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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
An HONORABLE TRADE.
Borrowing and Lending Both All
Right If Honestly Done.

SDon't let us confuse this business Of
borrowing and lending by our little pri-
vate prejudices. / like to have the grocer
furnish me with suitable food because I
want to keep my present weight and fine
ness. (Aplause.) But l don't have any
feeling or personal satisfaction when I
pay the bill. l like to have my tailor
clothe me, and yet l hesitate little bit,
not permanently. but l hesitate a little
bit, about paying. Nevertheless 1 shall so
on, and you will, buying food and clothing,
and really 1t is just as much for my ad-
vantage as 1t is for the advantage of the
grocer and tailor Hence we keep up
pleasant relations, but the bills are really
never pleasant.
Now, if 1 want money, nobody comes
to take me by the throat and forces 1t
on me. You have noticed that. ZAP
plause) They never do. You have to
agree to terms that are suitable to them
if you want their money. That is perfect
ly natural, because money is pretty valu-
able.
"If you have a thousand dollars that
thousand dollars has the Dotentiality OF
a house, the potentiality of so many BUSH
els of wheat. the potentiality of so many
pounds of beef, the potentialty of every
thing in the world. For, as Carlisle says:
When a man has sixpencc, the world Is
his slave to the extent of six-Deflce.'
"But when you have used your $1,000
and bought house with it. the potential
ity Is gone. You have got to wait until
man comes round that wants. not only
a house. but just that house at your price,
else YOU can't have the $1,000 back again.
"Hence a man is not gofnE to let you
have money. unless he thinks he Is going
to get it back. Tom Reed at Portland.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
HEN.HEADED VOTERS.

'T remember to have spoken here four
years AGO and | remember the difference
between that meeting and this. Everybody
was prosperous and everybody was will
ing to stay at home and let somebody else
do the political work. The result was
you know it without my telling you. Our
Democratic friends came up here and
told the farmers that you were poor, down.
trodden. God-forsaken people, and that
you sold your wheat too cheap. Then they
came down into this town and into Chica-
90 and told us We were awfully urfor-
tunate, that we were down-trodden. and
that we paid too much for things you sold
too cheap. daughter and applause.) And
We believed it, We were just n-headed
enough to believe it. Daughter.) l say
man is hen-headed when you can fool
him twice with the same trick."-Con-
yressman w Il, Mason,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12

Of buying coal Oil. On passing the
meatshops we stop to inquire prices.
and find rib beef and mutton worth IS
cents a pound; pork. 20 cents. and scrap
meat for soup, 10 to IL cents. We will
certainly cultivate a soup diet.
TWO PRICES FOR CLOTHING.
With the conviction forced upon us
that in time We would surely be COM
PEELED to buy clothes, we went shop
ping one day. to find how much a sill
yer dollar would buy in that line. OF
course, all the imported materials, ana
by far the greater part of these stocks
are imported. were little more than
double the foreign price, with the duty
and transportation added; but even the
domestic manufactured goods were out
of all proportion to what the man earns
who must buy them. The least eXpen-
sive cotton goods. that We could or
would wear, cost "a cents a 'Vara,
and from that On up to 40 cents. Mus
lin, for underwear. IS cents ''vara" IL
of narrow width, to 35 cents when
wider, and of better quality, such as
the ordinary Lonsdale muslin with us,
which would bring the simplest gar
ments up to very respectable figure
for $75 salary. One could not help
but wonder how the very poor are even
partly clad in the rags we find them in.
On going to the plaza" or market,
where all the ''peans" do their buying,
and where the cheapest of all things
are sold, the bottom price on cotton
goods was 3 cents a 'vara" for an un-
bleached muslin, so poor as be scarce
ly worth making up. The next grades
were IL and 10 cents, which would be
much more economical in the end.
The cheapest calicoes We're II cents a
"vara" and of the coarsest quality i'm
aginable.
And again we wondered, how does
the day laborer. on 81 cents a day. keep
himself, wife and children covered with
either muslin or calico at these prices?
OF the vast army Of household SER
wants the women receive "a a month
and the men about S.. The street car
driver makes Is cents a day, the con-
ductor 81, and the average Mexican
clerk, in store or office, $50 to $50 a
month. A man on 500 salary has n
bonanza that he clings to for lifetime.
If salaries and prices We're on any
thing like equal ratio, free coined Sill
yer dollars would doubtless be as ac-
ceptable as any other kind of exchange.
but after twelve months experience
with them, on the most economical
basis, one finds there is very little left
for n rainy day. A. c.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
TRAMPS MAY HAVE KILLED HER,
Wife of an Illinois Editor Lost in a
Mysterious Manner.

