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Another Steal.

The cunning little State of Connectl-
cut has invented plan to levy tribute
on the West, by taxing its life insurance
companies on funds gathered principal
" from other States and those funds
are then used by the people of Connec-
ticut to carry on business, while the
people of the West are unable to COM
pete with Connecticut in manufacturing
for want of cheap capital.
1t turns out that the working expen.
ses of our eastern life insurance com
panies are altogether out Of proportion
to the working expenses of life lnsur'
ance companies in England. The com
parison is as follows:
UNITED STATES. ENGLAND
Working expenses 3 81 perct 9.l3 per ct
Taxes, Ell per Ct. 40 per CT
That is. the cost of running life IN
surance company. is more than tnre'
times as great here as in England, whll
taxes are eight times as great.
But this is the glorious free-land 0
universal liberty and stealing, and JOIN
Bull is fool compared with our intel
ligent people!
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4 Tender Subject for Stebbins.

Our old friend. Stebbins, gives our
new paper very handsome notice.
which he concludes in the following
kindly manner:
Near the close OF his salutatory comes
the significant statement: One thing we can
promise. that it nerer ir,H be bought,
which we presume is the same thing as say
ing that the Hastings x Dakota Railway
Company have no longer any use Tor the
new iedsed editor"
Now. Steb., would it not be better to
avoid abiding to the subject of being
bought :" You remember how for
weeks after Averill was nominated you
refused to hoist his name. or the name
of any one else. and maintained state
of mastery inactivity and diplomatic
silence. until Averill came down and saw
you, and arranged that printing oil
for 5000; and then. and not till then,
You realized the dasJ you owed to the
grand old Republican party" and hoist
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the period may again make sudden
change. That we really are clearing out
our stores is further manifest in the last
week S returns. which for wheat are SoO5
ars. below those of 1873, and the weekly
imports by no means make up for the
deficiency. As there now can neither
be an abundance of hay nor roots, all
feeding stufs threaten to be very dear.
unless they turn out much better abroad
than in the British Isles. But the stocks
of every sort Of corn are this year
throughout the world getting such
clearance as since the free use Of steam
ers has hardly been known, and people
must be dreaming who think that either
themselves or their cattle will live much
cheaper than they do. Prices in Bel
GUM. Holland and Germany continue
much as they were, but with improved
prospects in Hungary. rates have given
way about Is per or. on wheat, there
having been some nice showers after
tropical heat. In New York they con-
tinue to fuctuate about Is, being re-
Gently dearer from the cold, ungenial
weather.
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The Sllernnan&.

General Sherman and his family will
not leave Washington until October,
when Miss Minnie wedding takes place.
The General has all his children with
him now, which pleasure he has not en-
loved for long time before, and as one
of the number will soon be married, it
is not likely that they will all be gath
cred together again for some time. At
ter the wedding, in the fall, the General
and Mrs. Sherman win remove to St.
Louis, and the building of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company has already
been secured for the Generals head
quarters. Mr.. Fitch and his bride will
accompany them, and it is said that ne
will resign his commission in the navy
and 90 into business in that city. Thos.
E. Sherman,th second son,goes to Yale
for two years course. The two young
er girls will 60 back to Cincinnati, and
we hear that Miss Lizzie will spend the
winter here with her friend Mrs. Nor
gan L. Smith. Washington Letter.
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Wind-POwer Mills.

Horace Greeley. when he visited Min
nesota. called the attention Of our peo-
pie to the great amount Of wind-power
going to waste on our great prairies,
and argued that our people should util-
ize it.
This has been done at Owatonna, and
more lately at Pennington. The Press
of the latter village thus refers to a
gr:st mill just erected there by Andrew
Warsop, Of Hastings;
sWarsop's Mill is a success. This enter
prise was commenced by Mr. Warsop be-
cause he had faith in it. He knew that he
could put in the best of machinery for grind
ing, and he knew the power was plentiful
ana cheap. The mill is now in perfect run
ming order, and will be kept very busy in
doing custom-work for the farmers. The
kind OF -four they will get will OF course de-
pend much upon the quality OF wheat they
carry to the mill but the grinding in itself
i is ali that can be desired. The committee
representing those who subscribed the small
bonus at the outset have reported favorably
upon the work of the mill, and are satisfied
that Mr. Warsop has fairly filed his part OF
the contract Let others do what they
agreed to-as we doubt not all will be will
ing to- We have used the flour from the
mill and we find it as well ground as that Of
the Gardner mills at Hastings.
Mr.. Warsop. we understands ready te
take contracts to build other wind-pow
er grist mills. We see no reason why
they should not be as great success il
Minnesota as they have been for gener
atoms in England and France. We un
derstand that at Owatonna the mill doe
good work for three-fourths of the year
!, This is as much as can be obtained GU
Of an average water-powcr.
We would be glad to have Mr.. War
, sop give our readers some statistics a
to the cost of his mills and the amour
Of work they will do.
A civilized people ought not to lie
even the wind 90 to waste.
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News About Bees.

