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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-14
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The foregoing correspondence en-
phasizes the necessity of annual ses-
sions of the state Legislature. Money
that could be used to relieve the
needs of these farmers without loss
TO the state, must, for want of au-
thority, lie idly in the treasury, while
fields go untitled and homes are broken
up for want of it. We receive many
letters from farmers similarly stu
ated in different parts of the state,
and some of them criticise the Gov
ernor for not acting. We think they
are ''barking up the wrong tree"
We have no doubt of the Governors
disposition to extend state aid to
needy farmers if it were in his power
to do so. The trouble lies, not with
the Governor so much as in our fool
system of biennial sessions.
in this connection, we would call the
attention of our readers to the COM
ments of c. J. Olson, of Balaton. in
another column. Itseems to us that.
in this great emergency, the Gov
ernor should contract a temporary
loan. There is no doubt about the
next Legislature repaying it. The
necessity is great and there is no time
for delay. Let him move at once.
The credit of the state is ample. We
must not let our people starve. THE
EDITOR.]
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-14

We have received from L. l.. Nav
4 Co., St. Paul, the great northwest
ern seedsmen, a very complete and
handsomely illustrated catalogue of
seeds, bulbs, plants, fruits, etc., for
1894. They are mailed free on appli-
cation. Send for one.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-14
Get Ready to Build Your Fences

See our add in another column.
We also have for sale complete Pick
ct Mills capable of saving round
bolts up to the size of IL inches into
pickets. Capacity of mill Is, 900 pick
cts per day. A nice business for
threshers with ordinary engine.
Mill as portable as grain Separator.
Price of Mill, four saws complete,
1925.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-14

Ii you have not paid yourinsurance
assessment, do it now. x
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To Help Needy Farmers to Pro-
cure Seed Grain.

To Help Needy Farmers to Pro.
cure Seed Grain.
We have received the following let
ter from prominent Todd county
farmer:
Mr.. EDITOR:
The farmers of my section, many
of them, are in very destitute cir
cumstances, having had two crop
failures in succession. Last fall
their wheat yield was about three
bushels per acre. This poor crop,
and still poorer prices, forced those
who have mortgages to give chattle
mortgage on what available property
they have, to pay up interest. Now
spring has come and seeding-time is
drawing near and Shylock refuses to
let them have seed grain because
they have not another pound of flesh
to give. A number of these destitute
but worthy citizens have come to
me to see if / can find some way to
assist them to get their seed grain
through the executive department.
of the state of Minnesota. They on
ly wish to get loan till fall, and pay
back at that time.
The people need help, and need it
at once; so you will please excuse the
liberty | take in asking you if these
poor farmers can get loan from
the state, and if they can you will
please inform me what steps
| will have to take to secure
for them their seed If you can
inform me on this subject
you will greatly oblige many of your
fellow men who need helping hand
to tide them over. j. H. LACKEY,
Deputy Lecturer F. A.
Long Prairie, March 5, '94.
Mr.. Jockeys communication was
forwarded at once to the Executive
Department., and we have received
the following reply from Governor
Nelson:
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
ST. PAUL, March 1894.
EDITOR REPRESENTATIVE.
Dear Sir:-In reply to your recent
favor, inquiring whether any assis-
lance can be rendered by the State,
from the public funds, in procuring
seed grain for the needy, beg leave
to say that no moneys of any kind
can be drawn from the State Trea-
sury except upon the Auditors war
rant for the same. For the purpose
of ascertaining definitely whether
any funds were available for seed
grain and whether the State Auditor
would draw his warrant upon the
State Treasurer for such funds, I re-
Gently addressed a letter to the State
Auditor on the subject. Enclosed I
send you a copy of his reply, from
which it clearly appears that there
are no funds available for seed-grain:
and this, as you see, places it out Of
my power to render any assistance in
the premises.
Kindly publish this letter, as we'll
as the letter of the State Auditor.
Yours Truly,
KNITTE NELSON
Governor.
STATE OF MINNESOTA.
AUDITORS OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, Feb. 1854
Hon. KNUTE NELSON,
Governor of Minnesota.
Dear Sir:-YOur favor of the 24th
is at hand. In reply will say that
have conferred with the Attorney
General as to whether any of the
existing appropriations for seed grain
loans Of prior years could be drawn
upon at this time, and he advised me,
under date of August 18th, 1893, that
rf Of 1n lo1
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Interesting Facts.

