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Year: 1873

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We have read with no ordinary interest,
the comments of the State press upon the
extraordinary and unscrupuIous Conduct of
the Milwaukee & St Paul Railway Compa-
nv in reference to the ST. CroiX land grant
The La Crosse DeDeocrat says this action
has set back Wisconsin railroad work one
year; trifed with and baSely insulted the
people made consummate asses OF their
supporters in the Legislature; and shown
the Company to be a liar.


The Hudson Democrat refers to the po-
sition in which the solemn and repeated as
surances of the representatives of the road
places it before the people and succeeding
legislatures, and says the execrations of a
state ought to, and will follow the promise
breakers.


The La Crosse Republican says the peo
pie in the northwestern part OF the state
have spent time and money to save the
grant to the state, and now to have it lost
to them and the state is little better than
downright robbery.


The Waukesha Freeman says that in
view of the fact that the grant could have
been otherwise advantageously disposed of,
had not the St Paal Company made the
pledges it did, such an action would seem
to be as near swindle as is usually attain
ed without legal liability.


The Milwaukee Sentinel says the result
is not very complimentary to the good
sense of the Nil. g ST p. managers. The
Company should have known last winter
while contending for the grant, whether or
not, it was going TO be able to comply with
the terms upon which it secured it.


The Madison Democrat says that after
last winters strenuous efforts, the reasons
given for refusal will strike the ordinary
mind not only as ill-founded, but as ludi-
erous in the extreme. They are mere
twaddle, and the impudence of the Compa-
ny is cumulative in saying at last that the
requirements OF the legislature were too
hard The bill as passed was drawn up by
the Attorney of the road, and subscribed
to by the moguls of that corporation.


The Eau Claire Free Press says ii seems
strange to use the words declined or retus-
ed, when the grant was conferred on the
Company at It's own solicitation, with the
express understanding that It's terms would
be complied with. The refusal was an act
of treachery unworthy of a great company,
and for which they will sooner or later be
sorry.
Year: 1873

To kill town, underrate every present and pros
pectve public enterprise, speak Ill of the churches
and schools enlarge the vices of the people, especially
The young people; withhold the patronage from your
merchants and tradesmen, and buy your goods and
groceries at other place; and by all means 90 to
the city for your millinery aud such like never sub
scribe for the local paper and if you are in business
refuse to advertise.
Year: 1873

The Madison Journal says the severe
condemnation Of the company at present, is
but foretaste of what its managers will
have to endure.


And true it is that something more sub
stantial IN the way of retribuuon will meet
the Company at no distant day. They have
done very foolish act at very unfor;u-
nate time. By lnaugurating a fierce con-
test for the grant, and conducting it for
weeks with the utmost persistence, they
succeeded in making an affair of state inter
est which had been merely sectional and
local They arrayed the state legislature,
the state press, and the entire people Of the
state into two great parties, one for them
and one against them. They promised new
railway benefits to the Northwest and
Northeast, the Southwest and Southeast
parts of the State. The grant being OBJ
tanned they cast it back with contempt,
and have thus alienated their friends, and
doubly enraged their enemies. The Com
pany may as well prepare for a day Of
reckoning with the people, press, and repre-
sentatives of the whole State of Wisconsin.
Year: 1873

The sovereign people OF the state Of Wisconsin are
length informed that the two great corporations,
which have heretofore taxed its resources between
them as independent monarchs, have achieved com
pact by means of which they hope to be enabled to
rOuge its manufacturers, merchants and farmers with
less trouble and to greater extent than ever before.
They have devised plan hunt in couples, and every
legitimate enterprise is to be their game They I'M
agne that they can tax the manufacturing, CONNER
caI and agricultural enterprises of great with
out any admontion from the people who have accord
ed them every privilege that they possess, who have
endowed and fostered aud petted them, upon the the
orv that they public servants and public benefits
They seem to think that the law of the state of
Wisconsin against the consolidation of its carrying
companies is to be evaded by qulbble They act as
though the authority expressly reserved to the egisa
ture of this amend revoke or repeal any rail
road charter that it has bestowed not author
itv to be respected. They invite issue with the
people of Wisconsin. Very we'll The challenge is
accepted
Year: 1873

