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M()Ux T
VERNON
HAWK-E YE.
Y I V[D hION[Y.
Were Supplied with
by the State at a
Small Cost.
SUM OF MONEY.
Reing Made lIut Prices
-- hnportant Decision
Payment of City %Vat-
Stole Debt--Scarcity of
Notes of rnterest.
)ondence.]
la Nov. 7.--The men of
regiment carried
:tittle sum of money, which
to the fact timt they
with clothing by the
small cost when they went
They took the national
which were the same
uniforms, and were
but a small part of
regular army uniform.
uniforms through
term of service, most of
thereby saved from
When they came to be
each man was paid in
was due him for clothing
the first six months
because very few of them
their clothing. They re-
to $60. They were also
pay and allowance
The following com-
the price charged the
the state uniforms corn-
they would have had
bought new uniforms
rot:
State. U. S. srrnv
$ 75 $ 4 "41
6o
. 25
200 11 7~
200 $ ~3
addle .~0 3 3~
100 833
$7 00 $31 99
by state.
the Ocean.
regiment is now on
on its way to Manila,
undoubtedly spend its en-
;. 1900. The
regiment was first-class'
San Francisco last Friday,
the boys were glad to
to visit another
they were in camp
*prior to being mustered
to service, this regiment
court in regard to payment of city war-
rants is of greqt importance to all cltics
and towns in this state which imve oot-
slaB(ling warrants. The court hohls in
this case that mnnieipal warrants can
lie paid only out of the fnnd on which
they arc drawn, and only during the
year i~1 which they are issued. It has
been the CUSTOIYI IO lssne warranls
against certain funds which at the I ime
rai~q~t be exhausted and pay the war-
rants in the order of their issuance
when the fnnd upon which they were
drawn was replenished. The warrants
would he stamped "not paid for want of
funds." and would perhaps not bc paht
for s year or two. drawing interest in
the meantime at six per cent. The court
declares that this practice is not only
pernicious in its effects, bat unavthor-
ized by law. anti that the city's accounts
must be squared up at the end of each
year. In some cities it will be neces-
sary to make an additional special levy
in order to raise money to proteet lhcse
warrants already issued, because they
cannot be paid out of funds to be raised
this year. and under the decision will
be of no value next year except by the
adjudication of a court. Every holder
of such warrants would be obliged to
bring suit against the city, and even
then there is some doubt as to his abil-
ity to collect. The intent of the law.
says the supreme court, is to keep the
expenditures of the municipality with-
in fts actual income, and to prevent the
accumulation of a large indebtedness
through the issue of warrants wilen
there is not enough money in the treas-
ury to pay them',
Tile State Debt.
The state debt November 1 was $155:
601.23. By the first of Jammry this will
be reduced to about $S0.0O0, says State
Treasurer Herriott. The large ex-
penses of state institutions dnring the
next six months~will, however, inerea~b.
the debt probably to somewhere near
$250.000. perhaps more. lint by the end
of 1899 it will be entirely wiped out and
the state will have a surplus of cash
on hand, and will start in on a new deal.
May He President.
Mrs. Margaret Dunham. of Burling-
ton. who has been several times presi-
dent of the Iowa Woman's Christian
Temperance union, is being prominent-
]y mentioned for the presidency of the
notional organization to succeed the
late Frances Willard. Mrs. Dunham is
a woman of marked ability as a speaker
and organizer who has had a promi-
nent part in the work of this organiza-
tlon for some years. She says. how-
ever. that she will not be a candidate.
but favors the election of Mrs. Ste-
phens, who has been acting as president
since the death of Miss Willard.
Corn May Be Higher.
I0WA STATE NEWS.
Christluo Endeavorer.~.
The thiltccnth annunl convention cf
the Iowa Christian l!:udeavor assoc,a-
tion w:ts I',ehl in Marshalltown an(l lh ~.
