Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 47, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 August 1893 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER.

O. DO AN" If,, PubllMher, JASPER. INDIANA COURAGE. Who falls to strike whea bu'i assailed, For (ear of selfish pala or loss; Who weakly cowers when Right is naile Upon the proud world's heavy cross; Who fails to apeak tb plead Id word Of bold deaasee to a He; Whose rote for truth U faintly heard When party passions mount on high; Who dares no struggling cause espouse, And lores bo path by martyrs trod; ' Whoso timorous soul ao call can rouse To dsre to stand alone with God, That man is coward; and no deeds Of valor dose on fields of strife Can prove his courage; battle meeds Are naught beside a tested life. a Who dallies with temptation's lure, Nor hurls his tempter to the ground! Who champions not the weuk, the poor, " Whoa Power and Strength with cords have bound; Who bows obsequious to the strong. And crushes what he knows Is weuk; Who palters with a deadly wrong, And dare no vengeance on It wreak; Who crouches 'neath Opinion's lash. Nor dares his own true thought proclaim; Who sever, with an impulse rush. Ran on before his time; is tame, Is cowara, and no work uprears Which lasts. God's edict from on high Bays courage shall outlast the years, Out every coward soul shall die. Hattlo T. Grlswold, in Woman's Journal. Copyright, 1W3. by tho Author. 63r srl0T that switch' S man!" shouted the station master, leaping for ward and frantically waving up his arm as nu impromptu danger signal. "You're sending the down express off slap into the up-goods the other switch! Ah, my Hod, too late!" A rush a roar a frightful crash and the down express had dashed into the up-goods outside the small junction station then the rifting of breakage and falling debris, heartrending cries, shouts of men and wild confusion for a few minutes of horror. Then English pluck and cool-headedness took its usual sway, and the work of rescue was begun by the few officials, aided by a crowd of eager helpers, who in five minutes seemed to be on the spot from the town; the doctors, as always, to the fore with their services. Some of the injured were carried to houses near to bo tended, others, those who seemed the mobt hurt, were taken to the hos pitalnot a largo one and consigned to its trained staff, now aided by two or three doctor from the town, buch sudden accession of patients had soon filled every bed in the wards; tho matron had converted her chamber (on the ground floor) into an extra ward, and still yet another sufferer, the last patient, was found, either dead or unconscious, amongst the debris, some time after all the rest, and was borne on a stretcher to the hospital; one of the men had reverently laid his own rough neckerchief over the young face that might be that of the dead. As a nurse, called by the hall porter, paused for a second, perplexed what to do with this last patient, the chief doctor himself came striding through the wide corridor, hurrying from one ward to another. yWhntfs this?" he said, scarcely pausing. "Another poor creature? Put her in my room, nurse, at once. I'll be there directly." His apartment opened on to this corridor, and the order was promptly obeyed. Woe betide anyone who did aot obey Dr. Hastings' orders at once. "ANOTHKR rOOB CRKATUIIE?" No two words for him not a look of question or demur. They had all found that out before he had been a week in chartre of the hospital a charge he trad taken during the holiday of the regular resident doctor instead of taking a holiday himself young Deane needed it, he said to the matron, and he didn't Little was known of Dr. Hastings (unless by his friend Deane) except that he came from London, had practiced there for five years, but previously had, it was thought, been a good deal abroad. He was quite six or seven and thirty a tall, handsome man, with a grave, rather sorrowful face in repose, aad a smile that was infinitely Rwect and tender, like his voice and manner. He was a favorite, "it really la a wonder," the matron, an elderly woman, said, "that he Is still an unmarried man," though neither that nor any oilier information about himself had over come from his own lips. Not he; whatsoever his troubles had been he kept the secret locked faat In his heart that knew its wn bitterness. In scarcely more than ve minutes the doctor came to hkt room, to which the mum aad just feteaed aoaw rtstoi

