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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
JEWELRY AND SILvERWARE.

Fashionable Fads and Novelties Now Seen
in tho Shops.
Huge twisted silver rings are made Of
hold towels.
Enamel tablets are the latest devel-
opment for the chatelaine.
New loving cups have spiral handles:
these are very ornamental.
Graceful watering pots of silver are
to be used as vases for flowers.
Prince of Wales feathers in silver are
entering bid for popularity.
The wreath as pin and chatelaine is
putting on new leaves for the spring.
Standards of perforated silver are
made to hold fan screens for lamp
fire.
A new silver key ring is key with
a handle large enough to hold other
keys
The chameleon, which in its live state
has been the latest fad, is seen now in
decorat tive silver
Oval pIa tinum sleeve buttons, highly
polished, with raised broken edge Of
gold. are new md chaste. rr7a~~
Perforated silver balls IN InG;ari
workmanship are seen on ivory rings
and are intended to amuse the baby.
Silver cribbag e boards are shown with .
small drawers for the cards. Silver
checker boards have red and blue
spaces for checkers.
In England the new Order OF the
Opal, a society designed to discourage
superstition, will dOu btleSS give new
vogue to the stone, which is its badge.
The sword will keep its popularity
for the next season. None of the new
swords are prettier than those with the
twisted enamel handles. All swords of
value should have guard. The hilt
makes them top heavy, and they easily
come out without some precaution.
1t is safe to say that the life Of the
man who carries an umbrella now
prominently exhibited will not be
worth having. 1t has a handle of
mounted gold. Around this snake
is wound, whose eye is tremendous
solitaire diamond. Another great dia-
mond is sunk in the top OF the handle.
The ferr,lle is of gold and this has a
large diamond just below the silk.
Queen Victoria might carry such an
UNI brella when she goes shopping, but
even she would need the guards as an
escort to keep away thieves and sand
baggers. Jewellers Weekly.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
Chinese Dudes and N1ashere.

China is perhaps the last place in the
world where one would expect to find
dudes and Washers. but it appears that
in Shanghai the gilded youth among
the celestials have adopted the masher
costume. Very curious they look in
their high collars and tight-fitting
coats. They have also taken to wear
ing foreign underclothing, eating for
eiYn foods, smoking foreign tobacco
and doing many other things contrary
to the old-fashioned Chinese usage.
They also ride in foreign carriages.
men and women together. and some of
them live in foreign houses in grand
style. There are also hundreds of
schools kept by Chinese, where nothing
but English is taught, that being con-
sidercd the most useful language---
Cairo (ESypt) Sphinx.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
New PILLOWS From old.

When taking feathers from tick a or
pillow to put into a new one, the latter
must be stitched all around except for
a space say of ten inches. In the form
err rip hole to correspond, sew the
two tightly together, and, by pushing
and shaking, the feathers will pass i'm
to the new receptacle with never = bit
Of down or faxs flying around.--Ds-
troit News
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02

Owing to. the presence of malaria
in Bengal, India, the government has
lately made its post offices dcpots for
the sale of quinine. Any inhabitant
can 30 to the nearest office and pur-
chase a little package containing five
grains for half q cent or one farthing.
British money. Last Septe,E Der one
hundred and twenty Thousand smell.
packages were sold.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
THE lGUANA.
An Amusing Incident OF Animal Life in
South America.