Aurora, ILL.,, Aug. 11.-Frank Marley,
editor and proprietor of the Batavia,
ILL.,, Herald, is completely Frustrated by
the mysterious Disappearance of his
wife, who left her home Thursday morn
ing. and has not been seen since. Until
yesterday Mr.. Marley supposed that she
was with her parents in Plano, as she
had intended attending the harvest pic
mic in that city Thursday.
1t has since been discovered that she
started toward Aurora on her wheel
Thursday morning. probably to take
the Plano train at Aurora. Her friends
fear she was overcome by the heat and
wandered off, or was foully dealt with.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
An Art COnnOisseur.

Madame goes with her maid to purchase
a still-life picture of her dining room. She
selects at the picture-dealer's painting
representing a bouquet of flowers. with a
pie cut into, and a half-penny roll. She
paid 500 francs for the lot.
Madame" whispered the bonne, "you
have made a bad bargain, let me tell you.
! saw picture like that sold for 400
francs"
"And was 1t as good as this one?'
"Of course, 1t was; there was lot more
pie!-Moniteur Oriental
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
WORKING AN OLD DODGE.

"An old man that used to know used
20 soil his shirt front constantly in the
course of five or six weeks-Qaughter)-
and then he wore. in old-fe shioned days,
n dickey. ard when the old man put that
on you knew that the shirt below was not
clean, Our Democratic friends have
soiled in four years the fronts of their
shirts with free trade, with the repeal of
the doctrine OF reciprocity. and now they
are trying to cover it up with free silver
dickey. y."-Congressman W. Z. Mason.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
THE DAY OF SILVER
HAS GONE FAR BY
So Says One Of the Most Careful of
American Economists.
THE REASONS FOR SlLVER'S DlSUSE
Head of the Political Science Depart.
ment in Columbia College Says That
Money.

New York, Aug 11.-ProfessHr John
w. Burgess, dean of the school of po-
litical science at Columbia college. now
at his summer residence at Montpelier,
VT, has written an able and concise
statement of the silver question to Solo
mon NJ. Strook, of 62 and "a William
street, in reply to a letter asking for
light. The statement is the result of
careful and studious consideration of
the subject. and will be read with inter-
est. 1t is as follows:
"Bimetallisnl, in the sense of the full
and equal legal tender power of two
metals, is impossible, and only the
federation of the world upon that
subject can make it possible. In the
present condition of the world, you must
choose between the gold or the silver
standard. You cannot have both. We
have been a gold standard nation for
more than half a century. The act of
1878 only records in the statue book
what has existed as a fact for nearly
forty years.
THE change from a gold to silver
standard now would, in my opinion, be
one of the greatest disasters that has
ever befallen this country. l think the
first effect Of it, at the ratio proposed,
would be prompt and tremendous con-
traction of the currency. The whole
5000 COO, 600 of gold would disappear. and
it would be a physical impossibillty to
replace it, even nominally, with silver
in ten years.
PERIL FOR THE NATION.
'Jf the Democrats or Populists win
the control of the government next No
vember they can pass no law until
year later, unless summoned to extra
session of congress, and that cannot be
done for five months. That is, our for
eign creditors will have from five
months to years notice to collect
their debts in gold. Before the end of
that period there would not be gold
dollar left in the country; and when the
silverites should take up the reins they
would find themselves confronted by
this enormous contraction of the crcu-
lating medium, and would. without
doubt. try to meet it by printing green
backs. pure fiat money.
such q change would make the mid
die and lower classes suffer for the
benefit of the rich. The rich man holds
property; is, on the whole. a seller and
a debtor. The poor man holds little or
10 property; is, on the whole, buyer
and a creditor. With fiat money, in
part or in full, property rises. products
become dearer, and the debtor pays in
cheaper money. The mistake usually
made in reasoning on this subject is in
considering the poor to be debtors. Re
cause the poor man holds little or no
property he | '~srded as a debtor.
This is a great.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
A Question of Environment

"Do you mean to assert" said the man
who gets excited over politics, that your
candidate is better man than mne?'
1T all depends on circumstances was
the cautious reply. I'm willing to give
every man credit for some superiority. IL
you get 'em side by side in an experience
meeting during revival l guess mebbe
you'd have the best of it. But when 1t
comes to primary caucus my man 'ud
have you showed under in no time.''-
Washing ton Star.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
The Other Side oft.

