Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-06

truly your obedient servant,
: j. n. STEWART.
Hon. George W. Flanders.
FEMININE GRIT.
A Wisconsin W0na,e,s Success as a Stool;
{ Farmer-Once a Queen Of Sociefy," No,c
the Boss Of Co,c- Boys-4 Braue Struggle
A0ainst Adrersity.
WISCONSIN State Journal.
Six years ago, gentleman who had been
a war Governor of an upper Mississippi
State, was afterwards minister to Euro |
pean court, and subsequently at the head OF
one of the most important departments OF
the government, and q member of the ma
tional cabinet, died, leaving wife with from
$4,000 to 500, 900, and this mainly in an
homestead in southern New
York. Through the advice of supposed
friend of her husband, the lady was induced
to sell her property and put the proceeds IN
a herd of cattle in southwest Nebraska. The
plan was to buy Texas cattle and improve
the grade by crossing them with the short
horned Durham stock, and manufacture
cheese. A range was secured where there
was the necessary water and meadow
grounds, and two cheese factories erected,
one near part of the range and the other
near the railway station. She came out to
look after her Investment, and finding the
condition of the herd unsatls-
factory, assumed $4,000 of liabilities
and bought out and took the management
of the whole concern into her own hands.
By comforting with those who were expert
enced, she soon found out the error that had
been made in handling the herd, and sub
stituted efficient reforms.
In few months the herd was in a good
and thriving condition. But at the same
time she found herself suffering from pc
cuniary embarrassment and appealed to her
Eastern friends to afford her aid. They
looked upon her venture as visionary one,
and although they had the ability, they de-
clined to assist her; but advised her to give
it up, save what she could from the wreck,
and return to them. Like Cardinal Richie
lieu, she did not Believe there was Gin the
lexicon Of life any such word as fail" and
she applied herself all the more diligently to
business. She rode to the herd every day
except Sundays, sometimes IN buggy,
but generally on horseback sixteen miles
each way-and gave the most minute in
structions to her men about erecting
buildings, cutting and securing hay, and
doing any other necessary work. Frequently
she would return so exhausted that she had
to apply cold bandages to her swollen feet.
and shower her head to allay the excitement
of her fevered brain. Her troubles she kept
entirely to herself. Her help or her neigh
bors did not know but she had bank to
draw upon for all the money she needed. To
them she appeared as resolute, fixed, and as
| much at ease as if she had millions at COM
mand.
At the end Of the year she sent for the
father of her late partner, and they divided
the herd equally and settled with loss to
| her Of over 5000, which she paid to get
| the partnership dissolved. He would con-
sent to no other terms of division than that
she should choose one-half of the stock and
| he the other by making alternate selections.
After the division, experts decided that the
cattle she had selected were fully equal
to those driven from the range. She then
borrowed $4,000 to enable her to pay up
some small debts, make some necessary i'm
provements in buildings, and start afresh,
entirely unembarrassed.
! At the present time her liabilities are only
$4,000. She has herd of over 1000 head
| of cattle, has an abundance of conveniences
for them, and no stock farm or range within
hundred miles is provided with as good
Her herd is clearing her over $4,000 year
and constantly increasing in size.
At the railway station, where she resides
she has a farm of 40 acres, on which is
one good dwelling, barns, sheds, cheese
factory, corral, ETC., in perfect order. Tht
farm is all under fence; she buys all lum
Der used herself, and has every improvement
large and small, made under her own ey,
and as she directs. She is frequently seer
carrying hammer and nails and fastening
loose boards and repairing fences and build
ings herself, or directing her men how t.
do it. In truth, she is her own superintend
J ent, and personally looks after everythin!
both on the farm and at the cattle rancho
At the rancho, she has comfortable hous
which she occupies when her business con
fines her there. She visits the rancho abou
five times week, generally on horseback
and goes and returns the same day. Sh
always goes armed, not through fear Of tn
inhabitants, but of tramps. In the tire
: years she has managed her herd, she ha
| never been molested, insulied or interfere
) with in any manner by outsiders, and be
: help have all been faithful, obedient an
| kind.
! No business man in Nebraska is in bette
. credit than this enterprising ard exceller
lady; Her word is as good as greenbac
for anything she desires to purchase, or
any business transaction, and her herd an
cheese factories look most promising an
are thoroughly in order.
: regret that I am not at liberty to disclof
to your readers the name Of the very worth
B lady who is the subject of this commune,
a ton, for she is as modest as her endov
ments of executive ability are lavish. ST
is az much at home and performs her ma
9 in life as we'll in looking after her farm an
d her herd in Western Nebraska, as she ";
/ when she was the queen of the DRAWN
room in Washington, New York and r,
: ropean cities. And this remarkable thir
can be said of her. During all the excit
} ments and trials she has been through
I her business and rancho relations, she hi
r never lost her self-respect, or to outside a
d 'pearance, her temper-there have bee
j. times, she confesses, when she would ha,
it been glad to have had the privilege Of Il
e opposite sex and relieved herself with an e:
) pletive. She has resolved to make her n
) braska investment come out all right, az
# she will do it; un]sss some great and nn
} valuable calamity visits her, in less than
IS ten years from this writing, she will have
J. ample fortune at her command, and can I
r side where, and do as she pleases.
| e5Efys58s
!. Freud Deserves Punishment.
: a Rochester Record and Union.
e TO overturn the will Of the people es e
pressed at the ballot box, by means of &C
y rupt or interruptions returning boards, is
re conspiracy against the rights of the peoI
o. which should not be countenanced OR pass
&c by without rebuke. Fraud of this charact