Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 December 1877 — Page 7

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UT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE.

Novel of Thrilling Interest About the Great Strikes in England.

BY CHARLES READE.

|Cont!ntiel From Uwt Issue.]

CHAPTKR XX VIII.

'D otoi,' *aii Mr. Garden 'you arc an IrienJ, a» a discreet man I will nlidc the truth to you.' 'You may save yourself the trouble. I ave watched the whole progress of lis iin »ur up to the moment hen you gave them the advantage your paternal wisdom, and made them otn miserable.' *11 is vtrry unreasonable of thein, to bo lincrable. 'Oh, lovers parted could never yet ake themselves happy with reason.' 'Hut why do you say parted? All I lid was, 'No engagement till you can take a nettlemeut and don't compromise ,*r in he in-, an while.' I did not, mean interilr't occasional visit*"'

Then wny not sav to? That is 80 like o|le You made your umavorable, ipulution plain er.ough but the little ot comiort, you lelt that in doubt, hit conies of noi putting yourself in his lace have had a talk with him about ard lie thinks he is not to snow his ce here til he is rich enough to purlase your daughter oi you

Mint I ielf vuu he has misunderstood le Then write to him and say so.' 'No, no you take an opportunity to let im knov lie has really rather overrated seve-yity, and that I trust to his jtior. and do not object to a visit—sav ce a week.' 'It is a commission I will undertake iih pleasure.' '/\h do you really think tuat will do oodily hea.th any good?'

Ueiore Doctor Amboyne could reply piano was suddenly toucned in the •XL ro m, and a sweet voice began to ng a ctieerlul melody, 'ilush!' said jo tor A.ivioyne. 'Surely I know that v. *s, 1 heard the other wlustle it.' 'a ie n.i. not sang for ever t.o long,' tearK.eJ »lr Carden. 'AnJ ihuik I can tell you why she is .51114 »w Iook at tnis picture oi Hope, ist. told ner I had a male patient icted with her complaint, and the [•K .viited creature asked me directly 1 uioa jiu this picture would do hyu »J. 1 said yes, and I'd take it to

'Come, Doctor, that couldn't make her 7,1' vVhy n.H? Heart can speak to heart, en by a tl ver or a picture. The sepa tion wis complete sending this smlias broken it a lutle, and so she is l^inj l'lns is a lesoon lor us ruder less subtle spirits. No* mind, wai ted love seldom kils a busy man it Oiten Kills an iJle woman, and your ugntei is an idle woman. He is an pot. she is a china vase. Please n't hit llieni too hard wiUi the hammer 'paternal wisdom, or you will uent my mi pt, and break your china vase to oins.'

Having administered this warning octOr Ainnoyue went straight Iroin

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idbiiie Villa io Little's factory but t.tle was sail in London he had gone ere to .ake out patents. IJayne inised to oend tue jctor a line im edia.elv on his re urn. Nevertheless, fortnignt elapsed, and then Doctor mb yni received a short, inysteriou* le to tell him Mr. Little had come me, and would be all the better of a sit. On receipt of this the uotor went at once to the works, aud und ,\ou'ng Little lying on his carpen r's bench in a sort ot gloomy apathy iallo! sa the Doctor, in his cheerful ay, 'why what's the mat er now?' 'I'm laitly crushed,' groaned the inntor. 'And what has crushed you?' 'The roundabout swindle.' lurie, now, he in wnts words as well as ings. Come, tell tne all about the -undabout swindle.' 'No, nu I haven't the heart left to go rough it ull again, even in words. One ould think an inventor was the enemy the human race.. Yes, I will tell you s.ght qi you has revived .ne a bis it ways dovw. Well, tiien, you know 1 driven to invention now it is my il cluuiee: and, ever since Mr. Carden oke to tne, 1 have given my wholt, ul to the best way of saw-grinding by achinerv. The circular saws beat lor a while, but I mastered ihein: see ere's the model. I'm going to burn it is very afternoon. Well, a month ago, took "the other model—the long-saw inder—up to London, to patent the vention, as you advised me. I thought just have to exhibit the model, and dge the description in some government "ce, and pay a fee, of course, to some ell, and so

