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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
A Railway Up Mont Blanc.

From the London Telegraph.
A project has been started by an engin-
eer for the construction of a railway to the
top of Mont Blanc. The line would COM
mence at the Mage Ravine, above Saint
Gervais, and would at once be carried
through a tunnel 400 meters in length.
From this point vertical shaft" $500
n1eterssi in height. would bring the traveller
up to the summit. The engineer is not in
clined to underrate the difficulties of the
scheme, the more so as the height of his
vertical shaft would be more than double
those now in existence. He considers. how
ever, that the feat could be accomplished
in ten years, and at an eXpediture of 9,OOO-
0OOf. The tunnel would be carried in a
straight line as far as the italian frontier,
which it would then fringe for about 1,500
meters. 1t is added that all this would be
of great advantage in connection with the
observatory which is being erected at the
top of Mont Blanc, as it could thus be
reached at every season of the year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
1t Was Not n Deal.

From the indianapolis Journal.
Boston, Mass. March 22.-To the editor
Of The Plunkville Bugle.' Dear Sir: We
inclose cut of Mrs. Malvina Higgins, of
your township, who was cured of eighteen
distinct complaints by our justly celebrated
Onion Tonic. You will run cut and ad.
cod, as per contract.
THE ONION TONIC CO."
"Plunkville. March 26.-Cut of Malvina
Higgins, with ad., reed. 1t will be impos-
sible for us to permit 1t space in the col
umns of The Bugle' There are only two
families in this township the Johnsons and
the Higginses AS The Bugle circulates
exclusively among the Johnsons, you can
see what effect the publication you wish
would have on our circulation
EDITOR THE BUGLE'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13

From Life.
Eastern stranger-''The Joneses and Rob-
binses are related, understand"
Experienced native-'1 should say they
were. When old Robbins was divorced, he
married Miss Jones, and her elder brother,
Potter Jones. married Mrs. Robbins.
stranger gasps.) Oh, that's not half of it.!
The year after that, young Mrs. Robbins
got divorce and married the former Mrs.
was divorced and married Robbnss young
er sister. That's how it stands at present,
but they say Robbins is paying attention to
Potter JoneS'S aunt now there's no tell
ing how much farther the family connec-
ton may extend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
Written for The Evening Star.
April ROndeaus.


l.
Mere April fools!-because you see
Some starved buds on the maple tree,
grackles raucous cackle hear,
You haste to dof your under-gear,
Forgetting Aprls trickery.
Leave not your cell yet laundering bee
Nor flaunt. rath flower. In wood or lea
Or you may meet but sorry cheer,
Mere April fools.
Chirp not, We marsh-born imps, with glee,
Cease your thin pipinss chickadee,
Don not your vernal hat vet, dear
Trust not the spoilt child of the year,
Or you'll all prove, undoubtedly,
Mere April fools.
She fools us all-inconstant wight,
Now dark with frowns, with smiles now bright;
With laughing eyes, and full Of play,
AT she loves TO mimic May,
But moody March ere fall of night
With clear, blue skies she charms our sight,
And lures forth, then, in despite.
Glooms heaven and earth with clouds of gray;
VT Is She fools us all.
She has been known with frost to blight
The daffodil, the fields with white
Snow-fakes tor Ill., the birds to fray
With drizzlins hail. it Is her way
To raise flush hopes, then blast them quite;
She fools all.
Not all cheat, heweer, Is she;
She truly keeps promise fair
She fails to bring to me.
How bleak soc er the hills may be.
The arbutus. cher fond pride and cara
The hardest wild-ilowers well may
Her wiles, and scarce to bloom may dare;
But she loves-to her, 1 see.
w Not all cheat.
This green-robed rosy darling will.
Meath leaves nesting trustfully,
a frar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13

kilometers. The weight Of the carriage Is
distributed as follows: Carriage, 400 kilo-
grams; accumulators. 40 kilograms: mo-
tor, ITO Kilograms; two passengers, $50 to
100 kilograms; total, LOO Kilograms. AS
the kilogram is equivalent to about %
pounds. it will be seen that the carriage
and contents weigh about 2645 pounds.
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80
A Social Misfortune.


