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TBAMPS THE1 OCEAN MLVNESOTA NEWS i ejfcr of a 'very different characteAfrom BIGGEST DEERICK IX THE WORLD Z7 1 I 1 Madonna inBorne will ber that fn one or two of them there is Ji 4U uaVj auu vtvumc paivvi ut tc uiuuco 6f the men who did this work Maine thought of a people often long ihce ssy and not i DUtory o' the Wedding Itlnj A long time ago the wedding ring was worn on the forefinger and was thickly studded with precious stones People have seen the old pictures a a 8 w1 11 a Ui vuo Aiauumia iu xxuinu aaa and stiffened with a number of trusses The' mast is sustained by guys running from the top to points averaging about two hundred dlsiant and anchored Queer Old Boats That Sail Aim lessly Those BUver Dollar The statement so persistently circu lated by Carlisle Eckles Co that there are 370000000 silver dollars in the v' United States treasury that cannot be gotten out into circulation is but ar flimsy subterfuges Every silver dollar thus in the treas ury is in active circulation in the form oflegal tender silver certificates just as fifty million dollars in gold are in circulation in gold certificates' Even the silver bullion bought under the operation of the Sherman act is every dollar of it in circulation in the form of legal tender treasury coin notes Tell the truth George Ward 'T Senator Peffer We are not one whd thinks that all republicans at Washington spend their entire time buckling down to hard la bor and burning the midnight oil while democrats and populists do noth ing but loaf Senator Peffer is indus trious 1 by habit His industry at Washington may be productive of nothing valuable and yet it has sev eral times resulted in stirring up the senate very beneficially Peffer has not disgraced Kansas by any act of immorality or intemperance He is a quiet clean respectable Christian gen tleman and populist though lie is To peka is not ashamed of him We are not afraid he will ste'al Topeka Journal (Bep) survives the existence of the coin or other commodity upon which it was based The money of account of the Bank of Venice undisturbed for fifty years had to cor respond with it and the value of all coins was expressed in it A money of account is a language in which all'values or prices may be expressed and by means of which the relative value of cotntnodities may be stated It is something which each and everyone carries in his mind as he does his knowledge of words or of arithmetic and in so doing he is quite independent 1 of any thought of coinage or of circu Metalllo Possibilities In a free coinage letter in the Sig ourUey (la) Review which opposes free coinage' ex Congressman White among other things says: official figures I showed that the small amount of gold available for coinage' fell far short of providing for our in iuereasing population on the basis of S25per capita I pointed that it would take thirty two yeavs (coining all the gold and silver we could get) to bring our per capita circulation up to WO the amount sanctioned by experience tor granite quarry at Barre VL The mast which is ninety nine feet high stands higher than any similar one yet erected Both the mast and the boom are built of heavy steel plates riveted together with hundreds of large bolts a glistening fho forefinger of her right hand but with Christianity Seme the wearing of the wedding ring a the third finger rather than the first The old story of there being vein that run a from that finger to the heart is nonsense Its use originated In this way: The priest first pdt it on the thumb saying: the name of the on the forefinger adding the name of the on the1 sec ond finger repeating: the of the Holy and oh the third fin ger ending with and there it staid Just now Librarian Spofford writes the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune is busy with plans for the arrangement of the new into which he hopes to move before twoyears are past exterior of the building is quite completed and work on the interior is going on rapid ly which is matterof great gratifica tion to Mr Spofford who has labored for years with one end in view that the national library should be worthy of the nation Mr Spofford came to Washington in 1861 when ho was appointed first as sistant librarian by President Lincoln Three years later on the resignation of Mr Stephenson he was made librarian which office he has held continuously since' remarkable memory jis a subject for wonder and comment He seems to ave the 700000 bociks yvhich compose the' library catalogued in his mind and re members facts about the most insignificant volumes when they were written by whom and when they came into the library A quota tion he will place at once and can give the references' evpry subject with out having resort to any catalogue save that in his own mind His knowl edge is limitless and with it he is gen erous and helpful seemingly having an interest in the researches of each indi vidual Mr Spofford is a man of great nervous force and energy of in defatigable industry and possessed of immense power of concentration The force Within him indeed seems to too great for his slender frome "When Mr Spofford took charge of the library it had not yet recovered from