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quit of it. Lord bless

u—first I had to lay the specification fore the Court of Chancery, and write petition to the Qtjeen, and pay, and hat is worse, wait. When I had paid id waited, I got my petition signed, not the Queen, but by some go-between, id then 1 must take it to the Attorney--neral. He made me pay—and wait, /hen I had waited ever so long, I was :nt back to where 1 had come from— ie Home Office. But even then I could ot get to the Queen. Another ol her o-betweens nailed me, and made pay nd wait: these locusts steal your time as 'ell as your money. At last a copy of copy ot a copy of my patent got to the lueen, and she signed it like a lady ut nee, and I got it back. Then 1 thought I as $11 right. Not a bit of it: the Queen's gnature wasn't good till another of er go-betweens had signed it. I think was the Home Secretary this time, ^his go-between bled me again, and sent ie with my hard-earned signatures to ie Patent Office. They were drafted, nd copied, and docketed, and robbed ie of more time and money. And, hen all was done, I had to take the ocument back to one of the old go-he-weens that I hoped I had worn out, the ttorney-General. He signed, and bled ie out of some more money. From him a the other go-betweens at Whitehall. Vom them

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the Stamp Office, if I re-

ember right, and, oh Lord, didn't I ill among leeches there? They dratted, ey copied, the? engrossed, they juggled out of time and money without end. 'he first leech was called the Lord Kepof the Seal the second leech was ailed the Lord Chancellor it was 60me jo-between that acted in his name 'iie third leech was the Clerk of the Patents. Thev demanded more copies, ind then employed more go-bfetweens to :harge ten times the value ot a copy, and

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nailed the balance, no dcubt. 'Stand and deliver thirty pounds for this stamp.' 'Stand and deliver to me that call my self the Chancellor's purse-bearer—and there's no such creature—two guineas.' 'Stand and deliver seven, thirteen, to the clerk of the Hanaper'—and there's no such thing as a Hanaper. 'Stand and deliver three, five,' to a go-between that calls himself the Lord Chancellor again, and isn't. 'Stand and deliver six, nought, to ago between that acts for the deputy, that ought to put a bit of sealing wax on the patent, but hasn't the brains to do it himself, so you must pav me a fancy price for doing it it will be done by a clsrk at twenty-five shillings a week.' And, all this time mind you, no disposition to Milten all this official peculation by civility no mi*uiving that the next wave of civilization may sweep all these go-be-tweens and leeches out of the path of progress no, the deputy-vice-go between* all scowled, as well as swindled: they brose my heart so. olten I sat down in their antichambers, and the scalding tears ran down my cheeks, at being pillaged of my time as well as my money, and treated like a criminal—for what? For being, in my small way, a national benefactor. 'Av,' said the Doctor, 'you had com mined the crime of Brains and the worse crime of declining to be staived in return lor them. I don't rebel against the lees so much: their only fault is that iey arc too heavy, since the monopoly they profess to secure sh •i t-lived, and yet not very secuie ihe Lord Chancellor, as a judge, has often to upset the patent whicn lie has sold in another character. But that system of go-betweens, and deputy-go-betweens, and di putv-lieutenant-go-betweens, and of nubodv doing his own basines* in matters of State, it really is a national curse, und a great blot upon the national intellect. It is a disease so let us name it. We doctors are great at naming diseases greater than at curing tliem. "Let us call it Vicara

This English malaria.'

Of this Vicaria. the loss of time and money you have suftered is only oae of the fruits, I think.' 'All 1 know is. thev made my life hell for more than a month and if I have ever the misfortune to invent an} thing more, I'il keep it to myself. I'll hide it, like any other crime But no I never will invent another thing: never, never.' 'Stuff! Methinks I here a duck abjure natation. You can't help inventing.' •I will help it? What, do vou think I'll be such an ass as to have Brains in a country where Brains are a crime? Doctor, I'm in despair.' 'Then it's time to cast your eyeflOver this little picture

The inventor turned the little picture listlessl about. 'It is a woman, with an anchor. It's a fi^uie of Hope.' 'Beautifully painted, is it not?'

