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BREEDING ANIMALS,

W. J. Abernethy, the Agricultural
Editor of the Pioneer-Press recently
published in that paper an interesting
article on breeding animals. Mr.. A.
thinks that the present practice of
crossing the Norman stallion with the
common mare is wrong process and
that the cross should he the other way.
viz: the Norman mare with our best
stations. He says:
That where the breed is the same the
offspring is as likely to possess the char
scteristics Of the sire as of the dam;
but when the breed is unlike, the re-.
suit will be as follows: The sire will
give the outward form and symmetry,
while the female will give the constitu-
ton; which includes the vital and nu-
tritive organs. We see then that even
more depends on the dam than the sire.
for with the latter is locked up the
powers of endurance of the new life
which comes from it. The lungs, the
stomach-in fact it's constitution, which
is the foundation of the animal, it OBJ
tains from its mother. AS an illustra-
ton, let us take the crosses which are
now so popular of the Norman stallion
with our common mares. The result
is the large, powerful framework of the
stallion, with his great limbs, welded
to the body, of the weaker mare-a
gawkyish product, but step in adj
vance, perhaps of anything we have yet
had. We have all along commended that
the cross WAS wrong-that the farm
horse best adapted for Minnesota would
come from Norman mare, crossed
with one of our best stations. This
would give us the vigorous constitu-
tion-the great chest and strength of
the French horse on the smaller frame
work of our own, and we would have
an equally powerful animal with far
greater agility and quickness of move
ment than the present cross, and much
better adapted for the plow or the wag-
on than the latter. However, MI.
Leonard Johnson and others have done
the best they could for the State under
the circumstances, and perhaps in time
by breeding the new cross back to our
native stations we may secure race
with the required strength and agility.
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LETTER FROM OHIO.

1EH E1LO0x Ck1xO.
We are glad to see that our friend
Charley Morris is bound to return to
Mobiles county. He says, in a recent
letter from Portsmouth, Ohio:
The time is up for me to renew my
subscription, bnt, like some of the No.
bles county folks, l will have to ask
you to bear with me little longer, for
money matters are very close. No pre-
venting providence, ! will be there in
the Spring. have waited long enough
to get better off here, and now have
concluded that on my farm is the place
to make it. I see you are all better off
there than l am here, for work is very
scarce, money hard to get aud sickness
prevails to q great extent.
The weather here has been extremely
dry and there is not more than one
third of a crop upon the upland. dig
Is to 20 hills of potatoes for about 4
peek and quarter and other things
are fully as poor yield. The peaches
are mostly small and withered, caused
by the drouth. The smaller streams
have all been about dry until on last
Monday when we had glorious rain.
The Ohio River is very low at present,
there being no large boats running.
Corn in the Sciota Valley, however, IS
good. :...
read my ADVANCE and give it to
others. 1 will renew my subscription
as soon as possibly can,
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GATHERING SORGHUM.

The Window Reporter publishes ex-
tracts from a letter received by Gov.
Miller, from S. II. Kenney, of Rice
county, upon the subject of gathering
sorghum. Mr.. X. says:
IF the cane can be cut and laid in
piles or winrOws so the sun canoot
shine on the butts and is cut before the
thermometer goes three degrees below
freezing point, it will keep till it freezes
up. | aim to let mine stand till the
weather gets cool and as long as dare
and not have it freeze, which ruins it
for keeping it it is standing in the hill.
But if it can be cut half day before a
freeze, so it can wilt, any amount of
freezing will not hurt it,"
It will he seen that our farmers have
no time for delay. Already we have
had two or three frosts here on the riv-
er, and slight indications of frost in
the country are reported, yet it is
thought the cane is not injured.
About saving the seed lie says: ut
should be cut as soon as it begins to
harden and the heads strung on Irvine
and hung up to dry. The cane should
be cut as soon as the leayes are killed.
The seed viii not ripen after a heavy
FROST"
Mr.. Kenny opposes stripping the
leaves off.
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Gov. Miller informs us that Mr.. Drake
is in correspondence with the commits
sloner OF agriculture at Washington a.
Do4t taking the sorghum seed raised
IN Minnesota for general distribution
by the government as other seeds are
now distributed by the agricultural
bureau: 1t may be we'll to save plenty
Oh sorghum seed.-Windom Reporter,
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WHAT A PRESS CORRESPONDENT

