davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-16
Big Lobster Pound.

There is a lobster farm, or pound, a. 1t
Is called, 10 acres in extent at Southport,
Me. This pound is the most successful
on the coast, whence 1,OOO,O 900 Holsters
are shipped each year. The pound IS
formed by building a solid dam across q
tidewater cove. This dam does not quite
rise to high water mark. but across the
top is placed a fence Of iron rods, per-
hitting q daily change of water and pre-
venting the Holsters from escaping. In
the spring and fall business is most brisk.
When the fishermen bring the Holsters
to the pound, the fish," as they are
called, are hoisted to the dam, measured,
and those which are more than 1O4
inches long, the legal limit, are thrown in.
II a lobster is clever, his life in the pound
may be long and full Of JOY. If he is
stupid, he will be fished, out with q drag
seine and packed in abarrel, with a piece
of ice for a pillow, and sent to Boston.
The seine is made of stout Irvine and is
weighted at the bottom with a heavy
chain. Along the top is a row of corks,
which sustain the weight of the seine
while the chain drags on the bottom OF
the pound.
A single cast of this seine will bring
up Holsters enough to fill II barrels. The
| chain as it sweeps along the bottom stir;
up the Holsters, which Immediately shoe,
backward into the slack Irvine. In tax
ing them out the men wear heavy NIT
tens, though even then they are Otter
nipped. In the pound the Holsters art
| fed on salt herring, men rowing about
in skiffs and pitching the herring over
board. This is called feeding the chick
ens,'' and it takes about six barrels tx
make a light luncheon for the flock
Boston Globe.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-16
NE WANT YOU

to act "a our agent. We furnish an expensive
outfit and all YOU need free. Ii costs nothing to
try the business. We will treat you well, and
help YOU to earn ten times ordinary wages. Both
sexes of all ages can live at home and work i'll
spare time, or all the time. Any one any where
can earn Il great deal of money. Many nave ma',it.
Two Hundred Dollars a Month. Nc class of
people in the world are making so much money
without capital As those al work for US. Business
pleasant, strictly honorable, ami pays better thar
any other offered TO agents. lou have a clear
field, with no competition. We equip you with
everything, and supply printed directions for
beginners which, If obeyed faithfully. will bring
prove your prospects, Why not? You can do 30
easily and surely at work for us. Reasonable
industry only necessary for absolute success
Pamphlet circular Civ ing every particular Is sent
free 10 all. Delay not in sending for it.
GEORGE STINSON & Co,
Box No. ASS, Portland Me.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-16
Telegraph Line Before Morse's.

1el6kE1Ybu LII AbCAoAC
Honor to the pioneers in the vast field
Of science! MI. John Slime has published
at the Chiswick Press in pamphlet form
a very interesting memoir Of Sir Francis
Ronalds. Twenty years before Wheat
stone and Cooke or Morse had patented
their improvements in the telegraph, in
deed while the first two We're respective
" lads of 10 and II years of age, Ro-
maids had sent messages over eight miles
Of overhead wires of his own construc-
ton and had laid and worked a service
able underground line of telegraph of
sufficient length to demonstrate the
practicability Of communication by tele-
graph between long distances.
Details of his overhead telegraph wires
were published by him in 1928. Ro-
maids residence at Ham nersmith, where
these experiments Were carried out, IS
the house now and TO long past occu-
pied by Mr.. William Morris, the poet,
who has caused a tablet to be placed on
the wall bearing tn inscription, 1.-THE
first electric telegraph, eight miles long,
was constructed here in 1916 by Sil
Francis Ronalds, L. r. ST." etc. Ar
autotype facsimile Of a portrait OF this
father Of electric communication ac'
companies the publication. Londor
TELEGRAPH.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-16
The Cat In Ancient Times.

