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Year: 1874

There are many sermons good enough to be
repeated to the same congregation, and when
clergymen exchange pulpits the hearers rath-
but it does not follow, however. that the min
lister should not change the local points in the
manuscript to suit the place and occasion. A
Somerville Observation-Disclosures went over
lately to Andover to preach. In his discourse
erville. And, forgetting that he was in Ando-
yer, he said: ''Sooner than child of mine
should be subjected to such influences, would
be willing to have him confined in yonder in
stitution," pointing directly to the Andover
Theological Seminary.
Year: 1874

A Chicago reporter went to report funer-
al in church, the other day, and being, like all
other Chicago reporters in state of heather
darkness about Christmas, he wrote out long
description of the evergreen decorations under
the IMPRESSION that they had been put up for
the funeral.
Year: 1874

We understand that the farmers of
Goodhue County are talking of calling
a convention sometime in September for
the purpose Of considering what, if any,
political action they will take this Fall.
This is very important movement, and
one that should be carefully considered.
That the producing classes will have to
take more leading and active part in
the government Of the country than they
have been taking, before they may ex-
pect to have their rights fully established
and their grievances fully redressed, is
beyond all question.


It is in vain that they denounce Credit
Mobilier Swindles, in vain that they
storm about the Back Pay Grab, in vain
that they inveigh against corruption in
high places, and bitterly complain of
partial legislation, unless they take the
lines in their own hands, they might as
well bray at the moon. The politicians
are not afraid of storm and bluster, but
when the people begin to act, then they
will begin to fear and tremble.


You cannot split rock with argu-
ments. You cannot fight the bristling,
cleaning, pointed bayonets with mud
You cannot tunnel the mountains with
toothpicks. No more can you strike
down corruption with talk. Every evil
has its appropriate remedy. The proper
remedy for the evils of the present times
is the BALLOT. God given The
highest and most sacred inheritance of
every freeman. He who fails to use it
as he ought is more guilty than was Ja-
cob in selling his birthright for mess
of pottage.


Hitherto the masses have been too
negligent in this respect. They have al
lowed the politicians to run things to
suit themselves. Instead of voting like
intelligent, responsible citizens, who must
account to posterity and to God for their
every act Of citizenship, they have al
lowed themselves to be voted. We trust
a better day is dawning.
Let the farmers of Goodhue county
meet and act, but act with deliberation,
with prudence, with sense of the re-
sponsibility that rests upon them. Your
proceedings will be watched with intense
interest by your brethren throughout
the State. The opportunity is yours to
make proud record for yourselves and
your country. Are you ready for the
! occasion '... - 80: .
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Year: 1874

Mr.. Dunnell claimed in his speech at
Owatonna, that he was authorized le-
gal!y, constitutionally, and morally" to
take and keep the back pay under the
salary grab act. Now, if he was NOR
ally authorized to take and keep the
money, he was morally authorized to
vote for the act, and yet he has spoken
and written volumes to attempt to prove
that he was opposed to the act and voted
against it. His own words are almost
conclusive proof that he favored the
measure, and in an underhanded, sneak
ing, unmanly way aided it. Never will
The GRANGE ADVANCE support such


a man for Office.
Year: 1874

Judge Mitchell Of Winona peremp-
torily declines being a candidate for
Congress in the First District. Few
men in the State are better qualified for
that position than he is. A finished
scholar, an able and upright Judge, and
man Of stern integrity. Upon the
death Of Judge Waterman, he was NOM
mated and supported by both parties as
the successor Of the deceased Judge,
and almost unanimously elected.
Judge Mitchell admits that he is not
indifferent to the proposition of his
name for Congress, but alleges that
reasons Of private and personal nature
absolutely preclude the idea of his be-.
ing candidate this fall.
Year: 1874

Bismark barely escaped death at the
hands Of an assassin a few days ago


His opposition to the Jesuits is suppos-
ed to be the cause for this attempt,
and priest who is supposed to be im.
plicated in the matter has been arrested
as we'll as the would be assassin.
Year: 1874

And now it is the Goodhue County
Republican that has taken to advising
The GRANGE ADVANCE on political
matters, and urges us to be more patient.
When will these one horse politicians
and political sheets learn that the prop
,er time to give advise is when they are
asked for it.
Year: 1874

