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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-05
DOW ". HUNTER
Supreme Court of Illinois.
December 8. 1899.

Supreme Court of Illinois.
December 8, 1899.
A CONTRACT THAT A DEBT SHALL
BE PAYABLE I'm GOLD COIN OF
THE UNITED STATES. OF THE
THEN STANDARD OF WEIGHT
AND FINENESS," is VALID,
THOUGH LEGAL-TENDER NOTES
OR SILVER DOLLARS CIRCU-
Late AS MONEY.
This was suit to foreclose a deed
of trust given to secure certain notes
which were payable Gin gold coin OF
the United States of the then standard
OF weight and fineness." There was a
demurrer to the bill which was over
ruled and defendants appealed.
The Court says:
1t Will be observed that the decree
rendered does not require the amount
found TO be due on the notes and
mcrtgage 10 be paid in gold coin of
the United states. but merely directs
the payment OF certain sum Of money
within specified time. The case is
therefore one in all respects like Rae
v. Guaranty Co. But independently of
the case cited, we regard a contract
payable in gold coin of the limited
States of the then standard weight
and fineness. like the one in question.
IS valid. The validity OF such contra It's
have been sustained by not only the
decisions of this court, but also by the
rulings of the Supreme court of the
United States. We are aware of no
principle OF public policy which is vio-
lated by contract like the one In
question, nor does 1t violate any prin-
ciple of law. If two contracting mar
ties see proper to make a debt payable
in gold coin of the United States. of a
particular standard of weight and fine
ness, no reason is perceived why thew
may not do so. Nor is there any good
reason why such contract may not
be enforced although legal-tender
notes or silver dollars may be in circu-
lation as money. Affirmed
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-05
Departure ofLaborers.

The Baltimore steamer carried away
forty laborers last night en- route to
Rawlesburg. w. Va. where they will
go to work for the Buckhorn- Portland
Cement Company. The negroes were
secured here through R B. Epps, an
agent OF the cement company, who ar
rived Tuesday. The men are to receive
$3.50 per day for their labor.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-05
AMUsEm ENTs.

THE ADVENTURE OF LADY
URSULA"
The box Office at the Academy will
be opened this morning for the sale of
seats for the engagement of Mr.. VIM.
Morris and company in the romantic
comedy, THE Adventure of Lady
ursula" by Anthony Hope, author Of
''The Prisoner Of Zenda," &C. Re-
served seats can he secured for either
performance. Matinee. %. 80, and Use.
Night, Csc. to $3.50.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-05

EYE AND NOSE RAN wATER-C. G.
Archer. Of Brewer, Maine. says:"I have
had Catarrh for several years. Water
days ct a time. About four months ago
was induced to try DR.. Agnew's Ca
tarrhal Powder. and since using the won
would not be without IT, 1t relieves in
ten minutes. Sold by r. F. Holiness.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-05
WHAT DEMOCRATIC
LEADERS THINK.
Continued from Page 1.

will come the crucial test. Now, IL we
consolidate, we will enlist the party
machinery on the side OF the conven-
ton. and may win.
AS to the question Of submitting the
work of the convention to the voters
for ratification, I believe that this
would be. the most acceptable plan to
the people I"
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-05

kS TRcNG statements are all right whcr
- the sold truth Is bohird sham, In fact
a truthful advertisers duty 10 the p;.biic
IS to make his statements as strong rs
possible We can and do give greater
piano values than any one else In Nor
folk. and certainly We should say so and
1t is to your advantage to know 1t. Tho
proof is in the seeing. 1t is for you To-
investigate.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-05
Police Court Trial and judgement.

Judge Andy L. Calhoun. of the police
court OF Atlanta, Ga. recently passed a
sentence of much Importance 10 dyspep-
tics. Here II is:
II am great sufferer from nervous
sick headache and have found no remedy
SO effective as Tyner's Dyspepsia Rem
edy. Ii taken when the headache first
begins It invariably cures. "A. Z. CAL
HOUN."
Price so cents per bottle. At all drug
gists. or sent for price. express paid by
Tynsr Dyspepsia Remedy Co.. 10 Mitchell
street. Atlanta Ga.
Send Five Cents in stamps. TO nav post.
age. for sample. Free.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28
Mind Your Own Business.