The cat was so very highly regarded in
England at one time, both as a rat and
mouse catcher, and as an ornament to
society, that we find the following saln-
tary law passed by n Of the princes
of Wales:
.If any one steal o. kill a Cat that
guards the Princes Creamery, he is to
forfeit a mich Eve, its Fleece and
Lamb. Or, as much Wheat as, when
poured upon the cat suspended from its
tail, with the head touching the floor,
would form a heap high enought to cover
the tip of the former"
Though the Welsh had a high opinion
Of the cat, the ancient Egyptians had a
still higher. These intelligent and civ
ilized people treated cats with great dis
tinction. 1t was a crime to kill them,
and when they died they received a pub
lie burial, at which the people mourned,
having first shaved off their eyebrows as
a token of sorrow. The most prominent
cats We're upon death embalmedin drugs
and spices, and cat mummies have been
found side by side with those of kings.
When Cambyses, the Persian, attacked
the Egyptian city of Pelusis, he cunning
ly provided his soldiers with cats III
stead of shields. When the host adj
yanced, the Egyptians retired i'll confu
sion upon discovering that they would bt
unable to do damage to their enemy
without seriously imperiling the lives O
vast numbers Of cats. And 10 the cit,
was taken easily and without the loss 0
blood or of a cat. 1t cannot be disputed
that the ancient Egyptian cats must hav'
enjoyed life very much.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch,
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-16
Ernnomy In Foot Wear.

The neatest and most economical pos
sible foot wear is a low cut shoe OF a
special pattern to be worn with CATERS
to match each dress. This style OF foot
clothing has many advantages. The low
shoe is easily aired, and the inner sole
will retain the odors of the feet with the
neatest of persons if not properly aired,
especially when one walks much. The
gaiter breaks the apparent size OF . large
foot and forms q very attractive finish
when matched to costumes.
Skirts rubbing against the front Of
high kid boots will wear the seam, while
the lower part remains in perfect condi-
ton. 0siters, upon the other hand. can
be changed as o g defaced and worn
with the same boot. Many pretty gaiteEl
ses possible for different occa9aoos and
skyaso Of dress.-JenneD Miller Monthly
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-16
They Make Auroras to Order.

Artificial miniature auroras OF the
borealis variety have been produced by
both De la Rive, the French savant. and
Lenstrom, the Swedish astronomer. In
Professor Lenstrom's experiments,
which were made in Finland, the peak OF
a high mountain was surrounded with a
coil of wire, pointed at intervals with
tin nibs. The wire was then charged
with electricity, %whereupon a brilliant
aurora appeared above the mountain, in
which spectroscopic analysis revealed
the greenish yellow rays SO character
istic in natures display of northern
Ights."-St. Louis Republic.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-16
The Business of Hotel Keeping.

Some idea of the enormous proportions
Of the business of hotel keeping has as
sumed in this country may be gained
from the fact that there are in the
United States upward OF $4,000 hotels,
exclusive of what may properly be
termed inns and taverns and what are
commonly known as apartment houses,
although the latter are in many instances
conducted as hotels in that they have q
common kitchen and dining room.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-16

Where waters tremble into hillside lights
From rocky ~crevices and shaded pools
The wild stag pauses, watch. fulwhilo b
cools
His shapely limb. His proud head lowered
the heights
HI lifts to look in contemplative mood
On his companions feeding freely there
From natures lavish feast, spread every
where,
And asking no mans friendship or his food.
Where men betake themselves in tactt shirts
OF city foulness runs a deer glen girt
With close set barriers. Here. tame, inert.
The deer caress mems hands for paltry gifts.
CLARA Dixon Davidson in Godey'A
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-16
The Tapping Of the Deathwatch.

The SO called deathwatch, dreaded by
the superstitious, is q small beetle which
has q very powerful joint in its neck
and calls its mate by tapping with its
head on the wall or on any surface where
it may happen to be located. The noise
Il similar to that which may be produced
by tapping with the finger nails on a
table, and the insect can frequently be
made to answer such taps.-New York
Evening Sun.
The representative., 1893-10-04
A Texas Idea.

Austin, Tex, Sept. 29.-Gov. Hogg
has been requeste to call council
of the governors of the silver states.
The object is to suggest that such
states pass law making a silver dol
lar weighing an ounce legal tender
in payment of debts, the mines to
have the money coined in Mexico.
Some lawyers say the plan is consti-
tutional."
Why not? The constitution of the
United States-and the supreme
court has not yet completely abolish
ed it-says that no state shall make
anything but gold and silver legal
tender, for the payment of debts.
This is equivalent to saying that
gold and silver, as long as the nation
.endures, shall be legal tender in the
states. Congress has no power to
amend the constitution. Hence the
states have the right to make the sill
yer dollar legal tender within their
borders. But the national govern
ment could stop the coinage. Hence
the proposition to coin the silver in
Mexico.
Is it not pitiful that such subter-
fuges should be necessary for the
preservation of the rights esta blish-
ed by the constitution? I. D.
The representative., 1893-10-04
ST. PAUL, MINI, WEDNESDAY OCT. 4, 1898.