THE following is what the Mil. Journal
Of Commerce has to say about the suppos-
ed union of the NJ & St p and Chic &
N w, roads, and we fully agree with the
Journal that If these things are thus, the
roads in question might as well make their
wills after the people of Wisconsin awaken
Year: 1873

There is Alfred Sutton home with his
family to live on the old folks" said one
neighbor to another. alt seems hard
after all his father has done to fit him for
business, aud the capital he invested to
start him so fairly. 1t is surprising he
has turned out SO poorly. lie is a steady
young man, no bad habits, as far as |
know be has good education, and was
always considered smart /; but he doesn't t
succeed in anything. am told he has
tried a number of different kinds of bust
ness, and sunk money every time. What
can be the trouble with Alfred !? |
should like to know, for | don't want my
boy to take his turn"


alfred is smart enough" said the
other, "and has education enough, but
he lacks the one element of success. He
never wants to give dollars worth of
work for dollar of money, and there is
no other way for a young man to make
his fortune. lie must dig il he would
get gold. All the men that have succeed
ed, honestly or dishonesty, in making
money, have had to work for it, the sharp
ers sometimes the hardest of all. Alfred
wishes to get his train in motion, and let
it take care of itself No wonder i. soon
ran off the track, and smash up was the
result Teach your boy. friend Archer,
to work with will when he does work
Give him play enough to make him
healthy and happy, but let him learn that
work is the business of life Patient
selfdcnying work is the price Of success
Ease aud Incidence eat away not capital
Only, but worse still, all of mans nerve
power. Present qualification tends to put
off duty until to morrow or next week.
1t is getting to be rare thing for the
sons Of rich men to die rich. Too often
they squaDder in half secure of years
what their fathers were life time in ac
cumulating. | wish | could ring it 10
the ears of every aspiring young man
that work, hard work, of head and hands,
is the price of success
Year: 1873

1t was some time ago that man at
one of the gambling tables in New York
city, after playing a time, got up broke. ="
He felt in his pocket for any stray money
that might remain there, but there was
none, and he drew forth only cough
lozepger. He was about putting it into
his mouth when he was struck with the
similarity Of its appearance to split, 2"
and partly 10 jest threw it upon the table.
It won aud was paid by the dealer, who
did not notice the deception, and with
this amount he continued to play until
he left the table winner Of more than
$4,000 and with this sum he established
himself in business as a druggist and
apothecary. Never after could he be
induced to bet on card.
Year: 1873

The indianapolis Sentinel tells rich
joke of railroad conductor who resides
in that city la his absence his wife pre-
seuted him with ine boy. Some of his
wife's friends, who are of waggish turn
of mind, suggested that they borrow two
other babies in, the neighborhood, and
present the three youngsters to the hap
py father on his return.


The plan was carried out, and, upon
the arrival Of the train in the evening,
the young husband, who had heard that
all was well, hurried home after fondly
kissing his wife, be asked to see the lit
tie stranger. Imagine his surprise on
beholdiug three badies when the coverlet
was turned down.


After gazing at them in profound as
tonishmeut for several minutes, he turned
to his wife, and cody asked


Did any get away Z"
Year: 1873

From the Philadelphia Sunday Dawn.1


A lady who was some years ago LETT a
widow with small family OF children,
after much tribulation succeeded in bring
ing up to manhood one son, who proved
himself able and willing to be a support
not only to her, but to his younger broth
ers and sisters.


About a year after becoming of age he
was offered lucrative position in the
West, and he cmigrated thither, and
settling there permanently, soon married
New ties, however, did not absorb old
affections, and as he prospered 10 his
business, lie sent regularly to his mother
the means necessary for her support and
that of her family.


