THE SCHAOT037 TKLUUJC 3ATUBDAY MORNING JULY 25, 1890?
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HAPPY TIMES AT
FAIR CHAUTAUQUA
SchIc aad Intellectual Attractioai of
This Famous Place. .
BOLTS AND BARS QUITE USELESS
Chatty Litter from 0e of the Most
Popular of Our Summering Placet.
Narrating the Doings of the Seveu
Thousand Folk Who Now Sojourn
There.
Correspondence of The Tribune.
Chautauqua, July 24. The readers of.
the Hcranton Tribune are doubtless
quite familiar with the early history
ot Chautauqua, the origin of. the C. 8.
, C, and its great power as an education
al factor, not only throughout this
country but in other land as well. Yet
many muy be interested in reading the
Impressions of one who visits C'hau
tauque this year for the first time.
Those who have spent but two or thru?
days here and In that time tried to se
and hear everything may not have been
favorably Impressed. To know Chau
tauqua, one needs weeks at least. The
first-few days one Is quite certain to
lounge upon some pleasant veranda or
on a Verdant knoll in the shade of some
grand old tree and gaze through thv
luxuriant foliage, out upon one of th.s
clearest, purest, highest and most beau
tiful navigable lakes In the United
States, listening the while to the music
of the crickets, treetouds, squirrels and
birds not being disturbed In the least
by mosquitoes or tiles.
Lake Chautauqua is as variable as a
maiden in her teens, usually smiling,
sometimes pouting, but never have 1
seen It In a rage. The other mornlns
I looked upon it Just after sunrise
It seemed like a magnificent sheet of
burnished silver sprinkled with Innum
erable diamonds scintillating upon its
Burface. As seen from the college ver
anda it sometimes presents the great
est variety of shadings, grays, blues
and greens, the beauty of the scene
enhanced by the forests, hills and vales
beyond. May vllleand Point Chautauqua
forming part of the landscape. During
a storm white caps play upon its sur
face and It is shrouded by the over
hanging mist. If you would know its
mood when the moon Is shining in all
her beauty, ask the young people who
are out rowing. And maybe they can
also tell you of the gorgeous sunsets.
MENTAL DELIGHTS.
One series of illustrated lectures last
Week, 'Was given by Charles Sprague
Kmlth, on those three great artists ot
the Harbison age, Millet, Corot and
Kosseau. Many of the pictures wer?
scenes In the Forest of Folitalnbleau,
from which they drew largely their
inspiration. As we stood a tew days
since upon an eminence commanding a
view of the luke and the surrounding
country, a friend remarked, "How Mil
let, Corot and Rosseuu, would have re
veled in these scenes."
Sunday morning there wore probably
4.000 people assembled In the vast am
phitheater, which hus a seating capac
ity of 6,000. The morning discourse
was given by Dr. fleorge Adam Smith,
whose lectures on Hebrew poetry have,
excepting those of Leon Lewis, been
the most favorably received, of
any so far this season. The
music In the amphitheater Is
furnished by a choir at four hundred
voices from nearly every state In the
union under the direction ot Dr. H. K.
Palmer, with I. V. Flagler at the grand
pipe organ, accompanied by Roger's or
chestra. While sitting here listening
to the grand musical strains or words of
eloquence, surrounded by beautiful for
est trees, one is reminded of Bryant's
Words: "The groves were Uod's first
temples."
How much grander is this scene than
were the ones In that larger umphl-theuter--the
Coliseum ut Koine, where
multitudes assembled to witness the
fights of the gladiators.
Dr. Harper's Bible class, held in the
amphitheater every Sabbath morning
at 9 o'clock. Is well attended. At 3
o'clock the different clubs assemble for
Sunday school and at 3.30 inarch to their
respective rooms, the band furnishing
the music.
The C. 8. S. C. Vesper service, held
every Sabbuth evening at G o'clock. Is
one of the most popular of the whole
week. All available space, both in and
near the "Hall In the Orove" Is always
occupied.
The small boy, and, judging from the
crowds attending, the larger boy and
girl as well, have been delighted with
a series of sleight of hand and trouba
dour performances given at Intervals
during the last ten days.
The loyal Chautauquan athlete was
Jubilant at the victory of the Chautau
qua Base Ball nine over the Jamestown
club last Saturday. Previous defeats
were forgotten.
CHAUTAUQUA COSTUMES.
Chautauqua Is cosmopolitan in dress
s In everything else; At the pleasant
receptions, of which several have been
given lately, ladies with large hats.with
small hats and no hats at all, light
gloves, dark gloves and no gloves; In
silks, satins, fine organdies, traveling
dresses , und shirt waists were all
equally at their ease and were pre
sented to the dignitaries wjith that
(race of manner that Is peculiar to our
American women.
Speaking ot dress reminds me of the
pretty colorings exhibited by the multi
tudes assembled in the parks along the
lake front and on the lawn of the Hotel
Athenaeum every afternoon to hear
Rogers' band. There are no signs
"Keep oft the grass." At any week
day lecture the men and women nliko
re privileged to wear hats or not, as
they please. It is not unusual to see
ladles In their dresses without wraps
and ladles In fur capes at the same
gathering.
