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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1893. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR "Governments of all kinds and at all times have successfully assumed and used these pou ers. In Hungary at this time the Government controls certain wines; in Germany certain railroads are directly under the control of the State and are owned by the State, and in France the State controls the manu facture and sale of tobaccos, matches and the like. There is one branch of traffic controlled almost exclusively by the State in all portions of the world, and that is the postal system." A number of decisions of the French Courts bearing upon the tobacco trade marks of the Government were brought forward in support of South Carolina's claims. At onestage in the proceedings Com missioner Seymour expressed an appre hension that the new liquor system de vised by the fertile genius of Governor Tillman might be demolished by the Courts. In the course of a supplemen tal brief the attorneys had something to say about the law in answer to the doubts expressed -by the commissioner of its validity. They said: "The commissioner is probably not concerned with the startling statements that time and again have been flashed before the country. indicating that the South Carolina dispensary law was to be broken into smithers; that it had been decided unconstitutional-by one of the ablest Judges of the State; that it was a part of the 'odious'Tillman legislation, etc., and we now refer to this aspect of the matter simply to meet a suggestion -ontained in the query, 'Where will the commissioner of patents be who .tdmitled to registration a trade mark that arose under an Act which the Courts have wiped from the statute books.' "The foundations of the dispensary law are on bed rock as determined by judicial assaying, and if the super 5tructure, not yet, perhaps, fully tested, 5hould be found in any part to be defi ,ient, the workmen who laid the oundations are still on duty. The day >f adulterated liquor--- has gone by in South Carolina, and the strong arm of 'he State has taken e')arge of the traffic *n intoxicating beverages." The decision from Commissioner Seymour will probably be forthcoming n a few day. Its importance to Gov ?rnor Tillman and his liquor system will be great. Already the official booze )f South Carolina is winning for itself t reputation as a particularly nipping Lnd pure ammunition for jags. If the 3overnment refuses to register its listinctive sign, there will be nothing o prevent the proprietors of speak ,asies from counterfeiting the labels ind selling underground stimulmnt as he genuine article. If the label is trade narked a heavy penalty doubtless would be imposed for imitating it. It s the sentimental aspect of the transac ion which will stir the most talk in he Palmetto State. No one who knows he temper of its inhabitants doubts hbat they will object to having the state title lowered to a brand for whis Key and beer. The commissioner's de :ision will have an important bearing >n the question whether a State is to e considered a corporation which can tarry on mercantile business. Lack of vitality and color-matter in he bulbs causes the hair to fall out and urn gray. We recommend Hall's Biair Renewer to prevent baldness and ~ray ness. Bab)'s Venomous Cradle-Fellow, (From the Philadelphia Times.] LrAKE CHARLES, LA., Aug 4.-The vife of a lumberman named William on afew days ago had a novel and errifying experience with a iattle nake. The Wi:liamsons live near here n a small cabin on Lake Calcasien. drs. Williamson had left her six non ths-old baby asleep in its cradle, tear the open door, and was going bout her household business, when he happened to approach the little bed o look at her child, and to her horror aw a line of mottled green and black estled c!ose to the form of the peace ully sleeping little one. The ugly tead was raised and resting on the~ hild's arm with its eyes keeping !rowsy watch-over it. The mother sank, nearly fainting, n the floor, but with a parent's ravery realized that the snake must e dislodged at any cost to herself, as t the first or slightest movement of he babe the cruel fangs might be uried in its flesh. It was necessary Iso to act with speed, so arming her elf with a pistol belonging to her hus and, she be:t over the cradle, and rith one rapid gesture laid hold of the nake by the end of its tail and as sud enly gave it a jerk which landed it n the floor. The creature made at er with uplifted head, sounding its readful rattle as it coiled close to her -et. But, aiming steadily, she put a all through its body, and although it gain tried to attack her, abe fired gain and again, and succeeded in kill g it. As it died it fiung itself upon er foot and struck the shoe with its Lngs, but it was only the death agony, nd the blow served only to entangle in the tie of the shoe, to which it was ill clinging when her husband reached er, having heard the shots and ran to er assistance. somnmer Weakness .nd that tired feeling, loss of appetite ad nervous prostration are driven wa y by kiood's Sarsaparilla, like mist efore the morning sun. To realize ie.benefit of this great medicine, give a trial and you will join the army of it husiastic admirers of Hood's Sarsa ,trilla. Sure, efficient, easy-HooD's PILLs. hey should be in every traveller's grip nd every famnily medicine chest. 