Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 March 1898 — Page 3

WKKKLY COURIER.

I'. 1X1 INK. J'iililUher. JAMWWM, : I INDIANA

RUTH AND NAOMI. Km ri al me not to leave tiieo; Entreat tn nut," Blie Mil', An1 M Naomi's bosom VA ttjtWg she bowed (i r . .iJ: F r wht'ri-sm'iT thou gi.-st There uW I follow Mm . Ai'J nasrSSSSet thou dwellust. There ahull my loJglng be; Henceforth. b.love.1 mother. Thy people shall he mine; All other gods forsaking. I'll Hi ve no UoU hut thine; " I'll .ll- win re'i r thou dlest. And there will burh- he; 1! ar llliens, Cod! I'.o ier Btft death parts IBSS gad mii," Not half so li ar a token Of love, of f .ilt h sublime, HH history ever hoarded In tisaeurs 1 orypti ot um; Fan on her scrolls has graven it .'at ili N. ar.il vvorl.s that provS TS HjtttJ. the beauty, Vhe niiüht of woman's love; Hut where a lo 1 so splendid t Whtn wonU that nubb-r art ? 'Mid fame's xreat orbs of plory .She- shims th'' morning star! When srwike this MiuthwOMId Her mouth's aml.r .si.ii l.r.-.uh .Stirred ''h .ids hat elufltbei 'I voiceless Till w.ilod hy love and faith; Her touch divine endowt d tin in With deathless life and youth: Brest tM hut the wold "Naomi," A I thi v w ill murmur "Ruth." CT. 1 1 : s W Hühner, In Atkufta Constitution.

i Apropos of Weddings. I i'v'-' u

npHEBE8a bridal couple forward," I Mid the Strunzer from MichiMQ, returning from an investigation of lie front end of tli" train. "How do you know then for a ncwlyBMurried pair?1 queried the Man of Lower T. "Bice?1 "Nonsense: " Are they tender and cooing, then?" "I'.y no means1 she asleep witli her luad on " "Look hen-, did JfOU ever see a wedding couple on their tour?" "No." the Man of Lower 7 confessed, "but there's u distinct rule sbout BUfifa things. Why, it's as traditional and 'inn-rooted as the multiplicu tiOO tuhle. ihey should be " "Yes. tluy should 1e," the Michigan der Interrupted. "The should be to i nform to the articles of faith as pre pared by people who do not know. Now, us u matter of fact, people who have gumption enough to want tO gOOU i L'.ouO-mile bridal tour also have a sufficient knowledge of affairs to keep from making Indians of tJiemselves when they go n-murry ing." "Wtdl, then, tell us how you judge your two of wliom you spoke." "They were behaving with immense propriety, but I not iced t he JTOUBg mii';.an had a lleck of black upon her nose. A month from now her husband will have become sufficiently acquainted with her to fell her of any such little thing. Now. however, he looks nt the pot nervously ; for he is afraid of hurtIng her feeling! by telling her of it. He wishes he could wish it off. Vat himself, he tells himself that he lOTM Iter fondly. splotch or no splotch. A month from now he will say: tlarllng, that besetlj old locomotive has thrown a bit of rime upon your cheek the ritdit one there, that's it just a little higher. Now it's off.' Bat ns yet he feels thnt even sui'h criticism of her nppcernnce as this would be unkind and

unpardonable.

"Once, "said the fourth member of the

part, "1 was trawling westward, and

at a little mountain town a bridal pair got aboard. Mn In- it was because tiny wen going byit 1.0 miles to the next town that they Openly demonstrated their affection, it was rerj amusing to everybody else in the day rasch, and at last otic tourist, who hap-

