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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05

There are few people in Boston who are
aware that at Belmont, but few miles out in
the suburbs, there stands group of oak trees,
beneath which, without doubt, the red men
of the forest once pitched their wigwams
Aboriginal forest trees in New England are
exceedingly rare, and where, here and there,
there stands a single specimen, as the great
Avery oak at Dedham, it becomes celebrated
in local history and sometimes in song and
story. 1t is, then, somewhat strange that Mr..
Emerson, who wrote of the trees Of Massachu-
setts, should have entirely overlooked the Wa
verify oaks of Belmont 1t has been claimed
by some that they are at least 1000 years old,
but Of this, Of course, there is doubt The
largest tree in the group has grth Of II feet
inches at point three and half feet from
the ground. Boston Advertiser.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05

l shall never forget him as he stood there
in the majesty of his grand old age. Hi:
thick, silky hair fell like a veil of snow about
his shoulders. His tall, gaunt figure was
straight as an arrow His dark blue eyes
were dazzling in their penetrating brilliancy.
They were eyes that seemed with one glance
to search and know She's inmost soul. Hi,
striking aquiline features were full of won.
derful expression as he talked. He seemed a
god to fear and worship. His sarcasm, his
brilliant wit, was beyond conception. dc
not believe any man on earth ever contained
SO much greatness. To call him simply a
great musician is to stop at but one quality
in his genius. He was great artist, a great
writer, great scholar He had every ac-
complishment and every quality which man
kind reveres and strives fora Pupil in At
lanta Constitution.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05
To Get a Divorce in Switzerland.

Until within few years a curious custom
has obtained in Switzerland. When husband
and wife expressed a desire for divorce they
were required to enter room and live therein
together for fortnight, during which time
they were neither to see nor TO converse with
anybody else; their food was passed to them
through a narrow opening in the wall, and all
communication with the outside world was
shut of. If, at the end of fortnight of this
confinement together, the couple still clamored
Cor divorce, it was granted without further
ado.-Cor. Chicago News
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05

Practical men look upon visionaries with
pitt and contempt, and yet the dreamers Of
rose colored dreams are the happiest people
the world contains. Among all the inventors
end discoverers on earth, there is none so for
tunate as he who can fashion out Of the air an
slysium Of his own, believe in it and live on
it. Hard common sense may sneer at him,
but If it cannot dislodge him from his castle
In the clouds the visionary has the best Of it.
New York Ledger
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05
Eat a Gnnd snpncr.

Going to bed with well filed stomach Is
the essential prerequisite of refreshing slum-
Der. The cautions 30 often reiterated in old
medical journals against late suppers were
directed chiefly TO the bibulous habits Of those
early times. Nature and common sense teach
Us that full stomach is essential to quiet re-
pose Every man who bias found it difficult
to keep awake after hearty dinner has er'
swered the problem for himself. There are
fes animals that can be trained to rest until
after they are fed. American Analyst.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

This paper has pounded Brons.
Strain, the Battle Lake Review man,
to slight extent. But when the fol-
lowing was read, it made us gulp up
big wad of sorrow-for Brons. GER
tainly has a heart above the dia-
phragm:
''Talk about laboring men and far
mers sticking by their friends We
attended the late meeting of the ALI
ance in St. Paul, and witnessed the
killing OF the man who has done
more to put life and strength in the
Alliance than any other ten men in
the State. Ignatius Donnelly made it
possible for the farmers to have a big
meeting, and they had it, and about
the first thing they did was to put
his head on the block and crack it.
We have never been an admirer OF
Mr.. Donnelly, but we hold him far
above the crowd that killed him of.
1t is said he will not support the Ali
ance ticket, and who can blame him
if he DON'T
This is the first and only recogni.
ton of the truthful condition o.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

