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WASHBURN LEADER.
BY R. H. COPELAND,
WASniiURN, NORTH DAKOTA
CONDENSED TELEORAXS.
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The Welland canal is temporarily
abled.
Cholera in Massowah is confined to the
natives.
The damage from French floods in
creases.
Scotch furnace men have struck for an
advance.
Chicago is crusading against the smoke
nuisance.
Patrick O'Brien, M. P., has been arrested
at Dublin.
The Sydney. New South Wales, strikers
are riotous.
Colorado republicans nominated John L.
Routt for governor.
Ex-Congressman Morey of Louisiana
died at Washington.
The house had no quorum yesterday and
could do no business.
The Pennsylvania republican league is
meeting at Philadelphia.
A new Portuguese cabinet will be formed
headed by Chrysostomo.
The world's fair commission selected a
director-general Thursday.
The house conferees have aopepted the
senate reciprocity amendment.
Albert Richner, shot by his brother-in
law. Kessler, in Chicago, has died.
James and John Gladson were killed by
a wild engine near Ooltewah, Tenn.
Mrs. Emma Cooper, of Fulton, N. Y., has
fallen heir to $9,000,000 in England.
Lars Ericksen is in jail at Barron, Wis.,
charged with the murder of his father.
The natives massacred thirty-two Span
iards in the Caroline Islands, August 10.
Boston gold beaters have struck for an
advance which probably will be granted.
Charles Drumm, a Springfield, Ohio,
wine merchant, kilted his wife and self.
Slavin and McAuliffe have been bound
over to keep the peace in bonds of $5,000.
The Oakland bank Chicago, has sus
pended. Liabilities, $60,000 assets, $75,
000.
Masked robbers killed John Kximm, in
llocking county, Ohio, and robbed the
house.
Thirty buildings were burned at White
hall, Mich., by an incendiary fire. Loss
$100,000.
The government bought 470,000 ounces
of silver, prices ranging from $1.16^ to
$1.16 4-9.
A family of eight were killed at Trees
burg, N. Y., by ignorantly eating a night
shade plant.
An Incendiary fire destroyed eleven
buildings at South Haven, Mich., causing
$70,000 loss.
/The widow of Gen. John [C. Fremont
Is sick and in straitened circumstances in
Los Angeles.
The Turkish man-of-war Ertgroul found
ered at sea and five hundred of the crew
were drowned.
John ,Wm. Dunn, a brick manufacturer
of Chicago, has disappeared, leaving $35,
000 of unpaid debts.
The house again lost a quorum on ac
count of the disappearance of democrats
and adjourned.
The statue of Horace Greeley in front of
the New York Tribune building was un
veiled yesterday.
The Massachusetts democrats nomi
nated a ticket headed by William E. Rus
sell for governor.
3*he Excelsior Oil works, Cleveland,
"have burned. Loss, $50,000. Three men
were badly burned.
John Dillon and William O'Brien have
been arrested at Dublin for inciting ten
'.ants not to pay rent.
Belfast merchants are trying to get as
much linen as possible before the McKin
ley bill goes into effect.
The democrats propose to make the re
publicans pass the tariff bill without the
presence of democrats.
The Chicago council by formal resolution
asked the Illinois attorney general to bring
suit against the gas trust.
It is believed the tariff bill will be report
ed next Tuesday, in winch case congress
wi 1 adjourn a week later.
A commercial panic prevails in Lis
bon, where the leading banks are trem
bling. A crisis is imminent.
The Milwaukee & Northern has been
bought by the Chicago, Milwaukee &St
Paul for a little over $5,000,000.
The president by proclamation extends
the time for removing cattle from the
Cherokee outlet to November 1st.
Chauncey M. Depew doesn't believe the
Knights of Labor are back of the train
wrecking on the New York Central.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck a train on the Chicago & North
western road, near North avenue, Chicago.
The Washington Sunday Chronicle was
the first paper refused by the (fostofflce be
cause it contained lottery advertisements.
—'Six new. bridges, three saw mills and
much property was wasiied away Thurs
iJ" day by the giving way of the dam near
•J7 Poestenkill, N. Y.
The stockholders of the Milwaukee road
ratified the purchase of the Milwaukee &
Northern and authorized a new issue of
stock to pay for it.
It is reported that the Portuguese gov
ernment nas declared a state of siege in
Lisbon on account of the fights between
the police and mobs.
