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The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

i ,bs method and results when
oof Figs is taken; it is pleasant
ffrsshing to the TASTE, and acts
irIst promptly on the Kidneys,
md Bowels, cleanses the sys-
.sectually, dispels colds, head
~. and fevers and cures habitual
sn.tion. Syrup of Figs is the
i, Tmedy of its kind ever pro
n pleasing to the taste and ac-
r..pe 20 the stomach. prompt in
..,;ou and truly beneficial in its
T.. prepared only from the most
Ey.sy and agreeable substances,
rsny excellent qualities COM
u Il 70 all and have made it
go popular remedy known.
/ srrup Of Figs is for sale in SOC
Li,l bottles by all leading drug
q ANY reliable druggist who
4, not have il on hand will pro
q il promptly for any one who
O. to try il Do not accept
r Substitute.
klleORFIA FIG syrup co.
rsK ggIkGescD ca
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

Do not fail to read about PRIcKLY ASH
BIrTERs in this issue. 1t may be of bene-
ut to YOU
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

If you arc in good health you do not need
medicine, but when you are sick you do
mead PHICKLY ASH BIrrERs
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

Mrs. Windows SCOT hing syrup, for Chill
drsn testhinR. softens the gums, reduces innamma-
tion allays pain. cures wind collie. 25c. bottle.
The one who is willing to be kind can
ALWAYS be buoy
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18
lleoRFLA FIG SYRUP co.
sls EsIAclsco. ca

suIEiE, ~ sss ross. ~
tryT COT every kind, Men and Won
lin Tea seeking business change.
SsrN mobthiy. send for our Copy
~ -,sthofs" and double your profits
ka,,T Biz pay for spare hours at home
Lr,-.is-s frce. TEKAsVNT PuRcHsstNs
Ek C10FER uNtoS, NV YoRE-
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

II there is one man more than another
who likes TO get his friends into box, It
u the undertaken.
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

The trouble with the people who are all
the time saying. that they think they are
going TO die is that they don't.
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

The man who travels down hill makes
rapid pr ogress.
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

Love speaks the mother tongue of every
BODY,
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

When a man buys a new meerchaum pipe
notice the remarkable interest he begins
N take In the color line,
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

A medicine that has been sold for years
ust have merit This is the case with
pIcKLY ASH BITTERs.
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well, WE'LL ~ as the man said when he
stnmb led in the dark, and fell down one.
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18
Hn~sa Thtai

The meanest cannibal-the man who
yes on his friends.
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

He-.'Do you speak German!'' She
No, oan you dance itln
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

who were the mound buildersI' 1.-THE
Jrig!nal Digger Indians, no doubt"
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

"The Rochester" Is perfect lamp. No
smoke. no suell. no broken chimneys- hight as
soft as twilight genial as love and brilliant as
June moruinRi Ask for 1t. Send for Catalogue
Rochester Lamp Co.. New York.
An uncertain guide-board is dangerous
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

Uneasy rests the toe that wears the
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

"a Patent Lcnthcr Shiue.''
Try blIby's"Three Bee" blacking Pollshes quick
Preserves leather. Family box has patent handle
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

Trains for heaven never have any bag
gage cars,
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18
True Merit Wins,

Figures do not lie but liars sometimes
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

Worry !, good friend to the grave dig
ger.
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

Gods work never waits for the man who
isn't ready,
The Lamar register., 1890-10-18

