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Daily globe., 1879-04-06
Amer,can Farmers, Future.

The nation is looking with wondering
gaze at the growth of railroad, mining
and manufacturers as the types Of prodig-
ious advance in material development.
The farmer has learned to feel that he has
direct interest in all this, because it
gives him home markets that render it
unnecessary for him to depend upon the
foreign demand. But the farmer has not
yet learned (because the agricultural in
terest is not organized on the same scale
as the industriaD that in all this open
ing of q higher and better civilization he
has new aims to look to- new interests to
develop, new importance to understand
and care for. He has not understood,
because it is difficult for the scattered
and insulated cultivators to learn these
things, that with the increased variety of
manufactures there come openings for
new crops that he can raise.
The capitalists can employ chemists and
scientists to prepare processes and adopt
rare materials to the arts, but the farmer
has no chemists at his command, and no
scientists TO advise him of the methods of
utilizing what he wastes for the lack of
knowledge. The Agricultural Depart
ment tells him at times of new crops he
cam raise for which there is demand in
the home markets, and it distributes seeds
far and wide, some Of which are always
tolerably sure to fall on congenial soil.
What is needed is, that our American
farmers should exhibit the same intelli-
gent spirit of enterprise displayed by the
inventor and manufacturers; that they
should appreciate the new spirit OF Ameri-
can civilization, aud rush forward to
make agriculture not the mere follower
and servant of manufacturers. but the
great leading and advancing interest.
Daily globe., 1879-04-06
T1lE WINDS OF FATE.

Tive boats rocked on the river,
In the shadow of leaf and tree:
One was in love with the harbor;
One was in love with the sea.
The one that loved the harbor
The winds of fate outbore;
But held the other, longing,
For ever against the shore.
The one that rests on the river
In the shadow Of leaf and tree,
With wistful eyes looks over
To the one far out at sea.
The one that rides the pillows,
Though sailing far and fleet,
Looks back to the peaceful river,
To the harbor safe and sweet.
One frets against the quiet
OF the grown shaded shore;
One sighs that it may enter
That harbor never more.
One wearies of the dangers
OF the tempest's rage and wall,
One dreams, amid the lilies,
OF a far-off snowy sail.
OF all that life can teach us
There's naught so true as this
The winds of fate blow ever,
But never blow amlss.
Daily globe., 1879-04-06
,O6-,zS.

BY II. l.. FLASH.
The cannon's idiotic mouth
Had ceased it's senscless roar:
Throughout the hamlets of the South
The sabres clashed no more.
Our heroes who had fought and died,
Slept in their CORY graves,
Nor saw their country cruci1ied
BY towards and by knaves.
From North, and East, and West they came,
A hungry, revenous horde,
More blasting than the midnight flame
More ruthless than the sword.
And orphans sobs and widows cries
Resounded through the land,
And curses on our enemies
Were heard on every hand.
Their bayoncts held us in the dust
Enforced the victor's will;
In vain their arts-our stubborn hearts
Remained uncOnqucred still.
The years rolled blythe Pestilence
Came like the curse Of Fate,
And blasted with unreasoning rage
The bravcst and the best.
And clouds of darkness and dismay
Blighted the summers bloom
Shut out the splendor of the day,
And Wreathed the South in gloom.
When, from the regions whence there came
Inc hungry, ravenous horde,
More blasting than the midnight flame,
More ruthless than the sword
There flowed a stream of gifts untold,
Like mama from above;
And words-far dearear than the gold
Of sympathy and love.
And dying men with glad surprise,
Flushed red on brow and cheek,
And looked-with fever-smitten eyes
The thanks they could not speak.
And women raised their wasted arms,
And called 0 heaven above,
10 shield from stu, and ills, and harms,
The enemies they love.
And hearts that armies could not win,
Love captured unaware;
His strategy was sympathy;
his weapon was prayer.
And still from North, and East, and West
The bounteous stream was poured,
AS free as heaven to man forgiven,
As liberal as the Lord
And orphans sobs and Widows cries
We're heard on every hand,
And blessings on our enemies
Resounded through the land.
On every fower-scented gale.
On every stormy blast,
The anthem rose, God bless our foes!
They've conquered us at last!
Daily globe., 1879-04-06

Here is a warning to men too mean to
advertise. One of this description want
ed to sell some land, and so be put a
written notice in one of the hotels the
other day. A man who was inquiring
for small farm was referred to the writ
ten notice, when he replied: 81 can't
buy land at fair price of any man who
does his advertising in this way. He'd
steal the fence, the pump handle and the
barn doors before he'd give up possess
ion.''
Daily globe., 1879-04-06
TEE NEW MOON

What gold-hued shallop in the western skies.
Sinks to the distant hills when day has fled?
It is the new moon; and to paradise
1t bears, with bellying sails, the last month,
dead!
"A. B. iSarton, in April iScribner.
Daily globe., 1879-04-06
Household Hints.