This paper has never boosted OF it's
own influence in building up the ALI
ance. It has told the story Of the
past ten months on it's weekly records.
But the Hutchinson Leader puts the
whole truth in few words and it's
conclusions are correct:
"The GREAT WEST. which has done
more to build up. and solidify the
Farmers Alliance of Minnesota than
any other agency Jumps onthe recent
convention with nails in it's boots.
It charges that it was run by fraud
and mastered by the millionaire plu-
tocrats of the twin Cities" that the
'labor delegations were 'snide' in
every particular; the Australian law
was disobeyed and the farmers will
crushed OUT" that 'only $40 alli-
ances were represented out of 1000
and the $40 gave Donnelly q majori-
ty of 80 over ALL" It charges Presi-
dent Hall of the alliance with being q
political trickster of the rankest kind
and alleges that Secretary Lathrop
has made way with alliance funds.
If the GREAT WEST is right the man
agement of the alliance is in bad
hands and it will have to 1e-organize
or fail in it's purpose"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

The following, from the Progress
sive Farmer. comes to us just as the
greatest trials of our alliance work
come upon us. Read it, fellowmen,
and let it be your meditation:
The Progressive Farmer has, with
in the past three years, admonished
the brethren frequently, to prepare
for the approach of the time that
would surely come, and which would
test their manhood and their devo-
ton to principle. In the heat OF
party strife, we are too apt to be d.
verified from principle-too apt to
yield to the impulses OF passion-too
apt to become absorbed in matters
purely personal in their character,
and loose sight of the more impor-
tant matter of propagating and
maintaining principle: Remember
that no man in your Alliance or in
your party is, or can be, as impor-
tant as your principles. Lay down
your principles and have men to con-
form to them, instead of having your
principles conform to men. This
was the grand test applied by the IA
theirs of the Republic, and this is the
only rule which surely secures to us
these inestimable rights, which they
bequeathed to us. Let us be faithful
and true to principle.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08
|. s., ST. P. & U. P.
These Letters are the Initials of the
New Line through Wyoming and
Idahotothe Pacific Northwest

This line is composed of the Chica.
go, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
and Union Pacific Railways, and
reaches more Far Western Cities than
any other line, as follows:
HALEY, Boise City, lewiston, Mos
cow and Rrincipal Idaho points.
Walla Walla, Colfax, Farmington.
Rockford. Spokane Falls and numer.
Gus Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake Citv. the
largest points in Utah.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and all
California points from Mt. Shasta to
San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte.
Anaconda and many other points in
Montana.
Also note that by this line accom-
modations are furnished in Pullman
Family Sleeping Cars at very low
rates to holders of second-class
tickets going to Washington, Oregon
and California.
When youget read to go West, be-
fore deciding upon your route, call
on agents OF c., St. P, NJ. & O. Ry.,
no will furnish rates and informa-
about through car service over
the ALake Superior, st. Paul & Union
Pacific Line" and connections, or for
pamphlets and maps, address
T. W. TEASDALE.
General Passenger Agent St PAM
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

1t has been said by the Daily Press
the past week that the GREAT WEST
was trying to get up a second con-
vention. The GREAT WEST does moth
ing of the kind. 1t did hold, how
ever, that if such convention should
be held-as suggested in several let
tiers, it should promptly, and honor
ably and legally, nominate S. NJ.
Owens, and the others.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

I'm 1850 began the great confsca-
ton ofthepeople's heritage by grant
ing lands to railroads. The first
grant was to the "Illinois Central"
Since then there have been 139. 49,
O26 acres granted to the railroads
by the general Government, besides
enough more by States to make a
grand total ofover 200, 900, 900 acres
or a territory over eight times the
size Of Ohio. Enough land to pro-
vide 1850, 900 homes Of 100 acres
each to the homeless of our land.
Again, over 10000, 900 acres have
gone into the hands OF foreigners,
will fasten English landlordism, Irish
tenancy upon our people forever, un-
less remedied. They have more than
$4,000, 900 invested in our rail
roads.-Merlinda Sisins in National
Economist.
The amount of railroad investment
is probably in error. The foreign in
vestment in railroads probably
amounts to three thousand millions
watered securities and stock.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

81. p. Hall must have struck rich
Doodle lead we never saw him so fat.
Midway News.
SIR. your ignorance is unpardon-
able! Have you not yet learned
that Fl. p. Hall is the chef de cuisine
of the house Of Scheffer ?-Carver Co.
News.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

