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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16
Yes Sir,

Alliance legislation in various
states has "busted'' the great $685.
100000 Harvester Trust. 1t is laid
out fat. A corporation that
couldn't collect dollar of it's dues
in certain states was a good corpor-
alton to suspend businessman it
suspendered.
There will be a dance and a merry
war next year-judging from the
outlook. They may fix up some
kind OF pool yet.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16

of running them is nil. Nil is balder-
dash for nothing. The interest on
the loans would run them twice over.
The River and Harbor fraud would
duplicate the entire National outfit
every year! Bro. Hohl dug his hole
too deep.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16

The following expression from the
Journal of the Knights of Labor, Da-
kota, is among scores now appearing
throughout the country-and even
in England, where Mr.. Donnelly is
the most eminent American in liter
airy circles. Under these circumstan-
ces the dirty work of little Hall,
Warren, Olson, etc., especially after
Donnelly's magnanimity, looks very
black and grimy:
DONNELLY VS.. HARMONY.
Of all the good news that has
come to brighten the pathway and
buoy up the hopes of the true re-
formers, all sink into nothingness
compared to the election of Hon. Ig-
natius Donnelly as president of the
Minnesota State Alliance.
When the farmers and laborers
come to See that one man of Don
nelly's honesty and ability can do
them more good than multitude of
donkeys, that only know enough to
get out on the street corner and bray
during election campaigns, and are
always ready to turn round and kill
off the true friends of the masses,
hoping to elevate their own worth
less carcasses upon the ruins: then
and not before, is there any hope for
reform along the line of our pre-.
amble.
The bringing OF such men as DON
nelly to the front means success to
our principles. One man like Don
nelly can do more toward pulling
down plutocracy in one short year
than an army OF the ordinary bray
ing political donkeys could in a life
time. The great racket that has
kept Donnelly in the rear as well as
many other equally good men has
been Harmony" That is all the
devil asked, harmony, and that is all
the plutocratic world asks, peace-to
be let alone, but there is no peace;
the producers are starving, why not
put men to the front that have the
ability, the honesty and inclination
to do something for the downtrod-
den, poverty cursed masses OF our
country.
All honor to the State Alliance of
Minnesota for sitting down on the
harmony racket. Reformers have
always been cursed with it and we
want no more of it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16

Griggsby's office is now fully locat-
ed and placarded with the Daily
News, over the saloon at 81 E. 5th
St. The Daily News and the Indus
trial Age lie down we'll together.
They are both of q cloth cut to de-
stroy the Alliances.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16
The Argentine "Cedula."

The Argentine "Cedu1a."
A great deal has been said about
abundance of money running the Ar
gentine Republic.
This stuff is all a falsehood. It
was the lack ofmoney which ruined
that country. We will take up the
matter again next week.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16

Bryan Flanahan's letter was reed
o. K, but passed over with the three
hundred until too late.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16

Even the Christ brought sword
into the world. Every great reform
has a scarlet border.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16

