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h uneral Director.
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VOL. XLY. NO.
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VRY5AP
It Floats
Have jou noticed when discussing household affairs with
other ladies that each one has found some special use for Ivory
Soap, usually the cleansing of some article that it was eupposed
could not be safely cleaned at home.
Tttt Paocru & G.u Co., Cihti.
THE-
First National Ml
Somerset, Penn'a.
Capital, S50.000.
Surplus, S24.000.
o
OEPOSITS RECEIVEO I LAPSE NDSMALL
AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON OCMANO.
ACCCUNTS Cf MERCHANTS, FARMERS.
STOCK DEALERS. AND OTHERS SOLICITED
DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
LAlirE M. HICKS. tiEO. R. SCt'IX,
JAMKS U HUH, W. H. MILI.EK,
J :.iHX K. W.OTT, KKT. S. tSCl'LX,
FKE1J A'. EI DECKER.
EDWARD SCTLL. : : PRESIDENT,
VALENTINE HAY, : VICE PRESIDENT.
HARVEY M. KERKLEY", . CASHIER.
The funds and efuritlfs of thly bank are se
curely proiKl in a v!r bratt-d t'oHLiss I5CB
glak Pkoof Safe. Tlie only safe made abso
lutely burglar-proof.
Hb ScmerEBt Connty Maial
AN K
OF SOMERSET PA.
v.-
EtUbiisM, 1877. Orgizi Natloml, 1890
CAPITAL,
S50.000
SURPLUS AND UN-
DIVIDED PROFITS $23,000
Chas. J. liar rif f r. - President.
Wm. II. Koontz, - Vice President
Milton J. Tritts, - - Cashier.
Geo. S. Harrison, - Ass't Cashier.
Directors :
Sam. B. Harrisfin, Win. Kmliej-.
Jiw iah Speekt, Junas M. Cook,
John H. Snyder, John Stuffl,
Joseph B. IaviH, Noah S. Miller,
Harrison Snyder. Jerome Stufft.
Chas. W. Snyder.
Customers of lhisltt.nU will receive the most
l;t-rMl treHim-nteinilent withsaHwnkinB.
I'artK-s hinir to send iiiom y or west
can be HToiiiiaKlai-l by draft for any
amount.
Monev and valuables secured iy one 01 ine
bold s ceivbrab-d safe, ith most improved
li:ne lock.
o'.iwtions riaie in all parts of the L nited
SUIT"-, 'bare-' mixlcrate.
Accounts ami d. pof it solicited.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
ani (verytliln poruiniiiK to funerals furn-t-
Ia 1.
SOMERSET - - Pa
Jacob D. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Door Wet cf Lutheran Church,
Somerset, - Pa.
I Am Now
prepared to supply the puMic
with Clot kn, Watches, and Jew
elry of all descriptions, as Cheap
as the Cheapest-
KEPAI1UXJ A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at my
utoci lufore making your
rum-has-.
J. D. SWANK
ALWAYS
On Hand.
BEST IN THE MARKET.
Jarecki Phosphite,
Raisin's Phosphate,
Lime,
Crushed Coke,
Hard Coal,
Salisbury Soft Coal,
At the Old Stand near the Somer
set & Cambria IL R. Station.
J'rices Right
Peter Fink
17.
feALUhl.
NEW
FALL GOODS
XewStvle Fall and Winter
Dress Goods
now in stock. Tlicy arc pretty
and cheap.
A complete line of all kinds of
Flannels,
Flannelettes,
and otLer poods iiow in stock
Ladies' and
Children's
WRAPS
Now coming in. Call and sco
them.
Mrs. A E. U1IL.
ELY'S
CREAM BALM
Is quickly absorb
CATARRH
ed. Clean! th?
Nasal Pass:ees, Al
lays Pain and In
Iljuinuttioii. JitstUt
tiie.-xri. Prot't-oj
IS st-in-Ilie Senses
'Additional Cold
of Ta!-te an 1 Siik-11.
;ives Relief at once
and it will cure.
COLD 'n HEAD
A particle KappMrd directly into tlie nostril
and is agreeable. Price jJ cent at DruKijtU
or bv mail.
EllY RUOTHER.S. 56 Warren Ptnt-t, N. .
THE KEELEY CURE
It a special boon to bodneai men who, having
drifted onronsciously into the drink habit ana
awaken to find the disease of aicnholUm fastened
ii inn them, rendering; tlien unfit to manare af
fairs requirinir a clear brain. A four wecka
course of trsatment at the
prrrsBCRa keeley institutb.
