Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 October 1896 — Page 6

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FKOM SILVER TO GOLD

THE EXFEBIENCE OF HONDUBAS WITH THE TWO METALS.

Jk. Country That Had All Zt Wanted of Depreciated Currency—Established the Gold Standard.

The governor of British Honduras, Sir lAlfred Moloney, gives in the Nordth American Review an interesting account of the experience of that colony under the silver Btandard and its successful passage to the gold standard, an experience full of inetrduction at this time. Honduras bad naturally followed its neighbors in the use of silver money, but some four years ago the depreciation of the currency had reached such a point that credit was destroyed and trade and industry paralyzed. There prevailed "a constant worry and a bewildering uncertainty which resulted practically in the conversion of legitimate trade into speculative gambling, as can be appreciated when it is known that the value of the Guatemala silver dollar, the local standard, varied not less than 50 per cent, within eighteen months."

In 1891 the purchasing power of the "sol" equaled 72 cents, gold in 1894, at the time of the establishment of the new standard, it was represented by 60 cents, net, above which it has not been quoted since. Governor Moloney says: "With no direct cable connection and with an exchange rate continually varying, calculations as to prices were conjectured. Foods had to be figured capriciously in anticipation of a fall, whether one occurred or not, or at a rate ruling at the time of importation and when sold, as was frequently the case, at a credit of six months or more, serious loss was often experienced. Consequently, traders were dazed, imports decreased, selling prices had to be ponstantly readjusted and greatly advanced, and the main burden fell upon the consumers, whose income, whether fixed or as wages, had not correspondingly increased. These became discontented and irritated with the exporters, who were the few persons who really made money during the period, as they worked with the depreciating, and realized in the appreciating, money. Enterprise was discouraged. Sales of property were suspended. As material had chiefly to be imported, builders fought shy of contracts, as they never could tell how they would come out. The shrinkage of the value of the "sol" meant corresponding loss to most and had a most demoralizing effect, tending to destroy prudence and thrift. Progress under such circumstances was impossible.

This picture would apply to any country aUenmting to do business on a silver basis at the present time.

Effecting a Change.

Honduras sought and found a remedy. With the consent of the crown a coinage ordinance was enacted, which demonetized thfe then existing currency provided for its redemption within a specified time at a prescribed rate, which was 50 cents to the dollar, determined by a community of experts and representing the ratio of the new to the old currency which ruled at the date of the change, and erested the gold dollar of the United States of America into the standard coin of British Honduras.

lars, as well as the British sovereign and half sovereign for the amounts of $4,867 and $2,433 respectively, and established for domestic circulation a subsidiary coinage, at par with gold, comprising 50 cents, 25 cents, 10 cents and 5 cents silver pieces and the bronze cent piece, fixing $10 as the limit of legal tender in silver and 50cents for mixed metal or nickel coins. A separate ordinance authorized the issue, against gold, of a colonial paper currency, in notes of one, two, five, ten and one hundred dollars and any multiple of one hundred, fully secured, being in effect gold certificates for the more convenient transfer of gold actually on deposit.

The requisite amount of gold, notes and silver in the new coins having been imported, the time for the redemption of the demonetized silver dollar was fixed from October 15th to October 27th, 1894, during which period the old money tendered in sums of $50 and under was exchanged at the prescribed rate for the new currency for larger amounts deposit receipts were given and cashed within one month from their date. The demonetized "sols" were .shipped out of the colony and sold for what they were worth, the amount realized being used to pay for the money that was substituted for them. Only about one-third of the number of the dollars demonetized has so far had to be replaced by the colonial token money, the difference being made up by notes which, being convertible on demand into gold, serve all the purposes of currency.

The gold standard has now been established two years, and at no time has it been found that there is more silver subsidiary coin than is required. On the contrary, It has been in constant demand, and never at a discount, its issue having been carefully limited to the actual requirements of the people for small change.

Result of the Chnnire.