JudU COuuUIy. We WILL OdAC OP tAC
matter again next week.
CO-OperatOr:
1t seems as though no man in Min
nesota knows enough for purchas-
ing agent, so Mr.. Loucks of South
Dakota, was put in again, probably
on account OF doing SO little last
year. VIM. Graves Of Rock county
was likewise appointed. The whole
arrangement has been made farce
if compared to what it should be, by
the want of action or capacity of
the managers which is a material set
back for the Alliance from financial
standpoint. That should have been
made the most important work of
the day and to give stability it must
be made so.
The above is the reward men get
for superhuman labor and the loss
of thousands of dollars in the Al
lance cause. For six years the AL
lance has been looking for some
man OF means green enough to put
up his means and rely on farmer
support, in upbuilding a Purchasing
Agency on air. Not dollar has the
Alliance ever put into the business
which requires rent of city store
houses; vast lines of sample pur-
chases; travel, to make contracts
six months in advance with manu-
facturers- without knowingif single
stove handle will be sold; employ
ment of help, on ten per cent mar
gin-and harder than all, to get a
rating commercially so that bust
ness can be transacted.
A man from Dakota came and
made his home in Minneapolis-to
build up an Alliance Elevator Co.
If the alliance had backed it up it
might have controlled the wheat
markets of the world. As it is, it
dribbled along a precarious exist
eHce, and this Dakota man has seen
his ten or twelve thousand dollars
disappear-while the Co-operator
man was doing the grumbling. That
man was Loucks.
The GREAT WEST saw the situa-
ton. Years of Purchasing Agencies
under the Atwoods, Spragues and
Halls-and not a dollars worth
bought or sold. Nothing done
whatever. So we went to Mr.. L. and
said to him: If you will bring into
the work nachinist and manager,
and will make contracts for goods
we will give you $4,000 worth of
advertising and work-to make you
secure without capital. We will
guarantee sales. We will go security
with you on expenses, and rent with
you a store front. We will turn
over our magnificent Irvine con-
tracts, and add the experience of DR..
Frain, who is National Chairman of
the Irvine Committee of the N. F. A.
al U.
Mr.. Loucks was touched to the
heart with the offer-at last-from
some one who didn't sit back on his
assinine launches and growl. A
store was rented in St. Paul; con-
tracts made; warehouse secured in
Minneapolis; we have helped care for
1T during his enforced absence; thous-
ands of dollars OF sample lines Sc
cured. A million price-lists issued
and goods being sold.
And 10! Up rises the thin spectre
OF a consumptive past-down at La
Crescent-and mourns to think his
skinny finger can't destroy the be-
ginning thus made. Out upon this
ghostiferous nuisance. Let him put
in ten thousand dollars more money
and ten thousand less grumbles.
"If the sub treasures demanded bv
the Farmers Alliance were to be e.
tablished in the 3, 553 counties of the
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16

IF the sub treasures demanded bv
the Farmers Alliance were to be e.
tablished in the 2, $50 counties of the
United States it would cost $685.
374 500 to build them and $25 800
400 a year to run them. The per-
sons who notice extra taxes quickest
are the farmers. They must have
forgotten to do a little figuring on
expenses when they endorsed the sub
treasury scheme
The aboveis from the Hokah Chief,
a Minnesota local paper. 1t is very
interesting statement. Probably all
the plutocratic party. papers in the
state will copy it. And yet, the Ho-
kah Chief probably inten,ls no injus-
tice..
The sub-treasurY bill affects about
1900 counties. The estimated cost
of the warehouses is IL, OOO, 900 in
stead of 535, 100000. The expense
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-16

Full covered, fair or black leather; solid kin
seat, full pad The best farm saddle ever made.
Price. all complete. ...... 81 10
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
A Cats Extraordinary Leap.

In the latter part of 1880, at time when
the Washington monument had reached a
height of 100 feet, an adventurous and
patriotic cat assembled the interior of the
shaft by means of the ropes and tubing.
When the workmen arrived at the upper
landing the next morning and began to
prepare for the days work, pussy took
fright and, springing to the outer edge.
took "header" of 160 feet to the hard
earth below. In the descent, which was
watched closely by two score of men, the
cat spread herself out like flying squirrel
and alighted on all tours. After turning
over on the ground a few times in a dazed
manner she prepared to leave the grounds.
She had gotten almost beyond the shad-
CIV of the monument when a dog belong
Ing to one of the workmen bounced upon
her and killed her, she, of course, not be-
Eng in her best running trim after per
forming such an extraordinary feat One
of the men procured the body of the dead
feline, smoothed out her silky coat and
turned the remains over to representa-
tive Of the Smithsonian institution, who
mounted the skin and placed it under a
glass case. The label on the case tells this
wonderful story in 4 few words: This cat,
on Sept. %. 1880, jumped from the top Of
Washington's monument and lived ST
Louis Republic
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
WHY Snow Is White.

