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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19
$144,044,64O
$462, 139.O66
13S,S41,331
Add loss on oats crops -. :.
Total four years. loss on oats

ana nay ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 6O1 900 3o7
III official reports on the oats crons for
the years 1892 to 1895 were obtained from
page 294 Of the Statistical Abstract Of
the United States, 1885," and the oats
crop of 1896 from page SGT of the year
Book Of the .. S. Department of Agr;-
culture, 1885," The official hay crop STA.
tistics were obtained from page ST. of the
Year Book U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, 1885," which states that no otii-
cial estimates were made on the hay crops
for the years 1889 to 1892 inclusive. If
the statistics for 1892 had been collected
the total loss on the hay crops would un-
doubleday have been largely increased by
comparison with the total value of 1892.
Losses on Farm Animals.
The farmers enormous losses on tho
value of their farm animals during the
four years of free trade government and
free silver coinage agitation ending March
4. 1897, are proved by the following fig
ures taken from pages STA, 575, 576 and
OFT Of the Year Book Of the U. S. De-
partment Of Agriculture, 1897" prepared
under the direction of Secretary ]. Sterl-
ing Morton, who was the free trade Secre-
tary of Agriculture during President
C.eveland's last term:
Loss on farm animals
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19

Henry George because he is the only ex-
ponent among the candidates for Mayor
Of the principles decided at the Chicago
convention, absolute loyalty to which is
the test Of true Democracy" Henry
George cares more for the single land tax
than he does for the entire Chicago plat
form. Mr.. Shanklin knows this, and when
the time comes he and Henry George will
both be found working to get a single
land-tax plank in the Democratic plat
form.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19
Wheat Viii Keen I'm.

European crop reports confirm the es-
timated shortages that have been made
from time to time and give assurance
that the foreign demand will keep the
prices OF American breadstuffs up to the
point about which they have fuctuated
Tor the past few weeks. The property Of
tne American farmer is not a myth in any
-. Of the word--Omaha Bee.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19
AnOt.Ier slump.

Another fall in silver is recorded from
the financial centers in this country and
Europe. During the closing week in Sep
TENDER the price of silver bars dropped
from 5712 cents per ounce to 81 cents, in
New York. A money metal which would
fluctuate 312 per cent in value in a single
week can scarcely commend itself to the
average voter as a safe one for adoption
by single ma ton with, at least the CO.
operation Of other countries to sustain its
Value
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19

Bryanism-Free Trade-Free Ruin.
If Louise Michel should come to this
country to preach the gospel of anarchy
she would probably begin by avowing her
allegiance to Organism, free trade and
free ruin and wind up by denouncing
Mark Hanna and the Dingley tariff
Grand Rapids Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19
Decrease
from
Jan. 1, 1893.
Total loss on farm animals dug

Total loss on farm animals dug
rim the four free trade years SO. $50. 400 oea
The largest tin Plate mill iu the world is
to be erected at Newcastle, Pa. See.
didn't somebody predict just few years
ago that no amount Of protective encour-
a2emeQt would make it possible to manu-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19
Their Case HOPELESS.

Senator Germans offer to surrender
the Democratic leadership in Maryland
provided the Baltimore Sun supports its
party ID the State and legislative cam
paigns Is the Demoeracy's flag Of distress
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.
WHAT THE FARMERS LOST BY
FREE TRADE.
Enormous Decrease in the Value of
Agricultural Products in Conse-
quence of a Free Trade Administra-
Official Records Show It.


1t is shown by official reports, prepared
by the officials of President Cleveland's
last administration, that the decreased
consumption of wheat was 81 1886, 1856
bushels, and the decreased consumption
of corn, 2,945, 529 $40 bushels-a total de-
creased consumption Of 3,2ol,416,O12
bushels of wheat and corn in the United
States during those four years. In this
article is given the total production Of
wheat and corn in the United States each
year for five years, the total value of
each years crop, and the decreased farm
value of each years crop compared with
1S92-when the wheat crop of the United
States was larger than in any of the other
years named and the worlds wheat crop
as large as the average of the years since
1S92-as proved by the following figures
taken from page 293 of the statistical
Abstract Of the United States, 1885,"
which was prepared under the direction of
Secretary Carlisle, as proved by the let
ter therein submitting the report to the
House of Representatives, the fig
ures on wheat and corn crops of 1896
which have been obtained from page $50
of the Year Book Of the .. S. Depart
ment Of Agriculture" which was pre-
pared by Secretary ]. Sterling Morton,
who is one of the most extreme free trad
ers in the nation:
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Total loss on wheat and corn 1904 ,55S, 239
1t will be noticed that the loss in the
value of the wheat crops of the United
States during the past four years-$300,-
S32,5S1-was nearly one-third of the total
value of the crops for the four years when
compared with the value of the wheat
crop in 1892! 1t will also be noticed that
the total decreased farm value Of the corn
crops of the past four years aggregated
$3G3, I2J, 63S-a total loss of $G64 ,55S, 230
on the farm values of the wheat and corn
crops of the United States during the past
four years compared with the farm value
of those crops in 1892! Remember that it
is the farm" value Of the grains that is
quoted from the official tables. If figured
on the expert value OF wheat and corn for
the years named the loss on the wheat and
corn for the years named the loss on the
wheat and corn crops is nearly double that
for the farm" loss-for it is over a bill
ion dollars.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19
Losses on Oats and Hay.

