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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-02-28

LuG UCdlu Vi 01IS. AUGUSTUS w llSO0.
youngest daughter of Genus Barnum, of Bal
timore, at the Convent of the Visitation in this
city, on Tuesday morning last, after but
fewdays illness, has cast a gloom over our en-
tire community; to the many friends of the
deceased, the unexpected intelligence has
produced the deepest and most heartfelt
sorrow, for although comparatively stran-
ger in our midst, we feel sure that few, if
any of our people, have been able to sur
round themselves with truer or better
friends, during the several years of her
bright and happy life in our midst. About
two weeks ago. Mrs. Wilson came from her
home near Urbana, to be near, and look
after her two little girls, who were i'll at
the school of the Academy of the Visitation
in this city. The little sufferers were on a
sure road to recovery, owing to the moth
er's loving care, supplemented by the kind
and ever watchful attention of the good
Sisters, when on Friday last she contracted
a violent cold, which developed into pneu-
monia, and on Tuesday morning, just
after midnight, the final summons came.
Mr. Wilson was a constant attendant
during the last hours of his wife's illness.
ms was also Rev. Father Barnum, brother of
the deceased, and other relatives. Every
attention that love and affection could sug-
gest, were tenderly bestowed by ready
hands and loving hearts, but without avail
In grief less profound, we feel sure, the
sympathy expressed by every one, would
be solace and a comfort to the afflicted
husband and the three little girls, who are
so soon bereft of mothers guiding hand.
On Wednesday afternoon, services were
held in the beautiful chapel of the Convent,
and were conducted by Rev. Father o.
Rourke. The remains were taken to Balti-
more on the afternoon train. A Requiem
Mass was celebrated at L0yola Church yes
terday morning, after which the interment
m0unA
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-02-28

No. IS n. MARKET STREET.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-02-28
GEO. A. GILBERT.

EIDELTrY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF
Il MARYLAND
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-02-28

The simple character of argon is
proven, according to Lord Rayleigh,
by the fiual results Of the many exper-
inents that have been made to deter
mine its density. His determination
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
Z THE RUSH TO ALASKA.
1t Resembles the influx Into California in
1s49 and Has Only just Begun,

(brom the Tacoma, Wash, Ledger.
When William H. Seward purchased
Alaska for 81, 200, 900 in 1867 he had little
idea that within 30 years that territory
would produce more gold in a single year
than the price paid for it by Uncle Sam.
Yet such is liable to be the case, for the
yield of gold for the present season is es-
timated by some as high as 81, 900, 600 to
S., GOO. 600. The development of Alaska's
mining resources has only commenced.
Mining men who have been to that ooun-
try say that it is not ut all improbable
will produce $780, 900, 600 in gold year.
7 he increase ia the production will be
gradual, Of course. Some think that as
many as 5000 miners will be taking gold
from the sands which line scores of
creeks, rivers and inlets throughout the
length and breadth of Alaska this year.
The number promises to be as large as
this If the hundreds Of miners and pros
pectors desiring to go Can find the means
of getting there. The spring rush to
Alaska is unparalleled, though the rush
to California in 1840 was something like
it, 1t is believed by many that this ex-
odus will be blessing to the Pacific
coast. 1t is taking out many men who
have been looking for work and starting
their energies in new direction which
is pretty sure To be remunerative. A fair
portion of their earnings is sure to come
into the United States at once in pay-
ment for the supplies which the miners
must have, and business in all lines will
thus be stimulated. Already large sum
Of money in the aggregate has been ex-
pended by the prosYectoTs in getting
their outfits together.
For two months past the transportation
lines between Puget Sound and Alaska
haYe been taxed TO their utmost. just
now the rush is at its height and pas
sengers are left behind when each steam
er sails. On each trip the cabin floors
are leased out for sleeping purposes, and
cots are spread even in the dining rooms
The mining development now going on
in Alaska may be divided into three
great districts: First, the Yukon basin,
to which a great majority of the miners
rushing in are going Second, the quartz
mining operations in progress in Doug.
lass island, in the Silver Bow basin and
other quartz camps about Juneau, to-
gether with similar operations in prog
ress on many islands skirting the cast for
several hundred miles to the northwest of
Juneau. Third, the Cooks inlet dis
trict thousand miles northwest Of
juneau and Sitka.
In the quartz mines along the coast over
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
CURRENT COMMENT.
MR.. REED NOT GOING TO RETIRl
Washington correspondent of the Spring
field Republican,

