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CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1896.
VOLUME XLIIt NUMBER 2230
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THE
CHARLOTTE DEMOCRAT
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Tkhme ODe Dollar cash in advaLC3
o
Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C,
as second class matter.
DRS. McCOMBS & GIBBON,
DKSlllE TO INFO KM THE PUBLIC,
That they havs this day entered into a copart
nership for the
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE,
AND
SURGERY.
Mareh 1, 1BS5
March 15. 1895.
JOHN PARRIOR,
i 1 SOCT I TRTON STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
DEALER lf
Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sil
ver and Silver Plated Ware.
J3f Special attention given to Fine Watch
Repairing.
Jan 25, 1895.
BURWELL, WALKER & CANSLER,
Attorneys- At-Law,
ROOMS NOS 5, 6, AND 13, LAW BUILDING,
. CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Jan 4, 1895.
DR. E. P. KEERANS,
DENTIST,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
'Of-picK- West Trade Street
Nov. 2, 1894
DR. GEORGE W. GRAHAM.
OFFICE, .7 WEST TRADE ST.
'Practice limited to .Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat.
April 3, 1896
JOHNSON & POPE
-:0:-43 South College St -:o:-
Tbe largest stock of cotton gins, boilers,
jtresses, Saw mills, mowing machines, Har
vesters and putnps. Come in or write. All
kinds of machinery.
JOHNSON & POPE.
April ; 1896
m.
HUGH W, HARRIS,
Attorney and Counsellor it Law,
Office, Nos. 14 and 16 Law BuikliDg,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
JulyC, 181)5:
K. I OSBORNE, W. C. MAXWELL, J. IV. KEERANS.
OSBORNE, MAXWELL & KEERANS,
Attorneys at Law.
CIIARLOTT E, N. C.
ZW Offices 1 and 3 Law Building.
Vill practice in the State and Federal Courts
Oct 20, 1895
DRS. M. A. & C. A. BLAND,
Dentists.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
No. 21 Tryon Street.
.San 3,1890
. KKIOT CLARKSON.
CI1A8. H. DULS
CLARKSON & DULS,
Attorneys at Law,
Charlotte, N. C.
Prompt attention given to all business ln
. justed. Will practice in all Courts of the
(State.
jaPOffice No. 12 Law Building.
'Oct. 7. 189G.
fi.. N. PHARR,
ATTOJXSy jCT !LAW.
Office No. 14. Law JBuilding.
.Prompt attention to all busiucaa intrusted.
Jtycnial attention given to claim9. Practices in
StHtt' and Federal Courts.
Jan. 6, 1895.
ACKNOWLEDGED
Leading Seeds Are
BUISTS! - TJUISTS!!
We open ours todav, fresh tfom the grower.
Plant only "Buiat's Prize Me1 Seeds," and
you are sure of a crop.
R. H. JORDA 3T&CO.,
Jan. 1. 1S95 Retail .druggists
GO TO ALEXANDER
DRUG STORE,
NO. 216, NORTH TRYON STREET.
Keeps a well assorted stock of all articles usual. v
kept in a Drug House
J. B- ALEXANDER.
The Poor prescribed for free.
April, 8, 1895.
QUEEN CITY HOTEL.
In visiiing Charlotte,
'Don't fail to stop at the Queen City Hotel,
Corner East Fifth and College Sts,
Everything first-class.
RATES, flOO PER DAY.
July 6, 1895. W J MOORE, Prop'r.
E. NYE HUTCHISON,
FIRE INSURANCE.
Offices 16 East Trade Street ; 4 North Tyon
Street, up stairs.
Feb. 19. 1895.
American women, as a rule, have small,
white bands and pretty arms. With theBe
advantages it is ratber strange that she
baa not adopted the Parisian fashion of
wearing elbow sleeves on everything ex
cept the severe morning, shopping or
business gowns, and adding the long,
comfortable mouFquetaire that fits so
snugly over the elbows. Gloves are
cheaper in Paris than thoy are in New
York, and therefore the short-sleeved
gown does not require so great an outlay
for long gloves there as it would in Arner
ica. Even if the prices were the same I
think it would mtke little difference to
the French woman, who looks upon a
well stocked glove case as a necessity
rather than a luxury. "
Administrator's Notice.
Having qualified as Administrator with the
will annexed of Mary Jaue Giiffin, deceased,
notice is hereby given to all persons having
claims against the Estate of said deceased to
present the same to me for payment, proptrly
vertified, on or before the 13th day of March
1897, or this notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery.