the'destructive fire of 1855 and contained only 70000 yolumes In thd thirty years he has been in charge the library has increased tenfold and long ago outgrew the allotted to it in the capital The alcoves and floors are piled with books and documents' While the immense number of and pother copyrighted matter has found an an asylum in the crypt desk even is surrounded by great piles and just at present the library with of matter for which there is no room resembles chaos The removal THE BASIC DELUSION Until It Is Dispelled No Scientific Solation of the Money Question Is Possible In the Chicago Times Herald of May SI Prof Laurence Laughlin again gives to the basic delusion or primary fallacy upon which the un scientific and oppressive monetary sys tems of the civilized world are based Says Mr Laughlin: value of any article is what it will exchange for in other goods The value of a ton of steel is not merely the amount of wheat it will exchange for but the oats molasses eggs cloth beef or any article in existence Value is the purchasing power over Commod ities in general Its vplue is its pur chasing power over these various com modities The value of tone thing always relative to something price of an article however is the Value of it in relation to only one other commodity money its price is the quantity of money for which it will exchange The difference between price and value is apparent at So also Mr Hugo Bilgram of Phil adelphia who enjoys the reputation of being one of the foremost students of political economy in the United States and is well known as a waiter and author takes exception to that portion of the new monetary creed which de clares that the unit of value by means of which the exchangeable value of 1 articles is estimated is not as is gen erally supposed a metallic coin but an abstract unit of enumeration mere ly Mr Bilgram holds that it is im possible to conceive of a unit of value which shall be of a speci fied amount off a given commodity or list of A Many other enthusastic able'land sincere advocates of economic and financial reform are blinded and be fuddled by the same and ridiculous hallucination and per sist in confounding the Invariable and immutable of with the metallic representative of it commonly known as the of or of The distinctive dif ference between these two schools of thought is the vital' essence of the and the point that must1 first be settled before anything like true and scientific monetary re form can be accomplished It is the supreme of the entire monetarydiscussion A glancq at the two paragraphs clipped from Prof article will suffice to show that he has flatly contradicted' himself therein If of a commodity is arrived at by ascertaining the quantity of other commodities it will exchange for then tlie office and function of money is a purely numerical and arithmetical one being that of expressing in char acters or signs (figures) the relative values of the several goods and com Thus the of an article is not value of it in rela tion to only one other commodity but on the contrary is the relative valqe of an article as compared with all other articles expressed iq numerical terms or mon etary denominations In Knox vs Lee and Barker vs Davis 12 Wallace page 457 inYtyhat arexommonlyknown as the legal tenderjcasesv the supreme court says: 'fe 'C' i is hardly correct to speak of a standard of value The constitution does not speak of it contemplates a standard for that which Jias gravity or extension value is an ideal thing The coinage acts fix its unit as a dollar but the gold or silver thing we call a dollar is a standard of a dollar It is a representative of it There might never have been a piece of money of the denomination of a dollar There never was a pound sterling coined until 1815 if we except a few coins struck in the reign of Henry VIII almost immediately de based yet it has been the unit of British currency for many genera ullerton (Regulation of Currencies) says:" as far as concerns' our do mestic exchange all the monetary functions which are usually performed by and silver coins may be per formed as effectively by a circulation of inconvertible notes having no value but that factitious and they derive from law is a fact which admits I conceive of no doubt Value xf this description may bejnade to answer all the' purposes of intrinsic value 'and supersede even the neces sity of a standard provided onlythe quantity of issues be kept under due The overwhelming preponderance of the dictum of political economists sustains the contention that there is no such thing as an universal of and that money is merely a register or recorder of values al ready measured by' comparison of one commodity with all other commodities governed by the laws of supply and de mand and cost of production and ex pressed in the language of the uni versal of Even if it be claimed and conceded that some certain quantity of a metal in a coin representative of the unit of 'account constitutes a of then such measure remains stable' and in variable only so long as the volume of such coins remains 'in' the same pn portionate ratio to thff of com modities to be exchanged land also so long as the value of each of such me tallic coins is not