No disturbance of any kind accompanied the establishment of the gold standard. Not a single commercial failure resulted and the staple industries of the colony have shown a marked increase. NTot only has the volume of trade expanded, but there has been an increase of over 40 per cent since 1894 in the number of importers, because of the greater stability of trade conditions. "The laboring classes, the backbone of the colony, have largely benefited as regards wages, the dollars now earned equaling the number formerly received by them in 'sols.' Savings bank deposits have increased. Land and house property, whether in town or country has increased 100 per cent lu value commanding now in gold the same amount received formerly in the money it replaced. "During the whole of last year ninety days' draft on England, a few bills being sold during the summer at $4.82, and during the Christmas season some at $4.75, en account of a slight fluctuation in supply and demand: drafts on the United States have generally been at par. The sale of bills is no longer a monopoly nor the capricious thing it was. Accommodation has ceased to be a favor and has become a matter of business."

In conclusion. Governor Moloney says: "The dominating question here has been for years the currency problem: it has been coquetted with and never seriously faced for various reasons into which it is unnecessary now to enter. It can be fairly claimed that the facts notified in this article demonstrate that a satisfactory settlement of the much vexed question currency, at last been arrived at. Vfcas

TuttUc on a souiukbmret thmnri. an anale.

basis has been repaired and enhanced. Stability and rate of exchange equaling those obtaining in any country have been secured There is reason no longer for hesitation to invest capital before capitalists naturally shrank from putting money into a country where a barometrical money value and rate of exchange existed. Now gpld is paid for in gold and the country's products are worked and realized in gold in fact, a money been established which is of the same value to everyone whether payer or payee. Unquestionably the change has been so far a valuable boon to the colony and it may be reasonably anticipated that it will prove to be a still greater one in the future."

ENJOYED GOOD READING.

Tramps Asks a Citizen to Bay Him a Copy of "Leu SUserabLp* A man stopped at a bookcart in Ann slreet Saturday to look over the cheap paper editions that it contained, says the New York Times. He picked up a copy of "Les Miserables." As he did so a tramp touched him on the shoulder and said: "I beg your pardon, *sir, but will you purchase that for me?"

A grufE "No" was the reply, but the tramp was not to be easily got rid of. "I enjoy reading, sir," he said, "and have much leisure time. The newspapers do not satisfy me. Their stories are not written by masters. They are superficial they are not from the heart they have no particular object in view. Hugo had no equals and so no superiors."

The tramp spoke hurriedly, as though unwilling to let his forced hearer escape his plea. He wanted the book, and to indicate that he was not of the lowest order of tramp he said: "To

paraphrase

Caesar. All Gall

is divided into three parts—the bitterness of the world, of the flesh and of the devil. I have experienced the first, am experiencing the second, and hope for something better than the third. I am a tramp, an outcast—you can see that—but I have been a gentleman—as the world uses the word and at times I can momentarily forget that I belong to the Brotherhood of Adversity. But even these months are getting rarer and yet pore rare. But why bother you with this? "Purchase for me this cheap copy of 'Les Miserables.' Jean Valjean was one of the brotherhood Fantine was another ^th^ book contains many others, and I- fdsqi to read it again. I have read it? tour-raneB' and have passed it on. I will do so again, for it contains much that by contrast makes an outcasts's life seem easy, and, although you may doubt me, while to an extent it embitters us, it in the end elevates us, only to a slight degree it is true, but it has a beneficient effect, and that, no matter how slight, is something."

The man addressed, wishing to terminate the appeal, and being more or less impressed by the tramp's words and manner, picKe"cT the volumes from the cart, paid for them, handed them to the tramp and walked away.

The fellow of the Brotherhood of Adveiv sity said: "I am much obliged to you, sir. Humph! cannot even wait to be thanked for a kindly act because the beneficiary is a tramp. Curious thing is human nature."

VANCOUVER EXPLORERS.

