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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31
Artificial Stone.

The increasing use of artificial stone for
sidewalks and yards is not lamented by
Stone, which philosophically remarks: Com
posite, or artificial stone, is taking more and
more prominence as time goes on, because it
is improved. There is no mistaking it's i'm
portance. But it does not mean a loss to
quarrymen, because it is made out of the
waste material that otherwise would, indeed,
be lost material. In fact, it is an economy to
the quarrymen, because the art uses material
that without this art would be entirely loss
Every quarryman has lamented the great
waste of the dump The artificial stone
producer uses nothing else. What he uses is
what the quarryman wastes. 1t may be that
the natural and the artificial stone may come
into competition. But what of it? If the ar
tifcial stone is made out of material wasted
by the natural stone producer, is the latter
any the worse off? To our mind the waste
of the dump is SO much gained. 1t is clear
gain.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31
GETTING RID OFF SMOKE.
A Platinum Wire Over a Gas Jet Will
Clear Up Room.

A Platinum Wire Over a Gas Jet Will
Clear Up Room.
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
1t is not generally known that platinum at
white heat will consume any quantity of to-
bacco smoke and keep the atmosphere per-
fectly clear. Lamps with ring of platinum
over the flame are used for the purpose in the
East but piece of platinum wire suspended
over a gas jet is much cheaper, and really does
its work better.
No one knows exactly the process whereby
the air is cleared, as it invariably is, but an
easier way to avoid annoyance to ladies or
non-smokers could hardly be imagined.
Heated platinum, however, only clears the air
and does not purify it, and hence it will not
enable the sensitive man to breathe freely in
the vicinity of cigarette smokers.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31
Excavating For the Power-House.

Excavating For the Power-House.
Contractor Pullman, who will make the
foundation for the big power-house to be
erected by the Washington and Georgetown
Railroad on the Avenue, between Thirteenth
and-a-half and Fourteenth streets, will begin
excavation tomorrow. About $50 men and
teams will be put to work, and the work will
be pushed as rapidly as possible. 1t is ex-
pected that some difficulty will be experienced
in getting good foundation on portion of
the site, as the ground is said to be soft and
yielding to great depth.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31
Twenty-six New Houses.

Mr.. c. A. McEuen is building row of six
teen two-story frame houses at Seventeenth
and d streets northeast, and ten two-story
brick houses in the alley between Third and
Fourth and C and L streets northeast w.
X. Crandall is the architect and builder and
the twenty-six houses will cost $22, 900.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31

The largest and heaviest building stone ever
quarried in England was taken from the
Plankington quarry, near Norwich, in Febru-
ary, 1889. 1t was in one piece, without crack
or flaw, and weighed over 35 tons; it was Is
ieet long, q feet high, and feet wide.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31
A Whole Square soId

DANES W. Corcoran, of Arkansas, nephew
of tie late w. w. Corcoran, has sold
through Bird & West square $50 to Thomas
}. Fisher q Co., who represent the pur-
chaser. The square is that just south of the
Garfield Hospital, bounded by Tenth and
Eleventh street, and Florida avenue and "
street. The price paid was S1.05 per square
loot, thus making the entire cost OF the prop
cry between $4,000 and 500, 900. 1t is di-
Fided INTO lots 8Ox95, and will be placed on
the market Tor building purposes
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31
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Ez5- Communications OF aay kind, regarding
Real Estate, building, dad architecture, are
solicited, and aOW be cheer rfatlly receiUed. They
must be sent IN not later than Thursday after
noon Of each week, and addressed to Real
Estate Editor, Sunday Herald.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31

~ Comnuaicatioas Of aay Kind, reqardi,l0
Keot Egtate, BuiLdiag, and ArchitectVre, are
s0hcssed, and WiH be cheerf,,lly received Thea
Daast be gent in nat utter haa Thursday after
n9Ca u each Week, md addressed 10 Reay
Estaie Edtor, SlaldQy HerQld.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-31
GOOD INVESTMENTS.

