Nearly 1000 children arc born year
ly i;\ London workhouses.
Lifo insurance companies nro be
coming the holders ot enormous
masses of capital.
Paris statistics show that out of
everv thousand bachelors forty are
criminals, and out of every thousand
married men only eight. This gives a.
ratio of crime five times as high with
unmarried men.
Between 2000 and 2000 convicts from
English prisons nro 'annually dis
charged 011 ticket-of-leave, and of thes
over seven hundred are apprehended
for fresh offenses and 120 fur failing to
report themselves.
The City of London is sacred from i
intrusion by the Royal troops, and !
only two regiments in the British ser
vice have the right to march through
it in martial array, with bands play
ing, bayonets fixed and colors dis
played.
The thoroughfares of Rio do Ja
neiro are so narrow that people can
Icun out of windows and shake hands
across the street. 1 Rents, however,
remarks the Washington Star, do not
indicate thai they feel like doing this
very often.
Theodore Roosevelt thinks that the
day is not far distant when the hike
Country of Wisconsin and Minnesota
will be famous as tlie Rummer resort
of both the Eastern and Western States,
and that a trip thither will be as pop
ular us one to Newport or Saratoga
now is.
Iho New York News boasts that
"from the figures furnished by the
State Board of Equalization it appears
that the apparent value of real estate,
plus the assessed vuluo of personal
property, make an aggregate of nearly
six billion dollars. This is equivalent
to about one thousand dollars for every
man, woman and child in the State or
live thousand dollars for an average
family.
The London Standard correspond
ent at Shanghai telegraphs that
"Vie-Toy (.hang, notorious for his
hatred of foreigners and ior encourag
ing natives in the barbarous treutment
of Europeans, is reported to have ad
dressed a petition to the throne openty
advocating tli extermination of for
eigners in China, and especially Eng
lish, in order t prevent the eventual
partition of China among European
powers. The hostility to foreigners in
the provinces is unabated.
Statistics arc said to show that
young men do not, on the average,
attain full physical maturity Until
they arrive at the pgo of twenty-eight
years. Professor Scheiller, of Har
vard, asserts, as the result of h!; ob
servations, that young men do uoi at
tain to the full measure of their men
tal faculties Nifore twenty-five years
of ago. A shrewd observer has said
that "most men are boys until they
are thirty, and little boys until they
are twenty-five;" and this accords
with the standard of manhood whio
was fixed at thirty among the ancient
Hebrews and other races.
The stocking of Alaska with reindeer
is n pronounced success according to
the Rev. Doctor Sheldon Jackson,
United States General Agent of Edu
cation in Alaska. Of 170 reindeer
brought to Alaska from Siberia last ;
year but eleven died, while eighty- I
eight fawns were born, of which I
seventy-nine were living three weeks !
ago. The revenue steamer Bear made '
several trips across the straits this !
summer and transported thirty-seven I
more reindeer to Alaska. The purpose
of the scheme is to furnish a reliable I
Bu Pply of food for the natives and also j
to establish the use of the deer for
work purposes.
A Peruvian inventor his end,.-ivor.-.l
to provide against the danger to which
ves .els are exposed when in the vicin
ity of icebergs or other impending col
lisions by designing a means of stop
ping the vessel suddenly. A vertically
sliding frame on a post nt the bow of
the vessel has on its sides pivote I
wings which will expand transversely
when required. The wings are held
in their normal position by means of
chains attached to a forward projection
of the frame, and other chains connect- j
ing the free ends of wings with the '
aides of the vessel. A winch, the
mechanism of which is under the con
trol of the officers in charge, is phic I
on deck, and hold the chains or rop,.
whi; actuate the wings. As soon
danger approaches a few turns of t;.
winch will throw open the win- aiid a '
resistance will thus bo offered t tp,.
forward motion of the ship which will
have a material effect in bringing ; t f u
u b minis till,
AT DUSK,
Between this twilight nhl the morn
Years like blown leaves may sweep away • ;
All life's stripped branches be upborne
And tossed into a sea of day !
rhen little pulse beat soft and still
! Thou art a thread within the loom ;
■ What matter so thou dost but fill
! The wheels within thy tiny room?
irgiyiu W, Cloud, in Youth's Companion.