Here comes the carriage, Maud Fancy
having to 90 and pay calls in such weather!
It's cold enough to give one ones death of
coldr
Worse than that. mother! Everybody's
sure to be inr'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13

N y Il II . "A NJ 1 .
about to send two eX-
petitions to Alaska,
one from the coast
and geodetic survey
and the other from
the geological survey.
The former will leave
Seattle, Wash, on
Tuesday next. The
latter will embark
from some port on
the Pacific coast
early in May. The
coast SURVEYS en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
AN ELECTRIC ROADSTER
To Participate I'm a Novel Race Next
Summer.

To Participate I'm q Novel Race Next
Summer.
From the Baltimore American.
Mr.. James B. Yeakle of Baltimore, who
keeps well Informed on the subject Of new
applications of electricity as motive pow
er, has in his possession considerable data
which he thinks encourages the opinion
that a line of cabs propelled by electro
motors will be seen on the streets of that
city before the Clifton exposition is opened
The following is an interesting description
of a new application of electricity, which
has for some time been the subject of in
terest to a number of Baltimoreans, includ-
ing Mr.. Yeakle, who have been engaged in
experimenting on the same lines, and in
this come elton is particularly interesting.
1t was received from Paris this week, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
johnson, Thompson and q Dog.
From the indianapolis Journal

Johnson owned a dog. Thompson lived
next door to Johnson. The dog howled all
night, seven nights in a week. Said Thomp-
son to Johnson: See here, we have always
been good friends, though neighbors. and
thought + would tell you that the bowling
of that dog of yours is driving me and my
family wild for want of sleep. My wife
has lost nearly five pounds in weight"
That's queer" said Johnson. Il haven't
noticed him making any noise"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
About the Drains.

From Lffe's Calendar.
Bryce-"Algernon Fitz Sappy is one OF
those fellows who has more money than
brains, isn't he?"
Knowso-"Yes, and he is poor. too"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13

One evening Thompson came into the
house leading the obnoxious dog on a
string. "Now," said he to the astonished
Mrs. Thompson, I'VE will soon settle the
dog nuisance. I didn't like to kill the dog
while he belonged to Johnson, so l bought
the beast. There is nothing unneighborly
in killing our own dog. I'll get some chic
reform tomorrow"
Said Johnson to Thompson: well, you
haven't chloroformed the dog yet"
NO said Thompson; 1.-The truth is, we
have become rather fond of the little fell
low He is so lively and playful"
But doesn't his barking at night annoy
you?"
Haven't noticed it at ALL"
Him. said join son. The brute keeps
me awake all the time with his yelping"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
GraY Hair

A thing Of the past when Nattaus Crystal Dis
covery Is used. Guaranteed to restore gray
faded hair to Its natural color in to 10 days
positively rot dye. Stops the hair from falling
out arrests dandrur and makes the incest dressing
for the hair one can use. No poison. No ssdi-
KCLB PHARMACY. SOLE AGENTS. 43S 7TH
ST. NV Sent express prepaid. to any part Of
the country receipt OF price, ja26tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
The Latest Novelties.

From the New York Weekly.
Mrs. De Fad Gin bric-a-brac shop)-"You
have a beautiful collection of antiques
here"
New Boy-"Yes'm, We have all the latest
novelties"
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The Government is to Send Out Two
Expeditions This Year.
TO CONTINUE THE BOUNDARY SURVEY
An investigation Into the Mineral
Resources Of the Territory.
THE DEPOSITS OF GOLD

Written for The Evening Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13

COR. nth AND SIS, WASHINGTON. DC.
fe21 56eo21t&2taw13t
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
OUR NEW PROSPERITY.

