Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 August 1895 — Page 3

4ht pi« County fjmmal ' JL MoO. 8T00FS, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - . . 1NDIANJL A BOY'S FISHING. ‘You may talk about your fancy rods and multiplying reels. -And of the higher pleasure an artistic angler feels: -Out for romantic memories and evcrlastlug Joy. Give me the fishing fun I had when once a country boy. .A long sind slender maple sprout grown In a thicket's shade. “Selec.ed with my critic's eye. a polo just perfect made. Ami to its top a ten-foot line was tied and wound about "With sinker, hojk and cork attached—nil ready for the trout .Armed with this home-made tackle, and the bin brown worms I found The night before by lantern-light upon the dewy ground. 'l*d start away through csover fields and dales and leafy luues, -As blithe and happy as the birt|s that sang their sweet refrains. “Boon in the wild and tangled woods, 'mid solitude supremo. > * I*d take the trail I knew so well and find the crystal stream A-tumbllng over mossy rocks, or gliding soft and still „ Tween fern-clad banks to distant pond beside the old sawmill ’Into each deep, dark, silent pool I’d gently . f drop my bait. .And always catch a noble trout, and after thht its mate. And then I d fish the rapids and tho spri ng holes till I had As many “speckled beauties*’ as a little boy could add. k -Sometimes I sought the quiet ponds, and whero the lilies grew i -I’d hook the biggest pickerel, and snapping turt'es, too. .And perch and bass and catfish, and great, long, fresh water eels. With all the keen enjoyment that a youthful angler feels. 4 How I would watch my bobbing cork with eager eyes until fit went clean under out of sight—and then with quickest skill Bring up and land a struggling prize and grab it tight before fit flopped itself a-down the bank and to the weedy shore. At dark, ns hungry^as a bear, back home 1 gayly hied 'To show my heavy string of fish with lots of boyish pride. .And meekly take a scolding for remaining out so late .And leaving all my chores undone—when the fishing was so great. Ah. yes: The modern angler of the fancy . tackle kind Would gladly give his fortune for the fun 1 used to find— And so would I for just a week of boyhood one; again “To use my ow n made maple rod I cut in Fairy Glen —H C. Dodge, in Goodalt s Sun.

DILEMMA OF DOROTHY. Jl Brother’s Love, or the Love of a Woman. It was the saddest summer that I ever spent abroad. I do not thibk 1 •'Shall ever forget the pathos—the tragedy of it. After a two weeks’ tramping tour f through the southwest of England—I •do not believe that such of you fellows -as hare never taken such a tramp, in “the summer, will ever know what heaven means—I found myself again in London, somewhat freckled and tanned, and my senses full of the perfume of mignonette and wild rose hedges. I did not intend to stay long —only long enough to glance at accumulations of mail, and send a few cablegrams, and then to be off again to the streams and the meadows and the quaint old roadside inns, with their •apple-checked barmaids and excellent provender. But where to go? That «* was the question. Ah! here was a letter on the very top of the little heap that my landlady had piled on my mantelpiece, and -that decided me at once. It was from Archie Trevor, as bright and handsome ?a boy as ever toed football leather, and who had distinguished himself scholastically as well as athletically at Harvard. “I won’t take any refusal,” he wrote; “you simply have to come, old •chap. This is the loveliest spot in the world, and, bosides, I’m engaged, and I want you to see the loveliest creature that ever drew breath- I’ll, expect you any time within ten days;. If .you don’t show up iu that time, I’ll •come after you.” As the friend of Archie's father, though many years his junior, Ij had been thrown much into contact with the boy, and since the old gentleman’s -death we had been warm friends. Archie in love, eh? Well, I felt sure it would be a serious matter with him. He was earnest and intense by nature, ! iand had never played the butterfly with the women of .his acquaintance. Archie's letter was, I perceived, a -week old, tbut in lust three days I ifound myself in the quaint little Welsh •seaport town with the wholly unpronounceable name from which he had written. I climbed the hill and in•quired my way to Rose cottage, and when I came to it and to Mr. Archie it was all I could do to prevent myself -.from bellowing with delight at the inrflnite beauty of the scene. The long, white walls of the cottage were massed with roses from top to boflom. Roses clustered over the -^hatched roof; roses nodded their beads from the mullioned windows and brushed your coat sleeve as you walked \ ijklong the narrow path. At the back of the cottage was a comfortable lawn , sand more roses—ever roses—countless roses. And, stretching away :in the -distance, like a great sheet of burnished sapphire, shimmering in the .sunshine, was the sea. Archie leaped from a hammock and ^grabbed me by the hands. “How glad I am to see you, dear old Jack!” he ex--daimed, his delicate cheeks flushing with, pleasure. I returned his greeting in kind, and then for the first time became conscious of the girl standing •ahyly by us. flhebad risen from a low chair on

