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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-16

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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
ONLY a TRAMP.

To those who love their fellow men and
the gold standard. these lines are inscribed.
Once had friends, and pleasures untold,
Once I'd wife, had silver and gold;
and damp,
Ny moneys all gone; am only tramp.
For my cover, the sky: for my bed, the
ground damp.
With garments all tattered, Tn only q
tramp.
Bright were the hopes when started In
life.
Bright were the flowers that bloomed round
our cot,
For friends and companions then we
lacked not.
But 10, those false friends now call me a
scamp,
And my old threadbare garments proclaim
me tramp.
The factory closed; then had no work,
The world had no pity, said would Shirk.
We lived on our savings; tramped the
street
Asking for work, of whomever I'd meet;
And when we had drawn the last cent from
the bank,
And found ourselves starving, our friends
from us shrank-
All we had saved had been bartered for
bread,
We'd a comfortless room, floor was our
bed;
Each day did I try to get work, but to
fail
And each night did see that her cheek
grew more pale.
While she waited to welcome the grave,
cold and damp,
She still chung to her husband, the penniless
tramp.
One day I returned with the worlds bit
ter No,
My poor heart seemed crushed with its
burden of woe,
had asked it for bread; it had given
stone,
And had returned to my desolate home.
To that home in an attic; so dark and so
damp,
The wretched abode of a heart-broken
tramp.
But on that evening I met with surprise,
My wife's kiss was warmer, joy danced in
her eyes;
A supper was waiting, the lamp burned,
and 10,
The room was all bright in the fires red
What magical power could such Iuxuries
bring?
wedding ring.
For her there was never more hunger or
cold.
For she died ere the morrow: the grave will
never hold
A fairer, a truer, a lovelier wife.
And with her I buried the hopes of my life.
But the wounds of that day were too deep
to be healed,
I had buried my wife in lone Potter's
field.
My story is ended: my task is most done;
I'm still looking for work, alas, there Is
none!
There is no one to pity me, no one to save.
I must journey alone to a pauper's dark
grave,
When DER me the sexton will pile the earth
damp,
And record on his book have buried
tramp.
I wonder sometimes. If in Heaven above,
Where the loved ones are waiting with
purified love,
VIII the gates be unclasped by some fair
angel hand
That will welcome me home to bright.
better land?
If ever shall rise from a Potter's field
damp
VIII they welcome to Heaven a penniless
tramp?
j w. Powers, in Minneapolis Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
a "SILVER TRUST"
Talk That Is Sheer DemaEOGy I'm
tended to Obscure the Issue.

Talk That Is Sheer DemnGOEy I'm
tended to Obscure the Issue.
The talk of "silver trust" is sheer
demagogy, intended to obscure the is
sue by creating prejudice against the
silver miners.
Gold mining is perfectly honorable
calling, and those engaged in it are
entitled to the fairest consideration.
But there is far more reason to speak
of the gold miner as monopolist than
to apply the term to the silver miner.
Why? Because the demonstration of
silver in a large measure destroyed it
as a competing metal in the field of
monetary use and gave gold an almost
complete monopoly in that field. As
result the value of silver has been
beaten down, while that of gold has
been raised, just as the value of corn
would be forced down and that of wheat
raised by making it unlawful to use
corn as food.
There is no phase of the argument(?)
on the gold side that is quite so devoid
of fairness and candor at the cutlery
which is made against the silver miner.
In the first place, the value of his prod
uct is virtually cut in two by depriving
it of monetary use, and when he OBJ
iects he is denounced as a swindler and
a fraud and accused of trying to force
the government to give him a dollar
for so cents worth of silver. Right on
the heels of this accusation it is bland
~ declared that if we had free coinage
the value of the silver dollar would not
rise any, but instead the dollar would
at once shrink to so cents, or even less.
If this latter claim be true, and it be
also true that the silver miners consti-
tute a trust" then it can be safely
affirmed that this is the first time in the
history of the world that trust has
been formed for the purpose of depre-
ciating its own property. If, on the
other hand, free coinage will raise the
value of silver, it necessarily follows
that the suspension of coinage must
have lowered it. and therefore the con-
tention of the silver men is sound.-Na
tionaI Bimetallist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