"Heavsb's last best aft-my ever new
delight Il not my brown-seoae house, nor
my carriage and pair, nor my fine new yacht
seat In Congress, not these. but my won
derfui cure for pain, Salvation on
"wsu, wsul', as the man said when he
stsmb led in the dark, and fell down enc.
The Paris Figaro has Just published an
interesting article on What Young Girls
Should Read" This is ali well enough.
But it is more important still 70 know
that they should always take DR.. Balls
Cough Syrup for their colds.
II there is one man more than another
who likes TO get his friends into box, 1t
II the undertaken.
Mrs. winslow's SCOT ling syrup, for Chill
drsn testhinE. softens the gums, reduces innammn-
tion allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c- bottle.
The one who is willing to be kind can
always be bucy.
You don't have to take our loord for the
good quality of Dobbins' Electric Soap.
Just get one bar of your grocer, and let 1t
tell Its o,1n story next Monday, and be
ber Dobbtns' Electric.
Sins never travel alone. They take
their families.
Do not fail to read about PRIcKLY ASH
6lrTEks In this issue 1t may be OF oene-
ut TO you.
The man who travels down hill makes
rapid progress.
"a Patent Lcnther Shiue.''
Try bIby's"Three Bee" blacking. Polish es quick
Preserves leather. Family box has patent handle.
Trains for heaven never have any bag
gage cars,
PRIcKLr ASH BITTERs is vegetable
compound, pure and reliable. Give it
trial, it will help you.
Love speaks the mother tongue of every
body.
"The Rochester, Is perfect lamp. No
smoke. no suell no broken chimneys. A hight as
soft as twilight. genial as love and brilliant as
June moruinRi Ask for it, Send for Catalogue
Rochester Lamp Co.. New York.
An uncertain guide-board is dangerous
thing.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
WISCONSIN,
VJROOJrA Y

VIROQUA, Wis, Mar. "a, 1890.
ED. GREAT WEST:
l have the pleasure of informing
you that the Alliance movement is
progressing finely in Wisconsin.
At our annual meeting last June,
there were but ten living Alliances in
the state. We now number 53-43
having been organized this winter.
Applications for charters are almost
daily arriving at my Office.
The calls for printed matter, and
letters from all parts of the state,
shows general tendency to thor
ough organization of the farmers in
the near future.
The farmers of Wisconsin have
been tramping to the music of party
leaders for many years. Quite a
number, however, have concluded
that the present condition of the
farmer is not all to be charged up to
Providence.
Hence we confidently expect to see
the day when we will be in the front
rank, with our sister states, in the
reform movements of the day.
N. E. MOODY,
Secretary of Wisconsin Farmers
Alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
Electricity in the Census.

The next census will certainly contain
one new feature. That will be statistics
of the electrical industry. The electric
lighting companies have asked congress
to appropriate $4,000 to bear the ex-
penses Of thorough inquiry into their
business.
The companies themselves, the public,
scientific men and inventors are all in
terested in getting full facts with regard
to overhead and underground systems,
which is preferable and which is less ex-
pensive. The inquiry will also include
full facts as to electric motors, how
many are in use, how many different
kinds there are, which kinds are prefer
able for stationary engines and which
for cars.
The dangers to human life would also
form very important branch of the in
vestigation, the entertainment of how
many deaths had been caused by this
agent, and the precautions taken by va
rious companies to avoid accidents. Then
a careful comparison of ascertained facts
might throw light on a subject about
which all the world is so lamentably ig-
norant, yet in which all the world is so
profoundly interested. The money could
not be better laid out
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
God Ordalns

In the infinitude of his wisdom, for
some unknown purpose, that even
fools should have the light of their
fool-sense obscured at times. No
paper in this Union has made such
an ass of itself during the past six
months as a sheet controlled by Mr..
Scheffer, known as the St. Paul Daily
News. 1t does seem, at times, as
though some gigantic Folly had con-
sorted with the Mildew, and brought
forth matchless Blight. Listen to
this, from it's columns:
''sTANFORD's NONSENSE.
If Senator Stanford was aiming at
notoriety when he made his PROPOSE
ton for the government to loan
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
About Orchids.

