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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13

CHICAGO, June R.-The speculative
wheat market has been very active strong
and somewhat erratc today. Early cables
advised of advances in Liverpool, London,
Paris and Berlin because of bad crop news
from the continent generally. At home
crop reports We're not satisfactory, gener-
ally, because of continued dry weather
where rain is most needed. At the opening
there was "a perfect deluge of long stuff
thrown on the market The wants of
shorts and scalping bulls enabled the mar
ket to absorb every bushel ordered, and by
1870 the selling force completely eX-
hausted, with the general trade still with
it's NAV" open for more. There is COM
plete revolution in the minds of the spec
ulative trade. Wheat that was dear at
SIC is now rema rkably cheap at 62c. The
cause of the sudden change in front is
caused chiefly by home weather condi-
TONS In the spring wheat belt the farm
ers are crying loudly for rain, and that if
it does not come soon a half crop only can
be secured. There is also demand from
abroad which was quite unexpected. Clear
ances from the seaboard were fairly liberal
of both wheat and flour.
July wheat opened at Gle to 611ac, against
$3.50 yesterdays close, sold at 6O7sc, firmed
up to 61Ac, lost 12c, advanced to 615sc lost
nc, firmed up to 615sc, sold down to $3.50
61Ac advanced to 615sc, sold at 607sc firmed
up to 61A@613sc, by 12:45 and closed at 611s
M61Ac.
September wheat opened at 631ac, against
615sc yesterday, lost 1ac, gained 14c dropped
to 623sc, advanced to 631ac. lost nc. gained
sc, lost it, advanced to 631Ac, sold at 625s1
624c, firmed up to 631sc, by u 80 and closed
at 631sc
December wheat opened at 661sc, against
641sc yesterday dropped TO 65asc, advanced
by devious ways to 665s@6634c, sold down
to $3.50, and closed at 655sc.
Receipts here were 70 cars.
The following was the range of prices
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
EACH RECRUIT GOT A KISS.
How the Duchess of Gordon Raised
Regiment 100 Years Ago.

How the Duchess of Gordon Raised n
Regiment 100 Years Ago.
Near the close of the last century runlors
of a French invasion alarmed Great Brit
ain and aroused military ardor to such an
extent as to lead to fresh regiments being
raised In one of series of interesting
sketches by the Hon. Mrs. Armytage of
British Mansions and the Mistresses Past
and Present" recently published in Tins
ley's Magazine, the raising by the famous
Duchess of Gordon of the battalion of Cor
don Highlanders which has since held
such a distinguished place in British mill
tary ANIMALS is thus described: THE Ouch
ess of Gordon is said to have had a wager
with the prince regent as to which of them
would first raise a battalion, and that the
fair lady reserved to herself the power Of
Offering a reward even more attractive than
the kings shilling. At all events the OUCH
ess and Lord Huntley started off on their
Grand and between them soon raised the
required number of men. The mother and
son freuuented every fair In the country
side, begging the fine young Highlanders
to come forward in support of the king and
country and to enlist in her regiment and,
when all other arguments had failed, rumor
said that kiss from the beautiful duchess
won the doubtful recruit She soon an
nounced to headquarters the formation of a
regiment, and entered into all the negotia-
lions with the military authorities in a
most business like manner. reporting that
the whole regiment were Highlanders save
IS. Lord Huntley was given the first COM
mand of this corps, then and ever since
known as the 92d or Gordon Highlanders.
and wearing the tartan of the clan.''
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
THE COLLEGIAN'S STORY.

