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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
GONE OVER!
The Minneapolis Daily Tribune Hot on the Cor
blne for a Week, but had

Inc Minneapolis Daily Tribune Hot on the Com
bine for Week, but had
to Cave!
The Republican Stomach Turned Upside Down
on the Coal Combine
Nauseating Effect Of Honesty on an Old Party
GiMard
Defending the People, Perhaps, Don't Pay!
pute papers Twin Cities climbed up on
the the public indignation
nhuman coal combine the face the stomach the ribs
right Justify.
"Why man. you popuist party-when epub
fight the peoples battles with such majestic
nspted gustiousness byjo anmos against
Minneapolis petered saltpetrel
Until Saturday night, OF last week
Saturday soothing thing
and Deezed till the whole nkn
day morning forth baked both sides.
The coal combine devsh Saturday
See what vid lot Of lies nvents for Sundays edition begins
H. from nhd the
have themselves anchorage
assSa s9tas h
guide point in
far @ ~ 9aa1d % within our HAS the
pure republican gospel yet
want organ great party
that the question OF the combine nothing with
only prices se immoral
unjust people,
Of high The keeping
dealers principal
shame iniquty crime disgrace caton-a thing
that cut off the heads of two Turkish auans!
5 @ to ma ar % living price simply the public
The who the fool
except repeat
it jackass.
1.-The law contempatss that people should live and their bills
posi1g
all the combined dealers have guilty the that be raa
ss
To willie add certain additional proverbs:
1-Never punish
"a valuable
Furnishing restore the victim e what is
nothing made by it,
3is only where you figure
the part Of the criminal There is no crime but theft
combination
It
We sa sss
that this price So 10 per
the Coal Combine little
enough that there one national
combine puts price 1885 Cities
Talk Legitimate Those
bine-that u.s. any is fool enough to
5 M I R S s. @ ps Pg og S% % p'G 5 may "a
yardage per on making the
retail dealers wholesale yards SCI plus
@ Ii cent: . t. ss to
g. 9 P @ o se s e 5 weh
This the the Tribune figured soby it's previous
Mine, average Loading
Of which the Freight Buffalo,
liberal price On board vessel by machine and &c.
Total 200 We enlarge the cost and 81 2 Freight Duluth
3O yardng at Duluth 15 Total Duluth $20 Freight
Paul. robbtaf $780,
hands control, - 20. Cost to consumer, 1885.
Now read this not referring it's figures butts Sunday
emetc,
would not to excessive profit but these figures
They ba surface indications
and they have not been challenged"
That gall taken qaestioned'
There liar for the
columns during the previous threw
Indications fgues"$61O oh thou
pyama damnabe blotch the face Of hono
questionedl'
Mrs Mary Lease has elected president Of
charities at the request Of Gov. Leweling.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31
Siberia for Americans!

The United States have
despot anocratic
this country through it's penpotentiaries
ride constitution treaty. the
ocratc administration ratfy that demand.
Not Russian
political prisoners and rush them off Siberia
nse and sint but Rua pledges herself
troop at the call Of the IJuited
And thus masters
the people stand the expressions putocray
longer.
The Vanguard, Of Chicago, asks:
session. the this treaty
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-31

This Republic was tcnndef
up0n principles which m7olved
the Dignity of Labor. 10 des-
troy the power of Labor ia -,
construct Caste. a Caste cannO1
cO-exist with a Republic.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-08-26
CombustibIllty Of sawdust.

Among the results brought to light,
through modern chemical investigation
of the sources and causes of spontane-
Gus combustion, attention has recently
been specially called to the fact that
sawdust should never be used to collect
drippings or leakages. 1t is said that
dry vegetable or animal oil is found to
inevitably take fire when saturating
cotton waste at $50 deg. F., and sponta-
neous combustion occurs more quickly
when the cotton is soaked with its own
weight of oil. Danger is involved in
patent ''driers," from leakage into saw
dust, ETC.; in oily waste, too, of any
kind, or waste cloths of silk or cotton,
saturated with oil, varnish or turpen-
tine; also in linseed oil drippings into
a sponge; glycerine or oil of any kind
leaking into sawdust; bituminous coal
in large heaps of pit coal, FASTENED by
wet, and especially when pyrites are
present in the coal-the larger the
greater the liability. Oil on -four, OF
water on -four, is productive of sponta-
neous combustion. In fact, all organic
structures, being largely composed OF
carbon and hydrogen, are readily ex.
cited. because of the affinity of the
hydrogen for oxygen.-N. Y. Sun.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-08-26
PHoNooRAPHlc MUSIC.
some Of the Results That May Follow the
Machines Use.

