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Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1889-12-27
A NIOneyless Christmas.

A Christmas without spending money!
Midwinter holidays without dolls or pic
ture books, tops, toy cannon or jumping
jacks, colored candies or any "store
presents" of any kind whatsoever!
Christ's nativity celebrated without
Christmas tree or Christmas carol or a
gathering of the children-no evergreen
shrub sparkling with glass, no Santa
Claus and no pantomime. Could such a
thing be in Christian land?
Yea, verify.
And it is not so very long ago that
just such a Christmas was the rule in
three-fourths of the United States-nay,
it is the rule now in considerable sec
tions where there are no large towns.
So easily do we get accustomed to what
is, and so naturally do children believe
that the system they first noticed has al
ways been the system, that most people
do not know, and even the older ones
are forgetting, that the Christmas of to-
day is comparatively new thing.
But what was the old time Christmas,
and with what sights and sounds was it
ushered in? Well. in the first place. it
was-in all the rural regions at any rate
a time when no money could be
wasted" Children must have their
fun without extra expense. save rs each
child had carefully saved his pennies.
AS to deliberately handing out a half
dollar to a boy for Christmas-the aver
age father would as soon have thought
of giving him a deed for the farm. It
was season for rabbit hunting and sled
ding if there was snow enough, and for
sliding if there was ice, for good din
ner and all extra piece of pie, and then,
perhaps. for some home made presents.
n little later toys began to come in
say about lS50-in the central west. and
such toys! Blocky horses, square cor.
nered COWS. dogs made Of clay and burnt
black in the fire. and so forth and SO
forth: Il collection Of them now would
throw IL group Of children into convul-
sions of laughter. Be it remembered
that less than fifty years ago Cincinnati,
/ Louisville and st. Louis were the only
cities really known to the great mass Of
people living west Of Ohio and north of
Tennessee. and nine-tentl,s Of the people
under 90 years of age had never seen a
city of 10000 inhabitants. And in those
days rural America celebrated Christmas
literally without money and without
(cash) price.
Plenty of people who do not like to be
called old can recall the time when, in
all the book stores of the rural regions.
only two Or three kinds of ''story books
could be found, and as to holiday books
and holiday goods as such-well. they
could be found in the cities, probably,
but not one child in hundred, taking
the country through, ever saw one Of
them.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1889-12-27
TERMS, $500.
FOOD FOR REFLECTION.

But would it. in your puffed out stute.
Givo you too great n shock
To know cen swine look down on you
Vain Mister Turkey-cock2
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1889-12-27

inquire closely for fear of shameful dis
closures. The climax came in a pecu-
liarly painful way. Among the gentle
men who visited ut the house was Mr..
Harrison, and it happened that. while the
younger daughter was the one he sought
in marriage, both the girls fell in love
with him. Sarah's passion was none
the less violent because of its lawless
character and it's utter hopelessness, and
when she learned that her sister was to
marry the man she herself loved, she left
home finally. after a terrible scene in
which she sworc vengeance. deiied all
authority, and spurned the love of her
father, mother and sister.
For three years nothing was heard Of
her. Her father, old before his time
with sorrow, riourned for her truly, and
would at any time have received her
back with open arms. but no word came,
and he knew too we'll the futility of
trying to track her or to lure her home
again. AT last one evening she presented
herself and demanded an interview,
which WAS readily granted.
1t was behind closed doors, and no one
but the father ever knew just what
passed between them. He told his wife
and daughter, however, the substance of
it. Sarah had demanded portion of his
fortune, and had offered for it to hide
herself from him forever, to take another
name and lead her own life in her own
way.
II told her." said the sorrowing man,
''that she should always have a home
with me, no matter when she came to
claim it, and that 1 would never see her
want for anything if she would come
back to me, but that, if she persisted in
the life she plainly said she proposed to
live, would do nothing for her before
OF after my death. And then she left
me. saying it was forever, and cursing
me-cursing me, her father, who even
now would oie for her if need be-"
Fora time after this nothing was heard
of the protligal. Then one Christmas
eve she wreaked her hate, or vengeance,
as she chose to call it, in @n awful crime.
Mrs. Harrison's only child, Il boy not
quite three years old, was in one of the
public parks of the city. in charge of q
nurse. when Sarah approached, and, by
pretending a violent fancy for the child,
threw the careless servant off her guard.
Whether she bribed the girl. or really
succeeded in tricking her, was never
known. but it was two hours later when
that frightened individual reported to
Mrs. Harrison that her boy had been
stolan.
1t would he impossible to describe the
agony of the parents. and useless to de-
tail all the circumstances of :l.e search
that was made. The servant gave a suf-
ticicntly accurate description Of the
strange woman, whom she had never
seen before, for the family to know who
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1889-12-27