WHAT A PRESS CORRESPONDENT
THINKS OF U.s.
A correspondent Of the St. Paul Pho
neer-Press has been down here looking
over this Garden of the West and writes
back concerning Worthington, Luz:
Verne, Sioux Falls, etc. OF Worthing-
ton and this county he says:
But these towns on the established
line OF the railroad are too well known
to the public to be talked of at length
now, 20 will hasten on to a country
that is just being opened by the pene-
tration Of a railroad, only remarking
In passing, that Worthington is in 4
most dourishing condition. Every
body looks happy and hopeful, debts
are melting away, and the enterprise
which was languishing in the people is
reviving and strengthening. One thing
pleased me very much here, and that
was the discovery that the farmers are
turning their attention to raising fine
stock. There are already a considera-
bic number of splendid horses in No
bles county. and was pleased to find
that Mr.. H. F. Sugden, Of 'Dewald
township, had imported two magnifi-
cent English stations, a two-year old
bay draft horse weighing 100 pounds.
There are few finer specimens of horse
flesh in Minnesota.
A drove of 1000 fine sheep passed
through the town while l was there, on
their way to the farm of Mr.. Sugden.
and l learned that there are 5000 in the
county.
PASSING THE SUMMIT.
Leaving Worthington on beautiful
morning our train whirled away to the
new country but recently placed with
in easy reach of the market by the rail-
road. AS we passed the beautiful O.
kabena Lake, on which Worthington
is situated, was shown a beautiful
tract OF 100 acres on the west side.
where it is designed to erect a spacious
summer hotel and establish watering
place, thus supplying much needed
resort for the people in a large section
of the country. The hotel will occupy
a commanding position, and will be
surrounded by trees, while the grounds
around will be beautifully laid out.
With the splendid lake, the pleasant
drives, ard the society and churches of
a cultivated community near by, it will
be indeed an attractive and much
sought resort.
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GREENBACK TICKET.

The following is the Minnesota
Greenback ticket:
For Governor-W. L. Banning. of
Ramsey county.
Lieut.. Governor-Wm. Meighen, of
Fillmore.
Secretary of State-A. Z. Rice, of
Kandiyohi.
For Treasurer Staples, of
Washington.
Attorney Generals. L. Pierce, of
Ramsey.
Railroad Commissioner-E. Ayers.
Of Washington.
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~ Mimi, Sept. IL, 1877
Complaint having been entered at this office by
Akin Miner against John j. Carroll for
abandoning Homestead entry No. l0,2S7 dated
June l, 1876 upon the n1S>eA section 1, town l02,
range A. in Mobiles county, Minnesota, with a
view to the cancellation OF said entry; the said
parties are hereby summoned to appear at this
office on the 18th day of Oct, 1877, at o'clock
Il. M, to respond and furnish testimony con-
corning said alleged abandonment.
MONS. GK1NAGEK, Register
j. L. MOULTON Receiver
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ONE CROP PAYS FOR Il FARM

A man who purchased 12O acres of
land, in the spring of 1876, near Win
dom, writes to a friend in st. Paul:
II know you will be pleased to learn
that having sowed in the spring under
most discouraging circumstances and
in the face of the advice of some of my
best friends, about sixty acres of grain.
| have reaped the same, and will pay
for my farm and interest on the labor
the first year,
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trated upon him a musketry fire which
will l ridd!q him with moral and politi-
y SCIENCE: AND PRAYER.


