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VALLEY RECORD. The People’s Paper, ASHLAND, Or....Thursday. July 9, 1896 8ilver is feeling the effect of a demand for congressional action in its interests. It has risen to 70 cents an ounce, an ad vance of 1*4 cents, during the present month. We are in receipt of the initial number of “The Pacific Northwest”, a 16-page monthly publication printed in Portland and edited by Captain H. L. Wells. It is well illustrated and is to be devoted to the natural resources, social life and scenic attractions of the great Pacific nortbweat. The first number contains a good descriptive and illustrated article on Crater Lake. There has never been a time since Cleveland was elected president when the treasury of the United States held less than $300,000,000 in silver. Yet in spite of this, Carlisle was allowed to sell bonds to pay gold and silver obligations in gold alone on demand of the gold gamblers paying a high premium on the gold thus procured in the form of additional fixed intreat chargee on the people of this country. This policy was endorsed by a big majority of the present goldbug {republican congress. The only protest came from populists, silver re publicans and silver democrats. This alliance of the goldbug republicans with the old tory goldbug branch of dem ocracy baa been pronoonced and harm onious in the consideration of the mone tary subject in congress. Hense the affected stalwart loyalty of the goldbug republicans and their indignation that those who have heretofore affiliated with them are engaged in the unholy work of trying te lead people into the old dem ocratic camp, is rank hypocrisy, and aa dishonest as the Bcheme of gold mon ometallism which their union seeks to fix permanently on this nation. They have married into the democratic household as planed by one of Laban’s descendants named Roetcbilds. It is the other branch of the republican family who should be righteously indignant and who will court virgin alliances which will give genuine assurances of national felicity, because the union will come about from mutual confidence and common sympath ies in the purpose to promote the greatest good to the greatest number of the American people. What Industrial Education Is. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Industrial school gives in Public Opin ion some explanation of the reasons which have induced him to devote him self particularly to making skilled work ing people out of young colored men and women. He is sure such education is the demand of their race and age. The following sentences apply quite as well to skilled white as to black la bor, however: ' Industrial education, so far from teaching an individual how to work, teaches him how Hot to work; teaches him how to make the forces of nature work for him; how to lift la bor up out of toil and drudgery into tho at mosphere whoro labor is ennoblod, beautified and glorified. Industrial education is meant to take the boy who has been following an old mule behind a plow making corn at the rate of ten bushels an acre and set him upon a machine under un umbrella behind two fine horses, bo that he can mako four tlmos as much corn as by tho old process and with less labor. Without industrial education, when the black woman washes u shirt she washes with both hands, both feet and her whole body. An individual with industrial educa tion will use a machine that washes ten times aa many shirts at a given time with almost no expenditure of physical force—steam, elec tricity or water power doing the work. It is safe to say that UU per cent of the colored peo ple, aa is perhaps true of most races, depend for their living on the common occupations of life. Since this is true it seems to mo that it is the part of wisdom to givo much attention to fitting these masses to do an ordinary task in an extraordinary way. It will be a year before the steamer Windward, which started out early this month to bring home the English arctic explorer Jackson can be heard from. The Windward is not a large vessel, be ing only 400 tons, but she is very strong ly built If she had not been, she would not have been able to fight her way through an ice pack off Franz-Josef Land for 65 days. Frederick G. Jackson and his party were landed on Franz- Josef Land in September, 1894. The Windward staid with them through that winter, then returned to England in 1895. The Jackson party were thor oughly equipped with all that could moke life comfortable in the frozen zone. Heavy wooden huts were built for them. The returning Windward crew reported that plenty of fresh meat was found, CO bears having been killed by the explorers before they were locked in for winter. As soon as possible in 1895 Jackson and his men were to go northward as far xs they could reach before cold weather again set in. Then they would winter once more, through 1895-6, at a point as far north of their old quarters as they could penetrate. In the summer of 1896 they hoped to actually reach the pole. The American national game of base ball is just ten years older, lucking two days, than the Republican party. It was formally started June 19, 1846, half a century ago, when the first match game ever