All persons indebted to the said Estate will
please nwke prompt payment.
This March 12th 1896.
M. W. GRIFFIN, Adminstrator,
With will annexed of Mary Jane Griffin, de
ceased.
March 12th, 1896 6w
Notice of Administration.
Having qualified as administrator of the estate
of the late J. G. Potts, dt ceased, all persons
holding claims against said estate are hereby no
tified to present the same to the undersigned on
or before the 20th day of March, 1897. or this
noiice will be pleaded in bar of recovery
This March 18th, 1896.
W. M. BARRINGER,
Administrator, of Estate of J. G. Potts, dee'd.
March 20, 1896 6w
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March 27, 1896.
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The Retail Druggists.
July 12,1895.
Harrison, Bro'b & Co.
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Gentlemen : About ten (10) years ago I used
your Town and Country Paints, olive shades, on
my hotel, "The Eager House," and am pleased
to inform you that today the paint is in good
condition and shows no signs of fading or
giving away. Very Respectfully,
B J Z Eager.
HARRISON'S - TOWN - AND - COUNTRY
Ready Mixed Paints,
Are sold .exclusively by
R. II. JORDAN & CO.,
Sept. 14, 1895. The Retail Druggist
Dec. 6, 1895.
WARM OVER SHOES.
Ladies wool lined plain rubber oveiohoe,
price 50 cents, less than you can buy than any
where in America; Ladies plain overshoe
"gold seal" brand every pair warranted,
PRICE 50c.
This overshoe will wear longer than two
pairs of any other, ever made, comes high up all
round, affording more protection from mud,
ain; or snow, than any or tne lancy styles casi
i. yS aB rnuch, and not near so good.
LADIES RUBBER BOOTS,
for vorkiog garden in early spring, every lad
ehou 'O nave a pair n no ruuuer uuois juu wui
not mnd the weather"so the wind dont blow.'
PRICE $2 CO.
Best stock of shoe in the State
Jan. 24, 1896 GILREATH & CO.
We Sell Buist's
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Fresh and Pure.
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. IT. JORDAN & V-0.,
Prescriptionists.
A Song of tbe World.
This world of ours is not as drear
As we would often take ij.
Nor is it half as lonely here
As many people make it.
If skies are sometimes overcast
And all seems dark before us,
The sunshine always comes at last
And throws its splendor o'er us !
A little while and we are gay.
And then our hearts are saddened;
And so it is, from day to day,
Our lives are grieved and gladdened;
We seek the joys that fortune brings.
Though hardly worth the giving,
But oft forget the little things
That sweettn life and liviDg.
There is beauty that adorns
This changing life of ours.
For if our pathway has its thorns
It also has its flowers;
And Hope is ever whispering nigh,
If we would only hear it;
The cross would never make us sigh
If we would meekly bear it.
F L. Stanton.
Pitchfork B. Tillman.
New York Sun.
In certain elevated portions ot Colo-,
rado the air, even under tbe most favor
able conditions, is so highly rarefied that
it is difficult for any other than the most
athletic lungs to breathe it. For tbe
next two weeks there will be no air at
all in Colorado, highland or lowland. The
Hon. Pitcbiork B. Tillman, the great
South Carolina dispensation, is going out
to Denver, where the Democrats are to
bold their State and Congress convention.
The motion generated by Mr. Tillman is
so great as to exhauet all the atmos
phere. Clouds consisting entirely ot a
silver lining have been banging over
Colorado for years, but the coming of
Mr. Tillman will produce great changes,
great convulsions, great conniptions, even
there. Tbe silver in the banks beneath
the earth begins to shoot up in spouts
and columns. Gold bugs, making a
mournful and fruitless strident sound with
their anterfntu, are crawling out of the
State aB fast as they can crawl. The
mountains begin to gush fire; tbe canons
are full, up to the brow of the steepest
cliff, with the reddest fire; the corsets of
nature begin to crack; a great and won
drous lime is at hand. The Hon. Pitchs
fork B. Tillman brings a message to the
silver Democrats of Colorado and he
brings it in a hundred express trains,
rushed through space by a hundred loco
motives, propelled by bis own steam and
rolling on bis own wheels.
LOOK AT THIS,
TABLES AT
$8 50 8 50 $8 50
$8 50 !
