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disinclined to respond. His purpose had
been achieved. A great part of the coun-
try had been informed that he was ready
to bet two to one on crushing defeat for
Mr.. Bryan. The disproof could never
catch up with the original ''bluff, and so
Mr.. Payne saved his money.
These are two reasons for the present
status of the betting odds. But even if
they did not exist, the odds would still
have no meaning Bettors on Presidential
election, so far from being preternaturally
acute, have usual been wrong.
Let us 90 back to 1888. Grover
Cleveland was President and candidate for
reelection. How was the betting? As
it is always-in favor of the party in pow
err. Politicians know that to re-elet a
President is one of the hardest political
tasks. The man on the outside has al
ways the better of it. john Adams, John
Quincy Adams, Van Buren,, Cleveland
and Harrison were all defeated at the
close of their first terms, and "a half dozen
other Presidents could not even secure re-
nominations. But the bettors ignore the
lessons of history, and 50 in 1888 We find
that in October the odds ranged from 5
to on Cleveland to 2 to |, and he was
beaten by 65 majority in the Electoral
College, while in S92 the odds were y to
on Harrison, and he was defeated by 1872
plurality in the College The latter cleo
ton closely parallels the one we are now
approaching, for then the country was
prosperous, and then as now the Republi-
can administration claimed all credit for
every toto of prosperity enjoyed.
There is only one thing. more foolish
than betting on an election. That is to
let your judgment be warped by the way
Others bet.
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Farmers Must Stand and Deliver

The formation of the Agricultural I'm
plement Trust is openly announced.
After January |, 1901, every piece OF
machinery used by the farmer must be
purchased at trust prices.
Every factory in the country has been
captured, together with all the rights and
patents A number Of factories are to be
shut down and prices of agricultural nipple
ments are to be braced up.
Thousand Of travelling men and agents
in charge of agricultural implement depots,
have received notice to look for other EN-
Nearly all the big implement firms of the
ployment, that by March LIST none of their
services would be needed
The trust schedule of prices being ar
ranged now will 90 into effect after the big
monopoly takes hold.
country have agreed to pool their issues in
the trust. 1t means that every piece Of
machinery, pillow, harrow, roller, pick,
shovel, hoe, rake, scythe, etc, must be
purchased through the trust at trust prices
There will be no remedy. 1t will be a
case Of stand and deliver.
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HESTERN MARYLAND Raj,
w ROAD.
~ sE

CONNECTING WITH
p. & r. R. at Shippensburg and Gettysburg;
Norfolk & Western Il. K. at Hagerstowa:
b. & o. Railroad at Hagerstown and Cherry
Run; Penna. K. Il. at Bruceville and
Hanover; p. W. & B., N. c. and B. & p.
Railroads at Union Station, Baltimore, Md.
Schedule in effect September so, 1900.
TRAINS WEST
.1.l-A A-.
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A. A. BLAKENEY AS COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE RECORD OF THE TRUST CAM
DIDATE FOR CONGRESS WHILE HE WAS COUNTY
COMMISSIONER IN BALTIMORE COUNTY.
Front the
the records in the County con%a d Office flee that many bills
was president o the Board
The County Commissioners of Baltimore County
To delivering at and hauling from Stone Crue 1870 prs stone 75e s97
hauling from crushm 300 reches at 45 1875 90
To 4" h ha%ins st So ton" cr S Ssl 1873
TO time Of labuing men andf furnishing bolts &c 1880.
sl15o
FnnkinvIle Md. Nov. 10th, 1896.
To furnishing an hauling prs 75c s2et75
To hauling G32 at 45c 2Sf4o
s57e15
Received payment "A Bnkeney & Co
Among MIR Baken mileage County
following 49,
The County Commissioners Of Baltimore County
mileage from December LIST 1896 December LIST 1897 sa6s 50
HetaEe- say by say
ing So it lawful
T T.n EoE To vi, Via d %aSs Station 81 3 aS 10 miles miles
trips Baltimore each 81 miles, 535S,
trips ia Germantown and Carney 30 miles, 800
-5,6SS
Less and 5 miles eachu
At O Centsper mile,
miles travelled for which
is made.
To these papers Rhodes
there the of Mr. Baky
that mileage travelling purpose
of
ohisofice Baltimore
81
in one year. sitting County
the week from 10 o'clock until and he received s463
his office There thing that the
that that Mr. Bakeney did
Philadelphia Washington, for the miles
Mr. Bk
the first of 1892 who has asked for received mileage
The others had charged for
regular while examining roads and bridges
But suppose Bakeney surprising he is entitled o
meo hisofic o should he
of will Well let
omItrp Mr. Bakeney station Bradshaw Baltimore,
ia B. & o. r. r.. 30
Baltimore o Town Consolidated Railway,
aloStof both 30
Bhkee charged 10 per mile for II miles, 81 30
in
oacual ostor the 81 charged for his bill.
Blu should Mr. Bakeney both
sssuel him Fkfnle
by mieaee, 5 clear make for Mr. Bakeney
the Commissioners
wilbe that Bhkeney mileage lorng
makeo whole farmers
his riding o and T did him
And ct he a a friend of taxpayers !!
in the that
Mr. the the fund of his district
mile, road leading from his mill to the railroad
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WANTS A MONARCHY.
Mckinley Organ in Iowa Voices
the Real Sentiments of the
Republican Party.
CONSTITUTION IS OBSOLETE.

