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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
NO MORE BUFFALO SKINS.
Wolf and RaccOOn for Robes and
COats-A CnribOu's Head and n
Musk Ok Skin.


Musk Ok Skin.
Buffalo skins?" said clerk at a fur
store in answer to an inquiry by New
York Sun reporter. They are practically
out of the market. No new ones come in
now, and the few that we have on hand
are old ones that find their way to the
furriers. The price of a good buffalo skin
is from $50 to $50. They used to be made
extensively into fur coats for driving and
rough winter travelling, but such coat
now is rarely seen except in out of-the- way
Northern localities where many old ones
are still in use. Raccoon skins have taken
the place of buffalo. skins in the making of
overcoats, but the fur coat is not much
used now anywhere except in Minnesota
and the British dominions. There is some
demand for fur Innings for which mink and
Persian lamb are used, and sometimes
Hudson Bay sable, which cost from $500 to
900 for a coat. AS you will readily infer
the buffalo driving robe has become scarce
and valuable. The gray wolf skins are
more abundant.
For robes and for ladies' frs the skin
of the wolverine, of foxes of all kinds
raccoons, the Australian opossum of a
smooth mouse gray tint, and The young
kangaroo, all furnish material. Almost
everything in the way of EUR may be used
for boas and muffs. Here are some odd
skins from the cars dominions used in
trimmings and Innings, the Russian ham,
color, with the under part black and the
Siberian squirrel, gray, with white lelly
These are some furs used in trimming
and he pointed out, in array Of samples
hanging against the wall, the skins Of the
wolverine of rich light brown, the stone
marten, blush brown, the Persian lamb,
of a natural black, the Astrakhans krim-
mer, and pinhead; the badger a beauti-
full siver-gra with black dashes, and the
fisher, rare fur, a little darker than
sable
This bisons head is worth $780, he
went on. "TheSe heads Of the moose deer
and caribou are merely ornamental fea-
lures of our place, for the skins scarcely
come in our line of stock. But they are
worth looking at. Notice the mooses mag
nificent antlers and that peculiar protuber-
ance above his muzzle There in he carl
bou's antlers observe the fiat shovel-like
prongs that push straight out from their
base in front of his forehead. These he
uses as shoVels to dig away the snow from
the plants and MOSES he feeds on He is
the American reindeer fitted to get his l;y-
ing at all seasons in the far North Look
at his muzzle how it is protected from the
cold by fine white hair completely cover
ing it down to the lips 1t is the only ami
NAL 1 know of that has this popularity.
I'VE have no head of the musk OK hut
here is the skin of one which is rare and
the clerk held up a skin, somewhat larger
than a large sheep skin, covered with lcng
hair, deep brown in color, beneath which
was a wool exceedingly thick and fine
Upon the back between the shoulders was
a natural spot of lighter tint. This skin
is worth $65 for rug he said. 1T came
from the Arctic regions-northern Alaska.
I think"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
THANATOPsIs A GOOD HEN.


BILE Appetite for Laying Eggs.
Frank Crouch. of Central Lake, this
state has a hen whose record no other
English-speaking fowl can hope to break
says the Detroit Journal. This hen which,
for the sake of brevity, we will call Than
atopSls, began laying eggs this spring, and
at last accounts had the remarkable num-
Der of 1853 to her credit. That would be a
fair seasons work for a pickerel, but
Thanatcpsis is no fish When in the early
summer the mind of Thanatopsis began to
turn toward thoughts of maternity she
would have set and Matched large and in
teresting family after the time-honored
custom of all well-regulated hens, but
found she had the habit of laying eggs so
firmly fixed that she could not abandon it,
In vain did she cluck and rufle up her
feathers in the seclusion Of the root cellar.
Idle were her attempts to cuddle down
upon the jagged edge of a cast-off door
knob.
No sooner had she warmed the outer cas-
ing of the senseless clay than her propen-
Sity for laying eggs would fall upon her
like a wet rag. and with a shrill scream
she would hustle off to her nest, and
there, alone with her gnawing grief, lay
eggs until torn away by her plying owner.
In her mad desire to lay eggs she has
lost her will power. She is a monomaniac
on eggs. Still she has lucid intervals,
when her mind seems clear as that Of
any hen, and at these times her maternal
instincts return with ten-fold fury. Frank
has sweet little sorrel calf named Dennis,
and it is no uncommon thing to see Thana-
topsis lowering around Dennis and cud-
ding him under her motherly wings.
Dennis is very fond of Thanatopsis,
though he has never yet been able to make
full meal from her. Her feathers get in
his windpipe, and by the time he has fin
ished coughing Thanatopsis has laid eggs
all over the bottom of her soap box and
been logged off to the house by Mr..
Crouch. The writer saw Thanatopss on
recent occasion. She is quiet, well-bred
and prepossessing hen of unassuming man
ners, and did not seem in the least
stuck 10,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
MASSACHUSETTS, FAMOUS GOLDFISH.
An Emblem Which Has Hung in the
State House for Over n Century.