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hllst placing- these on the toilet table licr back was towards the door, and she did not, therefore, see Dr. Hastings, at the moment he entered and caught sight of the lifeless form on the bed that of a joang and pretty woman -a lady unmistakably, but whose fair, delicate face was stamped with suffering even in its deathlike stillness. In the second of that lirst quick searching glance of his towards the new patient the doctor's dark eyes suddenly dilated, and an ashen gray pallor swept orer his bronzed check. In the nest instant he was master of himself, and was at tho bedside touch ing the alender form and limbs tender ly ah, how tenderly! to ascertain if any were broken or badly Injured; then he took the delicate hand, the left, which bore a wedding ring, and felt the pulse, stopped and laid his ear on the woman's heart, then, with that peculiarly soft touch doctors have, felt tho head, covered with soft golden curls, the nurse anxiously watching him with a glass of diluted brandy 'ready in her hand. "What I thought," said the doctor, now gently rinsing the pretty heart on his left arm. "There is life still, thank uod. Concussion of the brain, but no other injuries, I think. Give me a teaspoonful of that." He took it and carefully put it be tween the bloodless lips, at the same time speaking to her in a short distinct way: "Swallow this, there's a good girl A very few drops passed, but some did, for there was the slightest possible ement of the throat muscles. The concussion misrht bo severe but there certainly, life, and therefore hope. The doctor repeated his efforts till as much as he wished had been adminis tered. It was now nearly ten o'clock. Hastings looked at his watch and bade the nurse go to the kitchen and get a cup of beef tea warmed, adding a message to the matron relative to another patient; it would be eight or ten minutes before the nurse could be back as the doctor intended. Dircctlv he was alone his face changed, hardened to that kind of des' perate sternness which Is a man's only refuge when lie dare not yield one hair's breadth to emotion lest ho break quite down, lie bent down, sought for the pocket of the well-made and well worn d-c.ss of the insensible sufferer, and took out all that was in It a few pence, a small key, a handkerchief, and a small much-worn nurse. Hie two first he at once replaced, then the hand kerchief after he had made sure it had no initials on it. The purse he opened; it contained a sovereign, some loose silver, and a card on which was printed ".Mrs. Godfrey. Dressmaker, Bristol." The man bet his teeth as be replaced the purse, but kept the card that was such a clew, possibly, to its possesor'a identity. Did he know it, and some thing, perhaps, of her antecedents her story? Or was he trying to read it that he bent down now, with eyes that in a nassion of atronv. between hope and dread, seemed to search every feature an j une 0f lne fajr unconscious face, so delicate, so soft, so full of suffering? 'Xrf no!" the man's white lips breathed with an intense relief and something more than relief, surely in his eyes "not one, hard line, not one trace of such utter shame and misery! She has worked suffered, but oh! if the past could only be undone!" That saddest, most hopeless cry of the soul, whether it be sinning or sinned against. The word once spoken, the deed once done may be repented of, atoned for, but they are beyond recall bv any power human or divine, A moment later the nurse came back to find the doctor quietly waiting for her. She also brought a night-dress from the matron "in case it is needed. sir," nurse said, as the doctor was giv ing the patient some broth in tho same way he had the brandy. "Thanks." he said, "just what I did want, for it will be days at least before this poor young creature can be moved. There is nothing that can Ihj done but keep up strength and wait for some return to consciousness. Yon get her undressed and into bed, whilst I go to the ward again. I'll send in another nurse to help you." Thank you, sir." He went away then to the other sufferers. Several days passed laden with those responsible cares and anxiety which only doctors can know. Friends of the patients were communicated with, of course. Two poor creatures died of their injuries, but the rest went on well, and within ten days were all able to leave or be removed to their several homes. Only the unknown patient in Dr. Hastings' own room still lav unconscious, though the signs of life daily improved more pulse, the respiratiou stronger and more regular, with now an almost entire cessation of those nainful lonc-drawn breaths after a sus- . ! 8 1. !..!. ,Ä.,I pension oi rcapirauuu, " like the last grim struggle of life acainst death The matron's search of the patient's olnthes could find not a clew to her name or friends, and no inquires were made bv anyone, "Pnnr child!" the ffood lady said pityingly to Hastings. "Perhaps she is a Widow, yonnir munir" nt" . . i . . i. l and sho is poor, evidently, and friend less." "Yes. It seems so," said the doctor, "but we shall see when she recovers consciousness." "Isn't the room rather dark, doctor?" "No; I drew down the blind" this a trifle shortly but in a low murmur. "She is gradually coming to all to day, and I'm anxious about her. Can't have too strong a light when her eyes own acraln." He had been constantly In and out, and when at lenirth the hour came for the niirht staff to replace the day nu-scs. Dr. Hastings, after intently watching the patient for several minutes, said, In that soft, deep murmur so suitable to the sick room, and which 1 an effectual disguise to the speaker's 1 tones, that lie should take the night watch himself, aad If he needed a aurae or to M mured later wewe