Ko. 4246 Fifth Arenoe,
rvtorea to them a!l their powers, mental and
pbyncal. destroys the arinormal appetite, and
restores them to the condition ther were in be
(,m they Indulged in stimulants, Th is has been
doainmore than lono cases treated here, and
smofi them some of tout own neighbors, to
srboas rs aa refer with eonfldence aa to the
tinoluto safety and efficiency of ths Keeley On re,
The fullest a&4 bum searchinr InTemintion is
mriud. beuJ tut pasfiuet giving full ioloana.
DtSICM PATENTS,
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CMeat baraaa tw secunnc patenu ra America.
vtj ixucnl takra oat hy n ! brooch brfor.
(t. paUic br a autios sen ! OCetoars la Usi
f atniii it ttwrifatt
tMttUt etrrnlstlnB of any .rtenttne paper to tka
wutmL fcpiafcUJir tiluuraied. ha luvllirrns
u Aoula b. wubaW It. Weekly, 3.00
nstn tiAnAzmaBtna Addma. M CXX UCU
Kr- SSI isuadwaj, kr Xork Cur.
IMPfrKTAKT TO ADTMTTSXM.
The creaa of the conn try papers U fixmd
la KeminftoB'a Courty Seat lists. Shrewd
adweaer a rail theaMelrea of these lists, a
exrpy of vrhieh can be bad of Beaiogvm
Sees,' vtXew Tort & nuabwS.
MUA L ,t ,T I
4 Sclentlfio American
F Agency
Mi i VLe THOB MARKS,
LjZJ OtICM PATENTS,
3S3 ensvtieHTs. ma.
omer
SOMERSET, PA.,
A PONGEE HANDKERCHIEF.
"IJargtiinis ehr Bald Mrs. Pilk
irifrton. "(iut-ss I'll look at 'em."
. Of all tiling, Mrs. Pilkington was
lt-.it alle to resist a bargain.
The old Pilkington Tartu house at
home was orumnied full of "bar-
piitu," osHilile itiid imiKMsible. The
bureau drawers overflowed with "bar-
gaiiis," which were of uu use to any.
one; the truuka .were packed full of
"bargains."
And here, on the crowded curb
stones of Grand street,' the swinging
pasteboard sign of "Great Bargains
Within !" attracted her attention, hur
ried though ahe was with the mani
fold errands which yet remained in
complete. .
She hud a lot of damaged table linen
undt-r her arm, and aome cheap hosiery
iu her bag, and a dozen towels with mis
printed borders in her pocket, and here
she was crowding into the (Jrand street
store to buy a blue spotted pongee
hutidkerchief for IS cents.
"It'll do for Sara Janetts to wa'ar
around her neck of a cool even in', "
said Mrs. Pilkington, "and IH cents is
really cheap for a real pongee."
Mrs. Pilkington lived iu a little
brown roofed farm house on the Housa-
tonic river, and her main errand up to
town hud been to buy a "store carpet"
for her bedroom floor, and to exchange
an old sewing machine for something
of a newer order.
Her cousin, Mrs. Bruce Babbitt, who
had spent the summer months at the
farm, and made the most iHsible
trouble fr the least possible pay,
had also engaged to hunt her up a
"help" from the nearest iutelligenee
office, and have the same on hand
when the "five-four train" left the
Grand Central depot that afternoon.
And sure enough, when the lady
from the country arrived, red and
panting, at tlie depot, with disheveled
hair, bent bonnet and shawl dragged
all awry, a modest young girl stood at
the door with a card bearing the name
of Mrs. Bruce Babbitt in her hand.
"Is it Mrs. Pilkington?" said she.
"You ain't the new sewing machine,
be you ?" said Mrs. Pilkington, rub
bing her nose with a puzzled air, "Nor
yet the IS yards of carpet from Stoney
bridge & Bounce's."
"I am Pluebe, said the young wo
mau "Pho-be, at nine dollars a month,
if I am lucky enough to suit you,
ma'am."
She was a pretty, blueeyed lass, with
a fresh complexion, and a neat gown
of green and white seer-sucker, and she
wore a bonnet of her own trimming,
with a cluster of butter-cupa on the
side.
Mrs. Pilkington looked dubiously at
her. She had prepared herself to ex-p.-ct
a stout, red-handed drudge.
It did not seem possible that this
delicate little apple blossom of a girl
could lie a servant-of-all-work.
But there, sure enough, were her
credentials, and the bell, even then,
vas clanging for the closing of the
gates.
