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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-21

SAVANNAH. GA. Jan. 2O.-SPIRITS
OF TURPENTINE-Open firm AT &c;
closed firm at 32Ac.; sales, 40 casks,
receipts. AIS casks.
ROSIN-Firm and unchanged; sales,
6 597 barrels receipts, 6,Js3 barrels.
CHARLESTON, S. c.. Jan. 20-TUR-
PENT1NE- Firm at 3Oi4c, sales. none.
ROSlN-Frm. sales. none; unchanged.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-21
Universal v
white. To cl,
Toilets.

30c four rows imported bristle dainty
carved handle tooth brush. to close i'c.
choice
l0c and lie. toilet and carriage Sponees.
10 close. Sc.
50c white enamel framed medallions.
small lot l9c.
Is bevcl-edged large zoe hand mirrors.
&c
25c. CARBoLIC TALCUM POWDER.
I2l-2c BON
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-21
Coats, Skirts.

Childs' s29S Brown Refer Jackets.
size six years. $L25.
Childrens' All-Wool Eiderdown Cloaks.
ages two to five years. were N.sS. for N.l5.
80 Ladies' Light Colored Shirt Waists.
with separate collars and some with sepa-
rate cuffs. 2jc.
IL Misses 39c. I.amdered Shirt Waists.
sizes ten to twelve years. i5c.
Ladies' Mixed Cheviot Refer Suits
Jacket and Skirts. were sj.99. choice $3.50.
Linens.
500 yards best Sc. quality Toilet Twilled
Cotton Crash. 3i2c. yard
l5c German Huck Towels, extra heavy,
pure linen, lie
2O-inch Glass Toweling. zoe. kind for
Toe yard.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-21
AS Moving Time Grows Nearer HaSsgF
T he Necessity Of Selling Out Grows Greater
FRIDAYS "A REMNANT SALE.

will epoch extraordinary low priced selling Every
small every odd lot every incomplete assortment to be Of
fered the public at almost giveaWay prices
Sale Day that Should Command Your Attendant
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP IN MARY
LAND.

LAND.
Municipal ownership of electric light
plants is one of the phases of progress
sive city government that has shown
marked development in Maryland dur
ing the past few years. 1t is now being
agitated in Hagerstown, where the mu-
nicipal authorities have declined to re-
new ten-year contract with a private
electric light company, and the people
are considering the feasibility of pur-
chasing municipal plant. The success
and economy of municipal electric light
plants for small cities has been amply
demonstrated i'll Frederick, where such
a plant has been in operation nearly
ten years, to the great satisfaction of the
people in every way. They have the
satisfaction of knowing that their city
is well lighted at a cost much below the
average charge of the private corpora
tions, the expense of the plant being
kept down to the lowest possible figure
Recently Cumberland has adopted the
municipal ownership system, and sue
cess has also followed there It will be
in order for Hagerstown to follow suit
and thus keep pace with her rival cities
in this important phase of municipal
Observation-Disclosures News.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31
Come to Cincinnati.

The true Populists of Minnesota have
thrown the fusionists overheard and
nominated straight Populist ticket.
Thank Cod they have listened to the
appeal of the South, and have deter
mined to free us from the rule of the
bitter Democracy. We owe this to the
brave and wise counsel of Donnelly, one
of the grandest patriots who ever lived.
We heartily thank him-Monroe I4a.)
Bulletin.
And what will Louisiana, Texas and
Mississippi say in response to the call
for the Cincinnati national convention?
We are sorry to see Texas webbing on
it's spindle; and we call on Brother
Park, of the Mercury, to come up to the
scratch. We point to the action of
Missouri, and ask Texas, if she intends
to follow Butler or come to the Cincin-
natl convention.-Butler (Mo.) Free
Press. ..l-., ,4.e....- 4.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31