25c. "PALMETTO" AS A WHISKEY TRADE MARK. The S66tb Caroains Dispensary in the Federal Court& in an Unexpected Way Afterney' General Townsend's Mis son toWashington-Has a State the Rigul to Trade for Profit? WASHINGTON, D. C., August 15. Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, has applied to the United States patent officefor permission to use the "pal metto".asa trade mark for the South Carolina -dispensary whiskey. The patent officers are reticent on the sub Jeetrvhd say.that it is not the proper thingf 6o give..information concerning trade-marks until they are issued, though the subject is a public one. The facts Wi the cisi.are that some time ago Attorney-Genera1 Townsend, of South Carolina, came to Washington arid it is thought now that his mission was to seeure the trade mark described. The official to whom the application was referred denied it. He maintained that the statute provided for the issue of trade marks-only to personal firms and corporations and that a State is neither. The attorney then applied to the com missioner of patents, Seymour. The brief sets forth that a trade mark is incid6htal lo the right of trade and that-a trade iark can not be denied a State *ithoiat a.denial of a State's right to trae.. t thui. reasons that the right of a State to trade is not disputed and cites the post oilce business of the government, the control of railroads in Germany and France and of wines in Hungary. The commissioner's ceci sion as to whether' the trade mark sought shall issue will be made public within a few days. THE RIGHT TO TILE TRADE MARK HINGES APPARENTLY ON A STATE BEING A CORPORATION-STATE LIQUORS ALREADY SrAYD - iHGir FOR ''JAGS." [From the Wztshington Post.] Governor Ben Til!--aa, of South Carolina, seeks -govermental authori ty to use the soubriquet of the State, "Palmetto," as a trade mark for his dispensary liquors. Several weeks ago the Washington at torneys for the State made application for the registration of the brand, and the sole right to use the emblem upon labels and Ilasks. Com missioner Seymour has the novel case under consideration, and his decision will establish an interesting prece dent. When the new liquor law was about to go into force in the Palmetto State Attorney-General Towusend made a flying visi..t to tbs city which gave provocation for all sorts of erroneous guesses by the newspapers. The Attor ney-General brought with him a satch el fulgot4ire regulation bottles, with the Ste'emblem bdown in the glass, andI e engraved labets which were to decorate the same when they should be tilled with lawful stimulants under the new regime of paternalism. He came with the impress'on that the mat ter of a copy-righ t was a mere formula which could be accomplished in a few days at the most. Under this impression a great stock of the labels had been printed with the word "copyrighted7' uponl them, so that ilW i ez era ould be prevented from jigt g off inferior side-door drinks s3eSt'a,4article. Thiflbti fficoflicials found that the application raised an entirely new point, and as they were not w.iliing to decide off hand, the Attorney-Genertal and Gnv~or filimnan carried on a livelyjelygaphicboat;'wlich- resulted in an "ofder 'to withdraw~ the whole stock of abels from circulation and sub stitutoegrg ;without the mark of 1 copy 'r 1 --- ThisiNas' none after conisider'allei grumbling over the wires on the part of the Populistic Governor. Since then'r there begi iscipe; very lively work in be l'ef the.tate ori the part of its legal representatives here. *-Two Washington attorneys, Messrs. John Altheus, Jobnson and James Edgar Sm:",- were delegated ~by the -7 Attorney-Generail of South Carolina to . act for the State. They first took their case before the esaminerof trade marks in th e ordinary way. The result of 9 tbeir application will be of of interest to Socialists. It pa denied about the e middle' ~~!.by the exaniiner; who gave th,..pinton t "Thi cation is peculiar and in -its consid ration questions not hitherto t considered by the office are presented. t The statute provides only for the regi- a stration of trade marks owned by per- s sons, fl.rimror cor-pora.tions; .a State of the An $in 17n4ion is njeithjer a per son, a lisA.nor a corpo.ration, and it is doubtful if the statement that it is 'possessed- of the full rights of a corpor- e ation,' tbioughy to a certain extent true, y makes it a '&orporration in the sense contemplated by the Act-of March 3, y, 1881; conseueatly-the' right of appli- b c c.nt to' ~st*efftide mark can not t:e a ad ..u a -- - ' a *From the examiner, the application 5, was at once .appealed to the commris- h sinner of faten'ts. ~Several arguments g, * have beeni made before Commissioner a Seymour.d ring the past two weeks by it Attorneys Johnson msid Smith. Their brief is at'ery ingenious argument, and h legal gentlemen who .have read it say hi an able one. An old decision of Chief Justice Mayshall to the effect that the Governmwept o,f the United States is a corporatio-i W as quoted. It is claimed a that a St'aten oiwn a~ t rade mark as a well as an indivi'dual. "The right to adopt, own and use a i trade mark," argued the attorney, "is e incident to the right to engage