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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18

rudeness and indifference, especially
toward other women. They affect not
to see them when they enter the
store, not to hear them when they ask
to see goods; fling the article asked
for before them, and resume CONVEX
sation of their own with their mates,
making it difficult for the customer to
attract their attention again. ''I am
as good as you, and want you to
know it. though am saleswoman, !"
expresses the feeling at the bottom of
much rudeness and indifference.
Manners should be considered by these
people and their employers as neces-
sary as neat dress, or ability to add
and subtract, or English speech. Ar.
gonaut.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18
OFFICE GIRLS IN CHICAGO.

They are introducing Office girls in
Chicago, and those who have them in
their employ are very well pleased
with them. They say that the Office
girl is superior to the Office boy in
many particulars. In the first place
she does not smoke cigarettes. As n
rule she has absolutely no taste for
dime novels. She is usually bright,
quick and energetic, and ever SO much
cleaner and neater than any boy can
be. Testimony upon this point is al
most unanimous, and most of those
who have tried Office girls declare that
never again will they have an office
boy around the premises. Boston
Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18
RUSSIAN FASHIONS IN PARIS.

Everything beautiful, useful, or orna-
mental in fashionable Paris nowadays,
according to Vogue, is made after Rus
sian models. There is the Russian
jeweled belt, with its precious
stones in the matrix enormous in size,
or studded with brilliantly cut gems,
or surfaces sprinkled with turquoise
the size of filberts, forming flexible
gold panels, yielding to the curves OF
the waist; and the long chain of prec-
ious gems-rubies, diamonds, or pearls
measuring from forty-fve to fifty
four inches in length. The cut gems
are set in these chains SO that they
sparkle from both sides. No necklace
is quite SO smart as golden thread,
the finest of Venetian chains, from
which are suspended marvelously
brilliant stones. Then small fortunes
lie in the jeweled bangles. Tiaras are
splendid. SO are rivieres, jeweled
bangles, ribbons of diamond lace work,
and the many rows of pearls, clasped
by a magnificent stone. Beautiful
rings, jeweled watches, brooches, scent
and salts bottles with jeweled tops,
golden opera glasses, diamond wrought
lorgnettes, chain purses, fans more OF
less bediamonded, jeweled pins for the
hair, and pins as lovely for the hat,
side-combs that sparkle, and back
combs that rise in scintillating beauty
of design-these are the trappings OF
grande tenue, with as marked and dis
tinct time and place when they
should be worn as the fasts and feasts
on the church calendar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18

An impressive instance of patriotic
service is presented in the case of
President Britlin, of the New Orleans
City Council, who has directed the
Committee on Budget and Assessment
to transfer the amount of his salary,
$4,000, to the contingent fund, as he
does not intend to accept any money
consideration for his official services.
1t is not believed that this sort of
thing will ever become chronic.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18
GOSSIP.

The late Mrs. L. S. Slade, of Gin
cinnati, left $40, 900 for distribution
among charities.
William Stoiber, the newest Colo
RADIO millionaire, has his wife for u
business partner.
Julia Levy, of New York City, gave
up ell her savings to save her fathers
business from attachment.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has just cele-
breted her forty-third birthday. The
"Poetess of Passion" was born near
Madison, Wis.
Miss Artz, of Chicago, has presented
SlO, 600 to the Boston Library where
with to establish Longfellow Ne.
mortal Collection.
Women are employed by New
York goldsmith as gold beaters. They
surpass men in carefulness and deli
cacv of workmanship.
Miss Knight. of London, has been
appointed professor of anatomy and
pathology in the Lhudiana Medical
School, Northwestern Provinces,
India.
Georgia Cayvan, the actress, says
she eats an apple every night before
retiring and another one upon arising.
To this habit she attributes her health
and spirits.
Queen Victoria is said to have been
greatly pleased with a present of fruit,
thirty boxes in all, sent her from Can
ada. 1t comprised apples, pears, grapes
and Guinces.
The No-Two-Alike Club is the name
of an organization of women in South
ington, Conn, which profess to abhor
all of the opposite sex, and any as
sistance they might render.
Miss Agnes P. Mahony, of New York,
has been appointed from the State
Civil Service eligible list to the posi-
tion of apothecary at the Manhattan
State Hospital, on Wards Island.
Miss Agnes G. Scott, of the Alexan-
dra College, Dublin, Ireland, has been
awarded the gold medal for first place
in mathematics, in the senior grade,
by the Board of intermediate Educa-
tion.
Princess Beatrice has recently dis
covered somo very rare specimens of
flowers and plants which she has
placed in her her5arium. She is con-
sidered reliable authority on the
subject of botany.
The new Bishop OF London's wife is
in maLy respects a more famous per-
sonage in English literary upper cir.
cles than her distinguished husband.
Her histories of France and England
have given her high standing as an
author.
Queen Victoria, when she leaves
Windsor for Balmoral, is provide d
with about dozen copies of sort of
way bill of her journey, which con-
talns a list of all the people in the
train and the compartments in which
they are.
A Berlin publisher has issued vol
ume devoted to the women of Berlin.
1t contains contributions on this topic
from every point of view by Frenzel,
Rodenberg, Ebers, Wolzogen, Mauth-
ner, Pietsch, Frauzos, Stettenheim
and other well-known writer's.
When Queen Amelie of Portugal re-
Gently visited Paris, she was much in
terested in the Pasteur Institute and
the many remarkable experiments she
saw performed there. She is already
writing another book, IN which she
elaborates her own medical theories.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18

