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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-14
THE RESULTS OF VICTORY.
Was 1T for This the Peoples Party
Was shattered Into Fragments lis
This the Way Reform Is to Be Adj
yanced?

The Minneapolis Times says:
In front of Governor-elect John Lnd's
home in New Ulm stands the monument of
the assault upon that town by the Sioux
during the memorable Indian outbreak in
1862.
New Ulm is again attacked by savage
and hungry braves, and will soon need an
other monument: and the proper site Of
this as Of the monument already erected,
is in front of John Lind's house, where the
attack is centered and Is waged most
f1ercely.
Every train that comes into New Ulm,
whether from the east or from the west,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-14
The SPEAKING DIAL.

SO6 OG6sANssSo OsSa6s scientific in
vention entirely different from any idea yet in
troduced. operated by deviation, or an unseen
force and intelligence. now admitted fact by
the greatest men of science This invention
proves Immortality, gives names. dates and cir
cumstances, past, present and future Speaks in
various languages and answers mental ques--
tions. convincing the most skeptcal. Although
only before the public since March. 1885, they
in in nearly every state in the
Union, and Canada. This is no toy or play
thing. and has been in operation by thous-
ands OF investigators. who proved its powers.
Enclose stamp for printed circular and terms
Address P. ]. DEMPSEY.
14o2 Vine Place. Minneapolis MINI.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-14

It causes Daudruff, Gray and Falling Hair.
Dandruff pfecedes' Badness! Prof. J. H.
Austin, the eminent Scalp Specialist of
Minneapolis, Minnesota, offers to deliver to
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
THE EXPENSE OF WAR
BIG GUNS COST MONEY.
Costs NJ 900 to Fire shot-1mmense
Amount of Powder Required

IF no men were lost, if no ships were
DESTROYED or even damaged, 1t would
cost S2.OOO.OOO of $3,0OO,0OO 1or am
munition alone to fight a tirst-clasS pat
tie with modern arms and prOJectlies,
end a large part of the $oO.OOO,Ooo ap-
propriated yesterday will go for pow
der and shot An ordinary allowance
of ammunition for one of the Dig guns
costs about as much as the gun ftselI,
and any one can realize that we Will
need an enormous amount or powder
before our navy goes to war, Ior 1t
takes nearly half a ton every time one
of the big thirteen-inch guns is nreu.
There were $50 tons of powder on the
Maine when she went down, anu ner
magazines were only half hlled. Inc
big battleships and the tirst-rate cruls-
ers should never go into action without
a supply of from 500 to 800 tons, or,
say. an average of 700. There are elev-
en- of these battle ships. which togeth-
er require 100 tons. Then there are
sixteen second-class ships which ought
to have 800 tons each in their maya
zines. or a total of 5000; forty-rWo
third-rate ships which should have at
least 300 tons each. or a total OF 1Z,ooo
tons, and seven fourth-rate ships which
should have 200 tons each, or a total OF
] 400 tons. Without counting the tor
pedo boats, it requires about 10000
tons of powder to fill the magazines OF
our navy before it would be safe to
send the ships into action.
The sea soast defenses, with their
monstrous eight. ten and twelye-inch
guns require several times as much.
The four-inch rapid-fire rifle requires
sixteen pounds of powder to carry a
projectile weighing thirty-three pounds
four miles. The five-inch gun re
quires twenty-five pounds, the six-inch
rife fifty pounds, the eight-inch rifle
$50 pounds, the ten-inch 500 pounds.
and it costs $1,000 every time one of
the thirteen-inch rifles is fired. There
are four of these guns each on the bat
tie ships Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts
and Oregon.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

Mrs. Jacob Wedrer. pills.
81 have recommended the pills to many
women who are suffering as / suffered
They are the only thing that helped me in
the trial that comes to SO many women al
my age" MRS. J. H. WEAVER.
Subscribed and sworn to befdAe me this
23d day Of October, A. D., 1897.
o. G. HICKS, Notary Public
When woman is passing beyond the age
Of motherhood, it is crisis in her life
Then, If ever, proper attention to hygiene
should be exercised. The attendant suffer.
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follow II DR. Williams Pink Pills are used
These pills exert a powerful influence ir
restoring the system to its proper condi
ton They contain in a condensed form
all the elements necessary to give new
life and richness to the blood.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
HON. BLANCHE X. BRUCE DEAD
A Very Successful Colored Man-His Rise
From Slavery.