washington correspondent of the Spring
field Republican,
An unqualified denial is made by
Speaker Reeds friends of the report that
he proposes retiring from public life
at the close of his present term and en-
gaging in the practice Of law i'll New
York. The story was published in Wash
ington last week and was telegraphed to
a number of out of-town papers. Mr..
Reeds friends declare there is no basis
for the report, as Mr.. Reed is entirely
satisfied with his legislative work and
would not resign it for many times the
income it yields him. AS Speaker OF
the House, he draws salary of $4,000.
which is $1,000 in excess of that drawn
by other members Of the House and the
equal Of that which the vice-presidont
receives. Moreover. he probably will
continue to hold office in the next Con-
gress.
Six years ago. Reed seriously contem-
plated a retirement to private life. He
was filled with the desire common to
most public men who are not rich, ito
engage in the practice of law and accum-
ulate a fortune. Had he done so, he
would have selected New York city1as the
base of his operations, and he would have
doubtless have been successful While
he is known generally as brilliant de-
DdUoE anu buo AIepupllcttH icdtt6f III blle
House, he is also lawyer of excellent
ability and held high rank at the
Maine Bar. He saw the success which
ex-senator Roscoe Conkling had made
and he believed that gratifying sue
cess also awaited him. 1t was represented
to him, however, that he would be COM
PEELED necessarily to severe his oonnec-
tions with his Maine friends and that
whatever success might await him at a
ha a Oh
safe him for the sacrifice he would make
in cutting loose from his old associa-
tions and burying himself in n large city,
whore he would be only one of hundreds
of men of ability; whereas in Maine he
was, with one or two exceptions, easily
the most prominent man in the state.
The force of this reasoning appealed to
him SO strongly that be abandoned the
intention and has never since seriously
considered it,
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
more ABOUT SILVER

The letter from the Hon. George f.
Talbot elsewhere published, is in large
part but restatement of old arguments
and facts, or more properly alleged facts,
for many things therein assumed to be
settled facts. are vigorously disputed.
Mr.. Talbot says he has seen no serious
reply to the contention that the fall Of
prices which has taken place since 1878 has
been due to silver decentralization. That
is either because he has
not looked for any or be-
cause he has happy faculty of regard
ing anything that makes against his
theories as not serious. In his work On
"Recent Economic Changes" Mr. David
A. Wells accounts for the fall of all
staple articles that have really declined
since 1873 by new inventions and in
creased facilities for producing or trans
porting the same, and his explanation is
quite as plausible and satisfying as Mr.
Talbot's claim that all prices have fallen
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

$347 Dividing the aggregate value
all the products of manufacturing and
mechanical industries by the number of
employees engaged therein, the quotent
is 1865, showing that the average pro-
duct per employee was 81, 965. Now,
sB47 Is l77 per cent of the gross receipts
OF the per capita product, stated, leaving
balance. of course, OF 49,. 8 per cent, or
81, 6l8, which the originator of the state
ment quoted above goes to the employer
The 81. per cent of the total product, or
81. 615 per capita, covers all the expenses
of production, cost of materials, misoel-
laneous items, profit, deterioration, inter-
est, everything in fact, which can be
counted as cost Of production other than
wages;
Talking the eleventh census, that for
1890, it is found that the value of the
gross product per capita for the number
of employees engaged in manufacturing
and mechanical industries was SO, 2O4,
and the average annual wages per en-
ployee, computed for 1890 as already COM
puted for 1880, was $44b, The writer of
the statement quoted above would assume
for the eleventh census, that while
$40 was paid to labor, 81, $50 went to the
employer AS matter of fact, of the
total product per capita, 90 is per cent
went to labor, 55. 0S per cent for materials
aud "a. "a per cent to miscellaneous expen-
SEES salaries, interest, profits, etc.
The facts here pointed out-that the
average wages by factory employees rose
from SS47 in 1880 to $445 in 1890, and then
the value of the annual report of their
labor rose from 1895 per capita in 1880
to so, 2C4 per capita in 1S9O-disposes of
one favorite argument of the silyerites
against the maintenance of the gold
standard. Not only is labor better paid
than it was in 1890, but its product
of lower prices; and, consequently, the
workingman both gets more dollars for
his work and more of the fruits of that
work for his dollars.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
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The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