th<5 farther side of the hammoek and had a book in her hand, from whioh she had evidently been reading to my constitutionally lazy young friend. -I went through the form of a presentation to her in a sort of a trance. Her beauty simply stunned me. She was very tall, quite two inches taller than Archie, with one of those almost faultless figures that, in girlhood at least, one. finds in England and nowhere else. She had light-brown hair, on which the sun scattered little gold flecks, and her eyes were of the deepest, tenderest blue,' and big and earnest and wistful. Lastly, she was dressed all in white— the ouly hue for a sweet girl’s dress in summer—and it is scarcely necessary to sav that I surrendered to Master Archie’s fiancee at discretion, mentally voting him the luckiest young dog under heaven, up matter who she might be. That night, as we sat smoking our farewell pipes, and with that glorious odor of roses stealing in through the open windows, Archie told me his story.. It was romantic enough. He had been riding past three weeks ago on his bicycle, and had had a had fall at the very moment he had been slackening speed in order to admire the beauty of the garden of roses. Dorothy, for that was her name, had seen his ungraceful performance and his ineffectual effort to rise. At her commands an ancient gardener had ! wheeled him into the house, in ridiculous fashion enough, and the village doctor had attended to his dislocated knee. Dorothy’s aunt, Mrs. Brett, a sweet old lady with silver hair and gold-rimmed spectacles, had, in the course of the next three weeks, fallen almost as deeply in love with the handsome young sufferer as had her niece. Yes, indeed, I congratulated Archie over and over again. The Lord knew he had no need of money with his wife, and for goodness—well, one glance into those sweet, honest blue eyes was enpugh to tell me of the beauties of this girl’s character. Dorothy and I became firm friends at once. Perhaps it was because I knew myself to be too old and worldly wise to get into any sort of danger that led me to associate with this pair; of lovers so freely. The three 9f us took long rambles together through the meadows and down by the restless; and ever-changing sea. It did me good on such occasions to note Archie’s al? most childish delight in his fiancee and liis happiness, After all, he was nothing but a boy, despite his twenty-seven

years. He laughed the whole day "long and made love to Dorothy as one makes love tcf a beautiful spoiled child. And; she? Why, she accepted it all in ^ silent, satisfied sort pf way. She accepted the boy's kisses soberly, without any show of emotion and as a matter of course. I sometimes thought I wbuld give a thousand dollars to see her tremble or blush. It was easy to see that this was her first love. She was so matter of fact about it all, and it was so easy to see there was not a vestige of passion in it for her. 1 could see, too, that she was proud of her handsome boy lover in a certain way. As she sat on the sand, looking so very lovely in her white dress, with that far away look in the dewy blue eyes, she would stroke with her slim fingers the blonde head that lay so luxuriously on her lap and smile shyly up at me for congratulation and approval. And then came the first chapter in the tragedy. The three of us had been for a lone ramble along the beach and Archie had his pockets filled with the shells and other treasures gained by his sweetheart. We were on our way back, «ior rain had begun to fall heavily and a few rumblings of thunder warned us of the typical Welsh storm that was in store for us. We : were making a short cut up a winding path through the cliffs when the storm broke in all its fury. I don’t think I have ever seen such lightning or heard such thunder, not j even in the tropics. I was leading the j way. and between the awful peals 11 could hear Archie encouraging the beautiful girl he was half carrying, half dragging along, f :>r she was terrified almost out of her wits. There suddenly came a peal loud enough to wake the dead, and as it died away I uttered a yell of warning and sprang aside. A huge piece of rock, fully four feet high, loosened by the shock, was sliding down the path. As it passed me I glanced back and turned pale with horror, for the pair were just at a point where they could not hope to escape it. They could not turn to the right or to the left, and immediately behind them was another rock, immovably fixed, and against which the down-coming fragment would grind them, as it seemed, to pieces. It all happened in an instant, I was powerless to help. At the instant, apparently, that rock was sliding upon them, I saw Archie suddenly seize Dorothy in his arms, below the waist, and lift her up. Higher and higher he raised her, till she rested on his shoulder. Then there was a horrible crunching sound that I shall never forget, and 1 saw the boy’s face turn ashen, but he was still pushing the half-faint-ing girl up and up out of danger. He also called on me to help him, and I did. so, /weeping like a woman at the awful thing that I saw had happened. It took strong men with crowbars to release my friend. By good fortune the rock that had fallen was conically shaped, the smaller end uppermost, else he would inevitably have been crushed to atoms. As it was both his l£gs were shattered from the knees down. No sufferer was ever nursed as Archie was. Dorothy, whose grief was pitiable, would never have left his side, if I had not forced her to do so. Her aunt was equally devoted, while I, of course, hid what 1 could. For a mouth he scaroely spoke. Then he Wtiispered to me one evening: “I suppose it’s all up with me, Jack?" "‘Nonsense, my boy,” I answered huskily, “you’re trood for fifty years, j ! yet** ' I