some Of the Results That May Follow the
Machines Use.
Some persons have expressed fear
lest the wide distribution of an appara-
tus capable of echoirg all sorts of
music, in more perfect fashion than
any music-box, might lead to the
gradual extinction of piano-playing or
violin-playing, except for purposes of
public exhibition, the photographic
echo of some great performers work
being SO much superior to what most
people could hope to accomplish. 1t
seems to me that the contrary would be
the result. Cheap monographs, giving
more or less perfect echoes of music.
might make superduous the painful at
tempts-painful to others as well as to
herself-of the unmusical young wom-
an to master impossibilities.
To the person of real musical in
stinct and capacity, the wealth of good
music would certainly prove an incen-
tive. When the graphic music is
cheap, the housewife can listen to
Rubenstein as she darns the stockings
in the evening, and get supurb lessons
at the great fountains of musical art,
if she has any taste that way.
There is no reason to suppose that 1t
will be any more difficult to record a
performance of Idle Meistersinger
than q recitation by Coquelin, or Bee
thoven symphony under Bulow's baton.
There is good time coming for the
poor man of good taste.-Philip g..
Hubert, Jr., in Century.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-08-26
An Indians rise ~ Lie.

When the prince Of Wales opened the
bridge at Montreal, in 1851, a young
Mohawk Indian, who had knowledge
of English, was selected to read an ad-
dress setting forth the loyalty Of his
people to the great White Queen On
the Recommendation of Sir Henry Ac-
land, the prince gave him an invitation
to Oxford university, where he exhib-
tied high powers, both mental and ath-
letic. Practicing as physician in Can
ada, he studied the question of assur-
ance as connected with friendly socie-
ties, and came to the conclusion that it
could be safely carried out at half the
usual premiums This deduction is
said to have been verified in the Inde-
pendent Order Of Foresters Of Canada,
and the system having been introduced
into England, DR.. oronhyatekha, at
the Memorial hall, yesterday, insti-
tuted the high court Of England and
the high court Of London, to rule the
many subordinate courts already
formed here, and explained the merits
of his plan.--London Telegraph.
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the MONKEYS THUMBS.
Some Interesting Facts Concerning Thcss
Useful Members.


Useful Members.
The hands, the fingers, and, above
all, the thumbs belonging to Chico at
tracted my particular attention. Now
you must know that It is because man
has thumb, and for the reason that
his thumb is so beautifully jointed,
supple and adjustable, that ne has
been able to overcome all difficulties.
The other fingers are all very well in
their way, but it is the thumb that con-
trolls the real movement of the hand.
Without a thumb you never could WELD
heavy sledge-hammer or the most
delicate of watch-maker's tools 1t is
not out of the way to say that man is
the master, holding every other living
thing under his thumb"
Here is little bit of natural history
which must be remembered about mon
keys. All the monkeys of the old
world have some kind of thumb. As
Mr.. St George M1vart, great zoologist
writes, ANY old-world monkey with a
rudimentary thumb (that is, thumb
even if imperfect) is superior in that
respect to an American monkey In
fact, the American monkey has no thumb
at all. Natrue compensates, in a meas
ure, for this defect In our new-world
monkey by giving him a wonderful
tail. This American monkey tail is
prehensile. 1t answers almost the pur-
pose of a. fifth limb. A South .Ameri-
can monkey gives his tail a single hitch
around the limb of a tree, and there he
hangs quite comfortably, independent
of hands or feet.
Chicos thumbs are superb, being
fully four and one-half inches long.
The ordinary length of the human
thumb is about two and one-half
inches. Chico's middle finger was a
trife over five inches long. Mine is
three and one-half inches. The orang-
outaug's hand was narrow apparently,
but think about the width of that Of
human beings, only the sense of pro-
portion was lost, owing to the extreme
length of the fingers The knuckles
were small and perfectly in line. The
stretch Of such a hand as Chico's
would be enormous, fully thirteen
inches. The octave on the plano meas
ures seven inches. If Chico were q
pianist he could, with little effort,
cover two octaves, and would leave
Paderewski quite in the shade. If
Chico had taste for the double bass,
once that those long fingers of his were
wound around the neck of a big fiddle,
what a wonderful performer he would
be, providing the instrument would
stand the strain.-Barnet Phillips, in
Harper'S Young People.
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pulously speaking of him with respect,
as well as addressing him with courts-
sy, his position in the social world
being helped or hindered by her prac'
tice in this regard.
If the man have an official title, "a
colonel, judge, or governor, doctor or
professor, his wife will use that title in
mentioning him in places and on occa-
sions and in the presence OF persons
whenever or to whom this usage will
be in good taste.
Equally husband invaria bly, speaks
of my WIFE" or Mrs. Brown" when
quoting his better half, as good hus-
bands so frequently do.
She is not Mary or Jennie or Margaret
to anybody except her own people, and
It is bad form to make the outside world
familiar with her sacred home name.
To children a father naturally speaks
of his wife as your mother" and in
affectionate families it is quite common
and by no means improper for parents
to address one another in the hearing
of the little ones as mamma" and
papa"
Every-day etiquette is trampled un-
der foot in grim and undemonstrative
households, where the pleasant custom
of daily greetings is unfortunately
much of the time in allegiance. Where
a grunt does duty for genial good
morning, or an inaudible murmur is all
that is heard when there should be a
tender goodnight, politeness is a plant
of slow growth. Bazaar.
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simpkins Safe.