Would not be bad on a table, especially when
you can get a $12 50 Table for on.y $8 50 1 That
is just what you get at E. M. ANDREWS'.
The grandest display of
FUEN I TUBE!
ever shown in our history. The prices, not
withstanding the advance in many lines, are
lower than ever before in our history.
Buying in such large quantities enables us to get
THE
BEST
PRICE !
We do not buy just one of a
kind, but 10, 20, 40. 50 and 1,000, if the firm Las
MADE AN INDUCEMENT !
-.o:- BEAUTIFUL -:o;-
For the little folks Useful, Ornamental, Ap
propriate ! The display is ready. See them
Doll Carriages, Doll Sets, Doll, Bedsteads
Velocipedes, Express Wagons, Childrend's Desks
Rocker., Chairs, Music Racks and an endless
variety that you mutt see
OUR LEADER IS COUCHES
10, 12, 22.75, 15, 18, 22.50. 25 and $50 They are
WHAT YOU WANT !
' E. M. ANDREWS,
Largest Furniture Dealer in the
STATE.
Feb. 7, 1896,
SPECIAL.
-:o:-S PRING HARDWAR E-:o:-We
are selling the only
RIVETED COTTON HOE
on the market, and it would Pay
you to examine our stock.
THE GENUINE
DOWLAN COTTON PLANTER
always gives satisfaction and is
the one for all farmers
to buy.
TURN PLOWS
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
Plow Shapes, Sweeps, Single-Trees, Back Bands,
Trace Chains
-:o:- and a complete stock -:o:-of
HARDWARE.
Call in and see us.
J. H. WEDDINGTON & Co.,
Old Stand, 29 E. Trade St.
March 13, 1896.
NEW REMEDIES
GREAT VALUE
AT
DR. J. B. ALEXANDER'S DRUG STORE.
Special Tonic Tablets, Postillers
Woman's Frievd, The Great Renovator. En
quire of the Doctor about these rtemedies
May 18. 1895 816 N. TRYON ST-
Wby tbe Government Pays Gold Only
For Its Notes.
Richmond Times.
Tbe Times has received tbe following
letter :
To tbe Editor of The Times :
Sir The United States baa out about
five hundred millions of dollars of its
promissory notes greenbacks and Sher
man notes. Are there notes net payable
on demaud in coin gold and silver? If
they ate payable in either coin, why doth
the Secretary of the Treasury pay them
exclusively in gold?
The above questions are frequently
propounded to me by some of the free
coiners. If you can furnish tbe desired
information, you will greatly oblige one
of your subscribers'. I. T. Wernxr,
Buckner's, Va , March 16, 1896.
We bave many times stated the facts
of this matter, but it takes a long time
for them to come to be understood by all
the people, so that we lake pleasure in
repeating them as often as asked for.
The Government has outtebout $350,-
000,000 of its notes that are called green.
backs. These are tbe notes that it issued
during the war and forced upon tbe peo.
pie. They are not payable on their face
in anything in particular, nor do the acts
of congress that provide for their issue
direct that they shall be made payable in
anything in particular. The acts of Con.
gress providing tor their issue simply
direct the Secretary of the Treasury to
issue tbe Government s notes, which shall
be legal tender for all debts, according
to a form to be prescribed by him, and
tbe form prescribed by bim was a simple
promise of the Government to pay dollars,
but nothing was said of the kind of dol
lars. At that time the silver dollar was
a trifle more valuable than the gold dol
lar We resumed specie payment Janus
ary I, 1879, and up to that time there bad
been coin -id but $8,000,000 of silver dollars,
and all of tbem bad left tbe country, be
cause their bullion value was greater than
their face value. There were no silver
dollars, therefore in which to pay these
notes when we resumed specie payments,
and we were compelled to adopt the
policy of paying them in gold dollars.
By the time we bad ooined enough silver
dollars to be able to pay these notes in
silver, the silver in a dollar had fallen so
much in value that the holders of the
notes were unwilling to receive payment I
ot them in silver, and tbe Government
saw no reason to abandon its fixed policy
ot paying tbem in gold, because it would
have seriouslv affected its Credit to do so.
That is the case with the greenbacks.
We have out some 9150,000,000 of the
Sherman note?, There were issued under
what is knowu as the Sherman aot, passed
in 1890, which directed tbe .Government
to buy 4,500,000 ounces of silver each
month, and pay for it by an issue of the
Government's notes. The notes were
payable on demand, and the act provided
that tbey might be paid in either gold or
silver dollars as tbe Government pre
ferred. But the act also declared that it
was the settled policy of the Government
to keep its silver dollars and its gold
dollars circulating upon terms of equality.
