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Butcher Birds.
The butcher bird that is famil
iar to all ranches in California,
is considered bv the foremost or
nithologists as the most saga
cious bird in Ameiica. Thomas
Oldham, of Lordsburg, tells the
San Francisco Examiner that he
believes it is as cruel as it is sa
gacious.
"I have paid lots of attention
to a pair of butcher birds at my
place for six months," said he to
us the other day, "and I have
learned nianv new things about
the habits ol the peculiar butcher
bird. A pair of them have fol-
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lowed me while plowiugfor three
or four days at a time, watching
for me to overturn a nest of field
mice. When I overturn a nest
they will pour.ee down upon the
little mice and claw and jeck
them to death. Then the mouse
carca. 5es are carried away to
ni-
ie
citement. When they can
soike
a live mouse, or even a rat, on a
yr-n H fluff At u hnnr OtlfJ
chatter with themselves as ii
! they had great fun in seeing the
rodents squirm and trvist in the
throes of death. But I am most
i curriricpfl tn c Imw ctrntlfT
butcher birds are and what thev
lly away with. I
have often seen toads that had
been impaled upon the thorns of
the century plant upon my place
and left to die. 1 he other morn
ing I saw a butcher bird with a
snake lully a foot long. He had
it by the back of the neck and
flew away with it up to an or
ange tree. lie then nailed the
reptile on to a thorn and sat and
watched it. Ke let the snake al
most wriggle off, when he flew
at it and would fix it on more
firmly. Because these birds are
destructive to gophers and rats
they are considered tae friends of
the orange grower.
Avantages of the Fast Ocean Lines.
Wrhen a man talks of a fast
boat 22-knot boat, which
means a 25-mile boat from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook
the pessimist utters the word
"Coal!" and feels that no more
terrible condemnation could be
uttered. The coal consumption
of the Campania is no doubt
great; it has to feed 30,000 hors
es at full gallop for 2,800 knots,
and the gallop will last about
five days and a quarter; but al
though this means over 2,500
tons of coal for the trip, the
shorter trip means less human
fuel in the shape of fewer meals
for passengers. The quick pas
sage is all in in favor of the shio
owner in the commissariat of the
ship. Many of the passengers
become hungry only on the
fourth day, and the reduction of
the journey from 10 to 15 days
means something considerably
in the consumption of beef, seeing
that the reduction is always in
the hungry days.
The shipowner calculates, with
appalling indifference to suffering
humanity, that if the passage
could be shortened a day or two
more, some of his passengers
could be landed just at the time
they were beginning- to think
about the cook as a person of
consequence. There is another
practical view of the case. A
ship that can make a voyage to
New York and back in a fort
night will earn 52 freights in the
year instead of the 2 G
of the boats of 20 years
ago. The crew costs no more,
if the coal does, and thr earnings
are double. London Saturday
Review.
What kinds of forks should
never be used at table? Pitch
forks. Youth's Companion.
SENATOR VANCE'S SPEECH ON
SILVER.
Mr. Vance began his speech
with the statement that the
great law of supply and demand
operated in regard to money
just as it did to everything else;
when moncv was abundant
prices were high; when it was
scarce the prices of all products
were low. Therefore he that in
creased the abundance of money
benefitted production and en
hanced prices and wages, and he
that contracted or diminished
the amount of this money de
preciated everything that is for
sale, including wages, though by
reason of combinations and de
fensive measures in many parts
of the world wages are effected
less than products. The effect
upon the condition of mankind
which would follow the destruc
tion of one-half the currency of
the world amounting in the ag
gregate to $7,500,0(0,000, it
would be impossible accurately
to describe. Still this process of
destruction has been going on
quietly since 1872, and its result
is seen in prices lower in "many
things than has ever been known
in the memory of man.
Lvery government that had
demonetized silver had done so
when it was at a premium, and
when the coinage was stopped
in India the effort to have it
stopped altogether in the United
btates began, aided bv tne influ
ence of the moneyed power of all
the world and our own govern
ment. If coinage stopped here,
silver ceased to live throughout
the commercial nations of the
earth. The repeal of the law
without any substitute meant
the end of silver monev for this
generation unless a revolution of
the people should restore, as it
ilid, after the fraudulent demon
stration of 1873. Let no man
doubt that this movement for
the repeal of the Sherman act
was the result of a conspiracy
among th money-holders of the
world. Our own Secretary of
the Treasury had said so. It had
been repeatly announced in the
British House of Commons, and
nowhere denied, that the intent
of this combination was to in
crease the value of the sold in
tlie hands of those who held it
and increase the value of all se
curities by making thorn payable
in iold. The method of the at
tack was by the creation of a
panic.
