The representative., 1895-10-09

asked an old philosopher how he could
| get rich. The reply was, ''beg from
your back and borrow from your bel
ly." Within certain limits this is good
| advice There is however wise econ
omy and a deadly economv. it is
| criminal to be wasteful, and it is
equally criminal to reduce the body or
| the mind below the measure of Suf-
| ficient nourishment. If the people
| submit to injustice and sink lower in
| the scale of manhood the thieves will
not cease to plunder them. They do
not fail to rob the Irish peasant in his
mud hut, or the Russian serf at his
| banquet of tree-bark. There is no
limit Of propriety to the exactions of
rascalitv. 1t used to kill its victim
and eat him. Now it simply starves
| him until he dies. This is a Christian
age. We have given up splitting the
| leg bones of our fellow men to get the
marrow; we simply break their hearts
| and empty their pockets.
OUR SIBERIA.
This region reminds me of the de-
| scriptions given of the Siberian plains.
There are all the signs of poverty
the little villages; the unpainted
buildings: the half-empty stores; the
purposeless, roughclad men, clustered
around the depots. The elevators are
bigger than the churches and more re-
| spected by the people. The cross that
| tells the story Of the Great Gallilean,
who died for man, is erected in the
| midst Of communities that subsist on
man. They would not give 80 pieces
of silver to arrest Christ when, they
| could lend it out at 60 per cent per an
| mum. The Brotherhood Of God and
| the brotherhood of man" is myth
here; every mans eye is fixed greedily
on his neighbor; and each one knows
| just what the other is worth, down to
the last farthing. Without money a
man is simply so much fles h and bones,
which you can not even eat. With
plenty of money he is deity.
| But all this is temporary. The crop
raisers who are now begging from their
backs and borrowing from their bel
| lies will eventually work out, and be-
come rich and respectable; and twen-
| ty-fve years from now you will hardly
be able to get the new generation to
| realize the horrors of this wolf-era.
| The wolves will mostly be dead, their
bellies full of clay, and their insatia-
| BILE appetites transferred to some othe r
| region of activity, in probably warm
| er climate than that Of North Dakota .
THE GREAT PLAINS.
1t takes two nights and one day of
| travel to pass from St. Paul or Mime
apolis to Great Falls, Montana. left
Minneapolis at SIS on Monday night,
end at 1925 a. M, OF Wednesday morn
ing | reached Great Falls.
Montana is world by itself. 1t is
separated from the center of the Da-
kOtas by vast flat areas of desert, Of
drift formations: great beds Of light,
ash-colored clay, hundreds Of feet in
thickness. This clay is mostly gran
ite ground to powder, and laid down
over these continental plains by some
great and sudden catastrophe. All
through Minnesota, at depth of
| from 80 to 80 feet Of drift the we'll dig
| gers come upon what seems to have
| been the original Surface,-a black
sol, containing leaves, twigs, branches
| of trees and even large logs. l have
some very interesting fragments of
| this kind from Wabasha county,
! Mimi. and some from South Dakota.
There are those who believe that these
| tremendous deposits Of ground-up
granite, called clay, were triturated
| by the action of ice, in the SO-called
glacial age. But this does not seem
| reasonable. Such a theory might be
accepted in Switzerland or the British
Islands, where precipitous mountains
could send down glaciers; but even
there the glaciers do not produce clay
| or gravel; and it would have been a
very industrious set Of glaciers, (where
there are no mOuntains), that would
have been able to produce the masses
of drift (in some places thousand
feet deep, between the Atlantic and
the Pacific; and at the same time have
| moved SO gently as not to pulverZe
even the dead leaves on the original
| surfaces of the country.
| But have discussed all this subject
in my book "Ragnarok," and it is not
worth while to 60 over the argument
| here
These plains would be gardens of
beauty and abundance if there were
only an adequate water supply; but
| that depends on the relations between
! land and ocean areas Of the globe: and
they seem to have been adjusted with
out any regard to the wants of civil
| lied man, in the great central areas Of
| America, Asia, Africa and Australia
1t will remain for the future to deter
mine how far the Subteranean water
supply Of the American region can be
| brought to the surface of uhe earth
| 1t is possible twenty-five years from
now this whole country will be dotted
| over with wells, WindmiilS, reservoirs
and irrigating canals, and be the most
productive section Of the world.
There are no large rivers flowing into
the great lakes, and it is supposed
that they are fed by this Subteranean
water sheet A recent writer in a Chi
cagO paper claims that anywhere near
that city you can, at a depth Of two