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YRY Soap
It Floats
Have you noticed when discussing household affairs with
other ladies that each one has found some special use for Ivory
Soap, usually the cleansing of some article that it was supposed
could not be safely cleaned at home.
TMt Ptoenm & Gum Co Cum.
First Ssiioaal Bant!
Somerset, IPersii'a.
Capita!, S50.QOO.
Surplus, S24.000.
DEPOSITS HECEIVCDIN L"Gt AN 0 SMALL
MOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, rAMERS.
STOCK DEALEHS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED
DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Larue m. hicks, uko. r. sculx,
james l- pi uh, w. h. millek,
john r txtt, bobt. s. soulx,
kkeu w. euec ker.
EDWARD SCrLL, : : PRESIDEXT.
VALENTINE HAY. : VICE PRESIDENT.
HARVEY M. BERKLEY, . C.VSHIER.
The fUnl and oseruritios of thin bank are se
curely protecu-d in a reli-brated Cobmsss UfB
olas Pkoof Sake. Tne only safe made abso-luU-ly
burtlar-proof.
Tlie Somerset County National
AN K
OF SOMERSET PA.
Eitabiithaj, 1877. Orpilzl u Nitloml, 1890
CAPITAL,
S50.000
SURPLUS AND UN-
DIVIDED PROFITS $23,000
fc
Chas. J. liar rifcu.- President.
Wm. II. Koontz, - Vice rresident
Milton J. rritt?, - - Cashier.
Geo. S. Harrison, - Ass't Catbicr.
" Directors :
Sam. I?. Harrison.
Josiab SfXH-ht,
John II. Snyder,
Jo?ph B. I avis,
llarriwon Snyder,
Wiil Euvlsley,
Jonas M. Cxk,
John Stum.
Noah S. Miller,
Jenme Stuflt,
Chas. W. Snyder.
CtaMomem of this bank will receive the most
liberal tieMtniiit consistent with safe Mnkintr.
Farttes wisliinic to wnd money estM or west
can be accommodated by dm a for any
amount. , , , .
Monev and vjjltiablen isecared by one of IMe
boid's celebrau-d oafa. "ith most improved
time lock.
'ollections made in all parts of the L ntted
SUiteR. i narE moderate.
Accounts and dv-posius uolicited.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
and everything pertainine to funeral furn
ished. SOMERSET w - Pa
Jacob D. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Door Wert of Lutheran Church,
Somerset, - Pa.
I Am Now
prepared to supply the public
with Clocks, Watehe, and Jew
elry of all descriptions, as Cheap
as the Cheapest.
REPAIRING A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Ixk at my
stock before making your
purcliaSHR.
J. D. SWANK.
ALWAYS
On Hand.
BEST IN THE MARKET.
Jarecki Phosphite,
Raisin's Phosphate,
Lime,
Crushed Coke,
Hard Coal,
Salisbury Soft Coal,
At the Old Stand near tie Somer
set & Cambria It R. Station.
Prices Right.
Peter Fink
18.
MreALUhl.
NEW
FALL GOODS
XewStjlc Fall and Winter
Dress Goods
now in stock. Tlicy arc pretty
and cheap.
A complete line of all kind.-? of
Flannels,
Flannelettes,
and otlior goods cow in 6tock
Ladies' and
Children's
WEAPS
Now coming in. Call and ?ce
them.
Mrs. A E. UHL.
For your Protec-
ATARRH
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we positively state
that IhU remetiy
dot's not contain
mercury or any
other injurious
drug.
ELY'S
Cream Balm
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Fassaaea. Allay In
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the Sorv-s, Frotcts
the memlvram- fmin
Coids. Il-stom the
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Slliell.
COLD HEAD
IT WILL- CURE.
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tnisami Is aervml,li. Frlce So centa Druy
Kints or by mail.
KL.Y BK'JTHER-n 55 Warren 8L. New York
THE KEELEY CURE
I a special boon to bninen men who, hrinr
drifted uncoiwcknirly into the drink habit and
awakan to find the d:sea-seof alcoholism hutaned
up n them, rendertnc them unfit to manae af
falra requiring a clear brain. A. foiir week
coune of truaunent at the
PITT5BURa KEELEY IN'STrTVTE.
Ko. CM6 Fifth Avenue,
rtnn to them all their powen, mental and
phj-ucal, destrwjrt the abnormal appetite, and
rectorea them to the condition ther were in be
fore they Indulged to (timulanU. This has been
done in more than lfiOO cases treated here, and
none them some of your own neighbors, to
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absolute safety and efficiency of the Keeley Cure.
nvited. flead for pajni-hlet iTic full inJorma
tion. Caveats.