THAT'S WHERE SHE MADE MISTAKE
A ludicrous scene was witnessed on Rensse-
lear and Saratoga train the other day. A
newly.married couple entered the car and
took seat. The husband wanting to smoke,
left his wife and went into the smoking.car.
The bride began to doze, and while she slept
crowded, quietly took seat beside the young
wife, Shortly she began to nod, and doubt.
less imagining that her husband was still in
the seat, gently reclined toward the stranger,
and soon her head fondly nestled on his breast
At this juncture the husband entered. He
stood in mute astonishment in the aisle until
the lady awoke, and, realizing the situation,
drew back in amazement suffused with bushes
Stranger explained, husband was satisfied,
and wife tried hard to appear unconcerned.-
Troy Times.
Year: 1874

DoDGE.-An Irishman took the contract
to dig a public WE'LL When he had dug
about twenty-five feet below the surface, he
came one morning and found it caved in, filled
nearly to the top. Pat looked cautiously
around and saw that no one was near, then
taking off his hat and coat he hung them on
the windlass, and crawling into some bushes,
he waited the result of events. In short
time the citizens discovered that the well had
caved in, and seeing Pats hat and coat they
supposed that he was at the bottom Of the
excavation. Only a few hours of brisk dig
ging cleared the loose earth from the we'll.
Just as the citizens had reached the bottom
and were wondering where the body was, Pat
came walking out of the bushes, and very
good.naturedly thanked them for relieving him
Of sorry job. The tired diggers were dis
gusted, but the joke was too good to allow
anything more than a hearty laugh, which
soon followed.
Year: 1874

CONFIDENCE OF CATTLE-A Massachu-
setts farmer'says: my cattle will follow me
until leave the lot, and on the way up to the
barn yard in the evening stop and call for a
lock of hay" Smithson says there is moth
ing at all remarkable about that. He went
INTO barnyard in the country one day last
week, where he had not the slightest acqualn-
tauce with the cattle, and an old bull not
only followed him until he left the lot, but
took the gate off the hinges and raced with
him to the house in the most familiar way
possible. Smithson says he has no doubt that
the old fellow would have called for some
thing if he had waited little while, but he
didn't want to keep the folks waiting for din
ner, so he hung one tail of his coat and a
piece of his pants on the bulls horns and
went into the house.
Year: 1874

A STORY OF ROBERT EMMET.-There is
a story told of this young patriot in early life
that proved his secretive power and resolu'
ton. He was fond of studying chemistry,
and one night late, after the family had gone
to bed, he swallowed large quantity of cor.
rosive sublimate in mistake for some acid
cooling powder. He Immediately discovered
his mistake, and knew that death must shortly
ensue unless he instantly swallowed the only
antidote-chalk. Timid men would have
torn at the bell, reused all the family, and
sent for a stomach.pump. Emmet called no
one, made, no noise but stealing down stairs
and unlocking the front door, went into the
stable, scraped some chalk which he knew to
be there, and took sufficient doses of it toneu-
tralze the poison.
Year: 1874

SALT IN S1cKNEss.-Dr. Scudder remarks:
II am satisfied that have seen patients die
from deprivation of common salt during
protracted illness. 1t is the common i'm.
preston that the food for the sick should
not be seasoned, and whatever slop may
be given, it is almost innocent of this es-
sential of life. In the milk diet that l re-
commend in sickness, common salt is used
freely, the milk being boiled and given not;
And if the patient cannot take the usual
quantity in his food, I have it given in drink.
This matter is so important that it cannot be
repeated too often, or dwelt upon too long:
The most marked example of this want OF
common salt have ever noticed, has been IN
surgical diseases, especially in open wounds:
Without supply Of salt the tongue would
become broad, pallid, puffy, with a tenacious,
pasty coat, the secretions arrested, the circu-
lation feeble, the efusion at the point Of inJu-
ry serious, with an unpleasant watery pus,
WHICH at last becomes mere sanies or ichor;
A few days of free allowance of salt would
change all this, and the patient get along we'll.