The following official statistics give the
losses of the farmers of the United States
on their oats and hay crops for the years
named in consequence of the decreased
home consumption during the four years
OF free trade government and free silver
agitation:
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19
Loss on wheat crops
Total decrease in value Of United
Total decrease in value OF United

past four years ............... 1868, 725 ,65S
Add total farm loss on wheat dur
ing the four years .......... 300, S32, 2239
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19

1858, O36,O59 $5s,956,s63
Receipts ...... 41,760,469 1926, 713
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-19
Increased value Of corn crop in
1894, deducted from decreased
value of the other years named. $500.
Total net loss o noats crops of

the four years 81
Loss on hay crops
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far more are comparatively happy and far more of acute misery is relieved.
 Science and art aided by wealth and opportunity, have done it, Wealth has been largely and honorably subsidized, although often the greatest wealth has done the least. In my early boyhood l
 do not think that there was more than one, if one, millionaire in New England, and perhaps not half dozen in the country Abundant scandals in high life go to show that great fortunes have not always brought great happiness to their owners.
 Tt is surprising to see how the world is crowded to suffocation with ambi- tions, petty and mighty, from the cap- talncy of militia company or the lead ership of some unheard-of club, up to the mayorship of q great city, or the presidency of nation. Their name is legion l have lived long enough to see the rankings of disappointment and the hollowness of many a success; how often the ablest aspirants, Clay, Web ster, Cass, Scott, Greeley, Tllden, Blaine, have been defeated, and how heavy has been the burden borne by the victor. And l can remember, too, Taylor, the elder Harrison, Lincoln and Garfield.
 NO young man can tell where his path will lead him, and he has but to follow the path when it opens For years I have seen that the demands for the right men in almost every line are greater than the supply. There is not only room at the top, but all around.- Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
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AN UNPLEASANT PHORLEJT.

The New England cotton mills give
 employment to about 75,0O0 persons.
 Notice of reduction of one-tenth in
 wages has already been given in the 1 Fall River mills, and 1t is probable that
 wages will soon be cut in all the cotton
 mills of New England. It is a melan- choly state of affairs and may lead to
 much trouble and suffering. Wages
 in the New England cotton mills are not very rich, and 0 reduction of them
 can be poorly borne by ''the hands" But there is no doubt that the owners
 and managers of the mills are in an
 uncomfortable place. They cannot find
 market for what they can produce.
 and southern competition is disturbing
 them. The Arkwright club which is
 composed of treasurers and agents of
 the principal mills of Massachusetts.
 Rhode Island, Maine and New Hamp-
 shire, recently appointed a committee
 of experts that has visited the South and examined the whole situation there. This committee has reported, and it's findings are of deep interest to all interested i'll the prosperity of New England The committee declares that New England mills can only be run profitably by reducing the wages paid to their operatives to a point some where nearer those paid in the South. At present the southern scale is about forty per cent less than that paid in New England. The operatives not only receive less pay for the time they work. but the legal hours of labor are longer than they are in the northern States. The committee reports that the south ern mills are now rivals of those in the North in all departments, in the finer grades of goods as well as the coarser, | The southern mills are we'll built, we'll | equipped and their machinery is quite | as good as that in operation on the | Merrimac river. The committee con- SlderS that the factors of freight | charges, taxation, or exemption from taxes, and cheaper coal, as against q diminishing water power, are of rea- lively small importance beside the cheap labor, long hours and freedom . from legislative interference. The com mittee recommends an immediate ap- plication to the New England legisla- lures for repeal of the law limiting the hours of labor in cotton factories to fifty-eight. As regards the matter of wages it says emphatically that must act for them selves, and endeavor to introduce in their own mills conditions more nearly those of the southern com petitors.
 This is a very unpleasant report, but business is business. If the necessary encouragement is made it will probably not be accomplished without much friction and trouble. "The hands" will not take kindly to longer hours and
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THE FIRST KENT C1UB LECTURE.