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SOMERSET, PA.,
A MODERN COCK-EOBIN.
Who killed Rill nryan?
"I." said Mark Hnnna,
"With s tttnd-niouey laumr,
I kilied BUI Brj an."
Who aw Ui in die?
In a manner decided
McKinl. y mid. -I did.
I raw him die."
Who'll m ike hi Hhroud?
"I." suivl I'rutei-tbm;
"Itisht ufler elecllnn
I'll inke his shroud."
Who'll dig hivi grave?
From Maine to Alaska,
Including Nebraska,
They'll all dig his grave.
Who'll loll the bell?
"I will," aaid Hewall.
"His death it was cruel.
And I'll toll the bell."
Who'll be the parson?
"Let me preach the nermon,"
Said Senator Slierinan,
"And I'll be the parson."
Who'll write his epitaph?
"Bill Br't hlcjncet.
When I eut, couldn't lace It,
A nd so he departed,
A man broken-hearted."
That is bis epitaph.
Wm. Evass.
Somerset, Pa, Oct. L
TOM WATSON'S VIOLIN.-
How it Used to Comfort Him in tbe
Days of Adversity.
Few jseojile are aware that in bis own
county the Hon. Thomas E. Wataou
has a widespread reputation as a fid
dler. He has played the violin ever
since his oldext friends can remember,
(ays a writer in the Atlanta Constitu
tion. Even when he first came to
Thomson a enniless young man, that
old, well-loved riddle came with him.
And when he was a struggling young
lawyer he would appeal to that old
violin, and as he drew the bow across
the strings the instrument seemed to
speak to him of home aud old acquaint
ances aud of better days.
Nor has he forsaken the instrument
siuce entering the political field. His
children have iuherited a talent for
limbic from him. Ilia daughter per
forms well on the piauo, while his sou
plays the Lass viol and guitar. And
when the evening shades are falling he
loves to gather with his family in the
parlor and take his lifetime friend from
its case aud play the old familiar airs
to the accompaniment of his children
on their instruments.
Mr. Watson is loved by all the young
people of Thomson. His ready smile
makes them feel at home when in his
house, and he in turn is fond of them.
Even now, during the busiest cam
paign of his life, he is ever willing to
lay aside his correspondence and the
preparation of his politioal speeches, in
order to accomany on the violin the
young people of his city, who love to
bring their instruments to his home.
Home 1-3 years ago, when he was more
frivoloiw than lie is now, he used to
play at parties and dances. On such
occasions he was in great demand, and
many a rural beauty has tripped the
light fantastic to tlie sound of Tom
Watson's famous fiddle. Imagine if
you can the Populist candidate for
the Vice Presidency of the Lnited
states standing at the end of a hall in
a country house, sawing away at an
old-fashioned breakdown, keeping time
on the floor with his foot and calling
the numbers in a stentorian voice,
while the rustic lads, aud lassies swing
around the room, and you have Tom
Watson as he appeared 15 years ago.
In his younger days he was fond of
serenading, and almost any night after
the good country folksof Thomson had
retired to rest Tom could be seen stand
ing under the window of some country
belle playing such tunes as "Then
You'll Rememljer Me," or "Come Into
the Garden, Maud." On these mid
night serenades he generally went alone
but sometimes he was accompanied by
one or two other young men, who
would play and sing, but be himself
never sang. His talents took another
course.
In the present campaign Mr. Wat
sou's fiddle will not accompany him
on his tour of speechmaking. In a
letter to the writer he announces that
"the catgut platform will hardly do for
a uational campaign." Hut whether he
t ikes the instrument with him or not,
there is no denying the fact that the
violin has helped to make him popu
lar in his home, and has Assisted other
men to honor and wealth. The story
of ex-Gov. Ilob Taylor is still fresh.
He riddled his way into the gubernato
rial chair of Tennessee, and stepped
from the strings of his violin to fame
and fortune.
While he is stumping the country,
suppose Mr. Watson should favor his
au Jieneos with a few selections like "I
Dreamed I Dwelt in Marble Halls."
People would go wild, and his name
would be shouted from one end of the
country to the other. And then after
t ie election, when he finds that his
hopes have not been realized, he could
retire to some dense forests in the
neighborhood of Thomson and cheer
his soul with that old familiar air "The
Old lied Hills of Georgia." While it
is not generally kuown that Mr. Wat
son is a violinist, yet it will be no sur
p ise to those who are acquainted with
him. Born in a land that is full of
harmony, out in the open air, survey
ing the beauties of nature until he was
a man, it is no wonder that some of the
love instilled into his being should seek
an outlet through that sweetest of all
instruments the violin.
The violin is an instrument which
appeals to the better part of man. Its
low, sweet tones and high shrill notes,
when played by a master band, will
stir our souls to thought and action.
