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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
A Railway Party.

Harry P. Robinson, he says they
didn't know everything down in
Judea."
And so the -his-father-
in-law, writes to the May North
America Review, proposing to group
the two or three million railroad en-
ployes of the United States together,
in a rock-bound, iron-clad, political
party, to fight the farmers and
mechanics and defend watered-
stock!
Harry is a daisy. He is a recent
Importation from Swelldom in Lon
don, and he thinks the sooner the
American workman is reduced to
English conditions, with my lord and
my lady, and all the little my lords
and my ladies sitting on his neck and
dining off him, the better. If Harry
knew as much as he thinks he does
he would be formidable. factor in
modern civilization: if his head was
as big as it feels he would be d phe
nomenOn:-the equator would hardly
serve for a hat band for him. He
goes on the principle that the Ameri-
peasants, and will lie down, like a
camel, to have their load adjusted on
them; and that he, Harry aw-aw-
you KNOWS the very fellow to sad
die them-yOn know. He goes on the
presumption that the railroad en-
REPRESENTATIONS, engineers, fire.
men, brakemen, section hands, and
machinistS,- are all internal fools;-
and think they are sharing in the
watered stock profits of their losses:
and that whenever ROthschild draws
a million dollar profit out of his
American railroad securities, every
railroad employees house in America
laughs and whoops with fairness.
Go back, Harry, to your native
land, and revel in the delightful con-
ditions such chaps as you have help
ed to produce ,-millions in the poor
AOuoO3 ulIllIOHo OIdApluS UIIC uuSUy
roads, and many million more trem-
bling on the verge of pauperism. Go
look at the lands all concentrated in
few hands; and white-faced men
starving in London, in the midst of
unemployed wealth and luxury. Go
look at Trafalgar Square, where
the public will not let three men
talk together, lest it should breed
riot that would swallow the king
dom.
Go, Harry, go. If the people get
on to your little racket, that you are
taxing your feeble intelligence with
plots for their enslavement and i'm
pOverlShment, they may take you,
my precious snOb and aristocrat,-by
the nape of your neck and the seat
OF your breeches, and fling you across
the Atlantic; and should you fall mid
way, a shout of delight would go up
from the whole continents; and the
teachers would give the scholars
half holiday.
20, Harry, go, while there is yet
time. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
Our Criminal Glasses.
j. Paul Globe says:

The st. Paul Globe says:
The statement is made by the
medical Times, thoroughly reliable
paper, that the census of the United
States in 1850 showed one criminal in
5000 of population, while the census
of 1890 showed one in 1865. 1t is an
undiSputed fact that America con-
tains greater per cent of criminals
than any other civilized country
The reasons for all this seems plain.
The Globe goes on to argue that
this is due to sentimental SYM
pathy with criminals. This is we'll
enough, as far as it goes, but the dis
ease lies deeper. Crime is caused by
the pressure of conditions. If every
convict in Saltwater had had an in
come of $1,000 year very few of
them would be there to-day. Make
life very difficult and the weaklings
are squeezed out into pauperism or
crime. The two things lie very close
together, and the boundary line be-
tween them is ShadOwy and indis-
tinct. When the laws of a country
tend to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer, they necessarily increase
crime. The greater criminal is not
the wretch who rObS or murders, but
the gentlemanly. respectable rascal,
who consciously helped to produce
conditions which would press upon
the infrmities of his fellowmen and
degrade and ruffianiZe them. One is
the cause the other is the conse-
quence.
But is it not enough to make us
pause, to think that forty years ago
there were $500 honest men to each
criminal, and now there are but 1856.
How many years will it take for the
criminals to be in the majority?
And, when they are, what will self
government yield the world?
Is it not time to call a halt? Or
are you satisfied with the outlook for
your country. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24

Doc. Fish will remove his paper,
the Great West, to Sioux Falls, S.
D. The old horse doctors cratic
course has practically driven him out
of the newspaper field and destroyed
what little confidence the people ever
had in him.-Waterville Advance.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
A Mistake.

