Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1891, Page 18

b n Sha e 1 THE DEAREST OF HOLIDAYS. bgititions and Cogitations Oonpled with Seasonable Buzgestions. BENSE AND NONSENSE IN GIFTS. A Few Observations for Christmas Prosents — What to Buy and What to Shun—Wonders in the Toy World, Christmas {s near enough to make itsin® fluence feit in every homo, 1 every heart. In & spiritual and tomporal sense it is the dear- est of holidays. It fills the minds of young and old with hopes and jovs none other can mspive, To the young it is the re. alization of happy dreams of gracious old Santa Clans, Tae lover worries by day and droams by night of giving and receiving. Fathers aud mothers deliberate nightly over the wants and wishes of the boys and girls, and make frequent tours of the stores. In all these plannings the length of the purse forms an important clement and the vast variety of moderate and high-priced articles that tempt tho eye and fascinate the taste, is A0 1imposing source of worry and wearisome ental cogitation, WHAT'S WHAT, What shall I ouy for hor! Hang it all, if I only knew what would please her and be usoful!”” Interrogations and exclamations of this nature are common nowadays, and stick out 1n huge furrows on_ the masculine fuce. The dear ladics know tho shops thorough!y, but the men—to’ see them groping through the siores, bewilderod by the confusion of departments, and guyed by the kuowing ones, Is cxtremely pitiful. How is a man going 10 know, anyway, what a woman wantsi To buy what she iants robs the giftof its charm, No man really knows, though he sometimes thinks he does—untii after Christmas, or perhaps after he has tied up the box und sent 1t off, that she said once thatshe didn’t care for silver tollet things, but preferred Dresden instead; or that she is making a collection of teapots and that it would have been just the thing to have given Tior one of these. - And, because men quite of themselves don’t know what women liks for Christmas presents and aren't likely to find out unless somo woman belps them out, those things arc set down as reminders. Of somo things & woman never has enough —to-wit, of fine handkerchiefs, of curions bits Lof jewelry, of silk stockings and kid gloves. Neither does her soul grow weary of dainty bits of bric-a-brac, of quaint silver teaspoons, nor of curious brass candlesticiis and lamps, no matter how thick they may stand about. Women always like etchings, 100, ora good print, no matter how small thoy may be. So, also, with a bit of statu- ©etto in bronze or marble, or in plaster. Kven if a woman doesn’t know about these things sho is flattercd that you think sne does. SENSILE GIFTS. If she's your mother, or your sistey, ur your. wife, vou won't have to keep up any of these flattéring little fictions, but can just give her u right-down sensible, useful gift. Give your mother a uew lizard or seal pocketbook, and be sure there's not muck silver about 1it, ex- cept hidden in the pockets, and even there gold is bettor. Or give heran eidocdown cover for her own bed. or a pair of fur lined drossing shoos for the dear feet that don't keep warm as they used to. Then there's a bitof real lace for the littio gentlowoman, who will lay it away in rose sachots and think up a dozon ways to wear it and be hapoy in it. THUINGS USEFUL. Perhaps your sister’s leather card case is a little worn ut the edges; or she's lost her visiting list book. If she has set up hoer afternoon tea table give her a_ covper kettle or a wrought iron crane, If sho hasn’t set up the ten tabie, give ber one in bamboo, with the cunning little toa stool that goes with it. 1f she hasn't a triple dressing micror, give her that by all meaus; there's nothing in ail the world that comforts and sustains a woman’s soul like being able to see her back hair, sad her eyes, and ber profild all at once. r there’s a pretty fan—an ostrich feather ono if you can, a gauze one if you can't—or 2 big black Spanish lnea scarf to wear about her head of an evening. You can give your sistor or your wife a Dresden china box for hor dressing tuble, with a big powdoer puff inside of it, or a blue deft tray for her hair pins, or a little china might lamp that will urn ten hours, and has a screen beforo the flame, HOW TO PLEASE MA, If yow're a man who hasn’t a pocket full of dollars and your wife spends yvour mouey anxiously and thriftily, just goand buy her what she will call “a foolish gift,” that is “too fine for her.” It isn’t: she has been de- nying herself ever since sho married you the beautiful little things she bas wanted be- cause they were too expensive. 