pened to be riding forward with his amers, decided that it would be a

lii'st-rate thing to take some snap-

snots ;'t the two. So he focused the

thittg, and while pretending to be takings general interior riswof the coach In took care to gel the bridal pair 11 lire in the middle. He was very ttealtbjf about it, but the bridegroom observed Iii motions und came forward. Me came forward in three jumps, and. reaching over toward the tourist, he seized him nnd lifted him up very hurriedly among the Pinteci gas fixtures. Then he let hitn fall rather abruptly to the lloor. Then he doubled him up in a sort of coil, like a key-ring, and lengthened him out to his ordinary stature. He did a few- things Which I do not now rem ruber, and when he had thoroughly satisfied him elf he Raid "'Mister, in general I am accommolatia' an' hospitable to tin- stranger. dog von. I want you to understand that DM an' this lady ain't scenery.' "The tourist said fare thought he would he able to remember that fact, ami M the bridegroom took his finders ofY the iffender'i throat. "'Kiss me, pood an" hard, Mirnmh." he snid. Mirandy did so. nnd there wns Oof r passenger who smi led or looked Otherwise than int. ns. lv rcsp. . tful." "Did von ever belong to a wedding tour club'.'" inquired the Man of bower ?. addressing anybody who might care to answer. Nobody had. Veil. I did once," the Man said. "It wat retry nice." "Oh, tell us shout it," the hady insisted. "It must have been n sort of mixture of an insurance policy nnd a hothera romantic OOBsOdj ." "Not st all. Y'ou mistake my meanIng, It wasn't a club of people who SWere to take wedding tours to n specified number in n snceificil lime It

wasn't a marrisge bureau eutcrprise at I

all. it wan the outgrowth of a little

private poker pai tv n party that vom alnum t a cl ub Itsslf, for it MTW u aimoHt continuous sea Ion for two gears. There were five, bachelors of us, and iianl.y, who was married and lived in u hovse, like a Christian. The five of us who had no wives had ull known flranhy and ana another for jrearai yes, anil u had known .Mrs. (iranhy ua a plrl, too. S. SrhSS tiranhy warmarried and came to live in Chicupowt made his house our Mecca and I wife our Kitroii podde.s is there u pixhl:, in Mecca 7" "Go on w th the story!" fiercely, frou: all. "Mrs. Qranhy wns the salt of th earth not like hot's wife, hut in a dif fi rent and bet t er way. Uave the house up to us. Let us play poker mi Idly and in a gentle way without a word of protest Oranby also had a servant fifl. Rx ease me from tnrsdng so abruptly how the lady of the house to the prl, hut 1 cannot help it. Mrs. (iranhy was tht finest wife and hostess In the world; Ids was 1 1 1 r lopremest errant irl ever generated. She wits silent in lier adn istrat ions to our poker-playinp thirst. She eaast Softly and left the most excellent co details at our elbows, and flitted away w ithout disturbance. She cooked up delicious lunches, sind she had better judgment in the matter of selecting Cigars than (iranhy himself. She was a gem. We ull loved Mrs. (.irai.by. We revered Ida. "One evening Mrs. (iranhy came In and froze our souls. 'I)id you know Ida is v'"iie,' to IV married next week?' she nsked. "We talked it over solemnly, irloonv

By. It was awful, No more neetariM COCk teilt, Xo more sublime lunches. No more pood cipars. No more deft, aoothlnir silence of service. At last Hardin spoke. 'Lo 1 here,' he snid, 'we're dreadfully selfish about this. Of course Ida has the right to mnrry the coachman, thouph it does seem rouph. Hut let's think of her. From what Mrs (iranhy Fays they're poinp ripht ititoa three-room flat. Right from the minister to their rooms. That won't do. The must have s wedding tour, Then are five of BO. Now, this is what we'll

do ' "When he explained his plan we all ehimed in favorably. We formed the l.la Hertwig Wedding Tour club ripht there with $100 in the treasury. Hardin, who was in the passenger department

of a railroad) pot passes for two to Salt ; hake. Copley fixed out the hotels alonj the way. l'ilcher, beinp au insuruues

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The Cause of Free Silver.