C. "~V. Sweet. of Des Moines, wa ~ (qected
president for tile ensuing4 ,war. The
secretary's rcl)ort s]l(',wed a nit, labor-
ship of 28,716 in the state. The junic, r
societies have 31 nlelnbership of n(.arly
I1,E)00. The total amount given din'inR
the )'ear to missions was $4.01T.b9 and
the total amount raised for all purposes
was $17,$53.21.
Indicted for Murder.
Mrs. Lottie Ilughcs was indicted by
the grund jury in Mason City for tLe
murder of i~er husband. The poisomng
occurred on April 19. Mrs, llughes l~ad
a preliminary hearing In June. b,tt of-
fered no evidence to prov~ her inno-
cence. What her defense is none hut
herattorneys know. She was infatuated
with a young nmn in Mason City. The
parties were all prominent.
Mu~t Not Pay.
The state board of control of state
institutions issued a proclamation no-
tifying all emploJes that they must nol
pay political assessments or contribul e
in any inallner for election purposes,
on pain of dismissal from their posi-
tions, as such eontribntions are con-
trary to the law of the state passed by
the last legislature creating the board
of control.
Off for Manila,
The transport Pennsylvania with the
Fifty-first regiment of Iowa volunteers
on board sailed from San Francisco for
Manila. The regiment numbers 10~8
officers and men and ih~ transport is in
charge of Col. Loper. Since the lowans
went to San Francisco death and dis-
charges have reduced the ranks of tbe
regiment by over 300 men.
Dairy.hen Elect OiHeerS.
The State Dairy association cGnven
lion in ~Vaterloo selected Mason City
as the place for next year's.meeting,
and chose thetfcllowillg oglcers: l'res-
ident, W. K. Boardman. Nevqda; vice
president, John t(olthoff. New tlnmp-
ton; secretary, J. C. I)aly, Charles Cily;
treasurer, Capt. Stelson, Mason City.
Bougilt o Fnrtn.
Congressman Dolltver and his brother
Victor have bought the 400-acre fttrm
owned und operated by the late Cyrus
C. Carpenter. former governor of lown.
It is a famous stoeh farm located near
Fort Dodge, the home of the Dollivers
who paid $5O an acre for it and will
operate it themselves.
Arous of being sent to the Reports received from various partsNews in Brief.
It is the first regiment of the state indicate a scarcity of corn,
out of the country, and ~hat prices are likely to go up. Morris llauch and Walter Bloom
expects to be Feeders are obliged to import corn fought 15 lively rounds before the Tri-
'weeks. from other states, prices ranging from City Athletic club in Davenport, the
match resulting in a draw. Ranch had
to Vote. 25 to 28 cents per bushel. Farmers are
z regiment arrived in nat willing tlltt~ year ~:o sell at those clearly the best of it until he broke a
last figures expecting to get more later in bone in his left wrist in the 15th round.
the winter, when~h~ demands of feed- [ The claim of Miss Alvaretta MeMul-
be~ be: re esti- lea, of Winterset, that she was the
the v idow of Allen Gregory, the Chicago
~tock, yards millionaire" who died last
)'ear. was thrown out of court in Chi-
]ias been paid to' :ago.
Moines post There is an epidemic of diphtheria
at Central, a small town a few miles
the United States
Keokuk. The schools and
have been closed, and chil-
H. Hunter
Post-
not even
from his
g, Jr of New York
1 of 3:cllow fever, contract.
luty t*f Havana planning
of the army and the
k~own in
which
F. ~. BICKNELL.
lladleatlons x~e ~hat Many Miles of
Truek ~'I~l Be Laid in Iowa
Next Year
are that there will' be
building in Iowa during
year than there has been be-
for 12 or 15 years. The latest is the
of a new company by officers
the Iowa Central for the purpose of
building lines from Oskaloosa to Des
Moines by way of Pella and CordoVa, at
the latter point forming a connection
with the Wabash road over whose track
r,was to Boone afterthe new company will ruff its trains
auffeced a terrible epi- into Des Moines. Another extensionof
fever and he removedthe Iowa Central will be built from
which had brought about Belmoud, the present termination of a
on foot for branch, to Algona and possibly later
plan sanitary ~vill be run into the Dakotas. The corn-
towns, pmiy has an authorized capital stock of
Compa rlso $3,000,000, and ~id an incorporation fee
compiled of $2,002 to thesecretary of state.
