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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

The Richmond Wing and the New
York Tribune may now shake hands
over the bloody gulch. The Wing
says:
'"The most wealthy must govern
in every state, and will, regardless of
any attempt to deprive them of that
right"
The Tribune, however, puts it in a
more practical form. 1t said in 1874 :
cit is astounding, yea startling, the
extent to which faith prevails in
money circles in New York, that we
ought to have a king
Now to these add the statement OF
Senator Sharon, U. S. Senator:
eve need a strong central govern
ment, the wealth of the country has
to bear the burdens of government
and shall control it,"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
We Have Waited.

Months ago there came out GER
tain developments regarding the
Northern Pacific sworn statement of
construction which looked very black
upon it's face-black in the sense of
perjury and dishonor. Our atten-
ton was called to these facts and we
urged delay to see what the Railway
Commission would do. AS nothing
has been done practically, we will
publish the matter next week-such
as can at this time be relied upon.
We have always maintained that
the Railway Reports were generally
fraudulent, and now we will sustain
the opinion with some developments.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
ZumbrOta, News:

Zumbrota News:
Editor News:-I. C. Stearns asked
very pertinent question at the close
OF his article published a few weeks
since: GLOW long must the farmers
and wage earners suffer under these
grinding monopolies?" I think there
is but one correct answer to this ques-
ton. They will suffer until they
organize to wage war upon mon
opoly in all it's forms. If the farmers
were thoroughly organized they
would be in condition to secure the
election of anti-monopolists to our
legislatures, both state and national,
and if monopolies cannot be controll-
ed by legislature we might as we'll be
subjects of the Car of Russia. The
Farmers Alliance in Iowa is becom-
ing an important factor in the pol
itics of that state. Before the recent
election there the candidates of both
parties display a great amount of
anxiety to put themselves on record
as opposed to all sorts of monopoly
and are friends of farming interests
And when candidate is publicly
pledged to any course of action he
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

ceedings discontinued. The outcome
of the assaults on the railroads is in
the nature of evidence that there
was not originally any proper cause
for the proceedings trumped up to
cripple them and damage the State. "
We have had great faith in
HIP. Hall. But if this is an honest
expression then H.. P. is a man who
cannot read English. If not from
ignorance then he is bought up. We
have never before seen the equal of
this editorial note-for few papers,
even the Pioneer-Press, will deliber-
ately falsify when the truth is known
in every printing Office, and every
farmers home in the state.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Dancing Regulations.

The German government has issued regu-
lations for the management of public dances
organized for the diversion of children on
national holidays. Dancing is not to be until
after noon, and in no case to be continued
after o'clock p. m. No one but school chill
dren to join 1.-THE may" Boys and girls who
happen to be undergoing preparation for the
ceremony of confirmation are absolutely for
hidden to indulge in terpsichorean festivities.
Waltzes, polkas, quadrilles and cotillons are.
forbidden. Other amusement than dancing
is urgently recommended for children of ten
der years.-Exchange
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Does 1t Pay9

In one of the large towns OF a western staCe
two Young ladies are suffering from lead pol
soning as the result of using toilet powder
containing white lead. One Of them IS great
" emaciated, and suffers much from spasms'
In both cases the fingers and arms are
paralyzed. If these unfortunate young wo-
men live, which is doubtful, they are, per-
haps, rendered helpless for life.
Cases similar to the above are not lnfre-
auent from the use Of poisonous cosmetics A
fresh, healthful complexion is to be DESIRED
but it's artificial counterpart is very unde-
sirable and does not deceive any observer
The use of powder and rouge is not only Of
fensive to the eye, but leaves the skin sallow,
dry and rough, even if it produces no worse
results
Not long ago we heard of young woman
who began using drugs upon her eyes to in
crease their brilliancy. Her silly vanity has
rendered her blind for life!
Such sufferers from their own foolishness
are not always young ladies. A gentleman
of 60 years died last week as result OF lead
poisoning. For fifteen years he had been in
the habit of dyeing his hair and beard, and
to this practice the physicians attributed his
death. His is but one of four cases, within
the writer's knowledge, where paralysis and
death have been ascribed to poisonous hair
dyes.-Youths' Companion.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
The Co-operator, La Crescent!
The Comma Storm