Even the brute creation of this earth
seems to be affected more by the violin
than any other musical instrument
Beasts will crouch and listen, and some
will even liecome )erfectly docile when
they are under the influence of its mag
ic spelL
And if the Hon. Thomas E. Watson
could be induced to take his fiddle with
him on the stump, he would be able
with that master hand which he has
acquired to make men forget them
selves at the polls. An then he could
, hang a sign on his Washington resi
dence which would inform the passer
by that there lived "Tom Watson, fiddler."
set
EST-A-BXiISHEID 1827.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Lt. 1813.
Sound Money Arrows.
With election day, now -three weeks
off, the distribution of campaign liter
ature iu all the States has been vastly
increased. The Sun has received a set
of campaign cards whose texts are
short, clear, and incisive. They are
the work of a well-known Djmwrat.
They have beu sent int- the middle,
Western, and Northwestern States.
They are intended to do effective work
in the closing days of the campaign.
One of the cards is entitled "The Hil
veritc Catechism" and is as follows :
What is money? Something made
out of nothing by Government.
Is there any limit to the amount of
money which Government cn make?
Only the capacity of tlie printing
presses of the country.
What kind of money is the best?
That which has the leasi, value.
What does "cheap money" mean ?
Money that will buy a very little
wealth.
Why are some ieople poor? Because
the money they get in exchange for
their products or their labor will buy a
large amount of goods.
How can the poor all be made rich?
By stamping 50 cents' worth of silver
"one dollar" and thus decreasing the
purchasing power of money.
What is a capitalist? A wicked sin
ner who has worked hard and saved
up a little property,
What is a patriot? A man who
covets his neighbor's property and
wants to get hold of it by law.
What does "repudiation" mean ? It
is a simple scheme for readjusting the
inequalities between the men who
worked and the men who have not.
What is the golden rule of the silver,
ites? Do others as they would not do
you.
What are we to understand by "hon
esty" and "good faith between men" ?
That creditors are to bo cheated out of
one-half of their property whenever
the debtors control Congress.
Why not benefit debtors still more
by repudiating all the claim- of credit
ors? That will come later. The pub
lic must be educated iu silverism by de
grees. What is a creditor? A fiend inhu
man shape who loaned lX)-cent dollars
and doesn't want to be paid in dollars
worth 50 cents.
How will free silver help the farm
ers? By causing the withdrawal of
all loaus, paralysis of industry, stagna
tion of commerce, and idleness of mil
lions of workers who no buy farm
products.
How will the M to 1 scheme benefit
the working class? By making them
pay twice as much for everything they
buy, while giving them little or no in
crease in wages. It will also confiscate
half of their savings bmk deposits.
What is a silver mine owner? A
good, kind, un.elrtsh citizen who
doesn't want higher prices of silver so
that he will get rich, but simply be
ll tuse he loves his fellowman.
Deshis love fir the workers lead
him to pay more than market rates for
his labor Not m ich. Business and
sentiment are two ditf.Tent things.
Besides he doesn't have to.
What is a souud currency? Dollars
with 50 cents' worth of silver aud 53
Cents' worth of fiat, or paper dollars all
flat.
What is the chief duty of a good oiti
zn? To hate everybody who is in
dustrious and thrifty and to meekly
swallow all the nostrum of the cheap
m ney office seekers.
I low en the people be made pros
perous? Uy setting cla against class j
discouraging the investment of capital,
contracting the currency, ruiuing em
ployers, driving out gold and overt
throwing our sound financial system.
Candidate Bryan is fond of quoting
.ndrew Jackson. One of the campaign
cards declares :
Andrew Jackson was a goldbug. Iq
his message Dec 2, 1S3L he said ;
"The progress of our gold coinage is
creditable to the officers of the mint,
and promises in a short poriod to fur'
nish the country with a sound and
portable currency."
Here is auother sockdolager for Can
didate Bryan :
The Declaration op Ixizikvdsxce
was written by the man who said :
"Just principles will lead us to disre
gard leffal proportions a.together; to in
quire iuto the market price of gold in
the several countries with which we
shall principally bd connected with
commerce and to take an average from
them." But W. J. Bryan says It is
disgraceful to talk about adjusting oar
currency to the currencies of the world.
Just why Mr. Bryan has so frequent
ly quoted Andrew Jackson in his
speeches is not known. If bunted
down his quotations would doubtless
turn out to be as veracious as those he
makes from Abraham Lincoln. An
drew Jackson said in his last message :
"Engaged from day to dy in their
u;ful toils, they workingmen do not
perceive that although their wages are
q ninally the same, or even s mewhat
higher, they are greatly reduced in faot
by the rapl l tucreases of a spurious cur
rency, which as it appears to mike
money abound, they are at first in
clined to consider a blessing It Is
not until the prices of the neoes tries
of life become so dear that the laboring
classes cannot supply their wants out
of their wages that their wags rise."
