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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-22
FraIey Again i'm the Pit.

ST. LOUIS, April 21.-Moses Fraley,
the big bear who was short 100000
bushels of corn and wheat this week,
and called for settlement, was in the
grain pit this morning, as active as
ever, but was met with opposition from
in making deals, and suddenly opened
up with TRADE of not particularly
choice language, to the effect that he
had paid $4,000 in st. Louis since his
demand for settlement, and the money
was ready for any who failed to cali.
After that he met with better feeling
and traded with his full share. His loss
will not reach $5O0,000 as far as
stated, and as he pays 100 cents on the
dollar and has plenty left, he is not be-
lieved to aFbe in so bad fix as was at
first stated by himself.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-22
POISON WALL PAPER AND MOLD
ING PASTE.

The people have been driven into the
use of wall paper, as they had no way of
tinting and decorating walls so as to-
keep them like new as Alabastine does.
They have in many cases put coat
after coat of paper on with molding veg
etable paste mixed with animal glue, and
many times arsenic and other poisons
between each coat of paper, and then,
after becoming sick from living in such
rooms, have gone to another climate and
were cured, except where they were un-
fortunate enough to get into another
room as badly coated as the one they
left.
Many cases of this kind and much of
the sickness of Boston and vicinity were
traced directly to these causes. During
an extensive agitation of this subject
there was an effort to get a bill passed
in the legislature of that state to pro-
hibit the sale of poison wall papers.
The Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal published during 1856 and 1887
full reports of the proceedings, the
speeches and letters of many eminent
doctors and professors Of Harvard and
other colleges, who traced much of the
sickness prevailing directly to wall
coatings. Some of the doctors did not
find it necessary to go fureher than
their own families to find positive proof
of very bad effects from their walls,
where they had supposed the sickness
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cratic county convention this afternoon
spent four hours trying to select seven
delegates to the Watertown convention.
The strife was between the Church and
anti-Church factions. The latter
finally withdrew and held a separate
convention and nominated Reed, OIL
wine, Mccarthy, Newton, Sweetser, Nc
Cullan and Markle. They passed reso-
lutiOns favoring division and admission
of the two states, also indorsing Cleve-
lands administration: The regular
Merits Taylor, George Cooper, DR..
O'Brien, James Martaugh, NJ. J.Dinneer
and Charles Breen. This convention
passed resolution indorsing Gov.
Church and his independent and fear
less administration of Dakota affairs;
his influence on the party in their
county, where he resided for nearly
three years, and grew in esteem and en-
dearment with fair-minded and unprej-
udiced citizens. President Cleveland's
administration was also indOrsed; also
uncompromiSingly favoring division and
admission of the two states. A call
will be issued Monday for South Da-
kOta statehood meeting, to be held here
July and 5.
FARGO, OAK, April 21.-Democratic
twenty-SiX delegates to the county con-
vention next Tuesday, and resulted in a
clear, wide-Open Church victory. If
there are any Day men in Fargo they
must have forgotten all about the eau
cuses. There was some sparring in the
South side caucus, which may lead to a
kick on the part of few diSgruntled al
legged Democrats who failed to attend.
There is rumor that cOnteSting dele
CATION from the South side will be sent
to the county convention but from the
temper of the delegates tonight they
will be respectfully kicked out. There
is no use of Disgusting the fact that Gov.
Church has the hearty sympathy of
Fargo Democrats.
ABERDEEN, OAK, April 21.--Cau-
cuses were held in this city this evening
to choose delegates to the Democratic
county convention. Church's friends
carried two wards. One ward sends
delegation neither for Church nor Day,
while in the second ward there was
bolt. Day is in the city, having arrived
tonight.
/ HIGHMoRE, OAK, April 21.-In the
Democratic convention here to-day the
following delegates to WatertOwn were
elected: NJ. G. Simon, G.. H. Price, r.
E. Murphy and ii. A. Cramer. A solid
delegation for Church and Cleveland.
Special to the Globe.
MILLER, Dak., April 21.-The Demo-
cratic county convention was held here
to-day and elected a solid Church dele
CATION to attend the territorial cOnven-
ton to be held at Watertown. Resolu-
lions were passed unanimously Indoors
ing the administration of President
Cleveland and Gov. Church. Following
are the delegates: j. j. Smith, II. ID.
Hit, j. H. Wiland, d. ID. Rorick, j. 81.
Baldwin, A. Green.
CANTON, Dak., April 21.-The Demo-
cratic county convention met to-day and
elected Railroad Commissioner Boyn-
ton, Col. Gale, j. V. Conklin and o. E.
Rea delegates to the Watertown con-
vention. 1t is Church delegation.
JAMESTOWN. Dak., April 2l.-At the
Democratic primaries tonight Church
delegates were unanimously selected
for the county convention, which meets
Wednesday.
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would test the geographical knowledge
of any gentleman to locate. The Forty
seventh congress had passed river and
harbor bill of $4,000, 600, and the Demo
Gratis had gone into the next canvass and
painted on their banners: SHOWN with
the Republican party because it passed
this enormous BILL" The verdict of the
people had been against this appropri-
alton. With this piece of history in his
memory he did not propose to vote for a
bill which went beyond that which had
been condemned by the popular verdict
in 1882. Mr.. Grain, of Texas, offered an
amendment making an appropriation of
$4,000 for the construction of harbOr
of refuge at Port LavaccO, Tex, and
argued that many less importand places
where the commerce was con-
siderably less, had been given larger
appropriations than he asked for Port
Lavacc0. More than half million
dollars worth of merchandise had
entered last year at that port. The
amendment was rejected. The COM
mittee then rose and the house adj
journed.
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fUKlf | IUUk hUMES.
How Some People Get Decay
ing Animal Matter on
Their Walls in Kali
somineS.
How Some Dealers Buy Such
Cheap Stuff and Sell 1t
For Alabastine at
Same Price.
Some Are Not Aware of the
Damage They Do Their
Own Customers.
How to Know the Genuine,
Pure Alabastine That
Makes a Permanent
Coat.
Why Some Painters Use Kali
sOmine Yet.
A Cash Offer to Children.
Why Some Painters Use Kali
sOmine Yet.
A Cash Offer to Children.
Poison Wall Papers.

