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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
DUTCH CENTS IN THE SLOT.
New Form of Crime Developed by
the Gum and Cigarette Machines.

A New Form of Crime Developed by
the Gum and Cigarette Machines.
When the original nickel-in-the-slot
weighing machine was introduced the eff
fort to get the better of it furnished rich
field for Yankee ingenuity, says the New
York Sun. All kinds of buttons were ex-
perimented with, and one man, who
thought long and hard on the subject of
winning his weigh" devised the scheme
of pasting cent to a disc of card board
of the size of a nickel. The inventors got
the machinery down to SO fine point at
last that the size, weight, and shape of the
bogus coin all had to correspond exactly to
those Of bona fide nickel. After that the
only substitute that would work was
five-dollar gold piece, and that was tried
by only one man, a Teuton. He was the
same man who got the better of a con-
ductor by buying an excursion ticket to
Chicago and returning on a different road,
tearing up the return coupon.
Until recently all attempts to beat the
newer penny-in-the-slot machine have been
fruitless likewise. The inventors kept just
a little ahead of the experimenters in point
Of ingenuity The only feasible plan to
beat the machine lay In finding a coin
equivalent to the American cent in every
respect save value. Within a month the
problem has been solved. The concerns
that automatically vend chewing gum,
cigarettes, chocolate tablets, and so forth,
have recently found in the returns large
numbers Of Dutch cents. They are of the
exact circumference and thickness of Amer
lean cents, and almost imperceptibly light
err. Their nominal value is about two
fifths Of a cent, but they can be bought
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
HER CORSET SAVED HER.
As Effective as n Suit of ArmO1
Against Her Rivals Dagger.

As Effective as Suit of Armor
Against Her Rivals Dagger.
Strong minded ladies raise their voices
periodically against the wearing of the
corset, descant on the evils of tight lacing
and maintain that the female form divine
ought not to be cramped into whalebone
and the usual accompaniment. says a
Paris letter to London Telegraph Apart,
however, from the dictates of fashion, the
much maligned stays may sometimes serve
very useful purpose, as the following
story will show:
The wife of civil official discovered in
a drawer in her husbands study GER
tain document which had no connection
with the affairs of state. On the contrary,
it was rather f1ighty missive for, indited
in feminine hand, it babe the gentleman
in question to rendezvous on the morrow.
The lady remembered that her husband had
absented himself from the domestic hearth
at the precise hour named in the note,
and boiling over with fury and indigna-
ton, she donned her bonnet and mantle
and hurried off to the house of the writer,
who is also a married woman. The two
families, it should be added, were on very
intimate terms. There were some verbal
intrchanges which had not the effect of
calming the irate wife, who, whipping out a
small dagger, struck two blows with all
her might at the ladys breast In each
case, however, the dagger glanced off the
corset inflicting only trifing injuries. Loud
screams brought the servants to the spot
and soon the indignant wife, who in the
meantime had had violent fit of Mysteries
was being conducted in her own carriage to
his Office by the police commissary. Some
hours afterwards she was set at liberty, as
| the lady whom she had attacked had, with
her husband, decided that no complaint
should be lodged on account of the gossip
| to which the affair would inevitably have
given rise. But for the protection afforded
| by the stays the adventure would proba bly,
| have terminated in very tragic manner
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
KEELAN, THE SOUTHERN SPY.