1t isn’t too 1ine for her; sho'll love it ull tho botter be- cause you thought to give it to her. Oue man brought tears of joy to the eyes of his little wifo by giving her the prettiest, most expensive pair of house shoes he could find in New York. Sho hadu't had such a pair since she bought her wedding shoes, becauso they were so expensive. And she wore 2ig, AR, too. THINGS TO AVOID. Porhaps the young man who is buying for tho one woman has the bardestof all. He's 80 hystoricaliy anxious to have the gift in good taste, and he won’t ask his_sister to lielp him out because sne realty doesn’t ap- preciate her anyway and neverdid. And it's justas well, porhaps, for him not to say any- thing to anybody. because ho wouldn't quite be satisfiod with anything that anyboay could suggest. But, perhinps, one may sug- gest some things that ho had better avoid buying. Perfumes, because any girl knows what she wants best herself; things to wear, bocause her father has the right to provido these for her; stationery, because she has her own distibetive style, and you would botter not interfere with it; jewelry, above all, because no wan shoula'give o~ womau jewelry unless they are botrothed or mar- ried. Make the gift usoful. but not too useful— that would assume too great intimacy pretty, but not expensive—that would omn: barrass her; impersonal, yot delicatoly per- sonal. SUUN JHESE, Now a porson cannot make a sadder mis- take than to give, let us say, an inkstand to an_author, i ferulo to a tedchor, or a note- book to a reporter. These arc what w dull minded, commonplace person would approve as oxceodingly nppropriate gifts. The writer nas io wind a lady who is the annval recipi- ent of a handkerchief, not thatsho is pos sessed of achronic hay fever, but because she is that sortof a staid body for whom mothig scoms 50 appropriato a3 haudicer- chio wiy Nort Why, for exampie, not give the cook a beautiful high art £ rocking chuir instead of the inevituble caiico dress, oxidized pin aud pocket handkerchiaf¢ Why not delignt tho house girl with @ bottle of real perfume or a gorgeous album! Why not let the husband off from the sunual pair of slippers and make him ulovely bag for bis soiled collars and cuffs! Wby not send tha soli tary litte friend whom you usually re member with & box of latier-paper, forget- ting to suggest to whom sho may write let ters, & vase full of flowers! Why not send your best young mun a shade for his lamp, a pair of saddievags for his vocking chair, or a transparent picture to hang in nis window ! Why not send a growing forn to vour best girlor a year's subscription tosome good magazine ! NOW, FOR INSTANCE, what housekeeper is wildly yearning for a plated elephant hung all over, like a Chineso pagoda, with little glass cups, too fragile for thimbiés and too smail for cordialsi One good honest teaspoon is worth u whole circus full of suoh elephants. In fact, & very good lan is to give the present ‘'so’ suitable for fary’ to Jobu and the present that is ‘‘just the thing for Jobn to Mary.” THE ART OF GIVING. Guth Ashmore writes in the Ladies’ Home Journal: A pretty way to send agift is to do it up in one of the colored Lssue papers, tie 1t with the sxtremely narrow ribbon that can bo bought for & few penuies, tho whole twelve yurds, and 30 give your friend the pleasure of untying the mysterious box, of removing the pretty ribbons aud cowing to the surprise at last, the something for which sbe has longed for many aday. 1 know a woman who has wanted @ pinoushion for ten yosrs, who in that time has gotten Lwo dia. woud bracelets aud iunuwerable rings, bus THE e ————————————————— —————————— the ionged-for pincushion bas never como. Sho still hopes for it and belioves that this year will cortainly bring it. You say, “Why Tot buy 117" Well, now, who ever bought a pincushion without the intention of giviog it to somebody else! Give with a loving and full never, under a circumstances, give that which you begrudge. Such a gift will bear no fruft tor you, not even tho houest fruit of thanks, Yon can quote as muny times as you want that “*Unto him that hath shall bo kiven, and so, it shall, ecause it is just this way, my friend: You possess the gifts of gentloness and graciousness, of politeness and of goodness, and thess are gifts that call