Handsome Residence on Rhode island
avenue northwest Also
Choice Lot on Massachusetts avenue, be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets
northwest, improved by frame house, renting
Tor $40 per month. Price, 81 per foot, If sold
Immediately.
Two four-story bricks, ten rooms and bath,
natural wood. Mantels and tiled fireplaces
in all rooms. Good location. Prices, 81, 900
and $500, one-third cash, rest to suit pur-
chaser
Handsome Residence on New Hampshire
avenue, near Dupont Circle, ten rooms and
bath, beautiful mantel and tiling in rooms,
built for owners use, will sell furnished or
unfurnished. Price, $4,000. Terms easy.
Beautiful homes and property of every de-
seription for sale on easy terms at our Office.
j. =. Lawrence e. Co.,
617 Fourteenth Street Northwest.
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
PURE WATER SUPPLY.
Why 1t should Receive the Most Careful
Attention of Farmers.

Why IL Should Receive the Most Careful
Attention Of Farmers.
The law that governs water, the ve-
hicle which transports the energy of
the soil into and through the plant and
animal, and the harmonious operation
of this law, in conjunction with the law
of nutriment, should receive our care
full attention. AS water is the sub
stance which carries all food for plants
and animals into and out of circulation,
it becomes of the utmost Importance.
If the laws which govern all else be
practically known and the knowledge
of the part which water plays in
growth and production be wanting, our
efforts will not reach the highest sue
cess. 1t is not enough that water is
present in suitable quantities, it must
be palatable and easily accessible; just
enough and not too much. Better a
shortage of food than of water. better
irregularity in feeding than in water
ing. for if the ration be temporarily de-
ficient and the vehicle for transporting
the reserve stored in the system be
present, no great harm will result
But no matter how much nutriment
may be stored or otherwise present, if
the universal carrier, water, is lacking,
not only can no work of nutrition be
done, but the system Immediately be-
comes feverish and diseased.
SO to the dairyman may say that il
his herd, however poor, is made uncOm-
Portable because of coldness or poorness
or inaccessibility of the water supply,
he would better study hydraulics before
buying thoroughbreds- And to the
grain raiser might say that he would
better pay strict attention to set free
more plant food by better culture and
by outstanding farm manures, before
investing in commercial fertilizers; for
possibly if he utilizes what he already
has, according to law, he will have lit
tie lack And to all breeders and cul-
tivators of plants, may not say that it
might be better to make it more COM
Portable for the plants and animals
which are already possessed, in order
that they may make the best use of the
operations of the laws which govern
them, whether they be scrub or thor
oughbred, before buying that which is
too advanced for our present state of
knowledge. 1t is possible that a part
of what we have is good and all that is
lacking is opportunity. As the stream
cannot rise above its source, SO the ami
NAL cannot be better than its breeder.
And to the breeders of thoroughbreds
NAV say, that it might be well to adopt
the practice of that great Shorthorn
breeder, Mr.. Bates, ''never to sell q
good animal to a careless farmer
Prof. l. p. Roberts, director Cornell
station
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
BOOKS AND BOOK WRITER'S

A PUEBLO Indian girl. who has been
q Carlisle student, has written little
book called 'Stiga, Carlisle Indian
Girl at Home"
A FrRsE edition of Walton's Compleat
Angler (l65S), in the original binding.
and a first edition Of Cotton's Complete
Angler (l676) recently sold for e3lo.
INAzo NIroBE, the japanese writer,
speaks in terms of high appreciation OF
DR.. William Elliot Griffis' well-lknown
book on Japan, The Mikado's Empire,
which he says is by far the best Ameri-
can work on the subject
BANCROFT once said that he never
permitted himself to write. after he
had been studying old documents for
material. until he had read a chapter or
two of Gibbon or some other master OF
style, because he would not risk filling
into the method of r2ere analyst
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES was a
classrnatc at Harvard with DIR. Clarke,
whose "reminiscences make the autocrat
that was to be give this reply when he
was asked how he liked metaphysics:
metaphysics is like man splitting q
log. When it is done he has two more
to split"
THE Marquis of Lorne makes the
heroine of his new novel, Prom
Shadow to Sunlight" a charming
American girl who wins the love OF a
monk devoted to ceiibacy and at last
marries him The original OF the
heroine is young American whom the
marquis met in this country and whom
he very much admired.
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08

Talks cheap, but when III
backed up by a pledge Of the
lard 1ask of a financially re-
sponsible firm, or company, Of
worldwide reputation for fair
and honorable dealing, Il
means business !
Now, there are scores Of
sarsaparillas and other blood
purifiers, all cracked up to be
the best, purest, most peculiar
and wonderful, but bear in
mind (for your own sake),
there's only one guaranteed
blood-purifier and remedy for
torpid liver and all diseases
that come from bad blood.
That standing solitary
and alone-sold on trial, is
DR.. PierceS Golden Med
ical Discovery.
If it don't do good in skin.
scalp and scrofulous diseases
and pulmonary consumption
is only lung-scrofula- let
itS maEers EnOw and oct vOur
money back.
Talks cheap, but to back a
poor medicine, or a common
one, by selling it on trial. as
Golden Medical Discovery"
is sold, would bankrupt the
largest fortune.
Talks cheap, but only dis
covery" is guaranteed.
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
In the Soup.

