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St. Paul daily globe., 1886-07-21
Didn't KNOW Their Business.

Special to the Globe.
HUDSON, Wis. July 2O.-This morning,
about 2 o'clock, burglars effected an en-
trance into the store of Gilbert Everson. in
the Williams block, by forcing the front
door with cold chisel. A hole was bored
in the top of the safe, into which large
charge of powder was poured and fuse
lighted. A report followed which shook
all the buildings in the neighborhood, blew
out part of the glass in the store front and
completely wrecked the safe, blowing the
doors several feet away. Parties sleeping
in the vicinity were awakened and rushed
to their windows. Four men were seen to
come out of the store, walk leisurely to the
lake and enter boat and row away to the
Minnesota shore. They secured about SIS
and large quantity of notes. They were
evidently noviceS from the appearance of
their work
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-10

socially as is woman who mas trans
crossed the law of morality-and there
Is no more reason why he should be
admitted in society than she, for he has
just as surely lost his honor-and
drinking and dealing in rum would be
recognized as the foul and dishonora-
BILE things they really are. To enter
saloon openly would not be dreamed
of by any man who cared for his good
name; no saloon-keeper, no man who
in any wise handled the internal stuff,
would be considered socially eligible by
any one. A revolution, social and NOR
al. would at once ensue.
This example once set by the people
who are tacitly admitted to be the lead
ers in the social world would be fol-
lowed through all grades of society. 1t
would be moral awakening to thou
sands and tens of thousands who as yet
have never set themselves to consider
the great overshadowing evil of our
land. Toledo Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-10
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.

A Few Sensible Remarks Concerning the
Dangerous Habit of Tampering with
Strong Drink.
We are frequently asked by friends to
give more editorial space to this ques-
ton. Certainly it is an important
question. But what can be said on it
that will convey the slightest informa-
ton to any Intelligent human being?
Here is Temperance lecture, and all
that can be said Friend, you are run
ming fearful risk every time YOU lift IL
glass of liquor to your lips; you are
doing violence to the membranes of
your stomach, an injustice to society,
and are probably boiling tears 20
scorch the cheeks of wife and children.
Ninety-nine out of hundred who
drink die from alcoholic poison and be-
come pauperS and nuisance. This is
strictly in accordance with our own OBJ
servation. Reform, after years of
| drinking, is pretty nearly impossible.
If man drinks liquor until he is forty
| five years old it is not likely that he
will ever permanently reform. There
are exceptions, but the statement we
have made is also in accordance
with our extended observation. If Il
drinking man fOrty-tive years old should
read this, let him try it, and if he can
show us that we are wrong, write us
and we will give him credit. Now,
| this is about all that can be said on
Temperance, and the most that has
been said is well known to every drink
ing man. A man runs no greater risk
in eating arsenic than he does in drink
ing rum. The arsenic kills little
quicker, but though it takes a little
longer, you will get there, friend,
through the rum bottle. 1t is possible
for an individual to take arsenic regu-
larly and yet live for years. Generally,
however, it is dead shot. In drink
ing the shot is just as deadly but it re-
quires more time. The dangers, there
fore. are about the same. The vast
majority of people are fully aware of
what they may expect if they take arse
mic, and do not take it. The majority,
too, know very well what they may ex-
pect if they drink liquor, but they
drink it, and if these very men should
a thing, how quickly they would pro-
nounce him a fool.
We have great sympathy for the man
who is addicted to intemperance, and
yet there is much sympathy wasted in
this direction. 1t is regarded as an ex-
ceedingly tyrannical habit, and as it is
generally viewed by the Incorporate it
is. But the view is wrong. The aver
age drunkard thinks that he has all the
rum in the universe to fight and it
looks like big job, and if it were true
it would be, for there is rum enough
almost anywhere to float the Great
Eastern. But all the fighting man
need do, and all he can do, if he wishes
to reform, is to fight one glass of liquor.
1t is pretty poor sort of a man that
can not whip one glass of grog. A
child could throw that in the gutter,
and it would look much better there
than a man does. That is all we have
to say about Temperance to-day
| Western Rurdl
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-10
TEMPERANCE READING.
AQUAM BIBAMUS.@