Vet so il is; for bv their eyes.
And cultural parts Of speech.
know they scoiL You for your pri,l.A.
And humber thoughts would teach.
"You silly bird tthey seem to say).
Pray don't make such q clatter.
You're kept SO well that you may look
Well on a Christmas platter"
London Graphic.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1889-12-27

The kidnapper was, but Sarah had had
a sufficient start to get on Il train for
New York. and all efforts to trace he,
were Intellectual. Had the newspapers
even at that time learned the particulars
of the story it would have become us fa-
nous as the Charlie Ross case, but the
family shrank from the exposure that
would have been inevitable, aud though
all tho de:ectiye skill that could be pro-
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1889-12-27

1s impossible to realize that only a few
years farther back there was such a
place in the center of the city as the Five
Points. Nowadays it does not take un-
usual courage for model ately athletic
man to walk alone in broad daylight
through any public street in the city.
Then it was not safe to do so, and even
policemen rarely ventured alone after
dark into the region known by the old
name. Now the horse cars run through
the center of it. Broad streets have been
cut through, and old buildings replaced
with new. Factories and stores stand
where were formerly tumble down rook-
cries, that had stood since the last CEN
tury, and that were swarming with the
most degraded poor and the most desper-
atecriminals. When the Rev. w. G. Van
Meter, with few friends as earnest and
determined as himself, first started a
mission school within the borders of this
valley of the shadow of crime, he was
repeatedly warned by the police of the
dangers he incurred, and it was some
time after the work was started before
he dared to take, even under escort, in
the middle of the day, the ladies who
were anxious to aid by teaching in the
school. It seems now like story of a
foreign land and another age, but saw
in 1854 or 1866 party of a dozen ladies
and gentlemen mobbed as they started
homeward from the school one Sunday
noon, hustled into the street and assailed
with volleys of obscene oaths and rotten
vegetables, and SO beset by horde Of
half drunken men and women that they
were glad to escape with whole bones
and ruined garments. And the police
seemed powerless to prevent Or punish
such outrages, for this was no unusual
occurrence.
The region about what is now Paradise
square, for the distance of a couple of
blocks in every direction, was honey
oombed with blind alleys and secret pas
sages, some of them running under
ground from one block to another. It
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1889-12-27
GEORGE JUMPED FROM HIS SEAT.

GEORGE JUMPED FROM HIS SEAT.
mother OF father was, whether they
were alive, or whether, indeed, he had
ever had mother or father, were
matters concerning which he absolutely
knew nothing, even by hearsay. Aunt
Sally was negatively good to him, it ap-
pesred. She did not beat him, except
ing when she was drunk, which was,
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1889-12-27
FOUND AT FIVE POINTS.

