HERE AND THERE. HOW MANY. Lonely, my little lass of three Serious sat with a puzzled pout; Suddenly glanced she up at me, Saying, "There's one thing I can't find out. I know my letters and ten times two, That it's over a hundred miles to the moonBut nobody seems to know-do you? How many minutes they is in 'soon?'" -Kate M. Cleary, in Puck. DOCTORS PRAISE CYCLING. York Academy of Medicine. At the meeting of this A newspaper publisher has a perfect right to charge as high a price for his advertising space as he chooses, but he has no right to lie about the edition he prints in order to prove that it is worth the price.-Printer's Ink. Attention is called to the advertisement of the Victor Trousers Shaper, which "cures baggy knees." SLOWLY STARVING. Surrounded by Plenty, but Dying for Food. An Every-day Occurrence. - Our Friends A terrible experience for any one to go through, that of seeing some beloved friend actually wasting away before our eyes, unable to derive sufficient nourishment from their food to sustain life. Medicine naturally becomes of little avail, and the various organs of the body, debilitated from a lack of nourishment, take on themselves the disease that was originally the cause of the "breakdown," and help hasten the end. Such cases, though too prevalent, are happily becoming less frequent. The prominent physicians of to-day do things differently from those of twenty years ago. They first put the pati nt in a condition to stand the " siege," then enrich his blood, create for him new strength, and "build him up" generally. patient is then in a condition to derive benefit from his medicine. The This is done by the use of Bovinine, the original raw food. It is an extract that contains the greatest amount of the life-sustaining and tissue-building properties of lean, raw meat, concentrated in the least possible bulk. The adva atage of this is obvious. A patient already greatly weakened by disease, needs to husband every particle of strength. A few drops of Bovinine will impart as much nourishment to the body as would be derived by a well person from an ordinary meal; and, in getting this nourishment, the stomach has been forced to do the least possible amount of work. Bovinine, continued throughout an illness, greatly hastens recovery. Taken at the beginning of a wasting disease, it diverts the cause of the trouble by toning up the various organs, and getting them in a normal condition. Bovinine is indorsed by 25,000 doctors. Its action is always beneficial, as a single trial will convince the most sceptical. SAPOLIO LIKE A GOOD TEMPER SHEDS A EPITAPH UPON A POOR WOMAN ETERNALLY TIRED. it. WHAT TO DO FOR EXERCISE. Let us say, then, that it is winter. You are at work in a factory or in a store, or on a farm, or in school from seven or eight, or nine, till from four to six at night. Many people will tell you to get a football and hang it from the ceiling. Then stand off and punch Another will say, "Go through a lot of fancy movements on getting out of bed in the morning." These things are all very well, but there are some things that are much better than that. For example, if you have a garret, or, better, if you have a barn near by that you can use, rig up a set of high- jumping poles out of two clothes poles, and a light cross-bar. Every night before supper, just after coming home, go out in the barn, and by lamp-light make thirty good jumps at as high a point as you can go. It is, of course, better to go in the morning, but we all hate to get up early. If there are two boys in the family, or if you have any boy friend who lives near by, make him punt with you. That will add to the game. This is, however, only an example. Another is that South Streeter-Jakey, how you spells fife? Coughs and colds are only signs of a general weak- HE LIVED IN THE PIE BELT. A boy in this city who was asked to write out what he considered an ideal holiday dinner menu, evolved the following: Furst Corse. Mince pie. Second Corse. Lemon pie, turkey and cranberries. Custard pie, apple pie, chocolate cake and plum -Buffalo Express. Jones found Smith engaged in vigorously polishing his shoes. "What are you doing that for? I thought you al. ways wore patent leather." "These used to be patent leather," replied Smith, painfully bringing his spinal column into its normal position, "but the patent on them has expired."— Washington Pathfinder. For speed, durability and quality of work, get a Caligraph, it stands at the head. The double keyboard is a great advantage in making mimeograph copies, and the work produced is characteristically neat and of superior appearance. 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It is ready for use, and easily applied by any one. Send stamp for sample and state size of roof. NO TAR USED. EXCELSIOR PAINT AND ROOFING CO.. 155 Duane Street, New York, NY. Eagle Pen Company, Box 348, Washington, D. C. PATENTS RSON PIANOS. (Established in 1849.) 60,000 made and in use. OBTAINED. OUR CHARGE, $2 Well known and popular for over 40 years. Thoroughly made, beautiful tone and action, and fully warranted. Send for catalogue to the EMERSON PIANO CO., 116 Boylston St., Boston, 92 5th Ave., New York, or 218 Wabash Ave., Chicago. Volume XVIII, Number 5 Thursday, 31 January, 1895 Editorial Is this country at the parting of the financial ways, the one way leading along the path heretofore fol Summary lowed, the other leading along new and untried paths? Such at least is the opinion of well informed observers some of whom advocate the one course and some the other. Whatever may be the truth with regard to the antagonistic financial theories held by the so-called "gold men" on the one hand and the "silver men on the other hand, one thing is certain. President Cleveland's message has drawn the line sharp and clear between the policy of keeping the country on a gold basis-which, whether right or wrong, is the basis of the leading countries of the civilized world-and the policy of permitting it to drift upon a silver basis. That it is rapidly drifting towards a silver basis is generally admitted by the leading advocates of either policy. The question that divides the two forces is as to the