From slavery.
Washington, March 49, Hon.
Blanche X. Bruce, register of the treas
ury, died this morning at S:15.
Mr.. Bruces death had been expected
for several days. He suffered from Q
complication of stomach troubles
which at first appeared not serious
but last week he lost strength stead
lily and toward the close of the week 1t
became apparent that his vitality was
ebbing rapidly.
Mr.. Bruce's only child, a son aged
1S years, arrived here yesterday from
Exeter, New Hampshire, where he is
taking a preparatory course for Har-
ward. The funeral will take place on
Monday. The services will be held at
the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
church (colored.
Blanche X. Bruce was born in Prince
Edward county, Virginia, March 1,
1S41, and therefore was 81 years of
age. He was of African descent, was
born a slave and received the rudi-
ments Of education from the tutor Of
his masters son. He taught school for
a time in Hannibal, Missouri. and later
became student at Oberlin. In 1869
he became a planter in Mississippi,
and was appointed a member of the
Mississippi levee board. He was elect
ed sheriff Of his county and subsequent
ly superintendent Of education. In
1875 he was elected United States
senator as Republican and served
until March 8, 1881. He was a mem
Der of every Republican national con-
vention held since 1888 In 1888 he
was appointed by President Garfield
register of the treasury and later was
appointed register of deeds Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia. About six months
ago he was appointed register of the
treasury by President Mckinley. Next
after Fred Douglass, Mr.. Bruce had
long been regarded as perhaps the
most conspicuous man of his race
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
WOMAN'S FATE.
From the Record, Bushnell, III,

From the Record, Bushnell, IH,
No woman is better able to speak to 9th
ers regarding "woman's fate" than Mrs.
Jacob Weaver, of Bushnell, Ill, wife of ex-
city marshal Weaver. She had entirely
recovered from the illness which kept her
bedfast much of the time for five or six
years past, and says her recovery is due
to that well known remedy, DR.. Williams
Pink Pills.
Mrs. Weaver is fifty-six years old, and
has lived in Bushnell nearly thirty years.
She is of unquestioned veracity and unblem-
ished reputation. The story of her recov-
cry is interesting. She says:
81 suffered for five or six years with the
trouble that comes to women at this time
of my life. was much weakened, was un-
able much of the the time to do my own
work, and suffered beyond my power to
describe. was downhearted and melan-
choly.
81 took many different medicines, in
fact l took medicine all the time, but
nothing seemed to do me any good.
II read about DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People, and some of my friends
recommended them highly. made up my
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
Thad stevens and the Judge.

Thad Stevens was once engaged il
trying case before a judge noted fol
his ignorance of the law. During the
trial the judge made a ruling which
greatly incensed him, when, will
hands trembling and his thin face red
dened, he began to tie up his papers
DO l understand" asked the pompous
judge. that you are trying to show
contempt for this court?" NO, SIR"
retorted Stevens. Il am not trying to
show contempt for this court. On the
contrary, I'm doing my best to conceal
it.'lTime and the Hour.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
Government Buys a Yacht.

New York, March 17.-Constructor
Bowles is in receipt of instructions to
push work upon the steam yacht May
flower. bought by the government
from the estate of the late Ogden Goe-
let, in fitting her for service as tor
pedo boat destroyer. The Mayflower
was built at the Thompson shipyard
at Clyde. She has a length over all of
800 feet, and her draught is 17.6 feet.
She has a speed capacity of more than
twenty knots an hour. In addition to
being armed with guns and other tor
pedo boat destroyer appliances the
Maynower will be provided with ar
NOR plate.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
POWDERLY WAS CONFIRMED.
Only One Republican Against Him While
Several Democrats Voted for Him.

