Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-11-06
Difficulties Of a >toker,s Wife.

following story of the difficulties some
people meet with in endeavoring: to
lead a religious life":
A lady had gone to visit young
couple of the better class of the poor.
They had had no children, aud the
husband being stoker on a railway,
they were above the reach of want.
Under these circumstances it seemed
to the visitor that they might have at
tended to their religious duties, at least
to the extent of going to church on
Sundays, and she ventured to intimate
as much to the young woman, who was
standing rather idly at the door. ''Will
you please walk in till I show you
something2" was the woman's answer;
and she conducted her visitor to the
little kitchen, where her husband sat
by the fire. He had just come home
for half an hour to have his tea, and
was watching the kettle with the most
absorbing interest. He was, of course,
in bis working clothes, and his face
and hands were of q deep oily black,
after the manner of stokers.
"Now, ma'am," said the woman,
pointing to him, you see that there
man that's my husband, and I'm
bound to do part by him, amt II"
Surely" said the visitor, anxious to
uphold the duties of nlatrj,nony.
every we'll, then. Would you like to
know how I pass my Sundays2 A wash
ing of he Never blessed moment has
he to wash himself through the week {;
out early and late, and half of the
night, too, and blacker nor any crow
ali the while. Well, on Sundays it is
fitting and proper that he should try
to look like a Christian, if he can,
so ho sets me to it after We
cate our breakfast, with q bucket
full of soapsuds and scrub
bling brush, and 1 rubs at him of and
on all day, till my arms ache, and he
amt much better than he wor; and
then after we had our tea he says to
me: 'Come, Sally, have another Try,
there's a brave wench, and goes at
him again, and sluices him down till
you think born niger nd come out
white and, if you believe me ms'am.
when 7 polishes him of with a dry
towel afore he goes to bed, he's only a
light brown after ALL" What was to
be said to such stubborn facts: es-
pecially when the good woman finished
with the unanswerable argument, So
you see, ma am, them rs wants to live
religious has best not marry stoker. ="
DURING the deliberation of the jury
on Group Nv. ut the Vienna Exhibition,
as one Of the largest condensed milk
companies was about to receive medal
for the products and the invention,
Prof. Hosford of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, interposed asserting that he
was the real discovercr, as he had pro-
duced the article twenty years ago. NJ.
: OFT, of l}erne, one of the jurymen, who
had been student under Prof. Hos.
ford, confirmed the statement, and
proposed that the medal should he
awarded to Mr.. Hosford. This homo,
was, however, declined by that gentle.
man, who said that he had decided OF
returning without any recompense. Hi.
name is to be mentioned in the report
The ex-Empress Eugenie is an
nounced to have written to friend d
letter, in which, speaking of the pro
posed union of Bonapartists and Rad
icals, she says: "Such an alliance
consider AS a disgrace, AMI the duty o.
every Bonapartist is to repudlate II
with contempt
THE heirs OF the trinity church prop
erty have increased by fifty IN two
years, So that there is no hope OF tn
o,oo lvino ont