ITO the German melody Ergo Bib1mLs."1
For song and good cheer we're now gathered
here,
But, il you please, dqt1m bdbdmus;
We've given up whisky and cider and beer
SO, If you please, dqUdm bibdmttS;
we've found that cold water is good taken
Gear,
We've found It's not lacking in sparkle or
cheer
We've found, taken straight, that it's not
very dear,
So, if you please, aq,tam bibamus.
Wen drink TO our wives and daughters so
fair
But, if you please, aquam bibar1,s;
wen take only that which they with us can
So, if you please. dq,trm bibamls;
IL never brings headache, it never brings
Nor doctor, nor bllsters, nor sempts us to
swear,
Or to do wicked deeds, which no man should
dare,
So, if you please, aquam bi5ams.
Well drink to our churches, our country,
our schools
But, il you please, nqltdm bibdmlts;
Wen drink to good laws, good habits, good
rules.
So if you please. aq,tam btbnmus;
Wen drink to good workmen good masters,
good tools
Wen drink to the wise men, Wen drink to
the fools
And the good time a-coming when they're
crowded from stools
So II you please, dQtNLn bibGmuS
Wen drink to our boys, who are watching
our phrase,
But, If you please, dqltdm bibGmus;
Wen drink to good women with prayer and
with praise
So, If you please, dqltnm bibdmus:
wen drink to the coming of hygiene days,
But drink that never will poison or craze,
wen drink but well do it IN good Christian
ways,
So, if you please, Gq,tdm bibdmus
II ct lrinlr
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-10
Fatal Effects of Alcohol.

According to DIR. Richardson, alco-
'4Ol cuts down by disease, in England
and Wales alone, one thousand per-
sons week. What, adds the doctor,
if any any other cause of mortality did
the same? What if one thousand per-
sons per week died, in the same area,
from the bite of the rabid dog or the
snake, by the swallowing of arsenic,
opium or prussic acid? What if some
thousand persons week were known
to be killed by the secret devices of the
slow poisoner, who, under the guise of
friendship, went about and instlled
into his victims some subtitle drop
which led to the shortening of their life
and to the production of lingering or
ganic fatal disease? What, indeed.
then would be the cry and the action?
Why, all through the ranks of the great
profession of medicine there would be
a tumult of labor and toll such as new
er before was seen, to remove the ca
lamity. Men would be ambitious to
be first to discover by experiment, by
experience, the cause of SO fearful an
evil, and to remove it instantly; while
he who won the victory over the calam-
ity would be eXtollcd as illustrious,
and, crowned with honor, become
household word among the children of
Esculapius. Yet here one single cause
making this deadly havoc, a cause well
known and easily removable, in spite Of
its evils and in face of its easy remov-
al, is permitted to remain in sight
with a majority of the army of medi-
cine looking on in apathy, plying us
''poor foolish fanatics who are exer-
cising our limited powers to uproot it,
and some, with the rest of the world,
so sharing the calamity as to become
copartncrs in the destruction which
follows from the participation.-Sci-
cntifc american.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-10

The village of Geneva, N. Y, having
a population of about four thousand,
has undertaken the establishment of II
coifee-house for putting Temperance
principles into practice. 1t is to be, as
described in one of the local papers,
"an attractive place, where young men
caa congregate, drink their coffee, eat
their lunches, enjoy the benefit of fine
reading-room and the pleasures of bill
lard and pool, without the contamin-
ating influences of the saloon and bow
room"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-10

In erecting scaffoldings for the use
of workmen in building houses, the in
genious Japanese bind the parts firmly
together with stout cords, instead OF
mailing them. As result the scaffolds
never fall, precipitating the workmer
to injury or degth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-10
SOCIAL CUSTOM.