''Ef that young spirit of Simpkins
comes here again" angrily exclaimed
Pap Muggins, 'sby jocks, I'll read the
riot act to him!''
mo you won't, dad" replied his
buxom, red-cheeked daughter, taking
another look at herself in the glass
"You won't do anything of the kind. ,
''Why won't I?'' stormed the old man,
bringing his fist down on the table.
Because, dad" said the maiden, Civ.
ing her frizxes another dexterous jab
with her taper fingers, you can't read,
You know. Tribune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-08-26
SAVINGS BANKS IN THE HOME

Mr.. and Mrs. Porter and Their Experience
with Hoarding Up Their Money.
Mrs. Porter is not a strong woman;
she has nerves and also has tendency
to semi-fainting spells, when she be-
comes helpless and often thinks she is
going to die. Mr.. Porter works all
night, and often seven nights week,
so his better half is often lonely in
their north side fat. They expect COM
pany this summer, and are preparing
to entertain people as well as a man on
salary can do it. So Mrs. Porter Is
saving money, or rather she was doing
1T, all unknown to her husband, to
whom his salary seems inadequate to
meet the demands of the season.
One night lately Mrs. Porter retired
after busy day, and as she had thor
oughly tired herself could not sleep at
once, and was seized with severe pains
She was almost fainting, and became
convinced that she would die. How it
disturbed her to think of dying alone;
but more than that was the thought of
her little hoard, hidden in a corner
where no one would think of looking
for 1T. She saw his Homecoming in
that darkest hour before the dawn; his
sorrow at her death; the sending of the
news to his friends; and finally the
hustling about to borrow money enough
to bury her properly, while all the time
there was more than one hundred dol
lars in that corner beneath the carpet.
So she suffered, and then the pain
grew less and she slept, to be awakened
later by her husbands entrance.
She told him of the suffering which
had not yet passed, and then he brought
remedies and she grew better and
brighter. Finally she told the story of
how she had saved and her fear that
she would die and he would have no
money. Before she would sleep again
she babe him turn down the carpet and
take out her little hoard.
Then, with a peculiar smile, her hus-
band walked right over her hiding
place into closet, took down a dis
carded vest, drew from its pocket a roll
which developed into over fifty dollars.
Then both laughed, and she felt better
and slept well.
There is bank book in Porter's
pocket now and it shows nearly two
hundred dollars on deposit. He is not
as much afraid of the bank bursting as
he is of the hiding-place proving inse-
cure.-Chica 90 Tribune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-08-26
CLIMATE AND LANGUAGE.
uarsh-Sounding Names In the North and
Liquid Sounds In the South.

