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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19
How the Money Comes In.

'4The worst money we get" said a treas.
ury official at Washington recently, comes
from the west and northwest, where
the people have little use for pocket
hooks, but ram their currency into
their pockets regardless of the conse-
quences. Our best money-that the least
damaged ~ comes from New England,
where the people seem to be orderly and
careful. We get more money for redemp
ton in good times than in bad, and more
in midwinter and midsummer than in the.
spring and fall. These facts are attribu.
table to the greater use the people have for
currency in the seasons of the year which
are most active commercially. Forty per
cent. of the money zones in from New
York city banks and IS or so per cent. of it
comes from the banks OF the eight sub
treasury cities of Boston, New York, Phila
delphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati,
New Orleans and San Francisco. ONION.
days we get the worst money Of the week,
for it is on that day that we chiefly hear
from the remote country banks, which.
have a habit of holding to their currency;
till 1t isin pretty bad shape
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19

fifteen years ago would now be obsolete.
The country, therefore, has been saved the
expense of experiments, and has had the
good luck not to have had it's unarmed con.
dition taken advantage of.
When the war closed in 1865 the gov
eminent had on hand vast supplies of
arms and ammunition. During the con-
flict the Springfield muzzle loading rifle
was the chief small weapon in use and
proved very effective. Hundreds of invent
ors were at work during that period en-
~deavoring to perfect a magazine gun. 1t
was not used much then, and it has not
been adopted by the American army yet.
Boards of ordnance began discussing
guns in 1868, and in 1870 the modified
Springfield rifle was adopted as the small
arm for the infantry and cavalry. The old
muzzle loading weapon was altered into a
breech loader, and that is about all the
change made up to date. The government
still has thousands of the old "muzzle
leaders," and these are for sale to all who
care to buy and will go through the for
mality of writing to the chief of ordnance
at Washington and applying for permits
sion to purchase. In reply Hhe applicant
will receive an order on the nearest ord
nance :torekeeper to SELF at 81 each the
number of gus '.AaaElaGaaJR wish. Various
Grand Army posts are equipped in this
way, which has also served mauy farmers
to provide themselves with weapons. The
old smooth bore Springfield makes a fine
shot gun and carries with great force and
accuracy.
During the war the field artillery used
chiefly the Rodman three inch rifles and
the twelve pound bronze Napoleons. These
guns are still in use, and the ten batteries
that is, two companies to each of the five
artillery regiments in the army-are now
supplied with these same guns. The last
congress appropriated $4,000 for the pur-
! chase of machine guns, and such an appro-
p~riation has been made annually for sew
eral years past, so that about seventy-five
| such ~guns-each one costs about 81, OOO-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19

been increased. But even thus improved
they would be inadequate in case of war.
Not only has there been a great revolu-
ton in gun making, but the explosives
used are in many instances much different
from the old fashioned kinds. When the
war was over the government had a vast
quantity of powder on hand. This lasted
for tWenty-three years II was used up in
target practice, the Indian wars, firing
salutes etc, while a great deal not suited
for military work was employed by the en-
gineers for blasting. The supply some
time g a so low that salutes and other
purely ornamental uses of the material
were omitted. 1t has never been the GUS
tom of the government to keep very large
stocks, and the consumption of the war
time stores was deliberate. Instead of &C.
cumulating powder, it is the policy of the
ordnance department to gather great
quantities of inter and issue it to contract
ors when necessary. No private powder
maker could afford to keep on hand the
amount of inter likely to be needed in time
of war.
Experiments lave been and are constant
ly being made with the new ~smokeless
powder, from which so much is expected.
At the Springfield armory this explosive
has been tried very fully with small arms,
and the results are satisfactory as to the
great velocity produced, but this velocity
and the absence of smoke are at the eX-
pense Of the pressure on the barrels of
the guns. II it turns out that the smoke
less powder, in case of rapid firing, bursts
the weapons it is likely to be more danger
Gus to friends than foes. If the pressure
cxcrted is constant, and if the explosive
proves to have the advantages which the
Germans claim for it, the guns could of
course be strengthened.
With the Infantry and cavalry armed
with magazine guns, the light artillery
supplied with machine guns, the forts de-
Tended with great cannon which send
missiles accurately from five to ten miles,
and all Of these using a powder which
makes no smoke to betray the situation of
an enemy, the whole tactics of war will
nave to be changed. But in talking with
army men l have failed to find a single
one who would say chat he was looking
forward with any interest to the practical
test in actual warfare of these recent in
ventions in the art of killing.
JNO. GILMER SPEED.
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MISS LOUISE II. KING.

