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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-28
Excelsior Springs. Mo-. Waters

Excelsior Springs. Mo-. Waters.
The following druggists carry full
line of the Excelsior Springs, Mo-,
Waters-Regent and Sulpho-Saline:
W. S. Getty, Endicott Arcade.
w. A. Frost & Co.. Sixth and Mime
sofa streets.
W. A. Frost & Co., Selby and West.
ern.
A. T. Hall, Lowry Arcade.
Conger Bros. Selby and Mackubin.
Conger Bros, University and Viz
ginia.
Conger Bros, Selby and st. Adams.
A. L. Woolsey, Merriam Park.
MOVES BROS. & CUTLER,
Wholesale Agents.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-28

during the progress of the third act,
and in such manner aS not to mar the
story of the play.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-28

the Metropolitan opera house the latter
half of this week, beginning Thursda.
night.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-08

+. Bailev, Joseph Bailey. Baker,
Beaman, Bigham, Francis =. Blair,
Samuel $. BLAIR. Jacob Blair, Butting-
ton. Burnham. Campbell, Chamber
lam. Clark Colfax. Cutler, Davis,
Deiano Deiap!au, Dnel!, Dunn, Edser-
ton, Edwards, Ely, Fcnton, Fessenden,
Fisher, Flanchot, Frank, Couch.
Crank er. Gurley, Haisht, Hale, Han
chett. Harrison, Hickman, Hooper,
Hutchns. Julian, Kelley, Francis ".
Kellogg, William Kellogg. killinger,
Lansing. Leary. Loomis, Mckean,
Mcknight, Mcpherson, Marston. May
nard, Mitchell. Moorehead, Arson T.
Morrill,, Naugen Olin. Patterson.
Timothy G. Phelps, Pike, Price, Alex
ander II. Rice, John H. Rice, Riddle
James $ Rollins, Sargent, Shanks
Shaliabargcr, Sherman, SolIn, Spauld
ING. John D. Steele. Stevens, Ttimhle
Trowbri,!ge, Upton, Van Eorn, Van
Vall.enhurg, Van Wyck, Nerrec
Wall, Wallace, Charles ". Walton
Whaley, Alber: S. White, Wilson
WinGom and Worcestcr-93
Nays-Messrs. Ancona, Baxter
Biddle, George II. Eron, Cobb, Fred
e.ick 4. Conklng, Roscoe Conk ling
Conway. Corning, Cox, Cravcns, CHS
ield, Diven, Dunlop. Eloit, English
Goodwin, Grldcr, Harding, Holman
Horton, johnson, Knapp, Law, La
zear, Lovejoy, Marcy, May, Menzies
Justin s. Morrill,. Morris, Nixon, No
Die, Norton, Odell. fcndleton, Perry
Pomeroy, Porter, Richardson, Rob
isen Edward II. Rollins, Sedgwick
Sheffield, Shicl, William G.. Steele
Stratton, Benjaminc +. Thomas
Train, Nali;ndi CHAM, Voorhees,, ,Wads
worth, 4. F. Walton, Ward, Webster
Chiffon \. White, Wicklitfe ant
Wriyht-59.
Thus the legal tender act, after F:
protracted debate, and most dc
bate, and most determined oppo
sition, by prominent and intluenti:.
Republicans, as well as Democrats
was passed through the House by
large majority.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-08
A New Party.