Four years ago several leading papers
gave full description Of Alabastine,
covering One-half page, giving its merits
and great advantages over all kalso-
mines or non-setting mixtures used on
walls, with specific testimonials from
reliable sources where it had been used
for years.
Now it has further proven its perma-
nent nature and is in general favor and
extensive use throughout the entire
country.
Complaints have come, however. from
several towns and villages from people
who have purchased what they had sup
posed was Alabastine, which they say
was applied on good hall wal, land that
in few months it either scaled off or
was found to have become soft so that
it could be rubbed off dry enough to
soil clothing, or that the old coat cut
through when they attempted to recoat
it, or that it had all scaled off when it
had been recoated. Now, as it was
known that Alabastine would not do
this, that on the contrary it hardens
with age, and that the wall is improved
by every coat added from time to
time,
INVESTIGATIONS FOLLOWED.
1t was found that in these places
there was a dealer who had either been
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informed by travelling salesman that
the same as the package, was ''the same
thing under another name." or could be
sold for Alabastine, that he could buy
it cheaper, and that his customers would
not be much imposed on, etc.; or, as in
some cases, the dealer actually put in a
kalsomine mixture which he bought
cheaper and handed it out when Ala
bastine was called for, not really know
ing, perhaps, the great damage he was
doing his customers, and possibly not
having read all the claims for Alabas-
tine to understand the nature of it.
In many cases the customers did not
notice the fraud, as kalsomine will tenn
pOrarily tint or whiten wall, and if it
did not look as well as Alabastine the
trouble was laid to the wall, and when
after few months il proved to soften
the customer was puzzled. Thus few
pounds of such goods, sold for Alabas-
tine, would do great damage to its repu-
tation.
1t is well known that all kalsomines
dlO VcAhPoldIy, anu tildt IHo SApeIoO
and trouble of removing them to renew
is greater than to apply them first, and
when the supposed Alabastine proved
to do the same it was classed with kalso-
| mines.
1t is fraud for any dealer to sell any
article by claim that it is like anothe I
article that is called for, and when the
claim is not true in any sense, or if the
article called for is patented and trade
marked the fraud is greater, of course.
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WHAT THE COMPANY SAY.