Bear in mind the following facts:
Population of the
is. 1892. ....... 1854, 48O
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We have received the following let
ter from a prominent Todd county
farmer:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-14

OFFICERS OF THE STATE ALLIANCE.
HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY, President,
Ryan Hotel ST. Paul.
A. II. HENDRICKSON, Secretary,
Sank Centre, Mimi.
HON R. NJ PROBTSFIELD. Treasurer,
Moorhead. Mimi.
Magnolia. Mimi.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-14

That while between 1888 and 1890,
the republicans lost 1924. and the
democrats 24,407; it is not unfair to
assume that between 1890, aid 1894,
they will lose at least the same num-
Der of votes, under the inspiration of
empty bellies and empty wallets; and
as a result the independent non-cor-
poration element would number
about two-thirds of the entire vote.
our friends, the democrats, be in
the soup, and the Nelson-Pillsbury-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES bank smashing
-remnent of the erstwhile repub-
INSTRUMENTATION party not
have enough following for a small
sized prayer meeting. ]
Then up guards and at them! For
victory is assured.
JOHN HI. BURKE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-03-14

All UuTee CUHuUIIltu ~ /, $50
That the independent vote of Min
nesota, coupled with the disguised
non-voters, was 3,S43 in excess of
the combined republican and demo-
cratic vote.
That the independent thinking ele-
ment of this country is greater today
tho n 1900
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05

There's one hired girl in Detroit who
ought to have medal. The other
morning . tramp came to the kitchen
door where she presides and asked her
for something to eat. It wasn't the
first one who had SO presented him
self. and she was not at all pleased to
see him, but she didn't show it in her
manner.
Twill you sit down in the shade
there" che said pleasantly, land wait
till l get it for your"
Certainly, ma'am," he said unctu.
ously as he picked soft place and
deposited himself upon it. She went
into the kitchen and the tramp waited.
He continued to wait. Every now
and then she would appear at the
door and hope would spring in his
breast, and he would smack his lips,
only to see her disappear again. FL
nally the strain became too great for
him, and he came to the door.
Excuse me, ma'am," he said, II
thought you had forgot me, ma am"
"Oh, no, haven't" she chirruped.
"Ive been keeping an eye on you all
the time. Didn't l tell you to wait
until brought you something to
eat?"
"Yes'm."
"And didn't you say you would."
"Yes'm, but I'd like to know how
long I've got to wait"
She laughed merrily.
"That's 90, she said. 81 never
thought Of that. You'll have to wait
only six weeks or such q matter" and
there was something in her tones that
prejudiced him against her so that he
went abruptly
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05
POLAR BEARS KEEP COOL.

Tropical Animals In Captivity Suffer
Most During the Heated Term.
ut will surprise most people," said
Superintendent A. E. Brown, of the
Philadelphia geological garden, to a
Record man, 'to learn that the polar
bear stands the hot weather of the dog
days in this locality better than the
African lion. On hot days the lion
will get off his feed; the bear will not.
The tropical animals in the garden"
continued the superintendent, "are the
ones mostly affected by the extreme
heat Of midsummer, strange as it may
appear. l suppose the reason of it is
that the heat there is more moist than
that of the tropics, and, as it were, of
. different character. Whatever NOR
tally OCCURS among our animals dur
ing heated term is mostly among the
tropical animals, especially the A frican.
In hot weather l have watched the
polar bear go into his tank, and then,
instead of lying in the shade, extend
himself in the direct rays Of the sun,
where the water on his skin would
evaporate. He found out for himself,
I suppose, that evaporation causes q
lower temperature. Again, it is some
what astonishing, at first, that our
polar bear should suffer sometimes as
he does from the severe cold of winter.
l have seen him shivering on one Of
those bitterly cold days, when the sky
was overladen and the air full of mois-
ture. The moisture was evidently what
affected him. In the arctic regions it
is so cold that the moisture is frozen
out Of the air. Birds do not like the
heat. 1t makes them perch with
dropped wings. Heat affects not only
the animals in the garden, but the
finances of the garden itself A differ
ence Of ten degrees in the thermome-
ter, say if it is ninety-five instead Of
eighty-fve, means loss of several hum
dred dollars in our gate receipts for
the day."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05
PERSONAL POINTS.


