Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 21, 1892, Page 10

T ARIZONA KICKER AND OTHER STORIES. BY “M. QUAD”. Spacial attention is ealled to the fact that Tir Bek has exclusive use in its torritory of “M. Quad’s” current writing (Copyrighted 1892 by the . B. Lewis) EXPLANATORY—AS WO Wero ready 10 g0 10 \pross with our inside pages on Wednesday ufternoon, wo discovered that we had no Wink. A nalf-breed known around town as “Strawberry Joe,” who occassionally chores around The Kicker office, had stolen the keg the night before and gone off to the hills with 1t to bave a spree. He had tasted printer's Ankand liked it;and probably thought it would bring “bie drunk’ quicker and last longer than whisky, OPP WITH THE As we couldn’t find Joe, and as our es- teemed contemporary down the stroet never uses real ink, wo had to manvfacture some thing out of lampblack and cactus juice. ‘We can't suy it was a success, but under the circumstunces we bope onr subscribors wiil ‘bear with us. We havo fourteen men out on mules looking for the half breed, and have {no doubt ho will soon be located and a por- tion of the ink recovercd. LATER. —Strawberry Josoph was located the day aftor the above was written, and about ten pounds of the ink was brought Iback tous. The boys buried him where ho !fell, which is on a lovely little mound about .thirteen miles due northwest of the town. Wo bear him no il will. Having got through with this inky life we trust that he will /slaep peacofully and well. ' No Ouvrsive PoeTiY. —An average of thirty poems, idyls, refrains and so torth reach this office every week from parties living ata distance. While The Kioker publishes a great deal of poetry, it 13 po:try written at homo by local poets. We want no outside contributions in this line. This apparently unjust discrimination is entirely governed by circumstances, When a local poct dashes off somothing good he or she at once canters down to this office and hands it in for publi- cation. Wo must either publish it or be shot at. Fora year orso we preforred the shoot fog, bat finding that the noise and excite- ment unstrung the nerves of the compositors and interferod with getting out job work on time we finally nccepted tho poetry. It isno bottor than outside poetry, but outsiders ocan’t shoot at u: 5 THE LAST TERROR. 1 was tho only newspaper man in Custer City when tho last terror of the west came ‘in and surrendered himself and weut out of the terror business forever. He had heard ithat Grizzly Joe, Wildoat sill, Rattlesnake ~{Hank, Awful Sam and the rest of the ter- «Jrors had either been keeled over or quit the trade, and he came in to make terms. I was . talking with the sheriff when the last living. \terror, who answered to the name of Dead- shot Steve, walked up. He was armed with two revolvers in his bsit and a bulldog pistol |in his pants pocket. Down along his spinal | column was a bowie knife, and in his vest { pocket the left ear of the last man who had refused to driuk poison with him. 1 “Well?" he queried in a voice which had made a bundred men chill in other days. “1vs played,” quietly roplied the sherift. “All out of the business!” “Every one. The man across the road will givé.you $15 for your outfit. Come in | out of tho wet.” 1NK. OUT BY A CHINAMAN, *Tt's tough,” said the Terror, as his thoughts went back to other days; “‘but this yere civilization walks over overything. I cave.” T met him later on, when he had had his bair cut and been washed up and exchanged s buckskin, and 1 asked him how he felt. “Queer, but I'll probably get used to it,"” heo replied. *When & man’'s bin a-livin holy terror for twelve years he's sort o' rooted to it. Got to change, though. 7The Terror bus- iness is played." ““T'wo days later, as I was ready to depart, “ Tencountered him e was wielding an axe on & wood vile in front of asaloon. When again asked how he felt he looked really cheerful as he replied : “I'm a-gittin thar, stranger, and you kin put me down as cured. When a feller calls me a liar both hands go back fur my guns before 1 kiu stop 'em, but thav's habit, you know, and I'll soon git over it." “And you have gono to work?" “Had 10 dn it or go up fur a vag. Ciyillza- 100 1 a rollin rignt in vere, aud everybod t to knuckle or take to the hills, I'vi nuckled. Sand’s all gone,” I went to tho postoftice to take the stag and fifteen minutes later tho vehicle and n.s + load passed the wood pilo. Dead shot