played came off at Hoboken, N. J. A recent writer says it originat ed in a game called “town ball,” which some young New York men used to play every Wednesday and Saturday in the early forties. It sounds like an echo from the past to be told that they played in a vacant lot, far up town, and that vacant lot was what is now Madison Square Garden, itself now far down town. In course of time “town ball” was modified and improved, and its name was changed to baseball. “My decrees, ” writes Weylcr pomp ously, “are binding upon American resi dents as upon Spanish subjects, limited only by our treaty obligations.” Cer tainly Weyler would not stop at stretch ing treaty obligations sufficiently to hang an American if he dared. The comet medal of the Astronomical Society has been awarded to Dr. Lewis Swift of the Lowe Observatory for his I discovery of an unexpected comet on April 13, 1896. Theodore Wilson, naval constructor at the Charlestown Navy Yard, was stricken with appoplexy while on duty and died a few minutes later. L. F. Parker filed articles of incorpor ation of the reorganized St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company with the Missouri Secretary of State, and paid the constitutional fee of $25,000. Hiram H. Cole. 26 years old, a pro fessional aero.iaut living at Big Rapids, Mick, fell thirty-five feet from his baloon while making an ascension and died shortly afterward. Miss Josephine, daughter of Charles B. Jefferson aud granddaughter of Jos eph Jefferson, the actor, and Charles J. Rolf, son of William Rolf, the Shakes pearean scholar of Cambridge, were married at Buzzard's Bay. There were about sixty guests, including Joseph Jefferson and Mrs. Cleveland. H. H. Beck and E. D. Kelly, editors of the Reuo, Nev., Journal, have been bound over to appear upon a charge of criminal libel. John ZS. Jones, au Arizona rancher convicted of criminal assault on his step-daughter, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. A remarkable invoice of books was received through the custom-house at New York for J. Pierpont Morgan. There were only twelve volumes, but the value put upon them by Mr. Mor gan was $18,000. There were four vol umes of Shakespeare in the original folio, dated 1623, 1632, 1664 and 1685; six volumes of a polyglot bible dated 1514-17, and two volumes of the Maza rine Bible printed from type on vellum in 1450-55. William T. Reid and William H. Dailey, the firebugs who pleaded guilty to indictments of incendiarism, the losses in which were over $2,000,000, were sentenced at Cambridge, Mass., to the Concord reformatory for twenty years each, after being pronounced Bane. Just What’s Needed Secretary Herbert has declined to place a man-of-war at the disposal of Exclaims thousands of people who have the committee of American manufact taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla at this season of the year, and who nave noted the success urers that is shortly to visit South Am of the medicide in giving them relief from erican countries. that tired feeling, waning appetite and Advices from Shanghai Bhow that dis aud state of extreme exhaustion after the close confinement ot a long winter season, orders are rampant in different parts of the busy time attendant upon A lazge and China. The Mussulmans rebellion in pressing business during the spring the northwestern district of Kamsu has months and with vacation time yet some reached the greatest proportions. Fam weeks distant. It is then that the building up powers of Hood’s Sar3aprrilla are fully ine and plague ate also reported to be appreciated. , . r ,u„ to ... It seems perfectly __ adapted raging in the southern province of | overcome that prostration caused by China The secret societies in the change of season, climate or life, and while country are again exciting the natives it tones and sustains the system, it purifies and vitalizes the blood. against the Europeans. For Universal Peace. Rufus Davis, L. Davis, Lucky Davis, Maorni July and Sam Sampson, com A characteristic end of the century prising the “ Buck gang,” were exe movement is the formation in Europe of cuted at Fort Smith, Ark. They were the “Internatinonal League of Women convicted of murder and criminal as For General Disarmament” It began sault. with some French ladies, at the head of The Rev. Ronald Worth, a New York whom was the wife of Camille Flam- Baptist preacher, has been diverced from his wife, Elvira M. Worth, at Perry, O. marion, the astronomer, but it has T. He swore that she spoiled his Sun spread into several of the countries of day coat to keep him from preaching continental Europe, notably Austria appointments, and filled his shoes with The president of the league is Princess water. Wisniowska The ladies are very much in earnest. Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grown cis a line from the trite old verse we used to They have undertaken propaganda in recite in our school boy days. It has a all nations at once, so that all the na forciable application to those small ail ments which we are apt to disregard until tions may be persuaded to disband their they reach formidable proportions. A fit of armies at the same time. Certainly all indigestion, a “slight” attack of constipa tion, it is assumed, will soon pass on, but or none must disarm. The movement is very apt to get worse, and in the mean progresses by means of lectures, fireside time is neglected until the ailment becomes tulks and instruction to the rising gen chronic, and then, if not entirely eradicated is a constant annoyence and menace of eration. The women consider Europe to worse consequences, for diseases, recollect, be governed by a military barbarism, a bpget one another. How much wiser to «■esort to a course of Hostetter’s Stomach barbarism which takes women’s sons in Bitters at the outset of the malady than to the flower of their youth, makes them temporize with it at the start, or treat it give the best years of their life to use with violent remedies in its maturity. Be on time with disease, orit may “floor" you. less drill, or, if they go to war, brings Malarious, rheumatic and kidnev com them back dead or mutilated. It is true plaints, dyspepsia, constipation, "bilious ness and nervousness are all disorders of that wherever military government pre rapid growth, and should be “nipped in vails there also woman is in a state of the bud” by a timely resort to the Bitters. painful subjection. The ladies may accomplish something The etistoms revenue of New Found- land for the quarter ending Jung 39th by their work. They have already in was $402,000. terested a number of prominent states Senator Teller delivered the dedica men in it. But there is just one way tory address of the ojieinng of the Eis- whereby war will be made to disappear teddford Pavilion in Denver. from the earth. That will be when it is Solomon Marab, a negro, was hanged proved to the satisfaction of the busi at Farmville, Ind., for the murder of ness world that nothing destroys trade, Mrs. Lucy Jape Ppllard on June 14, manufacture and commerce like war. 1895. Jf they find that war injures the world In the House of Commons, in reply to seriously in pocket, then war will stop a question by John Redmond, George and forever. Business men throughout N. Curzon, Under Secretary of the For civilization are making this discovery eign Office, stated that he hoped that now; therefore universal disarmament when there was published the corres pondence with the United States in re was never so near as it is now. The gard to Venezuela a few weeks hence, federated chambers of commerce of the the House would be in a better position British empire spoke the sentiment of to discuss the question. all the industrial classes in their recent The Fall River committee, appointed resolution recommending arbitration by the Arkright Club to secure signa for settling international differences. tures to an agreement to close the cotton mills during July and August, has re Catarrh Cured, ported that the signers representing over ,060,000 hayo been obtained more than health and sweet breath secured, by Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy. Price 50 cents. Nasal enough to secure a shut-down. injector free. For sale by T. K. Bolton. The exports of specie from the port of New York for the week amounted to A Cat Story. $1,262,655 in gold and $366,590 in silver. The doctrine of Grover Cleveland, The imports were : Gold, $89,234; sil which was sustained by the Republican ver, $57,399; dry goods, $1,683,322; gen party by their votes in the senate and eral merchandise, $6,503,863. house of representatives during the past A London cable says: Maurice Grau week, upon the question of the right of Will probably be manager of the grand Grover Cleveland to issue bonds and run opera at Covent Gardens next season as the country further in debt, to increase successor to the late Augustus Harris. the interest, charges and bunlens of the William Haas has confessed to killing people for the laboring classes to pay Mrs. Broder at Covedale, Ohio. He in order to make good times reminds us says Mrs. Broder passed through his of the story of an old farmer out west room, going down stairs, She fought who had a boy who was very bright in him with all her strength. He cut her mathematics. A neighbor came one throat and then escaped, A special morning and gave the young fellow this proposition to figure out : grand jury will consider the case. “If a cat in a well would climb to George Davis Worth and W. R. Mit ward the top 2 feet during the night chell of Louisville broke the world’s record in a two-thirds of a mile tandem and fell back 3 during the day, how race against time, covering the distance long would it take the cat to reach the in 1:17 and making the hulf-mile in :56 top of the well, which was 50 feet deep?” The boy took his piece of chalk and flat, which is also said to be the best went out to the bam to work out the time for that distance. proposition. He figured and he figured Arthur E. Smith, the Western cyclist till he covered the bam floor all over who left Chicago last Sunday for New trying to solvo the proposition. Dinner York, in the endeavor to break the bicy time coming around, the boy had not cle record of 143 hours and 15 minutes, yet appeared, and the father went to smashed the record by 4 hours and 54 the barn and told his son that dinner minutes. was ready. The boy replied, “Hold on, The Pope has nominated Diomede Fal- father, for two minutes lougor and I coni papal delegate to the United States will figure that cat right into hell. ” in succession of Cardinal Satolli, who is If the American people will only hold expected to arrive at Rome on July 15th. on a short time and allow Grover Cleve Bishop Falconi is now in Accrenza, land and his Republican allies to figure Italy. He was for several years profes out thiB proposition of burdening the sor of philosophy and later president of country with debt, they will all find St. Bonaventure College at Alleghany, themselves in the place where the cat Cataraghus county, N. Y. Bishop Fal was sure to go.