The opening exercises of the Col
legiate department were held July It.
id J&zms
4,to wk-HmI wteeii.
having been deferred one week on ac
count of the N. K. A. convention in
Buffalo. The different schools with a
faculty of Heventy-fivey of the best In
structors In America are now in full
course of operation. It one wishes to
make thorough study of any subject
for six weeks, Chautauqua is the place
to come for pleasant surroundings, rea
sonable board, cheap tuition, the best
instruction, and better than all the rest,
an atmosphere of progress. The col
lege buildings Include the College, Col
lege hall, Normal hall and two an
nexes, HIgglns' hall, Kellog's Memorial
hall, the Temple and C. L. S. C. build
ing, all distributed over the northern
part of the grounds.. The gymnasium
is on the southern part of the.grounds,
east of the base ball ground. Tho
length of this paper will not allow me
to report any course in detail, but I
may do so at some future timet French,
German, English, music, painting,
drawing, mathematics, type writing,
short hand, wood-carving, cooking, elo
cution, physical culture. Delsarte, ped
agogy. Biblical studies, etc.. etc.. all
are Veil taught here. The Instruction
from the Assembly platform Is largely
blograpical und- centers around the
French in accord with the C. L. S. C.
programme for the- coming year. Leon
Vincent's admirable lectures were upon
the great French writers- BuUac,
George Sands and Victor Hugo.
KELIGIOL'S PRIVILEGES.
Several religious denominations hav?
headquarter on the grounds, supported
by voluntary contributions from their
own members. The Prenbyterlun house
is Just south of the amphitheater, the
Congregational north, the Methodist
west and the Baptist a short distance
south. ' '
Both branches of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance union have rooms
prettily fitted up as headquarters, one
In Kellog hall, the non-partisan In the
Arcade. The non-pnrtisan was opened
by Mrs. E. J. Phinncy, of Cleveland,
formally of Great Bend, Pa., and Mrs.
Plumb, of Chicago.
There are grocery stores, a dry goods
store, meat market, bakery, drug store,
milk station, fruit and ice cream
stands, curio stores. Jewelry store, book
store and fancy work store here. The
grounds are lighted by electricity and
gasoline. One of the blessings of the
place Is pure water from artesian wells.
There are also mineral springs. The
water for general use Is pumped from
the lake to the leservoir and conveyed
In pipes as in ordinary cities, but is
remarkable for Ita softness. ,'
The chimes which play the 10 o'clock
curfew are in the tower of the. pier,
one of the prettiest buildings on the
grounds. The much talked of model of
Palestine Is on the lake front near the
pier. Here Mr. Waterman gives lec
tures on the "Holy Land" every after
nooon. Yes we are In a walled city, only our
wall Is a high picket fence. To be sure
no one can enter or leave without-presenting
his ticket: but O. the security
of the place! In some respects a verit
able Utopia. Bars, bolts and locks
within are useless.
Several large steamers ply between
Mayvllle and Jamestown and on pleas
ant days numbers of null und row
boats are to be seen. On Sunday no
boat Is allowed to stop at or leave the
pier, nor are tickets avuiluble for in
gress or egress. But the country peo
ple are allowed to enter without tickets
to attend church services.
In some future article I may give
you an account of the other summer re
sorts on the lake, among them, Luke
wood, Celeron and Point Chautauqua,
CHAUTAUQUA'S AIM.
Bishop Vincent hus been Very much
missed during his temporary ubsence
at other Chautauquax these last few
days. In a recent Interview with the
Press: club he said: "It has always been
my object to keep the religious idea
tver present at Chautauqua. Camp
meetings have their work; Mr. Moody
his; both grand and glorious. Chau
tauqua stands between the two select
ing the best from both."
Hud you beeu here Sunday and Mon
day you would puihaps have voted this
a dismul place. Suuduy some rain,
Sunday night continuous ruin, Monday
more rain, "Old Hoi" coining out two or
three times, smiling deceitfully making1
one think she could go out without her
mackintosh, and then retiring behind
the dripping clouds. Truth forces nie
to say there are not good walks every
where and that Chautuuquu mud Is
first cousin to Kentucky clay. How
ever, the ralu kept none from the col
lege classes und leTtures and enter
tainments were well uttended. As wo
men passed each other with bedraggled
skirts, they would give a compassionate
look ut one another as much ufcto say
"How silly you are to go out In such
weather."
Monday afternoon Dr. George Adam
Smith gave his parting lecture on the
"Book of Proverbs," said a "good-by,"
hastened to catch a. train and Is now
envoyuge for his home in Glasgow.
MINOR NOTES.
' The first number of the Assembly
Dally Herald appeared Tuesday morn
ing replete with good things and con
taining a revised programme for the
season.
The electric exhibition given at the
Pier Tuesday evening was very pretty.
Just . l the fountain commenced to
play, t. Buffalo passed down the lake
casting lie reflection of its niany col
ored ele. trie, lights upon the water,
thus adding much to the beauty of the
scene.
Wednesday morning tho Pres-s club
were tendered a reception by Professor
Van Saer in Higgins' hall, to listen to a
lecture on the great Illustrators and
view his fine art collection before It
should be opened to the public at 3
o'clock In the afternoon.