Yet Mr. Bryau says a cheaper dollar
would be better for workingmen. N.
Y. San .
Level-Headed Lunatic
A gentleman was visiting a Scotch
lunatic asylum, where new premises
were being added. The inmates were
assisting. On seeing one of the Utter
wheeling a barrow upside down from
the building to the stones, the visitor
asked him why he wheeled it in that
manner.
"Oh," said the lunatic, "that's the
best way."
The visitor took the birrow, aud,
turning it right side up, said:
"This Is proper way."
"That's a' you ken," said the in
mate; "I tried it that way, but they
filled it full o' bricks." Ho saying, he
trotted on. St. Louis t?public
A WORKING MAN'S QUESTIONS.
An Open Letter to Some Free-silver
Politician) of Alabama Appli
cable in Every Fart of the
United States.
From the Mobile Register.
Gextlkmex: Noticing the adver
tisement of the f.tct that you will ad
dress the great Bryan and Sewr.ll rati
fication meet ing on Saturday night, I
hope it may not be treated as presump
tion for one who "earns his daily bread
by his daily toil," aud who is, there
fore, vitally interested in the para
mount issue of this campaign, to ap
proach j'ou who are leaders of your
party for information. It is to me a mat
ter of no concern whether the position
of ex-Gov. Jones and other Alaiwtma
gold Democrats is consistent or incon
sistent, I do not care whether Bryan is
a bolter or not. The reconstruction of
Alabama by the It'publican party
twenty-five years ago belongs to the
dead past. Tlie issue of the campaign
for the Gubernatorial nomination be
tween C'apt. Johnson and the Hon. II.
II. Clarke may concern some people,
but it has no interest for me. I want
to know how I will be affected by hav
ing the financial plank of the Chicago
platform made the law of this country.
With this purpose in view, I respectful
ly request that one or all of you answer
the following questions:
First Will the free coinage of ilvcr
at a ratio of 13 to 1 increase the rate of
wages now paid the workiugmeu in
the United States? If you say it will,
please name me some free coinage
country iu which the workingmeu are
paid wages as high as they now receive
in the United States.
Second We are not only Interested iu
the rate of wages but al-ro in the purchas
ing power of the money In which wa
ges are paid. Is there a freo-oiua e
country iu the world where a work
ingman can buy as much for a d llar
as he can now in the United States?
Third Mr. Bryan aud other advo
cates of free-coinage claim that it will
increase the price of all commodities.
If it should increase the priua of things
which the workingnun Im to buy and
does not correspjudiugly increas3 hi
wages, will he not b3 inn' seriimly
affected by the chang-:".
Fourth Is it true that b'twee.i Hi)
anh 1h"), when the currency was i;ili
ted with paper, that the priee of all
commodities rose 110 per ceut,' while
wages only 4'5 per cent?
Fifth If wages only increased ab jt
one-third as much as the price of
things for which wages ha I to be ex
changed between IS iJ auj 11 when
hundreds of thousand ot laborers were
in the field as soldiers, do you believe
wagea would increase so much under
conditions that would follow Mr. Bry
an's election?
Sixth The railroads of the country
derive their incomes exclusively from
freight and passenger tariffs that arc
practically fixed by laws enforced by
State and inter-State commissions. If
free coinage increase the pries of all
the commodities necessary to the oper
ation of railroads and their income is
kept down by law, can the large body
of men employed in the service hojw
for au increase of wages? Asa matter
of fact, would not a cut in Mages be
about the only way in wiiL-U. the nil
roads could ni'jct the increased CJ-t of
operation?
S.'veuth The street railway systems
of this city are operated under muuicU
pal ordinances which fix tin ir income
at 5 cents per passenger carried. If
Mr. Bryan is right in saying free coin
age will Increase pricjs of all c im'ti nl
ities used by street railways, can you
advise the conductors, mtonu3n, and
other street railway employees of this
city to vote for free coinage with the
hope of improviug their condition?
Eighth As I understand it, your par
ty has for years made war on protective
tariff because it increased the cost of
tha necessaries of life. If Mr. B.-yan
is right, will not free coitu.j in thU
respect be just as bad? Will it not also
create a gigantic- trust and make a mar
ket by law for the projitrty of tlie sil
ver mine owner at d iV.a it valu;.'