The famous Goldfish which hangs from the
base of the dome in the Massachusetts
state house. and inside the old room in
which the representatives used to meet,
Will be absent from the chamber in the
new extension which they are soon to oc-
cupy Just why this emblem, which has
always attracted the notice of visitors and
sometimes moved them to rdicule, should
be ignored in the transfer of movables
from one room to the other is not ex
planned, and, according to the New York
Evening Post, it is even said that the cod
fish is doomed to figure in a museum,
presumably historical. The following ac-
count of it's origin is given: I'm 1866
Charles w. Palfrey, editor of the Salem
Register, and a member of the house for
several years, undertook to gather all the
facts that could be learned about the plac-
ing of the figure in the chamber. After
extensive research he found much concern
ing the fish which, luckily, had been pre-
served 1t was by Mr.. Palfrey's efforts
that the actual facts were got from the
records of the great and general court,
and while many links are missing, the
chain is nearly complete. On Wednesday,
March II, 1884 John Rowe, a member from
Boston, moved permission to hang the cod
fish in the house a memorial to the i'm
portance of the codfshery to the welfare
of the state. The motion prevailed, and
shortly after the emblem was placed in
position, and there it has remained undis-
turbed through all the vicissitudes of the
years which have interviewed. Once it was
painted, but it has never been taken down
from the iron rod by which it is held in
position. Mr.. Rowe, who presented the
figure to the commonwealth was we'll
known citizen of Boston and a conspicuous
patriot, being associated with Samuel
Adams, James Otis, John Hancock and
other leaders of that period He was
interested in commerce and was an ex-
tensive property owner along the water
'front.' Rowe's wharf and contiguous terri
tory being among his possessions. He died
on Feb II, 17S7.''
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13

quire a train 9O2,647H miles long; such a
train would reach more than So times
around the earth. If stretched in a straight
line, on the sun, or some other large planet
and it was possible to hear the whistle the
full length of the train it would be so days
and IA hours, from the time the engineer
blew the whistle until the conductor could
hear 1t in the caboose. 1t would require
81 days and IA hours for a rifle ball to
travel the length of the train, if it retained
the speed it had when it left the gum A
cyclist, riding Is miles an hour, would cross
the widest part of this continent 5000
miles,, Az times while the bullet was trav-
cling that distance; or a man, walking 4
miles an hour would cross the continent in
days and hours less time than the bullet
could travel said distance.-Southern Mer-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
INDIAN FIGHTING COURAGE.
TerrOrs in White Settlements Who
Run Away From Hostile Redslxin


ut takes a special kind of courage to
fight Indians said Maj. Edward Ragsdale
at the Little Gem in Topeka to the New
York Sun. They're pretty sure to sur
prise you, and they're slippery as quicksil-
yer and as hard to catch. Their yelling
and whooping alone are enough to STAN
pede men not trained to their style of
fighting. Sometimes they fight under cover
and you catch fire from enemy you
can't get a sight of; and again, where
there hasn't been .aone to be seen, they
seem all to spring out Of the ground at
once, and charge you as though nothing
could stand their onset.'s Then there's the
knowledge that If bthey catch you alive,
you'll be skinned alive, or burned or your
life tortured out of you by slow degrees
in thousand other ways they can think
up to make you suffer: There's many a
stout-hearted desperados a terror in white
settlements and not afraid to have a
pistol or shotgun SCRAP any hour of the
day or night withIa man of his own color,
who doesn't count, for row of pins in an
Indian fight
Take Sam Brown, ST Nevada, for a case
in point. He wasn't afraid of any man that
wore boots. and he was the terror Of the
mining camps everywhere he went. The Pi-
ute Indians got bad one, time and a party
was organized to go out against them Sam
Joined the volunteers and everybody in the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
THE RETIRED BURGLAR,
Curious and Not Altogether COM
Portable Experience With Man
Whn Ha1JnneG