THE TRUSTS HAVE RAISED PRICES
WE PAY AND THE OTHER FELLOWS
GET THE PROFIT.
To the Editor:
You are giving us the best reform paper
l have yet seen. It Is a hummer. The
Republicans tell us with pride that BUSH
ness is picking up, prices are rising, and
prosperity Is coming, and they expect to
reap the benefit of it at the next election
True, the sugar trust has raised the price
Of sugar, the lumber trust has raised the
price of lumber, the coal trust has raised
the price of coal, the meat trust has
raised the price Of kerosene, the railroad
pools have raised the price of transporta-
pools have raised the pric of transporta-
ton, the gamblers have raised the price
of wheat, after it has left the farmers
hands. Oh, yes, prices are rising, but not
from natural or legitimate causes. Who
is benefited? The Rockfellers, Armours.
Havermeyers, Jim Hill ct al Oh YES.
prosperity is coming, but it is coming to
the few at the expense of the many. With
Debs in prison, Olney, corporation law
yer, for secretary of state, Harmon, an
other corporation lawyer for attorney
general, the United States supreme court
packed with lawyers in the interest of the
mony power, the income tax knocked out,
thus saving millions Of dollars to the rich
and adding millions Of dollars in taxes
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
Stephen, Mimi, June Is.
A GOOD LETTER

FROM THE TREASURER OF HUBBARD
CIUNTY RIGHT TO THE POINT.
To the Editor:
Enclosed finddraft for $3.50 to apply on
subscription to your most valuable paper
l must say in it's behalf that it is one
OF the most forceful expounders of the
principles of humanity that comes to my
sanctum. AS soon as our citizens can get
a few cents to spare, l shall canvass the
county for "The Representative" but
with failure of crops for two years, and
being compelled to borrow money from
the banks at 2 and per cent a month, has
SO reduced our citizens in finances that
it is as much as they can do to secure
the bare necessities of life. But we are
only holding back for little recuperation,
to be more determined when we start the
onward march again. All the Populists
of Minnesota have got to do is to stay
in the middle of the road, and use the
Omaha platform as their gospel and 1896
the state is ours. The one plank silver
party that its leaders are trying to force
upon the people is simply defusion and
snare; and am in hopes that there are
no PopulistY as foolish as to be caught in
its meshes. Some of our most influential
Republican business men, after reading
Coins" works have declared their in
tention Of working for humanity in the
ranks with the Populists, and are out
spoken in declaring that John Sherman
and Grover Cleveland are worse traitors
to this republic than Benedict Arnold
ever was. The Democrats, what there
is left of them, as soon as they recover
from the malady which they are pass
ing through, assert, between their agon-
izing groans, that they will be with us.
All we can say to our new recruits is:
God bless you for having independence
enough left to thrown off the yoke of the
G. o. p. and D. o. P" Those parties
were reverenced in Jeffersons and Lin
coins time, but their names now signify
corruption and destruction to free peo-
pie.
Our county was the first in the state to
camp on Populist ground and we have
held the fort ever since, and will b there
until we get reinforcements enough to
plant our general and staff in the capital at
St. Paul. Then woe be unto We, hipocrites!
We have made my house den of thieves,
and justice shall be meted out to all ac-
cording to the transgressions done unto
our people, sayeth out general. Respect
fully yours, j. Y. Smith.
Park Rapids, Mimi, June15.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
OurFOrurn.

Many Of tie contributions to the
Forum are too long. In the future we
must insist that they be made shorter.
Most of them could be condensed into
GOO words. II this is done it will en-
able the REPRESENTATIVE to print
more and greater variety. Here
after the shorter letters will be
given preference. Write them on one
side of the paper only. II written on
both sides they will not be printed IN
der any circumstances.
Write them plainly and with ink.
Do not crowd the lines closely to-
gether. A plainly written letter con-
forming to these rules will stand by far
the hest chance to be printed.
Within certain proper Limitations
we admit the widest liberty of thought
and expression upon the part of our
cores pondents, while we do not hold
ourselves responsible for any views
which may be put forth.
The Forum, as its name implies, is
sort of debating school, for the discus
SIGN OF the important questions of the
day. We ask our correspondents to
avoid abusive personalities and to
keep clear Of the shoreless and bottom
less sea Of religious debate. -[ED.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
AN INTERCEPTED LETTER.

