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THEO, H. BEAUL.IEU.
EDITOR AKD MANAGER.
AN INOEPENDENDENT NEWSPAPER,
Published In the Intareat of the Whit* Earth
Reservation and the Northwest generally.
An Exponent of a Higher Olvlllzatlon a
Fearless and Zealcus Advocate whenever
Right and Justice may need a Friend, and
to Fraud and Oppression a Sleepless Foe,,.
JOB
Establishment.
All kinds of Job Printing, such as
Bill Heads, Latter Heads,
^laa-ks, Cards, Tags etc., solicited
Work Warranted and Satisfaction
Guaranteed.
BU mm IS PRICES!
raoa: $s. to $53.
This Elegant Pulor Organ
*yle TO containing 5 oo
terts, sets of weds, 10
steuJS knee swells. Stool
sad Boek free. I'or only
ltt.00. With right and left
eenplar. "Warrantedfor6
yett.*
Ikis only necessaryto sand
references as to your re
sponsibility from any bank
er, postmaster, merobant or
express agent and the Organ
will be shipped promptly on
ten days' tost trial.
ouiar
Be sure to write we, end save money.
Volant eases.
MsBtkm Paper where this AD is
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STARTLING
3-/A
"CwTBgpondence hearing on the In
dian questioapreblem, or on general
interest, is solicited.
Terms, 92.00 A Tear, I Advance.
THE PROGRESS
WORK
AND|
Solid
Re-elected Mayor April 9, 1888, by a large,
majority.
H- W. ALLEGER,
ftitinstan,: WarrenCounty,:KWJersey,
WNITKP STATE* or AMERICA.
AGENT8WANTED. (Onlyi2.75.)
EARTHSEAESKY
PERFECT
COFFEE MAKER.
A new invention for maUno*
Coffee and Tea, better ttianaju?
thing now in use saves Jf ottfie
Coffee and can be used wttb anr
Coffe or Tea PotSample willbi
sent by mail for twenty cents ia
stamps. Afrente wantedto
fend for S paitf culM?ofthli
and other fast sellmgr articles.
Foraheea MoMtklr, CineianatkQ.
How Admiral Porter Once Upon a Time
JPaltl Off S6m JPaul l'ry*.
AnmiL'al Porter is said by tlioso who
remember him as a voting man to have
iflijrJie in a praeiin il kp A ^tory
is tola of I!s fooliug thu Au^lo-Atis
tralian i-i 1354. Ru waalhon ayoung
naval otiieor oa leave, with permisio
to ike eiuploymeiit, and he com
manded (lie Golden Aj owned by J.
Howard & Son, whie'n wa i tlie lirst
steamer to make t\ie round trip to
Australia, as it was also the Jirst to
take passengers for Ca ifornia in the
\4& exeilemciit. There was considout
ble j'?alorisy'in Ei^laud, which nearly
prevented the English mail for Ans
iralia from being intrusted to the rapid
but risky experiment of steam to Aus
iralia, and the English community in
Australia took up the international
sneer and ridiculed a boat with
much ".op-housing." Porter stood
this as long as he could, and at last,
learning that papers were stolen from
his pi-ivate desk and their contents
published in the newspaper?*, he left
on the desk one day, exposed *o view,
a dispatch to himself announcing the
fall of Sebnstopolan event which WJIS
awaited with feverish anxiety. Sure
enough the next edition of the local
weekly contained the startling news,
ad Porter hugely enjoyed the efforts
of the colonists to harmonize their
views regarding the "shocking bad
form" of his hoax with the question
able methods by which his private dis
patches were made public
During tin- same voyage there was
much discussion among tlio |a,?3oter
about the bloodthirsty and fatal habits
of the vampire bat, and every precau
tion was taken not to admit the hor
rible creatures into the ship. On
ivjning after dinner the passen
gers were startled by loud screams
from the cabin of a highly ex
citable actioss, who was one ofwith
the travelers, and, on running to her
relief, fmnd her haif-fainting and
pointing to the form of a huge bat, its
ugly wings spread, flat on The ceiling
of her siato-room. No one dared to
touch it, but all stood about with
pallid faces, until Purler, who was
sent for, arrived, and sent a steward
for his pistol. The actress begged
him not to shoot the vampire, as he
might only wound and drop it bolrttid
her berth, where it wo-ild lurk until
thirst for her blood should bring it
upon her in her sleep. But he"vas
firm he took steady aim and fired
but nothing dropped. Under the
Captain's orders a sailor laid hands
on the monster, which proved to be
made of leather and nailed to the coil
ing. Porter did not join in the shout
of laughter that followed the discov
eiy, but no one wlio knew his love of
a practical joke believed that he was
much surprised at it.xV. Y. Tribune.
