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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
THE TEXAS BORDER.
Troops on Their Way to Protect the
Frontier.

To The Governor OF Texas.
The following is just received from the
General Of the army, in answer to one
from prominent citizens of Corpus Christi,
setting forth the condition Of affairs in
that portion of Texas:
Your dispatch of the 10Th is received
and will be sent to the Secretary of War
for the information of the President. The
duty of troops or the Rio Grande frontier
is to protect all officers Of the General
Government, and as far as possible to aid
the State authorities in protecting people
against organized bands of marauders
from any quarter; but the State authori.
ties should understand that on them rests
the duty in the first instance, and that we
only can assist them should it be a hostile
measure from Mexico, The President
may order more troops and a more posi-
tive course of action.
II. G. DRUM, Assist Adjutant General.
Please inform me how best can CO
operate with the State authorities in pro-
tccting the frontier. I have ordered out
troops from Ringgold Barracks and Fort
Brown. Troops should in both cases be
accompanied by civil officers empowered
to make arrests. Can you give directions
to that effect?
EO. C. ORD, Brigadier General.
The following was received today:
FORT BROWN, April 81, 1875.
a. A. G.. Department of Texas, San Anto-
nio, Texas.
Will send my disposable mounted force
in the direction of Ell Sause Rio Cano. No
news of marauders to day.
J. H. POTTER,
Colonel Twenty-fourth Infantry, Com
manding.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
Correspondence Of Wester Farm Journal.
Scandal and DetractiOn.

"Be you puro as ice, white ~ snow, yet
shall you not escape calumny."
A great and good man e. Kossuth)
lately passed from the face of the earth.
His contemporaries tried to make out that
he was sordid-that he loved money more
than his country. But he died poor, as
he himself said, with hands empty, but
Clean" In his day, Il we'll remember the
tine) he was dictator, and could have
revolutionized Austria. The Empress of
Austria went ON he: knees to him, and
begged him to forbear, and he relented.
Yet this was the man whom they after
wards tried to make out was mean and
sordid, and many believed so. His speech
es in the English language would com
pare with the best efforts of the best ora
tors, yet his only chance to learn that
language was during three years in an
Austrian prison, and his only books were
"Johnson's Dictionary" and an edition
Of "Shakespeare"
A torn leaf Of pamphlet with Kos
suth's name on it, suggests these re-
marks.
Perhaps it might be deemed indiscreet
to remark on another good man (as l be-
lieve) whose contemporaries are now mis-
using him, bad as Kossuth's did in his
day. A mouse may squeak, or frog
croak, and the world moves on all the
same. An obscure correspondent of far
West paper may make remark and the
world moves on as before. Beecher's tri-
al may be ended before this can be pub
lished. A black mail conspiracy is the
summary OF the case. Beecher's oppo-
nent has talent of high order. So Mil
tons Satan was intellectual, bold and bad.
The record of well spent life cannot
thus be brought to naught by bit OF sor-
did scandal
The late Horace Greely whose latter
days were held up to ridicule and con-
tempt by many, has perhaps done more
good in this country by leading public
opinion, than any other man. His writ
ings, like "brcad thrown upon the wa
ters," j" may return after many days and do
good dservice-when the alteration ofmind
that guided (or rather misguided) his lat
ter days are forgotten.
In judging the character of great men
(and the good only arc grcaD it would be
we'll for us first to read the eloquent def.
milton Of the word "charity in the Scrip
ture, and then if an error of judgment &C.
cur, the error will be noble one, on tie
side Of mercy. F. J. EMARy. j.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
Nude Statuary.