"Come on !" said Mrs. Pilkington,
jind she rushed through, dragging
Plwebe after her. "It's strange though,
that the carpet and sewing machine
aiu't here."
"Bid you expect carpet and sewing
machine, nia'm?" Phutoe asked re
spectfully. "I bought 'em and paid for 'em,"
said Mrs. Pilkingtor impressively,
"and I don't see why they ain't here."
"Perhaps they will be sent by ex
press," suggested Phebe.
"I declare to goodness, I never
thought of that !" said Mrs. Pilking-'
ton.
And she skurried througlAhe crowd
ed car to And a seat It was the dusk
of a chilly May evening when they
reached Blackbird's Hollow, and alight
ed iu the midst of dense pinea and
sighing tamaracks.
"If Pilkington hain't remembered to
come aud meet us I shall be mad !''
said Mrs. Pilkington, stretching her
neck forward the better to survey the
glimmering curves of the road. "And
Pilkington is always forgetting. My
g nines-, gracious me, what's that?'
as Pho-be stooped to recover something
which she had inadvertently let fall.
"My handkerchief, ma'am."
Mrs. Pilkington made s grap at
it,
"Your handkerchief?" she scream
ed. "Mine you mean minx! thief!
g(d-for-nothing ! -my pongee hand
kerchief, that you have stolen right
out of my bag ! Well, I never !"
She shook Plui'be vehemently,
Phebe began to cry in mingled terror
and resentment, and just then up drove
the farm wagon at a gallop.
"Hello, mother I" said Ezra Pilk
ington's cheerful voice. "I'm afraid
I've kept you waiting a bit, but the
linchpin came out of the wheel and I
had to stop at Tom Deephill'a to get it
fixed. Now, then !"
He drove the stout pony close to the
raised platform, which extended away
from the station.
Mrs. Tilkington pushed Phoebe into
the back seat aud followed her with
lightning haste.
"Not that way !" she cried, grasp
ing at the reins, and Ezra would have
them headed for the highroad. "Drive
straight to Squire Pulteuey's. This
gal's a thief! I'm going to have her
arrested before she's a day older !"
"Eh !" said Ezra, staring from his
mother to Phd'be, and then back
again.
"She's stole my spotted pongee band
kerchief my haudkerchief that I
bought at s bargain on Grand street
this very morning !" shrieked Mrs.
Pilkington.
Its it's my handkerchief, faltered
prxr Poobe, feeling as if she were In s
terrible nightmare from which there
were no awakening.
"A likely cry !" clamored the en
raged housewife. "I've always heard
of the wiles and tricks of these city
minxes, but I never realized it until
now. Drive on, Ezra drive quick !
She shall be lodged in the county jail
this very night !"
"Are you sure you ain't mistaken,
mother?" Raid kind Ezra, oompassion-
! sling the look of pallid misery in the
young girl's face,
f Mistaken, indeed !" sniffed the old
set
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1898.
lady. "Drive on, I say ! Don't lose
any more time or Squire Pulteney will
have gone home for the night."
She herself took possesion of the
reins aud she spoke and chirruped to
the horses. ,
"But, mother," pleaded Ezra.
Even as she spoke, however, poor
Pluebe, driven wild by vague terror
and an instinctive desire to escape, had
flung herself from the wagon to the
ground.
"Stop for heaven's sake, mother,
stop !" shouted Ezra. "Don't you see
that her dress is caught in the wheels?"
The little horse stopped. He always
stopped, on general principles, when
ever a suitable opportunity preseuted
itself, and the very slightest "Whoa !"
would iu variably bring him to a dead
standstill.
Ezra sprang from the wagon to dis
entangle the helpless figure in the dust,
and Mrs. Pilkington scrambled after
with a vague idea that Phiebe might
yet get up and try to run away.
As she jumped down her satchel fell
prone into the road, and, bursting
opeu the over-strained latch, disgorged
its contents on the dewy grass of the
roadside, first aud foremost among
which was a spotted pongee hand
kerchief. "Good Land o' Moses !" piously in
terjected Mrs. Pilkington, "if there
aiu't the dratted old pongee handker
chief, arter all !"
Aud she stared helplessly, first at its
prim and undisturbed folds, and then
at PIki'Imj's handkerchief exctly the
same iu color, pattern and fabric
"She ain't a thief, arter all," said
Mrs. Pilkington, her whole nature
overflooded by the risiug tide of re
morse. "Poor child ! aud I'm afeard
she's hurt tryin' to run away from
nothing at all."
Pluelw's ankle was slightly sprained,
that was all, and by this time she was
abletosmile and answer kiudly Mrs.
