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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
WOMEN OF THE VEST.

The woman born and reared in the
West is a grand and goodly type of wo-
manhood. She is strong and keen and
comprehensive; she is full of life and
grace and freedom; she is quick to feel
an injury, and she is quite equal 10 be-
ing her own avenger.
Her eye is keen and her tongue is
sharp; but her heart is warm and her
hand is open. She is always ready with
her sympathy and prompt with her
help.
Her business ability and executive
talent are of very high order, as a
proof of which is the fact that some of
the finest cattle ranches aud most ex-
tensive and most prosperous sheep runs
are owned and managed by women.
have now in my mind the case of a
woman, born in Ohio, who 10 years ago
in this city Of New York, was earning
S. or Sc a week, with which sum she
supported her mother and her fathers
brother, semi-invalid old man.
At the time I speak of, when this
woman was about 10 years Of age, she
obtained, after much difficulty and de-
lay, grant of quarter section of Gov
eminent land to which her dead father
had become entitled through his SER
vices in the rebellion.
| This land was located in Oregon.
She sent her old uncle out to keep up
the land, and she pinched and saved,
and sent to him from time to time, al
most dollar by dollar, money with
which to hire help to clear space in the
timber and to put up log house.
As soon as this poor shelter was pro
vided for them, she took her mothe,
and went out and lived on her land. Ar
she could. from time to time, she bought
stock and so she crept on, step by step,
until now she has good home and barn
and last year she cleared from her sale
Of stock she had raised, and from the
cole Of her crop, several thousand dol,
Lars.
And what this woman has done hmm.
dreds of women are doing every year.
| And if many Of these women have
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
sr.iaE rR-4VEL IN RUSSIA.

SYidE TRAVEL, IN RUSSII.
You may pack your portmanteau in
Mimi Noygorod, get padorozhnaya
from the Postal Department, and start
for Petropavlosk, Kamtchatka, 1000
miles away, with the full assurance that
throughout the whole of that enormous
distance there will be horses, reindeer,
OF dogs ready and waiting to carry you
on, night and day, to your destination.
It must, however, be borne in mind that
the Russian post route is a very differ
.ent thing from the old English post
route, and that the Russian horse ex-
press differs widely, not only from our
own Western pony express, but from
the horse expresses of most other conn-
tries. The characteristic feature Of the
West European and American systems
is the stage coach or diligence, which
leaves certain places at certain stated
hours, or, in other words, runs upon q
prearranged time schedule. 1t is pre-
cisely this feature that the Russian sys-
tenn does not have. There are, gener-
ally speaking, no stage coach lines m
Russia; the vehicles which carry the
mails do not carry passengers, and, away
from the railroads, there is no such q
thing as travelling upon fixed time
schedule. You are never obliged, there.
fore, to wait for public conveyance
which leaves at certain stated hour,
and then go through to your destination
in that conveyance, stopping when it
stops and starting when it starts, with
out regard to yours own health, com.
fort, or convenience. On the contrary,
you may ride in your own sleigh or car
riage, and have it drawn by post horses.
You may travel at the rate of Its miles
in twenty-four hours, Or twenty-four
miles in us hours, just as you feel in
clined. You may stop when You like,
where you like, and for as long time
as you like, and when you are ready to
move on, you have only to order out
your horses and get into your vehicle.
It makes no difference in what part Of
the Empire you may happen to be, nor
to what part you may wish to go. Seud
yonr padorozhnaya to the nearest post
station, and in twenty minutes you will
be riding away at the rate of ten miles
an hour, with your postal order in your
pocket and a hundred relays of fresh
horses distributed at intervals along
your route.
The established rate Of payment for
transportation over the post routes Of
Western Siberia seems to an American
absurdly low. It amounts, including
the compensation of the driver, to IL
cents per mile for every horse, or 50
cents per mile for the usual "troika, :"
or team Of three. In other words, two
persons can travel in their own carriage
with team of three horsec, a distance
Of twenty miles for go cents, or 81 cents
each.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
THE NEGRO RACE IN AMERICA.


