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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
BICYCLER'S DAY AT THE MINNIE
sofa STATE FAIR.

sofa STATE FAIR.
The bicycle is so much in evidence at
this time and therejis SO much interest in
bicycling and bicycles that the managers
Of the Minnesota State Fair, which is to
be held at Hamline on Sept. 9th to 14th,
inclusive, have arranged to open the fair
with bicycle carnival. A series Of liber-
al prizes will be offered to the various
clubs, either social or racing There will
be prizes for the best uniformed and best
drilled clubs, the largest family riding
wheels, the most graceful lady rider, and
the lady wearing the most attractive and
appropriate lady's bicycle costume. There
Will be a parade of the various clubs on
Monday Sept. 9th, preceded by the b:cy-
Gle band of st. Cloud. This is one of the
most unique organizations in the country.
The members ride wheels and play their
instruments. They ride WELL and what
is quite as important, play we'll, and this
is as true of the man who plays the cornet
as the man who plays the bass drum.
1t IS expected that there will be thousands
Of bicyclers present from all over the
country. Members; of regularly organized
clubs that enter for any of the prizes will
be admitted free. A merely nominal en-
trance fee is to be charged. In addition to
the parade of clubs and the club contests
there will be a hot lot of racing for the
Glass A men, under the authority of the
A. w. L. Arrangements are also being
made for an exhibition of track riding.
The whole affair will be unique and ought
to be of interest to the thousands of peo-
pie who are interested in and who are en-
joying bicycling. There will be one fare
for the round trip to St. Paul and MinneA
apolis on all the railroads during the week
of the fair,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
SENATOR VEST, OF MISSOURI. FOR
Chilly EXPRESSES HIS OPINION
ON THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.

Chilly EXPRESSES HIS OPINION
ON THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
Carlsbad, Aug. 14.-"The free silver
question will never be dropped in Ameri
ca until free coinage is passed" said
! Senator George G. Vest, of Missouri, re-
plying to questions concerning the Mis-
souri,, Mississippi and Iowa conventions.
"The people in the East" he continued,
"believe it will be dropped as business re-
wives; but the overwhelming sentiment
in all the West and South is in favor Of
free coinage. I believe it will surely be
passed in time. What the result of its
passage will be | am unable to predict.
The whole of the money power OF the
East and the banks everywhere will UNI
doubtedly make it as difficult as possible
and try to furnish striking object les
son. Fasteners say we in the West and
South do not understand the question.
But there never was SUBJECT more Iul-
1y discussed or more carefully studied.
There is not a farmer in my constituency
who is not fully prepared to discuss in
diligently all the bearings of the cues
tion and the same state Of affairs exists
throughout the Southwest.
Senator Vest was then asked to ex-
plain the action Of Kentucky and Iowa,
if the feeling was quite universal. In re-
ply he said: II cannot express ansopin-
ion regarding Iowa until ] know how the
convention was constituted. If 1t was
similar to that Of Kentucky. composed
of state officials and office holders, it is
no criterion Of public sentiment. They
would naturally coincide with Cleveland
and Carlisle
In regard to the prospects OF an inter-
national monetary conference, Senator
Vest remarked: cit is generally conceded
that the other powers are awaiting the
action Of England. and, from all ac-
counts England will not alter the gold
standard A prominent English official
was here recently-a gentleman who had
the confidence of the new ministry, and
he.had several conferences on the subject
Rest assured that England will not alter
the gold standard.
Referring to the outlook at home, the
senator said: 1.-The gold reserve is
steadily decreasing, and the treasury is
likely to be obliged to make another bar
gain with the syndicate. I regard it az
an outrage that we should be obliged to
pay a bonus Of s11,0OO,O0O to syndicate,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
IRONY.
Gondon Spectator
What would the world he If

dOndon Spectator.)
What would the world be if the good
ceased striving.
Did no one stand for justice, no one say
am for virtue; but the truth betray
Raising no protest, silently conniving?
Who ever lived true life by such contriv-
ing!
Who has not longed, after some dread
full day.
With silent benediction all things striving !?
IT'S not by irony men live: we need
To know who are the mourners, who
have tears;
Who would give life for country or for
creed.
Not quench his own and others fire in
SneerS.
All, God! from street to street we some
times go
AS men in masks, and know not friend
A. B..
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21