Iowa has not had a Democratic
governor before for thirty-fve years.
Great dissatisfaction is existing all
through the nation on account OF the
work done to build up monopolies
and crush honest labor. The number
ofmillionaires on one side and poverty
stricken laborers on the other are
increasing more rapidly than has
ever been known before in this or any
other nation, and an uninterrupted
continuation of this work of oppres-
sion will soon land us on the shores
of an absolute monarchy. The peo-
pie begin to see the awful chasm be-
fore them and are combining to save
themselves from certain ruin They
are getting ready for action and are
beginning to move along the whole
line, and their action will amount to
enough to control those who work
against them, far enough to stop
their feeding at the public crib.
The work of organizing has never
been conducted in so thorough a man
ner and the outcome is that they see
the necessity of union, as their only
hope. They have learned from the
trusts and various combines to crush
them, that they too can win if they
will, and that it can only be accom-
plished by a close union of all their
forces. Their opponents have gener-
ally managed to cause division enough
in their ranks to neutralize all efforts
for reform by them in any way.
Monopolies have always combined
and made success of it, but the ones
who need the benefits most have al
ways failed to hold together long
enough to succeed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Our Great Ones Abroad.

Attention has been called to the great
number of English theatrical stars, lee
turers and show people in general that
are in America this winter coming
money from the Yankees.
Well, what of it? For every British
star in America, have we not just as
brilliant ones in Europe? Verify we
have. There is our own Col. Cody
Buffalo Bill. Not even Irving and Terry
themselves ever had such run in this
country as the Wild West show has been
having in Europe for two years. It has
left Paris, and is now in Lyons, and there
is no sign of any diminishing popularity.
Where, pray, is Barnum, the greatest
Snowman on earth? Was he not prohib-
tied from parading in London on Lord
Mayors day, for fear that his elephants
and monkeys would prove greater at
traction than the mayors procession,
and thus the whole British nation be
scandalized?
Where is Mary Anderson, whom the
British like even more than her own
countrymen do? Where are the bright,
sweet voiced American girls who are
this moment the most popular concert
singers in London?
Where is Alice Shaw, the whistler,
who created real furore abroad? Little
Marshall Wilder, too, made the heavy
British sides shake and ache with laugh
ter.
The truth is, the United States is the
coming country for singers, actors and
other geniuses, who are bound to take
Europe by storm. It is written in the
stars.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
The Chicago Monopolist.

Chicago-merchants and citizens
concluded they wanted a drainage
system for their river, to empty it's
sluggish current into some river
which runs to the Mississippi, in fact
from Chicago to the Illinois River at
Joliet. And while draining they con-
cluded to make the canal large
enough for freight boats. At the
election the issue was plainly put,
and the Peoples ticket was elected.
Now the railways discover that by
this canal people in the central
part of the state would get their
freight cheaper. So the various
roads held meeting at the residence
of Pullman and decided to raise mil
lions Of money to fight the matter.
We quote from the press dis
patches:
ga few nights before the election a
a party OF prominent railroad
men, representing nearly every West
ern and Southern railroad leading
out OF Chicago, met at the residence
of George NJ. Pullman. This confer
ence resulted in a general conclusion
that the waterway project must be
defeated and that the project must
be confined to the purposes of sani-
tary drainage.
Among those who fought the wa
ter way scheme from the first is w. c..
Cloudy, chief counsel for the North
western Railroad. He says ii is a
visionary scheme, engineered by a
lot of cranks and that the people
would be taxed to death to complete
it. He says that the waterway
scheme is impracticable on account
of it's enormous cost; that $780,
OOO,OOOwould not pay forit. On the
other hand he declared that SIM
pie drainage ditch could be dug, all
complete, for about 100000, and
that this ditch, so far as sanitation
was concerned, would answer all
J practical purposes.
Mr.. Osborne, who is the attorney
for the Western Indiana Railroad,
says that the commercial waterway
feature OF the project is absurd and
will have to be abandoned. Inquiry
does not disclose what members of
the board are relied on to subvert all
the interests of the railroads.
The awfulness of that $2OO,OOO,-
900 lie is seen when it is known that
canaling earth is removed for 1Oc. a
cubic yard, and the country is an
almost dead level along the line, with
acanal already existing there.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Genuine Spook Stories.