The Island is Very Little Known or Explored. The Rev. W. W. Bolton, rector of St. Mary of the Virgin's, and J. W. Laing, M. A., his friend, arrived back recently from their

It is instructive to observe, while Mr. Bryan is proposing to introduce the Span-ish-American silver dollar as the standard coin of the United States instead of the gold dollar, that a progressive state which has found relief from its financial troubles by adopting our gold dollar as its standard, and with it the other well tried features of our metallic monetary system as confirmed in the famous act of 1873. The Honduras ordinance made the gold coins of the United States mints legal tender for the amounts of their demonetization in dol- demonstrated that the central portions of

ine they must, have .examined the. patchesi

of arable land they speak of from^he topi

of some neighboring mountain with the aid I

of a telescope. At the head of Woss lake,

ery was quantities of beautiful marble, but!ll^'

that was in such inaccessible places that I

there is very little probability that it ttill ever be utilized. One of the greatest feats achieved by the party was the climbing of Central Cfrbgs and the planting of the British and American flags- there side by side. It has generally been believed that Mount Victoria is the highest peak in the island but the Laing exploring party has proved from observations taken on the spot that Central Crags, situated in the heart of the island, reaches a higher elevation, that of 7,500 feet. In making the ascent of Central Crags the party was at one time detained by fog in the snow for two nights and a day, unable to see afoot before them.

STRANGE THINGS OF TODAY. The praze for tail buildings lias brought a new menace to health. It ls iouud that the ventilating pipes of buildings of ordinary height discharge their contents before the windows of the upper stories of these high buildings, endangering the- health of the occupants. In some eases it has even been found necessary to connect the escape pipes from the lower buildings with pipes leading to the tops of the sky scrapers.

There ls an old custom prevailing among the Tyrolese today ln regard to marriage proposals. When a man visits a girl for tne first Jime as a suitor he brings a bottle of wine, and, pouring out a glass, offers it to her. If she accepts the wine the whole affair is settled: If she has not :aade up her mind she puts forth, excuses for not drinking it, never refusing point blank, as that would be an insult: either she says the wine is sour or she is afraid of it going to her head, or that the priest has forbidden her to take any. This strange custom dates back to the ninth century. If any of the Trine is spilled or the glass broken it is considered a bad omen.

America is considered the home of dyspepsia, but at least one special section is not troubled with the curse and that is the land where dwell the Eskimos, who defy all laws cf hygiene and health and still livo. The Eskimo eats, like eyery one else, until he is satisfied, but thts difference remains: He is never satisfied so .long as a bit of food remains, and his capacity is limited only by the supply. He does not cook his food and is not bothered about eating it so far as blubber or fat is concerned, for this he simply cuts in long strips, opens his mouth and lowers it down his throat as one would lower a rope down a well. He can make a good meal oft the flesh and skin of walrus, which is so tough and gritty that in cutting it the knife must be continually sharpened, his teeth meeting through, it a$ our teeth

A Boston

b,anker

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2,1894

BIT ON THE ELECTION

NEW YORK BOOKMAKERS ISSUE TABLE.

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Nearly Everybody Wants to Bet On McKinley—How the Bets Are Made. 4 USTf.**-

A book on the presidential elections has been opened In New York. The Sun says: The book makers who make their money on the race track have always done more or less betting on the result of the elfefctfons, but 'mtH this year there has never been«any particular system about it. Now one bookmaking firm in West Twenty-sixth :street have gone into the business on a wholesale scale and have issued a regular table to which they head, "Quotations on |he Presidential Result," and they offer to place any amount of money, charging a commission of 3 per cent. Here are their first quotations:

General result 2% to 1 on McKinley.» New York City, even money on McKinley. ..