"Mind your own business is a
good rule to 60 by" said a veteran
westerner with an ugly scar between
his thumb and his index finger,
"and this mark you see on my hand
keeps me in mind of it. | got it by
not doing that. II happened in a
Faro room one night In mining
town. | was watching a friend
playing, and just opposite was a
little fellow neither of as knew.
Ny friend had up bet of $40 when
he won and just as be was about to
take it, the little man reached out
and got it.
That's mine, said my friend.
"'lt's mine,' said the little man,
and the trouble was rising when
the'lookout, with a gun across his
lap,put in TO settle it.
"' This is our business, said my
friend waving the lookout off,
Now, he went on, addressing the
little man, 'wc will iuststep outside
and see whose IL is.'
"Ithoughtl had seen guerrilla,
one of those chaps around a game
who Is watching to catch sleeper,
slip the checks and knowing that
somebody would be killed II the
two men went outside, I put my
hand on my friends shoulder aud
announced that the guerrilla had
pinched the bet. Tho guerrilla
promptly struck me in the Jaw and
! went over, but was right mp again
and bo came for me with big kDlfl
] caught ~ bic arm, and got ths
knife which ripped my hand np
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28

EVERY day sees the situation in
China growing worse. Troops are
being hurried to the scene and sew
eral battles have already been
fought in which the Chinese have
got the worst of it. Imperial de,
crees have gone. forth in which the
Governors of several Provinces are
instructed to resist by force of arms
any aggressions by foreigners and
another decree for the purpose of
arousing the patriotism of the Chi
nese and to unite against foreign
aggression.
In the meantime the powers of
Europe are planning to partition
the Empire and have invited the
United States to participate and it
has been given out that a recent
meeting of the cabinet decided to
defer decision until after November
election. 1t has also been intimat.
ed that an extra session of Con.
gress may be called.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28

On our way to Buchanan last
Thursday we noticed many fields
of fine ccrn and many badly in need
of work. The continuous wet
weather having been very detri-
mental to all farm work. Much of
the fine wheat crop too of that sec
ton has been damaged. Owing to
the small pox scare and the busy
season the picnic at Buchanan was
not q success.
We are indebted to our friend A.
A. Kinder for a night of rest and
refreshment.
The factory at Buchanan is doing
q good business and has a large
yard covered with slaves. From
there we went to Zalma whore the
greater part Of the business of the
South end of the county is done and
with their new mill and the river
bridged, the future prospects fol
that thriving village. with Its big
hearted, public spirited, business
men, is indeed ilattering. There Il
still a great deal of very cheap land
in that part of the county, much
oft rich, valley land and very pro
ductiye, but there as elsewhere toe
much rain has injured the crop
very much.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28
Our Correspondents.
BUCHANAN.

We still have plenty of wet
weather.
Wheat harvest is thing of the
past.
Jesse D. Hawn and W. P. Nc Cans
were at this place last Friday look
ing up democrat voters.
Mr.. Dellinger and Pinkney Rhodes
were here on the same kind of
business. All are representative
democrats, but after July 18th they
will be thined out to one in a hill.
The big picnic, billed at this place
for the 2lst, was a big failure and
the hop tea remained on ice.
Andrew McMinn has been hard
at work harvesting for several days
with sprinkle of hay seed in his
hair. Andrew would be an ideal
granger.
John Higgins and family visited
Marion Corbin and other relatives
at Hyram last Saturday and Sunday.
Politics are talked considerably
at Buchanan and it almost makes
ones head dizzy to see the helghth
that some reach, and to see the
depth that some go in their argu-
ments explaining how combine,
or trust is beneficial to us people
here in the backwoods, Is beyond
our comprehension and past finding
out.
The American flag and what it
represents has been talked Of for
one and a quarter century and it
was supposed to represent, Freedom
and Liberty. In the year of 1853
there appeared in the N. Y. Tribune
(Greely's paper), a poem of derision
Of our flag in as much as, slavery
for the black and freedom for the
whites was menacing of our emblem
so much, so that it could not mean
freedom as long as slavery existed.
The flag referred to ran like this
and was received by the abolition.
lists with great favor.
Tear down the Haunting lie,
Half mast the starry flag;
Insult no sunny sky
With hates polluted rag.
Destroy it, ye who can,
Deep sink it IN the wave;
1t bears q fellow man
1t groans q fellow slave.
Then it meant liberty. Now il
floats over a multitude of meanings
differing as widely as freedom and
slavery. MAX Adder.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28
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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28

but | held on until somebody hit
the guerrilla with stool and knock.
ed him senseless. A dozen shots
were fired during the scrap, 'just
to shoe the th'es out, some joker
said, but l was worse hurt than any
body else.
"'You ought to have minded
your own business said the old fel
low who dressed my wounded hand
But l wasn't going to see my
friend robbed and killed. l pro
tested.
"'Mebba was the sage reply, 'but
you'll have all you can do to KEEP
out of trouble mindin' your owr
business in this country, and lei
this be warnin' to you.
"As it turned out, 1 was right
and my friend and the little man
shook hands. We got the $40 from
! from the guerrilla and that same
night the boys wrecked his cabir
and drove him out of camp New
York Sun.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28
WAYS Part.