To Set the Co1ors IN Cotton Stockings
and Calicoes.-Put some sugar of-lead in
the water to wash colorcd stockings and
calicoes, it will set the color; any drug
gist will tell how much sugar. of-lead
should be used in gallon of water.
For Washing Sslosr.--Put one half
teaspoonful of hartshorn into the suds in
which the silver is washed; have the "a
ter hot; wash quickly, using small
brush; rinse in hot water, and dry with
clean linen towel; then rub very dry
with q chamois skin. Washed IN this
manner, silver. becomes very brilliant,
and requires no polishing with any OF
the powders or whiting usually employed
and the silver does not wear out.
Daily globe., 1879-04-06
Where Tomatoes were Fir4t Eaten.

Where Tomatoes Were First Eaten.
It is Newport tradition that tomatoes
were first eaten in this country about
1928, in house still standing on the
corner OF Corne and Mill streets. About
that time there came there an eccentric
Italian painter, Michael Felicc Corne
He bought stable on the street now
called for him, fashioned it into dwell
ing, and there lived and died. Previous
to his coming, and long after, tomatoes,
then called "iove-apples, were thought to
be poisonous. A gentleman told me,
to-day, that in 1919 he brought them
from south Carolina and planted them in
his yard, where they were looked upon as
curiosities and priced for their beauty.
They became later, however, a very un-
pleasant missile in the hands of the small
boy. A charming old lady also told me,
to-day, that in 1894 she was sitting with
sick person when sonny one brought the
invalid, as a tempting delicacy, some
tomatoes. ''Would yogpoison her?" was
the exclamation Of the astonished attend
ants; and yet Corne, ia his section of the
town, had been serving them for year
previous. As late as 1885 they were re-
garded as poisonous throughout Connect
ricnt
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-03-27

heard on our frontier? Only this morning
they left her to return to the happy home
when the toll of the day was done, and with
a g glad song on her lips, she has been inno-
Gently planning for the long and happy
years in the future and now, her only hap
piness is in an early grave where all that
made life beautiful and bright will soon be
resting forever. Every throb of her broken
heart is beating time to her death march.
How long, oh, Lord, how long is the prayer
Of tle lonely emigrant to go up in vain, as
he watches the swift oncoming of the re-
~lentless foe, speeding like the wind over the
prairie toward his little camp, the peaceful
quiet of which will soon, ah, too soon, give
place to the death screams Of sweet women
and helpless children, mingled with the
whoop of the savage, the sharp reports Of
rifles, and the curses of the despairing hus-
band and father as he fights against hope for
all that makes life dear? And soon the noise
only the butchered bodies of the slain and
tile smoking ruins of the wagons are left to
mark the spot that so late held asfamily full
of hope and bright visions of blissful days
to come. The women and children driven
into captivity had better, alb, how much bet.
ter. be dead. The women become the play.
things of their brutal owners, the slaves ol
the sqaws, and lie as%dies a dog, unnoticeC
and unmourned, and are left to rot Wher'
they fell, or better perhaps, become food TO
the hungry dogs that'infest the camp. I'M
children, losing all memory of their past
are trained in the ways of their keepers, an
become as brutal
: ITO be continued.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-03-27
GOLDEN SHEAVES.

May every child through ALI theland.
Whose gift upon our altaraies
Fnllearly come to understand
That no such road to Parad isei
Is halfso sweet or half so puret
AS thnt which opens the wide door
To Christ,s sick, Suffering poor.
Motives are like harlequins.;. there Is al
ways a second dress beneath the first.
Great things are not accomplished by
idle dreams, but years of patient study.
When the character Of anyone is dis
cussed, silence in the good natured is CEN
sure.
A mind trained ofselfdenial meets tri-
ais with an amount of reserved moral force
quite inexplicable to-those less habituated
to ~self-control.~
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-03-27
The HON Z CIRCLE E.
H GOLD OF HOPE
By HENRY BURTON.