Steve was no longer there. Looking out across the plain we saw him spoeding as if for bis life, ana thirty feet behind him, and haraly hold- ’,‘;f" W, was & chunky Chinsman srmed i th a broven broom haudle. The Terror was being run out of town by a washee man. WHY YOUNG MEN DO 50T SUCCEED. . Cauld I be put back to the age of 20, know- ing men as 1 know them now, [ should work out the prablem of 1ife on an altogether differ- . eot plan. I can look back over the pathway 1 bave traveled and sea were I made many aud serious mistakes, and nono of these would happen again. «The other day I met & man who | 'bad just drawn bhis check for @ couple of hundred thousand doliars without winking an eye, Thirty years og ) e saa I started the mad career of life to- gother lu areal estate office at § a week #plece. The real estate man was as bald- headed as the first pun ever printed iu & .. .mewspaper, but he labored under the impres- - mion that nobody kuew it hut himself. My youug friend tumbled to Proper caper, sod gratified munplnyu by pmnmln[ bim with an ofice hair brush aud preteuding to hml halrs off his coat coliar. 1 wasa't buili that way. Instead of a hair brush | pre- seuted him with @ patent preparation war- 10 force & growth of on the bot- & cast lmu&allh. and twenty secouds later was flung outdoors without the balance S my salary. Ou that saiwe day @y young | appiied for a divore | while 1 THE friend had nis wages raised to $10 per week, and he had nothing to do but stay there and su d to the business and becoma a rich man. Once upon a time, while the chains of giddy youth still bound ma fast, T secured a plade in the office of an_insurancc agent. There was also another boy there, bnt ho was not like me. Ho had horse sense about things Our employer was a good man—a very good man, who lovea his wife and children deavly. One day when ho was out his wife came down snd wauted to rammage his desk. T other boy lLier and said tho ke drawer filled with dypamite. disappointed that I felt sorry found o key which would fit. a package of lotters, and within a week had “The boy with horse sense staid right there and piled up wealth, 7 WOPD g0 and every Sho looked s0 for her and She 100K away overtake me, As time dragged along and I got to kaow | [t more, or at least suspocted that 1 did, I ot a place with a man who, like the first one named, bad peculiar ideas about the top of his heaa. Whilo he had plenty ot hair, ha dian't fancy the color, and therefore used a dye. The fact that he died was plain to overy living soul who saw him by day or by night, except tho other boy employed in the office. He couldn’t and wouldn't seo it. Even whoen our employer stood beforo tho glass 1n the washroom and touched up the rod spots here and thera which persisted in showing up, the other boy called the stuff benr's oil ana dandruff eradicator, and mourned because ho wasn't rioh anough to buy some. One day our employer, perhaps wishing to tost our character for truth and veracity, called us up and asked if we know the contents of the bot'le, “Yes, sir, I do,” renlied tho other boy as he folded his arms and cast his eyes upon the floor. *“Whea your brain is weary and your head throbs you apply that medicino in the bottle and find relief. I can always 508 & happy change in you in about three minutes.” Our empioyer smiled blandly and turned to me. I could not tell a iie on &5 per week, with office hours from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m,, and I firmly answered : “Yes, sir, I do, Itis a hair dye, and this whole town is onto you bigger than @ house " That boy, who had the horse sonse to le, remained nt there until the man died, and was then rememoered in his will, I left the offico by three different doors vefore tho words of sacred truth were yet cold on my lips. Even after I had grown old onough to wear No. 9 boots and demand 60 vents a cord for sawing beech and maple wood I hadn't learned the lesson of life. I accidentally secured a beautiful job in tho office of a rail- road superintendent. He was a cultivated and benign gentleman, who sometimes in- dulged in tho flowing bowl—that s, (thought he did, but no one else in the oftice could sco it or would admit it. They ascribed his queer condition to the electric state of the atmosphere, overwork, worry about cattle trains, and so forch and so on. On three or four oceasions, when the superintendent was evidently all broke up about the