TWO MAIIH"AGE EVES.
fSfS often told
KH}| you/' said (Tames
iiSJgl May field to, the j
Ml evening before ray
jftMjl marriage with his 1
r- f ('tM HM ©hter Kate, "that
k"> -""m / tfti I owed my properity
%'ft "/Vj I'' yj —° r moro accurnte
y t /(j m y escape from
td nll
H accident, n chance, a
Wf M "Oracle* Stand up
V>. \\ { ull l°°k that
4:' i' S piece of paper let
- into the over-man- 1
tel. What do you take it for?' 1
"Well, it looks like half a sheet- of
business uotepuper covered with indis
tinct figures that do not seem ordi
nary. "
"Yes," he said, gazing with half
closed eyes at the paper through the I
smoke of his cigar. "Thoy arc not or
.linary, nor is their history."
"it is not possible to make them out,
they arc so blurred and faint. Are ' 1
they very old?"
"Twenty years. Tlicy are ntucb
faded since I first saw them/' said lie* I 1
Tossing his legs* "Now you may as I
well know the history of that half-sheet 1
of business paper, and what it has to !
do with me and your Kate's mother. |
; Sit down and I will tell it all to you."
I dropped back into my chair;
"Our Kate is nearly nineteen, as, no i
doubt, you are aware. It is the night
before your marriage; You, thank
heaven, run no such risk lis I fun the !
night before my marriage. There is I
' no date on that blurred copy of fig
ures, but if there were you wtiiild find '
it originated on the night before I Was !
to be married, twenty years ago. You j
are short of thirty now, I was short of
thirty then..
"i ant going to give you to-morrow
our only child, and a fourth share in
the business of Strangwnyj MrtyfiCld & 1
Co., of which I hnt the sold surviving
partner, and that fourth shore ought |
to bring you a thousand to twelve
hundred a year. The night that doc
umeiit over the chimney came into ex- |
istence I was accountant to Strangwov
& Co., at a salary of £l5O per annum." ,
My father-in-law paused and
knocked the ashes off his cigar.
"At that time," ha went on-, tcsitni
j ing his story, "the business of Strong
way & Co. was in Bread street. We
had warehouses on the ground floor
and in the cellars, the offices were on
the first lloor, and warehouses filled
1 from over the first floor to the slates.
"The offices closed at Of but, as T
was anxious to put everything ill the
finest order before starting oil my
honeymoon, 1 was not able to leave at
1 that hour. In addition to the book' l
I keeping I did most of the routine cor
respondence, and I had some letters to
, write, When they were finished, I
should look np the place, put the keys
ill iny pocket, leave them at Mr.
Strang way's house on Claphani Com-
Common, and go on to my lodgings in
11 amis worth, and froin my lodgings to
my sweetheart Mary's home in Wands
worth, too.
"As I was working away, writing
letters at the top of my speed, and
quite alone in the office—in the whole
h use Stephen Gvainly, one of onr
travelers, rang the bell, and much to
my surprise and annoyance, wlieu I
opened the front door,walked upstairs,
following my lead through the un
lightod passages. I never cared for
t Stephen Grainly. No one in the office
liked him except Mr. Strangway liim-
I self, (fruinly was an excellent man at
Jiis work, but to my taste too smooth
and good—too sweet to be sound.
" 'What, Mayfleld,' he cried, 'work
ing away still/ Why, when I saw the 1
light I made sure it must be Broad- I
wood (our assistant accountant, who I
; was to take my place while X was j
' away), and as I had a goodish bit o
money I thought I'd better bank hero j
than in my home at Hoxton ; I am not
satisfied it is safe to stow £3OO in cash
in my humble borne.'
'All right, said J, 'but I wish you J
j bad come earlier. The safest place to
bank money in is the bank.' He did ,
| not know that I was going to be '
married next day, and I wasgladofit, !
| for the man always made me feel nn- I
j comfortable, and f did not wish him 1
to touch my little romance even with
1 a word.
" 'Bo here at 4 o'clock!' he cried.
'My dear fellow, I couldn't do it. How j
could T? Why, I didn't get to Kings
f'ross until a quarter to (j! Here you
ar * IT produced his pocketbook. j
lon needn't give me moro than two
1 1 <h< iks, five hundred and
seventy-four, eighteen six. Notes, I
two I, ,1,1,1,. ( an ,, f l)rt y.fl va- G(J I,, '
forty-eight.'
j "As you limy fanny I Wlls in ft hu !