30 MiS9 S"CAoI u. SANH.
Js~rss!h, and the artist Is now 1T work on
a composition of three women in old Flor
entine dress, which will probably be seen
at the spring Academy.
In the face of the large subjects most
congenial to her. Miss Kings girlish face
and figure are particularly noticeable. 1t
is said that her arrival at u fashionable
school in Toledo, where she had beer en-
gagged to teach, was the occasion of a most
amusing sensation. "By their works shall
ye know them," however, rarely applies to
artists.
Miss Emily Slade, vice president, and
Miss Frances Hunt Throop, treasurer, of
the Woman's Art club, have an attractive
studio in common at the Sherwood. These
two clever young women, while they have
studied together at the Art Students
league under Carroll Beckwith and in
France under Alfred Stevens, lave man
aged to preserve each her individual style.
"The Reveille" exhibited at the Salon is
in Miss Throop's best style. 1t was seen
also at the Academy in 1889 and much adj
mired. The picture at present on the easel
is a very ambitious subject, ''The Child
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19

MISS CLARA T. M'CHESNEY.
to collect-old carved chairs and a wonder
full Venetian sail, combined with fish nets
from the Massachusetts coast in a profu-
sion of artistic disorder.
Miss Marie Guise is an American girl in
spite of her French name. She has a stu
do at the Holbein, but is more often to be
found painting at the Dalham and other
stables. Horses and dogs are her delight,
and b paints them probably as we'll as
any one on this side of the water.
Miss Guise studied for three years at
Ecouen under Schenk. ."Plowing at Eco
uen' and "Haying Time,'' large canvases
exhibited at the Salon and at the Universal
about this time, attracted favorable notice.
Miss Guise admires Rosa Bonheur, and
paints in very much the same strong, vigor-
GUS manner which distinguishes that cele-
brated artist. Her canvases are generally
large, and the subjects almost entirely
animals. Peasants and hay fields she loves,
the latter giving opportunity for the floods
of sunshine she knows well how to depict.
A very fine Percheron horse was repro
duced in The Art Interchange some time
ago, and Miss Guise's favorite, "Vic," a
very cross little dog, will have his portrait
in the same magazine early next4year.
Miss Clara T. McChesney commenced her
art studies in San Francisco. Later she
entered the Gotham in New York. remain
ing there for three years. She paints
charmingly in water colors and pastel, and
her pictures 40 growing rapidly inpopus
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19

table, ornamented with a huge pot of chrys-
anthemums. The latter flower Miss Slade
paints extremely. well. An unfinished
Dicture OF the little blonde head of a child
eth q background Of yellow blossoms is
very effective. RKETA LoVISE CHILDE.
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THE GATLING MACHINE GUN.

II GATLING GUN.
have been bought and issued to these light
batteries and to several artillery companies
Of state militia.
Neither the magazine rife nor the ma
chine gun has ever been thoroughly tested
in actual war, though the Turks at Plevna
had several thousand of the former. The
nitrailleuse which the French used against
the Germans was of course a machine gun,
but it's effectiveness was inconsiderable
compared with that of the weapons of to-
day. Some time ago, while on a visit to
Hartford, l went out to the Colts ar1no1S
on the invitation of DR.. Calling, the in
ventor of the arm which bears his name.
He showed me how rapidly he could fire the
gun. How fast that was I can't begin to
say, but bullet followed bullet SO quickly
that there seemed no appreciable space be-
tween the discharges. He placed a three
inch plank of oak against the target and
began firing at it, moving the III so that
each bullet struck just mex to where the
preceding one had entered. The board,
some twelve inches wide, was cut clearly
across, just as though a crosscut saw had
been drawn through it.
Then to show how accurately the weapon
could be used the INVENTOR aimed it at a
certain point on. The board. He fired sew
eral shots, and when we examined the
target there was only one little hole just
large enough to admit the first bullet
fired. The doctor, who, by the way, has
the most kindly face l ever looked upon,
smiled sweetly and asked whether I thought
a regiment could charge a battery Of such
guns. ut wouh kill every mothers son
Of them," be added. This remark sounded
very grim and b~loodthirsty. But DR.. Cat
ling counts himself q philanthropist, for
he holds that tho more horrible war il
made the less war there viii DO.
1t is not necessary in the new order of
things for the American government to
make the same preparations for equipping
it's forces with small arms and with ma
chine guns as in tho case of heavy guns to
be mounted in forts and used aboard ships.
The plants owned by private concerns in
the United States are now sufficiently large
to enable e 70 supply vast quantities Of
material upon short notice. But in the
case of heavy guns the republic has not
had until recently plants with facilities for
making these monstrous instruments Of
warfare. Congress has appropriated ample
sums for this purpose, and there are now
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19