pose mans fortune consisted almost
4nt:rely Of wheat, and q law were passed
making it crime to use any other grain
for food, or limiting the use of other
grains for such purpose. Would not
that give the owner of wheat an adj
vantage over everybody else?
The case supposed is identical with
the present situation as regards gold.
In this behalf there are two other
simple suggestions which may be
thrown out. The Economist should have
stated what improvements have been
made in the facilities for production and
transport within the last Is months,
sufficient to cause a shrinkage of three
per cent. in the money value of the
products of human toll. The other is
that this statement of the Economist
emphasizes what every intelligent man
knows to be the fact, that falling prices
and business depression are always close
companions. Still, when the silver men
in the United States propose measure
by which prices may be raised, the mil
ionaire goldite raises his hands in hor-
ror and protests against it upon the
ground that it will ruin the poor man.
If the business depression, coming from
falling prices or any other cause, even
benefited the poor man." we should
very much like to know when or where
National Bimetallist
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
NO pINeun ACTION.
4 Point Scored by the Democrats O
the Senate.

the Senate.
The democratic side of the senate
have scored an important side and one
that the business interests of the coun-
try will appreciate in compelling the
republican tariff thinkers to agree to the
striking out of the retroactive clause of
the Dingley bill when that measure
reaches the senate.
The certainty that Senator Vests
resolution censuring Secretary Gage for
putting the clause into effect to the
embarrassment and inconvenience of
importers would be adopted by the sen
ate when it came up forced the mem
bers OF the subcommittee having the
consideration of the Dingley bill IN
charge to promise that the objection
able section should be eliminated.
Customs officials and importers will
doubtless be apprised at once that the
order of Secretary Gage, suspending
final liquidation on all goods received at
the custom houses after April 1, is not
to be enforced. It has been considered
impracticable and unconstitutional
from the start, and its revocation Will
relieve collectors and business men from
great annoyance.
1t is reported that many of the re-
publican senator's are not grieving over
the killing of this unpopular provision
of the Dingley bill, for the lacking on
of what was clearly an ex-post facto
clause was considered by the more clear
sighted leaders as very bad legislation
and very bad politics. They consider
it better for the future welfare of the
party that the clause is to be wiped out.
It was not only an undignified Juggling
with the provisions of the constitution,
but was a serious and unwarranted in
reference with the rights of importers
under laws still existent, involving con-
fusion and uncertainty to them in their
commercial operations.
There is no doubt that it would be ac-
ceptable to the country at large if a
majority of the senate would carry the
same principle still further and strike
out other features of the Dingley bill
which amount to such a subversion of
legitimate legislative functions as to be
at variance with at least the spirit of
the constitution and which by radical
changes in the present law seriously
menace the stability of trade and in
dustry. Taking from the free list, for
example, the untaxed raw materials
which certain industries have found es-
sential for profitable operations and
successful competition here and abroad,
involves the serious disarrangement of
business organization and loss to labor
amounting to as great an embarrass-
ment and interference with legitimate
trade as Secretary Cages order to the
customs collectors.
Well will it be for the republican sem
ators and for their party prospects if
they defer to the complaints of those
great industries that oppose the in
justice and hardship of a duty on wool,
a duty on hides, a duty on lumber, a
duty on salt, and so on, as they have
hardened to the protests of the import
ers against observation-disclosures Free
Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
GROWING OLD.
Ii Always Comes ms n Surprise to
People.

