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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-29
CASTo7IA.
pso-,tb THE Kind You Have Always Bough
Signature ss &>MAzztzM

Madrid. Dec. 23.-Advices from llollo
say that the heavy firing from the Span
ish trenches extended over a period OF
three days. Masses of rebels were
swept down by Spanish artillery. The
Spanish less is six killed and seventeen
wounded.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-29
Death Of Mr.. Howell.

Springfield, Mass, December 20
John Howell, aged IA. died today. He
was born in England, and was one of
the six hundred in the famous Balakla-
va charge. He was also veteran of
the civil war.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-29

GOOD FARM, Attractive Home
~ We offer 305 acres of productive
land, p miles of city, which lies well
and is easily cultivated. About 40 acres
in timber. Part of farm now sodced i'll
blue grass. Brick dwelling. Large bank
barn, comparatively new. Orchard.
Examine this. Pride $4,000. Easy
terms. Will take smaller farm in part
pay. MCILHANY & HILLEARY.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-29

The wolf of
s t rv a t on
howlS at the
doors of thou
sands of men
| who are we'll
> to do and sur
rou d by
pie n t y. Ill
health, in the
M al o rity IF
cases, is starva-
tion, pure and
S i m pie. 1t
m e ans th at
b o d y, b n.
n erve, bone
and sinew are
improperly or
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-29

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c
II c. C. C. fail to cure. druggists refund money
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-29

lNOTTCF I viii open PEI ar and g eopdTGt pdIth
anonsta s. one door % South Of JOS. L. Barth
& Co, on and after Dec. 1st, 1898, with select
, Groceries, Country Produce, Tobacco cigars,
for "a sh at bottom prices: and said business
will be conducted by d. A. SNITEMAN as my
agent. ReSpecIIu!ly, ,rYrD,.N
Staunton, Nov. 20, '9S. oec u
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24

considerable SANDER. She was almost
blinded with the anger that possessed
her as she stood there determ:nedlv
staring at that ill-favored group of pho
tographs; and yet, as she grew some
what calmer, it was straight back to the
window that she went. Woman-like,
she could not resist the impulse to know
the worst that might be said.
she had no conjunction of con-
science IN thus playing the role of caves
dropper. So far as she thought about
1t at all in her disturbed condition of
mind, it was to argue that a conversa-
ton thus carried on on the public side
walk could hardly assume to be private
III its nature. AS in honor bound, she
coughed slightly to give notice of her
presence as she resumed her seat; but
the cough was very gentle, and, if she
had been disposed to self-examination,
she must have owned herself relieved
when presently the voices went on I'M
heedingly.
Il always thought twas McCready
put the colonel up to that job in the
first place" one was now meditatively
observing. ''You mind he was workin
in the Mascot when they run across
that slip in the hangin' wall, N twas
then, l reckon, he see his chance. He
writes of to the colonel to give him Il
bond n lease on the Grubstake, n that
puts the colonel onto the fact that the
old claim might be with so'thin', n
over he comes n looks the ground
over, n they fix up some kind of a deal
between EN-. McCready is superintend-
ent Of the mine, n up he goes sinkin'
Il shaft in the toughest ground ever
wGs-nO sort of show Of mineral at all; ;
but that don't feaze McCready. He
knows what he's about. N pretty soon
he's driftin' straight in the direction of
that little no-account crack in the Mas
cot hangin' wall, N all of sudden
there he is with both feet. He's strucl,
a true fissure vein that he must nachelly
teller right across the Mascot's richest
ground. Oh, 1 tell you twas McCready
engineered that deal"
But I notice that the colonel wasn't
for givin' back anythin' when Neil
come claimin' that the ore was his'n,' -
rcjoined the other voice, dryly. But l
s'POse McCready was at the bottom OF
the job, just the same. He's always had
it in for Neil along of that dynamite
business"
Yes; he's sore about that-and no
wonder. It was a clos't shave for Nc
Cready. If the union hadn't "a put in
it's best licks to save him, reckon he'd
a been IN states prison now, instead of
swcllin' round as superintendent of the
GrUbstake. Though, IS fur as that goes,
never quite believed he done it."
ooh, nobody believes he done it
now," laughed the other. Nobody be
ieves he ever set eyes on the old Mas
cot shaft-house. But, 1 say, what's
the matter with goin' over to Jim's n
havin' game of freeze-out GA prop
osition which was promptly followed
by shutting of feet across the street.
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grove where the road started was the
one touch of sylvan beauty of which
Windy Gulch might boast. There was
q great, implanted wooden structure,
housing an abandoned process for treat
ing ores, just at the left of the turn
ing point, followed by two or three
cabins likewise deserted; but beyond
this the trees had been left to grow
old unmolestcd. y little way along
there was an old Spanish arastra fallen
to ruins across the creek, while the
yawning mouths of shallow tunnels
here and there told of somebody's fail
ures; but paying leads had never been
discovered in this quarter, and in these
days Windy Gulch for tae most part
passed it by unheeding. Sometimes
lovers came to loiter along its shaded,
gTass-grownr road on Sunday afternoons;
and more rarely yet travellers passed
that way, going to or coming from Tom
town, but these latter generally chose
to go round by the newer and better
road that turned off down the canyon
few miles below, so that Dorothy had
discovered that on weekdays she might
safely count on never meeting anybody
here.
But it happened on this August after
noon that Harvey Neil had started for
Tomtown, hoping to consumm2te some
sort of bargain by which his slippery
colleague Brigham might be left to his
duty III the Forthcoming trial. lie had
turned aside at Windy Gu!ch to consult
the doctor about his horse, finding that
the animal had gone lame; and he was
chagrined to discover, when he had
gone a few miles, that in common hu-
mainly he must turn back, the trouble
being so aggravated by the bad road,
which in many places was but n stretch
of bleaching powders washed bare by
spring-time floods; whence it happened
that Dorothy's solitude on this occa-
sion came to be invaded by the one
person who most occupied her thoughts.
She had almost forgotten her indigna-
ton on her fathers account in the subtle
pleasure growing out of the idea that
McCready was the one person respon-
sible for all the trouble. This view or
the case exactly harmonized with her
preconceived opinion. She had instinct
lively disliked the superintendent of the
mine from the outset and now she
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
ITo BE Continued
His Happy idea.

