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RUB _LOWE - "Reub," said I to the old fellow haif-witted some of the younger men about the neighborhood said-who was ily iredVil Ilial on the farm, "1 I novelr S lavoe to tell you ia socond thuo to do' l Ibjug. N'oYou' 'e til IniO.It plletiual lilat sl.utvadl of lookir pleased at this comphnena:s I had exspected him11 to, livo'unltIiianvu always long anid sad ani wea'ilg all ex pression as of vague toerrior. hewallo longer, sadder and still Moro torrilicd looking. It was a wiutor. evening and Io and I and the old house keeper were sitting about the open fireplace of the great, roomy kitchen In that democratic fashion so universal in Anierican farm life. 11 took his pip from his mouth, turned it upside down and emptied it into the ashes by knocking it against the ehiney piece before he answered. Yes," said he, then, glancing at mrs. Simmons and discovering that she wis sound; asleep and snoring. Yes, t had a lesson on beiln' punctual onet that 1 'low will last me a life time." "So?" said I, "Was It anything you wouldn't mind toiling about ?" Houb put his pipo in his pocket before he answered : " 1 dou't mind tellin' you, Mr. 'ern ley. Men have a sort of understanding of one another, an' soni streaks that is pretty inuch alike. I reckon so's't they know how to sympathize with each other. But I'd just as leave Miss Sim mons would go right on sleepin.' She nor no other woman, I reckon, would havo very much use for in after hearin' it.' This roused my interest and piqued lily curiosity. I lay back in the big Shaker rocking-chair and settled my self into a comfortable position for listening as I said: "Now, forge ahead, lI eub."' He frowned at the tire for so long a titue before proceeding that I began to fear he had thought better of it, and I should lose his story. Presently, however, he withdrew his gaze and beutt it upon lime. " There's some th ings that comes hard to tell. It's like livin' 'Cim over again: an I wCuld'nt tell you this to-night if 'twern't, I fancy, that the jesson may do you some goud at second hand. I've took notice, now and then, that you ain't none too punctual at doin' things on time your self." Ite looked at me hard for a minute, hut as I did not deny the impeach ient, lie presently continued : " [ want you to know Mr. P-ernley, that I ain't half-witted, to begin with. I'n all here ; but sometime somethin' conies up agin' a feller an' stuns him, an1' lie never feels like ie used to, to him iself anly i'ore nor 'pears the sam.e way to other folks. That's what's hap)nCed i, an1' it all camne along of not doin' the thiing that ort to be done, at L1i h ti Ime V hell I 'd ort to 'a' done it. " i used to have a farn of lily own that i to say, it Was partly mine, an' I was workin' the other half on shares for the owner. Not a big place like like this 'erc one if yourn, but a snug hit o' groulid, with a pretty house or.'t, all' everything was swingin' along prosp'rous like: for I wasen't never lazy, nobody couldn'c never say that about leub lirownlield. I was always a wor'kin' like wt nailer. Couldn't rest anohow. When I'd sot down to the rIIbl 'd hO a t.attooin' onl the cloth 1r t" diishes, or' someiith inl-couldn'it keel a m 'lhmn kin o'folks wears out cre'dit for' that: I waslL nollde that way Onflly, aLs I seeC it nlow. I 'ml oneC ' their ieanit ill thle prayL.~er-bookc, whl~e't sa~ye they've done that which they ort, nol andt left undone tha~t which they or't t< have done. 'uWell, I had the' best little womI alr for a wife in all my pairt o' tile country, I use0 to think she naiggedi too miuleth someitimies, but. the truith oif it was shec had good reason to nag. Blesis me, wonder' how us fel lowvs would take the cver'lastin' procrelastiniatin.' An my baby'! It was the cutest little erectur' you ever' seen. A b~oy tot c-alled 'im Hoeub, after mie. ''1'wam big Rleub, and little lieub. Ju Lst got s0 lbe could( talk a little :say 'papa an' 'mammlra, ani' 'by-by 'Aln' toiddk everywhere ! Why, that young ur mlust 'a' tr'udged nigh oni to lirty mile u day on them study little fat feet o his'n. Laugh !Why, he'd laugh th<( cunnlin'es of anfy baby you ever seen and show them four' flront teeth, twn in h11s upper61 gumll an' two under'neath all sawedlon the edges. i used( to tickh is tees soimetimies to make him 1augh1 just to see hodw ourus'11 they looked-jus four of 'Cem to bei seen. ''We's what you'd call a happy famnil -that is, if any bodly ever' is reah, down rilght out-and-out Ilappy in this worlid Soimetinies I think the mninister's ha: the right of it when they say 'taint in. tended we sh'd be so happy here thal we want to stay onl ever'lastingly 'Trude an' I-htem' name was Ger'trude. bult I called hert 'Trude-lovedi cact other laain'ly. Didn't nleithier of ut ncvor' wantnIobody else, an' we'd a diet for' each othier any nminnit of the day but she would nag when there wais louse hinge to be fixed or' aL brokci blind to be mended, or Ia weathem'stii she wvanted put on ; an' I 'lowed I'a goen' to do it, an' let it run on kindei keerless-like, an' never did do it, afi all. An' when she'd taLik about I awhile, an' ei'ied, an' fussed, an' go mad over' it anii (:alled me1 aL heartless fellel', then I'd get my hack upI an' tel her I 'loiwed to do it when I got goot aln'. reoady.