Something over 200 years ago our an
cestors went wild over tulip bulbs. o.
casionally $4,000 was paid for single
rare bulb. The craze is incomprehensi-
BILE to us of the present day, who see in.
the tulip nothing but brilliant but
rather gaudy and common flower
Nevertheless. we are fully patterning
after the rich people of two centuries
ago in the present orchid craze. For
time the lily reigned, and extravagant
prices were paid for rare specimens, but
they were nothing like the suns given
for the tulips and orchids.
Whether our posterity will consider us
as cracked as we regard those who paid
Sc 900 for a tulip bulb, one cannot tell
Certainly rare and splendid orchid
seems wondrously beautiful to us now,
infinitely more SO than a tulip Of any
kind, but maybe posterity will not see
anything even in orchids to rave about.
The most costly collection of these
wonderful plants is in England, the prop
erty Of Baron Schroeder, who lives neigh
Dor to the queen at Windsor. His orchid
houses are valued at half million dol
lars. An orchid collector is as much of
a crank as the autograph hunter or old
book collector. If he hears of new and
rare specimen, he will send around the
world to get it. and pay any price.
The finest collection in America is that
of Erastus Corning at Albany. N. Y. It
is valued at 1925, 900. Editor Charles A.
Dana is also an orchidist, and not few
Of the golden dollars that have come to
him from The New York Sun have gone
into unique garden Of these remarka-
BILE flowers. James II. Pitchers orchids
are worth 100000. John Hoey has $t0.-
600 worth. Elk. Governor Ames, of Mas
sachusetts, is an orchid fancier. One of
the latest cranks in this line is Wizard
Edison, who is gathering specimens from
all quarters, and gradually making a no.
table group. Edison may be expected to.
invent an orchid or two if he cannot find
those growing that just suit him.
It is in England that q, 900 to SO, 900 il,
paid for rare orchid. Americans do not
often pay more than q, 900 for a speci-,
men. In the large cities basket Of q
dozen fine orchid blossoms sells for rs
!. t1s.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
Women and Shotruns.

Missouri has women who dare take.
their own part. The temperance excite
ment ran high in the town of Lathrop.
Ladies of the place were raiding the
saloons. Whisky literally flowed like
water for awhile down the gutter. Bad
boys scooped it up as the ladies knocked,
in the barrel heads, and drank and be-
came wildly hilarious. It was scene
for painter. Then some of the women,
seeing the effect on the naughty boys
and bad men, had barrel of salt brought,
and as each whisky barrel was split open
salt was mingled with the contents till
the fluid that intoxicates tasted like brine.
Men looked on while the women loot
ed the saloons. At last one of the ladies,
flushed with victory, said to the others:
"Iknow private house where whisky is
kept constantly. Let us raid that next
and destroy the destroyer" They were
marching thither like a resistless torrent.
But the woman who lived in the suspect
ed mansion got wind of their coming and
marched out to meet them. Going to
one of the leaders she said:
understand that you think of raiding private
houses to see if you can find any more whisky. |
want to tell you that we keep whisky in our
house I also have double barreled shotgun
that is loaded and the first man or woman who
crosses my doorway with the intention of search
ing the house will get the contents of both bar
refs.
That woman's house was not raided,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
The World is COMING to an End

iHS VOI4O 10 SOIt!IIIO " oil Emu.
Prepare for the millennium! "Look-
ing Backward" is nothing to this. .
The prophet never foresaw anything
SO startling and extraordinary |!
Think of it: A wheat-dealer-a men,
Der of the Board of Trade-has been
convicted of stealing wheat and will
go to prison for five years.! Here
we have it:
BUFFALO, N. Y, March 26.-The
excitement on Change Tuesday morn
ing was tremendous. The cause is
the conviction OF Stephen l. Sher-
man., one of the best known citizens
and most prominent members of the
Board of Trade He was unexpect-
edly found guilty of the charge of
grand larceny in selling and convert
ing to his own use, Sept. %, 1889,
over 5000 bushels of wheat, remov-
ing it from an elevator and dispos-
ing of it. The verdict, if carried out,
will give the accused a five years
sentence. Sixty days stay was
granted, and Sherman was released
on $4,000 bail.
There is hope for Minnesota yet.
But then we would have to increase
the prisons would have
to be more numerous than the
churches. And good many of the
pillars of the churches would have to
occupy them.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

Sheffield, Ala, has had great day. It
was the day which marked the first ship
ment of pig iron from that place to the
foundries of Pittsburg in barges The
iron is loaded upon the barges, then
towed by steamboats, of huge engine
power down the Tennessee and up. the
Ohio to Pittsburg. 1t is a picturesque
sight, one of these sooty, putting mon.
sters, with its long black trail of smoke
behind it and the black barges clustered
all around it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
Crennatinx Paupers.