Let us drink water.
j. E. Ranttr, d. d.. in Temperance Advocate
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-06
would he be SO niggardly as not to let
his hands take the Fourth of July and

would he be SO niggardly as not to let
his hands take the Fourth of July and
honor our national day? Would he be
so stingy as to make them work All
extra day for it2 Now Mr. A. T from
West Freedom, ,you are biased. Do you
know that it is the public school teacher
that is the prime factor in making this
land prosperous and happy5 Do you
want men to work on Sunday be-
ileve there are some teachers that would
teach Saturdays aud Sundays if they
were paid for the work, and do you
favor that plan? You can't have things
as you would like land because you can't
you should not robthe poor children and
hardworking teacher OF these holidays.
If you will step into Ebenezer school
the civil government class will read
you section 1864 of the school law,
which is as follows: "The school day
shall consist of six hours occupied in
school; the school week shall consist OF
five days; Thanksgiving day, 18th of
December. 1st of January, I'D of
February and 4th of July. excepted; :;
the school months shall consist OF four
weeks; and the school year shall com
mence on the first day of July anG end
on the thirtieth day of June following"
This is not telling jou that there is a
certain mode OF baptism to be found in
the 29th chapter of Matthew.(D The
following question has been elaborately
answered by the state superintendent
OF public schools. care teachers ell
titled to pay for holidays, when they
do not teach on said days." answer
in the language of the state superin-
tendent, and trust that the editor will
not Gull this on account of length, be-
cause many school teachers and direc-
tors need to read it. sThe days men-
toned in section ,064 are holidays, ,and
the teacher has no more right 10 claim
pay for said days than he has to de-
mand pay for Sunday. When one of
these days comes within school week
the remaining four days, if taught,
constitute full and legal school week.
From this it will be seen that the teach
er does not receive paw for holidays,
but for teaching the remaining four
days, which entities him to pay for a
fall week. A teacher gains nothing by
teaching on holidays, and loses nothing
by Diminishing on said days. Time lost
cannot be made up by teaching on hol-
idays. Those who dismissed school on
the oath day of December, 1856, and
re-opened school January 4, 1886, were
entitled to pay for full week for the
four days next preceding December %,
| but they will have to teach five days in
lieu of the four last days in December.
Four days never make full week un-
less they are taught during the week in
which holiday occurs. AS the 22d OF
February will come on Monday that
week has only four legal school days,
| and constitute legal school week. To
teach or not to teach on that day can
not change the result; except in one
case the monthly report would show
twenty days taught and in the other
nineteen days-and nineteen is all the
law requires" LAFAYETTE Boy.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-06
A LETTER FROM KANSAS.
SEELT ,CowLEY COUNTY, KAs.,
Tanuorx- 18Th. 1895

90 SEEEI ,COWLEI COUNTY, HAS,
January 18th, 1886.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCER.-I thought
!. would write few lines to your paper
to let some of my friends in Lafayette
county know something about Kansas.
On Thursday, January 9TH, OF this
year, blizzard struck us and the wind
blew about As or so miles an hour, and
it showed 30 that you could not see %
feet from you The wind blew so
hard that it would blow a mans hat
off and blow the hair off mans head.
l would say to my friends that want
ed homes in the far west that they had
better go somewhere else to get homes.
There have been great many people
and stock lost their lives here and
other counties west of here. In the
summer time the hot snu and hot winds
burn up everything, and what man
makes in the summer he has to take to
buy coal in winter to keep from freez :
ing to death. 1t is showing here now
and it SHOWS here all winter, and late
in spring. This is great place for doc.
tors. as it is very sickly. would say
to one and all to stay away from Kan
sas. This is nothing but the truth
Lafayette county, Missouri lis the
best place that l have found yet. II
this does not find its way to the waste
basket will write to you again.
Respectfully,
S. P. MASSEY.
a Lafayette County Boy
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-06
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.

FURNISHED weekly TO the Inteligencer By
Captain j, D. Conner, recorder of deeds o1
Lafayette county, Mol
Abstract Of the deeds filed in the Office OF
Recorder of Deeds from Saturday, Jan. %
to Saturday, Jan. 80, A. D., 1856. Only such
as contain covenants of warranty contained
in list.
James c. Kelly and wife to SAINT.
F. Martin, 90 acres, W hf sw Sc 4S,
VIM. r. Meadow 10 Wilson Bied-
soc 40 acres, sw sw, II, As. 2S.... & 0C
Aoraliam Bledsoe to Wilson BIed-
soc, so acres, ne ne, 19; and NV NV, E.
20. As. %. ...... ..,.-.......... -
Adolph Nickles to James o. Wells,
40 acres, NV ne, 10, 4S, 27, except
rod off W side of same. . 800 90
Charles a. Graham to George It.
Payne, lot u, blk M, Aullville . 225 0I
John W. Waddellt to Teresa Haw-
kins, hf lot /. blk @, Houx's add to
Lexington. lI5 w
Polly Evans ct to j. w. Fisher.
50 acres, hf nv, 20, so, 81, right,
title and interest. .:......... ........ 3GO OF
Z. j, Nsll and wife 10 james G.
Kelly, 100 acres, W hf ne; and ht
NV, S6. 40, 90 IS 5000 N
; Jas. c. Kelly and wifeSs Ssto Hiram
&c. Kelly. S5 acres. lie NV, and NV ne.
:i; also o acres, in sw corner Sc sH. 80 T.
70 ,... ....- ] .i,OO OC
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-06
COUNTY GRANGE.