When these notes were brought to tbe
Treasury, therefore and gold dollars were
demanded for them, tbe Government said
it it refused to pay gold dollars and offered
silver dollars only, that would be a dis
crimination between the two unfavors
able to silver. It would be the same
thing as for it to say it thought the gold
dollars more valuable than the silver
dollars; it would set this as an example,
and would, therefore, be a violation ot tbe
provisions of tbe act which declared that
it was tbe intention of tbe Government
to keep each of its dollars circulating on
a par with tbe other. Tne policy of pay
ing these notes in gold dollars, therefore,
if gold dollars were demanded, was
adopted, and it seems impossible to doubt
tbe force of the Government's position in
resolving upon that policy.
Intemperance Amone: Women.
There is much said about tbe growing
habit of intemperance among women;
perhaps more than the facts would war
rant. If this habit exists, it is owing to
tbe fact that women are often enforced to
perform domestic, and social duties under
great physical suffering, and by partak
ing of liquors for temporary relief or a
little protraction of strength, the habit
becomes a necessity. If all ladies who
suffer with the complaints peculiar to
their sex, would take Dr. Pierces'
Favorite Prespription, they would find
nature's restorative, and the evil results
of pernicious drugs and liquors would be
avoided. For all cases of nervous and
general debility, sleeplessness, spasms,
periodical pains, supressions and irre
gularities, it is tbe only medicine sold by
druggists that can be impicitly relied
upon. No medicine for women sells so
so largely
Electric Bitters.
Electric Bittero is a medicine suited for any
season, but perhaps more generally needed, when
the languid exhausted feeling prevails, when the
liver is torpid and sluggish and tbe need of a
tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of
this medicine has often averted long and per
haps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will
act more surely in counteracting and freeing the
system from the malarial poison. Headache,
Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness yield to
Electric Bitters 50c. and $1.00 per bottle at
Burwell & Dunn drug store.
FRESH MEATS, GAME.
FINE GROCERIES.
SEE ME
Eefore Selling Your Choice
BEEF CATTLE. PORE, EGGS,
CHICKENS, &c.
Always in Market for bo.
GEO- S. HALL.
Feb 28, 1896
Surgical Instruments.
A. fall line of Surgical Instruments at Manufac
turer"s prices. Call and examine them
iy Mail orders will be promptly attended to
R. H. JORDAN & CO.
Sept 20, 185
What's The Matter With Adlai ?
Washington Special to Batimore Sun.
Up to tho present time, more than one
hundred years since the establishment of
the existing form of our government, no
senator bas succeeded in stepping from
tne oooy ot wbicb be was a member into
the White House Several of tbem
have gone ao far towards the realization
of their ambition as to secure a nominal
tion, but there it has stopped; while
scores who bavo struggled desperately
for a nomination have failed to obtain it.
It does not look in this presidential year
as if this unbroken line of precedents is
to be changed. There are three avowed
presidential candidates on the Republican
side of the Senate and twice as many
more who bave fostered secret hopes.
But there is not belioved to be tbe slight
est possibility that tbe prize will fall to
tbe lot of any one of them. Singular to
say, and this is unprecedented, there are
at this time no presidential aspirants on
the Democratic side of the chamber. It is
well they all recognize the conditions, for
not one ot tbem could be considered ' as
possessing any of tbe elements of avails
ability.
VICE PRESIDENTS HAD BETTER LUCK.
The Vice Presidents of the United
States bave had much better luck than
the Senators. Not less than seven of
them have gone straight from tbe chair
of the presiding officer of the Senate into
the Executive Mansion three by elect
tion and four by the death of tbe Presi
dents. Tbe three were John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren.
Tbe four were John Tyler, Millard Fill
more, Andrew Johnston and Chester A.
Arthur. It is possible that another Yice
President may, and by election, succeed
to tbe presidency. Stranger things,
much stranger things, bave happened.
The model Vice President is Adlai E.
Stevenson. Not in the memory of any
one living bas a more affable or a more
popular man sat in the chair of the Sen
ate. This is the unanimous testimony of
Democrats, Populists and Republicans.
