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Year: 1877

count of the lew rate at which the
bonds Of the st. Paul and Pacific and
the Northern Pacific rail road compa-
MES are selling, for our Minnesota
farmers to get cheap farms for their
boys, in this state, which will soon
pass away and which will never come
again. Do not miss it. DO not let
strangers have all the beuefit OF the
good chance which has come to your
doors.


By all accounts there is fair pros
pect, now that both in Swift and Ste :
yens counties there will be grand
crops, en- the extensive tracts of land
broken, within the last few years, in
this pertion of the state and that the
ravages of the grasshoppers will be
very local and insignificant. If these
conjectures turn out true, there will
be tide of immigration up the main
line ef the st. Paul and Pacific rail
road next spring, sufficient to occupy
almest every valuable quarter section
of land within ten miles of the track,
we would wish to see our young Min
nesetians, our farmers sons, ahead OF
this immigration wave from the east.
We have never advised man who
was already comfortably settled to
break up his home and go again upon
new farm. No, we say to such,
leave we'll enough alone. You have
by hard work and honest Industry
made home for yourself and Inow
enjoy it as best you may. But you
can renew your interest in frontier
life by busying yourself in settling
YOUR boys on new farms. They can be
with you at the old homestead during
the winter, and mark you how they
will make things, buzz round when
they feel that in the spring they are
to retnrn, after giving you helping
hand to put in your crop, to put IL
the crop on the new farms that they
have an owners interest in.


Do this and you will have no pining
yainst the drudgery of a farm, MOI
signing for the enviable position OF
clerk in a dry goods store at the
princely salary of thirty dollars {
month, with the self elevating con
sciousness that the boss can kick ont
out without saying so much as ''by


your leave" and mind so harasse(


by fruitless endeavors to please ugl,


old women that one is inclined tt


court the kicks and so escape to free
dom
Year: 1877

It is fact, to be greatly regretted
that a large number Of farmers sons
have an idea that farm life is the
most laborious, Improbable and least
ENJOYABLE, they can adopt. and with
this false idea in their heads, they
are restless and anxious to seek en-
ployment in some city or town where
they fervently believe that young men
of their age are enjoying positions,
enjoyments and profits, far beyond
what they could ever hope for by toll
ing on land. :.
That such view of agricultural
life and city life is erroneous, could
be easily shown, that it is fraught
with evil results to u great many
worthy young men and to the COM
monwealth. in general. is equally true,
but, we will content ourself, for the
present, in merely pointing out one
way by which farmers can counteract
this restlessness. useless longings for
.sgreen hills far away and WEAKNESS
of farm life.


In the first place farmer should
be always careful to make his home
pleasant for his boys, he should be as
anxious that they should play as work
for call work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy"


In the second place when the boy is
grown up he should have a profitable
interest in his work. Something be
yond mere wages, which places chile
only in the position of a hired help
and this very idea, when it enters in
to the mind of a young man has a chat
ing effect on his spirit.


Let him acquire an interest in thu
land let, him become an owner or ;
Joint owner and the effect will be ele
waiting and inspiring. But, how am
to do this! \ man may ask. / have
three or four boys (as the case ma.
be) if divide my farm up amongs
them. each will have but portion
LOO Siilstil III ldl Ill stilA VIII
nothing left for myself and my girls


True enough. But there is anothe
and better course open to you. sc
cure more land; not where you woul,
have to pay a large sum for it, bu
where you can get it either from tn
government. or from railroad com
pany at figures lower than the gov
ernment price, give your boys It'll
in such lands and see how the knowl
edge that they have something the
can call their own, will inspire theI
to work. Do this and within fOu
years the farms thus opened will be a
valuable as your old Homestead.


