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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-28
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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-28
ConcernIng Nicaragua.

Nicaragua has 40. 500 square miles and
$50, 900 people. The resources are great,
especially in fine hard woods, dry woods,
rubber andsother plants. Sugar, coffee
and indigo are largely cultivated.
Maize and potatoes grow abundantly in
the highlands Nicaragua is especially
well adopted for live stock, and on the
eastern shore of her great lake thous-
ands of cattle are raised, Gold has
been discovered recently. The trade
of Nicaragua with the United States
exceeds that with any other country.
Coffee, crude rubber, bananas, hides
and skins are sent to the United States,
and machinery, iron, steel, wheat, -four,
provisions and manufactured goods are
sent back Last year Nicaragua's ex-
ports to the United States were 1888
5s3, and her imports from the United
States were 81. 730, 447. Chicago News
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Average Rainfall.

Java has thunderstorms on the aver
age 81 days in the year; Sumatra, SO;
Hindostan, So; Borneo, 81; the Gold
Cost, So; Rio de Janeiro, 81; Italy, ss;
West India, SO; Sonth Guinea, 32; Buenos
Ayres, Canada and Austria, %; Baden,
Wurtemberg and Hungary, 30; Silesia,
bavaria and Belgium, 81; Holland, Is;
Saxony and Brandenburg, II; France,
Austria and South Russia, IS; Spain
and PORTUGAL ID; Sweden and Finland,
8; England and the high Swiss mount
aims, 7; Norway, 4; Cairo, ). In East
TuIkestan, as well as in the extreme
no, TIL, there are almost no thunder
storms. The northern limits of the
thunderstorlns are Cape Ogle, northern
part Of North America, Ic. lans, Novaja
semelja and the coast OF the siocsan
ice sea --tierman Paper,
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE.

