THE SCTt ANTON TBIBUNE-SATTJltDAY MOfiNING, OCTOBER 3, 1890. YELLOW METAL HAS NOT APPRECIATED Refutation of One of the Stick Free Silver Arguments. THE HIGHEST AUTHORITIES CITED Tlir Hold Money ol'tbe World Shown In Ho Four Tiuip n Xnvh for Knob IN rxiii Xon ns It a Fifty Yrnrs K"Kiiyiiii(i!is lucrratp in lro l u t ion nnd ( oiiiauc. Has gold "apiircciHti'dV" l'hf ndvocaU-s of tint free c-ulmvKi ' silver say that it has. Like the man who thinks his own train In motion lierailse the one alongside Is moving in an oDiKislt' diriM tliin, the silver men insist that instead of all other prices liin-lmliiiff that or silver) tuivins fall en. I he wire of sold hit really risen, and the urice of everythinor else has stood still. They assert that tlure has been a steady eliunge In the ratio of a dollar in gold to a given quantity of grain, cotton, clothing, food and sll r. and argue that since one dollar in gold will buy more of a.11 commodities in the markets of the world today than ii (ild in 1S7:I. gold has advanced in value, while the value of other articles has stood still. Hence their constant assertion that "gold hius ureciatcil." Ixt us see. To appreciate means to Inoreuse In value. Anything which In creases In Value, does so either because It has grown relatively scarce, or be cause each Individual needs more of It for his daily use. Now has this happened about geld? Vll ty years ago the world had a bil lion peoole in round numbers; now it has a billion and a half. The ponulii tion 1ms increased til'ty per cent. In fifty years. Has the gold of the world increased at the same rate as the population? If so. have we any right to assume that gold has appreciated? If It appears thai it has increased more rapidly than Hie population, would It not rather de preciate than appreciate? liOI.O l'KODI'CTION GHKATKK. Iiet us examine the figures-, from the best authorities of the world, Soetbeer Mulhall. Preston and others. Mulhall Indicates that the amount of gold in the world, coined and uncoined, fifty years ngo 'amounted to less than r,iu,W0.w. Taking his figures for lMlii and adding the production simv that dale, the gold In the world today, coined and uncoined, is whown to be over $7. OW.OW.OUtl. Thus It will be seen that the woi Id apparently has about three times as much gold today as It had lifty years ago. If there had been no lneivitse In pop ulation in the meantime there would thus lie three times as much gold for eac h iH-rson now as there was a half century ago. Hut the population has increased fid tier cent., so there is ap parently twice as much gold In the world tor each individual as there was at that time. tJOTA) OiUNAtlK OKRATKIJ. Hut this is not all. Fifty years ago only Xi per cent, of the gold of the world was coined Into money. Now tiii per c ut. of it Is coined. So It appear liml. while the tier capita of gold has I" ii doubled, the proortion of that :;.lii wnieh is turned into coin has also l.. til, e,l. 'I'll I:j means thai there is four limes is much gold coin lor ouch Individual in the world loday . there was fifty y.-ars uifo. I ".en this look as though there was a. iireil v of gold? If gold coin is four Which as plentiful for each individual lod'iy as II was lP'ly yours ago, is it reasonable to assume ih-.it the legiti mate need lor more of it ns a medium ol e:.i-h:ingt, i greater now than It was llei,.' If not. how can if be shown Hi.it ii lias "appreciated ?" Tie-re Is another way of looking at it in' the total money of the world liity years ufcu only 2tl per cent, was I' ld. Now nearly X" per cent, of the money of the world is gold. Had the demand for money Increased more rap idly than the gold Increased there would have been a greater proport lon nio giowth of Hie oilier kinds of money, either silver or paper or both, for both me plentiful and are constantly used for currency everywhere. Hut their proportion has decreased while the proportion or gold lias Increased. "Hut." say the friends of silver "Hie mere fact that gold money lias in creased does not prove that it is suf lii rent to meet the wants of business, because since the crime of ls".1 In this country and similar crimes about the s;'ine date in other countries, the cj uati tity of silver money lias decreased." OTHER MONEY RREATEU. T-t us see about Hint. Preston, the director of the United States mint, estimates- that the world's silver money 1n is?" was $1,817,000,000. He estimates the world's silver money today to be 4.70,r,uo.uOO, of which amount $.1,440, "eii.Olio is full legal tender. Thus the silver money of the world lins appar ently more than doubled since 1873. This shows the utter fallacy of the ar gument of the silver people thnt silver money has been reduced Hlnee 1S7.1. It Is interesting In this connection also to note that the paper money of the world has trebled In the past half century, having been In 1S4S. according to Mul hall. $1,300,000,000, and in 1S90, $n,S7.', fiOO.OOO. There Is still another light In which this currency question should be con sidered. If the value of a house "ap preciates" the rent increases propor tionately. If It depreciates In value, the rent falls. This rule applies equal ly to the