in trade p) or comnmerce; and, unless the right of a State to trade at all is to be denied her e right to acquire and use a trade mark a must be admitted. -a HERESIES UNHINDERED. Sone of the Causes Which Have Contrib uted to Make Financial Depression - Why We Want a Money Basis Ac cepted by the World. [Greenville News.] The people of the South have ever since the war been occupied with their State and local affairs and have given littie thought or attention to federal politics. To many of them the great problems and questions of political economy and the national life are rev elations of new fields of thought and hope. Therefore they are easily de ceived and mislel by false but plausi ble theories and schemes as impossible of practical use as they are briliant and attractive in appearance. All attempts to explain the present financial conditions in this country by attributing them to any one cause fail because several causes have contrib uted to bring the results we see and feel. We believe one of the most po tent of these causes is the evidence found in all parts of the country that the people have gone wild on financial matters and are prepared to follow reckless financial leaders and to de stroy values in an effort to bring about a millennium. Politicians of more or less prominence in their eagerness to go with the crowd and to use popular movements for their own advantage increase the danger and stimulate the fear of those who have possessions to lose. With men in the United States Senate supporting theories which are practically communism it is no won der that men turn all they have into money and board it away. No invest ment is safe while at the command of a secret order of men supposed to be statesmen are favoring the confiscation of railroad and telegraph lines. No loan can be secure while Congress threatens to provide for the payment of all debts at sixty cents on the dollar. It is full time for men and newspapers with the courage to express their opinions to bestir themselves in exposing the folly of some ideas now being urged upon the people, already doing vast harm and likely to do more. That is a work in which men of all degrees and occupa tions are interested, for violent popu lar movements once started In a wrong direction invariably go to extremes and usually injure most those who have helped them with honest pur pose. The Populists say they favor the free and unlitiited coinage of silvei "as a measure of temporary relief." The truth is they favor it as a measure of temporary agitation. By their theo ries and by the theories of the free sil ver advocates themselves talk of ratio has no part in the pending discussion. If the government c8.n take sixteen ounces of silver and by applying a stamp and mould make it worth an ounce of gold while the market price is twenty ouncesof silver, for one of gold the government can as well by the use of the same mould and stamnp make an ounce of silver worth an ounce of gold. The Greenbackers and the Populists are working together and seem to accept each other's theo ries, although they are exactly op posed. The greenback theory is that money should have no intrinsic value -that by taking a tin pie plate and stamping on it the name of the United States and "One Hundred Dollars" and putting behind it a law that says it shall be legal tender for $100 we can make it worth as much as five gold twenty dollar pieces. They claim that money should have no intrinsic -no real-value. They seem to forget that we must trade with people who need not regard our laws s.ud.interests, who want value for vale and who accept our paper money how only be cause it contains a promise to pay gold, or silver which may be exchanged for gold on demand. Silver and gold are intrinsically valuable only because the world is agreed in accepting them as valuable and they may be used every where in the world for buying; but paper and tin have no such value nor has the assurance of "the faith and credit of the people." Where people can not sell they will not bL..,.- When we make money which the English and French will not accept for their goods the English and French will not buy cotton or grain from us. The populists and alliance people concede that money should have some thing behind it-something whieh the holder may look to for redemption. They split from the greenbackers there, and they propose to have "non-perish able farm products'' as the basis-the security. Yet foreigners may not want non-perishable farm products at all times or may decline to accept them at our valuation. We are told that the purpose is to break down the "money monopoly" of the national banks. The monopoly will be broken down by the extinction of the bonded debt in course of time, but as a matter of fact the national banks are only conveniences used by the government for the distribution and storage of money and allowed a profit in payment for their services just as it is proposed to pay the sub-treasu ry agents for doing the same service. It comes to the same thing after all, so far as that part of it goes. Somebody must do that work and be paid for it. In the same breath, however, the pop. ullsts and greenoackers denounce vio lently the proposition to allow State banks to issue money well secured. That would be the shortest and quick est way.of breaking the