Among the Interesting things
Wednesday were a musical lecture on
"Frederick Chopin," by I. V. Flugler,
at 10 a. ni., a lecture at 11 o'clock, con
cert at 2.30, lecture by Professor Bryan
at 3 o'clock, "Health of Teachers and
Children," Professor Leslie H. Ing
ham's continuation of the "Roentgen
Rays", at S p. m., Illustrated lecture
win una in bui iullpil
the ideal frying medium. It I
ooks clean and is clean
and does not sputter in the
pan. Food fried in Cottolan
is free from greasiness ajid
richness. 'It is appetizing in
appearance,
delicious to
taste and healthful to eat.
. . Then there is the added con
sideration of lower cost. of
Cotlottne does the work of
lard or butter.
THE N. K. FA1R8AXK COMPACT.
Sratwt,
by Professor JJinsmore at p. in. Alto
a ball game.
Keren thousand tickets of admission
have already been sold. Twelve hun
dred students are In attendance at the
College classes. Among the recent ar
rivals are Mr. Weeks and family, of
Pittsburg, and Mrs. Leech, of Ken
tucky. Mrs. Weeks and Mrs. Leech are
both active workers In their respective
branches of the Women's Christian
Temperance union. Mr. Weeks Is edi
s
UNDERLIE TIE SILVER . .MOVEMENT.
Hon. J. Edward Simmons, In the Kew
York Journal. t
The case or the advocates of fret and
unlimited coinage of silver rests upon
three card I mil assumptions, if these
thre assumptions can bo shown to be
false or at variance with statistics and
events, the whole case falls to the ground.
The assumptions are: .
1. That the suspension of free silver
coinage by' act of congress In 1873 struck
silver from its phiee as money, forcing
a single standard for our currency and
contracting the amount of money In cir
culation. ?. That the I'ntted States, by congres
sional enactment, independent of other
nations, can provide u double standard
n hereby gold und silver will circulate
side by side at a parity, with a resultant
expansion of the money In circulation.
ii. Thwt the greater the circulation of
money, the higher the vulues of all prod
ucts and commodities, and the greater
the prosperity of the country.
In the discussion of" these three as
sumptions un endeavor will be made to
avoid technical lina-neial terms and de
finitions, as fur us possible. In order that
the subject may be made clear to the
general reader. In the first place. It Is
necessary that the meaning ot free sil
ver coinage at a ratio ot lli to 1 be thor
oughly understood. Free coinage ot gold
ami silver at the ratio of IU ounces of sil
ver to I of gold, means that the weight
of Dure sliver In a silver dollar Is sixteen
times the weight of pure gold in a gold
dollar. To secure this result, under the
laws of lstf, the weight or the silver dollar
was lixed at -112' a grains, and the fineness
at HUO-IUW). producing a dollar-contain-Ing
37H4 grains of pure sliver. The weight
of the eagle ($IU) was fixed at i!0S grains,
and the fineness '.Wu-lwo. the pure gold
contained being BB.2 grains, or 1.22 grains
for the gold dollar, or unit. On this basis
an ounce of gold Is worth JiM.CT 2-10 per
ounce, and the coining value of silver Is
il.2 29-lOu per ounce. As gold is the uni
versal basis for reckoning values, it muy
be stated that gold and silver are at a
purity under 1 Wo 1 coinage, when an ounce
of silver Is worth about (1.29 In gold. Pre
vious to 1834 the rullo was 13 to 1. In :St
It was made 16.002 to 1. and in 1W7 is became
15.SS8, or practically 10 to I. The weight at
the coin has remained tlxed Blnce 1837. To
grasp the full significance of free and un
limited coinage of gold and sliver, it must
be understood that the owner of the bul
Hon takes it to the mint, and for every
U7P4 grulns of pure silver, or 23.22 grains
of gold deposited, the government returns
a sliver or gold coin stamped "one dol
lar." In the case of gold, ten times 23.22
grains, or 232.2 grains. Is coined into a ;iu
piece, called an eagle.
The coinage of" gold dollars has been
suspended since ISiH) to facilitate the cir
culation of silver dollars. Sliver Is now
selling ut between 8 and US) cents per
ounce, or Is, commercially, nt a ratio of
about ISO to 1. If free coinage of silver
is authorized at a ratio of lli -to 1, a silver
dollar coined from 37U grain of pure
metal will contain about 2 cents' worth of
sliver. Being legal tender, it must be ac
cepted as 10 cunts in the settlement of
private contracts, taxes ana government
obligations. As far us the owner of a sil
ver mine can produce sliver he will take
It to the government mint, and the gov
ernment lias no option except to coin It
Into sliver dollars without limit. At the
current commerc ial ratio of silver and gold
a Hold dollar will contain about twice the
value of a silver dollar. The result can be
plainly foreseen. Every man who must
pay out a dollar will seek to use a silver
dollar, every mun who lias a dollar owing
him will seek to collect It in gold. The
government will receive .payments only In
sliver, and a rush will be made for its
gold. The foreigners will pay their debt
to our people' in ellver and collect all pay
ments due them In gold. With each man
trying to puss sliver upon Ills" neighbor,
and every man lighting to secure an-.i Keep
gold, It can easily be seen that gold will
disappear from circulation. This Is what
is termed Gresham's law, that the inferior
money drives the better money out of cir
culation as none would care to have prac
tically $2 worth of gold stamped "one dol
lar." We should speedily come to sliver
monometallism. If the silver should be
worth more than JI.2D per ounce the op
posite result would follow. Uold ulone
would be coined and silver driven out of
circulation. In short, a bimetallic stand.
urd is an impossibility unless all of the
great nations of the earth should at the
same time adopt a lixed ratio of gold and
silver.