Portable Experience With n Man
Who HalloOed.
"Once." said the retired burglar to the
New York Sun, Il looked from the upper
hall of a house that 1 was in into a room
that was dark that you literally couldn't
see into it a all. 1t seemed if they must
have had the windows closed, the blinds
shut and the shades all down. 1t was
blacker'n a cave. l turned my light in
around on the floor to get the lay of
things and get EN- fixed in my mind so as
not to stumble over anything. Over by the
bed l saw a chair and hanging down from
it a pair of trousers legs. Then, of course
/ knew there was a man in the bed and
that 1t was his clothes that were stacked
up on the chair there l shut off my light
and started. / knew the way and l went
very quietly, but when l got about half
way across the room the man in the bed
began to hOller.
How he could see me I couldn't under
stand. 1 couldn't see him at all, but 1 just
halted and waited He didn't holer very
loud, though he was trying to, hard; but he
was scared that I was SURPRISED to hear
him holer at all; it sounded as though
it was all he could do to catch his brea III; ;
/ afraid he would scare himself to
death right on the spot. didn't dare back
out of the room for fear I'd meet some
body coming in. l thought 1 could dodge
EN- better after they got in; so just stood
there in the middle of that dark room
with tnat Hldn HoileT II the pest he could
and l wishing 1 was somewhere else and
wondering what was going to turn up next
well, sir, in about half a minute he
stopped hollerin' altogether and for
minute or two he did not breathe Then
was scared; but in about a minute more
he began to snore. You see? He wasn't
scared at me; what he was scared at was
a nightmare; he didn't know l was there
at all. But It was mighty uncomforta-
BILE position to be in all the same, be-
cause, of course, he was just as likely to
wake up somebody hollerin' in his sleep as
he would ha' been if he'd been wide
awake; he might have walked himself up.
as far's that's concerned. But he didn't,
nor anybody else, apparently, and when
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
MAKING HIM FEEL AT HOME
How Many Crimes Are Committed in
the Name of Hospitality.

How Many Crimes Are Committed in
the Name of Hospitality,
How many mistakes are made in this
world with the pest intentions, saws the
Philadelphia Press. How often we condole
with each other when we should reioica
How frequently man urges a friend to
take a drink, Just one MORE" under the
impression that he is doing him favor
when really the man is anxious to get home
to his family There is no mistake so ha r.l
to correct as that which is made with the
best motives possible.
The other day Buggins invited Muggins
out to dinner. Muggins is rather Shy, but
ne managed to scare up enough courage TO
accept. Mrs Buggins and the three Misses
Buggins held a council of war.
What is Mr.. Muggins fond Off" qusried
Mrs. Muggins.
I'm blessed If I know" quoth he
Find out today if you can," was the
edict. So Buggins went to a friend for
advice.
Il don't remember Let's see, he either
despisss or is very fond Of coffee. 1 think
he is fond of it. Yes, I'm pretty sure 1 re-
member his drinking eight cups in one
night"
The truth of the matter is that Muggins
hates coffee with bitter, undying hatred
that was Unborn. If he ever drank eight
mugs OF anything, it surely not coffee.
But Buggins went home and told his fam
lily that as long as Muggins had a cup of
good coffee he didn't care row of pins
about anything else.
The dinner came Off
Have a cup of coffee, Mr.. Muggins,"
said pretty Miss Buggns first. Il know
you won't refuse" So Muggfns took it. He
gulped it down and tried to look calm Then
the second daughter of his hostess spied
his cup empty. She rushed up for another
His shyness overpoWered him, and he took
1T without a murmur. He swallowed tnat
too. The eagle eye of the youngest Miss
Buggins fell upon him. He quaied
Poor Mr.. Muggins,'' said she, sympa-
ttetically, "have they neglected you? yer
mind, I'll take care of you. Here's a cup
of Coffee
How could he refuse? He never has dis
Gov red how he emptied that cup. All he
remembers after that is the hostess coming
up with another cup of coffee on one side
of him and Buggins with a genial smile
insisting upon giving him fifth dose
Il want to make you feel at home" said
he
"Well, then" said Muggins, recovering
from his shyness, don't give me any more
Coffee
"Why not?'
Because, when I'm home, I never drink
coffee In fact, 1 loathe coffee
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
M
Rooms 401-2-3 Century Building.
Letter From Senator PETER.