Father-"To write on paper with a real
crest on 1t. to parade at tie dinners
where sycophants are fed. to give money
to a man whom you secretly loathe, but
have married because he is a so-called no
bleman-bah! Do you call that happi-
ness?'
Daughter-"But think how unhappy I
would be IL didn't get him."-New York
Herald.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
HAS FOURTEEN WIVES LIVING.
New York Man Taken to the TOmbs
to COgitntc on His Condition.

New York, Aug, 11-George Meyers.
alias Miller alias Mufiier, alias Auer,
has Schwartz. was released from the
penitentiary this morning and taken to
the Tombs, where he will await trial
on numerous charges of bigamy, which
have been brought against him. Here
Is list of his living and undivorced
wives, all Of this city:
Minnie Papke, Pauline Pollach,
Lizzie Auer, Marie Schiller,
Anna Ficken. Mrs. Schipperle,
Clara Huber. iWilhelmina Schaef-
Kate Huber, fer,
Mrs. Kamittes, Lena Schmidt,
Frieda Keiffer, Carrie Schwartz.
Josephine Krauss,
Meyer, who is about so years Of age,
made practice of marrying women
who had a little money. After robbing
them he would look for rev victims.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
Why Free CoI|0ge Would Prove Disastrous


gold weighs 2s grains which
dollar weighs 425 grains
Of which silver remainder
alloy The silver silver
hence the ratio between metals that is
the weight the silver weight the gold
dollar coins
peends the right Of silver bullion to take the
the mint receiving therefor free mintage cost for each i25
grains be
public private
On basis
value of the civilized 81 @
bullion worth today grains of bull
lion commercial
ment pledged to
all issued under its authority such
of the main
country gold having to be obtained abroad order uphold
the millions of silver
parity with gold While the maintains such parity Is
not question of intrinsic The free and unlimited
coinage silver
measurement of
Ing OF the S grains silver dollar to be from and sill
ne IN this any country In effect the United States called
upon to mpart monetary nearly twice
commodity commercial or bullion value
its money value
Of the
gold dollar but the gold coin counted at or 100 cents every
OF countries silver
basis where premium The silver dollar its in
trnsc bullion merits but few So 1t Is
proposed that legislation shall almost double value
meanwhile making gold dollar
in performing monetary u Reliance placed on the supposed effect
which the adoption of the bullion value
silver s
States its readiness dollar for ~
grains of silver the value of the latter become dollar in spite
alone and unaiaed this government by flat
the actual of the commodity silver AS this
country will stand ready coin all silver matter
was mined the contention is that the monetary value thereby i'm
parted will become the world will
follow. A money
possible by
the thirty
insist the
bought
to the yard he might benefit selling
the In this coinage
would accomplhe complete acknowledgements favored
against the body people,
confusion Of trade
of the OF
coinage Of silver the 16 ratio defined
metal by constitution
when they claimed demonetzed
the metal silver before the socald crime 1s73
lion in the dollar
modify a
No
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
An American Hustler.

Senator Brice is great society man
and Ion hunter, isn't hep
II should say So If we were to go to
war. he would have all the enemy's gen.
erals to dinner the first day that hostii-
ties broke out."-Truth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
After the Battle.

He-'well, know one girl that is willing
to marry me-
she-"why. you'd make good detec-
tive."-LifA .,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12

elsewhere Con-
privilege which value and which at that
time likely continue Up to 1873 only
ssoOooo 1879 the total
$780,
production years particularly
the hafdozen the commodity hrun
leading their and
this country had repeal the Sherman law The
strain Of maintaining parity between gold and the immensely in
creased product of silver on the ratio was too great ard has
evils depressed
business The coinage of the metal dead letter long before
debtor GLASS; which,
by debts deprecated would the from
provide
sell wheat bushe be fulfilled Of
thirty bushels the total product
product Silver
deprecated owing increased supply Three hundred and seventy
today instead O3 in lS7S the proposition
a duty-o
standard of Is
silver monometasm and simple and that just what free and
unimitd coinage Of silver at 1G to literally
free coinage would
and in settlement of international
would have be purchased at whatever premium the times demanded
The in things
exported the
chande than Imported exported also sSooOo gold
than we imported The heavy liquidation by foreign holders Amer
can securities by
our going silver basis responsible great for this
anomaly To of disturbing
year just
imports
it be considered
est creditor class in the Countrywide
millions Of
represent dollars deposited
the bone snew the
the creditors who suffer from dishonest dolae and
thrift enabled
small interest (which
a of Of
reputation of initiation and
securities Of the
stocks represents their ALL
As to the effect adoption
flat value standard would bring initiation
might
would
fence has proved and this fundamental
that decline
will get he afford
workingmen
ment neparabe the
him
such period of initiation the abong would
milestone.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
Senatorial Courtesies.