CutiAlties In Minneapolis*
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept 28.—Charles Limb
land, a stone cutter employed on Dickin
son Cunningham and Willis & Dun
ham's new store building on Nicollet
avenue, was killed at 1 o'clock this after
noon by the fall of a huge derrick.
Townsend Mix, a well known architect,
died at the West hotel at 1 o'clock to-day.
His greatest work was the Guaranty Loan
building.
The N. P. Indemnity Liuidi.
5 WASHINGTON, Sept 22.—The conference
committee on the Northern Pacific indem
nity bill reichcd an agreement this morn
inr Under the bill as it now stands set
tiers may complete their filings. Those
who have proved up will not nave to pat
6 in any additional time: Those who have
Z' ^not proved up will only be required to have
the time fixed by law and in \no ease Jess
than six months.
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Strange Bpldemie.
ti# IfoiKES, la^Sept aMriie governor
haa been asked to send a veterinary sur
geonto Muscatine county to investigate an
epidemic amrog cattle. They grow stiff
in the. jolirtand refuse toeat or drink, and
tne cows give only about one-third their
usual quantity of milk.
ANOTHER SITE.
The World's Fair Directors Again
Change Their Hinds, and Be
Locate" the Fair.
This Time It Is South, Washington
and Jackson Parks Which
Are Chosen.
A Young Man Shoots His Brother
in-Law on Crowded State St.,
Chicago.
The World's Fair.
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Washington Park
has been'included in the World's Fair site
by the Chicago Park commissioners. In
a sense the chosen site is one great unit,
comprising as it does the whole South
Park system of Chicago. There are three
separate Park systems in the city, north,
west and south, each magnificent, but be
yond question the finest is that stretching
in a superb vista from the heart of the city
south. The enthusiasm with which the
tender was received by the national com
mission showed in marked contrast with
the reception of previous propositions. By
a resolution adopted early in the day, the
national commission had formally pledged
itself to regard the offer of such a site as a
"final settlement of all questions relating
to the question of a site," and when the
park commissioners promptly responded
and the exact location of the big exposition
was at last finally fixed, there was an in
stant outburst of cheers in which directors,
commissioners and spectators joined
with vim. Stepping from -the doors
of the city's railroad depots,
hotels and business houses, visitors to the
World's Fair will, as it were, enter directly
the vestibule of the exposition on the
lake front This "lake front" is a strip of
park comprising sixty aeres, upon one side
of which the shadow of the massive tall
tower of the Auditorium falls daily, while
upon ehe other side ripples the clear
waters of Lake Michigan. Leading from
the lake front park the finest boulevard of
the city goes directly to Washington rk,
and connecting with the latter is the mid
way plaisance, which ends ih Jackson
park. Like the lake front, one side of
Jackson park is washed by the waves of
the lake. The greater portjon of the site is
on a vast net-work of pleasure drives, en
closing great stretches of emerald mead
ows and groves of sturdy oak. Adjoining
Washington park is a race track capable
of accommodating 50,000 people, and this
the local directory expeet to also make a
part of the site for the purpose of speed
display and live stock. This improved
race track, where the live stock show will
be made, is within 100 yards, of the point
selected for the main building, thus
placing the whole fair in one compact part
of the city, including the government dis
play and displays to be made by various
states in conjunction with the main expo
sition buildings. The site selected and the
plan of the buildings proposed is generally
regarded as calculated to be especially
gratifying to live stock men of the coun
try, wnose, display will be most promi
nent.
Shot His Brother-in-law.
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—To-night a fatal
street affray between brothers-in-law
ended a remarkable contest for possession
of a fortune of $100,000. The contest ended
in the tragedy begun with an elopement.