because of law passed in 1878 which
did nothing but legally recognize
what was really an existing fact, for the
silver dollar practically ceased to exist
as monetary factor in this country
when the 10 to ratio was adopted IN 1884.
From that time on it was worth more
than the gold dollar and disappeared
from circulation. 1t is a curious fact
that though there are now great many
thousand people in this country who are
perfectly sure that all the ills that
the country has suffered since 1878 are
due to the decentralization act of that
year, not single man, not even Mr..
Talbot himself who was alive and we'll at
that time and quite as much interested
in public affairs as now, suspected in 1873
that this act was loaded. Never, until
many years after when silver had begun to
fall, did it occur to anybody that this
act was fraught with mischief. But
when silver fell it became the fashion
to claim that the decline was due
to this act and to charge that it had been
passed surreptitiously and rs the result of
a conspiracy among certain wicked and
long headed persons who knew that the
act was loaded and kept dark about it.
If we are not very much mistaken all the
ills that Mr.. Talbot now lays to the de-
monetization of silver he was accustomed
to attribute. not many year ago, to our
protective tariff. Free trade used to be
his panacea. now it is free silver, and he
Is no more certain now of the efficacy of
the latter than he was once of that of
the former.
Prices of all the staple articles have
fallen since 1873, says Mr.. Talbot, and
be appears TO regard this as dreadful
calamity. But is this after all calam-
ity? IL cheap food and cheap clothing a
calamity to the masses of the psople2
The report of the Senate committee in
1893 showed that almost all the necessa-
ries of life had steadily declined while
wages had steadily advanced. Assume
that this condition was brought about
by the gold standard, as Mr.. Talbot says,
will he or anybody else declare that
it is a condition inimcai to the welfare
anu prosperity OF Jne masses Oh Gne peO-
pie, and that the cause that produced
it was set in operation by wicked and
grasping men? Assume that
free silver coinage by this ooun-
try will increase the prices of
staple articles by diminishing the pur-
chasing power of the dollar.-and that is
the only way in which it can do twill
Mr.. Talbot or anybody else declare that
in consequence?
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

Apparently Mr.. Talbot thinks it is a
matter of no consequence how much or
how little bullion there is in the dollar
provided il has been fixed by law as p
legal tender Talk about 80 cent dollars
is irrelevant, he says. From 1884 to 1873
there was bullion enough in our silver
dollar to make it worth little more than
the gold dollar. 1t was stamped by the
government, however, one dollar, and it
was legal tender for only dollar. Yet
people soon discovered that it was worth
more as commodity than as money and
it passed out of circulation in Gonse-
quenoe. Its bullion value became a
factor of SO much consequence that it
practically excluded it from circulation.
If an exuess of bullion value is of so great
consequence is not deficiency likely to
be of some consequence also? If what the
government sees fit to call thing is going
to fix its value why can not the govern
ment take piece of paper and call that
dollar, and why would it not be better
to adopt paper instead of silver which is
expensive to get and to ooinF If the
stamp determines the value of the dollar
why are the silver men claiming that the
gold dollar is equal to dollar and a
quarter? 1t is stamped simply one dollar.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
THEIR ONLY HOPE.
Boston Transcript.

Carlisle says in his letter that the fail
ure or success of his party in the presi
Dental election, 'as we'll as its capacity
for useful service to the country in the
future depends upon the position 1t
takes or omits to take upon the public
questions now engaging the attention of
the people End especially the questions
affecting tho monetary system of the
country and the character and amount of
taxation to be imposed upon our citi-
zens." Mr.. Carlisle seldom looks upon
the dark side of financial or public
questions, but he evidently doesn't think
that the case is altogether hopeless for
the Democratic party, provided it has
sense enough-whioh is doubtful-to de-
clare fol sound money.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

rhe decision of the New York court of
appeals thai the Raines law does not ap-
ply to clubs will not tend to popularize
that measure. The poor man who finds
the saloon closed against him SO that he
can not get drink gets good deal of
consolation out Of the fact
that the rich man has to go
dry at his club, and 1t keeps him from
doing good deal Of kicking which he
would otherwise indulge in.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

Looked at from the standpoint of his
own personal interest probably the best
thing that could happen to the mission
airy would be to be excluded from Asiatic
Turkey. While he remains there he is in
constant danger Of losing his life or
having his house burned over his head
Oh being robbed or having something else
disagreeable happen to him.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

IL has been discovered that the Raines
law strikes severe blow to the cheese
making industry of New York state.
Cheese was one of the thirst producin g
agencies of the free lunch counter and
with the abolition Of the latter the de-
mand for the former is greatly cut down.
1t is to be feared that the law will be
less popular in the country after this dis
coyery gets abroad.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
Fasting and PRAYER.

