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A trial bottla seat by mail a OA receipt of 1-. canta Adtirca, THE StIPANS CHEMICAL CO. X antra stout xw tokk crrr. . till STI , . ' w . .... "W nVtSsJSS iS W ,.r nauEATS Highest of all in Leavening Power.- ABSG! JJTEILY PURE SAWYER'S BAKK RUN. How the Senator Stoppod It In tba Great PaniO OJU873. . An Ingcntons Scheme Which Helped the Banks of a Wisconsin Town Throucll a Very Tight Squeeze Tbe panic of 1873 happened to be mentioned in the presence of Senator Sawyer while in Detroit lately, says the Free Press. "I remember very well when I first heard of it,", he said. "I was president of a national bank at Oshlcosh, Wis., with a capitalof fifty thousand dol lars and four hundred thousand dollars of deposits. I felt assured that if the prediction was correct there was trouble ahead. I arrived home in the evening; ;,nd at once called the directors together, told them the news and ad vised that our bonds be at once convert ed into currency in order to be prepared for a run' upon the bank. They agreed to it. I offered, to loan them several thousand of my own ,bonds, and so we nanaged to get together between three lundred .thousand dollars anu iour nun Ired . thousand dollars of bonds. packed them into my grip and the same oieht loft for Chicago. "As soon as the banks opened in the morning I went the jrpunds, trying to exchane-e the bonds for currency. No body would touch them. They were afraid. They were in .our tlx exactly. They wanted all the, currency they could lay their hands on. bo wiuioui waiting any longer I took the train for New York. . " I went to the bank -with which we did business,- and somawhat to my sur prise they agreed to taka all the bonds In exchange for currency., i ney uiougiit there was money enough in New York to help the country out. ' The bankers were even then sending currency to Chicago. . As it turned but, they were not as well oil a3 tuey uiougnt, iney were, and I was very lucky in my early deal. i -"'Well; itt ir;sa-vthnn'an hour- thy grip was emptied of the bonds and filled with currency, i went up vu m.y u.t PaiU my Olll. irnue winLtu;; A uuua"" an afternoon paper. The first news I struck was a dispatch saying that every bank in Chicago had suspended pay ment. I knew what tho citect would be on the country banks, and I mado a rush for the telegraph office. Ithad been agreed before I left home that if I could not sell the bonds 1 should wire them that I was very sick, If I sold only part, that I was sick but should start for homo. If I was sue- cessful, that I was quite well. I tele- graphed: 'Never so well in my life' and left for home. "I reached homo about 7 o'clock in the morning. The day previous there had been somo pressure on the bank, but depositors had been assured that 1 was on my way back from New York, and that as soon as I arrived depositors would be paid without delay. On re ceipt of my telegram they were told that I would be in on the morning train, and that as soon as the bank opened de positors would be welcome. "Well, I went to the bank and made ready. There was a narrow table in the space behind the counter which stood up against the walL On this we piled the ledgers and other big bank books, making a pile about two feet high and as many in length. We covered these books with the currency, and on top of that what coin we had so as to make it look liko a solid pile of money. We l'd enough, anyway, to meet all claims, but we wanted, if possible, to prevent a run. "In the meantime we sent out some of the' bank men and friends of the bank,- who went blowing and talking f all over town that 'Sawyer had got back with a cartload of money.' "Well, when the bank opened thirty or forty people came running in with checks in their hands. When they saw that pile of money it staggered them, Some stood their ground notwithstand- ingandgot their money, but most of them looked sheepish, chucked theii checks in their pockets, pretended tha they had come in on some other busi - ness, or snealted out witnoui a wora. The news soon spread, and althoug fifty thousand dollars was checked out the whole of it and more was rede posited before night. The depositori at the other banks began drawing out and putting in with us and threatened to run them out. "So we determined to put a stop to that and not have a panic in the town at all. We conferred with the other banks, and it was agreed that it should be announced that 'Sawyer had brought money enough home to let the other banks have all they needed.' This did the business, and no run was made on any of us." Hard on the Ducks. I" A singular story comes from Green point, N. Y. A lar;e mansion in the vicinity took fire, which originated ir the main chimney, and the flames won spreading rapidly. A young man rar to the duck pen and "'ured a nu'nue' of the largest fowls. Then he took! ladder, and mounting to the top of