GEN. BUTLER's son Paul is to put the
old yacht America into commission this
summer.
Miss FRANCES WILLARD will prolong
her stay abroad till September ON &C.
count Of her health.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's country
house, Woody" is fine old mansion
that was once the property of Francis
Scott Key, author of The Star Span
gled Banner"
JAMES HAGAN, the pressman who
printed the first copy Of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, and who worked for that
paper for fOrty-siX years, is still liv-
ing. He was retired on . pension in
1881.
MARY WALES, IN ancient Boston
spinster who died recently, left her
entire fortune, amounting to about
$4,000, to her pet Thomas cat, called
Otto. This Otto last him his whole nine
lives.
REV. WILLIAM c. WINsLow, of Bos-
ton, the eminent Archaeological, has
been elected an honorary member of
the society of Science and Arts of Great
Britain on account of his valuable labor
rs an Orientalist.
D IT is estimated that the late George
I. Seney gave away, during his life
time, at least $4,000, 900 for charitable
purposes. He considered money hoard
ing the danger of the time, and looked
upon himself merely as the great trus-
tee of his great wealth.
B Mrs. RACHEL COOPER, q colored wom-
an who died . few days ago in Phila-
delphia, was in her 113th year. 1t was
her boast that she had been a Chris
tian for ninety years" She was in full
possession of her faculties up to within
I. few days of her death.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05
DECAY OF HOME LIFE.
Our Homes Are Given Over to Gas Fires
and Unopened Books.

Our Homes Are Given Over to Gas Fires
and Unopened Books.
Don't tell me that house which Is
given over to the servants half the time,
father, mother, children all going sep
arate ways, and always ON the rush, q
house with gas fires and unopened
books, q house in which there is no
evening lamp, no morning prayer. no
time for music, for talk, for all the Oc'
equations and interests and pleasures
that link each to each day by day, year
by year, ''in natural piety"-don't tell
me that that is a home, exclaims q
writer in Lippiccott's. I am not sure
that most of US want one; we have sur
vived home, perhaps, and prefer thou
sands roOsts to one nest. The decay OF
home life, in our cities at least, is the
most striking of all the changes that I
observe after long absence from my
own country. We were once the most
domestic Of all the Enthusiastically SO,
foreigners said; but that can no longer
be made a ground Of complaint. I am
not complaining. My own idea is to
march with the times and look facts in
the face. am for making our houses
as plain as possible. containing all the
ordinary conveniences pro vided at tri.
ding cost. Let us furnish our streets
and public places ofevery kind sumptu.
ously, / say-Fifth avenue or Broad.
way inclosed in glass from November
to May, adorned with statuary, brio.
a-brac. pictures, easy chairs, omforta.
BILE sofas, meals to be served Ia carte;
from May to November, awnings,
Ices. cane furniture, palm-leaf fans
in short, modern comforts where we
moderns most need them, and that is
emphatically abroad and not at home.
AS an asylum for poor relations. for the
temporary screening Of intending alb.
sconding bank cashiers. for the insane.
eases of infectious disease, and few
similar purposes a private no use may
still be q useful thing to have in the
family; but that is not all. Let us i'm.
prove all our public places and convey.
Ances-have drawing-room street cars,
for instance, with a buffet attachment.
every seat a distinct easy chair, Corot
opposite instead of cocoa, grateful and
comforting, library of select fiction.
cut flowers, good stained glass - no
more straw, draughts, banging doors,
squeezing and pushing and trampling-
discomfort, in short. l am in them on
On average two hours daily, and l will
give the Corot to the first one set up on
these lines. He is my favorite artist,
and shall see a good deal more of him
there than where he n ow hangs-in my
wife's Louis Quinze boudoir; and SC
will she and all her friends; so that ]
shall not be selfish brute but a public
benefactor. Our shops, our restaurants,
our theaters, our waiting-rooms are all
susceptible Of vast improvement, and
the benevolent millionaire, instead OF
building public libraries which are used
by five hundred people in the course of q
year-6fty Of them students, the re-
mainder idlers, loungers and cranks-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05
FASHION DEGREES.

