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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-21
VIRGINIA PoPuLIsTs.

They VIII Nominate . Full State Ticket
For This FAN and Are Full Of Hope.
The Peoples Party will hold q state
convention at Lynchburg on Aug. 3 and
win nominate candidates for governor
and other state officers. At q recent
meeting Of the state committee held in
Richmond q plan Of campaign was
mapped o1t. and all the members Of the
committee were enthusiastic and hope
full. General James g. Field, who was
candidate for vice president on the Peo-
pies Party ticket last year, was present
at the Richmond meeting and showed
that he is as earnest in the movement as
ever, If not more 90.
The leaders Of the party in Virginia
say they will have much better chance
in state contest than they had in the
presidential election, because the white
people were solicited last year on ma
tional issues (the force bill chiefly and
could not be induced to leave the Dem
Ocratic ranks. The issues in the coming
state campaign will be in the line of ref
ormation in the administration of state
affairs. The Peoples Party platform
will also demand such amendment Of
the election laws as will insure impartial
and just returns of the results Of cleo
lions.
It is rumored that Major Mann Page,
president of the Virginia Farmers ALI
ance, will receive the Peoples Party
nomination for governor. Major Page
has been president of the Alliance for
three consecutive terms and has refused
to enter politics while holding that or
any other Office in the organization, but
it is understood that he will refuse to
again accept the presidency, and hence
he will be free to make the run for gov
ernor if nominated by the Populists.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-21
$50 (per capital.

At that period times were prosper
Gus, the people were happy, there was
plenty of work and plenty of money
to pay for it. But the money kings
had the paper money burned up
and to-day we have only about two
billions of money among sixty-four
millions of people, and two-thirds of
that is locked up by law, leaving
about s. per capita, or less, in cir
culatiOn. S.:
Now we have hard times, the PEG
pie are not prosperous, there is very
little work and very little money to
pay for it. To get the good times to
return the circulation must be in
creased.-POpulist.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-21
Storm Clouds.

From interviews with large numbers
Of working people in various trades dur
ing the last few weeks we find that
with very few exceptions none is ex-
periencing the degree of prosperity that
is usual at this time of the year. Bust
ness men are loud in their complaints
that business is very dull-sales are too
slow. Workers say that many men are
unemployed, due to overproduction, in
PRODUCTION of machinery, etc. These
complaints are not only local, but gen.
orally heard in every part of the coun-
try, and all sorts of theories are ascribed
for prevailing conditions. Failures and
bankruptcies are following one another
in frightful rapidity. Each day we hear
of old and new firms going to the wall,
the crashing of banks, the closing down
of large shops and factories or the re-
duction of working forces or wages
Men have been too busy heretofore
scratching for dollars and cents to study
politics and economic questions.
Self has been the one great thought in
their minds; the fear Of poverty and the
desire for riches have goaded them on un-
til today we are nearly confronted by the
crisis foreseen by Abraham Lincoln when
he said that he trembled at the outlook
for his country in the future; by Thad
Stevens when he bewailed the sowing of
the seed that would enslave his country
men: by the brightest minds of today
when they clearly predict the coming Of
the storm due to class and superficial
legislation, the concentration and abuse
of wealth. Money is tight, the net of
the big debtor is being pulled in, and the
small business and working fish are
again being caught. Will the ruination
and tramp days Of the seventies be re-
peated? Perhaps.-Cleveland Citizen.
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NOTICE.
MCINTOSH, June 5,

MCINTOSH, June 5, '93.
Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the Polk Co. Farmers
Alliance for the election of officers,
and the transaction of other business,
will be held at the court house in
Crookston, Mimi, on Friday, June 30,
1893, at 10 o'clock A. M.
Sub-alliances throughout the
county should meet and elect their
delegates. Each Sub-alliance is en-
titled to send three delegates.
1t is the duty of the secretary of
each sub-alliance to report semi an
nually to the undersigned.
J. D. KNUTESON,
Sec'y Polk Co. Farmers Alliance.
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The president of the State Farr

