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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

A TRIUMPH of art over nature was il.
Illustrated recently when well-known
English artist made painting Of some
old beech trees in Kent pasture,
which he sold for S1,4oO. The owner
Of the pasture sold his land and the
trees together for $500, and called it a
good sale at that.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

A MOUNTAIN of concretionary lines
stone in Utah county, Utah, is soon to
be worked. The stone is OF a grayish
brown color, showing the most beauti.
full variations on account OF the pres.
ence of sedimentary sea shells, and
when finished is superior to either mar
BILE or onyx in appearance. In charac.
ter it is a little harder than marble,
bat not quite so hard as onyx, and, so
far as prospected, is entirely free from
anv iron.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

"A mob is usually creature of very
mysterious existence, particularly in q
large city. Where 1t comes from, or
whittier it goes, few men can tell. AS.
sembling and dispensing with equal
suddenness, it is as difficult to follow
to its various sources as the sea itself;
nor does the parallel stop here, for the
ocean is not more tickle and uncertain,
more terrible when aroused, more un-
reasonable or more cruel.-Dickens
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

THE French are experimenting with
single track temporary railroad that
can be laid on country road or across
the fields. They expect to use it in
military operations and in harvesting
crops The barrows and cars used are
on the bicycle principle and they can
be operated either by hand or horse
power The gain in the use of the
single rail is the great diminution Of
fr;ot;n,, ass Hfsa.g
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

MRS. VIM. L. WILSON is said to take
very little interest in her husbands
public career. She is constant inval-
Id and is seldom seen in Washington
society. Her desire is to have her hus-
band accept college professorship 4
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

DR. BURaGRAEyE, professor OF
medicine in the university of Client is
ninety-nine years old, and in aotiye
practice as physician. He has writ.
ten book ON longevity, and is now
seeing his "Reminiscences through
the press. He smokes, drinks wine,
and takes his little glass Of gin.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

A RANcHER on the Humptulips river,
WASH, is the last to experiment with
elks for work purposes He has fine
team recently broken to harness which,
he says, will haul as heavy load as
any pair of horses, are as docile and
much handsomer.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

A NEW kind of cloth is being made In
Lyons from the down Of ducks, hens
and geese. Seven hundred and fifty
grains of feathers make rather more
than square yard of light and very
warm waterproof cloth.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

Mr.. WANAMAKERha has increased his life
insurance to the remarkable aggregate
of $1,000 900. lie is certainly the most
heavily insured man in America, and
possibly in the world. John b. Stetson,
of Philadelphia, has policies on his life
for S75o,0oo. Hamilton Disston for
100000. Chauncey NJ. Depew is said
to be insured for 100000. And the
man who hustles around to meet the
premium on his meager $4,000 is forced
TO marvel thereat.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

NAVAL officers and crews in Chinese
and Japanese waters on the Asiatic
station receive their pay in Mexican
dollars. ''Mexicans" is the term ap.
piled to them by the naval officers.
The paymsster makes draft on q
banking establishment and receives
"Mexicans" for the amount, which he
locks in his safe to make his payments.
In the Mediterranean French money is
used almost exclusively. In South
America it is usually American and
English gold. In Europe some years
ago American gold was looked upon
with some disfavor, but English gold
was always popular:
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

A BETTING company Of Hartford, Ct.
has just made the largest belt that any
firm or any other company ever made.
1t is for the Washburn and Moen Iron
Co., of Worcester. The belt is six and
one-half feet wide and 100 feet long.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

No one in Japan can look down upon
the emperor, and thus it happened that
during his recent triumphal progress
to Toxic, the American visitors were
surprised to see all second stories AID
balconies of houses closed along the
route Of the processien's line of march.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26
Tobacco Destroys vitality.

Nervous system paralyzed by nicotine
means lost manhood, weak eyes, and gen.
eral all gone look and feeling that robs life
of its pleasure. Tobaccois the rootof many
an inipotent symptom, and No-To-Bac a
vigorous and happy in more ways than one.
No-To-B BAG guaranteed and sold by Druggists
everywhere. Book, titled "Don't Tobacco
Spit or Smoke Your Lite Away" Ad. Ster-
ling Remedy Co., New York or Chicago.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

USE well-bred cattle, the best are
none too good; 1t takes good cattle to
make good beef or butter and there is
no money in any but the best grade of
product Mediocrity is the shoal on
which most men strand.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26
VIENNA kOHL-RABl.

