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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-31
THURSDAY. AUG. 7TH.
ANEW 3O-LAlR MENAGERIE

For the first time exhibited-of the largest
collection Of the largest and rarcst living wild
animals, from the savage businesses, impcne
trab!e j"nSles, p!imeval forests, and most in
accessible deserts and solitudcs Of every quar-
ter of tho Globe, bringing the entire An imal
World, captive to every threshold.
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03

the collection plate, and who take OCCASION
ally thousand or two dollars from him
" just for few days." and hand him back
$4,000 as a return on ''little fyer >"
and how can a denomination denounce the
notorious falsity and chicanery and unfair
dealing Of a prominent operator in Wall
street: who not very long ago gave their
theological seminary $500, 600, obtained by
the most despicable means?
If Jay Gould himself were tomorrow to
give one million of dollars Of his ill-gotten
wealth to any denomination in this country,
the members of it would become his apollo
gists, and not denouncers. This may be
controverted, but it cannot be disproved,
for it is simply human nature:
It remains for the press, boldly, unqual-
ifedly and persistently to denounce these
men, and expose their villainous practices.
There is positively no safety for the busi-
ness community, unless this gambling pro-
pensity in business men, and persons hold
ing positions Of trust, is checked. Public
opinion must be brought to bear, first,
against the illegitimate manner in which
stocks are bought and sold and manipu-
lated in these evil days, and secondly,
against this disposition among all classes,
the country over, to dabble in Wall street.
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03
Cooperation by the Changers.

The Chicago Tribune. correspondent
writing up the progress of the Changers
movement in Iowa, gives some results
worth looking at: The Grange has saved
it's members in Iowa $50, 600 the past sea-
son on plows; $50, 600 on sewing machines
(Which they get for $50 to $57) !; twenty
five per cent. on moving machines, miscel-
laneous implements and parlor organs !;
twenty per cent. on wagons twenty five to
thirty three per cent. on scales and forks,
etc. Altogether it is thought that So, ,O00, :
600 have been saved to the farmers of Iowa
in this year. All orders are made through
the State agent Of the Grange, who is un-
der $50, 900 bonds to do his work honestly.
Cooperative stores are also on trial in
some sections. But the cooperative SELL
ing promises to be on grander sale than
the cooperative buying. The grange has
entered into relations with certain Chicago
commission houses which give bonds in
$1OO, 600 each to do their selling. Farm
ers or oranges can now ship directly to
Chicago. The order is also building ware
houses and elevators throughout the State,
in which the farmers take stock, and thus
realize better prices on their produce and
good dividends on their Investment. This
is only the experience Of one year, and can
not be regarded as proving the permanence
of the plans thus 50 successfully inaugua-5
ated, but 90 far az it goes is on the encour-
aging side. II. .5 .a. s.e II.
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03
:. Construction Companies p

A Western Man" contributes trench
ant article to the New York Times of the
9th, on railroad freights and construction
companies, from which we extract the fol-
lowing:
The g construction company is now
part and parcel of nearly all modern rail-
road schemes, and while ordinary stock
holders and bondholders are innocent and
unsophisticatedly ignorant Of the ''inner
circles - transactions, the chosen men VINO
are looked up to for counsel, advice and
direction. and who are prohibited hy all
railroad charters from being interested in
contracts, often become under the associ-
ated evils of s'c construction company !"
the very men, of all others, who are ab-
sorbing the vitality and resources of rail-
way enterprises. Dividend day arrives,
and the directors face the stockholders
with funds derived either from recent sales
of bonds, or from exorbitant freight tariffs
that have been so adjusted as to cover
twice or thrice the first cost of the roads !;
or lay the blame to the rebellious farmers
Of the West, who are accused OF having
combined to deprive capital Invested in
railways of fair remuneration.
Under the operation Of this sort of ini-
guilty is it surprising that the bondholders
occasionally find themselves only stock
holders
1t is quite necessary for the Congression-
al Committee to travel around the country
in pursuit Of information that will lead to
the discovery Of the real seat Of difficulty
in regard to transportation, if the Chair
man Of that Committee, who is Minneso-
tian, will call the attention Of the public to
one fact that probably has not escaped his
cognizance, for it is very we'll known in
the Northwest that the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company has been phlebotomized
upon the most gigantic scale by select
ring Of adventurers and spectators, some
Of whom have been suddenly translated
from poverty to afiuence through their
connection with that road or Company.
Upon one contract alone, a certain soon
struction company" having its headquar.
ters in Minnesota, is credited with having
divided one million two hundred thousand
dollars to each Of its twelve members.
Every railway in the West, if honestly
administered, will yield good dividend on
its actual cost.
The entire West is suffering for larger.
Detter, anu cheaper 1acllltles Tor tranSpOr-
tation to the sea-board. In addition to all
existing and contemplated railways, the
country needs that great national system of
Interstate water communication which was
50 judiciously brought to the notice of
Congress last December by the President
Of the United States But the country also
needs that these great avenues of commerce
shall be SO managed as to promote and not
to Cypress industry or endanger capital.
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03
From Indiana Granger.
The Salary Grab.