The president of the State Farm
er's Alliance, Hon. Ignatius DON
nelly, has consented to write one or
two columns every week for The
REPRESENTATIVE. His numerous
engagements will not permit him to
do more than this. He will have
nothing to do with the rest of the
paper, which will be under the charge
of the editor, A. L. Stoughton; nor
will he be responsible for the utter
ances and opinions of anybody but
himself
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The Books Will be Delivered

Unavoidable delay is occasioned in
the delivery of books to some of our
patrons by reason of the unfortu-
nate financial embarrassment of Mr..
Donnelly's publishers, Messrs. f. j.
Schultz & Co. of Chicago. The mat
ter will be adjusted and the books
everyone delivered in due course of
business. In the mean time we beg
the indulgence of our friends.
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Sec'y Polk Co. Farmers Alliance

PARK RAPIDS, June II, '93.
Editor REPRESENTATIVE
/ have taken the Great West ever
since it started but / wont take it
any more; for any one that hurts
DOnnelly hurts all of the alliance
party. LUTHER PHELPS.
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SLAYTON, Mimi, June 9. '93.

SLAYToN, Mimi, June 9, '93.
Editor Representative:
InclOsed please find 81 for one years
subscription to your paper. 1 think
we need just such paper. Hoping
that the Representative" may do
very much good, and that it may pay
those that started the enterprise, 1
remain yours truly,
PETER PETERSON.
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,IGARMAKERS LOCAL UNION

LOCAL UNION
NO. III,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
ROCHESTER,, May Is, '93.
Editor Representative:
Inclosed please find 81 for which
send your valuable paper for one year.
Will try and get new subscribers.
The Industrial Legion is very much
needed in Minnesota, especially in
the southern part where labor organ
lzations are few, to recruit the work
ers to some understanding Of the pre-
sent system. p. A. HANSEN, Sec'y.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-21
A ssTarif Picture"

At the close of the war there was
over two billions of paper money in
circulation among thirty-five mill
ions of people making over $50 per
capita.
go (Der canita1
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RINDAL. June 10. 1913.

RINDAL, June IL, '93.
EDITOR REPRESENTATIVE:
| have received several copies OF
the Representative, and 1 am very
much pleased with the paper. En-.
closed find one dollar for one years
subscription.
GUSTAV RYLLANDER.
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NEW ALBION, Iowa, Maybe, '93.
Editor Representative:
[ wish you to send me the "Repre-
sentative" right along, I do not wish
to miss one issue.
We are going to have an alliance
meeting on the Sd of June, and I
hope to be able to send you fair
club from our alliance.
I will not send you my subscription
till after this meeting.
Wishing you all success with the
Representative" and promising to
do all in my power to help you, l re-
main yours, truly, J. T. MANGNER,
Sec. of Alliance No. 1861
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DRAYTON, N. D., May 80, '93.

NUIUOI REPRESENTATIVES,:
l have received the Representa-
tive" and read it through. 1 think
it is fine weekly paper. 1 will take
hold and get subscribers for the paper
as soon as possible. We had a flood
here this spring. The Red river
backed in on us so we were late with
seeding. l shall get the members
together and get them to subscribe.
/ promise you at least ten subscribers,
some of them promised to take some
stock. AUGUST Low,
Sec. Lodge 913.
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WAsECA, June IL, '93.
Editor Representative:
Enclosed please find SOC. for my sub
scription to the Representative" for
six months. Hoping you will help to
drive the robbers from the temple of
liberty, I am very truly, yours,
THOMAS MALONEY.
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WE'LL WIN IN THE END.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, June IL, '93.
Editor Representative:
l am pleased that the common
people" have journal that is not
afraid to speak out for them. tmay
be possible now to right the wrongs
which have been endured by long-suf-
fering humanity. l am more than
pleased at the bold, fearless, and un-
fiinching manner in which the ''Rep-
resentative" puts it's knowledge be-
fore the people, supporting the right
and denouncing the wrong without
fear or favor. Stick to it boys, you
will win in the end.
1nclosed please find check for &c.
S. for stock, 81 for years subscrip-
ton. JNO. G. HANLEY.
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THE STATE ELEVATOR.
WEGDAHL. Mimi, May "a, '93.

