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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
Hearald.

of more Importance to the Federal
cause just then than that great army
was.
When Roscoe Conkling, then a young
man only little past 30, delivered a
speech in the House of Representa-
tives soon after the fall of Fort Sum
ter, he astonished men who were even
older than himself by declaring that
war In these times was without TO-
nance, was q cruel and humdrum pro-
ceeding, and that it was determined
not so much by men and battles as it
was by the power of money. Other
things being equal, Mr.. Conkling de-
clared, that side which had The most
| wealth, the. greatest resources, will win
in modern wars, and he asserted that
it was of more Importance to the Fed
| eral Government that gold be secured
| just then than that armies be raised.
Mr.. Conkling knew what the coun-
| try did not that President Lincoln
and his Cabinet were very anxious at
that time because the Government had
no money to speak of, and it was not
very clear how money could be raised.
| The credit of the Government was not
as good then as it is now, and it was
well known that it would be very diff
cult to borrow gold.
Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of
the Treasury, and many an anxious
night did he spend in trying to devise
some plan to raise money for the i'm
mediate and unexpected expenses
which the war was causing. There
was a troubled look upon Mr. Lin
coins face at that time which was be-
lieved by those who saw it and did not
know the reason to be entirely caused
by the great responsibility which the
coming of the war and the placing OF
the army in the field had put upon
him.
| But that was not what gave M
Lincoln his greatest anxiety. He knew
that volunteers would be plenty, but
| he wondered where the Government
was going to raise on the instant the
gold which it needed. One day a gen
tleman called on the President and
said to him that it was inspiring to
see men come from the farms and the
shops in response to his call for volun-
teers, and this man added that such a
spectacle ought to convince any one
that the war would be of short dura-
ton.
"Ah," replied the President, 1T is
not men that we need now SO much as
it is gold. We want gold Immediately,
and [ confess that it is greater prob
lem how to get it than it is how to get
volunteers.
A day or two later this gentleman
was riding on street car in New York
City with banker, now living, to
whom this conversation with Lincoln
was narrated. Ii was an accidental
meeting and chance conversation,
but it proved to be fortunate acct
dent. The banker thought a good
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04

from one year to another how much
wheat to SOW, how TO treat his wheat
to keep out the smut, be able to drive
a seeder middling straight over hill,
have some knowledge Of the Intrica-
cies of a Irvine binder and know the
road to market in the fall. Knowing
these particulars he will make fair
hand at raising wheat. 1t requires a
higher grade and larger degree of in
telligence than this to make butter.
But it pays better Wheat is a lazy
mans crop. 1t is inevitable that the
first principal crop Of country should
be wheat, and it is inevitable that
wheat must be the main crop for
some time to come. 1t will be neces-
sary to turn to the dairy for support
and for competency for those who
are located in place in fixed homes
which will be their abiding places for
years to come. A country will not
always raise wheat and farmers
should think about the questions of
good dairy caUtle, good milk, good
cream, good butter, good cheese and
good profits
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
Clad in Costly Fur.

John the Baptist with his raiment
of skins would have been Of little in
terest on Fifth avenue Thursday af-
ternoon compared with a promenader
clad in Persian lamb, says the New
York Evening Sun. Her garment
consisted of a bell skirt of tender
young astrakhan, missing nothing Of
a fashionable cut, and Spanish
jacket. This was short over a skirt
of shaded green velvet of a lettuce
like tint, so light it was, girdle fas-
tening with large flaps in the back,
and large velvet sleeves. This cos
tune was crowned by black hat IN
veIyet and yiolets. There was no
man or boy on the street so ignorant
CT feminine gear that this costume
did not catch his eye. TO look at it
women almost brought the procession
To a halt
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
HOMEMADE TOOLS.