The following article is from the Des
Moines Ia Globe, Republican farm
ers' paper. 1t voices in plain language
the spirit of Mckinley Republicanism,
what the Globe frankly speaks the imper-
ialist secretly thinks
The article deserves the very widest
publicity as showing the direction of the
Mckinley drift. Here it is
''For long time thinking people who
have large commercial interests have felt
unsafe with our present form of govern
ment from the fact that we are controlled
by the little cheap-John politicians and
ward -healers. NOW Is A GOOD TIME
TO DO AWAY WITH OUR OBSO-
LETE CONSTITUTION and adopt form
of government that will be logical with
expansion ideas and will give AMPLE
PROTECTION TO CAPITAL.
ga CONSTITUTIONAL MONAR-
CHY is probably the most desirable plan
that we could now adopt. Everything is
ripe for the chance. We take it that the
great farming interests of our land will
readily adapt themselves to the change.
The farmer is great lover of law and or
der, and ANTI MONARCHY is
LARGELY THE EXPRESSION OF
FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS
SUGGESTED BY HOT-HEADED
THEORISTS.
.'We believe that history and exper-
fence have proved beyond cavil that A
REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERN
MENT CANNOT SUBSIST beyond GER
tain stage That as soon as a great PEG
PIE BECOME RICH, STRONG AND
GREAT, THE REPUBLIC DROOPS
AND DIES. We believe this is so, of
necessity and not by chance. We believe
that there is not single case of record
where the masses of great nation pos
sessed the intelligence to initiate laws, and
were intelligent enough to compel the en-
forcement of such good laws as they might
pass.
at would seem as if science teaches
that men are created to follow their mas
ters-the inspired minds of the world.
HISTORY SHOWS THAT A KING
MUST BE AND Is FOUND IN EVE
RY NATION to guide its people In every
great crisis Neither is the change to be
dreaded or looked forward to with fore
boarding. While we are in fact largely
under the conditions of monarchy, we
have the evils without the benefits Of the
:"
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4 ND APPEAL TO VOTERS.

THE WEAVER Markell CHEM co.
jnl2l Union Bridge. Md.
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A. A. BLAKENEY AS COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE RECORD OF THE TRUST CAN
DIDATE FOR CONGRESS WHILE HE WAS COUNTY
COMMISSIONER IN BALTIMORE COUNTY.
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Next Tuesday is election
day. Make your mark oppo-
site the cut Of jackson and
Liberty and the Hickory tree.

Large quantities of wheat arc being
shipped from Montgomery county to Co
lumbus and Mount Vernon, Ohio, where
there seems to be demand for Maryland
grain.
John Price, aged II years. one of the
most popular and prominent citizens Of
Kent county, died last week from can
Ger.
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+ week days only.
SUNDAY Trains.

TN Sunday trains viii leave Hilcn Station nj ~,
a. ~ and 2'5 p m. Westminster Ills IL. IN. Il T.
m, arriving at Union Bridge at IL 10 a. M and i6Q
y. m. Leave Unon Bridge ut 6.I5 a. III. and los =.
M, Westminster 20 Il IN. and 4.3I p. ni arriving
ut llillen Station ~ au7 a. and G.l5 D. IN.
Frederiek Division Pennsylvania H. x. (pIiy cx-
eept Sunday. )-Trains for Frederick leave Bruce
vile ut SIS 9i' and 1910 II. m. and $50 and 60
p In. Trims for faneytowu, Littlest0wn and
Columbia leave Bmcevic 9.17 n. M ami 3. L. D. m
Through trains for Hanover and Gettysburg and
points on Baltimore and Harrisburg Division leave
Baltimore. daily except Sunday, at ~ II. III. and
3.32 p. m Through ears for Gettysburg and inter
mediate points leave Baltimore also daily except
Sunday, at 10. ~ i. m.
Passengers for and from Cher. Run. Williams
port, j. " and intermediate points, from and fol
stations east of lagcrSiown change at lIagerstOwn
orders for Rtsgusse calls can be left at Ticket
Office, No. J II HsiSt Baltimore street. Baltimore.
j. NJ. HOOD. General Manager
oci6 y II. GRISwaIp. fien'I. Passenger Agent.
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Next Tuesday is election
day. Make your mark oppo-
site the cut Of jackson and
Liberty and the Hickory tree.
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REMEMBER The TRUSTS
What a Vote For The Republi-
can Trust Candidate for Con-
gress Would Endorse.
From the Baltimore County Democrat