national bank monopoly. And the very men who favor an issue of federal currency pay a ble never, nowhere and in nothing, talk of "wild cat" State bank currency based on real pr perties and payable at a stated place on demand. It is not the quantity of property in a country, but its distribution that makes prosperity. A city with a thous and people and a hundred millions of dollars would not be prosperous if all the hundred millions were owned by one hundred of its people. It is not the amount of currency but its value and the activity of circula tion that makes business and trade, what we call "flush times." A million dollars locked in a Greenville bank would do nobody in this county any good- A thousand moving briskly would in time buy a milion dollars worth of goods and pay a million dollars worth of debts and everybody who handled it would get some profit from it. The republicans have with their protective tariftsystem developed enor mous fictitious values, huge fortunes on paper, and stimulated supplies be yond all legitimate demands.Commerce tries to meet artificially created evils with artificially created wrongs and organizes trusts and endeavors to shut off unwholsomely indiscriminate com petition with yet worse monopolies. The republicans and alleged rich man try to make the apparent richos real and solid with a single gold standard. The populists and greenbackers try to make all property worthless and to de atroy progress and enterprise by put Ling values and obligations at the mercy of a cheap and worthless cur rency-a currency based on nothing or an products of which there may be a glut or on lands wbich nobody may want and issued by the billion dollars At two per cent. A panic caused by having too much so called money which nobody will sell for, will para lyze trade as effectually as a panic mused by the locking up of good money which everybody wants. We e no improvement in the populist form of panic over the republican form of panic. The confiscation or ruin of real values is a poor remedy ror the creation of false values. rhe greenback programme means protection and limitation for trade more effectual than by the tariff. It would condemn us to eternal swap ping among ourselves of swarms-of ebased dollars which nobody else would have and the creation of nominal values which might be called by enor mous sums but which would be worth less because they would produce no profits. The populist plan would result n making the government virtually -he owner of the people and all their possessions, and in establishing here a big commune. It would not be long inder the system of two per cent. loans )n lands and crops before the laborer would be demanding a share of the and his governments' cheap money 3ad redeemed from private mortgage. M'e present cry that private profit on money is robbery would soon give place to the louder cry that private uwnership of land is robbery. We are told that debts contracted in greenbacks should not be paid in gold; bhat debts contracted with cotton at Ifteen cents a pound should not be paid with cotton at eight cents. If 11l the people who are in debt got so with greenback money and fifteen ~ent cotton, we had better not return o those times. They must have been -ad. People who fell behind when here was $000 per capita will not be -elped by restoring the same condi ;ions. It sounds well to say that a bale of ~of ton at $100 would pay for 200 pounds f meat at 15 cents ($30) and 20 yards f calico at 25 cents ($5) and leave $65 o pay debts with; whereas a bale of ~otton at $50, while it will pay $15 for ~00 pounds of meat at 71 cents and nd $2.50 for 20 yards of calico at 12} ~ents, leaves but $17.50 to pay on the 3d debt. Everything is cheaper, we ire told, but debt and taxes, and the proposition is to make debt cheaper by nfiating the currency and forcing up ~he prices of everything. That sounds well. But we can't force up prices by making cheap money because we make more cotton and grain than o'ir own ~ountry will or can use and our cus onmers abroad will offer only sound money prices. It is comparatively asy to establish political independ ~nee, but no country can establish ~ommercial independence or could prosper with it if it was possible. Dheap money would establish a tronger blockade than the federal war ships could make on our coast. An income tax to prevent enormous mnd danger ous accumulations in a few Liands; A tariff for revenue to promote free oin of trade, to maintain competition mnd to restrain it to prope'r propor :ions; A currency system based on the ietals accepted by all the world as money and extended by a State bank ~irculation system so as to expand and ~ontract with the requirements of com nerce. Those are sound Democratie ideas nd sound sense. They are between ~he extremes and they mark the path :a real prosperity and progress found ~d on solid principles. Many bodily ills result from habitual ~onstipation, and a flne constitution may be weakened and ruined by sitm ~le neglect. There is no medicine, for ::gulating the bowels and restoring a 3atural action to the digestive organs, .qual to Ayer's Pills. 'he fellows in Congress--let them roar, And capture our praise or blame ; But the checkerboard by the grocery store Moves steadily just the same ! MB. LATIMER AND PATRONAGE. The Man who Denounced Cleveland, add T is Proud of itr, Wants to Know how he Stands with the Administration Postmaster Bissell Gives him a Respectful Audience. rSpecial to News and Courier.] 