An insane asylum superintendent calls
attention to the wholesale poisoning Of
the soil that is taking place in the vicin-
ity OF cities where paupers are buried in
potter's fields. When they die rapidly.
each has not separate grave. but they
lie in trenches eight feet deep. the bodies
touching one another. In this position
they do not decay quickly, but may lie
for years unabsorbed by the earth. The
law gives the bodies of unclaimed pau
peas to medical colleges, but there are
now so many that the colleges cannot
use them. Even Of those brought to the
dissecting table, the fragments are gath
cred and deposited in the trenches in
potter's field. In the public burying
ground on Wards island, New York,
there are already x, 900 corpses. Before
another generation passes these will DO
added to at the rate Of 10000 a year.
DR.. Hart, the insane asylum superin-
tendent mentioned, recommends that
unclaimed pauper bodies be crematel as
measure of public safety. The welfare
of the living must be consulted first, and
it imperatively demands, that the sell
around large cities shall not be turned
into a vast receptacle for decaying
corpses. Especially DR.. Hart urges the
cremation of the fragments of subjects
from dissecting rooms.
The cremation Of pauper corpses might
give rise to new and fourishing indus
try, such as it is already said to have
done in certain city, namely, the trade
in second hand collins. According to
report, the superintendent of the crema-
tory there was Of frugal mind. The
bodies to be cremated were removed
from the coffin and placed upon the bier
belonging to the crematory before being
consigned to the flames. Thus the coffin
was left with both its occupant and its
occupation gone. The relatives of the
deceased had no further use for it, and
thought no more about it. What was to
be done with it? The superintendent
finally hit upon plan.
He is said to have sold the coffins, in
company with some other spectators,
and made neat little perquisites thereby.
Why not? But an enemy must need
grudge it to the spectators, and SO told
on them. When finally the handsome
coffin of wealthy and prominent citi-
zen was recognized, the whole story
came out.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

Portraits of Eyraud, the infamous
French stranger, his victim and the de-
on these shores. They are a striking
comment on physiognomy. Judging
from the three countenances, q stranger
would at first glance take the detective
for the murderer, the murderer himself
for the innocent victim and the real vic
tim for the detective.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

Some ingenious individual has invented
a machine that will take fat piece of
leather and mold it into perfect shoe
upper without seam. This man is the
benefactor Of his race Afflicted hui
manity will now no longer be forced to
wonder why the seam of a shoe must
always 60 directly across the bunion
Joint,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

This seems to be the century of spry
old people. Capt. Jack Haynes has con-
slant charge Of a stationary engine in st.
Louis, though he is 102 years old. He il
six feet high. thin and active, and has
perfect eyesight.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
At Mortified.

There were two meetings at North
field, Rice County, last Friday. Miss
Mcdonald addressed them in the af
ternoon, and Hon. lgnatius Donnel
" in the evening. The Editor of the
GREAT WEST put in his time on
dollar Wheat" and the Bonding
Scheme"
An alliance was organized with fif
teen charter members. j. 7. Ames
chairman of Organizing Meeting
and A. w. Riddell, Sec'y.
H. A. Swain, an energetic farmer
of that section, was made Deputy
Lecturer.
There are a number of strong men
in this vicinity, aud they can have a
stalwart alliance.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