The tints are well laid on: but if you'll excuse me, its raiher flac.' He laid the picture down, and turned away from it. 'Ah, Hope, my lass, you've come to the wrong shop.' 'Not she. She was painted expressly for vou, and bv a very beautiful git I.' 'Oh, Doctor, not by—' 'Yes she sends't you.' 'Ah!' And he caught Hope up, and began to devour her with kisses, and his eyes sparkled finely. 'I have so ne good news too, for you. Mr. Carden tells me he never intended to seperate you entirely fr.mi his daughter. If you can be moderate, discreet,. old before your time, etc, and come only about once a week, and not compromne her publicly, yo will be as welcome as ever.' l'hat is good news, indeed. I'll go there this very day and I'll patent the circular saw

I'hc re's a non-S' quitur for you!' 'Nothing of tht kind, sir. Whv, even the Queen's go-betweens will never dAunt me, now 1 can go and drinn love and courage direct from her eyes nothing can chill nor discourage me, now. I'll light my forge again and go to work, and make a few sets of carving tools, uhd that will pay the go-betweens for patenting my circular-saw grinder. But tirst I'll put. on my coat and go to heaven.' 'Had you not better postpone that till the end of your brilliant career as an inventor and a lover

No 1 thirst for heaven, and I'll drink it' So he made his toilette, thanked and blessed the good Doctor, and off to Woodbine Villa.

Grace Carden saw him coming, and opened the door to him herself, red as ocarlct, and her eyes swimming. She scarcely made an effort to contain hersell this time, and when she got him into the irawmg-room all to herself, she cried, lor joy and tenderness, on his shoulder and it cost him a gulp or two, 1 can tell you and they sat hand in hand, and were never tired of gazing at each other and the hours iew by unheeded.All their trouble was a6 though it never had been. Love brightened the present, the future, and even the past. He did not tell Giace one word of what he had suffered from Vicaria—I thank thee, Doctor, for teaching me that word —it had lost all Interest to him. Love and happineM had annihilated its tru* character— like the afternoon sun gilding a far-off pig-stv.

He did mention the subject, however, but it was in these terms 'And, deareast, I'm hard at work inventing, and I patent all my inventions so I hope to satisfy your father betore two years.'

And Grace said, 'Yes but don't overwork your poor brain and worry yourself. »I am yours in heart, and' that is something, I hope. I know it is to me I would not change with any wife in Christendom. [TO BE CONTINUED.]

The plaintiff and ethereal autumn poem is traveling through the newspapers of the country with unwonted intensity this year. We are glad ot it. Autumn poems are sweet tokens et sentiment in the cold human breast, and sentiment ought to be encouraged. But any poet who begins her raptures wjth 'I woald not weep beoaase the roses die'

ought to be lured to some distant shore and kept in safety until the spring-time comes. Anybody so utterly unsympathetic as to refuse to go out and sob because the roses die, is unworthy of a place in our affections.

Trotting horses called 'ringers,' which are fraudulently entered for races intended for slower ones, ar! said to have been extensively used in last summer's races. 'They were brought trooa Kentucky to the East, and trotted under false names. A mare that had a record of 2:20 was a contestant in many

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races, and of

course was nearly always able to win.

GARFIELD'S SPEECH.

The Faith and Honor and Interest of the Country Oemands Ad herence to the Resumption Law.

The Poor Man and the Laboring Man the Ones to be Benefitted by &ppreciating the Greenbacks.

NO LACK OF CURRENCY.-

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE

Who are the Houdhoklera.

I Extracts Froia Congressional Record, NoYcuiojr 17. We are engaged in a debate which has lasted in the Anglo-Saxon world for more than two centuries, and hardly phase of it to which we have listened in the course of the last week is new. Hardly a proposition has been heard on either 'side which was not made seventy-five years ago in England, and almost a hundred ears ago in the l'nite'l States, so singularly does history repeat itself 011 questions ol this sort. 1 hat man makes a vital mistake who judges ot ti utn in relation to financial atUirs trom the changing phases ot public opinion. He mi^ht as well stand on the Bay of'Fundy and from the ebb and flow of the tide judge of the general level of he sea, as 10 stand on the tloor and from the current of public opinion in any oic debate judge of ne general level of the public mind It is on'y when long spaces along the shore of the sea are taken into coufid ration that the grand^ level is found Irom whicoall hei*hths and depths are calculated, and it is only when long spaces of lime are taken tha*. we find at last the level ot public opinion, which we call the general judgement of mankind, and from ihe particular eob and flow of public opinion ot to day, I appeal to that general judgement of mankind on the question of currency, liich is the subjectmatter ot ou debate.