THB8ILVEB QUESTION

THE "BEST" MONEY.

i oiiftiM.it ii mm u

I.. im .r vi. . When the l uitcd States jjorernmcnt

hwued iLi.r first proposal for the removal of the CMcngo poet oflasj Ihey advertised for the 10Wtsi and best bid." It was soon discov, n 1 that the man who wa.s willinp to pay thepovern incut the least money for the material and the removal of the old post office Imfldlng was not the "be t" piddet for the povernment. Hence, a rudirnl chatipe was BWde : the n.-w proposal, and it then rend "the hiphest and he.-: Lid." l'erhaps our thoughtful president may k IttM day reaUne that money of the hiphest rxchanpeable value is not alwnys the "best" money, It depends sb together on the standpoint of the observer. To one, SOmparatively small, class f our people, the "best" money is that which 1-s assured tu bo continually haeiwaalng In r ifthn ngtsble value. To unot'aer class, Die "Lest" money is that which Is continually l1(K flawing in cxchangeable value, n.s the rhante t get tinp It more -heapIy is always Lefore. tJils ahMB, and it reduces the burden of paying all debts. To a third and very

!nro cl.'.ss, the "Lest" money is that which Changes lenat in exchanpeaiilc vnli.e from year to year, or from decade to decade, when jr.i'aüurcd by the averIgS, cost of hshor in procurinp the com modi ties prodoced which are expected to he exchanged for money. In other words, the "best" money is that which Is most Steady in exchnnpoable value; the most stable. This certainly is the kind of money nil Intel 11 pent and honorable men say that the BOmmercisI world demands. Hence, tlie word "best," when applied to money, should he defined or the word becomes deceptive chatter, and when deliberately used by the hiphest officer in our government, r.s it wns a short time apo hy our president i:i his speech nt New York, the statement should he received with caution. The exchangeable value of money never was nnd never can be perfectly Htahle. and all thnt is demanded hy those v ho prefer to vise the two metals, ffohl and silver, ns t he full lepal tender money of the country, is Unit it will be more stable than if either nc alone was used. An opinion doei not settle the question, it matters not how positive that opinion may be. We appeal to the common judpnicnt of the American people gvidsd hy espcrience. -Western Sural.

Till-; nUFBXMM IDA. man, wrote all Iuh correspondents ami local manapers alonp the Hurliiipt-on to be M deck at the depot to take charpe of Ida and her husband and show them the beat yet. It was my business to pet the theater tickets and put them in Mrs. (iranby's trust to give to Ida on their Wedding night. We provided everything ahead of time even to bsg pape checking. Stewart even fixed them with tickets for t lie Warm sprinps and the bathing places at Salt Lake. And neither Ida nor the utterly unknown husband knew nnythinpof the.se tilings until 1 lie nipht f the weddinp. They were married at Mrs. (iranby's house and were hurried away to the sleeping ear. where a staleroom had been engaged. I wnanl there, hut Mrs. Gran by reported the Mens as a wonder. "At the next sitting of the poker party the Ida Herl w ip Wedding Tour e! ub reported to tin- committee of the whole and w as adjourned sine die. "- ( hieapt Record.

Mlnry of Pan lei Uehnler. Daring one of their college vueations Daniel Webster and his brother returned to his father's in Salisbury. '1 braking he had a ripht to some return for the money he had expended ou their education, the father pave them scythes and requi st, d them to mow. Daniel made a few sweeps arid then stopped to Wipe his brow and rest. "What's the matter. Dan?" asked his father. "My scythe don't lump ripht, wir." His father fixed it and Dan WCBt to work again, but with no better success. Something was wrong with the Implement, and it was not lonplefore it needed Ii x i np again, and his father said, impatiently i "Well, hang it to suit yourself. M Daniel, with preat composure, lump it on a near tree and retired from the field.- Detroit Free Press.

Klml I rlen.li. It was not a success, Domino's ball. The men were ripht enough, and there were plentj of them ; but the dear glrlal Such painful types of beauty, and all so very mature. And there they nat, Waiting a rain for partners. Helensuf Troy, and Joans of Arc mid Rosamondi that were not a bit fair. All antique subjects, you wdll perceive; back numberi of fiction out of dstc. So the men kept near the buffet; and one aaid to another: "1 ditl not know that our hoat

was so devoted to horticulture." "Do

you refer," said the it her. "to the cabhit pen he presents us for cigars?" "No," smiled hnek the first; "I was thinking rather of the ardent passion for collecting w all flowers." And their glances wandered vacuely to the btiHroomv-

rick-Me-Un.