Mr.. Pettigrew, one Of the most sue
cessful Of English bee-keepers, has made
public results of recent observations,
some of which are new to us. and tend,
if possible, to increase our respect for
these wonderful little insects. The
king, or queen, or mother, as he. she, or
it, is variously called, is Matched from
the egg in fourteen days, whereas it
takes twenty-one days to hatch
worker" and twcnty-four to hatch
drone. Moreover, the queen lives four
years, while the workers maximum
lease of life is only nine months. The
bees have the power, or knack, OF select
ing their queens before they are born.
That is to say, they will select an egg
from the common stock, that has no
$ ear mark perceptible to human eyes.
This they place in royal cell, and feed
the grub with milky gelatinous sub
stance, known as "royal jelly. The
result is that queen is developed. A
healthy queen will often lay two thou
sand eggs day during the heat of sum-
mer, and may, in the course OF her life,
deposit as many as eight hundred thou
sand eggs. 1t has been ascertained, by
observation, that the fructifying OF many
flowers is due to the constant passing
and repassing Of bees, whereby the pol
len is mingled. And many careful gar
deners have found it impossible to keep
distinct the different varieties OF spec
les, owing to the $ crossing effected by
these industrious messengers.
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Gov. Davis and the GrasshOp-
D4TS.

Bill King and Ramsey are working to-
cether. Hence the Minneapolis Iri-
bune goes for Gov. Davis rough-shod.
1t says:
Gov. Davis philanthrophy, or his
great desire to be United States Senator.
has led him to go too far in this matter.
He has exaggerated the suffering con-
siderably, and the urgency of immedi-
ate relief still more. Minnesota is able
to take care of all who have
been losers by the grasshoppers
att least for the present. Suffi
Gent opportunity has not been given
our own citizens to organize relic
measures. before the Governor tele'
graphed to the east for aid. His course
has been most injurious to Minnesota
and as shown by the above extract, ha'
led to gross Misrepresentation of larg
class Of our citizens. 1t would aid tn
cause ofthose needing relief if Cor
ernor Daris could be suppressed.
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A B0ston Man i'm Paris.

The Paris correspondent Of the Area
dian writes at follows: Il must tell
you little history which will amuse
YOU. You have heard of Madame
Judie, who was once the star of the Ell
dorado, and who, by dint Of beauty,
fine voice and much talent, has pushed
her way into the opera bouffe company
Well, the other night, Madame Jude
was in her box assisting at first per-
Torrance, when 10! tap, and gentle
tap, tap, tapping came upon her tboxl
door. She opened it and there entered
unto her man-servant, with curious
present in his white cotton gloved
hands. 1t consisted Of five red pinks
struck through ring. Said ring was
set with diamonds and cat eyes, and is
worth about $1,000. With it was a
note, and the note read thus: Madame,
| am an American. l adore, but have
never spoken to you. Accept this gift
from one who worships you, but is
obliged to go home to his wife in Bos-
ton. an American How nice to be a
pretty actress and get pretty gifts from
people who don't even know you to
speak to ; but how dangerous it is for
wives in Boston to let their husbands
90 all alone to Paris.
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Ag!ritnltural.
The origin Of Our Fruits.

