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Friday, Auourt 14, 1898.
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Regular Republican Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM M'KINLEY,
OF OHIO,
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
GARRET A. HOBART,
OF NEW JERSEY.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
For Congressmen-at-large,
GALUSHA A. GROW.
i Susquehanna County.
SAMUEL L. DAVENPORT,
of Erie County.
Editorial.
FREE SILVER FOR FARMERS.
The advocates of free silver claim
that the farmors will be most bene
fitted by its adoption, and to them
they address their most specious arg
uments, and from their ranks
expect to draw a large support. Sup
pose laws were enacted restricting
the amount each farmor should
raise, limiting him to planting a cer
tain number of acres proportioned to
his whole farm. This would if on
foroed, curtail the supply of produce
or grain. The demand remaining
the same as now prices would rise,
and if the articles which the farmers
buy were produced in unlimited
amount, he would be the gainer.
He would follow the business rule
to buy in the cheapest and sell in the
dearest market. But the above is
predicated on the law of supply and
demand. A horse to-day will do as
much work, travel as many miles in
as quick time, as a horse equally
good would twenty-years ago.yet the
horse to-day will not sell for more
than half the price it would thon,
why? Trolley oars and bicycles
have largely supplanted their use.
The conditions are changed, and
talk as he will the farmer cannot al
ter the facts. Now would it increase
the price of horses or oats to make
money cheaper, or in other words to
have free silver. Would the value
of the horse be increasod? The farm
er might got more money for him
but would the money buy more In
the market. And if not where is the
benefit.
Figures may be arrayed arguments
summoned and theories advanced to
prove opinions, but we ask all farm
ers to test them by the one simple
question. If the supply remains
greater than the demand, what rea
son is there for an advance in real
price. It may be hard . to realize
that under the existing conditions a
farmer must continue to plod and
toil for the meagre prices he receives
bat he should not on this account be
deceived or deceive himself with the
idea, that, by simply having the
government place its stamp on a met
al which can be produced in almost
unlimited quantities, he will thereby
have the value of his products en
hanced. ' No law is more fixed and
unalterable in its robults than that
prices are determined by supply and
demand, and the man who votes for
or expects this to be changed by gov
eminent or legislative flat will be
most woefully deceived. Eve was
not sutisfiod and so she listened to
tho devil who persuaded her Into
the tipple business, and her descend
ants have been suffering the results
of her experiment ever since.
Don't get out of the frying pan into
the fire.
MEN VS. MONEY.
Under the above caption in last
week's Dispatch, an editorial ap
peared which seemed to have a two
fold object. First to show that the
Republican party is owned by men
who represent 1328,000,000 of
wealth, and second as a basis for
some cursory remarks on " an edi
torial weathercock in our midst."
In reply to the former part of this
brillinnt effusion we reproduce from
the Philadelphia Press the follow
ing: Chairman Faulkner, of the Demo
cratic Congressional committee, says
that this campnign is one of the
masses against the classes. To
prove his assertion he calls atten
tion to tho published list in the free
coinage papers of a score or more
New York millionaires, whom, he
maintains, are contributing heavily
to the Republican cause.
The managers of the Republican
Congressional Committee have fre
quently called attention to the fact
that the free silver propaganda is
sustained by the silver mine owners.
They have prepared a partial list of
these silver kings, to whom the free
coinage of silver means a yearly
bonus of JO, 000,000 to $50,000,000
uon their product. This list offset
that which Chairman Faulkner and
his colleagues have caused to be
published and shows that the inter
est to be served is much more sel
fish than that which would prompt
contributions to the sound money
cause.
As Senator Elkins, of West Vir.
ginia, has said, free coinage of silver
moans a benefit alone to the silver
producers, and paying these pro
ducers $1.20 an ounce for their pro
duct, when it is selling in the open
market at less than 70 cents, means
a heavy bonus that must be taken
out of the pockets of the American
people.