“I know,” he murmured wistfully, "hut a cripple for life, eh Jack?’ 1 could not speak, and left the room. Mad not the great London surgeon told me on bis last flying visit that there were but two alternatives—amputa* tion of both limbs, or death? The decision, moreover, must be made within a week. I had, of course, written to the Trevor family of the accident, and then, one divinely beautiful August night, Lieut Guy Trevor, Archer's elder brother, came to Rose cottage to see him. His ship, the XewYork, was at Portsmouth. and the moment he heard of the boy’s mishap he hurried to him. And the great big sailor—he was over six feet, and looked like some giant of the orient ''ith his. splendid proportions and tanned features—knelt by his young brother’s bed and spoke to him with sobs in his deep baas voiee. Through the window 1 sav. the meet- ! ing between the sailor and Dorothy, and 1 have often wondered since then why I did not scent the trouble at the time. Both stood for an instant perfectly 1 still, transfixed by each other’s wonderful physical beauty. Then Guy introduced himself and the two walked slowly away, talking in whispers of j the calamity that had befallen the boy both loved so dearly. Twice during that week I saw the tears stealing down the cheeks of the cripple as he lay there, so still, on his narrow white bed. Once he spoke to me of Dorothy. “You must tell her, old man,” he whispered, “that 1 release her unconditionally.” “She will not hear of it,” 1 answered. And then the day arrived for the return of the London surgeon. He brought two assistants with him. Guy, Dorothy and I were present at their interview with the lad. “£.et me understand,” said Archie, in weqk tones, but bravely; “if I do not choose to submit to this—this operation, it is certain death, is it?” -The great man bowed his liead. “What shall I <do, Dorothy?1^. The tones were very tremulous now. “Oh, Archie!” she sobbed, sinking on her knees by the bed, “submit to it for my sake. It will make no difference. . I will care for you as long as I live.” I happened to glance at the giant, Guy, and saw that his bronzed face ' had turned almost ivhite. “Well,” sighed the patient, softly stroking the bright head of the kneeling girl, “it shall be as you say. Shall we begin, doctor?” “Not to-night, my boy.” Answered the surgeon, rather huskily—the man evidently possessed some feeling— “you will need all your strength. To- s morrow morning, early”— |

He did not finish the sentence, and j all but I withdrew, Dorothy weeping silently. I sat and watched my young friend sink into a restless sleep. I must have dozed myself, for I presently found the modb shining softly through the open window, and with the silvery beams that lighted up the wan face on the pillow in a ghastly | way, came the eternal scent of roses. j As I leaned forward to make sure ! my patient was asleep, I heard voices ' from the veranda, just beyond, the win- ! dow of the room, which was on the j ground floor of the cottage. Presently ; I heard Guy speaking. There was no : mistaking his deep bass tones. ‘T do not think, dear,” he was saying, “that it is so Very vile in me. No j man could help loving you, and God 1 knows I would not seek to betray that > poor boy in there by so much as a thought. Nor would 1 wish you to do j so. To-morrow I will go away, for I cannot hear it But before I go you must tell me there is no harm in that, j I think—you love me, do you not?” I could not hear the response; only a low, passionate sobbing. That placid r nature was aroused at last “I knew it, dear,” went on the deep voioe. “I knew it that first night that j you looked into my eyes. And it is be- j cause I know that you love me that I ! should wish you to be as you are— strong and faithful and true. I love , my brother and—I am an honest man. But when I go I shall leave all my life here with you. Dorothj*, dear, good night and—good-by.” I Silence. 