The Northwestern Chronicle, of
ST. Paul, says:
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly and DR..
Everett Fish are entangled in a law
suit. Mr.. Donnelly, in his new paper
called the REPRESENTATIVE, ac-
cuses DR.. Fish, editor of the Great
West, with having accepted bride
money during the late campaign.
Mr.. Fish retorts by instituting a
heavy damage suit.
This is great mistake. Mr.. Fish
has not sued Mr.. Donnelly and he
will not. A yoke of oxen could not
drag him into court of justice, up
on the issue of his taking money
from the republicans in 1890 and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24

IF Eb. Corliss has his way, "says the
Battle Lake Review, ''there will he
light thrown on every act of that
commission. We hope, however. that
every member is as good man as
Corliss. If that is the case, the neo.
pie need not worry about the cost of
the new building being great deal
more than the amount called for in
the bill. Eb. has been opposed to
building a new state capitol ali
along. battle Lake Review.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24
Better Make Him Attorney Gen.
eral.

Gen. Barrett refused to serve as a
member of the capitol commission.
and Gov. Nelson has named Hon. E'
Corliss as the seventh district mem
Der, Good for the governor. He has
selected a first-class man, one who
will not see any ''jobs" put up with
out raising an objection, and he is
just the fellow that will know it if
such a thing is attempted. bat
tie Lake Review.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-24

Political action is the only salvation
for labor The late decisions close
every other avenue.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
WASTE OF THE EARTH.

How Modern Man Impoverishes
the World by His Reckiessness.
Westminster Review.
Posterity, in the words of the cynical
humorist. has done nothing for u.s."
but, for all that, one cannot help feeling
sorry for it, so many warnings are given
nowadays as to it's fate. A writer
laments the fact that, like spendthrift,
the human race of today, boasting itself
the heir of all the ages in intelligence,
is consuming at rate nearly one hun
dred fold beyond what is just the sup
plies which, as heirs of all the geolOgl-
cal icons, it has received in trust partly
for future generations.
Each successive scientific discovery
onIy leads to a more rapid exhaustion
of the earth's garnered stores. In ten
or twelve generations the available coal
fields of great Britain will be exhausted.
and existing woods and forests are be
ing wantonly destroyed. The death OF
the earth and sun must come, and with
their death the end of life upon this
earth: but the human race OF today Is
taking care that it shall cease to exist
millions of years before this shall come
to pass.
So rapidly have two kinds of accunu
lated earth storaS-petrolUum and nat
ural gas-been exhausted in America
that. within one generation alone stores
which were millions of years accumu-
lating will have been almost wholly ex-
hausted. And all this time population
increases so fast that, at the rate OF
growth during the last twenty years, the
Inhabitants OF Great Britain in 1879 years
time viii number mere than 300,0J0,000,
if, indeed, it were not practically an
inp0Ssib;.ity for them to exist with only
six square feet OF earth surface apiece
TO live OH.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
LIFE SECRETS.
Don't worry.

DUll WOlIy'
Don't hurry. 1.-TWO swift arrives as
tardy as too slow.'
"Simpllfy ~ "Simplify!'' "Simplifyw
Don't oYereat. Don't starve. LET
YOUR moderation be known to all men,"
Court the fresh air day and night.
"Oh, if you knew what was in the air."
Sleep aud rest abundantly. Sleep is
natures benedlction.
Spend less nervous energy each day
than you make.
long"
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
Avoid passion and excitement. A mo-
ments anger may be fatal.
Associate with healthy people. Health
is contagious as well as disease.
Don't carry the whole world on your
shoulders, far less the universe. Trust
the Eternal"
Watch the first signs of coming cold.
Nine-tenths of all diseases start with a
cold.
If, at any time, you feel chilly, if you
sneeZe, if you have cold hands or feet,
if YOUR head seems heavy or aches. take
at once the best and pureSt Stimulant
YOU can secure. There are many that
are claimed to be good stimulants, but
there is only one that is strictly reliable,
and possesses the best qualities, and
that is Duffy's Pure Malt Wniskey.
This whiskey has made more friends
by reason of what it has done for peo-
pie, than any other preparation OF the
present day. DO not let your druggist
or grocer argue with you upon this Sub
ject, but insist upon having the purest
and best. which will aid you to solve
"Life's Secrets"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
FASHION TALK.
Pretty Gowns and How TO Make
Them.