EDITOR iNTELLIGENCE.: :-Iuu will
please publish through the columns of
your valuable paper that the County
Grange will meet ri Mayyiew, Feb.
23d inst, being regular meeting. Off
GERS will be to elect for the present
year, and other very important bust
ness that demin the attention OF the
County Grange. Brother NJ. Sueed
of Sedalia, master Of State Grange,
will meet with us and give good
sound talk Oil grange matters. We
want This present year TO revive the
grange throughout Lafayette county,
and we think il every farmer could
look rightly II his own interest he
w"uli say so too, ,as it has become more
and more important, latterly to affect
this organization than ever before for
self protection. Our grange destiny is
now in our own hands if we go straiggt
forward in the path already marked
ont. Select wisely our officers and
managers To carry out our business
plans so happily begun. carry out fully
onr lecture system which has shown
such encouraging results in educating
our order, and giving, new life and
zeal to the lukewarm, and keep our
official organ perfectly free from all
politics and controversy, and fr0wn
down sternly all attempts from within
and without of those shrewd persons
who wish to use us for their own pOlii-
ical preterment or other selfish pur-
poses; in short if we stand united and
earnest in building upon the foundation
already laid our future success is assur
ed. We only want our own and equal
chance with others in the race for hap
piness and wealth. All cannot be
farmers, and we do not want TO drive
away mechanics aud manufacturers
from our midst, we rather wish to ell
courage and help them and are glad
to see them prosper. We have no
battles with trades and professions of
any kind, there is room enough in this
wide world for all honest callings, and
we should cultivate.the kindest feelings
and relations with all our fellow men
while We are trying to advance our
own interests. j. CORDER,
Master OF County Grange.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-06
BROWNE-BARD
from the Deepwater, Henry County, Demo
crat.

From the Deepwater. Henry County, Demo
crat.
We are happy to chronicle the mar
riage OF our old friend and pastor, Rev
D. G. Browne, of Lexington, Mo to
Miss Matte Bard, Of SedalIa. This
joyous event took place at the residence
of the brides father, w. z. Bard
Tuesday, Jan. 26, Bishop CRANBERRY
of St. Louis, officiating.
Rev. Browne is the ablest minister
of the South Methodist church in Cen
tral Missouri. having been pastor al
Sedalia for three years previous 10 his
transfer to the Lexington charge las
fall, and has host of friends at the
former place, who will long remem-
Der him for his grand and good work
Rev. Browne came to Sedalia frou
Mississippi, and with the rapid man.
ner in which he Is now going forward
it can be but few years until he be.
comes leading light among the higf
dignitaries of his church:
Miss Bard is one of Sedalia's mos
| refinea and cultured yonng ladies, low
ed by all who know her Tor her man,
virtues and nobleness Of character
being the oldest daughter of w. E
Bard, one of Sedalia's we'll known
druggists.
The Democrat wishes Rev. Browne
and wife all the joy and happiness the,
can wish.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-06
THE HEROIC REMEDY.