hAo rhaFCEo HUM 1f1tLUOf.
hood of the Virgin" Miss Throop writes
and illustrates charming little stories for
children's magazines. Readers of St.
Nicholas will remember "The Story Of
Turk" a noble St. Bernard dog, and will
be interested to know that the story is
quite true, and that Turks skin ornaments
Miss Throop's studio to this day.
Miss Slade paints children and flowers,
a very agreeable combination. There is
much of Beckwith's brilliance and a great
deal of her own breadth of handling in her
work. Her flesh tints especially are fine,
her drawing unusually good, and her sub
jects interesting. She has painted some
portraits. The Concierge" being exhibited
at the Salon of 1889. Last summer Miss
Slade studied under Dumoulin, the leader
of the new art movement in France, and
this years work shows traces OF his ad-
vanced theories. Her latest picture, "A
Flower Show" is a beautiful study of
children, grouped admiringly around a
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19
lar favor. Miss McChesney is a charter
member rs well as one of tho Jury of tho

lar favor. Miss McChesney is a charter
member as well as me of tho jury Of tho
New York Water Color society, and had a
number Of good things at the recent OK
hibition. The "Old Woman Knitting" was
sold before it was hung; that and the
"Head of an Old Man" have been admired
more, perhaps, than anything that her
clever brush has produced. ga Study of m
Old Woman's Head" at Keppel's. is paint
ed with a great deal of dash II freedom.
Miss Louise II. King is also a native of
q Francisco, although her home since
her childhood has been in New York. At
the Art Students league, which has sent
out so many of u younger artists, Miss
King was Il f~avorite pupil of Kenyon Cox.
Much of his strong draughtsmanship and
simplicity of design are visible in her
work. After leaving the league Miss King
devoted some time to study in the Berlin
Gallery and in the London National, where
she seems to have absorbed considerable
of the Preraphaelite, Burnc-Jones spirit.
Miss Kings speciality is high art decora-
ton, stained glass and cartoons. She has
recently finished two windows for Tiffany,
and aspircs to cathedral wall decoration.
This is a branch Of art comparatively little
crowded. and to which Miss Kings genius
seems admirably adapted. She delights in
aesthetic pinks, yellows and heliotropes,
and her combinations of greens and blues
are often rather daring and original.
"The Lotus Eaters" was exhibited at the
Exposition Universal, Paris. 1889, and was
much admired for its dreamy beauty and
poetic fire, suggesting the conceptions of
Botticelli and Fra Angelica.
A little blue and green water color
LISA" was well hung at the American
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19
UNCLE SANS ARMAMENT
IT CAN BE INCREASED TO ALMOST
ANY PROPORTIONS.

just at Present, However, the United
States Is Not Spending Much Money
on Explosives and Deadly Weapons.
Resources in Case of Emergency.
Copyright by American Press Association
Notwithstanding the many American in
ventions relating to ordnance made during
the last quarter of a century, the army of
the United States is very poorly equipped
with weapons, both large and small. This
condition is not in the least due to the in
activity OF the policy of the ordnance de-
partment, but exists because of q lack of
appropriations. 1t happens that the
economical policy has been a wise one, for
the United States has not needed any guns
of late with which to defend her dignity,
and during the last twenty-five years such
Improvements have been made in small
arms and annon that those which might
have been made or purchased ten or
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19

