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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19
WEALTH.

A Senator has taken the trout BILE to
compute the wealth of the states rep
resented by votes for and against free
silver in the Senate last Saturday,
with the following results:
Wealth represented by
silver votes .........x 1861. 900. 600
Wealth represented by
anti-silver votes ..... 16,se2, 900, 600
The figures used are from the
eleventh census and show the assessed
valuation of property in the various
states. WALTER WELLMAN.
Think Of it! A majority of the
wealth as the minority. And the
wealthy states do not produce but a
fraction of wealth compared with
what the others produce.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19
CIRCULATION $4,000!
Growth 5000 a Month.
Minneapolis, Feb. -. 1896, |
Office Of the Penny Press. {

once OF the PENNY PreSS.
To Whom II Moy Concern:
This is to certify that / have been
engaged, for the past months, by the
Penny Press Publishing Company as
their Supe rintendent Of press depart
ment: have charg, Of their press work;
that we have printed TIE REPRE-
SENTATIVE since May, 1895. that in
the last five months the circulation Of
THE REPRESENTATIVE has advanced
from 1850 to over 10000, by a steady
and continual growth; that $4,000 of
these copies now go to regular sub
scribers, as we also do their mailing
and have their printed lists Of sub
scribers every week. The increase in
the circulation Of THE REPRESENTA-
TIVE is now at the rate Of about 5000
a month.
Signed r. f. LINKFIELD, Supt.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19

Names labor commissioner figures
it out that the working people OF that
sta &c live on Ii cents day each-Ex.
These labor commissioners in Re-
publican states are a pernicious set.
What is the logical inference from
such statements as the aboveo Simply
that If the workingman can live on 10
cents a day it is outrageous and I'M
juStifia BILE extravaganza to pay him a
dollar a day. Fifteen cents would be
ample!
Take another hitch, philanthro-
phists, and get him down to six cents,
so that he can compete with the Chi
nese and the Hindoos. There is moth
ing like Labor Bureau to help the
laborers.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19
"OUR FORUM"

We repeat tina we are very proud Of
our Forum" Look at last weeks issue
nearly page and a half of letters;
every one Of them readable and many
of them exceptionally able! A friend
said to u.s. Where do these men
come from? Where have they hidden
themselves? Where did they get their
ideas?"
They are all plain, honest men; and
they represent the material or which
Republic can alone be safely built.
There is no flourish of the schools, no
aroma Of the midnight lamp, about
their productions Theirs is no hot
house growth. There are fountains
of greatness, buried deep in the hearts
of men, given by the good G cd, to
which the hum blest in all ages have
repaired.
Robert Burns thus referred to his
artificial and now unremcm bered con-
temporares who sought the colleges
for inspirations:
They gang in stirks, (stoers),
And come out asses.
Sair truth to speak;
And then they think
TO climb Parnassus
By dint O. Greek.
These plain men of our Forum are
stung and whipped and scourged by
adverse and cruel conditions; and at
last they begin to think, and then to
speak, and when they speak all other
men similarly afflicted listen and are
moved.
See how Brother Ball and the rest of
them are Kidding Knute Nelson!
There will be nothing left of him.
Knute is a smart man. but he has sold
himself to the devil, Plutocracy, and
must pay the penalty. He bought
high place and the price was that he
should turn over his fellow men to
the fiend to be devoured, and he
cannot expect to have the admiration
and the hearts blood, at the same
time, of those he seeks to sacrifice.
We are especially pleased with Sena-
tor Ringdal's letter, in this issue,
scarifying Knute. This clear-headed
NOrthman goes for his recreant coun-
tryman in way to make his hair rise.
He takes the flesh off ia hunks. The
great fetish and bOge-man of the G.
0. P. will be stripped naked and torn
to pieces by men of his own kin, before
they get through with him.
Knute is an anomaly. He his smart
er than chain lightning and more cum
ming than an arctic fox: but he hasn't
enough honesty to butter a ten cent
piece with. Now the true Northman
is an earnest. sincere, honest man; to
this day the houses of Scandinavia are
kept unlocked; criminals are few and
the people trust each other. But
Knute's traits are Mediterranean.
Some one got off the story that ne was
descended from Spaniard, who was
shipwrecked on the coast Of Norway,
at the time the Spanish Armada went
to pieces, three hundred years ago, and
the result is politician that could
give that Maine Yankee, Bill Wash
burne, odds and cheat him out Of his
front teeth. Bill is now trying to bite
Dave Clough in revenge, but Knute
has got his teeth in his breeches'
pocket, and Bill is mumbling his
wrath through his dilapidated Jaws.
But Knute is an chronological curl
osity, invented by the devil for the
distraction of this unhappy North
west.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19
A OLD FRIEND.