decreased by the is sue of a supplemental volume of full legal tender bills representing the na tional money of account The American Cyclopedia under the head of of says: use of a nloney of account is In nd respect a mechanical process by which other articles are compared by weight or bulk with gold or but it is aiLarithmetical one by which they are compared with a unit of value which has had its origin in some coin or other commodity which pos sesses the quality of acceptability for the payment of debts and the purchase of commodities Hence it is that a money of account having been long inruse and become a part of the modes he isbelieyedtqhave been the' $rst man who ever correctly called atqrn Some beneficent spirit has improved the pack of fifty two cards which made it rather difficult sometimes for six men to play He has dilated it into a pack of sixty cards so that eight good poker players and true may indulge in their beiitto the destruction of their for tunes or the repletion of their stock of good temper? The cards that are aJdei the eleven and twelve sjlots of eacKsnit The ten spot in order to alter it into an eleven has an additional spot in the center1 and to become a twelve spot rows of four spots It 'lsfa novelty of the newest kind and now there will be no longer any unsfocialileness about the game Just think that ufidet1 IhW improved condition of things eight of you may have your cards dealt you and thereare twenty still in the pack to choose from' 1 1 Lettuce Compass TlanS It is said that the wild lettuce of two well marked compass and that it has the property of twisting its leaves until they point straight up ward with the edges directed orth and south i CoaL Itls well known "that innumerable aamples of coal have been brought to Duluth during the past year for an aly sis and to be used to interest capital in developing the finds Not many people are aware of the location from whence the sampleacamo and althougha considerable amount of detective work and spying has been done by ex plorers and others in the vicinity of 4 Tower and all the north part of the state no one has been able to detect the source of the packsack loads of specimens which have appeared The Little orks country lying about 40 miles west of Tower and north of the esaba range has beeu'tbe scene of considerable coal exploratory work this spring and with some very satis factory results Gardner of Superior and others have inyested considerable money in exploration? in townships 60 nnd the exact location having never been divulged eithev by Mr Gardner or any of his crew Thos Burke fore man of the work is Jim last man to ap pear from the Little ork countrywith about 40 pounds of coal taken from a testpit in which a well defined vein was encountered Mr Burke makes the as sertion that within a year a consider able amount of coal will hare been dis covered and bases bis statements the recent discoveries made by himself and crew He also says the greatest care is exercised in keeping the loca tion of the finds a secret urther north also drift coal speci znens have frequently been displayed by trappers and Indians and although it was never doubted that beds of coal existed there no one has been wise enough to locate ithern Opinion gen erally put them 'somewhere on the southwest shore of the Lake of the Woods as the greatest share of the numerous specimens obtained from that direction THEAR EAST Jafan has a written history extend ing over 2500 years The carrier pigeon 'was In use by the State department of the Ottoman empire ttne jfourteenth century Lithgow says that dispailr was carried from Bagdad to Aleppo thirty journeymen horses! In forty eight hours The first woman to take out naturali zation papers in America was Mrs Elizabeth Bryer of Omaha Neb The date was ebruary 14 1857 A Sauk Rapids man uam rtoon camo to St CLud and informed mer chants there that bis Wife had stolensilks frqm them ank asked them to go to SaukRapids and identify the goods A number went oyer and their visit attracted much attention and indigna tion among the people They threw rotten at the St Cloud pqlicemen and storekeepers also'threat eced to lynch Hartoon and huud 1 men started to findhim but be his escape Sank Rapids people that Hartoon is a wife beater utterly unreliable and they wouldbelieve him under oath 1 MONUMENT TO THE UNRECOGNIZED DEAD THE ASHTABULA DISASTER 1876' rible disaster of December 29 z1878 when the Lake Shore Michigan Southern railroad: bridge just east of the station in Ashtabula sankybe neatha hcavilydaden passenger train and carried hundreds of perhoiis to death in the Abyss 87 feet below the trackIlpyeCdThe idea of erecting a monument to Jhe memory those who died on that awful night origin ated in the Knights of Pythias lodge and a committee of the members brought it out the speopleIt took three years to raise the amount of money needed The Lake Shore road gave $200 The monument is of New Hampshire granite and built in obelisk style It is 32 feet in height and occu pies' a conspicuous location in the cem etery where it canbe seen miles away On one siderof jhe base appear the names qf (wenty fiy persons yvho were kubwri to have perished in the wreck whose remains were presumablypicked