The following is the wealth re
presented by those whose1 names are
opposite, either as individuals or
agents :
Hearst estate, California 175,000,000
Fair estate, California 60,000,000
John W. Mackay 40,000,000
Hagan 40,000,000
V. A. Clark 40,000,000
William M. Ftewart, Nevada . . 40,000,000
Francis J. Newlands, (Sharon
estate) 86,000,000
David Moffat, Denver 80,000,000
Senator John P. Jones, (Coin
stock Lode) '. 85,600,000
Flood estato 85,000,UI0
Denver Silver Smelting Works 26,000,000
K. C. Chamber, Ontario Silver
Mine 20,000,000
Chnrlcs E. Lane, California .... 80,000,000
L. K. Holdcn, Old Telegraph
Mine 15,000,000
Mark Daly, Anaconda, Mont. . . 16,000,000
Uutto Silver Smelting Works.. 14,500,000
S. T. Hauser, Granite Moun
tain Silver Mines 10,000,000
French Syndicate Old Tele
graph Mine, Utah 10,000,000
Lcadvillo Silver Smelting
Works 8,500,000
Broadway ostato,Helena, Mont. 6,000,000
Senator Henry M. Teller, Colo
rado 2,000.000
Senator Leo Mantle, Mont 2,ouo,000
Total $547,000,000
A little learning is a dangerous
thing, and, in the hands of a news
paper man whose object should be
to broaden and raise to a higher
plane the intelligence of his readers
it becomes a boomerang. Search
the dictionary for in it you will find
much to contemplate.
As to the " stale scurrility " with
which the "vituperative vender
jeers at and dorides our local Demo
cratic clubs because their members
are not men of wealth," we admit
that this display of adjootives cou
pled with their warmth of utterance
was withering in the weather we
then had.but, perhaps a truthful re
port of tho proceedings of a Demo
cratic meeting merits such a caustic
reprimand.
We feel it our duty to our readers
to give them the news, and while it
may be difficult to so modify and
soften the expressions in common
use by Democratic orators, or to
throw a sufficiently thick mantle of
charity over the aftor performances
so as to hide their deformities, and
render them passably decent to pub
lish, yet if in fact such reproduction
whitewashed and perfumed like an
Adonis, is still offensive to the deli
cate literary olfactories of our con
temporary we suppose as humanit
arians we should desist, and our
readers be deprived of the reports
of these delectable vote procuring
schemes. The Press kindly suggests
to the associate editor that if his
pains are still severe he might re
lieve the turgidity by either writing
up another ball game, or giving a
truthful account of the next Demo
cratic club meeting, if they dare
have another.
"SINE DIE" OR BUSTED.
The Democratic club in Dingman
township was obliged to disband.
It was growing too rapidly. Its
promoters forosaw that at the next
meeting it . would embrace all of
Dark Swamp, probably most of Rat
tlesnake, some of Jersey, and the
candidates from Congressman down.
These heterogeneous elements could
not be harmoniously combined, or,
as "Dory" more euphoniously ex
pressed a fact, "the blamed kanga
roos got to comin bo thick he was
afeurd they would tear down his
pig pen, or drive away his boarders,
besides demanding to have thoir
snoots in every time the free beer
was passed among his friends."
These proximate contingencies, and
great waste of free beer proved con
clusive reasons, tho Constable re
moved the seats from the lawn and
the mournful notice was given in
the Dispatch that the club adjourned
sine die. ."Sic transit gloria mundi.''
DINGMAN TOWNSHIP CLUB.
Last week's Dispatch makes this
announcement. "The Club then ad
journed "sine die"; members will
be duly notified of the time and
placo of the next meeting, Theo
dore Bosler will then speak on the
subject. "An Examination of
Heads."
It is a well known zoological fact
that the podiculus capitis is a proli
fic insect, but it could hardly have
been supposed that it would be neces
sary so soon after a series of Demo
cratic meetings to open a summer
school of philosophy with an emin
ent and loarnod professor to advise
on the best methods to exterminate
them. We hope these meetings will
bo largely attended by the suffering
ones, and that "Dory" in his forth
coming lecture will dwell particular
ly on the sizes of mesh in fine tooth
combs best adapted to secure the
most effective results. He might
also enliven the talk with a magic
lantern exhibition to more fully illus
trate tho habits and peculiarities of
the frisky animal. We suggest also
that our neighbor send its ablest re
porter, in order that it may be fully
qualified to enlighten its readers on
this delicate subject. It will then
have material for an exceedingly in
teresting article. If some of the
heads of those present at the last
meeting had been critically examined
the next morning, they would no
doubt have been found several sizes
larger than normal, besides posesses
sing bumps which would have puz
zled an expect in phrenology.