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by. And, of course, as usual, his order was autocratic as a doctors dictum should be. The gas was turned low within its opaque white globe, and the doctor had moved it (it was a four-jointed wan lamp, high up) so that as hu sat by the bedside the subdued light fell on the patient's face, but threw his own into deep shadow. How deadly Btlll it was without and within the rootnl What torture of sus pense that silent watcher endured in those first two hours he best knew. Then there came a long quivering breath, a restless stir of one hand, and for a second tho patient's dark eyes opened with a wide, vacant stare. Hastings got up at once, gare ncr some strong broth, and as he laid tho pretty head back on the pillows, said in the quietly incisive way that reaches the half-numbed brain: 'Now sleep, my child." For half an hour she lay still not in that terrible lethargy, but at last, he saw, in a Kind oi sleep to wnicn tne poor, long-clouded brain was gathering new life, if not at once full conscious ness; for when suddenly those beauti ful but hollow eyes opened, they went TUB I'UItSE HE Ol'KSEU. with a bewildered, wandering look about the room, and then to the deeplyshadowed form at the bedside. Who is that?" she whispered. vaguely, yet with a pained drawing of the brows, as if even with such halfmental light bitter anguish reasserted its sway. "Only the doctor, my poor cmiu; still the deep low tones. "Where am I? It's so strange." "You are in mv room the doctor's; you were injured in the railway acci dent" "Accident! oh!" then a shudder shook her. "1 wish it had killed me. Am I dying?" Hush! No, thank lioa." ne put nis strong hand on ncrs wun sucn a w.u. der. protecting touch. "Is your name liodfreyr A pause as if the brain were strug gling to regain its balance; then slowly: N-no; I was to work there, you know." "Is that how vou have lived these last five years by poor but honest work?" said Dr. Hastings, deliberately; but his very heart stood still for the an swer. "Yes; through all the long agony of remorse." "Hush!" his firm, tender hand w on her lips. "No more now; you sliAli tell me the doctor, you know, who keeps secrets so close ml another time (Jo to sleep now, my child." Honest work remorse! Ah! what passionate "relief to that man's noble soul. There was penitence, hope he could forfflvc. Hut days went by; the patient still kept in a shp-ded room, forbidden to talk or be talked to, and she gained mental and nht-slcal strength. Then one nitrht the doctor again took the night watch. She had wandered a little, as if something were on her mind, and muttered in her sleep as he sat by her bedside, no had turned up the light more, but sat in shadow still. Hut about two o'clock she suddenly awoke. as if startled out of a bad dream, and stared wildly up. Why didn't they let me die7" she said, as wildly as she looked; "it's one long agony of remorse, 'liiere is no atonement, no forgiveness for such a guilty thing as 1 am, doctor. He was a doctor, too; and he loved me, trusted me, and in a mad hour I was tempted and fled. 1 broke his heart and mine; I betrayed his honor! What if J.left the accursed tempter in two days! What if I have lived on in struggle and tor ture for years in bitterest remorse I dare not call it penitence or expiation! Oh, if I could but die at his feet hear his voice once more if only to curse "Hush! Claire, don't you -know me your husband?" the doctor said hoarsely. "Mv God!" Hut as she started half up with that smothered cry he had her in his arms, wrROned her to his very heart, his llpa I . ... , 1 i on hers wun oroKen wuros. "Never unloved, my own darling", come back by God's mercy to thy hus band's heart, to be forgiven and sheltered. Hush! hush! dearest not such tears." ror (Jiairc nao uursi into cnoicing sobs that shook the very bed, and when at length his .tender soothing qUeVcd her she could only rest in his arms too exhausted to move a linger. Was it all true, or a strange, cruelly deceiving dream? She, who had so sinned, to be forgiven gathered back Into this nobly faithful heart loved, cherished, the miserable guilty past wiped out! Was it possible that she, even she, might atone in some measure for her sin bv penitence and faith renewed a loved and loving wife? Her eyes sarcly asked it, for with a sweet, grave smile, full of a deep, chastened happiness, her husband answered that look as If 't wore words spoken. "Ay, my own wife, tho dead past shall bury its dead for ever, and from henceforth only our lives shall count the days." Writing a letter is, to many people, an Irksome task: but it isn't half so irk some as it Is to hear a lawyer readiag vour letter about five yean afterward ia ayes court.

