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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

The iron for the famous" Third street
bridge arrived here last week Monday and
workmen have been busy putting 1T up.
1t is as fine bridge as there is in the State,
and it is a credit and honor to the city.
Probably no public work ever met with SO
much opposition as this MS bridge ' has; lnjune-
vent its erection, but our CITY Fathers
pursued the sseven tenor of their way and
were rewarded by having their action sus-
tanned by the people with a vote of more than
two to one.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18
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St. Paul, Minnesota.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

IGNATIUS DONNELLY. Editor.

THURSDAY OCTOBER Is, 1877.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
A Mortgage.

In the whole range of sacred and pro-
fame literature, perhaps there is nothing
recorded which has such staying prop
critics as good healthy mortgage. A
mortgage can be depended upon to stick
closer than brother. 1t has a mission
to perform which never lets up. Day
after day it is there, nor does the slight
est tendency to slumber impair its Wig
or in the night Night and day, on the
Sabbath and at holiday times, without
a moments time for rest or recreation,
the biting offspring of it's existence, in
terest goes on The seasons may
change days run in to weeks, weeks in
to months, and months be swallowed up
into the gray man of advancing years,
but that mortgage stands up with sleep
less vigilance, with the interest, a per-
ennial stream, ceaselessly running on.
Like huge nightmare eating out the
sleep of some restless slumberer, the un-
paid mortgage rears up its quaint form
in perpetual torment to the miserable
wight who is held within its pitiless
clutch. 1t holds the poor victim with
the relentless grasp of giant-not an
hour of recreation, not a moments eva
sion of it's hideous presence. "A genial
savage of modifying aspect while the in
terest is paid; very devil of hopeless
destruction when the payments fail
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
Mothers and Sons.

Most boys go through period when
they have great need of patient love at
home. They are awkward and clumsy,
sometimes strangely wilful and perverse,
and they are desperately conscious Of
themselves, and very sensitive to the least
word OF censure or effort at restraint.
Authority frets them. They are leaving
childhood, but they have not yet reach
ed the sober good sense of manhood.
They are an easy prey to the tempter
and the sophist. Perhaps they adopt
skeptical views, for sheer desire to prove
that they are independent, and can do
their own thinking. Now is the mothers
hour. Her boy needs her now more
than when he lay in his cradle. Her
finer insight and serener faith may hold
him fast, and prevent his drifting into
dangerous courses. At all events, there
is very much that only mother can do
for her son, and that only son can re-
ceive from his mother, in the critical
period of which we are thinking. 1t is
well for him, if she have kept the fresh
ness and brightness of her youth, so that
now she can be his companion and friend
as well as mentor 1t is good thing
for a boy to be proud of his mother: to
feel complacent when he introduces her
to his comrades, knowing that they can
not help seeing what pretty woman
she is, so graceful, winsome and attrac-
tive! There is always hope for a boy
when he admi"es his mother, and moth
ers should care to be admirable in the
eyes OF their sons; not merely to possess
characters which are worthy of respect,
but to be beautiful and charming, so far
as they can, in person and appearance
The neat dress, the becoming ribbon,
the smooth hair, are all worth thinking
about, when regarded as means of retain
ing influence overa SOUL when the world
is spreading lures for it on every side.
Above all things, mothers need faith.
Genuine, hearty, loving trust in God, a
life Of meek, glad acquiescence in His
will, lived daily through years in the
presence of sons, is an immense power
They never can get away from the sweet
memory that Christ was their mothers
friend. There is reality in that which
no false reasoning can persuade them to
regard as Pigment of the imagination.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
Eggs.

