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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-01-10


When.three o'clock came l felt that
we would not do all that we had plan
ned, so / went in my jinrickisha alone
from three till five O'Clock, Don't you
think was brave2 The man could
speak little English and seemed to
take great pleasure in telling me what
the different buildings were. When
he, told me anything, II l did not
make him know that 1 understood,
he would put it in anyother way. He
sho wed me the mint house and he
thought did not understand and he
said, "the place where they make
paper money!"
We had 8 splendid day for our fret
in the Orient. The sun was bright
and the atmosphere was pleasant.
When night came we were quite con-
scions of the fact that we were in an
other world. We had left much TO
see and do on Friday morning in Yo-
kohama, but were much disappointed
when we found q heavy rain. We
sailed at twelve o'clock and reached
Kobe Saturday about noon. There
was q naval display in honor of the
Emperor and the city was deliberately
decorated. We girls spent the after
noon on the streets seeing the many
curious sights. We did not know
where to find the mission building.
One of the gentlemen happened to
find Mrs. Lambuth, DIR. Walter Lam
buth's mother, and told her that Miss
Paine and were going to Korea and
that we would have to stay in Maya
sski till the 10Th of December, because
there is no boat going sooner. She
sent an invitation for us to stay here.
Miss Paine has friends In Nagasaki
and in the country near there who
were expecting her, so she felt that
she must go on. One Of Mrs. Lam
buth's teachers went to the boat on
Sunday morning and came off and
will be here till December 10th then
/ will get to Nagasaki on tn the 18th
and will leave there the 10Th, arriving
at Seoul about the Goth, just in time
for Christmas.
/ was at Mrs. Lambuth's Girls
school first; then the presiding elders
wife, Mrs. Moseley, wanted me to stay
come with her, and did. / am now
with DIR. and Mrs. Bayright at the
Boys Theological School. DR.. Bay
right has two nice little boys. Mr..
and Mrs. Moselev have two little girls,
they are beautiful. Mr.. and Mrs.
Moseley and the children came out
here With me to spend the day yester-
day, and I stayed. Mrs. Bayright
wanted me to come out on Thursday
but was seeing about having my
dresser and desk made and could not
come till yesterday, The school
grounds and buildings are beautiful,
just in the edge of the city.
have some invitations to visit in
the country; I shall 60 some time
next week, but do not know whether
1 will have time to get to all the
places or not. There are several
places where there are ministers and
their families. The people are all
kind to me rs can be. / guess they
are always glad to see anything from
America.
1t seems too .bad that we have to
wait 80 long for the boat, but we
have to be as patient as possible. If
/ had known it would have stayed
with you twenty days longer.
1t is getting real cool here, at least
it is to-day after hard rain yester-
day. Some days have been quite
warm. Flowers and vegetables are
growing almost like as if it were
summer.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-01-10

Toys, Toys and Holiday Goods.
The price will be cut to one-half. All
5000 goods for $3.50; all $1.0O goods
at 5Oc; and all Soc goods at 25c. =
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-01-10
GREAT
20 Per Cent
Discount Sales |!
FOR FOUR WEEKS
ONLY, ENDING
2lSt, 1899.

Our bargains will be put on sale
IN each window for few days only
They will be strictly net prices.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-01-10

Hoods Pills are prompt and eff.
cient, easy to take, easy to operate.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-01-10
Lovingly,

p. ST. just learned that steamer
leaves tonight, so I hurried this up
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
MONETARY VIEWS.
Of the New French President-N.L Lou
bet Is an Ardent Bimet-
aIliSt.