—Silver Knight coni is fully in touch with American affairs, is a splendid English scholar and How's This. a fine orator. He is a native of I fair We offer One Hundred Dollars tor anv Larson makes cabinet photos for $3.00 per case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Since Jan. 1 more than $78,000,000 in gold have been withdrawn from the United States treasury. About $65,000,- dozen. * were for export. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria« Lieutenant Thurston ot the United States steamer Detroit died recently at Yokohama of typhoid fever, and was buried with the usual honors. A lively scene was enacted in Judge Slack’s Court in San Francisco. During the trial of the suit of Lillian Ashley against E. J. Baldwin for damages, Emma, a sister of the plaintiff, slipped up behind Baldwin aud fired a revolver at bis head. The bullet grazed the old man s scalp and lodged in the wall of the court-roem. John Holland, a miner, caught his foot in a frog at a switch in Butte, Mont. An ore train cut both legs off nnd he died in a few moments. While stacking hay near Boise, Idaho, William Kern was struck in the back with a fork tine and died in a few min utes. Four Indians rode into Neola, Mo., and robbed the town. It is impossible to ascertain the amount taken. No lives were lost. A fire in the arsenal near Fort Mos- selle, Germany, caused an explosion which killed several persons and seri- ously injured many. The dispute between the opposing bondholders in the foreclosure proceed- iugs of the Alley “L” Road of Chicago has been settled by compromise. The Connecticut State Prison Direct ors have appointed Rev. Lincoln J. Hall of Canoe City, Colo., chaplain of the State Prison at Wethersfield. A delegation of citizens of New York and Brooklyn called on Governor Mor ton aud urged executive clemency in behalf of John Y. McKane, the former Gravesend boss. Professor Wolcott Gibbs, president of the National Academy of Sciences, has written to Secretary Hoke Smith in forming him that the members of the Forestry Commission will leave for the West on or before July 2d and at once enter on their duties. The claims of missionary societies for indemnity from the Chinese govern ment for damages to person and prop erty during the riots of last year have all been paid. American societies re ceived $150.006-__________ A Household Treasure. D. W. Fuller, ot Canajoharie, N. Y., says that he always keeps Dr. King’s New Dis covery in the house and his family has al ways found the very best results follow its use; that he would not be without it, if procurable. G. A. Dykeman. druggist, Catskill, N. Y., says that Dr. King’s New Discovery is undoubtedly the best Cough remedy: that he has used it in his family for eight years, and it has never failed to do all that is claimed for it. Why not try a remedy so long tried and tested. Trial bottles free at E. A. Bsnwix’a Drug A PLAIN STATEMENT. “HOW DO YOU DO?” What la Meant by Free and Unlimited Coin age at the Ratio of Sixteen to One. The FreDch Lady Thought It a Question to lie Answered. Not at all infrequently even yet the query department of. The Sunday News is called upon to explain what is meant by free and unlimited coinage at the ra tio of 16 to 1. Occasionally there is a question which betrays a depth of ignorance most fath omless. Tho News has received one— and from a small town in Colorado at that—which makes us believe that a statement of the familiar facts will be of value in some quarters. In effect it is as follows: * *A. bets B. that 16 to 1 means that the mints shall coin 16 silver dollars for every gold dollar they coin. B. bets that it means there shall be 16 parts of pure silver to 1 part of alloy in each silver dollar. Which wins?’ ’ Neither of these notions has anything to do with the meaning of tho expres sion “16 to 1.” It means that the weight of pure gold in a gold dollar shall be 23.22 grains and the weight of pure silver In a silver dollar shall be 871.25 grains. It will be seen that the weight of silver in a silver dollar is within a trifling fraction of 16 times the weight of gold in a gold dollar, the ratio being called for convenience 16 to 1. The act of 1837—for free and unlim ited coinage at this ratio—provided that gold and silver bullion brought to the mint should be received and coined for the benefit of the depositor. The coinage was free and unlimited, because any person might bring any quantity of gold or silver bullion of the standard degree of fineness to the mint and re ceive for it gold or Bilver coins. The only