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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
Sixty-eight governments own their

Sixty-eight governments own their
telegraph lines. The United States,
along with such half civilized coun-
tries as Bolivia, Cyprus, Honduras,
Hawaii and Cuba, do not. Fifty-four
governments own their own railroads
in whole or in part, while only 10. the
United States among them, do not.
Yet government ownership of these
utilities is termed ''crankism" and So
cialism, and is one of the principal OBJ
jections urged against the Peoples
Party by political knaves, one-ideaists
and Recommendations.
Now if anybody says there are more
fools to the acre in this country than
in any other country in the world we
shall deny it and resent it, because
even If the charge is true it is not
patriotic to utter it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
PRICES OF STOCK IN IRELAND.

The wonderful difference between
the prices of stock in Ireland and in
Wisconsin, is shown by the following
taken from the report of the monthly
fair at marlborough, Queens county.
for April last: Best fat cattle $50 to
800; smaller animals $50 to $50:
Springers $75 to S1C0; mich cows, $40
to $50; 3-year-old heifers and bullocks
$50 to $50; 2-year-olds $45 to $50; year
lings $50 to $40; fat sheep $40 to Sill:
yearling haggots s. to SIS; lambs. S. to
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
GROWING ALL THE TIME.

Entire Populist ticket at Perry,
Okla, elected by majorities OF As to
40. West Superior, Wis.,, Populists
swept the city by 500 plurality, reyers-
ing an 800 Republican majority Of las
year.
Oh! it is coming, entlemen, and the
devil of Plutocracy, with all his horns
and tail and money bags cannot stop
it,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
TAKE NOTICE.

Some of our friends seem to think
that we should send receipts for mon
ey sent by subscribers. This is never
done by newspapers. Watch the label
on your paper, and the number on it
will show whether or not your money
came to hand II it does not SO ap-
pear in three weeks then write us.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12

marching thousands will turn their
steps to where the .Populist banner
flies in the breeze; and that some way
may be found whereby all those who
are opposed to the longer domination
of the Beast will be able to act to-
gether without any sacrifice of prin-
CT pie on either side.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
CANDLES ADVANCING.

Glasgow, June 6.-The Standard Oil
company and the Scotch Oil company
have concluded an agreement which
is to last three years for an advance
in the price Of candles.
Why, what has kerosene oil got to
do with the price of candles?
Another trust.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
THE GAME OF SUPPRESSION.

Spokane. Wash, Populists swept the
city week before last. Daily press
suppressed this item.
OF course They suppress every
thing they can; but the tidal wave is
rising and their cockle-shells will soon
be mashed to fragments on the shore
of public events.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
servative estimate has placed the
value of the gifts at 100000.

sentative estimate has placed the
value of the gifts at 100000.
For the convenience Of his guests
Cornelius Vanderbilt has secured the
Bacon college at Lenox. James A Der
crombie Burden has taken the Edy
cottage. John Sloane, the uncle OF
Miss Sloane, is entertaining large
party at his Lenox palace, called
Wyndhurst."
And all this royal display is at a
time when the land is swarming Will
millions of unemployed men, seeking
work and food. We are told that In
"the pineries" last winter hundreds
of men worked for their board! And
hard work at that!
'It is not and it cannot come to
good.'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12

aurora" It's port wine. A pure,
good one, too; Is cents buys full
quart. Geo. Benz & Sons, SIS Fourth
treet south.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12

The article on the eighth page of
this issue entitled deception or
Falsehood" should be credited to the
Minneapolis Penny Press.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12
is THIS BANKRUPTCY?

The gold bugs persist in claiming
that the U. S. treas ury is on the point
Of bankruptcy. Well, here are the Of
fetal figures giving the amount of
States on June
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-12

And we further showed that this
robbery had cost the people of Dakota
county, in % years, on wheat, oats and
corn alone, $34$ 900! And that the
amount taken from the individual
farmers, tributary to Hastings and
the other smaller towns, if put at legal
interest, during the past 25 years,
would have given each one of them
the snug little fortune of $3.e51.81.
We now propose to show the cause
of this tremendous robbery and find
out into whose pockets sthat So, 437, 500
have disappeared.
We have obtained possession of a
publication of the Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad Company entitled, tar
if on merchandise classes and SALT"
issued July IL, 1894, and now in force.
We find on page of the same, the
following table.
Merchandise-In cents per 100 lbs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
CRICKET FIGHTING.
Ous OF the Favorite Sports OF Chimes
Gamblers.