A Vegetable Which Is Not Seen Often
Enough In Our Gardens.
Once more wish to mention vege.
table that is too seldom seen in our
American gardens, and yet deserving of
a place in all-kohl-rabi. There are few
persons who have any taste whatever
for turnip, who would not like and pre-
fer the more refined flavor Of we'll
grown kohl-rabi. 1t succeeds we'll In
the early part Of the season, and can
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

AS farmers, farm servants and en-
ployes, Americans are by far the most
numerous, constituting 90 per cent. of
the population, while the foreigners in
the same line are but a. g per cent.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

The relative proportion of persons
engaged in agriculture is steadily di-
minishing, while those dependent upon
manufactures, trade, transportation
and personal OF professional service is
increasing.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

BnLY-"Maw, should think IL would
be a heap more careless to castpearls before
chickens than to cast 'em before swine.n
His Mother-"Why SO, Billy" Billy
"'Cause they'd eat EN-"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

AMAN may do very we'll with very little
knowledge, and scarce be found out, in
mixed company; everybody is so much
more ready to produce his own than to
call for display Of your acquisitions
Lamb.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

ONE Of the curiosities of the coming
worlds fair at Paris will be house
made entirely of glass, with hangings,
tapestries and furniture Of the same
material,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

NoTuING so completely robs confinement
of the pain and suffering attending 1t as the
use of Mothers Frend.h Sold by druggists.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

"WHAT do they mean bya test easel" IA
test case is one which is brought to see how
much the lawyers can make out of IT'D
Puck.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

QUEEN vIcroRIA's will has become so
long BY reason of the many additions
to it since the document was first
drawn up that 1t is to be bound In book
form.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

''SHoRr and sweet" remarked the grocer,
as he tied up thirteen ounces of sugar and
marked 1t "One pound"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

"CHARLEY," she aslsed, as they sat looking
at the game, show many balls make bati'
He looked long and suspiciously at her, then
averted his face and slipped into 1t another
Glove Cincinnati Tribune.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

BE a mani Find the right thing to do
then urge some fellow to GO end do it,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

THE just-collapsed Formosa republic
couldn't have had the Chinese back of it
1t didn't run long enough. Philadelphia
Times.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

SHOWERS of blessing are not likely to fall
upon the church except when the preacher
has an overlooking cup.--Ram's Horn.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

A GROWING industry farming Philadel-
phia Record.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

GLOW MANY foreign languages can your
wife spealsl' "Three French, German,
and the one she talks to the baby
TitBits
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

"WoMAN is still far from her ideals" 10
don't know. We don't wear then as loose
as we did. n-Detroit Tribune.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

THE press is the foe Of rhetoric but the
friend Of reason. Cotton.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

If we had better sight everybody would
be good looking. RAMS Horn.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

SHUN equally somber air and vivacious
rallies. Marcus Antonius.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

WHAT orators want in depth, they give
you in length. -Montesquien.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

A PEssIMIsr is man with near-sighted
soul.-N. Y. Press.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

He who is In evil is also in the punish.
ment Of evil .--Swedenborg.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

THERE is an angel in every stone, II we
only know how to get it out.-Ram's Horn.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

ADAM was proudly conscious that h never
made mistake in his boyhood.
Times.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-07-26

THERE is no better government than self
control. Galveston News
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27

possibly labor having also doubled,
his money would purchase only half
as much-and money is worthless un-
less it is to be spent. But the farmer
would lose in one way: the prices of
wheat and cotton would continue to be
fixed in Europe just as they are now.
The prices at which we must sell our
surplus millions of bushels of wheat
and pounds of cotton will, in the main,
fix the prices at which all wheat and
cotton are sold. But prices in Europe
are fixed in gold. Hence, the prices
there would be half what the apparent
price would be here. Now it costs
something to reduce prices from one
currency to another and somebody
must pay for this work, and who but
our own farmers would foot the bills
Just as the Mexican farmer now
pays for the cost of computing his sill
yer prices into gold when he sells to
Europeans.
Besides the price of American silver
dollars will fuctuate from week to
week in foreign markets, just as now
is the case with Mexican dollars.
This adds uncertainty and risk and
will tend to keep foreign buyers of
wheat and cotton out of our markets
and to drive them to purchase in Rus
STA, Egypt, India or South America.
This uncertainty and risk will also be
charged to our farmers.
No, the farmer will not get rich by
means of cheap money. He will,
when he votes for the free coinage of
silver at 16 to L, get lot of costly ex-
perience which will put millions of
dollars into the pockets of mine own
ers. He will have the experience
the mine owner the profits.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27
Cheap Money and Wages.

