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The San Francisco call., 1898-05-29

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 hoofs had time hide themselves before Madison Clay, stolen horse of Judge Boompoiner' swept them with his knsman.
 turned to her lover.
 
 And here might as a moral romancer pause leaving the guilty passionate girl eloped with her dsreputable lover lifelong and misery, misunder stood to the criminal, fastidous parent But am confronted which this base
 A month handbin posted of the announcing that the property would be sold by the highest bidder by Mrs. John Dart, daughter of Madison Clay Esq., and it sold accord ingly.
 1aterby ten yearsthe chroncIer of these pages visited breeding farm in the Blue country for the popular racers had pro duced told that the owner rne best judge of the country.
 wonder" added bis informant flor they say as a young in California he horse-thief and only save eopng with rich farmers datghter But he's a straght-out and respectable man yyho word wife beauty! her at the Springs rigged out in the fashion you'd never think she had New York wasn't the wife of of millionaires."
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-29
GIANTS OF PATAGONIA.

The tribes to the east of Cordleras In southern Patagonia belong Araucanian stock and superior race The Tehuelchesas they call themselyesof south rise the fables of the early days to the effect that the natives of this region giants averag ing ten n a they the tallest beings world the averaging six while individuals of four inches above that mark not uncommon. They In but somewhat civilized barbarfans They unacquainted with the notwithstanding contact with the whites but they have plenty of horses and dogs,
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-29
TWO CUBYNS
 IN H PARIS CLUB

Y T WAS In 1888 1889, while rejoicing the proud privileges of 'etudiant philosophe' a the Sorbonne in Paris that I, in with many Of fellow students, member "Cercle de la belle Iune The club met in brasserie in the boulevard St. Michel, and significantly implied by its name held it's meetings exclusively after nightfal
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-29

(Begun last Sunday.) PART II.

Il. "A T NEVERTHELESS. that night, after her father had IN gone bed. Salomy Jane sat by the open window l M of the sitting-roon in an apparent attitude of l eye fine moonlight night. Two
 pines near door-sotary pckets of the serrted
 ranks of distant forest--cast long shadows like paths cottage sighed their spced breath in the shadows. there frivolity of vine or flower round Saomy Jane's bower.
 clearing recent, the life too practical for these the added elusive everything, the rigid outlines of the sheds gave the idless windows and touched mercfu indirectness the hideous debris of refuse gravel the of burnt vegetation before Salomy Jane affected by it. and exhaled something between sigh and yawn with the quick had caught faint 'click, click in the training determine that it was the ring shoe finty ground; her knowledge of the locality told her it from the spot where the trail passed outcrOp of flint scarcely quarter of within the clearing. It stock" for the shoe shod with from it mounted trespasser by night and boded no good like Clay.
 She rose, threw her shawl her head more for disguise shelter, passed Of the door. A impulse her her fathers shotgun from the where it stood-not that she feared any directly keeping the shadow of the pines long could. At the fringe she halted; whoever there pass her before reaching the house
 Then there seemed to be suspense of all nature. Everything deadly stll-eVen the mOunbeams ap- peared longer tremulous; then there rustic stealthy animal the fernsdnd then dis mounted stepped into the moonlight. It was the
The Conservative, 1898-10-20
Che Conservative.

WedhcI oleS. Lie Opelutlol ID WCl
adapted to the purpose of soothing pub
lie alarm, and it had that effect in this
instance. Nevertheless there were very
few banks in New York that did not
make difficulties about paying checks in
cash. The course they pursued was
highly c~ommendable and, indeed, indis-
pensable, but the truth is that they were
for a while in a state of virtual suspen-
sion, although fortunately they did not
close their doors.
The evidence that they were in this
state is proven by the fact that their GER
titled checks sold for some weeks in
Wall street at a discount ranging from
/ to 4 per cent. OF course nobody would
sell a certified check at a discount if he
could go to the bank and draw the
money for it.
Other parts of the country did not
fare so well. One hundred and fifty
eight national banks suspended, with a
capital stock of $50, $50, 900. All but five
Of these bank suspensions were in the
Southern, Western and Pacific states
and territories. During the same per-
iod there were 415 failures of state and
private banks, with liabilities of $97,-
1913 900, a mortality unprecedented in
our financial history, except, perhaps, at
the beginning of the Civil War. 1t
should be added by way of comparison
that the number of national bank fail
ures in the previous year was only
seventeen, and of state and private
banks siXty-nine.
The number of mercantile failures
during the year was 14,212, with liabil-
tiles of upwards of $3.50, 900, 900, Dur
ing the previous year the failures had
been 0 ,344, and the liabilities $114, 900,
600.
CONGRESS REFUSES TO REPLENISH THE
TREASURY.
The commercial crisis became so Sc.
we're that congress was compelled by the
} force of public opinion to repeal the sill
| ver-purchase act of 1890. This was
+ done in the special session of August
: October, 1898, but it did not put an enc
r to the crisis. The foundations of credit
: had been too profoundly shaken. The
l government income fell off heavily (botl
7 duties on imports and internal r%evenue)
I so that the Secretary was obliged to taxi
money from his gold reserve to pay cur
= rent expenses. This created fresh alarm
9 Congress reassembled in December, and
I although appealed to in moving term
l by the Secretary to pass some measur
I to replenish the Treasury, it did nothing
l This is a picture of greenbackism tina
should be dwelt ON for a moment. Her
. was the nation rushing upon bank
u ruptcy. The gold reserve was down t
The Conservative, 1898-10-20


