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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-27

been watching things as she lay or the
lounge, and as he left the room she
jumped down and looked at Mrs. Bow
ser in an inquiring way. She received
a shake Of the head in reply and walk
ed over and sat down under the piano
to await the coming of events. Mr..
Bowser had won his point without loss
of too much dignity, and he smiled as
he sopped the dye over his scanty
locks. He had paid So for that special
preparation, and the eminent tonsorial
artist had guaranteed that the results
would be almost immediate. Not more
than ten minutes had passed When a
change could be seen, and the bottle
and Bowser went down stairs together.
Mrs. BOwser was reading and a no
remarks to make, and it was ten MIN
utes before she raised her eyes ana
took a look at the dyed hair. AS b
did SO she gave a start OF surprise ana
choked back an exclamation.
whats the matter with your asked
Mr.. Bowser.
"I-I-nothing!"
"You jumped as If something had
bitten you. Do you see any difference
in my hair?"
ST think I will go up stairs. My
head aches"
s:Got another cold probably" he
growled as she left the room. shes
also a bit mad about this hair dye.
I'll take a look in the glass and
Those white hairs had not turned
black, but a queer brindle, and Mrs.
Bowser had realized that she must get
out or explode. One look in the glass
jumped Mr.. Bowser a foot high, and
as he came down on his heels he yell
ed:
"It can't be! 1T can't be! l must
have dirt in my eyes,"
But the color of that hair was the
color of a brindle cow, and when he
had satisfied himself of the fact his
heart stood still for a minute. Then a
great a of relief came.
"Its simply the first change, of
COURSE" he whispered. Zone more ap-
%plication and it will be black. What
a fool | a to get scared!!'
He wasn't over three minutes in put
ting ON another coat, and he held his
head to the hot air register to dry the
dye the quicker. When he straighten-
ed up and took another look in the
glass, his hair was no longer brindle,
but the color Of a yellow dog.
"By thunder! BY thunder" was all
he could say as he stood staring at
!. himself and the cat was rolling over
the floor in Mysteries.
was probably three ply hair dye-brin-
die, yellow and black. The third APP
plication would take ten yearss4off his
age by bringing out the true gloss. 1t
was made and dried in, and Mr.. Bow
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-27

"wHAT DO YOU MEAN BY OLD ENOUGH?
years to have gray hair. You haven't
got a great deal, but what there is of
it looks WELL"
what do you mean by old enough?"
he demanded, with the threat of q fam
lily row in his tones.
"Why, most men have gray hair
after passing forty, don't they? You
were forty-seven your last birthday,
And''-
"Who said I was forty-seven?"
"Why-why"-
There's no why-why about it. My
true age is forty-two. II / look i've
years older, it's because I've had SO
much trouble with you. If you had
your way aboutit you'd make out that
/ was a doddering idiot. How old do
you think folks take me to be with my
hat on?"
Mrs. Bowser wanted to pass a peace
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-27

ser consulted the glass again. What
he saw reflected was a head of celery
green color, and what Mrs. Bowser
heard was such a yell of fury and
despair that she was sure the piano
must have lifted up one Of it's legs.
Some one seemed to be kicking over
chairs and chasing the cat about for
a few minutes, and then there was the
silence Of death. She waited for half
an hour and then slipped down stairs.
The cat lay on the floor as if dead, and
Mr.. Bowser was on his knees or the
floor before a footbath full of soap
suds. He was seeking to restore his
gray hairs and his old age, and as he
soaped his green locks he muttered:
Il will see that eminent t~onsorial
artist tomorrow, and | will take him
by the throat, and / will cry ha! ha!
ha! and I will squeeze the life out of
his lying, swindling carcass and tram
pie on his %quivering heart"
And the cat lifted up her head and
chuckled, and Mrs. Bowser softly re-
treated to her room. M. QUAD.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-27
full evening, and she therefore put the