,to get rid ot liiu. Ha K ,...,nea in no
I hurry to go. He sa l down, pulled out '
his handkerchief a.l bagun ln ■ \
his forehead, although it was October !
1 and by no means warm,
j " 'You will initial my book,' said
he, and ho handed me his other book I
part of which was ruled in money
columns, where ho had a list of the
money he had collected. The whole
was £SG7 18 shillings and 0 pence, and
for this T signed.
" 'Have you taken the numbers of
; tlie notes?' 1 asked.
" 'No,' said he.
"i made a list myself of the num
bers on a sheet of paper, and pushed
checks, notes and gold up to the flat,
( middle part of my desk. I did not
wunt to take out any of my account j
books that higlitj nud wheil I bad f
finished the letters and ho was gone* j
C put the money in the safe in the back
room; The memorandum of the num
bers 1 Should leaVCj with tlit' kc.vs fit (
Olapham* and the whold transaction
would l>e dealt with by my assistant, |
Broadwood, in the morning.
"Making out the list had taken a
little time, its the ilotes were till small
and no two in a sequence; they had
| been collected for minor accounts in
the country.
'I put my list of notes on the desji
[ beside me, and went on with my letters,
several of which were now ready for
the copying press.
"That evening Grainly talked a lot
about the business and the hews Of
the day, aud all sorts of things. I
could not tell him to go away, for he
| could see I was not myself leaving yet,
and copying the letters, putting them
to dry j enclosing' them in envelopes
and addressing theni was hot Occupa
tion for which a man could reasonably
claim quiet.
*'When my batch of letters were
readyi seeing half nil hour's work still
before me, I held them out to hint, and
said: 'When you are going I should
be obliged if you would post these, as |
1 anl hot nearly finished yet/
" 'Certainly*' said he, taking the
hint and rising,
j " 'Anyt dne in the place who could
' show me out? All the gils is turned '
off below, and I have never gone ddwil I
in the darkness,' said he, moving
away.
" 'There's no one but ourselves here.
I'll fchow yon the way,' said I with
alacrity, delighted to get rid df him.
"I had led him through the long,
dark Corridor aiid lialf dowil the fttnil's,
wheri ile suddenly cried out, 'My stick I \
I left my stick above. I won't be a
minute, May field; Just, wait here for
I me ''
''He ran upstairs td fetch his stick,
aud was back with me in the darkness
, in n few secouds.
! ,4 I struck fi mutcii td light him, and
presently lie was out on the asphalt Of
Bread street, walking rapidly towaid
' Cheripside.
"VVhoii 1 got back to the Counting
house the Checks were oil the flat top
of the desk; The gold and notes Were
I gbuC !
"1 had lakeii the humhers Of the
1 notes on a sheet Of paper, add left the
| list bit the sloping part Of my desk to
1 dry, before putting it into my pocket.
| 'The paper dn which I had ttkcn
the numbers of tlio notes was gone
' also!"
| From the ltidmeut I left the count
i ing house to show Grainly Out thill
( night, twenty years ago, no one has 1
ever seen the list I made of the notes. I
j Grainly must have destroyed it the
moment he was out of Broad street.
! "Here wsl, on the eve of hiy tflUf
: riago, simply ruined.
| "Grainly had my receipt for the
i £'29% each, and lie had the £lo'.) cash
\ also, and Grainly was a thief who en
, 1 joyed the favor of liis employer, while
1 I Was in hd pal'ticvtlai' filvcn 1 with tile
g 1 ftrni: 1 believe lip to that time 1 Wris
f 1 supposed to be honest,
t I 'The £IM, in gold was, of course,
- | gone as much as if it llad been dropped
intd the cratei* df rt burning ntdiiutuin !
0 and as the Uitnibers bf the notes Could j
1 no longer bo pro luced and they had
s not come direct from a hank, but had 1
. been picked up here and there in the
- country, the £2ii> were gone as though '
i t.'iey ha I boon blown overboard in the !
, Atlantic Ocean.
"ft was plain there would be no use '
■ in following Grainly if I knew tile way j
he had gone when ho gained Cheap- j
side, It was plain no marriage could 1
take place to-morrow morning. It wns j
• , plain my course was to go without tlio
, loss of a moment t > Mr. Strangway I
[ j and tell him what had happened.