Congressman Joseph J. Hart, of
Milford, Pike county, Pa., was In
Stroudsburg, several days last week
looking over the political field for
the purpose of seeing how his chan
ces stand for his return to Congress
next fall, at tho hands of the voter,
Hart, of course, is now a free silver
adheront and if things continue in
the run, as we are told thoy are pro
gressing, he will be given a chance
to take a back seat and return to his
profession as a chicken-raiser. This
district is not free silver inclined,
we believe.
The Hight King.
Voters should in this contention
for the preservation of national fin
ancial honor and prosperity be first
of all Americans, and cease to be
blind, bgoted, subservient partisans,
at least, until they have through
the ballot box settled, and forever
settled rieht. this nuestion of iionn-
lar intelligence and morality.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
In tho Orphan's Court of Pike County'
estate of Conrad Grub, dee'd.
In the matter of the account of George
E. H or ton, administrator.
The auditor appointed " to make distri
bution of the balance of funds in hands of
OiiKirge E. Horton, admlnistrator,as shown
by his account," will meet the parties Inter
ested for the purposes of his appointment
ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 18U6,
at 10 o'clock a. ra. at his office, corner 8rd
and Ann Btreets, Milford, Pa., when and
where all parties Interested are required to
make and prove their claims, or be de
barred forever from coming In upon Bsid
funds. HY. T. BAKER,
Milford, Ph., Auditor.
July 80, lawn. at
All persons are hereby notified that
throwing or burning pmK-rs or refuse of
any kind in the streets of the Borough is
prohibited.
by order of the town council,
J. C. CHAMBERLAIN,
President, pro torn.
Attest, D. H. HORN BECK, Sec'y.
Milford, May 6, 1HWJ.
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THE POPULIST'S DREAM.
I I ' 11 Sir 9 rt J.rl ,'-' m. 1 1,.' fJW r7--vr u
IIENDItlX'S
WITTY SPEECH.
HE MAKE8 A HUMOROUS SPEECH
ON MONEY TO MOROCCO
MANUFACTURERS.
Glad They Arc Not Aiming to Bars Leather
Remonetlaed Tells Why Clam Shells
Were Demonetised Civilisation and Evo
lution Advancing Toward a Single Stand
ard In Everything Faith In American
t Intelligence.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter pub
lishes: the following speech made by the
Hon. Joseph O. Hendrix at the dinner
of the National Morocoo Manufacturers'
association of the United States at Man
hattan Bench early this month :
Mr. Pkeswk:jt and Gfnti.rmen I
am glad to see you, "men of small
brahis and largo capital. " I am glad al
ways to face successful men in an Amer
ican industry. Yon represent a trade
which years ngo furnished material for
the money instrument. There was
leather money ont o and plenty of it.
Yon have never s-t up any cry because
of the dciimneti.iction of leather, never
asked redvss for the "crime" of the
abandonment of the una of loather as
money. You do not now ask for its re
monetiKntiou. Mr. Stein Nor for free tannage.
Mr. Hendrix No! Therefore, I have
great respect for two people, tho North
American Indian and tho morocco man
ufacturer. . Alo'iR these sand dunes from
Manhattan to Montitnk point, tho anti
quarian onn point to great heaps of
shells where the old squaws used to sit
and practice the free coiniigo of wam
pum. After awhile n smart Yankee in
vented a turning lathe which trans
formed tho clam shells into money too
fast. This led to the demonetization of
the Long Islaud clitm. Laughter. The
poor Indian has passed off to the plnins
and we hear no more of the free coinage
of clams.
These are simply evolutionary steps.
Yon look back to tho beginnings of
your industry and marvel at the changes.
The world advances. Civilization re
fines, Commeroe requires exact terms
and measures. It insists upon oertaiuty,
fixity in the standard of values. It mnst
have something upon which it can de
pend. It has found out that it must de
pend upon some one thing. That is why
it has veered to tho single standard. It
has quit stepping from one standard to
the other. It makes its election. It votes
for gold because of its great value in
small compass and bocnusn of the fixity
of that value. 8o it is that one great
nation aftor another, under the com
mand of its best intelligence, has oonie
to the gold staudurd. It is because they
have found it the cheapest, best and
most effective standard by which to
measure all values.