Oh! won't you hear
What roaring cheer
Was spent by the Radical Congress, o!
And how so gay
They raised their pay
And raised the peoples taxes o!
There was Eldridge the scold,
And Butler the bold,
Who stole SO many spoon things, .!
And Banks and Dawes,
With their eager old claws,
On the scent of the loves OF the fishes, y!
Arrah! by my SOUL it would make your heart leap
for grief to hear the soldiers begging for their
pay, the widows for their PENSIONS and the officers
for new loans, while all the members are drinking
and singing merrily,
Twenty five dollars a day,
Twenty-Five dollars day,
twenty-five dollars the dandy, 0!
There was Blaine in the chair
With his iron-grey hair,
A singing the tax bill cheerily. O.!
And smiled the rabble
So loudly did gable,
The audience scarcely slumber, o!
1t was aye, it was no,
Twas too high, twas too low
The ayes will rise. and the Speaker 0!
And quickly arose
Two eyes to a nose,
And the salary bill was carried OF
Yes! by my soul they unanimously disaRreed upon
every question except the salary bill. Gentlemen,
order. This bill proposes to give US all a yearly
salary OF seyenty.five hundred dollars, and myself
ten thousand: Shall it pass? Az! ay ay! The
eyes have it, therefore they begin to sing,
Twenty-Five dollars day,
Twenty-Five dollars day,
twenty-five dollars the dandy, o!
But och by my shoul,
They all star'd like an owl,
When the people all Kissed the ditty, o!
Said Blaine, we're all broke,
They don't relish the joke,
The devil has got in the rabble, o!
We have put on their backs,
A mountain of tax,
An army, q bank, ct cetera, 0!
Which so tamely they bore,
That we all could have swore.
They were all perfectly broken to the halter, 0!
How shall creep out Of this scrape says one Says
Carpenter, will persuade the people that twenty.
five dollars day is too little to support myself and
wife. Says Butler, I'll turn the thing off as joke
Says Alcorn, I'll beg pardon Of my constituents,
and promise never to do the like again. "Weli
done, my lads!" says Grant, and so they all began
to sing again,
Twenty-Five dollars a day,
Twenty-Five dollars day,
Twenty-Five dollars the dandy, o!
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03
State Agents Circular Notice.

