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Year: 1874

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Almost every farmer will express hiu-
self as being conscious that be has
duties to perform in the present strug-
gle Of labor against capital, politicians
and monopolies Of all kinds


Nine-tenths Of the farmers Of Min
nesota would to-day stand resolutely aud
nlautully for their rights, were it not
for the interference Of professed friends,
who are laboring day and night to keep
the masses in the same old political rut,
although it be filled with the mire and
slush that has been gathering for
years.


How oily the tongue, and how nicely
slips the pen Of the men who have
grown rich at the expense Of labor. It
is struggle for their bread and butter,
a desperate effort that they are making
to add i few more thousands to their
already ill-gotteu gains; never satisfied,
never contented. Farmers realize this
and feel the necessity Of making an ef-
fort to save themselves aud save their
country; when corruption is fostering
in high places. and our entire country
innoculated with theft, bribery, intrigue,
and death struggle for place and
power by men who are a stencil in the
nostrils of all honest men, is it strange
that the lockers on, the men that bear
the burdens, the bed rock Of the pa-
tion, should say "thus far shalt thou 20
and no farther.' All the interest that
the whole spawn Of politicians who are
seeking place have in the welfare of
labor, either agricultural or mechanical,
you could put in four ounce vial and
then have plenty Of room for four
ounces more; their interest is perfectly
selfish, be they the largest frog in the
puddle or the merest pollywog that pro-
pels itself with its Shiny tail.


Never was time more propitious than
now for the farmer, mechanic and la
boring man to throw off party shackles
and show an undivided aud unbroken
front to their enemies, come they in
whatever guise they may. We cannot
strike too quick eve hold the lines,
why not driver" Should any of US
see highwayman approaching US with
bludgeon upraised and pistol cooked, I
don't think We should stop to parley
with such being, but would strike the
monster dead if in our power. Now,
this is precisely our situation, and as
Gen. Booth, now u s. Senator from
California, expressed it boldly and
graphically, "There is an iron finger on
every industrial pulse of our country,
an iron hand on every throat, moved
by an iron will.'


Let labor unite and rid itself of this
evil, stand in its own strength and show
to the world "where there is a will
there is way Speaking Of that
noble man, Newton Booth, Of Califor-
MIA, who fought and won for labor aud
reform, leads me to suggest that he is
the coming ,nau, aud probably the next
President of a redee med country.


UNCLE TOM.
Year: 1874

Who ever heard of an editor at dim
ner party saying that, lowing to a
crowd Of other matter we are unable to
find room for it," when the last course
had been passed around.


When your pocket book gets empty
and everybody knows it you can put all
your friends in it and it wont ''bulge
out" worth cent.


The leveling farmers in the principal
wheat point in the St. Croix valley, says
the Hudson Star and Times, are to have
warehouse of their own at Hammond,
and buy, store, and ship for themselves,
and so demonstrate by their own expe-
rience whether heretofore they have
been treated fairly or not If the Ham,
mond enterprise proves successful. SINH
lar ones will be inaugurated elsewhere,
until the farmers will have the hand
ling as we'll as the raising Of the wheat
crop.


The Register of Whitewater says
there is no use denying the fact, crops
are being seriously injured in that vi
cinity by chinch bugs. Good farmers
seem to agree that the yield of wheat
and barley will not he more than half
that of last year. The hot weather of
course is responsible for part Of the
damage, but the bugs have not been
worse in twelve years.


The past week has been one of ex-
cessive heat ; yesterday July 25th, the
thermometer being from 102 to
lO6 in the shade with dry wind that
seemed to absorb human perspiration
with the venom Of a fire tiend.


The citizens Of Burlington made
present of horse to the editor of the
Standard Of that place.


The equine majesty having no afin-
ity for quill and scissors, scattered
them promiscuously, teaching how vain
it is for mankind to aspire to positions
in life beyond their capacity.


This morning: July 26th, we were
suddenly aroused from our virtuous
slumber by the "put in" Of a fearful
wind storm it seemed for while as
though the elements would prevail
against us, but we stuck to our " roost,"
consoling ourselves with the assurance
that we were here first. and held a war;
ranty indemniication to that effect, and
if old Boreas wanted to try titles we
would refer him to the legal head of
The GRANGE ADVANCE. But after
scattering things generally, and doing
considerable damage to fields and stacks,
it withdrew in good order, leaving US to
contemplate over the frailty Of human
expectations.