A fetching house gown is made of old
rose cashmere with long, full skirt
opening to display plated front Of old
pink china silk, which narrows to
point at the waist, meeting the wide
cashmere revers at the line of the bust
A chemisette of old pink silk is set
under the revers. The sleeves are in
one deep and one shallow puff with
open band at the wrist. There is also
rounded girdle to meet the revers and
wide collar band Of deep old rose velvet.
Nothing for youthful women can be
more effective or more fashionable than
the fitted blouse-WaiSt of tartan silk that
tones we'll with the dress skirt A very
pretty dress worn by very pretty
young lady this season is of fine and
soft blue serge, with a plated silk
reseda-the ground blue, and the plaid
formed by crossing lines Of the three
aforementioned c0lors severally. The
tartan Is cut on the cross and made up
with bias folds reaching from shoulder
to belt, front and back. The sleeves
are full leg-of' mutton style. and the
blouse is neatly belted with a blue
Petersham band and handsome buckle
set with brilliants.
Satin, especially in rich, glossy black,
is we'll liked for miliner'S folds for
trimming undraped skirts. The folds
are applied once or twice their width
apart and extend almost to the knees,
which is, by the by, very stylish depth
for decorations. Many of the new shades
in dress fabrics, such as eminence
purple, forest green, and old red, are
considerably softened and improved by
association with black, for which reason
black satin trimmings and accessories
are frequently chosen when such goods
are made up. Rutfies are used on skirts,
II preferred to folds, and bows or bands
are favored for waists.
Soutache is still used for braiding
patterns on both skirts and bodices, and
tinseI edges are chosen TO embellish
other than tailor-made garments. Elton
and empire Jackets, Jokes, and other
accessories are often outlined with
these braids, and skirts show numerous
enclrcling rows. A stylish double effect
may be produced i'll shoulder frlll by
APPLYING a line of braid at the extreme
edge and second one some distance
above.
An odd toque that can only be worn
| with success above au oval face having
regular features is made of black velvet
and jet. The brim is formed of velvet
drawn smoothly over the frame, and the
| severity of this arrangement is softened
by a frill of black lace that falls lightly
over the hair. In front rises white
aigrette and at each side of it are ad-
iusted two jet goats horns. The effect
| is very unique and will undoubtedly
| please women whose taste in dress i'll
ClneS to the ultra.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
How American Young Women
Are Distinguished in
Travelling.
Picture in a Mans Reverie
Over His Gold We'd
ding Ring.
It Would Be Wise to Teach
Young Girls the Use
OF Money.
Some OF the Dainty Footgeap
Which Adorns Our
Girls.

One Of the certain and constant salts
factions OF Americans travelling abroad
Is the American woman, dlStinguishable
everywhere, known as an American
woman everywhere. and admired as is
no other prOdu C of what most Europeans
are pleased to regard as the barbarism
on the other side Of the Atlantic. How
they are able to keep up the idea OF
America as barbaric with the joyous
presence or Tie American girl so often
before them is a mystery no one can
solve. SAYS the New York Sun.
There used to be a fallacy abroad In
the world that only many generations
Of wealth. flower and culture could give
woman certain grGceS Of feature, form
and carriage. As these graceS never did
exist among European women of the
lower classes, who are so busy at plow-
ing and reaping ard at Graft-hUrse work
of various kinds, it is no wonder that
the fallacy existed. But American
women have changed all this. There is
a romantic notion that princPsses and
duchesSes and the like are generally
most aristocratic to behold. 1t is akin
to the other idea that greatmen are nee
essarily great to look at As Il matter
OF fact, which We all know HOW. a high
born woman is just as likely to have
huge feet and hands, an angular form,
and ugly and insignificant features as
any one else.
But, they were wont to urge, granted
that nature makes no distinction in
favor of long ancestry, still the high
Born woman has The grand air, the i'm
preston and coriidcht serenity OF NAH
ncr which the lOwly Born can not hope
10 initiate. And this has held Oh much
longer than the other faliacy because it
Rested upon an intangible something
which CGpiG arc loud Of seeing in the
high bern Of earth whether it exists or
nCr.
But TIE American women have dis
proved this. None Of us on This side OF
Tie wajpr can lay much claim t0.ancient
and lofty ancestry. The Pi!2rim fathers
and the settlers at jamestown. the piO-
HecTs Ct the b0rtitr and all Of tie orig
nal and pure Americans were simple.
honest people. who had simple, honest
virtues. and We're brave and strong and
scli-reIant without any props from an
cestGrs or without any great hope of
fame. And 1t is the Ill ughterS and
grarddGughtPrS OF these people. said
daUehters and granddaUghtrIs being
first Of thGrTGc9 to have the advantages
OF The civilization chat is supposed to
refine and make cultured, who have
gone over TO Europe to see what they
could see.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
The Girl We All Love.

