Mower County transcript., 1898-03-30
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then 90 ahead And, like Crockett's
coon, Spain will probably say, "Don't
shoot, good Uncle Sam, I'm coming
right down."
st. James Journal: For the com fort
of the sorrowing--slsters- of the
young men who joined the National
Guard last Friday evening the Jour-
nal will state that it has looked up
the law, the articles on war, and other
authorities on the subject and finds
that the national guard of state can
not be compelled to leave their own
state on military service.
Spring Valley Sun: Six.cents bot
tie beer sold at 25 cents, with no
license, and which kept open day and
night and Sundays, it is no wonder
the Spring Valley blind pigger can
wear diamonds and own pianos,
while the Taxpayer has to pay the
bill. The Grand Jury meets the first
of April and now is the time for the
temperance people to do their work.
Harper's Weekly: The six causes
of poverty, as defined in a recent
lecture by Professor Franklin H. Gid
dings, of Columbia University, are
refusal to work, lack of employment,
struggle to rise, unequal distribution
of accident, wrong pu blic policy, and
sentimental charity. Any reader
whose income is in adequate is invited
to consider this list and determine
which cause fits his own case.
Anoka Union: I honestly believe
I've found from three to five men in
every county in the state who get
more abuse, cusses and criticism than
we editors. Therefore I have a pile
of sympathy for them. I refer to the
county commissioners. They have to
do more work for less pay than any
other official in their respective coun-
ties. They are a target for abuse
from pauper to the richest tax payer.
Waseca Radical: A wise move. The
farmers OF Mower county held meet
ing lately at Austin, and decided to
sell no more young stock to the Iowa
and Illinois and Nebraska feeders
that instead of selling yearlings and
two year olds, they would feed them
on the farms where grown. That is a
wise action and we wish the farmers
Of Waseca county might come to the
same decision. The most profit in
stock raising is on the growth, the
flesh added.
st Paul Dispatch; A movement is
on foot to have the BARRIERS of St.
Louis wash their patrons feet. For a
nominal sum, Is or 10 cents), the
shoes and stocking could be removed,
the feet we'll washed with soap and
hot water in winter and cold water in
summer, and then freely rubbed,
nails trimmed and corns too if need
be, and then bathed off with cologne,
bay rum or alcohol. A modicum of
salicyc acid could be added, if needed,
for deodorizing purposes.
Minneapolis Journal: The meeting
of the State Republican League was
in net results the best that has been
held in this state for a long time.
This organization, under the late ad-
ministration, had become about as
near cipher, with the rim rubbed off,
as it could possibly get and exist.
Nobody could be expected to take
any in terest in an institution whose
chief activities seemed to consist of
the organization of clubs in back offices
for the mere sake Of securing repre-
sentation in state convention.
Blue Earth City Post: A Mime
apolis preacher was held up and rob-
bod by two practitioners OF the hold
up art, who relieved the revered
gentlemen of gold watch and several
dollars in shining coin. After the
performance was completed they re.
turned all to the obliging clergyman.
1t is not shown whether the artists
became suddenly possessed of a higher
conception of life and of the rights OF
men, or were made temporarily insa ne
at the fact of a preacher having any
money at all.
Pennington Tribune: AS far as we
can notice, the effect of free rural
mail delivery here has been to in.
crease our own subscription list, tc
increase the number of daily papers
taken and to largely increase the
number of packages received at the
express office. There is no good rea
son why all Improvements should Q(
to the cities and villages; those wht
bear the brunt of life's burdens a,
the front in the cultivation of the
soil deserve more than those who pro
fit only from their untiring labors
| Ventura, Cal. Free Press: The wa,
to make a town prosperous. is to hav