Mower County transcript., 1903-06-24
OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS.

is now troubled with insomnia as well
as dyspepsia. What's the use of being
a multi millionaire if you must have
sleepless sleeps and eatless meals?
St. Louis Star: "A sick mule a well
man and a quart of alcohol were left
together at a grading camp near Del
mar garden, Wednesday night. Thurs.
day morning, the alcohol was missing,
the mule was found well and the man
dead. What's the answer to the
conundrumS Z. wv 45. T. s5 4
Prison Mirror: A few years ago
Browning clubs, for ladies only, sprung
up all over the country and women
went after them like children after
Castoria. There isn't anything in
Browning worth studying, and none
but a perfectly idle person would have
any desire to attempt it.. What is true
of Browning is also true in far lesser
degree of the classics. I'd Id.
Our Dumb Animals: A colored
woman threw the odds and ends of
medicine left after her husbands death
into the. fire. The explosion that fol-
lowed carried the stove through one Of
the windows. s'Mos' Pow'ful moving
medsin I evah saw'd, said she. "No
wondah the old man gone died" : +;
Hutchinson Leader: Read the many
ads in this issue of the Leader and then
go down to the city, pay your railroad
fare,and pay from 10 to 4Oper cent more
for the same or poorer goods, and then
come home and kick because we
haven't more sidewalks, a public library
building and an opera house. Why
don't you get the city merchants to
build them for you while you're down
there? ~ = ~ ~ .:
Iroquois, S. D. Chief: 1t is becoming
more and more evident that the young.
man who uses liquor is handicapped in
securing a foOthold. Nearly every
business man insists upon his employees
being temperate, and the want adver
tisements almost invariably state that
drinking men need not apply Even
salOOnkeepers insist upon sober en-
ployes. The boys that are growing up
and have an ambition in life should
make note of this. = !: $$
Chicago Interocean: One of the
most successful Of the bicycle manu-
facturers of ten years ago said recently
that the main cause of the rapid de-
cline in the popularity of the bicycle
was the withdrawal OF advertising.
The business had grown to enormous
proportions through judicious advertls-
ling, and regarding it as well establish
ed, manufacturers and managers ceased
to advertise. The result was the most
remark able shrinkage on record in
the sales of a manufactured article
and a decline in the popularity of the
bicycle itself. t5..- +. II
St. Paul Review: In the last decade
the material progress of Minnesota has
been most astonishing. Twenty years
Iago not a ton. of ironsWas mined in the
Estate, and the butter industry was
1practically unknown. In that time the
1lowly hen was fighting the battle Of the
state of Ohio, and now the crest Of her
product has followed the setting sun
There is no reason why Minnesota
Ishould not make a bid for thesupremacy
, in this line of industry. The state
ranks at the head of the list in butter
and bread, and iron. Let us add eggs
J and all poultry products, and eggs
, make statesmen according to preced.
ents. 5s. =. 5@i> e Z .355@> / 5#}$ %5t.
Minneapolis Times: Rev. Dwight
Hills has got himself into bad repute
i with some of the New Y ork smart sci
because Of his statement that men &c
) to the devil ON $4,000 a year DR.
! Hills may be right or he may not be
but one thing is sure it is a matter Of
!, temperament not dollars. If man is
SO constructed that he wills to go to
the devil he can do it just as easily
/, with nothing a year as with $4,000
| Transportation may not he quite sc
!, rapid nor SO luxurious but the destina
tiOn is exactly the same, with infinitely
smaller chances for a transfer.
! Fairmont News: 4 The farmers boy.
. learn that clerks in town are getting
4 $50 and $50 per month and he Imagine!
that it means a fortune in a few years
$ when, in fact, it means nothing but :
], bare living. House rent Or board must
! be paid, clothes must be bought Ianl
there are numberless other expenses
that a farmer has no experience with
8 land the clerk finds that his wages hav,
f only sufficed to give him q bare living
I The man who works on q farm at $$2I
per nonth gets his board and washing
8 and has no expense. except for clothing
8 and that costs very little to what i
Z twoHld cost him in town. y Stick to th,
1 farm. II is the most independent lif,
on earth. 5ss!s 1
H Faribanlt r Republi lean: There il sais
$sI to he about 500 600 sent out Of Fari
Il baultS annually which could be spen
! here. q. IN it'll this amount in the hand
OF the merc chants, who lis there tha
II could not get returned, in one W;ayE, yzEt,
st another, more than he can 89s sf1nssihl'