the
DRAKE DEBATERS.
the Spanish war A Spirited Contest Takes Piaoe at
the state had 44 the University Between
of ten companies Te~ Speuker~
number being 960
the avers Virgil White, a freshman law student.
nearly won the debate at Drake university m
of mortality was Des Moines. W. I Goodwin took second
regiments in the Span- prize, anti H. E. Van Horn secured
a little over 5.300 third place. These three gentlemen
deaths have aggregated will represen~ the university in its an-
nearly 24 to a regiment, nual debate with Monmouth college ou
regiment be- February 16. The debate was a spirited
zy one and was closely contested. ,There
of were ten speakers and they were al-
clviI war do not in- lowed 15 minutes each. The result was
from battle, from an extremely long programme, but
suicide or drown- the interest was maintained to fl:e end
ciVil war regiments The questionwas: "Resolved, That the
, from disease during interests and welfare of humanity de-
l~onths of their service be- maud the retention of the territory ao
any battle whatever, qulred by the United States in the late
Twelfth. war with Spain."
Fifteenth. 61; Six-
65; Twenty-
~y-first, 63; Thirty-
:ter Market.
+being received at
e dairy eommts.
the butter produe.
will fall below
, which was a
out of
that there will be a
about eight or nine per
in Price however,
make up for the de-
so that butter
receive rather more money
this year than they
Iowa butter is gaining
and is findtng con-
ma~rketz.' This IS
efforts oT the United
of agriculture to
butter to foreign
Accused of Murder,
James Cuuningham and Arthur Pal-
mer were indicted for the mur-
der of Cunningham's illegitimate child
by the Andubon county grand,jury.
The mnrder occurred last winter and
~he body of the ch][ld was found near
the fair grounds, partly eaten by the
muskrats. There has been couslderable
intere~st aroused over the matter and
the public is watching the progress of
the case. Cunn~lngham's bonds were
fixed at $10,000 and Palmer's at $5.000.
The trial will occur at the December
term of court,
Will Connect Lines
The Home Telephone company, of
Siou~: City, and the Independent, of
Des~Moines. closed a c.~ntract for con-
necting their lines. This will give Sioux
connection with the Independent
east and southwest and Des
with Minnesota and the Do.
It will be working by Seplem-
of the supreme
16 years of age are not pez-
the streets ~ ,
~ H~ Dtek|nsoa, the pioneer
t~h~ physician of Iowa, died in
Des Metrics, aged fi0 years. He was for
ten years the homeopathic member of
the state board of health.
i The flfty-sevcnlh annual convention
of the Iowa State L'aptist association
was held in Cedar lhipids with nearly
400 delegates in attendance. J, F.
Clyde, of Osage, was elected president
fOr ".he enruing year.
The twenty-first annual session of
the grand chapter of the Order of the
Eastern Star of Iowa was held in Cedar
Rapids. W.H. Norris, of Manchester.
was elected grand patron.
An old man named Williams was
found dead in bed at Bussey. ileart
trouble is assigned as the cause of
death.
Earl R, Choate, in the employ of the
electric light company in Cedar Rap-
ids, accidentally took hold of two live
wires and was instantly killed.
P. C. Merritot, claiming to represent
the Little Dandy Fence company, is ac-
cused in Dubuque of selling the same
territory to three different persons,
obtaining $200 and over from each.
-Hog cholera is prevalent in Itamilton
Bounty and farmers are rushing their
stock to nmrket to evade the disease.
Edward Moore was found murdered
on the r/tilroad tracks~hear Ely and
Dan W, Bhike, foreman of a bridg~
gafig 'in Johnson county, was arrested.
charged with the murder and taken to
Cedar Rapids.
The October (1898) payment of pen-
sions atthe Des Moines agency amount.
ed to $1,971,618.92. In October, 1897, it
was $2,006.846.69. showing a decrease
this year of $35,227.77.