La Chicago, Jan. 3lst, the Natioual
Union Labor league was formerly
launched on the sea of political lie
at Il mass meeting of working men.
1t will at oace begin 4 vigorous cam
paign to secure control Of all the
various branches of national, state.
county and municipal governments.
\ broad platform, on which it is ex-
pected the Popui!sts and disciples of
Henry George may find comfortable
footing side 10y 81 ,e with the trades
un:onists, with unanimously adopted.
The national platform is Identical
in spirit with that adopted by the
Peoples party, but it goes more ex-
tens.vcly into details 1t demands Il
national currency to y. provided
without the use OF banking corpo-
rations on the plans set fourth in the
subtreasury scheme OF the Farmers
Alliance, to be expended FOR public
improvements or 10 he loaned at ,
per cent to states, counties and cities
on nul-interest bearing bonds. !,
further demands, the free coinage
of silver and graduated income tax
Believing that the money should re-
mai: in the hands of the people. it
demands that al! national and sta:C {
revenues bc limited to the necessary
expense of the government and that
the amount of the circulating medium
| be increased IT, not |. SIS than $50 pc,
capita aud postal savings banks be
established 1t declares that al
lands now held by railroads an,
corporations, and not i'll actual uss
! together with all lands CwHed b.,
aliens. be reclaimed by the govern
ment and held for settlers only. L
recommends, in conclusion. govern
meut ownership CT railroads. The
aholiation Of the contract system cI
public works and an eight hour da,
/ The state Platform also bristle:
with wha, are considered TO be re
forms from the labor standpoint.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-08
Number 3.

May the Merciful have compassion
on the one who tries to lay the blame
for these hard times on the weak and
MISGUIDED Democrats. All that has
been done. was planned and mapped
out complete long before the Demo-
Gratis won the administration. and the
Populists had told You for years what
was coming, but they were "long-
faced calamity how!ers" and other
''cnpretty" names were attached. 1t
is all here. and in order with the OR
IGINAL PLAN, and neither the Repub-
licans or the Democrats. as parties.
could have stayed its progress. Both
are controlled and fed fr,m the same
source. Above Is the vote. You
must ca: your pie and don't be shout
ing ''yo1 did it" ut the other fellow.
Representative.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-08
81 Reward.

pi Reward.
Wantei.-Thc boom the .rood
times the ''era of prosperity the
bankers Millennium, the business
Mems Whoop-er-up, the old party
fools -EIysium which followed the
repeal Of SO much Of the Sherman
act as provided for the purchase OF
4,5OO,OV0 ounces of silver bullion
monthly, and the Issue Of over So
100000 Of new currency to this
money starved country every month.
We needed the silver and we needed
the currency badly, but we gave them
up +or the ''soodt;mes." the s.boom,"
the "era." The repeal effected two
months ago, and the good times
came at once! OF course they did.
The; must have come, for Grover
Cleveland and John &. Carlisle and
John Sherman and Dan \ oorhces and
Thingumbob Washburn and all the
rest of the Democratic and Rcpubli.
can leaders and all the daily pipers
cannot he liars, that is impossible;
we shrink from such a suggestion as
the climax Of absurdi,y.
But just as the Demo Rcpublcratic,
double jointcd, back-action, hair-trly-
ger, brecch-loading party were ten
derry laying down the good times;
boom era,' etc, upon tie faded
bosom OF the country, the larncd
thiug, educated by Wall street and
gcreased by Thread-need.e street,
slipped through their iingers-got
away, kerhummuxcd: vamoused, dis
appeared, and has never been seen
since, here 0: in any other par, of the
known world.
And for two months the under.
signed have been anxiously euqur,ng
at all the police stations, county
jails, souphouscs, box.ru,s, and dry
goods boxcs--these betty the first
class hotels where the intelligent
citizens who voted for Grover Clcvc-
land and Ben Harrison now general
iy take up their lodginys-for the
aforesaid good times, boom, era, etc.
or some fragment or even smell .t
the same. But alas, not a human
being can We lind who knows any
thing whatever of their whereabouts.
Ana thereupOn We appoint Il com
n!ttec to enquire OF tuc Congress
that passed The bill, tut we a,ser-
; tanned that they didn't know anything
on that subject, nor indeed Gas we
found ON further .uquir,) oA any
oiaersubject! Ine, sad the, ,i... ,,iy
, did What the daily papers ,ol, ts.em
: to do. Aud so We ihquire,i of the
daily papers; an'l they got mad and
told us To go to shaci'-uiat we
were "a pack Of anarchists" auI that
l ANY man who Won. starve 10 deatl,
peaceab!y and deocntly, 50 long n,
t tlc taEks are prosperous, is Il a,na-
inter and ought 10 bc hanged.
: And SO We saved up our soup bones
a "a sold haif-ton Of them tor a
/ dollar, aud We now off.r 1t for infor.
nation on that great AMI ali i,noo,-
tant lueston.
, WdERE ARE THE GOOD TINES?
Answer quickly, Or good many Of
Us may be dead ut iuteina. collapse
oeforc tile Information reaches US.
, and we don't want to be unable IL,
explain to the angels, across tie line,
:iow 1t happens :ha, the greatest,
: rlcacst anu most fertile country on
e earth could be Drought To universal
J. ruin ia the milst OF universal al un-
n dance.
; Answer quickly, and give US some
5 pointers tor tine angles.
THREE MILLION TRAuPs.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-08