head, the solid portion, however, be-
ing but four inches wide, the upper
edge set with pointed wooden pins
two and half inches long and three
quarters of an inch in diameter Pro-
vlded with these wooden teeth. the
stable can be nicely aud eXpeditiously
cleaned without the use of a fork. 1t
will, also, prove convenient for sep
arating the coarse from the fine lit
ter. The wooden pin c is for clearing
out the holes, made through the floor
for drainage, and should be one foot
long, a hole being provided near the
upper end for string or wire loop by
which it may be hung up.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04

deal about this anecdote. and some
days later he went among his banking
! friends and he said to them: "Now ii
seems to me that we have a very I'M
portant interest in this matter aside
! from any national feeling If this war
should prove q failure for the North
our property would be deprecated and
very likely many of our banks de-
stroyed. Therefore [ think we ought
to take some risks [ think so outside
of any other consideration as a purely
business proposition" and he found
| that nearly all the bankers with whom
he talked were of the same opinion.
So they agreed to send Indirectly a
hint to the Secretary Of the Treasury
that it might be well if he paid visit
to New York and chatted with some of
the bankers. Mr.. Chase was very glad
of this hint. He hurried to New York,
and on a certain evening he met in the
luxurious parlor of q banker on Fifth
| Avenue eight or ten bank Presidents.
These men controlled many millions of
capital and of gold. With Mr.. Chase
they talked the matter over until
| dawn. They agreed with him that
they ought to take some risks, perhaps
great ones, to aid the government, even
from purely selfish motives if for no
other reason. And before the meeting
adjourned these men had agreed to
! raise $50,O0O,0OO in gold and to loan
this wealth to the Government imme-
diately, taking in return therefor the
obligations of the Government to pay
it back with interest.
Now that was q great risk. If the
war failed, nobody could tell what the
obligations of the government would
be worth or how soon it would be able
to pay them off.
A few days later the newspapers pub
lished report that some of the banks
| OF New York, Philadelphia and Boston
had sent to the Treasury the enormous
sum of 100000 III gold. To the
public this paragraph was of little in
terest, because popular excitement was
at fever heat on account of the assem-
bling of the soldiers and their depart
ure for the seat of war. Yet really this
news was of far more consequence than
the story OF the gathering of the armies
was. 1t revealed to the business world
that the great bankers of the nation
had decided to give their support to
the Federal cause, and in Europe the
great men said, "Ah, if the bankers are
willing to put up their gold to support
the Government, then Mr.. Lincoln has
greater power than even his armies
can give him." And this proved to be
the case. Within year the banks had
loaned 800, 900, 900 more in gold, the
credit of the country was established,
and it was evident that, as Conking
had predicted, the greater resources
of the North would be likely to prevail
in the end.
So it may be said that perhaps the
result of that colossal war was deter
mined on that night when the bankers
met in parlor the Secretary of the
Treasury and promised TO loan the
Government $50, 000,0 900; and may be
but for the chance meeting of the
banker with a gentleman who had
chatted with President Lincoln, the
course of affairs in that critical time
would have been different.-Ex.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
Wheat Growing VS. Dairying.

Dairyihg is probably the most
profitable branch of agriculture 1t
is not the easiest, at least to one who
is stranger TO the business. To one
who places a premium upon intelli-
gence, the work Of the dairy soon be-
comes a lighter burden than the labor
attached to wheat raising. To be
sure, it requires the exercise of a GER
tain amount and certain grade OF
intelligence to raise VIII at. A man
must know how to plow, remember
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
NATURAL GAS,
A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of
This Fuel.