The imme/fse plant of the GIucose
Sugar Refining company in Marshall-
town has suspended business pending
the result of the lttlgatinn by Tams
county This move throw~ 500 out of
em ployment,
All the companies of the Fifty-second
regiment, Iowa volunteers, bane been
handed their discharge papers by the
mustei'ing-out officers and paid off.
The new building for the old people
"and their wives at the soldiers' home
in Marsball town is ready for occupancy,
but as the appropriation for it has been
exhausted there is doubt about whether
it can be furnished.
Frederick McCartney, proprietor of
the Kirkwood hotel, died in Des Moines.
Andrew McCloud. a brakeman on the
Northwestern, was killed at Carroll
by being caught between an engine and
ear while coupling.
Conductor C. S. McKereghan was
killed at Fredericksburg. Itis home
was in St. Paul, and he leaves a wife
and two children.
Fifty Morningside college students
attempted to take forcible possession
of the Sioux City suburb where the col-
lege is located, but a few shots from the
policemen pnt the students to flight.
The dedication of the new M. E.
church at Cambridge took place with
appropriate ceremonies.
While E. G. Fox. the B. & N. W, rail.
road ngent in Washington. was at din-
ner the depot till was opened and $53
in cash taken.
The bo4y of Sergt. Emmet Bouleware
arrived in Keokuk from Jacksonville,
Fla. He was the first member of com,
pony A, Fiftieth Iowa. to ~ie.
MISSING GIRL FOUND.
r A. Drake University Studenl Returns
to Des Moinea Aftor an Ab-
sence Of Two ~Vecks.
.Miss Margaret Simpson, a student at
Drake university, who has been miss-
inff for nearly two weeks, was brought
back ~o lies Moines. Traces of her wc~e
found and her frantic mother. Mrs.
Charles S]m!)~';on of (Ir~mes. started ~rt
pnr:~mt. She was accompanied by l'ev.
G. I. limes, at whose ]mme her daughter
had rest(led. They went ~o Marenffa
nnd then to Victor. overtaking tim gill
iu Belle i'hfinc Mr. Jones refuses Io
say anytidng more than that Miss Simp-
son was :tw,'~v with friends, and was
very glad. apparently, when foam] by
her mother While he was qbscnt Mr,
Jones" ~ife wez~t ~o the police station
and wanted some detectives detailed
to hunt for her husband. She said she
]m(t no knowledo'e of his whereabouts,
and believed that he had been kidnaped
by those who knew he was working to
find Miss Simpson
FOOLED THE NATIVES.
T~'O Hrother~. SnnDosed lu lie Poor.
Pay Tilna~l/IOds of Dollars Down
for Good Farlats.
Thc old saying that some become rich
by appearing poor was illustratcd re-
cently by two brot hers ia Keokuk coun-
ty. About~ txx o months a~o one of them
I~ought a f:~rm for the eonslderation o~
$15,000. Ile said he would pay cash. IIc
had no money in any bank. so far as
diligent inquiry was able to ascertain,
and people thought the deal a big joke.
Imaffiae 1heir surprise when the day
came and the poor nmn drove into Mon-
tezuma witia the money, every cent. m
coin of all denominations, and com-
pleted the deal.
About two weeks ago the other
brother bought a farm adjoining 80
acres he owned a few mites from
Stgonrney and fooled the natives by
producing the whole amount. $t6,000.
among which wa~ $210 ha coppers. It
took a bank clerk four hours to count
the money.
THE INDIAN SCHOOL.
The She uod Fox 'rribei Arc Sending
Their Children to ileEducated
at Toledo,
The Sac and Fox Indies have at last
begun to send their children to the new
government industrial school at Toledo.
The. school has been running since the
first of September. but until the last
few days it has been running empty--
not one little brown-sMnned pappoose
(or any other kind of an Indian) al-
tending. Many of the head men of the
tribe are still suspicions of the new ~n-
stitution. They fear it is some scheme
to take advantage of them, and that the
"school mare fur white man than for
Indian." The chief and a number of
the council desire ~;o see the "'Great
Father at Washington," and it is now
expected that a delegation will soon go.