Pilkington's numerous questions aud
condolences.
"Caul ride home? Oh, of course I
can !" said she, in reply to Ezra's in
terrogations. "My ankle is only the
least bit lame."
Old Father Pilkington was auxious
ly looking out for them, when, consid
erably later than he had expected, the
wagon drove up and Mrs. Pilkington
made haste to explaiu everything to
him.
"And ain't it queer," said she,
"that me and Pluebe should both hev
bought tougee handkerchiefs just alike
on Grand street? If ever there was
bargains, they be ! Half a yard squar,
real China goods, with a hem "
"Fiddlesticks !" said old Mr. Pilk
ington. "If there's anything I hate,
it's bargains T' -
Little Pluebe Primrose stayed on at
the farm. She liked the daisies and
red clover, the sound of the running
brooks, the smell of the cow's breath.
And Ezra Pilkington liked her.
She Had a Complaint. -
"Is this the water office?" she asked
as she entered, with fire in her eye and
fight in her voice.
"It is, madani," replied the gentje
clerk at the desk. "Is there anythiug
I can do for you this fine morning?''
"There may be and there may not
be," she replied with much asperity;
"but I came in to say that while I was
drawing water to make cotree for break
fast, a great big fish came out of the
faucet, and"
"Oh, I see," the clerk interrupted,
with an ingratiatiug snnle, "You
came in to pay the city for the fUh.
That was very honest and gox of you ,
I'm sure, but the city will not accept
any money for a single fish. It is true
the city charges for water only, and
docs not guarantee to furnish fiah as
well, and I'm bound to say that most
ladies would have taken the fish and
said nothing about it. However, the
city will not take advantage of your
uncqualed generosity. It will make
no charge for it."
With a magnanimous wave of his
hand tha clerk tried to dismiss the
subject, but the caller resumed :
"But this fish was"
"Oh, yes, I know what you would
say. The fish wa- a fine, large one,
and made an agreeable addition to
your morning meal, but still the city
would not think of charging you for it.
If you are so very conscientious about
it, however, you might keep count of
the fish that the city supplies in that
way, and after you have had, say a
dozen, we may make some sort of a
charge, but we could not think of ac
cepting pay for ona or two, not fjr a
single moment."
"Young man," glared the woman,
"do you thiuk it is the proper thing to
get your fish by way of your water
faucets ?"
"To be frank with you, madam, I do
not think it is, and for that reason I
would advise you to say nothing about
it, especially among your neighbor.
If the people generally got to know
that the city was favoring you by send
ing you fish for breakfast iu your water
pipes, why, we should have streams of
people coning in here to kick because
the city does not provide them with
fresh fish also. You can easily see that
the city cannot undertake to do that,
Fine morning, but I thiuk we shall
have more rain before night."
The clerk resumed his seat, and the
com plainer departed , muttering some
thing which no one could hear.
Town Topics.
Dr. King's Hew Discovery for Con
gumption.
This ia the best medicine in the
world for all forms of coughs and colds
and for consumption. Every bottle is
guaranteed. It will cure and not dis
appoint It has no equal for whoop
ing cough, asthma, hay fever, pneu
monia, bronchitis, la' grippe, cold in
the head aud for consumption. It is
safe for all ages, pleasant to take, and,
above all, s sure cure. It is always
well to take Dr. King's New Life Pills
in connection with Dr. Kiug's New
Discovery, as they regulate and tone
the stomach and bowels. We guaran
tee perfect satisfaction or return mon
ey. Free trial bottle st J. N. Snyder's
drug store, Somerset, or at Brallier's
drug store, Berlin. Regular size 50 c
and 1 1.00. j
FREE COIXAGE.
Fallacy of the 18 to 1 Doctrine Point
ed Oat by a Correspondent-
Editor of the Herald :
In a recent conversation with an
Ohio fanner it was remarked that the
free coinage of silver would lie very
likely to advance the prices of commo
dities, but that the advance would lie
deceptive and only nominal. This
brought out the question: But if I sell
a bushel of wheat for a silver dollar,
why ia it that the dollar would be
worth only forty-nine or fifty cents?
The question was answered, but it is
one which is puzzling many other per
sons besides the Ohio farmer. Every
commercial or civilized nation has a
monetary unit or measure of value call
ed by one name in one county and by
some other name In another country;
and very few of these measures or units
of value, when brought together for
comparison, are found of the same pre
cise value; and when it comes to ex
changing for commodities of any sort
some will be found that will procure
for the holder thereof more of a desired
article than will others of these units
of value. This is because they do not
possess the same intrinsic value. There
fore people of different countries who
may have business transactions with
each other are under the necessity of
comparing there several measures of
value aud of calculating the dUU-reiice
iu their actual or intrinsic value.