I suppose it will be admitted on all hands mat i860 fwas a year of unusual general business prosperity in the United States. It was at a tune when the bounties of Providence were scattered with a liberal hand over the face of our republic. It was a time when all classes of our community were well and pr fitably em ployed, it was a time of .peace the apprehension of our great trouble had not, yet seizeci the mind of our people. Great crops North and S^uth great general prosperity marked the era i.i which we tlien lived. If one thing were settled above all oilier questions of financial policy in the American mind at that time and onward for a year, it was this: l'hat the only sound, Sate, trustworthy standard of value was coin of a standard weign.and fineness, or a paper currency convertible into coin at the will of the holder. That. I take it, wa the aimosc unanimous opinion of the American people in that era, and bad been tor a long lime previously. And the opinion of 1860-61 was the aggrega erf result of the opinions ut the foremost Americans who ever thought, und v/rote upon this subject. I rr ake this sialem 111 without fear of contradiction, because I have carefully examined ihe iisl. No inan ever sat in the chair ot Washington as President ot the United states who nas left 011 record any word that speaks of any safety in iiuai.ces except based ou convertible paper, paper convertible into coin. Ev-ry President that ever lett a rec rd on thai subject has lett it without qualification 111 favor ot the Hocirine I name No man ever sat in the chair 01 the Secretaiv ot the Treamry of the United Males who, it he has spoken at an 011 the suoj^ci, ha» not lett 011 record an opinion tqually strong, from Hamilton down to the oays of the father ot my distrnguislied cofi league (Mr. Ewing), and to tne present moment. Now, Mr. Speakei, it seeinst me that the general judgment of all men who deserve to be called the leaders of American thought "ought to be considered wbrth something in an American House of Representatives, 011 the discussion of a great topic like this. vw

Now, what are the obstacles to'resurhption in accordance with the law we have passed? The tirst great obstacle staled by gentlemen who have argued that question in this: That we nave not enough currency in the country for its business, and that some measure of contraction will b^ likely to attend the further execution of the provisions of the resumption law.

Before I enter directly on that I desire to put a plain question to the gentlemen who hear me. In thai prosperous era of i860, when there was free banking in most of the States, and the banks were pushing all the currency they could into circulation without limit, there were just $207,000,000 of paper currency, and that was the largest volume that this country had ever known. Now, nobody estimates that the amount of coin in the country in

i860

was more than

000,

or

$200,000,-

$250,000,000

at the very outside

but assuming it at

$200,000,000,

that to

$207,000,000

and you have

and add

of paper circulation,

$407,000,000

of currency, of

paper, ot silver, ot gold. How much have we to-dav? This day, or rather the first day of this month, we had

$727,000,000

greenbacks, banking notes, fractional cur rency and fractional silver and it you add the $9,000,000 of copper and nickel you have, it would make

736,000,000

of cur­

rency, counting no gold whatever, although tne Pacific coast uses a large amount of gold.

Now I put it to the judgment of this House if, under free banking and no restriction in

i860, $407,000,000

was the

limit of possible currency that could be kept out in circulation, how can gentlemen say that almost twice that amount is needed, and is hardly enough, for the wants of

1877?

THE POOR MEX THE CREDITORS. I now proceed to notice the second general point that has been made here in favor of this bill. It is assumed that specie payments will injure the debtor class of this country, and thereby oppress the poor: in other words, that the carrying out of the resumption law will be oppressive to the poor people of this country, on the assumption that th?y are the people in debt: that, therefore, it will help the rich, who are the creditor class. It is this proposition to which I wish to address myself for a moment I deny the proposition in toto. I affirm that the vast majority of the creditors of this

country are the poor people that the vast majority of the debtors of this country are well-to-do people, and, in fact, moderately rich. Now, I ask the consideration of that for one moment.

As a matter of fact, the poor man, the laboring man, cannot get heavily in debt. He has not the security to offer. Men lend their money on security, and in the very nature of the case, poor men can borrow but little. What then do poor men do with thier smail earing*? When a man has earned out of his hard work a hundted dollars more than he needs for current expenses, he reasons thus: 'I cannot go into business with a hundred dollars I cannot embark in trade but as work I want mv money to work and so he puts his small gains where they will earn something. He loans his money to a welthier neighbor, or puts it in the sav injjs bank. There were in the United States on the 1st ot November, 1876, 4, 475 savings banks and private banks of deposit, and their deposits amounted to $1 377.000,000, almost three-fourths of the amount ot our natiqp al debt. Over two and a half millions of the citizens of the United State were depositors. In some States the deposits did not average more than $250 each.

