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The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
GOLD AND THE PEOPLE.
Practical Working of Theory That
the Money Hardest to Get Is
the Best Money.

Mr.. Edison has invented process
that successfully extracts the small
particles of gold that are known to
exist in the sands of New Mexico, Ari-
zona, Southern California and doubt
less elsewhere. The sands of the Yel-
lowstone and Missouri rivers also con-
tain gold, but not in quantity sufficient
ly large to pay for working by any
process in use before Mr.. Edison's in
vention. Now if this invention should
result in bringing all this gold into
commerce it will prove an estimable
blessing TO mankind, and incidentally
prove the truth of bimetaliic argument,
namely, that an abundance of money
makes times good and brings comfort
and luxury to the people. Recent new
discoveries of gold and our large bal
ances of trade, also in gold, have done
this In the United States for those who
were already rich; but gold does not
come down to the poor, and consequent
ly they have felt its benefits only as the
crumbs fall from the rich mans table
Silver is the poor mans money-the
money that circulates among the mass
es, and it is the only money that does
or can fill the place. The rich have
been blessed with an abundance of gold
-"the rich mans money'-now they
should be generous and give the poor
a chance.
1t is said that the salt water of the
sea is also largely impregnated with
gold, and if this be true some wizard of
invention will find a way to get it out
And who will say that the dream of the
old aichemists, who imagined they
could compound gold from its natural
elements, may not soon be realized? =?
When that time shall come, each cit
izen can have his private gold mine in
his back parlor, and compound enough
for his daily needs before breakfast in
the morning. Then what will become
of the intrinsic" value theory? and
will the money changers still insist
on having all other kinds of money ''re-
deemed" in gold? Hardly! When
those golden days shall have arrived.
the misers will demand that their
money be redeemed" in diamonds. or
some other product equally as hard TO
get-their ideas of redemption being
that the redeeming factor should con-
sist of something which they hold as
monopoly and which nobody else can
get without playing the character of
"hands up in the old highwayman's
game of stand and deliver" For that
is precisely what is meant by redeem
ing" money; and any man who sim
cerely believes that money ought to be
redeemed in some one particularly
scarce and hard-to-get commodity is
at heart a highwayman-or a Simple
Simon who doesn't know enough to
know better,-Mississlprt Valley DelH,
e0lat, go
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
TRIALS OF A sUBURBANITE.
How an Obedient Husband Executed
Commission for His Wife
Under Difficulties.
Ir. and Mrs. X were out of town

Mr.. and Mrs. Y were out of town
for the summer-thatis is, Mrs. X was
out of town, while Mr.. X divided his
time, the city, trolley cars and the sub
urban hotel in which his wife was dom
iciled, all claiming a part of it. Life to
Mr.. x was not rosy dream of bliss,
for he was warm while in the city,
crowded in the cars and eaten by mos
quitoes at night; besides all this he
always had parcel of some sort to
carry, though it had never been greater
than nut cake, put up nicely in a box
and intended for the delectation of the
particular hotel card clique of which
Mrs. X is member. One day, how
ever, as Mrs. K bade her liege lord
good-by on the hotel steps, she intrust-
ed him with delicate mission, namely,
to bring out that evening new tulle
hat which she had just had made to
wear at garden party.
eff you forget it, said Mrs. X,
solemnly. ''life will be one great desert
of Sahara to you for weeks, for l won t
be able to go to the smartest event of
the season.
''If | forget it," responded Mr.. X,
may my right hand forget its cum
ming" Then he took down the address
and raced madly down the walk to catch
the restiye trolley
That afternoon he forgot the hat un-
til he was fairly on the car ready to
go home, but the desert of Sahara loom
ing black or yellow before him, he
jumped hastily off and proceeded to
hunt up the artist in headwear. The
chapeau was ready for him in what he
thought was an unnecessarily large
box, but when he turned to leave with
it the face of the saleswoman clouded a
bit.
Madam has not an account here; ten
dollars is the price," she limited, deli
cately.
81 thought she had paid for it, said
Mr.. X, blushing furiously, as he
thrust his hand into one pocket after
another, only TO discover that his cash
on hand was $3.50.
Then he looked the situation in the
face grimly. He was totally unknown
to the milliner, all his friends were out
of town, gone out on the car that should
have carried him, in fact and the banks
were closed. He glanced at the floor for
inspiration and caught the CLEAN of his
watch chain.
81 will be back in just one moment .
he said, debonairely, to the saleswoman.
and disappeared from view When he
came back he had the money, but no
watch.
Mrs. Y was delighted with the eff
feet of her hat that afternoon, and, not
being gifted with second sight, no vi
sions of pawnshops arose to disturb her
pleasure in it, but Mr.. x was in a
very bad humor for at least three days
after the episOde.-Baltimor News.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23

