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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-01

women are in charge of the elevators.
Women writ-servers are employed
with success.
Buffalo has a woman contractor who
is also a quarry owner; she is the only
female member of the building ex-
change.
A Jersey City woman makes her living
by painting signs.
A Louisiana woman supports herself
by raising mint.
The woman manager of California
insurance company is credited with the
largest salary paid to any woman-$10,- !
600 year.
A French-Canadian girl is making her
bread by cobbling shoes at Lewiston,
Me.
A successful ranch owner in Kansas is
woman. There is a saying to the eff
feet that in Kansas there is no interest,
no profession, no trade and no deal with
out woman in it.
In Boston there are two large adver-
ClSIuS dScuCItS, CuC IucuDOTS OI DOLn
firms being women, and all their en-
ployes women.
In New England factory women are
employed as piano makers.
Women are employed by several
Western railroads to tend switches.
Upholstering is a trade women are
learning.
Writing love letters at so much let
ter is one way of earning a livelihood.
Consulting fashion expert is a St.
Louis woman's occupation.
One of the largest flower importing
establishments in New York is managed
by woman.
An entire block of houses in New York
was papered by young woman, who
takes the contract for such orders from
builders.
About 800 girl, are employed in the
harness trade in New York.-New York
Sun.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-01
PROPHECY FULFILLED.
What Justice Harlan Feared Has
Come PasS-The DrummerSs

What Justice Harlan Feared Has
Come to Pass-The Drummers.
Several years ago Justice Harlan, OF
the supreme bench, in his dissenting
opinion in the celebrated sugar trust
case, used the following language: I'VE
have before us the case of combination
which absolutely controls, or may at it's
discretion CONTROL the price of all the
refined sugar in this country. Suppose
another combination, organized for prl-
vate gain and to control prices, should
obtain possession of all the large flour
mills in the United States; another, or /
all the oil territory; another, of all the
salt producing regions; another, of all
great establishments for slaughtering
animals and the preparation OF meats. I
What power is competent to protect the
people of the United States against such
dangers except national power-one
that is capable of exerting it's sovereign
authority throughout every part of the
territory, and over all the people OF the
nation"
Where in all the world was there an
other prophecy SO completely fulfilled.
The trusts already have control of all
the above named industries and 200
more with them. The trusts are SUI
preme everywhere. They dominate all
business and all legislation. The presi-
dent and his attorney general are their
willing slaves, and the courts OF the
country hasten to do their will. They
saw to the business man: Your money
or your life and they call upon every
body to stand and deliver. The COM
bined capital of this devil-fsh of COM
merce amounts to over $4,000, 100000.
This is four times as much as all the
money circulating in the country. This
immense aggregation of power is simply
irresistible, as no private individual
dares to fight the combination, and the
general government is in full sympathy ,
with it.
The commercial travelling men have
declared war against the great octopus
and are working like beavers for it's
overthrow. You are too late, gentlemen.
We admire your pluck, but you might as
we'll fight the DEGREES of the Almighty.
You could have done something three :
years ago. but you were too busy talking
for Mckinley and gold to give any time
to the question of trusts. You worked
faithfully to elect the trust candidate, !;
and now he turns and rends you. The
thousands of travelling men displaced BY
| these unholy combinations have set the
| fraternity to thinking as they never
thought before, and they have finally
ascertained that the trusts are riding on
an ass. and they are the ass-Omaha
Nom -COnfOrmiSt.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-01
PRESS COMMENT.
The Kansas City Meeting, as Viewed
by the Kansas City Star.

The Kansas City Meeting, as Viewed
by the Kansas City Star.
The executive committee of the Pop
ulist national organization broke the
deadlock this afternoon, which has ex-
listed since the National Reform Press
Association convened in this city on
Monday. The committee agreed early
this afternoon upon an address to the
Populists of the United States, which is
expected to harmonic the fusion and
anti-fusion elements of the party. The
report of the committee will be present
ed to the association meeting some time
this afternoon, and will undoubtedly be
indOrsed.
The report follows closely to the lines
of the action taken at the Populist meet
ing in Cincinnati last year, except that
of Wharton Barker and Ignatius DON
nelly for the positions of president and
vice-president respectively. The com.
mittee believes that principles and not
men should prevail. Fusion is absolutely
denounced and none, except outright
middle-of -the-roaders, is to have a voice
in party affairs. The initiative and refer
endum is recommended in party ques-
tions as far as practicable, and all fu-
sionists are invited to come back into
the party and partake of the feast when
the fatted calf is killed
A SLAP AT MARION BUTLER.
The report is slap at Marion Butler,
chairman of the national committee.
who is fusionist. An effort will be
made to oust him, which will probably
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-01