The Republican party is the protector of
trusts and it has certainly, in the Second
Congressional district of Maryland, acted
consistently by naming as its nominee,
Albert A. Blakeney, the General Manager
of the Cotton Duck Trust, which despite
its many thousands of dollars of watered
stock, is reputed to have cleared profit Of
$500, 900 in six months
This trust practically controls the output
of duck product of the country and can,
with the aid of the Republican tariff, en-
acted in 1897, control prices. The protec-
ton afforded by the tariff protects the pro-
duets of the trust combines with duties
ranging from 30 per cent. to $50 per cent
ad valorem.
Below we show by tables how the prices
of some of the products used by farmers
have been increased
WHAT 10 BUSHELS OF WHEAT EuYs
WHOLESALE
Jan !. 1898. Jan. |, 1900 Shrinkase.
Sugar .........l57 lbs. 104 lbs. 53 lbs
Salt ...... 81 bbls bbls u bbls
Lumber (2x4)723 It. 4lSft 3O5 IT,
Wire Nails....4l kegs. u key 25-6kgs
Barbed wire 435 lbs. l33 lbs. BOZ lbs
Kerosene l0l gallons. Sc gals, So gals.
Average loss in purchase power of wheat,
fifty per cent.
SOURCE OF DIVIDENDS ON wATERED
TRUST STOCK.
Price of Nails l00per cent. increase
Price of BarbedWare % ~ :"
Builders Hardware 10 I" q"
Mechanics Tools 10 to IS 6. 90
Farm Machinery 20 so q -
Structural Iron IS to 100 Z" ''
Tinware (averase) IS "
Pig Iron 125 3" GO
Steel Billets $50 /" 90
General hardware 25 to $50 % q
All since the Inauguration of Mckinley.
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Sold by all Wholesale and Retail
Dealers.
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Next Tuesday is election
day. Make your mark oppo-
site the cut Of Jackson and
Liberty and the Hickory tree.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-29
THE COURIER.

ton rooms may be rented for this pur-
pose. This relieves the hostess OF the
distress of having her home disarranged,
and at the same time frees her from re.
sponsibility OF directing the affair, as
she simply gives an order at the office,
and is sure to have every detail attend
ed to perfectly There are times, more
over, when the club unites in giving a
big affair, as the brilliant reception on
the opening evening in IFS new quarters
last October.
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club on Tuesday, December ii. it was
voted by the executive board to send
copy Of the following letter to the Bos-
ton Transcript for publication in it's
columns:
To the Executive Board OF the Massa.
chusetts State Federation Of Womens
Clubs:
In reply to the letter of the executive
board OF the Massachusetts, Federation
to the Medford Woman's club, the lat
ter club begs leave to state that, while
the wording OF the resolution OF with
drawal which was passed by the Med.
ford Woman's club may justify your
board 10 saying that the reasons given
for this action are apparently based
upon misconception," nevertheless the
Medford Woman's club labored under
no misconception when it withdrew
from the General Federation. 1t con-
siders its reasons for withdrawal
sufficient; it believes them sound. At
the moment Of passing the resolutions
to withdraw it's main object was with
drawal-the wording of it's resolutions
was of secondary Importance. Granting
that the club failed to express itself
clearly in the wording OF its resolutions,
it expressed itself clearly in the act OF
withdrawal. Stripped Of all technical
ity, it is fact that Mrs. RuffiD, col
ored woman, representing club OF COL
ored women belonging to the Massa-
chusetts State Federation, a duly &C
credited delegate from her club, was re-
jected by the General Federation. IL
the delegate of the Woman's Era club
had been a white woman, representing a
club of white women, it is probably
true that she would not have been re-
jected. The action OF the Medford Wo-
mans club may be wise CT unwise. but
it acted under no misconception Of the
situation.
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A GREAT WOMAN'S CLUB.