There is an opportunity now, on al
Year: 1877

If you are afflicted in any way, before plac-
ing your case in the hands of any one, go or
send to this old. reliable Medical Dispensary,
where the consulting physician has had over
the unfortunate, which is sufficient guarantee
to all that it is the only Medical Dispensary. in
the west where permanent cure can be has
for all troubles of private nature. lOO-ly
Year: 1877

It. smith Herald: From all parts of this and of the counties adjacent, comes the good news and cheering, that contrary to the expectations of many, the wheat crop is making a splendid appear arce, and that notwithstanding the long continued drought and subsequent severe weather, the prospect for Q good yield is as good as could be looked for at this season of the year. Wheat that was sown early, and was long in making it's appearance, shows that it has rooted we'll and is now spreading perhaps better than had it come up sooner, while that of later sowing is eqally promising, making our farmers rejoice that they that they have sowed so much. There cannot be too much wheat sown; 1t Is cash all the time; nor is there much danger of its being sown too soon.
Year: 1877

In all diseases affecting these or gans, whether they secrete too much or too little water; or whether they be afflicted with stone or gravel, or with aches and pains settled in the loins over the regions of the kidneys, these Pills should be taken accord- ing to the printed directions, and the Ointment shonld he well rubb- cd into the small of the back at bed time. This treatment will give al- nest immediate relief when all otll-
Year: 1877

N OTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN l< to the paupefs of Pope Coup. ty to present themselves at the court house in the town of Dover, on the second Monday in January 1877, for the purpose of being examined and sent to the pDOr house. Those who fail to present themselves at the above mentioned time will not res ceive any appropriation for their support. By order of the court.

 DUDLEY IswrS
Year: 1877

A BAsHFUL young man applied to
his village paper for information on
this important subject: "How to
win a woman's love-" The reply
was "Kiss the babies, caress the tom
cat, and pay strict attention to the
old lady"
Year: 1877

THE BABY has got new tooth. but
the old lady is laid up with a cold in
the head remarked q gentleman 10 a
defeated candidate What DO care"
was the reply We'll, said the gen
tleman. slowly, before the election you
used 10 take ne aside and ask me how
my family was coming on. and I've
been hunting you all over town to tell
you, aud that's the way you talk to me.
But it don't make any difference,
voted for the other candidate anyhow y
Year: 1877

GOOD BYE TRAMPs.- Since the erection
of the new addition to the City Hall, the
number of dodgers and tramps has been
much larger, owing perhaps to the com.
Portable quarters that is assigned them,
than when they were obliged to lodge in
room in the hall with brick floor
The rooms occupied by the tramps are
directly back of the Council Chamber
and within the past few weeks the mem
bers of Council discovered that the room
was full of vermin. A resolution intro
duced by Mr. Windle two weeks ago to
have the Council Chamber, and cells
cleansed has been carried into effect, as
well as can be done but a gr eat amount
of vermin still remains. In conversation
with a GAZETTE reporter that gentleman
last evening stated that the only
way to get clear OF the vermin was to
stop the tramps from lodging in the
rooms spoken of, and he had no doubt
that at the next meeting of Council a
resolution would be introduced to that
effect. If such q resolution is introduced
and passed, the city woHld soon be clear
of tramps as they will not stay where
they cannot get lodging.
Year: 1877

A YOUNG LADY CROSSED IN LOVE ENDEAv-


oRs TO TAKE HER LIFE.


For some time past young lady resid-
ing in Sixth street between Spruce
and Church, has been receiving the at
tention of young man in this city Ev-
erything went along smoothly until few
DAYS ago when she noticed coldness to-
ward her, on the part of the young man.
She demanded an explanation of his con-
duct and after several attempts he finally
told her.that his family were opposed to
him wedding her, but that it did not
make any difference to him as he would
not wed any one else. This statement
on his part had the desired effect, and
everything went along smoothly until
four or five days ago, when she was
shown letter written to him by another
lady. This altered the case, and last
Wednesday evening, she procured dose
of laudanum, and yesterday morning just
before starting to the store at the corner
of Seventh and Pine streets, where she is
employed as a seamstress, she drank it.