THEY WANT SILVER.

AA Urgent Appeal from tha Miners of Montana. The Agricultural Classes Art Warned tke Depreciation of Their frost. cU-Tbe History uf Wlver LeieUtlea. The leading citizens of Hutte, Mont, held a masa meeting on the evening of July 2'J, to discuss tho silver question. Prominent free coinage advocates were present and addressed tho assemblage, aad the following address, prepared by the Free Coinage association, waa waaaimously adopted: "The cltlteas of tke state of Montana, ia seadlnf forth to their fellow-cltltens througheut the union this appeal against what they sincerely believe to b an existln wrong of cruel proportions, and for a redress of that wrong, desire find to oztend tho aturanoe to all who may differ from them in opinion that, desplto the dlsaatrou cfadltlons which at this aionent surround them; despite the fact that nauy of their mines and mills and smelters arc tow idle and labor unemployed; notwithstanding that their property values have been largely destroyed and their credit greatly impaired, they are to-day, as they have over been In the past, loyal citizen of the republic, dovoted to lis institutions, obedient to iu laws, loving ana cherishing its traditions and history, aad proud ef iu magnificent achievements. "We assert with all sincerity that although it lrecily and most injuriously aJTecU oae of our principal Industries, and one that has formed in m. imt nart the basis of our prosperity, we yet would not advocate the full recognition and restoration of silver as asoney, uia we not hoimalT believe that such a polloy-would redound to the happiness snd welfare of the great mass of producers and toilers of the land, and to tho Increased orosnerltv of the nation. We plaoe eur demand for the free coinage of silver at the tatlo of sixteen to one of cold, and.lU full equip tent with all money functions equally with gold, upon the slmplo plan cl justice, in sup sort of tho plan we assert, and to this asser tion we challenge contradiction, that for centuries, and before legislation undertook to con trol and direct its action and movement, silver ssalaulned it parity with gold with but slight variation, and desD ta the wide divergence in the ratio of production which rrequenuy exist d. In 1819 Entrlsnd demonetized silver, bho waa even then the creditor nation of the world, and her financiers foresaw that thle policy would enhance the value of gold and render it harder for other nations to pay bcr what they owed. For nearly sixty years thereafter France, the Latin union and tho United States maintained the parity of the two meuls. In 18T1 Germany, flushed wun her victor? over France and her treasury filled with Franco's ransom -of 11,000,000,000 in gold, determined to demonetize silver. Vörie 8am lleiuonetlzes Silver. "In 1673 the United States, the greatest producer of silver of all tho nations, following tho course marked out by Germany, struck the sii ver dollar from our coinage laws. Iu 1675, tho Latin union, deprived of the support of the United Sutes and Germany, stopnud tho com age of silver. In 181 Austria abandoned silver and is striving unsuccessfully to get upon a gold basia Within the past month England, tailing advantage of the depression existing all over the world, has struck silver a last savage blow by closing the mints of India to the coinage of silver on private account. Demand of the West. "This, brleHy told. Is the history of silver legislation during the past seventy-seven years. It Droves conclusively that legislation is di rectly responsible for the destruction or sliver as money. We therefore ask in the name of simple Justlca that legislation now restore it to iu rightful place In tho currency of pur country. We sUte, without fear of contradiction, that the act of 1873 which struck down silver, was passed without due deliberation. The record shows that the great majority of the members of both branches of congress did not know that the bill then under conslderstlon contained such a clause. Such sutemenuof Garfield, Voorhees. Hlalne, and many others, are upon tho records of their respective houses emphatically denying any knowledge of that provision of the act So that we charge that it war done without discussion or debate either in congress, through the press, or upon the platform Therefore it was a great wrong because it was done without notice and without any demand from and by the people, and iu operation was Inured only to the nrorit and benefit of the holders of eur bonds and the lenders of gold. Appeal to the Agricultural Classes. "We most earnestly appeal to the agricultural classes of our country and beg them to look Into the history of silver legislation and the frightful consequences