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Show MOKBAT. JUNE, 1892. poor chap didn't live long after he was picked up. Just before he died his face lit up with a smile and as if addressing some one by his side, he raised his fight hand feebly and exclaimed in tones of triumph: "Well Jerry we licked h 1 out of 'em today didn" t we ' The GobmpEB. GOSSIP OF THE TOWN. j Ht'ii.T Bews collared mc this morninir as I wa9 al'dng; up the 3trcet and said: "Conic in. I w:ii to sbow you a novelty." He ild it, to:. It was a handsome Havana, with a small hole in the wrapper about half an inch from the lighting end, and below tiiis bole, which was about the size of a sil-ver three-cen- t piece, was a tiny red label with one or two Spanish words printed in minute type. "That," said Bews, "is a Cu-ban patent. By this means a cigar ean be branded by an expert cigarmaker and with but a slight loss of time. The perforation in the wrapjier, which can be of any size and shape, is made with a sharp stamp; the label is placed inside and then, when the wrapper is put on the cigar, branded, and the label is entirely secure, there being a good deal of it hidden by the wrapper. It is thought that a good many of those Ameri-can, cipar manufacturers who have reason U be proud of their goods and who wish to protect them from being copied, will nego- - tiate for the use of the idea." Mort Aton was a backwoodsman in Ohio in the early days. He had tiie reputation of being able to fell more timber and drink more liquor than any man in the county. No one ever heard of his becoming tired and with one exception he was never charged with belSg drunk. The exception noted was Mrs. Aton, who declared that once she had seen Mort the worse for liquor. . Mori's capacity was enormous and he was never known to quit while anything was in sight. There were two thing he loved more than anything else: liquor aud cabbage. Every night he would walk four miles to the tavern, when he would drink till the last man had gone home or was uuder the table and then he would go home where his good wife always had in waiting a mammoth dish of his favorite vegetable cold. On the oc-casion referred to Mort was mellow, and with that precaution usually adopted Uy drunken men who do not wish to waken their better halves decided to eat his noctural lunch without disturbing her by striking a light. So arming himself with a fork he waded iu to what he supposed was hi cabbage. But success didn't court him to any extent for alarming after chewing a short time he ex-claimed. "Old woman! 'Where did you get your cabbage? They're so darned stringy I can't chaw 'em." "Sakcs alive!" ejaculated the good lady as she sprang out of bed, "if the fool man ain't catin' of my night caps what I put in starch over night. Why, Mort, you must be drunk." "Can't be, Becky, can't be," responded Mort. "Why can't it be?" was her quick retort. "'Cause I hain't drunk enough." "What did you drink?" she asked. "Nothin' much, 'eept a quart o' New Eng-land rum an' couple gallons o' cider." I've noticed it takes more to get some men full than others. "Boffus" Billings was a private in Com-pany B. I33nd Petina. Volunteers. He was called Bogus for some reason which has never been explained. AH reports of his conduct, however, were to the effect that he was a first class soldier. Bogus had a brother who went out in the early part of the war aud fell at Pittsiiurg laudiut;-- . "Bogus" was at home when the news reached bin:, lie was on his way to the front in three days. Company B's captain resigned aud an election for his successor was held. The lieutenants were candidates and both were equally popular with "Bogus." on the day of the election, "Bogus" was noticed standing aloof. "Why don't you vote, Bogus?" queried bis tirst sergeant. "Don't know which 'im to vote for," was the reply. "Why, haveu't you got any choice?" "Nope; both on 'em fast-rat- e men, an' I think just as much o' one as tothcr. If I vote for Nick I'll be votin' 'gainst Ansr, an' if I vote for Anse I'll be votin' 'gainst Nick. Ooeaa I'li