The smile that covers the face Of
Nature in the lower tier of counties. is
due largely to the fact that Charley
Williams has returned home. James
vile ought to be one of the healthiest
places in the State, with Ch.rley's
CHEEKY laugh and sunshiney face. Come
up here Charley, and get sand burrsr up
your trowsers legs, and have little fun.
La Crosse Sun.


q How frail and yet how fair" The
Milwaukee Ne,os comes forth In = new
dress enlarged to nine column sheet,
purchased with the price Of a GIG, 900
fraud upon the people Of Wisconsin.
How gloriously proud We should: feel
toward this accession of prosperity in
Year: 1874

The citizens Of Burlington made a
present of horse to the editor of the
Standard Of that place.


The equine majesty having no afin-
ity for quill and scissors, scattered
them promiscuously, teaching how vain
it is for mankind to aspire to positions
in life beyond their capacity.
Year: 1874

father knew that there had been some
thing up, and as he knew that John was
thoughtful boy and not up TO any thing
wrong, he willingly granted him per
mission. John was ready to go in day
or two. lie hunted all over the city foI
the 'vagabonds," as he called them, and
had about given up finding them, when
one evening he was taking his accus-
toned walk and saw n girl stick her
head up above the window sill, and
an old woman jerk her down. lie had
just glimpse Of her. but he had seen
her long enough TO satisfy him that she
was the girl for whom he was looking.
lie went TO his boarding house, dis
guised himselfas a chimney sweep, and
slipped mp 10 where he had seen the
girl. He knocked several times but
received no answer; he then tried TO
open the door but could not; he then
hid behind an old box. lie did not wait
long till one Of the men which he had
seen out at Fillmore came up. lie had
d night-key and opened the door and
went in and said her father had offered
reward of $4,000 for her return, and
$4,000 for the arrest Of the thieves.


This is a good thing for me" said the
man.


John left now and went to his board
ing house, exchanged his disguise for his
proper clothes, and went to the head of
the police for an officer, and arrested the
man and got the girl. They could not
find the whereabouts of the other man.
That evening John took the 4 o'clock
train. and the next morning at day light
was at Fillmore. Thenext days papers
contained the great discovery of the
young daughter OF Captain Hargrave.


Captain ii. came down with the re-
ward OF $4,000, with which John fin
ished his education. lie often went uli
TO the city TO see Mr.. IIargra,e's.





Twenty years have now elapsed, and
John has married the girl who he had
such an adventure with. Jim married
Johns sister. They both live in the
city, and are in partnership in a large
store. John takes care of his nice little
wife as we'll as husband can.


This tale shows what boy can do
when he tries.
Year: 1874

SMART GIRIs.-"We can all earn our
our living, father,n was q remark made
in a family by one Of several young la
dies, short time since.


'FThat is right, my daughter" was the
reply of the parent; "that fact l regard
as the point of triumph in your educa-
tion. Able and willing are the two
words which when the proper occasion
comes will insure you success, and vim
dicate the principle that women
should be educated for business and use
fulness as well as for ornament and at.
traetiveness. Never fear to work fol
your support, nor fail to encourage
Others in so doing.n
Year: 1874

Some of the newspapers announce
with seeming delight that there are
women teachers in the Boston public
schools, who deplore the appointment
oil men on the school committees, and
say they would rather be under the
dominion of men, 1t would be strange
If 1t were not so. There has been par
allelism, step by step, between the Anti
slavery and the Woman Suffrage move
ments, and it would be strange il II
were to fail at this point. 1t is always
the result of a long career of subj lection,


that those who have been reared under


it have to be educated into sel1-respec''
Year: 1874

A strange account is published in Chi
nese newspapers OF the suicide of nine
Young girls at WhampOa. They were
living with different families in the viii
lace. and seeing how much misery the
women endured from the tyranny of
their husbands, they resolved tie escape
n similar fate by putting an end to their
existence. So they met at the bank Of
a river i'm the vicinity, and sewed their
garments together to prevent a separa-
tion. and thus plunged into the deep.
Year: 1874