Life is full of tragedy" said the middIe-
aged man. Il am moved to make this re-
mark by the recollection of story told
to me by my when he was home from
college his Easter vacation. He is at
one of the Eastern colleges, which one does
not matter, and he is living at hotel.
Last fall epidemic of measles swept over
the town. Nearly everybody had them, he
among the number. He is % years old and
he had them bad.
lone of the women who worked in the
dining room cared for him. She was what
you would call grass widow I suppose.
Her husband had left her for some reason
or other. She had a child a weak puny
miserable boy, and he was great care to
her. She was q quiet woman, who always
seemed bowed down with the weight of her
woe, and was never known to smile. The
doctors told her not to nurse my for
fear she would either get the measles her.
self or give them to the child. However,
the boy had been kind to her and she said
she would look after him. Things turned
out just as the doctors had expected. She
did carry the measles to the child He was
taken ill late one afternoon and by the
next morning suffering terribly. The
doctor came to the child and told her
that she must keep him well away from
cold and drafts of any kind. She took ths
child to her room and, after looking after
my boy, went UP there.
"She locked the door and deliberately
opened the window Then she placed the
child in his night clOtneS IN the dfa1t ana
let him stay there for two hours The re-
suit was, of course. that he caught cold
and died within two days. After the child
was buried she came back to the house
and began taking care of the other
measles patients She came down with It
herself one day. The doctors, who did not
know how it was the child caught such a
cold gave her the same instructions. They
told her to protect herself from cold. She
was left alone in her room, and she lock-
ed the door again. Then she threw open
both windows and sat beside one with but
very few clothes on. In two three hours
some one thought to go UP and see her.
The door was still locked. They broke it
in and found her sitting near the window
with her breast barred to the cold raw
wind, raving maniac. She was put to
bed but she had calculated wisely. She
was so thoroughly chilled that the disease
took a fatal turn, and she, too, died.
'That woman continued the middle.
aged man, didn't have nerve enough to
kill herself or the child in an orthodox
manner. The instructions Of the doctor
gave her hint however, and she followed
it out. She killed herself and her child az
surely as If she had used poison or a pistol
but it wasn't SO hard to do."-Buffalo Ed
press.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
A REMARKABLE POEM.

I sat alone with my conscience
In a place where time had ceased,
And we talked OF my former living.
In the land where the years increased.
And l felt should have to answer
The question is put to me,
And to face the answer and question i
Through an eternity.
The ghost of forgotten actions
Came floating before my sight
And the things that 1 thought were dead
things
Were alive with terrible might.
And the vision of my past life
Was an awful thing to face
Alone with my conscience sitting
In that solenlnly silent place
And l thought of a far-away warning,
OF sorrow that was to be mine
In land that then was the future,
But now is the present time
And | thought Of my former thinking
OF the Judgment day to be;
But sitting alone with my conscience
Seemed Judgment enough for me,
And wondered if there was a future
TO this land beyond the grave,
But no one gave ME answer,
And no one came to save.
linen l felt that the future was present
And the present would never go by
Fo it was but the thought Of my past life
Grown into eternity.
Then l awoke from my timely dreaming
And the vision passed away,
And l knew the far-away warning
Was a warning of yesterday
And l pray that 1 may not forget it,
In this land before the grave
That L may not cry in the future
And no one come to save
And so [ have learned lesson
Which | ought to have known before,
And which, though L learned it dreaming,
l hope to forget no more.
So l sit with my conscience
In the place where the years increase,
And try to remember the future
In the land where time shall cease
And l know of the future judgment,
How dreadful so e'er it be-
That to sit down alone with my conscience
Will be judgment enough for me.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
Observation-Disclosures

an agent in each. county, as suggest
ed by one of our correspondents, who
might sell the entire crop of that
county. Now the farmers rush their
wheat in and compete with each 9TH
The parent association could es-
tablish branches in other states,
where desired
1t could also designate, upon the
recommendation of county alliances,
er to break down prices. Then all
such competition would cease, and
the buyers would have to compete
with each other to get the wheat or
go without. If the buyers lin any
county combined and refused to bid =,
the central society at Minneapolis
would have been negotiating with
Minneapolis, st. Paul, Duluth, Buff
falo, New York and Liverpool, TO
find the highest prices obtainable:
and could ship accordingly, leaving
the local buyers in the lurch. If the
movement was made general we
could smash all the clears" and "op-
ton dealers" in the United States,
by flooding the market Or starving
it, as might seem best.
Two things would be necessary.
l. Honesty in agents.
2. Common sense in the grain
growers. If we attempted to put
wheat too high we would smash the
movement.
Get together, bretheren, in conven-
tion and let us talk these things all
over. Come by trains, and teams
and on fOot-but come.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
To CORRESPONDENTS.