men "dock" their horses tails; where
the political wire-puller has displaced
the patriotic statesman; where men vote
for thing one day, and "cuss" it 364
days; where we have prayers on the floor
of our national capitol, and whisky in
the cellar; where we spend $4,000 to
bury congressman who is rich, and SO
to put away workingman who is poor;
where to be virtuous is to be lonesome,
and to be honest is to be called a crank;
where we sit on the safety-valve of en-
ergy, and pull wide open the throttle of
conscience; where gold is a substance
the one thing sought for, and God is a
waste basket for our better thoughts and
good resolutions; where we pay $4,000
for dog, and Is cents a dozen to
poor woman for making shirts; where
we teach the "untutored Indian" eternal
life from the Bible, and kill him with
bad whisky; where we put man in Jail
for stealing loaf of bread, and in con-
gress for stealing railroad; where the
check-book talks, sin walks in broad
daylight, justice is asleep, crime runs
amuck, corruption permeates our whole
social and political fabric, and the devil
laughs from every street corner.
Come to us, Fillies; we've got the
grandest aggregation of good things and
bad things, big things and little things,
hot things and cold things, soft and hard
things, all sizes, varieties and colors,
ever exhibited under one tent.
We've got more guns, more Bibles and
more whisky than any two shows on
earth. If you don't come we'll fetch
you. Read ye not the changeless truth,
the free can conquer but to save?' or
words to that effect? We want to save
you first, then we'll "salt you down."
Then we will give you Bible, and you
can get consolation out of it without
extra charge. "If the salt lose it's SAVIOR
wherewith shall it lie salted?" Whom
the Lord loveth He chasteneth.'' "Thro'
much suffering you are made perfect"
That's what our guns are for.
Of course when you fellows zine" us
you will have to stop eating each other
You will be our meat then. Our people
won't stand it to see lot of good meat
wasted that way. You can eat each
others substance that makes the flesh
we do that, but not the flesh. You can
eat dog bologna or canned horse meat.
It will be almost as healthy, and will
expand our meat trade.
Now, this letter ought to fetch you.
Give Aguinaldo the marble heart He's
sold you out twice, and would like to do
so again. Besides, we have bought you,
and offer you all the inducements of
civilization. Come to our arms
P. 81 forgot to say that when you
Zine" us, your women would have to
change their mode of dress. In other
words, they would have to have more
elaborate wardrobe, and wear something
more than summer smile and pair of
earrings. Nudity is not permitted with
us except in our theaters and first-class
ball rooms, and then not with male men.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-01
WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS.
Four Millions of Them in Many Call
ings of the United States.

Four Millions of Them in Many Call
ings of the United States.
Four million women in the United
States earn their own bread. They have
invaded all occupations, and one-third
of all persons engaged in professional
services are women.
Female teachers and professors num-
ber one-Quarter of a million, exclusive
of teachers of music, who are "a, ,519
strong, and 10000 artists and teachers of
art.
There are 1,143 women clergymen.
Journalists number S88, with 2,725 au-
thors and literary persons.
Of chemists, assayers and metallurg-
lists, there are two-score lacking one.
Lawyers who are not men are 208.
Female detectives are 279 in number.
Nineteen women brave the dangers of
wilds and forests as trappers and guides.
Only two women have been discovered
who are veterinary surgeons.
In Texas woman has the contract for
carrying the mail from Kiffe to Seirnal
Hall.
Georgia has woman mail carrier;
she travels a 40-mile route tri-weekly.
This young woman also manages a
farm.
The chamber OF commerce, Cincinnati,
has a restaurant run by three Scotch
women, and they clear about $4,000
yearly, although their annual rental is
$5,0
In New Orleans one of the finest or
chestras is composed entirely of women.
In Astoria, L. l., many of the largest
hothouses are managed by women.
In New York blacksmiths shop is
managed by three young women.
All the salted almonds sold by one of
New Yorks largest groceries are pre-
pared by a woman, who has profitable
business.
A fact foundry-or an agency for sup
plying facts upon any subject at short
NOTICES the industry of two Chicago
women.
Packing trunks is St. Louis woman s
industry.
A conservatory and rose garden in Ell
mira, N. Y, is owned and managed by a
woman.
At the Young Women's Christian as
sociation, Philadelphia, two young
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-01
To the Fi1ipinOs.
(Morgan's Buzz Saw