Mr. ance criticised the action
of the Secretary of the Treasury
in redeeming the notes issued in
payment for bullion in gold, and
said that any technically intelli
gent man would construe that
law to mean that the discretion
was to be used in favor of silver
when the condition of the treas
ury required it. Most of the
gold shipped abroad was ob
tained from these notes, although
any other obligation of the gov
ernment was payable in the
same coin. The object of the
conspirators was, however, to
show that the departure of gold
was attributable to the Sherman
law, and for that purpose they
chose to redeem those notes.
Some foreigners believed the cry
that we intended to go. to a sil
ver basis and sei-t back some of
our securities, and the clamor
that began in a false pretense
ended in a howl of real terror.
PROFESSIONS O F I5I-METALLISM
BY PARTIES.
Mr. Vance then referred to the
inflow of gold, but said the
bankers of New York, intent on
keeping up the cry, contracted
their currency, refused to Joan
monev and enforced stagnation
in all branches of business. Never
was there a more senseless clam
or or more criminal disturbance
of pablic confidence. If the Sher
man law sent out gold, it surely
brought it back. If not, what
made n return? The fact that
in the midst of the clamor our
resources are so great as to be
able to check the outflow of gold
and to turn the tide in our direc
tion, ought to restore confidence
to every man whose confidence
is worth securing.
The discussion of this question,
Mr. Vance said, was narrowed
by the fact that all parties pro
fess bi-metallism, and have de
clared for the use of both gold
and silver in their platforms.
The conditions attached to these
professions of bi-meta'isra were,
Mr. Vance said, so various that
it could hardly be conceived that
all were acting in good faith.
With all the grave pledges of
their party platform. State and
National, staring them in the
face, as well as their own speech
es, promises and votes in the
past, blowing-trumpet-tongued
against the deep d initiation of
the taking off of the silver some
Senators clamored all the louder
that the only way to save silver
was to repeal the one law on
the statute book which gives it
life. In the presence of a posi
tion so defiant of logic and of
fact it was hard to speak plainly
without appearing to violate
those courtesies which were de
manded by feelings of personal
respect and regard for each oth
er. Members of Congress de
clared they loved silver money
bi metalhsm therefore, t h e y
slew it. They wanted both
metals, therefore they abolished
the one. They wanted gold and
silver coined on terms of equali
ty, according to their platform,
and so they stopped coining sil
ver. They deired to maintain
the parity, but cut the only cord
th.it held silver up, and permit
ted it to drop out of sight.
A CLAUSE OF THE CHICAGO
PLATFORM.
Referring to the Democratic
platform, Mr. Vance asked if it
was meant that bv coining no sil
ver we should thereby make no
discrimination against either
metal? Did the platform mean
that we shouM first cut off the
coinage of silver and then show
no discrimination, but coin
equally of both? And after that,
when the platform said that the
dollar unit of all coinage of both
metals must be of caual intrinsic
and exchangeable value, did it
mean that we must first i educe
by hostile legislation the intrinc
value cf silver so as to render a
carrying out of that pledge an
impossibilty? And when it says
that this intrinsic and interchan
geable value is "to be adjusted
through international agree
ment," did it mean that we
should first increase the dispari
ty in order to facilitate the task
of getting foreign nations to
agree to coin it with us at loVii
to 1, and, failing in that, when
the platform goes on to say, "or J
by such safeguards or legislation j
as shall insure the maintenance
of the parity of the two metals
in equal power of every dollar at
ali times in the markets and in
the pavment of debts," did It
mean that these legislatives safe
guards should be applied while
the silver dollar was still alike,
so as to help maintain its parity
with gold, or after its coinage
was stopped and its intrinsic
value was reduced as that it was
virtually dead ? Did it mean
that it should be good in pay
ment of the public debt, among
private parties and with small
frv? Was that a wink with a
golden eye to the Bond holder
and a broad silver smile to com
mon people who loved the old
dollar? When the platform d-
nounced the Sherman act as a
"cowardly makeshift" did it
mean a makeshift for free coin
age of silver or the use of Gold
a makeshift for bimetallism or
monometallism? If the framers
of that plan meant that it was a
cowardly makeshift for the free
coinage of silver, was not this
bill for its repeal without a line
in its place a greatercoward and
a worse makeshift ? It it was
meant that it was a cowardly
makeshift for gold monometal
lism, was not the language of the
platform itself both a coward
and a lying makeshift for the
tiulli: rinaiiy, iitne language
of the platform, taken altogether
meant only that we were to
oblige the bankers, bondholders
and stockbrokers first by un
conditional repeal, accompanied
only by a short stump speech in
the belly of the act, saying that
it is our policy at some future
time the Lord knows when to
do something further the Lord
knows what in the direction of
carrying out the other promises
of the platform, were not the
makers and upholders of that
declaration of policy and pur
poses open to the charge of in
sincerity and of so framing words
as to deceive the people whose
suffrages they were seeking?