Yousee what noble mass of cor.
respondence we have in this issue
We want to keep it up. 1t represents
the roice of the people.
If you have anything to say let us
hear from you. Remember that a
half column letter has ten times
more readers than a column letter:
and column letter ten times as
many as two column letter. Put
your ideas tersely, pointedly; and
don't open your mouth without "say-
ing something" Talk about any.
thing and everything that you think
will Interest men like yourself:-thc
crops, home affairs, finance, notifies
everything but religion:-if we get
into that the Peoples Party will be
gone up-"nOn come-ot-i-bus, ~,
S,cdnapo, up q st,1npo."
Address all communications to
"THE REPRESENTATIVE, room 3O6
Boston Block, Minneapolis, Mimi.
Our offer of the REPRESENTATIVE
for 10 weeks for Csc. is being heartily
responded to. But we want the
luCu dlA WOlACu III UIlc houses
of our friends to have an inducement
to get us up clubs by talking to their
neighbors. We therefore make this
special offer:
To any person who will send us s.. 50
we will send the paper to ten parties
for thirteen weeks, and will also send
the getter-up of the club a soc. COPY
of the Golden Bottle, postpaid.
We make the same offer to any per-
son who will send us $3.50, and
the names of five parties for six
months each, or to any person who
will send us $500 and the names of
two subscribers for one year each.
Or, If they prefer it, we will send
the REPRESENTATIVE free for six
months to the getter-up of any such
club.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
THE GRAIN GROWERS.
The Farmers in Convention Will
Defend Themselves.

The Farmers in Convention Will
Defend Themselves.
In the foregoing will be found
call for a Grain Growers Convention,
to be held shortly in Minneapolis.
This is the most important move
ment for The farmers ever made in
the Northwest. 1t will, we hope,
constitute the beginning of new
epoch Heretofore the agricultural
class has been at the mercy of those
who prey upon it. The farmers were
scattered, isolated, divided; while
their enemies were united in solid
phalanX. Let us get together and
see what can be done to put stop to
this condition of things. 1t may be
we will be able to do nothing. But
at least the cause is worth an effort.
What can be done?
Many valuable suggestions have
been made by correspondents of the
REPRESENTATIVE. Suppose some
thing like this should be attempted?
The Il REPRESENTATIVE has an Of
fee in the Boston Block, Mime
apols. We could give desk room in
it, free of charge, until the eX-
pertinent proved success.
Then at our Convention let all who
attend chip in what they can afford,
from ten cents to five dollars:-that
money to be used to pay the expen-
sesofan agent-a Secretary-who will
stay in Minneapolis; also to pay for
stationery. printing, and postage.
Let the Secretary agree to work for a
month or two without charge, save
his expenses, and after that to have
a reasonable salary. Then let the
convention elect a Board of Man
ayers. under whose orders the Secre-
tary should work.
Then let the Secretary send out
circulars to every local alliance, and
ask it to assemble and report:
1. Are it's members willing to Or
ganize for self-prOtection?
2. Will they agree to sell their
wheat through the Association, if
the price is satisfactory?
g. Give the names and postoffice
of members, and the amount of acres
each one will have in wheat; and the
dates at which they will probably de-
sire to sell; and What proportion of
their crop they will want to sell at
those dates.
4. Are they willing to pay cent
per bushel, on the amount sold
through the Association, if it is evi
dent that the price has been raised
at least that much, through the eff
forts of the Association; the money
to be expended in paying the expen-
ses of the society; and, if any is left,
n renting or building an elevator or
warehouse at Duluth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
THE FUTURE STATE.
BY b. LACK.

With this issue we commence publishing
serial story from the pen of an old Chi
caso attorney, b. Lack, by printing the in
troduction. The title is, THE Future
state, and 1t will be divided into four
parts. Part first deals with the causes that
lead to the destruction of society; part sec
ond, how the revolution occurred; part
third, the process of reconstructing, and
part fourth, society as reconstructed.
The book is not recommended for its lit
efary merits so much as for the sharp. and
pointed manner in which some of the evils
we suffer from are treated Should the
little tale receive the approval of the pub
lie, 1t will be published in book form.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13

(From the Coming NatiOn)
AT times when the heart grows faint,
there are streaks of light through portend-
ing storms that lifts it up with hope. When
the Chicago Daily Times openly advocates
justice to working people all along the line,
when the Kansas City Journal Republican,
begins to explain and advocate the initia-
tive and referendum, when the Massach u-
sets Republican lower house passes bill
Tor the same and the Oregon Democratic
state platform demands it, it shows that
even the old parties dare not longer oppose
all measures tending to help the people at
the dictates of millionaires. Yes, the unrest
has reached even the blind partisan and
can no longer be ignored. There is light
ahead.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
Dispensing Ira mDS,