the governments promise inscribed on
the face of the greenback could not be
fulfilled. Congress was in session. The
Secretary of the Treasury asked it to
give him authority to issue bonds OF
temporary certificates bearing 3 per
cent interest to avert national bank
ruptcy, and all the answer he got was
hard words. A senator from Nebraska
denied that there was any such thing as
a greenback redemption fund. "The
so-called reserve fund.-" he said, sis one
of the instruments used in a gigantic
system Of buncoing the people. 1t is
used as the occasion and preteXt for the
unnecessary issuance and sale from time
to time of government bonds, with
which to stop the clamoring of Lombard
and Wall street sharks, as the dismal
bark of Cerberus, the triple-mouthed
dog that stood guard at the gate of
Hades, was stopped by being fed with
victims destined for the weird and
waste land of Pluto. Senator Allen,
January 20, 1894.
FIRST $50, 900 900 BOND ISSUE.
There was an old law on the statute
book which afforded a roundabout and
expensive means of replenishing the
treasury by selling bonds, but as soon as
the secretary gave signs of his intention
to resort to it a number Of congressman
declared in public debate that the secre-
tary had misconstrued the law, and that
any bonds issued under it would be IL
legal. Some congressman introduced
bills to forbid the payment of interest on
any bonds so issued. The point of all
this is that in a time of a crisis when it
is necessary for the government to use
it's ample powers to provide mean for
redeeming it's demand notes, it depends
upon politics whether those powers shall
be used or not. Here was a case direct
ly in point. If there had been no law
on the statute book of the kind which
Secretary Carlisle finally resorted to,
would the congress to whom he appealed
have passed one? Assuredly not. The
, congress which then occupied the ma
tional capitol did not believe in gold re-
demption of the greenbacks. 1t did not
i believe in gold at all. 1t had been
, coerced to repeal the silver-purchase
act, but it would not take another step
towards the gold standard. Yet I have
> heard congressman say that the govern
ment is better security for a paper cur-
rency hal the banks, utterly ignoring
, the fact that the only time in recent
S years when congress has been called
Q upon to make good the guarantee it re-
;. fused to do so.
t On the 18th of January the Secretary,
g being convinced that congress would do
The Conservative, 1898-10-20

secretary Carlisle would take steps to
replenish his reserve or not. They could
not know whether any steps he might
take would be effectual or not. Being
not exactly fools, they took care Of their
own interests by keeping their own gold
and compelling the exporters to supply
themselves from the Treasury. I should
not want to own stock in a bank that
would do otherwise under like circum-
stances. When the situation became
clear, when it was known exactly what
the government would do, the banks
were not slow in turning their gold over
to the government.
PANIC OF 1898.
When Secretary Carlisle came into
office he was faced with an appalling
condition Of the Treasury. There was
a constant demand for gold and no gold
receipts to meet it. He followed his
predecessors example by soliciting gold
from the banks in forma pauperis. The
banks responded by turning $4,000 900
into the Treasury in exchange for legal
tenders. This was quickly licked up by
the gold exporters, and on April Is the
Secretary was obliged to acknowledge
hat the 800, O0O, 900 fund had been
~encroached upon. 1t was the first time
that this had happened since the fund
was created. The announcement went
like an electric shock through all the
fibres of commerce. There was no town
which had a bank that was not affected
by it. A run on the banks began at
once. 1 do not mean that everybody
who had any money on deposit went to
the bank and drew it out, but that a
great many did so who would other
wise have left their deposits intact. The
shrinkage of deposits in national banks
from May 4 to July 10, 1898, exceeded
$685., 900, 900. This drain ON the banks
compelled them to curtail their loans
and discounts, and the curtailment of
loans and discounts compelled merchants
and manufacturers to draw down their
balances still further. The alarm ex-
tended to savings bank depositors, who
either called for their deposits or stopped
depositing their wages, and kept their
earnings in their stockings and their
chimney corners, thus producing further
contraction. There was a sudden tight
ness of money in all parts of the United
States. The country banks usually
keep their surplus funds on deposit in
New York, because they can earn a
small rate of interest in that way. They
began to call for these balances, and the
cash went away from the city banks at
the rate of $10,O 0 900 per week. On
the Oath of June the rate of interest fol
call money in New York was "a pei
cent, and time money was not obtain
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-23
Elephant vs.. sparrow.