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The ratio ti&d by Hamilton for the flee
coinage of silver and gold In 17V2 was 13
to 1. Under this ratio silver was the
"over-valued' metal, as It was worth about
151-2 to 1 in the world's markets, in other
words, un ounce of gold could hardly be
coined into as ninny dollals us fifteen
ounces of silver, but could be exchanged
In the open markets for fifteen and one
half ounces of silver. The United Btutcs
practically produced neither gold nor sil
ver. It could not attract gohk und there
was no gold In circulation, only depreciat
ed foreign silver coins which were mude
legal tender under the law. The Bank
of the United Slates, in the year 1S1H. at
an expense of Jjuu.uui), Imported $7,u0u.ixm)
In specie from Europe to relieve the
strained situation. In 1831 the coining ra
tio was raised to 16.W2 to 1, with the hope
of attracting gold. The ratio was reduced
ubuut 14-luuo In 1837, as previously ex
plained. Cold wus attracted becuuse it
became the over-valued metal, and silver
was driven from circulation. The under
valued metal in a coining ratio sells at
what Is termed a premium. The opening
of new gold fields Increased the premium
on silver and the coinage of silver aver
aged less than Hu,iM annually. The coin
age of gold was conducted on an Increas
ing scale from 1849 to 1873, when free sil
ver coinage was suspended by the I'liited
States. The circulation of subsidiary sil
ver coin was only made possible by reduc
ing their eolna:Jp ratio of gold to less than
15 to 1. The lejnl tender power of sub
sidiary coin being limited of J5, their con
sideration is not pertinent to the main
proposition,
II il II
The history of tho Ineffectual attempts
of our government to keep gold and sli
ver in circulation on a fixed ratio dis
proves the contention that any natlpn
can Independently preserve a double mon
etary basis. Either one or the other metal
Is driven out of circulation, according to
the variations of the commercial ratio In
the world's market. Let a close compari
son of the states of our monetary condi
tion in 1873 and 1894 be made. The fiscal
year ending June 30. IkM, was the treas.
ury year, embracing the suspension of sil
ver purchases and the close of the experi
ments In silver money. In the year 1873;
when the so-called "crime of '73" was
perpetrated, there were 1136,000.000 gold In
circulation ami very few sliver dollar.!.
I'd to the moment that the law revoked
the authority for free coinage the mints
of the United States had coined I.0i5,838
silver dollars, according to the treasury
rcoort of that year. The only sliver in
circulation was In the form of subsidiary
or fractional coin, umountlng to $17,000,000.
In eighty-four years there have been
8.000,000 silver dollars coined, and to relieve
themselves ot this terrible Incubus upon
their wealth, the much-ha'ed "morey
power,' according to the silverites, hatched
the awful conspiracy of 1173, thus contrast.
tor of the Iron Age and Mrs. Weeks
of the Temperance Tribune
Tuesday morning Mrs. Phlnney left
for her home in Cleveland, but her
many friend here hope she will re
turn later.
Among the many names registered
at the Hotel Athenaeum are: Mrs. C.
D. Simpson and Miss Clara Simpson,
of Bcranton. Miss Nellie Martin took
dinner at Hotel Athenaeum July 7.
Lucy M. Morse,
Ing the amount of money in circulation,
etc.. etc., per assumption No. 1.
II II II
Let us look at the facts as contained In
official statistics. The circulation of
money per capita In 1873 was S20.17. In
other words, the total stock of money
divided by the number of men, women and
children in the country in t873 produces
an average of $20.57 in circulation for each
living person In the country. In 15514 the
per capita circulation was .1-4.04. "The
crime of 1S73." consequently, did not de
crtase the circulation. The. stock of
money Increased from tSM.0u0.vix in 1S7J
to il.8oG.0llO.0iX in 13S4. The supply of goia
rose from sera to Jo4G.oeO.tiuO. The gold
stock increased 4S4.WH,uun, and the silver
stock t54-i.00O.OiM: and still they say we have
done nothing for silver. During all of
this period the use of national bank notes
kept declining, falling from $317.wo,U00 In
1873 to 81C7.ovd.OOU in 1890. The monetary
disturbances utter that period caused an
expansion of the national bunk note circu
lation to fc.70.000.UU In 1S.14. There was
some minor changes In subsidiary coin,
and United States notes which need not
be noted. The statistics, therefore, prove
that there has been no contraction of the
currency despite the. "crime of '73," and
the wicked assault of capital upon tho
sensitive and soulful silver. These facts
dispose effectually ot assumption. No. 1,
!1 il i;
The falsity of assumption No. 2, that a
double standard Is possible in practice
as well as theory, has already been shown,
both by the experience of our nation and
the weakness of human nature, which can
not be transformed by legislature. The
unsuccessful experiments of other na
tions In the history of the world could be
cited by the dozens. If It were necessary,
II II II .