y SCIENCE IND PRAYHR.
A re-discussion Of the prayer prob
lem has been going on through the col.
umns Of the Pioneer-Press, the ques-
ton at..issue being as to whether or not
the crops were this year secured by Di.
vine interposition in answer to prayer.
The editor of the Pioneer-Press takes a
hand in the consideration of the ques-
tion,~ and points: out the =lameness Of
the logic Of one or two of the CORES
pondents. But the editor, we think,
is not quite correct when he says:
For these primal and inherent be-
liefs of the soul rest on quite other d.
ia and belong to other c:,tegories of
thought. These, which" relate to a
world above the world Of science, it is
no part OF our purpose to discuss.
Now, if the editor of the Pioneer.
Press will refer for a moment to the
history of science, he will recall that
before Bacon's time both Chemistry
and Astronomy, then in their infancy
and known as Alchemy and Astrolo-
gy, were thought by mankind to ire
late to world above the world Of SCI
ence." But physical science has tri-
umphed, and, in our day, it is admissa-
BILE and hoporable to investigate and to
study all the phenomena of physical
science.
The world, however. has not pro-
crossed far enough to apply the scien-
tific method to religious questions.
These, we are taught, are matters OF
foith, and the laws of the spiritual can
be known only as they are revealed
in some miraculous way. This, we say,
is what is. taught and what is believed
by the great body of even intelligent
Christians. They are probably as much
in the wrong, however, as were the
priest-ridden masses of the age when
science was thought to be the work OF
the devil and when the Romish church
put Galileo to the rack.
If men understood the higher science
as we'll as they understand the lower,
II they had progressed far enough to
know the operation of spiritual as well
as they now know the operation OF
physical laws, the miracles of Christ
would cease to be miracles, just because
the laws by which he wrought them
would be known. lie operated in the
domain of the spiritual, which domi.
mates and rules the physical, and when
matter obeyed his word or his will, it
was because the higher and controlling
law was brought to bear upon the low.
Ell, whose very nature and province it
is to obey.
And SO all the mystery and doubt
concerning the efficacy of prayer will
vanish when the laws of the spiritual
are better understood. The argument
now from the analogy Of nature, in IA
vor OF the power of prayer, is over.
whelming, but the loec is not under
stood, and hence those who are stick
1ers for proving everything from the
outside OF from the physical stand.
point, deny such efficacy. When we
understand by just what law it is that
the cry or the appeal Of a child moves
the father to respond, we shall then
understand how it is that the great All.
Father responds to the cry or the ap-
peal of His creatures,
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NOTICE. U. S. Land Office, Worthington
~ Mum, Sept II, 1871
Complaint having been entered at this Office by
Clifford =. Cllamber:ain against Hams Jensen
for abandoning u. S. Entry No. l6, l49, date
June 10, 1877, upon the northwest quarter of
section sect ~ township 1o1, range a, in No
cancellation of said entry; the said parties are
hereby summoned to appear at this office on
the 10th day of Oct. 1877, at O'Clock D. M, to
respond and furnish testimony concerning said
alleged abandonment.
MONS GRINAGER, Register.
81 j. L. MOULTON. Receiver
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The State Superintendent, in a re-
cent official communication to County
Superintendent, says:
'We call the attention of co. Super
ihtendents to the instructions given last
spring, that no certificate mast be grant,
ed to yoat1ag ladies. a&}atleJ IL or going gen.
tle1ne3a 2tnder 10 gears of age. Under
Sec. IVA, School Laws of 1876, this in
struction is binding upon Co. Superin-
:tendents. ;"
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Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Embraces under one management the Great
Trunk Railway Lines of the WEST and NORTH
WEST, and, with its numerous Branches and con-
nectlons, forms the shortest and quickest route
consin, Northern Michigan, minnesota, Iowa,
Ne! Nebraska, California and the Western Terrific
OMAHA AND CALIFORNIA LINE
Is the shortest and best route between Chicago
ia. Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado Oregon, Chi
na' Japan and Australia. Its
CHICAGO. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS LINE
Is the short line between Chicago and all points
IN Northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and for Mad
ls0n, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, and all
La CROSSE. wINoNA AND ST. PETER LINE
Is the best route between Chicago and La Crosse,
Winona, Rochester, Owatonna, Mankato St.
Peter, New Ulm, and all points in Southern and
Central Minnesota. Its
GREEN BAY AND MARQUETTE LINE
Is the only line between Chicago and GAINESVILLE,
Green Bay Escanaba, Negaunee, Marquette''
Country. Its
FREEPoRT AND DUBUQUE LINE
IS the only route between Chicago and Elgin,
Rockford, Freeport, and all points via Freeport.
CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE LINE
Is the Old Lake Shore Route, and is the ONLY one
passing between Chicago and Evanston, Lake
f0rest, Highland Park, Waukecgan, Racine Ke-
nOsha and Milwaukee.
PULLMAN PALACE DRAWING ROOM CARS
are run on all through trains of this road.
This Is the ONLY LINE running these cars b&e
tween Chicago and St. Paul and EIinncaDoiis
chicago and Milwaukee, Chicago and Wi,lona,
or Chicago and Green Bay.
Giose connections are made at Cliica 60 with the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Michigan
central, Baltimore and Ohio, Pitt>lury, Fort
ayne ana Chicago, kankakee Line and Pan
Handle Routes, for all points EAST and SOUTH
EAST, and with the Chicago and Alton and Illi-
noiS Central for all points SOUTH.
Close connections are also made with the Un-
points. ~
Close connections are made at junction z0;z,ts
ac!th trains OF 0N cross roads.
tickets over this route are sold by all Conpon
Ticket Agents III The United States and CanadaS.
kemember, YOU ask for your Tickets via of the
none other. ~ ''''~
New York Office, No AIS Broadway: Boxt ~
Office, M. State Street ;Omalla Office 245 Farm
ham street; San FranciscfrOfce, III Monty, M
cry Street Chicago Offices, ~ Clark Street. under
sherman House: IS Canal, corner Madison
street; klnZie Street Depot, corner W. kinzie
and Canal Streets; Webs Street Depot, corner
Wells and KinZie Streets
For rates or information not attainable from
W: II. sTENNETT, Mx1kViN HUGHlrT.
Jan. l, lS77.-Iy.
G.. 4 n. ". TIME TABLE,
Tin, Time OF departure of Passenger Trains from
Leave for Chicago and the East s1oa.m.
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NGriCE. U: S I Land Office, Worthington
Complaint having been entered at this office by
Nelson NJ Williams against William Winch for
Sept Is, 1873, upon The eH seq Sec TO- town i0s.
range 49, in Mobiles county, Mimi with a view To-
the cancellation OF said entry; the said parties
the 2)th day of Sept. 1877, at o'clock H. IN. to
respond and furnish testimony concerning said
alleged abandonment.
MONS. GRINAGER, Register.
J. +. MOULTON. Receiver,
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MONS GRINAGER, Register.
j. 2. MOULTON, Receiver.