- We aLways m~ade it uII afterward an' cr'ied an' kilse(d, an' each one always took the whole blame of i1 to ourl'Cv'es : an' went an' dlid the yern - same t~h ig right over agin. Ilumar01 natur' is (11100r like. "Well, wo bad ani out-door' cister on the place, that had(1n't 1n0 pum ir~~ it. Use to drlaw thle water' up wih .1 tllin'uct an.1' IL (1l1hes li ne, an' Llhei kivoe' over' the plance withII al hoan kiver'. Mlost times I diew the watei msysel f-whleni I waIs abhoiut1hut 111 .hen was man1 iy a timeil I waisn't, when 'rudt had to( d.io) it. Wome~' s backs are ItEsor b t, I didln ' t, and1( a ftc r we' tI had the Ii e's sphat over' it, I go t, 1(11 im lr .,tol bhorn.1 ! ike anl' said I'd get it when'i I got g'od~ ani' reaidy. " I r'i~eember, 'twas aL ho1t, dr y S11um mce', an' the wells anf' elsternls, lots oi 'cm, got dry3 ar'ounld ther'e. Th'lo ne(ighl boy's usec( to com~eJ over''nI horror.Il ra~Lin water, aii' it kep' 'Tr'ude pr'etty oss an' pretty busy, too, aLh k'iveri' up1 thle OIsternl after' '011 5(i's'I. the baby shouldn['t fall in. Somehow they di in't nmone of '011 scoml to thlink 'twas an~y business o' thces to dlo it,. "I r'ememiberl 'o' day wh-en I'd kiverecd It upI mIy?'el f a time or two, -I got sor'ter 'shamelld o' myself about the whole thing, aln' I says5 to myself: 'I 'nor "Trude !I don't blame h101 for fee'~ln' nettledl ovri havi n' no pump11. Nate BanesI is agoinI' to0 town to-mjor r- nLI fI'l hay'' 1hm1 binafl Ofna Ont D HE WOULD, So I went to the field foelin' 's If I's t pretty good feller after all, an' think log how happy 'Trude would be. I hadn't boon there half an hour, whoi a woman como runnin' along the pikc that run parallel with the field, a. wavin' her sun-bonnot at mie wild like an' sercamin' at the top of her voice 'Reub ! [toub I Itoub Browntield ! Con right home !' she said. I liopo you won't hover fool as I did then. I seemed to know that very ninit wha the matter was. It wasn't live minute before I got there, but I soomed ai hour a-goin.' My foot felt like there'. load weights hung to 'em. " When I come in sight o' the house there was folks standin' all around it, an' neighbor women comin' in and out, Somebody'd soon the doctor a passing in his buggy, an' stoj)ped him at the gate. He was wor'kin over little Reut when I wept in, tryin' to make lii breathe by inovin' lils arms up1) an down. But 'twarn't no use. little Ieub was drowned dead, an' I tha would a died for him ton times over had killed my baby by 'lowin' I's goin' to buy a pump and never a doin' it. Sowohow I couldn't sens it. I looked so natural-kinder like he't laughin', too, an' showin' them tooth. I looked for 'Trude to hate mo, bit what do you reckon she did ? She jusi coio an' lput hor arms 'round mc before all them peoplo, just like Il' some poor hurt creotur', an' she patted me on the shoulder, an' she says: 'There, there, Reub-thore! there You've got me left, IHoub, poor Roub! " Well, I don't care to say no more about that day, Mr. I'ornley, nor the days that followed it. 'Taln't often I let myself think about 'em ; I'd go wil] if I did. 'Trude never blamed'ime, not she never nagged ie no more," con tinued he, hoarsely. "She unever com plained about anything. She just woni 'round with a sort of a heart-breakin smile, an' was always like an angel t( me. 'There, there, 1oub,' she'd sa when she heard me sobbin' in tht night; 'thoie, there,' kinder soothin like : an' she'd pat. me on the shouldoi like l's little Reub himself. But she didn't stay with mn long after that There was lung trouble in her famil an' the doctor said she'd got a sort 0l shock like. Two years afterward buried her beside little R~cub." BIbl ARP ON BABIES. "Don't Snore; You'll Wake the Baby -1l1ducation, Ought to b>C Mlixe With Labor. .Julius Cosar was a very great man He was a Deino'.rat and the leader o his party when only thirty-three year old. and held the highest office befor he was forty. But I don't understani what made hiim cut a slice out of th, iniddle of the year and namo it .Jul And his Gus did the same thing ani named it August. if they wanted t, dismeiber the year and add two ior, months why didn't they take it oil th, tail end and lap them on to December I don't like July nor August nolhow. I seems to me1 they get hot-ter and botte as tihe years roll on. I can't work ii my garden. It is so warim that I can gather the vegetahles