4 CHRISTMAS STORY OF REAL LIFE, BY
DAVID A. CURTIS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

President-eleet Harrison now has $4,000
insurance on his life.
Lille Halford's belief in temperance is so
great that he never vets his famous whistle.
The Comtesse de Paris is said by London
society paper to drive about in the neighbor-
hood of her English home smoking short
clay pipe.
James Gordon Bennett has borrowed
S131, $50 from the estate OF his father and
given mortgage on the Bennett building in
Nassau street.
Emperor William will celebrate his birth
day Jan. 81. There will be no public DEM
onstration, but free theatrical performances
viii he given for the children.
Mrs. Lamont has not resumed her public
receptions. though she continues to receive
her new baby periodically.
The empress of Japan is laying in ward
robe for her visit to this country. Her cloth,
ing is. of course, Japan wear.
James G. Blaine, Jr, is to become me-
chanical engineer. His father is quite an ex-
pert SO far as machines are concerned.
The khedive of Egypt has great fondness
for cats He is not the unfeline man in his
sympathies he is sometimes painted.
A German specialist asserts that Patti has
two extra valves in her windpipe She may
be considered Therefore, a kind of biyalve,
veritabie oyster Patti.
Next month John Ruskin will be seventy
years old, and his last attack has so incapaci-
tated him that little hope of his recovery is
entertained.
Young Coningsby Disraeli, the nephew and
heir of the late Earl OF Beaeonsfeld, has been
achieving great success as the leading low
comedy man of Lady Folkestone's amateur
theatrical entertainment,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16

ency with which Mr.. SPRINGER
presses his omnibus territorial BILL. Mr..
SPRINGER is a brilliant man, is neryy,
and as honest man as can be found in
public life; and yet, If he had am ounce
OF real good horse sense in his make
up, he would certainly see that his eff
forts with his omnibus bill only
meant so much waste of time
and time, too, that is of special value
just at this period in the history of the
Fiftieth congress. There is scarcely
probability that Mr.. SPRINGER's bill
can be passed through the house of rep
resentatives, and if 1t could there is not
the remotest possibility that it will pass
the senate. So, that without entering
into discussion of the merits or de-
merits of the measure itself, we would
like to ask of Mr.. SPRINGER what is to
be accomplished by occupying the time
of congress with a consideration of the
bill. There are so many other things
of real Importance that the Democratic
house should clean up before final adj
journment, we are utterly surprised
that any prominent Democratic men,
Der should seek to take up the time of
congress with such an impracticable
measure.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
A SECOND DANIEL.

The Philadelphia Press hits the nail
on the head when it says of Judge BAR
RETT's decision in the sugar refinery
case: ssThe decision, whether good law
or not, is at least good sense, and good
sense is the basis of good law" Judge
BARNETT seems to be man after the
STYLE of the eminent Chief Justice JOHN
MARSHALL, of whom it used to be said
that he always decided a ease according
to the common sense view of it. and
looked up the law afterwards. This is
the tack that Judge BARRETT took in
deciding the sugar trust case, and if he
is unable to find law to sustain him,
then the people will go to work and
make laws to support the common
sense view he has taken of trusts. The
people of this country have made up
their minds that the trusts must go. and
there is no further use in the conspira-
tors trying to prolong the fight. An out
ragged public sentiment is never at a
loss to find law to justify its course
Law is nothing more or less than a
formulated expression Of public senti-
ment; therefore it is useless for any
sort of combine to attempt to establish
a rule in opposition to the pronounced
will of the people. In his decision
Judge BARRETT only awarded what the
people asked, and iii doing so gave eX-
preston to law in its most sacred and
most forcible form.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
ALIEN VOTERS.

In Michigan the question Of an
amendment to the state constitution
providing that in that state only those
can vote who have been naturalized, is
being agitated In that state an alien
born inhabitant may vote upon his first
papers, but he must have been resi-
dent of the state two and one-half years.
In Wisconsin and Indiana a residence
of one year is required, and in Colorado
but six months. Minnesota allows such
residents to vote after four months. No
other state is so liberal in this matter.
The statements recently published show
that after obtaining the right to vote on
intention declarations most of those in
this state stop there, thus escaping some
of the duties and responsibilities Of
citizenship. The qualification is fixed
by the constitution, and a proposition
to follow the contemplated Michigan
change would hardly meet approval, if
it is true that considerable majority of
the voters in Minnesota have not be-
come citizens of the country.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.
Schedules Filed in a Couple of
Prominent Failures,