The modern sculptor has hard time Of
it with his portrait statues, it must be con-
fesscd. What is he to do? Shall he dress
gentleman as he finds him; go back to
the toga; or further back still to tue Alto
gether natural man? Or shall he CON-
promise with cloak or water-proof-as
IN tho case of the Savior Of his country,
expiating his virtues in Union Square
They have the same trouble in England
I as here: vide VIM B. Scott For centur.
les, he says, the portrait statues Of the
kings appeared in the Roman cuirass with
bare arms and knees, and their statesmen
in the chlamys and toga. One last step
only was wanting to adopt the ideal an
tique and abandon clothing altogether,
and this was very near accomplished to-
ward the close Of last century. Canova's
statute of Napoleon, now in Apsley House,
Is absolutely naked; and the statute to
Samuel johnson, in st. .Paul's, is almost
undraped, = single loose covering being
thrown so as to he only useful for the
sculptor's supposed artistic purposes-a
ludicrous spectacle in simply rational
point Of view; the stout old gentleman as
he leans his head on his hand in his naked
ness, seeming to be saying to himself:
What sad case things have come to with
me at last, standing before the public IN a
state of nature"
1t is matter Of tradition that the statue
of Washington, by Greenough, in the
grounds of the Capitol at Washington, is
saying as plain as gesture and counte-
nance can say: MY sword is by my side,
and my clothes are in the Patent Office
toward which he points with majestic
modesty-Scribner for March.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
Too Poor to Take a Newspaper.

| An anecdote is told of farmer going one
day to the office of New York journal
and ordering bis paper stopped, because
he was too poor to take it any longer.
Suppose we make bargain said the
editor, in this way. Go home and select
ia hen that shall be called my hen sell the
eggs that the hen lays during the year,
and send the proceeds to me as your sub
scription for the paper"
The farmer was pleased at so easy a way
to pay for his paper, and readily consent:
ed. The result was, that during the year
the hen paid for the paper twice its regu-
lar price of subscription.
This is by no means pure fiction, for
the same may be true in a great multitude
of cases. Almost every one wastes and
throws away more than enough money
during the year to get weekly or daily
newspaper that would furnish him with
intellectual food, and keep him posted in
the busy stirring events of the day. A
very small retrenchment in the luxurics
that almost every one indulgcs in would
secure daily visitor full cf gossip about
the dolngs Of the great world around us ;
full Of stirring events in the history that
is every day being made in our own coun-
try, and full Of useful general information
and facts in literature, science, and art.
Besides, it is the duty of the people to sup
port the press, for it has always stood as
grand bulwark between them and po-
litical and military oppression; it has
sounded the notes of warning that has Of
ten aroused them to action it has stripped
the borrowed cloak from corruption and
and venality in high places, and showed
them in all their deformity, and is to-day
the great friend of education, justice, re.
ligion, and peace. The press speaks
everywhere, at all times, carrying light il
places where otherwise darkness would
reign. And when we remember what the
world would be without the press-how
darkness, ignorance, vice and oppression
would flourish unopposed, let no one any
longer say that lie is too poor to take q
newspaper.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
A Right Hand Servant.

Asa and Ira were brothers, whose farms
lay side by side. When the young corn,
the oats and the barely were speinging up,
the weeds took advantage of the rich soil
and came up with them.
"Do you see," said Asa, "what q hold
the weeds are taking? There is danger
of their choking out the crops entirely"
!: Well, well, we must be resigned said
Ira. weeds as we'll as grain were = part
Eof The Creator's PLAN. -
"The army worm is in the neighbor:
hood" said Asa to Ira one day, "and is
fast moving toward U.s."
"Ahw exclaimed Ira, lit will surely de.
stroy what the weeds haye not choked out
l will Immediately retire to pray that its
course may be stopped"
But Asa replied, Il pray every morning
for strength to do the work of the day.
And he hastened to dig trench around
his land which the army worm could moi
pass, while Ira returned from his prayers
only in season to save portion of his
crops from its ravages.
"Do you see, Ira:" said Asa, another
morning, 1.-The river is rising, and oul
farms will be ovcrf1owed."
"Alas, it is a judgment upon us for ou,
sins, and what can we do?" said Ira, ir
| despair.
'There are no judgments so severe as
those which our sloth brings upon us,
said Asa; and he went quickly and hired
workmen, and they raised an embankmen
that wlthstood the flood, while Ira wit
messed, with blank looks, the destruction
of all his wealth.
There is one consolation" said he, "mJ
children at least are left me-"
But while Asa's sons grew up strong
and virtuous men, among Ira's there
was a drunkard, a gambler and sui
eide
"The ways Of the Lord arc not equal,
said Ira to his brother. "Why are 20,
always prospcring, while I am afflicted
and disgraced ?"
II only know this" replied Asa, "tha
heaven always helped me to meet my chill
dren's faults as meet the weeds, the cat
erpillars and the food; and never sent
a petition upward without making toll M,
right hand servant, the messenger of m.
i PRAYER. Work and pray,'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
How to Calculate Interest, and What 1t
VIII Do.