The following interesting paragraph
appeared recently in the Manchester
Guardian from it's London correspond
ent:
AN interesting fact about the new
president of the French republic is that
NJ. Loubet was for some time president
of the French Bimetallic league. He
only resigned that position when elect
ed president of the senate. NJ. Meline
succeeded NJ. Loubet as president of the
league, and held that office till he be-
came prime minister. Both statesmen,
between whom exists a warm personal
friendship, are still ardent supporters
of an international monetary arrange
ment, and NJ. Loubet's elevation to the
presidency of the republic may have an
important bearing upon the Indian cur
rency question should the committee
which Sir Henry Fowler presides over
recommend Sir Forbes Adams plan to
our government as satisfac> Dry set
tlement. That plan is that the Indian
minis should be reopened to ST er, pro-
vided some other leading natis"l or ma
tons would open theirs to silver as well
as gold ;,t a ratio which would give
a stable exchange value to the rupee
at 1 shilling pence, the English
monetary system being left as at pres
ent. Many moEcmetallists engaged in
it is understood. approve of
this suggestion. while bimetallists
generally are said to be preparing to &C.
quiesce in it,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
WHO kNowS9


Perchance the spirit, freed from fieshen
chains,
May doff its cerements and escape the
tomb;
Perchance may wander while all time re-
MAINS
YEARLY waiting for the day of doom.
Released by death from all its earthly
Who knows?
Perchance the disembodied spirit NAV
Come back among the scenes of care and
strife
10 iearn now useless was it's former way,
How little were the greatest things of life:
Ito" very petty were it's many woes
Who knows?
Perchance the spirit. when the life &c o,er
May sink in apathy so long and deep.
OF earth and heaven, or hell TO know no
more,
Till the last trump shall rouse it from its
sleep,
Unconscious while life's current steadily
Who knows?
An! IL the spirit may at times return
Ana gaze around with immat erial ewes
Or sightless, senseless, nothing new may
learn
Until the day for judgment shall arise.
seek not to learn; in God your trust re-
He knows
-Ihomas Dunn English, in N z indie
pendent
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
ALL MONEY IS SOVEREIGN.
No Determinations Should Be Allowed
Between Our Various Kinds
of Money.

All money should stand on an equal
| footing and be interchangeable at par,
and no inconvenience will ever be eX-
| perienced by the government in sus-
tanning such custom if we have hon
est laws honestly enforced. The first
demand notes or ''greenbacks'' issued
by the government in 1S61-62 kept pace
with the price of coin and never 9ei5re-
ciated in value-because they were
made receivable for all public dues, the
same as gold. They were not even
legal tender" but they kept company
with gold through all the period of the
lowest depreciation of legal tender
greenbacks. In March, 1868, when de-
probation reached it's average, gold
brought 1851 in legal tender notes, and
demand notes brought 1853, and this
practical parity between the two kinds
of money was sustained throughout.
Legal tender greenbacks deprecated
because, and only because, they were
by special act of congress excluded
from payment of duties on imports and
interest on government bonds and
notes. This act was forced through
congress by the influence of the bond
holders and the agents of the Roths-
childs. 1t was savagely attacked in
speech by Thaddeus Stevens, delivered
in the house of representatives on the
goth of February, 1862. Among other
things, Mr.. Stevens said: 81 have a
melancholy foreboding that we are
about to consummate a cunningly de-
vised scheme, which will ca. ~ great
injury and loss to all classes of people
throughout the union, except one.
: = = 1t Che legal tender act) makes
two classes of mOney-rne for the
banks and brokers and al ether for the
people. 1t discriminateS between the
rights of different classes of creditors,
allowing the rich capitalist to demand
gold and compelling the ordinary lend
er of money on individual security to
receive notes which the government
had purposely deprecated. =
But now comes the main clause. All
classes of people shall take these notes
at par for every article of trade or con-
tract, unless they have money enough
to buy United States bonds, and then
they shall be paid in gold. Who are
this favored class? The banks and
brokers and nobody else
Even at that early date the Roths-
childs had their grip on the throat of
our government, and they were strong
enough to force their measures through
orgress. As a result of this scOun.
Crclism and national robbery, the peo-
pie of the United States paid, in gross
profits to the national banks, between
1866 and 1898, period of 81 years, the
almost fabulous sum of 5000. 374, $50,
or $496, S,476 more than the entire cost
of the civil war; and they are still pay
ing on the same account, while the
banks have meanwhile doubled their
holdings by means of the gigantic crime
of T3.-Mississippi Valley Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
HANNA AND THE SPEAKER.
The Republican Boss Is Busy Over
n Successor to Gear
Reed.