up but could not possibly be Identified They are as follows: and Wife Moore Thayer7 Martha Smith Charlotte Smith Emma Coffin Mattie Brunner ilary Burchard Louise Brainard! Lottie'Brunncr Mary Pack ard RicW 'CB Stone Dj Hplbridge Brunner A Stockwell John Campbell Harry Wagner Aldrich Merrill Charles Phillip' McNeal and 'W' Kepi erf Th'e last named' was a "resident of Ashtabula and all' that was ever found of him was hiswatch widow city! Oh another names of themembers of £he commit? tee i The front inscription the memory the' dead' of the Ashtabula: bridge whose remains care buri id Onthq fourth side are tie (Jates qf the dis aster' and theun veiling POKER' DECK Are Sixty Cards In It and Sight May Play In Comfort The great American game qf poker has been given a new impetus by thi5se philanthropists of their kind the men who enjoy the game only fault that could be fofind 'Aena toriaf pastime 'was that1 it did not mit of enough players who pould lpse TSE TEN ELEVEN AND TWELVE money' The rules of the game were all right! because those were works of genius and are as clastic as the atmos phere but bitch came' right in the pack because Pharaoh I of course lattng notes These are facts which have In whole or in part been recog nized by various writers differing in almost all other respects in regard to money and they have been contro verted by that few But being facts close at hand familiar and almost self evidently true their full significance and far reaching importance have been overlooked and disregarded by almost all economists Count Garnier and Stephen Colwell have of all writers probably most appreciated the importance of a clear of of According to the latter it is the central point from which the whole subject of money must be studied and without which mode' of procedure no true conception it can be had The money of account in use "by a people is not only the standard by the aid of which the value of commodities may be stated but it is used to express the value of coins or circulating notes and if these 'coins or notes be of be sane denomination as the money of account unerringly indicates whether such coins or notes are at par at a discount or at a pre mium Had men better understood this subject in Great Britain during the suspension of theBankof England) 1797 1823 there would have been far less discussion than there was as to whether Bank of England notes were then at a discount or gold was at a premium The bullion committee had a glimmering of the truth when they whether sincethe new 'sys tem of Bank of England payments has been fully established gold has in truth continued to be our measure of The money of account had in fact adjusted itself to the standard of payment furnished by the bank and the committee half suspected that such Was the case Section 20 of the coinage act of 1792 is as follows: Sec 20 And be it further enacted That the money account of the United States shallbe' expressed in dollars or units dlsmea or tenths cents or hundredths and mills or thousandths a dlStne being the tenth part of a dollar a cent the hundredth pert of a dollar a mill the thou sand th part of a dollar and that all accounts in the public offices and all proceedings tn the courts of the United States shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation The statute laws of the United States might just as well have provided that this of should be rep resented by paper bills with appropri ate inscriptions and devices as to have provided" that it should be represented by metallic coins of various weights and fineness The supreme court of the United States understood this to be the truth During the period from 1862 to 1879 because of conditions created by legis lation gold became a commodity and ceased to be the so called oi of of the United States is an ideal abstract unit called a dollarwith its multiples and fractions The greenback notes and fractional currency exactly coin cided in their numeral denominations with such money of account During the suspension of specie payments the money of account did in fact itself to the standard of payment fur nished by government and gold ceased to remain measure of the greenback becoming and remaing par money of Met allism is a fraud and a delusion and must go If gold per se as a commodity is the natural and universal measure of values irrespective of monetary laws then the unrestricted coinage of silver or a generous issue of legal tender paper money can in no wise affect the rights of creditors because values will refuse to be measured and expressed in any other terms than that of gold money But the money mongers know full well that while the relative com mercial values of commodities as com pared with each other may remain unchanged their debt paying values may be enhanced or decreased by in flating or contracting the volume of money' in circulation which proves that gold is bolstered up with the fiat of law and is not a natural but a legal of Geobge Ward YOU BET 'STAND Not In Gorgl Alone Bat tn Every State 3 Ln the Union na WelL If the populists stand their ground in Georgia they will gain enough dem cratlc votes to carry the state but if they begin to waver they wiU be beaten out of Globe Democrat Never