Tae:e is no law that this Admins
tratIon will respect. except the in
terests Of Wall street. ional
View.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-02-08

The vage-worker must go in.O
politics or INTO tue poor house
Tark:o Independent.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29
DITISIO1
OWOSSO TIME CARD.

SAGINAW DIVISION.
OWOSSO TIME CARD.
TRAINS SOUTH.
Chicago Express leaves S:lo q. m, arrives in
Jackson 1920 q. m, Chicago 4 80 D. m
Chicago Express, daily, leaves 9:05, p. m.
arrives In Jackson IL 30 p. m, Chicago 10 q. m.
Through Sleeper bay City to Chicago) daily.
Owosso Accommodation leaves 200 pm, arriv
ing in Jackson 400, p. m.
Bay City Accommodation leaves Bay City 1905,
q. m. Saginaw 1887 a. m, arrives at Owosso
1905 p. m
TRAINS NORTH
Bay City Express, daily, leaves $40 q. m.
arrives at Bay City $40 q. m.
Marque tie Express leaves Owosso 7:15 p. m,
arrives at Bay City $50 p. m.
Owosso Accommodation leaves jackson II 90
arrives at Owosso :05 p. m.
Saginaw and Bay City leaves a:25 p. m. and
arrives at Saginaw 1856 p. m, Cay City ass m
r.. 8. KNIGHT, Agent Owosso.
o. w RuGoLRs, @. p. & T. A., Chicago.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29

one with an almost human anxiety on
his ugly face-bounded forward to
Ben's feet, yelping and fawning with
delight.
The woman came ON slowly and tim
idly. She was plainly dressed, elderly;
her scanty brown hair was thiokly
strewn with gray; her sad face bore the
marks of many a fearful vigil; her un-
gloved hands showed signs of labor, but
the soul that shown from her patient
eyes was noble and steadfast; the smile
that lighted up her thin face had all
the sweetness of the long ago. Love,
youth, life itself, came with her as she
advanced, holding out faithful, yearn-
ing arms to the poor, rough, disappoint-
ed old miner standing there, his hand
On the trigger of his gun.
"Benjaminp' She breathed rather
than spoke his name.
Then, like one who has seen ghost,
Ben Tribble fell face downward at the
feet of his wife.
The stars were shining when he OPEN
ed his eyes and looked up into Molly 8
face. The kettle was singing ON the
stove, supper was smoking on the table,
Jonah was stretched before the fire, and
Betsy was standing in the corner.
81 know all about it, dear Ben, I"
he heard her murmur. II know how
you've worked for years, hoping against
hope and all for nothing. I know how
you've been disappointed and how your
hearts most. broke alone here in the
mountains When your letters stop
ped''-
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29