The notion that the inhabitants of
the South Sea islands are everywhere
dying out is not borne out in Nauru,
where the German residents made a
census of the natives on September 8,
1890, and found 1877, while in 1898
the number had increased to 1877.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18
a SMILE AND a FRcwN.

Only frown! yet it pressed n sting
Into the day which had been so glad;
The red rose turned to senseless thing,
The bird song ceased with discordant ring,
And heart was heavy and sad
Only smile! yet it cast spell
Over the sky which had been so gray;
The rain made music wherever 1t fell,
The wind sung the song of marrlage-bell
And heart was-light and gay.
Emma G. Dowd.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18
Snow White Cattle.

The breed of now-white cattle which
were used in the sacrifices in Athens
and Rome from 1000 to $500 years
ago, is still in existence in Calabria,
Italy. Great pains are taken to main
tain the strain of blood in all its
purity, and calves showing a single
hair of any other color than white are
at once separated from the herd.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18

One historical authority states that
the earliest discovery of iron within
the present limits of this country was
the mountain range of western North
Carolina, and the first effort to manu-
facture it into merchantable form was
made in the State of Virginia in 1919.
The foundry was destroyed by the In
dians in 1922.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18

The County Court Judge of Oldham,
England. has recently decided that a
cat is "a quasi-domestic ANIMAL" and
that its owner is not responsible for
its actions. In the course of his de-
cision, the judge said the feline's
'intellect is not so extensive as to
render it able to distinguish between
chickens and small birds"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18

A Philadelphia paper gathers a Ger.
tain amount OF comfort from the fact
that the "scrapple" of the Quak er
City and the baked beans of Boston
are to be found on the menu cards of
the New York restaurants. 1t argues
from this gastronomic fact that the
above alimentary tit-bits have put the
three cities on a more friendly foot
inc
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18
The State of Massachusetts has alone

The State of Massachusetts, has alone
and unaided fought the gypsy moth,
and has thus far prevented it from
spreading beyond its limits. 1t has
within the past four years expended
$3.50, 900, with the result of keeping
the pest from spreading and Grad icat-
ing it in few localities.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18

Says the Montgomery (Ala.) Ad-
vertiser: In the last twenty years the
Southern States have expended $780,
O0O,O 900 for colored schools. Nearly
every dollar was furnished by the
white people.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18

A writer on beauty says that to OBJ
tain a perfect ideal of the female form
divine one should study Greek models
for the head, English for the complex
lon, Irieh for the hands, American for
finger nails, Hinlostanee for the feet
and Spanish for the carriage.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18

Ontario farm lands have taken big
drop in value during the past twelve
years. The total value in 1883 was
plsced at 1854, 1893, 900; in 1895 the
valuation was reduced to $572, 93S, 900.
The bringing of lew wheat districts
into competition with the Ontario
fields is given as the cause of the rapid
decline.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18
A BACHELORS DINNER.