being nOn-partisan, business associa-
ton. it Is now meeting with good sue
cess.
Mr.. Hopkins is also member of the
alliance and one of the state organizers.
and has the love and respect of the
great Agricultural Society of this state,
the National Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Onion, and the farmer may be
assured that in the election of Chas. H.
Hopkins to Office they will have a true
friend Of their interests, who will al
ways cheerfuly aid them in any way he
can. The following will give an idea
Of the work Eric Olson is doing:
The Wflmar Tribune gives space this week
to an address to the Alliance and comments
on the wheat question by Eric Olson. We
do not agree with these gentleman in polit-
1cal matters and have severely condemned
some Of the bustnesS TIL Alliance has been
engaged in. but in this Aatter of ORGANIZING
for the protection Of farmers in grain rates
politics are to be left out of the question,
and we feel in duty bound to co-operate.
The business will be mi the hands of the
farmers themselves and they will have the
power to run 1t as they see fit
WHEAT PRECISE CENTS OR a
CENTS?
The visible supply of wheat in the United
States on Aug %, 1898 was less than 6, Goo OOt
bushels, although the receipts at Minneapo-
lis and Duluth were 145 cars on that day.
The price f1xers in Minneapolis-Peavy and
Pillsbury-held that -60-cent wheat at Min
neapolis was not low enough for September
wheat. Millers andiieIevators bought spot
wheat freely, country mills are bare of sup
ply and bins must be filled, but in spite of
that the price fixers hold that wheat must
go down to So cents in Minneapolis. What
say you, brother farmer? Will you begin to
study the question, who it is that steals the
value of your crops? Read the following
warning to Minneapolis people to be on
their guard against those who curtail Min
neapolis trade and market values:
is MINNEAPOLIS a BACK NUMBER?
To the Editor Of. the Journal
The merchants of country villages are or
ganizing to keep up the price of wheat so
to draw trade to their places. Mime
apolis manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers
and real estate men do not act that way at
all. They are proud of their flour mills, and
in their admiration of the so coo barrels per
day capacity they do not see that 5O-cent
wheat at country stations leaves the farmer
so small a margin that his purchases are
limited. whereas 70-cent wheat on the 2JO. 900, :
600 bushe crop tributary to MINNEAPOLIS and
Duluth would be $50.0OO,OOO more in the
farmers pockets with which to purchase
goods. Wake up, you fogies of Minneapolis,
and recognize your own interests and the
interests of those who have made and do
maintain your city, or else you will decay
like your twin brother down the liver
Minneapolis, Aug o. 1898.
ERIC OLSON,
Organizer F. A. and l. U.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31
Another University Regent,

Editor Representative:
l notice one of the leading arguments
Of the fusionists is, John Lind is good
mar because he left the Republican
party, etc., and we ought to vote for him
even if we don't like fusion.
In reply let me ask fusicn's followers
If they have forgotten what "a good
man" Knute Nelson was in 1890 be
cause he also had left the Republican
party?" Don't you remember how he
was a prominent candidate for the CUB
ernatorial nomination before the Ali
ance convention? You can't deny that
he stood high in the estimation of re-
formers all over the state, but did that
prevent him from being a tool of plu-
tocracy? After careful deliberation l
have decided that to elect John Lind
this fall, surrounded by the miserable,
d1sreputable gang of politicians that
secured his nomination through the dis
honorable method of fusion, would be
the worst thing that could happen to
the cause of reform. John Lind has not
treated the Peoples party fairly by his
non committal policy for the past two
years, and mis- acceptance letter COM
mits him to no definite policy
believe he will and ought to be over
Whelmingly defeated and that it is the
duty of every reformer to take hold and
lift the Peoples party as high above the
wreck as possible.
This community is greatly agitated at
present over bank failure. Widows,
WasherWomen, sewing women and many
other poor people have lost their all,
and the total of such losses reaches up
into the thousands The banker was
one Mr. Todd, regent of the
state university. He was very
agreeable fellow to meet, has been
mayor of Preston, member of the school
board, treasurer of church organiza-
ton, etc. In appearance and personal
conduct he would compare very favor
ably with certain other regents of the
state university hitherto mentioned in
the Representative. AS Byron said of
the. pirate: He was as mild a hammered
Il man,
As ever scuttled ship or cut throat
But, oh the devastation he has
wrought. God pity the poor.
w. E. CUMMINGS.
Preston, Mimi, Aug. rs, $685.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31