only ceased when a policeman, resting
in the alley, strolled up to see what the
matter was. That night both husbands
sought the landlord, and next day he
appeared with carpenter, who utilized
the narrow strip of boarding which had
caused all the trouble as a foundation
upon which to rear a siX-foot partition
between the two sections of the long
porch which stretched all across the
building on that floor. Both women
were inclined TO resent this action upon
the part of the landlord at first, but
now:
"The impudent thing who lives next
door actually had a flower box built up
on the strip of wood which edged my
porch is the way in which Mrs. Nc
Naughton tells the story, "and the land.
lord had that partition put up so she
couldn't annoy me any longer
Il never saw such an unpleasant
neighbor as the woman who lives next
door, is Mrs. Hallam's version of the
affair, told to her friends and cronies
and such of the other women in the
| the quarrel-now become an Auberly
classic. "Why, the landlord actually
had to have that partition built in order
to procure a little peace for mel"
So the willy landlord prevented either
tenant from breaking the lease which
bound them to the Auberly fiat building
until the first of next May, and the af-
fair blew over with no consequences
more serious than Mrs. Hallam and Mrs.
McNaughton no longer go to the matt
nee together, while the McNaughton
dog and the Hallam baby are not the
warm friends they used to be. And as
for the two husbands-well, it is true
that they still choose opposite sides of
the street for their walks to and from
the depot, but it is rumored that they
have been seen to nod to one another
when meeting upon the station plat
form, and it is reported that the wife of
each has been heard to call the husb band
of her choice mean-spirited creature
and TO remark tauntingly that ''she
| wouldn't be the first to back down."
The other Auberly tenants meanwhile
are divided into two factions-that
which sides with Mrs. McNaughton and
that which takes Mrs. Hallam's part.
Some of the families have moved into
the building since the active portion of
the quarrel was stopped by the building
of the partition on the back porch and
only know of the trouble by hearsay,
but that alters the matter not a whit.
| The quarrel between Mrs. Hallam and
Mrs. McNaughton is as much part of
\ the Auberly atmosphere as the peren-
nial complaint about the condition of
the alley or the unceasing indignation
about the uncarpeted upper halls. And
in the heat and bitterness induced by
the quarrel almost everybody has for
| gotten just how the matter started; it
is probable that neither of the Two
original fighters could now state def
nitely what was The commencement Of
the trouble. Chicago chroDiele,
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
A WOMAN'S PROBLEMS.

When breakfast things are cleared ava!
The same old problems rising,
For she again sits down to think
OF something appetizing.
The dinner she must soon prepare,
Or give the cook directions,
And great is the relief she feels
When she has made selections.
When dinner things are cleared away
The problem that IS upper
Is just the same, with one word changed
What can 1 get for supper?"
She wants to give them something new,
And long is meditation
Till choice is made, and then begins
The work of preparation.
When supper things are cleared away
Again her mind is worried.
For then she thinks of breakfast time,
When meals are often hurried.
She ponders o'er it long until
The question is decided,
Then hustles round till she makes sure
That everything's provided
Three times each day, week in, week out,
This problem she is meeting,
And often she is sore perplexed
In making plans for eating.
For one likes this and one likes that,
And what is appetizing
To some is by the other spurned
As food that they're despising.
That "woman's work is never done"
Has often been disputed,
But that she's worried is a fact,
And cannot be refuted.
The worry over what to eat
Is greatest Of these questions,
And glad she'd be if some one else
Would make the meal suggestions.
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
HOW A LIE WILL LIVE.
Ex-senator Blair Says He Never
Favored Scheme to ThaW
the North Pole.