4 Time is popularly
represented as an
aged man, with
flowing beard and
drapery of white,
bearing in on g
hand an hour glass
and in the other q
scythe, SO would l
conceive a figure
of Poverty, except
that l would have
him carry a bill
or a sherif's at.
30 nr4 ,,-.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-18
Nebraska Populist papers want de-
partment sto-es abolished.

Paris florists are already setting out
plants SO they may sell flowers from
the grave of Lafayette to patriotic
Americans during the exposition of
IqOO
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-04-07

Nine. Melba received during the
present season fully sixty per cent
more salary than during her first
year here; Mime. Calve, nearly double
what she received during her first
season; NJ. Plancon, double; Signor
Aneona, double; Nine. Eames. nearly
five times as much as we paid her
1t first, while Mime. Nordica last sea.
son received nearly two and one-half
times what we paid her during the
season she began with US. NM. de
Reszke are an exception to the rule.
their fixed salaries and percentages
never increasing since their initial en-
Eagement; ON the contrary, wonderful
10 relate. a change being made in the
percentage in favor of the manage
ment.
Mr.. John Hare. the English com.
adian, in Il recent interview, said:
The English actor finds the American
audience unusually quick of response.
It's applause of jest merry situa-
Oh, Il clever line. accompanies rather
than follows the moving cause; they
'atch its meaning almost before the
tine Is finished They anticipate the
point rather than wait for It, and
hey are often ahead of the actor But
must be- hHmor OF action and
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-04-07

A southern firm advertiSes / ) varieties
of Confederate bills fer - cents, also a
rare collection of 30 different bills and
shinplasters for only 81 " Apparently
the firm has millions of dollars worth
of this money for sale cheap.
What pity that our old fogy consti-
tuition is in the way But fer it the
cheap money advocates in any state
where they have majority could buy
up this whole Confederate outfit and
start IN business n auee The amount
Of prosperity and happiness that could
be extracted from tbs ed papeF iaine
would deHsn ulaa de slas + Fs.at.aB
G. the state fortunate enough - scum
tie monetary Outfit
For instance. i sFaasa probably give
Nevada aIogt ilai. l1 Is-E capita and
wo3la - t=s#z is.4s#>tH -. lsiE from exc
q the l,7srs,; .1 exc = tl= ,esalta3es;
q state. Instead .. So -zs4 sid
TTlzefe t.is SIS rg al.zs- I'm WITH gran
4Eles ans Fs..-e-slu,=. Iawu wlfa :
constitution ullels aseze4ts siats Aa-4
rl.e II m1s5sgary 4ti4.E. ha4 Izls zlzzl-
ia blessings q ei4a4f sz.al14s
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-04-07

Dlssazs.Hg fA= laaE eseslll AID hank
Ing f4ciI!'le, d.. tbl w., and south be-
fore ihe last meeting q the American
Economic association NJ Thomas G.
Sherman sad.
III the Il southern states i. i impos.
sible thai oue-t.nih q the farmers could
have any bank accounts ~ could ever
draw checks iu payment ;or their retail
Transactions IN the recent campaign
the successful candidate received the
votes Of - states. the defeated candi-
date the votes Of 22 The % states hold
% per cent Of all hank deposits and de
pOsitors Deducting from the other 20
states the silver states and few large
cities, the remaining vast agricultural
section Of the country, having 40 per
cent of the population and - per cent
of the AREA has less than per cent Of
the bank deposits and depositors This
suggests what was the real grievance of
this mass Of voters, although they did
not themselves understand it. Their
banking facilities are proporuonately
only one sixteenth of The rest of the
country
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-04-07
WHAT'S MONEY!
Subject Clearly Explained by College
President at IA Farmers' Convention.