If favorably impressed they will lend
their influence to the school, which wilt
then meet the expectations of its most
sanguine friends; otherwise not.
MONEY FOR CHARITIES.
~l'he Will of a Burlington Merchant
G!yes ~ne~pw~. Sums to ra-
The w'tlI oL 2t. 3L -llaab, a
wealthy aml be~vbfent merchant of
B urlington, ~ves the following sums to
v.n.ious enterprises: A sufficient sum
to erect a stone drinking fountain at
Crape park; to the Burlington hospital,
each; St. Francis and Mercy hospitals.
$500 each; Yom~g Men's Christian as-
sociation. $200; Burlington Home Find-
ors, $100; Michael geese hospital, Chi-
cago, $1,000; Old Folks' home of the
same city, $500; Orphans' home, At-
lanta, Go $1,000; Orphans' home and
hospital, Ilaltimore, Md $1,000; hos-
pital at Philadelphia, Pa $1,000; Theo-
logical seminary at Cincinnati, $500.
A LAW QUESTIONED.
An Opinion Rein/lye to the Praetlee
of Osteopathy Is Reqnestcd
the Attorney-GeneraL
The state board of medical examiners
has asked an opinion from Attorney-
General Remley on the constrnction of
the law relating to osteopathy. The
iowa legislature legalized the practice
of osteopathy iu this state. It pro-
vides tha~ the state board of health
should issue a certificate to any person
holding a diploma from a school of oste-
vpothy "of good repute as such." The
board wants to know whether this gives
it the power to prescribe the same
standard for the schools of osteopathy
as it does for those of regular schools of
medicine.
Loyal Artillery.
A battery of the Order of Loyal Ar-
tillerymen was organized iu Blairsburg
by Recruiting Officer W. N. Kelly. Thir-
ty-one of the best young men in the
community make~ up the charter mem-
bership. The followi-ag officers were
elected and duly installed: Past com-
nmndant, J. A. Stover; commandant, C.
P, Holt; vice commandant, B. H. Sut-
ton; recorder. Guy C. Jaycox; recover,
S, S. Morrison; medieal director, F. II.
Farrington; aid-de-camp, M. Powers.
Favors the Chicago Plan.
In an address before the Southwest-
ern lowa Teachers association in Coun-
cil Bluffs Henry Sabin, former state su-
perintendent of public instruction ad-
vocated the adoption of the plan about
to be tested iu Chicago of requi~ing
every teacher to have a certificate from
a reputable physician that she is in a
strong t)hysieal condition and able to
bear the wear and tear of the school-
l'OOln.
Prises for Dairymen.
At the State Dairy ussociati0n meet-
lag in Waterloo the prize competition
butter brought 129 entries, and the win-
ners were: Separator butter. J. P. Niel-
sen, Brayton, 98V~; William Thorn, Fal.
los. 9S. Gathered'cream butter, G. B.
~rench. Little Cedar. 94~; D. C. Thom-
as, New lIaven, 90. Dairy butter, tIar,
vey Johnson, Logan, 9~;-T. J, Juiian,
.~ lgona, ~3.
Gov. Shaw Will Preside.
The Iowa State Eisteddfod has invit.
ed Gov. Leslie M, Shaw to be present
and take charge of the afternoon and
evening session of the musical fes;:val,
to be held in 0skaloosa Decembe: 24
next. and the governor has acknowl-
edged receipt of same an d acc,=pted and
will preside at the above ~essiona,
EII, VERITE LIES.
~l'he Panic ,'tinkers Aro Again ot The|If
Old Trlelcs--Their Flop on
the ~'a a'.