Millard Fillmore, who nearly fifty years
ago sat for a brief period as presiding
officer ot tbe ben ate, was oourteous and
dignified, but be was not the experienced
and cool parliamentarian that Yice Presi
dent Stevenson is. Hannibal Hamlin was
pretty good, but Henry Wilson and Thom
as A. Hendricks, both of whom had the
benefit of a service in the Senate, were
altogether out of their element in the
chair, and required constant prompting
by tbe clerks to enable tbem to perform
even tbe routine duties. Governor Mors
ton, when Yice President, although to
tally unsuited for the position fared -
pretty well because be was generally
liked, and allowances were made for hra
In consequence.
CARLISLE AND STE VENSON.
Mr Carlisle is the only man who ever
sat in tbe Speakers chair to whose mis
ings exception at one time or another has
not been taken. Vice President Steven
son is perhaps the one presiding officer
of the senate with a similiar experience.
lie is what may be called a partisan. He
certainly is a Democrat from top to toe
and from blood to skin. In the three
years be has presided over the Senate,
party lines bave oftentimes been strictly
drawn, excitement bas run high, difficult
questions bave been thrust upon him, and
moments have come when a cool head, a
fine judgment and a resolute will were
very necessary. He has always been
equal to the occasion and at more than one
period has shown a tact and a diplomacy
almost marvelous. He has convictions,
plenty of them, and is not afraid to utter
tbem when it is proper and suitable to
do so, bat the rare combinations of his
nature are shown in the fact that he has
no personal enemies. Goon theRepubli
can side of the senate and you will hear
"We would sooner have btevenson for
President than any other Democrat."
Cross over to tbe Democratic side and
the cry will be, "Who would object to
Adlai?"
MR. STEVENSON A BOCIAL LION.
The Yice Presidents of the United
States have, with the rarest exceptions,
been poor men, too poor to keep bouse,
and bave generally dwelt in lodgings.
They have no vote ia the senate, and,
as has been frequently said they have no
influence with the president. It is al
most an axiom that all those who resign
dislike the heir apparent. It may be tor
this reason that ltiss" difficult tor a Vice
President to command any influence at
the. White House. Neither bave tbe
Yioe Presidents been of much aocount
socially. Tbey are just a kind of left
alone. Vice President Morton, with bis
millions of money and bis fine mansion
in Washington, commodious as the White
House, rivalled the President in social
distinction and elegance. But his was
an entirely exceptional case, and it was
money that made tbe mare go. Vice
President Stevenson i& a man of modest
means. He lives in apartments in a
hotel and does not undertake to go into
entertaining. Yet there is no greater
social lion in the capital. He is a wel.
come and a favored guest everywhere,
and undoubtedly receives more invita
tions than any other man in Washington.
Without tbe money of Morton, without
the presence of John C. Breckinridge or
Chester A. Arthur, without tbe long and
notable public career of various of bis
predecessors, he has ivested the office of
Vice President with a dignity in legis
lation and a charm, an elegenoe and an
influence in sooial life which never at
tached to it before.
HELD ALOOF FROM POLITICAL TRAFFIC
He bas made no begging appeals for
patronage at tbe White House ; be has
kept aloof from political traffic of any
character, and yet it is quite sure if he
had to choose between Democrats and
Republicans for office bis heart would
incline to the former. Mr. Stevenson
has been frequently mentioned in con
nection with the Democratic nomination
for tbe presidency, but be bas said noth
ing on the subject himself. He has
started no boom, nor have his friends.
His record is as clear as the snn, and the
only question that is raised is as to bis
position on financial issues. It is true
he did dlly with the green back theory,
just as did Thurman and Hendricks and
many other trusted Democratic leaders,
and Morton of Indiana, and Logan, and
numerous other high prieBts of Republi
canism. But that is all over many yeaia
ago.
Persona whether through friendly
motives or otherwise, have undertaken to
announce views on the silver question
both for Mr Stevenson and bis upright
and courageous fellow citizen of Illinois,
Col. William R. Morrison, but no one
need fear that either one of tbem will
fail to declare his own position in his
own good time on all issues which inter
est the people. If the national Demo
cracy was confined to the State of Illi
nois in its choice of a standard bearer;
which is very, very far from being the
case, it could with pride and confidence
put up either Stevenson or Morrison
againBt any candidate to be named on
tbe other side.
Senator Brlce Talks Sense.
Exchange.