How he asked, would you like to
be shipwrecked upon olue desert is
land, with no human being but me to
give you companionship?
WELL" she replied, ga good deal
would depend upon the size of the
island. If it were as large as this room,
for instance, and you could find seat
on the end farthest frca lie, I'm afraid
it would be very lonesome"
After he had taken the easychair and
got her nicely settled, with her head
against his heaying breast, he muir
INJURED:
'Ah, sweetest, isn't it nice TO love nc
we do?"
EYES," she answered, "but Tn so EoH
~ you didn't think of that island be-
Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
SILVER SPARKS.

What would George Washington
have thought of gold standard govern
ment in America by Hanna and Roths-
child ?-Aississippi Valley Democrat.
1t is not often that great accumula-
tions of wealth do anybody good. They
usually spoil the happiness of two gen.
erations-one in the getting, and one in
the spending.-J. G. Holland.
Comptroller Tracewen says that
gold has no commercial value in China,
and is not money in that country. What
becomes of the stock argument that
gold is money all over the world, law or
no law?
One of the humorous writer's got
beyond humor and into the domain of
sacred logic when he said: 1T shows
Gods opinion of wealth by the men He
gives it to-" Truly, it is hard to serve
Him and mammon.
Secretary Gage has not yet been
muzzled. He continues to pirate in pub
lie speeches about committing the
country more thoroughly to the gold
standard and retiring greenbacks and
all government issues of money.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
THE REAL PATRIOTS.
Are Supporters of Sound Currency ON
n Timetable Basis.