stand nuisance." At Antietam Bogus' company was in a very exposed condition. The rebel batter- - ies had their range, and but for the personal appearance on that portion of the Held of MK'iellan, who ordered them to seek shelter, the list of Union killed would have been seventy-tlv- e or eighty more. "Bogus" was the last one to retire. Ramming a cartridge home he placed the cap on without "a tremor, and bringing his piece to a '"ready" amid that storm of shot and shell he shouted ' "You killed Jerry at Pittsburg Lauding now ! d -1-1 you take that," a, if he thoughf Uiat one shot would end the light. Bogus fell at Gettysburg right in the thickest of the fight east of the wheat field where Armstcd was shot from his horse, How he got there no one knows, as the reiri- - mcnt he was serving in at that time was In j the rear. He probably went in on his own hook. They found him while picking up the wounded. He was shot three times through the body and once in the leg. The " V ... have been a charity far nobler than all the j martyrdom on earth. At the same time it was but meet justice to a scoundrel who uot only ensnared women as a profession, but boasted of bis conquests afterwards, and east bis victims aside after he had deceived them as if they were marketable goods. A man' of Montuomeky's means, persuasion, char-ccte- r and experience, is a danger to the pub-lic far greater thau a mad dog running at large and he deserves to be dealt with like one. The only regret we have is that Ik vine should have been the man to deal it out. Dr. Utter preached a sermon yesterday on the- aaereduess of human life, taking the iHVixK-Mo.NTGoMEi- tragedy for his text, ' and his conclusions were that Iuvixe was not justified in killing the libertine. It cer-tainly would have been better for him if he badu't, and for his wife and child it would : --American NatioIH Salt Lake City. Oiganized, October, V Til V DIRECTORS James H. Bacon, President; M 1! -.-.I- V Cashier; W. B. Holland, Assistant Cashier; M. .1 F. I Judd, Secretary Elijah Sells, Judge D. G. Tumi .v Grant V C F. Loofbourow, Governor A. L. Thomas. i I Spring and Summer Suitings. P. S. Williamson has just received his third installment of spring and summer suitings. They are the "nobbiest effects" imported this season. Call and examine them before purchasing else where. Maui-i- Schmidt, Mgr , ; W 2nd South street. Sarsaparilla. There is one fact so plain that no one need be mistaken, and that is no person can have good health where the blood, the very iife itself, is in an unhealthy condition. Wc guarantee Mailer's Sarsaparilla and Burdock Compound to remove all humors and impu-rities from the blood and eradicate every particle of disease from the system. For sale by the Syses Drug Co., corner .jtatc and First South streets. Mr. Sam Levy is now matting a superior brand of smoking tobacco in connection with his cigar factory. Try it, you will be ure to like it. Try our horse radish, S. L. Pickle Co. . . f 5p III J SYLPH Pneumaiic and Cushion Tires, PHQENiX Pneumatic and Cushion Tires. jROJUOIS Cushion 'i ires. Call or end for catalogues. A full line of WHEELS of ail grades. Special Prices to Clubs on orders of three or fl more M'HEKLS for cash. Cycling Sundries, WL Oil, Etc. fFH Sportinjr Goods, Guns, Ammunition, Baseball Goo Is, Cutlery. Etc. General Repairing and Locksmutuug M. R EVANS, 22-2- 4 W. 2d So., Salt Lake. V t1 1 fflOSI MEN I E Are liable to be deceived in bnyir.g a Soit of Clothes; THEREFORE, we want you to do more than sim-ply glance at our Spring aij Snmffler Snits ! v r As you pass our door. . . . i Mi I J ! WE INVITE YOU! To come in ami try one on and know for yourself just what you are buy-ing. WB GUARANTEE every Garment and promise you courteous treat-ment. Strictly One-Pric- e House! J. P. Gardner, The Elk Salooft Kelly & Reilly 49 Commercial. Choicest Wines, Liquors, Cigars. J- -A CORDIAL INVITATION IS EXTENDED all to visit these two Resorts. Both are un-der the muniierement of well-know- n people. WELLS-FARG- O CO.'S BANK. j 3 Salt Lake. pi YS and sells