IN Mimi, Sept. 10, 1877.
Complaint having been entered at this office
by Frank r. Burdett against William Lytton
tor a1anloning Timber Entry No. 443 dated
1Ol:: Range II, in Mobiles County, Mimi, with
view to the cancellation of said entry; the
said parties are hereby summoned to appear at
thlS Office OH the 10Th day Of Oct, 1877, at 9
o'clock a. H., to respond and furnish testimony
concerning said alleged abandonment
., MONS GRiNAGER, Register.
81 j. p. NIOULTON, Receiver,
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NOTICES OF CONTEST.

Notice. U. S. Land Office, Worthincton.
~ Mimi, Sept. -, 1877.
Complaint having been entered at this Office by
Isaac }. Booth against John S. Kikendal for
g. 1874 upon the neg of section 2. town.
Shp lo1, range a, in Mobiles County, Minnesota
with view to the cancellation of said entry :
the said parties are hereby summoned to
appear at this office on the 23d day of October
1917, at 5 o'clock Il. H., to respond and fur
nlsh testimony concerning said alleged aban-
dOnment
MONS GRINAGER, Register.
81 j. p. MOULTUN Receiver
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NOTICE, U. s. Land Office, worthington,
N Mimi, Sept. 18th. 1877.
Complaint having been entered at this Office
by VIM. L. Jones against Knudt Thompson
19r abandoning d. S. Entry, No. 1915, dated
l01,, range AZ, in Mobiles county, Minnesota,
with view to the cancellation of said entry ;the
said parties are hereby summoned to appear at
this Office on the 18th day Of Oct. 1877 at clock
p. NJ, to respond and furnish testimony concern
ing said alleged abandonment.
., MONS. GRlNAGER, Register.
II J.P.MOULTON. Receiver
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JUDGE PAGE.