LABoR.-Itisa mistake to suppose that Ia
Dor is an unpleasant condition Of life. 1t is
matter of experience that there is more real
contentment in attending to any kind OF
occupation than there is in looking for
some occupation. Attend, therefore, to your
business as being worthy Of all your at
tention. Working men are apt to consider
that their occupations alone are laborlous,
but in that matter they are mistaken. Labor
of mind is generally even more fatiguing than
labor of the body, and it is quite erroneous to
SUPPOSE that others do not work as we'll as we
do, simply because their work is different diff
from ours. Labor is the earthly condition of
man, and until the nature of man is changed,
the want of something to do will produce all
the horrors of ennui. Gambling and other
reprehensible dissipations are all owing to the
fact that human nature cannot support
state of idleness. To live without a purpose,
is to lead very restless life.
Year: 1874

EDGE TooLs-A correspondent of the
Detroit Tribune says, eff an edge tool is so
hard as to crumble, grind it on dry stone
until the edge turns blue it will then cease
to break, and the temper will generally prove
to be about right. Scythes and axes are
sometimes too hard at the edge, but if treated
in this way will give no further trouble"
Year: 1874

Once upon time there was poor
little boy, who had been kept prisoner
in dark room so long that he had be-,
come used to the darkness and did not
like the light. There was no window
in the room; his food was handed up
to him through hole in the floor.
The door had been so long closed that
brambles md ivy had grown across it.
The poor little prisoner had become so
used now to his small dark room that
be thought it was as good as q kings
palace. The door was not kept locked;
but he did not care to open it, and
go out and be free. oaa...e-e 4-raet .


At last, while he was asleep one day
(for he could not tell the difference
between day and night he awoke and
heard knock at the door. He tried
to go to sleep again, but he could not.
He tried to keep himself from hearing
by putting his hands to his ears; but
the knocking would make itself heard.
Then, at last, he felt obliged to get up
and go toward the door. AS soon as
he half opened it he saw n hand that
held lamp whose light streamed into
his dark room. He put his hands tohis
eyes and was turning back to his bed
in the corner when he caught sight Of
the face of the person holding the
lamp. The face seemed to say, "Please
come out; / have been waiting for you
a very, very long time" SO he stepped
out.


bright and the fresh air too chill and
the song of the birds too loud. He.
looked back into his room, half wish
ing to return; but when he saw his
prison by the light of day it seemed so
small and dismal and dirty that he
felt ashamed that he had ever liked it,
and after breathing the fresh air he
found the air Of his old room 50 foul
that he could not bear it, and he Won
dered how he could have been content
to live there so long. So he bade good
by to the prison and never came back
there again. n1a ,4-t


Perhaps you say to yourself, "What
has this to do with me? l am not in
the dark; am not a prisoner ~


1t is true your body is not in prison,
but what if your soul is? What if you
are greedy and unkind and untruth-
full? If you are, you are in prison; for
YOU are shut in with unkindneSs and
greediness and untruthfulness. They
are like walls, and you cannot get out
of them, and you are SO accustomed to
them that you are contented with your
horrible prison. q ie. .ai i.fl.'., ~.


Then Jesus comes to our heart.
"Think of Me-" he says to us. Some
times we do not like to listen to him
or to think of him. But Jesus is pa
tient; so he keeps on saying to us,
+" Listen to me; think of me-" Then
we think of him, how good he is, how
kind and gentle; how truthful and
honest; we are ashamed and sorry and
disturbed, because we are so unlike
him. We did not know how bad we
were till we thought Of Jesus. Some
times we feel as though we would like
to lun back again away from him and
be let alone in our badness. But Je-
sus will lead us onward out of all our
faults into goodness and truth. Then,
when we are free, we shall look back
and wonder how we could be content
so long to keep away from Jesus in
the prison of our ults.--Pdrdbtc for
| Children. o-e. o,5,
Year: 1874

If there is one thing more than an
other that we dislike to see, it is the
wreck of humanity upon the reefs Of
sordid gain. The present is all that We
have and hold of human life, and al
though that present may point toward
a future, yet the preparation for that
future is involved in the struggles of
today: cas- we sow we shall reap.'