With all the nations of the earth eggs
have been favorite food, and yet even
now their value is hardly appreciated
There is no egg of any bird known that
cannot be used for food. A similarity
exists in the construction of all eggs,
since the white portion of the yolk is
present in every specimen. Peculiari-
ties in form, size and color are no tests of
the quality or freshness of the eggs Of
fowl, for every hen has an individuality
about her own product; although it is
well known that feeding has a decided
influence on the flavor and quality of
eggs.
The weight of an ordinary fowls egg
is one and one-half to two ounces, whilst
that of duck is two to three ounces;
of the sea gull and turkey three to four
ounces. and that of the goose four to
six ounces. Seventy-four per cent of
an egg is water, in which respect it is
very similar to fish, lean meat and pota-
toes. Of the remaining twenty-six per
cent about fourteen is heterogeneous and
ten per cent. is fatty matter The
white of the egg contains no fat, but has
more water and albumen than the yolk,
while the latter contains all the fat and
sulphur. An egg of average size con
tains about two hundred grains of dry
substance, of which nearly fifty per
cent. is heterogeneous, forty per cent. sa-
line matters In heterogeneous sub
stances the white of an egg exceeds
that of all known foods, except peas,
cheese and poultry.
The shell being porous allows OF the
evaporation of the fluids within, and air
accumulates in their place; thus an egg
exposed to the air grows lighter day by
day, and deteriorates rapidly by keep
ing In solution Of one part salt to
ten parts water fresh egg will sink
slowly, whilst one that has been kept
some time will swim, and really bad
eggs will float even in pure water A
fresh egg should feel solid and heavy
in the hand, while one that shakes in
the shell is usually bad Many eXped-
tents are in use for preserving eggs, like
solution Of quicklime and water; also
wax, gum or varnish but the most SEN
sible way for the farmer to have a fresh
supply during the winter months for
his own use is to rear pullets in the
spring, feed them well in the summer,
and towards the close of the year they
will lay small but acceptable eggs, with
proper care,
A fresh-laid egg takes half a minute
longer to boil than a stale one. Raw
eggs digest in an hour and thirty min
utes; hard boiled and fried eggs require
three hours and one-half for digestion,
or as long las cheese and mutton. No
food of such desirable quality and low
cost is within the reach of every farmer,
and it behooves each individual to give
this important yet neglected subject
more thought and attention. -Ameffcae
Culticdt0r.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
Dangers from the Dead.
Medical and Surgical Reporter.

That the dead should kill the living
seems paradox; yet nothing is more
true. Indeed, we venture to say that
every year, in our land, corpses will kill
more people than assassins do. Not
only have intramural intcrments pois-
oned whole blocks and quarters, not
only has drinking water contaminated
by graveyards yearl y spread disease and
death through country hamlets, but be-
fore the process of decomposition COM
mences there is often great and press
ing danger from infectious diseases.
We quote recent instance:
Or, Golden, the Medical Office of
Health, for Leeds, Eng, in his report to
the local authority, states that every one
of thirty people who attended the wake
of an Irish girl, who recently died in
that town from typhus fever, were at
tackled by the same disease, and no fewer
than nine of the cases ended fatally"
SO strongly have the needless dangers
of exposure at funerals impressed the
medical mind, that the Health Board of
New York have now issued a circular
recommending that no public or church
funerals should be given to persons dying
of either diphtheria, scarlet fever, meas
sles or whooping cough.
In Chi cago, also, where scarlet fever
and diphtheria have been severe this
past winter, the recommendation of 100
medical men in council was in these
words:
There should be no public funeral of
any patient who has died of any in
fictitious or contagious disease. Remem-
Der that the separation of the sick
person from the well is the most certain
means Of preventing the spread of the
disease"
A writer in the Baltimore Physician
and Surgeon, last December went so
far as to advocate the passage of law
on the subject (the average American
man looking upon a law" as the cure
all on every occasiom. He thought it
should embody the following provisions:
l. Whenever any one dies of conta-
gious disease, publication announcing
the death should state the cause of
death,
2. No one except the immediate family
should be permitted to attend the funer-
al, and the handling and burying the
body should be intrusted to persons who
devoted themselves to that business.
3. A sufficient number of carriages
should be kept for the special purpose
of attending these funerals, and the
hiring of them for other purposes should
be prohibited, under the severest penal
ties.
These are good suggestions, but peo-
pie should learn and obey them out of a
natural sense of sanitary propriety, not
out of obligations to the state, -Medical
and Surgical Reporter.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
Improving Live Stock,