rent of money, usually termed Interest. This test ought to determine the actual value of money and show whether it is scarce br plentiful. In the past fifty years rates of Interest have fallen from one-fourth to one half, according to the locality, thus in dicating that there Is less scarcity of money to meet business demands than was the case fifty years ago. The increase In the gold of the world lias been something enormous in the past half century. Prior to 1845 the average production seldom exceeded ten millions a yenr. Since that time It has been from 100 to 200 millions n year. Thus the rate of production in creased ten-fold, and in some years twenty-fold, and had In fifty years trebled the amount of gold in the world and quadrupled the amount of gold coined for each individual. KEPT PACE WITH BUSINESS. 'nut," says somebody, "the business i.l the world has Increased enormously meantime, at a much greater rate than the gold has increased, and since the amount of gold has failed to keep pace with business, gold has naturally "ap preciated." Let us examine that subject. It Is true that the business of the world has Increased enormously. The value of the Industries of the globe Is today, ne cording to Mulhall, threp times what It wus fifty years ago, and the com merce of the world is six times as great as It was nt that time. In that same period gold has only trebled. This would seem to give color to the claim that the Increase in gold had not kept pace with the demands of com merce. NEW Pt'SINESS METHODS. Hut another and very important fac tor comes into the problem just nt this point. That factor Is the matter of banking facilities and the use of the medium of exchange which passes be tween them and their customers and ( ikes the place of the more bulky and 1-ks convenient coin. Fifty years ago the man who engaged in commerce carried with lilm the (fold with which to make his purchases, lie went by statue couch and mailing veSM-l. and the Sold iii Ills leather belt lay Idle weens or mouths while the tedious journey was being made. Now he deHsits his money in bank, the banker loans a given proportion of his deposits to those who desire its Immediate use, and it is kept in active circulation meantime. The owner of the gold takes in Its stead a slip of paper, a draft or bill of 'exchange, good where ewr he may present It. and if he wants more, it is transferred half way around the world on his demand by telegraph. In the twinkling of an eye. The banking facilities of the world have increased ten-fold In the past fif ty years, and instead of most of the business being done by a hand-to-hand exchange of money for property. !'. per cent of the business Is per formed with that comparatively new medium of exchange, Kinking paper, whose elasticity, convenience .and power of Instant transfer, has revolu tionized business and reduced enor mously the proportionate demand for gold or other metallic money In the great business transactions of the world. LAWiKIi ISK OK CHECKS. Tin. II.:., nt' thla nu,l- ni.i.liltln nf .IV. change grows neater to the musses ev- cry nay. a recent investigation by me oompti oiler of the currency showed that nearly tlO per ivnt. of the pay ments made to retailers, such as butch ers, grocers. . Clothiers, and general ! dealers, are now made In chocks In stead of the use of money itself. The money which these checks represented hud been deposited in th banks by the owners, but only a given proportion of it was kept in stock by the hankers, w ho know by experience tht only a cer tain percentage of their deposits will be called for at one time, and are thus able to loan out a large share of the money deposited, and so keep it in ac tive circulation. Thus the stock of money, which has Itself enormously increased. Is multi plied many times by the fact that it is used over and over again, with ten or twenty times the frequency that it was a half century ago. This system which hns grown up dur ing the period In which business has so greatly Increased, changes radical ly the relations of ready cash to the volume of business. It wns a premoni tion of this change in business cuitoms which led Mill In Ills "Principles of Political Economy" Vol. II., Hook 111., to sny: "The proposition respecting the de pendence of general prices upon the quantity of money In circulation must, lor the present, be understood ns i,p plylng to a state of things in which money, that is gold or silver, Is the ex clusive Instrument of exchange and ac tually passes from hand to hand at every purchase, credit in any of Its shapes being unknown. Wli-n credit conies Into piny its n nieann of pur chase, distinct from money in hand, tlie connection between prices and the amount of circulating medium is much less direct and Intimate, and such con nection as does exist, no longer admits of so sltjiple a mode of expression." I 'nder this system, the commodities whose value is expressed in terms of the standard of value are exchanged for other coniinodii ies whose values are j'lso expressed in the same terms, while actual money, apart from its use as a common denominator of value, does not enter into the transactions. As this ureal medium of exchange increases the need of coin decreases. rnvK MEAsritrc of v.i.rK. p.ut there is one more test of the ac tual value of the gold, a test which does not depend Upon theories or tedi ous inquiry as ! quantities of money or methods of businesH I iiinsaclion. This test is a simple one. but the most important, the most accural e and far reaching of all those which have been applied. This most impoilanl of till tests is. the iimoimi of gold which a given qiiiimity id' labor will buy. The real standard of value in the e Alien Of the world' oconn shipping, but S.