THE FIRST KENT CLUB LECTURE.
 The lecture course of. the Yale Kent club was well started last evening by Charles Hopkins Clark, editor of the Hartford Couant, who gave attentive and deeply interested hearers some of the impressions of Mexico received by him during tour in that country with charles Dudley Warner. MT. Clark has habit of seeing things as they are both at home and abroad, and he has the faculty of telling about what he sees in a way that enables others to also see. The power of original obser- Vation and of graphic and Illuminating description makes a good equipment for a lecturer who deals with such a topic as that chosen by Mir. Clark, and his auditors had very pleasant as we'll as an instructive hour. MT. Clark's wit Is as dry as the arid lands of Mexi- co, and it was in full operation last evening, adding light and force to his impressions. It is to be hoped that he will find more time to have impress slons of other lands and more time to tell about them.
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IN THE PAST EIGHTY YEARS.
Ex-President Bartlett of Dartmouth College Speaks of Great Changes Wrought in His Lifetime.

 Ex-President Bartlett of Dartmouth
 College Speaks of Great Changes
 Wrought in His Lifetime.
 Ex-President Bartlett of Dartmouth college, at a public reception given him at Hanover. N. H. in honor of his eightieth birthday, thus responded to a call for remarks:
 You call for "reminiscences. It is difficult for me, and much more for you, to realize the stupendOus changes which my eighty years have witnessed It is a magnificent dream. No boy of the present day, l think, will ever see the like. I might say, in a word, that all the events which scores of pens have just celebrated at Victoria's jubilee have fallen within my lifetime, and much more, for l had charge of a country grammar school in Vermont while the great and good queen was still under the charge of her mother.
 "Or I could say all that was remark able at the Columbian exposition of 1893 has been at least evolved within the period. I will, however except the au- tOgraph of Christopher Columbus and the letters patent OI teGulhanu ana Is abella, but not altogether the mummies from New Mexico nor the prehistoric remains in general, for these have been mostly found and investigated within fifty years. And to this I may add the very possibility of such a collection from all four corners of the globe, for I am older than the first passenger rail way in the gorld, than the first little steamer (the Savannah) that crossed the Atlantic.
 The changes in the transition from
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IS SNORING 4 LEGAL NUrsaNCEq

When man buys a berth in sleep ing car does he buy the right to sleep provided there is nothing in himself to prevent his sleeping? Does he buy the right to such a degree of quiet in the car that he can sleep if he can? Can
 he be legally kept awake by loud and continuous talk? And can he be legally kept awake by loud and continuous snoring? These important questions
 may be answered if a Santa Fe man
 stays in his present frame of mind He
 declares that he has decided to test in the Kansas courts the right of a pas- senger in sleeping car to keep his fel- low passengers awake by snoring. He says that he paid for berth the other night on West-bound train and want ed to sleep, but was prevented from doing so by passenger who snored all night long so loudly that slumber was an impossibility He now purposes to sue the railroad corporation for dam ages, alleging that the company, through its agents, was criminally care less about the rights of it's patrons.
 There is no doubt that hearty snoring in a sleeping car is a nuisance. If it is found to be an illegal nuisance those who have suffered from it will not see any injustice in the finding. If it is found to be nuisance and if the DOT ter has added to his duties the duty of protecting the other passengers in his car from the assaults of snorer he will have more trouble and less sleep than he has now. But if it is legal to inter- i fere with snorer in a sleeping car 1t Is certainly fair that one person should be kept awake if his sleeping is of such a nature as to keep twenty others awake.
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PREEE FRED.

A preferred creditor is one who never asks for his money.-New Orleans Pica- yune.
 A pectacle.-Professor Con astron- omy)-"How many of the planets can be seen with the naked eye?" Little Girl-'I don't know, sir. We have no naked eyes in Boston. ."-Chicago Trib- une.
 50 you are going away, Mrs. Rush. er?"
 Yes; we are going to move to Ken lucky for a few weeks until my hus- band gets to be called 'colonel,' and Chicago Record.
 Hewitt-'Does your wife miss you when you are away?"
 JeWett--"She misses me when am at home.'
 Hewitt-"What do you mean?"
 Jewett-"She can't throw cup straight Judge.
 Disappointed.-"I thought you said I would meet a great traveller" said the athletic young man, who had attended the explorers reception. Isn't he here?" inquired the late-comer. q don't think so. I haven't seen any cen- tury medals on anybody" y."-Washingt Star.
 The Bible story of the fall has been often quoted to the discredit of Eyes sex, but the Rev, M. Guy Pearse says the devil did not give the apple to the man, but to the woman, because he knew the man would eat it all himself, but that the woman would go halves."-- Kansas City Star.
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and a handsome hat pin, and the effect IS consummated; let us hope, too, that the bill-a pretty one-is justified Hats whose velvet crowns take tam O shan ter shape are many, and one is shown here. It was rose-pink velvet, a ruffle Of the velvet going around the crown and loops of rose-pink satin ribbon and black wings rising above it. Such hats are dressy enough for most occasions, and for majority of women are far more serviceable than the huge affairs so conspicuous in milliners' windows
 The hair is still worn pompadour, and inventors still elaborate side combs to render them more and more effectual in holding the soft locks back and for ward. A round comb a good deal like those we wore as little girls is offered, The teeth at the top of the head are curved and long, and those at the side are narrower ends. Unless you happen to get such a comb to fit your head precisely, snap! it will go at the first insertion. Real shell is much cheaper than it used to be, and is more satis- factory than imitation because it's shape does not change. The most sWagger material for the round comb is silver or gold, made heavy so that when the comb is inserted properly, a round gleam like a fillet shines about the head. Properly inserted, means put in so that the teeth do not show
 FLORETTE.
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FASHION NOTES,
CuriOs on Hats.