the house went to the chimney, from whiel flames and smokes were pouring, anc dropped the ducks one after anotliei into the liery shaft. This ha1 the clfeci of checking the flames and tho iiro wai subdued. Eipans Jabules : a standard remedy. Latest U. S. Gov't Report THE CRUELTY OF FISHING. Likened Vnto tho Klnughter of Kltutu or llutturlUs. Shall I tell ypu what fishing Is like? It is like an expedition of armed soldiers going out to shoot kittens! Like a man of war, full-rigged, cruising for butterflies. What is a fish? An armless, lecrless, witless creature, weighing from a half to a couple of pounds on an average. What is a man? A monster with hands that control cunningly-devised and baited hooks, an average one hun dred and forty-pounder in weight, with a (comparatively) keen intellect and the strength of a lion. Oh, it is grand "sport" for him to lure tho little know. nothings out of the cool, green depths of tho water, mangle them with barbed steel) impale them on sticks, cast them down anywhere to gasp and die, laughing the while to note their con dition, writes "Amber," in the Chicago Uerald. Count me out of such "sport," if you please! Call it a necessity and I will brave myself to meet it, but while the world swings on its way teeming with jhanccs for innocent laughter and fun I will seek my sport elsewhere than in fishing. The flavor of cruelty spoils the cup of enjoyment for me. I won t go so far as to say a man , necessarily a brute if he loves to fish, . jt ;s man's delight to control and master everything, from a horse down His emotional nature is but little devel oped as regards the gentler sympathies and the more delicate sensibilities, but when gentle woman, with her finer feelings and more tender organization, tells me that fishing is good "sport,1 and she enjoys it, I cover my face with my apron and weep aloud. It is not according to nature, my dear, to see a woman bait a hook with live bait, nor to see her gloat over suffering in any form. If pain must be inflicted, if anguish must bo encoun tered in the world inflict it and meet it as a grim necessity, but for mercy' sake do not call . anything that causes suffering a pastime. And in any war fare, I pray you remember the law , that gyemod your boyhood's sport j "Hit a fellow of your own size." - BASHFUL BOD BURDETTE. Ono Time When tho Humorist Was Loss lor a Reply. I heard a good and altogether new story of Hob linrdette and tho late Thomas A. Hendricks, says a writer in the Kansas City Times. Several years ago, while the lamented Indianian was touring the west, urdctto was the funny man of tne llurlingtoniiawiteye. j In that capacity he wrote a good many satirical verses concerning air. urn- dricks. Ono day Burdette was at a railroad hotel at Iowa City when the proprietor called him. 1 "See here, Bob, said tho Boniface, "meres a man in mu uimug-ruuui whom you're just dying to meet Come , aiong, Who is it?" asked the humorist, hanging back. "O, come on; it's all right," said the hotel man, and with that linrdette was hustled into tho eating room. "Mr. Hendricks Mr. Burdette," said the proprietor, whereupon a handsome, smiling man arose from a table, and, ex. tending his hand to the man from Bur lington, said: "And so this is Mr. Burdette, is it?" "Y yes," returned the now quaking humorist. "You're the man who wrote 'The Bad Man From Injianny,' ure you?" "I did, but that was only in " "Let me see," went on tho states' man smiling. "Jt ran liko this, didn't It',- ' ' And Mr. Hendricks proceeded to re cite the whole poem. Then he recalled another nnd nnothnr. rocitino. before he was through, half a dozen of the ' satirical outbursts in rhyme that had been, directed against liim ! "I never felt really bashful before," said the genial humorist, now of Brook lyn, "but that was the time when 1 would hove welcomed an earthquake that would have swallowed jno up." j j ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. An Instance of the Proverbial Cuuulllg OI . tho Fox. We have often heard that animals have intelligence, und have read many instances of what thoy know. Perhaps we have had some pot of our own that has done things which malce us ulraost believe it had reason instead of instincL The dog is generally thought to be th3 most intelligent of animuls, and it Is about him that we hoar the greatest number of stories. Here is an illustra tion, however, in, which ltoynard's proverbial cunning was mure than a match for canine !,ar;aeity. It is from "IjC Petit l'ranonis," translated for "The Voice" by Edyth Kirkwood: "In the courtyard of the Chateau de Montmolian, near Chambery, wore dog and a fox, attached to their re- spectivo kennels by chains of equal length. A bone was placed before each I of these animals, but in such a way that it was just beyond their reach The dog pulled stupidly on bis chain stretching his head as far as he could The fox after somo fniithless