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The Sussex Republican., 1899-12-16
The "Y.r

'.te "Yp met at The residence OF
Mrs. A. f. Polk on Tuesday evening,
After the opening exercises IL was
decided to make an effort to increase
the membership and secure better
attendance.
A committee WAS appointed to ar
range for a social to be neld IN Janu
ary.
The next meeting will be held al
Miss Jennie BeDnum' s.
The Sussex Republican., 1899-12-16
working Nsxnt and nay

The busiest and mightlest little thing
that ever was made rs DIR. Kings New
Life Pills. Every pill is sugar coated
globule of health. that changes weak
ness into strength. lIstlessness into en-
ergy. brain-fag into mental power.
They're wonderful In building up the
health. Only 25c per box. Sold by
layton & Layton.
The Sussex Republican., 1899-12-16
John Wanamaker.
OLD TRAINS TO NORTHERN
MICHIGAN.

The Chicago Milwaukee & IT. Paul
Railway is now running solid trains of
palace sleeping cars, dining cars (serv-
ing meals a la carte) and first class day
coaches. through from Chicago TO Cal
umet, Houghton, Hanctck and other
points IN the Copper Country without
change of cars, with direct connection
for Marquette, Negaunee. Isheming,
etc. and passengers from the East.
South and Southwest will find this a
most desirable route.
All coupon ticket agents sell tickets
via the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway.
The Sussex Republican., 1899-12-16
Tne Modern Mother

Has found that her little ones are
improved more by the pleasant Syrup
of Figs. when 10 MED Of the laxative
effect Of a gentle remedy, than by any
other. Children enjoy It and II benefits
them. The irue remedy, Syrup of
Figs, is manufactured b, the Califor
mia Fig Syrup C,., only.
The Sussex Republican., 1899-12-16
TO builders and Contractors.

The Parsonage Building Committee
of Roxana, are open to receive propo-
sails for the erection Of a two story ad
dition to the present Parsonage. until
noon of January Ist, 1900, at which
time contract will be let.
Specifications may be had on appli-
cation to the Secretary at Roxana, Del.
The lowest bid not necessarily &C
cepted
G. w. CLAPHAM, j. L. BELTS,
Secretary. Chairman
The Sussex Republican., 1899-12-16
Farms sold by the sheriff.

Sheriff Wharton had several tine
plantations under the hammer Tues
day at the County Building. The Hen
ry Hepburn farm, near Moorton, 246
acres, brought only $4,000, George M
Jones of Dover, being the purchaser.
The greatest bargin, however, was
the David Hess property. fine tract
of land near Marydel, 25S acres with
tw farm houses and other buildings.
This brought but $346O, David M.
Hess of Philadelphia. being the pur
chaser.
The Howden property near Marsdel.
was purchased by Samuel Wharton of
Dover, tor $l075.
The Sussex Republican., 1899-12-16
Perfumes

If it's for a woman, there
can't be any daintier Christ
mas box than a box of per
fumes. We have the boxes
in various pretty gift styles
containing generous sized bot
ties.
Violet and Lilac perfumes, three
sizes. Soc, 75c. 81.
Queen Mary extracts, two in box,
soc; three in box. si.45: four in
box. $3.50.
Our new sisi extract, s5c, soc. s1.so.
In our French room all the
favored makes of foreign per
fumes in extracts, sachets, etc.
Guerlain's extracts, s1.55. $3.50. $3.50
to se.25
All the other French makes-Roger
Gallet, Coudray, Violet, Pinaud,
Yane. Lubin, and the rest
VaHm uLa~
The Sussex Republican., 1899-12-16

R-All subscribers to the
Sussex Republican in arrears
over two years should pay up
at once, as all accounts over
two dollars will be placed in
the hands of proper officers for
collection on January 1, 1900.
The Sussex Republican., 1899-12-16
wANAmAKEK,s.