gravel trains, I kept him away from the public until he could sonk his head in cold water and ense the wild throobings which readened his eves and nose and thickened his this he patted me on the back and pre that L was born to ba president of the Michi- gan Central railroad. One day conscience suddenly upbraided me fora liar und a horso thief. It happened to be a day on which the superintendent was unusually worried. He was so brokon up that ho was lying on the floor. A couplo of direotors called to see him and instead of duplicity and falsehcod I came out boldly and climbea the pedestal of truth and honor and showed them in. 1 never knew what happened there. What happened outside the door an hour later interestead me fur more. There was a small balance due me, but I never roturned for it. Life is worth more than 95 cents to any man, even it he doesn’t kuow much. As Isaid in the beginning, if I could be put back to live my life over again, I should 0 things differently, Truth is mughty, but policy beats 1t all hollow. Candor is to be admired only when a little lving won't do twice as much good. Honesty is held up as a shining star, but the man who has made three failures in business and sottled for 15 cents on the dollar gets another stock of goods on just the same terms as the man who has pegged along for thirty years pay- ing 100 cents on the dollar, In my new departure ifa man had a red nose I would take my afidavit that it was whiter than snow; if he was humpbacked I'd swear that he was straighter than a fence picket; if he had a homely wite ('d writa poetry praising her beauty. Every man has his weakness. - I'd find the touchy point and tumble to it. An old man once asked me to Ruess his age, o was a benevolent old man with money to leave some one. He was al- most 70 years old, but ho cantered around like a giddy colt and tried to make folks be- liove he was {ot under fifty, Icandidly tola bim that he lookeg older than my grandfa- ther, who was 75, and_he never spoke to me again. He left $20,000 in cold cash toa young man who had the sense to guess that hie was only 49, I can look back over the hichway oflife and see where I ought to have lied where 1 told the solemn truth, where 1Ishould Lave used diplomacy instead of admitting that the goods were half cotton and would shrink, where 1 could bave adulterated the coffee and watered the molasses and been ahead of the ame without bhurting anyoue's feolings. Eivon th manito whom. 1300 \ny. spavined horse and pointed out the spavins in advance was disgusted with my honesty, and the wo- wman who thoughther husband deadat the bot- tom of the well until I toid her I haa met bim and the hired girl eloping together down across the cow pasture never forgave me for the truthful statement. BY A HAIR'S BREADTH. 1v was a February day, with a warm sun and a Chinook wiud from the Pacific ocean melting the suow. All along the trail, as we wouud up the mountain side, great masses of snow seemed to overbaug us, and more than once I noticed how anxious the grizzly haired old guide seemed to be. Ounly a narrow path had been cleared through the snow, and the twenty mules followed each other in single file. Half way up we came to four cabins occupied oy miners, Three brawny men in red shirts stood at the door of one of the cabins talking as we filed past. Salutes weore given and returned, but we had no occasion to halt. We had gone about 300 feet and were about to make a turn in the tral when I halted tolook back. The guide was ahead— T camo second. The line of mules was strung out for a quarter of a mile, and on foot among them were five packers, all half breeds. I heard no signal of danger—no cry of alarm. With the swiftness of thought the snow 500 feot up the mountain began to move. The width of the lanche was rbout half o mile, aud it moved like a flash. I was looking full at it, but its speed confused the eye. 