AAAAI u = 1AG A4Ons
WEGDAHL. Mimi, May "a, '93.
Editor Representative:
Since Lucifer raised his throne in
Minneapolis and elected G. A. Pills
bury to sit on it, millions of dollars
have been boldly stolen from the pro
ducing and farming class of Mime
sofa and Dakota, and adjacent states.
The legislature has at different ses-
sions pruned off:
1st. The Stacy filler.
I'd. Weighing and grading.
But the main trunk of this men,
eating cactus they have never dared
to touch. Now since at last the leg
lslature has been prompted to furnish
remedy by which the people of the
state would be wrested out of the
grasp of those conspirators, they are
trying to annul the law through their
encouragement. OLOF SwENNsoN.
MINNEOTA, June 13, '93.
Editor Representative:
Enclosed please find 81 in stamps for
which please send me your paper for
one year. l have received several
copies of it and l like the tune it
sings. E. w. LINDBERG.
DpAvrON NJ n Nov On 800
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-24
PECULIAR PLIGHT.
She Wanted to Find Her Late Husbands
Relatives and Found His Lawful Wife.

r'onn 'He Lonaon Da;!y Telegraph.
Several years ago a Dalmatian sailor named
Jerko Dominis, after innumerable edvea.ures
bairbra.,.b esc,r.. o.,
""r ie".' Vi 'Aior iouuo
ms way 70 'ne hawaiian Islands, where he mar
ried Lllluokalani, the daughter of a native
chief. who in due time became queen. making
him the partaker OF the bopors % ,o,.,,r A.
king h. bora ,be nam. =, u.~
80, ,'- e iie' ,i"'h l. ro'
!eais ne governed ms SUBJECTS satisfac-
torily and toward the end of 1891 he died. His
son, Hermann III. is only six wears old and his
widow is the regent Now this loav lrov.;,,o,
tho. hor It, - r'' NM '-h
.a'e spouse was European, mas oeen
NAMING strenuous ehdeavors 10 discover has
relatives, and whenever a ship touched at the
port she always made it a point to go on board
and question the CAPTAIN as TO vbether he knew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-24


What becomes OF the lead pencils is as in
solyable problem as what becomes of the pins.
No one really uses up lead pencils-no one
drinks them. so to speak. to the very dregs,
unless it is one of those admirable people who
Keep Journals and cash accounts. and who
usually carry a sort OF penhoider arrangement
IN which they insert a half-length pencil and
20 on and on using it and sharpening il until it
il all gone. Very few people ever get pencils
worn down as far a half-length. They disap-
pear before that stage is reached. What be-
comes OF them alp Hundreds of Thousands Of
them annually are lent to young children and
never seen again. but what do the children do
with them? Do they eat them upf Possibly.
Everybody has seen lead pencils. the upper
end of which have been chewed into brush,
but children do not possess such ostrich stom-
schs a. would enable them to consume all the
pencils that disappear. won't Won let me take
your psncil. L ncle John?" little Billy and Jenny
pipe, climbing upon Uncle Johns knees. 10
had let them tsko pencil yesterday and the
day before and every day back for . week, but
he pulls out his nice long pencil now, knowing
well that no will never see it again. There
are, to be sure, generally two or three pencils
with chewed ends lying about Billy and jon
ny's house; you are likely to sit on one whom
you settle down into an easy chair or to roll one
under the sole of your shoe as You come down
stairs, but these appearances bear no sort OF
relation to the disappearsncs. Where do they
60?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-24
AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.
How the Speed of the New Bancroft is tn
BE Measured.

re measured.
In the coming trial of the new United States
practice cruiser Bancroft at Newport, r. l., the
speed OF that vessel will be officially deter
mined by means OF Weaver speed register
says the New York Times. This register is the
invention of Assistant Engineer Weaver, re-
Gently of the United States navy. and is de-
signed for the purpose of measuring both the
time consumed and the number of revolutions
made over trial course
To obtain the required data there is a band
OF paper which passes over five marking pens
at a rate which can be varied between the Inn
Its OF one-half and two and oue-half inches Der
second. On this band is printed the record OF
revolutions made and time consumed. Two of
the pens are electrically connected with the
port and starboard shafts respectively, q third
pen with a chrononeter and the two remaining
pens with the range keys The latter mark
simultaneously on the margin of the band
Ateach revolution of shaft a mark is printed.
as Ia also one at the end OF each second, by the
thermometer pen. Upon entering and lea ring
the range course the marginal pens make datum
marks. which determine the limits between
which the time and revolutions arc to be meas
ured. The date of the various runs can By this
instrument be carefully measured. subsequent
to the trials. and the paper band then preserved
record.
1t is noteworthy feature Of the apparatus
that it will stand hard usage and in this re-
spect 1t differs from the ordinary chronographs
This apparatus was successfully used on the oc-
casion of the launch OF the Texas to determine
the speed of that craft when passing down the
WAYS,
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BOUGHT BY THE MANHATTAN.
End of Negotiations for the New York an
Northern Railroad.