A pugnacious sparrow the other day
flew into the elephant house in the
Central Park menagerie, New York,
and began picking up the crumbs from
the table of the elephant then inside.
The mammoth and midget apparently
did not see each other for some time,
until the former. in shifting his posi-
ton, nearly placed his ponderous foot
on the latter. The fighting little speck
of fuss and feathers evidently accepted
his thoughtless act as a challenge to
battle, and at once flew in the ele-
plants face. The great beast looked
astonished, and. sending a small cy-
clone through his trunk, raised such a
cloud of hay and dust that the bird was
lost sight of.
When the air was cleared, the biped
was seen on the quadruped's back. A
shake of the elephants loosely fitting,
tough, though sensitive hide, frighten-
ed the little fellow, who hoped to the
floor and looked into the face of his
antagonist.
Thus they stood as though trying to
recover breath for few seconds. when
the elephant reached out his trunk
towards the sparrow The bird with
outstretched wings and ruffied feathers,
threw himself, with full force at the
end of the threatening proboscis. Then
came gentle blast of air from the
elephants lungs, and the sparrow was
blown against the wall of the house.
The little fellow, without even so much
as parting look at his huge antago-
mist, mounted to the open window and
disappeared.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-23
Amusing knowledge.

Take a hard boiled egg and place it
on the edge Of plate, holding the tip
of the pointing finger lightly on the 9TH
err end to keep it in position. Having
first wound light string around the
body of the egg, a quick spinning mo-
ton can be eAtained by pulling the
string quickly. The egg will be seen
spinning for some time within the
plate. There is also another method Of
standing an egg on end and making a
new Columbus discovery.
Instead of making the egg spin on the
plate one can also chase it around the
room, like top, by using whip of
well twisted cord. AS the egg will nee
essarily strike in some corner or crack
while spinning, one may use an arti-
fetal egg instead, such one as is used
for darning stockings. This "unbreak-
able" egg can be spun with all zest
around the floor as long as the impell-
ing force keeps up.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-23
rae PEpPEk BOX rRIcK.

into your left hand. Put on the lid and
push up the telescope bottom quickly,
and passing the box to the right hand,
rattle it, and ask where the money
shall fly to. Have cup at hand (near
the left), and as feint, say Here it
Isl" at the same time letting the money
fall into the cup. Presto! Fly!" 1t is
now again in the tox, and by rattle it
appears SO. Remember all the while to
hold the money fast in the cup, to pre-
vent detection. Presto! Fly again." 1t
is now down WHY'S throat-is it not
so? Place the cup to his ear; out it
falls! Is it the same quarter? To be
sure it is; there's the mark! This COM
pletes the pepper-Dox trick; but the
routine indicated for its performance
can be easily varied by any adept at
legerdemain.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-23
bringing Two Separate colns Together

Take two cents, which must be care
fully placed in each hand, as thus: The
right hand with the coin on the fourth
and little finger. as in the illustration.
Then, place at short distance from
each other, both hands open on the ta-
BILE, the left palm Icing level with the
fingers Of the right. BY now suddenly
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-23
THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
Gala Week in the Chief City of
Florida.

Trades Parade and Historical Floats, and
Brilliant Fireworks Illustrating the Bat
tie of Maniia-Two Spanish Gunboats
visited by Hundreds at jacksonville.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-12-23
The PEPPER-Rox TRICK.
An Interesting and Amusing Trick Easily
Performed.

Performed.
Procure common pepper-box. and
get tinman to unsolder the bottom,
and then fasten on to it tube of tin
that will just fit the inside of the box,
like a telescope. At the bottom side of
this tube slit must be cut that will
let a quarter slip through. In the lid
of the box duplicate top is to be fas-
tened, leaving inside piece of tin, that
will rattle when shaken. Now for the
trick. Take the box in the left hand,
ask one of the company for quarter.
and to mark it that it may be identified.
With the right hand draw off the lid,
and request that tho money be put into
the box. It will of course slip through
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26
When We'll Padded.