dOrSement Of the democrats. The
two republicans, (Gilfillan and Col
lins,) will have to face the people,
next fall, at the ballot box; and they
may think it is not safe business,
just now, to nullify the legislature
on a technicality. They have got an
idea this is the peoples country and
that their will is law; and they have
no patience with subtle rascals who
spin cObwebs out their brains to tan
gle the shining wings of Justice.
Robbery has got to get out from be-
hind technicalities, and fight in the
open, where the people can bring
their Winchesters to bear on them.
We have had too much ''train-rob-
berry, where the judges have opened
the doors of the cars, and the respect
able, church-building thieves have
carried off One-fourth of the farmers
grain: while the newspapers have de-
Tended the robbery; and the clergy
have blessed the robbers while those
who took the farmers part were de-
nOunced as anarchists and outlaws
The time is nigh when the walls of
the penitentiary will no longer sim.
ply separate the big thieves without
from the little thieves within.
The representative., 1893-10-04
Signs of Decadence.

The downfall of Rome was preced-
ed by an age of wonderful luxury;
the world was ranSackted for means
to crafty the palates or ill the stom-
achs of aristocracy, while the masses
were degraded so low that they had
not the manhood to defend their
country when the northern herds
fell upon the capitol. History is
repeating itself. One of the daily
papers publishes an account of the
feasts of the United States senators.
Here are one or two extracts:
Omitted States senators live high
as rule, but young Mr.. WolcOtt, of
Colorado has already earned the
name of the most expensive eater
in congress. The best that can be
had is none too good for him, and the
price of an article on the bill of fare
is no object from his point of view.
He is a graceful entertainer, and al
ways has two or three guests to take
lunch with him in the restaurant
beneath the chamber Of the upper
house. Lodge, of Massachusetts,,
Gen. Manderson and Don Cameron
are chums and very commonly table
mates Of his. OF all sorts Of game
The representative., 1893-10-04

their argument, the states attor-
neys recognized that the vital. nm.
derlying, fundamental Question IN
thls case was whether it is a leriti-
mate function of a state to engara
In purely private business in come.
tltlon with it's citizens engaged in
the same vocation. Are there M
restrictions on the power of the Loo.
lslature save those written in the
constitution? Are there no rights
OF the citizen safe from Legislative
invasion save those specified in the
constitution? Does the bill of riohts
embrace them all? Can the lepisla.
Jure Obllge the state to enter into
business engaged in by it's citizens
ana compete with them? These arc
the questions involved in this case
and which the decision answers in
the atfirmative. It opens up a lane
without end or turn, down which
Jhe industrial activities of the state
may travel. II the state can ENGAGE
IN WarehOuSing grain, there is no
vocation in which any of the peonle
OF thls state are engaged that the
sGaCe cannot enter into and com
pete with them.
IL is on this ground that the Globe
opposed has ldy, achen bill. and
Whlch causes it now to regret that
Cne court refused to consider this
aspect OF the case. We earnestly
oelleve that no more serious ones
CiOn confronts the people of this na-
tlon and the states thereof than
What are the legitimate functions
OF the nation and the state. We be-
lleve that the liberties of the peonle
are involved in the answer made to
this question"
AS TO the argument that the state
should do nothing for it's people
which individuals can do, we would
simply say that such suggestion.
carried to it's legitimate ful6llment.
would end government postal SER
vice; for there are lots of men who
would cheerfully take the carriage of
letters off the hands of the nation
ana charge 90 cts. a letter, too. And
II would end also protection of life
and property; for in barbarian coun-
trles they have nothing of the kind;
every man defends himself. And it
would end municipal lighting, wat
er supply, sewerage, street paving,
parks;-in fact it would pretty much
end civilization.
The Globe is an ass.
Ii the state can only get clear of
terrible wheat ring by building a
state elevator, the state should at
once build it. The right of the peo-
pie to prosperity is a fundamental
rlght-a higher law-above all stat
uIeS. l. D.
The representative., 1893-10-04
Continued qaeTt aueek.
The Law Affirmed.