The Empress Club of London, which
owns It's handsome quarters IN Dover
Street, valued at three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, is the most exclusive
womans club in England. 1t was
founded three years ago, in commemora.
ton of the sixtieth year Of the reign OF
Queen Victoria, and as rendezvous for
the smart set is curious in comparison
with the mixed clubs which are so
popular in London writes Bertha Da-
maris Knobe in the Bazaar. These
clube, most Of them Sith a fashionable
membership, are apt to have some speci
fic "raison d'etre.' The Albemarle.
however, is mixed club, with purely
social aims. The Bath Club, one Of the
ultra swell. has athletic aims. The
Denison Club has charitable aspirations,
the Sesame Club, literary purposes. and
80 one might, like Tennysons brook run
on forever in q resume" Of the mixed
clubs that mark London as conspicuous.
When it comes to the Empress Club
comparing notes with club exclusively
of men, there are absolutely no points
of distinction. In this connection it is
noteworthy that the Empress Club is
second in membership only to one mans
club, the Constitutional Club OF Lon
don. which has the exceptional enroll
mept OF five thousand members. From
these cursory comparisons it will be
seen that in this strenuous day the En-
press Club offers peculiar advantages to
the society woman. 1t is not only an
attractive abiding. place for the country
won an who may come to town over
night for function, but it is con-
yeuient social centre for the ln-town
member. Certainly nothing could be
more alluring to the woman who dotes
on social chit. chat than to indulge over
a compauionable little tea table in one
of the elegant corners, or to have coy
half hour in the privacy OF her own
apartment. For the hostess who enter
tame much it is quite 'the thing for
her to give her functions at the club.
As mentioned, one Of the large recep-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-29

The Rock Island playing cards are
the slickest you ever handled. One
pack will be sent by mail on receipt Of
Is cents in stamps. A money order or
draft for so cents or same in stamps will
secure packs. They will be sent by
express. charges prepaid. Address.
JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A.,
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y,
Chicago.
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Their Punishment

Mrs. Hardup-Of course, in pictures
Of heaven women wear white robes and
crowns and things, but in pictures of
the other place can't seem to remem.
Der that they wore any clothes.
Mr.. Hardup-That's why it's hell to
them.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-29

Do you get your Courier regularly !?
Please compare address. If incorrect,
please send right address to Courier
Office. Do this this week.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-12-29
THE WOLF.