relative danger or advantage of the one policy or the other. It is undeniable that the overwhelming majority of the business men of the East and North, the sections that comprise the great bulk of the population and wealth of the country, hold substantially the view set forth in Mr. Cleveland's message, while the free-silver advocates profess to feel no fear of evil results from an abandonment of our well settled National policy of meeting every demand upon the United States Treasury for gold. The gold reserve is now below $52,000,000, some $10,000,000 less than the amount on hand at the time of the last sale of bonds two months ago, and half a million lower than ever before. What will be the outcome of the matter? It is not always safe to predict the future from the past. But it will be remembered that in the summer of 1893, owing to the operation of the silver-purchase law, the country faced a condition of things not greatly unlike the present, and that the silver men, after opposing the repeal bill for months, finally gave way and allowed it to pass. The Senate has passed the Morgan Nicaragua Canal bill by an unexpectedly large majority, and by an affirmative vote that removes the bill from the category of partisan measures. But there appears to be small chance for it to get extended consideration in the House during the few remaining weeks of the session. The Hawaiian matter has been a prolific topic of partisan crossfire in the Senate during the week, ending in the adoption of a resolution indorsing the President's policy of non-intervention in Hawaiian affairs, but with a fair prospect that a resolution of precisely the opposite tenor may pass the same body at any time. The Brooklyn strike, while of far less immediate importance and significance than the financial situation, has doubtless ranked in the eyes of the general public as the uppermost topic of the week. It has furnished many interesting episodes and been the text for much comment in the newspapers. One aspect of the discussion of this strike, as of others that have preceded it, involves a contradiction that would be amusing were it not so serious. The strikers are gravely counseled by the press and the courts that they may strike but must not resort to violence. But experience has proved conclusively that not one strike in ten can long maintain itself, or succeed even partially, without violence; for without violence the places of strikers can in almost every case be easily and promptly filled. As a means of influencing public opinion, strikes may still be measurably successful and may ultimately benefit wage-earners as a class by calling attention to their wrongs. But as a means of better. ing the condition of the man who strikes, the peaceable strike is, nine times out of ten, a costly delusion. On the other hand, a judicial mandate such as that of Judge Gaynor, requiring railway companies to operate their lines whether or no, simply ignores the practical questions that every business man must face. The general enforcement of such a mandate would pave the way for a universal labor union and make possible a universal and simultaneous demand for higher wages that might instantly bankrupt every railway company and every other public and semi-public corporation in the country. That would at once necessitate the public ownership, practically if not actually, of all such agencies of transportation and other public service. The question of public ownership is fairly debatable. But even granting that it is the one just solution of the difficulty, it would evidently be unjust to seek it through bankruptcy and confiscation. Viewed from whatever standpoint-from that of the striker, that of the employing corporation, or that of the public-the one conclusion faces us that present laws and business methods may be twisted to work injustice in turn to all the parties in interest, and that it is merely another case of trying to store new wines in old boules-trying to fit old, obsclete laws and methods to new business and social conditions that demand new laws and new methods. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S FINANCIAL MESSAGE. YESTERDAY (Monday) President Cleveland sent to Congress a special message on the financial situation. The President refers to the failure of Congress to adopt the plan which he suggested in his annual message, and says that "the situation has so changed and the emergency now appears so threatening" that he asks "such prompt and effective action as will restore confidence in our financial soundness and avert business disaster and universal distress among our people." He thinks that the reception of the Carlisle plan by Congress and ". our present advanced stage of financial perplexity necessitates additional or different legislation from that recommended in his annual message. He exhorts Congress to patriotic, honest, sincere action, unbiased by partisanship or desire for party advantage. He says: The real trouble which confronts us consists in a lack of confidence, widespread and constantly increasing, in the continuing ability or disposition of the Government to pay its obligations in gold. This lack of confidence grows to some extent out of the palpable and apparent embarrassment attending the efforts of the Government under existing laws to procure gold, and to a greater extent out of the impossibility of either keeping it in the Treasury or canceling obligations by its expenditure after it is obtained. The only way left open to the Government for procuring gold is by the issue and sale of its bonds. He thinks it doubtful whether the Government can much longer dispose of bonds payable, as under the present law, in "coin" instead of specifically in "gold" at a price "creditable to the financial character of our Government." But "most dangerous and irritating" of all is the manner in which the Treasury is continually despoiled of its gold for shipment abroad or for hoarding at home, through the operation of the law that requires the reissue of currency notes redeemed in gold. Since the last bond issue, which netted the Treasury $58,000,000 in gold, $69,000,000 in gold has been drawn from the Treasury. |