fear the pops will not only their but they will meet the enemy more than half way not in Georgia alone but in every state in the union as well Oh the pops have their fighting clothes on and they will keep their fighting clothes on too till monopoly is downed and the mon eykinggshorn of the power to rob the Americanfaumer and laborer as they are doing at present Yes fret they wUl their ground" all' right enough Hale (Mo) Hustler AINSWORTH SPOORD 4 s' of this great library win te a colossal task but already Mr is ar rangingffor itand neatly tied b'uhdlesf of books labeled the new are placed ip heaps awaiting the auspi cious day when they shall find a final resting place in great building With its spacious rooms and galleries and accommodations for 000000' 7 In the new library Mr Spofford says students adequate spa and seclusion No one who has nott tried to work at the present library can understand the inconveniences and drawbacks to the accomplkdiment: ofwork There is not euffleient room the tables are crowded and quiet' is impos sible where a visiting public is permit ted to make audible comments and where ihc professsional guide has entry But to no one will thenewbuilding be bo great a satisfaction as to JIr Spof ford' who has worked and waited for it 'these many years Smalwondar that now Jhe js complefielyengroased i In evolving plans for the administration of its' affairs" POINTS fORijE PEOPLE United States supreme court says money is simply a printed legal decree Is there intrinsic value in a legal Sledgehammer I "Souqd is bankrupting alj the railrdads in the country and pretty nearly everybody and business but the banks and interest Midland Journals If it was simply a contest between gold and silver the people 'would lose no matter which side might win or tunately however the party rests on a deeper and broader MainePopulisL Suppose all gold should take tyings and fly" to other countries does any thinker believe any calamity could be fall thi? nation on that account? What do we want the stuff for any Sledgehammer" Carlfsle holdin'g' a't Memphis on gold within the 'building' and Bryan on silver Without1 will us a two metal combination that can hardly be called a'bimetallic league Record 1 Many people are this is the for who have the welfare of the masses at heart to getHogetherf'1Might we sug gest that it is the silver opportunity? Record" In 1893 Europe coined silver more than the country $H1 the United States mints been open to free coinage would have beeri forced to pay our mint value of silver in order to get a needed supply for money purposes Midland Journal Secretary Carlisle in his speeches at( Covington Ky? and Memphis Tenn entirely ignored the main issuein thatWassumed thpt the coin age of! silver fey he Dnited States would qot4 increase the commercial price of silver bullion as measured in gold The silver organs all over the coun try studiously avoid discussing the bank question This shows that the banks and the silver league politicians are back of the silver crusade to cover up the bank octopus Government banking is the demand of the Portland (Ore) Barty Post erythat Uncle credit is injured throughout the world by the free silver movement is senseless The proof of the pudding is inthe eating When 1 the new bonds are selling in London at HSX' on the dollar it shows that the credit of this country is of the very highest in the esteem of YWorlk Let noone ba fooled by the sense less twaddle' about as a basis of argument for the gold' standard There is no such thing as international money What we need is full legal tender absolute pa per money for use and our gold and silver bullion for export as commodities cut loose from aneallic basis si The Omaha platform is large enough to accqmipodate the hundreds of thou sands cf new convertsall over the United States who are coming to' us daily (The republican party isnow asclamorous for the free coinage of sil ver as are populists Next let them istudythe' trahsportatiorf and landquestions ill up on the truth Minneapolis Index fw The'old parties will declare for sil ver say the politicians who desire to checkthet8pread of thetsilver senti in enfi They both declared for silver in 1892 in just about as strong Ian guage as caribe used in 1896 Both did their utmost to destroy silver and fasten the people the British gold standard Are intelligent freTe men willing to try another expert ment? Progressive armer' If the restoration of silver the only ultimate outcome of currency agitation we might well be discour agedibut when the people get to read ing and thinking th'e'Tesmt not' be feared The downfall "bf 'the bank ing oligarchy sure 'tocome1 and? a piper money as a medium of exchange" issued1 the government and receiv able for all debts and dues will final result Chicago Express It is'roporlecl' that yqry? many of the mills in tne state of must shut 'down for the lack ofwheat be cause the last crop supply is: exhausted by export and by beipg fed to stock during the winter Several years ago advanced the opinion that under the present system abundance was a curse and that farmers better 'ascertain theamount Of the' surplus and burm it'iBt1 fded it to C' W' The inpome tax has been decided by the supreme