We are gratified to receive missive
of remembrance from Hon. n. c.
Martin. editor of "The Real Repub-
lic," of Amorilla, Texas. Mr.. Martin
was formerly Judge of Probate, Of
Meeker county. Mimi, residing at
Litchtield. Away back, years ago, he
converted that county to Anti-M Mon
opoly or Populist principles. We won
dered what had become Of him. 1t
seems he migrated to Texas and is do
ing good work there for the same
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19

The fact that Chicago, under the
system or private ownership Of cleo
trio lights, paid $3.50 per year per light,
while under public ownership the city
pays but 500 pr year, shows the enor-
nous profits secured by electric light
ing companies. Midland Mechanic,
Kansas City.
Yes: and this is the womb in which
millionaires are bred, who deny G cd
and spit on the Declaration of INDIE
pendence.
Every sensible man must approve Of
that kind of state socialism.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19
4 MIGHTY FLOOD.

Our new subscribers are rushing in
at tremendous rate. For the first
fifteen days OF this month WE RE-
by actual count. This is at the rate
of 1000 SUBSCRIBERS A MONTH.
L this is kept up we will soon have
$4,000 subscribers.
We do not want any one to think
this is idle Boosting. Our books and
mailing lists are open to all adver-
tisers.
Keep it up, brethren.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19
Eiuhteen Thousand Circulation.

MINNEAPOLIs, MIMI, Feb. 10, 1896.
This is to certify that the total
number Of papers printed this day for
THE REPRESENTATIVE Is, 900 copies.
r. E. LINKFIELD,
Supt Mechanical Dept. Penny Press.
Sworn, and subscribed to before me
this 10Th day Of Feb. A. d., 1896.
SEAL. w. LEE MOORE,
Notary Public.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19

An unparalleled advertisement ap-
peared in one Of the Minneapolis pa
pers the other day. A man offered q
tomb stone for SALE
Think of that! And then hurrah
for the gold standard and the G. 0. P.
which means the GoldOcracy Plum
derers.
IL this thing keeps On there will be a
large trade in the bones Of our ances-
TORS
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19

of thought and unity of action; vic
tory for truth on the foundation Of
truth.
The party born at Omaha, July 4. 1892,
must not be abandoned or disinte-
grated or destroyed under any circum-
stances. May God guard it, for it is
Gods work.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19
TAKE NOTICE.

That we cannot receive single sub
scriptions for three months for 10
cents or anything less than % cents.
The cheap rates are only where guam
titles are ordered, as set forth in our
advertisements
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19

great cause. His paper bears the
strong impress OF intelligence and
zeal. We shake hands with him
across thousand miles of space. He
informs u; that "Texas will go Popu-
list this fall like cyclone" Similar
news reached u, from all parts of the
South and West.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19

An Arkansas preacher killed baby
to keep it quiet. He was successful.
And now if that preacher can es-
tablish infant damnation he will have
that baby swimming around in sui
phur bowling worse than ever.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19

Let the merchants who think there
is an "over-productiOn" Of manufac-
tured clothing stand in his front win
dow few moments and view the pass
ing multitude. He can see the de-
mand, but he knows the half-clOthed
people have no mOnev, as rule, to
satisfy the demand Missouri World.
The tailers can tell you how the de-
mand has fallen off, in inverse ratio
to the supply. We met little tailor
down in Iowa City year ago. He
was looking very glum and morose.
"How is trade?" we asked "There is
none." was the reply; but here saw
age CLEAN came into his eyes, and he
continued tiercely. But spring will
soon be here and, d-n 'em, they will
haze to have thin clothes" We fear
the poor little tailor was disappointed.
The people wore their old clothes.
A bill will probably pass the New
York Legislature authorizing the con-
struction of six grain elevators, to be
under the supervision of the superin-
tendent of public works. If it be-
comes law,i will lessen the business
at the grain elevators controlled by
the railroad companies, which have
been charging almost prohibitory
rates to shippers of grain by canal.
The people Of New York, having late
ly appropriated $4,000, 900 for improve
ments to the canal. will need such
legislation occasionally to protect their
interests against the corporations
Exchange.
What! State Elevators?
Hold on! Ship our Supreme Court
down there at once and let them save
society,""
Don't you know that it is "atnconsti-
tutiona" to do anything to rescue man
kind from the thieves? Government
is an instrumentality to perpetuate
robbery. When it fails of that object
it is simply anarchy. Down with it.
An aristocracy of plunderers is the
first essential of a free government.
That is what the men of 1776 fought
for
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
NEW TO-DAY.
i()NIY()N
Thousands IndOrSe His Improved
Homeopathic Remedies.
Druggists Kept Busy Handing Out These
Curative Little Pellets.
Ask Your Druggist for Munyon's Guide
to Health. Buy a 25-Cent Remedy
and Cure Yourself.