A CRITICISM OF MR. GORDON'.
Democrats were put in power
and Mr. Cleveland, though
known to be personally hostile
to the use of silver, was elected
because the people believed that
he would carry out in good faith
the promises made for him in the
platform, and to which he ac
cepted in his letter of acceptance.
In the fulfillment of these promis
es the first thing done was to
yield to the clamor of capitalists
and anticipate the regular ses
sion of Congress for the sole
purpose of stopping the coinage
of silver and nothing more.
In reply to Senator Gordon's
query why the friends of silver
halted between unconditional
and conditional repeal, Mr.
Vance &aid that by conditional
repeal we united the Democratic
party, or a least all true friends
of bimetallism. By the proposition
of unconditional repeal that was
impossible. Bimetallism was
the most popular; if not the
most potential factor in the last
campaign. It was the one plank
common to all platforms. A
comparison of votes in Congress
and in conventions before and
after the proposed repeal would
form a contrast that would put
to shame the wonder inspiring
patent medicine advertisements
"before and after taking."
Referring to Senator Gordon's
change of front, he said he be
lieved he would be condemned
out of his own mouth and would
be compelled to savlike the wild-
eyed, long-haired man who ac
companied the temperance lec
turer, "I goes along to serve as
a frightful example." Giving
and taking was fair, but when
one side did all the giving and
the other side all the taking, it
amounted to a surrender. Thirty
days from this time all obstruc
tions to the business of the
world would have passed away,
and to day, according to lead
ing financial papers, an upward
tendency was everywhere mani
fested lie called upon his friends
to take heart and stand by the
object of their love a little while
longer. To insist upon repeal in
the face of the admitted fact that
the Sherman law was not the
cause; the trouble was an ac
knowledgement that itcould not
be repea'ed without some sub
stitute in cold blood and in
times of reasonable prosperity.
NO SILIYKR HILL WILL BE SIGNED.
In view of the attitude of the
President he knew and other
Senators knew that any bill pro
viding for cither the free coinage
or the limited coinage of silver
could not become a law, and to
permit the passage of this bill
without attaching some other
legislation to it knowing that
other legislation could not be
secured independently and b
itself was to consciously sur
render and turn their backs upon
the pledges made to the people.
It Democrats did this they must
must do it with their eyes open
to the consequences and know
ing that they were subjecting
themselves to the serious ac
cusations of their constituents. If
the Democ;atic partv did this it
would cease to be the people s
friend and become the sub
servient tool of combined cap
ital and constitute in its legisla
tion the lincral succession of the
33 years of that Republican rule
which they had alwars hereto
tore denounced as building up
the combinations and corpora
tions which have wcli nigh ab
sorbed the wealth of the coun-
tiy.
After dwelling for a time upon
the production of the two metals
and their use as monev bv dif
ferent governments, Mr. Vance
conclude I hU speech by a declara
tion favoring the free and un
limited coinage of silver and ex
plained why he thought this
could be accomplished and main
tained.
Mr. Vance delivered the speech
from printed slips, brought close
to h's vision by a half dozen
large volumes piled upon his
desk. His manner was as usual,
very humorous, and the witti
cisms which glittered all over
the production were provocative
of frequent peals of laughter on
the floor and in the galleries.
Not one-half of the Repbblican
Senators were in their seats, and
these for the most part seemed
to give more attention to their
correspondence than to the
speech. On the Democratic sde
of the chamber, however, almost
every chair was occupied, half a
dczen of them by Republicans,
and all seemed to enjoy the en
tertainment to the utmost. For
the first hour of the speech Mr
Voorhees, wns not in his place,
and when he did come into the
chamber he sat on the Repu
lican side.
At one point in the speech Mr.
Vanec allowed Mr. Cockrell to
put in a statement, furnished bv
the director of the mint, show
ing the aggregate production
and coinage of gold and silv r in
all the nations of the world from
1873 to 1893, the recapitulation
being as follows:
Gold Production, $2,21 9,000,
000; coinage, $2,787,000,000.
Silver-- Production, $4,100,
000,000. coinage, $2,352,000,-
000.
And Mr. Cockrell laid stress
upon the fact that the coinage of
gold exceeded the production bv
$577,000,000, while the coinage
of silver was $78,000,000 L-s
than production.
Mr. Vance resumed his scat at
2 p. m., having occupied an hour
and forty minutes. He was soon
surrounded by Senators offering
their congratulations.