-t per cent Is American, while fiii per cent is British. About T."i percent of the for eign commerce of the Culled Stales Is curried in liritish ships, and only II per cent is carried in American shins. Our foreign commerce consists yearly of imports and exports aggregating be tween a billion und a half and two bil lions of dollars In value. The earnings of the ships employed hi carrying the freight, passengers and mails to and from the l.'niled Slates, annually ag gregates close to $.iiM,()iili.00u. The coast wise and inland commerce of the I'n't ed States Is carried exclusively in American vessels, foreign vessels being prohibited by our laws from engagini;' therein. The Ttepublican paity has this year declared ill favor of the readopllon of un old American policy of protection for our ships In the foreign trade. It Is proposed to exact a higher duty from imports In foreign ships than is exact ed from Imports In American ships. This policy Is described as that of "dis criminating duties." The first net of the first congress, signed by Oeorge Washington, July 4. 17SH. granted pro tection to American shins in the for eign trade by this policy. American ships then carried but :'3 per cent i f thnt commerce, although they were built from :t:i to ",0 per cent cheaper thnn foreign ships were, and ours wei- better, lasted longer, and sailed faster than foreign ships. The discriminating duties policy of protection was Immed iately beneficial. The first year after its adoption American ships rarrled 40 per cent, the second year they carried fr per cent, the third year 61 per cent, the fourth year 79 per cent and the fifth years SS per cent of our foreign com merce. Thereafter, with the exception of the period of the war of IM'!, !to per cent of our foreign commerce was car ried In our own ships, until lWS. when the discriminating duties act was re pealed, and f''ee trade in the carriage of our Imports! and exports substituted, and free trado hns ever since been In force in the carriage of American for eign commerce. The result of that free trade has been thnt. In l.Xiil American ships carried 66 Instead of SO per cent of our foreign commerce, a loss of 25 per cent In i3 years; at the close of the civil war our ships curried but 28 per cent and today but 11 per rent of our for eign commerce. Thus, we have the ex perience of 39 years of protection and 68 years of free trade in the carriage of our foreign commerce. During the period of protection we almost contin uously carried 90 per cent of our for eign commerce, and as a result of free trade we carry but 11 per cent of It. Were cause and effect ever more clear? As a consequence of these facts and this history, the Republican party fav ors the old discrinatlng duties policy. Nearly all of our commercial trenties with foreign muritime nations will have to be changed. But the United States, being a sovereign nation, can change Its treaties, and if the Republicans win this fall those treaties will be changed In the Interest of American ships. To that the party and Its candidate for the presidency are pledged. Republicans believe that to retain nearly $:00.000,000 annually in the t'nlted Slates, most of which Is now paid abroad In gold to foreign shipowners, by dlmlnlsling the foreign demand for our cold to that extent, will fortify our national treas ury in exactly that amount. And this Is it consideration of the greatest Im portance at this critical period in our national finances. To spend $:tOO,000.OHO In giving employment to American cltl cens ashore and afloat, would result in FTfST 1 l el III is lubol'. It h thbl V. ill: ll pril- uii.es all i'oi,imoiiie, the uecess:tiH4 as will a the coin ions und luxuries ut life. The fond We eat. the clothes v. wear. Hie houses In which we live, tbe necessities which a half century ago were considered luxuries, are all the re sult of lubor and the money which is paid for them measures the hours of lalMir which produces them. Labor Is, then, the real standard by which to measure sold, if u, dav or an hour of labor w'll buy less gold today than It did fitly years ago, then it may be properly said that cold has "appreci ated." If it will buy more gold today than it diil fifty years ago, then gold has depreciated, and if each grain of gold which an hour of lubor buys will also purchase more of manufactured commodities than It did fifty years ago, then the laborer has again multiplied th" value of his time mid skill. Let us see about that. A cnnnnlti.ee, nl the 1'nlted States senate, known as the Aldrtch committee, made a thor ough investigation a few years ago into the question of wages and prlees. and after a long and thorough research made a report, the accuracy of which Is eveiy where accepted. That Investi gation showed thai a day's labor in nearly all the trades would, in ISlut, buy about double the amount of gold that it did til'ty years earlier, and do It with less hours of work In a day. For in stance, plasterers who, In the good old freo-silvcr days of 1810. got $1.50 per day were paid S:!..V In 1S1KI; blacksmiths who received $1.50 iter day in 1840. got 8.1.00 in 1MK: painters whose wages in 1M0 were $1.25 in WM were raid $2.50; wheelwrights who earned M.5 In 1840 get $?.50 in 1S!!il: engineers who re ceived $'.'