The following communication to the
Palladium from former United States
Senator Henry w. Blair, of New Hamp-
shire, will be read with good deal OF
interest in Connecticut:
Manchester, N. H., Aug. 2S, $780,
Editor Palladium, New Haven, Conn:
Dear Sir: Some loving friend has fur
nished me with your article of August
21 ascribing to me a scheme to turn the
waters of the Mississippi into Hudson's S
bay,' and incidentally thaw out the
north pole.
81 wish to say, with all proper solem-
nitv, through the same wide-reaching
columns, that | am not the author of
any such scheme, and that | have known
that water would run downhill and
would freeze when it was cold enough
ever since l can remember.
''At the request of a prominent citi-
zen and business man of my state l
once introduced in the senate for refer
ence to the committee on commerce a
proposition with accompanying pa
pers) made by quite able friend of his
to turn the gulf stream, or a part of it.,
through the Bay of Fundy into the
Gulf of st. Lawrence, with view to
warming up things a little along the
coast of Labrador. The petitioner who
desired to be heard by the committee
had some support from scientific men.
perhaps he included discussion of
the Mississippi-Hudson bay project also
I don't now remember.
''But for myself, unless Canada and
the United States were united political
ly, would never give them drop of
our warm water; not drop, whether
by way of the gulf stream or by run
ming the Mississippi uphill.
''When we are one people, as we ought
to be, they may have the best we have
got and all they want of it, so far as l
am concerned.
81 did this very proper and usual
thing for my constituent many years
ago, at time when a hot and rather
bitter political campaign had just ter
minated in my favor, and a newspaper
man who was disappointed, and who
afterward greatly regretted his act,
seized the opportunity to charge upon
me the authorship of the scheme itself.
'1t has been several times contra
dicted and explained. in the press by
the man who set the story afioat, by the
gentleman who requested me to intro
duce the proposition and by others. 1
never noticed it formally before.
This happened 20 years ago. How a
lie will live! This one has already sur
vived the author of the scheme, the
author of the lie and most of its early
promulgators, but the lie itself seems
likely to run as long as Tennyson's
brook.
81 wish you would help me dam it for
little while. II will never dry up.
Truly yours, Henry W. Blair"
New Haven Palladium.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
One of Jobs Comforters.

Some persons have peculiar ideas of
how to cheer one up. \ fond Brooklyn
mother was endeavoring the other day
at the breakfast table to comfort her
daughter, who had not receiyed a letter
for several days from her fiance.
81 am sure he is forgetting me,
walled Georgiana, refusing to eaa her
toast.
''Oh, l don't think so, DEAR" said the
fond mother. He always used to say
he couldn't possibly do it,
But never believed him, exclaimed
Georgiana, shaking her head defantly.
Hes so taken up with the fall shooting
that he thinks of nothing else
Mamma tried once more. Perhaps
his gun exploded and he has been so in
jured that he couldn't write,'' she said.
soothingIy
Georgiana instantly burst into tears.
and the good old mother was keenlv
disappointed that her effort to comfort
the girl had so signally failed Chicago
Times Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
A MATTER OF COURSE.
Money Power No Longer Carries ON
Its Work Secretly and by In
trigue and Bribery.