u m e. Of 1880
jotted down some B. P. sHILLABER.
personal recollections of a life that was
full OF events. Concerning my request
he writes: Like the charity scholar learn
ing the alphabet, | am a little in doubt
whether it will pay to go through so much
to get so little, but your friendly wish
must not be slighled." He then and thus
blithely continues:
II was born, AS the old family record de.
clares, July 10, 1914, in the ancient town of
Portsmouth, n. H., and no better or fairer
place could have been selected for the pur-
pose. My schooling was desultory and i'm
perfect until, at half past Is years of age,
| became al attachment of the press-The
Palladium and Advertiser, printed at
Dover, N. H., for which paper l worked
upward of two years. 1t succumbed to
disastrous fate, and my regrets went with
it."
During the years 1881 and 1882 Mr.. Shil-
lafer was associated with the local press of
his native town. He then went to Boston
and finished his trade as a book printer.
SIN 1885," he says, IT became free, and all
my energies were devoted to sustaining the
proud position of a jour-
''In October. 1896, bleeding at the lungs
caused me to voyage to Denarura, in Brit.
ish Guiana, where l remained until July,
1888, a subject of William " ard of Vic
toria, helping to print the government
Gazette. When restored to health I sailed
back to New England and got married,
the wisest act of my life. Book printing
not being remunerative, in 1910 | associated
myself with The Boston Post, in which Of:
flee l continued uninterruptedly for ten
years. The 'Partington' papers were com
menced Tin fS47) for my own amusement.
Their success in The Post led me to other
efforts, made anonymously.
sin 1850 l found myself (ike the young
partridge which hides it's head under a
leaf, thinking itself unseen) very widely
known. In fact, my name had a celebrity.
There were new duties to perform. l had
q new position to maintain and new pow
ers to exercise"
Mr.. Shillaber had contributed to The
Saturday Evening Gazette and other lit
era1y periodicals, and in partnership with
Charles G. Halpine (afterward famous as
'Private Miles O'Iseilly') he started The
Carpet Bag, d g~loriously short lived satiri-
cal newspaper. 1t was in 1854 that be pub
lished Tho Life andSayings OF Mrs. Part
ington and Others Of the Family" The
initial sales Of this volume exceeded 80, OOC
copiesl Its author hAd~ returned 70 The Bos.
ton Pest in 1850, and for three years did
local reporting for that daily. In 1885 Col.
William W. Cl>pp offered him the associate
editorship of TD Saturday Evening Ga.
zeete, which Mr.. Shiil&ber accepted, and
another genial ~comradeship Of ten years
ensued. When, in 1886, Col. Clapp sold
The Gazette Mr.. Shillaber's regular active
connection with the press terminated.
However. up to the time of his death he
did his full share Of literary work for many
noted journals. HENRY CLAY LUKENs.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19

Mrs. Rhoda Holmes Nichols was born
in Coventry, England. She early evinced
a strong bias for art, which was encou.-
aged by her father, who was at that ti1O
vicar of Littlehampton.
Her first serious study commenced at the
Bloomsbury School of Art, where she car
ried off the queens scholarship for three
years, to which is attached a small pension,
further increased in this case by Il contri-
button from the queen and the judges.
Mrs. Nichols availed herself of the pen
sion but u short time, leaving England for
Italy, where she studied under Camerano
and Vertanni. Some water colors made
at this time procured her election to the
Circle Artistico, a select body of about
fifty artists, prominent among whom have
been Fortuny, Simonetti and Villesgas.
Soon after she was elected to the Society
of Aquarellests, to whose annual exhibi-
tions she still contributes.
Her Venetian palaces and moonlit la
goeas, 9sss; made her known to American
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19
. HEAVY COAST GUN.

building and have already been built can
non OF heavy caliber and enormous range.
Nearly all OF the big guns now mounted
upon American forts are long out of date
and useless, except for firing salutes and
drilling the men in the handling of artil
lery. Many Of the smooth bores have had
rifled tubes shrunk into them, and in that
the range and penetrating power have
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19

AhAe IN khAhs
art lovers. Very soon after her arrival in
New York, in 1884, her canvases attracted
attention. A gold medal was awarded her
picture ''Those Evening Bells" by the
American Art association. This picture
has been etched by Mr.. James King. and
is very popular. For the past two years
Mrs. Nichols has worked almost exclu-
sively in water colors. Among her more
important pictures 'The Scarlet Letter"
is a vigorous example of what may be
done with that very attractive medium.
A more ambitious work recently exhibited
is entitled "The Survivors of the Schooner
Viking" full of dramatic power and feel
ing.
Mrs. Nichols is vice president of the
New York Water Color society, and some
Of the best work seen at the recent exhi-
bition is from her brush. Her studio on
Twentieth street, New York, contains, be-
sides studies and pictures in great variety,
many properties such as artists are prone
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-19
for Infants and Children.