Many n Confederate Secret Will BE
Buried in His Grave.
James keelan who died broken down
gambler in Kansas City few days ago.
had an extraordinary career as a confeder-
ate spy and go-between, upon whom hun
dreds of rebel sympathizers relied for news
of their relatives and friends in the South
ern army. At the breaking out of the civil
war Keelan. who was only Is years of age,
began carrying mail between Missouri Sc
sessionists and Gen. Prices army and their
friends In st. Louis and Jefferson City.
While thus employed Keelan was arrested
and tried by court martial. His youth re-
duced his sentence from Punishment from
the state. AS soon as he was free he began
his illicit mail service. and two years later
in 1863, he was captured again in st. Louis.
He managed to throw q mail bag contain
ing letters which would have compromised
many prominent persons in ST. Louis into
the Mississippi river. He was tried and
condemned to be shot. Assisted by friends
he made his escape the day before that set
for his execution. Making his way to Rich
mond he got employment as a Confederate
spy, and in that capacity supplied Jeffer-
son Davis and his cabinet with much valua-
BILE information He also took part in the
blowing up Of trains containing Union
troops upon the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road by means of mines under the track
No further accident befel him, though he
was active as spy until the fall of the
confederacy. After the war Keelan seemed
unable to settle down to steady business,
and finally became professional card play
err and was always to be found wherever
a new railroad was being built
In person Keelan was slight and had the
delicate features of a woman, yet as spy
he showed that he did not know fear. He
never talked about his adventures, and
numberless secrets Of the confederate cabi-
net and their agents and allies in the North
were buried with Keelan.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
THE CAT DIDN'T COME BACK.
1t Made Stout Miss Frethy Swing
From a Chandelier.

from a Chandelier.
A few days since a party of woung ladies
were seated in the parlors of Mrs. William
Stellwell, at New Brighton, Pa, when a
pet cat that had been lying before the fire
took a fit. The animal began sailing
around, is the fashion of cats in fit,
and at the same time giving vent to un-
earthly bowls. In an instant the bevy of
girls made dash for places of safety.
They sprang upon tables, chairs and
lounges, in the meantime screaming with
the full force of their lungs.
Miss Frethy. a young woman who is
quite stout, failed to gain a roosting place
on chairs or tables, and ran about dis
tractedly, till the suffering cat in one of
it's circles about the room, ran against her
feet. With a scream of fright she made
ing in the center Of the room. Her weight,
combined with her vigorous struggles,
brought down the whole business, and Miss
Frethy, the chandelier and it's broken glass
lay in aheap together.
The noise had alarmed domestic, who
appeared on the scene just as the chan
deier and the young lady came down, and
as she opened the door the cat escaped.
The young ladies descended from their
perches and fastened to Miss Frethys re-
lief. She had tainted, and one of the globes
had cut an ugly cash in her forehead One
ankle was also sprained. A physician was
hastily called, who pronounced her inju-
ries very slight, but stated that the shock
to her nerves is such that it will be some
time before she will be able to be out
again.-Pittsburg Post.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
LONGFELLOW'S FIRST POETRY.
He Was More Than 30 ..hen Hi.
First Volume Was RulalisLed

He Was More Than 30 ..hen His
First Volume Was Published.
Toward the end Of 1886 he took up his
abode in Cambridge, where he was to re-
side for the rest of his life-for As years.
He was made to feel at home in the
society of the scholars who clustered
about Harvard, then almost the sole center
OF culture In the country. His work for
the college was not SO exacting that he had
not time for literature. The impulse to
write poetry returned; yet the next book
ne published was the prose Hyperion"
which appeared in 1889, and which, though
1t has little plot or action, may be called
romance, says Brander Matthews in the
April st. Nicholas. The youthful and poetic
hero, passionate pilgrim in Europe, was,
more less, reflection of Longfellow
himself.
A few months later, In the same year,
he published his first volume Of poetry
voices of the Night''-in which he re-
printed certain of his earlier verses most
of them written while he was at Bowdoin.
Some of these boyish verses show the in
f1uence of Bryant, and others reveal to us
that the young poet had not yet looked at
life for himself, but still saw it through
the stained-glass windows of European ira
dition. The same volume contained also
some moro recent poems: 1.-The Beleaguer-
ed City, and 1.-THE Reapers and the Flow
ers' and the psalm of Life'-perhaps the
first of his poems to win swift and abid-
Longfellow was beginning to have a style
of his own. AS Hawthorne wrote to him:
Nothing equal to them was ever written
in this world-the Western world, mean"
Certainly no American author had vet
written any poem of the kind so good as
the best of those In Longfellow's volume of
Ballads" printed two years later. Bet
ter than any other American poet, Longfel-
low had mastered the difficulties of the
story in song, and he knew how to combine
the swiftness and the picturesqueness the
ballad requires. His ballads have more Of
the old-time magic, more of the early
simplicity than those OF any other modern
English author. OF it's kind there is moth
ing better in the language than 1.-THE Skel-
eton in Armor." with its splendid lyric
swing, and 1.-The Village Blacksmith and
1.-THE Wreck of the Hesperus'' are almost
as good in their humber sphere. Excel
sior," In the same volume, voices the nobler
aspirations of youth and has been taken
to heart by thousands of boys and girls.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
WILD MEN OF NEW GUINEA.
UnaccustOmed to Clothes, They Are
Fond of Ornaments.