The great mass of the depositors are men and women of small means laborers, widows and orphans. They are the lenders of this enormous aggregate. The

The saving banks, as their agents, lend it—to whom? Not to the laboring poor, but to business men who wish to enlarge their besiness beyond their capital Spec ulators sometimes barrow it, but, in the main well-to-do business men borrow these hoadings. Thus the poor lend to the rich

Gentlemen assail the bondholders a6 the rich men who oppress the poor. Do they know how vast an amount of public securities are held b. poor people! I took occasion, a few years ago, to ask the officers of a bank in one of the counties ofmv .iistrict, to show me the number of holders and amounts held of United States bonds on which they collected the interest. The total amount was $416,000, and how many people held them? Of these iust fight had over $20,000 apiece, and the other one hundred and eightyeight ranged from $50 up to $2,500. I found in that list fifteen orphan children and sixty wicows,who had a little lelt them from their fathers' or husbands' estates, who had made the nation their guardian and I found 121 laborers, mechanics, ministers, and men of slender means, who had kept what they had and put it in the hands of the United States that it might be safe: and they are the "bloated bondholders" against whom so much eloquence is fulminated the House.

There is another way in which poor men dispose of their money. A man says, 'I can keep my wife and babies from starvation while I live and have my health, but if I die, they may be compelled to go over the hills to the poor-house,' and, agonized by that thought, he saves out of his hard earnings enough to take out and keep alive a small life insurance policy, so that if he di-s, there may be something left, provide the insurance company to which he intrusted his money is honest enough to keep its piedges. And how many men do you hink have done that in the United States? I do not know the number tor the whole country, but I dj know this, 'hat from a late report from the insurance commissioners of the S'ate of New York, it appears that the companies doing business in that State had 774654 policies in force, and the face value of these policies was $1922,000,000. I find by looking ovei the returns that in my State there are 55 000 policies outstanding in Pennsylvania, 74,000 in Maine, 17.000 in Maryland, 25,000 and in the State of New York, 160,000 There are. of course, some rich men insured in these companies, but the majority are poor people, for the policies do not average more than $2,200 each. What is done with the assets of these compan ies, which amount to

$4.45.000,000?

Thev

»*re loaned out Hare, again, the creditor class in tlie poor, and the insurance companies are he agents of the poor, to lend their maney for them. It would be dishonorable for Congress to legislate either for the debtor class, or for the cred itor class alone. We ought to legislate for the whole country But when gentlemen attempt to manufacture senti ment against the resumption act by saying it will help the rich and hurt the poot-, they are overwhelmingly answered by the facts

Suppo-e you undo the work, that Con-g/-eij has attempted, to resume specie pay men's, what will the result be? You will depreciate the valne of the greenback. Suppose it falla ten cento in the dollar. You will have destroyed ten per cent of the value ot every deposit in the savings bank, ten per cent, of every life insurance pjlicy and fire insurance policy, of every pension to the soldiers, and of every day's wages of every laborer in the nation. In the census of 1870 it was extimtted that on any given day there were $120,000,000 due to laborers tor their unpaid wages. That is a small estimate. Let the greenback dollar come down ten per cent, and you take $12,000,000 from the men who have already earned it. In the name of every interest connected with the poor I denounce every effort to prevent resumption. Daniel Web«ter never uttered a greater truth in finance than when he said that of all contrivances to cheat the laboring class of mankind none were so effective as that which deluded them with an irredeemable paper money. The rich can t?ke care of themselves, but the dead weight of all fluctuations and loss fall ultimately on the poor man, who has only his day's work to sell.

THE SORT OF MONEY WE WANT. rV

Now, gentlemen think that we have got money that is good enough for our country. I don't under-value the greenback nor its services to the country but when the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelley) talked about the greenback as being the thing that put down the rebellion, I thought if I had been on the other side I would have said, "We had a more liberal supply of money than you had, and why did it not put you down?

Laughter.] Our money was better than yours in one respect, for ours set a day for resnmption, which was six months after the independence tf the Confederate States." [Laughter.] I think, sir, that gentlemen who know the financial history of the Confederacy would not join the gentleman in his eulogy on the paper currency when cut lose from the standard and basis of value.