What does a standard mean? What is
ita primary significance? It comes from
an old Latin word meaning something
to turn to. When you are in doubt you
go to the standard. I don't care what
line of business you are in or what
course of life you pursue, standard
govern it somehow or other. You ride
on a railway on standard gauge, you
ait at table of a standard height, and
so on through the list The standard
must be the thing it stands for. If yon
have a standard of weight, it may be of
diamonds or precious stones, but it has
got to have weight that is the first
thing. If yon have a standard of length,
it must have length. And when yon
ooine to the question of the standard of
value, whatever it is made of it has
got to have value.
You can talk about the whole ques
tion of nuance in 100 different lights.
But this is the main point yon must
have a standard of value. That standard
must have value. We choose for the
standard the metul which fluctuate the
least in value. That is the whole story
of the gold standard. Cheers.
Our friends out in Chicago claim
that the gold standard is a British pol
icy which we are seeking to enforce in
this country. Did you ever hear any
thing atxxit Hritinh policy in connection
with the law of gravitation or a British
policy of good health against bad health
good cloth, s aptiiwt shoddy? There
are other countries in the world besides
Great Britain. We do not have to look
to Great Hriraiu to know what is a good
thing Gie.it applause. J We are old
enough and big enough to know a good
thing when we see it. Ours is a country
that fur U0 years has been under the
gold standard- Yon have never known
anything else. All you have was built
upon the gold standard. The greatness
and development of this country have
been attained under thut stiuidard. How
is the world liuiug up on this question?
China, Japan and Mexico are for free
silver. Greut Britain, Germany, France
and the great umpire" of Europe are fur
gold. Where do we belong? There U
only one answer. Can any one fancy
that our grout population, made op of
70,000,000 of the bent examples of the
Anglo-Saxon ruou, mixed with Irish
wit, booteh euuning, German thrift,
is going to step from the high plane
where we stand to the lower one be
neath? What strange madnow'kaji ooiue
Into the American people to make it
seem possible that they could do a thing
of that kiud? Applause.
We can live on a silver basis after
we get there. Onr great rivers will fol
low their courses to the sea. God's sun
will kiss the earth. The crops will
spring forth. Children will be born and
grow up. Enterprises will go forward.
But are we going to take the leap in the
dark and try an experiment fraught
with such risk and panic? A great
French economist once said that when
he was 40, he thought he understood
something about finance. When he was
60, he felt he did not know as much
about it as he did at 40, and at 70 he
began to doubt whether he knew any
thing about it at all, and scarooly dared
to open hie mouth. Mr. Gladstone pon
dered over the question till he said that
It seemed almost to defy human Intel
loot, but Ben Tillman, from South Car
olina, knows that tiie goldbugs of Wall
street and vampires of Lombard street
are "agin the farmer," and the way the
farmer can get even is to out his dollar
in two. Applause.
We are living in a grand and awful
time. But tho newspapers are printed
every day, and the Americans are not
asleep. The brain of the American peo
ple is not dull. Their hearts are not dis
honest. These heresies come and go as
the tide flows, and sometimes in the
thirkest of the night we may not appear
to see the stars that are shining. But
you remember on one historio occasion,
when the sky was all coverod with fog,
some one asked, "Oh, say, can yon see
by the dawn's early light the star span
gled banner yet waving?" And it was
there I Enthnsiastio cheers.
SOME POOR DEBTORS.
tirent Corporations Which Free Silver
Woold Fnable to Chest Their Creditors
Out of Half of the Money Borrowed.
The free silver agitators claim to be
working in the interest of the debtors
of the country, whom they represent a
being a large number of poor persons.
The creditor class is denounced as
small number of greedy bankers and
monopolists, banded together for the
purpose of oppressing the masses of the
people. Repudiation of debts is openly
advooared by the silverito and Populist
press on the ground that -the men who
borrow money are more numerous than
the men who lend. The belief that in
some way free coinage will benefit poor
debtors by injuring rich creditors is at
the bottom of nine-tenths of all the de
mands for cheap money.
The falsity of assertions that a scheme
to pay debts in 60 oont dollars wonld
holp the poor and hurt only the rich
can be easily scod by looking at a fow
of the prominent debtors of the country.