The years passed on and brought many
changes, but still regularly as the quarter
came, so also did the ample remittance Of
this model son and brother


When the tide of emigration turned to
the far West, this sou was carried with it
i'll town lots which speedily arose in value
and made him man of wealth. At least
this was the intelligence he sent his
mother. Lately whilst visiting Auburn,
his parent was invited to make the tour of
the State Prison, and whilst passing
through the various words she accidental
ly encountered one whose presence caused
her cheeks to pale and her heart to
temporarily stop its beating.


1t was her son, her good and well
beloved boy who for years had been her
pride and support for moment she was
speechess, but at length bursting into a
torrent Of tears in which the prisoner
joined, she said : 0, my son, my sou, how
came you here? His story being told
developed the fact that he had by trading
with strangers come into possession of
large quantity Of counterfeit money, and
that in ignorance of its character, he
being on visit to New York, had at
tempted to pass it, had been arrested as
chief of gang of cunterfeiters, and
having been identified as having endeavor-
ed to circulate it, was, in spite of all
evidence Of previous good conduct offered
convicted and sentenced to serve cut
term in the State prison. His wife, with
whom he was in constant correspondence,
had aided him in keeping his incarcera-
tion secret from bis mother, and had
regularly remitted the quarterly allowance,
together with letters forwarded from the
prison by him. But for this unfortunate
visit the mother would have remained
forever unaware that her son was serving
out a penal sentence for a crime never
committed by him; she learned however
that by the rise of corner lots in Omaha
he had been made a wealthy man, and
when he should come out Of prison, which
would be in a few months, he, through
the skilful stewardship of his wife, would
fiud awaiting him the sum Of not less than
two hundred thousand dollars in United
States bonds.


Such are the vicissitudes of life.
Year: 1873

A Michigan butcher takes the bones
out of his meat before selling it now. lie
had dream the other night, in which ne
found himself at the celestial gate, but
confronted by mountain OF bones, whien
an attendant spirit said were what he had
sold 10 customers, and be must climb over
them if he would enter heaven.
Year: 1873

The spirtualists have finally fairly
launched themselves on the sea of politics,
and there is offered a chance for the
Democracy which no one anticipated lf
it is possible to raise the dead the
spiritualists can do IT,
Year: 1873

4 singular phenomenon was witnessed
10 the sky at ST. Louis the other even
ing. The celestial apparition was seen
toward the Southwest, looming forth in
the shape Of large fish, with mouth open
and fms spread, as if swimming in den
ser medium.
Year: 1873

INTERESTING TO TRAvELLERs.-The travel
ling public tia the Piedmont Airline will
doubtless regret to learn that an order has
been issued doing away with the cane chairs
on first-claSs cars OH the night express, as
these chairs were not only u convenience
and comfort, but decided luxury, and their
removal will be seriously missed.
Year: 1873

Washington Correspondence Boston Post.


wrote to you of Fred Grants supposed
engagement to Miss Kitty Cooke. daughter
of II. u. Cooke, late Governor Of the Terri.
tory OF the District of COlumbi i, in my last,
Lieutenant Grant will get = wonderfully
good wife, if repor. speaks true. The
Georgetown folks have always SAID of Miss
Cooke that she was like ray of sunshine
among the poor. She did not care for soci.
ETY., and only conformed to its demands
when it was not possible to disregard them
without being ungracious; but her chief
pleasure was to spend her time in visiting
the poor, and she might he seen almost any
day going through the streets with basket
on her arm. containing daintics for those
who otherwise must have longcd for them
in vain. think Miss Cooke Is a year or
two under twenty. Last Winter she appear.
ed in general society for the first time, and
then very seldom. She is quite pretty girl,
with sweet face, brlmful of intelligence
Her manners are gentle and quiet.
Year: 1873