At the recent convention of the Amer
lean Bankers association in Cleveland,
o., the following resolution was unan-
imously adonted:
The bankers Of the United States most
earnestly recommend that the congress Of
the United States at it's next session enact
law to more firmly and unequivocally es-
tabl1sh the gold standard in this country,
by providing that the gold dollar, which
under the existing law is the unit of value,
shall be the standard and measure of all
values in the United States; and that the
Obligations of the government and all paper
money, including circulating notes Of ma
tlonal banks, shall be redeemed in gold coin
and that the legal tender notes of the
United States, when paid into the treasury,
shall not be reissued except upon the de-
posit of an, equivalent amount of gold
coin.
There was a time when the Roths-
child money power carried on its work
secretly and by intrigue and bribery.
1t was at that stage of its progress
when it bribed Senator Sherman to Sc
cure by stealth and fraud the demon
etization of silver in the United States,
and he carried out the will of his mas
ters by employing the forces of false
hood, fraud and forgery. If any OBJ
ject to the vigor or eXplicitness of
these terms, let hinl possess his soul in
patience, for a book is now in press
that will contain the proof of each of
these several charges. But the crime
of enslaving the world to the money
power has advanced to point where
it can afford occasionally to act in the
open, to advance out of ambush and
declare plainly what it means. And
therefore we have this resolution of the
Bankers sociation-composed of alb
ject slaves of the money power-boldly
published to the world.
1t means that at the approaching ses-
sion of congress the entire influence
of the money power, acting under the
command of Baron Rothschild, will lie
eXerted to secure the enactment of the
infamous Gage-McCleary bill, or some
thing equally as bad. 1t means that
another turn in the death-screw of the
gold standard garrote is to be made;
that the peoples money, silver and
greenbacks, is to be destroyed, and
5ONNi hlhNllC OOJOO oOOSlIluICN III Ils
place as a basis for additional issues Of
national bank shinplasters, by which
means the people will be forced to pay
double interest for the currency that
they ought to have free. Interest on
the bonds and interest on the money
bottomed on the bonds. Double inter-
est concentrating the single standard
gold basic mLu ~ all the more rapidly
in the vaults It one family. This is
the Rothschild plan.
Meanwhile, as a future protection
against anticipated vigorous protests
on the part of the cheated and debt
enslaved populace, an imperial army of
100000 roughs and desperadoes has
been organized, ostensibly to subdue
the Filipinos, but in fact for the sup.
preston of liberty al home. All siu-
gle standard adyocatEa are monarch.
lists at heart, and monarchy is the pill
that is being capsuled for the Ameri-
can people to swallow in the not dis
tant future. Much will depend on the
action of Mississippi Valley
Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
WIT AND WISDOM.

Everything comes to him who waits
with the exception of wealth.-Chi
cago Daily News.
l.-Cleverton-''Do you think it
is possible to love two girls at the same
time?" ~Dashaway-'Not if they know
it."-Puck.
Never lay out all you can afford; for
he who lays out everything he can af-
ford lays out more than he can afford.
Arab Maxim.
If there were nothing in name, COM
Portable clothing could not possibly be
made to cost enough to be swell.-De-
troit Journal.
The gas and the lamp don't stand
much show when there's a couple of
spoony lovers around. They get turned
down every time.-Philadelp Rec
ord.
Il hear that you assisted at the post
mortem examination of your old en-
emy," said Gaswell to a surgeon of his
acquaintance. Yes; I cut him dead
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
"That is capital winter effect you've
got there, Chrome. 1t really looks
cold!" st ought to! L pawned my
overcoat to buy the canvas!"-Brook
lyn Life.
1t Was an Inherited Gift Johnnie
you talk too much" ''See here, dad, am
1 to blame for your marrying into a
talkative family?" = Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"They say Troppo, the concert pi-
anist, always practices with phono-
graph running opposition" How
strange! What's his object?" why
it makes him feel as if he were playing
before a fashionable audience. Phil
adelphia Bulletin.
Are you a brakeman on this road ?''
asked the passenger. mo sir" replied
the person addressed, Il am broke
man. The conductor just cleaned me
out at craps = Philadelphia North
American
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Robert Watts, of Connersvilla. has at
tended 46 of the Al Indiana state fairs.
W. H. H. Hart, the colored philan-
thropist whose experiment with ne
gro boys farm in Washington is at
tracing attention, was born a slave in
1857.
Archduke Rainer has presented to
the Hofbibliothek of Vienna his famous
collection of papyri, consisting of 10000
Greek, $4,000 Arabic, and 1900 Coptic
manuscripts.
Admiral Dewey barely got through
the Naval academy at the foot of the
class, and Capt. Carter, in prison for
embezzlement, passed West Point with
the highest honors ever given to
cadet.
Prof. Lombroso, the alienist, has at
last come to the conclusion that man
of genius need not necessarily be in
sane. He is convinced that Goethe,
though a sublime poet, was of normal
and healthy mind.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani is living in
Washington, but insists on being treat
ed as a royal parsonage. a young col
ored girl who applied to Queen Ills"
lady in waiting for the position of maid
to 'her majesty" on being told all that
was expected of her, said, Indignantly:
''No, miss; no, miss. Bad nuf to work
for darky, anyhow; but darky dat
'spects all dat, not eff I knows it: not
eff | knows"
Roscoe w. Davis, of the Thirty-third
United States volunteers, is the wealth.
lest private soldier belonging to this
country. His home is Maria, Tex,
where he owns splendid ranch, with
hundreds of thousands of cattle. There
is no doubt he could have obtained
commission had he applied, but he pre-
fers to earn promotion from the ranks.
The regiment was organized at San An
tonic.
Robert Barr is telling a story of a
jest played by him upon London ed
itor. 1t was when he was running the
Idler and happened to have one of Mr..
Kipling's stories in his possession. Dis
believing in this particular EDITORS
Judgment, he submitted Mr.. Kipling's
story to him without name. The ed
itor promptly returned it as poor stuff.
Mr.. Barr has not ventured to call upon
that editor since. He is now at work,
by the way, upon another series of short
stories.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
NOW ONE OF THEM.
Attitude of Carlisle as Member OF
the House and as Secretary
of the Treasury.