exchange, makes telegraphic transfers on the principal cities of the United states and Europe, and on all points on the Pa-cific Coast. Issues letters of credit available in the principal cities of the world. Special atten-tion given to the selling of ores and bullion. Ad-vances made on consignments at lowest rates. Particular attention given to collections through- out l tah, Nevada and adjoining Territories. Ac-counts solicited. CORRESPOX DENTS Wells, Fargo & Co., London: Wells, Fargo Jfc Co., New York ; Na-tional Bank of the Kepublic, Boston; First National Bank, Denver: State National Bank, Denver; Merchants' National Bank, Chicago; Boatmen's Bank, St. Lotus; Wells, Fargo Jt Co., San Francisco. J. E. DOOLY, Cashier. M'CORNICK&CQ., BANKERS. --3 Salt Lake. Established, 1878. A general banking business transacted. Collections promptly made on all points in the West and Northwest. Careful at-tention given to consignments of ores and bul-lion. Exchange and telegraphic tran-ifer- s on the principal cities of the United States and in Europe. CORRESPOXIENTSSzw York, Importers' and Traders' National Bank, Kountze Bros.; Chicago, Commercial National Bank: Omaha, Omaha National Bank; San Francisco, First National Bunk; St. Louis, National Bank of Commerce; Kansas City, National Bank of Kansas City, First National Bank, American National Bank; Denver, Denver National Hank, City National Bank; Pueblo, First National Bank; Portland. Ore., First National Bank: London, .Martin's Bank (limited,), 68 Lombard street. i ' UNION NJ-fcO-NAL BANK, Successor to WaMBankers. Established 1850. Ca it il fflr H. surplus, -- $40,000. WHm States Depository. Transacts a general banking business. Safe deposit vaults fire and burglar proof. J. R. Walker, President; M. H. Walker, Vice-Preside- M. J. Cheesman, Cashier: L. 11. Farnsworth, Assistant Cashier; J. R. Walker, Jr., Assistant Cashier. COMMElClAl! Nl Pali ... j V 1 General Banff ad Its bearing interest I if lettl ; Me W drafts and bills a tiubge on all rfJ cities of the nd Eu r Geo. M. Downey, I'n 'MdJint; W. P. NcM President: Thoina)- - M ted B dent: John W. Donneli ji. Cashier, DISECTORS V. 11. crbach, Jno. fl J. Salisbury, Moyh. Fox. W. P. Noble, Georg M Downey, "U T.R.JONES 6 :0.,8Ai JBnys JM THENH Bank tkWl Capital, $500,000 .KF. Ft:tT Paid. Frank Knox, President :Wl'. Karrick, J. A. Earls, Cashier. Transacts i general banking busines. Money loaned on favorable terms. Acounj 0f mer-chants, individuals, firms and corpcEtions so-licited. Five per cent interest paidon savings and time deposits. DIRECTORS L. C. Karrick, Emil .ahn W. E. Smedley, Frank Knox, G. S. Hones,' J. A. Earle, Geo. A. Lowe, II. L. A. Qlnier. J. G. Sutherland. wTTmVIONTGOvTERY Buys and. Sells Mining &WaterSpck Office 166 Mair.s 7" Who is the Most Popular Policeman? Vote Early Vote Often ! Cut out this coupon and send it to THE TIMES marked "voting contest." I vote for as the most popular policeman on . the Salt Lake force. QONDITIONS: - i Hiriw must be made on slips cut from this paper. Tliey must be sent or mailed to the VOTING CON TEST EDITOR, Times Ofltce, Salt Lake, on or before Jim 20, 1893. - The KIRMESS. OPENS TUESDAY EVENING , JUNE 7. At the $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stasres, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu-tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. I. Chenet. & Co., Toledo, O. JSfSold by Druggists, 75c. Homes made happy by sending the family washing to the Hough Dry department. They charge only 5 cents per pound for do-ing the work. At the celebrated Troy Steam Laundry, 142 Main Street. Telephone I'M. Send for circular. . AVe Lead. The Chicago, Union Pacific and North-western line leads all competition. Short lines, quickest time, uuion depots, solid ves-tibule trains to Chicago, no vexatious delays or changes at the Missouri river. HOTEL KNUTSFORD. Oporiocl June3 v-- , New and fiegant in all its Ap- - poVttments. 