Nevertheless, when We are in the face
of 5000, 900 or Z, 1000, 600 of the African
race. it is no chiIds play. This is the
population Of q very considerable race
in Europe. Magyars or Hungarians in
Europe are only put down in the last
book of record as some $4,000 900, or
about double the population of our
negroes. It is a curious instance. of the
economical obiviousness of the Ameri-
can people that they permit this huge
and stalwart black population merely to
be enumerated, whae our American
travellers go to small places like Suma-
ira, Borneo, etc., and produce books
about she splendid instincts ct the
natives and the romance of their. loves
and sense of war. En- point of fact we
have the most remarkable African popu-
lation on the face of the globe. They
are indoctrinated with the Republican
ideas of the West through at least two
generations of living here. In some re-
spects they are superior to the white
population. What white woman can
cook corn meal pone like a
black woman? What man can
go out into the not fields of the
South and plough and harrow IKE the
African who has been brought up there?
We are only upon the second stage of
the African question in America. To
set people free is one thing, but to ex-
pect them to get along with nothing
but reprobation of their success is to
give one of the races of human nature q
mighty test. The carrying Of presiden-
tial elections is sweet boon, but how
is that going TO boil the pot when the
natural domestic and servant population
/ is black? Providence is looking at our
continent perhaps as our audiences at the
the burlesque operas look upon the play
it sees people who have nothing but
pride between them fussing about class
ifcation and wondering whether the SER
want population ought to have any pc.
litical rights. How quickly does rich
people separate on the old feudal and
antiquarian ines.'-Georye Alfred
Townsend.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

moi got much education, their sons and
daughters will have. And it is we'll
with Il land that breeds such women,
and it is weH.with the men Of tue land
who have such mothers ford Maga-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

A LEFT-HANDED COMPLEMENT.
Actor-Did you see me play Hamlet
last night?
Friend--I did.
eGrand, wasn't it,"
"Idon't know about that, but Tn sure
you'd never DO for . coachman."
why mott"
~You don't handle your lines we'll
enough. - TEXAS Stfi5'sgs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

Bolivia with population Of 1900. 900
has MOI q single Protestant missionary.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
AND MARY DIDN'T REFUSE,

Mary-Don't you dislike to have q
man talk shop when he comes 10 see
you?
Jennie-Indeed I do! Who's been
talking shop to you?
Mary-Oh, my young man. He's 9
street-car conductor, you know. and
nearly every time he comes 10 see me
he gets off his shop talk.
Jennie-What does he ssys
Mary-Sit closer, please.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

KING PH1n's war in New England
began with the attack On Swansea,
Mass, July 4, 1875, and ceased with the
shooting Of Philip by a faithless Indian
the next year.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

The State Lecturer has appointed
General James H. Baker, of Oak Cliff
Farm, Garden City, Blue Earth Coun-
ty, Deputy State Lecturer for the "a
Congressional District. General Ba-
ker is a farmer, a member OF the
Alliance, and one of the Oldest and
most active speakers in the North
west. His reports, while Railroad
Commissioner of this state, were the
best ever put forth by any railroad
commissioner in the United States !;
and have been valuable textbooks
for the people ever since. General
Baker is now confined to his house
by an accident, but he proposes to
make thorough canvass OF the I'd
Congressional District this winter,
and organize every part of it. He is
as familiar with the needs and wrongs
of the farmer as any man in the
state. He has given up all political
aspirations for the future, and pro-
poses to devote himself to the defense
of the class to which he belongs.
He will do good work. We COM
mend him to the farmers of the dis
trict. The whole people should turn
out to his meetings; they will hear
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
TAKE OUR FIST, JOHN.
We Have Yours.