Ninth It U,true that on the Santa
Fe Iltilroad operate! partly in the
Uuited States and partly in Mexico,
the laborer on the American side re
ceives au American silver dollar,
while j'tst across the imaginary Hue,
on the Mexican side, the paymaster
with the American silver dollar buys
two Mexican silver dollars with which
he pays for two dtys' work?
Tenth Why is it that 371 J grains of
silver with the stamp of gold standard
America on it will buy 751 grains of
silver with the stamp of silver stand
ard Mexico on it?
Eleventh If you say it is because
the silver dollar in America is main
tained at par with gold by the Govern
ment, when the credit of the Govern
ment is removed by free coinage and
silver stands on its merits will not the
American silver dollar fciuk to the val
ue of the Mexican dollar, and will not
the Antericau workiugm.au who re
ceives it be put upon the low level of
the Mexican laborer?
Twelfth Mr. Bryan says that gold
has appreciated. That under the gold
standard the gold dollar has grown in
value from 10) to 2)0 cts. Wages in this
oountry are paid iu gold or the equiva
lent. The rate of wages has risen since
1873. If the American workiugman
receives as many dollars for a day's
work now as he did prior to 1S73, and
these dollars have grown in value from
10Jto200 cents, do you not think he
would be unwise to swap it for a dol
lar that Mr. Bryau frankly tells him
would be worth only half as much?
Thirteenth Will the workiugman,
under free coinage, have to work as
hard aud as many hours for a dollar as
he does now ?
Upon your answers to the foregoing
questions depends the vote of myself
and a large number of workiugmeu of
thU community who have made up
their minds that the interest of them
selves aud their families is superior to
auy question of allegiauoe to party.
Very respectfully,
- m W. L. TlMliLKLAKK,
Conductor Mobile Street Bail way.
Even catarrh, that dread breeder of
consumption, succumbs to the healing
influences of Thomas' Eclectric OiL
era
Truth for Wage-Earners.
From the Si- York Hun. ctoler I.
The Wage-Earners' Patriol'c I-agw,
of the Ninth Congressional di.-triet,
held a routing meeting iu its branch
headquarters, No. -IIS Grand snreet,
last night. The principal speakers
were Colonel J. E. 1'. loom, J. J. BMit
ey, secretary of the organization, Ed
ward M.tnd-Il and Mix Franklin.
Hugh Beilly presided. An outd'Kr
meeting was also held iu front of the
headquarters. Colonel Bloom said in
part:
"At present wages are estimated and
paid on a gold standard. Whether
payment lie made with a silver dollar
or greenbacks, any such to-day are the
equivalent of the gold dollar in any
part of the world. This will not be tli?
case if the Chicago platform is carried
into effect. If 10 to 1 is adopted wages
will then be paid on a silver standard;
the purchasing jiowerof the dollar, in
which the wages will then le paid be
ing only about one-half that of the
present dollar, iu any part of the
world, including the United States.
"Let us say you are now earning $2
per day. You can buy a barrel of flour
for j; yon can now pay for the flour
( 5 cither with our present gold, green
back or fciiver, liecuuse any merchant
or bank will now exchange the one for
the other, knowing that the faith,
credit and resources of the Government
are pledged iu t-ff-f t to keep all on a
parity with gold at 1J cents on the
dollar. The price of that barrel of
flour is now about the same in Liver
pool, Berlin or Paris (adding only the
freightage i. In other words, with
alxiut $, gold or greenbacks, of the
present standard, earned in two and
one-half days at jer day, the work
iiigrnau buys that barrel of Hour in St.
Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadel
phia, Boston, or Liverpool, Havre,
Hamburg, Paris or St. Petersburg.
"Now let us presume that Mr. Bry
an has Ikvii elected, and Congress has
enacted free silver at 10 to J. TUat
barrel of tlo'ir still sells for -5 in gold
iu I,iverp,)l, Havre or Hamburg; that
is lo say, tlie American f trmt-r ami
miller can sell bis flour iu that market
for au amoiiut of g M which can be
coined here into half-eagle?-, or five
dollars, or can be coined into gold
coins in any EurojR-nu country of like
value, and which can purchase iu any
market in the world an amount of sil
ver at ol to 1, which w hen brought to
the United Slates, will I coined at M
to 1 into 10 silver dollais. Therefora,
the itistaut y.i have free coiuage at I (
to 1 the farmer and the miller wiil d,s
mand 10 for the barrel of tl jur, be
cause be can get Ur it iu Liverpool or
Hamburg an amount of silver bullion
which he can have coined into 10 ut
the United SratesTrnTutsT
"In other words, the American
workingman must then jiuy 13, or live
days' earnings at 2 per day, for the bar
rel of flour; for Mr. Bryan and the
Chicago platform tell you they will at
once pass laws making silver at 10 to 1
a legal tender for the payment of debts
pa-t and present, which nirans that
the workiugman must ativpt silver for
his wages, at par value, at l' cents on
the dollar, coined nt 10 to 1, with only
51 cents of metal iu it- In ether words,
Bryan propos,- to enact laws to the
effect that ths workingnian, who to
day buys a l-arn-l of flour with two aud
one-half days of la'r, must and ahall
work five days for the same barrel of
fiour; fr, mark you, there is no sug
gestion even that the legislation which
t-huli double the legal tender value of
silver shall als double the scale of
wag's; and every workingman, anil
every farmer's helper, aud every mine
owner's workman, knows that his
wages will not bo voluntarily advanced
by his employer .xocptin;j possibly
after a long struggle, and then even
the advance will not be in proportion
to the advanced cost of daily bread."