Gentlemen, we want not only a national, but an international currency. Let me state one fact which I think, comments itself to every man's mind. The foreign trade of the country, its exports and imports, amounts to $1,500,000, 000 in value, and every dollar

of that trade must be transacted in coin. We cannot help ourselves. Every dollar of the exports we send abroad we sell in coin. Every dollar of imports we buy we buy in coin. We must translate the prices in our currency into coin. We must use coin in every foreign transaction, and every fluctuation in the value of the greenback between it•elf and the coin falls upon us and r.ot upon the countries with which we trade and therefore, the entire commercial world of America demands that the in-te-national and national value of our money shall be one, so that what is/a dollar in Ohio shall be a dollar the world over. Our money must be international as well as national unless you wish to isso late this country, and have no trade or commerce or glory on the sea.

The trouble with our greenback dollar is this: It has to distinct functions, one a purchasing powt and the other a debtpaving power. As a debt paying power it is equal to one hundred "cents. That is, to pav an old debt, a greenback dollar will by law discharge one hundred cents of debt bu' no law can give it purchasing power in the general markets of the world unless it represents a known standard of coin value Now what we want is that these two qualities of our greenback dollar shall be maue equal, its debt-paying puwer and its general purchasing power. When you have made the^e two things equal you have got a good representative ot value. We who defend the resumotion act propose not to destroy the greenback, hut to dignifv it, glorify it. The law that we defend does not destroy it. It simply reduces its vo'ume to $300,000,000, and it makes the gieenhackconvert ble into coin, but it does not destroy and cancel it.

WHAT TUB STRUGGLE RtfALLY IS^

Summing tt all in a word, it is this: The struggle now pending in this House is, on the one hand to make the greenback better on the other, to make it worse. The resumption act is making it better every day. Repeal that act, and you make it infinitely worse. In the name of every man who wants his own when he has earned it, I demand that we do not make the earned wages of the poor man to shrivel in his hands, ind, to shrink away after he has earned it, but that his money shall be made better and better until the plow-holder's money shall be as good as the bond-holder's money until our standard is one. We are bound on tnree great grounds to maintain the resumption of specie payments. First, because the public faith demands it. Secondly, because all the great business interests of the country md and, thirdly, because our future prosperity requires a solid, permanent basis on which confidence can again plant its feet, and the business of the country revive. The elements are all in our favor now. The Secretary of the Treasury tells us in his report, laid upon our table this morning, that he has $66,000,000 of gold coin, unpledged for any other purpose, waiting a« reserve tor the days of resumption, further, that at the rate of $5,000,000 a mo.ith he is adding to that stock and, furthermore, the balance of trade is now in our favor to the extent of nearly $200,000,000 a year. All the elements are wiih us. Exchange flows this way. Our harvests have been bountiful The nation is on the return wave of prosperity. Everywhere business is reviving, and there is no danger cept from the Congress of the United States. Here is the storm center Here is the point of peril. we can pass that point, and not commit our selves to the dangerous act now threaten ed, we shall see ourselves safe and resumption complete.

Gentlemen think there is danger that the people will rush in, will deliver up all their greenbacks and get the gold, if the law should permit it. Let' us see. Remember how slow they have been in giving up their i-crip Suppose that a farmer in one of your Eastern Siates sells his farm Tor $10,000. He wants to remove to tht great West. He gets ten greenbacks ol the denomination of $1,000 each. This is easy to c.trrv. He can put it in his vest pocket. Do you think that as a mere matter of convenence in business he will go to the assistant treasurer in Ntw York and get for those greenbacks fortv pounds weight ot gold coin to carry in his pockets, or, if the silver dollar should be restored, 640 pounds of silver No, gentleman, the moment your gr.enback is equal to gold it better than gold, for it is more convenient, and as long as the people desire it to be in circulation, so long it may be until the business of the courury demands its removal.

