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men, and all such things are false. Mr..
Leedy win 90 into Office absolutely free
from any entSngling alliances.
ECONOMY NEEDED IN STATE AFFAIRS.

papers, tending to show that the pres.
ent Republican administration is weak,
vaClllating, dishonest and extrsvagsnt,
1t would seem unnecessary to submit
anything further on that line. Begin.
ming with tho Governor helping him.
SELF to several hundred dollars out OF
his contingent fund to pay clerk hire
and expenses incurred prior to his In
auguratlon, and ending with the steal.
Ing Of carpets by employees who are
still retained on the payroll, the "busi.
ness" features Of this administration
seem to be failures except for the
few people who happen to Le In Office.
It has been charged openly that old
soldiers have been killed at Osswat-
omie Insane Asylum, yet not even an
investigation was made. Gust Msuer
WOs sent home from the Topeka Insane
Asylum with two black eyes, a broken
nose and broken neck, his body being
accompanied by a certificate from the
Superintendent that he had died of
spOplexy, yet no effort was ever made
to right the wrong, and the Superin-
tendent Is still In Office. Similar cases
are being brought to light, but the
"businesS" administration lacks time
or disposition to look after the poor
unfortunstes who are being brutslly
treated. The expenses of State insti.
tutlons have been permitted to steadily
increase, yet the poor inmates COM
plain Of lack Of good food. Police
Commissioners are named In the first
class cities, who, with one or two ex-
ceptions, are fning joints, OF, rather,
In effect are multiplying the prohibitory
law and putting into operation a high
license system. No effort is being
made to enforce the law as the statute
and the Governors oath Of Office con.
templates. Corruption is permitted
to creep In everywhere. Public affairs
are handled as If public Office was q
private snap.
All these things have been repeat.
edly placed before ADVOCATE readers.
The evidence Of Republican news.
papers has been submitted to q great
extent. There can be no doubt but
that this is the most extraVagant and
re Ckless administration the State has
had In years. The table given on an
other page proves this. And in this
connection the ADVOCATE desires to
state that these figures are absolutely
correct, without any juggling or at
tempt at Misrepresentation, and are as
shown by the records. Any other
statement Of conditions Is juggled so
that the true figures are not shown.
Now It is no use to turn these men
down unless better are named In their
stead. But voters have a Peoples
party ticket before chem, made up Of
careful, plain, honest men, committed
to an economical administration Of
affairs. They are from the ranks and
are acquainted In their every day life
with the full meaning of the word
economy. With one exception they
are men with very small amount Of
this worlds goods to their credit. They
are not used to high or luxurious liv-
ing, They know the condition Of the
common people, because they come of
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For COngressrnen.

At large .................J.D D. Botkin, NeodeshS
First district Il. BAllOu, Seneca
Second district. M. 3. Peters, Kansas City
Third District. .......B E. R. Ridgley, Pittsburg
Fourth district. ....... John Madden, Empori&
Fifth district. ...W. d. Vincent, Clay Center
Sixth District. N. B. Mccormick, Philllpsburg
Seventh dist Jerry Simpson, Medicine Ledge
The advocate., 1896-10-28

THE charges that Leedy is promlS-
Ing places, getting money from WhiSky
The advocate., 1896-10-28

COLONEL NORTON wisely says,
"Turn the guns on the enemy"
The advocate., 1896-10-28

AFTER returning from q recent
Western campaign tour, Senator Lodge
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-18