Fond of Ornaments.
Like the primitive man the Paupauns live,
and like the American savages they adorn
themselves. Their women are, to be sure,
putting the palm leaf skirts around them,
now that England, through Its trade seek
ing merchants, is taking some interest In
that far off and hithertoo little known
country, but the warriors, the males. who
do not fight, still cling to the primeval hab-
it's of nature in the matter of dress.
Sir William McGreggor, K. c. M G., to
whom England and the English speaking
world is indebted for nearly all of the re-
cent knowledge of British New Guinea, is
now visiting England preparatory to start
ing on another tour of exploration-''in-
spection," he prefers to call it.
Much of the country of New Guinea, 1t
seems, is mountainous, and most of Sir
Williams explorations were carried on at
a heighth of from 10000 feet to 1900 feet
above sea level.
Between the Cingalese and the Papuans-
the least civilized today certainly Of the
South Sea Natives-there must naturally be
a wide gulf fixed. It has been thought a
wise thing in managing the Papuans, to
investigate and comprehend their trad1-
tons, customs, and ways Of Mfe generally.
A general line of custom runs through the
people, but that Mne is subject to all man
ner Of variations. Polygamy Is common,
and is based on the theory that the more
wives a man has the more comfortable he
will be. The description of the marriage
customs in one division of the territory
would seem to indicate that the advanced
woman is not necessarily product of the
highest civilization. In that part the Pa
puan woman takes the initiative, sending
for the man of her choice, who comes and
takes her away. Her relatives organize a
demonstration and demand In return SIS
ter of the bridegroom for wife to a youth
of their family. Thus it is a case of fair
exchange; but it is surely barter when, if
there is no available sister, a payment in
currency-shark's teeth say-is taken as
a Observation-Disclosures London News.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24

and there were invaluable pieces OF mech
anism upon which he had worked for
lifetime Yet he was not disconnected, and
when he made the above statement his
mind was as clear as the tone OF the old
Liberty bell. 1t was not the fancy Of an
idler or an insane magician, but the am
bition of in inventor who has aimed his
shaft Of knowledge at the heart Of cleo
tricity.
do you really expect to attain such
triumph" was asked.
"Oh, yes" replied electicity's prophet,
''if, as 1 said, 1 can find an agency that
will stand SO gigatic current. Eight mill
ion volts can be created, but wires which
we now use would be turned to ashes
upon the first contact with current OF
this power. We don't know yet what cleo
tricity really is When we do know and
the secrets Of it's mysterious power are at
the disposal Of man, then inventors will
startle the world
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
PAINLESS DtsNr1srRY.
A Discovery Which, 1t II Claimed,
WIN vs,a.. Do Av"1b"'r Drilling Ma