represented by Belmont and Morgan, in
order to prevent gold shipments. Their
contract expires in October, and there
is nothing to prevent them from again
forcing the sale of more bonds or let the
OBLIGATIONS of the United States go to
protest as Morgan threatened Mr.. Cleve-
land before" ),
London. Aug 14-An editorial in the
Times commenting on ex-Secretary Whit
news remarks on the silver question, ex-
presses the hope that Mr.. Whitneys as
piration for an international agreement
10 rehabilitaite silver will not be fulfilled.
"America's previous efforts" says the
Times 'to create an artificial demand
for silver only stimulated its production.
The same result would follow on how
ever large q scale the abortive subject
might be revived. The Bland and Sher-
man acts failed to do the good expected
Of them and left q legacy of mischief
which gives promise of long outlas.ing
their repeal"
The Times then proceeds with dis
cussion Of the position Of the United
States treasury. and says it considers
that t'the corn and cotton exports, in face
of the bad harvests. will serve to pre-
vent a recurrence Of the gold drain from
America. Americas currency is still in
excess Of the countrys needs, but it may
be hoped that time and q growing pop
ulation will remedy that evil and that no
50 deal with that mischief which has been
Of artificial creation
ONE FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP.
During the week of the Minnesota State
Fair at Hamlin, Mimi, Sept 9th to 14th
inclusive the railroads of the northwest
will make rate to St. Paul and Mime
apolis, from all points in Minnesota, of one
fare for the round trip. The same reduc,
ton extends to points within two hun
dred miles of st. Paul in Wisconsin. This
includes Superior and Ashland points on
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul as
far east as Tacomah, on the Wisconsin
Central as far east as Marshfield, and on
the eastern division of the Northwestern
line as far east as Elroy. This is the first
time that this concession has been made
and it ought to result in alarge increase in
attendance at the Minnesota State Fair.
tendance at the Minnesota State Fair.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
FOR LABOR DAY AND AFTER.

The Labor Day edition of the Railway
Times, September LIST, will be the great
est labor paper ever published. 1t will
have twelve pages and contain articles
from the most eminent writer's of the
age. It will be souvenir to preserve
for future generations. We desire to
print, if possible, one hundred thousand
copies. We will fill orders at the follow
ing rates: 10 copies, 40 cents; 25 copies,
rs cents; SO copies, 81 so; 100 copies,
SO. 90; 500 copies, $11, and 1000 copies,
$50. Each union should send in it's order
promptly, and each member and friend Of
the order should order as many as he can
afford to distribute. This edition will do
the order wSfld Of good Our friends
should club together to get and distribute
a thousand copies. Orders should be adj
dressed Railway Times, Terre Haute,
Ind, and reach there not later than Aug
GOTH
EUGENE V. DEBS, President,
SYLVESTER KELIHER, Secretary.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
EUGENE V. DEBS, President,
SYLVESTER KELIHER, Secretary.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN CAST

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN CASH.
The Farmers Tribune, published at
Des Moines, Iowa, is one Of the best ma
ticnal middle-of-the-road Populist pa
pers published and one that should be
read by everybody, is offering several
big premiums to subscribers. Among
which are $4,000 IN cash and an $85. 90
bicycle. They are given free to their sub
scribers No work about it such as get
ting up large club. Send for a sample
copy of the Tribune and see their offer
and then subscribe for it. 1t stands on
the Omaha platform and for free silver
and is ably edited
Write for sample Address Farmers
Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21

In writing to advertisers In this
paper our patrons will confer a favor
by saying that they saw the adver-
tisement In the Representative
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
GOING, GOING-GONE."

How vast the territorys
OF the boodler-up to date;
With reckless hand he takes the stand
And calmly sells-the state.
Where you behold his diamond flash,
There freedoms flag is furled;
For he would sign-fOr current CASH
A mortgage on the world!
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21

This world is as you take it
So take it easy still:
If you're happy in the valley
Don't so climbin' up the hill!
This life is joy and trouble,
But hope holds out her hand;
So, when the cyclone scoops your house,
Thank God it leaves the land!
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-10
An Insects Queer Annette.