charges permitted were for refin ing when the bullion was below stand ard, for toughening when metals were contained in it which rendered it unfit for coinage, for copper used for alloy when introduced into the alloy for gold and for separating gold and silver when those metals exist together in the bul lion. All of these charges relate to the conversion of bullion into the exact kind of bullion suitable for coinage. By the act of Feb. 21, 1858, the right of individuals to have silver coined in to half dollars, quarter dollars, dimes and half dimes was taken away, the quantity of sliver put into such coins was reduced, their unlimited legal ten der quality was reduced to a limit of $5, and the government wdnt into the making of them as a business, which was profitable because of the less quan tity of silver put into them. The silver dollar was not mentioned in this act. The public retained the full right to bring bullion to the mint and have it coined Into standard silver dollars, and the silver dollar retained its quality as an unlimited legal tender, which it holds to this day. This act of Feb. 21, 1853, established a mintage charge of one-half of 1 per cent on all gold and silver whether coined or run into ingots on account of depositors, In addition to the charge for refining or parting the metals contained in the act of 1837. Thus the matter stood until tho pas sage of the act of Feb. 12, 1878, which established the gold dollar as the unit of value and demonetized silver by omitting the standard silver dollar from the list of coins. Until that day anv person might bring standaid silver bul lion 900 degrees fine to the mint and for each 871.25 grains of pure silver therein obtain a silver dollar, paying only one-half per cent coinage charge. If he brought* pure silver to the mint instead of standard bullion, nine-tenths fine, he would have to pay 2 cents an ounce for the copper alloy. If 500 ounces of pure silver were deposited nt the mint, it would coin 646 dollars. There would be 65.55 ounces of copper required for alloy, which would cost $1.11. The one-half per cent for coin age would be $3.23, which would make the total charge at the mint $4.34 on 646 dollars. Through ignorance or malioe, the statement is frequently made that un der free coinage the owners of silver mines would sell their product to the government. Pictures are drawn of the government vaults choked with silver which it would be unable to force into circulation. This idea has probably grown out of the acts of 1878 and 1890, both of which provided not for free coinage, but for purchase by the United States of a limited amount of silver each month, the dollars coined there-, from or the notes issued in payment therefor not being legal tender when otherwise specified in the contract Un der free coinage the government would not purchase the silver coined into dol lars. It would simply coin the silver for whoever brought it to tho mint and hand the ooin over to tho person who brought the Bilver.—Denver News. An American lady who spent some time in Paris says that she had a friend there, a French lady, who wished to learn a little English, and did so. Among her acquisitions in the language was the expression, “How do you do?” to which she was careful to learn the proper response. One day the American lady met her French friend on the street. The Amer ican lady said, “How do you do?” with a smile, and passed on. She did not stop to notice that she had left the French lady standing on the street in astonishment Soon afterward Bhe called on her friend, and was received very coldly by the French lady. As she did not know of any reason why the lady should be offended with her, she pressed her to tell what was the matter. “Have I done anything to grieve you?” she asked. “Anything to grieve me!” answered tho French lady. “You meet me on the street, you ask me how I am, you do not wait to find out how I am, you pass on, and then you ask me whether yon have done anything to grieve mo!” Then the American explained that it is not customary for Americans to wait for an answer to their inquiry, “How do you do?” that they commonly utter the words and pass on, or if they stop to speak, at once begin to talk of other matters. The French lady could hardly express her astonishment “The Americans do many very, very strange things, ’ ’ she said, “but this is the strangest of all!” The French, when they are of the de gree of acquaintance that justifies in quiry as to the health of another, stop and hear all about it, and all about the health of the respective families. When all this information has been exchanged, tho two persons part with many adieux and elaborate good wishes for each oth er’s continued health and happiness. The Italians frequently embrace one another in public places and shake hands several times and commit one another in parting to the care of God The Americans and the English arc the only people that question each other as to their health without stopping to find out anything about it.