Senator Calvin 8. Brice of Ohio, was
on his way to Washington in a parlor
car. A state-room opened off one end of
the car, and in this richly carpeted apart
ment, with latticework and carved woods
over his head, and soft cushions at his feet,
he looked at tbe picture of plutocracy,
aristocracy, opulence and comfort ! The
picture of wealth and tbe enjoyment
of it.
A waiter with menu card entered and
vanish with an order for dinner.
"1 am glad to talk about getting rich
and the young man's chances of the
same," said Mr Brice, 'because it is
something upon which I bave strong
opinions. It is an unusual topio for a
publio man to discuss wealth. And I
am well aware that in public life a man
seeks more often to disguise his money
than acknowledge it, and to ignore the
advantages of possessing wealth. To
mv mind there is a virtue, as well as a
value in money.
"To the young man who wanU to get
rich, I say, 'Riches will be yours.' I agree
with timer son tbat you can get anything
you want in this world. If you work for it
hope for it, and believe you will get it, it
is yours in timet Emerson says tbat if
you want a rock in mid-ocean it will
come floating to your feet. This is my
own belief.
"To give advice tbat will be good for i
something, I will be specific in my state
ments. If a young man wants to get rich
let him get an interest in a business and
work at it. This does not mean to put
capital in it at the start. Let him select
a business and learn all about it.
"Young men who study law, or the
ministry, devote four years to the study
of the law or the ministry exclusively,
after they bave completed an ordinary
oducation. Young men thinking of busi
ness Bhould study their business just as
long a time before going into it.
"Take the comaussion business, a ,
richly repaying line of work. Let the
ambitious commission merchant prepare
himself beforehand for his work. Let
him learn about tbe making ot his goods,
the transporting of the same, the profits
possible and tbe profits desirable. Let him
learn to discriminate goods at a glance
for himself. This will take time. When
he knows it. let him handle goods on an
ordinary commission.
"My first remark about getting an
interest in a business comes in play here.
That young commission merchant now
owns part of that business. He may be
working to sell a capitalist s goods. xSut
for every $10 be makes for tbat capitalist
he makes one for himself. Tbe capita
list's business is his business.
"The same with the importer. These
lines of work are semi-professional, and
are excellent examples of a combination
of manual labor and brain. Let the
would-be importer learn all about the
tariff. Let him learn tbe oost of carry
ing goods. Let bim aot as oarrier until
he learns tbe ups anp downs of carrier
life.
"If I were asked to name the businesses
at which a man can get rich 1 would say,
at railroads, mining, forwarding agents,
commission, importing and manufactur
ing and at any of the (other under-current
industries that are tbe bone, sinew
and vitals of a great country's industry.
Being bidden, tbey do not tempt as other
fields do, and tnere is an immense re
source of wealth here. The professions
are all mines of wealth.
"The rules I would lay down are to
know all about it beforehand. Second,
never speculate. Or speculate only with
your time. If you see a good thing
neglected.oner tbe capitalist who owns it
nine-tenths of it, if he will let you keep
the other tenth for developing it. Take
his railroads through impossible parts of
the country.. Find flaws in his present
way of doing, things do them better for
him, and finally, work all tbe time, taking
little recreation and pausing only for
health's sake. Eat and sleep, but never
take time to idle. It is your time tbat
counts in a young business.
"This great country is rich enough to
allow every man to be a millionaire.
Yon can be one. And even should you
not have the good health or firmness, and
self-denial to aspire to riches, this advice,
if followed, will place you in tbat state
of comfort desired by King Solomon of
neither too much nor too little."
Of "Pierce's Pellets" we wish to rehearse
The wonderful virtues, in prose and in
verse.
Dyspeptics bleareyed, sonr-visaged and
cranky
May be cured by a pill, tbe device of a
Yankee.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cost only
25 cents, and cure dyspepsia, constipation,
biliousness and all derangements of tbe
liver, stomach and bowels.
Highest of all in Leavening
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I Bimetallism in England.