Oss OF the Favoritc Sports OF Chinese
Gamblers.
The Chinese are inveterate gamblers,
and never lose en- opportunity to bet,
no matter how trivial the cause may
be. One of their great institutions is
cricket fighting. the crickets being
caught. fed and trained carefully as q
blooded horse.
There is fixed diet for them, part Of
the food consisting of honey and boiled
chestnuts. If they get sick they are fed
with mosquitoes. Prior to fighting
their weight is ascertained and duly re-
corded, there being a fixed regulation
as to their size and weight.
On the door of the house IN which tho
fight is to take place the record Of each
cricket is pasted up, and the owner OF
the winner gets ten per cent of all the
bets.
The cricket pit is low tub placed on
q table, and, after weighing. the COM
batants are put IN it and tickled with
straws until they rush at each other
with loud chirrups and fight until one
of them is killed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08

to conjecture what had become OF t-S;
rest of the cake he stirred up the re-
mainder of his mixture and patted
cakes until he had twenty-four, each
weighing one-quarter of a pound. The
sun had passed behind the heavy oaks
in the yard, SO the German went to the
edge of the road, placed his boards SO
that the ends rested on two barrels,
and put thereon his soap cakes that
they might harden.
A cement sidewalk was in process of
construction across the road and
'sboat" full of Portland cement mixed
to mush with. water and torpedo"
sand, was adjacent and parallel to the
board and its load of cakes. The side
walk contractor was across the road
and the soapmaker went over to talk
with him. His back was turned on his
sticky product, taking advantage of
which fact, for this bird is sharp-a
family of seven blue jays, five full
fedged young and the two parents, de-
scended on the board and attacked the
soap. The contractor saw them and
voured the mixture of lye and grease
as donkey devours thistles. Then the
sidewalk man gasped out: Hans, they
are eating your soap"
The German turned, saw the last bit
of one cake disappear, and then grabbed
a big, round, smooth stone, such as the
lake casts up, and threw it, as man
puts" shot, straight at the robbers.
The birds rose, calling: Thief, thief"
for the bluejay is given to
calling himself names. The stone land
ed on the edge of the board and turned
the entire soap product into the sticky
mass of Portland cement. Soap and
cement were ruined.
The jays did not stop to decide which
was the madden of the men, but made
their way toward the ravine drive,
loudly calling Thief" as they went
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08

The method of using is as follows:
From the box containing the cells |
have line of wire, double, of course,
say, thirty to fifty feet long, slipped on
to each end Of the box by butterfly
nuts, the lamp, which is tied to a
branch of tree Immediately over, say,
twenty feet high, the bait being at the
other end.
AT about two yards from the bat
terry there is a connection. i think
called male switch. A short line of
wire about three or four feet long
makes the connection to the fore end
of my rife; az one end of this short
length there is female switch to fit
on to the above male one, and at the
other end two small rings are made Of
the wires. These rings are fastened
by two big-headed screws to the bed of
the connection. On nearing the tiger
at the kill aim as nearly in the direc-
ton as / can, then slight pressure OF
the thumb makes the electric connec-
ton and the light opens right over the
4iger."
This scientific sportsman also en-
ployed accumulators, but they did not
seem TO be adapted to such rongh
work He is now fitting himself with
battery which may be carried in the
belt like cartridges.
Thirty such batteries carried in this
way would, it is estimated. be sufficient
to provide sixteen-candle power light.
This system of night hunting, it has
been suggested. might well be en-
pIoyed in hunting big game in the
Ruel-iaS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
rHIEVING BIUEJAYS.
6 Family of Them Bring Sorrow to tn
Heart of Sospmaker.

Family of Them Bring Sorrow to the
Heart of . Sospmaker.
Samuels. the Massachusetts, rnithoio-
r;st, in one of his books tells n story of
/ bluejay and bit OF soap 1t was the
asst piece of soap that collecting par
" in the Adirondack wflds possessed,
md when the theft was committed by
The bird the action was noted carefully
Tor more than scientific reasons Bird
Students know that the jay will take al
most anything in sight and eat nine
,enths of what he takes, but they
thought he drew the line on soap. It
has been left TO family of Highland
Park ull.l jays to bear out samueis'
story and to break the soap-eating rec
ord, says the Chicago Tribune.
On the west side of the track IN the
suburb lives a German who thought
last week that he would try the ex-
pertinent of making soap for sale he
collected the proper ingredients, put
them together. stirred them to the con-
sistency of paste, and then Just at even
Ing he patted cake and put it on
BOARD in his yard to see If it would
harden over night He slept little
late and when he finally went to look
etihis soap cake, behold! it had all van
Sslked save thin edge. That was beau
Li4ully hid. though. end ass- se-ni:C
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
RURAL GEORGIA JOYS.
The Old-Time Log-RoninSs and Corn
Stockings Are Things of the Past.