SUBSTITUTE FOR MONEY. .rreu bStkl Vernix llnnk Xo(. Who WsrtMi the Kntll, hnlii. He it remembered by all men everywhere, there is but one reason for usinp credit us a substitute for money it i. cheaper. Credit ns a tool of commerce costs less than one-fiftieth part as much ns pohl and silver. A Circulating credit based on the wealth, inteprity and authority of nil the people is as sound and honest ns the bonds of said people, for the basis Is the same. Such a credit currency we now have to the amount of .$:t4ü.0tJU,000. This legal tender national credit, that has done duty as money for the past SO years to the entire satisfaction of nine-tenths of the people, is now Letnp f :t upon nnd haw ked St by the honest (V) money credit sellers who wants to put his skin-pa me substitute in its place. There is money in it; yes, a dosen millions a year net profit in Interest alone fur the honest money patriots (?) who are suffering for the opportunity to take upon themselves the burden of maintaining this credit currency at a parity with gold. They would relieve the government of the dangst of the "t mil ess chain." WhO at any time Las ever "worked" the endless chain aJBBSpi these same brassy, nrrognnt phariseesnow making their phylacteries so broad? Like Unhorse leech's dsughter, these people sre not satisfied. They would have an absolute, complete monopoly of all forms of currency and substitutes for money, to the nole end that their profits be increased nt the esp nse of the people.

There is not a grain i f patriotism nor an atom of common honesty in the whole scheme ns outlined by Scer tary (inpe and indorsed Ly the president. J. ht Joseph,

CLEVELAND AND M KINLEY. Itolb Hold Without ItraervalluB ! the l'anli-1 rvutlnu l'lle. Whan cou".::-n4.in; 0a tYaaktant Ma Kinh y's recent spec h before the Manufacturers' association, the Louden Times, the organ of the Hank of hnglaml and the Bfnthanhlldl. declared that lie "had got down on the right aide of the fence," it left little more to say. There is no longer a possibility of mistaking his position. He has adopted without rcfcervution the policy which produced panto under ( leveland aud made the Cleveland administration an deearvedly odious that if the democratic party Lad not manaped to drive out its plut.K-rats it could imt have hoped to carry half a doen stat. t. The object of the combination which controls the treasury ander McKinley ns it did under Cleveland is unmistakable. They- hope to tnli-lmize the issue of nioticy of all kinds hy the povernment. They intend to prevent, to the gl ant est possible extent, the t in. illation of money of the mints even of pohl itself, und to this end they will strive to

perpetuate the policy of withdrawing

larpe amounts of gold from circulation and hoarding it in the treasury so as to force a larger resort to the use of their paper. They are almost as hoMile to the circulation of gold as they are to that of silver and greenbacks. They want gold not as a circulating medium, hut us a mere pretext for the use of paper issued by corporations to the exclusion of cash, that is of gold, silver and lepal tender notes issued by the people through The mints nnd the treasury. They wfsh to substitute for a coin currency of silver nnd gold, reinforced where deficient by treasury not.-s, a currency composed entirely of corjiorattoa pnper, with the gold of the country hoarded in the treasury vaults ut Washington, in the subtrees ury at (few York, and in the vaults of Wall street hanks, where it will be held, not for money to supply Lome demand but merely as a commodity to be dealt in for the purposes of foreign trade. I'retendinir ti advocate sound money, the plutocrats and. Han.iacrats who control President McKinley, reajly stand for the unsoundest of all monev In

flated corporation pajer representing no value whatever, and based on debt ! so that for every hundred dollars of bond 1 debt we will have an inflation i of $;) in notes or floating debt, n toial debt of $190 thus created against the resources of the community carrying, as

an Inev itable necessity of its existence, the constant threat of collapse and panic. When he commits himself fully to this programme, President McKinley is endorsed by the London Times not because Iiis policy Is likely to benefit the masses of the people in l'ngland, hut because It disregards the interests of the masses in America, England and everywhere else, in the interest of the great international money dealers who are the real government in Kugland tinder Lord Salisbury as they are under the lories and plutocrats, the Hannas and the Qagca at Washington, Mississippi Vr.lley Demivcrat.