After she arrived at the store the pro-
prietor noticed that she looked rather
haggard, and upon him asking her what
was the matter, she replied that she felt
unwell, ,Eand laid down on the lounge and
apparently went TO sleep. About half an
hour afterwards when they attempted to
awake her it was found impossible to do
so. DR.. Kirchner was sent for, and ad-
ministered antidotes and by persistent
pinching and shaking and rolling they
kept her from going entirely asleep,
which would have proven fatal. The
young lady is now out of danger, and is
slowly recovering from the effects OF the
Year: 1877

Y, s. CoURr.-This morning In the u.
5. District Court, in Chambers, Judge
Bradford, presiding, the case of John
Mcbride, bankrupt, to show cause why
the said bankrupt, should not retain $37,
collected by him as shown by the schedule


to the assignee. After hearing the argu-
ment the Judge stated that there had been
no fraud shown on the part of the bank
rupt, but that he must pay back the
amount SO collected to the assignee. He
wished to be lenient with him, and would
therefore order that decree should be
made out giving the same bankrupt three
months to pay back the money, or be at
tached for contempt.
Year: 1877

Hon. Il. B. ,wheeock. President New Orleans


Texas Railroad Company


Sir--There is no class of the community more
fully alive to the great Importance Of the work
In which you are engaged. or who will receive u
more positive and direct benefit from it. than
the book keepers, clerks and other employees
OF the business establishments of this city.


In the nature of things they look forward to
them, and 1t Ia their desire. as well as to their
interest to contribute. 50 far as their means
will permit to the volume extension and value


Hitherto they have been the principal suffer-
ers from the general depression of business in
New Orleans. as the merchants forced retrench-
ment was always first in the direction of q re-
duction Of the number and pay Of his clerical
force. For, years past 1t has not been unusual
to see hundreds OF honest and capable men de-
prived of employment most Of the year be-
cause of the inability of the merchants to pay


The railroad connection which you propose
to establish will go further than anything else
to remedy this condition of things. and in that
directed by those Interested.


To two things your attention is respectfully
called. First. to the fact that during business
tunity to inform themselves as thoroughly as
would be desirable of the prospects. progress.
etc. 2f your road and nd again. being paid by the
range for the payment OF their subscriptions


1t is respectfully suggested that your office be
opened for two or three hours at night. say
from until 10 o'clock. to afford an opportunity
of eicting information. exam lining maps. etc.
and that arrangements be made. II not already
done. by which subscriptions may be paid by In :
stallments.


The number of those interested in this mat
ter, and the impossibility Of getting them to-
gether for concert of action. have suggested
this open letter. to which a response of like
character is respectfully solicited.


1t Is no overestimate to state that there are
more than 1000 persons in this city engaged in
business otherwise than rs principals, who can
and will invest to the amount of at least 500
each in the great and important enterprise OF
which you are the head.
Year: 1877

THE NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE suggests that Mr..
Tfldeu struck at once for Cork when he landed tae
other side because YeaFned for communion with the
aboriginal Democrat iu his native bog" No he went
there because Cork the political capital of his party
It's capital thoy apt 70 take out than put H.
lUclrOit Post
Year: 1877

dispatch from Washington to the New


York Tribune says:


"a plan is on foot for providing place for
President Grant, which promises to secure
him dignified position and to keep him still
in one sense in the service of the country. It
has long been desired, when the rest of the
national debt Came to be refunded, that tile
syndicate assuming the work should be under
American control. 1t is now proposed that
some strong New York bank, say either the
Bank of America or the Bank of Commerce,
be reorganized as national bank, with a capi-
tai OF from ten to twenty millions, for the
purpose of conducting the further operations
for refunding the national debt, with repre-
sentatives in the Board OF Directors from all
the members of the present syndicate, and
also from the houses Of Brown Brothers, the
Birings. and Won Hoffman. The plan pro.
ceeds upon the idea that Gen. Grant could be
chosen and could be induced to accept the
presidency of this bank. This would give
him an assured income, with an occupation
sufficiently dignified and agreeable, while it
would CRAFTY his family feelings by fixing
his future residence near that of bis soma.
Ulysses Grant, jr., has been in New York for
a day or two consulting with banx officers on
the subject, and there is strong disposition
among some OF the moneyed Raen with whom
the matter originated to carry it through"
Year: 1877

The New York World has this little screed
for the beReit of housekeepers:


There are many good people who steadily


set their faces against distilling their coffee as
something French and immoral, and adhere
to the old fashioned method of boiling. To
these few words may be said, since there
has been good coffee made by boiling,
even though one usually comes down to the


morning cup, feeling very much like the pos
SCISSOR of lottery ticket which may draw q
prize, but probably will bring ouly blank.


