People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It wait Astoniuhfng Information. When Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson devised the system of American coinage they T adopted the metallic plan for the express and direct purpose of securing to the American people, as a protection against all fluctuations in the relative value of gold and silver, the option to pay debts in coin of either metal. We continued the system in this country until 1876; the people were astounded with the information that in 18c3-4 we had abolished the coinage of the silver dollar, and declared it no longer a legal tender.—Chicago Tribune, January 25, 1878.

Dollar Defined. ♦ A dollar’s worth of silver is 412| grains standard (with al- ■ loy), or 371| of pure silver, j This standard weight was adoptjed by Congress in 1792, and has I never been changed; 371| grains lof pure silver constitutes exact- | ly a dollar’s worth of silver.— iChicago Tribune, January 17, |IB7B. I The Tribune and Workingmen. A laboring man would infinite- | ly prefer to be set at work earnj ing silver dollars than to starve j waiting for employment on a •gold basis. —Chicago Tribune, January 9. 1878. THE WINDSOR, B. F. Furguson sells the Windsor bicycle, a strictly high grade wheel, for less money than aby .one on the market. Call and ! get prices before purchasing ' elsewhere. I Grain will soon, be ripe. Get a McCormick machine from C. I A. Roberts, and cut it to satisfaction.

FEMALE PILLS. S - Per box, or trial box ft. fiSJ t or sale in Ken-selaer by Frank B Meyer.