Only One Republican Against Him While
Several Democrats Voted for Him.
Washington, March 1T. Y. Pow
derly was confirmed by the Senate in
executive session to-day by the vote of
43 to 20. Senator Chandler was the
only Republican who cast his vote
against confirmation, while large
number Of Democrats voted for Mr..
Powderly.
The vote was preceded by a rather
sharp debate, in which the question of
whether Powderly had made a trade
with the Republicans in the last cam
paign was discussed quite freely. Sen
ator Teller and Senator Stewart at
tackled Mr.. Powderly's record on the
financial question and Senator Stewart
read letter from Mr.. Powderly, writ
ten during the campaign of 1892. in
which he had declared his adherence
to the cause of bimetallism and de-
nounced those of the labor element
who had aligned themselves on the
Republican side as rendering them
selves liable to the charge of being
made the subjects of bribery. Mr..
Stewart contended that Mr. Powderly
had placed himself In exactly the cat
egory In which he had previously
sought to place others by his course
in the campaign of 1896.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
The Stream Of Gold.

San Francisco March 12-The Oce-
anic Steamship Company's steamer Al
ameda, now en- her way from Aus
tralia to San Francisco. has on board
So, 500, 900 dollars in gold. This is the
largest amount of treasure ever
brought into this port by a single YES
sci.
Freres has engaged 81 ,OOO,O 600 and Null
Ter, Schall & Co. 100000 in gold for
import, making a total for the day Of
81, 300 900, and total in the present
movement of gold from Europe, $14,-
$4,000.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
IMMENSE ARRAY OF SHIPS
oaahsssA 1T Key West-Montge0y Re-
called From Havana

c8uo0 rom HavRu0.
Washington, March 16.,The main
development in the Spanish situation
to-day was in connection with the
definite representations submitted by
the Spanish government to the State
Department concerning the assembling
Of . large feet of American warships
at Key West, the war preparations
and the influence which these might
have on the approaching elections in
Cuba. These representations were ex-
actly In line with the semi-off1cial ut
terances given in these dispatches last
night, and accredited to a high official
conversant with the views Of the
Spanish cabinet. While these repre-
sentations cannot properly be regard
ed as protest against the attitude and
acts Of the United States government,
they may unquestiOnably be set down
as remonstrance calculated to have
an effect in European court circles.
Not, however, being a technical pro-
test, the statement has not called
forth any official rejoinder on the part
Of the State Department, for it is lack
ing In tangible accusations, being
rather an argumentative presentation
Of alleged Spanish grievances.
The Fern sailed for Havana from
Key West this afternoon. She goes to
relieve the Montgomery as home for
the officers engaged in supervising the
wrecking operations in Havana har-
Dor.
Up to the close of Office hours the
Navy Department, though it knew Off
cially that the court of inquiry had
come over to Key West from Havana.
was not Informed as to the findings or
plans of the court.
| 1t is said that the object of the
Navy Department in purchasing such
craft as the late Mr.. Ogden Goelets
yacht Mayflower is to provide as
quickly as possible a number of picket
boats of good speed and seagoing abil-
! ity to act as scouts, and also to aid
our ironclads and more expensive YES
sells in operations against torpedo
boats. A large number of private
yachts have been offered to the de-
partment and other acquisitions of the
same type as the Mayfower may be
expected.
The fleet at Key West will be aug
mented in the next day or two by the
arrival of the gunboat Annapolis, the
torpedo boat Foote and the naval tugs
Leyden and Samoset. while the gun
boat Helena is now on her way to re-
port at Key West. These, with the
other vessels previously ordered to
Key West, constitute the largest as
semblage of war vessels made since
the demonstration following the Vir-
| ginius affair. and. considering effect
iveness and armament, it is the strong
est assemblage of warships for re-
view and other purposes since the
war.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
Colorado Gold Fields,

Colorado is the banner gold-producing
state in the Union. Production in 1897
over $20.00O.OOO. This year promises
to exceed $3O.0OO,00O. New strikes are
being made every day. Nothing like
it since the days of 40 Would you
know all about these things? Then
send twenty-five cents for six
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lustrated weekly paper. Regular sub
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mining paper in the world. Address
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Colorado
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

''Is 1t better" asks St. Louis paper.
ito sue the woman for breach of prom
Use or to shoot the man who mArries
her?" There Is no better" in either.
The only sensible way is to grin and
drop the subject. What man would &C.
cspt damages of that kind? and would
1t do him any good to do murder and
get hanged for it? There are some
things in this world for which there h
NO remedy. and why seek for that
which doesn't exist?
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

What is golf? A queens counsel
lately thus irreyerently defined the
game for the benefit of the English
Judge who was hearing a case involv-
ing the playing of golf: 81 believe,
my lord, that the game Of golf is played
in irregular fields or waste grounds
with a small ball which the player
tries to hit with a stick. II he sue
ceeds in hitting the ball he spends the
rest of the day in looking for it," To
the solemn-faced golfer this description
of the pastime must seem like trining
with a serious subject.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

Mr.. Corbett says the punch over hts
solar plexus cured entirely a bad case
Of dyspepsia from which he had been
suffering. 1t was pretty severe medi-
cine, but no cure can be worse than
that disease. There are thousands who
would be glad to go into a prise-nght
with suoh a cure in view; but, such II
the power Of their misery. the profss-
sional puncher would be very likely
to get knocked out in half the cases.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
Influence of Magnetism.