, Whether he would believe me or not,
- j who could say? Not 1, any way. He
i' might reasonably order me into cus
-31 tody. Very well, if he did I must not 1
- grumble or feel aggrieved. Our wed- ;
[. ding was fixed for II o'clock next'
l morning. By 11 to-morrow I might
be in jail, charged with stealing the
money or being an accomplico in the
1 robbery.
J "I locked the office, telegraphed to
Mary that I had been unexpectedly
, delayed, jumped into a hansom, aud
drove to Strangway's house iu Cla -
j ham.
"I told the servant to take in word j
| that I wished to see Mr. Strangway 1
j most particularly.
; "She showed me into the library,
hurried off, and in a few seconds Mr.
Strangway entered smiling. He, no
doubt, thought my anxiety to see him
| .vus connected witlumy marriage.
"When he heard my story he wrk
| grave enough. Two hundred aud i
ninety-three gone?" said he, frown
ing-
" 'Gone,' said I.
j " 'And the numbers of the notes 1
gone with the money?' said he, look
ing me full in the. face with a heavier
I frown.
J " Not n trace left of the paper on
which I took the numbers.
| " 'Are you sure no one but Grainly
1 could have entered the counting
house?'
: " 'Perfectly sure. All tha doors
communicating with the other parts of
the house were shut—had been locked '
| for the night. I had not been outside
the counting-house since luncheon.'
I "For a few moments ho reflected,
i The awkward part of it, May field,'
suit! he, 'is that you are to be married :
to-morrow. Of course your marriage j
must, go on. But I'll tell you what T
think would he best for you. Suppose
I you attend the office as usual to-mor
| row morning; you could leave for a
couple of hours later, get the cere
■ mony over, and come back.'
| "'Oh!' I said, 'with this hauging ,
■ over me? I half expected to bo locked j
,up to-night. But J could not get mar
; ried until the money is found, Mr. '
St rang way.'
j " 'iouiulI Found! The money can j
never be found. Why, we have noth
ing to go on! Anyway, I Khali not
take steps to-night. Perhaps it would
be best to postpone your marriage.
Yes, it would not do to marry under
the Circumstances. I am very sorry
for you. Biit all that can be done in
the interests of justice' mtist be done.
Keep the keys and be in Bread street
at the ordinary time in the morning.' "
My father-in-law paused here. His
cigar had Rinoked out, but he had not
finished his story. He did not offer
to move and I sat still. Alter a few
moments lie went on :
"f will be merciful to you and tell
yon nothing of the scene at my wife's
place ttheii I called later. Her father
arid mother were' then living. I told
my story tor all three lis T have told it
to you, and all agreed the best thing
was to postpone the mnrriago for n
month.
"When T reached the cilice tIC next
morning I had another good look
around, but nothing whatever was to
be discovered. I turned tho whole
place itisidc out. Nothing, absolutely
nothing connected with the case turned
up Until, to my astonishment, Stephen
Grainly walked into the office. Until
his appearance t had, ill a dim way,
made up my mind that all Would be
cleared up nud my innocence estab j
lished by Ills absconding. His arrival
showed that he meant to brazen the
thing out with fne. f felt from
that moment helpless and paralyzed.
tl 'Grainly, ' said I, as soou as I could
talk, 'when yoit enmo back for your
stick last night, did you notice the
money you gave mo on the desk where
I put it?'
"'No, my dear Mayfield, I did not
cross the threshold of this room.'
41 'Yoit did not sec or touch the
money or the piece of paper on which
I had taken down tho number of the
notes?'
ic 'No, c rtainly hot# I could not
see ycur desk from the door, and I
was not further than the door. You
do not seem well. I sincei'idy hope
there is nothing the matter.'
/''The OAsli you brought in last
flight—thd has been stolen,
that's all,' said 1.
"'.Stolen!' lie cried, falling back.
'Yoii don't mean to say that!'
" 'Ay, and stolen within an hour—
within half an hour—of our being here
last flight/
" 'I cannot—l will not—believe stich
a horrible thing, Stolen 1 And in the
very office, too!'