Wage earners who imagine that
more and cheaper money will benefit
them should study the effect upon
wages of the issuing of greenbacks
during war times. When millions OF
dollars in paper money, with nothing
but the promise of the Government
behind it, was put into circulation,
prices and wages at once began to rise
apparently. BY 1865 prices had
gone up on an average about 116 per
cent. and wages about 43 per cent.
from what they were in 1860. But
the real value of wages is fixed by
what they will purchase. Real wages
then were only two-thirds rs great in
1865 as in 1860. These figures are
from the report of the Finance Com
mittee of the United States SEN
ate and were computed by Labor
Commissioner Carroll ID. Wright.
Commenting upon this question
Edward Atkinson said in the April
Forum:
'sDuring the Civil War even the
withdrawal of q seventh part of the
men of arms-bearing age and the de-
structive demand growing out of the
consumption of war, did not advance
wages as fast as prices rose; the pur-
chasing power of "a days work lost by
one-third in that dark financial period.
"When once more the evil influence
of a discredited currency, which was
issued in a time of profound peace at
the dictation of the mining camps,
whose power in the Senate is in in
verse proportion to their population,
brought on the panic of 1898, pa
ralysis of industry ensued and great
masses of people suffered for want of
the means of subsistence in the midst
of an unparalleled abundance of food,
fuel, fibres and fabrics of every kind"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27
ssCOin's Financial Fool.''

7 Job had lots of trouble and plenty
of things to worry about. He was,
however, wise man, and knew what
he was talking about when he said ::
.sOh, that mine adversary would
write a book" He knew that if he
could get his enemies to put their
charges against him down in black
and white he could answer and refute
them.
1t is fortunate for the sound money
men of this country that their adver-
sary has at last written a book
ssCoin's Financial School'-which is
being accepted as the bible of the free
coinage men. This book is written in
an interesting, chatty style, and has
some good cartoons in it, but it is
filled from front to back with absurd
and false statements about money and
finance. The book itself lis a gigan-
TIC fraud in that no such school
and no such dialogues as it de-
scribes ever took place. The whole
thing is fully exposed by pamphlet
called ssCoin's Financial Fool" just
Dublished by the Reform Club at 50
william street, New York City. Any
one who reads COINS Financial
School" and who is inclined to take il
seriously, should also read this little
pamphlet, the price of which is fvs
cents. A single number will, however
be sent free to anyone who writes f0l
1t. mentioning this paper.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27
tifcates of denosits ; bond certificates

tifcates of deposits; bond certificates !;
grain purchase notes; credit and cor
poration store orders; teachers war
rants; and shingle script were some of
the forms of credit that were temper
arily utilized AS currency when the
premium on legal currency was SO
high that few business men could
afford to pay it.
Mr.. Warner estimates that about
$50, 600. 900 of this Emergency Cur
rency" was in circulation by Septem-
Der 1st, 1898, when the House having
passed bill repeating the Sherman
Silver Purchase act, and we having
purchased $40, 900, 900 in gold abroad,
the worst apprehension of creditors
were quieted and the panic collapsed
as suddenly as it had begun. The
Emergency Currency gave no
trouble; not a single dollar of it was
lost to anybody partly because it was
illegal, and partly because it was no
longer needed it was quickly redeemed
and disappeared SO promptly that be-
fore the end of the year specimens
became curiosities.
In and near large cities this ssEmer-
gency Currency" usually took the
form of clearing house certificates or
certified checks. In manufacturing
districts pay checks were the only cur
rency available for weekly pay rolls.
and cash purchased by wage-earners.
In grain districts, grain purchased
notes and credit store orders were
more common. In lumber districts
shingle script was current. Below are
given fac-similes Of the specimens of
Emergency Currency" contained in
ex Congressman Warmers pamphlet:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27

Money lis n convenience labor
saving machine. When several thou
sand persons, each making different
articles, wish to exchange with each
other so that all will have full snp-
ply of articles, it is much easier for
them to do so by means OF money!
common standard of value-than 10
try TO barter with each other.
Imagine man with bag Of pota-
toes going around to exchange % POI
tatoes with one man for gallon Of
oil, 10 with another for a yard OF
calico, 10 with another for pound of
sugar, 60 with another for a straw hat,
p with another for paper of pins and
SO on until he has spent a whole day
exchanging his bag OF potatoes for n
few articles that he could have bought
at a country store in ten minutes with
the So. 90 for which he could have sold
his potatoes. Money, IS, perhaps, the
greatest labor saving machine ever in
vented.
But it is only a labor saving ma
chine. It will not work itself or grow
when left alone. IL produces nothing
when left to itself. 1t will not make
its possessor rich unless IL il used as n
labor saving machine aud when there
is enough money in use TO facilitate
exchange, any more is as unnecessary
and useless as are n dozen moving ma
chimes on a farm where only one is
needed. The trouble with the silver
greenback men is that they think that
all that is needed to make Us all rich
is more money. Does a farmer raise
any more hay because he has dozen
mowers instead of one? A little sober
thinking by few million voters will
settle the money question forever,
without going through the hard ex-
perimerts with cheap money that have
always resulted in failure.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27