We will be greatly obliged to any per-
son for any information that will help us
to know the reason why work done with
what was supposed to be Alabastine did
not harden and prove durable. If a
small amount of any article so pur-
chased is mailed to us we can tell
whether Or not it is Alabastine; or some
of the scales from the wall, inclosed in
a letter to us, would enable us to tell
where the trouble is. In sending such
information the persons should tell us
what was said when purchased, near
as they can remember, and what the re-
suit was when they used the supposed
Alabastine, and whether it hardened or
softened OH the wall, etc. Some send us
the information without sample or deal
er'S name; this all helps us. Wereturn
all postage used in correspondence, and
will send samples of our tints made by
hand, with Alabastine, on paper, to
every one who writes us Oh this subject,
and will send a small polished piece of
AlabaStine rock as souvenir to all
grown persons who write us that they
have read this half page all through.
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DULUTH NEWS.
Saturdays Happenings in the
r1t Zenith City.

C"surudy happenings III INC
93f Zenith City.
Special to the Globe.
April 21.--A local paper
publishes statement to the effect that
the Chinese laundry east of O'Brien &
/ KnowltOn's livery stable is an opium
Joint. The publication claims that the
police have known of this thing from
the start, but have never raided it.
They say that receSSes are fenced off,
so each person enjoys her pipe in seclu-
sion. People generally about town dis
credit the story.
The Duluth & Iron Range railroad is
arranging for extensive yard room and
side tracks on the east end. They now
own large part of land lying between
their tracks and the lake and eastward
from the East end depot. In order to
still further extend the limits of the
proposed yard the lake between the
Jutting rock points near the water COM
pany'S pump house is to be cribbed and
filled, the intention being to Straighten
the shore line between the two points
and use the land thus given for track
room.
Sensational suits were filed to-day by
the husband of Sophrane Sharaitt,
against Gen. KilgOre, of the local police,
and j. f. Dacey, respectively, for $1,000
each, claiming that they alienated his
wife'S affections and at stated times
had unlawful association with her.
They make general denial.
Several charters for grain to Buffalo
| have been made, all conditional on time
OF arrival. If vessel load before May
Is, rate is to be 81 cents per buShel; if
before the 10th, 81 centS,an after that,
rates to be agreed upon. These are
what might be called flexible charters.
The Farmers alliance, which in con-
junction with the Scandinavian Ele-
yatOr company, own about fifty small
elevators in Minnesota and Dakota,
promise to build two large elevators in
Duluth, and ship the wheat direct to
England.
Duluthians are again felicitating
themselves ON the prospect of other i'm
portant railroads. The capital stock of
s., 100000 for the Duluth, Glencoe &
Southwestern is the item of cOnyersa-
ton.
l.. F. Stafford, manager of the new
West Superior Brick company, is here,
and work on the plant is already under
way. One building is finished, 100 feet
by TO-, and the other will be still larger.
n. Keifer, of Tower. attempted sui
eide to-day by shooting himself through
the breast. He bought new revolver.
went into all open lot in the middle of
the town and fired. He will recover.
Rum is supposed to be the cause.
The Inman boat Williams made a
passage through the bay to-day and
pulled several other tugs to the North
tern Pacific dock. The lake is open
about seven miles out.
The weeks bank clearings amounted
to- 81 1874, 1924. an increase of 25 per
cent over the corresponding week of
lilast year.
Person with money to invest will do well
to turn their attention to Duluth and Super
ior. NJ. B. HARRISON, Coz Duluth n atienal
bank building, Duluth has large list of
! property in bothp laces for sale.
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good way to tell genuine Alabastine.
Some painters who advise using kalsO-
mine do so because they can keep the
kalsomine mixed. 1t would be as rea-
s0nable for plasterer to use white clay
instead of plaster of paris for making
his white plaster finish with trowel,
on the claim that the plaster would set.
making it necessary for him to use it at
once after mixing, while the white clay
would remain soft as long as he liked,
but his customer would know it would
also become soft on the wall even if he
did use glue to hold it temporarily, as he
does his kals0mine.
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that before Alabastine was brought to
their notice they never knew of any
preparation making these claims of per-
manence, and adapted to applying as
many coats as desired, one over another
for years, hardening with age.
TO CHEAPER A MANUFACTURED WALL
COATING
depending on good quality for durabil-
ity. is unsafe, as poor article will spoil
the wall, and its
DURABILITY CANNOT BE PROVEN IN
ONE YEAR.
Now, those who
HAVE FOUND ALABASTINE TO BE d.
RABLE,
hardening on the wall with age, imprOv-
ing the original wall, will not risk un-
tried preparations on one room in hopes
of saving few cents.
ONE POUND OF ALABAsTINE
will cover double the surface two coats
that the same amount of kalsOmine will.
Ask your dealer for circular contain
ing the twelve beautiful tints and full
instructions.
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STENCILS FOR DECORATE
ING.