Misunderstanding Names In the North and
Liquid Sounds In the South.
In looking over the aboriginal names
upon map of the United States it Is
curious and interesting to note that
consonants predominant in the higher
and vowels in the lower ATTITUDES. In
Maine, for example. are found such
Understanding names as Pamedmu-
cook, Androscoggin, Mattawamkeag.
Pongokwaken, while in Florida are
Tallahassee, Suwanee, Kissimee ana
Appalachee, with vowels and liquid
sounds in a majority. The same Pc
culiarity may be noted on scanning q
map of Europe. Gutturals predominant
in Norway and Russia, whereas
far to the southwark, in sunny
Italy, there is profusion of such
euphonious names as Palermo, Ve-
roma, Campobello, etc. Even in the
British islands, covering so few degrees
of latitude, there is a marked differ
encc between the "burr" of the High
lander and the soft speech of the native
of southern England. A close observ-
er may detect similar difference be-
tween the speech of the jewellers in the
upper region of the Susquehanna, in
New York state, and that of the inhabi-
tants of the eastern shore of Maryland.
The influence of climate on language is
particularly noticeable in the speech Of
those who have lived but compare
lively short time in the southern states
of the union. The tendency to intro
duce a vowel sound to round out a word
is noted in the southern pronunciation
of such words as electoral and TEX
an" which are frequently changed to
sselectorial' and "Texian." Thackeray
was amused at the insistence of serv-
ants in southern hotels in addressing
him as Mr.. ''Thackuary."
A theory which may partly account
for these climatic effects is based upon
the contrast of the stiffness which
usually pervades southern lands with
the stormy inquietude Of northern
countries. Cloudless skies, for months
at time, characterize the climates OF
Italy and Texas, while a armament en-
tirely free from clouds is rare in Maine
or in Norway. 1t requires, of course,
greater effort to be heard in regions
which are swept by winds and storms
than in quiet southern latitudes, and
to be heard distinctly amid the noise
and confusion of the elements words
must be used which contain many con-
sonants. Among the inhabitants of
more tropical climes the tendency is
toward soft and musical cadences, and
travellers relate that in regions of
South America, such as Peru and Venc-
zuela, where atmospheric disturbances
are rare, the natives almost chant the
phrases of Observation-Disclosures
Record.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-08-26
She Thought She was Right.

Perhaps an eating jacket won't be
becoming to you," said very genteel
and languid saleswoman in one of the
large shops to a customer who was
looking at spring costumes.
"A what?" exclaimed the lady, not
realizing at once that it was an Elton
jacket" that was referred to.
AN eating jacket" rcpea ted the
saleswoman, ''they are all the fashion
now, and are cut just like the white
linen jackets the walters wear at o
restaurant. IN. Y. Tribune.
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in the match which week sine he had
opposed SO vehemeutly and vhdictive.
ly. Was his conversion due to ibis con,
viction of Minnie's chivalrous love for
Dick, appealing to him in generous
fit--in one of those odd relapscs into
the generosity of his youth, of which
Dick had spoken? 1t vase due in part
to this, in part to Miss Hackett's haste
in announcing her engagement to thu
curate-upon finding that Mrs. Grundy
made free with her name as that q
the rival who drove Minnie from tn,
field-and in part-in great part-;o
the deepest feeling in the old mans
heart, his love for Dick. The haggMd
change which a weeks misery had
made in his sons face-aging 1t BY
years-helped his father to realize tbs
unreasonableness of the sacrifice he
had demanded of him so pcremptorily.
Besides and above all this, Minnie's
nobleness appealed to him powerfully
in his present mood. Hence his nm
dertaking to find her, which he did
without quitting his study. "a
Within week Dick did hear frueA
her. She wrote from London (whithef
she had gone via Liverpool as blind
q letter Of coincidence upon his fathers
sudden death.
With Characteristic cynicism the old
man had advertised in ali the leading
English. American and Canadian papers
his sudden death.
al am sorry to disappoint you, dear
he said. when Dick brought her straight
to him from the station. But what
was TO be done? Dick would have died
IN earnest, II had not feigned death
strategically 3
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A Now Scandal.