American bimetallists have on their
side all the financial sense and most of
the patriotism of the country.
1t will not do to say that man can
not be patriotic when he is advocating
the closing of our minis against our
own silver because monarchical govern
ments and foreign financiers do not
wish us to coin it. 1t ought not to be
denied that he may mean well in de-
manding that S15O,OOO,O00 in gold
scarce as gold is-ought to be kept
locked up in the vaults of the national
treasury in order to give us the greatest
possible opportunity to borrow notes
from Wall street banks. And we must
be guarded in asserting that he is Grim
inal in his purposes when ne says that
in order to keep silver demonetized we
must continue to borrow gold from
abroad by new bond issues in time of
peace and apply to the RothschiIds to
have our government and public credit
underwritten.
A man may be well-meaning, perhaps,
and possibly patriotic in advocating all
this; but if he have not an obvious pri-
vate and selfish interest to serve, he is
impeaching his reputation for common
sense-for sanity in doing it.-Missis-
sippi Valley Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24

ton OF them had been sold cheap BY the{
government because they could be 90 paid
the gold standard people and the supporters
or the Mckinley administration have re-
Gently declared in congress that the bonds
shall be paid in the dearest kind OF money
Known. None will deny that the mem
VINO left their families, risked their lives
and bore the hardships of war. In order
to save our institutions and make II pos.
slpIe Tor the government to pay anybody Al
cent, deserve infinitely more OF their
country than the men who stayed at home
ana made fortunes by shaving the govern
nent's paper. This being so. then II the lat
ter are to be paid In the dearest money
known, certainly common Justice requires
that the government make good to the,
old soldier the difference between the value
OF the cheap money It paid them ana
the dear money when It Is now
proposed to give the money power
Yet, strange as 1t may seem, not a single
man Of the whole horde OF lobbyists, COR
ruptionists and corporation agents who are
working for gold standard, and assume
to be the guardians OF national honor, has
even suggested that the men who fought
the country's battles and were paid In
cheap money, should be given a cent to-
ward making them whole. The solicitude
of these men is entirely for the money
lender. The hypocrisy, sham patriotism-
downright dishonesty and colossal tmpu-
dence of this movement would be In
credible If they were not daily haunted
in the face of decency. Everything and
everybody that money can debauch ana
coax, brighten or coerce, Is made up to
do service for cause that Is running our
country. One cannot gaze upon this spec
tacle without feeling that If there is no
hell of fire and birthstone in which to pun
ish the men who, in the name of the Lord
oevour widows houses and enslave the
children of toll, then the time has come
when 1t is the duty of the Almighty to Gre
ate one. With assurance of high PERSONAL
regard, am yours very truly,
John p ALTGELD."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
THE "REsT" MONEY.
What Constitutes 1t Depends IN the
Point of View.

Point OF view.
When the United States government
issued their first proposal for the re-
moval of the Chicago post Office they
advertised for the Lowest and best
bid" 1t was soon discovered that the
man who was willing to pay the govern
ment the least money for the material
and the removal of the old post Office
building was not the "best'' bidder for
the government. Hence, a radical
change was made in the new proposal,
and it then read 1.-The highest and best
bid"
Perhaps our thoughtful president
may some day realize that money of the
highest exchangeable value is not al
ways the 'best" money. It depends al
together on the standpoint of the OBJ
server. To one, comparatively small,
class of our people, the best" money is
that which is assured to be continually
increasing in eXchangeable value. To
another class, the "best" money is that
which is continually decreasing in ex-
cfanpeabIe value, as the chance of get
ting it more cheaply is always before
this class, and it reduces the burden of
paying all debts. To a third and very
large class, the ''best" money is that
which changes least in eXchangeable
value from year to year, or from decade
to decade, when measured by the aver
age cost of labor in procuring the com
modities produced which are expected
to be exchanged for money.
In other words, the "best" money is
that which is most steady in exchange
able value; the most stable. This GER
tainly is the kind of money all intelli-
gent and honorable men say that the
commercial world demands. Hence, the
word best" when applied to money,
should be defined or the word becomes
deceptive chatter, and when deliberate
ly used by the highest officer in our
government, as it was short time ago
by our president in his speech at New
York, the statement should be received
with caution.
The eXchangeable value of money
never was and never can be perfectly
stable, and all that is demanded by
those who prefer to use the two metals,
gold and silver, as the full legal tender
money of the country, is that it will be
more stable than j either one alone was
used. An opinion does not settle the
question, it matters not how positive
that opinion may be. We appeal to the
common Judgment of the American peo-
pie guided by experimentation
Rural.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
PROFESSOR MoMMsEN.
of the Great German
Scholar