The pure white luster of the snow Is due
to the fact that all the elementary colors OF
light are blended together in the radiance
that is thrown off from the surface Of the
crystals 1t is quite possible to examine
the individual snow crystals in such a way
as to detect these several colors before
they are mingled together to constitute
the compound impression of whiteness
upon the eye. The snow is then clothed
with all the varied hues of the rainbow.
The soft wilderness Of the snow is also in
some degree referable to the large guam
tity of air which is entangled amid the
frozen particles.
Snow is composed of great number of
minute crystals; more than thousar
quite distinct forms of snow crystals have
been enumerated by various observers.
One hundred and fifty-one were noticed
during eight days in February and March,
1855, by Mr. Glaisher, which were carefully
drawn, engraved and printed in a paper
attached to the report of the British Mete-
geological society for that year.
These minute crystals and prisms reflect
all the compound rays Of which white light
consists. Sheets of snow on the ground
are known to reflect beautiful pink and
blue tints under certain angles of sunshine,
and to fling back so much light as to be
painful to the eyes by day, and to guide
the traveller in the absence of moonshine,
by night.-London Tit-Bits.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
Manufacture OF Paper Pulp.

The manufacture of paper pulp under
the sulphite process begins with taking the
bark from the wood, hacking out the dis
colored or decayed parts, and cutting with
knives across the grain of the wood at an
angle of about Is degs., making thin chips.
The latter are then elevated to the top OF
the ruill and dropped into large drums
made OF metal, which are usually IA feet
in diameter and "a feet long. and strong
enough to sustain pressure OF from 20
to 200 pounds to the square inch. This
drum is packed full of chips, and then filled
with chemical composed OF sulphuric
acid, etc. The product, which comes out
like cottOn-as white as SHOWS pressed
dry and washed, then mixed with water
again, rolled fat and cut into shape for
bundling.
At this stage of the process the pulp is
60 per cent. water and 40 per cent. fiber.
Thus bundled, it is hastily forwarded. to
the paper mill. One cord OF spruce makes
1850 pounds of dry fiber One cord of pop
lar makes 1900 pounds of dry fiber. Dry
fiber is worth at present s1.50 per 100
pounds, making the product from one cord
of spruce sell at $50. Usually the price is
81 per 100 pounds delivered at paper mills.
The freight must be paid on the water
just the same as though iG was material,
and the only function it performs is to
keep the fiber in a condition to mix over
again quickly before it is used. If it were
shipped dry to paper mills it would pack
so hard it would be useless.-New York
Telegram.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

Torture on a grand scale went oct
with FELTON,, the assaasin It Bucking-
ham, bat torture on . small scale con
tinued to De pr4ctlced on military Of
tenders down TO the Eixhteensh century.
The form most frequently resersed =
was that known a. the voodea horse, 70
ride which was the punishmeut accorded
for petty thefts. insubordlnssaoo. soA -
On The wooden horse v8 made Of
planks nailed together - as - form .
sharp ridge or angle abost sis1 or nine
feet long This ridgc represented he
back Of the horse, and Wa supported by
four posts OF legs about Ave feet high,
placed On . stand made movable by
trrkles To complete the resentasocs
with the nobless animal In creation .
head and tad were added
When soldier was sentenced, eithsr
by court martial o. BY his commanding
officer, to ride the horse. he wxs placed
on the brutsis back, with his hands tied
behind him. and frequently enough. in
order to increase the pain, nausi<esz were
fastened TO his lesx 10 wesgh them down
or. IS was jocuizriy said. 10 prevent the
fiery, unframed. b&rebaczed steed from
kiokia~ ks., sH-an<iss 1saHAsA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
Showers of Blood.

Showers of blood from the sky are
very rare in this day and age Of the
world, fact which makes their COM
paratively common occurrence in the
olden times only that much more ex-
traordinary and unaccountable In the
"Annals of Remarkable Happenings in
Rome" mention is made of fourteen diff
ferent showers of blood and other sub
stances mixed between the years 319
A d. and ITO Besides these there
were two showers of much intensity,
of which the liquid resembled pure blood
aud was not intermixed with other mat
ter as heretofore reported" In 1929 we
find record of a shower of blood and
dust over the larger part of Italy. IL
1926 snow fell in Syria, (which presently
turned into large pools of gore"
A monk who wrote in 1851 tells Of a
three days shower of blood all over
southern Europe. In the same year a
loaf freshly taken from the oven did
bleed like new wound" when sliced at
the table. In 1913 the great chasms made
by the earthquake at Villach, Austria,
sent forth blood and great pestilence
followed" Burgundy had a bloody show.
er in 1861, and Dedfordshire, England.
witnessed the same phenomenon in 1850.
In 1856 hailstones fell in Wurtemburg
which contained hollow cavities filed
with blood. The last bloody shower on
record occurred In Siam in 1S02.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
The Concentration Of Capital.