Ii Always Comes ms n Surprise to
People.
"I think there is something radically
wrong with me, DOCTOR" said a middle
aged woman to her physician, and she
: began to describe her symptoms. also,
madam" announced the man of science,
81 fear yours is a complaint from which
many of us suffer, and which is, I'M
fortunately, incurable. 1t is a case of
Ammo Domini-a disease which is al
ways epidemic"
Age comes to all of us as a surprise.
It seems odd when our feelings are as
young as ever that our bodies arc no
longer as supple; that we can no longer
sit down on the rug in our old favorite
attitude before the fire; that in going
upstairs we must take it slowly; that
without feeling appreciably different
in any way, or recognizing any change,
the elasticity and spring has gone out
of cur bodies. We say of our contem-
poraries: "So-and-So has grown much
older" and of another: "How she has
changedi" But in ourselves we see no
such alteration. We fail to recognize
the ravages of time. Our muscles are
somewhat sitter than OF yore, and our
figures are stouter, perhaps, but we feel
no particular difference. A slight case
of Ammo Domini, undoubtedly, but not
nearly as pronounced as with others of
our age.
1t is always funny to hear unmarried
sisters of ripe middle age talk of each
other; the lapse of time means nothing
to them in their relations one to an
other; they are still "girls" together,
and outsiders cannot fail to be amused
at their Inconsistencies of change.
''I wish Della would marry" said
sister of 20 in speaking of the youngest
of the trio-a troublesome maiden of
60. ST am sure she would be much hap
pier"
This said in all simplicity by the gen.
tie and dignified lady, with no sense of
incongruity or of the way it might
strike her auditor.-N. Y. Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
WHAT DOES HE MEAN7
President Mckinley Should BE Nor
Definite i'm His Statements.

President Mckinley Should BE More
Definite in His Statements.
A recent discussion of President Nc
Kinieys inaugural address in the class
ofeconomics at the college of Citizenship
brought out question of public in
terest as to the exact meaning of some
of his studied statements. In speaking
of the financial situation President Nc
kinley says: ''Our financial system
needs some revision; cur money is all
good now, but its value must NOS fur
Their be threatened"
The first part of this statement all
will approve. Also the declaration that
our money is all good now. But when
the president says: Its value must not
further be threatened it Is implied, of
course, that the value has already been
threatened, and the PEI tinent question
then arises: By whom, in President
McKinley's opinion, has this been done ?
Does the president mean that the value
of our money has been threatened by
the uphoiders of single gold standard,
or by the bimetallists who supported
his opponent in the recent campaign?
Since the republican party declared,
in it's platform, for bimetallism, we
might infer that the attempt to make
permanent the single gold standard in
this country was the threatening of
money value to which he referred. But
the fact that the gold standard advo-
Gates supported Mr.. Mckinley for the
presidency makes this superstition i'm
probable.
The question is an interesting one,
and the people have right to know the
meaning of the presidents expressions
of fear for our currency. Especially as
he continues: ''It should all be put
upon an enduring basis, not subject to
easy attack, nor it's stability to doubt
or dispute" Does this enduring basis"
mean bimetallic basis that will insure
our currency against the evils of single
gold standard? Or does it mean per-
petuation of the gold standard? And
does President Mckinley purpose,
through this perpetuation, to put our
money beyond the reach Of an "attack"
from the mass of the people, or their
doubts as to its popular benef1cence, or
their discussion of the question ?-M.
E. W., in Western Rural.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
TIE NAsTEFuL HOUSEWIFE.
gseakagen I'm Household Management
That Mean Loss OF Money.