This il the way Gov. Pattison al
PENNSYLVANIA ialks:--
am convinced, after long reflection,
that there is only one sure remedy left
for the people OF Pennsylvania, and
that is to enforce the existing laws of
the state by penal statutes. 1t must be
made crime, punishable by the i'm
prisonment Of the officials, for rail-
road officials to break the law Since
all other efforts have failed, am now
for trying the efficacy OF the prison
law. And why not? You would pun.
ish a county official who stole your
taxes by putting him in prison. You
would send to the penitentiary the pri-
vate trustee who corruptly prOfited by
his trusts. And why shall not the
public trustees of railroad corporations
be jailed for robbing the citizen and
depressing the community corruptlyi
There is no trouble at all about the
laws SO far as tney declare the rights
and duties of the people and the rail-
roads. The seventeenth article of the
constitution needs 10 addition or
amendment. 1t is sufficient in all its
parts to correct every evil of railrsad,
from which the people now suffer if il
be enforced. 1t is just, true, lawful.
1t is legally and cquitably sound in
every member. 1t simply needs hon.
est Legislators TO pass the laws to
enforce 1t and pure judges to interpre,
those laws.
Let the next legislature pass statute
simply making it Il penal offence, pun
ishable with imprisonment, to violate
tho Of hn
Gle, and let jury of honest men pass
upon the fact whether that article has
been violated under the instruction OF
unsubsidized judges, and from that
day we will have law-obedient railroad
corporations in Pennsylvania. 1t is use.
less to listen to the sophiatry of paid
railroad attorneys, either in the legis.
lature or out OF il, abou; the difficulty
OF drafting penal statute based upon
the seventeenth article There Is
scarcely section of that article that
is not sufficiently descriptive for penal
statute. Leave il to jury TO say
whether the South Pennsylvania and
Pennsylvania railroad We're parallel
ana competing lines, and twelve honest
men would convict the conspirators
who concocled the "sell out without
leaving the box, and an upright Judge
would send them to the penitentiary
before the court adjourned. What diff.
tieulty is there about u jury finding
whether pass given To legislator or
judge, and tor which he gives no tangi.
bic return, is free pass or not i.
Where is the trouble about jury find
ing whether mining coal is the business
OF common carrying! And so of all
the sections of the seventeenth article
Merely attach the penal clan-. L. a..ef,
OF them and leave the rest a. iury
and an honest court. Al least let
US try this just for a while. Hone,
men, honest railroad officials, wuui.i
not fear such laws, and. as for the di.
honest ones, we simply want thai
there shall 30 some law thst the, viii!
fear
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-06

dusk great many Of them may be
captured; q little vinegar should be
added as il is the ripe app'e OF cider
smell that attracts the moths lo thei,
liquid graves The time for commenc-
ing this will depend on the season.
somewhere from the first to the middle
of May, and it should be continued I'M
til July, when the first brood OF moth,
will have been captured. By hanging
out basin g. tester about The lin.
the moths are expected their arriva
can be exactly determined. As ever!
one knows, the codliug nuth is tht
mother Of the apple worm. She 1lies
abroad only at night. when she visits
one branch after another, depositimg II
little egg il the blow end of the apple,
and as soon as her stock is exhausted
she dies. The eggs SOON hatch and the
worm eats its way to the core OF the
apple, and then the injured fruit falls
to the ground. and il it is not picked
up by hogs and sheep, the larv@ soon
leaves il and burrows into the ground,
and there spins Tor itself y winter
house. or else matches out producing a
moth that will visit the fruit in August
SELECTION OF VARIETIES.
In the selection OF varieties the
grower should decide on u few of iht
best standard sOrIs,- as too many varie-
ties make up such mixed lots that but
few buyers like 10 handle them. In
my opinion the following is good
list: Early Harvest, Red Astrachan
Summer Bellilowcr. Maiden's Blush
Jonathan, Ben Davis, Wine.ap ant
Huntsman's Favoritc.
GATHERING AND PACKING.
AS rule most farmers pick ant
haul their apples to buyers. This j.
all wrong. Every farmer sbOnld pacl
his own apples in barrels in thu
orchard. saving great deal OF time
and the apples are delivered in muct
better order than when hauled
loose in the wagon. In general it may
be said that winter apples should b.
picked when they are ripe. Ripenesi
is shown by the color OF the apples
and by the ease with which they par
from the tree
Apples probably keep longer whel
picked before they are ripe. but sucl
apples never posses the flavor ant
crispness Of fully inatured fruit. If /,
person has good cellar for keepin:
fruit, the apples may be taken to it a
soon as they are picked. Cider apple
should be lett on the gruud in piles, a
they will lose some of their water, ui:t
will make better cider Great CAR
should always be taken in handling tn
fruit in all cases, as upon that will lie
pend the success of the apple orchard
| JAMES AULL,