The Worthington war is q tempest in
teapot compared to the war which
Judge Page, of Austin, is waging a.
galnst the newspapers and the world IN
general. He has not only plastered
the Pioneer-Prcss all over with libel
suits, but has had Judge IIarwood, of
the Austin Transcript, arrested on a
charge of circulating and signing a pc
tition for Iage's resignation. Next,
we suppose, he will have the editor of
the Minneapolis Tribune arrested for
pronouncing him insane. A bull in a
china shop, butting the. crockery to
pieces, is no where compared to Judge
Page, banging about his own district
and the State at large, bulldozing every
man and every editor who dares to ex-
press an opinion concerning his acts,
judicial and otherwise.
1t begins to be serious question now
whether people have any liberties or
any rights which Judge is bound to
respect. All other officers, it seems,
are; open to criticism, but the Judges
have somehow got it into their heads,
that their acts and their sacred per-
sons...are above criticism. They have,
from their position, a great deal of pow
er to punish their enemies, but the
Judge who SO uses his power will be
torn from the high place which he dis
graces. Judge Page is having concen
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I'EYEIt ~

-. lis reported that Oliver Dalrymple
has made q clear profit Of $125,0O0 on
his wheat crop this season. We hear
also of a manin Cottonwood county who
has paid for his land and expense Of
crop outof the first crop. This is a
good wheat year, and of course: such re-
suits will not be obtained every: year,
but we believe with those who have
given the subject Of Minnesota invest
ments good deal of attention that
there is more clear profit made by TAX
ing our wild lands and growing wheat
than can be made in any other opera
ton in this State
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A scholarship in Baylies' Mercantile
College for sale ut this office cheap.
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4 RING IN TROUBLE.

The Democratic Ring of Anglaize
County, Ohio, is in trouble. Their
County Treasurer, Myers, was found
recently gagged and tied and the Treas
ury robbed. Myers claimed that he
was seized by three rufians, who put
him oyer a fire and threatened to roast
him, until he was compelled to open
the safe. This story took with his
Democratic friends, but others doubt
ed, and detectives We're put on the
track, and 10! Myers was arrested and
held to bail for robbing the Treasury.
Then, didn't the Ring get up and howl
as Rings always do? They threatened
the detectives, and the MALTA was
called out to preserve the peace of
Wopakonnetta. And now it leaks out
that the Ring have been embezzling for
some years, and there has been sort
OF Tweed affair there on Il small scale.
OF course the Ring all assert that there
never has been any Ring, and that they
don't know nothing" about it, but the
dispatches indicate that they are quak-
ing in their boots.
And what of this? Why, that in
nine cases out Of every ten where a
Ring is allow, d to gain control of a
county or city, and hold control for a
number of years, there has been embez-
Element or corruption Of some kind,
1t looks very fair and sparkling to be-
gin with, but in the end it stingeth like
al adder and biteth like serpent.
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YWU DIFF'ZT/SEVTM.

THE D1FFXIcENCM
a German gentleman, G. Drawer,
from Washington county; who has been
visiting this county looking for lands,
gave us some figures from his farming
operation in that county, which enable
us to Institute a comparison between
farming in the timber regions and up
on our rrairics. Mr.. d. purchased 200
acres of land in Washington county,
covered with timber and scrub growth.
lie paid 81 an acre for the land, 81 for
clearing and grabbing and Sc for break
ing. Before he could put in the first
crop, he found it necessary to harrow
the ground twice over and gather and
burn the surplus roots, Which cost him
So an acre more. Here was $2S an acre
before he could put in a crop. Besides
this, he found it necessary to fence the
whole farm, as there is no herd law in
operation in that county, which cost
him from $3.50 to $500 more. Here was
All outlay of about $4,000 to start with,
not including buildings nor other i'm
proponents.
Now take a farm on our prairies:
Land say s. an acre; breaking $3.50;
back-setting $3.50 to $500. No grub
bling, no extra dragging to get out the
roots, and no fencing. The whole cost,
land and all, to get farm ready for
farming in this county, is less than $40
an acre. Many have paid much less
than.55 al acre for land here, some get
ting it at less than the government
rate. Others have paid more, of course.
for land near town.
In good year, like the present one,
man could nearly pay for the land,
for bringing it under cultivation, and
cost OF first cropping out of the pro-
= ceeds of the first crop. Besides there
is no country in the world better adapt
ed to the use Of improved farm machin-
cry. With tho success of the self-biad-
Ell, now assured, farmers in this Gar
: den Of the West will soon prove the
prediction true that they can sit aloft
ON their improved implements and
: drive their teams to a fortune.
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TEA CHEERS CERTIFICATES.

=. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ., 1877,