Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24

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We stepped into the new restaurant
and bakery of r. 81. stockman the other
day. It is situated in the repaired brick
block south of the post-off1ce. The rooms
are new, clean and commodious. and
every thing is pleasantly arranged for
restaurant. Mr.. Burden, the baker, Is an
experienced hand at the business, and
with the aid of the new portable oven,
of so loaves capacity. expects to give the
citizens of Austin good bread, cake. and
pastry Of all kinds.
Charley West thought he would
fumlgate that new girl-baby Of his last
week. The sulphur is ordered, 80 many
pounds to the cubic foot, and the exer-
cises ordered to be begun. The family
expected to ''hold the Fort" while the
burning shovel Of incense was borne
through the rooms to the tune of tramp,
tramp, the boys are marching" but they
we're only we'll begun, when, in some un-
accountable manner, the whole ton, more
or less. was discovered to be on fire. The
family were obliged to vacate on the
double quick" and the neighbors don't
think Bolcom's addition needs any more
sulphur this season.
Austin is visited nearly every day
by agents or travelling Job printers,
who, with some miserable excuse for a
patent invention, in some new style of
printing, or with tale of prices so low
that they would fain make the average
business man think they do work less than
cost and board themselves. This bust
ness has quite funny side sometimes;
when one of these bummers happens to
come into your own store, and finds the
"editor in," and we listen to his tale of
woe to the end with great deal of
interest, and he, Judging by our interest,
is sure Of job, and isl at last, finally,
very politely, told that we guess we-went-
give n-order-to-day, as we run a little
printing shop of our own. It Is really
quite amusing to see the sweet express
sion. that all of sudden so gently steals
over his benign countcnance, as, with
his retiring bow, he gasps, all revoir.
Last week Thursday evening, just
after VIM. V. Little, of the town of Win
dom. had retired, his wife, entering
the room, found him lying in peculiar
way, and going to him. found life was
extinct. He had been to Austin that day
on business. Mr.. Little was born in
High Gate, Franklin county. Wis.,, June
1, 1927. He was married, 1851, to Char
lotte NJ. Morgan, and in June, 1852,
moved to Fall River, Wis. He enlisted
in Co. K 32d Regt. Wis. Vols. Aug. II,
1882 and was transferred IN 1854 to the
Veteran Reserve corps, and in March,
1865, to the 23d Regt. First Battalion.
He moved to Minnesota in 1877, and
died Feb. 18, 1886. The funeral service was
held at his residence, under the auspices
of Mcintyre Post, No. 66. G. A. r, and
Austin lodge. A. F. & A. NJ, Rev. w. E.
Stanley officiating. His remains were
taken to Milton Junction, Wis, for
burial.
DO you see that man over there?
Well, he's farmer. There he goes with
q friend; they're going to pet drink.
The farmer will pay for it. Now, let me
see That man will sweat two mortal
hours next spring to pillow enough
ground to raise one bushel of corn. That
bushel of corn he will sell for thirty
cents. He is going in there now to
spend the thirty cents for two drinks.
Therefore, the farmer and corn have
parted. Now, let me tell you what be-
comes of the corn. A bushel Of corn
makes seventeen quarts of whisky-four
and quarter gallons. The distillery
gets its first profit-40 cents a gallon.
There you are: 50 for bushel of corn.
Now the government comes in, 80 cents
a gallon-$3.85 added to the So makes
1856. That brings the product of the
bushel of corn down to the jobber and
the wholesaler, and finally, by several
stages, to the retailer. BY the time it
reaches the latter the bushel of corn or
its product. of four and quarter gal
Ions has been reduced one-half, which
means eight and half gallons. There
are sixty drinks to the gallon-that is the
average-eight and half gallons means
27O drinks at Is cents each--there We
have $46.35 as the consumers price for
bushel of corn, which the farmer raises
and sells for thirty cents. Who says
there is not industry in this country?
But the farmer we saw just now spent
his whole bushel of corn in the price of
two drinks, and the people who do not
till the soil got away with $46.35.-Er-
change.