The hogsheads of miserable coffee drank by
the American people every morning is fright
full. We certainly make the worst coffee in
the world, excepting possibly the English.
Our hotel coffee is proverbially bad. Yet
there is no secret mystery about making good
coffee. The coffee raw should of course he
good. Plantation Ceylon is the best; but half
Java and half Mocha is preferred by most
housekeepers first for strength, the last
for flavor. 1t may be remarked here that the
bean improves with age, and it follows that
the roasting had better be done home and as
frequently as possible, since the various cof-
fee roasters make this practicable. 1t should
be first washed and then roasted evenly to a
dark mahogany color. If roasted in quantity,
q slight glazing of butter will preserve the
aroma. The old fashioned rule is a table
spoonful OF ground coffee for each person and
one for the pot. This is but meager pro-
vision; it is much better to have the coffee
sufficiently strong TO allow half cup of boiled
milk TO each cup. The water should be boil
ing fall the coff- e is put in at once, place
it upon gentle fire and let it come to the
boiling point two or three times, always re-
moving it quickly. Pour out two cups full
and pour them back, and let the pot set by
the fire five or six minutes to settle, and then
strain through filter or piece of flannel This
gives quite clear coffee, and dispenses with
the use OF egg an egg, however, is always an
advantage. Professor Liebig recommends
boiling but half the coffee for strength. adding
the other half when done for aroma. Boiled
milk is always to be preferred, even to cream,
which curdles the coffee. There are various
improved coffee pots, some of which are very |
desirable, but the above receipt is adapted TO
the plainest and most homely kitchen pot and |
Biddy's most uninspired intelligence.
Year: 1877

Countless accidents, as every one
knows, arise from the use Of matches.
To obtain light without employing
them, and so without the danger II
setting things on FIRE, an ingenious
contr ivarce is now used by the watch
men Of Paris in all magazines where
explosive or inAamable materials are
kept. Any one may easily make trial
oft. Take an oblong phial, Of tho
whitest and eleasest glass, and put in
to it piece ofphosphorus about the
size Of a pea. Pour some olive oil.
heated to boiling heat. upon the
phosphorus; fill the phial about ono
third full. and then cork it tightly.


To use this novel light, remove tho
cork. allow the mir to enter the phiai,
aud then recork it. The empty space
in tn, phial will become luminous, and
the light obtained will be equal to that
off lamp. When the light grows dim
its power can be increased by taking
out the cork and allowing fresh hs
of air to enter the phial. In winter il
is sometimes necessary to heat the phi
al between the hands in order to in
crease the huidi,y Of the oil. The sp-
paratus thus prepared may be used for
about six months.
Year: 1877

A Rochester woman wore in the
streets a ballroom costume-a dress
with short sleeves and low at the b0s.
ON. A crowd followed her, and sh9
was arrested for disturbing the public
peace. She proved in court, that she
was reputable, and that her oouduot
in the street was decorous. Her law
yer argued that dress that might be
worn in a ballroom by gaslight with
out improprie,y was fit to he worn IN
the street by daylight; but subsequent
ly, when she made another appear
ance in the same attire, she was arrest
cd aud committed to an asylum Tor
] the insane,
Year: 1877

The Yankee facility for getting the
best of circumstances receives an apt
illustration in the fact that the Cap
tain Of schooner which was solidly
frozen in the Mystic river, in Massa.
chusetts, is now loading her with the
ice taken out in making the channel,
aud will sell ii at good profit ip
Florida.
Year: 1877

A successful business man told me
there were two things which he learn
ed when he was eighteen, which were
ever afterwards Of great use to him,
namely, never to lose anything, and
never to forget anything" An old
lawyer sent him with an important
paper, with certain instructions what
to do with it.


"But," inquired the young man,
suppose 1 lose it; what shall 1 do
thenY"


The answer was with the utmost
emphasis, you must not lose itl"


q don't mean to, said the young
man, "but suppose I should happen
to?"