A schedule of the assets and liabili-
ties of D. McVean & Son, the Hennepin
avenue tailoring firm which went to the
wall recently. was filed in the district
court yesterday. The assets are 81, 24S.51.
as follows: Cloth, trimmings and the
like, S5,7S9.03: store furniture and fix
lures, s110.70; goods on order to be
called for. $50; bills and accounts out
standing, 81, 1906; cash on hand. S67. Ii.
The liabilities are Sl2,212.S5, mainly for
goods used in carrying on the business.
The persons who did the sewing for the
firm are owed in the neighborhood of
$1,000, in amounts ranging from 81 to
$500. The Security bank holds the
firms notes for $1,000 borrowed money.
The schedule filed in the embeZzle-
ment of John w. Walrath, crockery
dealer, show the assets to amount to
s13,3O ORR, the liabilities to $40, 767.67.
The assets are made up as follows:
Goods in store, S11,25S.66; fixtures,
1921. SO, and accounts receivable, 81 800.
The heaviest creditors are K. Nj. Wal
rath, S9,60l26; the First National Bank
of Minneapolis, $1,000; p. M. Leonard,
of New York, SI,159.24; James David
son, New York, 81 ,261.72; j. Vogelsang
Sons, New York, 81, 4S0.71; the Brad
ley & Hubbard Manufacturing COM
pany. of Meriden, Conn.,, s2,1S5.37; the
Craighead Manufacturing company, of
BaIlard-Vale, Mass, S1,10S.99; the
Meriden Britannia company. 81, 276.53;
Simpson, Hall, Miller IL Co., of Chicago,
sl,O17.T9; Edward Boote, New York,
$1,3S2.S7
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
THE THEATERS.

Joseph Murphy will present "The
Donagh" at the Grand tonight.
The sa lie of seats for the aquatic
spectacle, "a Dark Secret" opens at
the Grand Friday.
1.-The Eyiles of Siberia" is drawing
good houses at the Peoples.
"FOgg's Ferry" will be given its final
production at the Pence this evening.
Tomorrow night the play will be
changed to ''Enoch Arden
A gentleman standing in the center
of circle of friends in the rotunda of
tine West hotel to-day was telling them
of his visit to to the Academy OF Music,
New York, on the opening night of the
.sDark Secret" II tell YOU" said he.
''the audience must have numbered
over 5000 people, and / never saw q
crowd so wildly excited over all incl
dent in a play before. Why, when
the curtain went up on the
third act the audience just
rose to its feet and shouted
at the top of its voice, waving hats,
handkerchiefs and fans, and when the
drowning scene took place you could
have heard pin drop until the rescue,
then the roar OF applause that came
from pit to dome was enough to lift the
roof Off the walls. | tell you. boys i'll
thirty years experience L have never
seen anything like it," "The Dark
Secret will be at the Grand next week.
The Conreid English Opera company
will undoubtedly meet with a cordial
reception at the Hennepin Avenue the
alter next week. Mr.. Conreid has sue
ceeded in procuring what has proven to
be one of the best comic operas ever
put on the stage, "The Kings Fool"
He secured it soon after its first produc-
ton in Vienna, and offered it for the
first time in America at the Columbia
theater, Chicago, where it has just closed
three weeks run to crowded houses,
The Chicago papers were unstinted i'll
their praise of it. Manager Hunt, Of
the Hennepin, only secured this COM
pany for Minneapolis after heavy eX'
nse,involving a change of route, as Mr.,
Conreid has been engaged for six weeks
in San Francisco. The magnificent
scenery used in Chicago will be seen
here. 1t embraces genuine waterfall,
and garden scene that calls for LIS
electric lights for illumination. The
seat sale opens this morning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
TOPICAL TALK.