How to Calculate Interest, and What 1t
VIII Do.
The following rules are so simple and
so true, according to all business usages,
that every banker, broker, merchant or
clerk should post them up for reference.
There being no such thing as fraction
in ii, there is scarcely any liability to er-
ror or mistake. By no other arithmetical
process eau the desired information be
obtained by so few figures:
Six per cent.-Multiply any given mum
Der Of dollars by the number Of days Of
interest desired; separate the right hand
figure and divicc by six; the result is the
true interest on such sum for such number
Of days at six per cent.
Eeight per cent.-Multiply any given
amount for the number of days upon
which it is desired to ascertain the inter
est, and divide by forty-five, and the re-
suit will be the !nteress Of, such sum 70,
the time required, at eight per cent.
Ten per cent.-Multiply the same as
above, and devide by thirty-six' and the
result will be the amount of interest at ter
per cent.
What it will do.-If a mechanic OF
clerk saves only 2T cents per day, from
the time he is twenty-one untilhe is three
score and ten, the aggregate, with interes
will amount to $4,000; and daily saving
| Of 2719 cents reaches the important sun
Of $4,000. A sixpcnce saved daily viii
! provide fund Of s7,000-sufficient t.
purchase good farm. There are few EN-.
ployes who cannot save daily, by abstain
ing from the use Of cigars, tobacco, liquor
etc, twice or ten times the amonnt of thl
six cent piece. Every person should pro
vide for old age, and the man in bushes
who can save by dollar a day will event
ualIy find himself possessed ofovcr 800.
600.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
Wise Mems Blunders.

Some very amusing additional blunders
have been found in the new revised stat.
utes. The chapter upon the War Depart.
ment has many serious errors. The fol:
lowing have been omitted from the revis.
ion: The law which authorized the Presi.
dent to assign an acting chief to . mill.
tarY bureau; the law which allowed whis.
Ky to fatigue parties in certain cross-cases
the, law which made bee rs part of the
army ration; the law which forbids the
drawing Of government checks to bearer;
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
TERs:a
TERMS: $500 per Annum.


the law which fixed the first assistant in
the Ordnance Bureau the law which de-.
fined the duties Of certain clerks in the
War Department. The statutes also give
the President the right to appoint two
and-onc.half persons to the Military Acad-
emy every year, and provide that militia
man must appear upon parade with a
matchbox, certain number of tlints, and
a pair of bullet.m0lds. l.. =. ri. IT,. :.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
He Loves Me, He Loves Ne Not.


Pstals plusked and thrown away
On the bresss ore ds.tins; ~ -.
Daisy, pray, ny fortune say,
Whssi Z q ne dating!
Hsloves me, hs loves ne not; 8,
He lives me not, he loves me; .
Dsisy, pray, ny fortune say.
Hs loves mo not, he loves me.
Viii he ha ssldisr smart, @...'-' .
Whe BY storn will take ne7
Or will aailor break ny heart,
His figure head to make mel
He loves me, sto. >.x~ls.
, Win hs hs : man to preach =
Evsa-soag and matin! >> =
o. shall ! 30 to school asain.
With Jack to tesch ne Latin:
j." He loves me, etc. 49,
Win it be : coach and four! -.
Win Il b carriage? ... ..,
= Or will cart be It tho door ..,.... -..-:
s.: ,: 70 IKE ne to my narriAgsl p
= Va Hs loves mo, etc. =: =
Win it be in cotton, silk,
j. Or rags that I'll be married? ,
Well, come the. worst, ,!I'lI take the hrst,
And never say tarrisd.
H. He loves me-, otc.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29