'here were thous- ands of tons of snow, hundreds of trees, hun- dreds of grest bowlders. There was no rumbling, no crashing. ‘The rush was almost noiseless—simply a sound like a geutle wind blowing among the pnes, In fifteen seconds it was all over, and a cloud of what seemed smoke hung over the spot. It drove off down the mountain after two or three minutes, and I looked for our pack train. Not @ man nor a mule had escaped. Ilooked for the cabins. They bad disappeared. Aye!the very trail had been swept down into the valloy mile below and almost across it. Fors space balf a mile wide there was neither tree nor shrub—not a ard of earth, Tne avalanche had ground ts way down to the heaved upin the convulsion of 10,000 years ago. I turned and looked at the guide, woudering 1f it was all a dream, “Purty olus call that?" he whispered as ho pointed to the well defined edgze of the avalaoche, not a vud from %hvm‘- heels. “Come on, . All th @ men in Montaoa ocould not dig them out!" AN AMERICAN FABLE. ‘The jury having returned a verdict of. “Guitty” against a Mau on T'elal for stealing Sheep. his Lawyer arose and sald to the Court: **May it please Your Honor, I ssk to quash all Proceedings ou the ground of Defeotive Iuformation. While my Culent adgilts steal- ing Lwelve Lambs, he bas been charged with and couvicted of stealing twelve Sheep. A anb is not Legalty a Sheep, Your Honor.” our point is well taken," led the Jud 0, after m&i‘.. Vand 1 wu glve the Prisoner the benefit of the Techuicality, 4 took o skip witha boot trying to | [ whs intending to sentoncs Him to the Peni- tentiary for twn Years, but will ehanes it to State Prison for the same term. While a Lamb is not & Sheep, neither is a State | Prison a Penttentiar tho boy with horse sense—iied to | P, heap, of courso, EVERYBODY WAS “A-GITTIN.” Thote was a lone woman in the scat be- hind me in the passenger coach, and by and by a man got on at a small station and took tho seat aucad of me. They immodiately recognized each other s acquaintances, and hesaid: “Why, gittin to “I'm agittin plied, “an whar' The Lawyer got tho & Mrs. Briggs, and whar' be you a- Petorstown,” she yo' a-gettin to fo' to be re- the “I'm a-gittin to Jamestown, and how be all yo'r folke a-gittin?" “Puarty well, thank yo', that yo'r brother Sam was a- bama fur to take land " “Yes, Sam's a-gittin and Jim ho rackons to bo a-gittin in the fall, and 1f things go right I veckon I may bo a-gittin after ward. Wi o'r man a-thinkin of a-gittin anywhar' 1" “Sorter, but can’t say. slow." A gittin betters one, T think.” “Iv's according to whar' he a-gits, I take it, but I'm fur a-gittin to somewhar’ or sum- thin, If we'd a-got five years ago to Texas we'd a-been rich now, but Tom won’t be fur a-gittin so long as he kin git co'n breaa an coon meat. Kverybody who's a-got out of our county now a-gittin better nor never afore, and I'm gwine to keep pesterin Tom till he will a-git hisself.” i AWFUL YOUNGSTERS. and T dun hoard gittin fur Al I'd a-git, but ho's TROSE Philadelphia Press: where was the garden of Eden?” Well, Maud, it is sun[\mud to have beon somewhere in Asia. ‘I knew it couldn’t huvo been in sygon, ? “Why 802" “Well, you know they say it rains oug thmc thirteen months in‘the yoar?” “[’n))n, “Well, Adam was made out of dust, 't he?” ““Ye *Then if he had been made in Oregon his name wouldn’t have been Adam.” “Why not?” “*Bec: tuse it would havo been “Oh! “mud.’ * *x Children’s idens of usefuluess in this world, suys the Boston Record, are primitive, to say the least. A Boston editor has a five-year-old boy who has pronounced views on this subject. He said the other day at the tuble: “Papa, T wish you wero u bakeshop hy, my boy?" Becuuse then you vould bring home cakesand things, an’ we could go in and get cookies when we wanted to. Orif you were a meat man, or a grocery man, or a carpenter and mado nice things, or a blacismith shop man—that would be awlul fine. Say, papa, is it any good waat you do?” *'x Harper's Bazar: “I’'m going to have a party on mamma’s birthday,” re- marked Ethel, *‘and I've invited twenty- five boys and girls.” “What a nice mamma you have!” said the visitor. *‘Oh, mamma doesn’t know any thing about it,”” answered Ethel: *“iv’s” going to be a surprise party for her.” ¥ must ¥ Washington Star: * **Hello, Johnny,” said-the man who always has time to talk to c uhlu.n *You are in a hurry, ain’t you? *Yes, “I know your father, He’salwaysin ahurry. You take nfl.ur him, don’t you?” **No, sir. took after me. a hurey.” " I sussed him and -he just T'hat’s why I'm in such *"x Indianapolis Journal: “Paw,” said lit- tle Tommy Figg, “I heard Mr. Watts say that great men’s sons never did any good. Iain’t a great man’s son, am 17 Up to a late hour Mr. Figg’s mind had not found a sufficiently. diplomatic an- swer. * % Bertha—Grandma, is oor teef good? Grandma—No, darling; I've got none now, unfortunately. Bertha—Then I'll give 0o my nuts to mind till I come back. * e ‘O mamma,” said a little Boston girl who was taken the other day to a Paderewski *‘function,” *how I should like to have seen his head when it was a bud?” * *x Little Ethel had never seen a toad be- foro, and having by chance discovered ono in her flower garden, came running to the house, her face lluuhefl with ex- citement, crying: “\lu.mma, mamma, come quick!” There’s a pocketbook hopnmg around out here with four legs on it.’ —_—— P. tronize Ho Industry, and specify in your purchases that you want goods made in ~Nebraska factories and pro- duced by Nebraska soil. All whiskies and upum of any kind manufactured by Iler & and the Willow Springs distillery are II de in the state and from Nebraska grain. consuming 8,000 bushels per day. Insist upon your dealer furnishing home made, Ro0ds; they are equal to the best and cost no more. Assist home inaustrios. ——— “Patsy' Doody's Posthumous Joke, “‘Patsy” Doody, the boxer and mimic, who died the other day, was better known in the Fourth ward than “Mickey” Padden himself, says the New York Tribune. Doody was a natural wit,&f one ever lived, and he wuas re- gnrdud as a diplomat by his constituents because he never did a day’s work in his life, ‘‘Patsy” was *‘tough,” but a lad cold caught at New Orleans about n year ago settled into consumption,which carried bim away last week. On the day of his aeath **Patsy” turned to the doctor and priest in attendance and said: “How is it with ‘Patsy,’ father?”’ ‘'You are very low,” gnid the good man, *‘and you will be with us only o fow hours,” “That’s too bad,” said **Patsy,” but his eyes twinkled merrily as he said: *T wanted to live over tomorrow. for I had some things I wanted to do before T died. Call my wife,” When the little woman came ln "Pnluy” asked the doctor to re- tire, and then said: *“Don’t ery,’ little woman for ‘Patsy’ will be all rig! 't Just godown to the store and get a half pound of gunpowder.,” Whan she came back with the explosive *Patsy” took the pm,knfn and requested her to hand him the big tin tobacco box which stood on the' m nusl It was half full of to- hnwo r}lxing the powder and tobacco together, “Patsy handed the box to his wife apd told her to put it back on the mantel. “You are wondering what that's for, little girl,” said ‘‘Patsy,” “and I will tell you. That's for my blooming friends w smoke at me wake tomorrow night.” e Florids sud Southeast, Dixie Flyer Sleepers—Nashville to Jacksonville, Fla., without change, over Nashville, Chul.unoogn & St. Lowms raillway, via Chattanoogs, Atlanta, Macon. Berths engaged hrnn h from St. Louis over the Lookout Mountain route. Apply to oraddress J. H. Bati- mer, western passenger ugent, 90 La- , Clede buildiog, St. Louis. " OMAHA DAILY BER: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY FARM MOR'E ACES ANDSILVER Tendencies of vamm States Toward Bi- 11 Motalism, An Immediate the and Violent Contraction of new Would P adual Fxpansion Upon a IRitter Basis, Rosewater {n Columbia January, 159 “famin favor of a servico pension bill because the percentage of ex-soldiers to the population in the wess is greater than that in tho east: for a similar roason I favor the free coinage of silver, booause tho farmers of tho west are in debt to the capitalists of the east." This is the reply given by a momber of congress representing & certain western dis- trict when interrogated concerning the motives for nis support of- panding logisla- tive measures. It is a well known fact that the chief demand for the free coinago of silver emanatos from the people of the westorn states, and whether or not tho frank explanation just quoted is typical for ropresentatives in cougress, it certainly forms the foundation for tho reasoning us- ually indulged in te justify such a law. kFrom this naturally arises the question: Arve mortgage debts usually burdensome to farme ers; and i1f s0, to what extent would a law enacting froe coinage of silver remedy their condition? ‘I'ho fact of the prevalence of farm mort- Fages in the west, though tho reports have probably beon considerably exaggerated, may be accepted as the real basis for the present widespread monetary complaints. But the mero existence of furm mortgages doos not necessarily justify complaint, The causes and circurostances which lead to their incurrence must be examined before we can judge whether thero exists an aggravauag burden. Viewod from the standpoint of their creation, farm inortgages fall into at least three