which hsve followed the act of 1b71 We call upon them to mark tho steady and consUnt decline in price of nearly all farm provisions, notably wheat and eotton, which has followed the demonetization of silver. We invito them to close inspection of the processes through which by reason of the making or sliver a mere commodity) England has been able to bring the farmers of the United States into direct competition with the wheat and cotton growers of India. We eall their attention to the significant fact that the three, products, viz.: silver, wheat and cotton, have about kept pace with each other in their headlong fall, each touching Its highest and lowest point together. We assert that the falling o9 in prices oi farm products is a direct result of the demonetization of silver, and the consequent contraction of volume of good metallic money. A careful study of these facu hould, we affirm, make every farmer in this broad land an ardent advocate of the cause of free silver. "We charge that tho act demonetizing silver was almost equivalent to an actlcvylng a direct Ux ir.wn the wheat and cotton growers and sil ver minors of tho country equal to from 30 to SO per cent of their product annually for the benefit ot tho bondholders snd money dealers: for auch an effect has been iu unseen and Insidious operation. We further affirm that the conauatly lowering prices of the staple" farm products et the land has in turn served to curtail production, to restrict growth and to discour age new enterprises, thus diminishing the field and decreasing the demand for labor to the de t rlmcnt of the working clashes of the land. And to theso evils, already so general and rar reach imr. the enemies of silver money arc now seek Ing to add the further wrong of totally destroying a sreat Industry and uirowmg ou; or employ ment hundreds of thousands of men to whom the lees of work means the destruction of taelr homes and poverty and suffering far tasav el Tea. their wives and children. ghermaa I .aw Not Mease!. "We denounce as wholly absurd and sbeolate ly false the charge that the Sherman act is re sponsible for ths present financial difficulties which overwhelm the in nd. we sarau mat tne false crv raised against sliver by the gold mea at a time when a panic threateaed has created a nreiudlce arslnst the silver among ths inter asted and uninformed, but we emphatically as sert that the outflow of gold during the past few days Is duo solely and only to the fact that the balance or trade has during that period been against us nearly IIOO.OUO.UXX We say that had there been no silver law ia existence the gold would have toft us lust the same. Any child ean understand that as gold is the money with which international balances arc settled, 't we aa a nation bur more goods than we sil we oust shlo out our gold to pay the difference. Australia Is passing through a panic that ex eeeds our own In the depression of values and the amount of Insolvency, but Australia has no Sherman law. To what then are the financial aiBeultles in that continent to bo ascribed? Cest in Producing Silver. "We denv as wholly unfounded the statement a often made that silver can be produced at eenu or less an ounce. Such assertions prove aothlne except tho Ignorance ot the persons Baking them We make the statement, bssed upon practical knowledge acquired In gold and ailver mining running over a period of many years, that every ounce ot silver produced in tho United States has cost more than II. per eaaoe. To appreciate this statement one must have lived la mining communities. He must have sees the aumberltss shafts suak upon un eauatea hills, la which never an ounce ef pay ata aeea eieeevere Ha

have been familiar with the thousands of hardy, hrv nriMtwotorii who have duvotod a lifetime

to tho nearch for tne precious new have Unally pasted away, teeir isoor uareaulted, their search unrewaruea. no niui have witnesseu tae orgoiauvi i great companies whose aggregated capital runs Into the hundreds ef millions, snd which started out with bright prospeeu only te wind up in bankruptcy. Hut If the cost or prouucoon to be the gauge of value, then sliver has nothing to fear from gold, for sliver cosU far more to produce man is inaioaicu uy vullshed rstes between gold aaa suver. Gold mining la the main aad geaerally speskla- does not build up a souatry or develop na rcwuriHf w great e stint The production or goia requires comparatively ehcap aaa simpie proer, while the yield is usually eat of all proportloa to the amount of labor and capital expends On tho other hand, silver mining has become as established industry, Ha prodactloa has developed and peopled a vast area of country comprising whole states it is rr.rmanen iu .racter, it requires skilled labor and vast outlays ot capital to successfully eagage in it The processes of extraction aaa reaui.