A local demoeyatic silvcrite ]roper
prints some cartoongrepresenting the
rel)ublican i)arty as disclaiming the
war at its approach and claiming it
aflcr it was over, The falsity of such
assertions wi/l be a[qmrent to every
thinking man When the prol)osition
of war wi|h Spain first began to be
broached the great majority of the
"'peace at any price" men were sixteen
to one bad nloney democrats, headed by
t;ryan and flunked i)y mugwun~ps. And
now ~. sixteen to one organ has the un-
utterable effrontery to label its own
party's unpatriotin bellowings as.re-
Fublican.
The valse-destroying, panic-making
free sih'er democrats at the head of the
party never wanted to see Cuba freed,
frst, last or at any time. But the young
men among the democrats, in stute of
their unpatriotic leaders, joined the
young relu!blicans in insisting that
Spain shon!~l be punished for its horri-
ble perfidy in destroying the Maine,
and that the Cubans should be rescued
from its tyrannical, robber grasp. The
whole rei)ublican party, with tim presi-
dent at its head. eame nmrehing rnpi0-
ly up to this patriotic position, not only
remaining there l)u~ progressing as
events progressed.
Vfhat have the democratic leaders
done in ti~e meantime? At first they
pretended to support the president iu
his war measures, heeause they were
~t'raid of the resentment of the young
democrals. But they soon saw that the
war was going to table .or kill tizeir
darling sixteen to one, panic-making
scheme, so they cease3 to support the
war. Since then they have been fght-
ing it and its supporters and howling
for nothing but ti~e had money plank of
I~ryan's Chicago platform. That was
the cause of their backward flop. That
is where they stand.
This prating about a "republican
;~ar ' is all in the talk of the partisan
sixteen to one democrats. Why are
they all anti-expansionists, "Col." Bry-
an at their head? Why are they Brak-
ing war on the president ? Why are the
trod money schemers sheering a~ and
deriding "republiean statesmanshiF,
and offering nothing themselves but
lmstility and abuse? They hated the
war from the word go. and they hate it
r, ew, with all its glorious results, be-
canse these things only show up the
contemptib/e littleness of their pirati-
cal designs upon the credits and the
prosperity of the nation. That is the
real animus of all the democratic jeal.
ousy of the recent war.--Chicago Trib-
une.
PLENTY OF GOLD.
Another Silverite Lie Is Nailed by
the Official Report from the
United ~tazes Mint.
The refutation of the plea of the sil-
"/ CAN'T."
If anything you asked of Tom
He always said "I can't!"
.And one line day thei'e came to him
A present from hls aunu
It was a parrot, gayly clad
In white and red and green,
Tom said so fine a bird as his
Had never yet been seen.
He bought a cage, a splendtd caga,
And placed the bird within;
tte tried to make his parrot talk,
13ut not a word could win.
All sulky tl~ere the blrd did sit;
A week passed by, an',], more;
But not a single word he sal4
Of all he learned before,
"O Polly, speak!" cried Tom one day.
/lls boon the bird did grant;
And opening wide his mouth, he crle~l;
"i can'tl I can'tl l can'tl"
--Christian Work.
WHAT'S IN THE JUG?
How Foolish Farn~er llillson Organ-
iged an Abstlnonce Society sod
Heoame a %Vise Man.
DRESS OF A DIVER.
%Veighs Nearly 'r,tvo Huodred
Poonda and Is l)escribcd as ac-
ing Very ContDllcated.
"Under the Sea" is an article about
divers in St. Nicholas, It is written
by James Cassidy, who says: The
dress of a fully-equipped diver weighs,
in round numbers, 170 pounds. Taking"
off his everyday garb. the diver pulls
on his thick underelothing--a white
knitted sweater and trousers, and a
pair of ribbed stockings, also white.
Should he intend to work in unusually
deep water, he put~ on two. sometimes
three, sets of underclothing, to relieve
the pressure of ~the water.
The woolen clothing donned, the
next garment is the diving-dress,
measuring, for a man of average
height, five feet five inches from the
collar to the sole of the foot. This
dress is made of solid sheet India-rub-
ber, covered on both sides wish tanned
twill. It has a double collar, the in-
ner one to pull up round the neck, and
the outer one. of red india-rubber, te
go over the breastplate and form a
water-tight joint. The cuffs also are
of red india-rubber and fit tightly
round the wrists, making, when st*
cured by the vulcanized ind,ia-rubber
rings, water-tight joints, at the same
time leaving the diver's hand~ free.