The Old-Tfme Log-RolinCs and Corn.
Stockings Are Things of the Past.
1.-The old-time corn-shuckiugs and
sog-rollngs have played out In the land
of the SOUTH" remarked q Georgia
farmer from Ebert county recently
10 an Atlanta Constitution man, the
conversation turning to farm life and its
joys. ''Yes, one rarely ever sees the
genuine old-time Georgia corn
shocking these days. You. see, for
p number of years the farmers
Of this section of country did not
grew enough corn TO have a re-
spectacle corn-shucking. and as for log
rollings, the farmers have not been in
the humor Of late years TO clear MP
much new ground land. and for this
reason there has been no occasion for
much log-rolling."
A listener wanted 70 know what was
q log-roiling anyhow.
why. have you never heard Of the
log-roilings we used 10 have IN this
,country?" asked the farmer Then
you've missed half your life L. was
the greatest fun the darkies on the
farms had for years and years. The
farmer who had c,>.-ed a-I0 crouud
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
SHINING THE TIGER
sportsmen in India Make Use OF
the Electric Light.
It IL Not Exactly Fair to the Tiger, But .
Sreet Thing for the Hunter-A De.
tailed Description Of How tho
Light Is Operated.

Electricity has now been applied to
tiger-hunting, and the sportsman in
the Indian jungle before he pulls the
trigger OF his gun touches a button,
which throws food Of light upon his
prey. This may rob tiger-hunting of
much OF its romance, but it is effective,
Ind thus far several large, well-devel-
Sped tigers have been gathered in as
result Of the clever arrangement
1t has been found almost impossible
10 draw tigers into the open during the
lay near thiclly settled parts of India.
But at night this is easily accomplished
by placing dead carcass in some con-
vement place, where the hunter may
he hidden in ambush. But after the
tiger has scented the blood of the dead
lnjmal and has begun to tear the car
lass it is difficult for the hunter to take
aim without seeing him.
This has now been obviated by hang
Ing an electric light directly over the
carcass. At the instant that the light
Is turned on the tiger is SO startled by
its appearance that he does not move.
Tigers are not in the habit of looking
up, and it takes several seconds before
The animal realizes where the new,
strange light comes from. This pause,
which he makes before endeavoring to
escape, is quite sufficient to enable the
sportsman to take aim and place a
large, substantial bullet in vital part
Of the tigers body.
''At present." says the inventor of
this system in letter to the Scientific
American, Il use battery of six large
cells filled with sal ammoniac. 1t is
very heavy and cumbersome, and the
light only a five-candle power lamp.
Its recommendations are that the bat
terry is good for the next ten years and
only wants an occasional filing up of
the cells with water and sometimes q
little fresh sal ammoniac. AS / can
only go shooting during six months of
the year, this is a great advantage.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08

While storming the first line OF forts
at Port Arthur n soldier belonging to
the Twenty-fourth regiment raised his
rife to fire at an unusually conspicuous
Chinaman Just as he was about ready
to fire bullet from the enemy's side
came whizzing on and entered the
barrel of his own gun as smoothly and
neatly as if the muzzies had been
placed mouth TO mouth. OF course
there was an explosion and the soldiers
piece was shattered To the stock, but
without his receiving any INJURIES what
ever. A fractional variation to the
right or left would have caused the
bullet to enter his head, so that his
escape was nothing short of miraculous.
He preserved the stock Of the now use
less weapon, and afterward exhibited
it to his colonel, who permitted him 10
keep it as memento of his narrow es-
cape.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
AN INSECTS QUEER APPETITE.
It Prefers . Diet Of ocean Gables to Any
thing Else.