The wolf came shifting
at the door,
Bot the wolf had prowled
on my track before,
And his sniff, sniff, sniff
at my lodge door sill
Only made me laugh
at his devilish will.
stirred my fire
and read my book,
And joyed my soul
at my ingle nook.
His shifts and his snarl
were always there,
Bot my heart was not
the heart of hare.
cursed the beast
and drove him away,
Bot he came with
the fall Of night each day,
And his sniff, sniff, sniff
the whole night through
could hear between
the winds that blew.
And the time came
when laughed no more,
But glanced with fear
at my fral lodge door,
For l knew that
the wolf at bay
Sooner or later
would have his way.
The Fates were three,
and l was one.
About my Life
net was spun;
My soul grew faint
IN the deadly snare,
And the shfewd wolf knew
my hearts despair.
A crash, and my door
flew open wide,
My strength was not
as the beasts at my side.
That night on my hearthstone
cold and bare
He licked his paw
and made his lair.
John H. Bonsr, in
January Century.
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NEW MILFORD.
Special to .he Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
New Milford, July 16.-Mrs. +. G..
Inderlied returned Friday from q four
weeks visit with her sister at CALI
coon.
William Ransom, who resides in the
township and has been DANGEROUSLY i'll
with pneumonia, is recovering.
Alec Gillis, of CarbOndale, is a guest
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. w. Boyle.
Mr.. and Mrs. George e. Shay and
son Carleton, of Peckville, spent last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. S. V. Trum-
bull, at Beaver Meadow.
Mrs. M. l.. Beebe and daughter,
Helen, are visiting friends in Scranton.
Mrs. Il. S. Garrett is entertaining
Mrs. Mary Jay, of Elmira.
Mrs. G. C. HoEell spent a day in
Montrose recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tucker enter
tained their son and daughter from
Binghamtcn over Sunday
Miss lisa Darrow entertained Miss
Alice Watrous, of Brooklyn, few
days last week.
Mr. William II. MoXley and daughter,
of Binghamton, was in town last week.
Rev. f. NJ. Davenport, of Kingston,
N. Y, is spending his vacation with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. David Dav-
| export.
Mrs Ernest Moss, who has been
spending few weeks with her mother
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here, has returned to her home in
Meridian, Conn.
Edgar Grinnell, of Scranton, is
spending his summer vacation with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Theron Grin
nell.
Mrs. w. L. Brundege entertained
Mrs. w. w. Adams and son and Mrs.
e. f. Brundage, of Kingsley, one day
last week.
The funeral services OF Mrs l.. o.
Farrar, who died at Heart Lake July
Sth, were conducted from the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. II. J. Tiffany,
Wednesday last at one o'clock, Rev.
r.. N. Ives officiating. Mrs. Farrar
leaves a husband and two small chill
dren, three sisters and four brothers
besides her parents.
Miss Nina Moore and brother, Bert
spent Tuesday of last week with Har-
ford friends.
Mrs. f. n. Boyle and son, Leo, OF
Nicholson, were visiting in town last
week.
Mrs. L. w. Moore has purchased a
house and lot at Kingsley.
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HoPBoTToM.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Hopbottom July 17.-When the mer-
curry rises to 1O5 degrees among the
hills, ii is about time to move to the
mountains. That was about the tenn
perature here on Monday, the hottest
day thus far of the season.
Work is progressing on the new
creamery building. A meeting of the
building committee was held Saturday
evening, and material is being placed
on the ground this week
Mr.. Lyman Blakesley visited his rel
atives in Montrose on Saturday.
Miss Flora Tiffany, of Nicholson,
visited friends in town last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Giles Carpenter, Mrs.
William Ainey and Mrs. N. NJ. Finn
drove to Hallstead on Saturday for a
days visit.
A large gathering attended the Aid
society at Miss Permelia Tewksbury' 8
on Friday. The ladies have decided to
take in hand the matter of repainting
the church. A committee was appoint
ed to circulate a subscription for that
purpose in order to give the gentlemen
an opportunity to assist.
The Methodist Ladies' Aid VIII serve
| ice cream and cake at Mrs. Willard
| Gavitt's Thursday evening. This will
| take the place of the regular meeting
of the society.
The location of the council building
| is to be changed. 1t will be removed
| to a lot purchased of c. II. Kellum
on Center street. DIR. A. ]. Taylor has
| purchased the lot where it now stands
The farmers are now busy gathering
their scant crop of hay. Owing to the
| lack of rain during the early part OF
| the season. the crop is not over one
half what Iright otherwise have beer
| aypapta1
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THOMPSON.


Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Thompson, July 17.-E. A. Mead,
while repairing a bicycle the other day,
caught the thumb of his right hand in
the gearing and lacerated it severely.
Jasper Hobbs, one of the thrifty
farmers of Ararat, received a savage
kick from his horse last Saturday,
while attempting to doctor it, break
ing three ribs from the spine and in
ficting other internal injuries, the eX
tent of which is not easily told. He IS
in bad shape and suffering intensely at
this writing.
The foundation for the new cream
cry at Starrucca is finished, and the
sills for the building are already on,
and the building goes on apace, so the
farmers will soon have the milk busi-
ness their own way, which ought to be
satisfactory to them.
Miss Maud Stewart, of Clifford, is
announced to speak next Sabbath
evening for the Epworth league here.
She is a forceful speaker. and should
have full house to hear her.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Methodist Episcopal church give their
monthly tea in the Grand Army hall
| tomorrow afternoon.
Rev. p. r. Tower returned last even
| ing from Deposit, N. Y, where he Is
supplying the Methodist Episcopal pull
| pit for six weeks. He reports heavy
| rains there Saturday night and Sun .
| day afternoon and a fearful hailstorm
| just out OF the town, which did fear
| full damage to growing crops, the
Thursday before.
Mrs. a. G. Foster has closed her mil
linery store and is rusticating with her
| sons, at Starrucca.
| Martin Lyden has sold his lot. near
| the milk station, to the company that
| is to erect a creamery thereon at once.
| He acknowledged the deed yesterday.
| The contract for the building of the
creamery is already let.
| A severe thunder shower visited this
vicinity Sabbath afternoon, attended
| with high winds. While no serious
damage was done, nearly every yard In
| town has broken shrubbery or trees
| in it.
c. NJ. Lewis and wife attended church
| at Jackson last Sabbath, at the Bap-
tist church in the morning and at the
Methodist Episcopal church in the af.
| ternoon.
Rev. b. +. Larrabee preached al
North Jackson and at Jackson last
Sabbath. He was attended by his wife
who sang a solo at the service at Jack.
son.