First Senator-'I am always strongest in
opposition"
Second Senator-"Yes. your greatest
speeches have been against timer-Trath.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-12
FOOD PRICES HIGH.

But carpets, and even wardrobes. are
1uxuries we can do without with smil-
Ing countenances. provided we have
enough to eat and something to wear.
So we put aside ambitio- at the same
time we put on our has and go out to
supply our larder. We choose a small
"tienda" on a side street, and with a
Mexican friend as interpreter, ask for
coffee-but the price staggers us-6O
cents pound! Why the man Is crazy,
ne Is Imposing on us-this is the land of
coffee and one of the chief products of
the country! We demonstrate, ask him
why 1t is?" and he blandly tells us the
foreign market fixes the price. So we
take one pound, with the reflection that
weak coffee Is certainly less harmful
for the nerves, and it will without doubt
last twice as long. We next price but
ter. "The best?' Eyes, certainly"
Seventy-five cents, and the price never
varies. We decide the best Is far too
expensive for our silver dollars, and in
quire for something good, but without
the superlative degree, in "centavos,"
and are finally provided with a pound
OF unsalted butter for Sc cents, the
cheapest article in the market, with the
price ranging between so and 60 cents
the year round.
Ham and bacon, we learn, are for the
rich only, selling for Sc cents a pound,
and lard at "a cents a pound. We ac-
cordingly drop them from our bill of
fare. Bread costs II cents a loaf, and
the ordinary French roll 2 cents apiece.
The loaf is small and proves by future
experience to be insufficient for two peo-
pie three times a day, so that to keep
the bread limit at IL cents we develop
a fondness for rolls. Milk is more rea-
sonable and sells for 10 cents quart, or
16 cents a quart. The 10-cent quality is
water and milk, that for 16 cents quart
Is milk and water-the distinction is not
made. of course, but there is milk and
milk here. just as there is in all other
countries.
We are discouraged, but are reminded
az We leave the store that night is COM
Ing, on. and Mexico, with all its pros
perity, has not reached the point Of gas
or electric light, except for the main
business portions of the city-and our
lamp must be filed. We go back, and
after much discussion, purchase quart
glass bottle for cents and have It filled
with "petrolio" for IL cents, ana we later
discover this to be quite the usual way
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-04-04
Glass Wool and Its Uses.

Glass wool is ono of the best ILL.,
tering materials. 1t is quite equal in
many respects to filters made Of as
bestus. AS a packing for conduit
pipes for hot aoidified vapors or liq.
uids, as we'll as nonoonductors Of
heat, glass wool, worked into thread
weaves or felt, serves excellently for
packing rings, washers and SO forth
around high pressure boilers in can.
die factories. In fact, it is used for
almost any purpose where packing
is required which will resist the
chemical action of acid liquids or
vapors, as well as heat. 1t is made
either in straight or curled wool and
can 10 felted or woven. Its chemical
constituents can be varied to meet
almost any requirement in chemical
science.--Philadelphia Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-04-04
SNAP SHOTS.