OF these mischievous animals have
been killed by the hounds or ]. q.
Fellows Of Los Angeles and the sport
may be ranked with any In excite
ment, while, being followed on horse.
back, It affords a, ride through one of
the most delightful portions Of the
Southern country.
The wild cat Of this country. while
not so large as its cousin Of Colorado.
and other states, IS a large and power
full animal for cat, averaging forty
81 fifty pounds, with small tassels on
Its ears. high rump ana small, ridicu-
ioulsy small tail, which, however, ia a
> cry expressive organ. q.
The Wild cat is, according to some.
authorities, the ancestor of the pres
ent domestic cat. The long tall of the
house cat may be accounted for by as
Stunning that generations Of boys. in
pulling the tails Of cats, have produced
the elongated caudal appendage.
The Southern California wild cat Is.
properly speaking, a lynx, being a va
r1ety of these animals and known to
science as lynx RUPEES, variety macula-
tus. 1t has wide range over Califor-
MIA and New Mexico, Arizona and the
North and South.-Chfcago Tribune.
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low luncheons and pink teas have had
their day. The national luncheon"
and the 'period" tea have superseded
them. You may, If you have either
wealth or wit enough; give a Greer, a
Roman. q Scandinavian or Russian
luncheon. They require painful
amount Of reading up beforehand,
and either a bulky purse or an ex-
haustless ingenuity to contriye But
they are novel, and the average wo-#
man will spend laborious days and
sleepless nights to achieve a novel en-
tertainment. The 'speriod" tea has
nothing to do with punctuation; it
merely means a tea Of the Marie An
toinette period or the Napoleonic OF
the Elizabethan or some other. Like
the luncheon, it is an instructive form
Of entertainment. The tea room, or
the tea corner, is furnished ia Louis
Seize or Elizibethan style; the hostess
and her helpers are clad in Marie An
Seize or Elizabethan style; the host
conversation Is twisted to the French
or the English court, as the case may
be.-NeW York World. p
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A modern thinker has said: 1.-THE
only empire freely conceded to women
is that of manner; but it is worth all
the rest put together" And a young
mother of the writer's acquaintance,
speaking Of her baby girl, said earnest
ly: 1T I might claim a fairy god
mothers single gift for her, it should
not be beauty, intellect or wit, but that
charming manner which makes it's
possessor universally liked. We in
stinctively feel that the graces and
amenities of life must always be larger
under the direction Of women, and
these graces and amenities are too
strong a power to be ignored. One
sees women who may be intellectually
ignorant and narrow, but whose
charming manners gave them a social
power quite beyond their broader and
better-educated sisters. And, after all,
to make pleasantness and peace for all
ones little world, to make ones house
a place where every guest enters
eagerly and leaves reluctantly, to give
courage to the timid, ease to the awk-
ward, to repress undue vigor Of dis
cussion and to make even controversy
pleasant, all belongs to woman's ira
ditional sphere, so important that even
the virtues are not quite complete
without it," So.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-18
Shield the Dull Children.

There is usually one Of a family Of
children who is slower to learn than
the others, just as some develop phys
ically less rapidly than others; and it
is for those slow ones that I plead.
These children are often allowed, by
the negligence or ill-judgment of pa
rents, to be made the butts of jests on
the part Of other members of the fam
lily. This is wrong. Many times these
slower children are sensitive to re-
marks on the subject, and are not only
made quite miserable and unhappy by
it, but their mental development and
growth are retarded by the discourage
ment, and fear Of asking questions
that follows. Lives are embittered by
the cruel jests Of brothers and sisters
far often than careless people imagine,
and what is a. natural popularity of a
certain child's constitution is spoken
Of as If it were a fault or crime, to be
ashamed Of or hidden. The seeming
dull boy of a family is often the one
who makes the family name illustri.
cus.-Good Housekeeping.
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An Island of Fire

The greatest natural wonder in Java,
If not in the entire world, is the justly
celebrated "Gheko Kandka Gumko,''
or Home of the Hot Devils" known
to the world as ''The Island Of Fire.
This geological singularity is really a.
lake of boiling mud, situated at about
the center of the plains of Grobogana,
and is called an island because the.
great emerald sea of vegetation which
surrounds it gives it that appearance:
The ''island" is about two miles in cir
conference, and it is situated at dis
lance Of almost exactly fifty miles
from Solo. Near the center. of this ge-
illogical freak immense columns Of
soft, hot mud may be seen continually
rising and falling like great timbers:
thrust through the boiling stgstra tum,
by giant hands and then again quick
ly withdrawn.
Besides the phenomenon of" the boii-
ing mud columns, there are scores of.
gigantic bubbles Of hot slime that fill
up like huge balloons, and keep up a.
series of constant explosions, the in
tensity Of the detonations varying
with the size of the bubbles In the,
past, so the Japanese authorities say.
there was tall, spire-like column Of.
baked mud on the west edge Of the
lake, which constantly belched a pure.
stream Of cold water; but this has long
been obliterated, and everything la
now seething mass of bubbling, mud
and slime.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-18
The Spray Boiler