Bright shines the sun, but brighter after rain;
+, The clouds that darken make the sky more clear;
SO rest is sweeter when it follows pain,
And the'sad parting makes our friends more dear.
Tia well it should be thus: our father knows
The things that work together for our good;
We draw q sweetness from our bitter woes
We would not have all sunshine if we could.
The days with all their beauty and their light
Come from the dark and into the dark return;
Day speaks of earth, but heaven shines through
the night. M
Where in the blue q Thousand s%tar-lres burn.
So runs the law, the law of ~recompense,
That binds our life on earth and heaven in one;
Faith cannot live when all is sigh. and sense,
But faith can live and sing when, these are gone.
We grieve and murInur, for we can but SEQ
The single thread that flies in silence by;
When if we only saw the things.to be. a
Our lips would breathe a song and not n sigh.
Wait, then, my soul, and edgethedarkening CLIQUE
With the bright gold that Hope can alWayss lend
And If to day thouart with sorrow bowed,
Wait till tomorrow and thy grief shall end!
And when we reach the limit ofaour days,
Beyond the reach of shadows and of night,
Then shall orr every look andsvoice be praise
" 10 Him who shines our everlasting light. :.
Sunday Magazine
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-03-27

a grateful glow on his face he prepared to
drop into it.
upper %seyen," I said, "next one to
yours"
And dent think / was ever called quite
so many names in five minutes, all different
and none complimentary, in all my life, as
L was then. | will never again try to be ac-
co%mmodating in a sleeping car.-Baadstte.s IN
the Burlington Haaokeye.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-03-27
Il P BERTH.

All the way from Burlington to Hop
kins, I peacefully snored in an upper berth.
/ never get any other. / always reach the
conductor just in time to learn that he'll
shave to give me an upper berth" All
this winter / nave lived on the road, and
never got a lower berth but once. Til at
was on the ST. Louis sleeper Of the C.,B. q
@. road, which has nc upper berths. And
when Iwent to get into my lowly couch
that night, I was so accustomed to climbing
into my lofty berth from step-ladders and
porters' boxes, that / didn't know how to
get into a low one. and the porter boosted
me UP to the curtain rod, which | scram-
bled over, and tumhled down inside. Why.
about one-fifth Of my lite this winter, has
been spent dangling between heaven and
earth, clinging to the edge of an upper
berth, feeling for the floor with my feet.
There is some mistake about this. Nature
never intended me to sleep in an upper
berth, else she had given me legs with tu-
bular. Joints, that would slide in and ont,
like a spy-glass.
lam glad lam not fat, since this relent-
less fate has assigned me- forever to the
doom OF tire upper berths. Fl there is any
thing that would make a"snake laugh, it
would be the spectacle of a fat man, a little
along in years, with a head rather of the
bald badly, and wide suspenders tapping
and dangling down his legs, putting,
squirming and kicking over the edge of an
upper'berth, trying to get in, grabbing al
the yielding unhelpful pillows, balancing
himself on his stomach while he tears his
bed to pieceswith frantic snatches, III at
the same time kicks the immortal breath
out OF the man in the opposite berth, eandss
last. with a hollow groan, come sliding
down. landing; astride Of the neck OF tht
man who is sitting on the edge OF the lowe
berth unbutton,ng. his shoes. 1t usual!
winds up by bis giving some man a dolia'
and fifty cents to trade Derths with him.,
It is.unnecessary to say that the old ia
man is very sensitive on this subject AM
doesn't like to be joked about it. One night
after L. had laughed myself blind at jus
such a scene as l have described, l hear
the fat man ask, with great sadness OF voice
if any body wouldn't like to exchang
berths with HIM. Moved with pity | sui
Il Would..'
"All right, "ssaids the perspiring fat mai
t ..mine's upper five, bat you'll have to g
the porter to make it up again before yo
get it. It's kind of tore all to pieces" }
added, rather apologetically.
And he was correct, for | could see it !,
$ ing all over the floor OF the car.
"Whichis your, berth Z" he asked, IS vii
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-03-27
Written for the Rocky Mountain Husbandman.
THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1875.
BY CAPT. w. CLIFFORD, U. S. A.