-Wagley calls thee bad cigars that
Dudley buys the coin collectors PRIDE
because of the curious scents that they
produce while being smoked. -Philadcl-
phia Record.
-Professor-s'In case q man had both
hands cut off, what would be the first
thing you would do?" Student (candi-
date for position Of ambulance surgeon)
--.'Fcel his pulse..-N. Y. Sun.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., teacher, Willie
Wrinkles kissed me at recess to-day"
Aged Tcacher-'.Send him to me at
onces .s,yhy, teacher, r didn't know
You Observation-Disclosures Statesman.
~ think young Porper is very much
smitten with Fannie" said Mrs. Hank
inson. well, he'll be smitten with
crowbar II catch him around here, re-
turned the old man. -IIarper's Bazar.
~-A Dernicr Resort.-Shc-"f you
should propose TO wealthy girl and
should be rejected, what would you do?'
He-eWell, suppose should have to
earn my own living. Detroit Free
Press.
There are two things that are
very much overtaxed, said Miljonner,
in a tariff conversation. what are
they?s .The patience Of the house and
the. voices of the speakers. - Washing
ton Star.
Employer (sternly, TO clerk I'm
not at all satisfied with your accounts,
Bagster." Clerk-"Why not, sir? Aren't
they well done?" Employer Yes, too
well done; they're cooked r'--Dralxe's
Magazine
-.Yes, Crankeigh is a. great lover of
the national game, and you can't
Imagine how it has built up his muscle
ooh. he is player, then?p mo, was
referring to the muscles of his jaw
Boston Transcript,
| A Real Poem. Claire SIS that
poem?" Harry-handing her a poem
YES ire-disappointed- No, it
isn't It's only rcceipted bill. = Har-
ly--lightly-sMy darling. You don't
know what a real poem is when you see
one r-D Detroit Free Press.
miss Gasket, love you dearly.
confessed young Mr.. Smithers I'm SO
glad replied Miss Gaslet, fervently.
"You make. me intensely happy" re-
JOlneu tne young mai hopc nAai
continue to do 50, for am to be your
step-mother. -IIarper's Bazaar.
"A Remedy
When am sick and blue.
And have heart and headache, too,
| And the world and all that's In I, seems bus
chin, chat, chat
mover for those Ills,
Take cmulsions, sally - or pills.
But read the comic papers, and hugh, laugh
laugh
Phsrss. Era
| -ssBot, did you ever stop u think,
said grocer recently, NJ he n.aasared
out half a peck Of potato.a thai these
| potatoes contain sugar. starch and
watcr?" mo, i aidn't, replied the bay,
shut heard mother say that you put
peas and bsansin your cotf = and q pint
OF water to 4Tcry quart p ln'u' ys'u
sold
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are belted at various portions Of their
height by shelving joys barely wide
enough the narrowest places for the
dcnizens of mountains to tread with"
their sure feet.
What tragic encounters may have
taken place between the grizzlies, the
cougars, the black bears, elk and noun
tain sheep which might have CHANGED
10 meet in these narrow and dizzy trails
we must leave to the Imagination of
versatile Nimrods to depict, but ]
CHANGED to be the helpless witness of an
encounter which was MS fierce and ex-
citing as it was strange and novel.
1t was in De cember last on the south
fork of the Sinking Water river, Wyo.,
in what is generally known as the
Shoshone country, i'll company with a
party of jolly Young civil and mining
engineers, who were running a recon-
Nuisance through that section.
The day was beautifully clear, and
along the wind-sheltcred and sunny
side OF the canyon close down by the
edge of the riv err, along which our trail
wound, it was delightfully."- warm and
side were magnificent, both in height
and coloring, and we were enjoying the
subiimity Of the scene AS only true re-
conniteTs ito the manor born" can en-
Joy the glories of the Rockies, when,
through my glass, with which | was
scanning tile prospect ahead of us, /
saw horse suddenly emerge into view
around tue curve of a cliff. A second
horse and n pedestrian followed
The trail which they were ON was at
least five hundred feet above the bot
tom of the canyon, and after slight
jog the cliff again rose in another
terrace which reached, in an unbroken
face, for the remainder of its sheer
height
"Whew,' whistled our guide, Who
was in advance. That's about as
ticlSlish trail as there is along the
whole Stinkiu' Water. I'm daredevil
enough, hut was allus willin { leave
tn full right o way over that trail t.
grizzlies an lniuns. An don't b'lcye
they're over-partial to it. The .feller
must be in rarin' old hurry t git
home.
al should think 50, Responded anoth-
or of the party. What if he should
meet a grizzly up there? II would be
rather embarrassing, eh?''
"Ycs: especially as the fellow has
strapped his gun onto the back of his
forward horse" interrupted noticing
through my glass this fact, which had
escaped the naked eyes Of the other OBJ
servers
At this they all whipped out their
glasses and focused them upon the two
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-28
STREET WAITS.


Many Thousands of Homeless Childi en- In
Our Cities.
In the city of New York there are tens
of thousands of children who spend the
greater part of their lives on the streets;
and these streets are invariably the
worst in the city.
In one sense these children are better
off even in such streets than they are in
the houses that they live in, for these
houses are wretched tenements, VENT.
lated badly or not at all, and nurseries
of diphtheria and other filth diseases.
Some wealthy people of the city have
conditionally pledged eonsiderabl sums
Of money for the establishment of free
lsindergartens throughout the city,
where the street children can not only
be kept from the evils and dangers OF
the street for a considerable partaof
each day. hut may be cleansed and
frightened up bodily and morally, and
taught many thingswhich will be of use
to them in their after life. =
As yet, however, kindergartens are
lacking for the masses of the poor chill
dren of New York city. These children
are, in great part, helpless waits upon
"a strong current which is not bearing
them toward a life of virtue and useful
ness.
Many poor boy or. girl, born in q
Stun and educated in the street, learns
with real surprise, when fully en-
barked in a careey<of vice, that vice and
crime are NOT the normal conditions Of
manlSinds an@practically the things to
be expected of every one.
The well-to-do people of American
cities have a great duty toward these
poor children of the streets. In the
measure that the conditions of life traf
fic in these great cities have. favored
them, the well-to-do, they are in con-
science bound to assist the rising gem
Grafton of those whom these conditions
have not favored, but have thrust into
every sort of wretchedness.-Yo uth's
CompaniOn
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But we were destined TO have on
curiosity regarding the aggressive cour-
age OF the elk remain unsatisfed, for
we suddenly found that we had under
estimated one element in the case.
The leading pack horse suddenly
arched its neck like striking adder,
swished its tail and made q fierce dive
Tor the elk with its glistening teeth.
See the gamey leetle brute?s shout
ed the guide, in admiration at the nm
expected display Of courage on the part
of the burdened horse.
The buck elk ducled his head to re-
ceiye the charge.
For an instant there was a confused
blending, from our distance, OF the fig
ures of the elk and horse Then the
canyon echoed with shrill piercing
cry, like a human scream, and the
horse went rolling, pitching and floun-
dering down the steep face of the bluff
Z Mr. Buck got the inside holt in that
=svrassle, Z commented the guide, who
seemed to view =tlbena4fai mn re-as an
excellent theatrical entertainment than
an actual tragedy.
The other spectators held their
breath in anticipation of the scene; but
the guide muttered:
II recSon bell known 'nough t keep
his rofie somewhat in reach, next time,
If the OF Teller don't pitch i'm down af-
ter it."
The man had drawn from his belt a
hunting knife, which was evidently his
only weapon and was backed against
the wall of rock behind rim, awaiting
the result of the contest between. the
second horse and the elk with passive
helplessncss.
The elk had evidently become thor
oughly Infatuated by the onslaught of
the fifst=heRse, and WIS ea-the- etfen=
sivc
Meantime the remaining horse had
backed into a small perpendicular
niche which permitted it to leave mar
row margin of the trail free, and gave it
q more safe and extended footing.
At first the elk made an attack upon
the ''cornered" horse, but was unable to
dislodge his contestant as he had the
first
Whether the forward rush which the
buck next made toward The man was
intended as an attack, or simply rs an
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-28
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.

