Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-11

| and thereby becoming q means OF spread
ing contagion when the spring weather is
upon us. All out houses should receive
attention as early as possible, and the
deleterious effects will not be as serious
or disagreeable as when the milder wealth
erspproaches. Sanitary measures should
be rigidly enforced before the great thaw
to protect us from the poisonous sewer
age into our wells and also the vile stencil
that always arises from thawing cess
pools Many medical scientists say it is
feared that even the country towns will
not escape the cholera and other con-
tagious diseases this summer. Let us all
be clean.
The general impression has been that
last month would prove to be the coolest
January on record. but such is not the
case Signal Service Observer Cheney of
Minneapolis says: January 1883 was
nearly 81 degrees colder, its mean tenn
perature being 264 below zero. The
mean temperature of January of this
year was 81 degrees below the average of
January for the last twenty years. Sew
enteen days had mean temperature be-
low zero. and only one day had mean
above freezing. Eleven successive days,
beginning with the 18th, had a mean tenn
perature below zero, and during these
days the mercury indicated above zero
only three times at the hours of observa-
ton. Very little snow fell during the
month, but the uniform low temperature
has kept the sleighlng good. The relative
humidity, as might be expected. was low,
and the mean Of the barometer high.
Taking the two months of December and
January together, the winter has, thus far,
been the coolest Of which I have anyIe-
cord, with the exception Of December
1875, and January, 1888.
The Hon. John G. Woolley, in a tent
per&nce speech recently, after dwelling
upon the terrible effects of intoxication
uron the individual, his family, his home.
and his country, very eloquently and feel
ingly pleads for more active sympathy
and interest on the part Of the people
who profess to be for temperance and to
have any regard for the welfare of those
! around them. He also says: Your
prayers are good, they will do you good,
and may help the poor drunkard. But
believe that God expects men and women
to he the agents through which other
nd hn1, 70 hat far
Don't pray for miracle of reformation
to be wrought on the poor souls about
you. but pray God to put it into your
mind to find some way to work as we'll as
pray for those about you. If every good
| man and women would become wide
| awake and alive to the influence that
! they might exert, the air Of Minnesota
would not support a drunkard \ year
from now" And only think, citizens OF
our beautiful little city, what this would
mean even to US. Think over, for once.
the number Of wrecked and ruined homes.
that would be changed. until the inmates
would feel that heaven itself had for
them begun below. Think Of it and be
ready to DO your duty.
The action Of the Governor in ordering
| the muster out of Company &C" I'd Reg't NJ
N. G., as reported in the Pioneer Press of Sun
i day, is surprise to the members Of the Com.
pany, and In view Of the reasons assigned 70:
this action much Indignation is expressed
as it Is will known to the Company, that other
Companies with poorer showing on inspec'
ton. have either been passed without censure,
| or allowed time in which to attain a higher
standard. This is notably the case with the
| New Ulm Company, which, being found in q
badly demoralized condition some weeks ago
| was given sixty days in which to put itself
| in minimum condition, contrast this with the
| present treatment of Co. &C." The state
ment is made that Go. &c" has fallen below
the minimum number of1enective men requir
ed by law, il this we're true. it would not be q
sufficient reason for this action, in view OF
the fact that the Duluth Guards were mus
tered in very recently with forty men, si1
less than the law requires. While at the in
spection OF Co. &c" forty-seven men were
| present. 1t is true fourteen Of these were
recruits, and are probably not classed as ef
fective, but when the eight men absent by
| leave, nearly all Of whom are drilled men. are
taken into account, the statement that the
| legal number Of effective men is wanting il
! shown to be incorrect. But the Company il
willing to stand on the men present at in
| spection and then be compared with the in
spectlon of Co. "E' lst Reg't, ST. Paul. las,
May, when the report was thirty-fvc men
sixteen recruits, and no talk of muster out
The boys know that they are in better con
dition to go on than at any previous time
since the organization Of the Company, aut
in view Of the treatment Of other Companie.
feel that an unfair inspection sprung on then
at forty-eight hours notice and the time fo
inspection changed by the inspecting Office
at the last moment, has been used simply al