3 WASHINGTON, August 17.-Repre- a sentative Latimer made another call 01 at the postoffice department yesterday 01 to urge the establishment of a post- E office at Clemson College, with J. F. ] Calhoun as postmaster. As Fourth ei Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell y seems indisposed to act promptly in 1 this matter, Representative Latiter S presented his case to Postmaster Gene- b ral Bissell. The interview was conducted on the t, most friendly basis, and there was a g general interchange of views between 0 the Postmaster General and Mr. Lati- M mer. The latter stated very frankly a, that he did not propose to indulge in i1 any unseemly and undignified scram- el bie for the privilege of dictating the -y appointment of a few fourth-class post :R masters in his district. He simply de- B sired to know whether he is to be con sulted on this subject, or whether his tj predecessor, Mr. Johnstone, is to be the C referee in that district. He made it n, perfectly plain to the Postmaster Gen- -s eral that he did not wish to stand in al the way of the changes that are neces- tj sary in his district. If the Postmaster g1 General holds that Mr. Johnstone is y the most desirable adviser of the ad- es ministration for that district, and can t: better represent the people of that dis- -1 trict in the distribution of the post- 6 offices, that fact should be known, and ei the people of the district should be tu notified to file their papers with Mr. j Johnstone. Mr. Latimer informed the Postmas ter General that the postoffice patron- C age would cut no figure in the coming ti election nor does he need it to secure a I re-election. There are a number of F cases pending which demand immedi- tt ate attention, and the department bi 'should proceed to make the changes e without further delay and at the same st time let the peopleof the district under- E stand who the Administration proposes w to recognize when recommendations t, are necessary. a During the interview the financial tb subject was touched upon, and Mr. of Latimer told the Postmaster General ea frankly that he came to Congress pre- w pared to carry out the wishes of his w constituents without regard to the dis- le tribution' 'of the Federal patronage. He insisted that the people he repre sents expect him to vote against the t unconditional repeal of the Sherman Ia Act and to favor the unlimited free at coinage of silver at the present ratio. oc Under these circumstances his duty is 5n perfectly clear and he will have to act ei, accordingly, regardless of the postoffice te patronage. M It is said that the Postmaster Gene- th ral was perceptibly impressed by the C< straightforward manner in which Mr. p Latimer stated his position, hut he did EL not give bim any encouragement to at expect that he will control the post- es office patronage in his district, to Mr Latimer says he has done his y duty to his constituents, and he does th not propose to plead at the postoffice re department for any favors. He has presented his case, and if the Postmas- tu ter General wants to give Mr. John- in stone the privilege of controlling the at patronage in that district the people pr who turned Mr. Johnstone down will , know where they stand. Mr. Latimer , is disposed to take an independent to view of the situation, which he be- n lieves will be appreciated by his people. g The other members of the delegation br are having but little better luck with su the postoffices in their respective dis- F< tricts, and in the meantime the resig- be nations are piling up to unnatural pro- h< portions. Mr. Maxwell says the South w Carolina cases will be taken up and dis- th posed of after as hile, and that is all th the consolation that is given the South go Carolinians at the postoffiee depart- er ment-. .c Look at the size of the ordinary pill. bi Think of all the trouble and disturb- p1 ance that it causes you. Wouldn't you mn welcome something easier to take,'and lie easier in its ways, if at the same time it did you more good? That is the case with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. 'V They're the smallest in sIze, the mild- A est in action, but the most thorough ~ and far reaching in results. They fol low nature's methods, and they give'o help that lasts. Constipation, Indiges- at tion, Billions Attacks, Sick and Bil- er lions headaches, and all derangements t of the liver, stomach and bowels, are promptly relieved and permanently n cured. C<__________ "If you can't cure your Catarrh, no R matter how bad your case or of how st, long standing, we'll pay you $500 in re: cash." That is what is promised by M the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Doesn't it prove, better than of any words could, that this is a remedy hi that cures Catarrh? Costs only 50 th cents. M GOLD.,GOLD, (oLD, GOLD. at Flowing in On Us No by Every Ship and .4 from Every Port.ti -- C] LOsNON, August 19.