NATURAL SCULPTURE.
Tho Exceptional Geological Interest of
Mount Itoraima.
Though the Yellowstone Park is .*o
far as we know, the most remarkable
geological and scenic region on the
earth, there are other spots of ex
ceptional geological interest, notably
Mount,Roraima, in British Guiana, or
rather at the junction of British
Guiana nnd Brazil with Venezuela.
The summit of this mountain is a
curiosity in serial denudation. As de
scribed by Mr. Im Thurn, who was the
first to ascend to the top, il presents
a fine example of natural sculpture.
"The step was taken." he says, "and
we saw surely as strange a ^iirht, re
garded simply as a pi*' duct of nature,
as may be seen in this world nay, i!
would probably not be rash to assert
that very few si*rhts even as
strange can be seen. Th first
impresqion was ono of inability
mentally to grasp such surroundings
tho next that one was entering on
some stranre country of nightmares,
for which a-i appropriate and wildlv
fantastic landscape had been formed,
some dreadful and stormy day. when
in their mid-career the broken and
elastic clouds had been stiffened in a
single instant into stone. r all
around were rocks and pinnacles of
rocks of seemingly impossibly fantas
tic forms, standing in appareitly im
possibly fantastic ways nay, placpd
one on or next Co the other in posi
tions seeming to defy every law of
gravityrocks in groups, rocks stand
ing singly, rocks in terraces rocks as
columns, rocks as walls, aud rocks as
pyramids, rocks ridiculous at every
point with countless apparent carica
tures of the faces and forms of men
and animals, apparent caricatures of
umbrellas, \*tortoises,V churches,
cannons -and of innumerable
other mosc incongruous and
unexpected objects. And
be-
tween the rocks were level spaces,
never of great extent, of pure yellow
sand, with streamlets and little water
falls, a.nd pools and shallow lakelets
of pure water and in some places
there were little marshes filled wirli
low, seamy and bristling vege'ation.
And here and there",' alike on lev!
space and jutting from .some crevice
iu the roe. were small shrubs, in
It appears that kola-nuts were orig
inally found in the western territories
of Africa, and that soldiers along the
coast were the first Avhite men who be*-
came aware of their peculiar proper
ty. They found, for instance, that tin
chewing of these nuts ire vented a
drunken headache. Not only so, but
some who have used the nut-pastcas a
'pick-me-up" assert that, while re
moving the nausea, it givs them
quite a skunner" at the smell ol
whisky and removes the irritating do
sire for a 'morning" to k.*ep the
stomach hearty. If the paste be
mixed \ut cocoa paste, which it re
sembles c'osely, it produces a much
finer and more nutritive chocolate. 1
has been shown by repeated experi
ments that the nerve energy produce.!
by partaking of the chocolate mad*
kola-paste is ten times greafcei
than that produced by an equal quan
tity of ordinary cocoa chocolate.
So nutritious is this kola, that with
sisigl.* cup of it a laborer can undergo
a day's work without auv .'sens*
weariness. Though it- mav not
directly feed the muscular system,
it has the property of preventing the
rapid waste of the tissues. So much
have the manufacture!s of chocolate,'
both in this country a' d**abroattf$|^
come alive to the excellent properties
of the now paste, that thov are making
arrangements to procure it for mixing
purposes, as soon as its price become*.
reasonable. The British Government,
too, have gone the length of niak-n?
experinvnts upon the paste in a pure
stale, so as to ascertain tho saving
which would be made in tho transit of
provisions in time of war by giving
this beverage to the army. I is of
great service for purifying the foul
water which is so prevalent in ho1
climates this will be the preventive of
many diseases especially to Euro
peans. I has also been fund very
useful in clarifying beer aud spirits*,
acting much like the white of an egg,
or isinglass. A comparison between
the composition of kola, tea. coffee
and cocoa shows that the proportion
of caffeine is higher in kola than in
any of the othe'
WHITE EARTH AGENCY, MI^ffESOTA, SATURDAY^APRIL 20, 1889.