A Boston dentist claims to have discov-
cred a way OF cleaning-a cavity in which
the use of an instr3lme9t is entirely unnec-
essary. says the New York World. Instead
of cutting or drilling oft the decayed dem
tine. he places in dhe cavity a preparation
which eats away the ,rdecayed part in q
comparatively short time and leaves the
cavity ready for filling. The composition Of
his preparation isIa secret, though glycer-
inc is one of thee conponent parts. 1t is
claimed that the preparation will not injure
which is decayed. IF AS method has the
merits claimed fornit, filling teeth will no
longer be painful "a New York dentist said
to World reporter that anything strong
enough to eat away decayed tissue must
at the same time injure the sound tissue.
Moreover, to act at all expeditiously, the
preparation must be: so strong as to be
a rather dangerous substance to handle in
side the mouth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
PLAYS THE KETTLEDRUM.
Miss Ellis, Of England, Star Pc
former With the Sticks

Miss Ellis, of England, n Star Per-
former With the Sticks.
Ten instruments is the number upon
which London's greatest musical genius
plays. Miss Ellis Is young woman who
has recently been the subject of a great
many newspaper articles. She is of Irish
descent, and comes of a family of soldiers
Three of her ancestors fought at Waterloo
one Of whom was the brave Sir Henry
Ellis, who was aide-de-camp to the Duke
of Wellington at Waterloo. and fell toward
the close Of the day, when leading the
Twenty-third from the rear of Hougomont
against the attack of the Old Guard. With
the exception of Colonel Cameron, Of the
Cameron Highlanders, he was the only
officer below the rank of general who was
mentioned in Welington's Waterloo dis.
patch. Two of Miss Ellis uncles-heI
fathers brothers-were killed in the Sikh
campaign.
She inherits her musical and other giftA
from her father, who took his degrees at
Oxford, and is an authority on the science
of music, besides possessing great con-
structive powers.
At very early age she commenced writ
ing. Her first article appeared in Murrays
Magazine, and was followed by series Of
articles on political economy in the West
minister Review.
Did you not invent new system of no.
tatdon, and write an article about it for
the Universal Review
YES but the same idea had been sug-
gested 200 years ago. My article was en-
titled The Abolition Of Clefs,' which ex-
planned means to reduce all music to one
clef by adding one line to the staff. sub
mitted the proof to Sir George Grove, who
fully endorsed my system"
Miss Ellis plays five instruments in pub
lie, and is the only lady performer Of the
kettledrums in England. She plays the
violin and the side drums. To attain pro-
ficiency on the latter instrument-which ex-
perts say cannot be learned after the age
of 10-she practiced seven hours a day.
In addition to being a multifarious in
strumentalist, Miss Ellis has a fine con-
tralto voice. She is, moreover. a clever
sculptor.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
A Mule and His MOPfRaRQ.

Last year colored farmer in Georgia
went to white neighbor and said: "Mass'r
Johnson, L give you all IS fer dat big-legged
mule" referring to an animal that had be-
come useless because of some disease Of
the limbs and had been turned out to die
what on earth do you want of that
mule?" replied the owner. Hes too weak
to work and too lame to drive more than
half a mile at time.''
Dat doan't make no difference to me,
boss. 1 wants dat critter, an IL give you
all S. for him.
The offer was accepted. and the trade
was made. A few weeks after the former
owner met the purchaser in town and asked
how the big-legged mule was getting on.
"Fust rate, fust rate was the ready
reply. II done NOR gagged him for $780,"
And it was found to be fact The negro
had borrowed $50 for II months at l per
cent a month and given a lien upon the
lame mule as security.-Chicago Record.
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, 1895-04-24

in Dutch Guiana. owing to the relative
rates Of exchange, at the rate of 400 for
an American silver dollar. Numbers of
them have been imported recently by the
South American steamers from Holland it.
self as well. Some Of the importers sell
them to newsboys and others three for
cent and the urchins who disport them
selves in the city hall park are enabled
to supply themselves with cigarette,
stick of chewing gum, and piece of choc-'
olate for what each one Of those de-
sirable articles used to cost them, thus
illustrating the indomitable march of prog
reSS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
A LIGHT Equal TO THE SUN.