prof. Gould. of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. Baltimore, relates in the current num-
Der of the Forum how that city met the
extraordinary demand for help from the
unemployed last winter.
THE city was pledged to buy stone for
matchmaking roads, and the central relief
committee opened four stone yards to pro-
vide work for unemployed residents with
families to support. A wayfarers' lodge
was constructed at a cost of $1,000, which
would accommodate 125 people every night,
and three days limit was provided to
consecutive shelter, and wood saving and
splitting was offered means for pay
ing for meals and lodging. Every inmate
had to take warm bath every evening
with carbolic soap, and disinfection of his
clothes was made imperative. The result
was 1000 tons of stone were broken and
sold at $3.50 at market prices; effective re-
lief cost $3.50; every applicant for work
was investigated and proved to be a resi-
dent before allowed to work. while the usu-
ally heavy visitation of tramps was
checked and cut down to the minimum
The relief committee acted promptly and in
a business-like way, and, with the many
other charitable agencies of churches and
societies, the city came through the winter
ordeal triumphantly. ''-Saturday Journal
Yes. we should call this "acted in a
very business-like way to take advantage
of poverty and misery, getting work which
sold at the market price, bringing $780,
for 50, $50 almost one-half of it's real value.
We think that any person that gets $3.50
worth of work in the name of charity for
s., $50 is a fraud, and is clearly convicted on
his own testimony of stealing the shoes and
stockings from the feet of little children.
And if any of the charitable institutions
and churches mentioned were interested in
this steal, although Christ might come to
Chicago, it is certain He will never be
found in their institutions or churches.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
Mems FURNISHINGS.
Three Splendid Bargains IN ]
Weather Specials.

Three Splendid Bargains IN Hot
Weather Specials.
Mems pure Silk Four-in- hand, Teck
and Bands Bons, satin lined, latest
shapes and neat, desirable effe is !;
guaranteed value soc. or
Special, each. Observation-Disclosures. NV
Mons white muslin shirts. finished
with Pique bosoms, open front and
back. slightly shop-worn: guaranteed
value 81. OO>
Special, Observation-Disclosures. ~
Mems 2-thread cOmbed Egyptian
yarn Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers /;
French neck and pearl buttons: sizes
80 to A inches: splendid value or
at soc. Special. ................. ZoC
Mail Orders Filled.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13

Lady Burton, widow of the famous translator
and traveller lives in London Perhaps the most
interesting OF the relics with which her house is
stored is grewsome necklace of human bones
given by the king of Dahomey to Sir Richard
Burton when he made him brigadiergeneral of
his corps OF Amazons. The necklace was de-
signed to be present to the new commander 8
fayorite sQuaw.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
Another Big Reduction IN
Veilings.
WHITE GOODS.

Each Item q telling Mducement.
32-inch Figured India Muslin, white
and cOlored grounds. with beautiful 5
and color figures, latest shadings.
Just the thing for cool summer dress;
would be cheap at 15c yard. 1O~
Special only, yard. .............. NJ
30-inch Figured Imported Bengaline.
tinted grounds. new artistic designs.
32-inch Importe d Dimities. in neat
pretty figures and stripes. fast colors,
sheer fine goods. This lot is worth 35c
to 45c yard. TO-
Special price only, yard ........ lOC
Nail Orders Filled.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13

Labor always moves to the front in cases
of emergency. It furnished muscle to put
down the rebellion and held the plough to
provide the soldiers food, made the cloth
ing and provided the munitions Of war, now
when the Democrats are in the last ditch
of broken promises, WalloWing in the filth
of political infamy, labor is again called to
the front to save capital from taxation by
paying a tribute to shylocks for the privi-
lege of sweetening. their, coffee.
After six days of inaction the unemployed
met on the Haymarket last Saturday, to
learn that technicaH tiesg had knocked the
small bond on the head, and that our al
dermen elected by the votes Of sovereigns,
were the servants of tplutocrats. Take
another notch up in your belts boys and let
the lining Of your stomachs grind together
to satisfy your hunger. Your votes elect
ed those chaps. d.
Monday another meeting on the Haymar-
ket; no speaking; about 900 present; 400
have courage enough to form in line and
parade around the city BALL out of total
registration Of nearly 5000 unemployed.
Surely hunger has made our citizens almost
as abject slaves as though they were chat
tells south Of Mason and Dixon's line "a
years ago.
Our city funkies. arbitrate with their
creatures, the corporations, and command
the people, their sovereigns. This is our
modern conception of government.
Grand country this Fifty locked out
pottery workers of East Liverpool O.. will
skip back to England next month. having
had enough of so-called protection"
Can a municipality be said to retain it's
sovereignty when it arbitrates with a cor
poration of it's creation?
Is freedom possible where conditions pro-
hibit the ownership of land?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13
LABOR DEPARTMENT
H. LUCAS. EDITOR.