The present season offers Opportuni-
ties for those farmers who have not
made beginning in the improvement
of their stock, to do so, such as has not
occurred heretofore, and may not occur
again for some time. We have CON
stantly tried to impress upon the minds
Of our agricultural friends generally,
the pecuniary advantage that occurs
from raising good stock. We have
shown that it costs too much to raise
and fatten inferior animals; it takes
them too long to mature, and when they
are finally turned off, the margin of
profit is very small as rule, and often
the balance is on the wrong side of the
ledger. The difficulty with many has
been that they felt unable to incur the
expense of buying animals with which
to make beginning. First, in the case
of cattle the prices at which improved
animals have been held hitherto have
placed them beyond the reach Of very
many farmers; and in the next place had
the prices asked been more moderate,
the profits from farming among men of
small means would hardly admit of
purchasing. But now fortuitOus con-
junction OF circumstances places the
matter in a very different shape. 1t is
no longer difficult to obtain good pure
blooded stock at figures within the
reach of farmers generally. The har-
vests already gathered have been album
dant, and those to follow promise also
to be very fruitful, while the prospect
for good prices was never more fatter-
ing than at present.
Now is the time to turn these favora-
BILE circumstances to account. The
foundation of good class of cattle may
be laid by a large number of farmers
whose lands are adapted to grazing. but
who thus Tar have not begun to improve
their stock. Fashionable pedigrees and
unimportant characteristics are not es-
seltial; for while these may serve use
ful purpose in many cases, the individ-
ual merit of an animal as determined by
it's useful qualities, is of far more i'm
pOrtance to the farmer.
We have repeatedly called attention
to the fact that the foreign demand for
American beef requires the best class
OF stock that we can produce to COM
pete with the English and Scotch in
their own markets, Besides the de-
mands of our people are becoming more
exacting. The relative cost of produc-
ing beef from improved and common
cattle is so much in favor of the former
that it is simply a great sacrifice of food
and time to feed and ripen the latter
for market. The foreign demand will
doubtless increase, and the home de-
mand for good beef become still more
ex citing as time passes, and it behooves
those who raise cattle to sell for beef
to make a note Of these things. We
have shown heretofore how easy it is to
i'm rove native cattle by cooperation
an ong farmers in a neighborhood; but
good bull of an improved breed can
now be had from 800 to 5000, and the
price of farm products this year will
place a large number of farmers in a
condition to buy such animals without
any division Of ownership. A score of
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
How a Man Became Eccentric.
st. Louis Republican.