The two great parties are practl'
cally settled in the cleats for the
final tug-ofwar. They have pulled
many times against each other. but
never have their separate interests
and beliefs been more directly op-
posed.
They have led the country
straight up to the parting of the
ways. On one hand there is an
empire, built on materialism, ruled
by millionaires and maintained by
rifles.
On the other hand a mighty re.
public of patriot freeman, true to
the flag, holding the constitution
inviolate ana striving to put into
practical shape the measures con
ducive' to the greater comfort and
happiness of the people.
Which shall it be, empire or re-
public?
The first may blaze for time,
only to sink eventually like all
great empires into red ruin. The
second will be o revertiug to and a
continuation of the principles laid
down by our forefathers in the
Declaration of Independence, and
the perpetuation of a free and just
civilization.
The lmperialists, while ostensibly
holding to their pledge of indepen
dence for Cuba, are drifting grad
ually toward forcible annexation o.
the island.
The Democratic party favors in
dependence for Cuba in all that the
word implies, coupled with just and
reciprocal relations as to trade.
The imperialists have established
an unconstitutional sovereignty in
Porto Rico, whereby the inhabitants
are protected from all countries but
this. We gave them flags and rifles
and behind the flags and rifles were
the granite fists Of the trusts.
The Democratic party believes
IN the abolition of the hybrid gov
ernment, with educational restrict
ion as to suffrage. Making the
Porto Rlcans American citizens will
satisfy them that they are not to bt
treated as aliens and dependents.
The imperiallsts, by their acts II
the islands that have fallen to oul
care, seem to believe that the ulti
mate destiny Of every person II
those islands is to become the sub
ject Of an American.
II is the belief Of the Democratic
party that tho ultimate destiny o
every person under our Gag is citi
xeDship.
On those facts every voter 10 ih'
United States will have 70 make
his choice between an empire ans
4 rppubllc.--Ncw York Joarnal,
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28
Only One Ticket.

The talk of nominating "Gold
Democrat" Presidential ticket this
year should and most probably will
end in talk.
There is no occasion for such
ticket. -Four years ago free silver
was the dominant issue in the cam
paign. This year, though it may be
talked about in certain sections, it
will not be an issue at all, because
the money question is settled for at
least four years to come by an un-
cbangeable Republican majority in
the Senate.
In 1896 the coinage was an open
question. 1t has since been closed
for the present by the enactment Of
gold standard law which no possi-
Bile result of the pending election
can repeal. Yet, when the issue
was most alive and threatening the
Presidential ticket of the Sound
Money Democrats received only
pitiful 133.424 votes out of nearly
100000. Most of the Democrats
whose opposition to free silver was
strong enough to prevent them from
supporting Bryan voted directly for
Mckinley, as they would do again
this year were the issue and danger
the same.
But the issue is not the same.
The danger is different and vastly
more portentous. This country can
endure any change in, its currency
Such changes, though they may
cause much disturbance to business
and great pacuniarY losses, do not,
touch the foundation nor affect the
structure of our Government. But
imperialism, milltarism and m monop-
oily. the real and only issues in the
election, strike at the basic principle
and threaten the very existence of
the republic.
A country with subject posses
sions secured by conquest and gov
erned by force is not a republic.
And where plutocracy rules democ-
racy becomes merely name. with
out force or effect.
tis for these reasons that third
ticket this year is not only uncalled
for, but would be even more farcical
than it was in 1896. Mr.. Bryan.
who, as the World said two months
ago, will be renomInated by accla-
nation, represents the American
and therefore the democratic side of
these living, burning, dominating
issues. He is for this reason entitled
to, and will receive, the support of
the World and all those who believe
with us that "the only issue worth
considering in this campaign is the
preservation of the republic, the
maintenance of the constitution and
a return to the principles of the
Declaration of independence New
York World.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28
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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28
Strawberries Beat Strikes