Characteristic Letter of Ex-Governor Altgeld of Illinois.

Ilcfeuda Ilia MabillnaT on the lonlui Hon i. ...I Soumlla lleralri ..,lii Hum Hone l.endrrt-1 Ii Ovarcat M..u. .

A GOVERNMENT

To Ixoe

FUNCTION.

SILVER SPARKS.

What would (leorpe Washington anve thought of gold standard governhient In America by Hnnna nnd Rothschild? Mississippi Valley Democrat. It is not often that great accumulations of wealth do nnv body good. They usually spoil the happiness of two generations one in the petting, nnd one in the Spending. J. 0. Holland. Comptroller Traeevvell says that pohl hna no commercial value in f hina, and is not money in that country. What becomes of the stock argument thnt gold is money nil over the world, law or no law ? One of the hanaorous writers got beyond humor and into the domain of sacred logic when he said: "It shows Cod's opinion of wealth by the men He cives It to." Truly, it Is hard to serve II i m nnd mammon. Secretary Qsgs hns not pat been muzled. He continue to prate in pub

lic speeches about committing thctrive for '.heir righto In nny place, country more thioughly to the gold ! however humble, will add dignity and standard nnd retiring greenbacks snd strength to eten the greatest intellect.

Money iif I'.verr KJnd and

1 1 . e i p Ion. Hanker (luge and t he self constituted monetary commission thnt has recently thrust OpOOthe public a "report" should take a course at some pood school w here elementary jxditical science is taught. 1 They have hit upon n new proposition, and ridiculous und unfounded as it is, they have built their whole scheme of currency reform upon it. It has Leen stated thus: "The government lias no natural relation to credit eurrencv." To what then has the government any

natural relation? In other words what is the government fe.r? If it is not that a community of individuals can secure more of ihe benefits of life more easily than so many Individuals going their several ways alone, then it hns none. Hut if this is the case, then in our present rtatc of civilization the chief function of government is to facilitate commerce lietvvecn country and town, city

and city, and state and Biate, etc. Money, n circulating medium, is the basic principle of our extensive modern commerce, and ns long ns commerce is carried on ns it i now. money will he nbsolutely necessary. It seems to follow ns n necessary conclusion that the chief concern of any government OUT government should !ein timeof peace to put nnd keep t he money of commerce, credit money as well as coin or commodity BaOaey, SpBSj a basis best cnlclunted to further the interests of commerce. Corporations and hanks have now far too much control over the sources of wealth. It tho people through the people's government control and command the money which helongs to ths people. Cauae of the Plain People. The cause of the plain and BBBfOtOn Hons manhood of tnerica is the cause of nil that makes life worth living of lileerty, of morality, of higher intellect, of fraternity among men of nil nations. Silence, icliglon, education In all its forms work with those who are neither ishemod nor afraid to stand now for what .TefTerson stood for, when he de clnred that .lain men ought of right to rule the enrth. And they shall. To

all government issur-s of money. The principle of substituting an interest-bearing debt of more thnn f.'i.'H),000,000 for n noninterest-henring debt of the same amount would be condemned bysny businessman If applied to hti own affairs. X. Y. JournaL

No talent could be so high, no genius so lofty, hut thnt their service would elevate nnd ennoble it. They will command at every crisis the full powers of ths world's best minds. And that means everything. Mississippi Yslley Democrat.