Truth About Money.
I'r'iiii the f'o'irl.-j-Jottrnnl.
It is "more money'' the Bryanitcs
want
We have already shown that Bry
an's policy of free silver would at first
contract the currency of the United
States to about one-third what it is at
present.
Now, which nations have the most
money, those with the gold standard
or those w ith Ihe silver standard?
The silverites are fmi of talking
a! -out per capita circulati :i.
The jH-r capita circulation of the
world is about ?.l .
The per capita of the gold standard
countries is lS.O).
The pt-r capita of the silver standard
countries is nearly $4.30.
The gold standard couutries have a
per capita of silver alone of ".t ).
The silver standard countries have a
per capita of silver of j'i.'SJ, the rest of
their small circulation being mainly
depreciated paper.
Under free coinage of gold and silvtr
the United States had a per capita cir
culation in ls;ji) of 1.9;i.7; in lsi we
have one of $21.10,
The gold standard countries, with
less than one-thirl of the world's pop
ulation, have very nearly two-thirds of
the world's currency circulati n.
And yet Mr. Bryan would take the
United States from the gold standard
and place it upon the silver standard.
Fads in Medicine.
There are fads in medicine as in
everything else and a "new thing"
frequently sells for a short time pimply
because it is new. But in medicine, as
in anything else, the people demand
and will le satisfied only with psi
live, absolute merit. The fact that
Hood's Sarsaparilla has sto-sl its
ground against ail competition, and its
sales have never wavered but have re
mained steadily at the top, demon
strates, beyond any doubt, the intrin
sic virtues of this medicine. The new-
things have come and gone but Hood's
S.trsiparilla rests upon the solid founda
tion of a'ksolute merit and its power to
cure, and its sales continue to le the
largest in the world.
The impurities in the blood which
cause scrofulous eruptions are tin r-
oughly eradicated by Hood's Sarsa
parilla. Try It.
WHOLE NO. 2351).
THEN AND NOW.
Mr. Bryan's Organ Cusses the Old
Soldier in 1892 and Coddles
Him in 1893.
A il!K.T tiKKH'IEXfY.
Orn.iha World-Herald. Nov. 1, ls9
The next m-ssion of Congress will
have to wrestle with one deficiency of
t?.'i,0ii0. This is on account of pen
sions. The appropriation for pensions
for the next years must not be less
than 150,000,1)00. . It is, therefore,
ea-y arithmetic to pen.-eive that the
appropriation that Congress must take
for tensions next session must aggre
gate not less than fdSo.MjO.non.
This tremendous sum would in itself
lie enough to run a reasonable govern
ment. One would not complain If it
were an honest debt, but a large pro
portion is not debt, iiecausc it was nev
er earned by any act of patriotism or
heroic service. The government is
he'd up and despoiled of no mean por
tion of this, and it seems helpless to de
fend itself. One can not help being
curious to know how many more years
it w ill take to exhaust the generation
which fet Is itself injured by the war.
It U safe to say that never did a gener
ation display such remarkable lon
gevity. IX tiRAMl KKVI KW.
Bryan's Personal) rx-.i:, Omaha World- Her
ald, si. pt. j, lsw.
The veterans of the civil war have
one more passed iu grand review.
This time not before the president and
commanders, but l-efore reviewing of
ficers who appreciate more and more
as the days go by the heroic sacrifices
that were made to preserve the union.
Il is really wonderful and a source of
gratification how well the veterans
stand their burd-.-ns of added years.
The average age of the soldiers of the
reU llitm is 57 years, but this burden of
time did not prevent -tOJOO of them
from marching several miles with
steps that were lightened by the sounds
of the fife and drum aud the great
brass band.
I the jienp'e appreciate the services
rendereJ by the men who wore the
blue? Let the demonstrations at St.