State. Odds. On. Alabama ....» 5 to 2 Bryan Arkansas ., 4 to 1 Bryan California Even......McKinley Colorado 4 to 1. Bryan Connecticut 10 to 7 McKinley Delaware 10 to 7 McKinley Florida 1 to 3 McKinley Georgia 3 to 1 Bryan Idaho 8 to 5 Bryan Illinois 6 to 4 McKinley Indiana 10 to 7 McKinley Iowa 10 to 9 McKinley Kansas Even McKinley Kentucky Even McKinley Maine 4 to 1 dcKinley Maryland Even McKinley Massachusetts 6 to 1 McKinley Michigan 10 to 7 McKljley Minnesota 10 to 9 McKinley 3 to 1 Bryan 7 to 10......McKinley 3 to 1 .Bryan 4 to 5 Bryan 4 to 5 McKinley 3 to 1 Bryan 4 to 1 McKinley

Misaissippl Missouri ... Montana Nebraska Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey 2 to 1 McKinley New York 6 to 1 McKinley North Carolina 2 to 5 McKinley North Dakota 1 to 3 McKinley Louisiana 2 to 5 McKinley Ohio 2 to 1 McKinley Oregon 3 to 5 McKinley Pennsylvania 10 to 1 McKinley Rhode Island 2 to 1 McKinley South Carolina 3 to 1 Bryan South Dakota 1 to 3 McKinley Tennessee 1 to 3 McKinley Texas 3to 1 Bryan• Vermont 6 to 1 McKinley Virginia 1 to 2 McKinley West Virginia Even McKinley Washington 1 to 3 McK'nlay Wisconsin 10 to 7 McKinley Wyoming 3 to 5 McKinley

The state on which McKinley odds are offered have a total of 236 electoral votes, or twelve more than enough to elect him, while including those In which even money is offered, he has nearly 300 electoral votes

The total electoral votes of the states.in which odds on Bryan are offered Js 164. In an article on the presidential betting, the New York Herald says: "A thousand dollar bet was made in thte Mortqn House last week that Bryan would not carry eighteen states, and the man who took the Bryan end of it seemed eager for more. Several bets of $300 to $500 have been made in the Hdffman House and the Fifth Avenue Hotel during the last month that McKinley would carry more states than Bryan. I made inquiries at all the big Broadway hotels, but could not find a Bryan man who was willing to bet on the election,of the Nebraska Popocrat. A broker in St. Louis has offered to bet $1,000 that McKinley will

rece

exploring trip in the unknown portions of and has found no one to take it. At the the island of Vancouver, says the San race track nobody wants to bet unless the odds are as good as four to one against Francisco Call. Mr. Laing, who organized

the expedition and covered the financial -takers. I asked all the big bookmakers a,t end of it, was full of information'about the Gravesend if they had any inquiries for beauty of the island, but he said they have

looked up the records left by previous ex- jto

plorers who. however, do not pretend to I

have penetrated

}ve ^qo majority in the electoral college,

Bryan. Even at this price there ai'e few

bets 011 the

one, afe

tion to people to settle. In Victoria majority,

election, but none had a single

wager to report. Sol Lichtenstein said everybody wants to bet on McKinley, and they are willing to lay three to one that he is elected. On the Republican candi-

interior Vancouver are no place for set tiers. "It is a magnificent country for the lovers of nature, but jagged, snow-capped moun- I dates majority in this state qdds of two to tains and steep declines offer little tempta-

o£fered lhat

*e ^"1JJaVeJ1

ejen

The

50'000

money on JOO.OOO and three

°n

Republican majorities in Ver-

far in to the interior as ™ont and Maine have had rather a depress-

we did, and we found that they often mis- effect in the betting in New England, represented" things." Til'some cases'I iih^4

has

for instance, one explorer says there is a fine tract of arable land. We examined it and found it to be a swamp. The' government makes a mistake in accepting the word of some of the explorers whose records wo found in Victoria. Most of the rivers and lakes in Northern Vancouver are very inaccurately marked on the maps. We are Merihew Winfield, la., who is an now preparing maps for the admiralty

which will be official. jthal

Mr. Laing says that Vancouver is .one-qf .Doll'#

the best watered countries he ever Saw in 1,

his life but that nowhere in the course of

can7

*15'000

anxlous

011, Br?™hut

ent^usiastic

same

his explorings in the northern portion of bets range from $10 td $100, one the island did he or Mr. Bolion find traces

of the precious metals. The only discov-

which he

lay

°n

the state of Illinois

Plttsbur«

McKinley

against $5,000

^as succeeded in placing

0D against

$500-

The bettmg 18

runninS

very slow at Chi

cago. A dispatch to the Herald says: "Up to the present time not more than $1,500 has been placed, but $50,000 is waiting the advent of Bryan men who are willing to put up their money at the rate of two to one. The largest bet so far registered is $1,200 to $600, the latter being put up by