nor mow gras for the cow with any comfort. I swea all ove'r with perspiration and have t change my gar'ments every day. WV don't go to bed until ii o'clock anm I reckon it will conic all right agai before lonu. I reckon so. It alwa does. Whatever is is right. My wife horrowed the bably agai last night. Ilver' and anon she ha., t have a baby to stay over' night an sleep with her to reiind her of th good~ old times wheii sihe nursed he own and fondle:] them and ratted thei in the restless night. So ~little Cart line, who is the youngest gra'lndch ild Iwas left wvith heri to conmfort heri andi miade both hiappy, for' tie little thin lov'es its gi'and ma and hai'dly know which mothoer she belongs to. I got 1 sleep abiout mid night, but my olfacte rie orespharusorlarynx or throttl of order and( J sup~poso I was snori n pre'tty lively wvhen I hieaid a voice call lng me . "W illiam, WVilliam." Aslee or awake that uixorian voice alwav~ niakes mne j ump with alacrity. [ ham toned over' to her cor'ner of the root to sce what was the matter' and ra against the center table and a chai and wvaited tot' oi'dei's. Suddenly sh whispered :"I just wanted you to tur over. You snor'e so lotud you will' wak up the baby. D~on't snore so." With a subdued feeling I starte back to mcy bed, but It was awful dlai and I couldn't find the round table thu wvas in the middle of tihe room. SlowI and cautiously I felt my way, wvho suddenly my nose collided with th top) of the miantlephiece. This guide me to imy little ned again and I assun ed a tired and( recumbent position an. ruminated on the battle of life. But mustn't snoi'o was the order. Theil bab mustn't be disturbed. This~ injunctio weighed so heavily upon me that I wai afraid to fall into a deer) sleep and c getting sonlorouis again, so I slumblere along and dreamed I was tr'aveling t heaven eor some haven of rest, and o every barn and board fence and rock cliff there was a red lotter' sign like patent medicine sign and It said "Don't Snore !IDon't Snore ! D~on Snore !" andl by andl by we reached I high mountain and there wVas a yout > climbing it with a banner and I though Iit was the Excelsior' chap we used t see In tihe blue-backed spelling bool< hbut as the bi'eed~ utnfurled the banne II saw it was "Don't Snore! Don' Snore !" .dust then I was awakened b a gentle sonor'ous olfactory soundl tha camo from the other corner of th r'oom and so I venitu red over thtete ati touched iher' tendetly and1( wh isput'ed "Don Iit't sniioe you'll wako the bab~y.'' Th'Iisi- bab'y-r'aisinig buisi ness is aboui the biggest, bus~iiness I kenw of, and th, most reLsponsjible. I was on ott ut of toi that, miy moitheri raiise~d, andI my wif has raised ten, and we have i'aisedl tenm and it, looks as if sonic of our' poster'it, anre oni tihe same11 aniestral line. i therme werec no grantdpani'mtts in our1 famt iilv, anmd we, li Ihr chaps ha md to roughi like Cain and A bel dhd. Nowadajs I takles two parents and thrt'i ort foul grend par'ents and sever'al aunts and nurse and a hiaby carriage to rafise) i child, but that is all ri ghmt if t~he clikl is lessed0( with such pri vileges. The dear' little th ing4 oughlt to hav agood Ltme in in'fancy, for troiublo w il mmurely come wvhen they got older,. ani Ii'rejoico tha't thei mod ern children hava a better time than, we did(. I remnembe the little brown cradle that we wer'e all i'ocked in, and~ when ther'e wasn't baby carriiage in the town. I r'emcm ber' when the average child had nc nurse save its miothoer, and she did the housewor'k and made all the gairments too, and didn't know she was having i hamrd timie. Tlhe little chmaps (di'i haLve thniu' tans uwnshol nor t.._'j. clothes changed but once or twice a day and they were set down on the floor or the ground and given some home-made playthings, and they, too, didn't know there was anything better. Evon the children of wealthy parents were turned over to the little darkies and were happy in their keeping. I remember when Evan Howell, the po litical dictator, was bobbing around with the little niggers and got so dirty playing in the sand you couldn't spot lim nlor. toll tother front which. But now his little grandchildren go around in laces and ribbons and gold buttons and ride in a $40 baby carriago and bathe in a %10 bath tub, and Evan thinks It is all right, and I reckon it is. Ours come as near doing the same thing as they can and so do overy body olsos. It is a beautiful trait in human nature to improve on your own raising and to sweoten the hardships of c-hild hood. But the time will come when the boys and the girls got big enough to be useful and then they should be made to know it. They should be raised to habits of industry. The girl of ten years should help her mother in house work and in nursing the baby. The boy of ten should begin with tilo hoo in the gardon and