state AGENTS ClFCQlar NOtlCt.
TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE
STATE GRANGE OF THE STATE OF MIN
NEsOTA.
Editor Grange 4duance:
DEAR SIR will you do me the kind
ness to insert the following notice in your
valuable paper for the benefit Of my broth
er Patrons and the officers of the State
Grange, &C.:
Some time ago gave notice that l would
issue circular and confidential price list
for the benefit Of the Order Of Patrons Of
Husbandry in a short time. Well, broth
ers, have got my circular and part of my
price list on proof sheet sent to my Office
to-day, and to-day's mail has brought me
better prices for some kinds Of machinery,
and as have not got as full and complete
a list as l should like TO present to the
State Grange have concluded to wait two
or three weeks and have full and COM
plete list at bottom figures, as I find that
this State Agency system is growing more
and more popular every day. As for in
stance, when first started out on this bust
ness it was hard work to get men to talk
to me or write me very cordial letter,
but two short months has made q vast diff
ference Instead Of short, cold, indiffer-
ent letters from clerks the letters are from
leading business men and presidents Of
wealthy companies that manufacture large
ly, and at greatly reduced rates; some of
which have been reduced three different
times, and new firms writing me daily, ask
ing questions and sending price lists and
circulars, and giving liberal discounts off
from their regular retail price list, and l
am at work for the best interest Of the Or
der and so far have spent my time, and
considerable money. thought best not to
issue my price list before the 10th or 18th
of December and distribute them at the
State Grange meeting, at Faribault, on the
18th inst, as my motto is any thing that
is worth doing at all is worth doing we'll
Doing so hope my brothers will have
patience with me, for my delay is to their
benefit; and manufacturers will hurry up
and send me their bottom figures so that I
can insert them in my list; that is, if they
wish to deal with the Patrons through
their Agent, for this is their last chance to
have farm machinery advertised free Of
charge this year. Our own State manu-
facturers are not alive to their own in
terests. am afraid the eastern manufac-
turers will get the start Of them. notwith-
standing my orders to give our State the
preference, eastern men are sharp after
your State Agent, with bottom figures on
their implements. 1t is my wish to give
our home institutions fair chance, but if
they won't deal with us don't want them
to blame me, for have given them due no.
tice and, if necessary, will call on them,
and will be happy to do so if any firm will
drop me line at Winona, for we need all
our money in the State, and by purchasing
at home we will save the freight.
J. S. DENMAN, State Agent.
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03
Paragraphs from the Buffalo Anti.
MOnOpOlfst.

The labor Of the country furnishes near
ly the whole support of the cities.
The wealth Of this nation like the wealth
Of other nations, is rapidly accumulating
in the hands of a comparatively few persons
in our large cities. 9
All candid men will acknowledge this
truth, that the wealth is not distributed in
accordance with either the physical or
mental usefulness of those who obtain it.
Opposed to the masses who live in toll
and poverty, is a small proportion Of the
human race, surrounded by all the appli-
ances of luxury, and living in comparative
idleness.
Agrarianism is the division Of property
unjustly. Our monetary system, is sys-
TEN of agrarianism. Agrarianism takes
the property of man who produces it, and
gives it to man who does not produce it.
The cause Of monopolies is the wrong and
unjust distribution of the products of labor;
monopolies cannot possibly be created from
any other cause. It ie simply q system
that transfers the property from the hands
of the producers, into the hands of those
who do not produce it.
If the earth should open her chasms and
spew out pure malleable gold and sill
yer, as plenty as the rocks in the noun
tains, it would afford no relief: But if she
should cast out wheat, corn and vegetables,
beef, pork, mutton, poultry, besides gar
ments, houses, furniture, etc., the people
would be supplied with the means of sub
sistence.
Let man neither SOW nor reap, let manu.
featuring cease, commerce be suspended,
and what would be the condition of our
country at the end of five years? Would
not a large proportion of the people have
sunk into their graves from starvation; and
would not those who were living be almost
naked like the barbarians?
The producing classes of all civilized ma
tions have been and are as body poor.
Nearly all wealth is the production of Ia
Dor; therefore, producers would have pos
sessed it, had not something intervened to
prevent this natural result. Even in our
own country, where the reward Of labor is
greater than in most others, some cause is
operating with continual and growing ef-
feet to separate production from the pro-
ducer.
None will dispute that it is the bounden
duty Of q good government to protect and
preserve the rights Of property; none will
deny that il is the solemn duty Of govern
right to hundred million dollars of prop
erty, if he has it. Can they doubt then the
same sacred duty of the government to pro-
tect the producer in the rights of property,
viz: the products of his days labor! If it
is good logic and justice in the former case,
is it not as good logic and justice in the
latter case?
. The Grange Aduance exposes the latest
trick by which credulous farmers are in
duced to buy worthless goods. A peddler,
travelling throug b Goodhue county, repre-
sents himself as the agent Of an English
trading house which has failed but whose
creditors have given it an extension Of time
and privilege Of paying forty cents on. the
dollar, while its goods are admitted to this
country by special revenue act at less duty
than other peoples goods.-Dis-patch. s5e#
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03

8 NICE young men who wear half pound
rings on their fingers and feather tips in
their hats, have sworn off-sworn off pay
ing their debts until money is easier. HI d
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-04-23