Peculiarities of the Great German
Scholar.
Many Of the stories about the extreme
Observation-Disclosures of some unnamed
German professor had their origin in
tales actually told-perhaps with not
much care in veriflcation-of Prof. The
odor Mommsen, of Berlin, great Ger
man historical scholar and liberal poll
tician.
Although the herr professor recently
passed his eightieth birthday, he is said
to be still in the height of his product
iveness, active and energetic, a writer.
q teacher and causAur. He adopts the
axiom of Goethe, which is not popular
with most old men: when a man is
old he must do more than when he is
young"
He is certainly no more absent
minded in his old age than he was when
he was younger. He has family of
ten living children and several grand
children, and has always been fond Of
them all and not averse to taking care
of them; but woe to any infant of whom
he might have charge if his mind be-
came seized by scholarly preoccupa-
tons!
1t is related that when his first child
was baby 1t was in his charge one day
in his study. Wishing to make some in
quiry from his library, he deposited the
baby in the waste basket and forgot all
about it; but presently the baby began
to cry loudly.
AT last the sound disturbed even the
absent-minded student whose thoughts
were, and remained, on his study. Con-
scious only of loud noise, he seized
a quantity of loose papers and carefully
covered the child with them to muff1e
the soundl
On another occasion-so the story
goes--Prof. Mommsen was going in n
street car from Berlin to Charlotten-
burg, taking with him his little son.
By and by the boy began to wriggle
about and make q great deal of noise.
BY this time his father was meditating
profoundly. The boys racket soon dis
turbed his meditations. 1t seemed to
the professor that it must be an ex-
tremely il1-bred child that would make
disturbance in q public place; he
would see If he could not quiet him;
but first he would find out who he was.
Little boy he said, sharply, ''what
is your name?"
Naturally the small boy thought It
strange to be asked his name by his
own father, but he responded. politely:
''The same as yours, sir"
''The same as minei" The professors
attention was now aroused by this APP
peal to his ego, and the spell was
broken. He took up his progeny, to the
tremendous amusement of the people
in the car, and gave him good shaking.
Youths Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
The Cause Of Free Silver.
CLEVELAND AND M'KlNLEY.
Both Hold without Reservation t.
Do

Both Hold without Reservation to
the Panic-CreatinE Policy.
When commenting on President Nc
Kinley' recent speech before the Manu-
facturers' association, the London
Times, the organ of the Bank of Eng
land and the Rothschilds, declared that
he had got down on the right side of
the fence" it left little more to say.
There is no longer a possibility of mis-
taking his position. He has adopted
without reservation the policy which
produced panic under Cleveland and
made the Cleveland administration so
deservedly odious that if the democratic
party had not managed to drive out its
plutocrats it could not have hoped to
carry half dozen states.
The object of the combination which
controls the treasury under Mckinley
as it did under Cleveland is unmistaka-
BILE.
They hope to minimize the issue OF
money of all kinds by the government.
They intend to prevent, to the great
est possible extent, the circulation Of
money of the mints-even of gold it.
self, and to this end they will strive to
perpetuate the policy of withdrawing
large amounts of gold from circulation
and boarding it in the treasury so as to
force q larger resort to the use of their
paper.
They are almost as hostile to the cir
culation of gold as they are to that OF
silver and greenbacks. They want gold
not as a circulating medium, but as q
mere pretext for the use of paper issued
by corporations to the exclusion of cash,
that is of gold, silver and legal tender
notes issued by the people through the
minis and the treasury.
They wish to substitute for coin cur
rency of silver and gold, reinforced
where deficient by treasury notes, a
currency composed entirely of corpora
ton paper, with the gold of the coun-
try boarded in the treasury vaults at
Washington, in the subtreasury at New
York, and in the vaults of Wall street
banks, where it will be held, not for
money to supply home demand but
merely as a commodity to be dealt in
for the purposes of foreign trade.
Pretending to advocate sound money,
the plutocrats and Hannacrats who cons
troll President Mckinley, really stand
for the unsoUndest of all money-in-
fated corporation paper representing
no value whatever, and based on debt
so that for every hundred dollars of
bonded debt we will have an imitation
of 800 in notes or floating debt, a total
debt of $3.50 thus created against the re-
sources of the Misunderstanding as
an inevitable necessity of it's existence,
the constant threat of collapse and
panic.
When he commits himself fully to
this programme, President Mckinley
is endorsed by the London Times not
because his policy is likely to benefit
the masses of the people in England,
but because it disregards the interests
of the masses in America, England and
everywhere else, in the interest of the
great international :uoney dealers who
are the real government in England I'M
der Lord Salisbury as they are under
the tories and plutocrats, the Hannas
and the Cages at Waehington.-Mi
sissippi Valley Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
A GOVERNMENT FUNCTION.
To Issue Money of Every Kind and
Description.