The old lady was reading her news
paper when she looked up inquiringly
at her daughter.
'Well?" said the young woman.
'T've just been reading here about
the patent Office scandal at Washing
ton"
"What of it?r
Nothing, 1 suppose, only" and the
old lady looked troubled-''it seems to
me there are enough Office scandals
already without getting up patent
Ones" and she continued her reading
Detroit Free Press
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-08-26
The Chimney swallow.

They have come far to rear their
brocds in this northern cline; farther,
perhaps, than almost any of the birds
now here, for they come from the sum
shine of the far Central America and
from the West Indies-regions which
are part of the worlds kitchen, al
ways warmed by the kitchen fre-and
these happy birds leave it for their
chosen breeding places in the green
spring fields of the far north, on the
borders Of the worlds refrigerator.
Only they do not seek the green fields
for their nesting; they build their
queer nests in unused chimneys- All
the JOY, al the life Of these remarlxa-
BILE birds is in the air, and in fight.
All their vital functions are performed
ION the wing" even the dead twigs of
which their strangely-built nests are
constructed are shipped OF from the
tree without the slightest pause in
their fight. Their happy cslirruping
voices are heard in the pleasant even
ing twilight Of May and June, as they
dash forward in their zigzigging fight
in pursuit Of the swarms Of minute In
sects in the air. In several respecSA
they are peculiar and interesting birds.
Hartford Times.
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THE COST OF REVOLUTION.
| How New York Suffered in the War for
Independence.

Independence.
New York suffered greater hardships
during the fight for Independence than
fell to the lot of any other American
city. 1t lost more than half of its pop
ulation; IL lost the whole of its COM
merce, the great fire of 1776, followed
by the fire of IT'S, laid full fourth OF
1t In ashes; 1t was occupied by the
enemy uninterruptedly from almost
the beginning of hostilities until after
peace was declared.
Until the Actual outbreak Of HOSTILE.
ties, the prosperous expansion of trade
and the growth of the city continued
without Interruption; and then, as
suddenly as the coming of the tropical
uight-with the arrival of the British
army of occupation, September Is, 1776
"a blight settled over everything
and was not lifted for more than
seven years. Only four days after
Gen. Howe's entry came the calamity
of the great fire, which swept over the
region between Whitehall and Broad
streets Is far north as Beaver; thence,
sparing the western side of Bowling
Green, over both sides of Broadway to
and including Trinity church; and
thence, sparing the western side OF
Broadway but burning down to the
river, to and including the southern
side of Vesey STRENGTHENING behind IT
. broad furrow of desolation three
quarters Of mile long. Two years
later, another fire reduced to wreck al
most the whole of the block south Of
Pearl street between Coenties and Old
slips Through all the dreary time
of English occupation these many
blocks of ruins remained as the fire had
left them. No reason existed for re-
building, and, no matter how strong a
reason there might have been, nomoney
for rebuilding was obtainable. This
visible material wreck fittingly repre-
sented the wreck which had overtaken
the city's most vital interests. Trade
with the interior and coastwise practi-
cally was cut off; and, with the destruc-
ton of these. its natural feeders, the
foreign commerce of the port was dead.
When New York was evacuated by
the British troops, November IS, 1888,
the condition of the city was miserable
to the last degree. Streets which had
been opened and partly grad ed before
the war began had been suffered to
lapse again to idle wastes; the wharves,
to which for so long awhile no ships
had come, had crumbled through neg
lect; public and private buildings.
taken possession of by the military and
used as barracks, as hospitals and as
prisons, had fallen into semi-ruin;
along all the western side of the town
was the wreck left by the fire. In this
dismal period the population had
dwindled from upwards of twenty
thousand to less than ten thousand
souls; the revenues of the city, long
unsolicited, had shrunk almost to the
vanishing point; the machinery of civil
government had been practically de-
stroyed. In word, without the con-
soling glory of having suffered in hon.
orable battle, the city was left wreck
by war.-Thomas A. Janvier, in Harper's
Mapaziue
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Some Missing.

prisoner" said his honor, you have
been convicted of bigamy by q jury
of your peers. Eight of your victims
have appeared to give their testimony.
Have you anything to say before / pro-
coed to. sentence you?"
'Fd like to ask a question, your
honor"
Every we'll; what is it?'
'sI'd like to know what has become of
the other six."-Detroit Free Press.