Professor Asa Gray, in paper read
before the American Pathological Socie-
ty, makes some interesting and apt re-
marks as to the origin Of our cultivated
fruits. He asks. ''Were the fruits made
for man, or did man make the fruits !
These, he says, ''need not be taken as
mutually exclusive propositions for as
God helps those who help themselves,
and man work IN this respect is main
y. if not wholly, in directing the course
or tendency OF nature, SO there is just
sense IN which we may say the art it.
self is nature by which the greatest
tr;umphs Of Horticultural. skill have
been accomplished. Moreover. I am
not one Of those naturalists who would
have you believe that nothing which
comes by degrees, and in the course Of
nature. is to be attributed to Divine
power. The answer should give to the
question, as we thus put it, is: l. Some
fruits were given to man as they are,
and he has only gathered and consumed
them. But these are all minor fruits,
and such as have only lately come with
in the reach of civilized man, or are not
thought worth his trouble. Cranber-
ries, persimmons and papaws are ex-
amples. Whether even such fruits have
or not been under course Of improve
ment irrespective Of man. is another
question. 2. Others have come to man
full favored, and nearly all that he has
done has been to increase their size ano
| abundance. or extend their season. Cur
rants and gooseberries, raspberries, AM
black berries, chestnuts, and, above all
Strawberries are of this class. 8. Blu
most of the esteemed and importan
fruits. as well as the grains, have not s.
much been given to man as made b,
], him. The gift outright was mainl.
plastic, raw material, time and oppol
! tunity. As to the cereal grains, it
t only of the cat that we probably know
!, the wild original; Of wheat there ha
l been an ingenious conjecture, partly bu
!. iusufficiently confirmed by experiment
1 of the rest. no wild stock is know
: which is not most likely itself an es
t cape from cultivation. Of some Of thci
t such especially as maize. not only ca
: no wild original be indicated, but in a
:. probability none exists. So Of the sta
J. pie fruits of some, the wild original
J can be pretty well made out; Of NOR
t they are merely conjectural; of som
e they are quite unknown and, herhap
S long ago extinct.-The Genard.
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Welcome F.! Anti Monopoiist.

RED WING, July p, 1874.
"Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel
lust,
And he but naked, though locked up in
steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupt
ed"
" Truths would you teach, or save sinking
land,
All fear, none aid YOU, and few understand"
So they say lady is canvassing Red
Wing for Donnelley's paper! What
does she know about politics! Well.
that is cool, to say the least of it, when
it is well known fact that was raised.
or like ''Topsy,' 'spect | crowd : in
land where the people were so patri-
otto and loyal, that their tallest
crops were liberty poles, 100 feet
high, with banners, on which were en-
craven these symbolic words: Liberty,
Equality, Justice. Know about politics..
Just this, if no more. that it is every
man duty to vote; and also, since that
it is the people who are by right the
actual lawmakers, since by your votes
alone is the power delegated to corrupt
officials, it should be your highest
duty to hear both sides, and let rea-
son be our s'chief justice" and decide
for the right. Never mind party, stand
by principles. Let the American youth
never forget that they possess noble
inheritance, capable Of transmission, il
wisely improved, to their latest poster
ity, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty
Of property, Of religion and independ
ence. It has been reared for immor
tally. It's defenses are impregnablt
from without. 1t may, nevertheless
perish in an hour, by the folly or cor
ruption or negligence of its only keep
ers, the people. Republics fall whel
the wise are banished from the publ
councils, because they dare to be hon
est; and the profigate are rewarded
because they fatter the people in or
der to betray them. Thus spoke tn
lamented Judge Story; his words noV
have terrible significance
MRS. NJ l. WASHBURN.
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Additional Agents.

IN addition to the list Of agents
named on cur first page we have re-
.ceived club lists from the gentlemen
named below, who will be kind enough
to act as our agents and receive sub
scriptions in their respective localities
Pine Island, Goodhue Go. = Geo. W.
Paige, Jr.
Carrollville, Olmsted Gown. Freeman.
Nicollet, Nicollet Colon z. H. McDer-
Smith Lake, Wright Goa. Z. Cochran
Hastings, Minn.-B. A. Day, Jonathan
Beswick.
Millersbr,rg, Rice Co.--Nelson H. Fulton
NIantorville, Dodge Co.--Henry Beard.
West St Paul-Charles Crawshaw.
Window, Minn-Wm. Prentiss.
Owatonna-J. w. Mortord.
Brownsville, Mower Coz. J. Stimson.
Dundas, Rice GOWN. Tew.
Litchtieid Meeker CO.-Jesse '. Branham
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Responses from the People.