Alfred Richner, several years ago, was the
husband ot a noted brothel keeper. Not
withstanding his marital relations and his
unsavory record Richner succeeded in
clandestinely working himself into the
good graces of the daughter of a wealthy
flour and feed dealer named Kessler. Upon
the death of Kessler the daughter, who
seems to have been somewhat simple
minded, disclosed her attachment for Rich
ner. The opposition of the family to any
recognition of that worthy resulted in the
prompt elopement of the couple to Mon
treal. Richner later went through tha
form of obtaining a divorce from the
brothel keeper and having his marriage
with Miss Kessler legalized- They re
turned to Chicago and a feud was soon en
gendered between Richner and his new
wife's brother. The latter accused Rich
ner of being actuated solely 1th the de
sire to lay hands on the fortune of his sis
ter. Legal struggles and personal en
counters between Richner and young
Kessler have been frequent, the
latest, prior to this evening, be
ing in tne court room, where Richner,
apparently to place his brother in a ridicu
lous light, emptied a small sack of flour on
his head. Recently, it is said, Richner
failing In his efforts to get at tha Kessler
patrimony, has threatened to kill every
member of the family. To-night he met
young Kessler on State street and attacked
him with a cane. Kessler drew a revolver
and rapidly fired three shots. Two were
stopped by Richner's watcli. At the third
he dropped and Kessler immediately put
two more bullets into his sister's husband
while he was prostrate. The shooting took
place on a orowded part of State street
and for a few moments caused a wild
stampede of passers-by. Kessler gave
himself up to tne authorities. He said he
had been advised to arm himself, by the
city's chief detectives and by his attorney,
Gen. John C. Black. Notwithstanding his
wounds, Richner clung to life tenaciously
and his first words on gaining conscious
ness for a few moments was that he be al
lowed to see his wife, she whose brother
had just attacked him. Richner, the doc
tors, said, could survive but a few hours.
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Hot Springs Flooded, .'.i.
HOT SPBINGS, Ark., Sept 18.—A terrible
flood occurred here last night. and this
morning. The valley from one end to the
other is in ruins. A heavy r«in set in yes
terday afternoon and at midnight the rairf
increased steadily until there came a ter
rific water spout This, together with the
immense volume of water which rolled
down the mountain side, swelled the
creek at the base and cut off its banks and
deluged the main thoroughfare and flooded
stores the whole length of the avenue.
The water, with Its terrible' force, carried
every movable object before it and this
morning the avenue presents a scene not
exceeded in disaster by the great flood in
Hot Springs of two yearn ago. '.v
into the Chicago River.
CmcAeo,Sept 23.—A Lincoln avenue
street car went into the river at the Clark
street bridge at midnight to-night, carry
ing the horse with it. Tbe car: was filled
with passengers, bat almost miraculously
they managra to escape, the last passen
ger lamping from the rear platform as the
vehicle tottered and fell, with a tremen
dous splash into the dark waters. The
bridge bad been turned to allow tbe pass
M« of a vessel and while the car was' on
tne down grade, the brakes unaccountably
refused to work.
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A TERRIFIC RAIN.
Over Sixteen Inches of Bain Falls In Two
Days In Arkansas.
HKLENA, Ark., Sept. 24.—Yesterday
evening this city was visited by the most
terrific and destructive rain storm ever
known in its history. At about 3 o'clock
in the afternoon a steady rain commenced
and continued until 6 o'clock. A veritable
cloud burst occurred, and in an incredible
short time that portion of the city bounded
by Walker street on the north, Columbia
street on the east and College street on the
west was one vast sheet of water.
Fences were swept away, outhouses
upturned and cellars inundated, and street
car tracks were submerged. No estimate
is made of the damage. The water spreiid
rapidly and the lower portion of the city
was soon submerged and hundreds of peo
ple driven from their homes. The total
rainfall last night was 9.21 inches, supple
mented by 4 inches more to-day. The total
rainfall for the past two days has been
16.19 inches. It is still warm and cloudy
and the prospects are good for more rain.
THBT WILL FIGHT.
Slavin and McAuliffe Will Fight Fifteen
Roands Instead of Thirty.
LONDON, Sept. 23.—Lord Lonsdale pre
sided at the Ormonde club meeting to
night, which lasted two hours. Slavin
was present. The secretary of the club
states that by the decision of tlfe magis
trate the two pugilists|are at liberty to com
pete, therefore, with a view of coinciding
with the magistrate's remarks, the men
have agreed to reduce the number of
rounds from thirty to fifteen. Slavin has
returned to Dover Court. A nobleman of
sporting proclivities has arranged for
Jackson, the colored pugilist, to box the
winner. Both Slavin and McAuliffe have
given their consent to this arrangement.
A Long List of Charges.