End of Negotiations for the New York and
Northern Railroad.
The New York and Northern Railroad Com
pany has been bought by the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railroad Company. Negotiations pending
over two years were concluded successfully
yesterday. The precise terms upon which the
purchase is made have not been disclosed,
although there are indications that upward Of
s., OOo. 600 will change hands. Since the recent
deal between Reading and the New York and
New England companies and the putting on Of
a Pullman passenger train running from the
northern terminus of the elevated over the New
York and Northern tracks. and then by way of
the New York and New England to Boston, more
than usual attention has been directed toward
New York and Northern securities.
Under the Manhattan's management it il
probable that the New York and Northern will
be built up Immediately and aggressively.
Indeed there is good grounds for the state
ment that the Manhattan Elevated Company
has already in hand an elaborate and compro-
hensive plan which contemplates many and
varied schemes Of development. The whole
territory above the Harlem is likely to be at
once gridironed with extensions and branches
and feeders for the elevated system.
The deal just completed il in many respects
the most important transaction in the railway
world known In many years. so far M the in
terests OF the city Of New York and vicinity are
concerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-24
THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN.
Its Opponents Want to Pat Amendment,
TO the bill in the senate.


To the Bill in the senate.
4 subcommittee OF the Senate Dis;ric. com
uiti=e composed % Senators Faulkner. McNil-
ban AID Gibson gave lengthy hearing yester-
das afternoon on the Norfolk and Western rail-
r1sd bill The interest in this measure was
shown b. the large number OF those present
the committee room being scarcely suiiicieR; 20
accommodate them Mr.. Baldwin. attorney
for the Iichmold and ranville road. advoca ted
III. Insertion IN the lii OF an amendment which
would enforce uPon the Norfolk and Western
tn maintenance Of a line OF the Virginia side
O, tie bridge five miles long in order that any
road 80 desiring could make a connec-
tiou with the Norfolk ami Western and utilize
their bridge. In ease % any disagreement on
The rart Of the rcad- the matter was TO be re-
ferrel O. the District Supreme Court for ad-
tl-tmeut.
This latter provision % the proposed amend
nert brought ont the question a. TO whether
Congress lad either the night or the power To
refer % the Distract court anything which &C.
sirrsi within the boundaries OF Virginia Mr.
EaliWin argued thKt Congress had such power
While VI. s.l.ctt. attorney for the Norfolk
art Western. stated empLaiically his
belief that u did rot. Ne WIS upheld
g. this opinion By Senators Hunton and
Harris. Who we're present at the hearing
a. account OF their interest in the case
The question vas discussed at some length
bot M decision was reached. Mr.. Bullet
s-sed the committee not To jeopardiZe the
chances % the bill by adding 20 II any amend
meats. The measure after years hard work
hl1 been passed IN the House N a form which
wa not advantageous 70 the road, but they
were wIliI1 90 accept II as il stands. II i; was
changed IL was feared TINT the bill would no:
again Ct through that body. The road. he
said. had submitted 20 many amendments
which bad never been imposed on any other
line. and now at the eleventh hour. after con-
tsndIng with unusual obstacles attempt
beng made 70 force upon the bill amend
I.cu;s which would conSest their line on this
site q the river and render their facilities
ussless.
Counsel Cowen. for the 3. and o.. asked for
- amendment which would allow their line TO
come IN GA the same grounds Is the Richmond
AMI uanvIlle proposed
The large delegation present were mostly
citizens % Georgetown and Virginia who unan-
imously favored the passage OF the bill in the
form N which Il went through the House.
They -a.d that % place amendment. upon IL
would mean tbs defeat Of the proposed legisla-
ti0n-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-24
DEATH BY STARVING.
The Awful SufYsrings OF q Man Shut Up In
Mine.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
The most horrible death Of all is that of
starving" observed Oscar Christensen. who is