Judge Willis,-as we expected-set
aside the demand for an Injunction,
to prevent the building of the state
elevator at Duluth, on very much
the same grounds taken by the REP
The case will now go
to the Supreme Court. What that
institution will do no man can fore
tell. Fortunately Judge Dickinson
has stepped down and out; and the
popoulist-nominated Judge, Daniel
Buck, has taken his place; and on
Jan. 1st, Judge Canty, another popu-
Judge, will also
mount to that high eminence. The
court will then stand two republi-
cans, one democrat (MitchelD, and
two who owe their places to the
popu1ists and the subsequent en-
The representative., 1893-10-04
More Trickery.

DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. 16.-The St.
Paul & Duluth road has adopted
new route for it's passenger service
between St. Paul and this city by
running it's trains into Wisconsin
and back. 1t is believed this is
done to get out of the necessity of
compliance with the law of last win
ter's legislature. compelling through
passenger trains to stop at county
seats. 1t will be remembered that
the Pine City authorities caused a
good deal of trouble few weeks ago
to the St. Paul and Duluth people,
arresting engineers and conductors
of through trains. Under the new
deal these trains are interstate af-
fairs and are consequently out of the
jurisdiction of Minnesota laws of
that nature. The matter puts an
entirely new phase on the county
seat fight against the railway.
Is it possible that the supreme
court of the United States will sup
port such subterfuge as that?
Certainly. This is not a govern
ment of the people; but a network
of limitations, restrictions and
tricks, by which the people are
bound hand and foot. The people
own the blacksmith shop, supply
the iron and coal, and hire the work.
men; and they employ themselves
manufacturing gives and shackels
for their employees.
The free (?) people of the United
States are as powerless as the sub
jects of the Car! And the daily
press blows the bellows in pluto's
tith y. I. D.
The representative., 1893-10-04

ne is extremely fond, and he is never
SO happy as when discussing a bird
and bottle-the latter Perrier Jout
champagne-with one or more
friends. Perchance it may nOt be
unlnteresting to copy here, says the
washington Star, the items of an
order which the most luxurious man
IN the senate wrote out for his noon.
tlde meal day or two ago.
Raw oysters on the half shell were
the tirSt course. Then came a fish,
which was succeeded by broiled
woodcock. Chicken salad followed,
and peach shortcake furnished the
desert. This last is a dish much
loved by the senator.
The weeds Mr.. WOlcott smokes
are imported from the Vuelta Aba
10, and he never buys them imported
at cheaper rate than three for 81. y
Think of that! He blows into the
air every day the value of a poor
mans wages.
And then there is Senator Hoa1
of Massachusetts, Massa chusetts
that demands to be protected at the
expense or the West!
'Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts. is
extravagantly fond of woodcock.
Like true epiture, he cracks the
skull of the bird and eats the brains,
which are esteemed as great deli
cacy by gOurmants today as were pea
cocks brains by the Romans of old.
Another favorite of his is lobster
la Newburgh, cooked with truffies,
cream and port wine-a method
named by Delmonico after it's in
yentOr, viveur whose name was
Wenburgh. When alone. the ven
erable senator from the Bay state
calls for a chatting dish stew, if
oysters are in season, and lunches
frugally, with piece of apple pie
and glass of milk. Every now and
then he gives very elaborate lunch
con to his friends, being man of
most hospitable inclinations."
We read in the same article the
following about Kansas populist SEN
atOr:
"A remarkable contrast to the
luxury of this statesman Sybarite
is afforded by that unique parsonage
in politics, Senator PETER. Every
day between II and ! o'clock he may
be seen in the restaurant, consum-
ing a frugal meal which almost in
variably consists of a slice of apple
pie and cup of coffee. Occasion
ally he takes a bowl of bread and
milk instead, avoiding grease spots
by means of napkin with one corner
tucked into his color in front. He
wears no nectie because he has
WhiSkers.
WOOdcock's brains God help the
American people when such men
make laws for them. I'D.
The representative., 1893-10-04
The SWarming Hungry.