"Castoria is so well adaptedt to children that
RECOMMEND itas superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, M. d.,
iii So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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into my keeping
is a letter which
was not written
fol publication,
but from which I
am i'm PEELED to
transcribe certain
passages. At my
e arrest s~olicita-
ton Mr.. Shilla-
Der, who died the
other day, IN the
S u m mer of 1880
ic+to1 1or, ,o~,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-27
HI c
These Quotations Are Revised and q
rected Every Day.

These Quotations Ars Revised and Cor
rected Every Day.
Sugar-Granulated, per 100, &c" 500: light
brown. $500; pulyerized II q A.. New. York. siS-
50; loaf, Sl3.i6; maple per pound. 3c.
9ieeNMarks strong; green RIO isa2ic;
Mocha, 57Gs0c; roasted Rio and Costa Rica, 200
SOC; roasted Carbaio, s2c: roasted Mocha and
Java, 3sH5oc; Arbuckle's, 35c.
., i @, cnn %sseci English Sreak Ia,. r mg.
Pickles Eastern-s gal, ss.so; gal, $3.50; 10
Potatoes-si.7s per cwt.
Cabbage-Per cwt, $500.
Eggs-Per ease, $500.
Butter-Per N, Scl40c.
Cheese-Per n, 2Ott25.
500; ditto sliced, % n boxes, ne per n; peaches.
Salt Lake, Ice: apric0ts, 2,c; evaporated ditto,
25c; blackberries, i5e; raspberries, sSc.
California. fruits. so.0sds.5 50 per case.
SD Standard tomatoes, $3.25.
2-D standard corn, s3.OO.
2-b standard peas, $50: seconds, e2.75.
IN String and Lima beans, s2.15.
Dried Beans-Nasy. $500 per 100 y; Lima
wheat.No. 4, per 100 n, s2yo9.
C~orn-Cracked, per 100 n, si.76.
Bran.Per 100 b. $50; bran and shorts pei
Fioaf.Per 100 n. Pfisbury,s best, $3.50; or.
den, $50; strague, DAISY $3.50,
Corn meal-Per 100 n, s2.50.
Dat meal-Per 100 n, t4.5o.
Fresh Meats-Pork, i1c: beef, 5000; lamb,
quarters, I0cd4 90; mutton, 1GtiSc.
Salt Ham. iod2oc bacon, i5c; corned
oeef, zee pork, isc; SAUSAGE, i21@isc
Wood-fer cord, eAa.
Hay-Per ton. e25.mI
strsw-Per ton, ti2yO.
Osts-Per cwt. s2.0.
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On! . warm, sulsnfte soui bad he,
A. q oveuljde 10 strayed
TO ~ $4,000 e - e. rhefe se
Ana t6sre IL he nocSiiSif paas and soft,
AZ III IN from tie stiee above,.
He w0sAd came With his nght guitar ana on
He wouId ding these words Of love;
ssOhl who would sleep
\ xisdness from the sky?
1<f those who Will
In siumber stil
Upon their touches lie
But Ill night iong
In an endtess cong
Wen the starry stiI!ness brehk'
TIN the night grows old
AWnkei my love, awakeF'
The loved md the lover warm and true
In the n0ter years were wed,
And where Ii the past there were only two
There arc three to-day instead.
And now Is he walks with the babe NJ night,
While he steps on tacks and things
And speaks some words that are not Just right,
She very softiy sings:
.Oh! who would sleep
When the stars all peep
In gladness from the sky"
let those who Will
In slumber still
upOn their touches lie.
But all night long
In an endless song
Well the starry stiffness break,
And q reyel hold
Till the night grows old
Awake! my love, awake!'
Chicago Evening Post.