.00 tier day In 1S40 were paid 14.25 in 1830. and so on. Taking eleven representative classes of Workingmen, engaged in the particular industries, as a basis, It wns found that the aver age rate of wages advanced from $1.30 per day in 1840 to $2.37 in 18!H, or that an hour of labor would earn nearly twice as much geld In 18ii0 as it did In 1SIII. GOLD HAS DEPRECIATED. How then can It lx nsserted thnt gold hns "appreciated?" Ii has depreciated, and that highest and noblest of all standards, human labor, will today buy more of it than It did fifty years ago, while the depreciated gold thus pur chased can in turn be exchanged for mure of other commodities which have still further depreciated by the Improv- i ed methods of production, manufacture and transportation which the Ingenuity of the human mind have produced In the wonderful age In which we are liv ing. Alinihttc I'tinc ttiitlit . Some two months ago a boy who nsked for employment in a local manu factory was told to come again when he reached eleven years' of age, as lie was at thut lime under pn.p-r uge. Lust Tuesday morning the manager found him eonilnu' Into the works at about 7.20, and sulil to him: "oh, f-'- you're coming to make a start, eh?" "Yes. sir." answered the youngster. "Well, but look here, sunny," re marked the man, "why didn't you come at 6 o'clock? that's the ttme we begin here." "Yes. I know that, sir." replied the lad. "but you told me not to come again till 1 were full up eleven, utid 1 wasn't eleven till sixteen minutes past seven!" Philadelphia Inquirer. Too .titirh l.iglil, "isn't it marvelous, this new- lir.lit discovered by Professor Roentgen?" asked Mrs. Bloobitmiier. "Isn't It ?" echoed .Mrs. Tenspot. "Just think of pliotogra piling persons und ac tually seeing their bones reproduced on the photograph!" "We shall have to put armor-plate doors on our closets now." "Why?" "To keep people from taking pic tures of the skeletons in them."--Harper's l!a.ar. Die turning over of that vast sum. an nually, to those employed upon our farms, in our mines, our forests, our mills, our factories, and In every indus tiy and hi every part of the Pulled States. And to spehil the t.iiiO.UW.OOU among American workmen Instead of as now. almost wholly noon foreign workmen, would enormously Increase and perpetuate tuiilonul prosperity. Tin- liemoeijtie National platform, adopted at Chicago, and Hie candidate for Hie presidency there nominated, are alike silent upon the shipping question, la response to un Inquiry i:ddi'esed 1" the Democratic nominee for the presi dency as to his altitude upon ihe ship ping question, his reoly was that he stooil upon his public utteranc-s, but reference to his record has so far failed to disclose nny expression whatever on the part of that gentleman on the ship ping nuesilon. le h;! however, re peatedly and soeeilically denounced protection In any form, and lie hns openly and persistently, until now, ad vocated free trade, or the nearest pos slide, approach to it. so that it seems but fair to assume that neither he nor his party can be depended upon to pro tect American shipping in the foreign trade. The platform minuted by the Tndian apolis convention of boiling Democrats refers to American shipping- und tidvo ci'tes "modern nnd lihei-n! policies," to lake the place "of the restricted sta tutes of tlie eighteenth century." The only statute of that Century which has any bearing upon American shipping Is the act of 170?. continuously In force ever since, which denies AmiKlri reg istry to foreign built shlp, A"tutriians may. If they choose, M iTorelRn ships under a foreijtn flng. It will be seen, however, that while this act is protec tive of American shipbuilders. It gives no protection whatever to American ships, or the owners thereof, when In competition with foreign ships, in the carriage of our foreign commerce. We now have free trade In the carrying of our foreign commerce, and this wing of Democracy desires to extend free trade to the purchase of foreign built ships. Flee trade in the carriage of our commerce has already robbed our shipowners of 70 per cent of the carry ing they enjoyed under protection, and the remedy for the loss as offered by these Democrats Is free trade in the purchase of ships. They claim that If able to purchase the ships abroad, be cause possibly a trifle cheaper, our peo ple could compete with foreign ship owners. Hut recent Democratic ofllelul statistics show that It cost a great deal more between 27 nnd 32 per cent more