The spray boiler, so-called, COM
mends itself, especially for steam car
riages on common roads, for it has the
least weight for a given efficiency Of
any steam generator known. True, it
has the disadvantage Of wearing out
very rapidly, but this is not so serious
an evil as the words seem to imply.
When it is said that steam boiler
wears out rapidly, an idea is given of
an expensive generator, but the value
Of the spray boiler lies in the fact that
it is not expensive to either construct
or maintain. The spray boiler is all
heating surface. and requires no costly
fire box, which is one Of the first
places to give trouble; it carries no
dead weight of water, either, and has
distinct merits for the work mentioned.
1t is not an original suggestion with us
to use it for road carriages-for the
Serpollet boiler Is constructed upon
this principle, and the road carriage
used by M. Serpollet has proven to be
a practical machine in daily use. Per-
sons who are about to design steam
wagons for common roads should In
vestigate the merits of the spray type
of boiler for the purpose.-Engineer.
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WILD CATS AND HOUNDS I
A. High Jumper the Calf ornfs
Lynx Has Few EquaIs

~ High Jumper the California
Lynx Has Few Equals.
rs this a coon or q fox hunt ~ asks
q lady on q spirited little broncho. Il
have come out. for wild cats" ..And
you shall have one said the master
Of the hounds, as the bay Of. old frog
ers'' broke the stiffness. IF that isn't
q cat I'm greatly mistaken. Stand
back, gentlemen he cried, as mo,
Hent later the hounds grew louder,
and then the whole pack swept by as
If in review before the sweating, chat
ing horses. Away they go, living
Whirlwind, the horses leapfng after.
The plunging, roaring, scrambling. are
tndescribable. Down the bank, up the
other side, the green hands cursing,
while the old climbers scramble over
and find. themselves in the thickness
of narrow arroyo jtlngles. Shouts
come from all about Some see the
game and some merely think they. do;
but, finally, amid a perfect pandenonf-
UNI, comes the. welcome sound,
"Treed."'
The horses come struggling up; some
without riders, and riders without
nats. Some are caught in the briars,
and seem unable to get out, but finally
the field is assembled around big
sycamore, about which the dogs arc
grouped, making music. Some at
tempt to climb and fall back. One
young dog gains ten feet up the slip
perry trunk, only to slide down again.
What is it all about? Cast your eyes
upward, fifty, yes, sixty feet, and
there is the object Of all the work.
sport, early rising and general uproar
the arch chicken thief himself. How
big he looks, crouching on a big limb,
back against the trunk, looking down
at his tormentors; his two eyes blazing
green and yellow his ears twitching
nervously, and his short tail moving
back and forth, indicative Of rage and
fear. freed, surely, and caught? No,
indeed. The chances are that he will
make another tree before the finish.
"Give him a chance to rest" says
the master of the hounds, who believes
in fair play if anything. 'sHe is wind
ed, and so are the dogs" But the lat
ter do not care to wait. They sit and
look, with eager eyes, tongues hanging
out, and white, froth-fecked teeth,
showing formidable array for poor
puss, who looks down to almost Ger
tain death. Still, cats are said to have
nine lives, and he does not propose to
give them up SO readily.
"Now, ladies and gentlemen" says
the huntsman, 'form yourselves in q
circle about the trees and give the
dogs full play and don't shoot; the
hounds have worked for the cat and,
they deserve it. Again, it is the most
humane way Of looking at it; the dogs
will kill the cat sooner than a bullet
With the little speech delivered for
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-18
A QUEER DUTCH IsLxNn