Bryan man and willing to. risk

amount 011

judgment. Samuel

bookmaker

Put

the

$1,200, and

to $20,000 more to place at the

od*\

Apart from the

?600

S1-200

latter figure even that McKinley will

75'000 maJ°r"

havmg been made

Saturday."

the

bookmakers have a pool

of $15,000 to bet on McKinley at odds of two and one-half to one, and are willing to make them three to one, but there are no takers.

SURVIVAL OF NONSENSE.

Time Wasted on Meaningless Formalities By Letter Writers. Why do we write "Esq." ifter a man's name or "Mr." before it in addressing a letter? Why do we write "Dear Sir" even in addressing the veriest stranger? Why do we subscribe ourselves to. all correspondents as "Yours truly," or other words to that meaningless effect?

We do none of these'things in telegrams, yet we do not feel that we are discourteous to John Jones when we address him by telegraph solely as John Jones and sign our names at the end of the dispatch without any flourish of words. Why should we not be as direct, simple and truthful in our letters as in our telegrams?

All these practices are survivals from an age of leisure, extravagance and servility of mind. They are now in absurdity and a costly one. More than 3,000,000,000 letters are written every year in the United States. Allowing half a minute as the time consumed in writing "Dear Sir" and "Yours truly" inside and "Mr." or "Esq." outside of each of these letters, and allowing 300 working days of ten hours each to the year, the people of the United States waste |n this way 8,333 years of time every year. In other words, we actually waste the whole time of more than 8,000 persons in writing "Dear Sir," "Yours truly," "Mr" and "Esq." At the lowest calculation the tim^ thus wasted each year is worth $10,000,0t)d, or half a river and harbor bill.

The sole purpose of the superscription on a letter is to tell the postoffice peopld to whom and where to deliver it. All that is necessary for that purpose is to write the name and address. "J. Wintersmith, 84 John street. New York City," completely fills the requirement. All else is waste. There is no occasion to tell the postman that J. Wintersmith is a clergyman by writing "Rev." before his name, ^or that he is a woman and unmarried by writing "Miss" there, or that J. W. aforesaid ls a married woman, or has been, by writing "Mrs."

But we have worse haiuts than these. InJ^the nursery tahla.

addition to the maningless "Mr." and the absurd "Esq.," we are constantly addressing men as "Hon." or "Colonel" or "Rev." Why do we do It? As every little politician who gets himself elected an alderman or a member of the legislature is thenceforth forever called "Hon.," why should anybody think'it a requirement of courtesy to address so justly distinguished a man as William L. Wilson, for example, as "Hon. W. h. Wilson?" We do not speak of the Hon. Thomas Jefferson or the Hon. Daniel Webster.

Military titles are necessary ln military life. In addressing a general or a colonel ln the field an indication of his rank helps discipline, too. But why should we go on calling men colonel, general, major and the lfke after they have retired to civil life, merely because they held such rank in the volunteer forces of thirty odd years ago or because some governor has appointed them to his staff? We do not speak or think of General George Washington or General Hannibal or General Julius Caesar.

Still worse is the title gratuitously conferred, the "honorary" title of colonel and the like. Ther% are tens of thousands of "colonels" in this country who never commanded a squad, and Judges who never sat on any bench or read a page of law.

It is all falsehood and flummery. As an honest, self respecting people, why should we not rid ourselves of it? "Mr." is convenient when the first name of the person addressed or referred, to is not used. So are "Mrs." and "Miss" in like circumstances. All the rest are "leather and prunella," which is the poet's phrase for stuff and nonsense.