You will find that she is frank and
girlish, with an old-fashIoned senti-
ment, charmingly developed, whic h
recognizes her duty as daughter to-
ward the woman who acts as her mother.
The lovable girl understands that every
day and all day cannot be devoted to
holiday making, but that life holds
duties without number. She is CHEEKY
little party. and SO she goes about them
in brisk and whole-hearted way that
is simply irresistible. She can tread
with step as light and gladstone when
on an errand of mercy as if shod with a
pair OF fairy slippers, and tripping over
a well waxed floor. All, this is the girl
who will broaden out and sweeten the
life of the man she marries. She can
accept the thorns with the roses with
out a murmur. Submitting to the in
evitable has prepared her to become a
companion we'll worth the Wooing and
the winning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
Velvet Dresses again Popular.

Entire velvet dresses are the latest
fad in Paris, the skirt bell-shaped; the
sleeves more voluminous than ever, and
for evening wear added to by the inev-
liable Il deep bertha of magnificent old
lace. With these robes nothing but
jewels, or feather or two banked up
by Jewels. are worn. If you have no
jewels, "coques" of ribbon in 1880 style
may be adopted with success. unless
string of imitation pearls is tastefully
wound about the couture. The newest
artificial flowers are slightly "givrees"
or frosted velvet geranium blooms.
Vio!ets, chrysanthemums, holly or
mistletoe treated in like manner are all
exceeding bright and pretty for young
girls dancing frocks in Empire style.
Garlands of tiny roses powdered with
the brilliant particles are forthcoming
in every tint. Our old friend the mara
bout is again cropping up, tipped with
"givre" or scattered with minute NOR
sells of mother O. pearl.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
LIKE A ROMANCE.
How the Social Positions of Mas
ter and Slave Were Reversed by
Time

Houston (Texas) Post.
Hold her headw
"Yes, STRIP
The person uttering the above COM
mand was P. I olemy,a handsome young
man of dark complexion and of de-
cidedIy aristOcratic appearance, who
has attracted some attention during the
last week by the splendor of the rig he
drives around the blue blood quarter.
The livered lackey, who had sprung
from behind to attend his master and
who had meekly done his bidding, was
Henry Wilton.
This is the first visit of each to Rhode
Island, but their great-grandfather
lived here more than century ago, and
then Wilton was the name of the master
and Tolemy that OF the servant.
The reversal of their respective social
conditions reads like romance.
Anthony Wilton lived here before the
Revolution. He was of good descent,
but did not succeed in life until he took
to dealing in rum and SlaveS-a business
which laid the foundation OF the colOs-
sal fortunes possessed by many Rhode
Islanders today.
Wilton waxed wealthy and made a
passage to the slave coast at one time,
when a raid was made on negro viii
lage near where Cape Coast Castle is to-
day, and seventy-five men, women and
youths were shipped ABOARD WHOM
SLAYER,
Among the poor wretches stolen from
their homes to be sold into slavery was
the great-grandfather of 2. Tolemy, the
ariStocratic young man Of this story.
This man was such fine specimen
that Mr.. Wilton decided to domesticate
him and keep him in his own house
hold.
All the cargo was disposed Of, and the
lave ship return ed to Providence with
is owner, who on its arrival went to
church to give thanks to God for his safe
voyage and the success attending 1t.
He had been elected an elder during
his absence.
The stalwart slave was named Ptole-
my, and he was taught how to wait OH
his owner at table, black his boots and
do house chores.
The old elder promised Ptolemy that
some day he would let him 20 back to
his native land.
In the next generation a son of Ptole-
my married an OctoroOn, and in the
next generation a son of that son mar
ried a white woman, whose son is the
present P. Tolemy, Esq, of Brandt.
Canada.
This young man inherited a big for
tune, and being to all outward appear
ances white man, although he boasts
of his African lineage, he has had an
easy and luxurious life.
Some time ago he met Harry Wilton,
and learning that he was the great
grandchild of the Wilton who owned his
great-granGfather. Ptolemy, he was glad
to hire Wilton.
Wilton was poor, the old elders
wealth having disappeared long before
his generation. and he was not too
proud to hold the horse and touch his
hat to a descendant of his ancestors
slave so long as 2. Tolemy paid good
wages.
ToIemy wanted to buy the old Wilton
homestead and have Wilton there as a.
servant in the halls of his ancestors.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23