to be unconsti tutional That is not very surprising howevpr as that law would make rich men pay tax It is not to be expectedthat it would be allowed "to stanzas thepassage'of that law 'was about the only 'thing' congress has done of late years and it is ho killed Spme people arg niean enough to think ttat congrejM js a Dttawa Journal 4 AThe Cleveland Leader says the sil i ver in our dollar is worth no more than1 that in a Mexican dollar but that our government our silver dollars in gold and that makes them equal in valne to gold That is a lie just a plain ordinary unvarnished plutic lie We defy the Leader to point to a single law providing for the re demption of silver in gold It not A a 1 1 a I a a I MULTJUM IN PARVO They that moat make the least noise Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life Congreve sight is eyeso is thp min'4 In the There but lQvea a Jook Southc 9 There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets Cowper I Covetous men are mean slaves and dgudges to their substance Burton jr fame is to come only after death I am in no hurry for IL Martial The Great We Work of Aihs worth Spofford He Hu Done More Than Any Other Mail to Make Americans Proud ut the Lit erature Produced by the Au tbor ot America laris usually worth just as much as tesilve dollar no more Sledgehaxfi Morton says tne coming' monetary campaign will be an intel lectual contest' This js very cheerful iilws They have commenced the tellectual by calling the pop klists ous This is an auspicious beginning If we remember correctly the $ame epithetswere once applied to AUrahain Lincoln William Lloyd Gar risonj Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner We have forgotten the names 4 A i it financial agitation is plainly leading: in the right direction even though a casual glance at the situation might leave the inference tfeat metallic motley was the all absorbing topic Every student of finance must flnally come to the one that jn ftinsic value is 'not' a requisite for a medium of exchange The silver ques tion's leading to discussion and a full understanding of the function of mon ey never falls to result In the one con clusion that the law makes money whether it be of gold silver or paper Express ly 1ns Snakes of tba Antipode The race of JJying dragons which spread dismay: and terror in' olden times is not yet entirely extinct jfi we are to believe the utterances in a late Queerislands (Australia): paper The Queensland Meroury of 18 says: Bass of the' sandy flat lying beyond the Blue Hill near the head waters 4 of creek3 brought" another specimen 'flying 'ser pent to this office It 'is somewhat i hmaller than the one exhibited by him at Gulley last year and larger than the 'one he presentfedlusonChrJstmWddy Liko the other two lias four thre jointed legs each'7 inches long Be tween thcselcgs which arc situated two on each side of the botljvls a leathery membbane much resembling a wing Mr Bass declares that he has often seen them 4iyi across at places where it is60 feet wide? i i 1 1 Ijri: rt llUl TO THE UNKNOWN PEAD 1 owwa 1 MaauMat to the Victims ot tba Asbta tola DUoiter of 1876 The accompanying cutMariii likeness of handsome monument to the mem ory of the unrecognized dead of the Ashtabula disaster which xhas i jiM been finished ifil Chestriit iGfove cein etery' Ashtabula HO It rfiafeks the spot where were tolmied the jarred portions of I humanity which were gathered frm the ruins of that terri THE LARGEST DERRICK It BjM Lifted from ttr Quarry M' Stone at mtty Tons A piece of mechanism like which there is none the world is the gtgantie steel deirick at the CL Tayn AMERICANi WOMEN i sister in law Mrs Ezekiel Webster' Is living in Concord She is nineby four years old The Misses Brice daughters of Sena tor Brice will make a bicycle and kodak tour of the rural districts oi rance during the coming summer The last revolutionary Mary Brown of Knoxville died recently at the age of ninety one Her husband was a revolutionary soldier whom she married in 1824 when he was an old man and she a young woman of twenty I to trees or rings set into the granite ledge The wire rope in the guys and other rigging would make a continuous line almost a mile in length and the weight of the derrick) exclu sive of rope is about fifty i thousand pounds LUKljWHl The boom is seventy feet long and a large amount of working surface None of the granite quarries is deep the tendency has al ways been to extend operations latef 8 ally instead of going down into the earth so that the advantage derived from the great length of boom is appar ent The machine is operated by means of a powerful hoisting engine and all the workings are controlled by single en gineer There are steam derricks at all the large quarries' and granite manu facturing plants zin Barre ba the power applies only to the lifting the booms with their loads of stone in every instance are swufig around by hand power At therioot of the Tayntor der rick heavily planked over to protect it from flying stone when blasting out refusegrauite isthe turning gear con nected by a wire rope with the engine nouse wnere oy means 01 a lever sum lar in its workings to the reversing lever on a locomotive the engineer alone is able 