A curious fact was brought under
the attention of the visitors assembled
at the opening of the Telephone Trunk
lines on Wednesday. A portion of the
cable laid across from Portpatrick to
Donaghadee was shown around, and
it was pointed out that the five insu-
lated copper wires constituting the
corr Of the cable-the real telegraphic
conductor-were incaSed in a shathing
of brass, which had been wound
around them In the form of a thin
metal tape. The object of this was to
protect the gutta percha insulation
from h attack of q minute marine
organism known as the "gribble."
There was a time, of course, when the
gribble knew nothing about tele-
graphic insulating materials, and, in
deed, over a large portion of the sea
bottom such modern luXuries are I'M
known.
But the era of marine biography
seems to have created a new taste in
these tiny creatures wherever cables
have been laid down, just as animals
of larger proportions have acquired
the taste for bananas or potted AMI
chovies. They find their way in be-
tween the shathing of strong iron wire
and eat through everything in the waN
of insulating material until they get til
the copper strands, where, of counsel
the water gets in and the conducting
power of the cable is at An end.
The curious fact is that the avage
of the gribble were unknown in the
early days of ocean biography, and
that this peculiar taste is not only an
acquired one, but seems to be extend
ing in just the same way as the ac-
quired tastes of human beings. At
present the fashion of gutta percha
eating does not go further north than
P~ortpatrick. But it has long been
moving northward, and will probably
loon be universal. The bass proves
an effectual barrier so far, but wheth-
err these little denizens of the deep
may not by and by find even metal
tape a piquant addition to their larder
remains to be seen.-London Daily
News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-10
A Man and His Wife.

Again, on the underground railway,
a little while ago, a man and woman
got into the carriage. He was snarl.
Ing at every one-the guard, the POI.
tiers, the newspaper boy and a passen-
ger whose foot he kicked getting into
the carriage. The woman was a lit
tie thin, pale, and 1 fancy all the pas
sengers were sorry for her, and felt
she must have a very bad time of it.
Presently she spoke to the man. She
said: "When shall we reach Rich
mond?" He said: eve shall be home
inside forty minutes" That was all,
but the voice, look, manner, were alb
solutely kind and tender; the whole
man changed when he spoke to his
wife; a brute to everyone else, he was
a lover to her. Lucky woman! Every
one would hate her husband but her.
self, and he hated every one but her.
What more could she want? AS for
the other passengers, l think they
went home singing because they had
seen love.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-10

-Four years of such work had it's effect.
He was a young nan possessed of fine
physique and must have had great
strength; but soon after enlisting he suf-
fered with most of his regiment from
an epidemic of the measles and from
that time had touches of sciatic rheu-
matiSm. He began doctoring for 1t, u
in the army, in such campaigns as u
boys saw who followed Hooker n
Sherman, is a DOOR place to cure rheu-
matism n especially ~sciatic, the most
difficult form of rheumatism to reach.
After the war he was mustered out with
honor, and his trouble increased, also
his kidneys bothered hin greatly. In a
year he decided to come west to Min
nesota and settled in Blue Earth Coun-
ty, where he lived until nine years ago.
He was terribly crippled and suffered
agonies of pain. He tried doctors of all
kinds and medicines Of every descrip-
ton.
Finally he decided to go still farther
west, and selling his farm. he went to
the coast. But the damp air had a still
more harmful effect and he, suffering
what only fellow victims of sciatica can
realize, took almost the mex train back,
and came here to Alexandria where he
had relatives. Buying a small farm
lear town, he again took up his fight
with sciatica. He tried every known
remedy, for such was his suffering that
his right leg has been shortened fully
two inches. His kidney trouble also
increased so hat he could only rest
a couple of hours at a time. Final
ly last winter the sarcasm of destiny
added the grip to his ills, and when
he was recovering from it, but unable
to leave his room, when it was just at
hard to sit up az to lie down, or to lie
down as sit up" as he expressed 1T, he
got hold of a pamphlet telling about DR..
T0t-J- I g. IOa14 NV
He decided to try them, as he said,
they might help, n fifty cents would
not ruin me-"
He bought one box and before he had
taken half of this box he felt wonder
full effects, and he soon, Is he himself
put it, "felt light and active, full Of
spring and vigor." He had no more
trouble whatever with his kidneys, but
could sleep all night without getting up
once, and, though he took but two
boxes Of the Pin Pills, he say he has
never since had a twinge of the rheu-
matte pain. When seen on last Satur-
day he was at a neighbours giving a
kindly hand at repairing a pump, and
this old soldier, SO years of age, a vet
eran of a dozen bloody battlefelds,
showed greater strength thar the young
fellows he was helping and worked with
all the vigor of youth.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of April, A. D. 1895.
(Seal.) LEWIS EVANS,
Notary Public.
DR.. Williams Pin Pills contain in a
condensed form all the elements nee
essary to give new life and richness to
the blood and restore shattered nerves.
Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or
will be sent postpaid on receipt of price
$50 cents a box, or six boxes for So. 80
by addressing DR.. Williams Med. Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-10
Automatic Marine Fog Signal.