Paul make reply. Little girls strewed
tl wtrs at their feet then, just as little
girls did when the tattered and sun
burned veterans marched up Pennsyl
vania Avenue iu Washington, more
than .",J years ag. Young women
threw at their time-burdened feet the
choicest garlands just as young wom
en did more than thirty years ago.
when the war-broLzed veterans of
(rant and Sherman and Sheridan
passed in grand review along Pennsyl
vania Avenue, while joyous thousands
sang songs of g!a 1 acclaim at victory
w on and national honor preserved. A
living llar w it! stripes of red and
white and flashing stars made up of
2J) Utile children, waved iu living
fld- and sang songs as the old soldiers
marc tied by will tear-wef eyes.
Tiie children sang and wept as griz-
le I veterans inarched and wept, and
all tlw people stool with uncovered
heaLs and shouted and sang in honor
of the Grand Amy of the Republic,
arid tears of gratitude mingled with
tears frora tiiuu-dimnie.l eyes, and so
the remnant of the grandest army that
ever fought in freedom's cause march
e l once again in grand review before
the people whose lilierties that Grand
Army had preserved.
B.-jan aal Jaffjrjoa-
In his p-ech at St. Louis Mr. Bryan
eulogized Jefferson, and declared that
the propositions which Jefferson ad
vanced are "the groundwork ami prin
ciple of democracy." He quoted as
the fundamental principle "exact and
equal J isliee to all men." To that
principle all men subscribe. Where the
difference comes Ja is over the applica
tion of that principle. As regards its
application in the coinage of money,
Mr. Jefferson has himseif laid down
the rule. "In his Notes on Coinage"
he said : " The proportion between the
values of gold and silver is a mercan
tile problem altogether," and he furth
er remarked : "Just principles will
had us to discard legal proportions al
together." He exemplified his idea of
exact and eiual justice on this point by
the stipulation he introduced in a lease.
In Septemlier, ISO,), while he was vice
president, he leased a tract of land to
John H. Craven, of London, The lease
contained the following provision :
"And it is covenanted between the
said Thomas and the said John II. that
if it shall happen that the value of the
gold or silver coin of the United States
or the quantity of the precious metals
iu them which shall constitute a dol
lar, he increased or diminished during
tho said term, or any other thing be
m ule a legal tender except the said
coin, and at the rates now by law es
tablished, neither party shall take ad
vantage or suffer loss by such change,
but that the said rent may and shall
I.-paid and received sti'.l in the same
coins aud at the same rates now by law
established, each party expressly re
nouncing for himself the benefit of any
law w hich may be made to authorize
such paymeut or dem tud in such sub
stituted money or money of substitute
value."
Mr. B.-yaa Is trying to destroy the
gold standard which Jefferson recom
mended, and which Jackson establish
ed, but be d-ies not hesitate to invoke
the names of birth those great men
while outraging their principles. The
fluency of Mr. Bryan's oratory is great
ly promoted by his indifference to fact
and his contempt for truth. Pittsburg
Cu ron icle-Telegraph .
Ehctric Bitters.
Electric Bitters Is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gen
erally nevded when languid, exhausted
feeling prevails, when the lirer is tor
pid and sluggish aud the need of a ton
ic and alterative is felt, A prompt use
of this medicine has often averted long
and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No
medicine will act more surely in coun
teracting ami freeing the system from
the malarial poison. Headache, Indi
gestion, Constipation, Dizziness yield
to Electric Bitters. 50c. and 1.00 per
bottle at J. N. Snyder's drug store,
Somerset, or at B oilier' s drug store,
Berlin.
A Republican Congress. '
From the Philadelphia Pram.
According to the most tmt worthy
reports the Ilepublicann are fairly cer
tain of a majority In the next houx of
reprehentati ves. There does not appear
to be any good reason why the majority
should not be as large as in the present
hous?. But should it be much smaller,
owing to the IVmocratitPopuIist fu
sion, the sound money Kepublicaus
will still remain in full control.
Interest turns, ro far as legi-lutiou in
congress Is concerned, to the complex
ion of the next senate. The Ik-publicans
do not now control the senate,
but there is a prof-pect that they may
lo so after March 4 next. At that
time the terms of thirty senators ex
pire. Fourteen of these are iJemoerat
and two Populists. In a numU r of
cases successors have already lieeii
chosen. The Itepuhlican have gained
in Ohio, w here Foraker will succeed
Brie', and in Maryland, where Wel
lington succeeds Gibson. They will
probably make further gains in New
York, South Dakota, Illinois, Kansas,
Wisconsin and Indiana, or eight in ail.
Tney may gain in Keutucky and Mis
souri; and I-laware, now vacant,
proliably will send a Republican. The
Republicans may lose a senator in
North Carolina and a Popov rat may
succeed Brown, of Utah. But they
are not likely to lose elsewhere.