plosion that I would never again see 50
gorgeous q sight OF hear such ravish-
ing noise. jumped up and down with
delight. My mother, who did not admire
firecrackers herself, sat by, happy in the
popping and the blaze for my sake.
1--WE waited five minutes before the
next firecracker was shot of, and then
with my own hands struck the match
and lighted the fuse of the next one,
and again I was electrified with joy
AS the five minutes interval was pre-
served until the whole 10 of my fire.
crackers had been exploded had just
80 minutes of unalloyed delight
''Now, I have never got over my
pleasure in firecrackers, but I am salts
fed that if had to shoot them without
lot of boys to help me on the Fourth
of July there wouldn't be the slightest
fun in it. know that nine boys in ten
like them as we'll as do, whether they
will continue to do so after they are
grown up or not OF course prefer for
helpers boys who can't have firecrack-
ers if they have to buy them themselves.
That's why Sim Smiths boys and Tom
Dooley's and all the rest of the crowd
down on the side street near my house
are always invited to celebrate the
Fourth with me. don't allow myself
O great deal of recreation during the
year. My business is too exacting. But
l get enough fun out of the firecrackers
and the boys on the Fourth to last me
till Thanksgiving day. There is one
thing about firecrackers that is in their
favor, unless you buy the big giant and
cannon firecrackers, which I never do,
and that is that they are much less dan
gerous than guns or toy pistols, and
they make more noise and flame and
smoke for the money than any other
sort of fireworks that know anything
about. I Think" he added, turning to-
the salesman, that you may make my
order an even five dozen boxes instead
Of 60 propose to rather Guido myself
this year. ="
My friend lives ON the same street
that do, and have accepted his invi-
tation to be present with him and the
other boys this year and help burn up
his 60 boxes full Of firecrackers.
/. d. MARSHALL.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29
A HAPPY CHOICE.
areat Defamation. l ann glad

Great Declaration, am glad
Our fathers kept youin their trunk
Until July. Twould have been sad
Had April showers wet our punk;
Had Maytime blossoms on the trees,
Or roses sweet that June reveals,
Been burned by matches and fusees
Or scorched by fiery spinning wheels;
Had Augustus heat, September's cool,
October's crisp, November's joys
Or drear December's time of yule
Been ruined or enhanced b. noise;
Had January's blizzard blast
Or February's slush and thaw
A gloom on independence cast;
Had winds in March, so piercing raw.
Fer had the chance TO wreak their woe,
And eggs of discomfort thus hatch,
BY bringing up their fearsome blow,
Distinguishing both torch and match.
Right well ye chose, ye signers great,
From east and west, from south ant
north.
Had We preferred some other date
We'd ne'er have had our July Fourth.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29
NEAR TIMBER LINE.
A FOURTH OF JULY STORY.

Copyright, 1894, by American Press Associa-
tion.1
"Whar did that crittur go?"
The words broke the absolute silence
Of the forest. Around and above as far
as the eye could reach stretched the
awful majesty of the San Juan range.
Towering peaks, sublime domes, yawn-
ing chasms, narrow defiles and pines
pines everywhere, through the branches
of which stole the soft, murmuring
'breezes of a drowsy, delicious July aft
ernoon. The scene was one to profound
ly move the onlooker Every move Of
man might find here an answering echo,
for in the heart Of the Rocky mountains
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29