R.eakawem I'm Household Management
That Mean Loss OF Money.
The old adage that ga woman can
arrow out of the window with tea
spoon more than man can bring in on
o shovel contains more truth than
poetry. A large income can be wasted
with surprising celebrity by the contin-
uance of little leaks that seem too in
significant to be noticed individually.
Many woman is ignorantly particle
pant in rearing and protecting these lit
lie foxes that spoil the household vine.
A partial list of some of these little
wastes is:
Wearing rubbers over new shoes,
thereby making the leather dry and
hard and easily cracked.
Pieces of lace and ribbons thrown
away.
Making the sewing woman wait in the
house idle or doing fancy work because
you have neglected to get materials be-
fore her arrival.
Buying Articles because they are
cheap, and viii come in some time.
Allowing whalebones to wear through
the waist, thereby running an elegant
gown.
Wearing the same clothing each
week as it comes from the wash.
Leaving a silk umbrella in a case,
thereby causing it to split in the folds.
Turning skirts wrong side out when
hanging them up.
Placing brushes with the bristles
side up.
Failing to sew glove buttons on be-
B., v~,Nn1;n-w fhnrro hpfnra
cleaning.
Sweeping the house in the usual
morning dress with head uncovered.
Pieces of cake and bread allowed to
dry and mold, then thrown away.
Failing to dry box of soap for sew
eral days before using it.
Dried fruits left uncovered and con-
sequently allowed to become wormy.
Dish towels used for holders.
Sheets used for ironing tables.
Napkins used for dish towels.
Towels used for wash rags.
The face of flatirons used to crack
nuts on.
Cold potatoes allowed to sour.
Sour milk thrown away.
The kerosene can left open to evap-
orate.
Cold fish thrown away.
Cheese permitted to mold.
Lemons left to dry.
Fat put in earthen dishes.
The mustard cruise remaining open to
dry.
Canned goods left exposed in cans.
Bread pan left with dough sticking to
it.
Leftover vegetables thrown away.
Rice and sugar wasted in the hand
ling.
Too much starch made and thrown
out.
Pals and washtubs left dry to fall to
pieces.
Silver spoons and forks used in the
kitchen.
Tin dishes improperly dried when
washed.
Mops and brooms not hung up. i
Tea and coffee pots neglected.
Corks left out of vinegar and mo-
lasses jugs.
Preserves opened, forgotten and left
to sour.
Soap left in dish pans to dissolve and
waste.
Orange peel thrown away (save then
for Endling.)
Bits of meat thrown away.
Carpet brooms used to scrub with.
Throwing away tea leaves (save them
for sweeping dark carpets; coarse Ia
BILE salt should be used for light car
pets).-St. Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
"HAPPY ACCIDENTS"

Row many of US are there who
work on from day to day,
performing tasks we have to do
In a careless sort of way
W no would not grumble, none and sigh
AND harbor discomfort,
Did we not hope to profit by
Some happy accident?''
Xon teamster, driving down the road
w nistltng as he goes,
swapping the graceful, plated goad
BESIDE his horses nose
9Isht De a sour misanthrope
BUT Tor the ever-present hone
Within his bosom pent,
1nat some day he will have his due
mat fate Will stoop to reach him through
Some happy accident"
The miner in his gloomy cell
me weary-fngered clerk.
4ney that In wretched novels dwell.
And only live to work
!heJ' too. hope on from day to dav.
ana hoping, stumble down the way.
E-acn drowning discomfort
win deafness faith in that pale ghost
"nIch man has ever prayed for most,
some happy accident"
Aias! how many men have died
IN want, despair and doubt
because they drifted with the tide,
instead of branching out?
70 iorth, oh, brother, challenge FateI
GOO surely never meant
That man should just work and await
SoiEe happy accident
Cleveland Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
Acid Proof glue.

The following has been recommend
ed as producing cement which viii!
fasten glass or porcelain, etc, together
firmly, and will not be affected by
strong acids: Mix together two parts Of
powdered asbestos, one part of barium
sulphate and two parts of sodium sill
cate of S. g. 1.50. A still firmer glue can
be made which is particularly valuable,
since it is not attacked by hot acids, by
mixing together two parts of sodium
silicate, one part of the finest sand. and
one part of finely pulverized asbestos.
IL potassium silicate is used instead of
the sodium salt, the glue will harden
Immediately. but otherwise ii will re-
quire about an hour to set.--N. Y. Led.
ger
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