President at IA Farmers' Convention.
The following is part of the synopsis
printed by the Milton wis Journal of
an excellent address by President Whit
ford of Milton college before the farm
ers convention ut II recent meeting at
Milton. 1t contains some very lucid
statements of money and of the power of
governments to fix value:
First Two separate and distinct val
ues are assigned to money, one being
the intrinsic or market value Of the ar
ticle used; the other the legal or face
value, indicated by the stamp or device
pressed upon the article In some well
known instances what is popularity
called money has only one of these
values.
Second. The common practice of
tribes and nations in selecting such ar
ticles or commodities for money is To
adopt two kinds or grades of them, one
having greater market value according
to its weight, for use i'll the larger exz
changes in trade; the other having lesser
value, for the smaller exchanges THIS
practice furnishes the first essential COL.
dition for system of himetallism.
Third Only that money is basic and
widely and permanently used which i
made Of precious metals. very generally
gold and silver Other and perishable
commodities are finally abandoned or
held redcomable III these metals.
Fourth. The msrkct value Of these
metals. not th,ir face value, constitutes
the original and continuous quality ~
reason of which they are almast umiver=
sally accepted rs basic cr primary mon.
ey Government q custom can add !
quality. not inherent Int temporary.
10 such metals and other Articles used =
a medium al eNchaug. But the rea.
measure Thus declared 10 l. effective
and lasting mH-t be the ane established
by the laws Il tfaIe, not i The edicis 4
government
Fifth. -GoYerum.n Itself cannot X
or control the market yaiHe q I1.r =
any metal eF either commodity. So 4etEsr
used a. money u ia the TEse thea. axis
50 il canmrt make illt HeLsy and oaEl-
pal the people n clItuia1s u q elest
length q time a. mouFv Z any ~lEt
slxih--Aay CONS q other lIaa.Y
whose market yAlue j., ..ss than fA.lz
face value always soon e1gel from. esr=
culatiun al aulus ~ other money Whose
market v5lge : greater according =
their We git unless the former ATE r.
deelnahlr ~ Tin latter Wherever a CON
j..
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-04-07
Total givenduring Il mos. 1897, $40, 10000
Japan. E.perIenee with Silver.

The attempt of Japan to maintain a
mint ratio that was different from tho
market ratio was failure and resulted
in denuding the circulation Of gold. Bi-
metallism had failed i'll Japan as else
where.
The decline III the value of money had
in Japan the effect it always has had Of
robbing the laborer and enriching the
capitalist. The miserable pittance paid
to the wretohed operatives must at no
distant period lead to a social revolution
unless the rate of wages be considerably
improved.
In 1872 a family consisting of five
members Of the lower middle class could
subsist on I 0 yen year. In 1898 the cost
Of living had risen to 1870 yen a year.
During period of % years the silver
yen declined very nearly onc-half in its
gold value, about two =fifths i'll its power
to buy merchandise and about one fourth
i'll its power to buy labor
The gold value of the exports from
the United States and England to Japan
was ever $fs, 900, 600 in 1892 and nearly
$31, 600, 600 in 1896, while the imports
of the two from Japan were over $780,
coo, COO in the first year and less than
S3l, 600. COO in the last year Fred
Perry Powers i'll Sound Currency For
March /
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-04-07
FASHIONS EANCIES.
Large Hats still Larger, but Brims usuali,
Narrow at the Back.


Narrow at the Back.
The Princess dress is very popular
In Paris, and many handsome gowns OF
velvet and silk for weddings and other
dressy occasions are cut in this style.
Wide ribbons. plated chiffon, lace,
and flowers in great profusion will
constitute the main feature of hat
trimming, and black hats will be very
popular, despite the fact that brilliant
color characterizes the finish of straw
hats.
Lightness seems to have been the
main effect of the designers in hats
this season, and ii can be boon TO all
womankind If the milliners do not of
set this by loading the hats with trim
ming. Japanese rush and japanese
straw help out the variety in light
weight effects, and Panama hats will
be much Worn for cycling.
The fancy for one-sided effects on
bodlces has extended to the back as
well as the front, and evening gowns
do not escape this mode altogether;
yet it can hardly become popular,
since 1t in so many cases interferes
with the graceful outline of the figure.
Tapping one side of the back. just a
little past the middle, in a cluster of
small plaits, is the most successful
method of accomplishing this end, and
the dressmaker win tell you that it is
becoming style.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-04-07