Philadelphia. Monday, Dec. II. 1893.
If asked, NE mil store Mfngy
6oMghtnowunhH Christmas time,
and delivey them.
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
GOLD IS A FAILURE.
Especially as Standard for De.
ferred Payments-RisingV Value
of Money Does Injustice.

The failure of the supply of money to
keep pace with the demand causes the
dollar to increase in value This, OBJ
viously, is to the advantage of the idle
holders of idle dollars, and to the det-
riment of everyone who has the sale
either of his labor or the product of
his labor. If there were no deferred
payments or debt. this would not cause
such injustice, but wherever there are
deferred payments, then an appre-
ciating dollar works great injustice to
all debtors and to all who labor or who
have made investments in productive
enterprises. To illustrate: The farm
er who borrows money calculates that
it will take a certain amount of his
products when the debt is due to buy
the dollars in which the payment is to
be made. The laborer figures in the
same way. He has contracted to pay
his debts in dollars, but he must pur-
chase the dollars with so many days
labor, and if the dollar appreciates the
laborer knows that it will take more
days labor to get the dollars than it
would have taken when the debt was
made. In other words, when the value
of money goes up, the price of prod
ucts goes down. Through the appli-
cation of this principle by means of
the single standard of gold the profits
of the farm, the shop and the factory
have been shifted into the Golfers of
the few, who control the nations cir.
culating medium.
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
COWARDLY TACTICS.
Gold Advocates Dare Not Give Pub.
licly the True Reason for Desir-
ing the Single Standard.

The gold men have invariably fought
under cover. There is not leading ad-
vocate of the gold standard in the
United States who dares to publicly give
his true reason for demanding that gold
should be retained as the sole metallic
base of our monetary system. Those
who know anything about the subject
are fully aware that gold is constantly
rising in its exchange value. That it
will all the time buy more and more,
except when some unusual thing oc-
ours to temporarily raise the price of
some particular commodity, as in the
case of wheat at the present time. They
know that as money increases in pur-
chasing power the only beneficiaries are
the holders of fixed incomes, and those
whose interest in money exceeds their
interests in all other things combined.
They know that what benefits these
classes in such a way must injure all
others. Finally, they know that if they
were to declare that they were seek
ing to further enrich those who are
already the richest, they would be
buried out of sight at the very first
election. So the millionaires and multi
millionaires, together with their subor-
dinate shouters, pretend that they want
the gold standard (honest money, as
they call it) in the interest of the wild
ow and the orphan, the hod carrier
and the washerwoman. This is a pail
pable fraud. 1t should deceive nobody,
and should convince every thinking
man that the gold standard has no
valid defense
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
AMERICAS SPLENDID CAREER.
Starts Upon Her Asiatic Rule with Ample
Resources and Sense of Moral
Responsibility.

London, March Elm the introduce
ton to his new history of British In
dia, to be published to-day, Sir VIM.
Wilson Hunter, former member of the
Indian legislative council and former
president of the Indian Education
commission, referring to the advent of
the United States as colonizing pow
er, says:
America starts upon her career of
Asiatic rule with an amplitude of re-
sources and a sense of moral RESPONSE
bility which no previous state of Chris
tendon brought to the work. In her
splendid and difficult task she will
be trammeled by no Portuguese inqui-
sition of the sixteenth century, nor by
the slave colonization of Holland in
the seventeenth, nor by the cynical
rule for gain of the rulers which, for
time, darkened the British acquisi-
ton of India in the eighteenth.
1.-The United States, in the govern
ment of their dependencies, will repre-
sent the political conscience of the
nineteenth century. / hail their adj
vent as n new power for good, not
alone for the island races, coming un-
der their care, but also in that great
settlement of European spheres of in
fluence in Asia which, if we could see
Alright, forms the world problem of our
day."
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
CAGES MISTAKE.
The Secretary Makes a Somewhat
''Trickys Statement Regarding the
Eject of Free Coinage.