full evening, and she therefore put the
figures at thirty-siX.
"From thirty-six to thirty-eight,"
said Mr.. Bowser as his vanity could
he read in his face, and / don't know
why I should permit these hairs to
make me look ten years older. Only
yesterday Brown was saying that I
had the step. of a man of thirty"
"But what can you do with them"
Il could dye them, | suppose?" he
half questioned as something like a
blush came to his face and he turned
to the glass again.
Mrs. Bowser laughed at the back Of
his head. She didn't mean to, but she
couldn't restrain herself. 1t was n
OF Mr.. Bowser's funniest as well as
latest fads.
"There you go with your giggle, gig
gle!' he shouted as he turned On her.
lis there anything so excruciatingly
funny in my putting a little dye on my
hair? During the last four weeks you
seem to have lost what little sense you
ever had"
"It just struck me as funny that you
should turn to hair dye" she explained.
ooh, it struck you, did it? You are
always being struck if l make any
particular To- / might have known
that you would he-haw-he over it, but
1 was fool enough to ask your opinion.
Nevertheless l shall go ahead and do
as / please about it."
'"That is, you will dye your hair, and
perhaps you will look all the better for
it. AS you say, there is no need of
your looking ten years older than you
really are. Did you bring home a bot
tie of dye?'
"Well, yes. It's not the ordinary
hair dye you find in the drugstores,
with the smell of a dead horse about
it, but something prepared expressly
for me by Professor Cation, the eminent
tonsOrial artist"
"The eminent barber-yes," unused
Mrs. Bowser. Fl prepared some
thing for you that will deceive even
his fellow artists? Well, | should try
it and see how it works. If you can
look to be only thirty, l shall feel proud
of you"
Mr.. BOwser didn't know whether to
glare or smile, but finally decided to
go UP to his and apply accord
ing to directions. The family cat had
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-27
No Taste.

NO
The
ION the linkS)-
Then you have
no taste for
golf?
The Ostrich
Ugh | should
say not! | new
er could go gut
ia percha, and
the irons have
too many cor
ners on them,
don't you know,
to digest with
out the aid Of
pepsin.-Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-27
Feelings Hurt

Feelings Hurt
"You eel so
very sad" said
the tender to
the locomotive.
Eyes, l suffer
so many revers-
es at the hands
of the engineer,
youknow,"w
the reply.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-27
BOWSER'S CONCEIT.
HE DECIDES THAT HIS GRAY HAIR
GIVES HIM A FALSE APPEARANCE.

HE DECIDES THAT HIS GRAY HAIR
GIVES HIM A FALSE APPEARANCE.
In an Attempt to Remedy the Fault
and Renew His Youthful Appear
ance the Old Man Tries a Barber's
Hair Dye, With Sad Results.
Copyright, 1902, by C. B. Lewis.1
" q RHEN the Bowsers had re-
w 5 5"5ass s,s 5a sns the :'s s5as. s s2s%
ing, Mrs. Bowser detected
Mr.. Bowser taking sly glances at him
self in the mantel mirror and evidently
somewhat perturbeG about his hair.
She let it pass as one of his "streaks,"
but after a time he looked at her in a
half ashamed way and asked:
DO you notice how fast my hair is
turning gray?
Not particularly" she answered.
@'You have been old enough these five
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13
CLIMBING UP.

For The Tribune by Walter j. Ballard.
In the first nine months of the Dem
ocratic year of 1896, we exported sSI OJ0.0OO
worth of manufactured goods. The adj
vent of Republican control in March, 1881,
gave such an impetus TO our factories
that we gradually increased our exports
in that line till we reached S33S 000,W0 for
the same period of 1900. Then by reason
of the extraordinary high price of copper
in the United States in 1901, and the rn-
usual home demand for iron and steel
manufactures, we ran down to $20SO0o.U"U
in thar nine months. Now the treasury
bureau, of statistics comes to the front
with the figure OF s3li 100000 for the nine
months ending September. 1902. This is
very satisfactory, and it looks as If the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1905, will give
US bette showing than the high water
mark of 1900.
Copper has given us sll00O,0oO of this
present increase. and IN iron anc steel
manufactures we are only $3,00000O short
of 1901, though the home demand is
greater than ever. In fact we have been
obliged to increase our imports in that
line by over Sl3,oOo,00G. or practically
double The iron and steel imports for the
nine months of 190. Cotton manufactures
exported this nine months show an in
crease of nearly s1OO0,OUo. Refined miner
al oils fall off s3,5CO,OO Scientific instrr.
ments decreased by 100000. Cars and
carriages decreased by $1150,OO0. Wood
manufactures and leather and manufac-
lures thereof increased oyer $1,000, 0d00
each Books maps, etc. increased by
SloO,o0N. Paratfin and paraffin wax in
creased by a million and a quarter.
Certainly we are climbing up. Now
that the elections are over and the labor
troubles quicted down. the benefit of our
energies. being fixed on producing instead
Of disputing, will soon be felt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