and thereby saving many middle-men's
profits, has superseded the old cross
roads store, with its out-or-date goods
and extortionate prices.
The change is all beneficial to the
country consumer. We know, from ex-
perience. how the country dealers have
been accustomed to compel farmers to
take whatever they happened to
have in stock, and as their sales were
srSll, the dealers were obliged to charge
prices which gave them enormous per-
centage- of profits. They could not
make living if they did not do so. No
fault should be placed with the country
dealer, therefore, for protecting him.
self at the expense of his customers, and
yet no one will accuse the average coun-
try merchant of needing a guardian to
see that the customers do not get his
goods too cheaply.
But when that dealer undertakes by
boycott or other unfair means, to bull
doze his customers, his supply house
competitors and even the public press.
into permitting him to continue his ex-
tortlon in an age when extortionate
prices to farmers are no longer neces-
sary, then it is time to call a halt,
the Representative believes that this
boycott will only serve to show the
farmers where their own interests lie.
We are gratified to note that not all
the wholesale dealers are in the COM
bine, or are afraid of the boycott We
suggest that our readers should make a
careful discrimination on that point.
The above article is a clipping from
the Northwestern Agriculturist,i in which
we fully agree, and wish to state fur
Their that this exposure is made volun-
tarily by the Representative; it is not
an advertisement" but is plain
statement of facts, let them cut where
they will
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31

The Jacksboro, Tex, Review tells the
following story, which is a good illus
tratiOn on the money question, and
proves that "even a child may lead
them"
Pa, what is money?
Why, gold is money, my son.
Mas ring is gold: is it money?
No; gold has to be sent to the mint
and be coined first, and then it is
money
What is mint?
It's great big building where they
take gold and melt it into bars, and then
they stamp it.
What do they stamp on it for?
Oh, l mean they have a machine that
prints on it, five dollars, ten dollars or
twenty dollars.
Is it money before they print on it?
What makes you ask such foolish
questions: Don't bother me.
But, pa, I want to know. Every
body is talking about money, and 1
want to find out
Well. let me see. I never thought
about it before. No, I guess it isn't
money before they print on it,
Then does the printing make the
money: You said that gold wasn't
money; then what is money? If the
money isn't in the gold nor in the
printing, where is it:
look this thing up.
But there is such thing as money, is
there not?
Why, of course there is. There, now,
pocket for?
l want to see what you have got TN
your pocketbook. Say, what's this?
That's q greenback
Is that money?
Yes.
Then piece of paper with something
printed on it is money?
Yes, | suppose SO.
Well, is it the paper or the printing
that makes this money?
1t is the printing.
But while ago you said just print
Ing can't be money
Neither can it be-
But if the money is not in the paper
nor in the printing, where is it?
Now, do stop, or you'll drive me
crazy.
What does intrinsic mean?
1 see that the New York papers say
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31
BOycOttfnS by Business Men.

The American people are noted for
their Independent spirit and their love
of fair play. They are antagonistic, by
nature, to any attempt to bulldoze
them, whether that attempt be made by
neighbOr or stranger. Our readers,
therefore, will doubtless learn. with
some surprise, that combination has
been formed by agricultural implement
dealers throughout the Northwest to
boycott all wholesale agricultural deal
ers and distributing agents who adver-
tise their goods in any paper which pub
fishes an advertisement of the T. M.
Roberts Supply House, of Minneapolis.
That means that the Minneapolis whole
sale houses are forbidden by the petty
crossroads press censOrs to use the col
umns Of any Minnesota farm paper be-
cause the publishers thereof believe that
Mr.. Roberts is an American citizen and
has a right, as such, not only to sell his
goods at as low price as he sees fit
but also to advertise those prices. We
did not discover this situation through
Mr.. Roberts, directly or indirectly, but
through one of the most reliable dealers
in farm implements in the city.
We believe that Mr. Roberts, if he
knows of the boycott, is going on Sc
renely attending to his own business
and letting the jealousy of the extor-
tionate country dealers work out their
own discontinue, but we feel indig-
nant at the attempt of those who can
not meet the prices of their legitimate
competitors, to resort to the un-Ameri-
can method of a boycott, and we here
by serve notice that SO long as the
present manager and proprietor of this
paper, that policy will be to stand by
those who refuse to be boycotted or
bulldozed. We are not speaking in the
interest Of the Roberts Supply House,
especially, but in the interest of the
public.
The improvement of modern years in
the matter of mail and freight, and in
the systematization of business meth
DDS, have made the modern mail order
supply house as much part of bust
ness economy, in place of the little
country store, as the modern steam
wagon works in place of the country
handmade wagon shop. 1t is just as
absurd to expect to destroy the great
central supply houses, by boycotting pa
pers which carry their advertisements.
as it would be to crush the manufacture
of threshing machines by refusing to
buy Oil of any firm which sells oil to
the thresher works.
The thresher has superseded the fail,
the steam locomotive has superseded
the OK team, the newspaper has super
seeded the town crier, and the general
supply house, with it's immense stocks
bought directly from manufacturers
(often absorbing all that several large
factories can produce), the immense
supply house with its alert managers
and expert heads of every department,
with it's careful study of the market de-
mands. and ample means of connecting
the consumer directly with the producer
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31
State Organizer F.. A. & I. u.