CLINTONVILLE, Wis., Sept. 23.—An inno
cent appearing, good looking German girl,
scarcely 15 years of age, has been arrested
on a warrant charging her with a long
series of crimes that have been committed
at Louis Devand's farm. Minnie Iloffsaith
is the girl's name. She has an honest face,
and to charge her with an attempt to com
mit murder, arson and malicious mischief
seems preposterous. The persecution be
gan in the latter part of July. First the
choice watermelons of Devand's patch were
destroyed and the vines cut off. This was
thought to be the work of some of the boys
of the neighborhood and was looked upon
as a boyish prank. Less than a week af
ter that, a hive of his was over
turned during the night and paris
green sprinkled over the honey in
copious quantities. A tew days passed and
the performance was repeated. Then some
one got into the cellar and put paris green
in the butter and threw a ham into a bar
rel of soft soap. A large number of cans
of fruit were opened and poison put into
them. One day when Mrs. Devand started
to mix her bread she found paris green in
the flour. The next outrage was when
some one got into the house and ruined a
quantity of clothing by cutting it with scis
sors. A few days later the house was set
on fire, and while the family were putting
it out the barn' took fire. Finally it was
noticed that Miss Hoffsalth was the first to
discover and report these things to the
family and she was arrested on suspicion
merely. She declares her innocence.
Regarding Political Prisoners.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Representative
Scranton of Pennsylvania, in the house to
day presented for reference to the com
mittee on foreign affairs the following
preamble and resolution:
WHEREAS, The harsh and brutal treat
ment of political prisoners is now univer
sally condemned all civilized nations
and even from England remonstrances
have been addressed to the Russian gov
ernment on behalf of Russian subjects in
carcerated for political reasons and
WHEHEAS, Several American citizens
(Dr. Gallagher, W. Kent, J. Wilson, T.
Whitehead and others) are how under
going imprisonment in England for politi
cal offences against the government of
that country and are, according to even
official reports and admissions, being
treated with exceptional and unjustifiable
severity, therefore,
Resolved, That this house respectfully
and earnestly requests the* president to
cause inquiry to be made immediately
into the condition of these prisoners, ana
should the reports referred to prove cor
rect, then to endeavor to secure for then
humane and decent treatment, pending
efforts in theii*behalf, which, it' is antici
pated, will prove that they have not been
fairly or legally convicted of tbe offences
charged against them, and are therefore
entitled to relief.
Arrangements for the Fight.
LONDON, Sept 24.—Arrangements have
been made for the international' fight be
tween Joe McAuliffe and Frank P. Slavin
for £1,000, Police Gazette championship
belt and championship of tbe world, which
will take place within two weeks. Crichton
Temple, who is now blamed for police in
terference, did not want the men to battle
for a purse, hut Lord Eric Gordon, Lord
Lonsdale and Ricilark K. Fox insisted that
the purse should be offered and also that,
should the police interfere when tbe men
are in the ring, Slavin and McAuliffe shall,
each receive £350. Temple opposed this
proposition and said jt was "useless to
A long discussion followed and
finally Temple agreed to the Americans'
proposition. It is understood the gloves
made in America will be slightly increased
In size and that tbe pugilists will fight
fifteen instead of thirty rounds. It is the
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general opinion that the battle will not
that long, and should it not be decided
at tbe end of fifteen rounds, tbe referee,
George Yize and H. J. Apgie, will proba
bly order additional rounds. McAuliffe
and Madden are back at Barnes' cottage at
Wells:ln-the-Sea, while Slavin, Jack Lewis,
Joe Start and Billy McCarthy have re
sumed training at Dover Court, Harwick.
A Fast Team.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 19.—Two thousand
people saw the double team trotting record
for a mile, 2:15%, made by Maxy Cobb and
Happy Medium in 1881, beaten by half a
second at the Philadelphia Driving park
to-day. The team that broke the record
was C. J. Hamlin's Belle Hamlin and Jus
tina. They were driven by Hamlin him
self and made the mile in 2:15)4 on second
trial. Tbe mile trotted to-day equals that
made by Maud 8. and Aldine at New York
in 1888, when they were driven by Wm.
H. Vanderbilt a mile to top wagon in
2:15%. The record made to day is disputed
by a number of turf men who were.pres
ent and timed the horses, and they claim
that thp mile was only trotted in 2:11%
''Miss Willoughby's Examination*:
LcysBKX, Minn., Sept.* 24^-'The prelim
inary examination of Mltt'WiUoughby for
incendiarism was cbmpleted this morning.
She was held in 81,000 to appear at the
next term of court She will nave Qb diffi
culty in giving bonds. Mrs. Owen was ar
'rested, bat there was- no evidence against
Mrs. Freeman, sister of Miss Willoughby.
GOT A QUORUM.
The Republicans in the Honse
N a Quorum and Surprise the
Democrats.
At Boll Call 165 Members Respond
to Their Names and Business
is Resumed.
The Democrats, Surprised and Vexed,
Try to Call a Caucus, But do
Not Succeed.