the ax at the wood pile. The piano is all right, and so is the pony, but work should be mixed with pleasure. Sometimes I think there is too much schooling and colloging going on in this generation, and too little work. The curriculum of out' public schools is now nino long years, say fromn eight to seventeen, and then comucs throo or four more of college and no work in all that time, no habits of industry, noth ing but books, books. There is hardly a sweet girl graduate in the State who can make her own dresses. She goes to the milliner and keeps her poor' old father on a strain. Perhaps the collogo boy takes an honor and gets his name in the apetrs and then, of course, he must study law and dabble in politics, and depend on the mana for a support. Those kind of nice, smart, good-for nothing boys are in every city and town and village. They know nothing of the practical concerns of life. They couldn't plan a house nor run a saw mill nor an ice factory nor a brickyard nor oven a little farm. They know nothing of horticulture or the science of growing flowers and evergreens. They couldn't hang a door or itake a gato latch ot' put up a roller window curtain. But they know a little Latin and Greek and some geometr'y, and perhaps can toll you whether tite del uge came before or after the flood, and they can play baseball and football and dance the gerinan and wear tanned shoes and bollybands to perfection, but they are good boys and so smart and havo such nice manners and winning ways that their mothers aro proud of themn, but their old fathers are serious and perplexed. College life is v<.ry fascinating both to boys and girls, but to most of them it is a waste of precious time. Education should be mixed with labo'. it should be hard to get, not easy. 31r,mi Aum. WIlE TIltES FOR SALE. Ar raniiy' emteinls Ma(le I*'o a FullI Sup ply-Comlipmrative Cost oi" Wire and(i Iloop Ties. r Col. 1). 1. Dtncan, manager of the State Allianco Exchange, has returned t from New York. lie was eminently s successful in his mission, which wits t to secure a sufficient supply of wire [ ties to enable the Souther' farmers e to defeat the Cotton Tie Trust. Con Ll cornitng his visit to Gotham he said: t"I hav. arrantred with a large w Iir n tnanufacturar to miakes us wire Lies. s T1he ties will be madelof No. Ii anneal ,ed steel wit'e. Thirty ties will be p~ut, in a bundle, (the samte number as is o0 inwput, ini the huand Ic of llat hoop tics.) LI| These ties will weigh about Ii -I lbs. to e the tic and will cost 90) cents por bun r die delivered in Colutmbia. Th'le rate n of freight is 3i7 cents por hiundred to -Columbia. It is a little more thaii ,that to some other points, which wil! t add a cent cor such a miatter' to thte cost Ipert b)undle to these p)oinlts of shlipinfent, sfrom the factory. a " Now as to the comnpar'ative cost of .the w ire and hoop cotton ties aL bundle of wire tics, thirty tics, weighs 17 . t, lbs. and cost 90t cents, or- $210 per' hundred p)ounds ;a btundle of thiirty -hoop ties weighs fot'ty-live nounds and [) cost $1.45, or' $3.2l per hundm'ed pounds. s You see we have 81 cents por' hund red -pounds in favor- of the wire ties. ,, " The reason I fixed upon the large awh'n was to get the undoubtecd sti'ength, r- because the wire mlanufacturors said e that in p~ulling tI e cotton out of the a hold of a ship, the smaller wire might e give way, but this No. 1i they would guarantee would hold, and thon we get the weight. Cotton hoop ties aftei' this season will nove be over $1 per bundle again, for the wire tie has come to stay. "The ties wvill have a compiete loop on one end and the other end in bail Sing wvill be r'un through the 1loo), bent -back and the end put undet' the wire around the bale. In compressing it will only be necessar'y to pull the wire through the loop and run the end under thle wiiro and the work is done, and tihe manufacturoers say it will hold any kind of pi'essure cor handling. "The factory is now at, work on IL carIoa~d and wvill be readcy to ship in a few days. I hope to have a car load het'e next week. Stt deir'e to say to the farmers of the . taothat I have let no woirk or ox (, pense stand in the way of getting this business in such a shtape as would en able them to pr'oteet themselves against those who thought they had thenm in aL corner-. Send us your order's fcir wti'e ttes and in a fwv (lays we can have all orders illed.'' Orders for' sever'al hundred bundles ofvire ties have already been placed with thne .Exchange and many more will colme in1 dur'ing the next few datys, inow thitt Colonel IDuncan has cmplet . ed all arrangements to suplply the deC mandi. I f the sale of thtese tics is sLuf l iciontly large, thle price of thmi will tundoubitedly dm'op a litt~e. wo uii gt i n of your reniri live. ni a ill i-orl I ite tfor lik t i hl arrt I lE tl i aan1 tuu (11 Ing 1seo ieat.ig t. Iro n vs a I iiitil i 1t. Iv r oeis lttti'i was ion clet 'l I be Iin anioust'Oi helpi hin thouts t ott ubl at Weli(i soel eing (115 iir3n1, wriltii I oig. slenid.A. AI etis w-t i not wiltl eeat, bu iot w 3hatr we vit hat p el us stngha. Youtn isrot wihlf the toad, ut wha whne tf'surbht' that maktes s withte l ti, ano what wet te ndo, buatt wt wgdos thsllat mvery usd wusl. i ino a6 few fairon wises bave ntL s-og lestrhugnge, an da ked.ti vtarI amnyn nteh.ies a hyddwl In the St Louis Cyclone. When the crash eano and the roof fell, burying them beneath its heavy and sutfocating weight, Meg sought to throw herself across the little cradle where Johnny was lying asleep. She nly succeeded in reaching it with her lingers, however, and although sie nerved herself with a strong effort to believe the little thing was not hurt the sudden gasp whiOh came from the hoa struck a chill to her heart. Meg herself was badly injured, but she never thought of anything but the baby. She raised herself, crouching on all fours as she was, and sought to lift a part of the hetavy beam which seemed to be slowly deadening all her faculties. After a timo she noticed that the cradle had formed a sort of a nook next the wall, and for an hour sihe wrestled to crawl the two feet which intervened between her and the clear spaco. As ste at last dragged her body from beneath the beam sho must have fainted for a moment. Sh came to in a moment; however, and immediately groped with both her bleeding hands over and over the cradle. Where was the baby'? Soon in the darkness a vivid flash of lightning Illumined the place and she saw that Johnny was right next to her, where he had been tumbled when tie cradic turned under the cruel weight of the timbers. Mog tenuerly lifted the little form. She know quito well that the baby was dead. She did not caress it with any vain hope of bringing it to life again. She only held its face close to her face and crouched In the corner thero, say ing many inarticulate words to it. She murmured the vague and Intangible nothings to her child that all women possess within their hearts for chil dren. Meg sat there in the darkness ; she found she could sit quite comfortably by leaning her head forward over the baby. She had forgotten the pain In her logs, and It was too dark to notice hor bleeding hands. Tho jagged lightning camte at in tervals and lighted up the desolate scene, showing the west wall open to the air, the roof open to the sky and the little picture of Johnny in his em broidored dress when he was christen ed and the wreath of paper roses still hanging around it. The bureau, with the top drawer Open and one of John ny's little socks hanging over the edge, attracteod Meg's eyes during one of the long lashca of the blue light. She remembered she was just about to take the little sock and mend it when tile storm cato. The night grew colder and Meg be came aware that her garments were soaked through to the skin. Involun tarily she sought to cover the baby with her arms and apron. The baby would iever need to be covered again. Meg felt this, but it did not seem to cause her the agony of grief she had always thought she would feel when her child died. She commlniuned with Iel'S131f as to the strangeness of her feeling; she p)e-r feetly realizued that he was dead, she knew that the storm had ruined her )oo1' home, she could hea' tile hoarse shouts of ,the men below in the saloon on the Corner ; she even realized that she herself was dangerously wounded. She nevertheless sat there, and p ently she began to croon gently to the baby inl her lap. lie was born a year ago come lFri day. A year ago. Meg looked back at the advent through a mnazo of almost unpel)rsonail unlcertainty. Was it year. y' Then it must, have been in Septembher that she was married to .John. ItL seemed to stretch back intu the limbo of another life that Septem ber. Aleg still sat hugging the baby. and soon her cegs begran to secnd sharp darting pains through her entire body. The agony of the first sharp palin brought herto a suc'den swift sense of her position. She winced as in in ert asing volume111 the pain r'an fr'om her k nees up to her thighs. Suddenly she screamed, a mad agonizing scercam that rent the dhizzled air Ii ko the cry of a wounded bird. Meg had not sceamed because she was frightened and feared to (lie there with her child's dead body in her arms and her ch id's dead face pressedI to heri bosom; she only cried, 1poor woman, because heri legs being broken and held as in a vise by the beams of tihe roof, had been wrenched when she had mtoved to ease her head. M~eg remain ed shuddering violently. Hecr broken legs held by the beam, her back bent double in the corner, her wounded arms gathering the baby to her bosom. When John returned hiome that evening from the factory where 1h0, too, had been injured by falling tim ber's and fly ing masonry, lie shuddered as lie looked up at the two windows on the second floor. He saw the corner saloon cr'owded with w ild-cyedi men. Trho place was lighted with smoky lamps and many tallow candles. A womian teoled out and1 hurched against him. Th'le sniell of her' por-son and the hot odors from the saloon sickened him strangely. He looked up at the dlarkoined win dows, he saw them all broken, he knew the root was oil, he fe-lt that a last great wieight and ho. 