Erie, Pa, had an eccentric citizen.
lie was one OF those men whom every
body in town cannot help meeting every
day. His dress was peculiar, it's most
striking feature being a wonderfully
wide shirt collar. He was not affected
ly Byronic, either, but this eccentric
citizen expansive, clean, glistening col
lar could be seen squares away. 1t was
like the headlight Of locomotive in the
dark, and everybody knew he was COM
ing long before they could recognize his
face. This was his most conspicuous.
mark, then his shining boots, old-fash-
Toned coat, clean shaved face and general
ancient neatness came in for share of
everybody's attention. And this man
was a doctor, a practicing physician, and
a good one, too, although some of the
later graduates called him an "old fogy"
in medical practice. DR.. Wallace, he is
known in the books, was fine speaker
and altogether strong man. He was a
member of the State Medical Society,
but very retiring one, until he uninten-
tionally brought himself forward. Dur
ing one session of the society young
member made some remarks which re-
fected upon the old doctors personality
and practice. DR.. Wallace made him
swallow all his own medicines, and then
dissected and decapitated him. The old
doctor was forthwith elected President
of the Medical Society, and the young
doctors carefully let him alone after
that. He was a bachelor, lived the life
OF a recluse and had a mystery hanging
about him. He lately died and left a
fortune Of over 100000, to be divided
among three families Of his relatives
His death developed some particulars
explanatory of his life, showing how his
eccentricity came. When he went to
Erie, over forty years ago, he was fine
looking young man, of good education
and brilliant manners and inclined to be
foppish in his exterior He was la
dies man and had no doubt that he
could get his pick and choice of the
young girls he firted with. He got in
the marrying mood Two estimable la
dies broke engagements with him, one
after the other He proposed to a
third, and she respectfully declined to
entertain his suit Then he is said to
have said that he once thought he could
marry any young lady that he wished,
and was now convinced that none would
marry him. At any rate the experience
must have hurt him. These unfortu-
nate affairs Of the heart made the &C.
centric character that Erie knew him.
He avoided society, became a recluse,
took off his fashionable clothes, adopt
ed an eccentricity of dress and manner
cut all his friends socially and devoted
all his energies to money making. He
made it and died rich. His professional
record shows him to have been a re-
markably successful physician.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
are found to exist,
DIR. G. MCLANES VERMIFUGE
DIR. G. MCLANE'S
PILLS.

These Pills are not recommended as
aremedy F" for all the ills that flesh is
heir to-" but in affections of the liver,
and in all Bilious Complaints, Dys-
pepsia, and Sick Headache, or dis
eases Of that character, they stand
without n rival
AG u e AND FEW Err.
No better cathartic can be used pre-
paratory to, or after taking Quinine.
AS simple purgativc they are un-
equaled.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Each box has red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression DIR. NC
LANES Liver Pills.
Each wrapper bears the signatures
Of G. MCLANE and FLEMING Bros.
Sold by all respectable druggists
and country storckccpcrs generally.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
Grating Grape Vines.

A correspondent of the Fruit Record
en- says: 1T is well known fact that
grapes that are a success in one locality
are entirely worthless in another.
Hence it is often desirable to change a
few vines or even whole vineyard with
as little loss as possible. This can be
done by grating, and have the new
vines come in bearing the following
year. Keep the scions in cool place,
where the buds will start as little as
possible, until the first flow of sap is
over. This will be when the first leaves
have pushed out to the size of your
thumb nail on the vines to be grated.
Then dig down beside the vine; select
ing root of suitable size, say as large
as your finger, cut it off four inches UNI
der ground and cleft-graft the same as
for apples; tie the graft snugly into the
cleft with cotton Irvine, using no wax,
as that would form a cup to hold the
sap which would sour and kill the graft
Brace it up straight with a stick or any
thing which will hold it in place, and
fill up the hole with earth. Cover the
two or three eyes in the graft, leaving
the upper one as near the top of the
ground as possible. The cotton string
will rot off during the summer and leave
the graft free to expand as it grows.
The main vine may be left the first
year by pruning it back or training it
away so that it will not interfere with
the graft. l have grown Delaware on
an Isabella root twelve feet the first
year, which cannot often be done on it's
own root. Right here comes in the
question as to the influence the stock
has on the graft, or whether it has any
on the quality Of the fruit, or it's time
Of ripening. II it does, this can be cas-
lily remedied by layering the vine the
second year after grating (Which usu-
ally dog and as soon as the cane is well
rooted it can be cut from the old vine,
thus establishing it upon it's own new
healthy root. This process of graft
ing grapes is fully as sure as grating
apple trees.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
Grave Justice.

Judge Rheme, of the Orphans Court,
in Luzerne county, Pa, was asked by an
administrator to allow 81 800 for burial
expenses out of an estate of $4,000. He
refused and said "Pompous process
sions of great length, glistening silver
plated Baskets, and carved marble monu-
ments are unnecessary for Christian bur-
ial. Such parades may crafty the van
ity of the living, but when decedent's
estate is limited and his debts are not
paid, or where he leaves a family of
helpless children, the expenses of such
burials will not be allowed out of his es-
tate, Those who contract for and enjoy
such lqxqries must pay for them them
Selves
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
By all Means be an Editor.
Louisville CONVERSATIONAL.