There is wholesome and practi-
cal wisdom in the determination of
a bright faced young fellow, who
was employed by the st. Louis
Transit company and went out with
the strikers, to take his wife and
two little ones back to his brothers
farm in Kansas. There, he says,
he had good job and II happy
home, where the children played
merrily in the meadows and about
the barnyard; where there was
fried chicken every morning for
breakfast, fresh eggs with bowls of
mush and Jersey cream on the table
every day and plateful of straw
berries right off the vine at every
meal-not q saucerful of stale ones,
such as he gets in city boarding
house.
He tells how, IN that sylvan home
in the Sunfower state, "they quit
work at 6 O'Clock in the evening,
and after supper sat on the front
porch and smoked their pipes and
went to bed when they got ready
instead of staying up half the night
on the street car in an effort to earn
wages for overtime and getting hard
words from the boss.n
Beside, he didn't have to work
on Sundays, but could 60 to 'meetin'
or fishing, as he pleased, and on
rainy days he could take his gun
out into the woods and knock over
q few quail or squirrel.
That man didn't know when he
was we'll off, but he has profited by
his brief experience, and he and his
little family are going to realize the
yearning in Whitcomb R,ley's song
"L.et us go back to Griggsby Station,
Whar the latch string hangs outside
the door;
Let us go back to Griggsby Station
Whar he was so happy and so poreP
The poverty he met in the country
was wealth compared to what h'
encountered In the big and busy
town.
There are many like this younl
fellow, simple hearted folk, wh'
rush off to the cities with the vagu,
hope, Of becoming suddenly rich
only to find their hopes turn I,
Dead sea apples on their lips, ant
their lives TO become embittered Il
che fierce strife OF industrial compc
tition.
TNe independent life ofthe countr.
is FIR better 10 many ways than th'
artificial lite Of the town, especial.
for that large class ofmankind VIII
have to earn their bread by th
sweat Of their face. All such VIII
are blest, like The Kansas man, wit
q comfortable sylvan homo temp
misfortune whenever they lcavcth
farm for tbs glare. the hustle m
ihe amadding crowd Of the city =
Kansas City Times.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28

THE National Republican Con-
vention at Philadelphia, nominated
Mckinley and Roosevelt by accla-
nation. Mark Hanna was re.elect-
ed chairman. The platform is very
lengthy and, as matter of course,
is in line with the policy of the ad-
ministration,
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28

Dunklin County Mail; ]. I. Wells
was IN Pemiscot county last week
delivering insurance policies, While
over there ha wrot0 up policies
representing anveral thousand dol.
lars more which hava been sent In
ior approval,
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28
NEAREST CORRECT CUE SSES
OF THE POPULATION OF
THE UNITED safes

To be reported by the u S. Censu
Bureau for 1900.
The first census of the United States
was taken in 1910. Since then every
succeeding ten years. The result of
each census has been as follows:
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28

THE labor troubles in St. Louis are,
seemingly about over. The sheriff's
posse has been reduced to 1000, and
only half of the men are on duty. Mon
day is said to have been a very quiet
dav
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1900-06-28
o. 2. Anderson. defendant.


Against
o. p Anderson, defendant.
At this day comes the plaintiff herein, by
his attorney, w. K. Chandler, and files his
petition and affidavit alleging, among other
things, that defendant o. P. Anderson, is
not a resident OF the State Of MISSOURI.
Whereupon it is ordered by the clerk in
vacation, that said defendant be notified by
publication that plaintiff has commenced a
suit against him in this court; the object and
general nature Of the petition filed is the en-
forcement ofthe lienxoft the State upon the real
property in the petition described, situated in
said county, viz
90 Acres, the northwest quarter Of the
northeast quarter, section 20, township 81
range 9 east.
And that unless the said O. ?. Anderson
be and appear at this court at the next term
thereof, to be begun and holden at the court
house in the town Of Marble IIill, in said
county, on The second Manoay OF September
next, and on or before the third day Of said
term ifthe term shall SO long continue, and u
not, then on or before the last day Of said
term--answer or plead 10 the petition In said
cause, the same will be taken a. confessed and
judgment will be rendered accordingly.
And II is further ordered that copy hereof
be published, according 10 law, In the Marble
Iilll Press.
SAM ]. McMINN, Circuit Clerk
A true e0py from The record
Witness my hand and ihe bsal of The Circuit
- court 81 Ilollngeg county, ibis Mhr
| | l. 4 day Of Ipnr, 1000,
s.v-s hAN MsdINN, ChmA Clefh