The deacon's son was telling the
minister about the bees singing his
pa, and the minister inquired:
"Stung your pa, did they? Well,
what did your pa say"
Boy-Step this way moment.
I'd rather whisper it to you.
1t is not miracle. 1t went cure every
thing, but it will cnre piles. That's what
DE Witt, wi CHI Hazel Salve will do, be-
cause it has done it in HUNDREDS OF cAscr.
A. b. Morgan, Wood>tork; Scott Tink-
ham, Qucchcc; l.. j. M. Marcy, TnttsvlIl".
II suppose it's all understood be-
tween George and Clara;' SITS as
we'll understood as it ever will be.
She lisps, and he suffers, and
they're both Il little deaf. '-[Chicago
Tribune.
a little i'll, then Il little pill. The i'll is
aone, the pill has won. De Wits Little
Early Risers the little pills that cure great
Ills. A. b. Morgan, Woodstock; Scott
Tinh ham. Quechee; l. j. NJ, Marcy, Tafts-
Vile.
A Western editor tells what he
would do If he were Il jackass. A
rival journalist remarks that what
people would like to know is, what
he would do if he wasn't one.
Burns are absolutely painless when Dc
Witt, Witch Hazel Silve is promptly APP
plled This statement is true. A pclfec;
remedy for skin DISEASES. chapped hands
and lips, aud never fails to cure Piles.
A. b. MulguI, Woodstock Scott Tmk
ham, o.. cn.c; L. j. NJ. Marcy, Tattsvi ILL.,
This world would be devoid of cares,
A resting place, where all is nice,
If coal would only come up stairs
AS smoothly as it does ill price.
Washington Post,
Take Il dose of De Wits Little Early
Rscrs j 'st for the good they will do y,u.
These little Pills are good for indig, stion,
good for headache. good for LIVER COM
piain.. good for constipation. They are
good. a Morgan, Woodstock; Scott
TInkham, Quechce; l.. NJ. Marcy, rafts.
vile.
A fat French lady despairingly
says: 81 am so fat that | pray for a
disappointment to make me thin, but
no sooner does the disappointment
come than the joy at the prospect of
getting thin makes me fatter than
ever Tit-Bits.
We might tell you more abont One
Minute Cough Cure, but you probably
know that il cures cough. livery one
doe. who has used it. 1t is Il perfect REM
ody for coughs, colds, hourseness. Il J.,
an especial favorite for children, being
pleasant to take and quick in curing. A.
b. Morgan, Woodstock; Scotr Tinkh ham,
Qut chez; l.. J. NJ. Marcy, Taft.vile.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-04-04
Very Early IN the Field.

The widow who informed the
sutton upon returning from the burial
of her late husband that he was too
late, as Il rival had proposed and
been accepted at the grave, was de-
cidedly slow in compariso" with the
estimablc gentlemen who are already
engaged in a canvass for the position
of collector of customs for Vermont.
The gentlemen who are understood
to be thus early in the field are Hon.
6. G. Benedict of Burlington. Col
George T. Childs of st. Adams and
Lieut. Gov. Mans,lr of Island Pond,
with several other aspirants looking
over the ground. The canvass thus
early commenced is understood to
have been prec,pitated by Mr.. Man
sur. His reputation as a perennial
otficcholdcr leads to the conclusion
that III looking into the future he
was selzed with sudden fear that at
the expiration of his present term of
office he might possibly become a
common, every day, private citizen.
The thought was such chilly one
that he Immediately started i'll to
propose to the widow who is not
yet widow. 1t is no reflection on
the other aspirants that under these
circumstances they thought 1t neces-
sary to inform certain leading Re-
publicans of their intention to he
candidatcs.-TN Mortified News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-04-04
Passing of the CARPET.

"When | came out of the SANTA
rium,' said the woman who had
been taking rest cure, "my first act
was to order all the carpets in my
house taken up. After | had been a
daily witness of the exquisite neat
ness of wooden floors, wiped up
every twenty-four hours with damp
cloth, carpets seemed unspeakably
dirty. And | believe my family has
been the better for the change"
Carpets have long been the target
of hygienists, both because of their
dust and germ-colccting facilities
and their disease-dispensing ones
when sweeping day arrives.
The wise and progressive woman,
thinks the New York World, reso-
lutely banishes from her floors wooden
coverings too large to be shaken,
aired and summed at least once a
week.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-04-04
The Magazines.

The April Century has as 'front.'
ispiecc beautiful engraving by Cole
after a painting by George De Forest
Brush. This number, which is rich
and varied as usual, contains Il strk-
ing story by Gilbert Parker, an arti-
Gle by Howells, while timely con-
tributlon is 1.-The Old Olympic
Games, illustrated by Castaigne.
In the April St. Nicholas Tudor
jerks tells all "About Flying Ma
Chimes" showing what has been
done in the way of navigating the
air with mechanical aids. "Stal!ed
at Bear River" is an, account of il
railroad experience in the far West.
Among the other entertaining articles
is GLOW the Whale Looked Pleas
ant"