attempts , turned bis back to the tempting morsel, j then with his hind log drew it within , reach of his tooth. The fabulists have not deceived us in describing Master ueyuord ua a nly fellow." UNINVITED VISITORS. ft la to Bs Hoped That All of Them Will ItetiU Thia Article. It seems as if measures ought to be taken to put an end to promiscuous vis iting; in regard to which there Is evi dently no difference of opinion, writes a correspondent of tho Country Gentle man. In these days of incompetent servants and anxious housekeepors, even tho dearest friends can not feel quite sure of a cordial welcome. But when a horde of uninvited guests pre cipitate themselves with colossal ef frontery upon a quiet, and perhaps frugal family, it becomes a moat exas perating and intolerable ncinanco. It is worse, if possible, than taking board ers, because visitors expect to be entor- tained and liberally entertained In many cases. One of the most hospitable of hos pitable Westerners said that be gave up his home and endured a boarding-house, because he was "tired of keeping a Dotel." Another gentleman declared that he would put a small-pox notice on his house if it .would keep away undesircd visitors. And one lady wrote to some friends urging them pathetically to visit her, because now she would liko to have somo one in her house "whoso society she could enjoy." A Western man, traveling with his wife and niece, thought it would be vory fine to visit the Governor of a certain Eastern btate. He nover bad' seen any mombor of the family, but a niece of his had married one of his sons. IIo drovo up to the house; and had his trunks dopositod be fore the door. The Governor's wife, however, was a woman of dignity and determination, and the Western travel ers did not see the inside of that statoly mansion. They departed with trunks unpacked, and also with a good doal of wondering astonishment. Of course, this cruelly destroys the beautiful halo surrounding tho hospita ble home with open doors over ready for the entrance of "angols unawares, But when good Robert Collyor naive ly declares that ho docs not wish to "monopolize those angols," sinners surely may be pardoned if they, too, rebel. , ,- Supposing each person should put this notice on his house "No uninv'ted vis itors reoeived" would even that effectual? Flowers at Funerula. Societies for the abolition of flowen at funeriils arc being organized ii Baden, Germany The parent societj in Wiesbaden was founded by clergy men against the bitter opposition of al gardeners in the neighborhood, wh( denounced their action in public meet ings and in the newspapers. The direol impulse to the movement was given by the repeated experience that at Jionst. rbir. spprppiatlon was conceded by funerals tbe flowers occupied so inuel European bankers at tbe Brussels con space that inadequate room was left ,fl;eu0Bi nd the fM ot K8nefal pr)ce,, high official named Von W'urmb, re cently, fifteen hundred dollars' worth ot flowers so blocked the halls and fillet the space around the coffin that the hab of the persons who wished to attend thf services were compelled to wait in thi rain outside. Tho new society pro poses to allow only relatives to sew flowers horeaiter. KEPLY TO AN ANSWKIl. From the Rocky Mountain News. A correspondent of the New York Trib une, assuming that tbe sum total of gold ooin in tbe world is a stationary quantity, and that the annual produotion only dis places what is lust in wear or isnsed in tbe arts and sciences, while population and the demands of oommeroe are stead ily increasing, wants to know if tbe un derlying difficulty in the money problem is not that we are gauging all values by gold, whioh fails to keep paoe with the increase in population and property, and wbiob is tantamount to a constantly iu creasing shrinkage of property values, Lie also wants to know bow, with a single gold atsndard, the ourrenoy can oe expanded to meet tbe requiremeats of business and giva tba people relief from suob shrinkage of values, so long ss the added currency is convertible into gold, In conclusion, be asks whether the de. oline in general prices is not due to tbe augmentation of gold in value. The finanoial editor of tbe Tribune oo- eupies several oolumns in replying to these queries. He denies the statement as to tbe output ot gold, he believes that silver bas fallen in value beoause of increased produotion and not beoause of adverse legislation; be denies that silver bas been or can be demonetized, while it continues to be UBed by the nations as money; finally, be doubts whether gold bas appreciated as compared witb other prodnots sinoe the mints have been closed to silver, and be doubts that there is any relation between the snpply of tbe precious metals and tbe price of tbe prodnots ot labor. As to tbe annual produot of gold for many years and its relation to tbe coin age, tbe position of the Tribune corre spondent, that there is little or no net inoreose, is sustained by many autnor- ities. The Tribune admits that there is no certain data fur settling the question OS The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions Homes 40 Years the Standard. end (hat any conclusion mast be specu lative and based on estimates. An aver age of these estimates would not allow a gold coinage increase of exceeding $25,000,000 yearly, which is nothing compared with the annual increase of the world's oommeroe. If silver has not fallen in value be cause it bas been outlawed by legislation, bow comes it that for three hundred and seventy-five years, from 1497 to 1872, the maximum separation of the metals was only as 1 to 16.25, as shown by acoepted authorities, notwithstanding tbe widest divergencies during that long period in the yield of tbe two metals ? It was not until silver was denied its potential rights at the mint that the metals be gan to separate, and yet when this ad verse legislation took plane there was no pretense of difficulty in maintaining a parity between them at the established ratio. Silver was then at a premium over gold, oommanding $1.32 per onnce. The reference by tbe Tribune to varying ratics in tbe earlier oeutnries to justify the present separation between the metals on the theory of produotion, is not applicable to tbe case, beoanse the commercial eonditions then were wholly different, trade wes largely a matter of exchange of commodities, aud there was no record of the production of the precious metals and no means of even approximately estimating the quantity of either iu the world. As to the effect of production upon the ratio between the preoious metuls, tbe Hon. Henry Hucks Gibbs, ex-governor of the Bank of Enulnnd, in tbe Forum, says: "During the fifty vears from 1803 the produotion of silver was about twice t Lint of gold, end iu tbe next tweuty yeurs, during wbiob tbe stook of gold in the world was doubled, its pro duotion was more than twice that of eilver. And yet theFrenoh law of 1803es- tublisbiug bimetallism was not shaken." With sncb sweeping variations in produc tion, why wns not the fixed ratio between the metals Bffeoted? Mr. Gibbs em phatically says that the market price ot silver was brought down by hostile legislation. Tbe Tribune's denial that silver has or oan be demonetized, since it is in nse for subsidiary purposes, notwithstanding it bas ceased to be a busi of redemption and baa lost its mintage rights, ib too puerile fur notice; its doubts ns to tbe appreciation ot gold since 1873, as' com pared willi othor products, are not shared by financial writers of any repntu. in consequence of tbe derangemeut of he currency consequent upon the con spiracy against silyer, with the depres sion entailed upon tho producing classes, was the true cause of tbe presence of eighteen governments at tbe lute mone tary conference in search ot a remedy. Sir Moreton Frewen is a very high authority on the finanoial question. In a late Fortnightly Beview speaking of tbe monetary revolution of 1873, he says: For hundreds ot years previously any silver and any gold produced by the world s mines had come to the principal European mints, and was ooined for the bearer, free of obarge, into money of unlimited legal tender value; but since 1878 silver has been proscribed and gold having become a monopoly has greatly appreciated beoanse ot that monopoly for the first time attaching to it." The relation of the volume of the currency to prioes an ample volume bringing good prices and general prosperity, while scarcity of money is invariably accom panied by bard times and increased indebtedness this is an admitted truism and is sustained by all eoonomlc writers of stauding. The demonetisation of silver out off one-half tbe money ot re demption, aud of oonrse entailed a ruinous contraotion of tbe currency; benoe the law prices and the billions ot mortgage indebtedness on our farms. Tbe tflVct of demonetization on tbe currency is thus illustrated by Sir More ton Frewen: "If two pipes flowing night and day supplied water to tbe reservoir of a ri.pidly growing city, and the flow from one pipe were out off, conld the previous water level be maintained? Udder exaotly analogous conditions, oould the world's level of prices estab lished before 1873 be maintained, the silver conduit being suddenly stopped?" Tbe financial conspiracy ot 1873 must be reversed before a return to general prosperity in this country, for that is not a truly prosperous condition in wbicb tbe producing states are being drained of their wealth and vitality to enrich a comparatively few in tbe finanoial centers in wbicb American fmmers and planters have been rmbarrnssed with debt nnd thirty per cent of tliira forced from their homes beoanse legislation in the interests of money lenders bas rendered Ibeir labor, in all but excep tional oases, unprofitable. 6a kin Pow de.