-Gold to the be amount of ?110,000 was drawn to-day tb from the Bank of England for ship-. of ment to the United States. The sa steamer "Camnpania," from Liverpool er to New York, to-day will take ?865,- t14 000 of gold and the steamer "New M York," sailing from Southampton, m will take ?230,000- s The steamship "La Tourenne," sp which arrived from Havre this morn- at in'g, brought t$5,74l,000 in Grench gold. tri For a sluggish and torpid liver, noth- et ing can surpass Ayer's Pills. They gt contain no calomel, nor any mineral drug, but are composed of the ac tive principles of the best vegetable PC cathartics, and their use always results 8i in marked benefit in the patient. of STATISTICS OF TRE NEW HOUSE. le Nativity and the Occupations of the 356 Congressmen. LNew York Sun.) WASHINGToN, August 13.-Of the i6 members of the present Congress, 13 were born in the United States, 22 :e of foreign birth and parentage, and ie (Mr. Crisp, the Speaker) was born A merivan parents while on a visit to agland. There is one negro, Mr. Curray of South Carolina. Of the for gn-born Representatives, Ireland fur. ished the greatest number, eight, five whom represent districts In the ate of New York. Germany was the *rth place of four, Canada of three. ew Brunswick of two, Norway of vo, and Austria, Scotland, and Hun Lry each of one. The representation a district in one State by a Congress an born in another is very common, id only eight States-Delaware, hav g one Representative; Kentucky, even; Louisiana, six; Maryland, six; issouri, four; New Hampshire, two; bode Island, two, and South Carolina, ven-are represented exclusively by itives of their respective States. On ie other han, Florida, with three )ngressmen; Idaho, with one; Min sota, with seven, and Nebraska,with r, have no natives of their State at I among their Representatives. Of ie States which have furnished Con essmen to their sister States, New ork and Pennsylvania are on a par, ch having fifteen of its natives among ie Representatives from other States. idiana with eleven, comes next; then bio with nine; Massachusetts, with ght, and Virginia, with seven. Ken cky and Georgia have five each, and ississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and risconsin have three or four each. Of those who make known in the )ngressional Directory the occupa >n of their early days, the farmer iys are by far the most numerous. 'fty-five "worked on a farm," and irty-two taught schools; many com ned the two occupations, and in some ses even had the pluck to add the 3dy of the law to their other labors. ight were printers' apprentices, four ere sailors, four-"clerked in a store," ro started in as telegraph operators id railroad employees, four learned e trade of a blacksmith, and two that a shoemaker. One miner and two rpenters- complete the list of those bo tell of the first steps on the road bich has brought them to the national ;islative halls. The more fortunate or -more ambi us class which was enabled 4o go rough college is most creditably rge. There are eighty-seven gradu es of colleges and universities, with. it counting those who took a degree law only, and in addition to these ;bty-seven there are thirty-one whose rms at college were cut short by ne sity or misfortune. Many note that ey left college to enter the Union or sofederate armies, and these are es cially numerous among the Southern epresentatives. Yale has five gradu es, Harvard and Dartmouth three ch, and Amherst, Cornell and George wn two each; Bowdoin, Brown, ashington and Lee, and many of e State universities have two or more presentatives each. In the choice of occupation for ma rer years the law was overwhelm gly in the majority. Two hundred d seven of the 356 members have aeticed law, and moot of that number ere engaged in the legal profession clusively at the time of their election Congress. The farmers are next in imbers, thirty-three in all-twenty re plain agriculturists and the rest eeders of fancy ciattle, cotton - and gar planters, and fruit growers. urteen manufacturers and twenty .e merchants have left their counting muses in other hands to give their deole time to directing the affirs of e nation. Five doctors have deserted eir patients to prescribe for their untry's ills. Two professional teach i represent the great army of Ameri n pedago ues, and there are eight ukers to help solve the currency oblem. NIne editors, three railroad en, and four engineers complete the West Point has one graduate, Gen. heeler, of Alabama, and the Naval 3ademy at Annapolis graduated Mr. >binIson, of Pennsylvania. Fifty-two the members were Union soldiers, ~d forty-seven were in the Confed ite armies. There is one, Mir. Bou Le, of Maine,who served in the Union vy, and two who served in both the mnfederate army and navy. Tren epresentatives have taken pains to ite that they are married, and one mnarks between colors "unmarried." essrs. Dinsmore, of Arkansas, Hitt, Illinois, and Sickles, of New York, yve been in the diplomatic service of e United States, Mr. Dinsmore, as inister of Borea, and the other two the legations in London and Paris. mn. Tracey, of New York, was at one ne in the Papal Guards of Rome. Mr. iarles O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, was rn in March, 1821, which makes him e senior in years, as he is In service, his collangues. Mr. Lilly of the me State is but a few months young than Mr. O'Neill. Mr. Thomas Set , of North Carolina, was born on arch 10, 1865, and is the youngest ember. He is a dark-haired, hand me young man, a ready and eloquent eaker, a-good