The Grange advance., 1873-11-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Where, oh where is our Indian Summer?
Time is called on the oldest inhabitant

Time is called on the oldest inhabitant.
We fully expect State Auditor Whitcomb
will, shortly after the publication of his
recent great manifesto, in reference to the
P. Of H., offer a reward of $4,000 in the
columns of THE GRANGE ADVANCE for any
man in the State of Minnesota who will &C.
knowledge himself to belong to Grange.
We called at the new Office of the St.
Paul Di.patch on Wabashaw Street, oppo-
site the Opera House, few days ago. We
did not find the Editor Of that spiciest Of
dailies in the sanctum, but we looked
around, and satisfied ourself that the Dis
patch is in most prosperous condition, all
Of which it merits. and more also.
1t was our good fortune while travelling
through the western part of the State to
enjoy for day or two the company of W.
A. Nimmocks, Secretary Of the Farmers
1ns. Co., at Minneapolis. Mr.. Nimmocks
is man Of the most indomitable energy
If unfagging industry can build up an en-
terprise, his should be giant among the
Insurance companies of the land.
Hennepin county, and few others which
are subject to Hennepin county influences
made quite break on the Secretaryship
Some 700 Republicans in Hennepin, and
shout 200 in Kandiyohi, led by q fellow
named Rice, lately from Minneapolis, voted
for Stevens.-Goodkue County Republican
Of 18Th inst.
If that isn't drawing it mild for you,
what would you call mildness?
Connecticut charges the contractors with
stealing $500, 900 of the appropriation for
the new State House, and yet the founda-
tion walls are not laid. Never mind, fellow
citizens Of Connecticut, you'll have State
House yet. These contractors are evident.
ly the original wooden nutmeg manufac.
turers, and they can steal all Of the appro-
priation except $67.33 and then have
enough left to put up the building but we
wouldn't like to warrant the material.
Weregret that we have to mention the
little matter Of payment once more. Do
subscribers think we can run this paper
for nothing? Now, gentlemen, it will cost
at least $4,000 to run it year without pay
ing one cent for editors or writer's. Every
dollar due at the end of week must be
paid in cash. No part of our business can
be done upon credit. Weappeal to you to
sustain your paper. 1t rests in your hands
to make it grand success, or to kill it
within three months. Which do you pro-
pose to do? 80 =
Two very funny cities are St. Paul and
Minneapolis. Each is. larger thar the
other, each is doing more business than
the other, each has got more capital than
the other, each is better place to live than
the other, each has got better class of
citizens than the other, each is growing
faster than the other, each is more enter
prising than the other, and finally each is
going to swallow up the other. We believe
all this. because we know the papers and
people Of neither town will lie, and we
have had it directly from their mouths,
and no hearsay about it.
While in the western part of the state q
short time ago we heard the following con-
versation in the bar-room Of hotel:
!" Say stranger, would you sell that dog
o yourn % s
{. WouldsI y sell that dog THAT dog !?
Why Sir. that dog stood by me when I
wasn't worth . cent, and couldn't scarcely
get him enough to eat. He laid out on the
prairie with me many . night. he was
worth 400 rods Of fence to me on my place.
He has helped make every dollar I'm worth
in the world. haven't got no children.
but hs knows as much g any child I ever
see. He has gone through every Kind 81
/ hardship with me, and still he stuck 81
No. ~ thst ~ u te'd 4 sell ass..
Tho dog look satisfied % that tho man man
swsss not fof 3sale. VI need sseiscely add
. that naitAsf the man s. ssdlos hadi ever been
@ ths gislaaurs.