1 could feel the magnetism of the inevitable kiss, just as if I had ; seen it. I heard a faint rustle of • draperies and the tread of vanishing feet. Then I looked at Archie and my heart stood still. His eyes were ; closed, but tears J were trickling through the long lashes and the sensitive mouth quivered. He had heard every word, I had no doubt, and was now trying to feign sleep, obviously for my benefit. There was a choking in my heart as I rose and left the room. I could not bear it. I looked in once or twice during the night to find the same thing—tear-stained cheeks and a sham sleep. When we entered the room in the morning he smiled cheerily and extended his hand to the surgeon. “Doctor,” he said briskly, “I’ve changed my mind. You shan’t saw my shins off. I’ll take chances. I've that right, haven’t 1?” “Certainly, Mr. Trevor,” answered the man gravely, “but I warn you that it will be fatal.” Nothing that we could say could shake his determination. His brother Guy, whose great figure seemed to fill the room, joined his pleadings to Dorothy’s, but to no avail. When the doctor and his men had gone, he breathed a sigh of relief and went fast asleep with his hand in Dorothy’s. He died very suddenly ten days afterward. There was a glorious sunset of crimson and gold, and still that eternal scent of the roses. He rose suddenly on his pillow and looked out over the sea and then sank gently back. Dorothy was by his side in an instant, but he only touched her cheek lightly with his lips and then beckoned to his brother. “Guy—dear old Guy,” he murmured, pulling the great shaggy head down upon his emaciated breast—“kiss me, old chap. And take care of her.” That was the end. And neither of them ever knew.— Albany Journal. *

AN APPEAL FOR SILVER, non. Richard P. Bl and's Reply to Secretary Carlisle. •y nopal a of Addrcn Dellwrad Reforw tka Editor* of the Fro* Coinage Demo- , erotic Free* of Missouri at Their dedallo Meeting, o Srdai.ia, Ma, Joly 2S. —Ifon. Richard P. Bland addressed the assembled democratic editors, and an audience that nearly filled the auditorium at; Association park this afternoon. The ; speaker was introduced by Mayor" Ha&taiu and spoke in substance as/ollows: I congratulate tlie gentlemen of the free j Co in ape press who have assembled here to-day j as democrats to organize for the coming battle ■ for the restoration of the money of the const!- ! tution and the democrat ic standard of values ■ maintained for over eighty years in our hia- : tory. When we see men who were with us but ! a short time ago now hesitating, some falling by the wayside, and others who are regarded j as our great leaders In this cause deserting j and taking a stand with the enemv. it is time I that our forces Ne well organized and that we ! renew our determination to continue the flght until victory is won. The press is a great • power in the land, and the masses of the peo- ; pie. who are suffering from the effects of the single gold standard, will appreciate the ef- i forts of you gentlemen who propose to devote { your time and labor to this great cause. The single gold standard advocates in our party insist that this question should not be j agitated. We are not responsible for its agitation: we did not begin the war upon silver; we are not to be held accountable for the revolution effected in 1873. by which gold was made the solo standard and given the sole right of free ooinage at our mints. We insist that it was a wrong and an injus tice perpetrated upon this people, and we insist that this wrong and Injustice should be righted. We are not re- j sponsible for the repeal of every law enacted nince 1873 looking to the restoration of silver. We are not responsible l'or Inflicting upon the people of this country the disaster and ruin that have overtaken them and from which it will be impossible for them to fully recover under the single gold standard. We can not accept the proposition that the restoration of silver must be postponed to a later day or relegated to the domain of an international agreement; hence it is we propose continuing the ! fight in the interest of the people, believing ! that any other course would bo a base sur- | render of democratic principles and democratic | precedent,. There can be no greater question affecting the welfare of the people than the question of currency. The foundation of the democratic party was laid by Jeffersowtjti his great contest with Hamilton duringMrVashington’s first administration, Jefferson then being secretary j of state and Hamilton s ecretary of Xhe treas- | ury. This contest was the first under our gov- j eminent and occurred at the very threshhold of our existence as a people under our, constitution. Up to this hour, there were no I political parties in this country. Hatnil- I ton was the originator of the currency j system provided by national banks, it was ! against the organization of national banks I that Jefferson protested, and in his controver- j sy over the subject insisted upon those limita- [ tions of the power of the federal government | so essential to the independence and welfare | of the states, which principles became the cardinal doctrine of the democratic party. { Jackson, another great democratic leader, I following the footsteps of Jefferson, made his great fight and contest on the currency question in his opposition to national banks. Indeed, it may be said that the democratic party had its oirth as a party in the controversy growing out of the question of money, and the greut battles foueht under Jefferson and Jackson for true democracy have ever been re- j ferred to by democrats with pride, and as an | evidence of that party being the party of the people, opposed to centralization of wealth. !

