitary
Restrictive Measure.
Local physicians are discussing the
point Of an immigration bill pending
before the New Zealand parliament
with view to calling the attention OF
congress to similar protective meas
ure. The bill in question is to prevent
consumptiyes from entering the coun-
try. To effect that object the captain
of any ship who lands passenger suf
fering from lung disease is liable to n
penalty of $3.50 for every offense, and if
during the voyage he is proved to have
allowed such a sufferer to share q cabin
with another passenger, an additional
fine is thereby incurred. Further
more, there is a provision which holds
a captain personally responsible and
liable to fine if, three months after
landing his passengers, any one OF
them should develop lung disease.
Fancy a captain of nervous tempera-
ment laboring under this law, suggests
the st. James Budget. Given that he
has started with a list of passengers
free from all palpable lung disease, still
his life would not be worth living.
Every cough, every splutter from
crumb in the throat as his passengers
sat at meals, would woIld serve to
dangle the fine demon before his eyes.
One can imagine a captain getting into
such a state of mind as to secretly slip
overheard any passenger developing a