A great many of the seasons hats do look as if you could open them and take a nice cold boiled egg out. You remember grandmothers egg dish? Of course you cannot take eggs out of these hats, but you can, without open ing, take out any number of birds heads, an assortment of claws, a beak or so, odd feathers enough to fit out a barnyard, dashes of ribbon, flirts of aigrette, goodness knows what all! and yet becomingness is not sacrificed. In contrast to these barnyard hats are great soft folds of mirror velvet that seem to hardly be hats. They include great rhinestone buckle, an aigrette
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each in' sertion. Five cent%a Word for full week (seven tlmes)
 Display advertisements, per inch, one In, c sertion, S1.20; each subsequent insertion, 4O cents one week. $3,20; one month. SlO; one year, $40
 Obituary Notices. In prose or verse, 15 cents per line Notices of Births, Mar riages, Deaths and Funerals, 30 cents each. Local Notices 15 cents per line
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (al matter to be unobjectjonable), and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
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The London Times gives an interest," ing account of the great canal 0S0 miles long, between the Baltic and the Black Sea, which is to be begun next spring, as the surveys are nearly fin- ished. The new waterway is to be 217 feet wide at the top and 117 feet at the bottom, with depth of 281a feet, which will enable the largest war vessels to pass through. The canal begins at Ri- ga, and follows the course of the river Duna as far as Dunaburg Here the great excavations will begin which will cross the watershed and connect the canal with Lepel on the Beresina. That river will be utilized as far as it's juno tion with the Dnieper, when the latter will be followed to it's mouth. Of the total length of the canal 875 miles will be in canalized rivers, leaving only 125 miles to be dug. The canal is to be so strongly built that it will allow vessels to steam six knots an hour. At that speed, seeing that the canal is to be lighted throughout by electricity. the whole journey will only take IA hours, or say a week The cost is put at G2O 900, 900 and the time four years.
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The ministers in Lincoln, Nebraska, have not only determined to furnish their own reports of sermons to the newspapers, but have determined to bar out all Tying reporters" from att tending any of their services hereafter. What will become of the souls of the lying reporters if they are denied ''church priviIeges?'
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less pay, They feel that they work quite long enough for what they get now, But if the cotton industry in New England is to be saved it is evi- dent that something must be done to offset the advantages possessed by the southern cotton manufacturers.
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Hicks-"Come, now, you profess to be a great lover of art, and yet you refuse to give anything toward the erection of this public statue.''
 Wicks-"As you say, I am great lover of art."-Boston Transcript.
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Acetylene can neither be manufac- tured nor sold in Great Britain now save by express permission of the Home Secretary, the prohibition being made in recent Order in Council.
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They call presiding woman in Phil adelphia "a chairlady." This is as bad as "a washlady."
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE ClTY, lS CENTS A WEEK, 50 GENTS A MONTH, S8 FOR SIX MONTHS, S6A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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It Is reported that the coal supply of Japan will last only fifty years more.
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TtIE ECAkRINGTON PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursdays. One Dollar a Year.
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TABLE CUTLERY,

As it will be quite in order this year to give seryiceable Christmas gifts, what could be better than some articles for the table? Our Carving Knives and Table Knives are known by everyone to be of the highest oual- ity only and our name on any article signifies it's worth. We have rpnien- ished our stock since Thanksglving and can now show the largest stock we have ever had. We sell our Caryers in pairs on in sets, with cases or without
 and have an endless variety of shanes
 sizes and styles. We also show 3 beautiful line of the genuine Wm
 Rogers Plated Ware -
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A camp-meeting of two thousand h. dians was held recently in South Da- kota and among the questions discussed were many having social and educa- tional, as well as religious bearing. What Can Be Done to Decrease the Mortality of the Indian Racer" What Are the Best Means and Methods of Educating Our Children?" "HoW the Indian Churches Are to Be Made Self supporting" were among the subjects discussed, the Indians entering into the argument with intelligence and ardor Evangelical work among them is con- ducted by union of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches, taking in the Sioux of North and South Dakota and Nebraska, who are found to be much more amenable to Christian in- fuences and teachings than their old time enemies.