A San Francisco teacher is said to have slapped a pupils face the other dar, and there's big hulIahaloo about it We don't know whether she slapped the cbild's face or not, nT whether it was deserved if she did, bn' 1t strikes u, that in the days when youngsters were sound. ly and well psddIsd there wasu'. so much bo~Iing about punishment in schools. This was either because the children who were we'll disciplined al home didn't need 80 much of it in school, or else they kept srill about the Click. ings" they got in school, knowing there would be little sympathy for them at yhome.-Fresno Expositor.
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26

In Pinal county all delinquent property on the tax roll has been sold to the territory. no person deeming it safe to buy in property offered at tax sale where no notice had been given to the property owner. This is one of the direct re. suits of the delinquent tax law passed by the last legislature of dishonored memory. This body of men were elected because they were democrats and free silver men, not because they had a particle of the grey matter that goes to make up the think tank of men of business. We hope Arizona will never have another such aggregation of mon strcsities in it's legislative halls.
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26

It is estimated that naval bat tie between two modern men-of-war cannot be carried on at cost short Of several millions of dollars. Cat ling guns shont 300$ worth of cartridges minute; larger guns cost from 600s to S0t,s each dis charge; 80 it will be seen that cost of ammunition alone would run into the hundred- of thousands of dol lars in an hours fight. Then ship costing several millions of dollars is liable to be destroyed and it's op- ponent badly damaged, if not de- stroyed.
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26

A telegraph from Havana, dated March 18th, says: Gunner Nor gan made startling discovery in the Maine wreck to-day. He found a large amount of gun cotton in the crystal tubes in which it was kept. The tubes were unbroken and the gun cotton absolutely dry. It was the highest explosive aboard the ship, and if the explosion had orig mated within the hull it would certainly have blown up, too, yet it was found intact.
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26

The comet that was discovered last Sunday morning by Assistant Astronomer Perline of the Lick ob. servatory is now just visible to tn. naked eye by reason of the distinct stellar nucleus and tail. It is an easy object for small telescope. It is situated in the northern con stellation Pegasus, and is moving northward and eastward somewhat more than degree day.
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26
Rooms Light isi HOuseke
 OR LODGING By the Day, Week or Month Enquire of Mrs Smith at the Ryan Lodging House. Cleaning and Refa,ms Of Mems Clothing.
 Sewing and Dressmak,ng.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To C. B. Rendleman, his assigns or
 Is al representatives:

To C. B. Rendleman, his assigns or
 Is al representatives:
 You are hereby no,ified that we have ax. pended during the years 1896 and ISa7. the sun of two hundred doll4's in labor and impr Jvements upon the Golden Key lode. situate on Bnrro Greek, Greenwood mining district, County of Mohave, Arizona, of which the location certificate is ound of rscorJ in book l.. pages BOTS, in the office of the Recorder of said Mohsve oonnty. in order tO hold said oiaim under the proyis. iona of section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the amendment iheret", approved Janusry 22. 1880. con oerning annual labor upon mibing claims, being the amount required to hold said lode for the period ending on the 3Ist day of December of said years Ds.y6 and Is97, And if, within ninety days from the per s0nal service of this notice, or withiu nine ty days after the publication thereof, you fail or refuse to contribute your proI orion of snoh expendi' ure as a co.owner, your interest in the oiairn will become the prop. erty of the snbsotihers, your co.owners who havo made tae required expenditure by the terms of said section.
 II. K. McChuaz,
 W. A. NKAL-
 singman, Arizona, Jan. {, 1898.
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26

Senator Gallinger, of New Hamp- shire, who has just returned from Cuba, says that over 100000 Gu bans have starved to death since the reign of Weyler in that island. Of the 3S0.000 Spanish soldiers landed on the island one-half have perlsned from disease and m uat tie. When news of the ravages of the hubonic plag ie in far off India reached America philanthropic people gave unsparingly of food and clothing to alleviate the famine in distress, but they are slow to re spond to the disparing cries of starving thousands on our southern shore. What a pity! What a shamel
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26

The sale of property for delinquent taxes nas been snnz on At the Court House thi. ws-k ~,th no bidders. and everything is knockei down 10 he Ter ritory. O.. gen lentn esms np from Casa Gra0ds ~ilh l5D0t which hs in tended 10 invest in rsx ulles, bal when he learned that the islIoqlani list had not been published aud no person ,i notice had Deen given dsllnqrenls hs rr insed to buy dollar. worth of property As he 'ersely stated. The whole li-t s not worth len cents, fo' he simple req son that yon cannot take mans prop .rty vi houi legal notice or due process of las" And ihus it appesrs that the peBnywiss and pound foolish policy Of the Tin horn legislature hs been the msAns of defraniins the several counties of the Territory out of miny thpns,nds oi dollar s.-Fllrnnrs Trihpnp.
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26

The appointment of E. K. Ellin- wood as assistant attorney for Ari- zona by the department in the case of the United States vs. the Copper Queen Mining Company, in which 1S0,O0os is involved, shows how highly prized is his great legal ability and acumen. Mir. Ellinwood easily ranks all practitioners at the Arizona bar.
Mohave County miner., 1898-03-26

During Il recent visit of c. Nick Stark to Prescott. Rogers, of the Courier, put up job and had the panoram,c News man elected cham pion homely man of Arizona. While Stark cannot be classed as a beauty he would size up amaz- ingly we'll even among the editorial fraternity of Kingman.