classes. First, we have mortgages which arise when the purchaser makes only a partial payment for his land and binds the whole property us security for the ulti- | mate extinction of the debt. Agriculture under modern conditivus requires a_much greater command of capital than in former | years; a farm of too small dimensions pre- vents economics neoessary for successful competition in the markets of today. If this capital 1s secured by parchasing land subject to mortgzaze, the creditor mustin all fairness be regarded in the role of a silent partuer in tho enterprise, to whom the debtor guarar tees a fixed rate of income in the contidence that he himself will como out with a still greater profit. The debtor takes upon him- self the risk of paying the stipulated intorest in the firm expectation of gaining by the transaction; if he fails through his own mis- takes, he has only Mmself to blame. The snme necessity of the nincteenth cen- wry farmer for ‘cousiderable capital ocen- sions the second le:! of mortgages. In this cuse, however, theobligation representsnot 80 much & partiabownership of tho land, as rather a debt enterad into in order to make | desirable 1mproyements. I'he muney may be invested 1n new buildings, improved ma chinery, additwnal stock, permanent drain. age; in cach ingtance the trausaction rosom- | bles every ordinary commercial onterpriso where a merchanti borrows capital in order to begin an undertuking thut promises great | returns. The rfgspbnsibility of u bad Invest- ment, rests upon njfself alone. Mortgages may Arise in still a third man- ner. Thoy may; bo necessitated by causes | outirely ~ beyghd'¢ the control of the farwer. Amohg ! these ocauses are fire, storm, grus& \,nfil‘r! and _drouth, re- sulting in 6% ugtion of cavital or in | crop fuilure. : Thaw-burdens of dabt. when i thus incurred are folt most intensely. Not~ withstanding laws agamst usury, the bor- rower is exposed to the utmostexactions of the money lenders. If'outcry agninst the burdens of debt is at all justifiable, it can oaly be ackunowledged for this one class of debtors. On the other hand, mortgages given to renow or to pay off other debts are to be classitied according: to the causes which havo prevented tho due repayment of the preceding indebtedaess; they may, under certain circumstances, come under our third classification. What ratio the last group of mortgage debts oears to the whole number of farm morteages is not statistically known, but it may beassuued that of the three it is not the most numerous. . Now, even if the farm- ers be unduly burdened, should the federal government undertake to relieve them!? Does the - problem not resolve it- self into a demand that the government in- sure the farmers against misfortune, or lack of fortune, however-occasioned? The most oppressive forms of indebtedness are often forced upon the' dobtors by reasou of their own want of foresight when they could easily have fortified themselves against loss. There are nov only fire, tornado, and accident in- surance companiés, but aiso corporations for the insurance of horses and cattlo; and while [ have yet to hear of any crop insurance com- pauy, it is not improbable that the near future will bring forth such an assdciation. A person may, upon economic grounds, favors the compulsory insurance of workingmen with the expense borne in part by the gov- ernment without seeing the justice of any one class calling upon the whole people to bear burdens of indebtedness which they have called down upon thomselves. The present agitation for free coinage of silver, us far as it is supported by the farm- ers of the west, is little more than the repe tition of the old greenback clamor that the farmer is the special ward of the nation and that the goverument should relieve him in whole or in part of his self-incurrea indebt- edness, Only the most rampant fiatists go to the extreme of demanding the direct dist- iribution of money, or what is equivalent to the same thing, luans by 2 per.cent interest upoun security of a; tural land avd proaucts, The general view is that free coinago would bring into circula- tion through natural channels a largo amount of silver, thus increasing the quantity of money outstanding and thereby raising prices, decreasing the interest burden and lowering the real value of existing debts, Are these expectations of the result of the enactment of & free-coinage law reasonable or well