An editor is the happiest being on
earth He has little or nothing to do,
and his pay is all that heart can wish.-
His sanctum, with it's Persian rugs and
Turkey carpets, its costly rosewood fur
niture, its magnificent mirrors, its beau
tiful pictures, its complete library of
splendidly bound books, its buffet stock
ed with the finest of wines. liquors and
cigars, which cost him but puff or two
it's silver bell to summon an attendant
whenever julep or cocktail is want
ed, and, in short, with it's everything
that human ingenuity can devise for his
comfort and pleasure, is a perfect little
paradise, where he sits or lounges and
reigns young lord, with the world of
fashion and pleasure at his feet And
then anybody can be an editor-no study
no preparation, no brains, nothing but a
little money to start with, and, once
started, the money pours in upon you
in steady stream, and the chief labor
of your life is to spend it. AS for the
labor OF editing newspaper, that is
mere moonshine A mere glance at the
columns of a newspaper is enough to
convince you that it requires no labor
to edit it, and less brains, 1t is certain
Iva glorious life, that of an editor; a
life of luxurious ease and elegant leisure
"a life for the gods, filled, like that of
the young lover in his first sweet dream
of requited love, with flutes and rose
leaves and moonbeams,
While not wave of trouble rolls
Across his peaceful breast;
and that all men are not editors, is one
of the strangest things beneath the stars.
True, there must be doctors and law
yers, and merchants, and shoemakers
and peanut dealers and the like, and all
these callings must be filled by some
body, but there are enough to fill them,
and why they don't become editors and
lead the life of opulent princes, is a
thing that Strangers as. But, after all
it may be that it is a mere matter Of
taste II may be repugnant to some
natures to be clothed in purple and fine
linen and fare sumptously every day and
of course it would never do for such a
nature to become an editor; the life of
ease and elegance and luxury, an ex-
emption from all care and toll and dehta
and duAs, Waald soon become bore to
him, and he would spend his nights in
dreaming of plows, and pitchforks, and
reaping machines, and squander his days
in devising some plan of swapping places
with hlacksmith's apprentice, or a
street-car driver.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
A Singular Superstition.

A queer bit of superstition is that
concerning the death of the owners of
an emerald which used to flash on the
shirt fronts of prominent negro min
strels The stone was sold by Pony
Moore, the London minstrel manager,
first to Luke West, who was then in ex-
cellent health. Very soon West was ia
ken sick, was at the point of death, and,
wishing to give Matt Peel something for
his kindness in nursing him, presented
him with the emerald. At once Luke
began to regain his health, but Peel died
after wearing the jewel year. Hiram
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
Grange Directory.

PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, No. 443.-Meets
at the Sheridan School House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moon, each month
A. WROTEN, Sec'y.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 1885, j Meets at
Winthrop on Friday, on or before the full
moon Of each month
S. G. PIERCE, Master.
S. w. RICH, Secy.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 1216.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. ID. RUSSELL, Master.
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. S11.-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full moon, at
Warehouse Hall.
w. BUNCE, Master.
P. B. SCHEMERHORN. SecY.
GRANGE, No. 52S.-Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon,
b. DUBOIS, Master.
y. ]. WIGG. Sec'y.
ST PERIOR GRANGE, No. 352.-Meets Satur-
day, on or before full moon, at No. School
House, Hazleton Township.
Il. MESSENGER, Master.
G. NJ MILLER, Secy.
BYON GRANGE, No. 267-Meets at Justus
Durkee's, on Tuesday evening, on or after
full moon.
E. GLEASON, Master.
FRANK Fox, Sec'y,