I There Is in this country some tnieap-
of the House of Commons on March 17 in
adopting unanimously a resolution moved
by Mr. Whiteley to the effect that tbe
British Government should do all in its
power to secure by international agree
ment a stable, monetary par of exchange
between gold and silver. This has been
termed a victory for tbe bimetallists; but
a verbatim report of the debate shows
that it was described more accurately by
Sir William Yernon Harcourt as tbe eu
thanasia of bimetallism on the English
scene. That the unanimous vote simply
signified a disposition to give the bime
tallio question a decent and honorable
burial is clear from the declarations of
SirMicbid Hicks-Beach, speaking for the
Government, and of Sir W. Harcourt,
speaking for the Opposition. They con
curred in saying that while England
would be willing to see other countries
establish a par of exchange between the
white and yellow metals, the United
Kingdom, for its own part, would now
and forever inflexibly adhere to the gold
standard. There is no possibility of
dislodging England from a position which
has the joint approval of the Govern
ment and of the Opposition, and there
fore we say that the debate on tbe White
ley resolution dealt a deathblow to the
bimetallic programme, which neither
Germany nor the countries composing
the Latin Union will ever adopt, as long
as England repudiates it for herself.
It is true that Mr. A. J. Balfour, the
First Lord of the Treasury is a bimetallist,
and that with reference to many questions
he is the spokesman of tbe Ministry in
the House of Commons. On this occasion,
however, he did not speak for tbe Gov
ernment, tbat function being discharged
by Sir Michael Hicks-Beacb, who is the
Chanoellorof the Exchequer. In a speech,
which a political opponent eulogized as
one that had never been surpassed in
ability, in closeness of reasoning and in
downrightness of statement, Sir Michael
Hicks Beach declared : "Nothing can be
done, nothing should be attempted, which
is against the views and the wishes of the
great practical financiers and bankers of
this country. It would be folly and mad
ness in any Government to go in advance
of the educated commercial opinion of
the country in this matter. We cannot
therefore, alter the gold standard of the
Unitdd Kingdom." With tbat reserva
tion, which practically reserved every
thing, Sir Micbtel was willing to give a
sterile assent to the resolution tbat tbe
British Government should do "all in its
power" to secure by international agree
ment a stable, monetary par of exchange
between gold and ilver. We say that
the reservation reserved everything, be
cause all tbat the spokesmen of the Gov
ernment and of tbe Opposition admitted
to be within England's power was the
reopening of the Indian mints to the free
coinage of silver, in case all other nations
except the British nation should adopt tho
bimetallic programme. Such an offer corns
mits England to nothing, for, as we have
said, England's acceptance of the double
standard is a condition precedent to the
adoption by other countries of the bime
tallic system. This is clear from what
took place in the conference of 1893,
when a bimetallic resolution was proposed
by tbe United States. It was opposed by
Germany, by the Scandinavian nations,
Switzerland, and by Austria, all of whom
declared themselves gold monometallists.
Even France and the Latin Union were
only prepared to accept it if Great Bris
tain, Germany, Austria and Ruesia would
join the union, so that the resolution fell
to the ground, and the question of what
the ratio between tbe metals should be in
the event of an international agreement
was never even touched.
In the face of this debate, it is obvious
that the prospect of an agreement. on tbe
part of an international monetary con.
ference is even more hopeless in 1896 than
it was in 1893. In the year last men
tioned Sir W. Harcourt, then Chancellor
of the Exchequer, was merely suspected
of having in some secret manner .in
structed one of the delegates to the Brus.
sels conference to declare tbat England
did not mean to depart from tbe gold
standard, and it has been said that -this
was tbe cause of the failure of the cons
ference. What possible rtbult, then, can
be expected from a conference this year or
next, when Sir Michael Hicks-Beacb, the
present Chancellor of the Exchequer, bas
not secretly, but publicly-and officially,
and with the utmost emphasis, averred
tbat England bas no intention of departs
ing from her present monetary system.
No well-inBtructed and reasonable
American bimetallist believes tbat it
would be possible for tbe United Slates,
in the absence of an international agrees
ment, to establish, for itself alone, a stable,
monetary par of exchange between gold
and silver. Such an international agree
ment must now be recognized as a dream,
for no European country would be a
party to it without the concurrence of
England; and that concurrence by both
of the great political parties now bas
been refused explicitly and finally.
Marvelous Res alts.
From a letter written by Rev. J. Ganderman
of Dimondale, Mich., we are permit ted to mak
this extract : u I have no hesitation in reco m
mending Dr. King's New Discovery, as the re
suits were almost marvelous in the case of my
wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist Church
at Rives Janction she was brought down with
Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe. Terrible
paroxysms of coughing would last hours with
little interruption and it seemed as if she could
not survive them. A friend recommended Dr.
King's New Discovery ; it was quick in its work
and highly satisfactory in results." Trial bot
tles free at Burwell & Dunn, drug itcre. Regula
sixe 50c and $1.00.
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