grounded ! It is not necessary liere to trace again the successive steps which'would, in all prob- ability, follow such an event, It is likely that an immediate and violent contraction of the currency wauld precede a gradual ex- pansion, upon mailver basis, How long the process would 1)!61- @ matter of speculation, © way make,’ mere argument, an as- sumption that | (o{u take place aud that in a cowparatively ghppt period of time; and we may then ask what will be tha resulting con- dition of themnwmer of a mortgaged farm, The depreciationiof the currency would un- doubtedly Lightéil¥he existing luterost bur- den, but would, 1f, bring the debtor much nearer to the ment of the dobt! While currency inflation. raises the prices of his products it willjiwtime, also raise the prices of what Il:\;" rehases, thus leav- ing the u - for ' savings ouy slightly Oisv . The only fund which’ would hezincreased and ~ at the Victor Law Times for 21, 1892 -SIXTE { also to slightly warm | that many modes of tl same time be availsble for paying .off the morigage wmllU e that secured from the N sale of products which.had been held over duviog the raise in prices. ‘I'nat many of tho owners of morteagod farms hold on hand for any period of time produets at all approxi- matifg their debt In value, is unreasonable 1o suppose. Southern planters sell their cot ton befora it is planted, while westorn farm- ers are often compeiled to dispose of their crops before harvesting. Then, 100, tho cost of every crop succeoding the state of com plated inflation would be increased in about thesame ratio as the markot prico of tho product, aud loave the principal of the mort gage debt almost as far from extinction as bofore, If froe coinnge of silv of all permauent capital thai suro way of ecancoling ths mortgaze. Tho propoerty itself may be sold Lt its in cronsed prico, tho debt paid, and the aiffer ence pocketed, But that wonld avail the farmer littla; iv purchasing another pieco of 1and he would loseall that he had gained If he bourkt again on orodit, the now credi tor would eithor stipulats for repayment in gold or cover his risk by requiring a highor rato of interost. T'his is by no means what tho farmer wishos. He doss not desire to dispose of his landed properiv: what he wants is to keep his farm while capesing the burden of debt. The extent to which the free coinage of silver would assist him in accomplishing his purpose, if it would assist him at all, has boen groatly exaggeratod. Tho only logitimate way for a_ farmer to reliove himself of a mortgage dobt, without giving up his farm, is to secure the monoy for repayment by disposing of either his laboror the prodicts of his labor and capital. - Campbell of Campbell Cotton Co., city ot Cincinnati, Ohio, “Evervbody finds relief sbhortly after using Bradyerotine for headache.” e simin HONEY FOR THE LADIES. ra1ses the prices > will bo but ono Mr. C. C. The newest walking coats do not_have hip seams, but tho majority have large hip pockets. Jewellod coronets have in Somo cases, sup- planted the fragranco of the orange blossom wroath. Cloth and bengaline, and India cashmore and watored silk, aro very fashionablo in combination, Beads will be worked on the slippers very profusely, and in somo instances imitation jowelry will be used. Gold slippers in fanciful designs are the newest shade, they combine so beautifully with every shade of ball gown. In Oxford ties or low-cut shoes, Suedo patent leather, oright dongola and ' patent lenther are the favorite materials. Dresses for little girls are made after mod- ified models of older maid’s gowns, but alw much looser in fit than the originals. The house slipper has undergone the inevitabie revolution. The colors are varied wirh porhaps wine and light blue as the pre- vailing shades, Tho old-fashioned comfortable, seamlnss sacque of our grandmothers is the latest and most, aporoved Lovdon importation. It is ugly in length, it hasn’t any fit Piain shawl-shaped tabliors, or those with shorter points at either side, have been made by two or threo the Paris dress- makers and may find favor for dressy spring toilets. Suspenders and bretelles will be used upon new toilets designed voth for youug ladies and slender youthfui matrons. Some of | these are made of the dress goods when of a rich quaiity. Do not be too sure about cause and effect. | The most heavenly complexion wo ever saw belonged to a woman of 30 who had eaten