No one conversant with the facts of
recent political history will doubt that
Hanna will be consulted concerning the
speakership of the Fifty-sixth con-
gress. His say-so is likely to be an i'm
portant factor in determining who
shall be chosen to fill the place made
vacant by the retirement of Mr.. Reed.
The report that Hanna has decreed
that the speaker of the next house shall
be a man favorable to the Hanna-Payne
subsidy bill is not calculated to excite
surprise. 1t is entirely consistent with
Hanna's record and affiliations.
Hanna's relation to the federal gov
eminent is mainly of a business kind.
He did not purchase a seat in the sem
ate for the solo purpose of being near
the president so that he might counsel
him how to paddle his canoe safely
through the shoals and quicksands of
practical politics. Marcus, the Ak
grinder, is not serving as the Sejanus
of the administration purely for di-
version or for the purpose of preserv-
ing his health. He has laid his services
and talents upon the altar of his coun-
try, but, all the same, he intends to re-
ward himself for his sacrifcial offering
by appropriating some of the golden
candlesticlks and jeweled ornaments.
Mark is a shipowner, and he has ship
owning friends, the members of the
Standard Oil trust among them. To re-
munerate them and him he has framed
a measure known as the Hanna-Payne
subsidy bill, whose mission is to legis-
late $4OO.OOO,0OO out of the pockets of
the people of the United States when
congress meets. The speaker will be
an important influence in engineering
this scheme of robbery through the
house Mr.. Hanna may be depended on
to exert all his resources to secure for
the place an individual plant to his
nlans.=St Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
MUST INCREASE RESERVES.
bankers of England See Danger to
Themselves in India's Going
to Gold Standard.

Mr.. John Green, who presided at the
last half-yearly meeting of the Lon
don and County bank, il the course
of his address referred to the necessity
of bankers increasing their gold re-
serves, and said this would best be at
tanned By adding TO their cash reserves
in their own tills. He added: ''All
this had been emphasized the last few
days by the secretary of state for In
dia telling them that they were within
measurable distance of a gold standard
for India-stGrdard, not currency-for
it might be found that India was too
poor for the latter, and yet able to ac-
complish the former. Many people
were very aPprehensive that this would
cause a serious and difficult demand
upon our gold supplies-our cash re-
serves, that was; but if any such legis-
lation was to take place, it could not
be taken without due regard to the
monetary situation in this country, or
upon any lines that would allow of a
dangerous scramble for gold."-Lcn-
don Bimetallist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

1t is rumored that Alger may be
sent as minister to France. His style
of craftsmanship would be better fitted
for the Spanish court.-Denver Post.
Lawyer Thomas B. Reed will get
an income variously estimated at $780,
coo or 100000 a year, with no en-
balmed beef to worry him.-Albany
Argus.
Hanna has provided for the NOM
ination. of his man Mckinley, but he is
considerably worried about the bal
ance of the contract.-Kansas City
Times.
-Alger is upheld by Mr.. Mckinley
in hanging on to his cabinet portfolio.
That's right-the president knows that
Alger bought it and paiG good money
for it.-St. Louis Republic.
Boss Croker pleads as an excuse
that Platt is worse than he, but Quay
has not found anyone with a record so
bad that he feels safe in pointing to as
a horrible example to prove that there
are others.-Chicago Record Qnd.).
President Mckinley is consider
ing how far the anti-imperialists can
go without being guilty of treason. 1t
has never occurred to him that nom
enforcement of antitrust laws IS worth
his consideration.-Chic Democrat.
The Quay jury returned ver-
dict of not guilty, and yet there was
probably not a man on the jury who
was not convinced in his own mind that
Quay was guilty. This is another of
those cases which tend to weaken re-
spect for our judicial system. The
people see the defepdantsgo free, be-
lieving him guilty beyond question.
They know he can command money and
influence to an almost unlimited ex-
tent. They put this and that together.
And who can blame them?-Indianapo-
ID Sentinel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04