The real tendency at present is to the
greater massing together of separate por-
lions of capital owned by many capitalists,
small, great and of moderate dimensions;
to the concentration of capital Ger
tainly, but not to its concentration In sim
gle hands; to the union of capital for a
common purpose while still separately
owned. The tendency is to the creation of
companies and unions Of companies: to
the Transformation of the larger businesses
into companies with larger capital, the
original owner retaining large portion Of
the shares, and possibly large influence
in the management, if the business is in a
sound condition. The tendency is also to
give business ability without capital
chances of becoming rich through the
management Of such large concerns, and
greatly to increase the number of directors
of industry who, without being large CAPT
talists. may in time become considerable
capitalists.
The tendency to the concentration of
capital, then, does exist as a fact, and So
cialism might conceivably come as the end
of the tendency; only it will not come as
the result of its concentration in the hands
of few mammoth millionaires, for the
tendency is not toward such in any coun-
try save the United States, and even there
the tendency is not marked, or it only
shows itself in comparatively few instances.
William Graham in Popular Science
Monthly
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

SUNRISE.

The sun sinks downward thro' the silver mist
Thatloomsacrass the valley, fold on fold.
And sliding thro' the fields that dawn has
kissed,
Willamette trails. serpent scaled with gold.
Trails onward ever, curving as It gees,
Past many kiu and many a Powered lea
Until it passes where Columbia flows,
Deep tongued. deep chested, to the waiting
SEA.
Oh, lovely wales thre' which Willamette slipsi
o, vine dad hills that hear its soft voice CALL
Ny heart tdrns eyer to those sweet, cool lips
That, passing, press each rock orngrassy wall.
Thro' pasture lands, where Mi eyed cattle
feed,
Thro' marshy flats. where velvet tules grow,
Past many a rose tree, many singing reed,
hear those wet lips calling, calling low.
The sun sinks downward thro' the trembling
haze;
The mist fings glistening needles high and
higher,
And thro' the clouds-o. fair beyond all praisel
Mount Hood leaps, chastened from sea Of
fire.
Ella Higgins in West Shore.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
Abolition of the Ducking Stool.

The most noteworthy of all the instru-
uents designed for the correction of Ewes
offending daughters was the ducking stool,
known as the tumbrel and the trebuchet.
A post, across which was a transverse beam
turning on swivel and with a chair at one
end, was set up on the edge of a pond.
Into the chair the woman was chained,
turned toward the water-a muddy or
filthy pond was usually chosen for this
purpose when available-and ducked half
a dozen times; or, if the water inhamed
her instead of acting as damper, she was
let down times innumerable, until she was
exhausted and well nigh drowned.
From the frequency with which we find
it mentioned in old local and county histo-
ries, in church wardens' and chamberlains'
accounts and by the poets Gay. for one,
has description of the process in his third
PASTORAL, The Shepherds Week'1 we shall
probably not be wrong in concluding that
at one time this institution was kept up all
over the country. In Liverpool, according
to The Gentleman's Magazine for 1903, it
was not formally abolished until 1716.-
London Graphic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
An Amusing scene In Court.