In the outer collar 12 holes are bored
for securing the breastplate. This is
We remember having once met a made of tinned copper, The outer
farmer going home from town. Ite edge is of bra~. a~d has 12 screws
was in a wagon equipped with a hog-
rack making tt evident that he had
been delivering his hogs. lie was in a
particularly hilartou~ frame of mind
and at our ap~proac~ flourished a two-
gallon jag and asked ua to "take one
with him."
"What's in the Jug?" we asked.
"A whole hog. an' a good-sized one,
too." he answered.
That the :bog was reduced to liquid
form was evident. This man is
brought to mind by a mory Cold on
Farmer Bilhmn wh0. like many an-
other man who Is not a farmer, was
sddicted to the drink habit. He came
to town one summer morning with a
wag,on-load of corn, sold It, and start-
ed for a dry goods store to make a few
purchases. There was a ssloon on the
way.
Farmer Billson stepped tns,ide to
take a drtnk. Two or t~ree drinks fol-
lowed, and then he lost all recollec-
tion.
Late in the day he woke to find htm-
self lying under a tree. He ~Was about:
half-way home. His patient horses
were nibbling the gra~s by the road.
side. He gathered himself up, felt in
his poekets, found Ins money all gone
but seven cents, and then went and
looked in his wagon to ace what he had
boug,ht
There .was a jug about three-f~urths
full of whisky--and nothing else.
"Twenty-five busbels of coin," he
said, "for three quart~
Old man,? be
firmly fitted to it at intervals, and
projecting upward, These projections
pass through the corresponding holes
in the outer collar ~I the dress.
The band of ~the breastplate is ia
four sections, and the holes in the see-
tions pass over the projecting screw~
and are seeured in place by wing-nuts"
or thumb-r~ere~, as the~tIlustration
shows. A little careflal colraid,eration
COMPLETE OUTFIT O~AAD|V~R.
It make it
verites that there is not enough gold to jug b~
answer the demands of the gold stand- his head, "th]
ard for money is found in the z:eports here he brought the
his might on the Iron tire of
of the production of gold throughout hind whet
the world.
The director of the mint has just pub-
lished
of the United
for last year. It
o~ r 1S9fi, lust
crease over preoi
Taki~g the w0r
leads with something over
The United States comes next with over
$57.000.000. and Australia next with
over $55,000.000, 12ussialeads European
countries with $23,000,000. Altogether tween
the world's output of gold for 1897 was Bossed ,
nearly $238,000,000, which is au increase A wrltcr
of $35.000,000 over the output of 1896, tells of a
and more than tWice as much as was witnessed
produced in 1890.
The indications for the present year a panther.- The
sre that these figures will be surpassed were in an iaolosure hungry
panther made its appearance at the
and that not less than $270.000.000 wE fence, vixen, the mare, watched the
be the production for 1898,
The statistics for the United States lank, creature
show that Colorado has at least sur-
passed California ~s a goM state, her
output being $19,000,000, as against
$14,000,000
for California. South Da- stood
kota--the Black Hills regionr-comes
next with $a.000,000, and Montana with
the cheat ~fh her heel~" ~he panther
$4.000.000. With such s production of
gold the world over--one that is a
permanent addltion to the world's
wealth--how futile It is to say ;that
there is not gold e~ough to answer the
demands of a monetary system founded
upon it?
It may seem paradoxical to troy ,o,
b~t the more gold we have the less w~e
will need it as money. The world's
business is done upon pep(r, and all
that is needed is a uniform standard
for the paper. That standard Is goid~
and we have it tn abundance.--ChiCago
Times-Herald.