main in the hands Of the people, together
with all the wealth they create
B. LACK
Chicago, ILL.,, Nov fs 1883.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-13

Wednesday, June 13, l.. A, No. 1877, meets
at Volkers Hall, corner Spring and Adams
streets northeast, at 5 p. m.
Wednesday, June 10, L. A., No. %, meets
at Romania Hall, Washington and Twen-
tieth avenues north, at p.
Wednesday, June 10, L. A, No. 49, meets
at G. A. r. Hail. Seventeenth avenue
north, at p. m.
Thursday, June II, Ladies' Assembly L.
A, No 50, 1.-The Mascot" meets at 1928
Nicollet avenue at p. m.
Friday, June Is, J. L. e. B. meets at 323
Nicollet avenue at p. m.
Sunday, June II. L. A, No $50, " Gets
at 1913 Nicollet avenue at p m.
Sunday, June II, L. A., No. sos, meets at
Hall l, Labor Temple, at p. m.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-21
RINEMART & TATUM,
CITY RanK Building. RoomS Telephons 2l1
FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE.

House rooms, brick, Fourteenth St. 5000
3 lots in BelVsdere addition, corner lots,
Sl75 each
House rooms, brick and 4 roomed house In
rear. Eolf street. between Twenty-third and
Twenty fourth streets, % 500.
House rooms Eighteenth street. n good
condition, e 500.
Double brick house rooms Fourteenth
street 5000.
House seven rooms, brick, Sixteenth street.
$500.
u House seven rooms, Chaplins street, Centre
Wheeling, G,SOJ.
House eight rooms, First ward, $1,000
House five rooms, Bsltimors street. East
T ues, sast END Fourteenth street. $500.
Uonse four rooms Charles street Centre
Wheeling, 500
House three rooms, Twelfth street $3.50.
House eight rooms. Sixteenth street. In good
House four rooms and stable. Twelfth Itrsss
&c House rooms and stable Eightssnth street
''I Elm. suburban homSs miles eaStof city A.
GIots in Fiian, white Il Gallagher addisloS.
bOxlO0 feet 500 each.
Fiue farm. Ils acres, on Natioaal ROAD, nlHs
miles east Of city. on Easy terms
Market street business property At modsrats
P' onc.haf 10, on KsCOllosA street. osstrs
oss 81 tSS bss. EaaufAstsriaG sites atAS
city. treating on tive rAiiroadL
NE5BATT & DEV1NEs
1879 Market Street
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-21

From the report Of Consul-General
Ingraham we learn that "c0al ireights
from Nova Scotia TO New EnGland dur
Ing the last Eve years averaged Sl.9O
per ton (2,e4O p0undsl on the small
quantity sent there, which was mostly
Ga sailing vessels" From other sources
the same figures are obtained as the
average cost for the last five or sen
years. Taking then the average price
OF lump coal (round coal, as it is called
10 Canada) 40 the Nova Scotia shipping
point as S225 per tOn-and certainly,
from the prices given above, that is low
enOugh-and addiug the cost of trans
portation and five cents a ton for To-
Surance we fnd the cost Of Nova Scotia
coal, laid down in Boston, 20 be S4.20 a
ton, without any tariff, while coal from
the P0cahontas field OF West Virginia
has sold there as low IS s2Sj a ton.
Assuming that the production in Nova
Scotia would largely increase, that by
shipping large quantities Of coal the
rate could be reduced as low as a dollar
q ton, and that by cheap labor and
larger operations the cost OF production
OF Nova Scotia coal could be reduced TO
So 90 a ton; assuming further that at
s.. ss a ton the margin of profit to the
Pocahontas operator is too small, and
taking $500 as a figure which would be
satisfactory % the Flat Top operators
Ia price very much higher than has
been realized by them for the last
twelve mOnths), and the West Virginia
toal, without any tariff protection,
Mould still undersell the Nova Scotia
c0al in the Boston market. And this
supposes the Goals 20 be OF equal worth,
which they are not, as will be seen from
she accompanying tables Of analyses.