One of the most amusing yet unex-
pected sensation scenes ever witnessed
in theatre occurred at the Theatre
Royal, Manchester. The curtain drew
up for Mr.. Toole TO address the court In
re Bardel vs. Pickwick, when the whole
of the jury mysteriously disappeared,
their "box' suddenly giving way and
ingulfng the "good men and true
At first the vast audience who crowded
every part of the theatre were silent,
fearing some dreadful accident had oc-
Cured, bat as the unlucky jurymen
rapidly resppeared, unhurt, though look
ing very foolish, they broke out into .
perfect hurricane af laughter, which
lasted several minutes.
The curtain had to he dropped 10 allow
the jury to be boxed" again. and when
Dir. Toole began his address ne provoked
another burst of visibility by abiding to
the jury as that worthy body ct stead
fast and immovable men"
A peculiarly amusing feature Of this
novel scene was the fact that the ma or-
ity Of the Jury" were stage carpenters,
whose duty it was to erect tie court, :"
and they suffered in this casa for their
own carelessnes--LoadoR Tit-BitA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
A Little Girls Brave Death.

There died not long ago the little daugh-
ter of New York lawyer who approached
the dark river with composUre that was
as pathetic as it was unusual. She was
the second in the family connection TO sue
cumb to diphtheria. A few weeks before
she sickened she had known of the illness
and death of a young cousin and play
mate and though not allowed at the bed
side or funeral had been much impressed,
and had asked questions which showed
that the dismal features Of the last rites
were full of horror to her.
When she was taken i'll it was carefully
concealed from her that she had diphtheria,
lest she should De frightened II was a
malignant attack, and it ran its course
quickly. The crisis approached and all
hope was abandoned. Her father sat by
her side watching her pale face take on a
grayer palior that had only one meaning
The little girls eyes were closed. and IN her
fathers hand her own nerveless fingers
were held. y tear wrung from his agony
dropped upon them The child opened her
eyes wide
Are you crying, papa" she said, as well
as she could speak: Am / 50 sick:-papa,
am going TO dies"
The question was earnest, and the eyes
searched lis face for hope, but she saw
there was nome For q long minute sbe
watched him closely. Who shall say what
that look contained. Fear. ent-eaty, af-
fiction, and finally Reconsideration at
length, with q little weary sign. she turned
away. putting her face toward the wall,
but leaving her hand sill fast in his
Papa" she said again, after bries
silence, and in the tone there was a touch
Ing resignation. Sing 'Bye-low.'" which
was nursery lullaby she had never out
grown
Although choking with grief, the
stricken father complied, and 50. holding
his hand, With her face still TO she wall and
IN her ears the grooming familiar melody,
the little girl quietly met her deash--Her
Poin; OF View in New York Times
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
A New Glove NIeuder

It is quite difficult matter TO repair
ones gloves so neatly and perfectly that
1t cannot be detected as an Ronprcfes-
slonals work, but there is little m
vention which facilitates this work 70
such degree that even unframed hands
can do it with neatness and dispatch.
The apparatus is made OF nickel. and
consists of two parts, which press against
each other by means of spring. Part
OF the top edge Is provided with small
teeth IN close range TO each other. The
seam of the glove 10 De mended Is care
fully pressed between these teeth, and
the needle passed IN and out az every
opening. Repairing done IL this man
ner Is so perfect that it cannot be no
uced.-New York Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
BOOK ON SKIN DISEASES FREE.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta Ca.

and their friends at home. Finally one Gay
Sam said to Bill, ''See here, Bill. this thing
is getting serious. see that people are
DYING so fast in Spain that the people are
in a panic, and some Of the sick, it b said,
have been buried before they were really
dead" Bill was very naturally disturbed.
and the result was q solemn compact be-
tween the two that in case either one
were TO die of the cholera the other would
keep his body from burial until there
would be no possible chance to doubt that
life was extinct. Now it appears thas both
these young men were inveterate lovers Of
oyster stew Nothing IN the edible line
would so stir the pulses of each, or cause .
glow of animation to light up their eyes.
as mention of the cheerful bivalve.
As itturned out, the young men returned
home in safety, and a friend who knew Of
the propensity of each to indulge IN the
fragrant stew, In commenting upon tho
agreement already referred sto, said: II
think l could have suggested an easier way
for either of you to have told whether the
other was dead or not. II one were ap-
parently in this condition it would only
have been necessary for the other to whis-
per softly Oyster stew and if he were not
as dead as julius Cesar he would have
opened his eyes and smacked his ipsp-
Lewiston Journal.