Tesla Says He Can Produce 1t If He
Has a Conductor.
'If ] could only dfcover an agency
through which I could conduct 100000
volts I could produce a light equal to the
sun"
The speaker was Nikola Tesla, the great
est electrical theorist, says the New York
Press. He was standing on South Fifth
avenue near Blocker street watching the
ruins which fire had made Of his grand
workshop Ho could see in the debris many
II the results OF his researches into the
mysteries Of the unseen power. and here
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24

BURLINGTON ROUTE,
Leaves Union Depot for Chicago. It. L6u!S
ana down river points At $50 q M: arrives
from Chicago at $40 p m. daily. Leaves Union
OepQt for Chicago and 81. LOUIS TOO ,. =. A..
I'VE from same. s:H = u daily.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
The Text,

Love, II true love, is jealous OF its love,
And sacred keeps loves tokens from the rabble
But love. if false. its falseness soon VIII prove
For all its sacred secrets forth twill babble.
Life.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24
THE new COMMONWEALTH.

The Great Peoples Party Paper, OF New
York. and organ OF the Cooperative Union
of the United States and Canada 1MO-
GENE c. FALES, Editor. Price ~ cents q
wear SAMPLE COPIES free Address. New
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Arizona republican., 1895-09-26
CHURCHILL .:. ADDITION

But notwithstanding they the city itse there for sale prices corresponding with the Soud Money Doctrine of President Cleveland and his cucoo which kind which will buy two dollars worth of property These lots the electric line which will be operation before October 1S95 when prices will be advanced The the city their
 
 popular property. years this will be business property Buy lot for residence when you will support you side in addition where you keep horse drive and collect your rents. Terms cash in year, years per
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-25
MOUNDSVILLE.

Miss Annie MILAN. Of Warrington,
has been the pleasant guest Of Mrs. w.
+. Smith the past week.
The Christian EndeaVor Societies Of
The Presbyterian a1d Disciples Churches
VIII give q social at the home of J. NJ.
Roberts this evening. to which al are
cordially invited 10 attend. Refresh
mcnts viii be served and lawn tennis
court will be features of the evenings
amusement
!. Alex. Ewing is home from Atlantic
City, where he was attending the an
nual meeting OF the Senate Of the Ma
tion3l Union.
County Court has been in session fer
the past tTo days settling with Sheriff
C. &. Mathews
Z. A. F'esHer. of ST. Marys, who has
been visiting MS sister. Mrs. Rev G. w.
Crime hes returned home.
Miss Laura Lindsey. OF Louisville.
Ky, is s7ead.1g her vacation vita Mrs.
$. w. Nah ws. on Seventh street. and
visiting friends in the city.
J. n. Shaw. Editor IF the Echo. has re-
turned from OHIO, where he is inter-
ested in large block of oil territory.
T. a. Howard who removed his fam
ily 20 Fostor.J, o.. short time ago. is
in the city on a visit 70 his friends.
T. J. Parsons returned Yesterday from
S.stcrsVille, where he has been looking
after the interests OF the Noundsville
C1mDany's territory. He is much
elaled over The new developments. and
thinks the wells which they are put
ting down VIII turn cut to be paying
ones. They are now pumping the Sole.
I well with the hope of getting rid of the
salt water. The parties interested have
been offered some fine inducements for
their stock, but 50 far have refused to
accept
Rev. John EaraSi0z;an. a native OF
Armenia, will preach at the Christian
Church on Saturday. Sunday and Mon
day evenings nj 100 o'clock He will
lecture ON the usages. customs and law,
Of that country, and Will sing in his
native language at each service.
The furniture and fixtures belonging
to c. \. Hanes were sold Yesterday for
rent by Constable l.. G.. Hammond. IN
der distress warrant. Edward Vos.
became the purchaser for the sum OF
$406.
Rev. J. p. Smith has returned from hi,
! months vacation. and Will occupy his
pulpit as usual Sunday morning
Mrs. J. d. Shaw is on a visit TO her
daughter, Mrs. c. B. Riggle, at Mid
dlebourne