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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-29
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children. To this the gentleman, who
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sends bread TO NIL them True,
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snelr matrlmonlal arrangements n sne
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sires 70 marry ne goes 70 tne maiuen
iather ana makes DIG, Wnien may "
may not DC accepted.
-Lafcadio Hearn, journeying Tor
Harper's to Japan, writes In that mag.
zine the following prophecy OF q quick
trip around the world: -.
London % I.Iv@rnoo, bv rai 4
Liverpool to Quebec BY fast
steamer....5.. :. ...... ,,...-... ..s...
Quebec % vancouver, py ran, at
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vladivostock to ST. Petersbufg, BY
rail- at 2o miles an honr ......il 4
% fe'ersDu's 70 Aonuon 's.'. 1890
IS
Paul Kruger, the President Of tho
Transvaal, receives salary Of $4,000 .
year, but is not much on style. A vis-
itor who wished to make call In proper
style upon him was at once ushered into
room where the President sat calmly
washing his feet in true Dutch fashion.
Some fashionable ladies who desired to
do the correct thing and to leave cards
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-29

Carnegie says Of the new tariff;
IT rejoice IN IT. lit will add TO his
Sl,boa,0Oo income, and he has aubstaH.
lial repsops . seioIqe. Paql GLOBE
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-29
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ADVANCE OF PRICES.
Dry Goods Before and Since the Adoptio
OF the Mckinley Bill.

Mr.. James II. Walker, one of the
leading dry-goods merchants of Chica-
go, in a letter to the public some
months ago regarding the Mckinley
bill, stated that 1t would still further
increase the tariff from 5 to 121< per
cent. AS an illustration, he gave the
following:
Specific rates are computed ad va.
loren, for comparison:
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-29
Cotton warpldress goods
costing less than Is.

f6r cent Der end
Cotton warpdress goods
costing less than To- al .ow ., - 90
Goods costing Sd for so =
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fi 15c so va sa'ins peiow toes So to 90
(This class Includes Of
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ceyion suitings (fancy
i nannei 81. y value sna be- ,.s
w WOODEN go goods d &C costing j
6s q I'd. 80 ms. ...... .57X to 10 81 to 81
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-29
FARMHOUSE MEATH The Hill.


o, tie farm house meath the hill, can see ii
still
As I saw it in my childhood's happy days,
Wbea every thing was new and beautiful to
view,
+. From morning till the sunsets opal blaze.
can SEQ the orchard trees, and hear the
hum Of bees
In the hollyhocks and roses near the wall.
And where the brooklet flows a barefoot urchin
goes
Again among the cato nine-tafls tall
Down to the pasture spring walk, and lightly
As happy as in merry days gone by,
When wandered In the wood, half lost In SOL
itude,
Or climbed the friendly mountain, looming
high.
How love that farm house wide, with its trees
on either side,
Where played, and laughed and wandered
. when boyi $3.50. =.
lean see the swallows fly down the chimney
from, thesky,
And again dream q dream OF vanished Joy.
Wherever may go I'll find no place, know.
That will my mind with sweeter fancies fll.
Fond memory guard the door, and time pass
gently DER
That humble old gray farmhouse meath the
hill.
,-Moses- Gage Sh rely, in Boston Globe.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-29
A BALANCED ACCOUNT.
The Thiefs Bill Was Settled with
a Neat Check.

The following veritable case OF KEEP
tomania came under my observation
few years since, the principal actor in
which was the wife Of a respectable cit
izen, who resided in fashionable
quarter of one of our Atlantic cities,
says an ex-attorney in the New York
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
Hunting in Maine.

Even the women and children are
participating in the present good
hunting up in western Maine. The
other day, Mrs. George Brown, Of
Guilford: in Piscataquis county, while
looking out of her kitchen window,
saw large and handsome fox come
out in the field near by. Her husband
being away, she took down his rifle
and pointed it out of the window
at the fox. The window being
low, she found she could not rest
the gun on the sill and take good
aim, SO she raised it and held it at
arms length. fired and killed the fox
instantly. She then went out and
brought her trophy into the house.
The Portland Press, from which this
paragraph is taken, says that the
distance, being measured, proved to
be thirty rods.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
HE COWED THE AUDIENCE.