The Denver Road has the follow
ing in it's local items:
"BREAD" exclaimed Albert Mel
son. "Why you don't dream how
much give away on my free lunch
counter. Yes sir, hundreds Of men
worth in property from five to one
hundred thousand dollars who havn't
a nickle to their name. They used
to buy two-dollar lunches every day.
To-day they come in, buy scent
glass of beer and make a dive for the
free lunch. / used to cut up from
ten to twelve loaves per day, to-day 1
cut up from one hundred to one hun
dred and fifty per day. Hard times?
Well you bet | feel it. Every body
feels it. The lack of ready money is
the cause. If people with property
could borrow money it would be diff
ferent but there doesn't seem to be
any to loan on any sort of security.
Until we get little imitation of the
volume Of currency we must expect
to see hard times continue. Free coin
age would help out a good deal but
we need more paper currency issued
by the government"
Albert is a populist as we'll as
philanthropic gentleman.
The representative., 1893-10-04
Helping the People.

Does the reader remember how
last fall the St. Paul Globe pre-
tended, with a great flourish of
trumpets, to be the special cham
pion and advocate of the people of
this state; and it's columns rang with
denunciations of the Wheat Ring
and declared that Daniel w. Law
ler was the heaven-appointed leader
to right all the wrongs of the wheat
raisers? The whole thing was a
sham and humbug of the most
enormous character. The Globe was
working, under the direction of the
railroad corporation, one of whom
was it's principal creditor, to keep
the farmers from going over en- maosse
to the peoples party. Lawler's nom
ination was simply bait, held out
to the Irish and German Catholics,
to induce them to turn their backs
upon their own interests and pros
perity, and follow the banner of a
religion into the pit of destruction
in which they now lie wallowing
And in some places the priests so far
forgot propriety as to urge their
parishioners, from the altar, to vote
for Lawler, because he was a Catho-
lie. And, on the other hand, the
republicans were advocating the
election of their candidate for gov
ernOr because he was born in Nor
way! The whole campaign, so far as
the old parties were concerned, was
base and shameless appeal to re-
ligious and race prejudices, discred-
liable to the state and demoralizing
to the people.
We mention these things now be-
cause similar tactics will be tried
next year, and our voters should be
prepared for them.
And when the Globe howls it's loud
est, as it will, that it is, par ercellance,
the true and faithful advocate of
the farmers, l want our readers to
quote this article, from the St. Paul
Globe of Sept. %, in reference to the
state elevator, and the recent de-
cision in favor thereof by Judge
Willis:
"But, whatever may be said Of
The representative., 1893-10-04
Another Trust.

The infamous decision of our su-
preme court on the Lumber combine
has encouraged the whole fraterni-
ty. And now it is the grocers who
propose to organize trust, to pre-
vent competition and bleed the peo-
pie.
The following call has been issued:
To the Grocers and General Deal
ers of Minnesota-Gen Aug.
80 and 81 the retail grOcers of the
United States met in the city of
Chicago and organized the National
Retail Grocers' Association of the
United States. AS means to bet
ter and more complete organization,
it was deemed advisable to form
state associations for the purpose of
securing united action in removing
the many evils which threaten the
retail trade, viz: Credit, legislation
whereby the retailer is held respon-
sible for the sale of impure food,
protection against peddlers, and
various other abuses.
The grocers of the state, so far as
consulted, have unanimously ap-
proved of the aims and objects set
forth, and unite in support of call
for state convention, to be held at
Minneapolis at 10 a. m. Thursday,
Sept. %. 1893. In the interest of our
success we request you, in case you
have no local association, to select
or call meeting of local dealers and
elect five delegates to attend, and
request all grocers in your neighbor-
hood to attend the grocers' day Gel
ebration at the Minneapolis indus
trial exposition during the day and
evening, when J. w. Callahan, pres
ident Of the national association,
will address the grocers of the state.
The railroads will cooperate with
us in arranging for a One-fare rate.
In order that complete arrange
ments for your reception and enter
tainment may be perfected, will you
kindly send name, address and num-
Der of people who will attend to A.
II. Knight, 20 Fifth street south,
Minneapolis.
F. S. PRATT.
Vice President National Retail Gro
GERS Association of the United
States.
Observe the kindly sympathy of
the railroads in this new oppression.
They will carry the conspiratOrs
both ways for half-price. They
wouldn't t do that for a reform con-
vention or to see the Worlds Fair.
And it is to be a national combine;
and every pound of sugar and gallon
of vinegar will be sold at a price to
further enrich the members of the
trust; and further empoverish the
people.
Brethern,-don't give dollar of
trade to any man who joins in this
conspiracy. Boycott them. J. D.,