Secretary Gage has made sort OF
semiofficial statement that free coin
age will not create any additional de-
mand for silver. He says that the mint
would merely take the metal, coin it
and hand it back to the owner. We are
afraid that Mr.. Gage is little inclined
to be tricky" in some of his state
ments. In this one he left out the
most material and importec.. part of
the proposition. For the government
to simply take the silver, mix a little
copper with it, fashion it into round
pieces bearing certain inscriptions and
designs and hand it back in its changed
form would not create any additional
demand or give it any higher value,
unless in it's changed form it possessed
greater utility than it did before and
were consequently in greater demand.
This, however, is exactly what does
take place when silver is coined into
legal tender money. As mere bullion
not one person in 500 has any partic-
ular use for it. AS money everybody
has use for it, rybody wants it and
will give almost anything he has in ex-
change for it. Hence a greater demand
and greater value. Try again. Mr..
Gage
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
ADVISED TO BECOME BANDITS.
Unwholesome Doctrine Preached by SAM
tiAgo Newspapers-A at Ha-
vana Roundly Denounced.

Santiago de Cuba, March 6.-El Por-
venir, discussing the situation brought
about by the orders from Havana linn
iting the total expenditure upon the
departments of the provincial admins
tration to $4,000, says:
There is only one course open tn
the men without work and food, name
ly, to become banditti. Hunger de-
mands bread. The proceedings of the
United States authorities at Havana
are evidently antagonistic to Maj aj.-Gen.
Wood, and born of jealousy of his sue
cess and popularity among all classes
of Cubans. Three thousand men have
been thrown out of employment at
only a days notice, which must mean
serious menace to public peace and
property"
The Independence, Ell Cubano and
the Santiago Herald comment in much
the same strain
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
THE ISSUE OF 1000.
Gold Standard Democrats VIII Have
to Vote for a Republican
Again.

The views of Senator j. K. Jones,
chairman of the national democratic
executive committee, are simply in
the line of national development.
The great issue before the people of
any country is that of the greatest in
ternal Importance. In the shrinkage of
values which have taken place in this
country during the last 20 years the
people have recognized the hand of ad-
verse financial legislation. According
as the currents of money supply were
cut off, paralysis spread into every line
of business, first attacking the produc-
tive industries and the farm, and finally
destroying the prosperity of cities and
large financial institutions. Spurts of
prosperity have come to the country be-
tween times, owing to the wonderfully
recuperative character of our country,
but still, in spite of abundant nature
and intense individual industry, no per-
manent prosperity has come.
The political parties which started
out handicapped by the leadership OF
Wall street on both sides have finally
taken position as to what the remedy
must be. The republican party, after
a period of lodging under The cover of
international agreement, has finally
drifted away into the extreme gold
standard policy. The democratic
party. having effectually shaken Off
the "old men of the sea-" who were
weighting it down, has declared for
wholesale and thorough financial re-
form, which can only be brought about
by return TO the money of the consti-
tuition. Notwithstanding the intrench-
ments of the money power within its
ranks, it succeeded in casting them
out and polling nearly 100000 votes.
That such fight as this should have
been waged, with the result of attract
ing so large a vote, is evidence of too
strong position to be surrendered at
the bidding of the enemy, or in con-
sequence of bogus issues set up by the
enemy, and is not for one moment to be
considered. The democratic party, in
national convention, has declared its
faith. which has been indorsed by
larger vote than was ever cast for
democratic issue before. When the peo-
pie meet again in national convention
they will meet with full knowledge of
their strength and of the Righteousness
of their cause, and it is safe to say that
they will meet the enemy in the cam
paign of 1900 on the same ground upon
which they were met in 1896, and that
they viii win.
Chairman Jones, therefore. in maxi
ing the statement which he does, does
not need the gift of prophecy for so de-
claring, because the issues are now so
fixed as to be beyond the power of any
man to change them. Those who want
the gold standard will have to vote for
the republican nominee 10 get it, while
the democratic. platform will stand as
already written.-Atlanta Constitu-
tiOD
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
THE sToRY-sook BOY