GERMAN ~ TIE PUBLIC SCuooLs.-Profcs-
" oI:i.ial' but private. 1t will have no such
cit ct iii seems l!ard,y to be necessary to
make tie explanatory as 10 prevent the
teaching Of tic German language in the pub
lie schools OF this city. As we said in Tue
article alluded TO by Mr.. BLENSER, we are
Hot ct Professor JoYSEs's opinion. On he
contrary, we hold that child learns not only
The En-.l:.h but any language more readily
than an adult. Not that an adult may not
understand 4 new language so as to lie able
10 Translate it correctly sooner than i. could
hc 20 tlat>iacd by an infant, but because
a child learns to speak the new Ian
gua@c almost as quickly as he learns to
read il. Adults never do this. 1t is with
The languages Us with musician adult can
much more readily than child comprehend
what is told him concerning melody, har
mony, dyuamicS, rhythm, aud the diatonic
and cllromat!c scales, but the child will
nevertheless learn much quicker to sing ordi-
nary muse Ey note. or difficult music by
ear. Whoever fails to learn music or any
language whilst Il child will never except in
the case OF II gcnlus) learn either AS either is
learned by children. The defects Of early
education are as easily to be noticed in the
c1sc Of persons who have learned the Ian.
gna9cs in adult life us in the case of persons
who-c manners were not formed in child
hood
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-04-23
The Last Artillery Shot at AppOmat'
tox-WilO Fired It:
RICHMOND. Aprl! II, 1913.

RICHMOND. AprN IL, 1910.
To The Editors of the Richmond Dispatch:
Gcrtcmen,- your issue of this morn
ing notice an Interesting letter from your
very intelligent correspondent "Flator y
wblcl, contains one error, and which ask
permission to correct. II is very natural for
such mistakes to occur.
The "aSt artillery shot" was not fired by
battery stationed in the yard OF Mr..
Peers" but bya Richmond battery known as
"Johnson's Battery" and once commanded
by the late Major Marn,aduke johnson, Oh
this city. On the occasion referred to TINS
battery was commanded by our popular
sheriff, Captain John w. Wright. While
waiting for orders TO advance with my
artillery on the morning Of the 9th OF April,
Lieutenant James Grattan, also of this city,
and who was at that time acting as adJu'ant
to nv battalion, returned from the front,
and, with his eyes full of tears, said: Ma
ior. the army cannot advance; can't you
omen the way with your artillery" We had
not been able to haul enough ammunition
from the lines near Petersburg for one
hours active firing. and for six days neither
man nor horse Lad received Il siugle ration
from the quartcrmastcr. yet, il anything was
W tbC utttHtlCu. bClC SSNiii1N " " y
sion. Riding forward to select a position fol
the artillery, we had gone but short as
lance when, to our surprise and mortlhca.
ton, we found ourselves in the presence OF
Generals Gordon and Custar surrounded
by u large staff. a glance told the story. Tue
firing was still going on, especially on the lett:
SO soon as recognized by General Gordon
was ordered to cause the firing to cease. d.
rectcd Adiutant Grattan to go to the rlshi
while | went to the left. and ascending Il hlli
found "Johnson's Battery" commanded, a,
before stated, by Captain Wright, actively
engaged, and when tue order was given TO
..cease lrlng" the question came from many
anxious, tremblin. lips, What for! What's
the matter'? The reply sent Iang OF
anguish to every heart 100 deep for utter
ancc. With the last deep-toDcd and defiant
sound sent forth hy this brave Richmond
battery the great heart Of the nobe Army
of Northern Virginia had ceased to Leaf io :
ever: and then i.Ieie "was stiIiuc>s us oil
DEATH
AS my purpose is to make correction
upon my own personal knowledge, | SUBJ
scribe myself, very respectfully,
WILLIAM W. PARKER,
late Major of Artillery Of {. ). y.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-04-23
Communicated.
What ssa GtirOla0uacfer?

