Mower County transcript., 1906-01-10

WlSeSt discovery Wnlcn tHtaS ndA Aao
made for a long time. These folks
that are tucked up in city faats and mar
row tenement rooms hav no idee of
what real life is. Our gal Sarah went
to visit some of our old acquaintance
that liv in fiat aud she says that the
rooms amt big enuf to pick hens in
Everything is SO contracted and beds
and dinin' table and brio brac are al
so tightly packed in together that you
can't hardly turn round. And some
folks call this livin'. l wonder what
children brcaght up in such oontrac-
tions think of home life. Now l tell
you there amt any comfort like a home
where you hav your own house all BY
it's own lonely, and you can raise chick:
ems and hav a garden and hav flowers
and vegetables as you like. It's the
ideal. You ought TO just drive down
to Farmer Ben's and see There amt
a day in the year but I've get somethin'
CROWN. At forty below nay hens lay
and my bossy and pigs grow, and in my
cellar I've got my own raise Of cabbage,
and oniens, and spuds ana bagas and
HubbaN@s.
One tBing that goes wTeh'a Minneso-
ia winter is relief from the tramp
nuisance. Some summers, they get to
be a ,real drain on 0apr vittles supply
and they get so saucy and audacious
that they're dangerous to women folks.
But they can't lie out i'm our SHOWS and
so they ahtke for other Chimes to poster
folks like 'Heas. A Saute Fe cOnduc-
tor reported at New Mexico station
last wesk that fully 5000 ,tramps are.
,camped along the ra51road near there
and they can hardly run their trains
for the sfaoboes. There hav ben num-
erous assaults on traaamen and some
hav been killed. Depnty sheriffs are
goi1l' onthe trains to protect 'em and
the hobo nuisance is at'ibs!full strength.
It's uuiteaa relief to Minnesota life to
.get these tramps off their' hands good
share of the year. Ifthey'd work we
could stand it better, out they won't
These winters of ours are a great relief
allround. L pity the potato bugs and
the, cucumber bugs and the'tree borers
and cabbage worms and all such this
kind of weather. Certaialy we don't
hav to fite ''em the year roand but can
sit down and take little leisure read
in and yisitin' and ,eatin' ulp what we
raised last>summer. We've got garden
in down to a'fne point when we can
sit still six months in the year and haV
the stuff hustle when we put it in in
April.
A Washington paper says ia IAN edi-
torial chat congressman abuse the
franklin privilegett to the extent of send
i'm cows, farm animals, libranies and
Kitchen utensils lthru the mails tree OF
charge. IaLwus knew that\they ship
ped their dirty clothes home for wash
but this last beats me. don't wonder
that the post office revenues fall behind
under such abuses. JIHst think of how
many letters it would take to
make the weight of one COW sent thru
the mails. Why it would supply the
whole of Mower county a whole day
with postage on all the mail they send
tor whole day. Bnt the frankers
down at Washington don't stop to
think of what this abuse means. Some
folks say chat If the rural mail was cut
off in part there wouldn't be so big q
deficit. But tell you if the franklin
abuse was plugged up and it the rail-
roads were paid what was fair insted
of graft prices for haulin' the mails and
if the bogus magazines and snide books
were cut out from special rates below
cost of sendin', there wouldn't be any
deficit and the rural mails could be ex-
tended some more Think of sendin'
all kinds of truck by mail just because
a congressman has franklin privilege
that was never intended for such pur-
poses which he abuses.
1lTr ".I#-a o o O . e
4 We hav ben lacked up more often be-
caus we've held to the cry that gener.
ally the people are misrepresented by
the legislators who push themselves in
to offs. i believe it all the samee.
j Look right down in Pennsylvany this
blessed mint. The railroads in tryin,
to conform to the law issued orders
withdrawn free passes from the legis-
] lators and III be jigged if the graftin'
{ legislators amt riz up in wrath and
threatenin's . and they're goin' to swamp