CURRENT COMMENT.
g~'Every man advocating the !free
coinage of silver at sixteen to oatis an
attorney for the degradation of Amer-
ican wage-earners,--J. Sterling Morton.
g:TLet the fear whteh the Bryanites ' '
brotrght to the country in July, 1896, be
brought to it to-day and factories
VIX~N'S ATTAC~:.
would begin to close down to-morrow.
--Indianapolis Journal. tarned a complete,somersa~ltti and
~rThe American dollar is received alighted on the fence, fr~ni ~ch he
with full honors in our new posses- made another spring m a few mo-
sious. It needs no apdlogy, standing ments Again the ready heels of the
good everywhere for 100 cents. --- St. mare met him, this ~ime~titi more el-
Louis Globe,Democrat. festively, and he lay haffstunned. B~-
~:~'The New York Sun remarks that fore he cou|d ~ecover Vixen was tear-
the Iowa democracy determined to tng him to pieces with her teeth,
stand by Bryan and not by American- though the bloodthristy brute was
ism, and concludes: "Chastening never able to tear her neck and sh.oulders st-
,~erely lie panther was soou over,
teaches the Iowa democrats anything. T
--Iowa State Register. come and fell t~ the ground, where
~YThe democratic attempt to make he Was furiously trampJed by thamare,
capital out of the sickness and suffer- being finally dispatched bya lougkni~e
ing of the volunteers has been blocked, in the hands of au observer,
a~d, best of all, the blocking has been
Peak ~0.O00 Feet High,
done by democrats who were honest The G.' tL Eldredge, r geological sur-
enough to tell the truth.--Cleveland vey party, which has just returne-/
Imader.
from the Cook's Inlet country, is said
tt=rMark Hanna is about thecteverest to have discovered the hlghes( mou~-
poi|ttcal general the republican party tain in North America. The peak,
ever had. tie is generally admired by whichtcwersfarabo~eMount St. I:~lias,
republicans. He has proved bimse!f ttl i~ situated in Alaska to the lqght of
be wise, sagacious, honest and ineor- the Sushitna river. The government
ruptible. The public has confidence in topographer took trisnguhltions of th~
his integrity.---Detroit Journal.
~evations ascertaining by scientific
g:YIn 1896 the price of zinc and lead ealeulations the exact height of th,:
ores at Missouri mines was $16 a ion. peak, which he declared t~ be more
The Bryan organs and orators told than 20,000 feet. The mountain wa~
the miners that the price would be named Bullshae, a word spoken in
$10 a ton if the gold standard were con- excl.amation by the Indian guide of the
continued and rise to $30 with free sil- party upon first beholding the won-
ver, The miners generally voted for derful peak. The members of the sur-
Bryan. but now that the ores arc worth vey are reported to have expressed the
$30 a ton in gold the men, it is reported,
opinion that an ascent of Bullsha,
will vote for the McKinley/ticket,---In- wouid be almost impossible, so pre-
dianapolts Journal cipitous are its sides,
.ly explain.
a scg-
of this we
&a
The
a t~rn, and lhe helmet is
air and
It h~s three strong
front ean
a metal'
keep it dry an~rin
upon it; and after taking a drink, or a
little w~rd fs
glven: "All right,',
screwed on, o~
the helmet as a ~d,
down he goes 1 y er
of which tnust ~,
tom.
A Burglar with Sentizneat
From Bathurst, AuStralia comes
the tale of a sentimental burglar. Hc
entered a house at night durit~g the
absence of its occupants, with tlae eX-
ception of a little girl(who had been
put to bed, While the burglar was
prowling around the child awoke and
began ~o cry. The tender-hearte4
bhrglar thdreupon l~'Unted np a slice
"~f bread, buttered it and spread ou
~am. and gave tt to the child, Itc ex-
laincd his presence by saying that
he was "Uncle John from England."
In fact he spent so mueh tlme sooth-
ins the child, that the family returned
befol-e he had a chance to seenre any
plm~der, and he had to jump from the
window to secure his e,scape.
~l'i inca Change.
She--You used to say I was pretty.
tiave I changed?
He--Oh, no; but I ha ve.--~L Y. Truth.
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