To Issue Money of Every Kind and
Description.
Banker Gage and the self-constituted
monetary commission that has recently
thrust upon the public report" should
take a course at some good school where
elementary political science is taught.
They have hit upon new proposition,
and ridiculous and unfounded as it is,
they have built their whole scheme of
currency reform upon it. 1t has been
stated thus: "The government has no
natural relation to credit currency"
To what then has the government any
natural relation? In other words what
is the government for? If it is not that
a community of individuals can secure
more of the benefits of life more easily
than so many individuals going their
several ways alone, then it has none.
But if this is the case, then in our pres
ent state of civilization the chief func-
ton of government is to facilitate COM
merce between country and town, city
and city, and state and state, etc.
Money, circulating medium, is the
basic principle of our extensive modern
commerce, and as long as commerce is
carried on as it is now, money will be
absolutely necessary. 1t seems to fol-
low as a necessary conclusion that the
chief concern of any government-our
government-should be in time of peace
to put and keep the money of commerce,
credit money as well as coin or COM
modify money, upon a basis best call
cluated to further the interests of COM
merce. Corporations and banks have
now far too much control over the
sources of wealth. Let the people
through the peoples government con-
troll and command the money which be.
10noS tO thp DaOD1e
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SUBSTITUTE FOR MONEY.
Greenbacl1s Versus Bank NOtcs-WhO
WORKS the EndIess Chain.

Works the Endless Chain.
Be it remembered by all men every
where, there is but one reason for using
credit as a substitute for money-it is
cheaper. Credit as a tool of commerce
costs less than one-fiftieth part as much
as gold and silver.
\ circulating credit based on the
wealth, integrity and authority of all
the people is as sound and honest as the
bonds of said people, for the basis is
the same. Such a credit currency we
now have to the amount of S346, 100000.
This legal tender national credit, that
has done duty as money for the past
50 years to the entire satisfaction of
nine-tenths of the people, is now being
set upon and hawked at by the hon
est ca money credit sellers who wants
to put his skin-game substitute in it's
place.
There is money in it; yes, dozen
millions year net profit in interest
alone for the honest money patriots CD
who are suffering for the opportunity to
take upon themselves the burden of
maintaining this credit currency at
parity with gold. They would relieve
the government of the danger of the
endless chain"
Who at any time has ever worked"
the endless chain except these same
brassy, arrogant pharisees now making
their phyIacterics so broad? Like the
horse leech's daughter, these people are
not satisfied.
They would have an absolute, COM
plete monopoly of all forms of cur
rency and substitutes for money, to the
sole end that their profits be increased
at the expense of the people.
There is not a grain Of patriotism
nor an atom of common honesty in the
whole scheme as outlined by Secretary
Gage and Endorsed by the president
]. NJ. Joseph.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
Close Allies,

All the rings and combinations and
trusts-the wheat corners" and the
coal "syndicates"- sugar trust and
the meat monopolies, are close allies
and supporters of the gold standard,
for the simple reasin that it is easier to
manipulate a market founded on a linn
tied currency, than it is to control one
based on a liberal circulation. In the
latter case competition has a chance,
and it soon cures the evil; but under the
gold standard the money market can
be "cornered" as well as anything else,
and competition strangled the moment
it lifts it's head.-Mississippi Valley
Democrat.