Mr.. Cleveland's uncompromising hos
tility to the free and unlimited coinage
of silver compels me to oppose him in
1892. If nominated he could not be
elected, for that, in my Judgment
would drive the supporters of free
coinage into third party. My opinion
is that free coinage of silver will be a
sharper issue by itself and worth more
to the democratic party than tariff re-
form. Unwisely this was made a single
issue by Mr.. Cleveland in 1888. When
the force bill was before congress and
the whole country was alarmed, Mr..
Cleveland kept silence; but when the
silver bill whipped the force bill ont of
the way, Mr. Cleveland and his gold
friends broke silence and opened war
ON the silver bill in the most insulting
language They smothered the bill in
defiance of an almost unanimous demo-
cratic support The anti-silver letter
of Mr.. Cleveland was insulting 70 every
supporter of free coinAge.-Ssnator
Pueh. Of Alabama.
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
SUCH Is LIFE

6fA1IsTIcs provo that only ono man
In . million lives to be ono hundred and
eight years old
In Blanco. Ark, an evangelist named
Maddox became 90 personal In his ser
mon that his hearers drove him out Of
the pulpit with stones. the deaoous u.s.
sisting.
A CHATTANOOGA dentist lost . valu-
able diamond ring the other day in q
curious manner. He was examining
the back teeth Of patient when the
ring slipped down the latter's throat
A FEW months ago there were four
teen persons at Carroll, Mo-, who lived
on friendly terms. Then nn unknown
relative in California died and left S1O,-
600 to be DIVIDED between them. Now
there arc fourteen persons in Carroll
who do not speak.
A COLUMBUS (O.) miss Of sixteen was
recently legally possessed Of three
names within the space Of twelve hours.
She started in the morning with Ryder;
then in order to marry she required q
guardian who would consent to the
ceremony. and friend by the name of
Osborn adopted her. After this the
minister and lover stepped in and she
became Mrs. Travener.
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
SETAN'S WORK.

The Attempt tn stir Up Strife between
Farmers and Lsboring Men Characterized
ms Such.
A well known sheet in this state
claiming to be an alliance paper is rails
ing heaven and earth in the attempt to
create suspicion and feud between the
members of the alliance who are farm
ers, and those who are workmen in the
cities 1t refers to the alliance organize
tions in the cities as ''the city gang Of
alliance men," and broadly intimates
that these city alliances are owned by
the plutocrats. The thing is so absurd
ON the face of it that it scarcely needs
refutation, but lest some farmers who
seldom meet these city labor men may
have their suspicious aroused by this
breaker-up of united resistance to the
money power We would inform them
that 40 out of every so Of these city ALI.
ance men are trade unionists or K. OF
L. men. The assertion that these old
time enemies of plutocracy are work
ing in the interest of p,utocracy is as
silly as it is false and malicious.
What impression can any sensible
man form of a paper which is constant
ly working to stir mp strife and suspi-
cion between elements in movement
that ought to be harmonious, and both
of which are absolutely essential to its
success? Can there be any other mo-
tive than to divide and destroy the move
ment? Plutocracy can never be downed
unless the farmer and wage-worker
unite. and palsied be the hand that seeks
to divide them. The utterly nonsensic-
al charge that these city labor men are
plutocrats or working in the interest Of
plutocrats must stamp the man who
makes it as q fool, If he does not know
any better. and knave if he does Be
hind such . charge there can be no good
motive and there ID none. It is the
devils work and the instrument of
Satan is getting his reward.-St Paul
Mimi A9e
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.

A CHICAGO man whose gloves had been
cleaned with benzine struck a match to
light a cigar and the glove took fire and
burned his hand quite badly.
Two YOUNG men were walking out at
Morgantown, W. Va, when one of them
Tipped and was impaled upon cane
carried By the other and died the next
day.
A KENrUcKIAN who had arrived at
majority Offered his first vote the other
day, but SO great was his excitement
that he fell In a heap in n dead faint
and could not sit mp for an hour.
THE gas generated in 4 barrel of sauer-
krart caused fatal accident in
Crawford. n. j.. to Mary Iiennecler, a
twelve-year-old girl. The barrel ex-
ploded and 4 stavc struck her in the
femy,te
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
An Independent Order.