lawyer and politician, d personally very popular in his dis ct, where Democrats were elected to ery other office excpt that of Con essman. Hundreds of people w.v:ie "It is im esible to describe the good Hood's ruaparilla has done me." "It will be equal help to you. Silver Note. [New York Sun.] - The mines of the United States pro- 1 duce in a year 1.500,000 ounces of gold and 60,000,000 ounces of silver. Forty times as much silver is produced as gold. In 18W0 the gold mined was 1,700, 000;the silver mined was 30,000,000. The ratio of silver mined to gold has been steadily increasing; the price of sil ver has been steadily falling. The bullion value of a silver dollar was 100 cents in 1873, the year of its demonetiza tion. Now it Is about 65 cents. t The United States stands first among the silver-producing countries, Mexico t second. Australia third, Bolivia fourth, I and Chili fifth. Silver-producing coun- t tries are ususally poor countries when t they have no other export of greater ? value. t The silver currency of the world amounts to $3,968,000,000. The gold cur rency amounts to $3,632,000,000, France stands first among nations in respect of gold coin; the United States second, Germany third, and Great Britain fourth. Per capita, France has $20 in gold coin, the United States $10, Ger many $12, and Great Britain $14. t In silver money France stands at the t head of all nations in the per capita a amount-$18 per inhabitant. Holland t is second with $14; the United States is t third with $8. Germany has $4.25, 1 Great Britain has $2.75. Figuring corn at 40 cents a bushel, i the American crop was worth in 1892 1 $650,000,000. The value of the silver t mined in the same year was $75,000,000. c less than one-eight of the value of the t corn. t At 70 cents a bushel the value of the wheat crop of the United States for 1892 was $86,000,000. The value of the American gold mined In 1891, the year previous, was $33,000,000. Silver Jones,of Nevada,is an English man, born in Herefordshire in 1830. e Silver Stewart his colleague from Ne- a vada in the United States Senate, was I born in Wayne county, New York, in i 1827. Both were educated in Ohio. - Both went West when the gold craze ( broke out on the Pacific coast. Jones went West from school; Stewart went a West from Yale College. Stewart was 2 once a teacher of mathematics. Jones ( took his seat in the Senate in 1873; i Stewart in 1865. The total vote of Ne- I vada was 10,000 in 1892; Hoboken, Weehawken, and Union ill - cast t 9,500 at the same election. t Bland, of Missouri, the silver cham pion, is a native of Kentucky. He went to California in 1655, when 20 years of age, and afterward located in Virginia City, Nevada. He became a miner, and C was County Treasurer of Carson coun ty- when Nevada became a State In1 October, 1864. The day before the bill admitting the State passed Congress the battle of Bermuda Hundred was 0) fought. In 1865 Mr. Bland returned i to Missouri. In 1872 he was elected to 3 Congress by 1,700 majority. In 1878 he t esrried through the bill remonetizing the coinage of silver dollars. He has been a member of Congress since 1872, and has long been Chairman of the Cornmittee of Coinage, Weights, and Measures. The ratio in vaiue of gold to silver 3 wasl1tol15ln1862, 1tol16inl1872,l1to 3 18 in 1882, andl1to 20in 192. 1 A word fitly spoken is like apples of I gold in pictures of silver.-Proverhs d xxv., 11. According to Mulhall, there were $250,000,000 more silver coined than 1 a were mined during the fifty years be tween 1831 and 1881, and more than 5,000 tons of silver plate, fixtures, ande ornaments had to be melted down to supply the deficiency. At one time 25 s per cent. of the ocean commerce of civilized nations consisted of gold or silver coin interchanges. Now the commerce in these articles amounts to less than 5 per cent, of the gross trada byea The Bland bill, providing for the re aumption at United States mints of ] the coinage of silver dollars, passed the a United States Senate on Feb. 15, 1878, ' by a vote of 48 to 21. Among those ~ voting in favor of it were Ingalls, of ' Kansas, Morgan, of Alabama, Voor- ' hees, Democratic Senator from Indi. t ana; Wallace, of Pennsylvania, and t Thurman, of Ohio, Democratic candi- 'l date for Vice-President in 1888. It had ~ the support of both Senators from Penn- s sylvannia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Minnesota, 5 William Windomn, afterward Secretary L of the Treasury, and a strong advocate ~ of the gold standard, voted for the t Bland bill.'Of those opposed seven d were Democrats and fourteen Republi- ~ cans. Among the Democrats were I Bayard, of Delaware, Kernan, of New I York, Whyte, of Maryland, and Mc- ~ Pherson, of New Jersey. Among the t Repuplicans were James G. Blaine and ~ Roscoe Conkling (not usually on the E same side), Morrill and Edmunds, of 5 Vermont, and both Republican Sen- t ators from Massachusetts, New Hamp. C shire, and Rhode Island. O)ne Cali. C fornia Senator voted in fa*vor of the ~ bill, the other voted against it. Adoniram J. Warner, temnporary I Chairman of the recent Chicago Silver I Convention and official head of the z party in the United States, is an Ohio K man, as might be supposed from his t prominence ; that is he represented the ! Marietta district of Ohio in. sevqral