4 late Dispatch cont tlIS Il communi.
cation asking the question, What Is Il rlro-
uomcter? As the question has reference to
nv article of a previous da;e, feel called
upon for an explanation "pr0 bono Pubhco.'
\ thermometer is nothing more nor less
than Il tmc-kccper, used for the same pur-
pose as q watcll-to measure time. Chrc-
norcterS vary in size and value; they run
from two TO eight days, and are wound up
- Il clock The balanc,,-wheel, being conf
posed Of gold, silver, platinum, and other
metals, is less liable TO be affected by tue
sudden chaugcs of temperature. good
thermometer costs in England, where they
are principally made. from forty to one
hundred pounds sterling. No timc-kceper
his ever been produced to run 10 me;'n
llrc. They either gain or lose time.
Within the last hdG-cen:ury chronomcterS
have been used to ascertain localities. Early
nayieatorS never used chronoElrtrrS, ana
We're mcu Of more scientific attalnmcnt>
than the present generation. Localities
were then ascetaincd by lamar o6se1 rd-
tons--a science at the present day very
seldom practiced by seafarlng men.
The longitude Of any locality can only be
;Scer;uined by thermometer or lunar oGScrva-
tionS--by the latter ouIy when the sun and
moon, or moon and luna: stars, are in proper
distance.
CbroDometerS are very useful and con-
yencnt, as the longitude can he dscertdtned
erery ten minutes in tie day when the sun Is
uuoI:scured and thirty degrees above the
horizon.
The thermometer is Of no other use i'll nav-
cation than to ascertain the longitude. Eng
fish and American nayIgators make all thclr
calculations from Greenwich, and their
thermometers are oil regulated to Greenwich
mean time. The difference in time be-
tween any locality is the difference in
longitude. Every hours difference in
time is fifteen degrees difference Of lonSi-
lude. For example, there is about five
hours difference of time between Green
WITCH and New York. Allowing fifteen de-
grees to every hour, places New York in
longitude seventy-tive. The thermometer IS
of no use whatsoever in aScertaininS the !atl-
tude of any Locality, which can only be ascer-
tanned by meridian observation Of the sun or
moon, which can only be bad once every
twcnty-four hours.
ANY further information on the subject of
navigation or the use of the thermometer,
barometer. or transit instruments, will he
cheeriullv given by lisbon BENEDICT.
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4irtlntol1d Dispatth.
WEDNESDAY .........A fhiL @'' 1000
J1s,;rv-Cpinions Change.

y
The grand jury Of the city of New lofs
some years since indicted numbers OF per
sons for violation Of the usurv law, an"
tl:rv were convicted. and suffered INC i"h'
a,;v in the case provided. But change i'>
come over the public sentiment OF inc i''''' -
view Of the wrong done to lender III" wv
rover by restricting the price Tor inc "Sc "
money: and The grand jury of the great GU!
few DAYS ago, instead Of iudictlnS any oooS
for violating the law. presented TIC u" Hse'i
,s \ nuisance The jury goes further, ana
recommends the repeal OF the law so lar as
!; r,la.cs 10 The city OF New York.
The Suggestion i>a good one. II the rural
or AGRICULTURAL population fear that the aholl-
tioa of the u>ury law will make money
dcarcr. way, let them have the law; but II
j, a gross injustice TO 4 large commercial and
manufacturing population, who do not want
such q law, TO force Ii upon them. ouch a
poUulatiou understands the effect OF
The restriction upon the rate Of inter-
est much better than the iarmer-'hcy
understand how such restriction nj
times of scarcity Of money forces the
rate Of interest above what it would be II
freed from restraint. The middeman
comes in. and besides his commissions there
is III indemnity against the peril OF II law
sui 10 &c paid 10y the borrowcr-p man-
who is thus, by the bad effects of the law,
made 10 pay out OF his hardly-Carncd means
,.,fy
Were there no such law the borrower. what
ever lie might pay for the Use OF money.
would not have to pay charges on these two
grounds. And if he were compelled some
times 70 pay more than the rate in New
York t>cveh per cent, for example, he would
seldom have TO Jay more than that OF Lou
isianl Ncm per cent?; he would al Others get
money nj les than the lower Of these Two
r4tcS. For the day will come when none.
VIII he loaned in this country al three per
ccuf
II is hard that the rural representatives OF
q State should force upon the cities a usury
law when they unanimously pray TO lie re-
lic,cd from il. 1t may hc replied that it
woald tc also hard to refuse TO give such Il
law 10 the people Of The country, as they ask
forit. Then crafty both; give the law to
tue country and relieve the cities from its
bad effects in the business Of commerce and
manufacturing in&u>lry.
But do the people of the country in Nir'
g;Eia demand such law: The vote at Our
laS, elections showed Il profound Indifference
: upon the subject. Hence the law that our
4 Legislature passed is liberal to a degree that
! mus; be a forcrunner to the abolition OF all
u>urv laws.