-uun i ores are costly and difficult. If sails into ex. latence all other forms of Industry te aapport it It builds up communities, make towns, cities and even states, sustains million of peo ple. g4ves tramo to railroads and pours a stream or puro wealth Into the Channels or coasaaerce, untainted by aufformg ana unstainea Dy greru. Wo therefore maintain tnat tne oniy way w ascertain the true cost of the production or both metals Is to balance the total vaiae ot an the time and labor employed la producing them against the toUl value of the eoasblned nrmluoL And we see that on such a basis every ounce of sliver, aa well as every ouaee ot gold, costs tsfere thsn its statutory vaiue, ana that these pursuits aro largely louowea on oeouot of the prlzss and hazards of fortune, which are so captivating to tho disposition of mankind. Wo also say further, that If the fiat value was tsken from gold, It would be worta but little more as a commodity thsn sliver. Demand Mere Money. "We Iterate the oft repeated but always true proposition that there Is not enough gold In the world upon which to transact the world's business, and while tho trade and population arc steadily Increasing the gold available for coinage Is steadily decreasing, lne sruta or this assertion is borne out by the panto now UDonus. There is plenty of everythingla the world but Bold, and everything is cneap dui money. The gold is aoaruca, looiteu up in mo aulu and treasure boxes, or tne country, while Dronertv of all forms Is rendered value less, and checks and drafts no longer perform their accustomed functions, it is tne Knowl edge that gold is scarce and Insufficient In quantity that leads to the scramble for It among the nations and individuals, ana it is tne withdrawing and hoarding of It that Brings panics. And In this connection we call attention to this Imjwrtant fact, viz. : That at loast 40 per cent of tho entire Rold production of this country ia the by-produot of the sliver mines, so that the closing of the sliver mines would reduce the amount of gold available for coinage to this extent and thus further In crease tho danger and distress arising from i scarcity of gold. Sherman Law Wrong In Principle. "We concede that tho Sherman law is wrong in principle because It degrades silver into a mere commodity to be buffeted about by unprincipled speculators. At tho same time the treasury notes Issued under the provisions of that law have been ef inestimable ben etlt in increasing ths circulation at a critical time and thus preventing disaster. "To repeal this law unconditionally would be to des troy stiver forever, and would be playing directly Into the bands of the advocates or single gold standard, and a contracted cur rencv. It would be the cruelest blow ever struck at the rights of the great mass of the people, and particularly at the debtor class, for It would enormously Increase the purchasing power of gold, and correspondingly lower tho value of all products and every other form of property. The Sherman law was never vored by the advocates of free silver coinage, but. bad as It Is. it is now all that remains be tweon the desires ot tho gold standsrd men and the consummation of their selfish ends, and must be reUlned In the Interest of the common people until something better Is conceded in its stead. Favor Beth Uold aad Silver. "We arc in favor ot both gold and silver as money to be coined upon equal terms a-t the ratio of 18 to 1. This is the money which the fathers of the republic bequeathed to us. It is the money of the constitution. For eighty years we thrived snd prospered with this currency. It was destroyed at the dictation of England snd Germany through their agents in this country and In the interests of the creditor class, those with fixed Incomes and annuities. We now demand that it be restored again to the place where the fathers left it, In the inter est of ths whole people. The constantly repeated charge tha&the sil ver dollar is a cheap dollar is so manifestly Illogical and absurd as to render It unworthy of notice among intelligent people. There are no cheap dollars. A silver dollar will purchase as much as s gold dollar or any other kind of a dollar. Equally untrue is the sUtemrnt that the government has lost money upon its silver purchases, because of 'the depreciation In Its price. The facts aro that the government hs made a profit amounting to more than tlW.OX),OX) on its silver purchases under the Uland and Sherman laws, being the difference between the market and coining value. And this profi t has gone to tho credit of the people bocause with it the government has paid Its current expenses and obligations, and all their silver, either of Itself or by its paper representatives. Is In circulation to-day, bearing the burdens or trade, performing the functions ot money, while tho gold is locked up In the vault of tho money kings. It is gold that is hoarded, not silver. Great Britain Blamed. 