16 lift 'from the bottom of the quarry swing around to the side track and place upon a fiat car a block of granite weighing forty tonsLTHe largest single piece of stone ever lifted from a quarry in America by means of a derrick was taken "from this quarry and weighed fifty seven and one half tons The derrick has always been found equal to any strain put upon it and has several times broken chain links nearly two inches in diameter The company has an order for a granite shaft fifty five feet in length which in the rough will weigh nearly one hundred tons It is already partly quarried iASA BUSHNELL fS Nominated tor 'Governor by tife Bepub 11 can Party of Ohio Asa Bushnell nominated for gov ernor by the Ohio republicans 'is the eldest son of Daniel and Harriet Bush nelL He was bora in Oneida county New York September 16 1834' moving from there Cincinnati WithJhii parents when a child In 1851 he came to Springfield which place he con tinued to reside The first three years YJuwT Wvm rAN OLDbCEAN TRAMP i a cording to the vessel trade ih Iwhich it is engaged 1 The aye rage wages maybe said to be' ah follows: Chief officer 83880 secondofficer 12920 'chief 86813 second4 engineer 83660 'ea 820 76 steward? 82920 oooks 82311boatswain $1940 able seamen 817 03 ordinary seamen 8973 firemen 814(75 Thbse wages are a little better than those which paid on other ships on' account of the extra hazardous risks taken by 'tramp' ships make themost erratiuriouraeys dering pretty mubh' over the whole world 'beforei to 'the same port' After carrying cargo of coal from Cardiff to one of the: West India Islands it may go to New York thence to 'Antwerp and may then go to Cape Town and ffrom there to Shanghia gor ing to San rancisco before returning to the port from which "originally rtf" 4 The operating expenses of' the ocean tramps are very smalL The coal con sumption Is reduced as much as possi ble And the crew is small while the tothet expenses are kept at the lowest hotCh practicable They are veiy unpopular at sea and Hke their namesake on the shortljeir hand is against' every one They aye the? terrors of email craft such as yachts and'fishlng smacks and many a boat that has been run down in a col lisloh blames a tranip steamship for the accident as the tramps keep a poor lookout or none at alL: Animate 'Wltbotrt Cats get along perfectly well" with out stomachs according to experiments recorded in the ArchivesMe Physiol ogic In one cat which lived for forty hours after its stotaach had been cut out the' oesophagus "wds found to hvobeqni completely united with the intestine Another cat which weighed four pounds When it lost its stomach was alive and well and weighed four pounds and aialf three months and a half after the operation It found dif ficulty injdijjesting pure milk but got along nice'lywhcn the milk was mixed vyithyolk of eggand riceJTand cooked meat cheese and a puree of po tatoes clashes of food albuminpulLfats and farinaceous digested by the agastric catoi Asithad beenjre redeemable in gold neither is goldre viouslVurMwtHLf Migy nNfo witfl aeemable iutsilvar Yet the gold dol out stomachs tne nert gtfpquqspgm ft be theproduction 01 agastric man' jrr rrr the jhwttaeawl iJL Nearly all the croupiers employed at the Montd estab lishment iqme Jysace and is in th? ripcipalimo Itfnnfuw AcKnoRrmaintne(l by reigning prineerand Bis pArt ihe Casino compry'y'here' they are taught the ins anfl outs of the games the various tricks of playjngras well as the mcafisnyf defeating then! tnd mahuftf the boards (paying the 'stages deiling ahd ft Grapes larc pldced' lJrge Jrult dish with grec BanaS'as aresHghuy opened afono end and aerveda qnvlndhddqaH fruit plates dOJflOW I OnANGEff are cut ln half and eaten with spoon? ST heTeefservep asacupL1 BerriES are usually put in a large berry bowl and served in individual dishes at table Pineapples are peeled cut in very thin slices the core cut out and served with sugar HON ASA BUSHNELL in the city of Springfield then but a very small town was spent as aclerk a dry goods store Tie 'be came a bookkeeper In 1857 he formed a partnership with Ir "John Ludlow in the drug business which lie continued until 1866 when he became interested In the concern of which fee is now the I head under the name of Warder Bushnell Glessner company During the war he was captain of company One Hundred and ifty second regi ment 0 VL which company he re cruited'andserved as its captain in the Shenandoah valley under the com mand of Gen Hunter in 1864 In 1886 he was appointed quartermaster gen eral by Gov oraker in which position he served four years He was onS' of the dlegates at large to the national convention in 1392 all of which posi tions were given him without solicits tion upon his part His generosity is proverldaL At one time he presented the city of Springfield with a patrol wagon and team of horses and at an other time a bronze drinking fountain and again donated 810000 to' secure ths location near Springfield of the Ohio Masonic bom 11? 