The English Society for Psychical Re-
search has published part Is of it's
investigations. This society is doing a
valuable work for psychological science.
It gathers and Classics facts and ap-
pearances not cognizable by the senses
in their ordinary state.
Under such a classification come
ghostly apparitions, prophetic visions,
warnings and premonitions from sup
posed supernatural sources, etc. The
strong point of the S. P. RS work is
that it insists on facts as rigidly as an
anatomist would. Nothing of doubtful
origin is admitted to its records. De-
scriptions must be exact, names and
dates must be given, with attending cir
cumstances, however trivial. Persons
narrating the experiences must be
vouched for as of truthful, honorable
character.
With these restrictions the society has
succeeded in gathering mass of fact in
tensely interesting.
A former publication was devoted to
stories of apparitions of persons that ap-
peared Immediately or soon after their
death. These apparitions might be due
to an intense thought or desire of dying
person at the moment of dissolution. If
the dying had a powerful desire to see
an absent person, the desire might make
upon the absent an impression SO strong
that in this supreme moment he would
actually see an apparition of his friend
who was in the jaws of death. The s.
P. r. found many such instances that
were well authenticated. They are
known, in fact, in the history of many
families.
But, to the mind of science, such ap-
partitions would not prove the immor-
tality of the soul, although science would
admit their reality. What, however,
shall we say when the apparition appears
years after the person is dead and gives
warning of important events about to
take place? Would it not convey at least
a strong presumption that, somewhere
and somehow, the departed survived at
least number of years after he had
slipped off this body? To apparitions of
this kind, the appearance of the dead at
time long following their decease, pub
LEGATION Is of the S. P. R. is devoted. The
headquarters of the American society of
the same name are at 8 Boylston place,
Boston.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
A BaShful Young Man.

Hanover, Mich, has a most peculiar and
eccentric young man. He is SO bashful that
he does not speak to his nearest neighbors,
and he will go miles out of his way to avoid
meeting young lady. A few years ago his
parents sent him to school; he attended only
three days because twenty young ladies sur
rounded him at the school house and leased
him till he nearly tainted. He took his books
home that night and has never been inside
of a school room since. Yet this young man
has taken prize after prize for plans for pub
lie buildings, and is first class mechanic
Detroit Letter,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Business Habits.

Every girl should learn business habits at
home while under her parents control. The
mother who prefers to keep her daughter at
home should pay her for transacting domes-
tic duties as regularly as father would pay
his son whom he took into his store or office
as clerk: The money she has earned she
should be allowed to spend with as little
criticism as possible, but a deficit should
never be made up, and bill should never be
permitted. The cash system is the solution
of the problem of domestic economy 1t sets
at rest forever the idea that perhaps at the
end of the month two and two make five,
and it compels the buyer to estimate the
exact value of the thing bought. Two young
men were once looking at the moon and csti-
mating its apparent size. One said it looked
as small as silver dollar. 81 tell you," said
the other impecunious youth, "a dollar looks
bigger to me than any moon that ever
shone." If we hold the dollar near enough
to the eye it will shut out many MOONS
Brooklyn Eagle
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Dickens Daughter.

For some months the following advertise
ment appeared daily in the columns of The
London Times:
Miss Ethel Dickens, type writing office,
26 Wellington street, Strand, over the office
of All the Year Round. MSS. copied. Price
list on application"
There is no necessity for the daughter of
the Fiction Wizard to enter into business;
but she has the indomitable energy of her il
lustrious father, and this is one way in which
it seeks vent.-Exchange.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
How to Be Miserable.

There are persons whose lives are rendered
miserable by always contrasting their own
lot with those in easy circumstances. Many
a woman has grown petulant and lost the
charm of pleasant nature by dwelling on
the difference in her neighbours silks and vel
vets and the palmer fabrics which her small
means compel her to wear. ID is both foolish
and dangerous to allow such thoughts to dis
turb the serenity Of ones mind. 1t fosters
discomfort, and creates an ambition which
too often seeks evil ways for its qualification.
Each individuals life is distinctively his
own, and can be lived well and happily only
when his mind is sensibly adapted to the cir
cumstances which govern it.
There is something, however, to be envied.
Something both prettier and pleasanter than
costly equipages or fine dress; and that is-a
sunny, happy spirit wife and mother
with such nature is worth more in home
than all the elegant furnishings that money
can supply. She is the joy and ornament in
one-Atlanta Constitution.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
New YOrk's Shop Girls.

There are $4,000 shop girls in the area de-
voted to the retail dry goods trade in this
great metropolis This estimate is given by
one who knows, and yet it would appear not
large enough to any watchful observer who,
morning and evening, noted inflow and out
flow of the thousands who spend eight hours
of their daily life behind counters Of this
number three of the larger stores have an
even thousand girls in their employ.-New
York Letter.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

The Philadelphia board of health have
recommended citizens of that place to
boil both milk and water twenty min
utes before drinking them. If Philadel-
phia milk is like that supplied to most
cities, it will be sufficient to boil the
water alone. :
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Poisonous Cosmetics.