Henry George will address the legis
lature to-day at noon. 1t will be like
pouring water on ducks back to turn
a flood of eloquence in advocacy of the
single tax idea Oh body largely COM
posed of land owners. Still, Mr.. George
is a profound thinker, and, notwith-
ing his radicalism, his views are always
listened to with respectful attention.
~
A little dickey bird who sits up aloft
in the state house, says there is method
in Gov. Merriam's withholding his APP
pointments. He anticipates deadlock
in the senatorial fight, and expects to
make these appointments handy in fix
ing props to his own senatorial boom
when it shall be constructed. 1t is
good politics on the part of the COVER
nor, but it must be awfully exasperat-
ing to the hungry horde"
~
Mr.. Gladstone, according to a we'll
known Conservative member of parlia-
ment, walked down to the house of COM
wont, in thick dark cloak. Behind
him, at distance of few yards,
walked the Conservative member in
question. When near st. Stephens the
Conservative member observed that
man who was on the pavement stepped
forward and said something in the ear
of the Liberal leader. Mr.. Gladstone
threw his head in the air and walked
on, while the man looked after him with
a satisfied expression. The Conserva-
tive members curiosity was awakened,
and he went up to the man. "What did
you say to Mr.. Gladstone?" he asked.
''Oh," was the reply, II only told him
he was - old Scoundrel."
-
Johnston.-Among the Indiana men
slated for political plums is James L.
Johnston, now representing the Eighth
(Terre Haute) district in congress. He
is fifty years old. Up to his twenty-frst
year English was almost an unknown
language to him, so limited had been
his educational opportunities. He slut
tered so badly that three-syllabled
word brought him to standstill, yet he
persevered and became successful
lawyer aud stump speaker.
-
Countess Mary Taafe, the beautiful
daughter of Count Taafe. the prime
minister to Emperor Francis Joseph.
has soprano voice which is described
as simply perfection. So highly has
the young lady cultivated her gift that
the great Patti exclaimed ON hearing
her sing: "You are more than my
equal" Countess Mary only sings at
court and at mass, however. Her father
is also ViScount Taafe in the peerage of
Ireland and so the Emerald Isle can
justly claim the nightingale.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
MAKING INSURANCE GOOD.

1t is observed that the idea of making
insurance companies liable for the face
of their policies is spreading in the leg
islatures. In Wisconsin and Illinois
bills of this sort are being considered.
In the latter state there have been sew
eral moves in this direction in former
years, but the insurance companies
have managed to knock them out at
some point. 1t is stated that public
sentiment there is now so persistent
that the present legislature will prob
ably pass the law. The bill prepared
requires the insuring parties to either
restore the property or pay the face
value. No policies are allowed to be
issued unless they contain such stipula-
ton. Such law is clearly in the in
terest of the insured. as it would break
up the paying of premiums uselessly on
over insurance, and avoid the frequent
dissatisfaction with adjustments.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
TWO-CENT FARE.

The legislatures of Illinois and Michi-
gap are moving toward a gee mt maxi
mum for passenger travel on the rail-
roads in those states. 1t is given out
that there will be no opposition to the
passage of the measure on the part of
the railroad people, as it will involve
the discontinuance of all excursion and
holiday rates. Similar action is antici-
pated in Ohio and other states East. 1t
is probable that 2 cents will soon be-
come the common rate in the older and
more thickly populated regions. Some
are inclined to the opinion that the
time will come when that rate will be
warranted even in as sparsely settled
regions as those between st. Paul and
Minneapolis. That may, however. be
the dream of crank,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-16
A GOOD JOKE.
The Way the Witnesses Against
Junk Dealers Look at II.

The case against the Yaffhey brothers,
charged with receiving the lead pipe
stolen from the Franklin Steele build
ing some time ago, remained on trial all
day yesterday before Judge Lochren.
The boys testified that the two brothers
had told them where there were vacant
houses where lead pipe could be pro-
cured. and that they had repaired the
wagon in which the pipe was carried to
their shop. The boys seemed to treat
the whole affair as big lark, and joked
one another about the evidence given
on the stand after passing out of the
court room. Late in the afternoon
Louis Yaffhey was placed on the stand
in his own behalf. He denied that he
had ever bought any goods from the
boys; in fact, he had never seen them
until he was arrested. From his own
story it would seem that the two junk
dealers were regular little angels. and
all they needed were wings to go di-
rectly up to the celestial regions. The
case will be concluded to-day.