*'l saw better acting in all my
life than his iiidigfliltion and hjrror
and astonishment. I could hardly be
lieve my eyes and ears. I had spent
a sieepT&to night, and was half dazed
| and wholly stupid in despair. For
awhile I felt tint, after all, h<* might
be innocent, an I that I, in a moniCWt
of excitement and haste, had placed
| the itiOitey and the memorandum in
. some place of security which 1 could
not now recall.
"Mr. Sirangway, on reaching the
office half nn hour earlier than usual,
gave orders for another search. It
H-rts tpiita Unavailing, No tnlo or tid
ings of the cash came that day.
"No secret Was made of the affair
in the office, and as the hours went on
I became confident that in Mr. Strang
way's eyes I was the criminal. I don't
know how it happened, hut I did not
ft'el this inucll, I
dirt f jot feel any
thing much. I MftH in ti dream—a
stupor.
•'Late in the afternoon Mr. Sti'aflg
way call eel jne into liiH office, and told
mo that, considering everything, lie
did not. intend placing the affair in
the hands of tin* police that day, but
that if to-morrow's sun went down
upon matters its they no.*- stood he
should be obliged to take action. 'The
loss of the money I could bear,' said
he, 'but tko ingratitude I will not
stand.'
"This was ns good ns accusing me of
the robbery. Again I wonder that I
was not more put out, but I felt little
or nothing beyond helpless and
numbed.
"Before I left Bread street that
evening Grainly sent me a note beg
ging me, for my own sake, not to
think of bolting ! 'Bolting,' said he,
'in a ease of this kind would be taken
us an admission of the very worst.'
"Even this daring impudence did
not rouse mo, did not waken me;
through the whole terrible affair I do
not think I was even as much excited
ns I am now.
"Next day Mr. Strangway said not
a syllable about employing the police,
or, indeed, about the affair at all, nor
did he, as fur as I know, take steps in
the matter. On the following day he
made an astonishing announcement.
He called Grainly and me into his
private office and said :
" 'The present is the first time in
the history of our firm that anything
of this kind has occurred —that we
have been robbed from the inside. I
have made up my mind not to do any
thing about it just now. I keep an
open mind. Some day we may find an
easy explanation of the mystery, or it
may never be cleared up. I accuse no
one. I will say no more of the affair
until I can either put my hand on the
man who did it, or tell you both face
t fact as you are now, that I have dis
charged from my mind forever the
notion that any man who takes my
money us a servant took it also as a
thief.*
A fortnight after the loss of the
money a telegram cauie for Mr. Strang
way. It was sent into his private
office. Presently ho opened his door
and beckoned me to go in, mid when I
had entered he motioned me to a
chair.
" 'Mr. Mayfield, said he, 'I wish at
the earliest moment to relieve you of
what must have boon a terrible anx
iety. The thief has been found and is
now in custody!' Mr. Strangway
waved the telegram. 'T have just got
the message saying Stephen Grainly,
with the bulk of the notes 011 his per
son, is in the hands of the police. He
wnfl about leaving this country—for
Spain, it is supposed. He stole ih*s
money a fortnight ago, and stole tho
list you had made of the numbers of
the notes. Knowing the way in which
the notes had come into his own hands
in tho country, he felt confident they
could not be traced from their source
to him, and of course they could not
be traced from him to the Bank of
England, as the list of the numbers
was destroyed by him.'
" 'Then how in the world, sir, were
they traced ?' said I.
"Mr. Strangwuy raised the blotting
pad and took from under it a piece of
paper, the back of a letter.
" 'The news of the robbery got
about,' said he, 'and, of course, our
customers were interested in it. Mr.
Young, of Horsliam among the rest.
Mr. Young, of Horsham, was one ol
the people you wrote to that evening
the evening of the robbery, and yeni
him more than you intended.'
" 'Not the missing sheet with the
numbers? I know I couldn't liavo
done that. For I saw the memoran
dum on the slopo of my desk after clos
ing liis letter and handing it with the
other to Grainly.'
"No, but you put th<*jnemorandum
on the slope of your desk with the ink
side up, and you copied Mr. Young's
letter in the copying press and while
it was damp put it down on the list of
notes in unblotted copying ink, and
the numbers of the notes were faintly
but clearly copied, reversed, of course,
on the fly-leaf of Young's letter, and
Mr. Young sent the copy back to me
privately! Look.'