to secure the needed legislation. IhG
legislation aOould make to the men aOHC
produce siluer in this Territory q differ
e,ace of $3,O00,0 900 per gear"
But what excuse is there for the
simple minded wheat, corn and cot
ton grower who imagines that he is
going to get rich by having his Gov
eminent adopt such foolish policy
Suppose that the Government should
succeed in doing all that the free sill
yer men expect it to do. Suppose it
should declare that silver now worth
50 cents should be one dollar. Where
will the farmer and laborer come in !?
Prices of everything would soon be
double what they now are.
The laborer would get left because
while the prices of commodities would
double at once the price of labor :
wages would not double at once.
Wages would begin to advance; strikes
would be numerous; but it would re-
quire at least one year for wages to
advance as much as goods of all kinds
would advance at once Meanwhile
the laborer, whose wages depend upon
how much they will buy, would really
be working at reduced wages.
The farmers would get twice as
many cents for each bushel of wheat
or pound of cotton, but each cent
would be worth only half as much, for
the prices Of eYeEYthing else Except
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27
Taking Things for Granted.

Serious mistakes are often made by
Jumping at conclusions. The free
silver-coinage man sees the prices of
wheat and horses declining, and he
at once concludes that the decline is
due to the characterization of silver in
1878. His unthinking neighbors come
to the same conclusion. All have been
reading the same Populist paper. They
do not stop to think that there might
be other causes to account for the de.
cline than the appreciation of gold, if
gold has appreciated in value-an open
question amongst political economists.
They do not consider that there are
natural causes for the decline in price
of wheat, such as the opening up in
South America, Europe and Asia of
new territory where wheat can be
grown very cheaply. Cheaper harves-
tiers, binding Irvine and improved
methods of farming also contribute to
tition are mainly responsible for the
lower prices of wheat, cotton and
other farm products.
In the cases of horses, still other
causes have contributed TO the de-
cline. The silverite who says that the
average value of-horses in this coun-
try has declined from 500 in 1890,
to $50 in 1895, because of the demon
etization of silver, is not talking
through his thinking cap. If he reads
newspapers, he knows that during
these years hundreds of "cable" and
"trolley" roads have taken the places
of "horse" railways Then, if he
thinks at all, he will realize that the
hundreds of thousands of displaced
horses thrown upon the market must
have caused great decline in prices.
The same process of reading and think
ing will convince him that many more
thousands of horses have been dis
placed by the rapidly extending use
of bicycles, and that the result on
prices OF horses must be the same.
He will not be surprised that the num-
Der of horses has declined from
16, 2O6, 500 in 1898 to 10, 1913, 318 in
1895.
If appreciation of gold were the
cause of the fall of prices, the fall of
prices of all kinds of commodities
would he uniform. Instead, the
prices of some commodities have
fallen while prices of others have
risen. The free silverlte should think
twice before he expresses his opinion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27
FREE COINAGE BENEFITS.
How They Will Be Divided Between
Mine Owners, Farmers and La
h0r0rs.


Mine Owners, Farmers and La
borers.
It is easy to understand why the
owners OF mines and other property in
mining States and Territories advocate
the free coinage of silver at 16 to
Like all of us they are selfish and
greedy. If the Government will agree
to take all of the silver they can pro-
duce at twice what silver is worth in
the open markets of the world, bust
ness will boom in the vicinity of silver
mines. Mines and real estate of all
kinds will more than double in value
that is providing our Government can
stand the strain of buying all of the
silver offered at this high price.
There are millions in this kind of
free coinage for the mine owners.
That this is true was openly admitted
by the Salt Lake Tribune (mine own
ers' organ) of April 80, 1891, when it
said:
eve believe that by the expendi-
ture of $40, 900 or $50, 900 the Boards
of Trade of Chicago and New York,
and even of old goldite Boston, could
be made to pass resolutions asking
Congress to give full recognition to
silver. The Silver Committee, who
are working for reconciliation, think
that with small amount of money,
used this year right away. they could
bring such a pressure behind Con-
gress and the President next winter as
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27

= s'Under free coinage wages would
be higher" is the claim of the silver
ties. Why? It is not the quantity
of money in country which regulates
wages, but the amount of wealth pro-
duced. If tens of thousands of
workers were engaged in mining sill
yer we do not need, instead of making
useful things we do need, would the
total wealth be divided between en-
ployers and employed be larger?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27

The pretence that gold is the money
of the East and silver that of the West,
has 40 foundation in fact. The East
produces no. gold. The gold in the
Eastern States was got by exchanging
goods with the gold miners OF tho
West. The people of the West wanted
goods which they could use, and there
fore parted with their gold. II they
want it back they can get il by pro-
ducing things and selling them in the
East.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27

Suppose that. in some mysterious
manner all the money in the bank
vaults of the country were to be
doubled in single night, how would
the men who now have no money get
some of the increase except by max.
ing something to exchange for it?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27

! The farmer, who wants cheap money
50 that interest will be low, won't rent
his house or hire his horse for two
per cent. year.