xoes ox monopoly, tne enemies or Breed ana the true friends of the masses of the people. In the face of this history and record of the democratic party, we are asked to abandon the principles of Jefferson and Jackson and become the advocates of a system of currency supplied by national banks, instead of that system contemplated by the constitution and advocated by Jefferson and Jackson, and which for eighty years was upheld by the democratic party; that is to say, the right of the people to have the mints of the government open to the free coinage of both gold and silver. If we are to turn over to national banks and monopolies the sole power to control the volume of our currency, as the single gold standard advocates j demand, there is but little left in democracy J worth fighting for. The power to control the volume of the money of the country will necessarily result in the enslavement of the people, the breaking down of the power of the states, r The republican party, which is the party of Hamilton and the advocates of the doctrine of Hamilton, displaces the old democratic laws upon the money question; they demoentized silver and made gold the sole unit of value; and in the interest of national banks, put a prohibitory tax on state bank issues and provided by the resumption law for the destruction of the greenbacks: they converted all our public ob igations into coin obligations, destroyed one-half of the coin in which they were made payable, then left the people with no supply of money except that contemplated by national bank issdls and the coinage of gold. If we are to adopt these theories we ought to sup- j port the party that put them into practice; we ought to bow to John Sherman as a great teacher and benefactor. I shall refer to some of the arguments of Mr. Carlisle in his speeches. In the first place, he plants himself squarely on the proposition that bimetallism is impracticable and impossible; that for eighty years in our history we were an Impracticable people, and the detaoeratic party was an impracticable par:y: that we at-, tempted the impossible; that we had laws upon the statue books that were evidences of incompetency; that Jefferson’s idea of money was a fallacy; that ve maintained in our laws a heresy,” which heresy was never discovered until the astuteness of John Sherman found it out; a heresy that Mr. Carlisle himself never discovered until the exigency of the present situation, for some reason be st known to himself, has induced him to become a follower of John Sherman instead of an advocate of the principles and practices of democracy. The British royal commission of 1888 appointed to inquire into the recent changes and the relative values of the precious metals was composed of twelve members, appointed for their supposed ability as experts on the question; one-half of them were gold-standard advocates, the other half blmeUJlists^ The whole , twelve of them,however, agreed upon the prop- ' osition that where a country or countries bad sufficient commercial power and wealth to establish a ratio between gold and silver, as money, the effect would be to maintain the relative values of the two metals at a practical parity, not only in the country or countries so adopting the system, but throughout the world. This was admitted in relation to the Latin union, or, I might say, the single nation of France, because, as we all know. France had maintained this system long prior to entering into this union. In support of the bimetallic theory, I quote from this commission report, paragraphs 192-193. part 1: “Undoubtedly the date which forms the dividing line between an epoch of approximate fixity in the relative value of gold and silver and one of marked stability is the year when the bimetaliio system which had previously been in force in the Latin union ceased to be in full operation; and we are Irresistibly led to the conclusion that the operation of that system, established as it was in countries, the population and commerce of which were considerable, exerted a material influence u pon the relative value of the two metals. S< long as that system was in force we think that, notwithstanding the changes in the proc uction and use of the precious metal!;, it kept the market price of silver approximately steidy at the ratio fixed by law between them, namely, 15tf to 1, * * * The fact that the owner of silver could, in the last tesort. take it to those mints and have it converted Into coin, which would purchase km unodities at the