We furnish stencils at the moderate
price of from 25 cents to Is cents each,
according to size. Send for the stencil
circular, showing the designs and giving
prices, with directions for use. That
will enable any painter to do a nice job
of hand freseoing (thiS is the way the
best frescoing is now done in the cities).
Also any woman or twelye-year-old boy
can, with some of our styles, put on bor-
ders, centers, and, in fact, cover
the wall with rosettes, leaves, etc., so
as to look better with permanent Ala
bastine tints than even the most elabo-
rate wall paper. Of course a painter
can do it better, and he can also do Ala
bastining better (but no more durable) if
he will follow directions, but many times
the people do it better themselves, as
they know no way but to follow direc-
lions, while the painter is likely to use
it like kalsomine, which will not do, as
ALABASTINE WILL SET,
will harden in the dish, if left to stand,
when mixed in water, which no kalso-
mine will do, which, by the way, is
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S1OO FREE.

Some painters imagine, that Alabas-
tine is only kalsomine or say ''their
kalsomine" will do as well, and others
really know better, but discourage the
use of Alabastine, being under the er-
rOneOus impression that it will hurt
their business, being so easily used and
permanent.
We offer the above amount to each
kalSOminer or manufacturer of kalsO-
mines who will produce sample of
from fifty to one hundred coats of their
material or prepared mixture applied
to piece of wood or other fit surface,
mixed the same as they use or sell it for
walls, to equal our samples made with
Alabastine made in that way. (By a
kalsomine mixture we mean any nom
setting mixture, i. e., one that remains
soft in the dish when mixed with water
ready for use, instead of forming stone
in few hours as Alabastine does.)
The test is to show that successive
coats can be applied from time to time
/ in keeping the walls in repair without
scaling, as such samples we furnish our
peustomers prove Alabastine will do.
The question as to whether the person
calling for the reward is or is not en-
titled to the 500, will be left to three Of
the most reliable men and the best
Judges of such work in the town or city
the request comes from. Now, this is fair
offer and in good faith, and if painter
:or person tries to induce another person
to believe that he can furnish better
gcoating, he should be reminded Of this
soffer.
pr M. B. Church, the inventor and paten-
0tee of Alabastine and the peculiar ma
chinery that makes it, spent many years
In experimenting and applying the
compound to test its permanent nature,
which could only be done in that way,
as time only will test such an article,
and has had it on the market and in
general use for many years since, in
which time it has fully proven the claims
made for it.
1t is made with the greatest care as to
exact proportions and strength of the
different materials in making it, and
those with the colorS are ground to-
gether, and the proportloning is done
by the machinery more perfect than was
done before by weight, which is neces-
sary, as variation Of 5 per cent in the
proportions would prevent the combina-
ton or amalgamation of all the parts of
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Philadelphia Harbor to Re-
ceive an Appropriation Of
$25O,00O.
Rice Will Offer an Amendment
to Change the HeadWa-
ters Location.
Text of the international
Copyright Bill Reported
Yesterday.
Col. Best to Be Placed on the
Retired List--Washing-
ton News.