Where the Men Wear Bloomerx and
Many Are iMillionnfres.
At Monnikendam, a struggling old
village, I took queer-shaped sail boat
called "botta" for Marker island.
writes Will II. Davidson In the Fulton
Democrat. The island is q low piece
of ground, probably a mile in ctrcum-
ference, inhabited almost exclusively
by fishermen, whose costumes stamp
them as the most unique people in
Holland. The men wear boomers and
the women short dresses coming a lit
tie below the knees, with bright bod
Ices and highly ornamented headgear,
from which a long curl hangs down
over each ear. The children are all
p1cturesquely dressed in like fashion.
1t is said there Is not a man, woman
or twelve-year-old child on the island
who cannot read and write, and many
Of the residents are mil1ionaires~ Their
homes are built of wood and are low
and humble, but the interiors show q
neatness and cheerfulness bordering on
refinement.
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the benefit Of the excitable tenderfeet
In the hunt, the horses are arranged in
a big circle about the sycamore, and a
young man who wishes to beard the
lion in his den crawls slowly up. AS
he draws nearer the cat the latter
looks around in desperation. The tail
twitches quicker and more nervously;
glanclng down at the open-mouthed
dogs, then at the approaching human
enemy, the poor animal is evidently
considering the chances. Nearer the
climber comes, until man and cat gaze
into each others eyes scarce three
feet away. For moment puss hest
tates, then turning quickly, he steadies
himself, and with mighty spring is
In the air. Down he goes, fifty feet,
bounces among the bush, a mass Of
springs, steel and rubber, and is away.
He has landed just beyond the circle
and a horse has dashed aside to let
him pass, followed by the pack in full
cry. They go like a flash Of light, a
roaring, crashing sound; a scream
and puss is again visible, perched upon
the limb Of another big sycamore.
Then the same thing is repeated,
again and again, and the women re-
pent, and cries Of "Let him co. Poor
puss," are heard among the baying Of
the dogs that are growing fairly mad
with unappeased fe1 ociousness Again
the young man faces the cat, this time
fully sixty feet from the ground.
Surely if ever an animal had won it's
liberty this one had. But the game is
up. The dogs are spreading, and as
out into the air the cat leaps in mag
nificent form, they collect. Down he
comes, like gigantic flying squirrel,
with his legs spread far apart, the
soft, cushion-like pads ready for re-
bound. Like flash he cuts the air,
strikes the ground at the writer's feet.
and is enveloped in a whirlWind Of
ferocious hounds
The agony of the cat is over in a
second, but the dogs fight, war and
struggle until each has vented his rage
upon the inanimate skin that is now
borne aloft as trophy. Not few Of
the dogs but have felt the sharp teeth
and claws of the vicious cat that tips
the scales at fifty pounds.
We'll, said a tenderfoot. ssfor up
midtown excitement that beats any
thing ever saw or heard Of. It makes
your very hair stand on end. and T
fancy that if the cat would strike any
one during the jump he would, in all
probability, go under
Two other cats were freed. and
these, with a coon and coyote, con-
stituted the morning hunt. Like fish
Ing, wild cat hunting changes. Some
times they are plentiful, and again not
one is seen. In all, several hundred
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-18
To Carry Her. Dog.

90, A pretty young woman entered q
Sixth avenue elevated train at Thirty
third street. She carried an odd
shaped black satchel in her right hand.
and carefully deposited it on a vacant
seat beside her. The receptacle was
about foot square: land on one side
was an open-work silver plate, perhaps
is a foot square, and cur5ously worked
in fflagree. She got off at Forty sec
ond street. and then young man re-
marked to his companion That's
Mile. She's going to the Metro
politan opera house, I suppose. Did
you notice the bag she carried? It
was made for her pet dog. It ena-
bles her to take tho animal past hotel
and car porters. The silver plate ad-.
.mits air. presume there were pair
of snappy eyes in that bag just now
Il know there were outside" rejoined
his companion And he was right.
New York Correspondence Pittsburg5
Dispatch
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The dahlia, mulberry and reddish
plum shades in velvet and cloth are
much used for elegant fur-trimmed
costumes. 49,
Changeable velvets in color mixtures
are employed in the making Of Louis
XVI. theater and opera capes and
coats. ~ -$E" -H@s ~
Very handsome costumes are made
Of moss-green corduroy trimmed on
the coat front with rich irridescent
passementeries and elsewhere deco.
rated with narrow bands of dark mink
fur.
The jacket with stitched bands sim.
u1ating box-plaits belted in the back
and having open fronts over a fancy
vest, retains favor for youthful wear
ers, both here and abroad. This model
has full sleeves and two cape collars
edged with narrow fur.
Changeable effects in silks, satins,
silk and wool mixtures and In fancy
velyets are still the very correct fash.
ion, notWithstandin their long limit
OF favoritism. Changeable corded fab
RIGS, both In silk and Atwood, are in
great use and appear in new and at.
tractiye effects. \.
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from the pommeI OF the dle;when NJ
FOUND he had forgotten to unfasten It
from the horses neck Being III the
SUR, 1t was too dangerous to now try
ana cut it, and, to save himself, he
cast adrlft his faithful animal and
struggled for the shore, which he8
reached IN an exhausted condition. He
saw his horse but ONCE afterWard, and
It was then being sowed to sea. IT
was found the next morning on the.
beach.
1t seems that, in some way, the rope
was broken and the drowned horse
was then cast up on the sand.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-18
Warm Night Garments.