The Northwestern Labor Union de-
serves our earnest thanks for the fol-
lowing stroke from the shoulder.
We say amen to it:
''Some OF the great moral daily
newspapers which were so horribly
opposed to the lottery business last
winter, are at present urging people
very strongly to go in crowds and
patronize the horse race gambling
hell at Hamline this week. It seems
to make all the difference in the
world when the proprietor of the e.
m. d. newspapers are given a share
in the profits of the gambling and
lottery business. The horsemen are
evidently more liberal sharers OF the
plumber than the lottery men were.
The rotten hypocrisy of some of the
shysters who run the respectable"
daily newspapers is'a sight to make
old Satan laugh"
1t troubles us to know whether the
Daily News is an Alliance paper, or
a Gamblers racehorse:
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

things Published in the party press.
In fast most Of our alliance men go
around oh thising and oh thating.
actually confessing what does not ex-
list that Mr.. Domnelly isnot the most
powerful candidate In the state land
the most faithful.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

If any farmer or laboring man can
produce paper OF any party which
has perpetrated as gross an insult
upon tie Alliance as DR.. Fish g GREAT
WEST did last week in it's report of
the Alliance State Convention, we
will send that person the Register one
year free of eharge.-Mankato Regis
ter.
So will vo-twO voara
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

eraged more than rs per cent. on Investments
Igrng last twelve months We can do weH Joryos.
Merchants National Bank, Tacoma, Dexter, Horton
Co., seattle, and Merchants Bank, Port Townsend.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08
"Cushing's ManuaI'

We will mail a cloth-bound copy of
'Cushing's Manual on recent of
54cts. (4c. OF this is for postage. J
This is to accommodate the Alliance
officers who need a parliamentary
guide: Cushing's is the recognized
authority in such matters.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08
So will we-two years.

The number of hailstorms in Mime
sofa and the Dakotas, in fact
throughout the west. has exceeded
anything ever known in a single sea-
son. Every warm day brings it's re-
ports.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

GREAT FALLS, M M'toN ]! VA.
derfui resources immense water power. gold.
1stlver. copper, lead. lumber, coal iron ca tile,
horses. wool and agriculture. Phenominai
growth. For full particulars address.
Secretary Board of Trade, Great Falls.
Montana.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

To the Editor:
Please inform your readers that I have a
positive remedy for above named disease. By it's
timely use thousands OF hopeless cases have been
permanently cured l shall be glad to send two
bottles Of my remedy FREE to any OF your
readers who have consumption, il they will send
me their express and p 0. address Respectfully,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08
RUNS

F8ee Trains with Pullman Veetibuled Drawine
Room Saeepers: Dining Cars and CoarDes OF
and st: Paul and Minneapolis.
fast trains with Pullman Vestibuled Eeawing
Room Sleepers. Dining Cars and coasdes a
and Ashlsnd and Duluth.
Inr0ugh Pullman vestibuled Drawing, Room
ana Coionist Sleepsrs via the Northern P:scife
Convenient Trains to and from Eastern v,e.t-
ern. Northern and Central Wisconsin. potiots.
anorong unsqualled service to and from wan
Hesna. Fond du Lac. Oshkosh, Neenah, Menasha
GnlpPewa Fails Eau Claire, Hurley, Wis and
lronweod and Bessmer, Michigan
FOR tickets. sleeping car reservations, time
Ia sDs ana other Information. apply to Ageats
VI Ine line or TO Ticket Agents anywhere in tble.
United States or Canada - '''
8. R, AFNSLIB nc RARIOw
oenerdi MANAGER. Gen. Traffic Mxrs
LOUIS ECKSTEIN.
Asst Gen. Pass. and Tkt. Agent
MILWAUKEE,, WIS.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08
Iowa Tribune =:

Iowa Tribune:
Don't ever petition a Republican
Congress for anything. When a NIL
lion men asked Congress for free coin
age, that body FASTENED to stop all
coinage. When countless petitions
for reduction OF tariff taxes went in,
congre thrust back in the teeth OF
the petitioners, the Mckinley bill to
increase such taxes.
Clipper;
The voters of Texas are terribly in
earnest, so far as the railroad commits
sion business is concerned. And we'll
they may be. Oregon is shipping
wheat to Fort Worth, distance of
1000 miles, at a cost of Is cents per
100 pounds. The Geer county farmer
is made to pay 30 cents per 100
pounds for shipping his wheat from
Vernon to Fort Worth, a distance of
only 1853 miles. The Kansas farmer
ships his wheat to Dallas for Is cents
per 100 pounds. Thefreight on a car
load of farming implements is more
from Dallas to Vernon than St. Louis
to Dallas. Is this right? 1t is not
Mr.. Hogg that the people OF Texas
are contending for. 1t is = principle.
Frazer (Texas) News.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

lNinnnrcc Fidalgo Island, the Manhattan Of the
AUAOVnl co. Puget Sound Country, Washington.
Just selected Is the Pacific Ocean terminus Of the
led JANUARY 18th present population $500. Fo- ty
property, coal iron, timber and farm lands cite
JOHN NJ PLATT, Banker. AnacorteA Washington.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

Todd Co. Argus:
The Minneapolis Tribune arraigns
S. NJ. Owen, the Alliance candidate
for governor. for stating that the
farmers OF Minnesota today are as
much slaves as the negroes of the
South were before the war. Every
body knows this to be false and Mr..
Owen knowsit, but he probably want
ed to say something and could not
think OF anything else just then.
Well, any intelligent man knows
that the unskilled laboring man who
is compelled to compete with three
million men out of work the skilled
laboring man who works in factories
opened or shut up by a TRUST"
the producer, whose prices, for pro-
duction are fixed by others, are
either the slaves of plutocracy, or on
the downhill road to that condition.
Mr.. Owens was justified if he said it.
Let the farmers who feel weary at
waiting for the improvement that
comes with union, look upon the
long warfare OF the trades-union in
England. Pass down through those
forty years of almost invisible pro-
gress, until today no man is SO low
in England but is armored for the
coming struggle. Read the following
from John Burns:
''In a recent speech John Burns,
the English labor leader thus gave a
summary OF what organization has
done for the unskilled working people
OF London: They formed a gas
stokers' union, and in less than IL
months it numbered 10000 men
throughout the country, at weekly
subscription of I'd. They induced tie
London companies to reduce the
hours from II to 8, and higher wages
were paid now for the 8 than for the
II. This absorbed from the ranks
of the unemployed 10000 persons.
Then, the dock laborers-the most
despised, the most degraded, Of all
men in London-were determined to
have a penny an hour more, two
pence for over time, and to abolish
the middle man 1.-THE "sweater,'') and
258, 900 was received from all parts
OF the world to help the dock labor
ers. That was a big fight and a big
victory. During the last IL months,
10 unions which had been formed,
had 100000 members, who by COM
bination, had raised the standard
OF wages. and had immeasurably i'm
proved the lot of their wives and
children. "-Trades Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

Phil. Armour, Of Chicago, saws
pierre will b the ne1t large city in
the Missouri Valley Population
to-day 5000, one year ago, $500.
A wonderfully fertile country trib-
utary, abundant coal within so to
80 niles.
The Capital of South Dakota. which
in 1883 raised 10000, 600 bushels
OF wheat and 10000. 900 bushels of
corn. A State too, that in 187Ohad
5000 population and to-day has
OVER; ONE THOUSAND Sunday-schools.
Pierre is to be to South Dakota,
what Omaha is to Nebraska. Denver
to Colorado. Detroit to Michigan.
etc. that is, the commercial and.
wholesale center.
INVESTMENTS.
A fewhundred dollars invested here
now, and allowed to remain a, few
years, will both please you and sur
prise you.
lgnarantee any patron a profit Of
at least s per cent per annum. I
shall be pleased to correspond with
parties thinking of making invest
mentS.
CHAS. L. HYDE. Pierre. s. OAK.
REFERENCEs-Rev. DR.. VIM H. Blackburn.
President OF Presby terrain College, Pierre
Rev. Dr. James c. Jackson. Dansville, n.
X. F. Pettigrew, q. 8. Senator from South
Dakota.
B. J. Templeton, Pres. National Bank OF Com
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-08