un- Limited piecrust and buckwheat cakes for twenty-tive years, Vory pretty traveling cloaks come now in rough gray-blue cloth with a yoke finish of passementerie in black, brightencd with a little wold and a girdle of the same, the ends of which overlap in front. The Oxfora, known as Carmencita, isa pretty and novel shoe in ties. Tuis shoo will bid for the popular favor, and its shupely, tasteful appearance will give ivthe front rank among low cut shoes. A special fanoy this spring wili be the uso of pale green shados for accessories on dregses of light tun, and darker ereens in pine, sage and moss; also, the use of palest vellow with gray and fawn gowns, The French swallow-tail coat of the winter modo will reappear during the spring with the coat tafls considerably elongated and pointed, It is particularly becoming to slender women, as are all the modes now popular. Surah ribbon several inches wide is striped with eighth-inch stripes of satin in gay colors. Sush ribbons are shown having a moiae stripe on each side of a brocade, and also of white surah red with wide stripes of satin in high coloring. In the new changeable or chameieon China silks and twills, black and old rose is one of the most efective combinations. A black silk of this kiud, brocaded with rose-tinted carnations, is mado up with a petticoat of rose-coloved taffeta silk, Stroeet heliotrope is exceadingly protty in all its shades, but it is as trying to the com- plerion as 1t is pretty. A" chamois-colored vest, collar and'deep cuffs, striped with helio. trope gimp, are an cxcelient renef for an un- patterned heilotrope gown. Velvet ribbon is lavishly used on simple spring costumes, but not always in rows or points. The more original the plun of ad- justment, the more fashionable. Jet and colorea gimps and ornaments are sometimes intermixed with these ribvon devices, The wearers of patent leather shoes should never leave them in & room whero the frost can get at them, as frost cracks the enaicel and renders tho shoes Wworthless. It is best patent, leather before wearing, as the wargth renders it less brit- e, Lac berthas, fichus, and Stuart and Rubens coilars appear on new and beautiful art toilets, also belts and sashes of handsome silk and satin ribbons, both plain and richly figured. The Recamier frill is extensively used on evening bodices that are cut in half- low rounaing fashion, The young man of promise who 1s seen with five or six rings on his third finger 1s following a fashion for which the German omperor is responsible. A man who can crowd six riugs upon his fiuger and still be able to shut his handa is looked upon in aristocratic circles as one of the nobility, for it 1s said that such a length of lower joint irdicates high virth, Round waists promise to be worn in all kinds of muterial. They are belted in closely or curve with the taper of the waist, and have plastrous or vests, whichever are most be- coming, telix mukes handsome caniel's bair gowns with begaline gathered into the front of the waist, which opens in a narrow oval shape over the bust, and 1s drawn together at the neck and waist, The changeable surahs are among the new- est silks. More accurately they are double- faced surahs. They are figured in desizns that show an attempt at novelty. One has tall wicker peach baskets overflowing witn flowers; another looks as though it was ap- pliqued in the most delicate point lace. An odd aesign in a brown silk is a broken link through which is hung a spiral sprivg. In looking over a rare old book of illustra- ons of fashions 120 jours axe, it is noted e present day are al- most identical in feature with those of long ago; for instance, the ball skirt, with Doc- ders, ruches,and other horizontal trimmings, bodices with round wasts finished with i cl-wl. girdles and chatelaine ornaments, the lei y-mutton sleeve butioved half way up the arm, ete. These fashion prints alsoshow the coiffure cormxannlnu in several styles to the present method of arranging the hair. 2 VAN HOUTEN'S COCOA. PLEASE READ THIS. OO Cents a pound for VAN HOUTEN'S COCOA (“Best & Goes Farthe ems to be high. Let us compare it with the price of Coff 11b. of good coffee costs at least 30c., makes 81 half-pint cups. 8 1 ¢ “V.H, Cocoa ** therefore 90c. also 90c., D Which is the Cheaper Drink ? "W B §l:‘l;‘e% 'Illfl svummw'm e0c. ~ { S8 sins Sold by every Grocer. of Coffee, “V,H.Cocoa! 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