My Dear Misguided Human Brother:
Just lay down your fusees, bows and ar
rows, and let me talk to you a little 1
want to give you little advice and some
information.
Now, to begin with, you fellows would
do just as we'll to climb into a sausage
grinder as to tackle Uncle Samuel.
Uncle Samuel is figurative expression
for 70,O0O,0O0 of people. l 90 not want
to see mincemeat made of you. We
have too many varieties of beef now.
You may think you are receiving pretty
hard treatment, but. Gle..t Scott! what
would it be if Uncle Sam should take
notion to send you a cargo of canned
army beef? You ought to be thankful
you have escaped that
Now let me tell you what to do: Stop
fighting. 1t is only a matter of time
when you'll get licked anyway. Surren-
der on one condition only-that you
shall not be fed on canned beef.
You fellows do not know what a good
thing you are missing by not wanting
to become citizens of this grand country
of ours. There isn't anything like it
under the sun. You ought to send del
egation over here to see us-this land of
the free-land of churches and 4OO, 900
licensed saloons; Bibles, forts and guns;
houses of prayer and licensed houses of
theologians and thieves; libertines and
liars; Christians and chain gangs; poll
ticians and poverty; schools and scala
wags; trusts and tramps; money and
misery; homes and hunger; virtue and
vice.
A land where you can get good Bible
for Is cents, and bad drink of whisky
for 5 cents; where we have men in con-
gress with three wives, and lot in the
penitentiaries for having two wives;
where some men make sausage out of
their wives, and some want to eat them
raw; where we make bologna sausage
out of dogs, canned beef out of horses
and sick COWS, and corpses out of the
people who eat it; where we put a man
in Jail for not having the means of
support, and on the rock pile for asking
for a job of work; where we license
bawdy houses, and fine men for telling
the truth on the street; where we have a
congress of 400 men to make laws, and a
supreme court of nine men to set them
aside; where good whisky makes bad
men, and bad men make good whisky;
where newspapers are paid for suppress
ing the truth, and made rich for telling
a lie; where professors draw their con-
victions from the same source they do
their salaries; where preachers are paid
$4,000 a year to dodge the devil and
tickle the ears of the wealthy; where
business consists in getting property in
any way that won't land you in the peni-
tentiary; where trusts "hold you up,"
and poverty holds you down; where men
vote for what they do not want for fear
they will not get what they do want by
voting for it; where ''niggers" can vote
and a woman can't; where a girl who
goes wrong is. made an outcast, and her
male partner fourishes as a gentle
man; where women wear false hair, and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-01

cial Club asked them to hold their next
national meeting in that city. An invi-
tation extended by M. " Watson, on be-
half of the Commercial Club, to visit
convention hall, was accepted, and at 4
O'Clock the editors took a recess to in
spect the great building.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-01
NEW CURE For RECONSTRUCTION.