'or' hadl fal len upon his liife, lie stood( ther'e, and in his ears and on his sinking iheart, Meg's cry rcsounoded. As he climblled up l thle narrow sidle staircase he i'c mem~libered afterwards how tiiling the wvound On his arm seemed3( to himn. Hie reach-d the second( Iloor andi in the darkness lhe listened shivering andl tremilbling. "Meg !" lie cr'ied, "' Medf !" andi fr'om the corner where she was limpelsoned h~e hoard the faint whisper of a wvo man's voice. It was only a dimi whisper he heard, but it guided him to the place. When lie had raised the beam and taken her and the baby up In his arms, Meg said softly. "' Y~ou're not hurt, atre you, John 'Y" She attempllted to cover' the baby's face, before lie could( 5ee it., h1; ', n,.r h anda~ refun d t.o (obPy her wit.. .Johni had n0 need to look in thte ehil.d's fa 3e; what he saw in his wi fo's had0 sufliced. lie bent double under' the iinamccuistotmed w iighit as5 1he imae his wvay dow-n the stairs. lie touched htis lips to Mleg's in the darkness. It was 0one of those ats which God has allow ed to take the lace~u of words. Saturday the roof and the wvall were repai redI and Sutndiiy morning a lIttle wiep of whito mu tslin and r'ibbons were seen IIluttering from the second story wind(ow. Thme New~ Hook Spoon [Fr-e toi All. I ri-in Iih le ChIirist ian Stanituaid liht Miss A. M. I'ri tz.. St tien A. St. ILoots, Mo., wonit nive-nE-ganit p'hitfed hocok spoon1 to aniyoiie it on itO o soiII i usefl that I I htowed ft (t my friendfs, and matie01 $2.00) fin two ho01 n, tab- ing or1ders for ihe 8wp Oln. TPhi hoiok spnoon Is ia h~ousehlobit ntecessi ty, i canno t sltip into~ thet (lI sh or1 cook mg ve-ssel, beiing hld itn thei jihreei by3 a hook on I lhe bac(-k. The spoonl lii som -41 lthing that1 hou~isi'eepers haive- nt~le-d l 'et. since sp~5ons were Ii rst ivenlteid. A Iyon 3' an .~ 0e sainib, liploon b '~ sienintg ien 2 00en1 i.' , in .sFit.' hzits is ai slenid way~ IJ 1 . UVo.y at . i atiy m1. ..,.,..... THE BATRE OF THE STANDARDS. TUNI0 TWO I*LANS OF J11METiAIISM. Uan t1ie Uniteld States Maintain thir .tatio of'Sixteen to One-Sounrethinig worth Iloatliig. 01he followiig article was written by Ml r. Flenuig, of Kentucky, wh was one of Ml r. Clevelanrd's electors in the caipaign of 1881, arid it is worthy of perusal by any one without regard 'to political bias.1 In view of the declaration of the Chicago convention in favor of the "free and unlinited" coinage of silver, at the ratio of 1 to 1, the question, "Can the United States (independently of the concerted action of IEurope) establiih and maintain the parity be twoon gold and silver at the ratio numed ? " is of increasing interest. Eastern politicians and capitalists for the most part answer this quostion In the negative. The Southern and Western Democracy have answered in the ailirmative. B1oth answers being )resuinably influenced by personal Intorost, an unprejudiced investigation may elucidato the probable truth. The consensus of impartial scientific opinion may be said to have resulted in agrement upon the following prop, ositions : 1. Since 18713 gold has risen In value 100 per cent., and silver and all other commodities have fallen 50 por cent. 2. Under the gold standard gold must continue to approciato and other commoditiCs depreciate. :1. Those conditions benefit the hold ors of realized riches, and persons with fixed incomes, and tend to hard timos, the Impoverishment of the many and the bankruptcy of the debtor class. 4. Hence a return to the bimetallic standard is desirable, if feasible. The only plans suggested to such re turn are : l'irst-The Whitney plan of Interna tional agrocmnt. This includes Eng land. Is it probable that England will consent to such agreement ? She de monctized silver in 1816, and has since steadfastly adhered to that policy. Tbe London NEconomist In 1883 said : "England being the chi.