others to them. ' If people are cross and disa- greeavic there is very slight inclination to wish them a Merry Clristmas; if they aro irritablo and snappish nobody cares whether they are blessed with a Christmas present or not~ but unto her who hath the graces that [ have cited, will certainly come a basket fuil of good gifts, “Pressed down, shaken together and running over.” TOY WONDERS. If a child could see the varied assorimonts of toys in the stores of tho manufacturers and wholesulo dealers its droams would be n amazing mixture of objects in astonishing complications—wholo irains of cars loaded with dolls, firo ongines runniug to dolls’ houses, queer figures mounted on life-size animals, producing uncarthly noises with various instruments, or acting in the most wonderful maoner, tin war siips and pew- ter soldiers in battle with wooden forts, pony ts being chused by the life-like shapes of paper roptiles, erinning imps building eathedrals for the pleasiro of knoc them dow n again, or trying to rob the ¢ and nickel savings = banks, mech: figures in a wiid revel or deeply terested in the puzzles and games and other combinutions th ur ordinarily in dreams. Every year now toys are mude for the amuse- tor entertainment of children, and the ty spent in the consideration of some- thing novel and attractive is hardly ap- preciated. Not only here, continues the New York Sua, but in krance, Germany, Switzer- tand, aud even in Japan the cuildren of ica aro thought of for many months be the holiday scason, Many of the tov that particularly appeal to American chil dren are made in Germany, not because we have not the ingenuity to proauce them, but because we cannot make them so cheaply. BANKS, Among the new toys are registering and grotesque bunks, Of the former, one nas the tall shait of a light house that will hold 100 nickels and caunot be opened until it is full The keeper’s house is an_ordinary bank for pennies. Another is in the shave of a clock with a time lock register. The wizard bank for the pocket registers dimes. One gro- tesque bank has the fizure of a frow mounted on i bicycle. When a coin is vluced in its mouth 1t turns‘a somersault and throws the coin into a receptacle that is guarded by an- othier frog. The dancing darky bank will hold any coin. The most natural of the un- breakable iron toys are railroad trains, fire hook and ladder trucks and hose , with running horses, fly- artillery, express wagons and The ' rotail prices of railroad uts to 8. A fire eu- heart, and in- carts, trains range from gine house is so constructad that at a signal the doors Iy open and the horses galiop out with the engine. It is particularly attractive for boys. ‘Tue fire engines rowil for $L and upward, WONDERS IN WOOD. tho wooden toys are wagons and vessels on wheels carrying sailors and freight. 'I'he cathedral has extracts from tue Scriptures on each block. ‘I'he wooden forts cuu be attacked and defended by can- nons throwing wooden balls. The figures of thirty soldiers, called the Famous guards, can, by an extension frame, be moved from a column of sixes to a company front. Iire engines, hool and ladder trucks and hose carriagos of wood, mounted on whels, are sold at rotail for 5) cents and npward. A taliy-ho coach and Santa Claus with sied and reindeers are new. O the tin toys, the ao- mestic stores and k itchen utensils are supe- rior to the imported goods, and they rango in prico from 25 cents to $2. 'The’ castiron stoves are completein dotails FREAKS OF TIE JA° Japnneso toymakers have sent us many novelties 1 paper figures of birds, animals, and reptiles. The new mechanical figures and toys for show pieces and purlor entertain- ments are jugenious and novel, and the mu- sical toys are us varied as tho notes, the figures being comical and pretty and ranging from $1 to$10 in price. Among the cheap wusical toys aro the cathedral chimes and the calliopo wagou, with rather harsh notes, to be sure, but children seldom know the ditter- cnce, Of the small musical toys, the cow horn is described as the most noisy horn made, and if all the sounds of a barnyard can bo imitated, as suggested, the inventor will ot be blessed. ‘The musical top, with ac- cordion notes, and a revolving musical hand toy arc more pleasing. Toys that are moved by means of rubver bulbs and tuves are jumping dogs, bugs, birds, frogs and wros- tlers. Among. OF A MECHASICAL TUR Of tho mechanical toys that go by steam tho imitations of the