We see that an effort is making to in
duce southern ailiancemen to attend
the meeting in Cincinnati to form a
third party. We think the alliance
should maintain its distinct character
as non-partizan agricultural organiza-
tion. This it cannot do if it goes into a
third party. We think The alliance
should continue to hold its present in
dependent position, in order that its
votes may be cast for the men and party
that give surcst promise of bringing in
the reforms we demand. The alli-
ance will be true to the purposes of
its organization only SO long as it re-
fuses to antagonize any and all parties,
as such. We demand measures of re-
form that are for the benefit of all, and
we have the numbers to enable us to
enforce our demands. Let us, there
fore. stand apart until all the parties
shall have formulated their principles
and policies and shall have brought out
their candidates. Then let us meet
and give those candidates our support
who shall have declared in favor of our
demands. In this way we can force
the parties to recognize our demands
and support our wishes. by standing
apart we do not mean that our seople
should refrain from attending the pri-
marieA They can attend those meet
ings with great advantage to ou- move
ment when their numbers are large
enough to enable them to compel fair
play.-Raleigh IN c. Progressive
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
PARTICULARLY BRIGHT.

THE worst thing about finances is tho
lack of them-N Y Recorder
A GOOD man or a good woman with
out tact becomes a terror.-EIartford
Times.
THE fact that riches have wings may
be the reason that they enable q man
to ''fiy high"
LUCK is good thing to depend upon
# you have no desire to succeed.
,Somerville Journal.
UNFORTUNATELY frogs are not the
only croallers the world has to listen to.
Rochester Express.
THE only kind OF cake that the aver.
nge small boy has severe objections
to is a cake of soap.-St. Joseph News.
TIE farmer who undertakes to earn
his bread by the sweat of hired mans
brow had better make up his mind to dc
without pie.-Ram's Horn.
"a BABE in a house is q well-spring OF
pleasure" quoth Tupper, but it's ten to
one he never had to get out of bed at
two L. m. to silence the squalling Of q
teething kid.
A woMAN's pocket defies the cleverest
picllpochet nowadays, and yet the
woman carries her purse in her hand.
The trouble is, she cannot find the
pocket herself
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
ONE VIEW OF IL.
Mf. S4ephens States Thai She Missouri
Alliancemen Are Dem0crts First and ALI

Mf. Stephens States Tha. She Missouri
AllIaneemen Are Democrts First and ALI
| ancemen Afterwards.
Col. Lon v. Stephens, state treasurer
of MISSOURI, the youngest state treas
urer in the country, and one of the
most influential democrats in his state,
is spending a few days at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, says the New York Re-
corder. Col Stephens said that the
Farmers Alliance is constantly increas-
ing-its power in Missouri and at present
is absolute master of the political situ-
alton.
''Strong as is the alliance" said Col.
Stephens, 1T will not endanger the
success of the democratic party. The
alliance in my state is in control of the
democrats. The head men in the Or
ganization are democrats first and then
alliance men. No man in recent years
has had the power in Missouri that is
enjoyed by U. S Hall, the president of
the alliance. Hall was lawyer and
practiced for several years in Kansas
City. He tired of the law and went to
farming. He is an able man and ran
the last democratic convention to suit
himself. One of the most popular men
in the state was a candidate
for railroad commissioner. Hall
found a man running a locomotive and
told him to come up to the convention
for an hour, and nominated him for
railroad commissioner. No one in the
convention had heard of this engi-
neer half an hour before. He was NOM
mated simply because Hall wanted him.
Hall is candidate for governor and a
great many think he will be successful
| Whoever is nominated by the democrats
will be a member of the alliance.
1.-The fight for the governorship is GO
ing to be very lively. Ex-Secretary Of
Agriculture Norman j. Colman and
Congressman Stone will be candidates,
and in case Congressman Hatch is not
elected speaker he may also be
a candidate. He is strong with
the farmers, and has been of
of great service to them while he was
chairman of the agricultural committee
in congress The republicans of my
state are attempting to make out that a
| fight is being carried on between Sena-
| tor Cockrell ard Gov. Francis for the
senatorship. There is no fight between
these gentlemen. No one is any closer
to Gov. Francis than am, and have
never heard any intimation that he in
tends opposing Mr.. Cockrell for the sen.
atorship.
"The Missouri democrats and the
Farmers Alliance are almost unani-
mously in favor of the free coinage of
silver"
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
Another Object Lesson.