eS6ME of the newest hats seem to b
the merest roll of velvet or lace around
a fat crown. A couple of feathers and
q prince-Of-Wales cluster.
VERY deliberately embroidered velvet
or very rich brocaded velvet is used fol
the collars, cuffs, vests and bolero.
jacket on some of the ultra fashionable
costumes.
A THREE-QUARTER-LENG jacket OF
rough plaid, with wide belt and loose
hood, is among the latest importations.
1t is designed for travelling, riding or
evening outings. The sleeves are very
loose at the tops, which is a necessity,
considering the present style Of dress
sleeve.
p A ROSE ruching of picked-out silk in
contrasting color is seen at the hem of
some of the fashionable dresses. A
ruching of this sort made of velvet and
lined with bright-colored silk was seen
on a recent Paris order. The velvet was
turned in at the edge and blind-stitched
down to the silk, which was pinked
snd plated very full.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05
ELECTRICAL FLASHES.

<SoME extensive experiments have re-
Gently been made in connection with
the German army, the object Of which
has been to provide continuous cleo
trical illumination at night from bal
looms. 4
! THE electrical weeklies are just now
teeming with illustrations Of electrical
effects at the worlds fair. According
to these the old nursery stories OF
fairyland are actually eclipsed by the
realities of to-day. :,
J PROF. Won STEIN, a well-known Mos.
COW physician, claims to have discov.
cred a new cure for rheumatism by
means of the electric light. The light
used is a small incandescent lamp,
whose rays are applied to the afflicted
part through funnel. The length OF
the treatment depends on the ability
OF the patient to endure the heat.
PROF. ALOI, the famous electrician
has been engaged for some time in
conducting some curious experiments
with regard to the influence of cleo
tricity upon plant growth. These trial
tests prove that corn, wheat, tobacco
beans-in fact, everything upon which
experiments were made-were highly
benefited by the influence Of the cleo
trio current. II
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05
A REMARKABLE WOMAN.
Aow Mrs. COston Got Hcr Signals Adopted
BY the American Navy.

How Mrs. COston Got Her Signals Adopted
by the American Navy.
One of Washington's remarkable
women is Mrs. Martha j. Coston, now
advanced in years but brilliant in mind
as ever. and able to look back upon o
life full of achievements. Mrs. Co.'S
tor, says the Illustrated American, is the
woman who, almost single-handed and
in the face Of tremendous difficulties,
brought the Coston signals to their
present perfection. Left a widow at
the age Of twenty-one with three chill
dren and no resources, she set out
bravely to develop an idea which she
found indicated among her husbands
papers. This idea was to furnish
colored signals at night for ships in
the same way that colored flags were
used by day. The trouble was to find
the chemicals which would produce
the necessary colors, red, white and
green, in sufficient intensity. Mrs.
COston worked on this problem for
many months, and after a series of
failures finally succeeded, and the Co.'S
ton signals were adopted by the Ameri-
can navy and Used during our late
war. What they did during that war
is known to every naval officer, al
though scant justice has been rendered
to the plucky woman who furnished
them. Admiral Porter took Fort
Fisher by the aid of the Coston signals,
starting the battle at night, as he was
allie to do by this means. His success
broke the back of the war. 1t was the
Coston signals which saved twenty
seven lives Of men on board the famous
Monitor lost off Cape Hatteras.
1t is a pleasure to hear Mrs. Coston
tell Ct her adventures in foreign lands,
for she has travelled all over the world
and seen the great people of many ma.
tions. Half the countries of Europe
have adopted the Coston signals, and
whenever she arrives in one of these
capitals Mrs. Coston is treated and re-
ceived as benefactor Of humanity.
Mrs. CASTOR in her travels through
Europe was received by the pope, by
Queen Victoria, by the French emperor
and Empress Eugene, by the king and
queen of Sweden, and by q host Of
lesser celebrities.
Mrs. Coston will send a handsome
exhibit Of the Coston signals to Chica-
60 under the direction of her son. One
Of the most striking features Of the ex-
hibit will be the Coston aerial signals,
which are shot into the air by pistols,
and can be seen at an immense dis
lance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05
THE JOKER. |