Among tho groat corporations which
would be able to pay off their bonded
indebtedness in dollars worth SO cents
are the following:
Bonded In
debted nee.
Chicago, Burlington and Qulney....102.UJU,ixi0
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul... C2,000,OUO
Chicago. Ruck Inland nnd Pacific . . . 72,UU,0UU
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 4S.0O0,UuD
Lake Shore and Michigan Central. . A.OOO.OUO
New York Central ea,(l,01IO
Mew Turk. New Haven and Hartford 1K.W0.0O0
Northern Pacific 42,OX),OUO
Central Railroad of New Jersey 1U,OUO,UUO
Chtoago and Northwestern 7B,0UO,Ou0
Here are ten poor debtors whose obli
gations of $546,000,000 are payable in
ooin not gold. Under a free ooinage
law these corporations could pay the
thousands of persons who bold their
bonds, many of tbem held by savings
banks, insurance companies, people of
small means, etc., in $272,600,4000
worth of silver. And this is called a re
form in the interest of the masse.
Low Interest rates on farm mortgagee
under free silver is the bait which has
caught a good many honest farmers.
They will go back to sound money prin
ciples when they understand that inter
est rates are for lower in gold standard
nations than in silver basis countries.
Silverito Campaign Crlea,
The platform adopted by the silverite
wing which controlled the Democratic
national convention contain abundant
material for stirring campaign mottoes.
"Free Silver Inflation," "Debt Repudi
ation," "Property Confiscation" and
"Commercial Stagnation" are brief and
truthful statements of the aims of the
cheap money Democrats and the certain
runults which would follow their success
in November. Shouting these cheerful
strains, the silverites can march to the
oertaiu defeat which awaits all move
ments bused on sectionalism, greed, ap
peals to prejudice and hatred of property
rights.
Wag Earnera Mot VooUd.
An interesting straw come from In
diunapolia. A few days ago the em
ployeus oi a large manufacturing estab
lishment in thut city were a&ked whether
or not they favored the gold standard.
Of nearly 1,600 workingmen who were
interviewed UuO were outspoken for the
maintenance of the present money
standard. Only bU'J declared againat It,
and 16S said they were undecided.
Cheap and trashy money in which to
pay wages, high prices for every kiud
of goods which labor buys these are
the blessings of free silver for the
American woikinguieu.
THE SILVERITE CATECHISM.
la Which Free Coinage Theories An
Plainly Stated.
What is money? Somethlna-anftde ont
of nothing by government
Is there any limit to the amount of
money which government can make?
Only the capacity of the printing presses
or the country.
What kind of money is tho best?
That which has the least value. '
What does "cheap money" mean?
Money that will buy very little wealth.
Why are some peoplo poor? Because
the money .they got in exchange for
their products or their labor will buy a
large amount of goods.
How can the poor all be made rich?
By stamping 50 oents' worth of silver
"one dollar" and thus decreasing the
purchasing power of money.
What is a capitalist? A wicked sinner
who has worked hard and saved np a
little property.
What is a patriot? A man who covets
his neighbor's property and wants to
get hold of it by law.
What does "repudiation" mean? It is
a simple scheme for readjusting the in
equalities between the men who worked
and the men who have not.
What is the golden rule of the silver-
ites? Do others as they wonld not do
you.
What are we to understand by "hon
esty" and "good faith between men?"
That creditors are to be cheated out of
one-half of their property whenever the
debtors control congress.
Why not benefit debtors still more by
repudiating all the claims of creditors?
That will oome later. The publio must
be educated into silverism by degrees.
What is a oreditor? A fiend in human
shape who loaned 100 cent dollars and
doesn't want to be paid in dollar worth
60 cents.
How will free silver help the farm
ers? By oausing the withdrawal of all
loans, paralysis of industry, stagnation
of commerce and idleness of millions of
workers who now buy farm products.
How will the 16 to 1 scheme benefit
the working classes? By making them
pay twice as much for everything they
buy, while giving them little or no in
crease in wages. It will also confiscate
half of their savings bank deposits.
What is a silver mine owner? A good,
kind, unselfish oitizen, who doesn't
want higher prioea of silver so that he
will get rich, but simply because he
loves his fellow man.