vessels of the white squadron are the latest, and that they come from Gormany is to be regretted. The de- signs vary from that of the Dolphin to that of the Chicago, although the German artists bave mixed thé names. Imitations of river steamboats and launches are importea also, Other toys in_that line are forece pumps and pilo drivers. Boys will be pleased by tho pewter figures of cowboys, Indians, ponies and buffaloes that are to bo used in' scenes represcnting the wild west, and the figures of soldiers in mimic scenes of battle, FOR THE GIRLS, Toys for girls are moro numerous and varied in prices than those for boys, and dolls lead the list, the Lighest price being §30 atv wholesale for a single doll. Tho latest noveltios are dolls that can bo moved in cradles and made to talik by pulling strings. Tho dressing of dolls has improved each year, and houses for dolls are larger and moro combletely fur- nished than ever before, rang- ing in prices from $1 to $25. Markets for meat und game, groceries and fish have com- plete stocks, and tho theators have varied scenes and figures. lu those days girls can have all the utensils, furniturc and essontials of housekeeping on & _minature scale. Tho vew decorations for Christmas trees are uu- merous and attractive, but most of them are of foreign manufacture. Books in funcy shapes and books with out- line pictures for painting are more elaborate than ever, and the designs of paper patterns for dolls and furniture are extensive. The minature figures of horses, cows, don- keys, sheep, goats and rabbits covered' with natural skin range nprico from §l to 815, and the most costly are orted. Some of the figures aro mechanical and acranged for the production of natural sounds. Comploto stables, with hair covered horses, range in prico from #2 to §25. A few of the zoats are lifo sizo and nre rather expensive. No Doy could pass by the arrow guns, air guns and wilitary accoutrements, several of which are new, and would be hard to find a boy who would not be interested in improvement of who old toys that has been devised for his amusement. Some of the home manufactur- ers huve boen devisiug toys for nearly twenty-five years and they have seldom passed through & season without offering something now. The Lmitations have not been reached yet, if the use of electricity bo taken into consideration -~ A Preveniive for Croup. Wo want every mother to know that eroup can bo prevented. T'rue croup never appears without a warning. The first symptom is hoarsuness: then the ehild appears to have takeu a cold or a cold may have accompunied the hoarseness from tho start. After that @& peculiar rough cough is dovelopod, which is followed by the croup. The time toact 1s when the child first becomes hoarse; u few doses of Chamberiain's Cough Remedy will provent the attack. Even after a rough cough hus appeared the discase may bo pro- vonted by using this remedy as directed, It has never been known to fall. 25 cent, cont and 1 bottles for sale by druggists. - J. M. Brothers. A brother of Secretary Rusk, who keepsa drug store in Malta, O,, feols a natural pride in the success and distine- tion of **J. M.,"” as he calls the heud of the Department of Agriculture. He delights in teling how, when their father died, the two brothers, then mere boys, ran the farm for several years, and how **J, M. terward became a stage drivor, and lator, having married, startod for Wisconsin, where he bought a farm of his own and “grow up with the country.” It is this last achievement chich the Malta drugglst regards as “Unele Jerry’s” most eraditable one, LAl De. Cullimore, oculist, Bee building, SILVER'S PLACE IN HISTORY. | Horacs White of the New York Post Dis- | ounsscs its Use and Abuse. WHAT AN HONEST DOLLAR SHOULD BE. Alexander Hamilton's Attempts to Place Silver on a Parity with Gold ~How the Moderns View the Question of Free Coinage. At & recont dinner by tho Baptist Social union at Delmonico's, New York,Mr. Horaco White, editor of the New York Daily Fost, made the following intoresting address: At the beginning of our careeras a uation under the constitution, wo adopted what is commonly called the double standard of gold and silver, at the ratio of 15to 1. This was in | At that timo England had the ratio of 151}, France had the ratio of 15'4, Portu- gal thav of 10%;, Spain that of 157 No untry in the world, so far as I can discov- er, had a ratio high as 16 to 1 either then or'for a long time