in wanes, and as high ns 50 per cent more In food to run American thnn It does to run foreign ships. How, then, with cheaper ships, but dearer crews, are Americans to compete with foreign cheap ships and cheaper crews? It Is Impossible without protection. And yet Americans are at even greater disad vantage than that caused alone by free trade, Inasmuch as that foreign nations heavily subsidize both their shipbuild ers and shipowners, and. In some cases, grant bounties on tonnage besides. Competition, under the circumstances, as our proportion of carriage conclu sively shows, is utterly impossible. Our history shows that when we built cheapef, better and fuster ships, for eign ships nevertheless monopolized our foreign carrying until protection to our shipowners drove out foreign ship owners. If cheaper ships would remedy our maritime condition now. why did they not do so over a hundred years ngo? Protection wus neccssury to our success then aa It is now. The protec tion that brought success then will .. ." can Sipjig pestii PROSPECTOR'S LIFE UP IN ALASKA Aa Interesting Letter Iron ao Intelligent (iold Miner. WILD BUT ENTERTAINING CAREER t W by It I Tlint So Mny Searchers Alter . Treasure ill Our Polar Froviuce Meet with Disuppoiui-Hiennt--I ootl Supplies, Coal, Cli mate anil Jliicellaneoii Feature of Kxistenrr in the Alaskan tiolu Territory. A leHer recently received by James M. Everhart. of this city, from W. C. Jack, a prospector located at Tyoonok. Alaska, contains some statements cf public Interest. Tyoonok. now a small Indian town o'- about fifty native in habitants, was. 100 years ago. the larg est pluce in Alaska. It had In those davs a population of over K.,oni. mostly Russians. The name Tyoonok means "greatest." "most powerful." .Mr. Jin k writes: The town consists of about thirty one-story log houses. Most of the na tives belong to the Green or Russian church. A Russian priest visits them several times during the summer. The natives are very hospitable and gener ous In this respect, betnff entirely dif ferent from the southeastern Alaska native. They speak a different lan guage, but most of thcr.i understand the Russian language. Their language consists of Russlan-Kter.cl.. Phlenket, and I believe Japanese and Chinese: as near as I can learn it Is a conglom eration of the above mentioned lan guages. They are not inclined to be hostile, although there are some bad natives the same as whites. I have taken charge of the company's busi ness for n few days, while the agent has gone up the Sushetna river to their trading post, about eighty miles. Some of the natives came In from there yesterday mid told him that a bad na tive fl years old! was going to kill the agent up there and burn the post. Mr. Hanmoie, the ugent here, Is the head agent for the Inlet, there being four other posts about eighty miles re spectively In different directions from this pnst. He says that the boy Is very bad and has caused him a great deal of uneasiness. He burned a young squaw to death Inst winter because she would not marry him. Ills own tribe are afraid of him. .Mr. Hunniore suys that he may have to hanr; him. The natives here give us all the fish anil game we can eat. They catch large quantities of king and silver salmon here. They gave us about 150 pounds of choice salmon this morning, which they catch In sight of our house. They use gll nets, also dip nets, made of moose sinew. They dry and smoke enough to last them until next seusou. They are catching them on this tide. I can see them from where I am sit ting. It keeps them busy taking them nut of their nets. The most of them are in their small skin canoes Own and three men canoes) or bydarks. The doctor would enjoy fishing here; there are unlimited number of trout in all of the creeks here. 1 wus out for an hour lust evening fishing about half a mile from town and caught sixty, that number being more thuii I could carry. Some of them were twenty Inches lung and weighed two and one-half and three pounds. There are three species of trout that 1 have seen here, the largest being the rainbow. There Is plenty of game here, the moose being the most plentiful. The natives smoke und jerk large quantities of it for winter, altlioipsh thev kill a great many In the winter season but they are very pooe at that time of the year. They are unusually large here. bring success now, If fest-jfed. for "0 years after the adoption of the act pro hibit ing the grunting of American reg istry to foreign built ships. !U per cent of our foteign commerce was carried In oiti' own ships, because the discrim inating duties policy protected our ships during all of that time. If. there lure, that act is responsible for our maritime decay of tod.iv. why was ll not ul.-io responsible for our maritime growth and greatness In the beginning und for :rt years after its adoption? This pertinent query Democrats have never attempted to answer. The act prohibiting the registry of foreign built ships has no effect upon American shipowniiig, so long us our ships u,e unprotected nwiinst foi-ign competi tion, as they now und for tin years huve been. Protection for our ships, as be fore, would crerite a demand for them, and then, and then only, would Ameri can shipbuilders benefit. And ll would be manifestly unfair to grant protec tion to our shipowner., while at the same time withdrawing it from cur shipbuilders. There will be no attraction for Amer ican capital to enter Into competition Willi foreign shipowners, urtil free trade hns paralyzed the irilu.