250 Rooms, Single cr En Suit! " Rooms wg Bath. S. S. HOLMES. - N Proorittor. HOTEL TEMPLETON. Just OpGiTfbd.l GEO. M. SCOTT, JAS. GI.EKDEN.sTNG, H. 8. RUMEIELD, j President. t. Secretary. Geo. M. Scott & Co. (Incorporated.) Dealers In i Hardware, Moral, Stoves. Tinware, Mill Findings, Etc. Agents for the Dodge Wood Pulley, Roebling's Steel Wire Rope, t. Vacuum Cylinder and Engine OiD. Hercules Powder, Atlas En-gines and Boilers, Mack Injectors, Buffalo Scales, Jefferson Horsa Whims, Blake Pumps, Miners' and Blacksmiths' Tools, Etc. 168 MAIN, SALT LAKE. i J ForSalb! Fifty Beautiful Los in Bellevue Park ; prices low, terms very easy. These lots are high and dry, facing on Ninth East and Tenth siuth. Parties who want a home will do well to see these lots before they buy. Street car service every eleven minutes. E. P. Neweil 8c Co. No. 11 West Second? South Street. EXPOSITION Bl iLDING. GRAND AT 8 P. M. Tickets for Sale at j PARSONS', MCALLISTER'S, 1- - MARGETT'S. j pEOPLE'S 0PERA JJOUSE. Commercial St. Frank Monroe, Mansjr. This week will be presented the Superb Spectacn-la- r Sensation, THE Fffil'll snv BY- - Hewlett's Noveity Company. --POPULAR PRICES. Wonderland. Second week of the California Opera Co. In Gilbert A Sullivan's Masterpiece, THE MIKADO. 10e. Kesuhip Prices. 10c. VTOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE cr JLI Tezeta L. Burtlett. deceased. Notice Is hprcbT given, by the undersigned, Samuel C. BarMett. Administrator of the Estat'3 of Tezeta L. Ea-tlct- t, detessea, to the creditors of and all pen-o- having claims against the s:iid deceased, to exhibit thorn ith the necessary vouchers within four months after the Hrft publication of this notice, to the said Samuel C. Bartlett, Ad-ministrator, at the office of 8. H. Lewi, SIS South Main (tree):, in the Connty of Salt Lalf. SAMUEL ( . BAR TLETT, Administrator of Tezeta L. Bartlett, deceased KELLY'S Bijou Saloon. 22 8 state Street. I Finest of Liquors, k The Popular Resort of Salt Lake. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZHT" Sole agents for I Holmes' Celebrated Rye. . 23 W. 2d So., Salt Lake. ' : The old timer from Aspen and Leadville, Colo, has opened his TAILOR SHOP. All my triends should come and see me. Cleaning, altering and being of clothes warranted to give satisfaction. Second-han- d clothes bought ana eold ; bnst price given. The old-tim- from Leadville and Aspen, j S. SKLIX, 108 Kst 'et-nnf- l South St. Notice to Creditors. Estate of Jessie E. Jack, deceased. N'OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE '. E. Jack, executor of the estate of Jessie E. Jack, deceased, to the creditors of and all person having claims against the said to exhibit them with the necessary vouch-er- s within ten months after the first publication of this notice, to the eairt J. F. Jack, executor, at 36 Commercial block, in Salt. Lake City, in tha toantv of alt Lake, Territorv of Utah. 3. V. .JACK. Executor Of the estate of Jessie E. Jack, deceased. Dated May 3, 1833. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ATTORNEY-AT-LAY-OPPOSITE CULLES ATTORNEY-AT-LA-S. S. MARKHAM. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR - AT - LAW, building, rooms 03 to d') West d South. D. C. EICHNOR. ATTORNEY-AT-LA- 150 SOUTH MAIN ST., Bank, in Judge McKay's Offic(. A. B. SAWYER. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW- . ROOMS 5 6 WASATCH M Block. A KAIGHN & ANDERSON. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW. cor. West Temple and Second Soiitljk streets. P. O. Bos, hl8. Salt Lake City. k INSLKANCK. T Louis rlRrt. LIFE AND ACCIDENT MUTUAL LIFE I o.y Nev.- - York; 85-8- 6 Commercial Blk. 4 PLUMBING. T B, J. MORAN STEAM HEATING ENGINEER 350 MAIN Lake City. MIStKLLANtOlS. HAPRY HOUR DEBTTAX. CO. pO. 212S STATE: OPPOSITE HOLMES. The best whiskey for consumptives and invalids must surely be the most whole-some for those who use it as a beverage. is the best for all purposes, because it is THE 01ILY FIRST-CLAMTE- L- - - IN THE CITY Comer of Main and South Tsriple Streets. THE CONTINENTAL Salt Lake City, ltah.. First-Cla- ss American HgM. $2.5fod S3. 00 per day. M. 11. BEARVSLM''Prop' Y. THE MORGAN HOTEL. 