Amusing Incident of Animal Life In
South America.
Snakes have many enemies. Mr.. w.
II. hudson writing of animal life
the great South American pampas,
where there are many kinds of snakes,
both venomous and non-venomous,
says that their enemies are legion.
One of them is the armadillo, which
appears to have no fear whatever of
snake venom. Burrowing owls feed
largely on snakes, and the same is true
of herons and storl<s. But perhaps the
large lizard known as the iguana.
The iguana is no mean adversary, as
may be judged from the fact that dogs
which attack one sometimes come off
with broken leg.
The lizard does not wait for the
snake to take the offensive, but goes
swiftly in pursuit, and being very rapid
in its motions, seldom has any d FL
Guilty in overtaking its victim, which it
dispatches by blows of its powerful
tail.
y friend of Mr.. Hudson was out rid
ing after his cattle. His lasso was at
tached to the saddle, and the end
trailed along the ground after him.
A big iguana lay in the sun, appa-
rently asleep. It paid no attention
to the horse as it passed, but the next
instant it raised it's head and fixed it's
attention on the forty feet of lasso
slowly trailing by.
Suddenly it rushed after the rope
and dealt it Il succession of violent
blows with it's tail. When the whole
of the lasso, several yards of which
had been pounded in vain, had been
dragged by, the lizard, with uplifted
head, continued gazing after it with
the greatest astonishment. Never be-
fore had such wonderful snake
crossed its path.-Youth's Companion
a Tough Burro.
"A burro is as hard to kill as a cat"
said locomotive engineer the othe-
Santa Fe out Of Trinidad had a pecul-
lar experience with one of them. Il
was pulling the express, and struck
him. He doubled up like sheep and
went under the pilot. reversed at
once. bringing the train to stop. My
pull the pieces off the track. The
burro was wedged tightly under the
fire-box. After Juggling at him for ten
minutes the boys succeeded in pulling
him from his unpleasant position. I.
of course. thought he was dead. You
can imagine when the cri.ter jumped
up, shook itself and at once trottcd off
into the sage brush and cactus. The
next trip back / saw the animal. 1t
was little stiff in it's iorelegs. but
otherwise was uninjured. How it got
under the pilot and under the fire. box
without being crushed to death l could
never figure out."-St. Louis Globe
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02

--Godsrey is German, meaning Gods
peace. The name was made famous by
Godfrey q: HouilioD
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

THIS is no time for cheap political
clap trap talk, yet there is frequent ex-
hibit Of the incoherent, the contradic-
tory, the loose in statement to the last
degree, substituting words and sound
for wisdom and substance. The pop
speakers, together with their advocates
and admirers, appear to believe that for,
centuries there has been no plain deal
ing, 40 frank utterance, no ethical en-
phasis, nc political morality of nan to
man until they assembled the platform.
Unfortunately it is not new that q re-
former manifests impotence with all that
has been done, and arraign all who are
not OF his way of thinking, unmindful
of the fact that this is generally unjust
and always unwise. Bearing false wit
ness, though unconsciously done, in the
highest Of places, and with the purest Of
motives, is still bearing false witness.
Men carried along by the impulse Of a
given insane idea which has suddenly
taken hold of them, OF which they have
resolved to champion, are apt to forget
that what is new to them may be old to
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

FARGO FORUM: There ought to be a law
passed this winter compelling railroads
to put in y's-say where the 500 crosses
Fargo Southern, the Southwestern near
Sheldon and Valley City. Transfers could
be made easily and coal from Minot might
become handy. Select men for the legisla.
ture that know how to do and will do it.
There is a remedy for every wrong-except
the legislator who wrongs his constituency
by selling out their rights for his pass.
Yes, there ought to be a law that will
compel all common carriers to do their
share in caring for the welfare of the
people. Another thing should be done.
The present board of commissioners of
railroads be allowed to quietly return to
their farms and the present republican
nominees elected in their etead-men
who will not have to wait two years and
get expert testimony to tell whether or
not they Can afford to compel the rail
roads to do right-men who are willing
to tost the law in the courts in time for
the next legislature to cure defects, if
any there are in the law-mens who will
act, not talk; in fact, men who will
follow the republican rule of administer
ing the law in the interest of the people
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