A DEMOCRATIC POSTMASTER PUR-
LOINED THE FOLLOWING LETTER
ADDRESSED ON THE OUTSIDE TO
TAMS BIXBY
To The Republican Press:
Skunk Mizzery, Joon 1895.-It seams
to yores trooly that 700 air maxim vari-
GUS and sevral mistaiks. You shood not
pay as much attenshun to the socialis-
tick anarkistick Populist. You call pee
pulls attenshun to them and this GAUGES
them to Investigate and then they air
gone. No man kin study the Populist
side NV the kwestion without bein I'M
dooly Influenced. Stick to yoor party,
and eft 700 must abooze sumboddy, abuse
the Dimmy crat, fer nobody cud be in
joosed to believe in him, after any in
vestigashun. Yoo see by allowin so
much spase to abuse of the Populist, 700
HASTILY admit that he is sum boldly,
when we kno he amt. Troo, thare is
about hunderd thousan on him, but
he cuts no splurge. 1t IL eezy to bam-
boozle him out ov what he RELY ought
to git fer hiz votes, ez witness Kolb,
Tom Watson, ct settery.
Then you shouldn't say so much
about 16 to 1, on akkount of the saim
reflex action, ov settin folks to thinkin.
Ez long ez the voters kin be kept from
thinkin, we hev him, but let him think
fer himself and the Populists gether him
in. Stick to the tariff. It is a man of
straw that hez dun good servis for yeers
and eff 700 boiler loud enuf and long
enuf about it they will kwarrel over that
and we hev EN-, but let this foolishness
ov tryin to show the people that the
Populist IL rong go on, and lots will try
to find out what he bleeves in and they
are gone. Then you are forsed to lie
about him thare is no uther way NV pre-
sentin our side. Troo, lyin don't hurt
us, we air yoosed to it and do lots ov it,
but 700 shood not lie when 700 kin be so
eezily ketched at it. 1t makes votes
agenst us. Get up suthin new to set
EN- at eech luther about and give the
Populist a rest or we're gone as I'm
afeard we air any way you like it. Re-
spekfully submitted,
OLE O'MARJERIN.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
SETH BOTTOMLEY
AS OTHERS SEE US.

BOGUS OLD SETTLER ASSOCIATIONS.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
To the Editor:
There is peculiar fact connected with
the Farmers Alliance picnics and old set
tiers associations, in this portion of our
fair state that deserve comment.
The former, with all the honesty, honor,
candor and simplicity becoming its grand
name was advertised and dates fixed early
enough and widely enough to have been
attended by twothirds of the people of
the respective counties in which they were
held. Though we'll attended, how would
the attendance compare with that Of the
latter. The former had good order, no
drunkenness or disorder, which cannot be
said of the latter at Elba, and other
places
If the Farmers Alliance picnics are to
be success in the future in the state,
it would seem to be necessary Gam sorry
to admiO to choose some deceptive name.
For instance, the Farmers Sanctification
club, or the Minnesota Farmers revival
meetings, and then make it point to
have on hand to address the people, good
Peoples Party speakers.
At any rate deceptive name.
The Old Settlers association had bet
ter be tabled just what it is, Republican,
Democratic party organization, for the
perpetuation Of the interests Of the capt.
talists.
Winona and lFillmore counties joined
hands this year in celebrating or. carrying
into effect the receptions of the above
association. Messrs Morse and Berry
two good wire-pulling Republicans, got
their heads together and decided to con-
vince V. Simpson, and H. Lamberton
of the Winona and Western railway how
they could make money for them. Yale,
Van SAINT, Tawney, etc., were asked to
lend their cunning and deception
These fellows discussed the matter and
they all decided that there was no money
in it, and the farmers sons and daughters
would pay the folders, which they did
to their sorrow. The above lads fixed
the place, Spring Valley Mimi, same date
as Farmers Alliance picnic, Wilson cor
ners. The Winona & Western advertised
an excursion. The results were finan-
cially grand success, as two days after
this company gave it out that they would
cAIouu Iue IlucS anu commence building
at once.
All Republican speakers were present
The would-be candidate for governor
told how in early days his father
went to mill, and found his credit no good,
and how his mother told him not to speak
too much when he was elected speaker of
the house last winter etc.
These fellows did not go down into their
pockets like good old Farmers Alliance
men for one cent, but made others pay for
their fun, by paying their fare for their
dinners, and so cents extra for the privi-
lege Of being enrolled as a member Of the
Old Settlers association, BESIDES What
fools we mortals be not to see through
and detect the deceivers at the head Of
the Old Settlers Republican, Democratic
association of Minnesota.
Knight of Honor.
st. Charles, Mimi, June II.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
The demand for Uncle Sans Mono
gram whiskey has increased wonder
fully because it is pure and good.
WHICH ARE YOU?

ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Harper's Weekly
There are two kinds of people on earth to-
day,
Just two kinds of people, no more. I saw
Not the sinner and saint for it's we'll under
stood
The good are half bad, and the bad are half
good.
Not the rich and the poor, for to count a
mans wealth
You must first know the state of his con-
science and health.
Not the humble and proud for in life's little
Who puts on vain airs is not counted man.
Not the happy and sad, for the swift flying
years
Bring each man his laughter and each man
his tears.
No; the two kinds of people on earth
Are the people who lift and the people who
Wherever you go, you will find the worlds
masses
Are always divided in just these two
classes.
And oddly enough you will find, too, I ween.
There is only one litter to twenty who lean
In which class are you? Are you easing the
OF overtaxed filters who toll down the
road?
Or are you leaner who lets others bear
Your portion of labor and worry and care?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
WHAT ONE MAN CAN DO.

THE PATH TO VICTORY IS DISTRIBU-
TON OF POPULIST LITERATURE.
To the Editor:
Enclosed please find fifty cents for
which please send 1.-THE Representative"
to j. ]. E. Guertin, of Willow City, for six
months. have never destroyed one sin
gle issue of your most excellent paper,
but have passed them around to my
Demo-Republican neighbors. 1 have had
the satisfaction of seeing four of them
move over to the Peoples Party by this
means. They are now working for our
cause, and no man can tell what this
small effort will accomplish by the cleo
ton of 1885,
Subscribers everywhere, go and do like
wise. Our party has not the Rothschilds,
Wall street and the corporations to buy
literature for them to scatter broadcast.
w. MERLIN.
P. S. The A. R. U. men and their SYM
pathizers, from section men up to station
agents, are getting the G.. B. up here il
North Dakota. Some Of them don't get
the G. B. exactly, but gentle hint that
it would be to their interest to resign.
Willow City, n. D., June H.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
WANTED.
A FOURTH OF JULY GRAFTON TO SUIT
THE TIMES.

A FOURTH OF JULY GRAFTON TO SUIT
THE TINES
To the Editor:
The Forum column in your paper sug-
gests a probable opening for a hearing
from this literal neck of the woods on
the geography of our republic-you'n see
tbs so on the map.
What want to say through the Forum
is, am, as the Irishman would say, in a
quon day ry.
have been invited to give an grafton
at Grand Marais on the approaching an
niversary Of our nations birth, but as
one exclaimed in the play, in view of
his undone condition:
What form of prayer can meet my
case!'
So exclaim, What form of speech can
! formulate to apologize for treason to
the Declaration of Independence? How
vindicate the treachery of this generation
ofSnational parasites who have pierced
the heart of the Observation-Disclosures
to establish justice" and placed it bleed
ing upon the altar of Mammon, to nur-
ture greed, foster injustice, defend opu-
lence, barricade capital and establish a
dynasty of plutocracy upon it's ruins,
which will cost oceans of blood to smoth-
er, else millions of ser vile, mental, cring-
ing mendicant slaves held in subsection
to support the dynasty.
verse, written in the times which
tried the souls of the old radical aboli-
tionists, could paragraph without exag-
geration. and without violence to the de-
generacy and depravity of today as de-
veloped since the close of the war.
The stanza as lodged in my memory
reads as follows:
ION the Fourth of July when We vaunt of
those rights
Which the blood of our fathers was shed to
recover
And our star spangled banner is unfurled
on our nights,
Know ye not tits a mock to the living
Jehovah.
Whose ear is not deaf to the accents of
grief
Which rise from your fields to his throne
for relief;
That that banner, that star spangled banner
now waves
Ger the agonized groans of our millions of
slaves?"
I will close, for I am reminded that
the Forum column is granted for terse
interchange of ideas and not elaboration
of principles.
With fidelity, yours,
PERRY D. MARTIN,