stopping at the Richelieu. 1.-The most vigor is
lent to it by being imprisoned in cave or mine.
Some years ago was working in a coal mine
near Padua, Ohio. The distance from the
mouth down to the first vein, where was work.
ing, was sixty-three feet. 1t was an eight-foot
vein and had beep well worked. SO that many
large chambers were made and plenty OF space
was had to move about in. A miners life is
rather wearisome and lonely, indeed. You have
to labor all day long in darkness, with only
little wick lamp on your cap to break the in
tense darkness. The life is much too hard for
the recompense. Then, ones life is always in
danger. Great rocks are liable to and do fire.
quently fall. Explosive gases and firedamp are
generated and the first approach of q light sets
them OIL. The mine is then wrecked and the
miners-well, was once caught in mine
wreck, and in that great vein at Padua.
II was working very quietly. away back from
the shaft OF the mine, and all alone. My labors
we're interrupted by dull, smothered roar
that was followed by falling earth, and then
realized that l was pennsd in; that the mine
was wrecked and that my life was worth very
little. The noise soon died away and things
were much as they were before. But a little
distance from my position the earth had fallen
and blocked the path. l was, at first. overcome
with fear. l imagined that could hear nv
brains grinding in a tunnel. Then lost all
consciousness. When l awoke again was
somewhat more calm and began to move about.
crawled along over great banks Of earth that
had fallen for distance Of fully 100 feet, then
l heard groans. and / knew that was near
some injured miner. But here my progress
stopped and had to quit. few hours later
my light burned out, and then my misery was
complete.
''For eight days I remained quite near that
one spot, hoping against hope Tor deliverance.
1t came eventually. heard the sound Of picks
and soon the glimmer Of miners lamps shone
through the various crevices. When an OPEN
ing was made crawled out, and assure you
that gave thanks Yes, that's why people say
look old now, when am only thirty-five, and
that is why my hair is gray. But assure you
that an aged expression and gray hair are en-
durable, but to starve to death in a mine is the
awfulest and deadliest way to beat out man 8
existence in this world that can conceive Of. )"
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Stones That Will Bend,

from the Brandon BucEsaw.
OF most stones rigidity is one Of the most
marked characteristics, and it is hard for un-
informed people to believe that there are any
stones that can be bent. There are some. how
ever, that are more flexible than wood and
bend readily under slight pressure without
breaking. The most abundant of these ia ita-
columite. or flexible sandstone, which 10 found
In large deposits in Brazil This stone is COM
posed OF separate grains Of sand cemented to-
gether with a mineral closely resembling mica
or sericite.
The minerals being quite flexible in them
selves confer the Same property upon the stone
as whole The way in which the cementing
material was introduced into the itacolumite is
not easy OF explanation. Mica and sericite are
not soluble and could not have been deposited
by water like calcite or silica.
1t 10 most probable that they were originally
introduced in the form of clay or some similar
material and afterward metamorphosed by heat
pressure and superheated steam into micsceous
mineral. instances Of u similar change of one
mineral species into another are very common.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-24

The United States Supreme Cour, has re-
v,r-sl the doci-ioa Of the state supreme court
cf Illinois in ths case Of Mr.. Hartman against
I'll. city Of Chicago. The amount involved
4 only $50. bat the principle is important.
IL concerns the legality OF an ordinance
O. the city providing that owners OF
towing tIss mast have license from
The city OF will be stopped from
towing vessels in the chicago river Ha-man
Lad "a federal license 10 engage in the
eosstiug trade. The court. in an opinion by
Justice Field. saws that this license was safii-
Gent ard that the local license OF the city of
shiosgo i unconstitutional and void. II holds
that the CITY license cannot be sustained az
SIMPLY the collection Of toll for expenses in
CURED BY the city in dredging the river.