-Harrison's greatest recommended
ton is found in the, enemies he has
made among machine politicians In the
distribution of patronage. His most
prominent weakness is the lack OF
courage he has shown by violating his
civil service reform pledges in the same
matter.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The anti-lIarrison plotters are
still hunting around for candidates
Reed and Rusk are the latest names
they have written on their slate. The
names arc too good for such frivolous
uses. Why don't they select Blair
and Shepard for their ticket? Blair
would furnish the ideas and the colonel
has a barrel Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
Mr.. Reed defines democratic econ
omy as opposition to the things you
are not in favor Of" This definition
fits politicians of all parties equally
we'll, except that in Mr.. Reeds congress
the republicans knew no such word as
economy and were boastful of it-until
they heard from the people.-N. Y.
World.
From testimony in the Raum in
vestigation it appears that Col. W. w.
Dudley was rerated as pensioner
without examination or investigation
of any sort and received in consequences
thereof the snug sum of $4,000 arrears
of pensions In view of this very con-
siderable gratuity it would seem that
the hero of the 'Blocks-of-Five" victory
might be willing to forget and forgive
the snnb administered by the president
who failed to ask him to dinner.-Chi.
cago Times.
Plat, and Quay. and Clarkson,
and a number of other republican boss
es, who are offended with Harrison, arc
still scheming to find way for turn
ing him down." but it is a hopeless en-
terprise. The republicans must make
their campaign this year on the issue 81
the Harrison administration, and, Of
course, they must make the head Of the
administration their candidate. Few
of the party are enthusiastic over this
programme, but almost every body row
recognizes that it s ineu able. IN. y
Post
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AN AMBITIOUS BANKER.
Morton's Name win Appear nm the he
publican Ticket.