-tries up'm the land, now pro-ipcroi' becaos of prelection. Capital nnd men in the t'nlted S.ates can 11ml better onnloy. nielli in the proie-trd industries of the sea. And until our shl'ii afd Ihe men running them ae ginnted protection equivalent In every respect to thut now granted bv our laws to those uoon the html, which are hi competition wi;h foreign Industries, we shall never ha"e a prospcrour. American metchptil ma rine. We have nil seen the beneficent results of protection upon the land where our manufactures in thirty years grew from less thnn two to more than nine billions of dollars in value. And yet, during that same period of h!h prosperity on land, as u result of pro lection, we have seen American ships In the foreign trade, jutl from the lack of the snme measure of protect Ion. di minish f'-om two nnd a half million to three-quarters of n million tons, and our proportion of carriage fall from BG to 11 per cent. What n contrast be tween protection on land and free trade on sea! It is apparent Hint protection cannot be abandoned upon the land, without causing great natloii-il Insres. It Is even more apparent that the aban donment of protection to tur shins on the sea has been followed by enormous nationnl losses. A competent exnert estimates that. In the past thirty years, we have paid to foreign shipowners four nnd a half billions of dollars enough to have paid our national debt twice over. We can only restore the carriage of our cjmmerce to our ships by restoring protection to our ships. The Re publican party and Its cundidnte for the presidency stand for the restoration of protection to our ships. And Democracy, if it stands for anything In shipping, stands for more free trade, more national shlp and larger payments to foreign ship owners for doinjT the carrying1 that Am ericans can, and should, far better do for themselves. The Issue as to ship ping, then, between the two great poli tical parties, stands as follows: Ite publlcan protection and the retention In the United States of the nearly $,!00, 000,000 now annually pale to foreign Hhluownets. Democrats further free trade, and a continuation of the pay ment of $300,000,0110 111 gold to foreign shipowners, shipbuilders, and other foreigners. Rciiubllcuulsni means Am erican prosperity Democrucy means foreign prosperity. Which shall Am erican voters choose. some or them killed In the fall will dress l.M to l.jw pound. I killed 'a vi-urllng i bat wool,! uivss about fesi pounds. ' ties Ides ibis there are an abundance or wild sheen. I have not as yet had the pleasure of bagging one, not having bunted for them. In tact 1 have not done any hunting, although have killed two moose and a great num ber or grouse and tourigen nnd one lynx that 1 haiqiened to run across while prosoectlng. There are all kinds of water row! in great number; the uutlves sell geese tor 10 cents each, ducks (mallard) 5 cents. Hears are quite plentiful. I have seen two in my travels but did not get them. Furs are not cood thJ.s time of the year, therefore there Is but little hunt ins done except fci sheep and moose. There are no skins of any kind for sale at present. The company have a large quantity but the agent is not allowed to sell them here. The natives hnve small guldens and raise nearly ail kinds of vcgeubl s. They depend uoon their rltle for sup port. They hunt the fue bearing ani mals In the winter. It docs not get as rnd lv re as one would suppose, ll has noi been over "t d'V.-rcos below -ro at this place for several years and then for only n few days, it gets down to -SO degiecs below at some of the oth er rusts. They have quite a heavy snow fall, three to seven feet. It varies in the different localities, there being only about two feet here. The days pre very short in winter. The sun rises about l.45 o'clock nnd sets between 2 and .'!. although the twilight lusts a long time. The'-e is no night from, June l.'i to July 15. We frequently sleep during tlie hot days and work all night. The sun is only out of sight about 4 hours. There are some very g;iod placer mines here. 1 refer to Cook's inlet in general, but they hnve been overesti mated, that Is as far ns the discoveries arc concerned. There are about twenty-five good claims In Tumagiiliiarm that were discovered last year. There has not. been very much prospecting done this year as the creeks have been too hlKh until about two weeks ago. There Is no doubt in my mind but thnt there wiM be some good discoveries made this yenr. The discoveries were not made last year until September. Probably one-third of the peo'de that came here, .1,000, have left disgusted and I don't believe that there were five misses In thut number. Tlie most of them were carpenters, butchers, mer chants nnd mechanics cf all kinds, and they hud no conception of the hard ships connected with