Here iu the United States the mone
tary unit or measure of value is called
a dollar. But this term is only a name;
it is in reality something intangible, a
thing that no man has ever seen
or touched, and this mark (i) is its
written symbol.
The pieces of metal, gold, and silver,
that are stamped as dollars are only
tokens of this measure or unit of value
that we may see and handle. By act
of congress 23J grains of pure gold shall
represent this unit of value which is
called the dollar. This existing stand
ard cau not be said to be anything else
than a gold standard. The act of
stamping or coining gold and silver at
the mint is simply a certification on
the part of the government, through
iLs mint, that the prices of metal so
stamped are of a certaiu weight and
fineness or purity ; that Is all. While
the government docs say that these
coins shall be and must le receivable
for all debts, public and private,
(though in the iast it has sometimes
made exceptions), it has never assum
ed to say bow man' of them shall be
given for any particular commodity
tie holder or owner may desire to ex
change t hem for ; that is an affair of
the parties making the exchange.
While the standard Is gold, it need
not necessarily follow that all of the
coinage must be of gold, if any other
metal can be found whose commercial
value is equally stable and ermanent
with that of gold. The one thing then
to do is to find what the ratio is to each
other of the different metals it is pro
posed to use as coinage metals, and
then give to each of kind coin its requir
ed weight aa deduced from the relative
value of the different metals so used.
It would seem to lie waste of words to
argue that, if different kinds of metal
are alike to stand for the symbol of the
Unit of value and to pass current alike,
that their intrinsic or commercial val
ue must be precisely the same; that the
coin made from the metal that is less
precious than the oue taken as the
standard must make up by increased
weight whatever it so lacks; otherwise
it would not be of equal value and could
not circulate tide by side, torthoe
reasons the advocates of honest money
claim that if there is to lie free coinage
for gold and silver alike that the silver
dollar must lie given a weight sufficient
to make it worth as much as a piece
of metal as Is the metal contained
In the gold dollar; that only
on these conditions can they 1-e
of equal value ; if otherwise, then the
one of least value will drive the one of
greater intrinsic value out of circula
tion ; for it is not reasonable to suppose
that men having commodities for sale
or exchange for money will give so
much or many of them for the one as
for the other. No act of congress can
make a man do this against his will in
a spot cash transaction.
Both gold and silver in an uncoined
state have a value as a commodity and
in such case are known as gold or sil
ver bullion, aud such are bought and
sold by weight just the same as are
iron, lead or copper or any other metal
or minerals. Of the two, gold has a
value so fixed and stable all over the
civilised world that it may well be said
to be perniauent ; while on the other
hand silver has for many years fluctu
ated more or less in value when sold as
a metal or commodity. For many
years it has fallen In price until at the
present time it is worth less than one-
half of what it was worth sixty years
ago ; for then it was worth l-'O 2M(H
per ounce, while on the ISth of Sep
tember of the present year it was sold
at twj cents per fine ounce. Tht silver
dollar we now have in circulation con
tains 371J grains of pure silver. Its
value, we mean its value as s metal,
was therefore but a small fraction over
50 cents on that date.
With thia as the selling price of sil
ver, the silver dollar, to be equal in in
trinsic value to the gold dollar, as we
now have it, would have to weigh 731
grains in pure silver or almost twice
the weight of the preseu silver dollar,
or 37 j grains of pure silver. Should
the market value of silver advance in
price, then the weight of the dollar
minted from it would have to be less
ened. But if there were a still further
fall in price, the weight would have to
be still further increased. And this
will ever be the cae with any metal
that fluctuates lit value so much as sil
ver has been doing. The only reason
for this fall in the commercial price of
silver that is entitled to any serious
consideration is that of over produc
tion. The supply has become so great
that the price can not be held up ; it
suffers from over production or being
too plentiful, just any other product
would.
It is almost neei'less to say that if
two metals of s different intrinsic com
mercial value are used for coinage pur
era
poses, and one of them be of a value
that is continually changing in its mar
ket price, as silver has been doing for
many years, then, in such case, there
must necessarily be a continual disturb
ance in the value of the currency, un
less some plan or provision can be effect
ed by which this needed equality can
lie maintained. A metal requiring to
lie bolstered up In this way is not fit for
use as a coinage metal along with the
one agreed on as the standard, if it is
to carry with it the right of free and
unlimited coinage. Such a metal can
only be used for coinage purposes in a
limited way, as silver has been eoiued
since 1S7H.