ration of IS*J of silver to 1 of gold would. In our opinion, be likely to affect the price of silver in the market generally, whoever the purchaser and for whatever country it was destined. It would enable the seller to stand out for a price approximating to tbe legal ratio, and would tend to keep the market steady at about that point.” Before the formation of the Latin union, because of her vast wealth and commercial power. France, by offering tbe whole of its I wealth for gold or for ailver at the ratio of 154 j ounces of silver for one of gold, was enabled i to effect tbe exchangee of the wealth of the world in gold and silver at this ratio, and practically stood is the clearinghouse for the world. No one will deny that the forty-tour American states and their territories constitute a country of greater wealth ani productive power or commercial importance than France and all -her allies in the Latin union. Indeed, it is greater than France with England and Germany thrown in. On this point I refer to an English authority. Mr. ht’ilhall in the North j American Review of June;. 3805. pages 64.'-m3, j after tabulating tbe productive power of the United States. Great Britain. Germany, | France. Austria. Italy and Spain, says: "Here we see that tbe United States possesses . Almost as much energy as Great Britain. Ger- j many and France collectively, and that the ratio falling to each American Is more than what two Frenchmen or German have at their disposal." England possesses scarcely more than half of the wealth we possess. Her productive power is nothing compared to ours, and yet it is insisted that this great nation must wait the restoration of silver until England takes the lead. The great benefit that we contend for bimetallism is that when the mints are open to the coinage of both metals the people hare the right to choose between the two: and should one or the other, for any cause, become the most abundant or cheaper metal, they have the rlghtto use the oheaper metal. This right will make a demand for what, at tbe time being, mav be called the most abundant or cheaper metal. This demand Itself will have the effect of maintaining its value and supporting its parity. Will Mr. Carlisle or Mr. Sherman, or any of the single-gold advocates at this time. Dlease explain to us why tbe laws permitting the free coinage of silver in 1873 were repealed? They contend the law was repealed because they were not coining silver. That is not a fact. Silver was coming to our mints to be coined into standard silver dollars up to the very day of its demonetization in. 1873. In 1870 we coined 588.308 of full legal-tender silver dollags; in 1871 we coined 837,929 standard silver dollars; in 1872 we coined 1.112.981 standard silver dollars: in the months of January'and February, 1873. we coined 977.150 standard silver dollars. Our silver was demonetized on the 12th day of February. 1873, and during that j month, and at the time it was demonetized, it was shown that we were coining standard silver dollars. Certainly, if the law itself authorizing the free coinage of silver was not operative it was harmless. If. on the contrary, it was operative, and silver, as s^own by the record, was coming to our mints for coinage, the purpose of the repeal of the law could only have been to restrict our money supoly to the single gold standard. Mr. Carlisle in his speeches has laid down the broad proposition that the free coinage of silver would give us a dollar worth only fifty cents, and in the very same breath insists that the restoration of silver would cause a contraction of currency and fall in prices. If there should bo a fall in prices it would buy more than it now buys. If he would explain how a fifty-cent dollar can buy more than a 100-cent dollar he will make himself better understood. The idea of cheap money and falling prices are antagonistic. The two can not coexist. Mr. Carlisle argues that the effect of free coinage would cause the export of our gold to foreign countries. Taking this argument as true, it could not happen until there had been a sufficient supply of other money to take the place of the gold so ex ported,■‘‘for .the simple reason that gold would be worth more here than abroad. But what would be the effect of sending our gold abroad? It would go into the gold standard countries. England,' Germany and France: it would swell the volume of money in these countries to the amount of gold exported. The wheat growers, the cotton growers. the producers of food and texties. export their surplus to these countries, and if six hundred millions of gold was added to the volume of money of these countries it would proportionately raise prices in those countries, and especially the prices of those things we export ana sell to them for gold. In that event the farmer, the manufacturer and those wi"i» produce articles for export, would get possibly 25 or 30 per cent, more gold for their commodies than they receive now. and this would necessarily raise prices at home.