The New Treatment is by Inhalation and In
ternal or Blood Medicine Combined. II destroys
the tubercule bac.lli in the lungs and blood and
will positively cure II the lungs are not destroy
ed. Cases at a distance treated at home Free
Consultation. st. Paul Medical and Surgical
Institute, Merrill building. corner 6th and St.
Peter streets, st. Paul. MINI.
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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-02-18

drawing an immense revenue from the
trade of the soldiers and sailors. There
are not SO many saloons and rum shops
as expected to see, especially where
wine, gin and rum are as cheap as
they are here. Excellent claret, port
and white wines can be had at fifteen
cents quart, and other liquors are
proportionately cheap. The most no
ticeable thing in the shop line are the
drug stores. There are dozens of them
and they are one and all neat and
clean, we'll lighted and with an up-to-
date stock and well-groomed clerks.
A number of the druggists are gradu-
ates of colleges in the states and have
brought back with them many Of the
modern crinkles of business advertis-
ing. I made some small purchases in
one and was given a souvenir fan,
stamped with the stores address, The
same spirit of progress is rapidly
spreading into all classes of business.
Among the smaller merchants, how
ever, no innovations have taken place.
The milkman brings his string of COWS
to your door and milks them into your
bucket or jug; the bread is carried
about the streets on pannier mules,
and wood is bundled up, piled On a
mules back and sold at so much per
load.
The few hotels Of the town are miser-
abley~and the first enterprising Amer
ican who starts a restaurant here will
not only earn the thanks of all Amer
lean residents, but he has a fortune
awaiting him. The best caravansary is
the Hotel Franchise, where table
d'hote costs one dollar and quarter,
and is hardly fit to eat when served.
Yet this restaurant is thronged day and
night with officers and civilians, who
have learned by bitter experience that
this is the best to be had. Boarding
houses are an unknown quantity and
it is impossible to teach the natives the
meaning of the word hospitality, even
though you are willing to pay literally
for the accommodation you seek.
The coming year will witness the
almost complete annihilation of the
customs of the past and the beginning
of a new era in the West Indies Porto
Rico will be no longer an island rich
in the traditions of the past, and with
out a future, but a prosperous, wide
awake country that will make name
for itself in the commercial and ship
ping world, and be another feather in
the well-plumed ca p of this Yankee na-
ton. J. W. CHURCH.
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courses sweet music on the clear nights
OF the week. The garden of the plaza
occupies only half of the square. and on
the other stands the ancient cathedral.
an historic old pile in appearance,
though l could hear of no legend con-
nected With it. In it's rear is the
"Parque de Bombas," or fire denart-
ment, a rather ornamental little bui]d-
1ng' with two obsolete hand engines
standing inside its open doors.
One OF the most notable innovations
OF the past week are the native nro-
Vost marshals. No matter in which di-
rection you turn they are ever present
The United States government has pro-
vlded them with uniform consisting
OF the regulation blue blouse. with
"hlte duck trousers, and heavy cane,
and upon the collar of the blouse are
the letters "P. NJ The idea is an ex-
cellent one, as the marshals are chosen
from the most Intelligent and law
abiding class, most of them having
fair knowledge of English. They seem
very proud of the honor conferred upon
them, are extremely civil and often
prove an invaluable aid to the foreigner
who cannot 'fsabe Espagnol' fluently.
On two sides of the Plaza are the city
and government Offices white and gray
buildings, two stories high, with fiat
roofs and wide open Railways. The
other portion of the square is given
over to the merchants, and the larg-
est stores in the city are here From
the standpoint of the resident they are
above the average shop of a provincial
town, but for this very reason they are
disappointing to the traveller. Fancy
entering ruinous looking old dobe,
which to all outward appearances has
stood for a hundred years, rubbing
your hands in the expectation of find
ing some native souvenir or trinket
which will ever bring back memories
of the past glory of the grandee of the
island, or bit of native manufacture,
and as soon as your eyes become ac-
customed to the half light of the dingy
interior reading the advertisements of
enterprising American patent medicine
and tobacco manufa cturers. For few
minutes wavered between disgust at
seeing the cocoon burst it's shell, and
pride in the progress of the Yankee ma.
ton that could waken life in these in
dolent fellows, and I at last submitted
to the Inevitable as gracefully as pos
sible, and ceased to look for any place
that had remained free from Amer
lean importations. Naturally, the
shops have many curious and pleasing
works of native and Spanish manufac-
ture, but these are far outnumb mbered
by the import ations from the United
States, France and England Several
Of the stores have clerks who can peak
fairly Intelligent English, and these are
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: Ponce.