The gas of our cities can be lighted by
frictional electricity, excited by lady's
muff. Thus: Place four tumblers, up
side down, upon the floor or carpet, and
upon these lay board or other substance
to stand upon, within reach of the burner.
Upon this insulated board let a person
stand, and q second person take the muff
and rub it a number OF times down the
back of the coat of the first, by which he OF
she Cf it be lady with woolen shawl on
will become charged with electricity sufi-
cient to light the gas with the tip of the


finger, as effectually as if dofe with an
ignited match. To perform the experiment
well requires three persons, one to turn Oh
and off the gas, for if it is done by the per
son insulated and charged he will not only
receive a shock, but discharge the electrici
ty before applying it to the gas. A numbe
of persons can participate in the amuse
ment at the same time, by insulating them
selves and joining hands. Let the friction
of the muff be applied to the person farthes
from the burner, until all become charged
and the person at the other extreme cal
light the gas, all feeling a sensible shock a


the time of ignition or discharge of tn
! fluid
Year: 1873

1G snouId be PLAIN enough that
examples are as much to servants as
to children; since in manners and
social training servants are as chill
dren. The peasant girl reared in an
Irish cabin or German cottage can
hardly be expected to be a model OF
politeness or of personal neatness.
1t is quite possible, however, to teach
her by example alone. If the mis-
tress be courteous to every member
of her family, and they, in turn, to
her, the maid soon feels the atmos-
phere of good-breeding, and uncon-
sciously becomes amiable and respect
full. But let the mistress speak sharp
ly to her husband, or scold the chill
dren in public, or let the master
constantly find fault in the presence
of the servant, and she will shortly
discover that courtesy is not one
of the essentials of the establishment,
and will, most likely, add black looks
and uncivil words to the general
disharmony. Servants being imita-
tive, there is more reason that the
conduct of the employers be worthy
of imitation. If the mistress of the
house be careful of her dress, her
speech, her daily habits, her hand
maid will, in all probability, grow
more careful of her own. But the
woman who comes to her breakfast
table with disheveled hair and rump-
led gown, has no right to find fault
with the maid for attending the
door-bell in a dirty calico and sloven-
ly shoes Like mistress like maid,
as well as like master like man. I'm
less a good example be set, there is
no cause to complain Of servants for
following bad one. As a rule,
they are ready to learn, though they
may be dull and slow of comprehen-
sion. They would rather improve
their condition than degrade it
They would rather be ladies than
servants. Their ignorance makes
them mistake the false for the true,
the bad for the good. If every mis-
tress would take pains to set a fair
example to her maids, and aid them,
now and then, by timely and delicate
hints, she would soon have servants
who would be, in fact, the help they
are in name.-["Home and Society,
Scribner's for September.
Year: 1873

Not Republican Convention has been
held thus far this year that has not con-
demned unreservedly the salary grab. The
Texas Convention is the last one to give
emphasis to the popular voice. Represen,
tatives who were squeamish about refusing
the back pay on the ground that their fellow
members would think such conduct a re.
Election Oh their own integrity will observe
that the people are not suffering from such
extraordinary delicacy.
Year: 1873

There is now hardly leading city
in the Union but provides free con
certs for its poorer classes, and it is
one of the clearest evidences of our
advance in prosperity and general
culture.
Year: 1873

Our job rooms have been re-
pleniShed with a large variety
Of new type, Of the latest cut, and
we fatter ourelves that tho works
nlrned out of our Office for the
past year has been secondo4
none ever done in this city. Our
prices are low, and will COM
pare fayorablv with those Of any


other place. Those who have
work which they wish done in a
neat and workmanlike manner,
! had better give Us call, AMI ez-


anime our work and prices
Year: 1873

There is no use trying to wrestle with an
express train under full headway. The
strongest and most confident of athletes is
sure to get used up in the most prompt and
complete manner. 4 man at Greenwich,
Conn.,, lately insisted on sitting with his legs
dangling over the edge of the platform when
fast express was passing, and he got very
much the worst of it. His legs were entirely
spoiled, but then he had no further use for
them. The only thing about him which
might have benefited the survivors. an old
brass key which he carried in his pocket, was
so doubled and twisted up as to have utterly
| lost its usefulness.
Year: 1873