When the air is cold and the weather
inclement it is the general custom to
wear garments Of extra thickness and
warmth and to sit, around roaring
fires. But on going to bed, what takes
place? In ninety-nine cases out Of 100
people pass from the warm living
rooms into chilly bedrooms. AS if the
sudden change from extreme heat
for there can be little doubt that what
with fires. gas and insufficient ventila-
ton, people are in the habit Of breath
ing an atmosphere the temperature Of
which is considerably higher than it
should hygienically be-to' excessive
proceed to divest themselves of their
several warm garments, to garb them
selves in thin. linen nightshirts; and
to consign their heated bodies to the
cooling influence of unsympathetic
sheets! Conventionality has habitu-
ated one to the custom; but a really
serious contemplation of it cannot fail
to make the utter absurdity of the Gus
tom clearly apparent.
The Chinese, from whom many use
full lessons have been learned by more
civilized nations. can give us a wrink-
lie on this subject John Chfnaman
sleeps in the same kind Of clothes as
he wears in the daytime the easy and
flowing garments to which he is adj
dicted allowing of this without caus-
ing Inconvenience. Western nations
are not favored in the latter respect,
but still it would be quite possible to
replace the airy nightshirt, at present
i'll vogue, by some garment which, as
regards warmth, was equivalent to the
several distinct articles of clothing
constituting the working dress worn
by day. Dwellers in foreign countries
invariably sleep in flannel garments,
and the backwoodsman wraps himself
in Il stout wooden blanket and defes
the elements. They are sensible. The
human frame should. undoubtedly, be
clothed in wooden garments, for wool
is a bad conductor Of heat. Enveloped
IN flannel, the body maintains a nor
NAL temperature, which is Of the great
est Importance. No sooner does the
Temperature fall than the action Of the
various functions becomes impaired,
the nerves get out of gear, and the
whole system suffers disorganization
Health. @@ l5.:|-s E3
Entertaining Ones Friends New
#55 G=E Way. S.a &
After she has decided what she shall
eat and what she shall drink and
WhereWithal she shall be clothed. the
( question which most agitates the mind
i of the average woman is how she shall
entertain. What novel form of
amusement shall she devise for her
5H friends 2 To what @s11nioua $festiv itv
shall she summon them?
In the matter Of luncheons and teas,
the "color" fad is quite worn out. Vel
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-18
LassOed a Sea Lion.

G. F. Monroe, a resident Of Fresno
county, who has been spending some
weeks in this vicinity, limiting and
fishing, principally on the coast, met
with an experience which nearly cost
him his life, writes Ukiah (Cal.) cor
respondent to the San Francisco Ex-
aminer.. -- s:-a-.x.., -.
Monroe. who had been camping in
the redwoods, near Usal, discovered,
while riding on the beach some miles
south Of Bar Harbor, a group Of sea
lions summing themselves. According
ly, dismounting, he described a wide
circle and came upon them unawares.
Watching them for some minutes, he
finally took aim and fired, but his aim
was untrue, and, though wounding a
lion severely. the animal was still able
to founder about, and was making all
possible hasterto get back to the water
again.
Being an expert with the losso, Mon
roe determined to capture the creature,
and, mounting his horse, he Embossed
his rope and threw 1t over the lions
head and behind one Of his nippers,
then taking a; turn with the rope
around the pommel Of his saddle Not
withstanding the wounded condition
OF the lion, 1t still struggled toward
the water It was not long before all
were floundering In the surf. Monroe
finally succeeded In loosentng the rope
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-18
Stealing Stamps.

I once talked with man who had
served a term in prison for embezzle-
ment; he said that the first step in
his downward fall was the stamp
drawer. The clerks In that store, as
in many, If not in most stores, helped
themselves to stamps from the drawer
for their private letters, using the
firms stationery, also. What more
natural than they should take few
more natural than that they should
take few more stamps If they were
ordering q trife by mail? Having
made this start, and seeing no trouble
therefrom, how easy it was to take a
larger amount when more expensive
article was wanted! The step from
the dollars worth Of stamps to the
dollar itself was not very long one,
and then to larger amounts, followed,
ct length, BY discovery and prison.
/ Hard 0 81. &