--
In the month of March, 1876, orders
reached Montana for the troops in that ter
ritory to make preparations for Il vigorous
campaign against the Sioux Indians under
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and other notable
chieftains. The young men of tae various
bands Of this tEibe-no 10 latter whether they
were fed and clothed () by the government
Or not-were reported us rallying to the
standard of these unruly leaders in formula
ble numbers. They had been raiding the
frontier settlements for years. Defiant and
threatening messages had time and again
been sent to the authorities, Wlio were EN-
aeavoring to perfect some arrangement that
would be satisfactory to all concerned, while
their bearing in council was invariably in
solent and overbearing. The, commission
ers sent to treat with them had, time and
again, only saved their lives by a remarka-
Bile GOODNESS and tact. The Sioux had, in
fact, by a bitter experience, been absolutely
driven to the conclusion that a council was
only a fresh beginning of a. system of rob-
berry and fraud. They had learned to meet
deceit and dishonesty with cunning and yio-
lence. The wrongs inflicted upon them by
corrupt agents, they balanced by murder
and, outrage on those who had no part in
their grievances.
The summer of 1875 was prolific with
stories OF the depredations committed by
the Sioux in revenge for their wrongs.
Miners attempting to explore the Black
Hills, Big Horn mountains, and the valley
of the Yellowstone, had been murdered /;
the Judith Basin and Musselshell route from
central Montana had been abandoned
through fear of them, andsnoW they an
nounced their intention OF making a4deter-
mined effort to recover some ofithe many
advantages they claimed to lave been de-
prived of. They gave warning that they
would lay waste the many young settle
ments that were everywhere springings up
like magic on the distant ffontier-a coun
try they had SO long arrogantly claimed as
their own, andfWhich had been guaranteed
to them by the government. The latter, as
has frequently been the case, found itself
unable to keep the restless multitude OF
hardy adventures away from the lohg-coy
cted Black Hills without resorting to force
and spilling the blood OF its own sons. This
it dared not do. Gen. Clusters report that
the Black Hills abounded in gold had FULL
aroused the lon%g-slumbering curiosity con
corning this region. which for years hat
borne the reputation of outrivaling ancien
Peru in richness,
Cunning speculstorssat different points OF
the Missouri river kept the teverish blood 0
The old miners of California, Montana, an
III tact, the entire country, in a glow. wit
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-03-27
THE CONVERSATIONS OF SORROW.

There is comfort in the thought OF an orr
der beyond which nothing can pass, into
which each sorrow is adjusted and in the
thought of a Supreme Hand that can mould
all things to it's purpose, and thus guaran-
tees the stability of that divine order. They
are like resting places on the stairway up
gray cathedral, spfre, platforms ON each OF
which you stop and breathe and rest and en-
joy the widening landscape andfthe prom
Use of the view which is to crown the whole,
and grow familiar with a feature here and
there. So, resting as we pass in these low
er thoughts, we reach the last, that the end
OF all things is our good. The particular
sorrow may hurt, but the drift Of the whole
is good. And sometimes the very sorrow
has wrought us good. We know that al
ready by experience. It was good for our
temper to suffer. 1t calmed, restrained,
chastened us-made us less impatient, or
fretful, or violent. Trial has been purifying 4
us from the throngsof the vulgar, animal de-
sires, from restless cravings, from the stain
0 f'passion. It has done good by preventing
us laying hold of the present world, loosen
ing our attachment to it, setting us a little
apart from its painted shows, out OF us DaD-
Eble ndhaste. It has strengthened our SYM
patty with others We have entered into
the fellowship Of sorrow. We have learned
to feel the common burden. We can conn
! fort, for we knowwhat tits to be comfort
, ed. But the most'of what we know is by
: faith. We have not seen or felt it yet. We
: have but caught a glimpse Of the system
here and there. If you ever spent a misty
! day upon the Rhigi, you will have seen
! through shifting riffs in the lower clouds
! the edge of a lake, or the fringe of q wood,
: or the gay fragment Of a town-vague, tran
: STORY hints of a great world beneath. And
: such vague hints are the sum Of what we
know in part-visions into Gods working
:, that we have seen closed as suddenly al
opened. We must hold on and watt living
in this, asin everything else, by faith
- Sunday Magazine:
"a / - $3.50 #&xM4 -
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SOME little time back a tall gray-haired3
gentleman went into one OF the branch
postotiices in a Western. district. He asked
some questions relative to the registering Of
a letter of one Of the girls in attendance,
and was answered in a manner which her
considered exceedingly sharp and rude,
He repeated the question, however. not be-
ing quite sure that he was not mistaken i'll
his superstition, and he repeated it very
mildly. She answered him more rudely
than before. Hesthen made some remOn-
STRANGE, and asked her If sire thought that
was the proper way.to answer an-inquiry in
a public office. She saida she thought she
had been quite civil enough for him. He
asked her. with an omiAously increasing
miluness Of manner, if she would favor him
with her name. She eniphatically declined
to do so. lie then said he thought he would
tell her his name, which, however, she de-
clined to hear, saying that his name was no
concern of hers. He calmly replied that he
thought it was, for his nanre was John Man
ners. and he was the Postmaster-G General.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-19
Neigh orhood News.