Excluding the Nevada senators ami
Dubois, Mantle, Pettigrew, Teller and
Cannon, the IU publicans now have
thirty-nine members of the senate
whom they can always rely on. They
will need forty-fix to control the sen
ate when its full membership is pres
ent. They are praetii-ully certain, ex
cluding Delaware, of gaining cigbt
members, or one more than sufficient
ontrol. If they lose one in North
Carolina they will still have a major
ity, exclusive of the bolting silver L
publieans. The loss of one iu Utah
would 1 offset by Delaware. They
may gain one in Kentucky and an
other in Missouri. Should the election
g decidedly against the Bryanitcs,
Pettigrew, of South Dakota, and some
of the other Ixilters would le sure to
declare that they never left the party.
Fortunately the prospects are that the
sound money ami protective tariff Re
publicans will have full control of the
senate without aid from anyone not in
good standing in the party.
That is an encouraging outlook.
Mr. McKiuley will thus tie able im
mediately after his inauguration to call
congress together with tlie full assur- .
antre of both branches acting in co-op-
eratiou with him. A revenue bill can
then be passed iu a comparatively
short time and the bu-iuess of the
country can go on with au a--rurarnv
of no disturbance from adverse legisla
tion for at least four years.
The only drawback to this from pi
legislation will la) the senate rules and
the desire of the Popoerat to fctlk. It
is not probable that the Republicans,
will repeat the misLak ; of Is ) ) a- 1 al
low their party to suffer defeat as t:ie
result of delay in legislation caused by
the senate rules. That barrier w ill be
swept away.
The Cause of Low Farm Fr ices.
The real cause of cheapened farm pro-
du -ts is a lack of population.
Ml prices are determined at last by
supply and demand. A certain amount
of wheat is produced If there be many
people wanting bread the wheat will
bring a higher price than if there b:
only half as many. So it U w ith every
thing else.
A hundred years ago Mr. Mathius got
him-ielf abused as an advocate of baby
killing by calling attention to what he
thought a danger. He argucil that ns)
fo kI production increased only in aii
arithmetical progression, while popu
lation tended to increase geometrically
the world must either find some prac
tical means of limiting population or
sjn confront general want and star
vation.
His fear was that population would
in-rease faster than the f-! supply.
Exactly the opposite has happened.
Thanks to improved machinery, and
still more to the development of cheap
transportation, the production of food
available for the supp-rt of the world's.
people has enormously outrun the in
crease of population. It never occurred
to Malthas that railroads and steam
ship would enable a D tkota whea
grower to furnish flour to the London
o-ter at four or five dollar a barreL
This is what has happened. The rail-
roa Is, the telegraph and the steamship
hav brought widely separated regions
so near together aud made transporta
tion so cheap that a New York or Lon
don newsboy can affr l to cat pach-
and pears grown in far-away Califor
nia, while tl tur and meat grown in
Dakota and Texas can actually be de
livered to the New York or European
consumer for less than a hundred years
ago it cost to buy the meat and the
d Kir made in the immediate neighbor-
ho L
The natural and necessary result Ls
very low price. Ta.?y will rie p.-rm i-
nently only when the growth of popu
lation shall again produce a pressure
upon the fxxl supply. At present the
improvement in means of production
and distribution outruns the increase of
population, and so in a general way
the price of food products tends to fall.
What the farmer needs Ls not a
cheaper dollar, but that larger market
which an increase in population alone
can give him. So long as there Is wheat
enough in the world to supply all the
people with all they want of it at 50 or
6J or 70 cents a bushel, its price will
not go to a dollar. To chauge the
meaning of the word dollar so that it
will signify 50 or 00 or 70 cents will not
increase values to the farmer except in
so far as it will enable him to cheat his
creditor. Bat it will make a disastrous
difference to the workingman. Hi
wages as measured by that term, would
not advance under the change at all in
proportion to the unreal advauce io
prices. New York World.
A Fleasant Prospect.
She "Ma says she knows that when
we are married we won't live so like
cats and dogs as si e and pa do."
He "No, indeed. Your ma is
right."
She "Yes, she says she is sure you'll
be easier to manage Hutu pa is."
The Darlington, W is.. Journal ay
editorially of a popular patent medi
cine: "We know from experience that
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera ni
Diarrhoea Remedy is all that is claim
ed for it, as on two occasions it stoppt d
excruciating pains, possibly saved u
from an untimely grave. We would
not rest over night without it in the
house." This remedy undoubtedly
saves more pain and suffering than
sny. other medicine in the world.
Every family should keep it in the
house, for it is sure to be needed sooner
or later. For sale by Benford's Pharmacy.
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