An Actor VINO Was Kissed Removes
His Mask and Cries for Revenge.
lis seldom that an actor is Kissed,
but recently the patience of an Albany
audience gave way, and the soul-stir-
ring efforts OF two mediocre actors not
longg-since received well-merited Kisses,
according to the Argus OF that city.
For a moment the artists were dumb,
then one OF them, advancing to the
footlights, said in tremulous tones:
".Friends, Pm sorry. We've done the
best we could to amuse you. We've
thrown ourselves about the stage and
worked hard, and is this the re-
turn we get?'' He stopped for a NOM
ent. Then his anger and resentment
overmastered him. '"This is the first
time" said he, in ringing tone, Fthat
the American Macks have ever been
Kissed. Pm sorry that you show such
little courtesy to a fellow man, but if
there is any one amongyou he cried,
tearing off the beard and wig, reveal
ing the close cropped head and square
jaws of a prize fighter, ''who wishes to
back up what he did let him step up
here"
The nerve of the man captured the
audience. Those who had Kissed him
now cheered and applauded. They
admired the pluck OF the man. The
applause emboldened him, and as he
threw aside his coat he called again
for any personin the audience to meet
him, but he must have parting shot,
and as he turned to leave the stage he
yelled: elf any of you want to see me
after the performance is over you will
find me at the entrances" But no one
saw him. His brutality captured
more applause than his acting.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02

Once more I would hear even the fear
full tale that cut deeper than your
sword that night; tell me the truth
the TRUTH" he repeated, advancing
yet, closer upon the pirate. "Your
words have haunted me day and
night-day and night, since that
hour; and I have sought you, have
planned this meeting. I would know
the last of her; and whether, in her
dying hour, if indeed she be dead, she
ever thought of me. Tell me, even
at the last, that the horrible tale
was false! tell me that it needed all
your devlish arts to win her from her
lawful love! Tell me that you lied,
even now, and will forgive the rest,
so that 1 can but think her less
guilty.
"Fool!' sneered the pirate, with
scorn expressed in his scowling feat
ures, grown black as night while the
other spoke. II told you all that
night; and what were my thanks? I
did but warn you of the immaculate
virtue OF your lovely wife, and you
rushed on me like a. demon, and, but
for my stronger arm, who would have
lived to tell the tale, and deserve the
name of murderer? Your name in her
dying hour! pshaw! AS she lived, she
died, loving the man who was worthy
of her, and who she could not but
bless to have freed her from such a.
jealous, hasty fool as yourself. Go to
the churchyard yonder, if you seek
your child. It lived long enough to
confirm the truth of all told YOU"
"Villain!' Aaron ground the word
out between his teeth, and, at the mo-
ment of. uncomfortable excitement
and hatred, he wrenched the pistol
from his breast and fired.
The shot failed; it's echoes rebounded
from the rocks above, and the fend-
ish laugh of Meghorn replied to them,
as his sword flashed like lightning
above his head, and he threw himself
fercely upon his adversary.
At that moment a hollow sound
issued from the rocks-a loud split
ting noise, as it rent asunder, and a.
heavy mass came crashing to the
earth. There was a shrek, an oath,
a cry at the last for mercy; then all
was still, and when Aaron Franklen
recovered from the momentary alarm
that had paralyzed his senses, he be-
held bleeding and unsightly corpse,
half covered by the fallen rock, one
arm extended, still grasping thesword
that had SO lately threatened his ex-
istence.
It was all that remained OF the pi-
rate Meghorn.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
AMMONIA OR ALUM
Baking Powders,
HOW TO DETECT THEM.

dON ~ IdEM.
Ammonia and alum are the most
common adulterants used in the manu-
facture OF baking powders. The Gov
eminent report shows that a large
percentage OF the baking powders on
the market contain either one or the
other or both these pernicious drugs.
Ammonia particularly is in very gen.
eral use
This wholesale use in an article of
daily food, OF one Of the most iniur-
ious poisons is simply criminal. Slow
ammonia poisoning produces diseases
OF the stomach and is particularly in
furious to the complexion. The pres
ence OF ammonia in a baking powder,
however can easily be detected.
TO DETECT AMMONIA.
Mix one heaping teaspoonful OF
baking powder with one teaspoonful
OF water in tin cup; boil thoroughly
for a few moments stir to prevent
burning and if ammonia is present
you can smell it in the rising steam,
or place q can OF the suspected pow
der top down on a hot stove for O.
minute or two then take off the
cover and smell.
TO DETECT ALUM
Alum powder can be tested by put
ting a couple of teaspoonfuls of the
powder in a glass OF cold water. Ii no
efferevescence that is bubbling or SIM
mering, takes place, condemn the
goods and return them at once.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
is reported by all authorities as free
from alum, ammonia, or any other
adulterant.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
A NEAT PROPOSAL.
How Bloobumper Secured His
Spouse,