President L. G. Long and Vice-Presi-
dent c. A. Rutherford have sent in their
votes as yes" upon the propositions
sent out recently to executive board for
! referendum vote.
State Lecturer Eric Olson has put on
| his war paint and gone forth to battle.
| We are receiving copies of weekly pa
pers giving extended notices of Mr..
Olson's work in organizing the farm
ers, that is both refreshing and encour-
the tone and attitude of few weeklies
| which denounced the alliance last win
ter
The following brief notice, clipped
from the Fairfax Standard, goes far to
prove that Charlie" Hopkins is thought
well of at home as we'll as abroad in tie
state: - W.
c. H HOPKINS. "a d5DI
c. II. Hopkins is back again from his trip
into the country, which he says was more
profitable than politics. If he can y only
stacked the grain he thinks he will stand
a show in the deal this fall. His record was
60 stacks
Mr.. Hopkins is we'll known as the Popu-
list candidate for state auditor. and the
above picture shows what kind of men Rem
VILE county can furnish for the public SER
vice.-Fairfax Standard.
Mr. Hopkins is one of the most af-
fable of men. Cheerful of disposition.
most courteous and considerate in his
treatment of those with whom he asso-
ciates or disagrees, man of good sound
judgment, of mature mind, close stu
| dent of political economy, a man who
has fund of practical experience, a
knowledge Of human nature, steadfast
and unselfish devotion to purpose, and
untiring zeal in working out the reali-
| zation of the principles which he advo-
! Gates. A man Of sterling integrity and
courage, never afraid nor ashamed to
proclaim his convictions. Such a man
| is Charlie Hopkins, as he is farnil-
| iarly known. This modest and chival-
| rous farmer and old soldier was the
unanimous choice of the Peoples party
| for the Office of state auditor, and it is
| our desire to call the attention of farm
! ers Of all political creeds to the special
reasons why they should support and
vote for Mr.. Hopkins, because of lis
work and aid in advancing the interests
! Of the farmer by the growth and organ
ization of grain growers associations in
| the Northwest. His able address, deliv-
cred before the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union at the state capitol in
st. Paul. last January, has been the
| means of reviving the interest of the
| farmers throughout the whole country.
His address has been printed in pamph-
| let form, and hundreds of thousands of
them scattered over the whole country.
This is the plan that has been adopted
by our state organizers all over the
country as the most practical and eff
| Gent means to organize the alliance.
and advance their cooperative enter
prises, such as creameries, mills, ele-
vators. etc. This plan is a practical
business one, and appeals to the intelli-
gence Of any farmer, without regard to
his political affiliations, as the society
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31
Hill n FusiOnist.