Mr. l.. NJ Aver Minneapolis, Mimi: Dear
Sir-I am very much pleased to learn :Iat
the Populists of Minnesota have formed a
state league for educational purposec. Moth
ing will increase our membership faster
than diffusion of informat:o n touching the
principles which we advocate. The condi-
ton of our financial affairs and the utter in
competency of congress to deal with the
situation is evidence that the people them
selves must take charge of thei" OWL affairs
and instruct their representative rien VIVA
to do. The money changers have contlcl of
our government. The money power is su-
preme, and now We are about 20 crown the
gold gamblers with q permanent evidence
or their victory over the people through our
proposition 10 pay tribute IN The way of
gold-bearing bonds to the nation which fiji st
demonetiZed silver.
Wishing you abundant success and great
increase in your numbers, with siIergth
and courage and votes for the great contest
OF 1896, l am, respectfully,
w. \. PEFFI r.
WASHINGTON. Feb l.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
Plant and Seed Distribution.

The price of one of the following plant
packages is 81: one years subscription to
the REPRESENTATIVE, 81, membership in
State Forestry Association. ST. one pack
age of 100 Jack Oak acOrns, IS cents. Hav-
ing procured liberal discounts. the whole
of the above is offered for 81 s., and the 10th
edition Of the Tree Planters Manual" a
popular work, containing 126 pages of prac-
tical instruc ton in forestry Postage pre-,
paid No after fees for membership, and
you are entitled to all the forestry pam
phlets we publish.
No. l. 40 Norway Pine; No. q % White
Spruce, to inch; No. 3. 50 ArbOr VitR. to
lin; No. 4, 20 Balsam Fir; No: 8, p White
Pine, to In No. 6, 40 Scotch Pine. to 8 in;
No. Z, 100 White Ash, to s in: No. s. 100 Box
Elders. to 9 in; No, 9, two North Star Cur
rants. 10 to Is in.
When you order simply mention the pack
age you select as numbered. Acorns must
be planted this winter or frozen in box
until spring., and Manual will be mailed
Immediately on reception of the money;
the plants mailed in proper season from
the Jewell Nursery, Lake City, Mimi: Ad-
dress, j, O. BARRETT,
Secretary Forestry AssOclat!0n,
BROWNS VALLEY, MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
Officers of the Peoples Party State
League.


Officers of the Peoples Party State
League.
President, MAI }. Nj. BOWLER.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Bird Island
Vce-Presdent, SWAN NELSON...
........... ......................... Wiilmar
Secretary, l.. Nj. AVER.
424 Century Building Minneapolis
Treasurer. f. w. BONHAM.. St Paul
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
First Dstrict-Thos. J. Meighen, Forest
Vile
w. A. Hotchkiss, Preston
r. c. Campbell, Clyde.
H. C. Nelson, Hayward.
l.. Fl. Bulls, West Concord.
Second Dstrict-W. S DAILY Mapleton.
L. S. Oswald. Napoleon.
l.. c. Long, Magnolia.
Emil j. Meileke. Window.
John Noble, Window.
Third District-J II. Harrison, Cannon
Falls.
Frank Warner, Buffalo Lake.
j. j. Carirgan
c. ~ Perkins, Stewart.
James Murphy, Faribault.
Fourth Distrct-Peter Max, ST. Paul.
r. Fl. McGhee. Wyoming.
Geo. Stewart, ST Paul
s. w. Powell, Saltwater
E. f. CowelI. Saltwater
Fifth District-W. b. Hammond Mime
apolis.
Johannes Hansen, Minneapolis.
DR.. e. F. Clark, Minneapolis.
Chas. w. Teney, Minneapolis.
Leroy Berrier Minneapolis.
Sixth District-Kittel Halvorsen, Belgrade
David Cochran, Waverly.
j. T.. Nastrom, Pine City.
M. Wesenberg, Duluth.
j. NJ Baker, Anoka.
Seventh District-C f. Burke, Alexandria
r. ;. Lambert, Fergus Falls.
E. f.. Lommen, Crookston.
A. WALL De Graft.
H. l.. Sherley, breckenridge
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
First District-T j. Meighen
Second District-L c. Long.
Third DiStrict-C. n. Perkins
Fourth Districts. W. Powell.
Fifth District-Dr f. +. Clark.
Sixth District-David Cochran.
% Seventh District-C. f. Burke.
State OrganiZer-L. C. Long, Magnolia.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
DfSenChHntel.