4 Journal for the People


Devoted 10 the Interests Of humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion


Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
OF the Masses.
Year: 1874

just as the mail adviccs by the San
Francisco steamer were making it Ger
tain that China and Japan were in for
Il hrll>c. it is flashed around by the
East Indian telegraph direct from
Shanghai that money indemnity has
been agreed upon. amounting to three
quarters of Il million dollars This is il
small enough sum to go to war for, and
is additional proof that it was to be a
sutlelS' war. The Formosa trouble has
also been settled, so that our oriental
friends are at liberty again to go on
reforming
Year: 1874

From Pomeroy's Democrat


The woman who is more or less green
or snobbish borrows clothes, ribbons,
jewelry and bonnets with which to dress
The genuine lady never is guilty of
such a degradation. The high-toned
woman is above having articles of dress
or jewelry in common with another; she
never will run to borrow new gloves, new
ribbons, new cloaks, shawls and other
articles Of apparel with which to cut a
dash. To dress a mud-lark in yellow
feathers does not make a canary, nor
will dressing a woman in borrowed
plumage transform her into a lady.


Men seldom display such weaknesses.
The real gentleman never will appear in
borrowed articles Of dress or jewelry
Nor will the woman who has real pride
Of character so cheaper herself as to
appear in goods not her own.


A gentleman friend of ours, who loves
his wife dearly, was constantly buying
for her costly and beautiful articles. He
filed her lap with such little things as
he saw from time to time which he
thought would please her. She lived in
boarding house and was very popular.
One day her husband noticed that she
was without articles which he had
bought her short time before. He be-
gan to inquire and learned that her land
lady had borrowed her furs to wear to
market; that her sister had .bor-
rowed of her jewelry and other
choice articles to wear to a party;
that a lady had borrowed her new bon
net to wear on the street, and that
scarcely one of the beautiful articles he
had bought for his wife because he loved
her and wished her to have them was in
her possession. Whoever should see her
in company even with her own articles
on her person would think they were
borrowed of those to whom she had
loaned them rather than to lose their
friendship.


As the articles were returned to their
owner some Of them torn, broken,
soiled and damaged, like a sensible
man he threw them into the fire, and
told his wife that if she did not love him
enough to keep for her own use such
ornaments as he bought FOR her alone,
she might buy for herself hereafter
There is no difference between a bor-
rover and beggar, except the borrower
is the most self.h of the two, and the
least entitled to respect.
Year: 1874

The published plan of a Western
scientist for producing rain is to ele-
vate copper wire by balloon or other
means until its copper end reaches the
clouds" hitch the lower end to rail
road track, and send up currents Of
electricity. All farmer has to do for
safeguard against drought is to buy
balloon, three or four miles Of copper
wire, battery, railroad and some gas
works.
Year: 1874

II The meeting at the Pavilion on
Saturday evening, to receive and listen
to Judge Jacobs. was the largest and
most enthusiastic meeting ever held in
this town. Further description would
be superfuous at this time.
Year: 1874

AN ATTEMPT TO EsCAPE.-A prisoner
by the name of Clark, who was convict
ed of the crime of manslaughter at the
last term of Court at Port Townsend for
killing the mate of a vessel, and SEN
fenced to one years imprisonment at
the Thurston County Jail, attempted to
make his escape on last Sunday night,
by saving the bars from the second sto-
ry window with case knife which he
had hacked full of hicks. so that ii would
cut like saw. The jailor was inform
ed of the preparation to escape by anoth-
er prise ner, and was on the lookout for
him. When Clark found that his plans
were made known, he pounced on Kirk
land, fellow prisoner, ard would have
beaten him fearfully, but for the timely
arrival of the jailor, who loaded him
with heavy irons and confined him in a
cell, where he will do penance by living
on low diet-bread and water-until he
becomes satisfied that such actions will
not go unnoticed. -Courier.i
Year: 1874

E 1t will be seen from the following
that we have gold mines in our Terrific
ry equal if not surprising in richness
the Stikine mines. And what is better
still, they are easier of access and can
be worked much longer time during
the year. Mr.. J. McCallister of Seattle
has received a letter, with piece of
quartz enclosed, from the Sheriff of
Yakima county, stating that parties are
now at work with rockers taking out
gold, and that SIS has been made to the
hand notwithstanding that they have
to heat the water to thaw it out. Mr..
John Shoudy and others also write to
the effect that the utmost confidence is
expressed In their richness, and that
they prospect from three to ten cents to
the pan.-Courier.
Year: 1874