This Fuel.
The history Of the rise Of natura
gas for manufacturing purposes in
Pittsburg is an interesting one, says
the Chronicle-Telegraph of that city.
1t was about the middle of May
1884, when it displaced coal in the
first iron mill in this city. The first
OF that month it was used for the
first time in an extensive industrial
works, in the O'Hara glass house at
Ihlrtieth street and the Allegheny
Valley Railroad. About the fifteenth
of the month it took the place OF
5000 bushels Of coal in the Carnegie
mill at Twenty ninth street. Not I'M
til early in November was it intro
duced in the mill of this firm at
Thirty-third street, where it took the
place of 1000 bushels of coal daily.
While the use of natural gas was
very satisfactory, the slowness at
tending its introduction was remark
able. 1t was about the middle of
the sumner of 1885 before it was
used in half Of the iron and steel
works in the Pittsburg district, and
it was fully three years before it took
the place Of coal in all of them.
There was considerable trouble in
securing manufacturers to make the
change. The low rate offered to the
firms was not so much of an object as
the room saved by absence of ashes.
There was no trouble in recon
structing the furnaces from coal to
the use Of natural gas, yet this re-
tarded it's early use somewhat.
Among the first along the Monon-
gahela River to adopt it was Jones &
Laughlins, in the winter of 1884, in
the American Iron Works. To
guard themselves against possible
trouble they only remodeled a por-
tion of their works. About six
months after it was used with salts
faction in these works it was used in
all the mills along this river and the
Ohio, excepting in those of the Oliver
Iron Company.
Beginning with 1889, the gradual
abandonment Of natural gas in the
local mills where natural gas is still
being used in pudding furnaces are
those of A. M. Byers & Co., Tug 81
Co., Brown & Co., and the Carnegie
mill at Thirty-third street. These
four mills run 1872 furnaces of this
kind, besides the heating furnaces
and the tube works of the firm first
named. There are few mills in
which gas is still used in the heating
furnaces, but altogether it has al
ready given away to fully 200, 1000
bushels of coal daily.
The idea that the supply Of natur-
al gas would never be exhausted was
only entertained for about a year
from 1887 to 1888. After that there
were many evidences that the supply
would not hold out. During this
year there were some firms who be-
came imbued with the idea that all
they had to do was to dig well amy
where and they could soon get enough
gas to supply them. There very few
accidents in any Of the mills caused
by gas.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
convenient Stable Tools.

At cost of very little time and no
money, says the American Agricul-
turist, every horse owner may have
several convenient stable tools. The
wooden scraper at q has handle four
and a half feet long, the scraper
head being fourteen inches long, six
inches wide, and one a half inches
thick at the center and tapering to-
ward each edge. The scraper at b
has the same length of handle, also
the same length and thickness Of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
SAGE AND SAVORY.

BEWARE of fawning exterior.
purpose.
A KINDLY feeling cannot fail to touch
the heart.
REBUFF is wet blanket that damp
ems ardor.
GIVE attention and you will get
kn0wled0a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04

MIRANDA, when my boy first went
to college they called him a moss
back, and now | see by this paper
they're calm him full-back. "
"Can our boy be drinkin', Cyrus?" Il
don't know, but I'll pack my grip
and go right on, and if he is he'll be
called back quicker than creased
lightnin'!"- Pittsburg Dispatch.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
Homemade WheelbarrOyy.

A good wheel-barrow, like the one
shown in the Illustration, which is
from the Practical Farmer, can be
made at trifiing expense, and will
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
Money in Dolls Hair.

The tresses attached to the heads
of dolls are the hair of the Angora
goat. It's product, which is con-
trolled by an English syndicate, is
said to be worth $40, 900 year.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
REAL RURAL READING
WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DE-
PARTMENT.

Value OF Keeping Farm Accounts-How to
Judge Glover Seed - Some Convenient
Stable ToOIs-Dairying is Profitable-Pro-
tecting Small Fruits, Etc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
What Do You Drink?

About 200 intoxicants of different
kinds are known to custom house
officials.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
Gracious! What Next?

A pool-room, exclusively for the
use of 'ladies" is to be opened in Cow
ington, KY. No liquors will be sold
on the premises.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
Nellie Was Precocious.

Ellen Terry made her first appear
ance on the stage when she was only
10 years old.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
THE BOOMING CANNON.
RECiTALS OF STIRRING CAMP
AND BATTLE INCIDENTS.

Survivors of the Rebellion Relate Anus
ing and Startling Incidents of Weary
Marches, Camp Life, Foraging Expert
ences, and Battle Scenes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04


named here, re-
lated the fol-
lowing incident of
one of the early
battles Of the war !:
The Federal and
Confederate forces
were drawn up in
the woods on either
side of q oOOcid or
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
Money for the War.