To our sense it appears that all ma.
teriaf acquisitions should be made use
of to attain to hi CHER and more refined
state of culture, and other use than this
is illegitimate and contrary to the pur-
poses of existence. It does not necessa-
rily follow that because person labors
for livelihood that he should be de-
MED, or deny himself the access to the
many avenues that are open for the
growth Of thought. How many of US
are continually .laboring day after day,
with no furthe motive in view than the
simple qualification of a morbid desire
] of acquisition OF some fancied security
against imaginary troubles Of distant
future. This condition Of, things we
vitfneess'msre particularly among farm
ers; mo time allotted for recreation, no
cultivation Of the social relations, no
thought for the consideration Of human
sympathy and fraternal feeling, but
every energy is expended through ply
sical effort and the brain being robbed
of its part Of the vital forces that should
be evenly diffused, becomes thick aud
sluggish in the frontal portions and We
wonder Why We are SO dull and
stupid. consequently it takes some sud-
den misfortune or great calamity to
arouse into acti on these dormant facul-
ties that should ever be burning in the
: temple, but tho little items Of this n:
tuse that should make up the sum total
Of every day life remain blank, and hu-
Year: 1874

We give the following advice from the
experience of an old stager, clipped from
the Toledo Blade:


Take lessons on the piano, and learn to
paint, and sing, but let your mother do
the washing.


Do worsted work, and make nice little
neckties for the heather, but don't ac-
quire the mystic art of Ct cooking pork
and beans.'


Go to boarding school and pursue some
French, Spanish and German, but neg
lect your good old mother English.


Flatly deny the soft impeachment that
you are engaged. Treat your young
"sprig precisely as if you we're ashamed
of him; it is complimentary, anyhow,
to the young sprig.


When you laugh, laugh hearty your
gold filings may be seen. 1t is card
Tor the dentist.


By all means " tote" nice little doc
after you on the street. There is a
chance Of your being taken for some one
else, besides it speaks volumes the
dog.


Walk four abreast and keep the center
Of the sidewalk, but never for a moment
allow yourself to be disconnected it
shows consideration for the happiness Of
others.


Finally, quit being girls by marrying
some old, bold hearted buffer, with lots
of " tin" and ruthlessly throw aside a
man of brains with becoming compe-
ency.
Year: 1874

MANY a man is rich without money.
Thousands of men without nothing in
their pockets are rich. A man born
with a good sound constitution, a good
stomach, good heart, good limbs, and
a pretty good head piece, is rich. Good
bones are better than gold ; tough mus
cles better than silver and nerves that
flash fire aud carry energy to every
function are better than houses or land.
1t is better than landed estate to have
the right kind Of a father or mother.
Good breeds and bad breeds exist among
men as really as among herds and
horses. Education may do much to
check bad tendencies or t., develop good
ones but it is greater to inherit the
right proportion Of faculties to begin
with. The man is rich v ho has good
disposition, who is naturally kind, pa
tient cheerful and hopeful"
Year: 1874

man nature is thus starved and dwarfed
into constitutions Of penury and 'wsnt,
making it gloomy and reticent, cold and
sarcastic. ~.


Now, what We want is to .resurrect
ourselves out Of this state of affairs, be
more genial and social, spend little
more means As we'll as time in the build
ing up Of a higher state Of thought
furnish ourselves with more choice
literature; see that our families are sup
piled with music and such appliances as
are necessary to the qualification and de-
velopment of such marked traits Of
genius as may manifest itself in our
children. How many an ambition, cre-
ated by the desire of specific talent,
has been buried in the ruins of defeat
ed youthful aspirations, just for the
want of few dollars to meet its de-
mands in its first struggles for recogni-
tion. How many parents have been
guilty Of defrauding the world Of its
right to the benefit Of the growth Of
such talent, and thereby radically
changed the disposition Of the child to
the ultimate ruin Of the purposes of its
life. I know the laborer has much to
offer in explanation for such course.
Experience has taught US all Of these
things, but we also know that we don't
take half Of the privileges that comes
within the province of our reach, and
in consequence there is a sour, acid
feeling engendered that tells its story
in the face of succeeding generations.
So we would again repeat the request
that all who earn their bread by the
honest hand of toll, take more time for
recreation and the cultivation of
thought: though we may not gather as
much Of the corruptible, it will lessen
the care-lines and liberate us from the
aches and pains Of over-tasked physical
machines, the worst Of all machines to
get out Of sorts" for it must run as
long as vitality exists, and can't stop
for the repairs Of the dry dpck or the
shop. Then let us study the problem
of our lives, that we may be the better
prepared to live out its purposes. Ten
nyson says:


"Selfreverence, self-knowledge, self-contro


These three alone lend life to sovereign power;


Yet not for power (power of herself


Would come uncalled for( but to live by law,


Acting the law we live by without fear,


And because right is right to follow right,


Here wisdom in the scorn of consequences"
Year: 1874

AS flowers give beauty and purity Of
expression to the face Of Nature, 50
does the purity of our hearts give ex-
preston to the thoughts that sway the
motives and govern the actions Of our
daily lives. The one symbolizes Deity
in the vegetable and the other in the
animal world, and as we are the high
est intelligence in graded life, let us see
that we disgrace not these attributes of
our nature, and thus bring disgrace up
on all that is below US.
Year: 1874

I prefer trust and confidence in the
truthfulness of mankind, and where du-
plicity and intrigue manifests itself to
look upon it rather as the exception
than the rule The lack Of faith in the
honesty Of our fellows is most destruc-
tive Of true growth. 1t vitiates the
moral nature and creates feeling of
unrest that damns the existence Of its
victim.
Year: 1874

A WoMAN's CURIOSITY A New
York paper says: "Two ladies called at
the house OF one Of our well known ply
sicians. While one Of them was consult
ing the physician in his private Office,
the other, prompted by curiosity, or some
kindred impulse, proceeded 10 invosti-
gate the contents of a large case Of bottles,
jars, ETC., in the outer Office. Between
the two apartments was a glass door,
over which was a paper shade, which,
was torn across one corner so that it was
possible to see from one room into the
other. Hearing Il rattling among the
bottles, the physician stepped to the glass
door and looked through to see what was
going on. He discovered the lady in the
act Of taking down one bottle after an
other, and smelling of the contents there
Of. AT length she got hold of something
that evidently pleased her ollactories.
She continued smelling, and each time
it was more apparent that she was more
lltNStu lllull uclOIt. Nlle NlGn poured
some of the liquid into her hand and
smelled again. This time her entire sat
islaction with the result of her investiga-
tions was evident, and she hastily rub
bed the liquid upon her nose and por-
ton Of her face contiguous thereto, re-
placed the bottle and took her seat, rs
she heard a rustling in the inner room,
indicating that the consultation was at
an end, and that the consulting parties
were returning. The physician knowing
what the result would be, detained the
ladies in conversation for several minutes.
Before the end Of that time, as the lady
sat near the stove, her nose and portions
Of her face began to turn deep olive
color, and before she departed they had
assumed a beautiful dark brown. She
had mistaken the doctors fayoritc hair
dye for pertumery. She will be an in
valid, and will not receive calls for n
week to come"
Year: 1874

There is a current belief among certain
class OF butter-nakers that the introduction
of air into the cream while churning has a
great influence in shortening the time Of
churning, and although experiments made
to test the extent of this influence have fail
ed to show its existence, | will not say that
it has not some effect. have not, however,
exhausted investigation in the matter. A
patent device which was said to do rnarvels
in shortening the churning aud improving
the butter, was thoroughly tried with ne per-
ceptible effect A glass churn large enough
for working model aud possessing system
of air-distributors aud valves operated by an
ingoniously constructed dasher-handle, that
drove a storm Of wind into the cream and
kept it in q perfect foam while churning,
also proved an entire failure when tested by
timing. An inventive neighbor devised a
peculiar connection between dasher and
handle, such that every time the dash went
down, il drove quantity Of air into the
cream at the bottom Of the churn, but it
proved fruitess invention. Letters patent
have been issued for great many sir-churns,
but none OF them have ever come into any
considerable use, and the natural inference
is that they are not much better than air.
castles. But air may be useful in churning.
A manufacturer in a creamery in which
dash churns are used, makes the under side
Of the dash, which is as large as will go in.
to the churn, concave. When the dash goes
down into the cream, the air in this concave
bottom of the dash is crowded out by the cream
and is seen on all sides bubbling up to the
top. The butter does not come any sosner
in the churns having the coucave dash than
in those having dash little convex, but
the air which covers the bottom Of the CON-
cave dash makes cushion, which prevents
the hard dash from doing violence to the
cream as it strikes it in going down, and the
grain of the butter is found to be improved
This is the best use we have seen Of air in
churning-L. b. A., in Lire Stock Jour.


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