afterward, Notwithstand- ing this concurrence of the world in logal v tios below 16 to I, the price of gold went avove 16 to 1 in the Hamburg market in the * 1808, al30 in the years 1812 and S13. What we are chietly concerned about s our own money and our own former ratio of 15 to 1. My friend, Me, Dana Horton, has made an argument to show that Alexander Haimil- ton was justified by the facts and circum- stances of the time in_recommending to con- gress the legal ratio of 15 to 1. I think M Horton is right in this matter. Looking at ables which show the markot ratios L | that the Hamburg ratio for 1302 was | News traveled siowly at tout timo, market changes were comparatively | we were to adopt the double | 15 to 1 was as near the mark W ould get. T'he idea of | and slugyish, Af standard at all, the ratio of a single standard was already taking root in world, but had not vet reached our shores, France adopted the single siiver standard in 1503, after a debate runmug over twelve years, but she allowed gold to bo cotned at the pre-existing ratio of 1515 to I, and thus had practically the double standard. | England adopted the single gold staudard in 1816 What happened after we adopted our ratio of 15to 17 My ftriend, Prof. Laughlin, tells ! us in his pook on “Bimetallism’ that “the young and_promisiug offspriug of Hamilton started well, but soon begun to limp, and then to walk only on ono leg.” Gold began to grow scarce in our circulation as early as 1510 and haa wholly disappearcd in 1517, “The veason is very simple. Oue ounce of gold had come to be worth as metal something more thuu fifteen ounces of silver. It was worth while for bullion brokers to collect gold coins and export them, There was some coinage of gold during all this time, but that proves nothing except that the brokers found it convenient to use tho government's machinery (tho mint) for as- Saying, stamping and certifving the precious metals. The testimony is_emphatic and not disputed that after 1517 and until 1534,our metallic money consisted of silver exelu- sively. A slight change in the market ratio has driven gold out of circulation. 1u France the ratio of 1515 was rather more favorable to the retention of gold and she kept hers a few years longer, but the same thing hap- peued there also. Gold went out of circulu- tion. [ can prove by overwhelming evide; that from 1520 to 1543 the French cir consisted of silver only. In 1834 our people had become tired of tug- ging silver around. They had by this time found out what was the matter. They de- termined to have a gold currency or all pur- poses for which metaliic mouey was neces- | sary, and in order to ensure haVing it they adopted the ratio of 16 to 1 in place of 15 to i, wiich nad _existed sinco 1792, The market ratio at that time was between 1574 and | The ratio of 16 was adopted in order to forco gold into circulztion. Some people at that time wanted to adopt the single cold stan- | dard outright. All such persons supported this ratio of 16 becauso it would have tue | suwme effect as the single gold standard, i it_would drive silver out of circuld Otters wera moved simply by a dosir have gold in daily use because of its couven- ience in hundling and transportation. Still’ others thought that the United States bank would bo_worried by having gold as a_com- petitor with its own notes in tho circulation, and these persons voted for the ratio of 16 in order to spite the bauk. The bill came to bo Known in the politics of the day as the gold hill, althongh it was simply a bill to change the' lewal ratio of gold to silver, The effect that was predicted was abun- “dantly realized, Sitver aid go out of circula- tion. ~ The minor coins, the talt and quarter dollars, ete., being of proportional weight and fineness with the dollar, were melted and exported, and their place in the circula- tion wus taken by light weight foreig coius, | priucipally Spanish und Mexican sixpences, shillings, "quarters and halves. ‘The reason why they were of light weizht was tuat the full weight ones wers almost identical with our own fractional coins, If our owu would not circulate the foreign ones of course would not. But if there was a certain propor- tion of these coins, whether _for- cign or domestic, that had been worn down oy long use so «hat thoy really represented the market ratio of somothing less,such coins would circulate concurrently with gold. T'o illustrate: Two haives, four quartors, or ten aimes, it