-f creditor of the world, it is to her interest to keep the volume of money as small as possi ble inl couitrice fr'oil wh ich debts are due, in order to got inoro of their pro ducts inll m A, of interest due to her. citizens." In I8(;( Sir Robert N. Pow leir, ex-Lord M.yor of London, a memiii ber of Parliament and a banker, said : "The effect of .o.3 depreciation of .,il ver must finally be the ruin of the wheat and cotton industries of Ameri ca and the development of India as the chief wheat and cotton exporter of the world." I n 1872 the London Daily News s.ai(l : "or Great Britian, prc eminently the creditor among all na tions, to adopt it would be midsummer madness, indeed. * * * i3imetallism would shake to its foundations the financial fame and su premuacy of Great Britain." in a late speech Mr. Gfad stone said of England : "It is the great creditor nation of the world, and it is incircasiinly tih great creditor country of the world." In that speech Mir. Gladstone estimated the holdingrs of Great Britaini beyond thu limits of her kingdomi at $10,000,0U0,000, and ad in Englandi making ia present of $500, 000,000 to the world. William Henry Greenifell, chairman of the Bimetallie League of England. declares that if we wait for England to show the way we will "wait forever." Since it is the interest of the creditor class to maintain the gold standard, anid that class controls the policy of iEngland, bi metal lismn by international agreemeflnt may be dismissed as out of thre qjuestion. Second--The other' planl is for thre United States to go it alone. T1he pr'opositioni is that the U~nited States shll establish the dual stand art] by its own dccice'. independent of LEuropen action. Can thris be done? Such cx perimen t is at one new andi~ old. I t is old be cause we had free coinage of bo0th imetals uip to 1873. It is new because heretofore the coinage of the two metals has b~een established upion a ratio apriminatirng the commercial value of the metals. Alr. Hamilton was olpo3ed to ''at taiching the unit of value to either metal for the reason that to do so would dlestroy the oflice arnd character of one of thenm as money, andi reduce it to the situation of mer'e merchandise," and he hreld that ''to annul the use of either of the metals as money is to) ab~ridlge the quantity of circulating medlium arnd is liable to all objections which arise fr'om a comparison of the benefits of a full withr the evils of a scant cir'culating medium." In this view Mr. .Jeff'er'son concuirrod, saying that " the unit must stand upon both metals." it, was found that the commiercial ratio was 15 to I, and Congress by r'esolution Ju mly 6, 178~>, declared that tire money unit should be a dollar, rand b~y resolution of August 8, 1780, fixed that (d0)lar' at 3711 gr'ainrs of Iiine silver and 211 gi'ains of pure gold, which wer'e though t to r'especti vely' r'epresent the commer'cial value of the metals to be coined. A t that time both metals were ini urniver'sal use a' prirmary money. The commercial v'alue of silver' arid gold bullion, Il .e other commod(ities, is eontrolled by the law of supply and demand, andir n soon irs the Unmi ted States andii the E~ur'opean nrations closed threir mints to silver the decr'eased de mandit lessened the price of silvor' bi lion, wvhile the incr'eased demand for gold threi'eby incr'eased the pico. of go)ld. '::hus the two muetamls parted cormpany in vahire as wvellI as in money use. it will hiar'dly be questioned that in ternation al fireo coinage would( rer'tor'e silver to par with gold. In smuch case gold, nio lorngei' hav ig tire monopoly, but berig ini cormpo~titioni withi silver, would fail in pr'ice arid silve' would rise until par'ity was r'eaced(. it will also be conceded] th at tire parity would be mintai nedl with fr'oo coinage by tihe UJn ited States alone art a ratio of :i0 to I. TIhis is what is imeaunt by some wh'len threy say, "' I ut a doillair's wothti of silver' in a silver dol lar.'' ' The fallacy of the contention for taai{in g tire pre'sen t Climmer~iciali~'~ vlues ams the basis of thre cina ge ratio is that it leaves out of considor'ationr the i ncrecased miarket pr'ice of silvoriii that, w~ouild comoe fr'oim its inrireasedl uis caurs'd b~y its r'estoratin tr) miintage. Coild it be deli nitely ascer'tainud in aidvance what olfect freeccoinage would pr'oduc lioni the priace, the ratio could now be fixed accordingly, and thre prmob. 1em would be solved. Thaut there would be a rise in silver ty restoring that metal to free coinage ini Our mind is is clear. ft is equailIly clear that there would h)0 a corr'iespondIig fadll in the pr'ice of gold. Whbether gold would frill aind sliver rise uh il tire prit y be tween them werem' per'ranerntly restr ed dependi~s uponi the question Whether the demrand for' silver money would ('i ual the sunnilv. It ecoms plear thon that (roe coinage by the United States would for thle time being restore tho parity in this country, for no one would tako lejsI than $1.29 an ouneo for silver bulloln when by sending it to the mints he could got that price in legal tondjer money. UII)D hlOT RlEV10LdATIONS. Mill Creek Co.'s Secretary Says Conm missioner Mixsonl Soujgt Coninais sions1 onl Whiskey Pullreliaised, atld That. tho Distilling Comiatiy Set tile I)ispensary Up ii i3 