1t is quite certain that no memorial
could be selected better fitted to per-
petunte the fame and kindly remem-
brance of the late John Jermyn than
the proposed swimming pool in Nay
Aug park. 1t will be. as he was. first
lationship with the beauties and graces
of life and distributing it's benefits
widely. Upon his selection of a method
of memorialiZing his fathers mer-
its as well as upon the generous scale
seph Jermyn is certainly TO be con-
gra tulated.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13


Il y Il selves whether the unde-
niably rapid recent adj
Nancement of the American people in
material wealth and outward signs of
prosperity has not been TOO rapid for
safety and permanence. Is it not OF Il
mushroom character, and liable TO dis
appear as swiftly as it came?
No one is better prepared 10 return
an accurate answer to this question
than the comptroller of the currency,
an official in continual touch with the
banking interests of the country and
necessarily kept informed as to the
amount and character of business cred
its from ocean TO ocean, In his speech
at New Orleans Tuesday before the
American. Bankers associat lion, Comp
troller Riugely gave his conclusions as
TO the substantially of our present
prosperity and they are worth repeat
ing.
lie pointed out that in the last ten
Years the value of farm lands in The
United States has increased 1896 Mill
ions of dollars; The implements ana
machinery Oh the farms 267 millions;
the live stock 7Ga milions and the
Naiue of one years farm products has
increased .,2I3 millions. The total value
of ths larm products for the Year 1900
reached the enormous sum OF 4,7ag mill
ION dollars. ana for the year 1902 il viii
considerably sNreed this. lie also clted
the fact that from 1890 to 1900 the mum.
her OF manufacturing establishments in
the United States has increased by I;;,-
100; The number of employees by l0la
millions the total wages paid in laOO
Was 2,3SO millions OF dollars and the
value OF the manufactured produ, Is
VAS over l5 billions of dollars. Mr.
Ridgely then said:
"A comparison OF The figures giving
the blnsing totals With those glyins
actual Increases in quantities ana
values of those things which are the
basis Of al wealth and credits, justla,s
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

the statement that based on funda :
mental conditions the expansion which
has taken place is legitimate growth.
1t is expansion, not imitation. The in
crease in the total loans OF all the banks
for the year is only about eighty per
cent. OF the Increase in value OF the
farming lands and just about equal to
the increase of this years crops over
those Of ten years ago. 1t Is only about
serenty-iour per ceut. of shc increa Sc
IN the value of one years production OF
manufactured articles. and less than
fifty per cent. of the increase IN value
of both farm and manufactured pro-
duets. The total amount OF loans. 7.l6n
millions of dollars. Is only about sixty
per cent. of the value of one years
manufactures and only forty per cent.
of the value of the combined farm and
manufactured products for II single
year. These loans are forty three per
cent. of the value of the farm lands of
the United States ana seventy-two per
cent. of the capital invested i'm manu-
features 10 me they seem to be 10
h'''' 'n'h Shouiu pe iiaue vi tIle NalueS
which exist for their basis and that we
are therefore not on an inflated basis
of loans"
That there has been much specula-
tion he admits and deplores, but specu-
lation. he contends. Is result OF PROS
perty inevitable in its appearance and
consequences. and not n cause or foun-
dation of prosperity. Specula ton may
overdo and collapse, but so long as the
props of our welfare remain as now,
solidly resting on actual gains in
wealth. the fruit of intelligent labor,
real values will suffer little from the
fluctuations in the speculative markets.
1t is Il reassuring doctrine and it seems
SOjiNI
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