The Suicidal Minu,
Suicide is doubly interesting to
physicians, not only as they
study it in its professional as
pects and psychological bearings.
but from the fact that, accord
ing to recent statistics, probably
more physicians than anv other
class of men die bv their o wn
hands, lawyers coming next, and
the liberal professions as a whole
furnishing about one-fifth of all
cases. Various causes have been
suggested to account for this
seemingly abnormal development
of the suicidal tendency among
doctors, some ascribing it to
overcrowding and t lie struggle
for su.'ncient work to maintain
life in such a way as to make ex
istence inviting, while others,
with probably more reason, seek
the explanation in the greater
tendency among medical men to
fall victims to opium, chloral,
cocaine and other drug habits.
Since suicide increases with ed
ucation and civilization, it might
be demonstrated that physicians
as a class ad vance more rapidly
in those directions than do others
and simply show their superiori
ty by keeping at tin head of the
list. Unfortunately tor such a
theory, that of insanity possib
ly the result of supposed civiliz
ing influences step in and de
stroys whatever of merit may
attach to the act or to the fact
of belonging to the class most
given to its practice. Moiselli
speaks of "the known disposition
of doctors to become mad."
Suicidal mania i undoubtedly
traceable to hereditary predispo
sition in many casts, while it is
fair to presume in other.- that a
man whose father killed himself
may become so possessed with
the idea that he himself will do
the same that he is forced to the
act to get rid of the idea. . ueb
cases should be ttcated arid af
ford instances in which prophy
lactic medicine can and should
assert itself. liven in monomania
hope may be held out of penna
nentc ure of the desire to di.
Dr. Sitbault told at the inter
national congress for experiment
al psychology, held at London,
of his success in treating by hyp
notic suggestion a woman vith
strong suicidal mania. To ac
complish the desired result by
this means repeated sitting?
must be had, and the suggestion
of cure madeoverand ovcragain.
In the instance recorded 58
seances of -15 minut s each re
sulted in freeing the woman of
all her self destroying tendencies.
The would br suki 1c is rue of
three thi-ig, a great philoso
pher, a crazy man or a co.vard.
If a philosopher, his philosophy
is faulty, unless perhaps he is be
yond all hope and doubt a bur
den to himself and to the com
munity.
If a lunatic, he must receive
careful tieatment, and his reason
ing powers be trained to follow
out ideas which will take him
out of himself and give him some
interest in life. The whole treat
ment 13 prophylactic, but much
may be accomplished, and pos
sibly hypnotism may prove a
valuable aid in its accomplish
ment. Much might be done to
give force to the character of the
coward, but when a man be
comes so afraid to face the world
with its trials, disappointments
and distressing problems that he
prefers to solve them all by get
ting out perhaps it is well to let
him go. Medical Record.
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STATE NEWS.
George V. Downs is doing a
large business in corundum min
ing, near Franklin, taking out
from 00,000 to 70,000 pounds
weekly.
A party of thirteen Waldcnses
passed through Raleigh recently
en route from Italy to Burke
county, where they" will make
their future home.
Mr. L. Harvy, who lived near
Kinston, shipped 298 barrels of
canteloupes from one acre, be
sides several barrels which were
sold at home.
There are 181 convicts in the
penitentiary at Raleigh. Eighty
convicts have just been snt to
join the hundreds now on the
Roanoke State farms.
The Piedmont Mining Compa
ny, capital stock $500,000. h.is
bv-cn organized at King's Moun
tain, by A. R. Rudisil and oth
ers to opt n tin and other mines
in that vacinity.
The State Geologist has been
informed that valuable sapphire
polishing materials have been
discovered in Jackson cou' tv. A
company has been organized to
work it, and 135 men are now
at work. The material is said
to b? worth ten cents a pound.
A thief entered the room where
Mr. G. W. Britt was sleeping at
his boarding house in Raleigh
last Sunday night and stole
eleven hundred dollars in green
backs from him. Xo clue lias de
veloped as to who the thief was.
The watchman at Bostian's
bridge has found a relic of the
terrible wrtvk that occurcd there
two years ago. A few days ago
he dug up in the bed of the creek
a valuable gold watch con
taining ninctcfii diamonds. The
A'atch had laid under the water
two years, and the front case
was missing.
Asheviilc Citizen: Vtstcrdav
afternoon while the convicts
were at work near Alexander,
two of them Merritt Parham
and Creed IHack, white men,
made a break for liberty and suc
ceeded in escaping, despite the
efforts to cat h them. Parham
was sent up for five years at the
last court for highway robbery,
while Black's crime wa larceny,
he having been sentenced at the
last term to two years in the
gang.
Southport Leader: Two rattle-snakes
were reported as hav
ing been killed last week near
W. J Wcscott's, in this county,
one five feet three inches long
with fourteen rattles, the other
four feet six inches long and five
rattles. The body of "Bud"
Dosher, the little colored b y
drowned on Wednesday of hot
week, was discovered by D-m
Lee, employed on the Gocrn
ment launch, as the b at was
going up the river Friday morn
ing. The body . ;s found ll".it
irg off Deep Water poi it.