come his. A married man looks forward
as matter of fact, Nell
Il don't believe there is such a say
ing"
Eth? Well, no. N-no, there is not"
''There isl"
"Pon my soul, there isn't. 1 made IL
up"
You did not make it up, Mr.. Cheedle.
1t is no use trying to hide it now. Oh, I
did not think the world was so wicked -
Its pretty bad, I'm afraid" said
Cheedle, sadly. But I'm sorry you've
had the first fresh bloom of your inno-
cence rubbed off by me, my dear"
I'm not so innocent as you think
After all, il really isn't such a bad
old world if you can only bring yourself
to conform to its standards of right and
wrong. Why should 1 run it down? 1
won't. It's jolly old world"
For men!"
For women, too, if they're sensible"
I'm not going to be-sensible."
Il hope, my dear, you are not going to
alter that very excellent arrangement
you mentioned. l assure you l dom
mind about the fellows one little bit, so
long as the girls"
Il shall think about it, Cheedle
masked a chucllle. 1T must be small
party, of course. Eight, besides our
selves, Will be enough
Five men and three women. Let us
have pretty old men, too-eh? Old men
are always such brilliant conversations
alists, if you can only keep them
awake" Cheedle rubbed his hands and
laughed gayly.
I'VE must have four men and foW
women" said Mrs. Cheedie, firmly.
But your idea?"
-Four men and four women"
Cheedle sighed heavily as he winked
over his wife's head at his reflection in
n mirror.
''Oh, very well. But wish you would
be more consistent. Nell
THE question is whom to leave out"
said Mrs. Cheedle. Take some paper
and jot them down, Josie, dear. Oh,
one of the large Sheets"
Selection by a process of elimina-
ton. Ell" said he.
''Oh. DON'T she cried. Il wish you
wouldn't. Now, are you ready?" He
STuHlcu assent. w udI uO you say "
Miss Pringe?"
Nothing. She is such chatterbos
she never gives me a chance"
you hardly know her"
Excuse me. / often meet her at her
brothers."
''Shc must be put down."
And she was.
"Old Bass, now" said Cheed!a
''There's no objection to him, 1 sup
pose?"
NO objection to his being put
down.
Il didn't mean that"
81 did"
81 think / ought to choose the men,"
''Choose your own friends. Josie"
every well. Miss Dot Soulby."
''To go down.
"With me? Certainly. if you think
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
PROTECTION AND TRUSTS.
High Tarin Abrogates the Only
Law That Can Down
MonOpOlies.

When Attorney General Griggs de.
tends his inaction with regard to trusts
ON the ground that there is no law that
is strong enough to curb them, it is
evident that nothing will be done by
the attorney general to relieve the peo-
pie of trust oppression.
But there is another law besides that
written in the statutes that can reach
the trusts, and that is the law of sup
ply and demand.
Protection abrogates this law be-
cause it shuts off the supply of COM
modities from abroad and leaves the
demand without competitive supply.
By removing this protection, as the
New York Journal points out, COMPETE
ton could be revived and the rule of the
trusts be broken.
Concerning this matter. the Journal
pertinently asks:
:'Why should we give the 100000
boraX trust the power to tax American
consumers five cents pound on borax?
''Could not the $4,000, 600 Knit Goods
company and the $50,OOo,0oo print cloth
pool get along without duties of so per
cent. and upward on the things that
people must wear?
''Would it not be possible for the.
United States Cast Iron Pipe and
Foundry company, capital S30,000,000,
to make living without nine dollars
ton protection?
''Is the 100000 National Lead
company in dire need of the proceeds
of tax of IL cents a pound on lead?
'Could not the $45, 100000 western
lumber pool destroy our forests fast
enough without the stimulus of duty
of two dollars per 1000 feet on pine
boards?
do the consumers of sugar feel NOR
ally bound to pay tariff taxes of $780,
100000 a year to the sugar trust and its
allies, with their capital of $12S, 900, 900?
care the various steel trusts, total
capitalization $367,65O,6O0, so poor that
they must have outdoor relief in the
form of duties of from $6.72 per ton
upward on steel and it's products?
us not the $50, 100000 American Tin
Plate company n sufficiently robust in
FAINT by this time to he able to dis
pense with its pap of ~ cents a pound
on tin plates?"
These are significant questions. and
if the administration wants to help the
people it can do so by putting all arti-
cles controlled by trusts on the free
Est
This would not require a long series
of suits at law; by one simple amend
ment to the Dingley bill the good work
would be accomplished. If those re-
publicans are sincere who are arguing
against trusts, they will urge the adj
ministration to make move in the di-
rection ndicated.-Chicago Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
HOLDING AIGER I'm.
I'm Spite of Republican Remonstrance
the Beef Combine
Holds On.