IRRIGATION is a subject in which
every business man and farmer in North
Dakota is interested, We therefore call
attention to an article in Harper's
Weekly on irrigation in southern Kan
sas. The Missouri, Sheyenne and James
rivers might be similarly used in North
Dakota. The subject is we'll worthy of
consideration.
Garden City has long been the centre
of irrigation IN the semi.arid west of
Kansas. The Arkansas river, flowing
with an average descent of seven feet to
the mile, which afforded an excellent
source OF water supply for irrigation, the
earliest settlers tapped with small bitches
to supply water for their single farms;
this, proving successful, led to the tor
nation Of companies, and from 1886
many canals we're constructed, varying
from a few miles to nearly 100 miles
in length, to irrigate not only the valley
lands, but to carry water to the high.
lands.
"About the time of the completion OF
these canals 50 much water was being
taken from the river by the Colorado
%irrigators, to fill their new canals between
the west state line and the Rocky mount
aims, that the Arkansas became praoti.
cally dry in Kansas during the season
when water was moat neodod for III.
crops. The farmers being deprived oil
necessary water, were forced to seek
other sources of supply, which the found
il the much-talked of under1ow said by
the best authorities to be not only acces
sible, but sufficient to irrigate the whole
OF the Arkansas valley, and ten acres in
each quarter section of the uplands o.
western Kansas. It was a simple pro
position that this unused 'underfow
could be raised tor the surface by The
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12
over Of the useless prairie winds.

power Of the useless prairie winds. So
the neglected wind-power was harnessed
to windmills and pumps of all kinds,
raising the inexhaustible water from
quickly made and cheap drive wells from
ten to thirty feet deep. But as the
winds even here do not blow all the
time, and the water direct from the wells
was found zoe cold for the plants, resort
was had to constructing reservoirs to
store the water ana raise it's temper
allure.
SAT the present time there are
about $50 reservoir-irrigated farms of
various sizes successfully operated in
the vicinity Of Garden City, and more
constantly in preparation, and it is con-
fdently predicted that by the present
copying of these examples of wind-res-
ervoir irrigation, that is spreading in
every direction, in a very few years the
arid prairie will blossom in a new era of
beauty aud prosperity the t~reeless
bleak homes and canned goods be
changed to shady bowers with fresh vege-
tables; for the soil with water is won
derfully productive, the air superb, the
climate a delight, and the country itself
within the best sanitary region of the
world"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

HE nation to which a ship at sea
owes allegiance is known by the flag it
flies at the masthead. We have looked
in vain for the republican insignia at the
head of the editorial columns of our
said to-be republican neighbor. Come,
Moffet, let bygones be bygones, and
come to the front in support of the only
party whose principles your conscience
will permit you to support with a will.
The TRIBUNE assures you it will not be
jealous of the good will of the taxpayers
you will surely gain by such a course.
Let us work like brethren in peace and
harmony.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

others; that it has been cherished and
acted upon or tried and discarded years
ago. Deeds are more effective, through
existing institutions than through any
new device.
It may be truthfully said that pops,
reformers so called, are licensed, as poets
and st%ory-tellers are licensed, to let the
fancy play or draw a long bow. The
difference is, one is forewarned of the
poets fancy and the story-teller's song,
while the pop reformer should be ex-
pected to be scrupulously truthful.
II the success of a reform be made to
depend upon Misrepresentation or gross
exaggeration, such as pop orators in
dulge in, failure of true reformation is
surely at the end.
Reformers and they who need reform
ing are more or less alike. Obvious
hlndrance to reform is got rid of the
moment it Us acknowledged, since we
a then meet in the only way that is
honest, namely, as human. If, on the
contrary, he who proposes to instruct
his fellow-citizens in morals, in religion,
political wisdom, or in common honesty,
will deny, or seem to deny, that they
know everything, OF that there is any
man]iness outside of themselves, he is
far more liable to meet with success.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

JAMESTOWN ALERT: For congress, every
man in North Dakota raising wheat, and
feeling the pinch of poverty, ought to vote
for Walter Muir-for what he represents
on the money question.
This is the same gentleman who a few
years ago advocated the drainage Of the
Red River valley by boring wells, and
who before that time had, according to
his " story, saved the nation by
crushing out the rebellion, but has the
past few years been content to serve as a
justice OF the peace at Hunters, in Cass
county. Is it not, oh?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