Assumption Xo, 3, that the expansion
of circulation . necssartly creates higher
values and prosperity, Is the greatest ful
lacy of all and will not bear a moment's
scrutiny. The free silverites, with either
gross Ignorance on malicious purpose,
are trying to force upon the people the
delusion thut higher prices and higher
values uru synonymous. Price, as ex
pressed in dollars and cents, Js no ele
ment In value. It make no difference
to the laborer whether a day's labor has
ft or (2 for Us compensation, if it will
buy the same suit of clothes or the same
pair of shoes. A dollar bushel ot wheat
has no more value than a DO-cent bushel,
It' either cun purchase the same hoe,
Double the prlv-o of everything valuable
In the world and us all would still be
exchanged on the same level of value.
that quality would remain unchanged,
Consequently, inflation of prices does not
produce corresponding Inflation of val
ues. Money is merely a medium of ex.
change, possessed of stable value, and it
matters not whether 11 or 2 Is used to
effect un exchange of a day's labor for
a suit of clothes or a tunnel of wheut
for a hoe. It Is conceded that if there Is
not suHli'lent circulating medium in the
form of money- to permit exchanges with
facility values are contracted. It does
not follow that when the circulating
medium Is more than sufficient values
will rise. Un the contrary, a superfluity
or the circulating medium Is a disturb
Ing factor,
I! II II
I will endeavor to make this plain. The
free sliver advocates persistently Ignore
the fact that titer Is another medium of
exchange besides money namely credit In
the form of checks and drafts. It is a
matter of statistics that. 90 per cent, of all
transactions are settled In checks and
drafts and only 10 per cent, m money. It
Is a fact which cannot be upset bv every
expletive In the dictionary or tomes of
printed arguments that the basis of ex
change In and among all highly civil
ized nations Is gold. This Is a condition
which cannot bo changed except by the
universal coiisei.t of all nations and
it is doubtful even then whether the change
could be wroug-ht. As a consequence
When gold begins to leave a country In
large volumes, credit immediately be
comes disturbed. There Is another law
which would require too long explanation,
but is conceded by even the dullest stu
dent of finance that a superabundance of
currency expels) gold from a country. If
the gold export movement assumes lurge
proportions credit begins to totter. The
unsettling of c-iedlt cripples the use of
checks und drafts1, which ar credit instru
ments, as a medium of exchange. A per
manent efflux of gold eventually destroys
credit, thus incapacitating the medium
that does 90 per cent, ot the work In the
exchange of commodity. A state of panic
ensues. The abnormal desire for the phy
sical possession of money forces It from
circulation. Men resort to the use of
checks and draffs perforce again. Uold
Is literally hauled back Into the country
again, but will not remain permanently
until the redundancy of circulation is per
manently removed from the fabric of ex
changes. The existing depression is large:
ly due to a redundant circulating medi
um, caused by the Infusion of too great
an amu'.int of silver, a currency of In
ferior value. This) unwholesome condition
has to be cured by a loss of gold, and
through bond issues au absorption of
greenbacks into the treasury. Under the
Wand law there were coined 378. 160.793
sliver dollars: under the act of is'.m, 30.-
37'J,i)46, und &l,07s."3 under the trii dol
lar redemption act of Hurt, wlthoui count
ing the uncoined silver bullion acquired
the uncoined silver bullion acquired under
the act of 1S90. there was about $420,OiiO.-
U00 silver Injected Into our currency. We
are still staggering under this loud.
Il II II
As a cure for the free silver disease from
which our nation Is now suffering, we are
asked to take more silver in unlimited
doses. The repeal of the tiherman uct
has left us barely convalescent. The Am
erican people do not like silver coin. In
all the period between 1873 and 1894 there
has never been ut one time over uo.ouo.uuv
silver dollars, or tl per capltu. In gen
eral circulation. The bulk and weight of
silver is alone sufficient to prejudice the
people In favor of gold or pjoer money
convertible Into eold. As It became ob
vious that the people could not be forced
Into accepting more silver coins, the law
of Aug. 4, 1886, was enacted, requiring the
Issue of sliver certificate in denomina
tions of 81, 82 and . The silver certitl.
cates, although more portable, have never
been popular, and have grown less popu
lar, as Is shown by their excessive and
rapid circulation at present, each Indi
vidual being anxious to move them on his
neighbor: Silver money, undesirable phy.
sically as It has been, Is accepted for set
tlement under our present currency sys
tem because the entire system Is main
tained on a gold basis. Adopt free silver
coinage. Which It has been shown under
present conditions means silver mono
metallism, and each dollar coined or to
be coined will have the value only of Its
371 grains of silver, as measured by the
commercial markets of the world. The
disappearance of uold will sink all cur
rency to a silver toasts, tnus contracting
Ita purchasing power one-half ut the very
start. The government mints ran coin be
tween $3,000,0110 to $1,000,000 a month. Cal
culate the length of time required to sup.
ply the Immediate con-traction of curren
cy, and how many years must be suffered
before the first gap Is filled? Never! The
people would not welt for it. They would
drive the very congress that enacted free
stiver back tp Washington with a thun
derous command for repeal
CELTIC NEWS
FROM GWALIA
The Dormant Powers That Lay In the
Cetlc Race.
ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR RERK0MER
They Had a Yearly Festival or the
'Greatest Importance and Woo to
the Day When This Festival Wonld
Be Broken l'p.
They were present at the eisteddfod,
he said, with the idea ot hearing music,
and he would not occupy them long this
year with his address. The years were
coming when they would listen to art
as much as they did now to music, and
it was his privilege to be there to ex
cite them for the future, lie thought
they were hardly awure of the dormant
powers that luy In the Celtic race In
matters of art. They were very great
In the days before Christ. Why should
they not be now? They had given their
attention more to the emotional side of
art, und thut was music; but there was
another side that was the pictorial
side which was around them in that
beautiful country; and he was very
anxious) to see more tangible form of
representation of It than there wus at
present given from the Welsh nation.
He did not say this as u reprimand.
They simply had not given their atten
tion to thut kind of expression mental
expression. They had a yearly festival
of the greatest Importance, it seemed to
him, and woe to the day when this
festival was broken up. It was a means
ot unearthing the Individual, not the
Arm, not the manufactory, but the indi
vidual that made the art work or Bang
a song. Now, let them spread that In
every direction. They had, of course,
difficulties to contend with. This year
there was a brave attempt to connect
with this exhibition a loan exhibition ot
masterpieces. There were ditllcultles
in the way. They were rather rushed
for time, and he believed more from
that cause than any other cause failed,
but such an exhibition would give an
additional zest to the affair, und lead
them to the desire for native urt. It
would give many of them there, who
hud, perhaps, not a yearly feast In the
direction thut he was so anxious to see
more cultivated in Wales, Wales was
overrun With English artists. They
might leave there. There were room
for others there was Immense room
but their first duty was to their schools
to train their artists and their artlsuns.
Instead of a national art training school,
let them substitute a national art train
ing school. There was a vast differ
ence; so gradually they would have the
masters, und that was all the Celtic art
wanted. The material must be there.
He could not believe that there was so
much music and Bense of rhythm and
poetry there was not a strong dormant
artistic tulent lying there and for thut
reuson he hud only to say that as Welsh
singing and Welsh song was renowned
throughout the world, he hoped they
would not rest until Welsh art was
equully renowned.
It Is estimated that there were eight
thousand people present on Frlduy
evening nt the "Mcsluh" concert, the
receipts during the week being about
four thousand pounds, but subscrip
tions umouiitiiig to eight hundred
pounds. are to be udded to this.
NOTKH.
The promoters of the Llandudno Eis
teddfod anticlpute a nice little surplus
of live thousand pounds.
Tt Is worthy of record that there has
never been published in Wules a skep
tical work of uny description.
The ltVv. It, Owen, of Hhyniney, has
received a uniiiiimous call to the pus
tourte of Bethlehem Chupel, fwl, near
Llunelly.
The cost to the town of Llunelly of the
parliamentary proceedings In connec
tion with the new dock bill .will be live
thuusuuU pounds.
Aberdare Is a pure Welsh name. The
Vowel "e" often udded to it serves no
purpose other thun to help on the at
empt to anglicise the world. It should
therefore, be written In Its original
form.
Today, a London paper, remarks:
"The best dressed vounir men in the
commons come from 'Wules. Mr. Lloyd
(Jeorge and some few others who sit In
school, displuy quite an aristocratic en
thusiasm for well-fitting garments.
The Iiev. II. Klwyn Thomas' book on
the social question to which Mrs.
Josephine K. Butler has written both a
preface and nn appendix will be short
ly published by Mr. uAlleson. of I'utern
oster tow, London. The title Is "The
Martyrs of Hell's) Highway."
A member of the Curdiff school board
stated recently at a meeting of the
board that several teachers did not
know the meunlng of the word "cor
poral," and suggested that dictionaries
be Sent round by the board. That mem
ber's scalp is In demand.
. Newcastle Kmlyn, which has an
Eisteddfod on August 1.1, would prefer
thqt tho battle of the choirs should be
fought out there rather thnn nt Car
diff In October, so -we gather from the
secretary, Mr. Kynnn Uowen, Natur
ally, but what about railway fare and
time?
Jainos 'Williams, who wnn b lmrn
prize at Llntidudnn. is a pupil of Mr.
Kurkcr, of Caerphilly, whose pupils
have won ten national Eisteddfod first
ham Ill'iZPS. Ail the nirml,ra nf ll.n
band of harps (with one exception) who
played Derore the Prince of Wnles at
Aberystwith were pupils of Mr. Barker.
The July number of "Dlark oml
White" given an admirable portrait of
the Mid-Wales choir that sang b.?for,
the Prince of Wales at Abei vstwith.
The lady members nre attired In the
natlonnl costumes, while in the fore
ground or the picture are four harpists,
and nn old lady playing the r.pinnlne
Jenny.
The Rev. Robert William, n. A., who
has Just been appointed professor at St.