They Got a Quorum,
-, —y. twine. The basis on which the metal and
think of it Richard K. Fox insisted that glassware schedules, which have been the
the amoant mentioned should be paid.- eaaBe
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—The result of
to-day's proceedings was a surprise to the
democratic minority, which, after two
weeks' successful operation of what has
become known as the "Mason plan" of ob
struction, was confident that its opponents
could not secure a quorum, but the whips
had been active arid word had been passed
abound before the house met that a quorum
would be present. The result of the first
roll call, to approve the journal, was
awaited with considerable nervousness by
the republicans. During the call it was
discovered that MilliKen of Maine, who
had just returned to the city, was not pres
ent, and immediately messengers and
pages went to look him up. As the clerk
proceeded, it was also noticed that Mudd
of Michigan had failed to respond, and
Chairman Roweil, of the elections commit
tee, went himself in pursuit of the ab
sentee, but these apprehensions were
groundless, as Sweeney, who had hardly
been expected so soon, came into the house
just in season to cast the vote necessary to
make a quorum. Furthe proceedings were
remarkably expeditious, and O'Farrejl, the
only democratic sentinel, was absolutely
powerless to check the majority in its full
swing. A yea and nay vote declaring that
Venable was not elected showed that there
were 165 republibans in attendance includ
ing those who did not vote, but were paired,
namely: Bliss, Browne of Virginia, cooper
of Ohio. DeHaven, Frank. Mincone, Mc
Keuna. Stock bridge, Waddell, Wade,
Wright and Ya'rdley. 'A B. Brown
of Indiana, Butterworth, Conneil,
Swart, Finley, Hansbrough, Peters and
Wilson of Kentucky, were the republl
cans who were absent without pairs and
of these Browne, Finley and Wilson had
leaves of absence on account of sickness.
Sneaker Reed stood ready to cast his bal
lot, but did not do so as a quorum ap
peared without his vote. The Mille/ cnse
which followed the Langstone case was
even a greater surprise, and in fact it was
not generally known to the republicans
that the leaders contemplated this move.
The resolution which unseated Elliott and
seated Miller was cleverly framed so as to
be indivisible and a single vote sufficed to
achieve what had required four separate
votes in the Langstone case. The demo
cratic minority was considerably vexed
over the result of the day's proceedings
and a call for a caucus was circulated with
the purpose of endeavoring to unite the
party by way of retaliation upon the policy
of the treatment of the conference report
on the tariff bill, which would require the
republicans to maintain a quorum of their
own members to dispose of that report,
but owing to the lateness of the hour and
the small attendance of democratic mem
bers the attempt to caucus was tempor
arily abandoned although it was stated
that it would probably be renewed to-mor
row.
LANGSTONE SEATRID.
By its action to-day in seating Lang
stone the house ended what was probably
the most protracted and bitterly contested
election case it has ever decided during the
last days of congress. Tne democrats
made strenuous efforts to unseat Felton
and put in Sullivan as the representative
from California, but they were defeated by
the refusal of a majority of the republi
cans to vote upon the proposition.
THEIB WORK ALMOST FINISHED.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—The republican
conferees on the tariff bill took a respite
from their labors to-night for the first time
in several days. The situation is now such
that no good, it is thought, can come of
talking tbe matter over any further. The
conferees have had turned upon them all
the light that can be diffused upon the only
items in the bill now unsettled—sugar and
binding twine—and when they adjourned
at 6 o'clock this afternoon it was deemed
best to leave each man alone to think the
situation over in the hope that by to-mor
row morning one side or the other will
show a disposition to yield. Those in fa
vor of a duty on binding twine have gone
a good ways, they say, in consenting to a
very much lower duty than the present
rate of 2)£ cents, and they now think it is
time for free binding twine mea to abate
something, at least, of their demands. An
earnest effort in this direction is making
to-night by some of the conferees and oth
er leaders who are endeavoring to secure
the adhesion of western senators to the
bill, with a small duty left on binding
of
so much contention, were settled
to-night, was that on steel rails and
structural iron it remain the Same as in
the bouse bill, and the duty on steel billets
Is fixed at a rate lower than
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rovlded for by the house, but higher than
fixed by the senate. These were three
of the prlhcipal items ih this schedule in
dispute. The rates fixed on other items in
the schedule cannot be given, but they are
very senerally lower than the bouse and
higher thah tne senate rates. The last
statement applies also to the glassware
schedule, on which there were a great
many different rates between the two
branches of congress. The tobacco clauses
of the internal revenue section of the bill
remain as fixed by the house, with the. ex
ception that the tax on tobacco and snuff
is reduced 2 cents instead of 4 cents, mak
ing the rate provided by tbe bill 6 cents a
poand. May 1st is fixed as the period when
the tobacco clause shall go into effect
Special licenses on dealers are abolished as
provided for by the house. The clerks to
the conference committee are engaged in
preparing the conference reports and mak
ing up the bill in accordance with the
changes made in conference, so as to have
the report ready, (or submission to the
house soon after an agreement Is reached
&pon sugar and binding twine.