K C.ov. John 1'. Altgtld hna written a letter to Judge Dunne, r. pit nr to the statement made by the president of tb Ir.Mi!..i club in his letter to the juriat, in which Mr. Kddv cited certain utterances of Mr. Altgehl. published in hh hook in favor of the gold 1nndsrd. The ex governor's letter is charricteriatic, and apeaks for itself. Here it is: "My attention has 1een caUed to s lettar Sllreased lo you by Jatr Eddl clalmlnr that I had favored payln the L'nlttd Btatea bonds In sold. He quotea from an srtlcle written many yeara aso relavtinit not to the money nutation, but to the itnsion question, and In which I urged that th. k 'V ' rnmiT.t should deal aa liberally with the nld aoldlrs aa It did with the bondholders, In this connect ej It pemi I ". I :t" !'.!'.vv!rjlar.uate: 'The BaOaSM

of the people are not averse to dealing Juitly and cvn liberally with the ex-"..'olD Otdtsrs. Th.y can alwava ! Mud Ujn to lUppert any honorable policy. When, after the sar, It waa urged by many that some of the bonda of the government should not le paid In gold because they did not call for It on their face and had not been paid for In gold, the maaaes sustained the government In paying the gold not only because It waa thought that In Some- way the honor of the government was Involved, but becauaea wise and far-

seeing public policy required that the government should deal liberally with Its creditors.' While I do not In this language express an opinion of my own. It Is true that I attempted to state. Incidentally and for Ihe purpose of illustration only, what the masses have done, and Mr. Kddy and h.ji cause are welcome to make all they can out of It. But when the date and purpose of the article, aa well aui the then existing conditions, are loosed st It will be aeen st once that it was slmplv a ease of car !'ss. Inaccurate, and, therefore, unwarranted use of the word 'gold,' Instead of the word coin. The article was In the 8s. snd did not discuss money, but pensions. Prior to that time many of our people had contended that the t'nlted Btat.-s bonds should he paid In paper money that the bondholders had bought the bonds In paper, that paper money was still legal tender, and. therefore, a lawful money, and that consequently H would be Just to give the bondholder the same kind of money he had given the government when he bought the bonds. On the other hand It was contended that the government should deal Übereil? with Its creditors, and that It ought to pay Its bonds In 'coin.' No declaration to pay the bonds SB ld had ever been Stlf lasted "Only a f . w years before congress hsd almost unanimously paed the famous Matthew resolution, which was voted for by Mr. McKinley and nearly all the prominent republicans and democrats in conpress. This resolution declared that the fnited States bonds were payable at the option of the government In our four standard dollars. This was the last formal declaration, so far aa I know, which our

government has made on the question, and. Instead of Ha being a declaration to pay la gold. It was a declaration to pay In sliver coin. Hut this declaration was scr ited by the bondholders sa a triumph over those people who felt that the londs should be paid In the same money which the bondholders gave for them. There Is not an Instance on record where a bondholder at that time complained of the Matthew resolution. The bondhobb-r had been treated UbarsJtr, and I Insisted that the soldier should be treated with equal liberality. The carelesa use of lanaruage Is always to be condemned, but when It Is vised, not In connection with the subject under consideration, but only In connect Ion with an attempted Illustration, it Is a very small prop for an opponent to bolster a bad case with. When the question came up for discussion whether the bondholder should be permitted to Increase the burdens of the American people by demanding paynseat In gold of bonds that were payable In sliver, I promptly expressed my Vices in language which nobody has mlstir. I rstood. I!ut we need rot tee surprise 1 at the tactics of the gold-standard people. Having both Justice ar.d equality, as Well as common honesty, apalrst them, they have been ol.lltrefl to proceed by stealth, by quibbie and by misrepresentation. The gold standard movement In this country ras never taken an hörest step nor drawn an honest breath. It deceived President flrant as a begl..r.!ng, and It has repeatedly flic ;v. 1 :! Am. rl.-an people- Hut s::p1" st I had deliberately declared for pno nt In gold, that could not Justify a Wrong. "What are the facts nhout these bonds The law authorising th-lr Issue, and even suhequ,-nt law that r-fer to them, expressly declares that they are payable at the option of the government In coin, thru Is, practically every bond haJ printed nn Its face the fan that It can be paid In uandard sliver dollars. The resolution of Senator Stanli y Matthews, roted for by Mr M.'Kinl.y and nearly all the fSSSSS Means In congress, simply declared what th.- law already stated. It waa a construction of the cor. tract between the geSrSSS m.-n and the bondholder. This contract la the same to-day a-s it was then The law has not been chanced nor has the