How can we doubt the triumph Of
our principles when the very women Of
the land can feel and write as our hon
ored correspondent from Red Wing.
whose letter appears below?
And how can we doubt the success
of the ANrI-MoNoPoL1sT when even the
Washburn family are working for it
But, seriously, we thank our kind
friend. Mrs. Washburn, for her able
letter, and her generous services. If all
the women in our land could turn their
thoughts from fashion and frivolity to
consideration of the great interests
of mankind, the day Of female suffrage
would not be far distant.
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ed his banner. The people Of Dakota
county remember it perfectly well, you
don't. You and Todd have been living
for wears on the fruits of treachery and
ingratitude. Every pound of flesh on
the bones of either of you, has been paid
for by the cowardly desertion of one who
had always been your friend.
For YOU will admit, yourself, Steh, that
nothing but the accidental circumstance
Of your publishing a paper in Dakota
county; and forcing yourself before the
world in the attitude Of our organ, ever
induced Averill to buy you. Will any
human being believe that if toddy res
ted on his own merits, (God save the
mark J he would ever have reached the
elevation even Of poundmaster, much
less have filled for four years the most
lucrative federal Office in the State?
No, Steb; when you sold us out you
sold Averill too-badly. The universal
disgust with you and toddy was one of
the causes which have left the Republi-
can party in Dakota county in minor
ity more than twice as great as their
total vote; that is to say the Republi-
can vote in old Dakota is about 600
the majority against them nearly 1900
That is your work, Steb, in great part.
Never mention the word bought
again. Don't.
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LONG LAKE. Hennepin Co., J
July q. 1874.

DEAR SIR: I am much pleased with
your new paper. 1t is just the thing
and quite fills the bill. | hope the
friends Of reform will respond in a
proper way. not by sympathy alone
but by sending long lists Of subscribers
to the paper. l think | can procure
about forty names in this town, alone
and | send you a list in this.
Our political meeting was quite
success. and, strange to say, there were
only two persons present not in full
sympathy with US. These supper
Bill King. but otherwise they are witt
the Anti-Monopolists soul and body.
The Autobiography feeling IS 81
strong in many townships Of this coun
ty. that the Republicans cannot raise
quorum for a caucus to send delegate
to the ring conventions
Truly and resp'ly yours, G.
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The Second District.

Politics are running into the shabby
end of nothing.
There is Strait, who comes as near to
nothing as mere legislative response
can come. he is to be nominated again
for Congress. 1t is all arranged. What
BY the people? Not bit of it. The
people what have they to do with
such things?
But Thacher and he have made bar
gain. Strait is to go back this fall and
Thatcher is to succeed him two years
from now; and he, Thacher will then
claim the right to succeed himself TOR
two years more. This farms the thing
out until 1882! And where, in the
meantime, if this pretty programme Is
carried through, will Austin and Liberty
Hall, and Asa Hutchinson, and Har-
r::ngton and all the rest of them be !
Probably all handsomely enscoused un-
der their tombstones before Thacher
finishes his second term.
And then see how nicely the bargain
works itself out !!
As soon as Thatcher closed his bargain
Jcnnison, in the Red Wing Republican
opened in favor of Strait. And what
do YOU think he advanced as the great
argument in favor of Strait His hon
csty9 No. His eloquence? No. Hi:
genius! No. His learning! No
What was it then
Why, that he. Strait, hac
induced Uncle Sam to bul'
a post office building il
Red Wing. And therefore Strait mus
go back to Congress.
And then Todd and Stebbins, of tn
Hastings Ga1ette, approvingly quot
what the Republican says. 1t is tru
that Hastings has received no post otiic
building from Uncle Sam; but the
Uncle Sam feeds Todd and Stebbins. an
that is as much to the delighted peopl
of Hastings as if they had $4,000
post office.
And the next Office holder will take u
the refrain, and so public opinion mani
tests itself and Strait will be re-non
mated: to be buried under a majorit
of ten thousand. given by narrow mint
localities that possess neither govern
ment post office building or Todd an
Stebbins.
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Resolved, That copy of this resolu-
ton be sent to the Farmers Union for
publication.
We have now under discussion the
following question, which every Grange
in the United States ought to discuss
until they understand it:
s.Resolved. That our present system
of taxation, which excmpts the wealthy
and imposes all the burdens of the gen.
eral government upon the consumers is
wrong and unjust and ought to b
abolished. Respectfully yours,
g. JACKISs.
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How are the Mighty Fallen.