Suggestlons for the Fair.
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.—Secretary oi Agri
culture Rusk .bw sent to President Palmer
of tbe World's Fair commission some sug
gestions as 'to what the Fair may and
oaght.tobe. The success, of the Fair de
jpends, be says, on the slab and skill with
which it is carried oat. People are hungry
ibr things new,, useful and conducive to
their intellectual as well as their material
btovat^on. The exposition: must not only
eftine up to their ideas as to greatness, but
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its character must be such as to inspire
and teach and help them. He believes the
exposition must show the history of the
continent since its discovery, and to be an
illustrated encyclopedia of civilization.
Everything in it, he thinks, should teach
some valuable lesson. He says: "The.ex
position should not be merely a show, fair
or collossal shop, but also and pre-eminent
ly an exposition of the principles* which
underlie our national welfare of our ma
terial, intellectual and moral status of ele
ments of our weakness and our strength
of the progress we have made, the plan on
which we live and the ways in which we
shall rise higher. It should be an exposi
tion of knowledge illustrated by the ma
terial objects shown. It should teach not
only to our people but to the world what a
young republic. |with all the crudeness of
youth, but heir to the experience of ages,
has done In its brief past, is do
ing in the present and hopes to
do in the greater future for
its people and for mankind." He then
takes up the matter ofc food exhibit, and
after quoting arguments to show its lm
portance and to that effect that the re
search is showing clearly how -the pro
ducts of our farms may be better adapted
to the demands of home and foreign mar
kets. It is bringing information which
people need to help them to fit,their diet to
the demands of health and purse. It is
also showing why foreign nations should,
in the interest of their poorly fed masses,
remove the barriers they now oppose to
our meats and other food products.. It is
eminently fitting that these things be illus
trated at the exposition, which is to be for
the education of both our own people and
those of other countries Food exhibits
should, in his judgment, include all sub
stance used for food, and with some illus
trations of the methods of preparing them
for market and for eating. This means, of
course, displays of products, home and for
eign, of farm, garden, orchard, mill, estab
lishment for canning and that for meat
packing, factory, bakery and domestic
kitchen. They should be grouped by
themselves in one great building—a food
hall. They should be "so arranged that
each intelligent visitor may carry away a
lesson, useful for his purse and health. To
this etid the best teaching of
chemistry, physiology and hygiene
regarding foods and beverages as
well, should be presented to the
public by labels, models, diagrams, speci
mens and books. The hall might be sur
rounded by a fringe of separate apartments
in which should Tbe schools of practical
cookery, model kitchens, bakeries and
markets, With other things there could
be restaurants, not only to provide good
food at fair prices, but to teach the proper
use of special kinds of food, such as corn
and its products, meals, poultry, fish, truits
and materials for beverages such as tea
and coffee. These could be made highly
interesting and ireful and to every house
keeper the central feature of the whole
exposition. These ideas are' not new.
They are only an amplification of what
has been done in some of the later exhibi
tions. The occasion should be improved
to collect information regarding the sub
jects exhibited and put in a permanent
printed form as oneur the reports to make
a lasting monument of the exposition.
Bringing Them to Time.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—Representative
Moore of New Hampshire to day intro
duced in the house the following resolu
tion: That the committee on rules be in
structed to report an additional rule, to
wit: Rule XLVI—conte i:pt of house.
When a call of the house discloses the
presence of a quorum, any member absent
ing himself on the succeeding roil call for
the purpose of breaking the quorum, shall
be arraigned at the bar of the house and
fined a sum not exceeding $5001
The N. P. Tax Cases.
Grand Forks Herald: The cases involv
ing the Northern Pacific indemnity lands
will be heard by the supreme court at its
session to be held in this city next month.