WO YEARS ago IL joint COM
i mission was appointed by
the Pennsylvania legislature
to see what could be done
TO systematic ana cconomize in the
states relations to charities. AS is
we'll known. the second largest item
Of state appropriate goes to nsti-
tutions for the relief of distress. The
total thus appropriated at the last
legislative session amounted to $30I4.-
SlI, being exceeded in amount only by
the public school appropriation.
twithstanding the generosity Of
the commOnW ealth in this direction
there has been prolonged and just CONF
plant that its funds have been appro-
priated careicssly and administered
unsystematic;tlly. and there have oc-
casonally been scandals growing out
of the irnportunng of Legislators by
lobbyists in the Interests of local
charities seeking state aid. Altogether,
while there is much in the situation to
be grateful for, especially the lavish
scale of past expenditure. IL is gencr-
'tlis tpIl'tutt llittt tiltIt IL ldlSc lpDlil
for Improvement in details and meth
DDS.
The Snyder commission is preparing
it's report and it is announced that the
Foundations OF its rcCommenda ;ions will
ne the Jumping of the appropriations
for charitable purposes and a system
of disbursement under the supervision
of q state cabinet o;hcrr to be known
as the superintendent Of charities.
Before cent of state money can be
secured in aid of IA local charity it is
proposed 20 require Il thorough eXlm-
nation and cc,litication by department
experts. When III" head of the new
department is satisfied thai the char
itv is what it claims to be ana that
it is rapGrle of performing the service
hat it ask. state helr for. tllen. but
not until then. he il To- draw on lha
state treasury by Vouch"! in such
sums anG in such proportion to the
whole appropriation as in his iIdg-
Ment the case requires.
We have spoken of this. as though il
were TO be a one-nldn power of deCi-
sion and distribution. The commission.
we understand, has not fully decided
whether to recommend one-rnan adj
ministration or an administration by
Il board or commission. Probably the
latter will be the outcome. In that
event, there would he manifest pro-
prcty in turning over the duties of ad-
loinisLraion to the present charity
commissioners. who. without power,
and under hampering crcums tances,
have shown notable devotion and pub
lie spirit
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

Now the question arises whether a
man like Alan G. Mason has any re-
dress for the error of justice which
locks him up and spreads odium over
his name for despicable crime which
1t is afterwards discovered he knew
nothing whatever about.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

According to our consul in Toronto
Canadian inventors have finally Sue
ceeded in manufacturing peat bric-
quettes that will burn as well and as
long as anthracite coal and cost to
manufacture only $3.50 ton. Seeing
is believing
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

A ghastiy tale OF famine comes from
the West Thousands upon thousands
of people are suffering loss ana incon-
venience And all because Republican
prosperity has swamped the railroads,
overtaxeG their carrying facilities and
simply glutted the channels Of distri-
button. You didn't hear these com.
plants in tariff reform times.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13
Scarcity of Anthracite.

"<HE SUPPLY of anthracite
has fallen so very far short
Il of the the demand in New
York, Philadelphia, WASH
inston and some other cities that it is
runiored and believed that the retail
coal dealers are cornering the market.
IT they are. they are doing 50 at their
own risk. The creation of an artificial
coal famine would Very quickly lead
the operators to establish their own
depots. They have practically pledged
themselves to do So in such an event
uality. Once established they would re-
main open when the necessity for their
institution had passed away.
On the Other hand, the coal dealer ;
have haG to contend with many difficult
ties. Their reserve stores We're entirely
cleaned out. Practically every ton of
coal on the market has TO be trans
ported from the mines u day of TWO
before il is distributed. All those who
can afford to buy it in large or COM
paratively large quantities are clamor-
Ing to have it delivered at once The
pincn of winter is in the air and viii
take no denying. The normal average
supply of anth,act, is not re-estabish-
ed yet nor will it be until the mines $
Ut the private operators are working.
An adiustmen. of the difficulties at the
Marklc and at the Pardee colleres is
now nearing completion. An implied
pledge not to molest non union men
was one of the conditions upon which
the union men returned to work. 4
formal pledge in writing would not stay
the hand of the desperate who con-
stitutas himself the arbiter of another
mans rights.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

Six years ago Colorado gave Bryan
134,SO3. This year it's Republican ma
jorty exceeds 5000, the Legislature Is
safely Republican and as Senator Tell
er goes out ex-senator Wolcott will
come in again. illustrating that you
cannot keep good man down.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

1t took four years in prison and a
good deal OF money to clear young
Moineux OF the suspicion of murder
and chiefly because he had sowed wild
oats 1t is a dangerous and an un-
nrOtit itHble crOn
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

Predictions are again made that or.
ganized Republican opposition will re-
appear to Cuban reciprocity. Ther
there will have to be more work fol
the undertaken and several new jobs
for the casket maker"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

The fact that sentimental women fail
ed to come forward with bouquets for
Molineux has always raised a doubt of
his guilt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

From the sentiment of his New York
brethern Hon. David b. Hill is trille
uncertain as to whether he Is 4 Jonah
or a scapegoat.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13
LadrOnisnl.
"~llE SUPPRESSION of La
dronism in the Philippines
will not be an easy task. 1t
is an ,Dara lion however

"~llE SUPPRESSION of La
dronism in the Philippines
l. will not be an easy task. 1t
is an operation. however,
that must be undertaken and carried
out Systematically and effectually.
When Great Britain conquered Upper
Bulmah some ten years ago, inme-
diately after the dethrOnment OF the
old savage who ruled as king and the
dispersion of his warriors, the country
was Over-run by bands of bloodthirsty
and audacious bandits, who have the
same relation to the civil society of
that country that the ladrones have in
the Philippines, The English found, as
We shall find. that while the peactabi
natives abhor those wretches and will
ngly betray them whenever ii Is safe
To do So they are ordinarily so ter
roriaed by them that it was with the
utmost difficulty and after years uf
arduOus military travail that the lars
of those robbers We're discovered and
their leaders run down. The ladrones
are naturally more intelligent than the
ducoits but it would he AN eXaggera-
ton TO say that the islands in which
the bandits are lurking is more difficult
for police campaign than Burmah
proved itself to he.
Cooperation between the civil and
military authorities Is, of course, absn-
lutely Indispensable. The ladrone is
something more than robber, He has
acquired as rebel the military in
stinct. and as a brigand the dare-devil
recklessness of an outlaw, His wild life
gives him an available knowledge Of
the forests, morasses and mountains
which his pursuers cannot hope 10
equal The hest, indeed, the only, way
TO overcome or mitigate these diff
culties is to educate the orderly and
peaceuble natives into the necessity or
eStirpating their worst enemies and to
impress upon them the fact that har-
boring or assisting ladrone in any
way is more cupable and dangerous
thun being ladrone,
- --
The action of the New York Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty in The
case of The little Cubans who had been
brought To this country 10 be educated
at the Tingley School of Theosopists
suggests that the title Is a msnomer.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty evidently prefers that the young
Cubans should starve in squalor and
filth at home rather than be comfort
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

Roosevelt's Chamber Of Commerce
speech boiled down: More power tt
the Golden Rule.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

ably cared for at an institution of un-
orthodox but harmless religious senti-
nents
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

We fear that there is more truth than
poetry in Major Millur's contention
that as now constituted and managed
there is too much politics in the Ma
tonal Guard of Pennsylvania. 1sut
whether the best way to correct this
evil is 10 retr" from its presence or
fight is Il question.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

The barbarians of the Colombian gov
ernment seem disposed to live up to
their reputation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13

Whatever his faults. President Bae,
certainly knows how to use the English
language,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-13
TEN PAGES.
SCRANTON, NOVEMBER 13, 1902.

with only a dozen candidates for re-
cortler yet announced there is room at
the top.