a pro-peclir's life, such as taking a blanket and pick, shovel and pan and fifty or sixty pounds of provisions, and trumping back In and over mountains 4,000 or Win fe?t high, frequently going hack bio or 1-"0 miles. It is safe to sny that iwo-thlrds of them were not three miles from tide water und a great many never left their tents. However those thut are kit are glad to be rid of lhal class of people, as they are a great hindrance to an honest prospector. Thine have been quite a number (,f quartz-ledges discovered. I have lo cateit two, but have not had time to ascertain what they will run. 1 have what 1 believe to be a good placer claim sixty miles from here. 1 shall g-j up und prospect it more .thoroughly as soon as the agent returns. If it. prospects us well ut a depth of ten feet ns it does on the bank or surface it will be a lidi claim. It is tine gold and can be worked to good advantage by hydraulic powvr. 1 shall f-top up tin re about two vcel;s Hint then I expect to go up tlie Sushetna. 'iver about I'iO miles to look ill a quart ledge that a native discov ered. Tlie samples thut he brought out contain quite a quantity of tine gold. I don't think that there will be a large quantity of gold taken out this year ns most of the people are devot ing their lime to prospecting. When they tiud o cliiim that they think will pay they locale it and move on to an other creek and so on. 't here are two or three comnanies using improved or modern appliances, but. most of them are using u rocker or sluice boxes. There are some very large coal veins Ic re. I discovered one of the laigest veins I ever suw about twelve miles from tide water. It is u tuoiiuiiiiii of coal, the vein is exposed lor -Ho feet long and Hm i'eel high, but it is of an inferior quality. II is the .-nine chi.-;i us the KatchoniU'.ii Buy coal. It Is uoi Verv good for r.l, uiiiing, bill I consider il uooil coal for household use us I used ll for oxer one year In Silku. We use il here. There are UKir, foot vcillM running into Hie buy nnd the unlives ke.-p us sum. lied wit h it. .. . .. . KliAl.lSII IN J';$'. The Oi'c'.ier-Utt Lender n. rii-pmed to lo.lulicc lo A ii v S million. "We have a Rood mutiy Ihine.s lo contend with." remarked tin uuiu who nmiiUtied a theatrical company on the road lust winter, "lull th" worst of them all Is If.e otclu f-tra." relates the Hcttoit Five I 're,-. ".iusli Uius were never noted ur. he'.ntt eminent'- practical." wus Hie reply. "I know that. Hut the worst of It is that they Im-lst im tr; inir to lie m. Tilt y tiilr.k the- have ideas und hr:;il ttyiiiR to put thi.ni into opera tion. I war in a small town and t,ave the louder the miiMo Hint go,-s with i out ;i!f ce. "'We can't I.arn ti-.a'-.' he said. 'I j haven't time lo call the men for a ! rein 'iirsul; I tun ton Imsy. Thoy are loo ' lup-y. ton. They ill! work In sti res dur j ins the day." I " 'Well, said I. 'tiuiv's only one scene ihni I am very particular ahnut. i It wiiiiu s:)i::e!!-i::s Column and ' shivery.' I " "We've sol all kinds of tunes," said he. 'Is It the ccetv 1 raw on the bill boards, wline the vlllinn is ruiiiiir.K the hero Into the t-avv mill and the cirl res cues him Just in the nick 'of time'." " 'Thut't. the one." " Mi n t yon worry.' said th. lo.ider, I've pot the very thlnar to lit that place. Wait till you heer it. I'll suiprl-e you.' " "And did It surprise you'.'" "Thoroiushly. I never was more sur prised In piy entire life. The lendlnff man was tied on the cnnler that was to shove him Into eternity, the machln ciy was stinted: the f-nw hefcan lo huss ami the leading lady bosun lo bat ter down the door. And what do you think that orches-lia started !n to piny '.'" "t can't suess. What wns it?" "Must Tell Them That You Saw Me.' " Politeness lit the 'I'hone. Do not say: "Hollo! who's th!?" The man at the other end of the line docs not know who you are. It is better form on receiving a response to a tele phone call to say: "This Is Mr. tuiklns:: who is th.tt, please'.'" Apn'n do not be the first put ty to such telephonic communications as: "Hello, Is that & Co?" "Yes." "Is Mr. In?" "N'o." Then the receiver Is him? up with a bantr. It sounds much belter to add: "Thank you," after having received the Information you require. Louisville Courier-Journal. ... A Mrain ol'Kronoiny. Mr.-", liardup- "My dear, 1 positively must have a new wrap." .Mr. Iliirdii'i - -"The price cf coal has Koue up usaiu und 1 simply can't aff nil it. The only thiiiR 1 can do will be to take ou Soiitn for the winter." Truth. A Doubtful Kxppdii'iit. Clara "lit Iih biif hful?". Maui.li' "I.irfHilfnlly uu. I tuny liuve to urge him tu kiss mo." Clara "Aren't you afruld you will lacare him away?" Truth. 