The Harrison Minneapolis programme
is said to include Levi 2. Morton for the
vice presidency. Just as, doubtless, the
subsequent programme in the event OF
Harrison's election will include the rs-
appointment Of WanamalSer as post
master general II Is the boast of the
republican party that it commands the
wealth of the country. but that W ealth
must have recognition in honors rs well
as in legislative favors, and so bankers
like Morton come 10 tho front.
Mr.. Morton has seen some public
service, but he is in no sense public
ist For little while he had scat in
congress, which. for all the care he
gaze 1t, was practically empty. And
he was sent as minister TO France a.
l n time when minister from this repnb-
lie had nothing under the sun tn do
but to make distinguished social
showing. II such accomplishments would
lie within he Possibilities of his purse.
tf1II=is slsliasneys M ak
ing gentleman after the manner-ef his
kind Banking is immensely prohta-
Bile, and Mr.. Morton isl believed to be
many times millionaire. EagcrNcss
for success in acquisitiveness has in
dueed him to forget that there map be
dignity even in wealth gathering, and
we have had the spectacle of vice
president Of the United States figuring
as the landlord of an apartment house
and the applicant for a bairoom
license
The slender duties appertaning to
the vice presidency Of the United
States MIR. Morton has discharged with
such regularity as was possible in a
person carrying forward an active dis
count business and interesting himself
various gainfnl pnrs1itsAny-
ancient servitor of the senate would dis.
charge with equal intelligence and far
more punctuality the duties of pres
idency which does not even admit
vote save upon occasions so rare as 10
be remarkable. 1t is not of Mr.. Morton
as a vice president that any citizen
will complain. 1t is the possibility Of
Mr.. Morton as the chief executive OIL
the nation that wNsaI. give any othes
than the moneyworslHping republican
party pause. Mr.. Morton has a rich
mans interests. aspirations and associ
atoms. Hc-}as ReHor-heen. and il is not
possible that one of his temperament
should be, in touch with the people.
The possibility of his appearance as
the president Of a republic where the
great mass of bread winners average
an income year which for Morton
would be pocket money for day is
not agreeable to any other than the
rich mans party.
But Mr.. Morton is uncommonly ann
bilious of political distinction, and so
the republican party will in all prob
ability give him a place that will au-
thorize them to make sight draft upon
the rich banlSer.-Chicago Times.
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BLAINE ENTHUSIASM.
It Threatens to Cause lSiacord In Repub-
lican Ranks.


The spontaneous blaine boom threat
ems to run away with the whole repub-
lican machine. Its activity comes at a
most dangerous period for the peace OF
mind of the Harrisonian gang of office
holders. Some booms never come
at all. Some die in their incipiency.
Some appear on the scene too early,
some arrive too late, but the present re-
iuvenated Blaine boom has arrived at
Just the right time for boom to pre-
sent itself before called convention,
In several states republican delegates
have been instructed for Harrison, and
the situation is becoming panicky from
the fact that the rank and file of the
party are now shouting like the Blain-
iacs that they are. The instructed del
egates see that their instructions, as it
were, are gigging back on them. They
are misfit instructions, and once tried
on at Minneapolis, will be rejected.
Should there be sufficient instructed
delegates in the republican national
convention to force Harrison as nom
inee on the people, the action will be
repudiated, as it now looks, by large
part of the. plain, everyday voters OF
the republican party. They want
Blaine. Their minds are made up on
this point, and Harrison's machine poll
tics win not go down with. them this
time.
The coincidence of reinvigorated
boom and remagnetized Blaine APP
pearing with SO marked a spontenaiety
on the screen of passing political events.
is unequaled in the history of cam
paigns His party is alive with desire
to accord honor To; the favorite son
The whole measures Of meal is lcavencd
with an -permeatingE yeast which
seriously threatens to lift the lid off the
Harrison dinner pail. Chicago Globe.
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A LOFTY ENCOUNTER.
An Exciting and Novel Scene on a
Narrow Mountain Trail.

| + c a n v o n
through which
the Stin k ng
w a t c r river
winds its sinu-
Gus and troubled
course is walled
W i t Ii magnif-
cent cliffs, many
7efLw4sieell4f-aHise-
in a sheer, I'M
broken ascent
h u N d re d s of
feet from the
edge of the riv-
err to their very
brows. Others
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Hotel Clerk Sorry, but can't ac-
commodatc your troupe. Theatrical
Manager don't suspect we'd be
elephants on your hands, do your
Hotel Clerk-s'O, no. I've seen no
signs trunks yet'-Kate Fields
Washington.
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a NATURAL INTERPRETATION.

"A True story OF the Contribution Box.
We told dear Polly ere she went,
Hermind quite to prepare,
or what the people did az church
And what would happen there.
OF how the good folk sang the hymns,
Then listened all dcvout
on through the sermon and the prayer,
But ore thing we left out
And when she saw good Deacon Gray
Come tiptoeing down the aisle,
Politely holding out the plate,
sweet, iuquiring smile
Pass q from her lips even TO her eyes,
But as he nearer drew,
She settled what twas all about.
And all her duty knew
4 tiny hand was swift out-thrust,
Then suddenly Withdrawn
And half in whisper, half aloud
She walled as he passed on:
only gota dime, mamma, @
Ididn't know beforeisea
DO sotisa pose " isn he comes back
He,1f let Inc Try once more? - So
Louise NJ. Hodgkins, In Union Signal.
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The Most Costly Eur.