—Youth’s Com panion. Last summer one of our grand children was sick with a severe bowel trouble. Our doctor’s remedies had failed, then we tried Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrahea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief. We regard it as the best medicine eyer put on the market for bowel complaints—Mrs. E. G. Gregory, Frederickstown, Mo. This certainly is the best medicine ever put on the mar ket for dysentery, summer complaint, colic and cholera infantum in children. It never fails to give prompt relief when used in reasonable time and the plain printed directions are followed. Many mothers have expressed their sincere gratitude for the cures it has effected. For sale by Ashland Drug Co. WALLABIES AND KANGAROOS. A Sportsman's Glimpses of Animals Pe culiar to Australia. There are wallabies and wallabies, scrub, swamp and rock wallabies, but all furnish lively sport for the hunter. The wallabies aro pext relatives to the kangaroos and are found in Australia. F. G. Aflalo tells in the Badminton Magazine how he hunted the wallabies 15 miles up the picturesque river, called the Rhine of the south by the Austra lians. The hunt was a failure, but the writer had more sport after kangaroos. “We hod not, my companion and I, gone half a mile, ” he says, “when we disturbed a largo gray kangaroo at his morning toilet. He rose politely and eyed us for a moment, which would have been his last on earth, only, as luck would have it, he stood immedi ately between ourselves and the other two of the hunters. Then, while we were bowing to each other, the kangaroo suddenly vanished. I do not pretend to know where he went When a beast can leap 20 feet without moving u muscle, it is useless to look for it Here came a streak of luck. We rammed through a tangle of trailing undergrowth and all of a sudden there sat a small doe wallaby in a small opening, scratching her ear. It is not everybody who can intrude on a female wallaby and find her scratch ing her ear with a hind foot, nor does one often finjl a wallaby so interested in what she was doing as this one was. Sho rubbed her ear some more, and, shocked beyond all measure, my friend killed her with an express ball. “The ears were cutoff as trophies. A little while after this about 50 walla bies and kangaroos were seen in a herd, browsing in the grass a mil? qway, and that was a tantalizing sight, though mighty interesting. The beasts could scent U man a mile away easily, and a scent meant a go as you please hop race When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. with no finish so far as the men were When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. concerned. “With a good pull at the flask, we When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she bad Children, she gave them Castoria. crept forward, ” the writer says. “On we plodded, and tfie r.nimals began to look troubled, warned by those vague and inexplicable forebodings of instinct, standing erect now and then and scan Would Thrive on Temporary Defeat. ning the horizon with their great eyes. Some of the silver men do not agree The males tapped the ground to warn that if the silver cause does not win in the does and away they went We got the approaching election the question two by luck—a buck and doe. ” will be finally settled. At least Senator Bacon 6ays that defeat for silver does One Way to Stop the Gold Craze. not mean the end of the struggle. Speaking of “the existing gold stand “The people who are for silver,” he ard”—that is, as tho Bankers’ associa said yesterday, “are actuated by the tion says, having oil our money redeem parne spirit which filled the souls of the able in gold, how would it be if some antislavery agitators. The defeat of of these fine days the wageworking John C. Fremont in 1856 did not mean Class and the small business men and the death of the antislavery movement, farmers should all mako a demand on and the defeat of a silver candidate in tho government to have their paper 1896 will not indicate that the fight is money redeemed in gold, just as tho over. On the contrary, it is my belief gold bankers do in New York, Boston, that if we should have four more years Philadelphia and Chicago? of tho single gold standard the silver The gold reserve would bo depleted cause would come to the front in 1900 so quickly that the secretary of the treas with even more strength than it has ury would have to permanently suspend now. ”—Washington Letter. specie payment. All the gold that could be gotten could not keep tho existing Time For IIoDesty. gold standard afloat for 30 days. Can a man be honest who advocates Perhaps if no other method can cure the free coinago of silver and then sup the gold craze it would be well for the ports a goldbug candidate? If free coin workingmen to spare tho time to de age of silver is not important enough to mand gold of the government for the vote for, why under heaven do they paper money in which their weekly Jçeep saying they want it? If it is im wages are paid. The workingmen of portant enough to vote for, why don’t New York and Washington could bring they vote for it? Speak out and be hon the gold standard lunacy to a mighty est, ye free silver Democrats. The peo sudden ending if they just availed them ple are watching you.—Wadesboro (N. selves of tho privilege that tho New C. ) Plow boy. York bankers use and present their pa per money at the subtreasury and de Fortitude is tho marshal of thought, mand gold for it.