1t was at mixed social gathering in
Harlem that young Bondclipper introduced
himself to young lady and asked for
permission to see her home after the ball.
She paused in her gum chewing long
enough to say:
I've got a Teller ter go home wild me.
but if you would take charge of my old dad
over there and steer him home while he
can walk, I'd be obliged to yer. Dad is
fuller than goat already
Then young Bondclipper shook the young
lady, his dream of love having scooted
away.-Texas Siftings.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
Horrible total

Horrible total .$45 339, 1856, 704. rs
The interest on above amount, at per
cent which is a very low rate, amounts
to S. 100, 399 1922 20 a year.
1t must be remembered, there are enor-
nous salaries to be paid to those corpora
ton officers, also dividends to be declared
to the stockholders, as we'll as paving in
terest Let us take the corporations actu-
ally counted on the above We find 1886
excluding the railroads. Let US say each
year (some pay their president $4,000 a
year,, then the salaries would foot up 1892
100000 year. This added to the interest
makes total of over 50. 0OO, 100000.
The true valuation of all real and per-
sonal property in the United States in 1890
(see abstract eleventh census, page 1897 was
$55, OBJ, 091, 1877. Thus we have a debt of AZ
cents against every Is cents worth of prop
erty. A per capita debt of $724 on every
person in the country in 1890,
This is why we have soup houses
How do our Republican friends propose To
pay this?
This debt must be paid in labor, as there
is no other way to pay it. Let us see what
1t requires to pay it in various articles In
gold, it would take little over 1Ol $40 tons
and require 5,07S cars to carry it. which
would form train something more than %
miles long. 1t would pave a street so feet
wide from curb to curb, which is the width
of the widest streets in modern cities).
1924 Ito feet long (mOre than one milel
with solid gold. inches deep. In silver
(coin value), it would pave a street the
same width, more than II miles long, and
inches deep In labor, it would REQUIRE
100000 men over 16 years. In wheat, at
so cents per bushel, it would Il. 8O7, 2S9 suuar
miles of land to raise the required amount
an area four times large as the entire
land surface of the United States, including
Alaska. TO carry the wheat, it would re-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
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~ Hygiene Of the
~ SEXUAL ORGANIZATION
BY ELI r. BROWN, I%@
MS, MD. AND
illustrated. 16mo.
Cloth, gill, $500; Paper, SOC
A Standard Scientific Work.
Endorsed by Press and Profession.

"A very sensible book. After describing the com
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~, the and abuse of the sexual passion, and
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San Francisco Chronicle.
IA modest compact. scientific exposition,
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thing in the world unless it be the virtue that Is
virtuous only because it has never been tempted.
,r the honesty that is honest from policy only
Chicago Times.
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many teacher and many parent: There is but
while teaching the truths OF science impress upon
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13

The Nistor-Can you tell where Lincoln
park is?
The Policeman (primed for his examination II
beg your pardon, sir; but allow to remark
that you probably intended say, will you
tell me, etc. 2? If ii was really your intention,
however, to the auxiliary of the potential
mood shall be pleased to answer ''Yes.'-Chi-
cago Record.
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he'd got to snoring again, and eyervtb,ne
seemed quiet, why I just went ahead and
collared his trousers
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