'We are filled with a great and Just indigna tion that our country, of which wo are so proud, strong in Its credit and wonderful beyond ex pression In Its rich and varied resources, is yet so weak and unsettled In iu financial system that Enalund can In a day, by the dishonest manipulation oi the currency or far-off India, bring upon the people of free America a panic which, without a moment's warning transforms a happy and prosperous people into communi ties ot comparative paupers buch a condition Is humiliating beyond words to convey. It Is destructive to the prlilo and faith which as loyal citizens wc have so long and dearly cherished In our government. Wo warn those In this country who aro waging this unjustifiable war on silver as monoy that they arc casting a boomsrang which will return to crush them. They msy destroy the property of a great and growing section of our country and ring pov erty and suffering upon some million of their fellow citizen, but tbo return uoe win carry with it hundreds nf millions of securities la the form of railroads, state, county, and muni cipal bonds, made worthless by their narrow policy and aelfish greed. The signs are not wanting to prove the truth of this assertion. even thus early, snd. unless the gold contratlonlsta sre defeated In tho coming session or congress, we believe that within a year there will not be a railroad west of the Mlssoari river that will not be In the hands ssj areeelver, Last Appeal for Ml ver. "One hundred and seventeen years ago the eatrlots of the American revolution gave to ns our Independence, In framing the laws aad laving down the principles which were to gov. era us, they sought no counsel and asked no ad vice from their enemies Kclylng upon their own splendid courage and wise statesmanship thev Inaugurated a system ot finance based upon the world's previous eiperlcnco and upoa equality snd Justice. Wc ask that tho present generation of American statesmen follow their example: that they Imbibe new courage from a contemplation of the sturdy patriotism and broad wisdom exhibited by the founders of this eovermnenv. thst they will enunciate a second declaration of Independence: that they will re store stiver to IU time-honored place as a full legal tender money, and thus gtvo to the United States the grandest and richest In natural resources of all the nations ot the earth a anaa clal system which it msy call iu own free from foreign control Standlag today 'mid the wreck and rula of eur erstwhlln prosperity randttlnn w raucht by aelflah slaas. by weak policies, aad unjust laws, the people of Montana without regard te etas, occupatio, or political creed, inspired by a deep ef mart. aa. aue wiu a et

i.iiiiui! msa forth tais appeal

the great massee ef preaucem mnmw f the United States We as mess to well the statements hswin maae, aau ski w prematurely biased In their Juftgaent by the false utterances of Inteeste4 elassea, aad a subsidised press. To the fillers oi mo sw. wi the growers of wheat ana tae planters o uton. we say 'In this matter your Interest is eur lnterewt: snd our interest is your interest Te the worklngaiau of the Isad w aayr You, too, have a deep and abiding interest u na of free coinage of silver ana in taw Bnnmuiii fr.r it rMtoratloa: for. to throw outt employment a vast armyf men, and preclplUto them upon an aircaay giuuca laoor iurkot, must work incalculable lajury te the caus flsoov-' . ..... We therefore ask you,ea ana au,iojo hand with us and make a common cause ia behalf of tho white metal-the money ef ta snassea through all ages and in all lands. We ask you to let your combined voices be heard. ant to aee to it tnat tnose wno repree yu ecraress east their votes in accordance with your welfare and ours. The people of Moo Una are an beerst people. They believe la hard meoy. They scorn all suggestions of repudiation. They are progressive, energetio, courageees and loyal. Tbey have always nam uieir just obligations, and notwithsunuing (inai at this moment tney are oYcrwuciuicu uj greatest calaatlty that has ever oeraiiea mess. they will continue to meei au wir rcspuuuuuitlee aa becomes honorable men. ' PREPARED FOR WAR. Hr the Nations ef Kurop Reached tae Llaalt of Kwdarance. What a wonderful spectacle It is that Kurone now nreaentHl Her population claims a sort of monopoly in civiliza tion, yet outside