14 W. lst.Soutli. LOCATION. FIEST-CLA8- 1 I!f CENTRA-- appointments. RATES $3 and SC'-- fcjrday Special Rates to theatrical add large 6 A H. CLARK, Prop'r. CAFE DU LOUVRE. Commercial Street, Basement. MILWAUKEE, Boh emton and Hofbran Beer on Wines, Liquors and Cigars- - REDUCED PRICES IN LUMBER, ETC. E. Sells & Co. Are closing out their whole Stock of Lumber, Doors, Windows and Building Material at Reduced Prices for Cash. J. JB. WALBEM, Real Estate, Stocks, Loans, Investments, RENTAL II strOeeftfsi.ce: ftah National Bank building Corner Main and First Sout' Telephone No. 86. rt.U--r,iN UY- - Large list of choice properties for sale. Stores and residences for rei 5! our-- to Loan at Low Hate. Mining and Gas Stocks a Specialty. guaranteed to be absolutely pure and doubly matured. You may know it by its delicious flavor and the proprietary bottle in which it is served. Call for "Cream Pure Rye" and take no other. For sale at all first-clas- s drinking places and drug stores. 3 DALLEMAND & CO., Chicago. Good Yjgjr Packed ira frgjj Patent Cloth W5"J Pouches and JL GABEWAILOH Mi 65 W.2d So. 1 WgBSuits to order - $15 to $55 MyPants 44 - $3.50 to $15 jfjfj Suits made in 10 hours. Pants SV W& made in S hoars. By nrst-clse- s UJ" workmen iu this City. You Have Heard-th- e Story? Of how the WIND anl the SUN laid a waer as to wliieh could be the first to make a foot traveler remove his heavy coat ? The W ind is said to have resorted to bluff tactics blew great gales, and the traveler but drew his Garments the closer about him; but when the Sun shed his genial rays on the wayward passenger he was glad enough to cast aside the heavy coat. We have had the wind and the rain, and now we are going TO HAVE THE GLAD SUNSHINE! And everybody who has felt comfortable in top coats and heavy underwear will gladly yield to the persua-sive eloquence of Old Sol. We are now opening an elegant line of , ,, STRAW HATS. 7. , Big cut in every article of Spring wear in our house, but more particularly in Spring Overcoats and Suit-ings. See our unsur assed line of Gents' Fine Underwear, Stiff Hats and Deibys; also of Neckwear. GRAIL EOSS & aWYATT. ONE JPJaiCR-CIiOTHIER- S. 15-- 1 7WTeft Second South. Morlan Block. " "A' -- ! - ' ' "' tfllik. "... . UWSMM FRITZ. Finest Kestaurnut in the ity, under the man. agement of 1'hil llanak. Private Dining lluonis. Ujien day and niL'ht. "wells j T2E ARTIST TAILOR Is pie i fed to announro to the trade that tola Spring invoices of garment pat- terns are now ready, including Modern Heaps, la Latest Colors ONLY HIGH CLASS WORK DONE CORRECT SHAPES AND MEASUSEMENTS ASSURED. Nos. 7 and 9 West First South Street. i -- ij Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting Asbestos Cement Covering for Steam Pipes. Telephone 300. P. O. Box Ml. 1ST Main Street Opposite Auerbach Bros. THE SALT LAKE TIMES i. . A. L. Pollock. Lessee. t .. THE TIMES U entered at the Postoffice in Sait Lake Citv for trenrti!sion through the mails as fecond-clas- s matter. Persons deeirinftTHE TIMES delivered at their houses cr. secure it by postal card, order or through telephone. When delivery is irregular makelmmedlftte complaint to this Office. r Subscription to Ttie Daily Times. (ALWAYS IS ADVANCE.) J2 months 8 I:::::::::::::::::::::: h j H 50 Veekly, 12 months P (Address THE TIMES, Salt Lake City, Ltah.) MOXDAY,JUyEC, 1892. WHO IS THE POPULAR POLICEMAN An Opportunity Afforded to Determiner this Much Mooted Question. I The Times has purchased a policeman's club, the finest one ever made in the United States. It is of rosewood, handsomely carved, gold mounted with a plate for IKI owner's name, and is one of the most beaui. tiful pieces of workmanship ever produced. The Times desires to present this to the officer who stands highest in public favor, the choice to be determined by a voting con-test which begins today aud ends at t p. m., sharp June 20. The chief and captain oi police are barred and no votes received for them will be counted. Cut out the follow-ing coupon, write the name of the officer vou prefer and send it as per conditions. You can vote as many