new aud of full weight, wers wore worth about one cent and a half more thun a gold dollar. Consequently they would be collccted Dy broxers, melted and ex- ported. But two Lulves, four quarters, or ten dimes that had lost one and a half ceuts’ worth of silver by aorasion would circulate, because there would be to motive to melt or exportit. There would be uo brofit in it. When I was a boy the silver money of this couutry consisted exclusively of foreign coins, mostly Spunish and Mexican, but with u considorable sprinkling of Enghsh, renc German and Scandinavian pieces. Iivery merchant kopt o coin chart manual for handy reterence to determine the vaiue of theso pieces as they were offered in trade. I bave also seen Spanish quarters cut in half, each pieco cireulating us a shilling, aod there is nothing romarkable about this, since all of those foreizu colns were circulaling at their bullion value. 'I'he two separato halves of a Spanish quarter were therefore worth exactly as muchas they would have been if joined in a single pices. It must have been apparent to a good many people at this time that if full weight silyer coins would not circulate on the ratio of 16 to 1, whilo those of light welght would eirculate, then it would be possible, to make minor coius, (haives, quarters, etc.), designedly of light 'weight and keep them in circulation. It woutd be possiblo for us to have our own light woight colns nstead of & miscellaneous assortment of foreign oues. I say this thought must have occurred to many per- sous, but the first ono to make a push for its realization, 5o far as [ kunow, was the editor of the Journal of Commerce of this city, Mr, David M. Stone. Mr. Stone suggested’ that the weight of all the minor coins be lowered and that their legal teuder faculty be limited to . This was dove in the act of 1533, Two half dollurs under this law weigh 354 grains, whereas previously they weighed the same as tho silver dolla 41215 grains, Tho silver coins smaller tnan the half dollar aro proportional in weight tothe half dollar. Since that time theto has never been any trouble in this country about small change, except during the goeriback era when specie payments were suspended. rom 1837 onward the country had gold money and tho gold basis, Therd was plenty of silver subsidiary coinage, but silver dol- i th | stances alre The whole num- yoars, 1534 lars wera hardly evar aoou, bor of such dolars coine to 1873 inclusive, wi These must have been coinad for exportation, boeause each ono of these doliars was worth 10 conts, v more in gold. Thepo was not an hour in all this poriod of tagly years to 1873 when thesiivor dollar was 1ot~ worth more than the gold dollar. With the exception of a very few years it was worth 3 cents move. In 1573 when the demonatizing law was passed it was worth 21, couts more. There aro a good man¥ people in tuis room whese recol lections g0 back of 1§ Did any of you ever see a silver dollar in cireula- tion prior to 18731 "1 yover did. 1 never saw one prior to that time except among coin col- lections or as povket pioces, L. 6., curiositics. I have in my pocket. now, a comn of ancient Macedonia with the name und face of the first Phillip on it—tho fathor of Alexander the Great—and [ should not be far wrong in saying that there wore as many of these Ma. cedonian coins in actual circulation in the United States betweon 1534 and 1573 as thore were of American silver dollars —there being none of either. the peoplos’ chases "~ and sale calculations of 'every description, were made with tha expectation that gold would bo paid or received, as tho caso might be, This was the simple fact as to allthis time except during the greenback era. cent s and bargains,” pur- undortakings and We suspended specio payments in_ 1563, W0 had a gigantic wur on hand. Whether it was really necessary to suspond spocio pay ments at this time or supposed to be, present purpose. Under these circumstances, the gold stand- ard existing de facto, and there being 1o sil- ver mouey except subsidiary coins, our mint authoritics, the only people who took much interost in the subject, began as early as 1861, 1. e, before the war 0 recommend that the singlo gold stand ard should be adopted in law as it had been adopted in fact, In other words, they began to urge that the law should conform to custom ana practice, as it ought to, always and everywhore. This recommondation was pected in the officiel reports of the Treas