he was buying firecrackers for himself
and more pretentious fireworks for his
boys, and he told me the story Of his
first Fourth Of July. After hearing it !
have some idea of the reason for his ex-
traordinary fondness for firecrackers if
not for boys
81 liked firecrackers from the first
time I ever saw them," he said. my
father was young man then, and he
had not yet succeeded in making much
money. There were only three of us
my father, my mother and myself-in
the family, and we lived in O little
house ON the bank Of stream that wound
between low hills and was known as
Pipe creek. A mile or two away was q
hamlet consisting of a store, black
smiths shop, q church, q shoemaker s
shop and three or four houses. Afew
days before the first Fourth Of July,
remember, my father and mother con-
sidered the financial condition earnest
ly and agreed that, although the times
were hard with them, the boy should
have firecrackers that year. They cost
90 cents pack, and 20 cents was q good
deal in that house just then, but they
thought it would be money we'll expend-
ed if it were used to buy firecrackers for
me.
"Now, it SO happened that the impor-
tant purchase was put off until the
morning Of the great day, and my ia
thor, op1 T xuaIlyad Ioxu,, tho ,xood ~ <l,o
store to exchange the quarter for the
crackers. A man named John Strait
kept that store, and 1 used to think he
must be the richest man in the world,
and the wisest and best, too, barring
my father. Straits face fell when we
made known our desire for firecnackers
Then he looked at me, and suppose he
saw that / was greatly wrought up on
the subject
We'll, he said, tive sold out all
my firecrackers, but I have one pack
saved for my own boy. promised him
that he should have that pack, no matter
what happened, but if he's willing
We'll divide the pack between the two
boys.
$50 young Strait was called in and
questioned, my fears that he would not
be willing rising every instant. Before
the questioning was finished several
other belated would be purchasers of
firecrackers appeared, and finally the
Strait boy made shrewd suggestion
that showed him to have good bust
ness head.
"'Open the pack, he said, and count
me out 10. Then I'll sell the rest of the
"-'eoracllers Mt q cent apiece
Ten little rolls of concentrated joy
for boys fell to my share. My father
paid over the 10 cents and put the fire.
crackers in his pocket with great care
We went home together full of delight
full anticipations for the evening, for
they were to be kept until nightfall,
that might not lose q single scintillat-
ing flash of brightness.
MY anticipations were fully met by
the blazing, popping reality. The even
ing came off moonless and dark, and
not match was put to fuse until the
very last CLEAN Of light had disappeared
from the western sky. Then my father
took the first of the firecrackexs, lighted
it carefully and laid it on the big, fiat
stone that served as q doorstep to our
house. 1t seemed to me when the sizz-
ing of the fuse was followed by the ex-
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29

youngsters who can only partially sat-
isfy their desire for the swapping red
and yellow paper cylinders, and men
who were once such boys and have not
forgotten the days when they were
young.
know several such boys who under
stand the subject perfectly, but of all
my grownup acquaintance there is but
one man who has ever shown thorough
knowledge thereof. This man is past
middle age now. He owns mills and
railroads and landed estates. He is, in
fact, rich enough to buy shiploads Of
firecrackers if he should so desire. His
standing in business and society is Of
the best, and for 81 weeks of every year
his face wears an expression of such
gravity that you would never suspect
him of being frivolous enough to own to
q weakness for firecrackers. l am not
sure that it is proper to use the word
weakness i'll referring to his fondness
for the Chinese noise and smoke max
ers. Certainly his passion for them
while it Lasts is as strong as any other
of his visible characteristics. 1t begins
to manifest itself about week before
Uncle Sans birthday, increases with
every "a hours till the dawning of the
glorious Fourth and then dissipates it.
self in fusillade of crackers lasting all
day and half the night, at the end Of
which my friend is tired, sleepy, grimy
and almost invariably with little holes
burned in his clothes where stray sparks
have found lodgment. But he does not
mind his WEAKNESS, his blackened APP
pearanee or the holes in his clothes. He
is always in q satisfied, not to say &C.
static, state of mind when at last he
gets to bed on the night of the glorious
Fourth.
According to the neighbors, the worst
of the business is that there is absolute
ly no stopping in the noise even at meal
times from shortly AFTER daylight III,
20 or II o'clock at night.
Even boys get hungry and tired, but
when my friend is celebrating the
Fourth of July he arranges his Juvenile
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29
A Great Strain.