This is a melancholy world. Last
winter there shone in the State Senate
bright peculiar star, the distinguished
Senator from LIE Sueur-Hon. Freeman
Talbot. He Illuminated that body
with the corruscat;ons of wit worthy
Of Curran; dignifed by suavity and
grace greater than that of Palmerston.
He was one of the leaders of the Repub-
lican party in the Senate; and he might
have said TO them in the language of
Henry of Navarro:
Press where you see my white head
shine
for he was their orifomn,e.
But as Hamlet says: 1.-THE dust Of
Alexander may come in time to stop
the bung hole of beer barrel;'' and
from his lofty pedestal of statesman
ship the illustrious Talbot has descend.
ed to become peripatetic peddler Of
| the St. Paul Press, and a correspondent
under the fictitious name of Jerry Sui
livan, and the disguise Of an honest man
for that deiectable sheet. Alas
Alas!
But we will not dwell upon the pain
full theme. but rather
walk backward with averted gaze
And hide his shame
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HAssAS. Hennepin Co., July %, 1877

HAssAs, Hennepin Co., July %, 1874.
Editors Anti-Monopolist.
The Hassan Grange, some five weeks
ago. adopted the following resolution,
and sent il to the Farmers Union for
publication. As it has never appeared
in the Union. send it to your paper
Resolved. That after having read and
heard read the letter of Mr.. Donnelly,
published in the Farmers Union OF
May Both, giving his opinions as to
what are proper questions for discus
sion in the Grange We hereby endorse the
sentiments therein expressed
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BRECKENRIDGE. Wilkin Co., MINI

BRECKENRIDGE, Wilkin Co., MINI.
DEAR SIR: Please forward your pa
per to the following subscribers:
Here follows list of names.
We hope to give the Autobiography
ticket a respectable support in this
county this fall. But most of Us are
not able to spend our time and money
travelling over the country importunins
settlers for their votes. As the I. S.
mail agents are compelled to do SO by
their masters, they have US somewhat
at a disadvantage. Nevertheless ths
result will be very different from what
| it has been heretofore.
Yours truly, b.
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Amti-@unupolist.
Autobiography Convention.
FIRST DISTRICT.


The undersigned, appointed by the
Democratic and Liberal Convention for
the First Congressional District OF MIN
nesota, held at Owatonna on the 18th
day Of September, 1872, hereby invite
the voters Of the above parties and all
other persons opposed to the present
Republican administration and party,
to unite in electing delegates to Con-
gressional District Convention, to be
held at the city Of Owatonna, on
TUESDAY, SEPT. lst, 1874
at u o clock m. for the purpose ofnom-
mating Member of Congress, and tor
the transaction Of such other business
as may properly come before the Con-
vention.
The several counties will De entitled
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In our article on the fifth page, entitled
GA Shabby Recantation," one or two ty-
biographical errors occur;-one being the
substitution Of the word ECONOMY" tor
'shonesty." The two things generally go
together, but they are not synonymous.
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Yours truly,
ROCHESTER. MINI. Jul,

ROCHESTER. MINI. July Is, 1874.
Editor Anti Monopolist, St. Paul.
DEAR SIR: Your paper came to hand.
1t is as able and pungent as expected.
am glad the ti-Monopoly party
have at last got State organ. bold
enough to advocate the rights of the
people.
Every man thus far that have sollc-
tied has subscribed for your paper. 1t
is just what the people want, and they
know it. Yours respectfully, ". 4.
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The Way 1t Takes.

LIrcHr1ELp. Mimi. July q. 1874.
DEAR SIR: Yesterday about three
clock l made up my mind to step out
and secure you club of five. In two
hours had So, with the cash. all paid
up. We can raise it to so.
Respectfully yours. b.
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Milwaukee Sen ;sIt ~ N the
credit Of Milwaukc men
looked at the graft out
remarking that it IT, ! ve
that throat-one CT t1x ID = y !
/. 80 long" ss<S