LII the world knows
the story Of the
IS wifi t n e s s wit h
(which the volunteer
army was put into
the field soon after
.the outbreak of the
Civil War III 1861,
but very few people
ever heard about
the manner in which
another force was
raised at that time,
which was perhaps
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
CUR BUDGET OF FUN
HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND Do
INGS HERE AND THERE.

Jokes and Jokelets that Are Supposed to
Have Been Recently Born Sayings and
Doings that Are Od1. Curious and
Laughable.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-01-04
Trying 1t Handed.

80 A G E n T L e N A n
~ n who served with dis
At1nction in the war
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-02-23

A movement is now on foot which, it
is thought, will land a prominent Otter
Tail county Democrat in the St. Cloud
land office. Contrary to the general
opinion prevailing in Stearns county, the
st. Cloud land office is not confined to
the county of Stearus, hut takes IN a
vast area, extending west to and includ-
ing Otter Tail county and then running
north up the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries. Now the territory outside of
Stearns county contains not few DEM
ocrats and they are decidedly opposed
to having St. Cloud and its immediate
vicinity gather in all the perquisites. The
Fergus Falls land office was merged into
the Sc. Cloud office, but it was not done
until after two Stearns county republi-
cans had been slated for the two posi-
tions, which was a nlanifestly unfair
thing to do. The Democrats in the rest
of the district do not propose to have
this thing repeated. Brainerd wants
the land Office moved there, and if
Stearns county insists in not only having
the land Office, but the officials, then
there will be row To say the least. The
Otter Tail county Democrats believe that
they are entitled to one of the Offices at
st. Cloud and are going to make stab
for it.-[Fergus Falls Journal.
The cheek of Otter Tail county is
proverbial. The idea of its assuming to
invade st. Cloud and deniandrecognition
is absurd, st. Cloud is this land office
district, just as it is all of Stearns coun-
ty. Well, the HERALD well knows what
you fellows viii say>you will quote the
two BIS as an evidence that Sank Cen
tire has no kick coming. But she kicks
just the same.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-02-23
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FOREOLOsE.
TIRE SALE.

By mortgage executed by Ole H. Themp.
son and Martha Thompson his wife, mortg-
January 80 1888, recorded in the office Of
the Register of Deeds, in Stearns county,
Minnesota, on the 18th day of February,
A As and Sand assigned to Hans o. Daily, as,
signee, assignment recorded in sal Register
of Deeds office on February Is. $685. IN Book
of Assignments, on page 147, the real
secure the payment of $780,. five years after
date of ssd mortgage, with interest at the
rate OF eight per cent per aanum. payable
semi-annually. There is claimed to be due
thereon at the date of this notice the sum of
$3l560.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, that
by virtue of power of sale contained in
said mortgage, ar pursuant to the statute In
such case made and provided, the mortgaged
premises situate in the county of Stearps
and State of Minnesota, described as follows,
to. wit: The south easi quarter of the south
west quarter of section fourteen 90 township
one hundred and twenty-fOur (I2A range
thirty five 1859 and five acres described aud
| twenty COY rods north from the southwest
corner OF the northwest quarter of the south
| east quarter of section twenty eight (2S)
| township one hundred and twenty-four QA)
| range thirty-five (35l, aud running thence
uorth ten (l0) rods, thence east eighty (SO)
rods, thence south ten (0I rods, and thence
| west eighty 500 rods, to- the place OF begin
| ming, will be sold at public auction by the
Sheriff Of said Stearns county, On the 9Th day
of April. A. D., 1893, at one O'Clock in the af-
teri DON, at the front door of the Opera House
| i'll the City of Sank Centre, Stearns county
State of Minnesota, and the said mortgage
thereby foreclOsed to satisfy the amount then
due on the said mortgage, together with the
costs and expenses of foreclosure, and TWEEN
ty FIVE dollars attorneys fees stipulated tor iu
said mortgage.
Dated, February %, 1898
HANS o. DALBY,
N. II. MINER, Assignee of Mortgage.
Attorney for Assignee
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-02-23
Order for Hearing on Claims,

