Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-07-24

sum, the present necessities ofsoue of the
members not allowing them 10 think ofwait-
ing for post-mortem benefits.
These Exchanges create nothing, they give
nothing they merely wedge themselves in
between the producer and consumer and take
a large slice out Of each Men who never
did an honest days work in their lives, by
the aid of these exchanges, are enabled to
live on the fat Of the land, while the men off
whom they live go to the wall The bust
ness of big gamblers, like Could Sage, and
others of that ilk, is to corner" the mar
ket. This 'cornering'' is legalized robbery
robbery as much as ifa man cracked your
safe, or knocked you down and riied your
pockets The process by which so many
unfortunates have been ruined is very sim
pie, and though oft repeated, is just as good
for catching gudgeons to-day as when it was
first tried. A man, or party of men, inform
themselves where the stool, of a certain rail /
road is held they go quietly to work and
/ buy up all the stock they can lay their hands |
on, and what they cannot purchase they make |
an agreement with the owners to hold for a
certain time, and this the owners are only too |
/ glad to do, as they know that it means a rise |
without any risk. Having secured every
share, they now go into the market, and buy
right and left for future delivery. After pur-
chasing several thousand shares they call
for the delivery of the stock. The broker
who sold weeks before, believing that he
could obtain the stock at any time for less
than the price he received for it. rushes
around to procure it, and-there is no stock
to be had Tie inside ring puts the price
up and the lambs are compelled to settle.
Only a few weeks ago we had here a
Lager Beer Brewers Convention, and very
intelligent and jolly lot of fellows they were.
The brewing interest is not a small one in
New York, and the visiting brewers received
such welcome as they are not likely to for
get Among the reports 1 noticed this item:
Annual product, eight millions of barrels"
: Nova barrel of lager beer costs eight dol
lars, SC, in round numbers, this will make the
wholesale price of the beer sixty four mil
lions of dollars If the retail price only
: doubled this, it would make one hundred and
twenty-eight millions of dollars, instead of
which, it quadruples it, making the sum
which the people of the United States pay
for lager alone, two hundred and hfty-siX
r millions Of dollars, or about enough to pay
e all the expenses of the government, support
: our army, navy, judiciary and diplomatic
corps, pay all our pensions and the interest
= on the National debt.
had occasion some months ago to call
attention to one Dr. Monck, who started bus
l. jness in Brooklyn as a spiritual healer. The
). Doctor brought his business to an exceed
J., iugly fine point 1t was not necessary even
Y to see the patient, all that he had to do was
+ to send ten cent pocket handkerchief that
had received his blessing, and i'll less time
than You could say Jack-much less Robin
son-the disease, whatever it was, few away.
l. III the City of Churches, or as Mr. Beechei
t saw ''rumshops," lived one Miss Margaret
d Wood,a spinster who was suffering from
e severe bodily ailments-and in the words Of
Y the ancient poet, "Misfortunes sore, long
e time she bore, physicians were in vain" Sc
h after giving allopath, homeOpath, steam doc
O tors and eclectics a chance, she went to DR.
n Monck-and here let me remark that the
V Doctors great successes were among the fe
: male persuasion. I don't know whether he
h helped Sister Woods lumbago and neural
# gia or not, but he assisted her in getting rit
of nearly $4,000 which she had put by in the
:, savings bank, and to prove that there wa'
method in the madness. of this prophet, he
invited the lady down to a first-class restaur
ant 70 take a lunoh he ordered troubles, pat'
IS de fois gras, Clicqpot and Bass double X, ant
IS after the dinner was all demolished, excused
V himself and left Miss Woods to pay the bill
n It took some time for the spiritual scales t.
v fall from Miss Woods eyes but they did fal
IT. at last, and week ago Miss woods pulled thu
# spiritual healer into the courts to try and sc
q. back her money. Monck insisted that sh'
, had not given him the money but had len
|, it to the Lord As He was beyond the reacl
N Of civil process she concluded TO 60 70
. NIonck When the prophet saw that dun
- geon cell was yawning for him, he restored
=, a part of his plumber
- Civil service reform seems to be exercisin;
~ the community just now, the common salu
u tation being,as men pass each other, car
u you all offensive partisan p B.