Professor Burton has published an inter
esting collection of statistics which prove
the Influence that magnetism is exerting in
proving phenomena, which otherwise would
be lnexplicable- Among other things he
shows that in making railroad running
east ana west. as many as thirteen steel
rails VIII BECOME chrystallied and break be
fore one rail on north and south track is
similarly affected. This is due to the gem
Grafton of magnetism by friction. and to
polarity of magnetic current is resisted in
the rush of the train: whereas in the latter
case it is undisturbed
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

The war against gum-chewing begun
by Bishop Vincent of the Methodist
Episcopal church is the result OF too
much thought on a very cheap sub
3sct. The bishop thinks that to resist
sum y to prepare the young for self
sacrifce of more important kind. II
they forego gum they will omit liquoe.
and II they let that alone they viii
let alone other things equally - bad
II is logic, but 1t is foolishness. And.
strange as 1t seems, the bishop Is 40
tually in earnest.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
SENIOR CLASS ON A STRIKE.
All Nine Members of the Agriculture
College Graduating Glass Quit.

Denver, March IA special to the
Republican from Fort Collins says.
Considerable excitement was caused
to-day at the State Agricultural Col
lege by the withdrawal in a body Of
the nine members of the senior class.
The trouble between the class and the
faculty arose over controversy as to
the studies of a student named Fred
s. Hotchkiss. 1t appears that at the
close of the last term of college Hotch.
kiss was deficient in the study Of irri.
CATION engineering. and, upon the re-
assembling of the college for the
spring term, the faculty declined to
reinstate Hotchkiss in the class as a
regular member. Since that time.
however, he claims to have caught up
with his class in this branch, and
again demanded to be fully reinstated
in the class. The faculty held a meet.
ing this afternoon to consider the mat.
ter, and, after a spirited discussion.
decided to discipline Hotchkiss and re-
instate him as an irregular member
of the class. Hotchkiss declined to
accept this ultimatum and laid the
matter before his class, and they ac-
cordingly decided to stand by Hotch.
kiss and walked out of the college.
President Ellis this evening says that
he will make a statement after the
students have stated their side He
admits, however, that the students.
under the rules of the college, had a
right to take the action they did.
Many of the class are over 21 years
of age and are their own masters.
The senior class is very decided in
their stand and would no doubt have
left for their homes this afternoon If
there had been trains running.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
Beauty is Blood Deem,

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty withoutit.C Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, ,blackheads,
and thatsickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,- beauty for ten cents. All drug
eists. satisfaction guaranteed, 10c. 2bc, Soc
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

The bandits who robbed The bank in
broad daylight at Bayard, Neb.. bare
ly got enough money to pay for the
ammunition used in shooting at their
pursuers. They probably didn't count
on being chased.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

A Kokomo man has come into posses-
sion Of an American silver dollar with
two soddesses on it. Lucky man! Most
Of us are satisfied with dollars with
one goddess on them. Kokomo aSin
the world.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
Roentgen Ray Tests for c.m,

The radiograph. that is the Roentgen raw
.'photograph.' Is an excellent test for gems
opals. sarnets. sapphires. and so on ali give
black radiograph, whereas paste limitations
give only rant photograph. hardly visible
true from false stone ~
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

It was the last regret of John Ooch-
rane that he couldn't hold over long
enough to paint the sky with his own
funeral Grafton.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

mind to try them.
l bought the first
pox in March, 1897,
and was benefited
from the start.
"a box and q
half cured me COM
pletely, and l am
now rugged a d
strong. l have not
been bothered with
my troubles since
I began taking the
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

The Denver Times says: AN Indian
chief will sell anything but his blan-
kst." He is completely wrapped up
In II.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