David's college. Lampeter. Is a Vicar nf
Dolwyddelun, North Wales, n parl.-di
revered bv Nonconformists as the
birth place nf the great John Jones.
Talysarn. The new professor runs the
Bishop of Pt. Asntdt very close ns a
pugnacious defender ot the church in
Wules. . He Is also editor of "Yr lluul."
and among tho bards he Is known as
Iilyd.
Mr. A. O. Davios. the heir of T'nlaml.
a line estate on the banks of the Towy.
has been exceedingly fortunate Mnc
his marrlane. -which took place recently.
Mnny of the souvenirs of .the "eternal
link" are very elegant. One of them I
now on ylew In the window of the es
tablishment of Messrs. Davtes & Sons,
Uulldhall suuare, Carmarthen. It Is
an exquisitely wrought sliver epeigue,
the. palms and hanging baskets ot
which, wttrj the . appropriate camels
ana dromedaries, are closely done.
The Invention of Mr. William Davles,
of Llynpla. of an Ingenious contrivance
whereby the light ot a safety lamp Is
extinguished when the pot is belni;
un3rrewed, or the lamp opened, is
fully described In the current issue of
the "Colliery Guardian." The Invention
.was much approved of at the monthly
meeting of the Cambrian Association ot
Miners a week ago, and recently an In
teresting paper- was read upon It by
the Inventor himself at a meeting of
the South ales Institute of Engineers
at Cardiff.
Two hundred and eighty years ago
the Rev. Henry Rowlands D. 1..
Bishop of Bangor, died. Dr. Rowlands
jwas a native of Carnarvonshire, where
he was born In lufil. He entered Ox
ford. University when only nine years of
age. and was) ordained deacon, at Ban
gor when only 21, huvlng previously
graduated us M. A. In New College, Ox
ford. He was appointed Dean of Bang
or in 15911, and was consecrated Bishop
of that see November 12, 1598. Dr. Row
lands was noted for his liberality and
his charity In every direction.
A record achievement Is that of Mr.
J. H. Morgan, sou of Kev. D. Morgan
of Tongwyiilul9, who recently took his
London M. A. degree In philosophy
when only just turned 20. He Ih a
student of University college, London
where he carried off all the senior arts
prizes lust year and holds a special
scholarship ot 50 from Dean Vaughun.
He graduated K. A. In. the first division
with English honors at the end of last
year, having taken hh Intermediate
with like honors In the year preceding.
Mr. Morgan has been the holder of sev
eral exhibitions and scholarships.
A correspondent writes: One hundred
and seventy-three years ago Thomas
Athoe, mayor of Tenby, and his son of
the same name were hanged at St
Thomas's, Walney, In the county of
Surrey, for the murder of their nephew,
fleorrfe Marchant, in the county of
Pembrokeshire, In the previous year,
1722. A full account of their behavior,
confession and last words were printed
In a pamphlet by Thomas Dychs, chap
lain to the King's Bench prison, which
wus published and "sold by John Ap
lebe, a little below Bridewell Bridge In
Blnck Fryers," ut the modest price of
two pence. A Copy of this rare pain phi
let was reprinted In the "Cambrian
Journal" for 1SU3.
Musical Wales will be a good deal In
evidence during the next forthnlght.
On Saturday Mr. David Jenkins' "Psalm
nf Lire" will be performed at the Crys
tal Puluce by a choir of 2.000 voices,
mude up of sections drawn from North
and South Wales, while the following
week many Welsh choirs will partici
pate In the National Temperance Fete,
which will also' be held at the Patace.
The friends of the Welsh Church Mis
sion, which curries on Its work at
BerkeleyChapel, Mayfulr, under the di
rection of the- Rev. B. Klllln Roberts,
have secured permission from the Dean
to give a AVelsh choral even-song In
Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday, tho
1st Ii of July. On the following Sunday
Mr. Arthur Bailey will give an organ
recital at Berkeley Chapel In aid of thu
Welsh choir fund, when he will be sup
ported by Madame Edith Wynne, Miss
Katie Thomas, Miss Lilly Heale, Mr.
Dan Price (vicar choral of Westminster
Abbey), the Sister Isabel (violinist) and
others.
Nearly 400 of the "(jueen's Nurses.'
I. :, nurses of the Jubilee Institute, en
dowed by the gueen with a capital
sum of JLiO.oou, the proceeds of the wo
men's offering" on the completion of
the ioth yeur of her Majesty's reign,
were entertained to un ul fresco lunch
eon at Windsor Castle on Thursday.