descends to accept other things-eggs.
pork, butter, -four and the like.
One of these beggars with vehicle
was begging few days ago in parish
near Quebec. Among the effects he
had collected from different farmers
were two dozen eggs. Arriving at a
country store, the beggar stopped and
bartered his two dozen eggs for pair
of stockings and some food.
In the store at the time Of the bargain
stood man who seemed harmless in
the eyes of the beggar. AS the beggar
was about jumping Oh his wagon, re-
ioicing, with the stockings and food in
his hands, the harmless man gave him
a gentle tap on the shoulder and adj
dressed him thus: "Have you got a
license to trade?'
The beggar said he was no trader, but
poor beggar, and that it was hooking
him to talk to him about a traders
license.
The harmless man, who, by the way,
was no other than the provincial tax
gatherer, said to the beggar: Ibid L
not witness moment ago your trans
action with the country merchant,
when you exchanged eggs for woolenS
and food? My dear friend, you are
trader in every sense Of the word, and l
am under the disagreeable necessity of
making you my prisoner on the charge
of having traded without license"
And the beggar was marched to the
capital to answer the charge.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
Fin de secle Engagements.

There is fashion in everything, and
this applies to the manner of announc-
ing betrothals as much as to the style of
the resultant wedding. In days gone by
the fair fiancee used, bluShing and
tremulous, to whisper the secret to her
bosom friend; and relations, after dec
orous little delay, to make sure, as it
were, that the thing was really settled,
impaired the news in formal and care
fully expressed announcements. But
now the wooer has barely time to get
the knees of his trousers busted before
the story is blazoned forth after the
fashion of girl who lately in a fancy
ball told all her friends at the top of her
voice: Pm engaged to Lord Reggie:
that's him, the big Mephistopheles over
yonder. He asked me to have him al
hour ago. in the billiard roOmw
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
The Horrid Thing.

Harper's Bazaar.
The people of Wyoming who permit
women to vote are apparently not in
sympathy with the English bachelor OF
long ago, who got himself into a con-
troversy on the subject of women's
rights with his vis-a-vis at dinner. After
PRONG and coming for a few minutes,
the lady asked: "Candidly. sir, why
do you oppose giving the franchise to
Women?"
"You will excuse me for saying it,
madam" he replied, but | have not
sufficient confidence in their capacity to
conduct governmental Affairs"
But what evidence of Woman's men
tai interiorlty to man can you advance"'
persisted the lady.
The bachelor thought moment and
then answered slowly: "A simple fact
is enough to satisfy my mind, and that
is the frightful way in which they do
up their back hair"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-23
It Would Astonish.

Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr asks In the
North American Review if some good
and thoughtful woman who died fifty
years ago could return to this world,
what, in our present life, would most
astonish her. Would it be-" says
Mrs, Barr. 1.-THE wonders of steam, cleo
tricity and science; the tyranny OF the
working classes, or the autocracy of
servants? No! IL would be the amaz-
ing development of her own sex-the
preaching, lecturing, political women;
the women who are doctors and law
yers, who lose and win money on
horses, or in stocks or real estate; the
women who talk slang and think it an
accomplishments; who initiate mems
attire and manners; who do their ath-
letic exercises in public; and, perhaps
more astonishing than all, the women
who make marriage the cloak for much
profitable post-nuptial Irritation"