—Knights of Labor the armor of the will aud the fort of Journal. ______ reason. —Bacon. Into the composition of every happi ness enters the thought of having de served it.—Joubert. Experience is by industry achieved and perfected by the swift course of time. —Shakespeare. 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I Sir Arthur Sullivan, as a boy, was one of the members of the choir at the the Chapel Royal, St. James. ________________ ■nimias» Prince Henry of Russia, the emperor’s brother, has bought Montalier, one of the largest estates in Lorraine. Earl Gray has 5,084 shares in the British South Africa company. Mr. -HAVE MOVED.T0- Cecil Rhodes heads the list with 51,783 shares. Miss Frankie Lano of Oakland, Cal., proposes to canvass the country during WITH THEIR • • • • the national campaign in the interest of the Populist party. Sir Edwin Arnold would like to see AND DRESS MAKING PARLORS. in all Christian governments a minister of state charged with the interests of shland Ladies are fast finding out that the birds, beasts and fishes. at Clint’s a Spring Hat or Bonnet may Theodore Dubois, successor to Am- broise Thomas at the Paris conserva be high grade and still be modest priced. tory, is a former pupil of the great mu sical school of France and is 59 years of age. Miss Edna Webster of Delaware, O., is the owner of a cat that is in the prime of health and life, and is supplied with double feet all around, having eight to handle instead of four. George W. Pack of Cleveland, who . . . Dealer in spends his winters in Asheville, has offered to givo $2,000 to a fund for the erection of a monument in honor of the late Senator Vance of North Caro lina. Thomas H. Swope, a prominent citi zen of Kansas City, has given a tract of land 1,400 acres in extent to the city for a park. The proposed park is four A nice line of Floor Matting just in—prices low. miles from the city limits, and is valued Trunks and canvas-covered Telescopes; Mirrors, at $250,000. Window Shades, Lamberquin poles and trimmings, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is younger even at 77 than she was when Oliver Screens, Picture Frames, bedding, Etc., Etc. Wendell Holmes called her “seventy White, New Home and Magestic Sewing Machines. years young. ” She preserves with her Best machine oil, needles and repairs for all kinds advancing years a fine enthusiasm for everything of feminine interest. of Sewing Machines. Miss Edith Lancaster, a young Eng lish woman of education and refine BABY CftEEIftGES at less than city prices. ment, has appealed to the London school board to provide nourishement for poor children, that they may the better profit —------- ——J by the instruction the schools afford. Herbert Spencer has at length all but completed his great system of synthetic philosophy, although since 1860 he has feared he would not live to finish it. He lias been of delicate health from childhood, though he is now 76 yearn old. President Faure of France wore a pair of white kid gloves when he took the hand of the empress 'dowager of Russia to kiss it, and they have been consigned to a glove box of rare workmanship, ASHLAND. OREGON which is henceforth to be regarded as a OPPOSITE CITY HALL, reliquary. John V. Bohannon of Baltimore and his family have for their home four un Mrs. W. P. Parsons, Proprietress used street cars, which he has moved to a piece of ground in the suburbs, where he does not have to pay any rent He bought the cars for $10 each, and he de clares that they make a comfortable dwelling. MOVED MISS JESSE CLINT & CO. NORTH SIDE OF PLAZA MILLINERY EMPORIUM A r Furniture and everything pretaining to the Furhiture Trade! OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. RESTAURANT-BAKERY. BLUE FRONT BUILDING, ^.MEALS : AT : ALL : BOURSE TURF TOPICS. Vassar, 2:07, will be raced this year. Beautiful Bells has produced 17 foals. Ed Tipton is to manage tho fall meet ing at Nashville. Zombro, 3, 2 :13, has finished his stud season and is in training. The track at Oakland, Cal., is being put into first class condition. Out of seven starts this season, Mart Demarest has won four races. Tho youngsters in training at Palo Alto are reported in great shape. John R. Gentry and Joe Patchen meet in a match at Chicago July 4. Sir Harry Wilkes, 2:15j^, has gone wrong. He will not bo raced this season. I Beautiful Bella has a full sister to A'Udei, 2:23, tho champion yearling trotter, at her side. Sterling R. Holt, a pacer, by Ash- land Wilkes, 2:17^, promises to bo one of the stars of 189(1. Famoqs old Walter E, 2:10, is run ning out on Joseph Hampson’s farm, near Emporia, Kan. Tho Caton stock farm, Joliet, Ills., recently lost seven head of horses dur ing a heavy thunderstorm. Directum, 2:05^, has proved very popular in tho blue grass country and has had a heavy season in the stud. All kinds of razor grinding and repairing at the Gem barber shop, opposite town hall. To Whom It May Concern. John R. Harris is not authorized to do business for the Mining and Scientific Press, of San Francisco, California and has no authority to collect therefor. J. F. 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