The cases involve not only the indemhity
land question, but the Northern Pacific
lands in the original grant, the railroad
company seeking to escape taxation on the
ground that the gross earnings law was in
lieu of all other taxes. Some of the attor
neys hold that the real question as to the
ownership of the indemnity lands was not
determined by the decision In the case of
Jackson vs. La Moure county, in which
case plaintiff admitted that title was in the
government, and under such hypothesis
the lands were not taxable. Iu the com
ing case the railroad company will lay title
to the indemnity lknds but seek to escape
taxation under the gross earnings law.
The attorneys against the railroad think
that the real question ot the railroad's own
ership of the lands will come squarely be
fore the court, and are confident of a de
cision on this point favorable to the coun
ties interested.
On a Scientific Jaunt..
From Montana papers it is learned that a.
small steamer was launched at Bozeman
last Friday and is now coming down the
Missouri on her way to the coast of Flori
da, with Commodore A. C. Hitt in com
mand. The steamer was built of moun
tain fir, within the shadow of the moun
tain where the timber grew. She is 23 feet
long, 6 feet beam and thirty inches
depth of hold. She has a screw propeller,
with marine engine and boiler of lJs horse
power. She has cabin accommodations for
three persons. The object of tbe trip is
presumed to be connected with a scientific
treatise on tbe subject of shallow' river
navigation and river obstructions. The
Bozeman was launched at a point a stone's
throw from the fountain head of the Mis
souri, 400miies above the head of naviga
tion. A portage will be made around the
great falls of the Missouri, and then the
vdbsel will have clear sailing to the gulf.
Permanent Fort Lincoln.
The Mandan Times claims to have In
side and reliable Information to the effect
that Fort Lincoln is to be increased to at
leapt a regimental post the coming spring.
It says: "The Northern Pacific road is tak
ing preliminary stops toward putting down
a track from Mandan to the fort This
paper has positive information that, the
survey is soon to be made and has now
been ordered by the company. This can
mean only one thing—that the Northern
Pacific has assurance from the war depart
ment that the post will be increased if
they will lay a track so as to:provide direct
transportation for troops and supplies."
The N. F. Surveying a Cut-Off to His
rnarck. ".V.V
Minneapolis Journal, special: LaMoufe)
Sept. 20.—Railroad excitement is high here.
An engineer of the Northern Pacific cauie,
Who reports a corps of meii ubder him sur
veying from MUnor, itf Sargent county,
west to this point. He says the design is
to build to tqls place this autumn and on
to Bismarck next summer. If this is done,
it will very materially shorten the distance
from Bismarck to Minneapolis. Milnorls
at present tbe terminus of the Fergus Falls
ana Breekehridge branch ol the Northern
Pacific. ./ ... *••T
Mandan Times: It is understood that the
Northern Pacific has secured the right of
wayfor thelrJine toFort Ltncolnasfar as
Robert Welch's place. It. is a' certainty
that it will be bttllt very soon. Then look
for an Inerease of the post atfLinooln.
LUNCHEON IN NEW YORK,
jt Here Compared with
Meals in Paris.
[Special Correspondence.]
NEW YORK, Sept. 88.—The saying haa
become almost tiresome from reiteration
the French workingman is better fed
than the average American young profes
sional man. Let us have demonstration
of the fact.
What does the banker's, lawyer's or
wholesale dealer's clerk usually eat for
luncheon? We do not mean the lucky
young man whose employer has discovered
that more money is saved—more time that
is money—by giving his clerks a comfort
able noonday meal than by letting them
skirmish at lunch counters and corner
pastry stands for a doubtful sandwich or
a week old turnover. Making the very
best qf existing conditions in the business
district of any large city, what can a man
buy in the line of hot, savory food for the
sum of twenty cents, which is equivalent
to the Frenchman's franc
There are in most cities a few very free
and easy sort of places where various
standard dishes cost five cents each, a
plate of meat and a potato, or a dish of
-baked beans and a slice. of bread, or a
quantum suf. of hash or corned beef and
cabbage but these places are in out of the
way streets, so far as the men in question
are concerned. Newspaper men are more
fortunate in New York, since Printing
House square contains those odd little
coffee and cake stands, at which ten cents
will buy a steaming cup of hot coffee with
milk bnd sugar and a plate of little but
tered cakes—not half bad fare on a winter
day. Some of the river and cross town
streets still hold open rough and ready
"eating saloons," where soup is five cents
a bowl, coffee the same price a cup, cooked
meats ten cents a plate, including some
kind of vegetable, and pie and pudding
five cents a dish. The newsboy may gorge
himself at the St. Andrew's coffee stands
for one cent a dish of soup, fish cakes,
beans, meat and vegetable stew and like
solid food, but a banker's or merchant's
clerk sannot well relish the savors dear to
newsboys and navvies.