cry. AT length impatient to return where
it hopes to get another piece Of meat, it
begins, to tease and worry its mother,
and finally starts her home the other
sheep follow, and thus the whole flock is
brought in. If the dog brings the sheep
home too soon, or comes home without
them, he gets no supper, or il punished in
some way. Hence he soon learns when
to come, and to see to it that none of his
charge is left behind. These animals are
trained by taking advantage Of their in
stincts and appetite" -. 4*s..
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was prvopsoscd p % him, His hands hdg getted
treu,bhngl about and thu,
broke out on his brow he was evident
" in deep and pcrp1exing thought, and
remained silent. The question was re-
peated with emphasis: Il ask, what ais j
your name, sir ~ With mighty effort
the old admiral jcrked out the result Of
his deliberations, "The-ndo-rus Bailey
impressively, .'or wordsst to- tlat
ef{ect!', ,s.ss~s.,s.r..s,s,-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
Climate Changed by Man.

It is we'll known that many parts of
Greece, and Palestine, and Asia Minor,
which were once luxuriant in fertility, are
now barren The change is supposed to
be owing to the loss of forests, which has
lessened the amount Of rain, and dried up
the fountains and streams. The frequent
droughts in our country are probably ow-
ing to the same cause.
In Egypt change for the better is 60
ing on, as Bayard Taylor states in his
Letters" just published. The opening of
canals, like the Suez Canal, the extension
of railroads and the planting of trees, have
produced double change of climate.
Rains have become more frequent. For
merly, in Cairo there were only four or
five rainy days year; now the average
number is twenty.onc. In the Delta there
was formerly about eight; now they aver
age forty This increase of rain has led
to the cultivation of large areas of land
formerly barren; and the gains amount
to so or 80 per cent. adding largely to
productive wealth. Another change, not
so agreeable, is in temperature. The rains
bring cooler weather, and there are many
days when fires are almost a necessity,
which were formerly unknown. =
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29

A Brooklyn lady, whose husband has
an unpleasant habit of railing at her, has
hit upon plan Of calling in her servants
when he begins to let out his temper, and
then turning to him saying sweetly:
Snow my dear, please 60 on with your,
remarks" He doesn't 90 on, at least not
As he began. -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
IMPORTANT DECISION.

or State Supreme Court.-Adverse to ".
+ 81. p. r.. r. Co...600, 600 Acres OF r. r.
q Land.--Heretoforc Exempt Liable to
= ToxntiON. .---.--s- .'- - - .
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09
Narr0w-Gauge Railways.

The interest in the narrow-guage sys-
tenn is widespread. The following
Washington news is therefore given
pretty much in full:
Mr.. McCrary, Of Iowa, of the house
committee on railways, has prepared a
report to accompany the bill chartering
the Forty-6rst Parallel railroad, in
which he sets forth the views of the
committee on narrow-guare railroads.
The following is brief synopsis:
The committee does not now deem it
expedient to recommend any govern
ment aid to this railroad. The CON-
mittee has no doubt that the power of
Congress over commerce among the
states is ample, and that in its exercise
Congress may regulate commerce upon
existing lines of Interstate communica-
ton; may charter new lines; may aid
in their construction, or may construct
them wholly at government expense.
The need Of cheaper transportation
Is strongly urged, and the usual reasons
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09
A DESERVED COMPL1MENT.-W

A DESERVED CONFERENCE.-THE
Industrial Age pays the following
compliment to the want of integrity
of the leading partisan managers
who have manipulated the parties
for their own private ends, which if
mot hattering,is at least deserved:
The prominent men Of both the DEM
~ocratic and republican parties are alike
corrupt in politics and dangerous in
morals. The questions that affect the
great producing interests are ignored
by them, and all are bent, through par
tisan discipline, to rob the treasury and
the labor Of the country of ample for
tunes. Unless this condition of things
can be arrested, and honesty placed
back again in our public councils, as in
the days Of the fathers, the government
Of the United States will soon become
noted as one Of the most corrupt known
to either ancient or modern history.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09
OTATE OF MINNESOTA
l NCOuntv Of GOOf1h,,e-Tn Probate

