The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-04-22
THIRD EDITION
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Pertinent Paragraphs From the Reporters
Pens and Pencils.

IGuS anu IGuIllSs
The continued advance in the price Of
meats will, no doubt be an incentive for
our Catawissa Valley farmers to go into
the cattle raising business. If the farmers
would convert some of their cheap wheat |
into fat cattle they would get more money |
for their wheat and consumers would get |
cheaper beef, and all parties would be
benefited by the operation. This, of |
course, is upon the supposition that the |
advance in beef is caused by a scarcity of |
fat cattle and not by a corner got up for |
the sole benefit of the beef trust. Mean |
while the best way to compel reduction |
in the price of beef is for consumers, for |
the time being, to use more of the product |
of cheap wheat and other cereals and less |
high priced beef The vegetable diet will |
be quite as nutritious for most people, |
and little popular abstinence on this |
score will bring down the price of beef |
whatever the cause Of its advance. The |
beef producers and dealers, Wholesale and |
retail, grow and handle beef to sell, and |
if people won't pay exorbitant prices they
will eventually get it at their own price
The rise in beef has hardly come to stay,
certainly not if beef consumers display a
little common business prudence.
An exchange says if you want your town
toimprove, improve it. Just so, and If you
want to make your town lively, make it
So Don't go to sleep but get up and
work for it, talk about it and talk favor
ably. If you have property improve it,
paint your house, clean up your alleys
and back yards. Make your surround
ings pleasant and you will feel better and
your property will be worth more in the
market. If you are doing reasonably
good advise your friends to come and
invest near you. Work for your home
interests, trade at home; help your
dealers keep your money at home as
much as possible andit is likely to help
you in return. The successful towns have
been made by property owners holding
together. Public improvement is an in
vestment that pays. Don't waste your
time over dirty quarrels and hold back
your aid for good objects through spite,
but work for some good and you will find
yourself benefited.
Corporal James Tanner suggests that
a fund be raised to test the ruliBg of
Pension Commissioner Lochren on
which 10000 Union pensioners have been
dropped from the rolls in order to make
a nice showing of a reduction-which
has already amounted to S25, 900, ,000-to
the injury of the men who sacrificed their
health that the Union might he preserved,
Corporal Tanner was shGmefully abused
by the Harrison administration on account
of his work in the interest of soldiers
while Commissioner of Pensions. He il
the man who first discovered the fact that
a two dollar pension is not enough tC
support an old soldier. He raised pen
sions of that kind, for the reason, as hi
gave it, that pensioner who ought moi
to have more than two dollars month
ought not to have anything. Under hi
rulings in favor of the men who furnished
the muscle for the army the pension ex
penditures increased, and this brought
the opposition of the men who furnished
the money. AS a common, though very
unpatriobic result. the money won, anC
Corporal Tanner was ouste6 from hi
office. He was not ousted from hi
place in the hearts and affections of thu
old soldiers, and their wives and children
who have had cause TO bless him for his
work in their behalf The principle hi
advocated has been put into law, and nj
pension less than $6 is granted.