money to the fam. rers, to establish, il
fact, a farm mortgA ge loan agency, h
is getting it in plents :. though no on
seems to be giving h m credit for d
nancial sense or even c., mmon sense
Mr.. Stanford assume tnat tn
farming community is SUITE ring IRON
q contraction of the currency, causet
chiefly by the absorption thea eof II
buying up government bonds v. hlct
have been the basis OF the circul. It
ing medium. Suppose this were true,
how is the farmer to be helped out
by getting loan from the Govern
ment?
According to Mr.. Stanford, says a
critic OF the California financier, If q
farmer has farm worth 81 900 and
borrows $500 from the government
and expends it in labor on his farm.
he increases the value of the farm to
81 800, irrespective of the prices
which he can obtain for his farm pro-
ducts. This is certainly royal road
to wealth.. The more money farm
er borrows the richer he becomes.
This is the whole Stanfordian theory
in a nutshell, in all it's nonsensical
impracticability.
What the farmer wants is better
prices for his products. He is not
complaining that those who buy are
short OF cash; the thing that de-
presses him is the low prices. How he
is to get the price that his grain and
live stock ought to bring is the
problem the farmer man wants
solved, and how borrowing money
will bring that about no one but
Stamford knows, and even he has
not divulged that secret as yet"
That paper would be an elegant
"organ" for the Alliance, wouldn't
tit is Scheffer's organ, and the or
gan OF the Sprague gang
mr.. Stanford assumes that the
farming community is suffering from
a contraction of the currency!'
Why no-money is too plentiful-it
grows on the huckleberry bushes, Mr..
News. Why seven years ago farm
er had to haul sc bushels of wheat
to market to pay the ten per. cent on
his nortgage-and now he only has
to haul one hundred and sixty-six
Oh no, money is not scarce-there's
at least 81 per head to lug around
with US, whereas the poor Europe
cuss has to haul from $25 to $50
per head!
The $500 and 81, 500 puzzle above
strikes terror to the heart of a crypt
ogram! Why can't a farmer get
rich borrowing money at 1 per cent
so we'll as by borrowing at 20 per
cent?
"He is not complaining" ETC.! Oh,
We thought they were. 1t was all a
mistake-the nightmare, born OF
cabbage after nightfall! Well, all
right, Mr.. News, then the farmer
don't complain of usury. That set
ties it-for the fool.
What a glorious, brilliant, efful-
gent, sublime old ass this fool is.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
CREDIT RIVER, Mimi, Feb. 25, 80

CREDIT RIVER, Mimi, Feb. %, 80.
Ed. GREAT WEST:
We issued a call for q meeting OF
our Alliance, No. 495, which has been
totally inactive for the last year.
The meeting was held on Monday,
Oath. of February. We added six
new members. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing term:
President, A. B. Suel; Vice Presi-
dent, John Kennedy; Treasurer, Jas.
E. Farley; Secretary, H. F. Drees.
The GREAT WEST was read by some
that had not seen it before and they
all pronounced it just what was need
ed by the farmers. A. B. SUEL.
President.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
IA NOTICE.

We have printed, in large quaint
ties, hand bills for alliance meetings,
leaving the date, place and name OF
lecturer blank. These. will be sent
FREE to any county, district or state
lecturer; or to any subordinate or
county alliance intending to hold a
public meeting. Send in orders with
ten to twenty cents to cover post
age.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

A Chinese syndicate have bought in
Chicago and shipped to their own coun-
try gold mining and milling plant that
cost S4.OC0,Oo0. They say that in the
mountains of Tai Shan have been discov-
cred gold mines that yield $700 to the
ton, making them the richest in the
world. If this is true, it will not be pos
sible to keep Europeans out of that re-
gion. Radical changes of policy will be
forced on China. The Chinese in Ameri-
ca became familiar with the best mining
and milling machinery for gold, conse-
quently they sent to the United States
for their 81, 600, 900 plant.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

An unheard of event happened lately.
The old Sioux Indian chief Big Head was
found one day at Standing Rock, N. D.,
hanging from tree with rope around
his neck and an empty cracker box
kicked from under him. He was cut
down only in time to save his life. He
grandchildren had died and he was lone
ly and unhappy. An Indian has hardly
ever been known to commit suicide, a
Sioux never before, it is said.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

Mrs. Charles Haines hasa largeamount
Of money invested in the Medina VALLEY
railroad in Texas. She took lively in
terest in the roads welfare and the stock.
holders in return have elected her presi-
dent of the company. It is said that
passes are granted ON that road to aN
good looking newspaper men.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
Carbon county, Wy. T., has q town
called Hanging Woman. It ought to b
easy to tie the matrimonial moose in that
town.

John Burns, the British labor leader,
says OF Emperor Williams utterances in
favor Of working men: ri am Socialist
to the bone, and look upon the conces.
sions that the emperor of Germany has
been making to the democracy merely
as sop to Cerberus."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

A story disgraceful to human nature il
told Of those who are lending money on
mortgages to the starving Dakota farm
ers. These sharks charge the farmers &C
per cent. year for loans If there is NO
other way Of reaching such inhuman
wretches, they ought to be bounded out
of respectable society by public opinion.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

John Stuart Mill said that the United
States supreme court, organized to settle
disputes between states, was 1.-The first
example of what is one of the most
prominent wants Of civilized society-a
real international tribunals"