The Secretary of President Polk
writes us:
"Do not all your recent troubles
arise from your being non-secret
body, and admitting men who are
not really farmers? We admit no
one, even though he has a farm and
farms-if he merchandise, or is a
banker, etc. Was not the defeat of
Bro. Donnellv due to the influence of
boodlers who could not join our or
der?
eff so, would it not be better to be-
gin again and keep out your bad ele-
ment. It does keep out some good
men, but if they are sincere they can
help us more outside than inside.
Their motives might be questioned" "
Everywhere throughout the l. U.
states you see union, and tremendous
power. Mr.. Loucks, President OF our
Northern, it is called National
body, is not only in favor of the In
dustrial Union, but is himself a men,
Der of it.
In our personal opinion, and al
though it would render our personal
membership impossible, the Alliances
of this state ought to enter the
greater, grander, stronger body as
members, whether the State Alliance
votes it or not. Pipestone has such
an alliance. and it is bound to de-
velope in every state in the nation.
God speed the day. When it is &C
complished it will be found that the
grip of the outside politician will be
loosened, even if not wholly removed.
Minnesota was kept out OF the Union
solely for political purposes. 1t has
been said that the F. A. 4 l. U. had
a heavy debt. This is not true. 1t
dees not owe dollar.
, 1890-03-01

WV OPHS' -1fT8
worst fault of which is its novelty,
has been abundantly exemplIied and
the lesson should not be lost. Difu-
sion of sugar zane is a mechanical
and industrial fact, and there are now
left none in Louisiana, ut least, to dis
pute it. This fncl finds tacit admission
in the very wording of the question t"
be submitted, Thursday niyh' next,
tor discussion. 1t is no longer whs-
Their diffusion is technically the equal
OF the zane mill, but whether It's M
pIoyment promises equal or superior
profits TO its rival. Since this is both q
legitimate and a pertinent inquiry,
"The Planter" hopes it may be broad.
ly discussed, if only This be on legi.
Innate lines.
For if diffusion is to be less prof.
table than the cane mill, those who
have it in early contemplation should
be Immediately warned. But IL, as
"The .Plapter' believes, it is to prove
itself far more. profitable, in the
presence of ample and good water
and cheap coal, than milling can
ever become, it is immensely 10 the
interest ut all, on the other hnnd,
that this he ascertainrd at the earliest
practical moment. $paIny Cub",
Drmerarn, the French colonies,
Brazil, the Sandwich Islands, Java,
Australia, are all busy with it, and
Louisiana can not afford to await
their crushing competition 1t it is to
prove advantageous. He who most
profits by u new invention is always
he who takes advantage of it before
its general adoption. That which
everybody possesses ives no one an
advantage.
Diffusion will come before the
Planters association at last in no way
u suppllcnnt for ~tavonrs; but IN the
interest OF the entire tropical cane
industry OF the country. "'Fhe Planter"
none the less, be~peaks for it that
Justice at last which, =" often denied
it, is rendered especially honorable
anu Visit ny iS N'''P"'O yO"
The discussion should not be a
debate in which either party, be-
lieving itself IL possible error, feels
bound 20. make out the best case it
can for the criminal. 1t is al in
stance in which the exact truth is the
sole subject Iof interest with every
BODY concerned, and in which all
eccentrici'y, with every preconceived
notion, every hastily expressed CON
v~iction, every side issue should gen.
erously yield precedence to earnest
and scientific inquiry,
If it may Judge from previous ex.
perience "The, Planter believes the
greatest danger to diffusion in this
discussion lies in the absence of such
data as can c~onclusively prove any
thing. A correct expense account
has not been kept for n mill house
in a hundred, and among these, pre-.
sumably, only for The best arranged
and most economically conducted,
On the other hand, net a diffusion
establishment exists among US but
which has as yet to bear the heavy,
- "a &-4 r.