oh, the story-book boy, he's a wonderful,
youth,
prodigy reeking with goodness and
truth;
AS brave as lion, as wise as a sage,
ana sharp as a razor, though u years of
age.
His mother is good and she's awfuIly poor
But ne says: DO not fret, I'll provide for
you, suren
And the hard, graspinp landlord vbo
Is braved to his teeth by the story-book
boy.
Oh the story-book boy! when he sees that
young churl,
The sources spoiled son, kick the poor Grip
pied girl,
He darts to the rescue as quick as he can,
ana austs the hard road with the cruel
And. when he is sought by the vengefuI
old squire,
He withers the latter with tongue-lashing
ire;
For the town might combine his vounp
nerve to destroy
And never once shake him-the story-book
boy.
Oh, the story-book boy. when the Judges
dear child
Is dragged through the streets by a runa-
way, wild,
Of course he's on hand. and "ten-strike"
he makes,
For he stops the mad steed in a couple of
Shakes"
And he tells the glad judge, who has wept
on his hat:
81 did but my dutyr' or something like
that:
But the very best job in the judges employ
Is picked out at once for the story-book
boy.
Oh, the story-book boy! all his troubles are
DER,
For he gets to be judge in a year or two
more;
And the wicked old landlord in poverty
dies,
And the squire's son drinks, and in cutters
he lies:
But the girl whom he saved is our hero's
fair bride,
And his old mother comes to their home to
abide:
In silks and in sealskins. she cries, in her
joy:
Thank Heaven. I'm ma of a story-book
boy"
Joe Lincoln, in L. A W. Bulletin.
Iron County register., 1899-03-09

of them would be forced up among the
huge rocks that lined the shores. only
to be snapped asunder like pipe stems
as the irresistible mass swept by.
Would they find the mangled remains
of little Nick Arnold? or would he be
ground to atoms in this terrible mill?
Mr.. Hall walked down along the
"totepath." beside the stream. The
Jam was broken. but a what fearful
cost. He had seen many men drowned,
but this death could be laid directly to
himself Slowly he made his way along
the rough path. ciambering over wind
falls and broOding upon the brave boys
fate and the mothers sorrow, when she
learned the sad news. After awhile he
reached the foot of the rapids and saw
a group of men on the shore. and
among them a little drenched form
that caused his heart to bound and his
pulse to beat with gladness. 1t was
Nick Arnold. safe and sound. with the
exception of few slight bruises.
I'VE seed him clingin' to n log. ar
pulled him ashore afore the thickest of
'em got here" said one of the men.
And Nick explained how the log had
given way much sooner than he expect
ed. throwing him into the water, with
no othSr chance but TO swim down
stream, though the foam completely
covered him good portion of the time.
When near the foot of the rapids he
had seized log. which served to rest
him somewhat. and the watchers below
had succeeded in rescuing him. though
not a moment too soon. as the stream
was almost Immediately filled with the
whirling tree trunks.
''But ! earned my hundred dollars"
said Nick, proudly.
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
The Platform Vindicated.

I want 10 call your attention to some
of the events which have been vindi-
eating the position taken in the Chi
cago platform. Do you remember that
in that platform we declared prefer
ence for an income tax? l never could
understand how any person who con-
sidered the subject could oppose it, be-
cause if he understands the situation
he knows that he is paying now a
larger proportion than he should of the
expenses of the federal government. |
could not understand why a rich man
could oppose it. because / have never
vet expressed so poor an opinion of
rich man as to make me believe of him
that he would lay upon the shoulders
of poor men the burdens that ne ought
to he willing to bear for the good Of
his country. And when | found the
rich opposing the income tax l attrib-
uted it to the fact that they did not
fully under erStand the injustice which
their acts were perpetratirg upon those
less able to support the government
than themselves. When we advocated
the income tax great many people
did not seem to appre ciate It's impor-
tance. but events have shown us that
our position was right. and there are
more people believing in the income
tax to-day than there were little more
than two years ago, when you met in
this hall: and if republican tells you
that the Chicago platform is dead, you
ask him whether the income tax is not
stronger to-day than when the Chica-
go platform was written.-From w. j.
Bryan's Grand Rapids Speech.
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