Mr.. A. Mairet, 206 Morrison street, Port
land, Ore, SAYS: my wife has been so
much benefited by the use of Munyon's
Rheumatism Cure that she feels like
young woman again. L can also praise
MUNYON'S Catarrh Cure. They have ac-
com plished in few weeks what treatment
by the best specialists have failed to do.
When we first began taking the little pei
lets we had no faith, but now we are
forced to admit that they are wonderful
cures"
Munyon's Rheumatism Cure seldom fails
to relieve in to- hours. and cures IN few
days. Price. 25 cents.
Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure positively
| cures all forms of indigestion and stom-
ach troubles. Price, % cents
Munyon's Cold Cure prevents pneumo-
MIA and breaks up cold in few hours.
! Price % cents.
| Munyon's Cough Cure stops coughs,
night sweats, allays soreness and speedily
heals the lungs. Price. 25 cents.
! Munyon's Kidney Cure speedily cures
| pains in the back, loins or groirs, and all
forms of kidney disease. Price 25c.
Munyon's Headache Cure stops head
| ache in three minutes Price 25e.
| Munyon's Pile Ointment positively cures
all forms OF piles. Price, 25 cents.
| Munyon's Blood Cure eradicates all i'm.
purities of the blood. Price, % cents.
Munyon's Female Remedies are boon
! to all women.
! Munyon's Asthma Remedies relieve in
minutes and cure permanently. Price, 81.
| Munyon's Catarrh Remedies never fail.
The Catarrh Cure-price 25c-eradicates
the disease from the system, ana the Ca
tarrh TableIs-price 25c-cIeanse and heal
! the parts.
Munyon's Nerve Cure is wonderful
nerve tonic Price, 70 cents.
! Munyon's Vitaizer restores lost vigor.
Price, 81.
A separate cure for each disease. At all
druggists, mostly 25c a vial.
Personal letters to Prof Munyon, 1905
Arch street, Philadelphia. Pa, answered
with free medical advice for any disease.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15

month, make it an inducement for buyers to
take them, and as result quite number
have alrea ady been disposed OF.
O'Farrell q Co. are to be congratulated upon
having secured the handling OF all OF
the unimproved portion OF the Weber es-
tate OF stockton. 1t is mainly inside
property and includes fifteen blocks inthe best
residence portion of the city, twenty-four
blocks near the center of Stockton and thirty
tve acres of outside land The property IS at
present owned by c. M. and Julia d. WeDer,
who inherited it from their father, the late
Captain Weber. The latter was the founder OF
Stockton and donated many sites for factories
and public buildings. Until O'Farrell d. 20.
made g contract to handle the property the
Weber heirs refused TO set price upon any
portion OF their holdings. Last week the olock
bounded by Weber avenue, Ell Dorado, Bridge
and Hunter streets, 200x30o. was sold by the
Webers to Henry CowelI for $S5, 600, O'Farrell
Co., conducting the sale.
Easton, Eldridge d Co. will on Saturday, the
27th OF this m onth, offer at auction about 4OO
acres OF the famous Murphy ranch in the Santa
Clara Valley. 1t has been divided in small
tracts of ten acres each and the portion So
lected for this sale is the very cream OF this
welEknown ranch. speeiaI excursion tram
will be run on the day OF the sale. This firm
will also hold an auction sale OF miscellaneous
properties June 30
A petition is now being circulated among
owners of property along Golden Gate avenne
between Van Ness avenue and Market street
urging the Board of Supervisors to resclnd the
resolution passed some time ago declaring
that portion OF the avenne boulevard.
| Negotiations between D. Samuels and the
| owners of the Center Market have apparently
fallen through, and it is more than probable
that Mr. Samuels will locate his store in some
other quarter. He has had offers made him
by several parties, and it looks as if he would
have q chance to choose among number OF
locations that would perhaps prove more cen.
tral than the market property.
Messrs. A. ]. Carmany and II. D. Lawrie have
been appointed joint managers of the Califor.
mia Title Insurance and Trust Company in
place of L. R. Ellert, who recently resigned the
position of manager.
Both gentlemen have been connected with
the company for number of years and are
thoroughly conversant with its affairs, and
are likewise thoroughly informed in regard to
the particular line OF business in which the
company is engaged. They were selected by 8
unanimous vote of the board of directors
which demonstrates how highly the gentle
men are esteemed by those whose interests
| they have been chosen to manage.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
A Napoieonic Legend Spoiled.