The New York Tribune is not only the
foremost republican paper in the
United States, but it is moreover a
particularly jealous champion of the
Mckinley administration. 1t was an
original McKinleyite in the ante-con-
vention days when Thomas c. Platt
and the machine in this state were
assailing Mckinley with every form of
vituperation. The editorof the Tribune,
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, has been twice
designated by the president to con-
fidential and important duties, showing
the relations of mutual confidence
which exist. Nevertheless, the Tribune
has editorially done some plain talk
ing about the beef scandal, and the
Tribune's Washington correspondent
saws:
''It is a bad business, although repub-
licans are perfectly confident of the presi-
dents rectitude of purpose. But, whether
justly or unJustly, it is undeniable that
many of the most clear-headed republicans
OF the capital feel that Secretary Alger is
largely responsible for the situation created
by this beef investigation. 1t is felt by
these party men that through Gen. Ayers
influence, impelled by those in the depart
ment who controlled him. the president in
some sort has made himself the champion
of Eagan by the ill-considered mitigation
Of as righteous a sentence as ever was de-
livered by a court, rendering the whole pro-
ceeding lietle better than farce.
Many practical politicians felt, and of
late have often expressed the conviction
that the president should let go of Sec
rotary Alger. Some republicans no doubt
admire the president for so doggedly up
holding his secretary under fire, but they
are not numerous. Few prominent repub-
Hcans are found now who think he is acting
wisely in doing so. A mere individual is
nothing, the party is everything, in the-es-
tiInation of these men. Gen. Ayers pro-
tracted retention in office, now of ques-
tionable policy in any event. and so OBJ
viously detrimental to the presidents per-
sonal interests, is becoming a subject OF
deep speculative wonder everywhere and
to everybody
As the Tribune correspondent very
justly says, 1.-The beef inquisition has
become a most extraordinary affair,
and the light thrown on the methods of
the war department bureaucracy by re-
cent unexpected developments is mat
ter of grave concern to the country"
But the question arises. is it not al
ready too late for the president to un-
load? He has sentenced Eagan to a
vacation on full pay; he has appointed
a court of inquiry, composed of Gen.
Miles enemies, to investigate Miles
grave charges; he has rewarded the
friends OF Alger and Algerism, and, so
far as he dares, will undoubtedly pun
ish Gen. Miles, the common soldiers
friend.
Alger has openly announced that he
will not go unless he is kicked out. To
kick him out would involve the great
est publicity to all these various scan
dals. The administration seems to be
between Scylla and Charybdis. 1t
might get rid of Alger; but of its own
completely with and support for Alger-
ism, it cannot get rid.-Albany Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
WORKS BETTER THAN MOB LAW
The Governor of the Mexican State
of SinaIOa Suspends Con-
stitutionaI Guarantee.

City of Mexico, May 1.-The gov
ernor of Sinaloa, in order to give great
err security to life and property, has
suspended the constitutional guaran-
tees in cases of kidnapping, patricide,
premeditated murderand highway rob-
berry. Sinaloa is on the Pacific coast
and isolated from the railway system
of the country. This measure means
that offenders of these classes will be
subject TO capital punishment by the
constituted authorities without the
formality of trial when their guilt
shall be clearly evident.
A similar measure regarding persons
guilty of putting distractions on rail-
way tracks was taken a few years ago
with eminently satisfactory results.
That classof offenses died out. 1t
is the Mexican substitute for mob law
and lynching and works well in prac-
tice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
The Monetary Problem.
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money; we will let you have all you
want at the lowest rates." Lincoln's
experience with the money power had
taught him that it was constituencies,
ruthless and cruel. Therefore his pre-
dictIon of the effects of its enthrone-,
ment in this country was not mere
guess. He know. The people lost their
best friend and the money power its
greatest foe in the death of Abraham
Lincoln.