iness. To the Mlitor of The State: In your isso of the 7thl n8t. you pub lish a letter fromt CollmIn issioler Mix son. E0very word he says ill that letter about my offering him a rebate d irectly or indirectly of any anount or in u shape, or- at any time j, is hsolutely false from beginning to endi. 11o further states thttt "wlien i. Traxler was comiiissionlcr le t (lico, (-red that the Mill Creek com1paly wals being paid interest after :,0 da, "nd each :0 days calling for Inore or hige Interest." Th is statement is t.! o ft. All the goods we sold Cornui-sioner Traxler were sold on tillittys (m fOi,. miionths titie, and intorest was elartgr:tl after the niautrity of each in vojee at. G por cent. per aninow, and so stateil on cach invoice. I cannot inaderstAand how a sano mai can make such a stat-elnent, over his own signature, when he knows the evidence to prove himli. a fal.sitir is on file in the otlice of thu State i pensary. The reason this man Mixson is so hit ter against me is because I would not employ his agent and pay[ him a comil mission. Shortly after ie was appoiit od commissioner, but before the busi. ness of the dispensary was transforced to him, he gave his atgent a letter of introduction to me. This agent tiid he could got inc thbe busines of the State dispensary and wanted a commis sion of $1 a barrel.on N. $2 a barrel oft XX and $3 a ibarrel on XXX whiskey. and wanted this on all we sold the State. I to!d him the Mill Creek Dis tilling company furnished the capital to make the dispensary a success an that institution owed us more than *92,000 at one time, ani the hooks in the ollice of the d ispelisa'V would p rove it, and I thouglit the mana .11 iit, of the tiispensary would be cold-blooedi and ui ngratcfil if tibey Idid nIot "ie s a portion of their business without oto having to "put up'' for it. We did not get the bu:,ines. Now I leave the readers of your pp1 r t judge for themselves. G1-:0. 11 U10 0-:1, Secretary Iill Creek Distillig Co. Cincinnati, Aug. I8, 1896. Gray Hair Made Dark. 1 ,s w in ymtar papetr titltenlient t hit t Zulu Villier %ouild restore all tiy lutir it nittio1. olor inl three, weeks. As I was very griiy Weit for it sail plimiltekige, 11141 ii less ith n thre'ie Weeks tiiy hair wits perl 11tyr toreal It 11iii1tral Itoll or. My w!i's uir i a light rel, Ani liby ii Zulu \' uie r, 1 -r Ih ir iz n1 ow :1 be ti ill a uih rn. A Ny .nl can t .1 aip-. -aThklige of Zlima V oilfr hj s i .11 1 ids wo im stm s to W iIbl sn in -w teao- ret. l La in . tild es i nf a aetrae from h.01 Iri iietir volor inltrl weekls Ihe wt-. ill I,.[ IIwa you11 t . aU it nl ot IN 1 1 r e S e s h Ir t I Iit I nill eolmi. bl ,it w Ill '[ip 11h4. hatir kli:k~liv <)11: wilnrm littely a tn i i n- f the tt it itir ton i1s 114e,. arc you t keo )rik, mon il it 11hr nof fo y mot h t-s et Ih w Will Iiit you staips. Aaut -TAe climat of Silly MiIatinde:. is ( Iost tc4uable ill Great Britainl. ;I range., on an averag fromll. 10l dl to 6i0 degrees. Oi thie Collest dhay it i. warmi( iand1 ii on the' hoties da t14 lisA AooL i~There45 areh only tiree 'sos i n Setillyit. --Cforpmonhl iei-npn, uteinine th hanc tossa a, honey.ugtic decoatioeo maeltheLegrin o oneyr<hy fo atends~eiim gallahtrd dat te ties mo C haink ti sny, spliendid Lr arwo..ei in exprielfoieingbsr~s ctiAnyone m ace.. wha eclre wtht o ry.andiver. ;thei teoplhe fneor nin fir the WashU e an. made tahemrn that. otir se waso thrl 0113?reas yd he whrk o pertpi ing from svaings let ref u se tie thwe 1inite, ht Aes o Dandy ingsr I' ellh-r!~ b1sitnei )(tun ilr oig s plendI id.I You41)01 sell y Itmpteinb titi l rllil lons i ii hundrei of Ast i Washer' 1(4.tell it i onu A,.11 P it. I i lur .' 114. Illull - n4IiCrporanb Zimeran a veterI ail of I-'; consp111icut segllan at the % 1 batt o Champ s in,iiii has11 jusi t bee aeeIl n1 L Par11isig for Ise ll. 5ig'l 011 contrbant inahS. Heildecalared tha.t,1411 4i heal re1cive1 5111h1e1 P,inathes3 lit nolthigo fromit the %%woin who35 11 madte themi ~ r$14 adtat. teirale as theA14:1 onl ment. hdofkeigfo dut totll Qhesabuit) hie o, ni asm1h oe its somi r relr'ad aboup~t, btI th diper' can be lu s ed as a ui t ar 1( i ller;4 a 10h'ti . dipper; a.4( lie si ner; a I' uill ; a an* i nti~b'I menstire:.. Thse No.it diner l utf tut'es~ ma es te. th pe suc a. necssary irli ele t1kl ~i isls t. nearlyit tllery4 houI e, s ituh, for hep V'~,o ll I ge~t a sump15 le i p bndingas to tid. w o cen' ' It I tamp r tlo (lpr ostwl, tc, tt W.i 114.lird 4 l'e'., Stton A it bug P .,and theya'vt 144 i ll t um) ou.'ip. per alld you~ cango riht to ork.ll An on enwn i e CIAor $ 414' h Iy II tulywhe .r . A 'iAu1.: C waou rn A cotriiI .4r. ot-- r . ran, . F.1X S4eitvred i our. railroa dpt, Oall r. Ryarl says that there Is no fric ton betwelell Snator Gormnatt and hIun So f. 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