contract In any way l .-n changed. If th.y were paysble In silver dollars then, they are now. Suppose the landholders were Indebted to the government under similar circumstances would they give the government a dollar of gold Would ary s&r.e man call themselves dishonest If t hey did not? Kurther, aleout ITT' (sV0 of thse bond were Issued by the Cleveland administration solely to maintain the gold standard, and Mr. Cleveland told t '.tr- -s ir. his messse lhat he h.i 1 to sell them In the mark t for many dollar, less than they would otherwise have brought because of the fact that they ce.uld be paid In sliver dollar. Think f It! gold very cheap lcause they could be 11,1 in silver, yet we are aaked to turn aroSBd and pay the speculators In gold. Tie truth Is, thl poll y. If carried out. would not simply 1 dishonest, but would he a crime against the tollers of America whose sweat and blood must earn the money to pay these dehta. And It Is also true that the false pretense of the selfconstituted gusrdlsna of pun'.lc honor would he an insult to common Intelligence If they were not so extremely ridiculous. Who are the m.-n who are ready to resort to every means, fair or foul, to b-tray their ra e and eell their money to the money power? Aa a rule they are corporation men. not oi. In s hundred earns hie bread by ihn sweat of his brow or creates anything. As a rule they are the men who cat the fruit of other men's toll. Kvery g-eat corruptlonlst in this country la a gold standard man. 1 -bt can only lie paid by the product which toll creates To now make the bonds payable In gold would add that much more to the burden Which that metal Is already carrying, and would still further enhance Its value, reduce prices snd paralyse Industry- It Would require more sweat and more blood to earn a dollar than It doea now. Practically It would add many hundreds of millions to our burdens. Vet th. ae rn. n who are ao swift lo give the monled power something for nothing would scarcely pay a dollar of this burden. Ultimately it would nearly all fall on the men who toll With their hands. Their wages would be rduced and their lot made harder. "Lett us close by referring again to tht

soldiers. The article quoted from relaueO to penalona. We are now discussing contract a. Pensions are alven ,.n

of some disability Incurred In the service.

wm nuuiing v ao witn contracts. I'urlng the war the government contracted with the soldiers and a a reed to pay then, fron US to fit per month Nothing waa said shout the kind of money they ahould he paid In. and ths government paid them lr. the chraueat money t hey had. (Senera y It took i; to 12 of this money to get SI of the dearest money that Is of coin.' At the same time the overnment Issued Its promissory notes or bonds, and the rautloua monled meet, dealt with th govirr.rr.er.t at s pawnI r ker dealt m-t'.h a starving woman. They bought the bonds at that time fos

V and cent! on the dollar. Of courte, after I Ihe war Ihey brought higher prices. Now. . notwithstanding the fact that the governrnent expressly reserved the right to pay I the bonds st Its option In stiver dollars, and notwithstanding the fact that a large pom Ion of them had been sold cheap by ths .v. rr. merit because they could be so paid, i the goid standard people and the supporters of the McKinley administration have re- ' cntly declared In congress that the bonds shall be paid In the dearest kind of money . known. None will deny that the men h.;left their famillis. risked their live and bore the hardships of war. In order I to save our Institutions and make It potI slble for the government to pay any body a cent, deservs Infinitely more of their I country than the men who stayed at home I and made fortunea by shaving the govern ment't paper. Till- hWriK so, then If the 1st I ter ars to le paid in the dearett mor. . known, cerialrfy common justice requtret ! thai i S??aamei make good to ths

old toldler the I. ff.rer.ee b u cen the value of the cheap money It paid thern Saw the Uear money when It It now proposed to give the money power.