The Marvelous and Beneficent Pr
of the Kola-Nut.
Planters in tropical climes are 'tfec
ommended to cultivate the koln-ii?ee,
the nut of which seems to possess aoYne
marvelous qualities. If the prophecies
regarding the beneficent services! of
certain preparations of it are realised,
an unspeakable boon will be conferred
on millions of tho human race, ,,fW
many years it has been extensively
used as an excellent boveragfe and,
sacred symbol in the interior ol^frfea{!
.butjngw^ls properties have i-vefy ren-i
son to be fat* more extensively utilize*!
There is no doubt, from what is alminutes
ready known, that it has the extraor
dinary propery of counteracting^ the
influence of alcohol, of giving a stim
ulant in wasting diseases, of acting as
a powerful tonic in cas"s of deep-s*eated
injuries of the dig- ive organs, of
purifying foul water, of overcoming
the sense of fatigue, and of ex iting to
arduous work with the least injury to
the frame.
and it exceeds
cocoa in the obromine. Just as will
tea among old ladies, the kola main
tains the health and strength' of the
body in an equal degree upon a
smaller supply of ordinary food, and
arrests the waste, enabling the lea
energetic powers of digestion to sup
ply as much as is needed to repair lllu
wear and tear of the solid tissues.
The obromine of cocoa resembles tin
l.hcine of tea and the caffeine of cocoa,
end contains even a larger quantity of
nitrogen. This olement in the koln
is also very active, exercising an ex
hilarating and soothing, hunger,
stilling and waste-retarding effect u*
on the human sv.stem. _\,
Dr. Nachtigal giv-s some interest
ing information about the kola nu:
from pergonal experience. He fried
it for some lime himself, and, in lii7
book on Hi.- Sudan, hoars testimony
to the great power it has over the
-ystem. Tho craving for it becomes
more intense than that fur cither to
bacco or alcohol and he had great
difficulty, in giving up its us-.
In some places it is so
highly prized that for tho dry
powder of the nut an equal weight of
gold-dust is given in exchange. la,
too, works a wonderful social charm
among the Sudanese. An interchange
of white, kola between two chief? i"
dee the snuff-box between two High
landersthe mark of friendship and
peace but a red kola sent is indicative
of defiance. When a young chief has
made up his mind that he would lik-*
to marry the Princess of another tribe
he sends to hsr mother a present of
white kola with anxiety he awai:s in
return the arrival of the white kola,
as a symbol that his suit had been ac
cented, or the red kola, as a hint that
his application has been aMcefully
j.'oted. Mirriage rvjoicings would be
postponed or stopped if it wa seen
that the white kola was vv.in-ing
among I bride's presents.' Th
nearo of -Western A.rlca akes the
oath with intense solemnity if he
stretches out his hand over kola seeds.
~S.$Qthrnan.
A*-i\
"FINE" BURGLARS
1 TOOLS.
The Notorious Partdy Cody's Celebrated
"Vest-Poctet Edition." **V?
1 Every one of your readers ninst re-
member that six or seven years ago
there was a regular deluge of robber
ies perpetrated throughout 1he coun
try in the safe line. A set of safe
tools had been invented bv two no*
torioin burglars Paddy Codv and
fn-rb-Yust who in from ten to fifteen
could open most of the burg
lar-proof safe*? in the country. Th
police all over the United S ates
made strenuous efl'orts to unearth the
secret of th.-se implements, but for a
long time were kept in the dark,
owing to the secretivenes-5 of the in
ventors.
"In nearly all these robberies the
victims were retail jewelers located
iu the country towns, and their
heavy lo-s 3 prompted tho wholesale
deah for their own protection, to
form what, has since been known as
'The Jewelers' Securitv Alliance.'
The detect've work of this powerful
orgauizitiou uas given entirely into
-he hands of one agency.
"Aboui this time 'he jewrdrv store of
E Vail & C... al Porte, Ind., was
bb'-d of a lurge amount of diamonds
aud jewelry, and from the manner in
which iho safe had been opened I sur
mised at once that it was the work of
Gib Yos! a-d his gang. Knowing full
well lliatGb Yo.it would como to
Chicago to dispose of the stolen stuff
1 had a sharp lookout kept for him,
nd not long af erward succeeded in
wrestnig him, together with Billy,
alias Biil' Hollihan. Johnnv Meanv
and Eddie linn. All except Meany
were convicted for this robb ry and
S'litcneed to various terms in the
Michigan City l\,-iiitonliarv in Indiana.