=
thing Else.
A curious fact was brought under the
attention of the visitors assembled at
the opening of the Telephone Trunk
lines recently, says the London News.
A portion Of the cable laid across from
Portpatrick to Donaghadee was shown
around, and it was pointed out that the
five insulated copper wires constituting
the core of the cable-the real tele-
graphic cable-were incased in sheath
ing of brass which had been wound
around them in the form of thin metal
tape. The object of this was to pro-
tect the guttapercha insulation from
the attack of minute marine organ
ism known as the "gribble." There
was a time, of course, when the gribble
knew nothing about telegraphic insu-
lating materials, and indeed over
large part of the sea bottom such mod
ern luxuries are quite unknown.
But the era of marine telegraphy
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 tho
taste for bananas or ported anchovies.
They find their way in between the
sheathing Of strong iron wire and eat
through everything in the way of in
sulating material till they get to the
copper strands, when, of course, tho
water gets in and the conducting power
of the cable is at an end.
The curious fact is that the ravages
of the gribble were unknown in tbs
early days of ocean telegraphy, and
that this peculiar taste is not only an
acquired one, but seems to be extend
ing in just the same way as the acquired
tastes of human beings. At present
the fashion Of guttapercha eating does
not go further north than Portpatrick.
But it has long been moving north
ward, and will probably soon be uni
versaL The brass proves an effectual
barrier so far, but whether these little
denizens of the deep may not by and by
find even metal tape piquant addition
to their larder remains to be seen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
They Found Out.

They round Out.
Hobby-Have You poured Al the
powder into the bottle?
FreIdie-Yes.
Bobby-Hhen let Us drop q lighted
match il and see how much Of it will
go off.-JLdGe..
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
Re Would Get 1t.

Lord Cockburn, though a successful
defender Of prisoners, failed on one oc-
casion to get nm acquittal for a muir
derer. "Thc culprit," Mr.. Croak James
tells us, in his ''Curiosities of Law and
LAWYERS" ''after the sentence fixing
his execution for the Goth OF the
month. had not been removed from the
dock when his counsel passed him, and
was then seized by the gown. The
prisoner said: I have not got justice,
Mr.. Cockburn.' To this counsel grave
~ replied: Perhaps not, but you'll get
4 On the GOTH"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
ghe qqlieha Daily Eagle Thursday morre august 1895

when the trees had all been cuc uOHn
and the brush clipped off and burned,
wanted to get all the logs of the field
ibefsre he could cultivate it. Therefore
he would give what is called log-roll-
ing, to which he would invite all the
darkies and laborerson the neighboring
farms on some suitable day. There was
no compensation in it, for it was a pic
mic, though you would never think it,
for it was the hardest sort of work
The. darkies all would come in high
glee, knowing that a great jug Of
whisky would be dished out to them
and that big dinner would be given
by the landlord who gave the log-ron-
ling. What is meant by rolling logs il
putting handstick under them, with
q darby at each end of the stick, and
lifting the logs from the ground and
then conveying them to pile here and
there about the new ground, where
they would be burned later The fun
came in with the rivalry among the
ldarkies to see who was the champion
litter of the day. They would have
great straps of leather that went over
their shoulders in loop, and through
this loop they would stick their hand
sticks, sometimes enabling them to lift
with their hands and their whole bod
les at the same time, throwing their
strength against their opponent, who
had hold of the other end of the hand
stick under the log. This strap Of
leather, for some reason, was called an
Alabama 1t was great fun to see
them straining their very lives away
under the great, heavy logs here and
there about the field. When night
came on the frolic wound up with
great dance and hot supper as they
called it, in the landlords kitchen"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08
Encouragfns.

The HosSess-Please sing, Mr.. Tenor.
The Theoretically, you know, have
no voice. u
The Hostess. Oh, that won't matt>r.
They ara all talking, and they won't
hear you.-Texas Siftings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-08

We have the eniy CARPET Dusser IN the
West, and have just added machinery foe
dry cleaning o. dresses Of every Kind vita
out ripping. Portiers. CheoeiIs and Cor.
tsins Of eli styles eiesned aud guaranteed
10 give satisfaction Our references th,
lest In the city. Ofjce-l3s -. LATks. ~
tactory-S5i West Douglas ave.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-22
REAL ESTATE.
BUSINESS AT TIE EXCHANGES