But the free-coinage people object to
making the silver dollar they are clam
oring for of such a weight that it will
represent an intrinsic value equal to
the selling price of silver. They insist
on giving to silver a value by act of cou
gre.ts which it does not pisess on its
own merit, and which could only lie
made binding on our own cople, and
even then only partially. The legal-
tender greeuliack's history will prove
that projiosition. The greenback was
given a legal-tender quality; it would
Iay all debts. No stronger legal-tender
quality could be given to free silver
now. Yet, after August, lvii, green
backs and gold no longer circulated to
gether as currency. The pajier forced
the gold out of circulation. Gold be
came only a commodity, the price of
which was quoted each day, as was that
of pig iron; aud ticople who wanted it
for payment of debts or contracts paya
ble in gold, or for the purpose of hoard
ing it, were comtielled to pay the price
asked for it by those who had any of it;
and this state of affairs continued until
the United States, under the wise jioliey
of the Republican party, procured a
sufficient quantity of gold to be able to
say that all comers could exchange
their paper for gold at the Treasury.
ii ve us free silver, and gold coin will
auin go into retirement. Nothing can
tie more certain. Because a couple of
generations ago sixteen ounces of silver
were warth one ounce of gold, and our
coinage laws were adjusted to fit that
ratio for the time, the free-silver people
insist that it shall continue to be coin
ed at such a ratio. When the ratio of
value at present is ."? to 1, they choose
to ignore .that universal law of supply
and demand which applies to every
thing else. With them the ! to 1 ratio
is as unalterable as were the laws of the
Medes and Persians.
"An act of Congress will fix every
thing right," they say. Well, pig iron
once sold for fifty and sixty dollars a
ton, and steel rails for a hundred and
sixty dollars. Now they bring but ten
aud twenty -four resqiectively. Well,
when trying to do a good turn for the
silver barons, why not at the same time
try and do the same for the iron and
steel barons, who also have so greatly
increased the amount of their products
that they have lieen compelled to offer
inducements, in the way of cut prices,
in order to sell them? They are just as
deserving as are the silver barons, and,
like them, would not kick if e value
of their output would be restored to, its
old-time price.
But to illustrate by another metal
stiil more valuable than iron, how
over-production will cause a decline in
price just as it has done in the case of
silver, let us say something alxut the
beautiful and useful metal knowu as
aluminum.
It is not very many years since that
a hundred dollars would not have
bought as much as a single pound of
this metal, so scarce was it. Its value,
for this reason, was so far above silver
that it was considered infinitely pre
cious. Now it may be bought for fifty
or sixty cents a pound. It has become
cheap for the same reason that silver
has liecotne cheap, too plentiful to lie
high in price, so plentiful, In fact, that
while once in it3 history it might have
served a purpose as a coinage metal, it
is now ued in the manufacture of jxits
and kettles, cups and stewpans.
The free-coinage people will not
have it that the coin to b-j called a sil
ver dollar shall contain a dollar's
worth of the metal at the prices at
which it is selling the world over.
With them the only ratio must tie li
to 1, which would give an actual value
to the coin that as silver has been sell
ing for months past at from 4!) to 5.1
cents. People who have uucoitvvl silt
ver could of c urse get none ottiiied,
only those who happen to have it
could get it coined. The people who
now have silver bullion liave all ac
quired it at the prices at which the
stuff is selling, or on a basis that for a
long while past has been at from 05 to
70 cents per ounce.
Now if it were really possible to
about double this value simply by pas
sing an act of Congress and getting the
value up to liS cents per ouuee, who
would be the gainer by this? Would it
lie any one else than the holders of sil
ver metal or bullion? Certainly they
who have no such metal on hand can
not gain anything.
Nothing can be gained in the way of
profit in any transaction unless it be at
the expense ot some oue else; and any
gain to the people who have silver in
hand by reason of thus doubling up
the price of it would necessarily be at
the expense of those without if- But,
the taking of a piece of silver really
worth, let us say fifty cents, and
stamping it and calling it a dollar, is
after all giving it only the nominal
value of a dollar, except aa to oue class
our citizens, which class includes.
those who may have n;ney due and
awing to them on debts that were con
tracted when dollars were honest, and
all dollars were of equal value; these
would have to receive them, dollar for
dollar; but when they come to pay them
out again, as will lie shown presently,
they will not be able to exchange them
for as much of any commodity they de
sire, a they could have done before
free coinage had debased these dollars.