tiraeB as you likej there is no limit. This is the season of the year When Salt Lake looks her loveliest. Just imagine what pleasure the delegates to both national conventions miss in meeting away from here. A ruu to the mountains or a plunge in the lake after a hot day's work would be a comfort that few other cities can offer. It is only a question of time when this will be the great convention point of America. j Whether Harrison" or Blaine be the nominee Utah will not be able to contribute any votes to the success of either; and the chief interest of the territory is now cen-tered in the question as to which of the two contesting delegations will be admitted. For tlie People. It is desired to be stated that although the excursion to C hicago in June is to be under the auspices of. the Tuscarora society, ac-ceptable persons other than raeorbers of that club may accompany the party. Those desirous of joining the excursion may apply for accommodations at the Rio Grande Western ticket office, 200 Main street. Tins is a bad year for millionaires. With-in a few weeks of each other old Astok and young Vanuekkilt died and now Sidney Dillon is dying. There are times when the derive some consolation in this world. A gentleman just returned from Sanpete says that the people there are prosperous and money is plentiful, due to the wool clip, which, had the late legislature had its way, would have been clipped of all its profits. BLAINE'S RESIGNATION. Various men will interpret variously the resignation of Secretary of State Blaine. Coming as it did on the eve of the republi-can convention and wholly unexpected even by the most confidential friends of Mr. Blaine it naturally created a diversity of feeling. The secretary's friends accept it s a notice that he is in the race for the presidency, while some of Mr. Harrison's adherents insi.-- t that it merely implies a withdrawal from pmfic life without invali-dating his letter to Mr. Clamkson refusing to be a candidate. Certain it is that the president appreciates the motives of Mr. Blaine or he would not have so promptly Accepted the letter of resignation. In view, however, of the attitude of Mr. Ulaine's friends at Minneapolis it is safe to Btirmise that he is in their hands, as the po-litical phrase goes, or he would not sever Jiis connection with the administration at a time when it can imply but one of two things, either bis reluctance to embarrass the president or else the wish to be inde-pendent in his canvass for the nomination. Practically the two reasons amount to the Banie thing. Aud yet, assuming that Mr. Blaine's res-ignation means his avowed candidacy it does not therefore follow that he will be the party's nominee tomorrow. Indeed the fituation is remindful of the convention of 3876 whjn Ingeksoll nominated the Piumed Knight and it appeared as if he would have a walk over. After numerous b:llots Mr. Haves carried off the honor, though Mr. Blaine fell very few votes behind. Again :n 1SS0 lie was the leader of the nnti-tiRAN- "faction, and while the general failed of a jiomination so did Mr. Blaine and General li a r field became the choice of the conven-tion. Thus, while the secretary's resignation eimplifies matters so far as his candidacy is concerned, no matter how loth Mr. IIakiu-son'- s friends may be to believe it, it com-plicates things so far as the nomination it-self is concerned. Vv'u still believe, though, that the president is the mtfn of destiny. In spec ulating upon the chances of the respective candidates before the Minneapolis convention the partiality of the Associated Press should be taken into calculation. AVuatever the democratic convention may do it will not endorse "Keutucky" Smith's little home rule bill. That poor thing wasn't even decorated on Memorial day. Tins country is threatened with another invasion of Oscar Wii.de and his admira-tion for cowboys. We wish he would join the Rus tiers. J Politics must be very dull in Europe when the latest news deals with the old chestnut of a reconcilation between William and Bismarck. Blaine's