The Christian people of our State, during
its long and brilliant history, have cherished
by absta lining from all unnecessary labor,
and invoking, amid the surroundings of the
home and in places of public worship, the
blessings of Heaven upon our Country, our
State and her institutions; and by inculcat-
ing the principles of righteousness, OF truth,
Of amity and peace.
This reyered and time honored custom, es-
OF preservation and continuance; and may
the day have appropriate recognition and be
observed in BETTING manner by all the
people of our commonwealth.
Gwen at the Executive Chamber, in Au-
gusta, this sixth day of April, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-six, and of thet
Independence of the United States o.
America the One hundred and TWEEN
tieth.
IIT,a-oN 1, (Hr u VIC
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

TIE Hon. William Z. Russells Presi-
Dental boom is getting little acoelera-
tion from the Boston Democratic eau
cuses. Secretary Olney appears to have
been forgotten
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

= "Monev to Loan on Personal Proper
ty." It's sign in staring letters in the
window OF Lewiston gin mill should
set ids patrons to thinking. Lewiston
Journal.
Then there really is such thing as a
rum shop in Lewiston.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
EX-PREsIDENT HARRISON.
(Boston Herald. }

1t is well understood in political circles
now that Benjamin Harrison is oandi-
dacy for the presidency. His position is
unique in this relation. He has no bu-
reau of operations, for he has had no
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

Pursuing their policy of claiming
everything the Mckinley managers are
now claiming Senator Quay. 1t is IN
founded but no more unfounded than a
great many other of their claims, however.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
FOR SILVER MEN TO PONDER.
lNew York SUM-

An interesting comparison between the
average wages paid in 1880 to persons en-
ployed in manufacturing and mechanical
industries of this country, and those paid
in 1890, is made by Commissioner Carroll
d. Wright in recent bulletin of the
Department. of Labor. Mr. Wright's pri-
mary purpose is to rsfute fallacious state
ment, which he quotes, and which has
obtained considerable circulation, that
the employer gets an excessive share of
the fruits of labor, but, incidental to this.
he gives the information we mention.
His figures are these:
ss"f the aggregate wages paid in the
manufacturing and mechanical ind ustries
of the United States, as shown by the
census of 1880, be divided by the total
number of employees to whom the wages
were paid, the quUtient will be 347, thus
determining the average wages paid to
the employees in the manufacturing and
mechanical industries Of the country az
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
THE PRESS.
tn URSDAy. APRIL 9.
STATE OF MAINE.
BY HENRY B. CLEAEs, GOVERNOR.
A PROCLAMATION.

By the adviceAof the Executive Council,
Thursday, the twenty third day of April, is
designated as a day of
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09

need of 1T. He is simply waiting for the
plum of the nomination to drop into
mis- mouth. In the mean time, if he has
any anxiety on the point, it is obsoured
by the fact that other affairs of more
Immediate interest engrosses his mind.
He is married to an attractive woman,
and while other candidates are worrying
he can forget everything of that nature
in the enjoyment Of the honeymoon.
He is of rather advanced age to enter
with youthful delight upon its more
romantic features, but that an aged lover
is often very happy one the world has
furnished many instances. We doubt if
any candidate for President ever had
quite so much to occupy his attention
in other directions while his case was in
doubt. or SO much to afford him consola-
ton in the event that it shall be decided
against him.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
HENRY B. CLEAVES.

By the Governor.
NICHOLAS FESSENDEN, Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-09
ADJUSTMENTS.

ALBERT GARNER, Champion of France
and Belgium.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-27
COUNTRY PRODUCE MARKETS.


BEANS AND PEAS-There was quiet )obbins traue III
oil ktnas Of domestic beans but the market ~ WIZ. ha
90 ~ inheritance either In tone or price MOS. on e
hs, lots OF Marrow held at 81 10 and choice req u
~ a. o. hut those figures have been shaded IN Iew
instances during the week. Medium are iahrt nril rs
,,snoson 10 ask little than VI III IN some arts
p1",,ng n, ri 10 other varieties Arm. Green peas
are showing further slight advance we auer' a Wv,
domestic marrow. choice per busn 81 s,as a. 49, d
medium and pea 81 TO- do white kidney sss s aS r Go
Ldnsv III 22isftt % do. turtle SCUM VI t'nsa 20
sow eve 81 2OdSi 22it; lima California " Sousi ~
green peas 1890 bags. 75a77lsc do Scotch oo SOC III"
BI'TTER-Recelps to-day were not heavy ana included
about OpO tubs export direct Shipments from the
West There rather more interest than usua Tor Sa
dev md fair trading fancy goods on the basis OF 1u
iac very generally the latter figure As rule receivers
to carry rather than accept less tan
1ec believing that will be the current rate on Monday
High grade hrsts have sympathzed little with sales ny
to and hrss unimproved The finest OF the
June creamery Is arm at io,yo No quotabe change In
ftate dairy n little steader feeling high grades
Imitation creamery remains dull Factory II nrm the
movement reducing the stock here OF both
fresh and June make. Exports for the week about
800 rkgs We quote: Creamery. Western extras m
IsiSniGc ania 15ac; do. hrss lao
l5c; thirds to seconds iiaI3c do June make extras
seconds rsts. f2i.d6c do State dairy. half
nrkn tubs extras 1igi4sc: DO Welsh tubs. extras lee: