THE SCBANTON TEEBUNE-3ATlRDAY MORNIXQ, SEPTEMBER; 6, 1896.
Ex-Saatoff
Free Coinasrc
From the Lark.
When our lndenpendence had been
achieved and the states of the Union,
as well aa the lTnitcd States, found
themselves deeply In debt, nnd when
the paper money of coiiKress and of the
states of the I'nlon was tremendously
depreciated, the founder of the Con
stitution WashinKton. Hamilton, Jef
ferson, Madison and the other worthies
whose wisdom and patriotism we all
still revere more and more as times
goes on found It necessary to establish
a stable monetary system which should
be based upon silver and gold.
Silver and sold were, adopted because
they were the mony of the world and
because it was known that money, dif
fering from all other things, knows
liu barriers or limitations of countries
or political divisions. Its unversal
value depends and hus always depend
ed upon the 'commercial value of the
precious metals of which it is com
posed. FRANCE'S HARD LESSON.
. Acocrdlngly our colnasre system was
established In 1792; and it is well worthy
of our remembrance and reflection that
In that very year, when our fathers
were establishing our system upon the
solid philosophy and experience of man
kind, the rench people, carried away
by the same wild dectrlnes that are
this year so urgently pressed upon the
people of the United States, established
as a supposed panacea fur hard times
In France a system of lint money, nut
based upon the Intrinsic value of silver
and gold, but upon the credit of the na
tion, secured, as they fondly believed,
upon the real estate of the nation. This
flat money was Issued nt first In mod
erate quantities and times appeared
to Improve and there came what we
nowadays In the language of the streets
call a "boom" and many at first believ
ed that the millennium of finance had
arrived.
But, as In every such case, as prices
rose with the jrreat inllntlon of currency
It required still more currency to cany
on the operations of society, and still
more was Issued. And so- on, and so
on, until within a period of less than
ten years the Inevitable crash came,
and, as always happens In suc h cases.
It was the poor, the laboring people, the
farmers and therefore it wns the
Industrious, the small traders, thesmoll
great body of society that suffered the
enormous misfortune, nnd France was
left in a condition ten times worse
than that from which it undertook by
the experiment to relieve Itself. It was
only the great capitalist and the Bhurp
trader with means who made profits
out of the misfortunes of the rest of the
nation.
Our fathers saw nnd knew what the
certain effect would be of the French
experiment. They knew what our own
experience had been with colonial and
continental money. These Instances
out of many that I nilRht quote from
history illustrate the truth of the great
saying of Thomas Jefferson, that "The
whole art of government consist In the
art of being honest."
ri'ItELY A COMMERCIAL VALUE.
The subject of the establishment of
the Mint and the coinage of money in
1792 was most carefully examined by
the great men who hail the matter In
charge. Mr. Jefferson was called upon
to examine and report upon the ques
tion for the benellt of congress. In
that report, which Is still accessible In
the archives of the government, he de
clared what nobody In any country
(with such exceptions as I have named)
disputed :that the question of the dif
ference between the value of gold and
silver as money was purely a commer
cial question, and thut It did not de
pend upon the will of legislative law,
and that It did not depend upon the
fancy of men or the Ideas of men, but
tipon the same laws of commerce, that
everywhere regulate the price of every
commodity.
THE SAME TRUTH STANDS.
Everybody, In 1792, understood the
matter alike, and accordingly, congress
passed the act establishing the Mint
and the coinage upon the basis that lif
teen pounds of pure silver should be
equal in coins to one pound of pure
gold; and this was done, us Jefferson
proposed, ami us I have stated, upon
the average ninrket ratio of the price
and value of those metals, not as coins,
in all the principal countries of the
world. This ratio was changed later to
15.98 of sliver to one of gold, In order to
keep the values of the two metuls to
gether in commercial ratio.
The question which the voters of the
Tnited States are this year to deter
mine is, whether Oeorge Washington,
who approved the net, nnd Thotnus
Jefferson nnd Alexander Hamilton, who
proposed it, nnd all the other men of
that day acting upon the experience of
all civilized countriesof the world were
right in saying that the ratio that
should exist between silver and gold
when they were to be used ns money
and made compulsory legal tender, de
pended upon the relative ratio of. their
commercial value. Were they wrong?
And has human experience for more
than two thousand years been wrong
in acting upon this principle? Has the
Democratic party, which has governed
the country for two-thirds of its ex
istence, been wrong In steadfastly ad
hering to this principle? Has the Re
publican party during Its period of con
trol been wrong In adhering to this
principle?
JONES AGAINST HIMSELF.
Truth never changes. The truth of
1892 Is the truth of 1896. Even the fore
most of the present advocates of coin
age at the ratio of 16 to 1 Senator Jones
of Nevada has, until recently, main
tained the same proposition. Senator
Jones was. In 1877, a member of the
monetary commission established by
congress to Inquire into the matter of
coinage. On the 2df March, In that
year, he reported from1 the committee
the results of its investigation; and in
that report he said: "There can never
be practically two money standards
whose units of count differ In value In
any country at the same time. It Is of
importance that the value of the stand
ard should be unchanged."
"Whenever, under the double stand
ard, there is a variance between the
legal and the market relations of the
metal, the standard would be practical
ly based on one metal, and it the cheap
er and more available one. Whenever
the legal and market relations of the
metals coincide there would be aquallty
in the material and standard, but unity
In Its value, which would make It In
Its all-important feature a single stand
ard."
ONLY ONE STANDARD.
You see from this that the most able
and Intelligent of the extreme silver
men of this country states fully and
broadly precisely the substance of what
Mr. Jefferson stated ft be a universal
truth. And that truth Is the fundamental
one, that the value of the two metals.
when made Into coin. Is still the value
of the metal, and that all else the coin
does, It does by compulsion of the gov
ernment. Just as legal tender paper
passes from man to man In the bust
ness of society upon the compulsion of
tne government and upon Its credit. It
Is for this obvious reason, therefore.
that when the Intrinsic value of the
metal In the two coins differs the
cheaper one takes the place of the more
valuable, and thus (as Senator Jones
states it) there becomes only ope legal
EiiiMs
Salver
standard and only one coin In use, and
that always the least valuable one.
Our fathers took this so-called double
standard, based upon the Intrinsic
value, because the double standard was
In use in almost all other countries,
although they understood perfectly
well (as Senator Jones bad stated) that
a double standard Is of no practical
value to anybody, because wnen ine
Intrinsic Value of the two metals Is at
the true ratio Is really a single stand
ard, and when they are at the same In
trinsic ratio of value of country falls at
once to be standard of the less valuable
coin. This Is Just as true of money us
It is of the standards of measures ami
weights. What would be thought of
the state that would establish one
length of a foot measure for purchas
ing another for selling?
HAD TO STOP COINAGE.
Let us now see what was the experi
ence of our fathers with the double
standard so carefully and exactly es
tablished. From 1792 to 1806 the coin
age of silver nnd gold went on nt the
established ratio. In that year Thomas
Jefferson was president of the United
States, and James Madison was secre
tary of State. There had then been
coined gold eagles, gold half eagles
a: d gold quarter eagles; silver dollars,
half dollars, quarter dollars, etc. The
total amount of silver dollarB coined
down to that time was about $8,WU.-
OUU. It was found In that short length
of time that the relative Intrinsic value
of the two metals had changed nnd
that fifteen pounds of sliver was worth
commercially more than one pound of
gold, nnd that consequently the coined
dollars did not remain In circulation,
but were purchased for the purpose of
export. President Jefferson, according
ly, on the 1st of May, 1S06, directed the
stoppage of the coinage of the silver
dollar.
No more silver dollars were coined
until 1SH7, when a new act of congress
was passed reducing the sliver In the
coin from 416 grains to 41214. During
this period, more than thirty years, the
original silver dollar had entirely dis
appeared from circulation and the
country lived and prospered under a
single gold standard, adopted by
Thomas Jefferson himself under the
authority of law, and for the simple
reason that, owing to the difference In
the relative quantity of the production.
and therefore the relative value, of sil
ver nnd gold, a double standard could
not be kept up at the established ratio.
GREAT TROUBLE WITH VALUES.
The act of congress of 1837 undertook
to restore the equality of the relative
commecrlal value of the two coins.
and for tho time being it did restore it
by the change I have mentioned. In the
weight of the sliver in a dollar, making
tne value or the gold and silver the
same. Hut meantime the commercial
value of the gold In our coins hnd risen
above the face value of the coins and
consequently the gold coins began fo
be exported; and to meet this dif
ference congress in ix:t4 reduced the
amount of gold in a dollar sulliciently
to multe the gold in It worth no more
than its face value.
Here again Is another Instance in our
own experience when there was no mo
tive otner tnun that of simple busi
ness common sense of the necessity of
regulating the Intrinsic value commp.r-
clally of the metal they contained.
And yet In this year of our Lord we
are asked to shut our eyes to all human
experience (Including our own), and to
emer upon me coinage of silver at a
ratio of only a little more than half Its
commercial valueln proportion to the
aiur in koiu.
THE ACT OF 1873.
T cnll vnnr ntto,.t
,1-. . , , "ov iu me nci
or 1.S..I, which the demagogues and the
great sliver mine owners nnd specu
ators In silver all over the world have
lately denouncel as a crime, because,
. .e-. ,, roiiKiess secretly demonetiz
ed silver. I have already shown you
tlUlt. SlXtV-SPVon vonra Vi..f..... rm..
Jefferson, the great Democratic presl-
uciii ui wit i nueu states, acting under
ine munoriry or law, demonetized silver
and that It stayed demonetized until
ISW, and when. If you call is so. it
Was relllonetlKHil nlm,, t ........ .......
ii'.i .tun
coined, for the total amount coined
down to the passage of the act of 173
was only $.i,o;ti,L'2.s: and of this, ns I
iiitvn oeioiH siateu ninuist the entire
amount had been coined before 1806.
In 1ST.'!. thel'efMl'A thfira If-na ..11......
coinage of dollars as a fact, and sub
stantially none m existence, and the
country had been continually on the
Cold stanilanl nlisolnielv
and practically from the verv begin-
! . . ... 1 j- ... . .
inn, iit'i-uiixe, ueiore innt time, the
silver being out of relation to gold, did
mn circulate ana was exported.
Congress nerfertlv nr..l..i-t,i,.,l hn
It was about when It passed the revised
coinage act of 1S7:I. There was no con
tention about It, although the subject
was under consideration for nearly
or quite, two years. And the omission
of the provision for further coinage of
silver rose from the same obvious busi
ness common sense that the experience
ana union or jeuerson anil the whole
course nf the government had shown
to be true.
Two years after the act of 1S73, gold
having been the sole standard for more
than three-quarters nf the existence of
the Re'Ulblic. anil thnl-B Vidnrr n una.
isr.up of the paper money of the govern
ment wiiien was uepreciateu rrom the
enormous Issue required by the war,
rcnirress took in Imml tlm anMnnt ,.t
the resumption of specie payments,
nu n mi men men recognized and
all sensible men in every country still
recnirnize as psspntlnl h uwirnrA
and progress of every country. Con-
kicki iiieu iiussen ine resumption net.
Knowing that by law and practice, gold
was the sinirlt. ami nnehanirenriln otmwi-
anl of value. It provided for commenc
ing redemption or united States notes
in 1S7&! Atl.1 tr Tirnvlrlpil fnn nnkni.
answer the purposes of the use of small
motley, me iaw provmeu in terms for
the coinage of half dollars and perhaps
other subsidiary coin, but, of course,
made no urovislon for the minon nf
silver dollars.
- EVERYBODY UNDERSTOOD.
Do the free coinage of silver people,
many of the leaders of whom were then,
and still are, in congress, pretend that
they voted on that act In Ignorance of
the fact that no provision was made for
coining silver dollars, while express
provision was made for the coinage of
small silver? Did the people under
stand It? Nobody pretends any such
thing. Everybody knew that the com
mercial countries of the world were, aa
rapidly as possible, coming to the only
philosophical standard nf values, name
ly, a single standard either of gold or of
silver; the countries where labor was
best rewarded and where the conditions
of property and prosperity were most
uniform among all portions of the com
munity, going to the gold standard,
while those less happily situated ad
hered to the silver standard, such as
Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, and so
forth. "
The resumption act of 187o had pro
vided for the redemption of United
States notes, and did not permit thfir
reissue; so that when the debt of tho
government was once paid, It would re
main paid. I think I am Bafe In saying
that If that policy had been adhered tJ
the country would not have been In so
bad a condition as It Is now. and we
shouldnot have bten obliged to borrow
two hundrtd millions to continue tne
01 tic
repeated redemption of these notes. '
When the United States Issues & note
It does not receive any obligation In
return. It puts it out to pay a debt.
When a bank reissues one of its notes.
It Issues It to a borrower, and takes an
obligation of the same amount with
which to reimburse Itself; and so
bank may, upon safe business princi
ples, reissue its own notes, while the
United States cannot.
Then came the cry that the circula
tion of the country was going to be
greatly reduced by this redemption of
United States notes, not considering
thut under the national banking laws
any number of citizens In any locality
could establish a bank and issue circu
lation in the old-fashioned way and a
circulation which the banking laws
made absolutely secure to the bill
holder; far different from the experi
ence of state bnnks. This cry. In con
nection with tho active interests of sjl
ver mire owners and sliver dealers,
led, unhappily, to the passage of a law
requiring the reissue of United States
notes and to the passage of the act of
1S7S. providing for the purchase and
coinage by the United States of silver
bullion at the market price and at at
the old ratio of 16 to 1. And this
amount of purchase was further In
creased by a later act of congress. Un
der these acts there was coined down
to the 30th of June. 1893, J419.33J.450,
when the amount had grown so enor
mous, together with the uncoined bul
lion in the treasury, that congress (ii
13?:i lepealed the act.
WOULD IT INCREASE THE VALUE?
It Is now proposed not to restore the
purhuslng act of 1878 and the subsequ
ent act for tho government coining
dollars on Its own account, but to coin
for everybody from every country, nil
the silver that shall be brought to the
mint, Into dollars, the Intrinsic value of
which Is at present from 60 to 58 cents,
and the legal tender value of which, to
be paid to all the people engaged In nil
the Industries of the United States,
Is to be a full dollar.
Our silver friends Insist, as stated
by Mr. Bryan in his New York
speech, that the effect of such a
law will be to raise the price of sliver
so that It will be worth In the market
J1.29 an ounce, which Is the value re
quired to make the silver In a dollar
worth a dollar. If Mr. Bryan meant
what his words literally mean, he
would be plainly right, for If the price
of silver Is stated In silver dollars the
value of tho same weight nf silwr In
the silver dollar or out of It would al
ways be the same. But such a trick, of
phrase would be unworhy of a great
candidate for u great ofllce unless all
tricks are fair when war is carried on
"in the eiiemey's country."
PROFIT OF THE MINK OWNER.
But we will hnve the country to sup
pose that the price of silver under free
coinage at 16 to 1 would rise to $1.29
per ounce, paid for In golJ. This result
if true, would muke the silver of the
mine owners and dealers, not only in
our own country, but In cv.?ry fi reign
country, instantly realise a profit of
ISO per cent, by act of congress. Every
ounce of this sliver would be worth
almost exactly' two and one-half times
as much as It was before. The t"ul
value of the silver produced In the
world In the last five years is more than
ttioo.uoO.000, and no congress would give
tltem a net profit of $9UO,lKiO,000. Do the
honest. Intelligent and industrious peo
ple of this country believe that all the
clamor of these people for free coin
age Is either disinterested or honest?
But Is this prophecy of Mr. Bryan re
liable? Can any Instance be cited In
the whole history of mankind, in which
Riiy such effect has been produced by
free coinage? The contrary is true. It
wus known to Jefferson nnd Madison,
nnd Hamilton, and Washlnwton when
they established the coinage Fyslein of
1792, that It wat not true, and that
even a slight variation in the commer
cial value of the two metals at any
given ratio immediately depreciated
the cheaper metal and drove the other
out of circulation, nnd disturbed and
Impeded the welfare nnd progress of
the whole body of the communities.
LAW OF Sl'ITLY AND DEMAND.
The law of suppy ami demand, which
every farmer, every business man nnd
every workinguian perfectly under
stand!) in his own occupation, governs
the price of the precious metals just as
certainly as it governs the labor. There
is another thing in this connection thut
ought to be mentioned, namely, thnt
these precious metals are not consumed
ns they nre produced from year to year,
as the other products of human Indus
I try, but continue to accumulate, which
' enormously Increases the danger and
I .1 , l.u lt,,uull.lllli' t .....In.
tulnlng a double standard of values.
II Is as certain, therefore, as anything
Hint human phlisophy and human ex
perience fun establish that the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1
will produce an enormous depreciation
of the value of tho silver dollar, and
Immediately put the United Stales up
on the fating of a silver standard
nloue. And this standard will grow
more and. more depreciated ns The pro
duct Ion of silver is stimulated by the
right of every mine owner nnd dealer
to turn his metal (worth only 51 to 63
cents an ounce) Into a dollar, a compul
sory legnl tender to every man engaged
In labor, trnde or production.
Hut. it Is asked, what harm will this
do? It is sld that prices of every
thing will rise according. If the prices
of everything labor, manufactures,
food products nnd all rise In equal pro
portion, what better off is anybody? In
thnt case we should be Just where we
nre now, excepting that It will take
double the volume of monev to do the
same n mount of business. But humnn
experience hns proved thnt prices t.f
everything do not, in such periods
of Inllntlon, rise In equal proportion;
and thnt as It respects the smnll manu
facturer, the small farmer nnd the
smnll trader, nnd especially the wage
earners, prices do not rise In propor
tion. It was found and Is proved by
statistics carefully gathered that dur
ing our wartime Inflation (and since)
the pay of the wage-earners did not
rise in proportion to the rise In the
things they had to buy.
ON THE VERGE OF A r.UE K
DOWN.
Some one may nsk how it happens
that our present sliver dollar, coined r.t
the ratio of 16 to 1, maintains Us pai ity
with gold. The answer is ca?iy. !t is
that the government. In order to avert
the Inevitable disaster that '.vmi.1 oth
erwise follow, has treated in in trar,
sactlons the Bllver dollar as worth one
tenth of a gold eagle: and. as n fa-.t,
whether the law authorizes it cr in t.
ten silver dollars can he exchanged for
a greenback, and a greenback present
ed at the Treasury and gold obf.lned
for it. It is this fact, and this plone,
thnt has so far prevented a break Sown.
But we could not go on coining the
silver dollar, even at the rate of sixty
millions a year, and continue to do this
thing. And H was found In H.vj, when
we had reached the enormous tonnageof
silver dollars amounting, as I have said,
to four hundred and fifty odd millions
that that volume could not be further
Increased and sliver be thus practically
kept at a par with gold. And It was
this certainly that led congress so wise
ly In 1893 to repeal the act providing
for the purchase of silver and the
coinage of more dollars.
But the Implications of the Chicago
platform and many of the silver ora
Pens
ef
tors now speaking endeavor to make
people believe that the opposition to
the free coinage project comes from the
capitalists and the "gold bugs," as they
call them. A "gold bug" may be a bad
man, but the people of the world have
always found and always will find that
a humbug Is a much worse one. But
who Isthecapltnlistnnd who Is the "gold
bug?" Out of nearly 70,000,000 of people
In the United States It is safe to say
that there are not 10,000 individuals
who nre "great capitalists." The capi
talwhich Is merely another name for
the accumulated wealth of the country
Is divided among our people In more
nearly cqunl proportions than in any
other country on the globe. Tho small
est farmer, the smallest trader, the
smallest manufacturer and the hum
blest workingman is a capitalist and
they all have the same Interests. It is
their co-operation that produces pros
perity and welfare. Without It few of
them can have either.
AIMED AT OUR FREEDOM.
The banks, against which so much
Is said, find their capital In the con
trlbutiomi (usually small) of their
stockholders, composing in numbers
niid amount much the largest part of
their enterprise. Thesame is tiue of
corporations In the main. The same Is
true, as we all know, of the savings
banks. The same Is true of every rail
way line In the country. There Is no
place, happily. In this republic where a
line enn be drawn between the rich
and the poor. There are no "classes" of
any kind, either of title or station or
wealth.
The Chicago project, therefore. Is not
and cannot be aimed at the pulling
down of the rich and the building up
of the poor; it is aimed at our system
of true freedom, equality and Justice,
that reaches from the richest to the
poorest man In the country, and If car
ried out It will operate as such
schemes always have a hundred times
more severely uinm people of small
means and upon labor than upon the
very wealthy, who are always able as
they always have been to take care
of themselves under any conditon of
things.
The substantial prosperity, therefore,
of the whole body of the people of our
country, as well as Its honor, requires
us to unite in condemning and defeat
ing this scheme by the surest means in
our power.
Fiction.
Three interesting numbers In Apple
ton's Town and Country library await
notice. In "The King's Revenge"
Claude Bray, a writer from whom more
will be welcome, draws a fascinating
picture of the time of King Edward II,
a period of English history hitherto un
filled In fiction. The war between Ed
ward and the barons, the humiliation
of Bunnockburn, the assassination of
Piers Galveston, earl of Carlisle, and
finally the downfall of Kail Thomas of
Lancaster are set fortri through the
medium of romance with rare skill.
Whether as fiction or as history, the
book is truly recommendnble. In "An
Outcast of the Islands" Joseph Conrad
revives some of the characters mnde
familiar In "Almayer's Folly." The
book is strongly drawn, but does not
make to our notion an effective bid for
human sympathy. The underlying
Idea of Basil Thompson's "A Court In
trigue" is the accidental entrance pf.a
Britleh tourist Into u private Wench
insane asylum filled with u eont'pany
of men and woim n who are at first so
thoroughly dominated by the venerable
gentleman who culls himself their king
that their Individual vagaries do not
outcrop to any great extent anil It Is
not until his visit has beene some
what prolonged thut the tourist begins
to suspect their true hursfter.', In the
end he escrnes wl'h th Kind's daugh
ter (the only sane one In the lum
ber) and the lunatics, grown violent,
proceed to destroy themselves.
!! II II
The merit In "Heavy Odds" (pub
lished by the Lipplncotts) Is that It Is
a good book of its kind, and if you like
the kind It will be Just what you will
like. The author, Marcus Clarke,
writes wittily and with spirit along
the conventional lines, employing
among his property figures a proud
baronet, a scapegoat son, a false friend,
a trusting girl lured into a secret mar
riage and a handsome cousin saved in
the last chapter from wreck through a
hopeless love. These are the rough In
gredients of the tale, but in its weav
ing tliev are Juggled and permutated
with not a little skill.
II I! II
That Wllkle Colllne was the master
plot-mechanician of modern fiction
docs not admit of doubt; and that
"The Woman In White" vies with "The
Moonstone" for the honor of being re
garded the best creation of his peculiar
genius Is generally conceded. A handy
reptlnt of this absorbing novel comes
from Laird and Leo, Chicago; and it
receipt Immediately took us from till
other tasks until the lust word was
read.
LITERARY NOTES.
Mark Twain is engaged upon a new
volume which Is to describe his recent
tour around the globe.
The liffh and last volume of the "Me
molr of Henri Unehefovt" l In the press,
n nd the abridged English eJltlon will soon
come out.
"Dodo" Benson, as the writer l colled,
to distinguish him from his poet brother.
A. C. Benson, is wrlrlng a new book, and
hii been traveling wilh Jacob Hood, who
is to llluatrute the new volume.
Some years ago Mr. Handy wrote a brief
serial story whl'.-h-he caileu " J lie rursiiii
of the Well-Beloved." It has never hen
published in book form. Now he thinks
UI eNpUll'UMff It HIIO U reK'llur iuuk novel
and it may appear as such In the new edi
lion of his collected works.
Alnhonse Dainlet Is a southerner and the
colds wliu's of Paris annoy him grestly.
In his study In his house In the Faubourg
St. Germain a larire nre Is linrnlnn even
when the weather is comparatively warm.
uuiiilet Is unable to wortt unless tn tern
pi ramie of the room Is to. his liking.
In 18H3 there were four boy who oocii.
pled th same room at West Point. Since
then they have become known to the
world Thev are Cantain Charles Kinii.
Arthur SherbiMirne Hardy, John BrlsUe
Walker ana Klrhnni iiemy savage.
MUOSEY MDiVIVllS.
Hats a-flyin', ladies slgrr.n',
Shoutln' out his name:
Men a-yellln', echoes tellln'
All about his fame;
Bleachers cheerln. no more fearln'
Mugsey's in the game!
Folks a-singin', cowbells rlngln',
Small boys skin the cat:
Horns a-tootin', rotters rootln'.
Don't know where they're at;
Fat men rryin. sorrows dyin',
Mugsey's at the bat!
Yells ascendln', blue sky endin',
One long happy shout;
NlgRers sqtiealin', heads a-reelln',
Ain't no time for doubt;
All gone crazy, what a daisy
Mugsey's lined her outl
All hands cheerful, yellin' fearful,
Never had such fun;
Coppers beamln', girls a-screamln'
Think the game Is ffvon;
Whole world shakln'Jgran'itan' breskin'-
Muasey's made a "tin!
-Baltimore Newt.
i-siumor New. 1 ksraatse, Po. ,
INCREASE. OF POPULATION.
Earopean Cities Increase in Size at
Knpidly as American Cities. .
From the Florida Times-Union.
It will take Greater New York a lone
time to become the largest city of the
world, even if we Ignore Chicago's hopes
of passing -her In population. Within
the area to be embraced In Greater
New York there are now about 3,000,000
people, besides 500,000 more Just across
the river. Greater London has a popu
lation of more than (.000,000. By the
census taken In a night, as the slow
Lngllih take a census, the city In the
"administrative county of London" has
4,441.271 population, a gain of 179.MQ peo
ple In five years. Greater London,
however, has a population of 6,167,632,
and has gained U4.360 In five years, a
larger actual guln, though a smaller
percentage of goln, than that of Greater
New York. Thus a dty which nvo
years ego was as large as New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, St.
Louis, Boston, Baltimore and New Or
leans combined, added In half a decade
a population little less than that of San
Francisco and Cincinnati combined In
1890. '
Among the world's great cities Paris
will be third In 19U0, but will not long
hold her place. At the present rate of
growth she will be passed by Chicago
and Berlin, Toklo and Vienna, before
the first decade of the next century
closes.
Wonderful as hns been the growth of
American cities, they have generally
not inctecsi'd more rapidly than the
cities of Europe nf equal size. Amster
dam, Buda-Pesth, Warsaw, Rome and
MaYseillcs have kept pace with titles
of equal size in this country, as St.
Louis, Boston and Baltimore, and many
cities In South America and Australia
that were smaller than these cities in
1X80 were larger In 1890. Rio de Janeiro,
Buenos Ay res, Melbourne and Sydney
have grown much more rapidly than
cities of equal size In the United States
In 1890, except New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia and Brooklyn, while in
1880 seven cities In this country were
larger than Rio de Janeiro and ten
larger than Buenos Ayres. The former
has passed St. Louis, Boston and Bal
timore, while the latter, in addition to
these, has passed Cincinnati, San Fran
cisco and New Orleans. In 1880 Mel
bourne was smaller than either ht.
Louis, Boston, Baltimore or Cincinnati.
Now it is larger than either. During
the same time Sydney has passed Cin
cinnati and San Francisco In popula
tion. All over the world the drift of popu
lation Is to the cities. This drift Is very
perceptible In this conutry, but It Is
much moie marked In some other coun
tres. BICt CLE ACCIDENT STATISTICS
Analvsi of 2,01)0 Claims Mnde Upon
One Large Comrnuy,
The relative frequency of various
physical accidents Is a matter on
which extended statltstlcs have not ye:
been collected, but one of the acci
dent compunles has made a contribu
tion thereto by analyzing 2,000 acci
dent clulms which appear on its books.
From these it appears that 531, or ov. r
25 per cent, were Injured by falls i n
pavements, 242 by which s. "ft by hois-
kicks or bites, 47 by hcrsebac'4 r!d
ing. 117 by cuts with edge tuols or
glass, 95 by weights falling upon them,
76 by bicycle accidents, and 72 by fall
ing down stairs.
The relative Infrequence of bicycle
accidents Is the most Buggestive fea
ture of the computation, and It will
hardly be accepted by the timid ne
ophyte In the art of riding. A careful
authority says bicycle accidents occur
at' the rate of 180 a day, but fatalities
are less than 1 per cent, of the whole.
Spring House
HEART LAKE, SUSQ'A CO,,
U. E. CROFUT, PROPnl-TO.l
THI3 HOUSES Is strictly temperance. It
new and well lurnlshud and UPENKD f O
THE PUBLIC THB VKAR ROUND, Is
located midway bttwern binghamton nl
Uirantcn. un the Montrose and Lacka
wanna Railroad, six mile from D., L. A
W. R. R at Alford Station, and five mile
from Mcntros. rapacity eighty-five,
three mtm.lei' walk from railroad station
House situated 100 feet from the lake,
wide veranda extends the entire length
of the house, which Is 100 feet.
Row Boats, Fishing Tackle, Etc.
Free to (Juests.
Altitude about 2.000 feet, Quailing In this
respect the Adirondack and Catikill
Mountains.
Fine groves, plenty of shnde and beautl.
ful ecenery, making a Summer Resort ur..
excelled In beauty and cheapness.
Dancing pavilion, swings. erotuct
rrounils. etc OOI.n RT'RINQ WATER
AND PLENTY OP MILK.
Kates $7 to Jio Per Veek. $1.50 Per Day.
Excursion tickets cold at all stations 00
D.. L. St XV. lines.
Porter meets all trains.
THE
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Electric Pa'teries, Electric EinlaleM. for ex
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REV1 VO. It quicklr and mirtljr rwtorea Nervous.
sees. Lout Vitality, lm potency. Nujlitljr EraUelonr,
Loat Power, Falling Mi mnry, Waitlna Diwaaea. and
all affects of mlf-alHuw or esceaand lodlaeretiou.
wilted nnlita one tor andy. bmlneaa or marriage. It
not only cure brirting at tho wat otja.bat
is a gnat nTvtoiilr ami blood builder, bring
.i:t luck ico p uk plow to t-sle filieeksauilre
turii.g the fl.ru of routh. It wgrda o(l Insanity
-ad Cou.umitl,n. Inalut on laving HICVIVO, nc
itlier. It can be carried In Wat socket. Oy antll
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A Candid Siatsasnt ef Facts by Two RcIIitJs C:a ft.!)
Substantiated.
From the Argut, TVntn, Michigan.
Mr. John Q. Dsvida, of Vernon, 'Mirhlenn,
is happy mail agnin. For many years he
was afflicted with rheumatiain in his feet and
had tried many medicines, some of them re
lieved him nf liu Mitl'rrinirs lor a abort time,
but It was mire to return Hpiin.
Mr. Itavids is otie nf the earlient settlers In
PliiiiwasaiMT County, and hU continued good
health nnd elustic step at hi advanced ace,
has attracted the attention of Ids t'rit-ndg.
Upon bviugqucMtioned on the subject be said :
"I do not think I inherited a very good
constitution, for 1 never enjoyed very good
health, but in 1803 I think new complica
tions came upon uio and 1 wus severely at
tacked with acute rheumatism in niy 'feet.
My father . was also n rheumatic, and no
doubt that together with the remedies he used
ior rvlii f caused his death. : 8oint times I
would lie free .front Ihcw rheumatic pains
and nirijn It would return as bad a ever. 1
wtw frequently laid up on account of it and
Suite nuuhlc to do any work. In May 1973,
hud an unusually severe attack In my (eet
an J they became to swollen that I could nut
Kt my luots on until the following;' Decern
r. nd were art intensely painful that I
could not stiller tho bed clothes to touch them,
and my feet became badly crippled. I tried
Diiiny remedies, some would give relief fore
short time then the trouble would return,
thui I lived, stiflpriinr; the most intense agony
until November ISMS, at which time it was
almmt impossible for rue to attend to my
buiiness, nnd I felt that life was not worth
living. At this time I happened to meet a
man from Bay City, Michinu, who declared
that ha had been cured uf rheumatitm by Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills. I went at once to De
Hart llrothrra' Drug Store and bought two
boxes, and before I had taken all of one box
I realized that they were doing me good. I
btdievo I took four boxes at that time ami so
(Ur a I could see I was cured or at least en
tirely relieved of my terrible sufferings, and
enjoyed better heultli than I had before for
mmiy years. But light symptoms would
still occaaionallv return, when 1 would take
'my medicine' and set immediate relief
therefrom. have taken altoiether seven
or rigid boxes and I have not hud a single at
tack of rheumatism for a long time and en
joy better health now than 1 have before tor
lilteen yearn, nnd I consider mvsclf cured by
Dr. Willlum' Pink Pills. My feet are as
free from pain as they ever were. Now as
you see me about the streets without the
slightest lumeness don't yon think I ought
to be hnppy?" As he concluded reluting
hi experience with Dr. Williams' Pink Piiis
and the rheunvttistn, he sprang up and step
ped oil a supple us u fifteen-year-old boy.
Mr. Davids has been member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church here for nearly
thirty yeunt. and his consistent, moral and
exemplary life has been such that no word
nf commendation would be extravagant.
Htatk ov Michigan, I
County op Bhiawahske. (
Personally appeared before me, a Justice
of the Peace, in and for the county of tjlila.
wussee, and titate of Michigan, this 14th day
of February, WHS, John Q. Davids, who be
ing by me duly sworn deposes and says:
'i'lint the above facts are true us related, to
the best of his belief.
ISiirned.l .1. O. flavins.
Buliwribcd and sworn to before me this 14th
day of February, 1896.
Frank wkstcott, Jiuti ef tke Ptact.
It Sounds Like a Miracle.
Frnmthe Otmmtreial Apptal, iltmphi,Ttnn.
What in many respects Is a remarkable
etire has been effected in Hinds County,
Miss., near the thriving little town of Utlea.
Mr. ('. L. Farris lives at Duke, a post
office seven miles from Vtlca, and at the
present time he Is en object of considerable
rurinsity throughout the community, for it
was he who wus enrol of a chronic ease of
rheumatism of over thirty years standing.
At, (hmmertial-Appral reporter baying
been detailed to see Mr. Farris, drove out to
Bis store at Duke. Ur. Farris, who is post
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PIANO
At a time when many manu
facturers and dealers are making
the most astounding statements
regardingthe merits and durability
of inferior Pianos, intending pur
chasers should not fail to make
critical examination of the above
instruments.
ELC. RICKER
General Dealer in Northeast
era Pennsylvania.
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Now Telephone Exchange Building. US
Adama Ave., Soranton, Pa.
MERCHANT TAILORING
Full Line of Cloths in Fall and
Winter Styles. 189(i-7. No meas.
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master, was busy working rap the mail, out
as aooii as he hod finished he acceded very -
cheerfully to an interview.
"To begin with," said he, "I suppose 700
want to know how I was cured of rheums
tiam f Well, it was remarkable. I hod al
most given up all hope of ever being cured.
Why, sometimes I couldn't walk for weeks
at a time. I suffered constantly and wot
never entirely free from it.
" I had tried two specialists in New Or
leans, one in Vicksbnrg, one in Atlanta nod
two in New York and never gained anything
more from thcu tuuu temporary relief, tome
timex not thut.
"One day I woe reeding newspaper 1
forget now which one end my attention
was attracted by an article on Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pole People. It stated thai
they were good for rheumatism and I deter
mined to get some of them and see if then
was any virtue in them. I went to Vicks
burg two days later and purchased six boxes,
and after taking the pills according to direc
tions, the severe attack of rheumatism I wet
then suffering from vanished, and I hav
never frit a twinge of it since, and that hm
been over a year ago.
'Write you letter for publication!
Why certainly, with pleasure, it will bt
nothing more tliau common humanity te
suflerers from rheumatism to let them-know
how they can be cured."
Mr. Farris went to his detk and after
writing a few moments handed the reportei
the following: .
Dim, Hwtw Co., Mira., Jan , 1OT6.
"This is to certify that I contracted rheu
matism during the war, in 1MB, while a
member of the Thirty-eighth Mississippi In
fantry, C. S. A., ami up to a year ago I wai
a constant sufferer from it, sometimes being
unable to walk. The first attack confined
me to my bed for three months.
"About eighteen months ago I raw an ad.
verttscment of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills which
stated that they were a sure cure for rheuma
tism. I decided to get some of them and so the
next time I went to Vicksburg I bought six .
boxes. I liegnn taking them according to di-'
recttons ami by the time I had taken the six
boxes, the rheumatism went away and I hart
never felt a particle of It since.
"I know that Dr. Williams' Pink Pillt
are responsible for the care. It lias been
over a year since I took the pills and I firmly
believe I am permanently cured.
" I take pleasure in recommending them
to all who suffer from rheumatism, and feel
confident that if taken according to direc
tions, they will em re any case or the kind.
I have taken probably a barrel of medicine
and hnve tried every specialist of note in
New Orleans, Vicksbnrg, Atlanta and New
York and have been kept poor scratching
around to get money to puy them with, nnd '
I never got any relief until 1 used Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills.
ISigned.l C. L. Farms."
Messrs. Terrell Bros., druggists, of Utica,
corroborated in every detail the statement
and letter of Mr. Fitrris. and ndded that
since his wonderful cure, their sale for Piuk
Pills had lieen something phenomenal and
a number of people hstl used them not only
for rheumatism, but for extreme nervous- -ness,
and a number of other disorders, and
all had derived great benefit from them.
Dr. O. W. F.flis and Messrs. . P Dudley
A Hon, the other druggists of Uticn iave sub-
terreii, ana an spoao very Highly or Mr.
Funis and his standing In the rnmmunitv,
F.very one of them said that Mr. rtrrls'
statement would sooner be accented by the
people of Vtlca and the surrounding country
than anyone else they knew of.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
are now given to the public as an unfkillna
Mood builder nnd nerve restorer, curing all
forms of weakness arising from a watery con
dition of the blood or shattered nerves. The
pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent -post
paid on receipt of price, 60 cents a box or
six boxes for $2.w, (they are never sold In
bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Wil
liams Medicine Co., Svhenectudy, N. Y.
DATE.
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Ovtr 26.000 In Use.
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PICKLING CUCUMBERS
Pickling Cucumbers, Cauli
flower, Horse-Radish Root,
Pickling Onions, Ginger
Rcot, Red Cabbage, Mangoes,
Hot Peppers, Dill.
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