Ponce, Porto Rico, Correspondence
The dream of that innocent and credu-s
lous old Spanish knight; Ponce de
Leon, has at last been partially realized
in the quaint, historic city that bears
his name, upon the very island where
he made his vain quest for the Spring.
Of Everlasting Life. Little did this an n-s
cient Don think, when in the name Of
the king Of Spain he took possession Of
the beautiful island, that the time
would ever come when an alien and
hated race would overthrow the indo--.
lent, careless and deep-rooted ignorance
of this Spanish possession, and instilI
the spirit of progress and industry into
the natives who for hundreds of years
have dragged out an existence of lazy
useless inactivity. Yet that time has
come, and the island is even now en-
tering upon an epoch which will ere
long develop into one of remarkable
wealth and progress. AS those who
visited Japan ten years ago would
scarcely recognize it now, so will it be
with Porto Rico in much less time, and
the native dress, customs and charae-
teristics now so fraught with interest
to the seeker after knowledge of his
fellowman will have passed into the.
dead yesterday. N
To the traveller, Ponce possesses
more of interest than any other city
on the island. It is larger, inhabited by
a better and more Intelligent class and
is far more richly endowed with the
beauties of nature than it's rival, San
Juan, whose only claim to interest lies.
in it's Notifications and it's filth.
Ponce, although the most populouss
city on the island, is wholly without de-55
fense Of any kind. The city proper lies
about two miles inland from the har-
Dor and is connected with the port by
a military road, one of the few I'M
provements granted to the island uR-
der the Spanish regime Porto. PnaSsA
lies on the waters edge and my first
glimpse Of the town as our boat neared
the rude pier was a long row Of low,
white, pink, blue and yellow stores
That is, the colors were once there, but
time, neglect and the elements had left
but little trace of the original hues. AS
the boat was tossed through the surf
onto the beach score of youngsters,
from to Is years of age and ranging
in color from mahogany brown to
dusky white, waded about our boat,
wholly unabashed in their nakedness,
their curiosity overcoming the fear in
which they hold all foreigners. Upon
the pier were gathered a conglomer-
ate mass of sailors, soldiers and ma
tives, all intermingling with the good
fellowship always uppermost among
the Caucasian race when thrown to-
gether in a foreign land. No Span
iards were to be found, or, if they were,
they hid their sympathies beneath the
everlasting shout of '*Vive los ,Ameri-
canos." I pushed my way through the
crowd, up through the narrow, muddy
street, and finding hack, bargained
with the driver to carry me to Ponce
for una real, or twelve cents Spanish
money. This is but six cents in our
coin, and my Jehu specified that he
was to be paid in "Americano dinero,"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-02-18
Pen Pictures Of the
Historic City by
One of the lnvad-
ing Amcricanos:::

TOR American money. I climbed into the
srickety old trap, drawn by two diminu-
tive native horses, whose size would
compare favorably with the smallest of
Arizona burros, but whose strength
was entirely out of proportion with
their size.
j Porto Ponce is the tobacco and sugar
! mart for the greater portion of the
island, and as we rode toward the in
terror we passed dozens of long, low
<storehouses, filled with the soothing
weed, and others where through the
open doors could be seen hundreds of
men, women and children stripping and
preparing the tobacco for the market.
In the streets and about the entrances
to the warehouses were dozens of little
children, the majority of them naked,
lying in the mud or romping and play
ing while they awaited the hour of the
shops closing, to be taken home by
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-02-18

their parents. A little further on the
residence portion Of the port began,
and here I found many pretty little
homes, set far back in spacious lawns
and almost hidden behind the luxuriant
growth of palm and banana trees sur
rounding each villa. Over the arched
gates can always be seen the arms and
crest of the family to which the Don
belongs and many Of the escutcheons
are beautifully carved or painted over
the entrance.
Between these homes of the lords of
the island are stretches OF sugar cane,
banana groves and fields of grain and
vegetables, dotted here and there with
tall cocoanut palms and immense cacti.
Along the roadside are the squalid
thatched huts of the native Indians,
usually inhabited by pigs, dogs and
chickens as we'll as the ragged human
family of the tenant. About three
quarters of a mile from the wharf the
houses grow less frequent, and for the
next mile the country was once given
over to the crude farming of the ma