Farmer Aknr1) Pet Cow.

feome years ago there walked into the editorialrroom of a Philadelphia newspaper, a ruddy-faced, intelligent-looking farmer, who gave his name as Lyman Aker and his home as Wrightsville, N. J. Mr. Aker conveyed the intelligence that he had lost a

COw—a

twenty-quart cow. She hadn't

strayed away, understand, she had simply lain down and died, not because she wanted to, but because she had taken an excessive dose of paris green. This was not the first cow that Aker had lost, nor the second, nor the third, says the Philadelphia Chronicle. In seven years he had twelve cows, four horses, twenty sheep and more than 100 chickens destroyed by the same agency. Detectives had been employed to no purpose. Aker had watched night after night, .hidden in his haymow, with a big blunderbuss as a companion. His vigil was continued for thirty-five days consecutively, and during that time three cows and one horse were poisoned. Aker came to the conclusion that there was no human agency at the bottom of this remarkable persecution, and, because he could find no explanation, contented himself with the belief that some supernatural agency was at work. He pondered over the thing for a week and the more he reasoned with himself the more convinced that he was under the bane of come evil influence. A man of positive ideas was Aker, and when this conviction became firmly rooted in his brain there was no dislodging it.

Now, mark the sequel. Aker was a man of fair education, a believer in God and state of future reward aqd punishment. His worldly possession amounted to $9,000. His little farjn was clear of incumbrance and he had a fairly comfortable balance in the bank. Aker came to Philadelphia and visited Circle Hall, then at Fourth and Vine streets, where James A. ©liss and his cunning wife had for some months defrauded the credulous by the spirit materialization farce. He was introduced to Medium Allen Jordan, and Medium Jordan went into a "trance"—$2 in advance—and described a wondrous scene to the farmer. The poisoning of the cattle, the medium said, was due to wicked spirits. Human brain had never conceived it, nor human hand had never accomplished it. The spirit of a depraved missionary, who had shuffled off in the Sandwich Islands, was the cause of all the trouble, and it was necessary that he should be "laid." To properly exercise a mischievous "spirit" costs all the way from $5 to $50. Medium Jones truck a happy medium at a $20 bill."

How the dupe was plucked Is a long tale. Inside of two months he paid to the medium nearly $800. Meanwhile, the poisoning continued. Aker consulted almost every fortune teller in Philadelphia, paying them fabulous prices for their advice. He was actually persuaded into desecrating a grave-

a small alley, running of South Washington square, above Sixth, told him if ho would dig into the grave of a man who had never wedded and cut off a finger the persecution would cease. Aker did so, and obtained the ghastly bit of humanity and carried it with him for months. Another chariatan advised him to get a splinter from a scaffold on which a murderer had been executed. The farmer did so at an expense of $20, for the custodians of the gallows saw a chance to make some money out of a fool. Not to spin the tale of creduilty out too long, suffice it to say that within seventeen months Aker had spent $4,000 in cash and had mortgaged his little farm.

In less than an hour a newspaper reporter who was assigned to the story discovered on one of the rafters of the barn, directly over the feeding stalls, a big package of paris green that had evidently laid there for years. The coming in. and the going out of the cows and horaes-r-all stabled together head to head—had gradually sifted this down into the feed boxes. Poor Aker had failed to use his common: sense, and was not only out of pocket, but had the satisfaction of knowing that he was very much of an ass.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS,

In removing stains or grease spots from delicate colored materials the cleaning mixture should be applied in a circle around the spot and should be worked toward the center. Then sponge the place with a clean flannel and rub until dry.

When a piece of furniture is very much soiled and requires to,be cleaned and polished, first wash it horoughly with warm soapy water, washing only a small surface at a time, and drying it quickly by rubbing it hard with a flannel. Mix together one pint of linseed oil and a half a pint of kerosene, wet a flannel with the oil mixture, and rub the cleaned flannel with the o!l mixture, and rub the claned furniture. Rest half an hour before taking a fresh piec of flannel, and then, and then by vlgorov. rubbing polish the wood until it shines ilk

glass. This will not injure the nicest wood=

a bag. To

each Pint

cover them until the mixture becomes cold. This Jelly is always a source of delight

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