THE North Dakota Independent goes
into spasms of delight we what they
term Editor Stevens bighting off more
than he can chew III attacking Auditor
Porter. "He laughs best who laughs
last" Mr.. Porter'e screed shall appear
in the TRIBUNE in due time, never fear.
By the by, Nh. Independent, what about
paying the pop politician his salary in
full and compelling the honest laborer
in u public institutions to discount his
bill or wait for the election of a repub-
lican auditor and treasurer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

The officials of the stats and agri-
cultural departments are much inter-
ested in the reported purpose of Ger
many, as given in Sundays Berlin cable
to the Associated Press to retaliate
against the United States because of the
special discriminating duty imposed on
sugar from export bounty paying coun-
tries by discriminating against cur meat
and breadstuffs. The treasury statistics
of our trade with Germany which would
be affected by retaliation against Ameri-
can meats and breadstuffs show that our
sales to that country last year we're as
follows: Cattle, 1926, 1872; canned beef,
s3376,917; salt and picked beef, s441,4s1:
tallow, s220,900; bacon, 81, 1000; hams,
Sl46,35O; fresh pork, $19O,6ll; lard,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12
BUSINESS IN POLITICS..

Minneapolis Tribune: "Politics in
business and business in politics this
year." the remark uttered by Gov. Nc
Mckinley at Kansas City, is the key note
to the present campaign. Until within
the past two years, the people of the
country did not seem to realize the init
mate connection between business and
politics. There have been men who
prided themselves on standing alooffrom
politics, and devoting their entire time
and attention to business, leaving the
politics to be run by professionals. So
long as the republican party was in
power, this worked very we'll in practice,
because the general policy of the repub-
lican party was such as fostered the in
dustrles of the country, and republican
statesmen were not of the kind that sell
out to the sugar trust. But on the ad-
vent of the democratic party to power,
in all branches of the government, a new
condition of things began to prevail. The
general policy of the democratic party
was found uosbe such as destroyed con-
tidence and paralyzed business. Bust
ness men had never dreamed before that
a complete change in party administra-
ton could make such a difference. But
they are wiser now. They now see that
it won't do to let politics drift, tor the
drift NAV occasionally be too radical.
The experiment of e~lecting a democratic
president in 1884 did not prove so disas-
trous, because the senate was still repub-
lican, and it was certain that the old re-
publican bulwarks could rot be over
thrown. But when the country woke
up to the realization, early in 1898, that
the presidency aud both houses Of con-
gress we're in the hands of the democrats
and that there was no obstacle in the
way of the overthrow of the republican
bulwarks, all business interests immedi-
ately became seized with panic.
This was an object lesson indeed. It
demonstrated to business men that pol
itics really did have something to do
with business, and that they could not
safely neglect their political duties as
citizens. Therefore, this year the cry
has gone forth, as voiced by MI. McKin-
ley, that politics is business and business
Is politics, and that in order to rescue
the material welfare of the country from
it's present peril, it is necessary to inter-
pose an obstacle in the way of further
democratic attacks upon industry by
electing a republican house of represent.
atives. This is the only ehectual rem
edy that the people car apply this year
and the returns from Oregon, Yer
mont, Maine and Connecticut indicate
that they have made up their minds to
apn1v If
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

So FAR in this historic year of gloom
and redemption eight states have voted
for state officers. No mar who studies
the returns can find in them the least
sign or promise of the continuance Of
the democrats in power. Rhode Island
Topped from democratic hands into re.
publican arms, and with 5000 to spare.
Oregon changed from 5000 democratic
to 1000 republican. The democratic
majorilies in Georgia and Alabama have
been greatly reduced. Arkansas cut
down Cleveland's majority about one
half. Georgia shows but one-quarter Of
the faithful who helped make Cleveland
president, while, on the other hand,
Maine and Vermont have doubled their
republican majorities. Could a better
showing be made? Every state that has
voted has lent courage to every repub-
lican 10 persevere in we'll doing, while
pop politicians are spending their time
running after democratic committees,
trying to insure more perfect fusion.
The work Of pointing out the inc, NJ
potency and inetficiency of democratic
legislation and pop Office holding is
going on all over the state, while Porter
and Nomland stand wrapped in their
cloaks of c%onceit, thanking God they are,
not like other men, and the voters are
thanking God Frank Briggs and George
Nichols are not like them.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