The Napoleonic legend tells how Napo-
leon, while Moscow was in flames, found
time to draw up a decree organizing the
Theatre Francais. Alas! the story is not
true. The French national archives have
recently been overhauled, and it transpires
that Napoleon was In Poland when he re-
ceived the decree ready to be signed. He
there signed it and sent it back to Paris,
but in the margin wrote the following
'To be forwarded when the army will be
at Moscow. 1t is his Majesty's intention
that the decree should be dated from that
town. The archives do not say whether
the decree was sent to Moscow or not, bat
it was certainly not drawn up there.-Paris
Daily Messenger.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
MICKEY O. O'BRIEN'S BRICK,
With 1t the Newsboy Knocks
Out a Third-Street Car
Conductor.
He Resented Being Pitched Into the
Street While He Was Plying
HIS Trade.

Little mickey" O'Brien, who sells
papers at the corner of Third and Market
streets, and incidentally does business in
transfers, to the great displeasure of Super
intendent Vining and lis minions, is the
hero of the hour among the gamins who
know him.
SingIe-handed, but with brick in it, he
captured car HOB yesterday morning at
$50 o'clock running south from Market.
Mickey" was not looking for trouble; it
was forced upon him, and he stood mis-
ground to do battle.
In the course of his business he boarded
the car, offering his wares to the passen-
gers. The conductor spied him, and,
reaching out grabbed him by the nape OF
the neck and pitched him out onto the
hard pavement. The act was a rutfianly
one, and might have seriously injured any
lad, but not Mickey"
The'passengers who witnessed the bru-
tai attion of the conductor were not back
ward in expressing themselves. While
they were so doing Mickey was picking z
himself up and hunting for ammunition
10 continue warfare.
He spied a brick. That was just his
size, and he welded it to the great discom-
fort OF the passengers on the rear dunn my,
who lodged inside of the car for protec-
ton. They were unacquainted with
Mickey's accuracy of aim or else they
need have no fear.
Straight from Mickey's fist the brick
flew and landed with an ominous thud on
the conductors stomach.
1t only smashed the fellows watch and
he soon recovered his wind. Picking the
brick up, he hurled it back at the kid, but
1t overshot the marx,
Fearing further hostilities, the conduc-
| tor rang two bells for the car to start.
By this time Mickey felt master of the
situation. He held all the ammunition
and the enemy was in retreat. But that
was not enough; he went in pursuit.
The window at the rear END of the car
was open, and just the other side of it was
the conductors back. 1t made an elegant
target, and Mickey prides himself now
that he made clean buIlseye.
The brick fetched up against the back of
the conductors neck and knocked him
| down. The police are now looking for
little Mickey O'Brien. who is wanted on
a charge of assault with deadly weapon.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
THE BUGGY WAS SMASHED.

Peter Zimmerman of San jose Left
His Rig in the Country.
Peter Zimmerman of San Jose. who rode
from Holy Cross Cemetery to Thirtieth
street and San Jose avenue on Saturday
night underneath an electric car, is still
in a padded cell in the Receiving Hos
pital He is now fearful, and instead OF
calling for Billy Bolden, the San Jose at
tor ney, he begs that his wife be sent to
him. He says she lives at 233 Walnut
street, San Jose.
The police learned yesterday that Zim-
merman hired horse and buggy on Sat
urday morning from the Fashion stables
in San Jose, and the rig was found yester-
day morning near Uncle Tom Cabin, on
the San Jose road. The rig was badly
smashed and it looked as if it had been
capsized.
Zimmerman apparently alked from
there, leaving the rig to Holy Cross Gene,
terry, where he got underneath the car.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
FALL OF THE BAsTILE.
The French Colony Will Celebrate tn
Anniversary at the Chutes.