Perry Hutchinson, of Marshall coun-
~, has 10000 bushels of corn cribbed
in Marysville, for which he paid II
cents a busheL Within the past few
days he has been offered so cents a
b1shel for the entire lot, but he is hold
ing it for higher price and will doubt
less get it Mr.. Hutchinson will clear
at least twice as much as he invested,
and will wad his jeans with clean
profit of $40, 9,500-Kansas Exchange.
And yet some people pretend to be
surprised that the farmers of Kansas
have risen against a financial policy
that concentrates the circulating medi-
um in the hands Of few who thereby
can fix the price of the property in the
hands of the many.-MidlandM Mechanic.
In this connection it may be remarked
that if the sub-treasury bill had been
in operation the government would have
had to advance only $40, 400 and the
S49,5OO the operator gets would have
been realized by the proper parties, the
producers of the corn.
GEORGE C. WARD.
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
THE IOWA ALLIANCE.

Its Leaders Well-tO-DO Farmers Who Have
Pledged Their Lives. Their Fortunes and
Their Sacred Honor to the Cause.
The alliance state convention in this
city was remarkable in many respects.
Creston is the metropolis of the blue
grass region of southwest Iowa, which
has always been a stronghold of anti
monopoly. There was very little ad-
vertising of the convention. Yet there
was large attendance, and a three
days session of profound interest to all
the participants. To those who closely
observed the character of the men who
attended this convention there was a
revelation of the secret of the strength
of the alliance movement They were
representative farmers of influence and
strength. Every delegate was a man
whose face showed not only intelligence
but resolute earnestness of purpose
One Of the most significant features
about these men was the fact that they
were men of means-the business men
of the agricultural classes. Not
one of them was rich, as
that term is now understood,
thCy udu euCCc6S 18rm-
ing by their own talents and energy,
despite the obstacles which class legis-
lation has thrown across their paths.
Another Characteristic of the men in
attendance upon the Creston conven-
ton is worthy of note. Four-fifths of
them stopped at cheap hotels and board
ing houses, and not one of them patron
lied the numerous drinking resorts
which abound in this progressive CITY.
Frugality and temperance are the rule
of life among the leaders Of the Farm
ers' Alliance.
These weli-to-do farmers, who pr,c-
tiee frugality and temperance and who
are the leaders of this great movement.
are personally unselfish men who have
consecrated ''their lives. their fortunes
and their sacred honor to the cause of
their less fortunate brethren. Their
leaders are not Office seeking dema-
gOgues, as has often been charged. At
the very inception of the movement
these would-be leaders were shelved as
back numbers, and are only used occ.r
sionally for reference. -Creston Cor.
Chicago Herald
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
FOREIGN STATISTICS,

LONDON is said to have 200, 600 factory
girls.
IT Is said that $4,000, 600 Of British
capital are invested in Paraguay.
JAPAN had on January 4o.2l5 ply
sicians, nineteen of whom were gradu-
ated abroad.
ABOUT 5000. 100000 is spent annually
in Germany for the care Of the poor,
outside of private charity.
THE recent census Of the German en-
pirc gives q population of 1890, ,sIa,
which is an increase of 2,665, ,1SS since
1885.
Dodge City times., 1891-05-08
German
Syrup"
FOrThrOat andLungS

For l hrOdt and Lungs
II have been i'll for
Hemorrhage "about FIVE years,
have had the best
Five Years. medical advice,
land Itook the first
"dose in some doubt. This result
"ed in few hours easy sleep. There
twas no further hemorrhage tillnext
"day, when I had a slight attack
(which stopped almost immediate
ely. By the third day all trace of
"blood had disappeared and 1 had
recovered much strength. The
Fourth day 1 sat up in bed and ate
"my dinner, the first solid food for
"two months. Since that time I
"have gradually gotten better and
"am now able to move about the
"house. My death was daily ex-
"pected and my recovery has been
"a great surprise to my friends and
the doctor. There can be no doubt
"about the effect of German Syrup,
"as had an attack just previous to
"its use. The only relief was after
"the first dose" J.R. LoUGHHEAD,
Adelaide, Australia. q