BAR SUPPER.-The supper given at
Richards, on Thursday evening, to the
Bench and Bar, by the two licentiates,
Messrs. Andrews aud Blanchard, admit
ted to practice at the present term of the
District Court, was very pleasant af
fair. Chief Justice Jacobs presided,
and all the Attorneys and officers of the
Court and single representative Of the
press were in attendance. Many good
sentiments were offered in ibations of
pure cold water, eloquent and humorous
speeches we're made. demonstrating the
fact that intoxicating drinks are not a
necessary concomitant to ga feast of
reason and a flow of SOUL" These
young gentleman have entered upon
their professional career with the wise
determination to draw no inspiration
from the intoxicating cup. They start
upon their way with the respect and
good wishes of all, and if their past and
present lives are an indication of the
future. they will achieve and reflect hon
or upon the noble profession they have
chosen forstheir vocation.
Year: 1874




A PRAYING MAN 1t is not an uncom-
mon Thing to taunt the convicted felon
With the fact that he made profession of
religion, and thus added the sneaking
vice of hypocrisy to his crimes; but we
have never heard praying charged as
chief offense, or as conclusive evidence
of rascality, until in the case of the at
tacks of the Portland Bulletin and the
Olympia Courier upon Col. Kemble, the
Indian Inspector, in every one of which
the main ground and head and front of
his offending is that he is "a praying
man." For this they call him "pious
fraud" "howler," and other epithsts
are applied to him expressive of their
contempt for his religious professions.
The Courier contrasts his character with
that of Gen. Milroy--whose removal is
the sole cause of these attacks-in the
following terms: General Milroy has
also many friends among the first men
of the nation, civil as well as military,
and while he differs from Mr.. Kemble
in that he does not wear long hypo-
critical face, nor make lengthy prayers
to be heard of men. his actions while in
this Territory have won him the esteem
of all who admire honesty, candor and
integrity" Now the truth is, that Gen.
Milroy and Col. Kemble differ in their
religious views to this extent: the first
is member of the Presbyterian society,
and if he does not pray he ought to; the
other is an active member of the Pro.
testant Episcopal Church; while the
two editors who assail him for being a
praying man. are both sons of praying
parents, and we venture the assertion
that they would be no worse members
of society if they would emulate the ex-
ample of such praying men as Colonel
Kemble. General AIilroy may conduct
himself in such manner in his daily
walk and conversation as not to raise
the suspicion among worldly people that
he ever prays. Colonel Kemble, we
know, carries his religion with him in
his daily life, and il all his public and
private relations, and yet no man is less
disposed to bigotry or sectarian intnler>
ance. In his official inspection of affairs
in this Indian departn ent, he highly
commended the management of the
agency of Father Cherouse, Roman
Catholic; also that of Father WILDER,
Methodist: recommended the appoint
ment of Marshal B,inn, a Unitarian, and
of c. A. Huntington, Congregational
ist. Since these transactions he has
been fully yindicated from all charges
rejecting upon his character as faithful
officer, by the President. the Senate.
and the Department of the Interior,
with all the facts in the case fully before
them, and this was done in view Of the
Year: 1874

Milroy case, in which the President saw
fit to reverse his action in Difference to
the earnest appeals of Milroy and his
many friends among the first men, of
the nation" From our knowledge of
E. G., Kemble from early boyhood, This
is the first attempt we ever heard of to
impeach his integrity of character on
any ground, and it can only succeed
now by first impeaching the President
and the Senate iT1 eza f 4dj ha
Year: 1874




The following article, taken from the
Country Gentleman, so thrillingly sets
forth the fearful results of using tobac-
co that the most hardened sinner must
repent and hasten to be wise after read
ing it:


First experiment, hog was shut up
in a tight pen, and his only food was one
half pound of tobacco a day. In one
week he had lost four pounds. Second
a mule was placed in stall without
food. Two plugs of tobacco were
placed before her twice a day. She
grew gradually restive. On the third
day oneplug was forced down her throat,
when she tore the experjmentor's ear
with her teeth, showing the bad effect
tobacco has on ones disposition. It
was then found necessary TO muzzle
her SO that she could not. open her
mouth. At the end of eight days she
died. Thi1d, dog was nailed up in a
tobacco hogshead. At the end of four
days he was taken out much reduced.
Fourth, another dog was inclosed in a
tobacco barrel and rolled down steep
hill. Within two years that dog went
mad Truly these are Satan's nets I
could cite plenty more of such expert
ments. We all know that single drop
of the oil of tobacco placed on the end
of dogs tail will kill man in a min
ute. OF four men lately killed on the
Erie Railway three were smokers, and
the father of the other an inveterate
ehewer of tobacco. On the bodies OF
the two men washed ashore after the
late storm on Lake Michigan,
papers of tobacco were found.
In my own neighborhood very dis
tressing accident, by which most esti-
mable lady, the mother of seven lonely
children, broke her leg, occasioned by q
pair of runaway horses running into q
fence that surrounded field of tobacco.
Miss Chloe Flatfoot recently died in the
county adjoining mine at the age of lis
years. She had both chewed and smoked
over 100 years, and as she had no dis
ease till the time of her death, it is
only fair to suppose that it was tobacco
that killed her. For so long time was
Satan spreading his nets for her; but
think Mr.. K. will agree with me that be
must have her sure now. But why muI.
tiply examples? ? You know how it il
yourself. So, Mr.. Editor. do not go on
helping spread these nets, by showing
N your paper how to grow large crops
of tobacco any more. Rather interline
the book of Proverbs with the remarks
of our second Solomon. Only LET me
add a word of caution to that gentle
man. Does he, let me ask, use tea Oh
coffee? These are other nets of Satan
as much as tobacco. Does he eat mince
pies and use salaratus? More nets,
Does he indulge in ice creams or oys
| ters? Let him beware, lest, when hE
least expects, Satan, IN scooping In hii
tobacco-users, fly away with him Ora
ham bread without salt is his only saliva
ton.
Year: 1874

We read that the curse pronounced


upon the serpent was, "Upon thy belly


thou shalt go, and the inference seems


to be that, previous to that time, lis


mode of progress was not upon its belly.


This would imply a great anatomical


change in the structure of the creature
at the time in question, change which,


O far as we are aware, is not proved by
archaeological research, and the ex-
preston is probably figurative one, as
observed by DIR. Buckiand. SerpentS
progress by the ''folding and windings
they make on the ground, and the stiff,
movable scales which cross the under
portion of the body but the windings
are sideways, not vertical. The struc-
ture of the yertebre is such, that up
ward and downward undulations are
greatly restricted, and many illustra-
tions, showing sharp vertical curves of
the body, are exaggerations. Most per-
sons have seen snakes glide slowly and
silently, without any contortion. They
seem to progress by some invisible pow
er; but, if permitted to move over the
bare hand, an experiment easily tried,
a motion of the scales will be perceived.
These are evated and depressed, and
act as levers by which the animal is car
ried forward. Nor can a serpent pro-
gress with facility on the ground with
out the resistance afforded by the
scales. It is stated that it cannot pass
over a plate of glass, or other entirely
smooth surface. We saw the expert
ment tried, by placing small pane of
glass in box, in which was a common
black snake. He was made to pass over
it repeatedly, but evidently found that
he had no foothold on it; and the third
time he approached it, elevated the fore
part of his body slightly, and brought
his head down beyond the glass, and,
on bassing, his body seemed scarcely to
touch it. This gave an opportunity to
witness the wave-like movement of the
scales, that is, of their elevation, which
runs from the head to the tail, enabling
the animal to move continuously, instead
of by series of minute pushes, as
would occur if all the scales be lifted
and depressed at once.-Popugar Sci
e1ace Monthly.
Year: 1874

A COLORADO paper describes a young
whirlwind in that section, which was
about a yard in diameter, and which
picked up man and waltzed off down
the road with him. It's vertical force
was sufficient to invert the tails of his
coat above his head, notwithstanding
his pockets were loaded with specimens
of silver ore, and at the same time he
was carried along for hundred feet OF
more, ike a feather, while under him
vas noise like that of an empty cart
bouncing o er stony street.
Year: 1874

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