A new design of automatic marine
fog signal has been fitted to an East
India liner. The object Of the appar-
tus is to meet the legal requirements
of a whistle or bell that will sound
signals automatically in case of fog.
On the bridge of the vessel Is mounted
a switch, which is used by the officer
In charge for turning the electric cur
rent to either the whistle or the ships
bell; the latter, Of course, being sound
ed if the ship is at anchor, and the
FORMER If she is under way. The stat
ed intervals between the sounds is
made by clock-work adjustment,
placed In the chart house, and the cur
rent is thus obtained for all the pur-
poses Of the device. AS the whistle is
blown, or the bell sounded, a record Is
made on a continuous bard of paper
by means of a pen. The paper is
marked with divisions land as 1t is
wound at a uniform speed by the
clockwork, 1t gives an autographs in
dication of when the fog signals were
sounded.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-10
MONEY IN COKE REFUSE.
Forty Gallons of Crude Naptha
From One beehive Oven.

Forty Gallons of Crude Naptha
From One Beehive Oven.
A new process has been discovered,
after a years hard work and expert
menting at the Larimer Coke works,
In Westmoreland county, by Foreman
W. s. Cook, assisted by Engineer ID.
Harrity, to turn the by-product Of the
soal used in making coke into valuable
material, instead of, as before, letting
1t 60 up In smoke, as 1t has been, and
IS nov doing, and will thus save mill
Ions of dollars worth of oil, gases, am
monia, tar and other useful articles,
which are manufactured from coal. 1t
will at the same time not affect the
quantity or quality Of the coke pro-
1uced in the same oven.
The process Is a very cheap and sim
pie one, the secret of Inch Is careful
ly guarded, but 1t i cce from
the fact that they have already OBJ
ained, In twelve hours, from one bee
hive oven, holding about five tons of
coke, some forty gallons of crude nap
ha, which Is a thick, black, opaque,
viscous liquid, from which a various
number Of the constituents can be dis
titled. With the same machine they
extract an ammOniac liquor capable of
producing a large amount Of ammoniac
salts, which are now being used for
rerdlizing purposes. A large flow of
gas Is also collected by the same pro-
Tess, and from this one over when
conducted away from the machinery
Ind ignited, sends up a fame four or
i've feet high, and appears to be nearly
as good as a natural gas well.
The collecting pipes are simply at
tached to the outlet of a commo bee
hive oven, and the smoke Is conducted
Into a condensing apparatus, consist
Ing of a number of upright pipes,
down which a stream of cold water is
continually flowing, and at the bottom
OF the same Is a receiving tank.
They claim that the machinery used
by this process would not cost over $50
an oven, which is very small, when
compared to the cost Of that used in
foreign countries. Taking the average
amount Of coal tar alone which can be
extracted from n ton of coal, which
Is eight gallons, at 5 cents per gallon,
1t a be estimated what an enormous
amount Of money is lost daily. TAX
Ing the 365 ven at Larimer, each
burning five tons a day, gives 1895
tons Of coal burned in n day. From
each ton eight gallons being extracted,
would give the large amount of 1900
gallons per day, and at 5 cents per gal
lon, would amount to $3.50 per day,
which is now an entire loss.-Connells-
vile (Pa.) Courier.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-10