The company had been discussing
different ways of popping the question
and nearly every one had related his
or her experience, or that of some
body else.
cts your turn, now, Bloobumper, :"
said Gazzam, turning to the gentle
man named. "
II only know the way I proposed
myself" replied Bloobumper, "and
my wife might object to my telling
family secrets" ~
ri shan't mind" Mrs. Bloobumper
added, and then her husband went
on:
"When I was counting Nellie, an
other young man named Higgins was
also paying her a good deal OF atten-
ton. was pretty sure 1 was pre-
ferred before Higgins, but still Iwasn't
absolutely certain, and I didn't give
him any chance to be with Nellie that
| could prevent One evening I had
called and Nellie and I had COM
menced one OF those conversations
chiefly interesting to two, but of no
particular value to a third party.
just then the servant came in and an
nounced Mr.. Higgins. Now I didn't
want Mr.. Higgins there, and didn't
think Nellie did either. So / said to
the girl: Tell Mr.. Higgins that Miss
Nellie is engaged. AS the girl went to
carry this unwelcome message to Mr..
Higgins, Nellie looked at me with a
knowing smile, and said: 30, George!o
I clasped her to my manly breast, and
before the evening was over we had
the wedding day fixed. Happy
thought, wasn't i? ooklyn Lie.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
A Would-Be Joker SqueIched.

Been a deacon in church for fiji
teen years?" echoed the passenger in
the check suit. ''That's long time.
| dare say you have passed the contri-
button basket through the congrega-
ton a great many times"
Hundreds OF times" replied the
passenger in black alpaca.
"And I suppose - ha! ~ you
have found a great many eh?-
what's this?'
II The deacon, with an intensely
weary look on his face, had drawn
from his pocket and was holding out
for inspection of the man in the check
suit a time-stained card, on which
was printed in large letters the follow
ing inscription:
Never found in the contributions
box a button OF any sort or kind in
my life. Star Sayings.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
Fruits In Summer.

Contrary to the popular notion, the
free use OF good, ripe fruit in summer
does not tend to give rise to bowel
trouble. It really tends to preventit.
Fruits when rightly INDUCED, are
easy OF digestion; they promote the
health of the organs which dispose of
them, and keep the intestinal canal
free and open. OF course unripe or
spoiled fruits are menace, and liable
to excite summer complaint; but be-
yond a doubt, this is far the most
often caused by milk and meats that
have undergone poisonous chang
es.
The fact is universally recognized
that flesh OF all kinds decomposes
very rapidly on keeping in hot wealth
er. It cannot be as we'll known that
the same kinds OF food also decom-
pose more quickly within the body
during that season than they do in
cold weather. The poison which re-
suits from decomposition acts power
fully, both as an emetic and a purga-
tive; in q word, it causes severe chol-
era morbus. Fortunately, the liver is
able to destroy some OF the poison.
There is however, a limit to such
power; and if too much enters or is
generated with the system, the liver
cannot turn back, but some passes in
to the general circulation, where it
does serious mischief. TO forego
meats entirely, and live upon fruits.
vegetables and farinaceous foods, is
the wisest and safest plan to fol-
low during the hot season.-Boston
Journal OF Health.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
8: august
Flower

How does he feel Pile feels
cranky, and is constantly expert
menting, dieting himself, adopting
strange notions, and changing the
cooking, the dishes, the hours, and
manner of his eating-August
Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel?-He feels at
times a gnawing, voracious, insati-
able appetite, wholly unaccountab1e,
unnatural and neutrality-suspicious.
Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel?-He feels no
desire to go to the table and a
grunb1ing, fault-fnding, over-nice-
ty about what's set before him when
he is there-August Flower the
Remedy.
How does he feel Pie feels
after spell of this abnormal appe-
tite an utter adherence, loathing,
and detestation of food as if
mouthful would kill hi1n-August
Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel Pile has IT.
regular bowels and peculiar stools
August Flower the Remedy. @
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
CHAPTER Ii.
VENGEANCE.

For some moments the men stood
cycling each other in silence, as strange
thoughts fitted rapidly through the
mind Of each.
Sall spoke first.
"Treachery," he gasped; "base, un-
worthy deception; for what purpose
are you here?'
"There comes a time" Aaron re-
piled, still in that low, frigid, meas
ured tone which might have been that
of the apparition the pirate had at
first assuredly supposed him-"there
comes a time when all villains turn
fools as well, that those they have
wronged may obtain satisfaction. I
hardly dared to hope my shallow
scheme might succeed, but it has, and
you are here"
"What do you want? what would
you have OF me?" Meghorn asked, all
his old stern and implacable nature
returning.
"What!" was the bitter retort of
the other. "Suppose I were to ask Of
you my ruined home, my injured
happiness and honor, nay, my life
for in all intent you had it? Suppose I
were to call upon you only to atone
for this?" He threw aside his cloak,
and held out q manned arm, amputa-
ted above the wrist. "For years OF
painful, anxious weary life, made
hateful by your crime and treachery,
you ask me what I seek. Hal" With
g. powerful effort he controlled the
impulse which would have urged him
to rush upon his enemy; yet he still
clasped the hilt Of his pistol, and
Saul, whose fierce eyes glittered with
its resting-place.
"'These things are long past" he
said, hurriediy; "why recall them?"
"Past'' retPrted the other. can
injury such as mine is never past. It
grows in the memory of it, and the
last recollection Of it is more frightful
even than the first. But with me it
has never slumbered. I tell you,
Saul Meghorn, pirate, william, murder
er as you are, / would. have had your
life within the year OF that night you
cast me bleeding and mangled,
corpse as you believed,
down Wonder cliff; but the
Providence that saved me destined
that / should be taken far from this
country; and when / returned it was
to find her" he stopped; the
words seemed choking him-''To find
the confirmation Of all that you
had told me. Yousmay thank the
wretched woman, whom your villany
seduced, for your life so far. You
,wero spared for her sake. But it is
dong since found that you were again
pursuing your old course, and that
she and the fruit Of your accursed sin
had been aband oned by you, or had
persisted. Better that than to live
the life Of misery she must have done.
And this is what I would know OF
you. Saul Megho rn where is that un-
happy creature who was my wife?
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02