Our "Grcenbackers' should rejoice
over the fact that another paper money
experiments being tried. If grcenbacks
put down the rebellion i'll the United
States. why shouldn't they provo effect
i've weapons against Cuban rebels; -
reasons General Weyler who is flooding
the coast towns of Cuba with artistically
engraved promises To pay on one side Of
piece of paper and "A picture of we'll
developed tobacco plant ON the other
side
The experiment is bound to be sue
cesSful, for the notes are made legal
tender in the worst way. Any shop
keeper who refuses to accept these prom
Uses for their face value Is subject to in
slant Imprisonment in Jails where con-
iinement means almost certain death.
OF course under the circumstances the
notes are accepted Weyler, however,
forgot to decree that prices should not
be raised. and the Cuban shopleepers
are mean enough 70 try 10 defeat the
experiment by raising prices. So far
they have only doubled prices. bpt each
one is trying 90 see how high he can put
prices. and the end is not in sight.
Come to think of it, high prices. con
stantly growing higher. have defeated
all past experiments with paper money.
Perhaps Wtyler. by correcting this little
defect may vet demonstrate that Green
hackers ait liglt and that cheap money.
by proper legislation, can he made just
as good as money made from costly
metals What boon plenty of money
would Le 90 mankind success 70 Wsy-
In experiment and death % ths traitaE
who tf5c- To- prevent its spocesS by rails.
ing prices or - rsfss * e aeeeps Wey
ler's handsome eFapis.st
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-04-07

pecCh that they can understand. They
10 not seem to care for humorous dia.
ogue that they do not thoroughly
comprehend. Thus. in The Hobby
Iorse' there are passages that
.voked roars of laughter in London
)ut were received here in a dead
aim OF silence that almost took our
breath away, If anything is depres-
ling to the comedian it is to rattle off
speech that has never failed to
woke merriment, and when he reach
rs the climax, to find that he alone is
aughing and that profoundly in
Iulring look is on the faces of the
audience. as though TO ask. We'll,
What in the world is he laughing at? 2"
That he ever laughs again during the
,vening is a marvel. One such chill
$ enough to take all the spirit out of
him, to make him dread the next
speech Of a similar kind that may he
coming his way. THE En- Il Actor
IN the New York Stage" ne'.5 rs one
marked difference between London
md New York. am told ia the man
Ter in which popular disapproval of n
alay is shown. | have been so kindly
rcated that | have not had personal
experience OF q fiat out-and-out fail
I've, which is Kissed. but | know that
London we sometimes have a moSi
,bstrepcrous element present who
will not only hiss play roundly. bun
will make ii emphatlcally understood
hat they want ii stopped. then and
here. And. not satisfied with kissing
he play, they will even demand the
author, and when they get him out.
hiss him, too, Here | am told. the
audience show their displeaSure in
profound silence, or mock laughter:
hat, instead of kissing a poor PLAY.
hey will pick up their wraps an,
cave the theatre. With us they wan
he play taken off; here they tax,
themselves of, | believe, which is
certainly much more dignified and
,elf-respecting. an example of good
manners that might well be copied.
Rose FANcHoN.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-04-07

The Bankers Magazine for March
finds the origin of our present troubles
about silver in the demand that the
ratio of its value e gold shall be deter
mined by the government 1t is how
ever no proper part of tho duty of the
government to try to fix the ratio of
values of the two metals
Being, says The Bankers Maya
zine, commodities as well ms money,
and being commodities before and after
they are money, and being money sim
ply and only because they are commodi-
tics, and being commodities because
they have recognized and intrinsic value
independent Of any action of govern
ment, and even in the absence Of govern
inent and being therefore sevcrally sub
jet Ia all the laws Of commodities, the
law Of variable supply and demand and
value among others, and these varia-
tons not being uniform for both metals,
Is IL impossible that government can
ever az the ratio ~ their value
n, however 10 should be insisted
that it Is the function and duty Of gov.
eminent b. Cry to- fix the ratio Of their
values. If would seem 10 follow as a
logical Consequence that. since their
relative valne depends absolutely on the
relative supply Of the two metals it is
the y imary and plain duty Of govern
mout to fix (regulate) their supply by
controlling and operating the gold and
silver mines. the sources OF their pro
duction. It should do both things or
neither. and it is preferable that ii
should do neither. 1t is folly to expect il
to do the former without doing the lat
ter. "
This is the truth of the matter in a
nutshell Unless the government first
acquires all the mines in the world and
decides how much silver and how much
gold are to be produced yearly. it is i'm.
possible 10 maintain ratio after it is
A" fixed. France ''fixed'' it 1853 times,
but it would not stay fixed, and France
has at length abandoned the effort. The
I United States has also tried the expert
ment several times without success. II
is time the theorists were letting the
matter alone.