Congresses, and was an advocate of a free and easy currency, paper or silver, e t didn't much matter which. He vas born in Erie county, New York, aught school in Pennsylvania, went o the war as a captain in 1881, was rounded at Antietam, and settled in )hio after the close of hostilities. In he Forty-eighth Congress he sat three owS in front of Frank Hurd, the tariff eformer, who was able to keep his eye >n him without, however, being able o enlist him actively in the free trade rusade, of which Hurd was a cham nion. The Republican National Conven ion at Minneapolis declared that the eople favored bimetallism, and that he Republican party demanded "the Ise of both gold and silver as standard noney." The Democrats, at their Nao ional Convention in Chicago, declared: 'We hold the use of both gold and sil ,er as the standard money of the coun ry, and to the coinage of both gold ,nd silver, without discriminating gainst either metal." The People's iarty, in convention at Omaha, de- ' lared in favor of "free and unlimited oinage of silver and gold," at a ratio f 16 to 1, and for "a national currency, rfe, sound, and flexible, issued by the eneral Government only, a full legal ender for all debts." The Prohibi ionists, in their National Convention t Cincinnati, ignored the silver ques ion, and the Socialists held no conven ion, though they ran candidates for 'resident and for Vice-President. According to an old tradition, silver 7asfirst used as a coin in Great Britain, ,900 years ago. A mint is said to have een established in Colchester, in the ounty of Essex, England, ;by one of be native kings during the reign of be Emperor Augustus, and gold, brass, nd silver coins, to a small extent, were sued therefrom. In the coin and metal ivision of the British Museum there i a fine assortment of early English ilver coins. Colorado stands first among the silvet roducing States of the country. It is losely followed by Montana, and then t some distance by Utah, Idaho, and Tevada. Texas Is the only State whkeh returned by the figures of the Mint rith producing silver, but no gold, and ieorgia is the only State returned as ,roducing gold but, substintially, no ilver. The gold mines of Georgia, forth Carolina, Virginia,'and South 'arolina were considered very valuable efore the discoveries made on the 'acific coast. The mineral*wealth of forth Carolina, one of the old gzete Ders declared in 1832, "has latey at racted great attention. These mines re very active and employ 20,000 men. hey are not sunk very deep, but are 7rought 'extensively in a horizontal irection. The particles found seldom xceed in sizes the head of a pin. In ne instance, however, a lump weigh gtwenty-eight pounds was discovered n North Carolina." The silver States, so-called, cast 457, 00 votes in the late election. They ave eighteen United States Senator. i'ew York casts 1,300,000 votes. It has wo Senators. 'Fiacial striney." - [From the New York Tribune.] "Speaking of financial stringency," iid a Wall Street broker to his corn' anions as they were lunching together - esterday, "Fve got a good one to tel? on. Saturday morning a tall, solemn oking stranger went into a bank, rhich I might name, only I promised wouldn't, and approached the win ow of the receiving teller, quietly re larked that he would like to deposit 5,000. The teller in courteous tones aquired if he already had an account t the bank. The stranger said he adn't. So the teller hastened outside, scorted him into the president's room, nd introduced him to the president. 'he president, en learning his business miled kindly, offered him a seat, and Amarked that it was a fine day. Well, f course, they entered the new depos k>r's signature in a big ledger, and one f the clerks was directed to provide dim with a passbook. Then the re eiving teller took him back into the ank and politely asked for his deposit. lut the stranger stroked his sandy oatee, and explained that he had 2erely come in to give the customary ixty days' notice and would be around rith the money, on the 4th of October. le added that it looked like rain, and hast a steady pour for half a day would e a great blessing to the country. 'he teller reached for his bronze paper reight, but before he could fire it the tranger had lit out." "Speaking of financial stringency," iid another of the brokers, "I heard a nique illustration of it a few days ago. man entered a pawn broker's shop in de Bowery, and laying down a twenty ollar bill as,ked if he could be accom iodated with a dollar on it. The awnbroker was an excellent judge of 2oney, and saw at once that the bill ras genuine. So he turned and said 2 the stranger, shoving the bill toward im as he spoke, that he was in no 3ood for nonsense. But the stranger boved the bill back, rejoined in earnest nes that he meant business; that he ouldn't get any conductor on a horse ar to change the bill; that he had Iready been put off three cars; that is, boots were awful tight, and thbt nless he could get a dollar on the bill e would be compelled to walk to the lattery. Well the pawnbroker could ot help but feel that the stranger ieant what he said. So he took up be twenty dollar bill, toyed with it a sw moments, and then said to him: W"ell, my friend, I'd like to acco"'s ate you, but owing to tbe nnancial tringency I can give you only 75 ents.'