"After this the loo's became well
known among expert burglars and
he ciet of their construction leaked
out. They consist of a drill, which
lits into a spindle. Ihe .spindle fits
into a sleeve, wlrch is placed into a
pre-sure-bar. O i top of the sleeve is
i wrench, which feeds into the drill,
^^L,yi^^iJ^nj3-tBi^..Ho made to hold
taps. When a'fiv.-eiphth inch hole is
In.red, between the combination and
the handle of the safe, and the threads
cut into it (about twelve threads to the
i'lch), then what are known as
theBoots
pre-sure-bar and screw are used,
which fit the threads and break the
do:r connection between the handle
and combination. The handle is used
to lit on the top of the spindle, and the
entire mechanism*- is attached to the
*afe by a link, -which adjusts itself
over the pressur -bar over the handle
of the safe. Tho link was generally
used in ease of a T-handled safe. The
whole power or pr s-mre which en-
:ible- the tools to do their work is ob
tained through the agency of the
handle on the safe.
"In ibis way an ordinary fire-proof
or burglar-proof safe can be opened in
from ten to fiftee i minutes. These
tools are very advantageous, from the
fact that the whole kit does not weigh
over five pounds and can be curried
handily in the inside coat pocket For
their lightness in weight and facility
for leing carried about the person un
ooticed they wore ter.ned among the
crooked fraternity the Vest-pocket
edition.'
"The Paddy idy tools are still used
-xtenslvely by cr*-ok-i nen. -I antici
pate numerous safe burglaries with
ih-m throughout the country, although
I must add that in general til's meny
hers of the Jewelers' Security Alli
once ar given a wide berth by those
vho have a wise re ard for their
lea'.th and peace of m.nd."Robert
I'm'wton, in Jeme'ei's' Weekly.
"A'i ludiaiisipolis hr engaged in
claiming marsh lauds in Indiana
re just, completed a canal which is
.-a-ning the water off of Four Mile
Yairie near Switz City. I twill have
ie same effect as the recent ditching
Sangamon tloro. III. That de
i-oyod 200.000 '/acres of ducking
round, and the draining of Four Mile
i?.:.irie ruins one of the finest duck
*uootiTig grounds iu the world. Al
eady the marsh is drying up, and
'ecse, mallards, and teal as they come
rom the north cirdo over it in a dazed
fort of way, aud then go on southward,
Prbf/'Aiwatl'rr^vfitiug" in tne*Ce-
turij about foods, say that in chemical
compo*-itio'i oleomargerino stands be
tween meat fat and butter, and that
"the facts at hand and the general im
pression of special students in these
subj 'Cts are to the effect that probably
for healthy persons the difference be
tween butter and oleomargeriue in
ease and completeness of digestion
would bo at most very slight, but that
for people with enfeebled digestion
and for infants, butter, may perhaps
have the advantage." 't
White
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THE GREATS i K:
Reservation,
ir- ,AND &*':'
MIKK RIVER VAL'EY
OF.] MONTANA^
Have just been opened for Settle
ment to the Homeseeker. _, You
have aright to a Homestead under
your government rights. -^Why
not use it before xt is too late
Land all free to settlers, and is the
only part of the United States
where free land suitable for stock
and grain raising can be taken at
or near stations on the lin of a
railroad. You can take your choice
from level valley lands or gently
rolling bench land. Soil very
rich, and produces all grains and
vegetables without irrigation. Cli
mate delightful, being made very
mild in winter by warm Chinooks
from the Pacific ocean, Timber,
water and coal in abundance.
Cheap land seekers' and settlers'
tickets. Buy tickets to Glasgow,
Chinook (Dawes), Benton, Great
Falls, Helena and Butte. Plenty
government land near those points
For further information see the
new pamphlet, "The Great Reser
vation" maps, etc., apply to F. I.
WHITNEY, General Pass, and Tick
et Agent, St. P., M. & M. R'y,
St. Paul, Minn.
G.:
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Provisions.
& Shoes,
Car-oad8 of New Goods Arriving, Every Day. Come Early.
WHITE: EARTH AGENCY, MINN.
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LICENSED TRADER.
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