The nurses were arrayed In three sides
of a parallelogrum, the Keiinels-roud
being the vacant side. Farthest away
from the Castle were those working In
Scotlund und Ireland; next to them
came those working In .Wales; then
those working in England. Says the
Daily Telegraph: "But these geograph
leal distinctions were soinewhut urbi
trury. 'Where, am 1 to go? asked one
young wouiuit of Lord Alwyne Comp
ton, who was inurshullirig the nurses
in line, 'I am from Monmouth, am 1
England or Wales? 'Wules,' was the
answer. 'Oh,' luughed the damsel
good-humoredly, 'I don't think I like
being Wales.' " Who was this smiling
"damsel who did not like being Wales'"
In the list -of the successful candi
dates for the London M. A., In mental
mid moral science appears the nume of
Mr. Thomas Reese, B. A. of Curdiff
University. Mr. Reese's career, as well
as being an excellent, und opportune
example of the advantages of the
Welsh collegeM, furnishes a brilliant
Illustration of tin Welshman's Indom
itable perseverance. Leaving the coal
mine at Aberdare for the grammar
school at Whltlaud in the fall of 180.
with the most elementary knowledge,
Mr. Reese succeeded in passing into the
Presbyterian- college. Oarmurthen. In
the Slimmer of 1S02 he passed the Lon
don MutricuUition examination, and
likewise the lner arts in July. 183,
taking his degree of B. A. In 18M, which
is now .crowned with the rurer und
inuch-coveted distinction ot M. A. At
the Cardiff I'niverslty entrance exam
ination In lSiirt Mr. Keese won the Drap
ers' scholarship the blue ribbon of the
year. This he has retained, and has
added to it a heap of first-class cer
tificates, several first prises. In philo
sophy and Celtic, and the "Dan Isaac
Davles" exhibition.
Professor John Rhys, In his presiden
tial address at the National eisteddfod
on Friday told the audience that the
history of Tudno, the patron saint of
Llandudno, was almost wholly lost.
Perhaps, however, the following tra
ditional particulars of the saint, which,
by the way, are offered not to enlighten
the learned professor, may be Interest
ing to readers who flu not possess a
lithe of his knowledge. Tudno. accord
ing to tradition, was the son of Prince
Seitheuyn, who gained to himself the
unenviable distinction of being known
us "Seitheuyn, the drinker," und to be
referred In the-triads with O era ilit and
Uwrtheym ( Vortigern) as the three
arch-drunkards of the Isle of Britain
ns he. In his drunkenness, allowed the
Bca to eiic-ulph. Cantre'r Q wat lnd. where
the triad continues, "there were It! cit
ies, the finest ill all Wales excepting
Cuerleon-on-l'sk." After this disaster
Tudno and his live brothers entered
the college at Bangor under Dunuwd,
and unothcr triad rtfers' to Tudno's
home at one of the three royal curlosi
tls of the Isle of Britain, for It wuuld
instantly put nn edge on the Mvord of
n hero and would us instantaneously
destroy the sword of u coward.
How (lit Heart Rests.
nn I. 1.1.... .1 , ... 1
t ii 11 wii' ,9 i.-iUK uvm, iiv.i i I u i,ra
abou'.'io strokes less a minuis than when
one Is upright. That means a saving ef
loo stroke per hour, or about 6,000 heart
beats uurlng the eight hours sfTgnt In toed.
The heart pumps six ounces of bleed with
each beat. It therefore lifts 90,000 euaess
!s -of- blood- In a night ot eight hours
spent In bed than when one Is in an up
right position. The blood flows Just so
much the more slowly threugh the veins
when one Is lying down, therefore one has
to use extra coverings to supply the
warmth usually furnished by circulation.
TOTAL TKEASl VK RECEIPTS.
Total Treasury receipts first twenty.two
months of the Wilson law, compared with
tlrat twenty-two months of the ilcKlnley,
law:
Receipts.
Kin ley law. .
First twenty-two
Receipts.
Gorman law.
First twenty-two
' months.
months.
1890.
1894.
Oct. ...
Nov. .,
Dec. ...
1M)1.
Jan. ...
Feb. ...
March
April ..
May ...
June .,
July ...
Aug. ..
Sept. ..
Oct.
Nov. ..
Dec. ...
1S92.
Jan. ...
Feb. ...
Murch
April ..
.May ...
June ..
July ...
.. 139,222.174 I
Sept.
, 22,621,221
19.139.2W
19.4U.40S
21,3ti,13s
27.801,1199
22,888.057
25,470.(79
24.247.83H
25,272,071
25,815.474
29,009,097
28,952. W
27.049,671
27.901.74t
25.98tf.S0S
26,288,937
29,207.irM
26.059,22
20.041.149
24.282.89J
24.043,717
27.794.2U
.. 28,78.674 0ct.
.. 27,016.015 Nov. ..
Dec.
,. 80.810,283 1896.""
.. i.273.i7:l Jan. ..;
.. 29. 427.405, Feb. ...
.. 25,4S.2:U March
.. 27,631, 849 'April .,
.. 31,289,2); May ...
.. 34.158.2l4i June ..
.-. 28,773,9X1 'July ...
.. 27.5ti5.4M Aug.
.. 28,448.562' Sept. ..
,. SM.804.8s7 Oct. ...
.. 27.6K.015l Nov. ..
I Dec. ...
.. SO.383.478l 1896.
.. Ui.WV.Ml'jan. ...
.. 29.8:w.f.:ii Feb. ...
.. 2ii.tr7l.224 1 March
.. 28.228.U98; April .,
.. SO.958.017i May ...
.. 34.314,331 June ...
Total ...$060.420.P3 Total ,...t558,144,50
Loss In twenty-two months un
der Democratlo "Tariff for
Revenue Only" 3103,275,791
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