we have ours.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
DEAR SIR:-Enclosed find list of
names as subscribers to your paper.
l haveno doubt but that the above
kind of "copy" is more acceptableto
you than anything else that might
say.
But in this day OF trusts and COM
bines,' combination of farmers
seems to me to be eminently proper,
and in order to make it more binding,
an organ, devoted to their interests,
is certainly needed, if it is not an alb
solute necessity.
The press of the State is in the
hands or under the thumbs of the
great corporations, and whenever
the farmers or laboring men have
anything to communicate, for their
mutual benefit, they either have to
publish it in the form of circular or
write it out and send through the
mails by letter.
1t has come to be generally under
stood by the lords OF this creation,
which we call the State of Minnesota,
that any movement which the agri-
cultural class may see fit to inaugu-
rate, is necessarily inimical to the in
terest of capital, as represented by
the railroads, the millions OF elevator
men and the politicians, and the fat
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
A Description Of Christ.

This was found in an ancient manu-
script sent by Publius Leutulus, presi-
dent of Judea, to the Roman senate:
There lives at this time in Judea
man of singular character, whose
name is Jesus Christ. The barbarians
esteem him as a prophet, but his fol-
lowers adore him as the immediate
offspring of God. He is endowed with
such unparalleled virtues as to be able
to call back the dead from their
graves, and to heal every sort of dis
ease with a word or touch. His per-
son is tall and elegantly shaped, his
aspect amiable and reverend. His
hair flows in those beautiful shades.
which no united colors can match,
falling in graceful curls below the
ears, agreeably touching on his shoul-
ders and parting on the crown OF his
head like the head dress of the sect
called Nazarities. His forehead is
smooth and his cheeks without a spot,
save that of lovely red. His nose
and mouth are formed with exquisite
symmetry; his beard is thick and suited
to the hair of his head, reaching little
below his chin and parted in the mid
die like a fork, his eyes are bright,
clear, and serene. He rebukes with
majesty, and counsels with persuasive
language, his whole address, whether
in word or deed, being elegant, grave.
and strictly characteristic of SO exalted.
a being. No man has ever seen him
laugh, but all Judea has frequently
beheld him weep, and SO persuasive
are his tears that the multitudes are
unable to restrain theirs from mingling
with his. He is modest, temperate
and wise. Whatever this phenomenon
may be in the end he now seems to be
a man of strange beauty and divine
perfection, in every way surprising.
the children of men,"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
CORRESPONDENCE.
From Prof. Allison.
LEWIsTOWN, Oct. 25th, 1889

LEWISTOWN, Oct. 10Th, 1889.
DIR. FISH:
Since l wrote you 1 have organic
ed four alliances in Fillmore Co.
Meetings have been held also in Chat
field and St. Charles where good seed
has been sown. The farmers are very
busy husking corn, preparing for
winter. They are working out
the problem oftrying to live by raising
oats at fifteen cents bushel, barley
at fifty cents, potatoes at twenty
cents and beef two cents per pound.
The farmers of this grand county
cannot afford to give up a day to a
farmers meeting. When from their
small receipts they pay interest to
the money lenders and buy few
groceries for their families, there is
nothing left for extras. If the capt.
talists, and railroad magnates and
millers were to travel over the coun-
try and see the actual condition OF
the farmers, how they work, econom-
ize, how few comforts they enjoy,
their iron hearts would surely melt.
Railroad agents, machine men, the
elevator men all oppose our work.
In some instances these men, not too
well paid by their bosses, go out on
the streets and urge the farmers not
to attend our meetings. The ALI
ance lecturer who is trying to arouse
the farmers to combine aud protect
their own products, have not an
easy berth. The good work however
is progressing. Farmers are slowly
but surely waking up. ]. A.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