Persons ought to know that large share
of the cosmetics used in identifying the
complexion contains rank poisons The as
sertions made by the manufacturers, as we'll
as the testimonials which they usually pub
lish, are absolutely worthless. The most
popular of the various nostrums of this class
now in the market contain large quantities
of corrosive sublimate, and if the laws en-
acted by many states were complied with
the bottle would bear label representing
skull and cross bones.-Herald of Health.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
The Missouri Climax:

Say, Mr.. Voter, don't you
honestly think that you are ex-
hibiting a good deal of cheek
when you deliberately, malicious
ly and willfully walk up to the
polls and vote yourself and chill
dren into bondage, and then turn
right around and pray to be de-
livered from your own innate GUS
sedness and hide-bound PARTISAN
ship?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
A Little BOYS Idea.

Mamma" said Freddy, whose duty it was
to run great many errands, II wish I was
only as big as dollar"
why, do you wish that, my son?"
Because then l could put myself in my
pocket and ride myself around. "-Drake's
MAGAZINE
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

The Belgrade Star comes to us this
week with splendid editorial on
alliance work. 1t is too long, or we
would reproduce entire in our col
umns. Editor West isn't as old as
some men we know of, but he's got
the iron in his constitution.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Cost of Dresses.

Stories of the cost Of dresses for the stage,
are mostly exaggerated. First, the dress
maker gives out fabulous figure with the
knowledge of the buyer, and then the gossips.
make it still bigger. Finally the newspapers
get hold of it and magnify it again till it is
inflated half dozen times beyond the actual,
cost. Why, some Of the figures quoted for.
stage dresses are enough to buy an outfit for
an ess!-Philadelph Times,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Awfully DisObliging.

Mrs. Stayathome-No, don't get along at
all we'll with John. He is so slovenlyl
Mrs Goabroad-Indeeds
eyes; why can't even pull his hair with
out getting my nails full of dandruff !"-Law-
renee American
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Do You Want a Monnm.,.,

Nineteen out Of every twenty citizens are.
ready to contribute dime apiece for mon
ument to the property owner who keeps the
nail heads in his sidewalk pounded down
nush. Get out with your sledge and take ad i
vantage of the occasion. Detroit Free Pcs
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27

Dawson Sentinel:
Madison Press: Those politicians
who think the Farmers Alliance
movement is not going to amount
to anything had better be getting
their ascension robes ready. They'll
need 'em.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Princeton Union:

Princeton Union:
The GREAT WEST is bound to place
the Union in a false position. Our
sympathies always have been, are
now, and always will be on the side
of the toiling and producing masses
We have never maintained that
grain-dealers and railroad men were
the proper timber to make legisla-
tors out of, but we do maintain
that there are honest grain-dealers
and honest railroad men in the
world-although as a class they will
bear watching. Neither do we believe
that all farmers are incorruptible.
Them's our principles, too, Bro.
Dunn. 1t was an error on our part.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
Dawson Sentinel:

Dawson Sentinel:
Thelegislature of North Dakota
has a bill before it which cOmpels
the railroads to grant sites for
elevators and warehouses on their
right of way at a nominal rental.
North Dakota keeps right along
setting Minnesota a good ex-
annie.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-27
THE TRICK OF A SHREWD F4KIR.
From The Lewiston Journal.


Saunterlng up to the counter at one Of the booths
stranger began toying with a common black bottle.
You wouldn't believe I could Pvt water in
this bottle than any other man these grounds
would yOG ?" he asked. carelessly.
handful of rStics, gathered I'm front of the place
gazcd at the speaker ncicduouSlv. " | wouldn't.
that's fact of them remarked knowingly
And yet resumed the stranger. " / ready TO
bet 500 that can do H."
Upon hearing this statement your uncle edged
cautiously away. while the knowing fellow stepped
briSkly to the frlnl. You say yOu'll bet 500 on
IT," he remarked, I'm voice trembling with excite
mcnt.
That's what I said
"Leme that bottle demanded the seeker after
knowledge.
The bottle was passed among the crowd and after
due examination was pronounced worthy of confidence
After much discussion Of ways and means. interested
parties formed "A syndicate with a capital of Is which
sum Instantly covered by the stranger An in
divtlua presumably dSirtcrcsed. chosen to hold
the stakes. and the knowing chap was appointed 10
in tho bottle Having turned In water TIL IN" yes
sci was running over. he remarked. with grin:
There guess she's bout full as she can hold
II you can crowd any more water into her, mister
ahead
without saying woir. the business-lile stranger
proceeded to cork the bottle tightly
Then he turned II upside down. and I'm the large
hollow which is found al the bottom Of most bottles
YOU 10 hand that money" he said to the stake
holder when he had done tie trick.
Then arose chorus OF complaints "'TwaSnt
fair" The water amt I'm tlit bottle" The hun
things swindle" VOciferatel the duped rustics
Meanwhile the stranger cnGly pOckctel the stakes.
La'le the dissatisfied yOkcs gOOdday.n and I'm an
other moment was far nom the madding crowd