But the lgal tender power will go no
further than where the layment of
debts is concerned; that becomes pow
erless where the transaction ia one for
immediate delivery and payment;
while free silver will inevitably drive
all our gold out of circulation aa mon
ey, the gold dollar will still be the
staudard of value. It is conceded that
free silver will nominally, at least, iu
crease the price of everything we have
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to sell; but let none forget that it will
also increase the price of everything
that we must buy. The fact that the
f fit.. . a .. .
goia uotiar nas tieeti ariven out or cir
culation by the silver one will be a for
cible reminder to people that it must
lie a dollar of greater value, and they
will still make it the standard; and
knowing that the silver dollar contains
metal that cost but fifty or fifty-three
cents (gold standard) they will in all
cases wVn they have anything to sell
take care that they ask enough for it
iu these delias-ed dollars to bring the
priee up to the staudard they have in
mind; that is why prices will be in
creased and raised. It is Urcause those
who are to receive it know that a large
part of the value it seems to bear on its
face is false and fictitious, compared
with that of the gold dollar that has
been driven out.
The reason that the farmer who will
sell his wheat for one of these silver
dollars (instead of 50 cents as now)
will have only 50 cents, is because this
dollar will only buy half as much as
dollars would buy that were kept equal
with gold. He will find that with
that sort of money everything else has
kept pace in price with his wheat.
We must measure the value of the dol
lar by what we may get for it as well
as by what we may give for it. He
will also find that when he is spending
his silver dollar, if by chance he can
fish out a gold dollar that so far has re
mained hidden in the bottom of his
purse he will have no trouble what
ever in getting more goods in exchange
for it than he can for his silver dollar.
In the days when the greenback was
in its glory the business of the country
was done iu paper dollars; but when
ever a merchant or tradesman had any
goods of any sort brought into this
couutry from England, France or Ger
many, he could not pay for them with
pajier dollars, but must needs seek for
gold among jH-rsous who had hoarded
it and tempt them by ottering them
enough of these aper dollars in the
way of a premium to induce them to
part with their gold. Of course, he
sold the goods for paper dollars, but he
took care to get enough of them for his
g'xxls to recoup him. The consumer
paid all of it in the end. Just so it
will lie with free coinage of silver. It
will be the old story over.
But, we are aked in reply to all this,
will not silver dollars with free coin
age, have just as much pure silver as
the silver dollars we now have? The
answer is yes. Then why are our pres
ent ones considered good as gold, and
yet the free coinage dollars would not
be? What Is our present silver dollar
really worth? Well, it is really, so far
as the metal in it is comx-med, only
worth about 50 cents, the remaining
4:i cents are practically wind.
But there is this difference: Both the
coinage and issuing of these dollars are
the act of the ( government. It bought
the silver at its selling price, which was
lielow the coinage value, coined it np to
the full mark, aud has made a profit,
greater or less, on each dollar issued;
and ii lias axoirued the duty of keeping
all of its money, of silver or paper, on
an equality with gold, and we are tak
ing them on the faith that it is both
able and willing to do so. Let the Gov
ernment fail to keep itself iu a condi
tion to do this; let it say to a man who
has its paper or silver money that it has
no gold, and can give him none in ex
change therefor, ami at once would our
pr.'went silver and paper money drop
below par. It would not even need the
hvlp of free coinage to bring alxxit this
result.
The present coinage of silver dollars
lieing the act of the Government, it is
responsible for keeping them up to the
standard. It is also careful not to put
out any more of them than it can well
take care of. With free coinage it will
lie entirely different. The Government
no longer Uiys the silver, but the man
who has it takes it to the mint, where it
is weighed and tested; then the mint
stamps the pieces, we will say, "One
Dollar," which iu effect is to say that
each piece has a certain weight, and
that the metal is of a certain degree of
purity, and liutuLs it bark in that form
to the party who brought IL That is
free coinage; the Government does this
work free of charge. It don't pay oiit
or put these pieces into -insulation;
that is the business, of the man who
bas had Hit silver minted into these
tVJlars. Th9 Government has no res
msibillty for them, neither has the
p irty for whom they were coined; once
he has persuaded some other person to
give him something in exchange for
them he is also done w ith them. They
must thenceforth stand on ther own
merits. People will give just as much
of their wheat, products or merchan
dise for them as they may thiuk them
worth no more. I f a debt is contract
ed of which payment is to be made in
this sort of dollars, the creditor will see
that the debt is big enough in amount.