1 St, strange as It may seem, not a single man of the whole horde t.f lobbyists, corruptlontsts and corporation agents who art ; working for a sold standard, and assume to bt the guardians of national honor, has I even suggested that the men who fought i the country's battles and were paid la

c.'.eap money, should be given a cent toward making them whole. The solicit uds of these nun Is entirely for the money Under. The hypocrisy, sham patriotism, downright dishonesty and colossal impudence of this movement would be lnCtSdiMa if they were not dally flaunted In the face of decency. Kverythlng and veryb Iv thi : r:c:.. . an de baud ar.d coax, fright.n or coerce, is made up to do lervloa for a cause that is ruining our country. One cannot gase upon this spectacit without f.-e lir.g that if there is no heil of tire and brimstone In which to punIf li the men who, Ir. the name of the Lord, devour widow's houses and enslave the bUores of toll, then the time has corns whin It Is the duty of the Almighty to ere ate one. With assurance of high persona' regard, I am uurs very truly, "JOHN r. AI.TUKLU." PROFESSOR MOMMSEN. aPagSl ! I Use the Besnl Grnu.au elmlr. Many of the stories u Lout the extreme absent-mindedness of mine unnamed Qsrmaa graaaeaei had their etigtn in tules actually told perhaps with noi in neb care in verification of l'rof. Theodor Momiufccu, of bVrliu, a great (.itriiian historical acholar und lihccsj politician. Although the herr professor recently passed bis eightieth birthday, he is Hnid t l.e still in the height of his productiveness, active and energetic, a writer, a teacher and a causeur. He adopt the axiom of (ioet he, which is not popular with most old men: "When a man is old he in u.st do more thau when he is young." He is certainly no more abfrr.tnrlndad in his old age than he was when lie was younger. He has a family of ten living children and several grandchildren, and has always been fond of tin in ull mill not averse to InUng euro id the mi hut woe tsaag infant of whuu he might have charge if his mind heesune sei.ed hy scholarly preoccupations! It is related that when his first child was a baby it wns in hi h charge one duy In his study. ishing to make some iuiiiry from his library, he deposited the La I iv in the waste basket and forgot all about it; but presently the baby Iteg-an to cry loudly. At hit the sound disturbed even the aim nt minded student. whose thoughts were, and remained, an his study, (onaeioaa only of a loud noise, he seized n qunntity of .nose papers and carefully CSWSTsd the child with them to muftlt the sound! (In another occasion so the story gl M l'rof. llomBMfU ana going in a street car from Herlin to ( hnrlottonlurg. taking with him his little son. Ily and by the boy 1. run to vvrigtrle nbeat and make a grent denl ofnoi.se.

I'.y this time his father vvii meditating profoundly. The Imy's racket soon disturbed hin meditations. It seemed to the professor that it must lie an extremely ill-bred child that would tunke a disturbance in a public place: he UVaahl see if he aonhl not quiet him; Lnt first he would find out w ho hr was. "kittle boy." he said, sha-ply, "w hat i our name? Naturally the small bflf thought it trance to lie asked his name by his own father, but he resp. tided, politely: "The same as yours, sir." "The same as mine!" The profct.sor'8 attention wns now aroused hy this ap-pe-il to his ego. nnd the spell was Lroken. He took up his progeny, to the tremendous amusement of the people in the car. and cave him a good ahsking. Youth's Companion. Ill.rrret silence. An excellent piece of advice was that once given to Lcorge dray, a young Methodist preacher, who was a mere L..y when he Ircgnn his work. Within a few days of the time he was 15', v cars old his name wnsi on the records of IS annual conference as a traveling preacher the youngest candidate ever received in Ihe .Methodist l'piseopnl church. He wns sent to the I'.arrc circuit, in Vermont. As he mounted his horse to .et out for his appointed Held of labor- a jaunt of more than Sou miles his uncle, a Methodist of much shrewd neaa and humor, gave him a parting address which he never forgot, md lo which he often referred in later , .rs, "Never pretend that you know much, Lcorge," said he, looking up nt tne youthful rider from under his shaggy eyebrows; "for if you do ao nut snd, ths people will aren find out that you are sadly mistaken, but n. fther," he added, after a ment s pal Bra, "need you tell them how littio resS know, for this they will lad 0 I, s. ou enough." Youth's Companion.