Severe simplicity, the decorators say,
should rule the mantel shelf, one or
two good pieces of bric-a-brac being
sufficient. What can one do, however,
with the monstrosity of the towering
cabinet mantel, with its places ar
ranged like inches in a mausoleum,
n above the other; if any is vacant
it has the air of waiting for it's coffin
and If all are full it looks like a shop
display. Another dictum from the pro-
fessional decorator is that royal Wor-
cester and other bowls and vases OF
china are no longer fashionable. A
Bohemian bowl, a dozen photographs
exquisitely framed, and a pair Of can.
delabra are in good taste for parlol
ornaments.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-10
THE POISON IN ICE CREAM.
Reasons Given by Physicians 10
It's Presence There.

Reasons Given by Physicians for
It's Presence There.
Medical men generally, we believe,
harmful forms of sweet food. Invalids
are permitted by their physicians to
eat it when every other sort of sweet
food is absolutely prescribed; and in
health there is probably no other kind
of reflection more popular, particularly
In the summer.
1t is an unquestionable fact, howev-
er, that serious and even fatal cases of
poisoning occur almost every season
from eating ice cream. On Monday
last, for example, in Syracuse, fifty
children were made dangerously i'll as
the result of eating ice cream which
was sold on the streets by an itinerant
vendor. None of them died, but their
escape from death in several instances
is attributed to the small quantity in
which the ice cream was sold to each
customer. There was a suspicion that
the late Judge Ehrlich died from the
same cause.
There are two ways in which physi-
clans endeavOr to account for the occa-
sional poisonous effects of ice cream:
One is the presence in the compound
of some distinct poison, used to color
or to flavor the ice cream; the other Is
the development in the cream or milk
of a peculiar chemical substance be-
longing to the class Of poisons known
as ptOmaines. These resemble In char
acter the peculiar poisons developed in
dead bodies in process of decay.
In almost every instance Of extensive
poisoning by ice cream controversy has
arisen a s to whether the deleterous
effects were due to these ~ptomaines,
developed after the compound was
prepared out of wholesome material,
or to noxious coloring matters or fla
vors, the ptOmaine theory being adopt
ed by the person responsible for max
ing and selling the ice cream, inc the
Independent poison theory by the peo-
pie who have been made Ill.
A case of this kind came before the
courts of this state some years ago,
and finally went to the court of ap-
peals, where a verdict of $500 was sus-
tanned against a firm of druggists for
selling to an ice cream manufacturer a
certain preparation of red coloring
matter, designed to be used for giving
a pink tint to ice cream. The conten-
ton of the defendants that the poison
Gus effects of the ice cream thus col
ored were due to ptOmaines was re-
jected by the jury; but perhaps this
was not very strange, inasmuch as the
evidence in behalf Of the defendants
showed that there was arsenic In the
liquid which they sold. Their expert
witnesses declared that the proportion
of arsenic was not large enough to
hurt anyone who ate the ice cream
but the jury though otherwise.
We may add that the testimony upon
the trial of this particular case to
which we refer tended to show that
chocolate ice cream was the least like.
ly of all kinds to be wholesome. 1t
seems that ice cream makers, when
other sorts of ice cream have grown
| somewhat stale and unpa1atable, can
conceal the age and undesirability of
the compound by the liberal use of
chocolate.-New York Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-10

STORY or A MAN WHO FOUGHT IN A
DOZEN BLOODY BATTLES.
From the Post-News. Alexandria. MINI.

From the Post-News, Alexandria, Mimi.
When anything good comes to an old
soldier the world is always glad to hear
Of 1t. 1t is therefore with especial pleas
ure that we listened to the story of Mr..
William Miller, of Alexandria, MINI.
The year 1861 found him prosperous and
happy in a comfortable home in st.
Lawrence County, New York. He re-
allied that his country needed him
and went as a private with Com
pany K, of the Goth New York. Assigned
to the Army of the Potomac, his life
was not the picnic described by one OF
our Minnesota congressman. He went
through the campaigns until after Get
tysburg and then went to Tennessee
with General Hooker to relieve the ten
sion at Chickamauga and ended with
Sherman on his march to the sea.