Another of his arguments is that we have not demonetized silver: that we have more silver in circulation as money now than we have ever had before: that we had coined but a small quantity of silver standard dollars prior to 1873. There is no one who knows better than Mr. Carlisle himself that when we give free coinage to silver bullion at the mints the bullion itself is money, because the holder of it at any time has the right to convert it into money at the mint. In other words, the metal in a dollar and the same amount of bullion uncoined would be of the same value, in all probability, had we continued the free coinage of silver, we would never have coined one-fourth the amount of silver that has been purchased and coined on government account under the gold standard. for the bullion itself would have gone into commerce. Had Mr. Carlisle treated silver as money on an equality with,gold, redeemed treasury notes and greenbacks in silver as well as gold, as he had the lawful right to do, he would never have been at the mercy of the Rothschilds of England and the Belmonts and Morgans of this country in the sale of bonds. Indeed, there would have been no necessity for bond sales for the purpose of procuring coins for redemption purposes. If the amount of redemption money is limited and contracted to gold only, credit must be limited and contracted correspondingly. Contracting the volume of money means an effort on the part of the people to extend credit to lake its place—to go into debt — which finally proves disastrous to them. Mr. Carlisle insists that the restoration of silver would have the effect of alarming the people; that depositors would immediately make runs upon the banks; that creditors would immediately demand payment, and debtors would be crushed. This same prediction was made in 1878, when the stiver bill was passed. The predictions, however, were not fullBUed. but just the contrary. There was a perceptible revival of business in the country following the restoration of silver coinage. If it was claimed that six months hence the mints of the government would be open to the free aud unlimited coinage of silver.everybody would understand that prices for property would increase in value. Indeed, this is practically admitted by Mr. Carlisle as being the result, but he insists that it would not be the immediate result. If it would be the final result, it would necessarily be the immediate result, for the simple reason that the people understand, as Mr. Carlisle does, that it would be the final result, and they would seek to take advantage of it. Possibly the strongest argument Mr. Carlisle makes, and the one that will be listened to with more attention by some people than any other, is that the gold standard, having been established, there would be business disturbances by a change. The same argument was made by the tariff barons against any changes or reduction of the tariff. People who are well-to-do under present conditions naturally have some fear and dread of a change. How long the great masses of the people will #ait before making the change is a question. The sooner the people are organized upon this question and make a determined effort to rid themselves of this incubus of the single gold standard the more certainly will tjhey achieve a victory. Mr. Carlisle satisfies the farmer by telling him that though his products may have gone down, prices have fallen, that he can buy as much of the articles he consumes with his wheat or his cotton now as he could in 1873. In other words, that prices have gone down uniformly, that what the manufacturer has to sell will buy as much farm products as it did before, and vice versa, and that nobody suffers. He does not state that the mortgage calls for the dollar; that tho five hundred million taxes the American people to-day pay intc the fed

eral treasury calls for dollar* and not for wuea* and ootton: that the immense amount of tuw paid Into the state «nsasoriw. tbe various dtp and county treasuries, call for dollars. If these taxes call for so many Hostels of wheat or pounds of cotton, the question of money would not be involved. After the farmer and the manufacturer hae supplied his wants by exchanging his commodities for the commodities of others he must have a surplus to soil, and it is that surplus for sale that we must consider. Unless the farmer has a surplus to sell he has do means at meeting his doctor bill or his lawyer fee; he has no means of paying his state, city, county and federal taxes, and if he has a mortgage oa his farm he has no means to pay it off: therefore. it becomes a vital question to the farmer and producer os to what the value of his surplus may be. If H takes a greater amount of that surplus to pay hi* taxes, or liquidate hi# debt or mortgage, under the single gold standard. than it would under the double standard, then he at once sees wherein the one cppresaea him and tbe other is a relief. The restoration of silver at 10 to 1 would mate this country* the clearinghouse of the world. Silver-using countries would come to know that they could buy as much for their silver as gold-using countries could buy with their gold. Tbl* would attract to us the trade of the silvecusing world, for nearly all countries south at ns on this continent are silver-using people, while the Asiatics are also stiver-using people. To them we must look also for trade and commerce. It would make this country the greatest commercial nation in the world, and. possibly, New York the clearinghouse for the exchanges of the world, instead of London. Mr. Carlisle cites the Aldrige report in proof that wages have risen and commodities have fallen; that, therefore, the wage-earner haa been benefited both ways. In another place he makes the point that commodities, as relates to food