18 HJ Ml 7 U (J Ll E F 0.1 INTERSIL AND EXTERNAL USE cars axu hkevsnts Cld. Couth. Sore Throat, Inllurnza. Bron chitis, Pncutnunia, Swelling of (he Juiuts, Lumbago, Inflammations, m mini Iblili MUUIinUUint FB0ST3ITES. CHILBUI1?, H-HO-tCHE, TOilTMCHE, flSTHiflH. DIFFICULT BREATHING. CrKKS Tltn WOHST PAINS In from one to twenty minutes. SOT ll.N'K HGl'U alter reading this advertisement need any one SLKKKIt WITH PAIN. Railway's Ready Relief Is a. Sure Cure for t' , Pl". Sprains. Itrulsc.1. Pains in the Back, Chef t ur I. hubs. It was the first and is the only PAIN REMEDY T1i:it Instantly stops the most excruciating pains, allays Inflammation, and eu-cs i.n gest ions, whether of the Lungs. .St imaeh, Hon-eh:, or other glands or oikuiis, by one upplkutiou. A liati' lo a teuspoonful in half u tumbler of water will hi a lew minutes cure (ratlin. Spasms, Sour Stomach, Heart, burn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, I ijiinheii. Uysenterv, Colic, l lutuleney Hud all Internal pubis. "lucre Is not a remedial uitent in the world that will cure Fever and Ague and all other Malarious. Million nnd other fevers, aided by P.APWAYS PILLS, so quickly us KAUW'AY'S RKAUV KKMUK. Fifty cents per bottle. Sold by Druggists. RADWAY & CO., 55 Elm Street, New York. STABLE and FARM 6V Ik lHC WILD fOR HtAVf HAG0HS NEW YORK CARRIAGE GREASE. fOH HCHl WA0GHS tNO HCMI CARRIA0S BOSTON COACH AXLE 0IU V Ch(APR AHD bliTlR iNkH CtSIOR.OH;, STANDARD LEATHER OIL. 1 BCST teATHCR PRlSSRHR HJHLMOllio) Jul. if ST HARASS OIL HA0 RUDDY HARVESTER OIL . fl,HAV 800t fOR fARU VACWHCRT FAVORITE fill mmt 011 ELECTRIC l7Q iBNtmTi 'u T t Coach and Carriage Candle t!fOn SALE EVSWVWHI-Bg 1 FOR SALE BY THE SCRANTON. PA. m THE IM OF TKfc are located the finest tlshlnir und hunting grounds in the world. Descriptive boom on application. Tickets tu all points In tluine, Csnada and Maritime Provinces, .Minneapolis, St. Caul, Canadian and I'nited States Northwest, Vunvouver, Seattle, Taeonia, Portland, Ore., Sun Prauclsco. First-Class Sleeping and Dining Gars attached to all throutjht trains. Tourist cars fully fitted with bedding, curtains and specially udaoted to Bants of families may he had with uucund-elasa tickets. Fines alwuya less than via other lines. For further Information, tint tu,bles, etc, on application to E. V. SKINNER, G. E. A.. 333 Broadway, New York. CALL UP 3632: OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE. Ml TO isi MERIDIAN STREET. 51. Ytr. ( GIJJXS, Manager. FOR 1 HAiO ftfl K" M clab,u t-"1"- I ; oj.tu.ifus traiw km a rtMMUi'.'VativH in'"?:haus; : tin und iloljil tv rftnihurlv iiic.tlvii- in1 ! - won ton of totiliT ror.s-titutionH in you) Ii vvnt 'loUni'(. TYi'Y Imvo Mi iqwt.. 'I fin tami'tyf I iMil.'tr 1 1 ee, font jtriirelv wi ). Juvuilia ; I m.ct to., iertu;ryjil ytcrwn IJw. (STANMRfi J slCo's A ATLANTIC IK CO i Clil PACIFIC n Mil Oil lykllilMISij !l,fiili-Bf 1 2,000,00 BARRELS filade and Sold in Six Months, ending Harch 1, 1896,' total Product of mum flnnnnif The A Mil! Alone produced 1,000,000 Barrels, Largest Ran on Record. V.'ashbiirn, Ooj.hj s Superlative is sold everywhere from th Pncifis Coast to St. John's', New Foundland. and in fcnsland. Irelan. and Scotland very largely, and in worm. MEGARGEL wholesale: agents. High Grade Clongti & Wama, Carpenter, Waterloo Emerson, L'alcolm Lou And Lowsr Grades a) Very Low PrIc-33. SOS SPRUCE STIEET. And You Will ba Happy. The way to keep your borne comforta ble at this seas jo of the year is to buy one of our Gas or Jil Heaters Just the thing for your dining room in the morning, or your bath room, nnd in fact any place yon want a little heqt without start ing your furnace or boiler. Wo have over 20 styles sizes of gas heaters, and 10 or more of Oil Heaters. Without question the best assortment in the city. FOOTE & SHEAR CO., 119 WflSHIHGTOH IVEHUL Spring House HEART LAKE, SUSQ'A CO. U. E. CROFtlT, PROPRIETOR. THIS HOUSE Is strictly temperanct, : new and well furnished and OPENED TO THE, PUBLIC THE YEAR ROUND, 1 located midway between Blnghamton an! Scranton, on the Montroa and Lacka wanna Railroad, six miles from D., L, A W. R. R. at Alford Station, and Ave miles from Montrose; capacity elKhty-nve, three minutes' walk from railroad station. House situated 100 feet from the lake, wide veranda extends the entire lengtk of the bouse, which is 100 feet. Row Boats, Fishing Tackla, Etc. Free to Uuests. Altitude about 2,000 feet, equalling In this respect the Adirondack and Catsktll Mountains. Fine groves, plenty of shade and beautl. ful scenery, making a Summer Resort un. exeeiien in ueauiy ana cnoHpima. Dancing pavilion, swing's, croquet terounds. etc. COLD flPRINO WATER AND PLENTY OP MILK. Rates $7 te io Per Week. $1.50 Per Day. Excursion tickets sold at all stations om V.. LAW. lines. Porter meets all trains. Full Line of Cloths in Fall and Winter Styles, 1S96.!(7. No ineas 11 res sent to New York Sweat Shops for $12.00 to $11.00, No Shojjy Wool. Every (junuent made in this city. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED D. BECK, 337 Adams Ava. MT. PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL.. Coal of the best quality for domestio use and of ull lz9, Including Buckwheat and Hirdseye, delivered in any part of the city, at the lowest price. Orders received at the Office, first floor. Ccir.monweiUth building, room No. 8J telephone No. 2624. or at the mine, tele phone No. 272. will be promptly attended lo.ucaicrs ouppuca ai tne mine. WIV3. T. SMITH. ttyFLOURt tin u un n n n recognized an the beat flour in th J. LAWRENCE STELLE, KEEP COMFORTABLE IRChlT IIIILO I GOMEL
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