Seven auctioneers occupied their stands at the auc
ton rooms yesterday, but out Of many announce
ncnts only four parcels were sod
At the'Broadway Real Estate saesroom. John \
Colding sold. in foreclosure No $40 West Thirty
eichth-st threestory frame buildings lot gxasa TO
Jacob Korn. for $1,000 Hall j. How & Co sold in
foreclosure the southwest OF Hudson and
Perry s5 st ayoi hve,SoTy brick lot
sSN'X Go 20 sois IN A%%mi for 81 g.,
Forty-nlnth-st, twostory brick stable LOT 25xlO0
Smyth Sold in foreclosure in West 6nShund n,p
andtor,y-siNth ana West Northumberland forty
Sg5i6 10 charles j Kends f for sS pot
Hoffman Brothers have sold another plot in Broad
and TIVE lots in 81, for triie less than $4,000.
MIS-. nate - Stokes mas sod The three and one
falf-story and basement dwelling property. PIX halt
Brown estate Of Providence. for S77.SsO
Il. r IcSeihemcr. banker. has purchased for his
cwelns house. - 6xG5XlO22 No 20 East Seventy
seconl-s;.. from Isaac Brandon. for about ST. 500
Oppcnhe.mc y Motzger have purchased from the
.trner Of Amstsrdam,ave' and 0ne.hgnGred-and
tXth-st. for about $500 and have Iesod the same
Colonei, J Hamilton Hunt has sold for Colonel
:Altree Wags'"E 10 John r. Todd three lots on on
g lmous-ave, west side twenty-five feet south OF
Tgbtieth-st size l6fyl00. and adjoining lot on
i al, e la I~' n.y. Io' S %"Du'
snd wln il Is reported Zoe improved once.
H. NJ Mon,Comory mas sold for Mrs Murray, at
owelne. lexlo22 The Cuppa cottage at Pelham
Manor iS tih'li IN tNt ildlNc. me HOuSc N09N '"o
,resent seller S2>ooO in lNS6.
Theodore +. endt is the purchaser OF No 40
West sixty ninth-st. the sale OF which was re-
tentiy reported.
Nj Hcnnessy. the builder. is the purchaser OF
.he northwest corner OF Amsterdam ave ana one
hundred-and- siNth-st.. the sale Of which by e. l.
Lawrence. reported Yesterday. -
NJ H. Hewitt & Co have sold for Albert chimney
,he four-sjory house No. SOC West Thirty second
g. lt>Ne>9 -
The report that the American Surety Company
r. leased from the Asl1r estate the Schermerhorn
building. No e6 broadway. is premature. No con
f-sct h.s been signed. but negotiations 10 that
trl are la progress -, 60.
r. j. Hayden 81 X. HAYDEN & Co. has sold for
William u Johnston the seNcnteen-ioot brown
trne private DWELLING No. 5S3 West One-hundred-
anl-f0rty- nluth-st.. to Joseph Clark )r Tor $o"o'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-22

The following plans buildings and alterations
filed with the Building Department.
New buildings
Praft-ave. go f. Of KnEshrdge Road by
and-a- half-so frame dwelling SloD
leth-s No az West hy Charles Hoerle ~ -"
West 22l-st. for four-s,oy brick stable l'''o
fer a. s s' ny BRICK s, and Ic,s 10000
Wnlardst. p 200 n 81 Nari0-ave. ty Lola
Au. 81 Woodawn Heights. for four two-siory 49,.
dwellings "-uo
Watson-st. corner Ash-st. Wil!iamshridg". 10y
Tonoy Cancr0. 4 34f East llofh-st, for q Two
frame dwelling Lou
Walnut-ave. s. Arden property Williams ridge
by Charles u schiruer. u 800 West i@l-s' 49,.
for two-story frame dwelling ...-....---.-. -'''
jefferson av 81 n of Tremont-aNo n}
Ahram Caster II g51 Nanderhilt-ave. far fw' 800
twC-story frame dwellings ~ t'''
ave 25l1 II 4 9ls'-st. hy August Jnclh -
2Go East 7Sihst. 10. four four-st0ry brick ha's 1900,
Amsterdam ave e s = Z; n q 2l3th-s'. hy Wal'e-
White. 81 Inwood for a iWo-si'ry frame 90,
washington square south ~ y ny Juds3
Memorial Church tBullirg C'rlnlIt'eei ~
Mlrtclair. George " MURRAY. secretary FOR 800.
Alterations
13ith-sf NJ 7O3 East by Thomas j Britain. OF
NJ 703 East l34th-st o. one-siory frame 400
gS qwellI W ~ - AMI a by ! r ana y p
Pal1iersturc. q Nos - and 81 and NJ ~ W'ft 1900
C5th-si nve-story brick factory l-f
Elizabe'h-s NJ %. hy estate Of John Callahan 800,
thr4e-st0~v brick stable. l'll
Pailev-ave n So hy John Parsons - Kings
bridge % "a brick DWELLING. -
IInis n-si. No - West. hy Paul Sorntag = 81
3-+ plefsant-ave. % "a fhrec-story brick factor.
3i-ave. * 50 by he estate = II VI Ahren-
James VI Bowers executor. ~ - Wi.am-st
a four-story brick store and tenfm nt----.. 'f'