4 9 Interoitlng facto Aboat CKu of' Uu That tAr 1 i They Arc the Terror of All 1 1 11 jhffr'a yii iliiilu lho ocean has its tramps as well as the land' The ocean tramp is how the tramjJ with whom we are familiar Although like its namesake of tjie ilan'cf it has no fixed place of abode but travels about anywhere it depends for livelihood upon its own work instead of upbn the contributions of others The oceajtrainp ifkafaishlpsly Goldeh Days They are so called from their willingness to go anywhere and take' a hand in any that promises tflm ajjroflt' gcqre? may be seen at any 'shipping port sqch as New York Philadelnnia them large some small some 1 clean some dirty1 some qIy and some neat amjjtripj They vary greatly lii appearance As of thd Dcearfare wornotit' huiks diseaxfled by the pompafiies who own them I Bed longing to no regular line or any trade in particular they are sent out to pick up a cargo yvheraver they are able to jftSTP afel qylMnseai worthy and sometimes the boilers are on the point ofexplosion and this ma chinery in bail Oftfeti tHe jiower is inadequate to propel the ship against great steering gear is apt to jam at 1 spifae critical mo hull in rthe JIast stages of deeavahdllni is the matter with themlratHbbuld Tiethe matter vrith a ship in spitoof 1 and dangers so long as a the vessel holds together and the "crat safely travels from one port ibrt another one complains except the crew whosq'arrangements are often such that theycannot leave the ship To prevent desertion'care' ii' taken to skip only married men before the mast and tfeese men are given half pay in ad vance orAheir families on condition of 1 giving bond against desertion A more uncomfortable and in every way disagreeable life than that aboard an ocean tramp cannottwell be imagined The crews are made up of mixed races and their nvages vary a ully 4000 people gathered in the ex position auditorium at Minneapolis fo witness the commencement exercises of the 23d graduating class of the stateuniversity The candidates for the various degrees conferred by the seven colleges which constitute the university numbered 287 and as they marched to the seats reserved for them they pre rented a decidedly imposing appear ance over 100 being robed in the Ox ford cap and gown Clarence Miller was salutatorian and Julius Boraas val edietorian The Gallows Commissioners Nash and Ryberg Sherfff Holmberg of Minneapolis went over to SL Paul to get the promise of the SX Paul gallows for use at Hayward's obsequies (They looked atthe SL Paul gallows and were dumb founded to discover that it was the same trap us that used to hang the Barrett boys It was sent to Alexan dria from the Barrett hanging and from there was loaded to the St Paul rt authorities It will ba brought back iq a few days i Nevrv in Briet The Pine TreeLumber Company at Little alls employs 600 men and the Hennepin paper mills 60 About 300000 feet of lumber are sawn daily andthe annual paper output is 2000 tons The Polk and Norman county fair will be held on Sept 13 19 and 20 "While playing ball at Good ThunderEdward Reich became overcome by iheat and death was a quick result Laura aught 29 years old died" at Mankato from an overdose of arse nie Xaken with suicidal intent Martin the 15 year old sou of Charles Wise was drowned in Take Pepinwhile bathing near a lumber raft in thevicinity of the government breakwater Thomas Saubey a lumberman said to live at Crookston attempted to make moving train at McGregor station and missing his hold was thrown un der the wheels and killed The board of prison managers grant ed naro! es as follows: Robert Blanz TSimonson and Annie Doolittle Jitoaraa county W'S Noiton SL Louis county Miller and John Miller Henne pin county John McDermott and Dr Pearce Ramsey' county rank Lundgren Nobles county Binding twine prices for the season were fixed by the board of prison man agers at quite a reduction from last jear Prices are: American hemp 5 cents per pound Standard 5 cents Sisal 4f cents Manilla SisaL mixed cents pure ManiyaftJ cents Julius Adams president of the Min nesota State ederation of Labor has' issued the official call for the semi an nual meeting of the federation to be held in Duluth June 23l The call ex horts all labor organizations to be re Dresented by delegates and points out the importance of aueh representation Attorney General Chnds aJJeges thatthe Tontine Savings associatjonof Min neapolis is a swindling concern and a gambling scheme and has applied to the court to hare its business wound up for the appointment of a receiver aad for an ordeisxestrainiug the officersof the association from performing any of their functions The elevator of Parsons Bros at Dodge Center burst and about 1800 orStOCO bushels of wheat ran out upon the jgroond I The barn of Hover a mail car xrier of St Cloud was burned together with two horses carriages and mailcart Loss about STOOL Lightning struck the house of BL Duntley Crookston knocking "Duntley useless I Claude Williams of Rochester was accidentally shot in the groin while playing the role of "a captured horse thief at the annual meeting of the Viola Anti Horse Th iefj Society His injury is serious Mrs Carnegie wife of David Carne gie of Argyle by lightning and instantly killed Thieves entered the West side bake ry it Anoka taking some 820 Arl harness shop was also entered and 810 stolen (i 0 SI' rr 1 rrt LJ 1 1 'IM' I 7 nA i' fill Xrfe nJ uif b'zj Hi it 'afix i7 1' AlJ 7.