marked, looking around; ''but not m1cA
III my line. I'm thinking"
20, no. I don't know ANYTHING about
mems things" blushing. Il suppose
you are buying these buttons for some
one? I'll change them, you know, if
they're not right"
The man gave little laugh, as if
something amused him.
I'm real obliged to you,' he said:
and, as the parcel was ready, he babe
Ellen a civil good evening, and went
out OF the shop whistling.
After that evening Dick Darnley was
frequent customer, and such strange
things he would buy, that Ellen grew
quite puzzled.
THE neighbors must think a deal of
him." she thought, sending him on
their shopping. Roughly guessing. he
must have bought enough tape to reach
right down to tn station at Dinton,
united; and pins, and cottons, and
yard of pink ribbon-and how particu-
lar he was over the shade, bless mel He
might have been a woman! Who was it
for, 1 wonder?"
I'm fond of that COLOR" he had said
as Ellen measured and cut the 11k yards
off, adding, in his frank, outspoken
way: do you ever wear it, miss?'
30, no." she answered, hurriedly;
"colors don't suit me-
I'm thinking as ye're wrong there"
he replied. Pm But a customer
at that moment coming in, DarnIey had
taken the ribbon up and departed.
The next day was Sunday, and, as
u2ual, Ellen had seated herself in her
dull little parIor, though the sun was
shining invitingly, and the world was
astir. 1t was one of these delicious
summer days, with cool, gentle breeze
to temper the sun. There would be so
many couples about, she couldn't bear
it. Her head was aching for want of
air, but she told herself sit was easier to
be lonely indoors" so indoors she would
stay.
A knock at the door startled her-it
was a most unusual thing, and on Sun
day, too; and on going to the door and
opening it, she saw Dick Darnley stand
ing outside. There he stood for mo-
ment, without saying a word, and then
he burst out:
Its mighty difficult getting a word
with you on weekdays, and 1 want to
know if you'll come out a-walking
along with me; it's real fine. and the
country is just looking grand"
Out walking with you!''-her face
aglow with color.
"Yes"-eagerly-''I want you to-
mighty bad. Amt you guessed what's
brought me to the shop all these weeks?
And amt I been fairly puzzled what to
buy? Didn't you see my meaning as
clear as though words had said it?
Amt you guessed want you to keep
company along with me? Why, bless
you, l wanted none of the things, 'cept
the pink ribbon! that's a fancy that
took hold of me, and But don't YOU
stand in the street. Jest you come out
walking, and I'll tell you all about pink
ribbon, and who's got to wear it,
To go out walking, and with Dick
Darnley, the beau of the place!
Ellen's heart fairly reeled. Why,
there were many young and bonny girls
who would give their eyes to receive
such an invitation. And she won't back
into the house to put on her hat, whilst
Dick stood whistling at the door. Her
heart bent wildly, her fingers trembled.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13


The average level of prices is now not
much above what it was at the lowest
point of the recent depression OF trade,
ard, considering the activity that now ex-
lists it is rather remarkable that prices
have not kept up at a higher general level
The facilities of production and transport,
however, tend to constantly reduce values
al expressed in money, and the increased
production of gold in recent years has not
SO far done very much to counterfeit TINS
tendency.-London Economist.
The reader will understand from the
foregoing that calling the average OF
prices at the close of 1895, 1899 by the
end of March, 1897, they had fallen to
1,94O, SO points. Stated in a simpler
way, during the last Is months prices
fell upon an average just about three
per cent, which is at the rate of nearly
2 2-5 per cent. year. This does not
differ much from the average decline
which began in the latter part of 1873
1.-THE year in which silver was generally
demonetized) and has continued to this
day.
1t will be observed that, as usual with
gold organs, the Economist ascribes the
fall to better facilities for production
and transport. but in this instance the
great English authority gives away
its case" by stating that the increased
production of gold has not done much
to counteract the falling tendency.
This is an admission that a increase
of gold has tendency to keep up prices.
In other words, that gold becomes
cheaper as its volume increases, pro-
vided, of course, that other conditions
remain the same, which ought to dis
pose of the intrinsic value" theory to
the satisfaction of the most dogmatic
goIdite in the world.
There are two brief comments which
We deem it proper to make upon this
utterance of the Economist:
First, the enlarged production of gold
has had an effect in counteracting the
fall. for if the production of gold had
not largely increased during the last
two or three years the fall would have
been still greater.
Second, that no matter what the facil-
tiles for production and transport may
have been, if the supply of gold had
kept pace with the supply of other
things, there would have been no fall
of prices. It ought to be plain to the
dullest mind that if the production of
commodities go on with no restriction,
while the supply of money is, by law.
arbitrarily limited to a metal which is
insufficient in quantity, the value of
money is bound to rise. while the money
value for prices) of the things which
are exchanged for money, will fall in
the same ratio. It should be equally
plain that this gives those whose wealth
is largely in the form Of money, or who
have absolutely fixed incomes" an
advantage over all other classes. Sup