one of the most eloquent orators in
the Northwest. His appointments
will soon be announced in THE
GREAT WEST.
Mr.. George w. Day OF Glencoe holds
the position of Deputy State Lecturer
for the 3rd Congressional District.
He is an effective worker.
1t is hoped that A. L. Gardner. of
Waltham, will assume the same posi-
ton in the LIST District.
We need organizers for the 18th and
9TH Districts. Who will take the
places and do the work expected?
The Alliance is in earnest, and in
tends that there shall not be an in
telligent farmer in the state who, in
side of a year, shall not be in the ALI
ance. The block-heads we will leave
for the corporations. When God
makes a man for serf it is very diff
cult to do anything with him but let
him remain a serf.
A. L. Gardner, Esq, of Waltham,
has consented to enter the field and
act as Deputy State Lecturer for the
LIST Congressional District, and he
has been commissioned. Mr.. Gard
ner has been doing excellent work in
his own and adjoining counties.
There were four alliances organized
in Mower County. and a fifth is on it's
feet probably by this time; county
alliance will follow. There are two
alliances now in Dodge County, and
Mr.. Gardner says: owe will have
three more in Dodge County soon"
The county alliance should be estab-
lished everywhere-"they are the
crown of the alliances"
Mr.. Gardner is an able man. His
recent address, from which the State
Lecturer quoted so extensively in the
''Broadside,' was a powerful appeal
and should be published in PAM
phlet form. He going right to
work.
Letter from Aug. Schultz with club-next week
Daniel Jackman, of Cosmos, please accept
thanks for club
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
She Wasn't an Infant.

The careful housewife, finding that
the nurse had not come down,
went up to her room and found
the girl in bed, looking very
queer and complaining of pain and
violent sickness. On being asked what
was the matter she exclaimed that
having bad cold, she had taken some
medicine which had been recommen ded
for the children.
'.How much did you take?"
well, mum, I went by the direc-
tons on the bottle and it said Ten
drops for an infant, thirty drops for an
adult and a tablespoonful for an
emetic." I knew wasn't an infant
and didn't know what an adult was,
so supposed I must be an emetic, and.
/ took tablespoonful and it has pretty
nigh turned me inside OUT
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
FROM SECRETARY HAIGH.

Returns from the first issue of the
GREAT WEST and the "Broadside"
are reaching my office, from over the
state, in the shape OF approving let
ters and inquiries as to what shall
we do to be saved!"
President Geo. W. Sprague, Deacon
D. A. Thayer, OF Mankato, and my
self, will spend two weeks this month
in organizing and reviving alliances
in this and adjoining counties.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
RELICS OF wlrcHcRAFr.
A Few Mementoes Of The Perse-
cutlons Of 1892.

A Few Mementoes OF The Perse-
cutions Of 1892.
In the busy little city of Salem are
preserved few relics of the horrible
year of 1892, when a number of the
best citizens of the town were hanged
on the accusation of some poor, de-
luded persons, mostly girls in their
teens, who asserted that they had
been bewitched and tortured by the,
prisoners says the New York Sun.
Tho relics are displayed on large
stand in the center of the main Office,
of the register of deeds. The first.
thing that attracts attention is bottle,
containing half dozen witch pins.
These implements are nothing more
than the ordinary pins used two CEN
turtles ago, when pins were still manu-
featured by hand. The interest attach
ing to these specimens comes from the
fact that they are the very pins that
were used at Salem to stick into the
accused persons to see if they were
witches. If the unfortunates were
hurt by this treatment it was a sure
sign that they were witches unfit TO-
live.
Besides the bottle of witch pins is;
the official seal of the court of oyer
and terminer, before which the prison
ers were tried. It is a little iron
stamp fitted with a black wooden
handle, and its impress is seen upon
the only warrant for the hanging of
one of the prisoners that has been pre-
served. This warrant, as it was
written out by the clerk Of the court,
fills the greater part of sheet Of
paper about foolscap size. 1t is writ
ten in a Grabbed hand but is quite
legible. It is addressed to the sheriff,
recites the crime for which one of the.
female prisoners had been tried and
convicted, and orders the sheriff to-
hang her on certain day. On the,
lower part of the page appears the
sheriff's return, written in round
bold hand, certifying that he has car
ried out the mandate of the court.
Photographs of this interesting docu-
ment are on sale.
But the most interesting is the court
record of the trials of these unfortu-
nate prisoners. These papers are kept
in large volume SO arranged that
every document may be read without
being touched. Here the affidavits Of
the ignorant girls and boys who tell of
the tortures the alleged witches made,
them suffer. Here is the detailed ex-
animation of the prisoners, giving
question and answer. The record is
neatly written, and is still as legible as
though it were recently committed to.
paper. 1t was doubtless written out
each day blythe clerk from his notes,
after the adjournment of the court. It
tells the story of a greatldelusion, and
probably no original documents that
have come down from our forefathers.
are so replete with tragic interest.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
Renville Union:

Renville Union:
Alliance meetings will be held
under the auspices of the State
Farmers Alliance, asfollows: At
Hector, Nov. 9th; Bird Island,
Nov. 28th; Olivia, Nov. Doth;
and Sacred Heart 3Oth.
Address will be delivered by
Prof. John Allison, Dep'y State
Lecturer.
The Union Farmers Alliance of
this place will hold a meeting at
Young's Hall on Friday Nov. 8,
1889 at 2 o'clock p. m. at which
meeting all farmers, whether
members of the Alliance or not,
are requested to be present.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

is an Alliance county with a little
work and the time is ripe. The
farmers at Dover and Eyota, and
at Lewiston and St. Charles,
Winona County, are preparing
to organize subordinate alli-
ances.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
West Lacrosse CO-OperatOr:

West LaCrOsse CO-operatOr:
The farmers of Grant county
are shipping their own grain
which cuts off the elevator steal
ings. They are doing the same
in Meeker and some other cOun-
ties, through the Farmers ALI
ance, which, if thoroughly work
ed up through the state, would
give the farmers more than IA
cents a bushelfor oats as paid at
the elevators on the narrow
ouage in this and Fillmore cOun-
ties.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

The line dividing genuine helpfulness
from downright meddlesomeness is, some
times, very narrow.-Chicago Advance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

One of the soundest business men
in Belgrade, Mimi, writes this:
DEAR S1R:-The copies you sent
me are all distributed and [ can use
more. Wish you success. The Farm
ers are delighted, and going almost
wild over your paper. l am sure
you will have a large subscription
list before this year is out. Awaiting
a new supply Of sample copies, l re-
main, Yours, etc.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

Prof. Colahan, in sending his
club from Donnelly, Mimi, writes:
Your paper is necessity. For
us farmers it fills a void and speaks
our thoughts. Mr.. Donnelly's sup
Elementary address should be scat
tered all over this agricultural
West"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
Waconia News:

WacOnia News:
There was a meeting OF the
Farmers Alliance at City Hall,
last Saturday afternoon. Two
new members were received, max
ing twenty in all. A good start
Adam Hill, Leonard Ziermna
and John Simon, were chosen
delegates to the annual meeting
of the County Alliance being held
in Cologne today.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

Sank Rapids Sentinel:
We to-day present our readers
with supplement issued by the
Farmers Alliance, containing adj
dresses by Hon. Ignatius Don
nelly, the State Lecturer of said
Alliance. This supplement needs
no comment. 1t contains the
sentiments of the Alliance, spo-
ken by one OF the most power
full orators in this country, and it
will pay all to read it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08
Willard, Pope Co., 11-1-S9

Willard, Pope Co., 11-I-S9.
DR.. F1sH.-Your paper comes to
me regularly, and l am very glad to
know that you and your sentiments
are still alive. l hope the GREAT
WEST will continue to war against
the monopolies until we can all live
and let live. D. G.. S.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-08

cam highly pleased with the
GREAT WEST. It is just the thing!
l will try to get others to subscribe
J. NJ. Brown, La Crescent.