We Go not belong to that class who
think that ]. J. Hill, Of the Great North
ern, is bad man. Indeed, Mr.. Hill is
as kind and as large and free-hearted a
man as there is in the state today; a
man who is self-made, and has and is
doing a great deal for this great North
west. But 1t is ridiculous sight to
see nearly all the Populist and fusion
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31
State of Ohio, City of Toledo Lucas Coul

State Of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas Coun-
ty, So.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of F. j.
Cheney & Co. doing business in the City Of
Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum Of one hun
dred dollars for each and every case Of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use Of
Halls Catarrh Cure. oiJiVt-f
FRANK ]. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9Th day of December, A. D.
1856. A. W. GLEASON
(Seal) Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system Send for testi-
mOnialS, tree
F. J. CHENEY & co.
Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, Is cents.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31

papers, which but few weeks ago re-
ferred to him in the most venomous
terms, soldering all over him and eu-
logizing him in the smoothest language
at their command. and all this because
Mr.. Hill favors the fusion candidate for
governor, and it is also claimed has con-
tributed literally to the campaign fund
1t would be amusing were it not so dis
gusting.-Glencoe Register
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31

We wish to call special attention to
the Blackburn Truss Co.'S card, bottom
first column, first page If in need Of
anything in their line write or call on
them
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31
NAT. +. A. AND l.. u. DEPT

Farmers and Independent Elevator
Men. ---
are invited 10 join the F. A. and l. L. for
selling grain in Minneapolis by sample at
f. A. and l. L. office and at the Chamber
Of Commerce through a reliable commits
sion firm. Send samples of grain for exhi-
bition to F. A. and l. u, Minneapolis, Mimi,
j. B. Dukes, agent, 1918 First avenue south,
with number of bushels for sale and price
expected.
ERIC OLSON,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31

Note the st. Paul Eye and Ear In
Urinary ad, bottom first page. This is
no fake institute, and we take pleasure
in recommending them to our readers.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-08-31

1t will be profit and pleasure COM
bined to spend this winter In the Twin
Cities going to school. Six months
scholarship to one of the oldest and best
colleges in the Northwest for sale cheap.
Call or write.
The Representative.
Minneapolis.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-12-16
The Unique Tolstoi Family.

"Count T~olstoi's wife and children"
Gays Ernest H. Crosby in Leslie's Weekly,
''follow him at intervals. The wonder to
me is not that there should not be entire
agreement antng them, but that he has
Influenced them as much az he has. Nine.
Tolstoi seemed to mo to agree, on the
whole, with her husbands theories, but
che thought that he was in advance, of the
times, and she would not consent to edu-
cate the children as peasants. The
count, like a good nonresistant, gracefully
yielded. Nevertheless his children more
or less accept his principles, and ono
daughter had been planting potatoes with
a peasantwolnan on the day that I arriv-
ed.
Zone little story, told me by tho gov
erness, will illustrate his way of dealing
with tho children. His youngest daugh-
ter, Saoha, a pretty child of 10 years, had
come running into the house a day or two
before with her arm black and blue where
. peasant boy had struck her, and she
went crying to complain to her father. He
took heron his knee and quieted her and
her said: If I were you, I would go to
the pantry and get q plate Of sweetmeats
and take 1t out to him. Don't you think
that it will do him moro good than q
whippingP' And he actually persuaded
her to do as be said"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-12-16
Editorial Comment on the Hi0neel
Limited.

Nothing richer has ever been pro-
duced by any Railroads.&c.. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Its a world beater.-St. Paul Globe.
'"The best thing the railroad world
can produce."-St. Paul Dispatch.
prominent and discriminating PEG.
pie marvel at the creation of elegance
and comfort wrought by modern car
builders."-Minneapolis Tribune.
'The Pioneer Limited stands today
perfect in construction, gorgeous in
finish and the acme Of luxury and com
fort."-AIineapoiis Journal.
'"Te closest inspection bewilders ana
takes the breath away, for the mag
niticence and beauty Of it all is simply
Observation-Disclosures Times.
The Pioner Limited leaves Mime
apolis at 1870 and st. Paul at $40 every
evening in the year for Milwaukee and
Chicago; via Chicago, Milwaukee 4
st. Paul Railway. (No extra charge
on this train.)
For tickets, berths o. information,
apply to any ticket agent, or address,
J. T. CONLEY,
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., st. Paul, MINI.