department in the vears 1806 and 1870. ar.in mind that during all this time the silver dollar was worth from thres to four conts more than the gold dollar, and that at the time when congress possed the law of 1873, dropping tho silver dollar from the list of coius, 1t was worth 21 conts moro than gold dollar. The bill was passed on tho b of February in that year, and during the wholo of 1573 tho silver dollar continued to bo worth something more. than the gold dol- ar. it was not until 1576 that we began to hear a demand for the reinstatement of silver. The price of silver had declined in this mter- val 50 that the sitver dollar, if there bad been any, would have boen worth_oniy ¢ Now, gentlemen, I come to the point a clusion of the whole mattor. 1 contend that the demand for the reinstatement of a dis carded dotlar after it had become worth I than the dollar in whieh forty years of cou- tracts and business undertakings ana engage ments had been made, was dishonest. kvi- deutly, congress thought so, too, for it fused fo pass a bill reinstating_the silver dol- lar. To reinstato that dollar the mint shouli have been opened to its free coinage. It was not S0 oponed, To sausfy or stifie the clamor a limted coinage of silver dollars on government account. was authorized, the wovernment redeeming them in gold by receiving them as the equivalent of ‘gold at the custom house, the tax oftico, the postoftice, ete. So it continued to do, uot, it was wenerally- { that is suflicient for our down to July 14, 1800, when it enlarged tho purchase of silver to 4,500,000 ounces per month. Thinking, perhaps, that the public might be alarmed av this inorease of silver buying, congress now, for the first time, ex pressly declared its intention to keep the two kinds of dollars at par with each other. If it was dishonest to demand a reinstate- ment ot the silver dollar under the circum- dy mentioned, when it was worfh only 81 cents in gold, then a fortiori, it is_dishonest to make that demand uow when it is worth ouly 74 cents. I am telling you how it Strikes me. Iam not the keeper of other men’s consciences. 1f others consider such a proceeding honest, all that T will say is, that we do not sce the matter in tho same light. T shall not go into a diseus- sion of the present 4,500,000 ounce law. It can all be summed upin'a word. It is a purchase of property by the government and the issu- g of legal tender notes agaiust 1t that propecty were iron, or lead, or sugar, or bur- ! ley, or hornod cattle, the prineiple would ve the same. Silver is, and continues demone- tized up 1o this time. Anything else that is demonetized, copper for example, boughtand stored in the governm he same propriety and with eq e Dr. Birney cures catarrh He Paid His Way. Wheu the conductor of the western express over the Boston & Albany roud colleeted his tickots last Friday “after noon he had among his pass Governor Russell of Massachusotts, siys the Boston Giobe. His excellency occu- pied a small compartwment in one of the sleopers, whither he had retired to study up the speech he was to deliver in the evening at Holyoke. “How do you'do, Governor Russell?” said the ticket collector. “L am delighted to see you,” re- sponded the Cambridge man, at the snme time extentling his hand. “You hold a pass, of course, governor?” The commander-in-chief of the mili- tary forces of the commonwenlth began fumbling about his pockets and soon produced a long slip of * pasteboard that was very yellow on one side and very green on the other. “I'his is not a pass, its a ragular ticket.” said the surprised conductor, “Why, 1 know that; you look aston- ished.” “Well, I should say I ought tolook astonished, for this is the fivst time dur- ing my long connection with railrond- ing in'this state that [ ever took a paid ticket from one of our governors,” This confusion amused the goveraor greatly, who went on to say: ‘It has been one of my unvarying rules never to travel at any company’s expense except when on official duty.” The conductor punched a three- cornered hole in the ticket and was heard tosay: I have carried governor- worth all the way from $100,000 to $10,s 000,000, but this is the first time | over knew of the head of the state paying his traveling expenses,” Cook’s Extra Dry Imperial Champagne is better, bealthicr and purer than the imported article. 1t has a dolightful bouquet. ——t— They Were Boys Togethe . 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