Wmnebago City has Quarantined
against two of the towns in that
county, because of diphtherla. The
frightened city has made mistake.
Wolves are on the increase in near.
ly every portion Of the State. What
is the reasoni
Jackson RepWbiic: John Richard.
son, of Minnesota township, this year
raised half an acre of Amber sugar
cane which produced l2S gallons of
syrup. If this can be beaten let us
have the report. Evidently il pays
Ia raise sugar cane.
lie Suer SeRtiRsi: The receipts
Of wheat the past week have been a
little in excess Of 1900 bushels, or an
average Of 1880 bushels per day,
About two-thirlS of this was taken
in at the elevator,
kasota is the most economically
managed town in lie Sueur county,
having levy of S.l0 of u mill for
town revenue, while lie Sueur is the
highest, having levy Of : mills,
Window Reporter; Presiding Ed,
~ Martin held quarterly conference
IN WiNdom, Friday night. Saturday
he called upon n number III citizens
IN company with Dir, Foster, We
opine that he and the Doctor were
putting up n "corner" on Windows
sinners, and the Reporter doesn't pro-
pnSc Ia stand it, While visiting at
the Reporter office Elder Martin show.
al great familiarity with poker"
and evidently had been posted by Dr,
Foster, for he leVeled one at our IL,
pOrtoTial head,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-19
The New Secretary Of War.

The appointment of Gov. Ramsey,
by the President. 10 u seat i'm his cabi-
net, reflects credit upon the Admin.
istration. The new Secretary of War
is an able, careful and experienced
man. lie is no novice. in politics. AS
Congressman, Governor and Senator,
his political career covers the average
of human life, and that, too, in the
most eYentfuJ epochs of the national
history. His large experience, his
sound judgment, his well poised mind,
eminently fit him for ministerial
duties. Those familiar with public
men, and who know Coy. Ramsey,
are fully conscious of the fact that
the President has never yet brought
his superior, az u consellOr and al.
administrative officer. into his political
household. The appointment of Gov.
Ramsey calls 10 mind the fact, that
President Hayes, before his inangHrs-
ton spoke TO the writer in such terms
concerning Gov. Ramsey, AS led to
the belief that he might he member
Of the first cabinet. This late ap-
pointment shows that the President
is still faithful 10 his earlier cOnyic-
tions as to Gov. Ramsey's fitness for
this high position.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-19
Let Well Enough Alone.

The indications thus far, from Con.
gress, are conclusive that there will
be no legislation on the finances. The
Republicans congratulate themselves
on their splendid financial record.
Resumption has proved To he bril-.
liant success. They have given the
country the best currency it has ever
yet possessed, which has been natur.
ally followed 10y Il reyiyal of prospect.
ty. Here they are willing to rest
and let the nation enjoy the fruit of
their labors. The Democrats, OH the
other hand, have spread their record
To the world, as the constant enemies
nf resumption, rs the foes of the IA.
tional bank currency, ana as the
friends of a hopeless and limitless
system of imitation. This experience
should teach the people which party
is most deserving of confidence and
trust upon financial questions.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-19
The Canon Valley r, r,

The Directors of the above men.
toned railroad met at Farihault on
last Friday, Mr.. John +, Meaghcr
of this city, was present. The Situa.
ton was fully canvaSSed, and the
company are satisfied that the mad
can and will he built rs soon rs they
can make connections with the Green
Bay r, II, which will be during the
coming season, The building of the
Cannon Valley road is dependant up
on that, and rs that connection is
now assured, the Directors of the
above road are fully convinced that
the IVORY will begin between here
and Red Wing 10y an.
other year. There are lS0 run Of
stone on the line of the road between
this city and Red Wing, including
the termini.