WASHINGTON, April 21.-Immedi-
ately after the reading of the journal a
contest for consideration arose between
the special order-the homestead bill
and the river and harbOr bill. An at
tempt was made to arrive at an AMIGA
BILE arrangement, whereby the consider
alton of the special order should be
postponed until May 1, but MIR. Brock
inridge, of Kentucky, fearing that the
tariff bill might be interfered with, in
terposed an objection. Finally the
house refuSed-yeas IS, nays 126-to
consider the special order, and the
house went in committee of the whole
(Mr. Mcmillan, of Tennessee, in the
chair on the river and harbor bill. Mr..
Golf. of West Virginia, expressed his
belief in the system of internal i'm
prOvements. He was in favor of liberal
appropriations for carrying on that sys-
tenn, by which the commerce of the
country had been built up and ex-
tended and the interests of the
people had been benefited. Mr..
Randall, of Pennsylvania, of
fered an amendment apprOpriating
$3.50, COO for the improvement of the har-
Dor of Philadelphia, and for the re-
moval of Smiths Windmill and Petty's
islands or such parts of them as may be
necessary, provided that no part of this
sum shall be expended until the title to
the land shall be vested in the United
States free of charge. Mr.. Randall
said that the warrant for the amend
ment grew out of law authorizing a
survey, having for its object the re-
moval of distractions in the harbor be-
Blanchard, of Louisiana, speaking for
the rivers and harbor's committee, eX-
pressed his entire approval of the
amendment in its present shape. Mr..
Bayne, of Pennsylvania, regarded
the removal of the islands as
matter of absolute neees-
sity, in view of the great commerce of
Philadelphia. Mr.. O'Neill, of Penn
sylvania, said that the proposition for
the removal of these islands had been
presented by all the commercial bodies
of Philadelphia. Citizens of Philadel-
phia had appeared before the commit
tee and urged the necessity of thus i'm
proving the harbOr. All the members
from Philadelphia concurred i'll press
ing the amendment upon the attention
of the house, although he was of the
opinion that the government should
purchase the islands. The amendment
was adopted. Mr.. Dibble, of
from s35o,OOO to s5OO,OOO the appro-
priation for the improvement of
Charleston, S. c., harbOr. Lost. MIR.
Henderson, of Iowa, in speaking to a
verbal amendment, regretted that he
could not give his approval to the bill,
as he favored the system of improving
the great waterways as safeguard
against the eXtOrtionS of railroad cor
pOratiOn5. But this bill made apprO-
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CHEAPER BOOKS.
What the National Copyright Bill
Will Accomplish.


WASHINGTON, April 21.-The Brock
inridge copyright bill was to-day re-
ported to the house by Mr.. Collins from
the judiciary committee. In the report
the committee says: At last and for the
first time authors, publishers, typeset-
tiers, electrotypers, binders, booksellers
and all others engaged in making and
distributing books have with singular
unanimity agreed upon bill, which
they ask congress to pass. Under its
provisions the American author will
have the protection for his work which
is now denied him abroad because of
our denial of the rights of all others.
The passage of the bill will encourage
and stimulate American authorship, de-
signing, engraving and all the arts that
enter into the making OF good books.
By it our authors obtain wide market.
that of the. whole world. 1t will I'M
questionably raise the standard of
literature also by banishing the trashy"
and the ''gaslight" literature from the
field which needs mo angel from Heav-
en- to tell ush all the harm that such
stuff has done our youth. 1t is certain
that the best books written by men and
women all over the world will, under in
ltIHdtlOudi cOpYrlSnt, De sou Ill the
United States for less than they are
sold now and the general concensus of
opinion and argument pushed almost to
demonstration is that all other books
will be sold for as low price as they
are now. When one solvent and saga
cious American publisher obtains the
sole right to the American market for a
foreign authors works he can make it
better and as cheap at least as ten pub
fishers who pirate such book under
the present arrangement and run cut
throat competition for its sale, BY way
of Illustration, it may be said that a
copy of a book in an edition Of 10000
copies costs six times as much as one in
an edition of $1,000. The passage of the
bill will be just to our authors, publish
ers and artists, just to all authors, bene-
fetal to our literature and honorable to
our civilization.