Won Blumer-Haven't you private
Waterman looking out for your house
while you are away ut the seashore?
Van Winkle-Yes. And he is going
to charge me double rates over the
Fourth of July.
Won Blumer-What for?
Van Winkle--He says the fireworks
will keep him awake
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29

assistants iDrelays, SO that while por-
ton of them are eating or resting the
others are firing away just the same,
and as for him that is the one day in
the year ON which he appears to be alb
solutely fatigue proof, and if he eats at
all on the Fourth it cannot be more
than sandwich hastily devoured now
and then.
/ met my friend the other day when
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29

| Ihy lCotcIo! WCdhly iCpCdOCu DCu.
"No; wrote, but yours-Molly?"
Eyes, my dear, I know. Something
went wrong. We won't try to figure it
out now. All we care for is that we are
together again. My poor old man,
shall take you back with me. The boy
has got ON first rate, Ben. We won't
starve. Jonah must have known I was
coming, for when got off the train
something tugged at my dress, and I
looked down, and there he was, waiting
to bring me up to you.
can thought he, too, had fersaken
me. thought everybody an every
thing had gone back ON me- Oh, Mol
ly!' and the sobs pent up for years in
that worn old heart, burst forth. The
two-the husband and the wife-wept
together. Jonah crept to their feet and
grieved with them in his sympathetic,
dumb fashion. And then, when the
storm had past, Ben had cup of Mol
ly's tea and hot biscuit, while Jonah
reveled with bone. Contentment spread
her wings above the little cabin, and
peace brooded at the humble Preside
'What we think of them mountings
Molly?" asked Ben as they stood at the
door looking out at the snowy range
stretching before them like the portals
of paradise
"Ben, all can think of when look
at them is that verse in the Bible, AS
the mountains are round about Jerusa-
lem, so the Lord is round about his peo-
pie. >"
Next day was the Fourth of July, and
early in the morning the boom of Pay
Dirt's cannon resounded through the
mountains. Molly liked the distant
sounds of celebration as she went about
the little cabin picking up Ben's few
belongings, preparing for the home
ward journey, but Tribble had no use
for gunpowder nor independence days,
be stated, reiterating his grievances
against country existing mainly for
'goldbugs" and the east.
In the afternoon Ben went into the
tunnel with Molly to show her where
he had worked for years. Womanlike,
she was full of curiosity and began polk
ing and prying about, picking up speci-
mems and bits Of rock here and there.
When she came out, her checked ging-
ham apron was filled with her treasures,
which she looked over and carefully adj
mired
''This is q pretty one, Ben," she said,
holding it up to him.
He took it, stared blindly at it for
moment, turned white and faltered,
"Goldp'
The two gazed stupidity at each other.
Molly" he said, speaking like one
in dream. molly, let me look at the
others"
She handed up one after another. He
examined them mechanically "Goldp
he repeated over and over.
Suddenly tremendous roar of artil-
lery swept up the canyon. 1t was the
sunset salute to great nations birth
day.
Ben seemed to rouse from his dream.
"She's all rightl' he shouted.
"Who, Benz" cried Molly.
1.-The mine, Molly; the country
everything! I've struck it at last! We're
rich, Molly, we're richl Why in thun-
der hain't got some fireworks or gun
powder or somethin?''
He broke off and ran like deer into
the cabin, and presently emerged with
his rifle in his hands
Brace up now, Betsy" he yelled.
''Show some respect to your country
the country We fit ter save" And then,
as the dying salute of Pay Dirt camp
recrashed up the mountain side, Ben
Tribble raised Betsy to his shoulder and
answered it.
EDITH SESSIONS TUPPER
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29

T is my opinion
that the true val
ne, the overpow-
ering splendor,
so to speak, Of the
firecracker is not
usually appreci-
ated and compre-
hended. 1t is al
most q sealed
mystery to the
boys. 1t is, in
fact, known to
none but those
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-29
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
WHEN FIRECRACKERS WERE A Lux
URY AND COST A CENT EACH.

How a Bunch Was Divided Mt the Country
store-The Man Who Still Keeps Up the
Old Time Celebration of the Fourth From
Early Morn Until Night.