The French Colony viii Celebrate the
Anniversary at the Chutes.
P. A. Bergerot presided at the Saturday
meeting of the Fourteenth of July com
mittee appointed by the French colony TO
arrange for the celebration OF the anniver-
sary of the fall of the Bastile.
The fete will be held i'll the new pavilion
built on the grounds OF the chutes, near
the park.
The literary committee presented the
following programmes:
Overture, presidents address, "Hail Co.
lumbia' by the orchestra, address by the Fench
Consul, Tyre Franchise Chorus, English ad-
Dress "Star Spangled Banner" address in
French, "La Marseillaise," with the Lyre Fran
caise chorus.
After the fireworks at night there will be
the usual dancing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15


pany, in consideration of prompt pay
ment, allowed rebate of per cent.
about two years ago, when Mont
gomery block was so-d,' continued Mr..
Plank. 81 happened to be in the old build
ing and noticed number of papers
thrown in a heap on the floor Picking
up a few of them noticed that they were
of the character of those l gave to the
Park Museum. Having for number of
wears been a collector of all l could find
relating to California history / noticed at
once that from historical point they
were valuable.
tThe janitor asked me if 1 wanted any
of them. told him / should like few,
and he told me to take them ali, and
added: If you had been here two weeks
ago you could have had all you wanted,
for l had four or five carloads carried
away from here and dumped into the bay
To say that was mad when l heard that
is a mild way to put it. [ secured all there
was left, two boxes full, and have them
now.
"Here," said Mr.. Plank taking up a
paper at random from drawer in his
desk, s'is an interesting letter from Gen
eral Suffer-"
Following is copy of this as written on
his farm at Helvetia:
HOOK. July 4, 1s49.
arch c. Pedchy, Esquire:
DEAR SIR: Yesterday has had the pleasure
of sending you letter by Olympia. hope
you now in possession of it. 1 take the liberty
to introduce to you my friend Mr.. ]. Bidwell,
he can give you every information about the
country as he knows her through and through.
He knows q good place for town near the
Butes, perhaps it would be good if you, lieu
tenant Maynard and myself lay one out there.
Excuse my haste and believe me my dear sir
yours respectfully your obedient servant and
friend j. A. SUFFER-.
ARCH C. PEACHY
Barque Wilton
Sacramento City
This refers TO General Bidwell and the
proposition IN those early days to lay out
the city which is now known as Chico,
and A. C. Peachy was in later years a
member of the law firm of Peachy, Bill
lings & Halleck. the owners at one time oi
Montgomery block.
Mr.. Plank produced a charter party by
which Samuel Brannan gave D. w. M
Howard the use of the launch Rainbow to
carry freight or passengers from July II
1S49, in consideration of $415 month; an
order from H. W. Halleck, Secretary o1
State, authorizing Captain Folsom to re-
ceive from William Richardson, ex-Col-
lector of the Port and the first Harbol
Master of San Francisco Bay, 5000 Pc
ruvian dollars of uncertain value in part
payment of money due the civil Govern.
ment, and mortgage given by Leidesdorf
to James Lick for $4,000 loaned on the
City Hotel.
At the foot of this document is the word
cancelled" the signature of James Lick
and the date, September 49, 184S.
The papers in the possession of Mr..
Plank are so many in number that he has
not had time to examine them all, but
they are very interesting. They are the
private papers of Captain Folsom, w. A
Leidesdorff, A. c. Peachy and General H
w. Halleck, all of which throw light on
the early history of this City.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-15
A BEAUTIFUL OLD EPITAPH.
In Was Translated From the Gaelic in
an Old Scottish Church.

an Old Scottish Church.
There is something singularly beautiful
and affecting in the following epitaph,
which an old newspaper represents as
translated from one Tin Gaelic, probably
in the parish church of Glenorchy, in
Argyllshire:
'Lo, she lies here in the dust, and her
memory fills me with grief; silent is the
tongue of Melody, and the hand Of ele-
gance is now at rest.
No more shall the poor give thee his
blessing. nor shall the naked be warmed
with the fleece of thy flock; the tear shalt
thou not wipe away from the eye of the
wretched. Where now, o feeble, is thy
wanted -help2 No more, my Fair. shall
we meet thee in the social hail; no more
shall we sit at thy hospitable board. Gone
forever is the sound of mirth; the hind,
the candid, the meek is now no more.
Who can express our grief! Flow, ye tears
of woep'