THE gist of the report of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's late war inquiry board was:
There was very bad management, but
the managers were not to blame. st.
Louis Republic.
In a total vote of only $4,000, the
Hanna candidate for the republican
nomination as mayor of Cleveland was
showed under by 1000. Encouraged by
this result in Hanna's home city, the
Forakerites Will now force the fighting
throughout Ohio.-Albany Argus.
1t makes the American citizen
shudder to contemplate the real cost
to this nation, under our spoils system
and partisan political management of
our military arm, in the event Of a seri-
Gus conflict with any first-class power.
That the politicians in control where
there should be experts under the .mer-
it system would practically bankrupt
the country there is scarcely doubt
Houston (TeN.) Post.
There is one reason, if there were
no others, why Alger has no excuse for
failure. He has unlimited if unez-
planned power with the president. The
way he holds on to his office. saves
Eagan. discredits Miles, provides evil
dence enough of that. As long as there
was money in the treasury and food
in the market Alger had no excuse for
not giving. the army everything it
needed. There is man in the white
house. apparently. who can refuse him
nothing.-Portland Oregonian (Rep.).
Not single bill has passed the
Fifty-tifth congress that was not drawn
in the interests of the combines. Hun
drcds of millions of dollars have been
appropriated to further the interests
of syIdicates. High customs duties
have been scheduled to put extra
profits into the pockets of combines by
obliging the people to pay more for
their commodity supplies, and the
peoples burden of taxes has been in
creased over two dollars per capita to
make good the revenue deficits. The
common people are no better situated
than they were when Mckinley was in
augurated; not so well, indeed, but the
combines are very much richer.-Kan-
eas City Times.
Iron County register., 1899-03-09
OVER FIFTY PERSONS KILLED.
Awful Effects of the Explosion of Pow
der Magazine Near the City Of
Toulon, France.

Toulon, March 6.--The naval powder
Seyne and Toulon, in the department
of War;, southern France, exploded at
half-past two o'clock yesterday morn
ing. All the soldiers on duty at the
magazine were killed, and a number of
inhabitants of the surrounding dis
trict, the buildings in whichwere razed.
also fell victims. Forty corpses have
already been recovered. The cause or
the explosion is not known.
Looks Like n Volcanic Eruption.
Fifty thousand kilogrammaso of black
powder exploded. 1t looks as though
a volcanic eruption had occurred, the
country being swept almost bare with
III a radius of two miles, houses de-
stroyed, trees overturned and distort-
ed, fields devastated, and covered with
stones and impalpable black dust.
Some of the stones are enormous.
One weighing so kilogrammes fell in
the suburb of Pone de Las. Signs of the
explosion are evident in all the sub
urbs of Toulon, and in the city itself.
Even at ST. Jean de Var, five miles dis
tant, windows were shattered and
doors battered in.
Four of Seven Ssntries Killed.
Later reports show that of the seven
sentries, four were killed outright and
the others severely injured, the cor
poral being literally scalped and the
scalp overhanging his face like veil.
A large number of soldiers are now
employed in clearing away the debris,
but the work is very difficult.
One Hundred Persons Injured.
It is impossible toascertain accurate
ly the number killed, but it is believed
that no fewer than 100 were injured.
Although it was clear night, the
explosion was so terrible as to produce
slight rainfall.
Fortunately, the neighboring maga-
zines escaped. 1t is now believed that
the explosion originated in chemical
decomposition in smokeless powder.
There is no suggestion of foul play.
The City In Mourning Relief Funds.
The whole city is in mourning, flags
are at half-mast, the theaters are
draped and the casinos closed.
Both the government and the muni-
cipal authorities are forwarding relief
funds. NJ. Lockroy, minister of marine,
has telegraphed 10000 francs toward
the maintenance of the families of the
victims, and public subscription has
been opened here.