Does his love for the workers load
him to pay more than market rates for
his labor? Not much. Business and
sentiment are two different things. Be
sides he doesn't have to.
What is a sound ourrenoy? Dollars
with 50 cents' worth of silver and 60
oents worth of fiat or paper dollars all
flat
What Is the chief duty of a good oiti
cen? To hate everybody who is indus
trious and thrifty, and to meekly swal
low all the nostrums of the cheap money
office seekers.
How can the people be made prosper
ous? By setting class against class; dis
couraging the investment of capital;
contracting the ourrenoy by raining em
ployers, driving out gold and over
throwing our sound financial system.
Whidden Graham.
The ttrand Army of Creditors.
The gentlemen who think that thoy
have made an attractive bid for votes
by proposing a 60 oent dollar for debtors
to pay their debts with are reckoning
without their host Every state of the
Union is full of creditors, and they will
never consent to defrand and cheat
themselves.
Among these creditors are :
All persons who work for wages, sal
ary or by the pieoe.
All members of building and loan
associations.
All depositors in savings, national,
state or private banks.
All holders of life, fire and accident
insurance policies.
All members of benevolent and fra
ternal insurance orders.
All holders of industrial insurance.
All widows, orphans or wards de
pendent wholly or partially upon the
income from investments.
All educational and charitable insti
tutions dependent wholly or in part up
on the income' of their endowments.
In fact, the 60 cent silver dollar
would be of advantage to few persona
in the long run save the speculators,
who would gamble on the inevitable
fluctuations in its purchasing power and
In the price of commodities. Exchange.
What 16 to X Mean.
It means that 16 ounces of silver for
debt paying purposes shall be made, by
law, worth as much as 1 onnoe of gold-
One ounce of gold will now coin
$18.60. Sixteen ounces of silver shall
be made to coin $18.60.
You can buy in any market today 16
ounces of silver for $9. 94. The profit is
87 percent, or $8.66.
In other words, if a man borrows of
yon today $18.60 he can pay you, if
"tree silver at 16 to 1" becomes law,
with $9.94.
Look ont that it doesn't!
Silver Is merely a commodity, like
tin, iron or wood.
If the government should say $9. 94
worth of wood shall cost $18.60, would
yon buy it? Certainly not
The silver dollar today Is worth 68
oents. Ita present ratio to gold ia about
81 to 1. All the governments in the
world cannot change the eoinmeraial
value of silver any more than that of
coal. Iron, tin or copper I '
The more silver produced the cheaper
it will get I
Would England, France or Germany
take In payment of debt from us for
$18.60, $9.94, simply because our gov
ernment said that $9.94 worth of silver
ia worth $18.60 of gold?
Certainly not I Mo more than yon
Would accept such a settlement of a per
gonal debt
A standard of exchange must be co
extensive with the commercial world
and acceptable to all concerned.
Prophoey and History.
Why don't our diver friends stop tell
ing what la going to happen if they
have their way and content themselves
by learning what did happen when other
nations had a similar epidemic of silver
lunacy such as now menaces us? Their
prophecies won't aooompliah anything.
because they wish it, but stern reality
will repeat the disasters with ua that it
iaflioted on others if we persist in Our
willful blindness. George Gang.
An honest dollar ia the noblest work
of fliiamai . .
THE LADIIS' COLUMN.
We wlfh to suffirest to the Indies that
this oolumn Is always open to any and all
who wish to SMffjrest domestic subjects of
any nature whatever, either t-o ask advice
or furnish Information to others, and we
earnestly hope nil readers of the Phkhs and
rno ncmre will avail tin'"' j' lves of the op
portunity, and thus row Jsl well as con
fer benefits. W
All communications relative to this col
umn Intend for imhllcitlon will lie laid
over until next week If they reach this
uinoe later man 1 uesuav.
A Quarrel In the Oven.
O, the gingerbread boy and the piecrust
girl
Thev l.nii s n-.l .1...
Together they sat on the oven'snelf,
The piecrust fay nnd the gingerbread elf,
And the quarrel commenced this
way:
Paid the gingerbread boy to the piecrust
''I'll wnvr my new brown hat,
That I'm fatter than you and much more
tanned,
Though you're filled with pride till you
cannot stniul
But what Is the good of that ?"