"Risht about face'' as the man SAID
when he asked his friend to publish a trea-
tise on physiognomy.
It is great pleasure to watch the self
binders cutting down the golden grain, and
watch the smile on the happy farmers face
as he thinks of all the good he can do with
the money he derives from this years crop:
Although the crop is the best we ,ever, had
in Towner county, not q kernel will be
it is by saving we make, and if a farmer can
save by shipping his grain he would be
very foolish if he did not, If he has 5000
bushels of wheat to sell and saves five cents
bushel by shipping it, it would make him
$3.50. We know Of farmers that shipped
their grain last year and got 20 cents a
bushel more than they could have got here.
pany, of Minneapolis, and every time got
good prompt returns.
Happiness depends upon the prudent
constitution of the habits d..
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
They Were All Swells..

An amusing story is told in club
circles of Lord Beresford and Mr..
Gerald Coke, says Eugene Field in
the Chicago News, two of the most
conspicuous swells about town. They
were walking in Piccadilly one after
noon, when a dirty little crossing
sweep importuned them for tn pence.
''No, I'll not give you penny
said Sir Charles, grufy; but then, as
it a bright idea occurred to him, he
added: "But I'll tell you what I will
do, You see that constable yonder?
Well, if you'll run across the street
and mop your broom up and down
his back I'll give you half-a-crowns''
"Ill do it, SIR said the boy, and
away he started.
OF course the policeman very prop
erly resented the shocking insult of
having a small boy mop a muddy
broom up and down his constabulary
uniform. He laid hands upon the
small boy and proceeded to drag him
to the station. His conscience prick
ing him, Sir Charles stepped across
the street and demonstrated with
the officer, but, SO far from tolerat-
ing calm, dispassionate ar
gument, the officer took Sir
Charles into custody, too, upon the
grounds that he sought to interfere
with a constable in the performance
Of duty. About this time Mr.. Gerald
Coke came up and protested against
the arrest of his friend.
"Aha," quoth the officer, $50 you
want to interfere, do you? We'll, 1
fancy I'll have to run you in too"
II don't mind," said Mr.. Coke, in
differently.
So the procession moved to the DO
lice station. The Inspector in charge
gazed at the three oul prits austerely;
he was shrewd and august mamie
had dealt with crime in all it's phases
all his life.
$50 you've been interfering with the
constable, eh?" said he solemnly. "a
serious charge-a most serious
charge. Now tell ME, sir, what's your
na1ne??"
h1. Neldlu OOAc, answered the
gentleman addressed.
Now, even this august and solemn
Inspector had certain sense of hui
NOR, and the thought that any
man charged with interfering with
constable should masquerade
as the swell Mr.. Coke struck the au-
gust and solemn Inspector as a Joke
"a rare and mighty joke.
"Oh, you're Mr.. Gerald Coke, are
you?' said he sarcastically. Eyes,
you look like Mr.. Gerald Coke; very
good-capital-ha, ha! And who
are you, sir?''
'Sir Charles Beresford,' said the
gentleman.
This, to the thinking of the august
and solemn inspector, simply deep
ened, ramified, and complicated the
joke.
$50 you're Sir Charles Beresford,
eh?' he chuckled, grimly. "sir
Charles Beresford, ell? Well this is
splendid-you look like Sir Charles,
you do; splendid, splendid! And
now tell me, my boy" said the in
spector, turning to the small boy,
whats your name?"
The ragged little urchin was in a
serious quandary. He looked at Sir
Charles and Mr.. Coke.
look a-here,' said he, II don't
know who yez are or watts yer game,
buff Pm goin' back on a pal!''
Then, turning boldly to the inspect
or, he said, in tone full of heroic
confidence; "I'm der Dock of Well
inGtOn."