No, sealslsin is not the most costly
fur. nor nearly so. a skin of sea otter,
50 small that you might carry it away
in your hat, is worth two hundred and
fifty dollars If it is good specimen.
One very seldom sees this beautiful fur,
which is of the deepest black, studded
with silver hairs, as Russians, who have
a great admiration for it, absorb all the
best specimens. The sea otter is caught
scarcely anywhere except on Il coast of
Alaska, and only a few Thousand OF
them are killed every year.--Philadel-
phia Times.
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"A black princess in Mashonaland
snubbed the bishop of that district in a
very quiet but effective manner while
ago. She, as we'll as her people, have.
acquired an intense prejudice against
the whites through the misconduct of a
few of them. The bishop asked her for
permission to erect a teachers hut in
her village, but she replied that the
white men beat her people. Her visitor
explained that there are two kinds of
white men. ''Oh, understand that"
she said. The bishop then asked her if
she would not like to hear some Christ
ian teaching. She looked at him for a
minute and then said gently: 'If you
do not start soon you will, not reach the
next village before dark This termi!
mated the interview
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rnE HORSE M.pE DIVE FOR THE ELK.

THE HORSE M.pE DIVE FOR THE ELK.
pack forses and the man who were
slowly moving along the trail, which
was so narrow that they looked like
figures in pantomime of which the
face of the cliff was the background.
"Boys,'
7, ''See!"
Look at that.
These ordinations came almost sim
ultaneously from the lips of the vari-
Gus members of the party, as we saw a
huge elk suddenly appear in thestrail
where it curved around the further end
Of the cliff
We jerlSed our cayouses TO stand
still, and with raised observation glass
es watched the outcome of hecollision.
AT this season the elk are right on
their nerve. I'll bet v that old buck IL
show fight. calmly observed our guide.
'Well you take it cool, . impatiently
answered one of the boys.
Might Jest S well. No use ter do
nothn' elise. Yol couldn't git thar t.
do any good if 'twar yer own brother.
lis ieS> like standing off seem a couple
Of engines that Y can't stop nohow
come tgethcr, replied the philosophic
guidc.
We recognizedsthc force Of his logic
and settled down TO watch the en-
countcy, if there should be one, with
the nest intense but powerless interest.
Both Of the horses, the man and the
elk stood stfll. Would the elk retreat
on give battle? That was the question OF
supreme interest to US all at that mo-
-tnelil,
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What She Thought Of Hell
love You more than l love any woman
in the world" She--'.That's a story"
He---"No, no, it isn't! simply dote on
you.r shc--.'And that's an anecdote
Ia! tar'-Dc.,oit Free Press.
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Even So.-ssIt seems TO me- said
Scroggs to his friend Boggs ait he heard
him barking and shutting, that you've
rot a .cold.n And it seems 70 me, re:
torted Boggs, that the cold has got
me.r-Detroit Free Press.
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A Midnight NIarauder.

Hands up!' exclaimed Old Time,
sternly. And the frightened clock
trembling struck twelve. Chicago
Tribune.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-01

Mr.. Julius Franken6eld, brother-in law
of William Frank, the Chapel street dry
goods merchant, died at the latter's resid-
ence, 25 ED street, Sunday morning, aged
fifty-four years. His brother, S. Franken-
field of Ballerstein & Co., and his sister,
Mrs. William Frank survive him. The
funeral will be held from the residence of
Mr.. William Frank this forenoon at II 80
q. m. A recent issue of the Winsted
Citizen says: "We are surprised to bear of
the death, after q short illness, of Moses
W. Frank, son of William Frank who, for
SO many years was q merchant in this
place and few months ago moved to New
Haven. The young man whose death we
record was twenty three years old the 9th
of June last. About two years ago he
went to New York, and was in the employ
of large mercantile establishment in that
city. He was bright young man, full of
activity and enterprise, with promising
future before him.
The death of Mr.. Frsnkenheld makes tho
second sfaietion In Mr.. William Franks
family.