Then tho plecrusty girl turned her little
noso up
In a most provoking way,
"O, maybe you're brown, but you're poor
as can Imi.
You do not know lard from a round green
peal
Is there aught that you do know,
prny r"
O, the gingerbread boy, he laughed loudly
with smrn
As he looked as the flaky piecrust.
"Just wateh how I'll rise In tho world!"
cried he
"Just see how I'm bound to grow light!"
cried she.
"While you stay the color of rust.''
So the gingerbread boy nnd tho pleornst
girl
They each of them swelled with pride.
Till a noise was heard in the room with
out A cry of delight, then a very glad
shout;
And the oven was opened wide.
Then tho gingerbread boy and piecrust
girl
Could have screamed and wept with
pain,
For a rosy-checked lass and small bright
eyed 1ml
Took a big blto of each yes, this tale's
very sad
So they'll now never quarrel again.
Katharine Nowbold lllrdsall, In the
August " Home Queen."
Pie Crust A very good pie crust
may he niiule from the following re
ceipts : One pound lord, one quart
flour, well sifted j one small teacup
ful of ice water, one teaRpooniul
salt . Mix the flour and lard well
with a knife before adding the water,
then add water and salt. Mix this
well and roll for tins.
.
Soft Gwoerbrkad One cup but--,
tor, one egg, one cup molasses, one
cup granulated sugar, one cup sour"
milk, one teaspoonful saloratus dis
solved in a little hot water.. Flour'
enough to make a little stiffor than
cake made with more eggs. Beat
hard two or three minutes before
putting in the oven.
ABOUT OREBK CORN.
Corn is one of our few national
dishes for in spite of its delicacy and
its digestibility is eaten nowhere
else as here. But, even for us, corn
loses its fitness for food if it ban lain
in the provision store or market for
several days. Therefore an effort
must be made to deal with a coun
tryman who will honestly bring
none but freshly picked corn.
Since corn is so plentiful at this
season and will continue in good
condition for a month or more, the
country housekeeper ought to find .
it possible to preserve it either by
canning or drying for use in the
winter. It suffers less perhaps than
any other vegetable by these pro
cesses. For drying the kernels fol
low Mrs. Lincoln's recipe, which di
rects that the corn be boiled on the
cob from five to ten minutes ; then
cut and scraped from the cob, and
dried carefully in the sun. Keep in
a dry place where it will be secure
from mice. Some cold night, when
you want a tempting relish that can
be quickly prepared, grind a cupful
of the corn in a coffee mill, put it in
a spider with a pint of cold waiter,
lot it heat slowly until swollen, and
the water is absorbed ; then add
milk enough to make it like a thin
puree. Boil about five minutes , add
a tablespoonful of butter, and salt
and pepper to taste. A scant tea
spoon of sugar is an improvement.
If you have never tried it you
will be surprised to find how much
better it is to boil corn in the husks.
Remove the outer husks and strip
down the inner husks to take off the
silk, then turn the husks back and tie
them at the top with a thread.
Plunge into boiling water, which haa
been salted, and boil from twenty
minutes to half an hour. When done
cut off the stalk end, which thru
frees the husks and serve the corn 1
in a napkin. 1
Many persons find that green oorn
has an unpleasant effect upon their
digestion. For such, and indeed for
others, it is a good plan to split the
kernels with a sharp knife before1'
eating from the cob ; in this way ;
the hulls of corn are left with the'
cob and only the nutritive portions ''
are eaten. . .
CANDIDATES' CAEDS. "
To THK voteks OF PlKECotlNTY: I here
by announce myself a caudidiiU) for '
County Treasurer
under the title or policy of "People's
Party." aa regulated by the Aot uf June
10, lnwa.pnivuling tor nominations by nom
ination patient, and solicit your votes at
the general election Nov. H, lHtioV. , .
JOHN A. K1PP.
August 6, ' -
Having been appointed to fill a vacancy
llt,lio olliue uf
Associate Judge. , ., ' '.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination at the Hupubliutu Conveii- '
tiou. Should I receive it, and bo elected,
I shall endeavor to uurfonu the duties uf
the ollluu Impartially and to the best ol
my ability.
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
July a, ltMi.