Now, Mr. Speaker, if any ot the amendments proposes any measute to make the resumption act more safe, more certain, more careiuk of the interests of the country. I will cheerlully join try friends in voting for it but anything that takes back the promises, anything that give up what we have gained, anything that sets us afloat in the w^d waves from whicli we have so nearly escaped, I wlQ oppose, if it should cost rae all the political future that can be offered any American. [Applause.J

Among the man) industries of Japan is the manufacture of birdlime. It is, of course, principally employed for the vnaringof birds and animals. By its means animals as large as monkeys are caught. When once they get the staff on their paws they soon cover themselves with it, and so exhaust themselves in trying to get rid of it that they fall an easy prey. Birds also as large as ducks and every variety of smaller ones are taken by it. Rats are easily caught by spreading a small quantity on apiece of board or paper, and placing it near their holes. It is spread upon a bamboo leaf, and used during the summer for catching flies or other insects. Flea traps are made for its service, and occasionally used by the Japanese in bed. Birdlime is also used by the Japanese for medical purposes, and is considered one of the best cures for wounds. Japan is the only country where it is regularly manufactured on a large scale, the principal tree fiom which it is made bei..g ftdark evergreen from the mountains in the south.

Philadelphia Bulletin: There was a little girl named Nancy Bell, who went crazy became a poticho-maniac, in fact. She occupied all her time pasting Japanese pictures on papa's furniture, until her pa's time was completely taken up with repairing the pastime ot her paste-* time.

'History repeats itself.' Twenty or thirty yeais ago the man who possessed from ten to twelve thousand dollars worth of property was considered wealthy. The same is rapidly getting to be the case again. -. •,

CATARRH

Of Ten Years'Duration. The Discharges Thick, Bloody, and off Foul Odor. Senses of Smell and

Ta&te Wholly Gone. Entirely Cured by

SAHFORD'S RADICAL CURE.

Messrs.Weeks ft Potter: Gentlemen—I fwl compelled to acknowledge to you the great benefit dan ford's Radical cfrk has been to me. For ten years I have been afflicted with this loaihaotn* disease, and especially In ttio winter ttme has It bfeumoet severe. Tho discharge has beenthlek and bloody, emitting a foul odor so bad that presence In a room with others waa very offensive to them. One week after commencing the nse ot Banfocd's Radical Ct'KZ I wsa not troubled wltti It at all. Mys ii»eo of tasto and smell, which intra wholly jtoiu havu now fully returned, and my g«&erul houlth Is much Improved Yours,

MELBOTTTWE H. FORD. .. .SAorf-ifand Wrtotr.

Q&axd RATIOS,11ten., Ivov. 8,1878. LATER. Gentlemen: Tho pockape of Sastoed'b rvm» arrived hern to-night all rl^hi. I don't know what! should hav-i clono Hli.id not been for ihlaremaily. I have trlrdNasnl Douches»n'l 0verythIukuIse, lu although 1 have been nblo to stop tho ofl'enMvo (Uncharge, 1 hnvo notbern nhl*to recover mvsenseHuf tnsto and smell until ItrleclPANronD'sCrnK. \ro can reter any ont) you choosc to tne, nnd I wltt cheerfully Inform them in detail n* to 1U0 benottt the remedy has uoon to me. Tonrs,

MKI.BOUltN'K II. FORD.

Grand JlArtDs, Mien., Nov. IS, 1STU.

SAHFORD'S RADICAL CURE

Not only promptly srrcsts the corrodlnjr discharges In atsrrli, but. by sympathetic action, It restores to Bound hcaltli nil the orgmis of lite head thnt Iwrra become affected by It, aud exhibit any ol the following affections:— Qofcctlvo Eyesight, Inflamed nnd Mattery

Eyi«, Painful untl \Ytilery Eyes, Loss «JT Hearing, Earacho, Notimlgiu of tho Ear, Discharge* from tho

Ear, Hinging NolSra

in tho fiend. Dizziness, rvous llcadacho, Pains in tho Temples, Losn of ttis Senses of Tasto ami Hindi, Elongntlon of tho Uvula, Inllainmstlon of tho Ton nils. Putrid Sor«»Throat, Tackling or Hix\'aipfr Cough, Bronchitis, atul lileMllag of tM Lunci.' Efteh ptu .Nujjo contains Pr. Sr.nford'.i ImV- wd Inhullng Tub.-, wlih full nnd cureiullv pivii "K.l V.lrectlons lor uho In nil cases. Prliv. 1. ur sui'iby all wbolesitlo and retail druggists and 'Vnjors througliontthc United states and Cmis 'us. V- KKS & POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale Drug* lsts, Boston, Mass.

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