"But I say you must not happen to !;
I shall make no provision for any such
occurrence; you must not lose itP'


This put new train Of thought in
to the young mans mind, and he found
that if he was determined to do a thing
he could do it. He made such a pro-
vision against every contingency that
he never lost anything. He found
this equally true about forgetting. If
certain matter Of importance was to
be remembered, he pinned it down on
his mind, fastened it there and made
it stay. He used to say. "When
man tells me that he forgot to do some
thing, l tell him he might as well have
said, i did not careenough about your
business to take the trouble to think of
it again. / once had an intelligent
young man in my employment, who
deemed it a sufficient excuse for neg
lecting an important task to say, 4
forgot it. told him that would not
answer. If he was sufficiently inter
ested, he would be careful to remem-
Der. 1t not was because he did not
care enough that he forgot l drilled
him with this truth. He worked for
me three years, and during the last of
the three he was utterly changed in
this respect. He did not forget any
thing. His forgetting, he found, was
a lazy and careless habit Of the mind,
which he eured.-X. Y. q IN Country
Gentleman.
Year: 1877

A BRAVE CAPTAIN.-A good story


Of Prince Paskievitch During the


war of Warsaw he had ordered GER
tain Polish battery to be silenced by
his own artillery, and became perfectly
wild with rage on observing that the
artillery fire produced no appreciable
effect. Galloping to the battery he
asked @Whatidiot is in charge hereY
q, sir, answered the officer. eThen
down you go to the ranks this hour"
said Paskievitch, syou don't begin to
know your trade; your shells do not
explode" 4 know they don't" an
swered the captain ''for the best Of
all reasons that they can't explode" "
"That's lie" said the prince. as
it? See for yourself, then" replied
the officer, cOolly picking up a shell
from the pile and lighting the fuse,
and holding it up between himself and
the marshal. The marshal TRANQUILITY
crossed his arms and watched till the
fuse sputtered and went out. '9There,
sir" said the artilleryman, triumphant
ly, as he threw the shell on the ground.
You were right, after all" growled
the marshal, and rode away to another
point Of the line, but at night the cap
tain received at his tent the cross Of
St. Vladimir for bravery in the field.
Year: 1877

MORAL CHARAcTER.-There is moth
ing which adds SO much to the beauty
and power of man as good moral
character. It is his wealth-his infu-
ence-his life. It dignifes him in
every station. exalts him in every con-
dition, and glori6es him at every period
of life. Such character is more to
be desired that everything else on
earth. It makes man free and indie
pendent. No servile tool-croaking
sycophant-no treacherous honor-seek-
ing ever bore such a character. The
pure joys of truth and righteousness
never spring in such person. If
young men but knew how much good
character would dignity and exalt
them, how glorious it would make their
prospects, even in this life; never
should we find them yielding to the
grovelling and base-born purposes Of
human nature.
Year: 1877

Macaulay, in comparing Napoleon
to Caesar, very rightly says Caesar was
greatly his superior on one point, he
was a perfect gentleman. Talleyrand
wittily expressed nearly the same thing
when he said, "What pity that such
great man should have been SO badly
brought up" If we may judge, not
from the reports Of his enemies, but
from the disclosures of his most faith
full and devoted servitors, Napoleon
treated those who were admitted into
his intimacy with a familiarity that no
man who had any self respect would
have tolerated for minute. Meneval,
his former secretary, represents him as
pulling the ears Of his interlocutors,
sometimes hard enough to make the
blood flow, giving them a slap on the
cheek, at times even sitting on their
knees. These acts Of graciousness were
marks of special kindness with him,
and men of the highest rank were
proud of such tokens of favor. Such
habits were calculated to produce stiff
ness in his manners with strangers. He
was too familiar when he wished to
please, and too stifly declamatory
when he wished to command respect.
AS to his body, the fatigues of war had
strengthened his iron constitution, and
given him a stoutness bordering on
embonpoint. Napoleon acknowledged
that he never was better than during
the Russian campaign, in which he
often rode thirty leagues a day over
the snow. The agitations of war may
be. said to have become needful to his
temperament, a NECESSITY for his health,
and in some sort the indispensable all
ment of that immense activity which
was the predominant characteristic Of
his nature. He literally lived on what
would have killed others. War gave
him both sleep and appetite. A great
deal Of the Corsican yet remained in
him.-LantTey's Life Of Napoleon.