"Mr. Strangway handed me the fly
leaf of Young's letter, and there were
the numbers of the notes, dim to bo
sure, but not quite no dim there as
they are now under the glass let into
the oak of the over-mantel# Grainly
had put a few of the notes ill .circula
tion, and they had been traced back to
him.
"'Ho stole the money, Mayfield/
said Mr. Strangway to me, 'and lie
tried to ruin yon, or anyway he wanted
to saddle you with the theft, and for
a while I more than suspected you.
But all is clear at last, and I'll pay
you handsomely one day for suspect
ing you.'
"And so lie did," said my father-in
law. "He lent me the money to buy
a partnership in the firm, and I am
tho firm all to myself now—and shall
be until the new partner comes in to
morrow."
Ho rose and shook me by the hand
and tapped mo on the shoulder, say
| ing:
"Your partner for life will bo won
dering what has kept*you. Run away
to Kate, now, my boy."—Straud Mag
azine.
WISE WORDS.
Peace is rarely denied to the peace
ful.
Accuracy is the twin brother td\hon
es ty.
I Keep cool and you command every
body.
Gunpowder made all men of ono
height.
Discretion in speech is more than
eloquence.
Choose such pleasures as recreate
much and cost little.
I Sad is his lot who, once at least in
his life, has not been a poet.
Things don't turn up in the .yorld
until somebody turns them up.
Accent is the soul of language; it
gives to it both feeling and truth.
The youth of nature is contagious,
like the gladness of a happy child.
Men are never so likely to settle a
question rightly as when they discuss
it freely.
Agriculture not only give riches to a
Nation, but the only riches she can call
| her own.
; Behind the shell there was an ani
mal, and behind the document thero
was n man.
Life appears to me too short to bo
spent in nursing animosity or register
ing wrongs.
Youth changes its tastes by the
warmth of its blood; age retains its
tastes by habit.
A sound discretion is not so much
indicated by never making a mistako
as by never repeating it.
Man may doubt here and there, but
mankind does not doubt. The uni
versal conscience is larger than the in
! dividual conscience.
-
The Origin of Seconds in Duels.
In olden days seconds were not only
the aides and abettors of their princi
pals, but had to be ready at a mo
ment's notice to set to on their own
account. From this grew the title by
which they have for hundreds of years
been known. Nowadays in France the
business of each pair of seconds or
witnesses to whom the principals have
confided the interests of their honor
is, first, to decide whether the viola
tion of honor has been such as to war*
rant the duel; second, whether the
parties are qualified to make such re
paration of honor, a man notoriously
stigmatized being evidently ruled out
by the code; thirdly, to leave no
means untried for settling the affair
without recourse to arms; and only
then, finally, to decide on the details
of the combat. The witnesses are
themselves in 110 wise involved in the
quarrel of their principals. —Chicago
Herald.
A Sailing Vessel Lighted with Electricity
A sailing vessel lighted with elec
tricity is seldom seen in any part of
the world, but the new Spanish hark
Le Vigesuna, which has just arrived at
I liiladelphia, from Vigo, Spain, is
I'ghied throughout with the strongest
and clearest electric lights to be seen
anywhere, .either ashore or afloat.
HOW ABOUT ;
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HARD TIMES?]
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Are you a supporter of the present financial system, which congests the
currency of the country periodically at the money centres and keeps the
masses at the mercy of classes, or do you favor a broad and
LIBERAL SYSTEM
Which protects the debtor while it does justice to the creditor
If you feel this way, you should not be without that great champion of the
people R rights,
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the people as against European domination of our money system, and
it heartly advocates:
Ist. THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
the prosperity of the great musses ot tlio poople, though it may prolit the few who
ha-o already grown rich by federal protection and federal subsidy.
OH TARIFF RFFfIRM Believingthatbythrowingourportsopentomarketsoftho
X.U. I mill I IH.IUIIHI. world by levying only enough import duties to pay the
actual expenses of the government, the people will be hotter served than by making
them pay double prices for protection's sake.
QH AN INMMF TAY Believing that those who havo much property should
limuniL ISA. ) <ear t |, e burdens of the government in the same propor.
tion to those who havo little.
The Constitution heartily advocates an /
EXPANSION OF THE CURRENCY j
Until there is enough of it in circulation to do the legitimate business of the
country.
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