E"YoU look sleepy. You must haSG
been up with the boys last night II
was. 4 We have twins at our house"
p docs Mr.. Hopkins get paid in full
each week now?" Mrs. Hopkins-"I
suppose SO. He has to be brought
home from the club in a carriage every
night. Ocean. ..,,~:. ~
, A SELF Observation-Disclosures
did you recognize your assailant if it
was pitch dark at the timer" The
Battered Citizen-''Oh, he Jumped me
SO ard, your amer, dat saw him by
de Starlight - =. a.sAa
JOHNNY, Mr.. Barlow tells me he
caught you in his apple tree to-day.
What were you doing there?" Study
ing" What? Don't lie to me, John.
ny. What were you studying?" ZAP
pies. "-Harper's Bazaar. - ~
THE REroRr COURTEOUS. - Married
Man-"Why don't you get married
Miss Perkins? You are getting to
look like back number'-you will
soon be an old maid" Miss Perkins
IF l were as easy to please as your
wife was, l would have been married
long ago."-Yankee Blade. 81.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05
An Adouted Mink.

On farm near Lewiston, Me-, is q
curious pet and . strange adoption.
One day one of the dogs around the
farm brought in baby mink, its eyes
hardly open; q helpless creature, SO
inoffensive that the dog would not
harm it. At that time the family cat
was nursing litter of kittens, and the
little girl of the house put the mink in
with the kittens. The cat made q few
objections. but finally accepted the
addition to her family and cared for
the stranger. When the mink and kit
tens all had their eyes open. they
formed an exceedingly happy family.
The mink played as gleefully as the
rest, and the mother cat was Just q
anxious for its safety as for any Of her
offspring.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-05
UNITED STATES AMI EUROPE.
Alarm In the Old World 1T the Rapid
Strides of Brother Jonathan.

Alarm In the Old World 1T the Rapid
Strides of Brother Jonathan.
Paris Figaro: The United States
does not threaten us from military
point of view. but from an economic
point of view it constitutes for us an
immediate and pressing danger. The
debt contracted by the United States
during the civil war will be COM
pletely extinguished before the end
Of the century, while the total
debt of the European countries is
reckoned to amount to the formidable
figure of 1876 milliards of francs. The
United States maintains an army of
only 81, 900 men-about the number in
cluded in a single one of our army
corps. In Europe there are 3,50O,O00
men kept in military service in time OF
peace, and it is easy to recognize what
a loss in their productive capacity is
caused to European states annually.
1t must be borne in mind that the men
thus taken away from peaceful work
are all at the maximum of their
strength and at the age when mans
character is formed. The loss result
ing from such a state of things is
frightful when considered as factor
In the industrial struggle against the
United States. 1t would be sheer
blindness not to see that in these con-
ditions the progressive and rapid de-
velopment of the United States
menaces Europe with such a competi-
ton that the time will surely come
when the axis of industrial power, of
human activity, and of political in
fluence will be changed to the advan-
tage Of the New World.
This evolution movement threatens
France more than any other European
| nation, because it is France which is
bearing the heaviest burdens and
which has the largest debt. Every
where in Europe, even among the
smallest nations, they are talking at
this moment only of ornaments. in
crease of soldiers and war material,
and naturally, also, of new taxes. In
| 1870 Europe devoted annually to the
preparation for war the sum of about
three milliards; at present the annual
expenditure for the same purpose is
five milliards. In 1870 Europe kept on
peace footing little more than
100000 men; to-day she keeps more
than 3,50O,OOO. In 1879 Europe esti-
mated that, in case of war. she could
place in line, as a supreme effort, about
100000 men; to-day she could have
1880. 900, and her legislation tends to
carry that number to 22,000,0 900.