products, have fallen very little. The Aldrige report was made by Mr. Aldrige. a high protectionist, as chairman of a protective tariff committee, gotten up tor the purpose of proving that under tbe system of protection wages had risen, manufactured products had fallen, and that farm products had maintained their value. I have no confidence in the Aldrige report. Distinguished writers upon the subject, and especially bimetallist*, insist that wages have fallen on the average, for under the single gold standard we have had constant strikes and lock-outs, nearly one-third of thelaboring people being constantly out of employment The single gold standard is a breeder of panics, of low prices, of hard times and of bankruptcy. It is transferring the earnings of the, people into the pockets of holders of gold; it is robbing the masses for the benefit of tho * classes; it is building up an aristocracy in every county adopting it; it is fast building upa class of* millionaires and multi-millionaires iu this country. 5 Unless there is a change tho day will come when this country will be dominated by an aristocratic class, greater in their greed and more unmerciful than tho class that dominate Europe. .* v , But 1 can not make a stronger argument m favor of the free coinage of silver than was made by Mr. Carlisle himself in tho only speech on the subject that he made in congress. an extract from which I quote as follows; , "I know that the world's stock of precious metals is none too large and I see no reason to apprehend that it will ever become so. Mankind will be fortunate, indeed, if the annual production of bpth gold and silver coin shall keep pace wi$h industry. According to my view of the subject.the conspiracy which seems to have been formed here and in Europe to destroy, by legislation or otherwise, from threesevenths to one-half of the metallic money of *3 the world, is the most gigantic crime of this age or any other age. The consummation of such a scheme would ultimately entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars, pestilences and famines that ever occurred in the history of the world. The absolute and instantaneous destruction of half the, entire movable property of the world, including houses, ships, railroads, and all other appliances for carrying on eommerce.while it would be felt more sensibly at the moment, would not produce anything like the prolonged distress and disorganization of society that must inevitably ^ksult from the permanent annihilation of one^half of the metallic money of the world." '

Mr. Carlisle predicted many serious results to this couutry that would follow the free coinage of silver; but nowhere has he predicted such dire calamities in consequence of tho free coinage of silver as the foregoing extract predicted, as the result of the single gold standard Language could not possibly convey in a more damaging and damning result of a monetary system based upon the single gold standard.am| the destruction of silver as money than Mr. Carlisle made in this speech referred to. In the two speeches he has left us the dire alternative of choosing absolute destruction, as the result of silver demonetization, or great financial panics if silver is restored. Mr. Carlisle seems disposed to this utter destruction and follow the single gold standard. He is a statesman that has left us between* the devil and the deep sea. Such statesmanship can not commend itself with intelligent people. Such inconsistencies will certainly destroy his influence as a financier. We indorse all he said against the single gold standard, but, unlike himself, w« have not changed upon that subject. We still' believe that silver restoration is absolutely necessary to the prosperity of this people; and will follow Carlisle and his record as a member of eoegress. and not Carlisle and his record as secretary of the treasury. The one was democratic, just and right: the other belongs to the Hamiltonian doctrine — undemocratic, aristocratic and unjust. Women In Sleeping Cara. The comedy of life on the cars is chiefly apropos of the sleeping arrangements. The numbers of the berths are only hung on the curtains, and some^ times get pushed along to the wrong berth: therefore* ho lady enters her berth without extreme circumspection lest she should encounter revelations of pyjamas. If she has to enter an upper berth, the porter brings a ladder and holds her skirts around her ankles while she mounts, having previously divested herself of her boots,1 if they require cleaning, and deposited them under the lower berth,.very often beside a strange man’s. Sleeping cars test the stuff a woman is made of, perhaps I should say. made up of. She can not undress until she gets into her bunk, which, for getting out of her corsets and skirt, is about as convenient as her coffin, being hardly higher than the space between the shelves of a cupboard. Under the circumstances it is hardly surprising that the ladies who come on board looking the daintiest go off looking the worst; the only ones who have a chance of keeping up to the mark are the girls who come on in shirts and tweed skirts and sailor hats.—From Douglas Slade n’s “On and Off.” —General Manager McNamara of the Albany railway, running street cars in. Albany, N. Y., has notified the mayor of that eity that according to his understanding of the constitution, confirmed by the advice of the company’s counsel, the railroad company will be; liable to punishment foi* misdemeanor if it carries policemen and firemen.'-"^ free. t _ —At 35 cents a cylinder, Silas Leachman, of Chicago, has filled 250,000 phonograph cylinders- with comic amt other sOngs. It is said that he makes about $50 a day, and that in the west * he is the only man that has been found with a voice of the right quality for the work.