Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-01-18

". n, warren, ScHcIa1 PoSoSAo
agent of the st. Paul. Minneapolis y
Manitoba railway, of copies OF the
new folder and map. The map SHOWS
all the tracks of the company III main
lines and braches, and the showing %
immensely larger than last year.
The folder contains well conceived
descriptions of the states, territories
and districts through which the rail-
way traverses, and time and distance
tables of all. 1t is u multum in parvo
of information ami usefulness 10 the
traveller and home seeker. Receipt
Is also acknowledged from the sanie
source ofa copy OF little pamphlet, ELI
titled Farming i'm MINNESOTA IL
contains letter 1fonl well known
farmers residing In tile rsoftil,rn
counties relating To their success III
farming.
The Manitoba is treating the people
along the Browns Valley liue in II
most inhuman manner. The people
at Beardsley, Browns Valley ami
other points, who are dependent on
this line of road, are uut of fuel anu
other necessaries, yet for weeks no
train has run and4he company until
the last day or two has made
no effort worthy the name to
open the road. AT Browns Valley
an appeal has been telegraphed to
Gov. McGlll to get him to force the
company to open the line, but as yet
no results are apparent. There ought
to be some speedy and effective pun
ishment for company that will let
people suffer In order TO save for
themselves the small amount OF
money needed to hire enough shoy'
elers to open fifty miles of road.
If you are farmer who has antici-
pated this stormy weather; one who
hasplenty of wood, plenty of hay,
grain and water for stock and other
necessarles about you, you now have
plenty of time. You can spend ali
hour or two morning and evening
with "the chores" and can have the
balance of the day for reading, study
and reflection. Naturally many valu-
aple thoughts will occur to you. AS
they occur to you, please lot them
down. After you have jottod them
down, send them to us aud we will
give your neighbors the benefit of
them. Ifyou have been successful in
raising grain or vegetables or in the
care o. stock, or if you have II lug
gestion to make regarding railway
abuses or any of the political issues of
the day, writs your thoughts and
through the TRIBUNE's columns en-
tighten the rest of us. This is an
invitation to write, which we hope
you will improve. Kindly let us
hear from you.
Twenty clerks in a store, twenty
hands in a printing Office, twenty APP
prentlces in ship-yard twenty young
men in u town, all want to go OH in
the world, and expect to do SO. One
nf the clerks will becone partner, and
make q fortune; one of the compost
tors will own lie wspaper, and be-
rome an influential citizen; one OF
the apprentices will teGpnle a master
builder; one of the villagers will get
a handsome farm, and live like a
patriarch-but wh.ch one is the lucky
individual? Lucky! There is no
luck about it. The thing is almost as
certain as the rule ofthree. The young
fellow who Will distance his COM
petitors is he who masters his business
who preserves his integrity, who
ives cleanly and purely, who devotes
lis leisure to the acquisition OF
knowledge, who gains friends by de
.erving them, and who saves his spare
money. There are some ways to
fortune shorter than this rusty old
highway; but the staunch men of the
community, the men who achieve
something really worth having
good fortune, and good name, and
serene old age-all go in this road.
Elk.
Land in Stevens county has an
actual value. ranging from $50. to
$3.50. per acre. It's intrinsic value is
as great as that of land situated the
same distance from Chicago that
this land is from Duluth. The power
which gives these fertile farms an APP
parent and market value of but So. to
SIS. per acre is the power of the rail-
way companies which charge so ex-
brilliantly and unnecessarily for
getting farm produce tolhis Market
Duluth. Compare the rates laid by
Illinois and Wisconsin farm rs for
getting their grain to Chicago with
those paid by you for getting yo r
grain TO Duluth and you will at once
see the force of the statements made
i auOfCs hCH COuSIuCA viz i'CU th1O ~
costs more to get bushel of wheat
from Morris to Duluth tina it Goes to
get the same bushel Of wheat rom
Duluth to Liverpool AMI the state
i ments will become still more forcibly
impressed upon your mind. Virtual
ly the railway companies force this
country to the level of one thousand
miles from lake or ocean market
Stevens county might as well be .
thousand miles from Duluth upon q
line of railroad who's. freight charges
are reasonable as to be where it is
These thoughts carried out to legiti-
mate conclusion tend toward melan.
choly and would produce genera
depression of spirits did we no
know that the people have the righ
to control these corporations whicl