The jaded brain could not spare the
blood required to digest such fare, even if
appetite craved it. When a man has to
return to his desk for the most difficult
work of the day he has no energy to waste
on digestion. Much as he needs the nour
ishment of wholesome food, it would be
absurd to expect to receive it from the
average of the fare available to the down
town frequenters of restaurants where the
ten cent plates prevail.
There are, however, houses where the
prices are slightly advanced, and where the
cooking is good and savory. One popular
New York resort supplies over 10,000 people
daily. For twenty-five cents a palatable
and wholesome dinner can be made from
soup, a roast meat with two vegetables,
pudding or pie, and coffee with milk and
sugar. For fifty cents judiciously placed
more would be served than one could eat
unless ravenously hungry. There are odd
little foreign hostelries—Swiss, Hungarian,
Polish, etc.—where wonderfully good lit
tle dinners are cobked by the host and
served under the eye of the hostess for
,twenty-five' and thirty cents, including vin
ordinaire of fair quality. But the same
difficulty exists as with the very cheap res
taurants—they are situated too far from
the business centers to be available for our
present comparison, even if the character
of the cookery were acceptable.
So far all our conditions have given but
small promise of comfort for the clerk and
accountant at the noonday meal, for even
the most inviting—specified at the'restau
rant where twenty-five cents buys a hearty
meal—is not without its disadvantages for
supposing the would-be diner can leave his
desk at noon precisely, and arrive prompt
ly at the dining room, he may find every
seat occupied and be forced to lose part of
his precious hour of relaxation from work
in waiting more of it must" be dissipated
in the coming and going. As a natural
consequence any plan must be welcome
that supplies hot food at the right time
and place. First is the arrangement where
by the individual employer or corporation
undertakes to meet the situation with a
hot luncheon, the cost of which is either
included in the salary or paid for by the
week or month.
This system' is the outgrowth of the
privilege years ago accorded to the sewing
girls in the great dry goods houses of pre
paring tea for their luncheon, a privilege
still continued. In addition to this local*
provision for lunching there is a traveling
caterer, whose representative calls for or
ders during the forenoon, and at the noon
hour serves the specified fare in appetizing
fashion and collects the dishes in the
afternoon. Ther.cost is very reasonable, and
the food must needs be moderately satis
factory in order to maintain the business.
All these arrangements are, however, only
makeshifts, substitutes for the comforta
ble meal' the eater would make at home
were home available but at the best the
cooking is probably less satisfactory than
real home fare, because it is done in bulk
and cannot be suited to individual palates,
even when their preference- is known, as
home cooking can.
The comparison starts in the favor of
the French artisan, because in France
cookery is reduced to a science, the de
grees varying not in excellence but in cost
every dish is as palatable as every other
dish of similar composition the working
man's cafe au lait is just as well made as
the noble's, only tbe ingredients differ
omelette soufflee Is as light at the little
restaurant outside the barriers as at the
Jockey club. When all American cookery
shall be founded upon scientific principles,
as the writer's is, the same certainty of ex
cellence can be felt here as in France. The
day will have passed when a pretender to
the title of teacher of. cookery shall be
able, in order to exalt herself, to apply tha
stigma of the term "messep" td cookfery.
It will then be imperative in America, as
it now is abroad, that every intending cook
shall undertake a definite course of train
ing, and at 'its conclusion shall demonstrate
its utility by producing dishes, every one
of which shallbe perfect of lte kind. It" is
because of the jaceuracy and practicability,
of the French culinary system that suob
restaurants as the Bouillons Duval flourish
in Paris, and that the artisan's' cabaret
can furalsh the sort of dinner to which we
compare.our noonday meal, the one franc
dinner in the Quartler BatignoUss, a sec
tion of Paris not often penetrated by.
Americans, There a party seeking for ln
tormation recently had served to th«ih the'
following btfl of fare, every dish, being ex
cellent: ...'
^PoUge Jardiniere.
.Haricot Besm with gutter.
If taut Beef, New Potatoes.
Stiad with Roquefort, Suisse or Edam Choose
Half Bottle of Vtu Ordinaire.
The material was excellent and properly
oooked, and the service neat and attractive.
/The wine was an unadulterated Bordeaux,
the cheese was good, the meat tender. the
vegetables fresh and the soup well made,
containing all. th? vegetables of the season.
The .haricots are like'our garden batter,
beans, and am similarly cooked.
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