Pathetioally the Boston Globe ex-
claims: And still another temperance
lecture from the scaffold." The lecturer
realised the embarrassment of taking
a drop too much.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

A's . great pity men can't fnd an
insurance company willing to tAAs
risks on their air castles.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

Although women frequently handle
each other without gloves there are no
female pugilists
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

Money tails pretty conciusively at
times, but occasionally its gets ratified.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

Il is urged that street car conduc-
tors should be provided with seats. 1t
would be a good idea, too, to provide
passengers with them
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

1t is said that contentment is bet
ter than riches-but most people are
willing to take chances with the riches.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25
Sandoval Buyin. any old Thing.

Berlin, March 11.-SenOr SandOval,
the Spanish agent. is negotiating for
.ne purchase of Il number of old and
slow steamers OF the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

Japan would like to know whether
~ death of the Japanese sailors o.
the Maine has any connection with
her troubles with Spain in the Philip
ptne islands.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

J. Sterling Morton is to call his news-
paper "The Dynamo" This has the
advantage that any old issue can stiu
b called the current number"
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

Mr.. Choate reiterates the proposition
that the law is the noblest profession.
and remarks in defense of the fact that
lawyers defend criminals whom they
know to be guilty and have them &C.
quilted, II possible. by breaking the
law. "It In only out of the contest Of
facts and of brain that the right can
ever be evolved-only on the anvil OF
dicussiou that the spark of truth can
be struck out" But far more frequent
" It is the truth that is struck in; and
again, would a lawyer defend q pow
erty-strioksn criminal known to be
guilty through respect for truth and
the moralities? Then. too. the medical
and some other professions have fsw
claims that ought to be recognized.
The trouble with most young men =
that they do not understand the dignity
OF manual labor. They do not realise
that honors and fortune may be more
readily realized outside of the so-caned
learned professions than in them and
that It 10 just as honorable to swing
The hammer or to hold a plow as II u
to make a speech in court or amputats
. limb. The lesson young men should
b. taught as early - possible b that
II = mot 20 much what a man does for
4 nv1nG - It is how well he doss n.
anA that manual labor IL ~ honorabls
- ~ otler.
The silver lance., 1898-03-25


reigned.
Representative Newlands of Nevada
has introduced q bill creating a pub
lie land commission, to consist of the
commissioner of the General Land Of
fee, the director of the Geological Sur
vey and three other persons, whose ap-
pointments are made subject to con-
firmation by the Senate. Its duties
are to construct a contoured topograph-
is map of public land areas, find the
water supply of each basin and incl
dental data, control the cutting of tim
Der in each basin, regulate the occupa-
ton and utilization Of public lands,
and in general protect the forests,
woodlands, grazing lands and waters
Webb McNall, state insurance COM
missioner of Kansas, has made public
copy of the compact alleged to have
been entered into by all of the lead
ing life insurance companies Of the
country which, he says, goes to show
that they have formed combine
which they term an "anti-rate" board"
The object of the board is to prevent by
severe penalties any agent or company
from allowing rebates of cutting regu-
lar rates decided upon by the COM
panies. Mr.. McNall holds that the op-
Grafton Of the anti-rate board destroys
keeps up insurance rates
and IL In violation of the Kansas trust
law. He has addressed letter to all
the companies which entered the COM
pact, officially notifying them they
must Immediately abandon the comid-
nation Or he would revoke tAeir r.
cenaes to DO business in KaneaA
The silver lance., 1898-03-25

Greatest
Medicine

Greatest, Because in cases Of Dyspen.
sia it has a touch like magic, which
Just hits the spot, brings relief tn
the sufferer, and gives tone and
strength to the stomach as no
other medicine does.
Could Not Eat without Pain.
"For many years have been sufferer
from a severe case Of dyspepsia. 1 could
not eat without great pain in my stomach
and would be sick and vomit up what
did eat. One day 1 read of a case cured
by Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1 told my hus.
band believed this medicine would helm
me. He went right away and got bot
tie of Hoods Sarsaparilla. / took four
bottles and 1 was cured" MRS. ALLEN
STIvERs, Makanda, Illinois.
Hoods sassan ps;iii.
Is Americas Greatest Medicine. 81; six for u
Sold by all druggists. Get only Hoods.
Hood,c D;IIc are the best after-dinner