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
y Stearns,-ss. In Probate Court Special
Term, February Goth, 1893
In the matter of the estate of James
l.. Robbins, deceased.
Letters OF Administration on the estate of
James L. Robbins, deceased. late of the
County of Stearns and State of Minnesota,
being granted to Cassius NJ. Sprague and
John G. Parker. .-. 81
1t is Ordered, That six months be and the
same are hereby allowed from and after the
date of this order, in which all persons hav-
ing claims or demands against the said de-
ceased are required TO file the same in the
Probate Court of said County, for examina-
tion and allowance, or be for ever barred.
1t is Further Ordered, That the 25th day
of August, 1898, at 10 O'Clock a. m, at a
special term of said PrOba te Court, to be held
at the Probate Office in the Court House in
theCity of st. Cloud in said county, be aud the
same hereby is appointed as the time and
place when and where the said Probate
Court will examine and adjust said claims
and demands.
And it is Further Ordered, That notice OF
such hearing be given to all creditors and
persons interested in said estate by forth
with publishing this order once in each W eek
Il three successive weeks in the SauK Centre
HERALD, q weekly newspaper printed and
Dated at st. Cloud, Mimi, the Goth day OF
February, A D. 1893.
By the Court:
THEo. BRUENER,
L. ST. Judge of Probate.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-02-23

Tom KING is dead. This simple an
nouncement willcause genuine grief amid
a large circle OF friends who will remem-
Der him as one of the most genial and
brightest newspaper men of the north
west. For years h made the Mi.'neapo-
lis department OF the Ploneer-i'ress the
most popular feature that paper With
keen perception of the ridiculous he
drew upon an inexhaustinle fund of wit
which was as sparkling as it was genial.
A true. warm TREND, he was beloved ny
all, and rhe attachments of his associates
were as bands of steel. Tom King and
Mart Williams-two men who have
honored northwestern journalism as fe !"
Others have, were kindred spirits, warm
friends and fellow workers-both gone
! to their reward.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-02-23

THE President has transmitted to the
senate with message urging its adop-
lion, a treaty with the Hawaiian au-
thorities for the annexation of that
group of islands to the United States.
The treaty bears the signatures OF Score
tary of State Foster in behalf oil this
government, and of FIVE commissioners
from the Hawaii government. The SEN
ate now has it, together with mass OF
correspondence relative to the matter,
under consideration. The principle provf-
sions are that the islands shall become
part and parcel of the United States, and
that a government similar to our terri
torial governments shall be perfected as
soon as possible; all the public property,
buildings and lands are coded to the
United States, but that the present land
laws shall not apply to them, but other
laws shall be enacted, and the proceeds
of the sale of such lands shall be used
for the sole benefit of the Islands, for IN
ternal improvements. education, etc.;
that the Chinese in the Islands shall not
be permitted to land upon continental
soil of the United States, but must re-
main where they are or return to China;
that the Queen Lilioukaloni receive
$4,000 year during her life time, and
that the princess, the heir-apparant to
the throne receive $50. 900 in one gross
sum. There is great difference of opinion
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of acquiring the
islands at all, but none with the features
of the treaty in case annexation be deter
mined upon. AS base of supplies in
case of war the islands would be valu-
able, as they occupy commanding
position on the Pacific ocean. The pop
ulation is mixed, but the sympathies are
almost wholly with this country. There
are any number of arguments both for
and against their acquisition, and in
either event no serious disafection at
home will result.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-02-23

THE place to find the man with the
crazy idea is the legislature of an Ameri-
can state. In Minnesota they are con-
sidering bill to forbid women wearing
hoopskirts; the Pennsylvania house has
passed a bill prohibiting the manufac.
ture of cigarettes; the New York leglsla-
ture is trying to fix the price OF coal; in
Ohio they want to Danish French from
hotel bills of fare, and in Texas they are
trying to legislate the rotation of the
crop. Now. South Carolina should pro-
vide that all children hereafter. shall be
white, and Kansas that everybody shall
have whiskers like PETER, and go with
out socks.-I Waterloo, IN. Y. Observer.