strength has been pitted :igainst the field more thau once, and the lieltl gen-erally won. The dark horse iu Minneapolis has uot come into daylight yet. SII.YKlfc. .Mr. E. O. Leech, dirctor of the mint, contributes to the 'fiim an interesting ar-ticle on the fall of the pkee of silver and its cause. He shows that, for nearly two cen-turic- s the eonuner in! value of gold to silver was practically n;tintained at 1 to 15 and a fraction. The steadying force was the bi-metallic system in operation in France and later in ihe states of the Latin union. Down to ISTo the relative value of gold and silver had been maintained for over seventy years at about 1 Jo 15. The decliue of silver as compared T ith gold commenced in 1873, and eince thatrime it has fallen from about $1-3- per tine o .nice to $u.is";, per fine ounce on March 3S, IS'.)-'- , a decline in iiuoteen year By of over --per pent, ' 4 '"" The cttwt of this decline ar easily traced by Mr. l.rlEcii. The demonetization of sil-ver by Germany after the close of the Erauco-Priissia- n war; the adoption of the single gold standard by Norway, Sweden and Denmark; the prohibition of silver coinage by Holland: the suspension of Bilver coinage by Russia in 176, were the most prolific causes. The European mints have been praetiCilly closed against silver coinage for tif!.ecn years. The only mints open to silver for individuals are those of India, Japan, Mexto and a fe,w South American countries. The passage of the act of 1873 in the opt dou of Mr. Lkech, had no appreciable efftct on the price of silver. When it was passed the country had exclusively a paper circulation, the depre-ciation of which was measured by gold. Aud. furthermore, the act of 1873 was the logical sequence of the legislation of 1SI4-37- , confirmed aud strengthened by the legisla-tion of ISoo, which practically made gold the standard of this country." In discontinuing the coinage of the sitver dollar," he 6ays, "the act of 1873 simply recognized an exist-- t iug fact by dropping a coin which had formed no appreciable part of our circula-tion for nearly half a century." If the de-monetization of silver had not taken place then it must have occurred a few years later, "or else this country would have re-- . fumed specie payments iu 1879 on a silver instead of a gold basis." i Another cause of the fall in the price of silver was the increased production since 1S73, ranging from line ounces iu that year to 143,550,000 tine ounces in 1S91. Kven ibis iarge production might have been absorbed in the circulation bad the coinage system of the world permitted or favored it, but as it was there was an increased produc-tion and a reduced demaud, happening at the fame time. The effects of the depre- - ciation, especially in the uusettling of the rates of exchange in commercial transac- - tious, are severely felt, and if something is not done to remedy the evil the most dis- - astrous consequence may ensue. "No set- - tlenicnt of the present monetary confusion is posible," says Mr. Lcech, "without in- - ternational action. The solution lies in the --v . adoption of international This involves the free coinage of both met-als into leiral tnomafter having fixed by j ngreement t BK' ich coins of j either ircta! lable for the pay- - mcnt of obligations. Amo; the few meritorious bills passed by the late legislature was the Medical bill; but we do not nee that it is bein? enforced or else the quarka who advertise harrowing cuts to show the cures they have effected would not be allowed to spread tbeiufcives. Naturally it would bd supposed that people of ordinary Intelligence would shun the quack whose remedies, if they Rie not positively injurious, art- at leat ineffective: bat it seems that persons in ill bodily health ' do not always exercise sound judgment, or else they beco ate desperate from lonij suffer- - and the quack takes advantage of their condition. ft is therefore that the bill should be. put in immediate operation. The medical importer who is here today aud somewhere else tomorrow is a menace to a commuuitv' . |