Some may even exchange gold dollars
for them, but we will hazard the predic
tion that it will not be on the basis of a
yellow dollar for a white one.
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"This is the saddest case of all, and
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The keeper paused, and with pitying
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"How did he come to this sad state?"
"He was out of work and endeavor
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Stopping a Paper.
A story told of Horaos Greeley re
lates that an acquaintance of his got
offended at one of hia article in the
Tribune, went to the office and put an
end to his subscription. Later in the
day he met the editor and said:
"Mr. Greeley, I've stopped your
paper."
"Hare you?" queried Horace, ad
ding, "well, that's too bad;" and the
old white hat went its way.
The next morning Greeley encoun
tered his former subscriber and accost
ed him with:
"I thought you had stopped the
Tribune."
"So I did."
"Then there must be some mistake,"
replied Horace, "for I Just came from
the office, and when I left the presses
were running aa usual, the clerks were
as busy as ever, the compositors were
hard at work, and the business was go
ing on the same as yesterday and the
day before.
"Or ejaculated the old subscrilier.
"I did not mean tliat I had stopped
the paper; I stopjied my copy of it,
because I didn't like one of your edi
tor it Is."
"Pshaw!" retortt-d Greeley, "it was
n't worth while taking up time to U-1I
me such a trifle as thaL My dear sir,
if you expect to control the utterances)
of this patier by the purchase of one
copy a day, or you think to find any
iiewspajier worth reading that will
never express convictions at right an
gles with your own, you are doomed to
disappointment. The Tribuue would
not lie deserving of respect if it could
be coerced by the threat of the Iomj of
one subscriber, or a hundred, or ten
thousand, or every one it has, to re
frain from telling the truth as it sees it.
My frieud, this is a free country, and
the man who does not give freedom of
opinion to others does not deserve it
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A gentleman of Carroll ton, who ha
lately returned from the west, hat
brought with him a copy of some of
the rules he found posted iu a hotel
dining room.
The hotel was the "l:ustlers' Best,"
at Little Cayuse Creek, Col. The
"Rules for the Guidance of Guests''
follow:
"All gents with shouting irons or
other weapons must check them lfore
entering the dining room. Waiters
are too scarce to lie killed.
"Gents are requested not to attract
waiters attention by throwing thing
at them. This is no deaf mute asylum.
"Seven kinds of pie are given with
every dinner.
"Tablecloths are changed every Sut-
day.
"Our food is all of the best quality.
Our milk is pure, eggs new-laid , and
tlie butter speaks for itself.
"Guests tipping waiters mast pay
funeral benefits in case one should die
of heart disease.
"No more than six eggs will be giv
en each at a sitting. Any guest fom
trying to work off his shell on a
neighbor will be fired from the table.
"Biscuits found riveted together ear
be opened with a chisel supplied by a
waiter. The use of dynamite Is strict
ly forbidden.
"Disputes over articles of food must
lie settled outside.
"Don't lasso the waiters, because the
guest who can't throw the rope will be
at a disadvantage.
"Gents can take off their eoata if
they want, but they must keep on
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The Darlington, Wis., Journal say
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Every family should keep it ii the-.
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Why Not Potatoes?
From the New York slun.
On a Lehigh Valley train up in Cay
uga county, the other day, a red-haired
farmer from Moravia r-as trying to con
vert a sound-mouey niau to free silver.
Just below Frwville the train ran by at
big potato patch, and the fanner look
ing out of the window, said to the gold
bug :
"Just look at those potatoes. The
whole patch almost ruined. The hot
spell in August was too much for 'em.
There ain't a tenth of a crop. Last
year, now, we hail tltoiisaiids ofbusl
els more than we could use. Couldn'a
sell 'em at any price, couldn't give'eiu
away, couldn't feed 'em. Just had to.
let 'eu lie in the ground an' rot."
"Don't you think," answered the
goldbug, "that it would have been a
good thing for the Legislature to have
passed a law making potatoes worth,
say 15) cents a bushel ? This is a mighty
big State. We're oue-twelflh ;C the
nation in population and a larger pari
tu wealth. We do a much larger part
of the nation's business than one
twelfth. Surely if the United States
which are only about one-one-hundred-and-fiftieth
of the world iu populatiou
can fix by a law a price for the world s,
silver, then New York can fix a privo
for the uatiou's potatoes."
The farmer looked out of thewindvw
for a few minutes and made no reply.
At last he said :
"I hadn't thought of it that way be
fore. Seems to me there's something
In that."
Then the goldbug got up and went
away to let the farmer thiuk it over.
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