of England every na tion has reached the limit of us endurance ia preparing for war, which nevertheless does not arrive, 'ine surplas energy and money of the wnoie continent is devoted to keeping up a security which Is nowhero felt to be quite sufficient, yet is nowhero overtiy threatened which, inaeea, is guaranteed by profuse professions of peaceable intentions. The work ot civilization (roes ob, every day records some advance in scienoe or la hussan comfort, the tollers are daily exerting themselves to secure more leisure, better housing and pleasanter food, and yet the nations with one consent are converting themselves into food for powder. It is as if the professor and the merchant and tho laborer, whilo strenuously going on with their business and eager to derive more comfort from it, were all agreed that they must sleep in plate armor. It would be almost comic, were it not so terrible, and as yet there is not a sign that we are arriving at tho end of the situation. People say it must end sqnie day, but it haa gone on getting worse for twenty years; and though it cannot get worse still, because men and money are alike exhausted, there is no proof that it will not last for twenty years further yet There is not a statesman in Europe who could draw up, much less carry, & project of general disarmament There is not a popular leader in Europe who makes of disarmament an earnest cry, though the socialists in their fear of repression would do it if they could; and we question if there is a nation in Europe which would consent to be disarmed. That is certainly not a triumph of human wisdom; and yet the nations are no more furious than usual, are not unrcaaonable, are not even indisposed to work through the methods of diplo macy. They are not even, in a way. unfriendly, for something "international" is arrantred every week, and of congresses with all Europe represented in them there is literally no enO. Still the nations lie down in armor and rise up, pistols In hand, and before they begin the day's labor look first to aee what the armed burglar may be at What the end aaay be or can be we kaow no more than the simplest. but of this we are very sure, that bo spectacle nt once so unaccountable aad sad has ever 3'ct been presented to the historian with eyes. Spectator. A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER. Am Interesting ami w Material Call Firma rlbra." Leather possesses such excellent qual ities for tho many purposes to which It is put that it would seem Idle to seek a substitute. Jicvcrtheletis, there are many persons-who, while they find that leather serves as an effectual protective covering for the foot, find tilso that it is often obstinate in adapting itself to the requirements of individual feet or to the more or less physical abnormalities to which so many are subject In such cases, if comfort is to bo expected, only the most supple and yielding quality should be worn. At the .same time, of course, it should bo waterproof and durable. These qualities, so far as wo have been able to judge, belong in a satisfactory degree to an interesting and new material called "flexus flbra." It appears to be a Hax-derivcd material, suitably prepared and oiled, so that to all appearances it is leather. It Is par ticularly supple and llexibie anu lanes polish equally well with tho nest kin da of calf. We have recently had occasion to . t 1 a. at it wear a boot ox wnicn tne - vHinp or cut-front section consists entirely of flexua Ibra, and have purposely sub mitted it to somewhat undue strata, in spite of which no cracking of the material was perceived, while the sense of comfort to the foot was very evident Flexas libra, being a material of vegetable origin, Is calculated also to facilitate free ventilation and thereby to obviate the discomfort arising fro a what. is called "drawing" the feet Tests. with a vlow to prove Its datnp-reslstlaer power were made with tho material by placing a small section over an ojkjr glass tube with true ends, so that on applying pressure at the other eadof the tube it was found to be practically air tight This having been ascertained a little water wasj placed in tke tube resting on the flexus libra and pressure, osce more applied. After some time traces only of liquid had oozed through; but, of course, this waa an exaggerated. state of things, and, as n matter of

fact, no oozing of water took place at all whea it was simply allowed to rest on the material several hours. The structure of flexus flbra is better aee when the oil in It is removed witk ether, to which It imparts distinct fliidreaceace, and when the black dye Is washed out (being at tke same time, changed U? red) by aydroeklcrla aetd. Lewlea Lancet