in the popgun bills for free sugar, coal
and iron ore. The imperfections of the
German tariff bill are glaringly exhibited
in that it provided that alcohol used IN
the arts shall be free of internal revenue
taxation. The failure of congress to
provide the secretary of the treasury
with a force to carry this part Of the law
into effect, has left Mr.. Carlisle no other
alternative than to wait until congress
meets again, to ~legislate upon this i'm
portant subject. Another item of
greater Importance, and upon which the
political future of the democratic party
largely depends, is the income tax. It
will be remembered that congress made
no appropriation for carrying this pro-
vision Of the German bill into effect. AS
the law does not become operative until
the lst of January, returns of incomes
will not be made until the LIST of March.
1t is now seen that the omission of an
appropriation for each of these items
had 10 it more cunning than laundering
Both the income tax and the removal of
taxation from alcohol used in the arts can
be killed by congress at the next session.
AS the most important Of the two, the
situation with regard to the income tax
will be stated first. Although Secretary
Carlisle is making preparations to carry
the income law into effect, nothing can
be done by him until the November cleo
tions are decided and congress shall have
me again in December. 1t is understood
to be the plan of the administration that,
if the election goes strongly against the
democratic party, to ask the leaders in
congress to withhold the appropriation
for carrying the income tax into effect,
and thus make it a dead letter, however
popular this feature of the tariff law
may be in the South and among the
populists. The nomination of Senator
Hill for the governorship in New York
on the regular democratic ticket has
opened the eyes of the party managers
to the true situation. It is seen that
Senator Hills advocacy of the income
tax instead of weakening him has added
to his strength. The trick of postponing
the enforcement of the tax on income
until January next is now seen in all it's
political ~nakedness. If the congressional
elections can be influenced by the pre-
tense shat an income tax IS to be i'm.
posed, we'll and good, congress can then
appropriate the money necessary to put
it in operation. If, on the other hand,
the next house is republican, the demo-
cratic congress will have the whole win
ter to get out of the income tax snare,
and either kill it by direct repeal of that
part of the tariff law or else emasculate
it by not appropriating the needed money
for it's operations"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

GRAFTON NEWS: The democrats of the
tonrth legislative district have nominated
ill. Cashel for senator, and he has also
been placed ill nomination by petition. Mr..
Cashel was nominated and elected by the
republicans before, but has since become
a democrat.
Mr.. Cashel was nominated and elected
by the republicans before, but that he
was a democrat all the time is evidenced
by his vote for United States senator.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

s~8,4S8,650; oleomargarine, %s2,85O,OOO;
butter, $4,000; breadstuffs, corn, &c.
33339,4OO; wheat, %s1,177,000; -four, $1,2S7,-
900. In the aggregate a %retaliatory pol
icy on the part of Germany would affect
about s%20,000,000 of American trade in
meat products and breadstuffs. Some
more of the benefits Of democratic legis-
lation for the farmers of North Dakota.
Farmers, be not deceived into voting
anything but the Republican ticket this
fall. You invite a continuance of just
such legislation as has caused Germany
to retaliate.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

Steel Ozone: Maj. J. S. Murphy was
nominated in the house. for the Twenty
ninth district at Minot Monday by the re-
publicans, Endorsed Tuesday by the demo-
Gratis and on Wednesday by the independ-
ents. Looks as though he would take the
bakery.
Loo much harmony, Murph-peace is
liable to tronble your mind before the
campaign is over. A single horse is
enough to ride at one time. The other
fellows delight in tying grass over the
path.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12

HAVE you heard from Connecticut?
As has been the case everywhere outside
of the bailiwick of the long-haired, cad
averous, lank Arkansan, who "saws the
bowels of the cat" rain or shine, the
republicans have swept the state, re.
ceivlng their largest majority in the dis
tricts where democratic legislation has
stilled the hum of industry and COM
PEELED the laborer to become an idler.