John G. Carlisle, when a member OF
the house of representatives, declared
in speech delivered in that body that
the demonetiZation of silver was 1.-THE
most gigantic crime of this or any other
age" and that it was greater calamity
than war, pestilence and famine COM
bined. Such was the strong language
of Mr.. Carlisle before he was taken in
and made secretary of the treasury, for
the specific purpose of fastening that
Gigantic crime" upon the people of the
United States.
The demonetization of silver created
a pretext for the sale of United States
bonds. 1t was while a vast amount of
silver was in the treasury in the form
of bullion that Mr. Carlisle and Mr..
Cleveland met j. Pierpont Morgan and
the agent of the Eothschilds in Wash
ington, at the dark hour of midnight,
and made a sale Of bonds to them, which
yielded a clear profit to the parties to
the transaction of more than $4,000, 900.
The government, of course, lost that
amount in the bargain. How this enor-
nous swag was divided may never be
known outside of the parties to the in.
fanny.
But what has become Of Carlisle? In.
stead of returning to his home in Cow
ington, KY, when his tenn of office as
secretary of the treasury expired, he
pointed for Wall street, New York, and
became the attorney of Morgan and
other large money-chargers.
Actions speak louder than words.''-
Los Angeles Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
His EXnuGR

Mrs. Good-Why Will you drink, my
friend? Why not welcome Admiral
Dewey soberly?
Patrick Murphy, L. S. N.-Me good
lady, Dim not only welcomin' Admiral
Dewey. but Oi'm dhrownin' me grief.
Think av me bein' twinty-wan years in
the navy an missin the battle av Manila!
-D11oLy
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
Care of Young Palms

y subscriber asks for information re-
garding the care of young palms. [
would suggest tina, soil composed of
One-half common garden soil, re-
mainder equal parts of well-rotted
manure. leaf-mOld. sand and finely
chopped sod. all thoroughly mixed,
be used for potting the palm. Water
only as often as the soil in the pot APP
pears to become somewhat dry-not
dust-dry, but showing small amount
of moisture letit-then apply the water
literally. Keep the plant out of direct
or strong sunlight. which has tenden-
cy to make the foliage Of light color.
The plant should not, however, be con-
signed to a dark corner, but be kept
in good light, and where there is plenty
of good fresh air and no drafts. The
leaves, especially the under surfaces,
should be sponged at least once a
week with tepid water made slightly
soapy. This will prevent the attacks
of scale-insects so often troublesome.
If any scale-insects should appear, how
ever, they may be removed with the
point of eadpencil.-Robert r. Nc
Gregor, in Woman's Home Companion.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
Tribute to His EIoquence.

''Dat wuz a po'ful appeal yo' made
frum L 9 pulpit, Brer Jackson"
I'm right glad yo' tho't so. Brer
'Rastu5. Wuz yo' moved?
'-Yes, sab; mos po'fufl HAD 10 hol'
myself in frum putin somelhin' iE d
contribpshion boxI"~~Puek,
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
The Yacht Race Defined.

"Well, what do you think of thatr'
''You don't tell me-"
''Say, is that on the square?'
''Well, it's a wonder they wouldn't
do something"
'Why don't they shake for it?"
"Again?"
Wouldn't that kill your"
"-p'
cav, that makes me tired"
"Why don't they get few ward
politicians to stand on the beach and
blow?"
All of which shows how general is
the interest in the yacht race and the
fact of there being no wind.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-23
DishearteniDm Advice

Mercy, Louise, what a doleful ex-
preston your photograph has o."
Yes; / was feeling all right until
the photographer told me tu look pleas,
Dt,"vyDetr0i; Free Press,