OTATE OF MINNESOTA
DCounty of Goodhue-In Probate
Court, Special Term.
In the matter of the estate of Aaron
Lundquist, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of
P. J. Lundquist, administrator of said
estate, setting forth the amount of per-
sonal estate that has come to his hands,
and the disposition thereof; the amount
of debts outstanding against said de-
ceased, and description of all the real
estate of which said deceased died
seized, and the condition and value of
the respective portions thereof; and
praying that license be to him granted
to sell ut private sale; the northeast
quarter ofthe northeast quarter of section
thirty (30), land the west half of the south
west quarter of the southwest quarter
of section twenty (20), all in township
one hundred and twelve (ll2), north Of
range fifteen (l5) west, situate in said
County and State. And it appearing
by said petition, that there is not suf-
ticient personal estate in the hands of
said administrator to pay said debts,
and hat it is necessary in order to paw
the same, to sell the whole of said real
estate:
1t is therefore ordered, that all per-
sons interested in said estate, appear
before the Judge of this Court, on Mon
day the fifth day of.April, A. D., 1875,
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, ut the Probate Of
flee in Red Wing, in said County, then
and there to show cause. { if any there
be } why license should not be granted
to said p. j. Lundquist, said admins
traitor, to sell said real estate according
to the prayer Of said petition.
And it is further ordered, that copy
of this order shall be published for four
successive weeks prior to said day Of
hearing, the last of which publications
shall be at least fourteen days before
said day of hearing, in the GRANGE AD-
VANCE, a weekly newspaper printed and
published at Red Wing, in said County,
and personally served on all persons in
terested in said estate, residing in said
County, at least fourteen days before
said day of hearing, and upon all other
persons interested, according to law.
By the Court, 50 -. ..s....>...
80 49,. >. !, N. O. WERNER, ,
- 49,, ,-,.. Judge of Probate.
Dated at Red Wing, the 9Th day Of
February, A. D.. 1875. =.= >.s.<.
Il 81 lsw5
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assigned for high rates. The commit
tee admit that from present informa-
ton it is almost impossible to deter
mine the actual cost Of transporting a
bushel of wheat from the Mississippi
river to the seaboard, and say that the
actual cost must be ascertained be-
fore fair price can be determined.
The argument is advanced that one
cheap line of transportation will render
all competing lines equally cheap. In
the comparison between standard and
narrow-gauge roads, the committee say
the cost Of the former, fully equipped
for an average business Of even $500
tons, is $4,000 mile for iron rails,
and $1,000 for steel rails. The cost
OF narrow-g,,agc is not more than so
per cent. Of these sums. The cost of
operating standard-gauge roads, being
from 90 to 100 per cent. of the gross
earnings renders it impossible to secure
cheap transportation by existing lines.
Tue committee claim that the cost of
operating the New York Central, in
1871 was mills ton per mile: of op-
Grating the Pennsylvania Central, 8 mills
per ton per mile: yet the cost of oper-
ating Il harrow-gauge road is estimated
at ~ mills per ton per mile. While
the average cost of maintaining and ops
Grating standard-guage roads has been
"a per cent. off Of the gross earnings,
the Denver and Rio Grande narrow
gauge was operated in 1874 for so per
cent. of its gross earnings, on a very
limited business. The committee main
tain that the amount of freight that
may be transported by narrow-gauge
roads is very little less than that which
may he carried by the standard-gaugc.
From this and other facts the commit
tee concludes that the success of the
narrow-gauge system thus far seems to
demonstrate that the na,row-gauge
railroad, while vastly cheaper in con-
struction and operation than the old
system, has sufficient capacity, power
and speed to answer the general re-
quiremen:s, and what is of more i'm
portance, the comm;tte adds,
1t may now be regarded as certain
that the narrow gauge railroad can be
made to carry freight and passengers
with profit at rates not higher than the
present low water rates.
Several pages of the report are de-
voted to answering the objection that
the construction Of the narrowgauge
will render q transfer of freight neces-
sary whenever it shall connect with
broad-gauge. 1t seems evident that
the only thing which prevents the COM
mittee from recommending the passage
of the bill is the almost universal senti.,
ment against subsidies of every kind.
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eff I had LEISURE said wheel
wright, last winter, 81 would alter my
stove.pipe, for I know it is not safe -
But he did not find time, and when his
shop caught fire and burned down, he
found leisure to build another.