Every man takes care that his neighbor
shall not cheat him. But day comes when
he begins to care that he does not cheat his
neghbor. Then all goes well. He has chang
ed his market cart into chariot of the sun
What day dawns when we have taken to
heart the doctrine of faith; to prefer as bet
ter investment, being to doing being to SEEM
ing; logic to rhythm and to display; the year
to the day; the life to the year; character to
performance ;-and have come to know that
justice will be done us.-Emerson.
Year: 1873

This is the season when the good young
man always offers to carry the sun umbrella
of the first good-looking young lady friend
whom he meets, and walks along under its
shelter, gazed at envionsly by all the other
men whom he meets, while his fair compan-
ion trips gracefully in the outside edge of the
shade, and is uncomfortable but happy.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
Of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be proeur


ed and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

NATURE GREATER THAN ART.-The
tendency of Medical Science at the present
day, is to circumscribe more and more the
legitimate field of its operations, while at
the same time its disciples labor to cult
vate that field with correspondingly in
creased diligence. Food as is being now
recognized, every day with more clearness,
food is the Great Healer; and the only
true office of medical remedies, in the
great majority of cases, is simply this :
and also enable the stomach to digest food
in sufficient abundance and with sufficient
thoroughness and also to enable the va
riOus portions of the system to approprl-
ate from the food thus digested, whatever
respectively they require in order to full
health This principle is strikingly illus
trated in the case of that great popular
medicine of the age, DIR. Gottlieb Fisch'
Bitters. This remedy operates principal
ly, almost solely, by stimulating the diges
tive and the assimilative functions, thu.
enabling Food, Natures own Universe
Remedy, to have free, unimpeded course


This subject continued next week unde


"The Lamp Of Life.
Year: 1873

f. T. KUNKEI. s BITTER WINE or IRON.
This truly valuable tonic has been so
thoroughly tested by all classes of the com
munity that it is now deemed indispensable
as a Tonic medicine 1t costs but little,
purifes the blood and gives tone to the
stomach, renovates the system and pro
longs life Everybody should have it.
For the cure of Weak Stomachs, Gene
raj Debility, Indigestion, Diseases of the
Stomach, and for all cases requiring a
tonic


This wine includes the most agreeable
and efficient Salt of Iron we possess
/ Citrate Of Magnetic Oxide, combined with
/ the most agreeable of vegetable tOnics-
| Yellow Peruvian Bark.
/ Do you want something to strengthen
you?


Do YOU want a good APPETITE?
Do you want to get rid Of nervousness.
/ Do you want energy
/ Do YOU want to sleep well?
DO you want to build up your constitu-
ton


Do you want to feel well?
Do want brisk and vigorous feeling


If you do try Kunkels Bitter Wine o.
Iron


only ask a trial of this valuable tonic


Beware of counterteits as kunkels Bit


ter Wine of Iron is the only sure and et


fectual remedy in the known world for the
permanent cure Of Dyspepsia and Debility


and as there are number of limitations of


fered to the public, | would caution tn


community to purchase none but the gen


uine article, manufactured by E. Z. Kun


kel, and having his stamp on the cork Q


every bottle The very fact that other


are attempting to initiate this valuabl
remedy, proves its worth and speaks vol
umes in its favor.
Sold only in 81 bottles. Sold by Drug


gists and dealers everywhere, and in Roc
; Island by Smith & Bonney and job
= Bengston.
Year: 1873

Don't Suffer your hair to fall off when
bottle or two of Nature Hair Restorative
will check it Splendidly perfumed and as
clear as crystal. All wide awake drug
gist sell i. See advertisement
Year: 1873

A recent writer says: Every one must have no
tlced the great difference, a. q general thInR. be-
tween the conduct Of the betrothed man anil the
young betrothed woman. He, the braver and
stronger Of the two, Is utterly confused and bash
iul ana seeks to make q secret Of the fact She
on the contrary, tries to parade 1t, Is proud OF
it, assumes certain air Of propFietorshIp over
him. ana offers to her friends little delicate conf.
dence as to how nice 1t is to be engaged, and how
dreadfully jealous he ls II she looks at any one
else. The cause Of this Is just one thin9-the
man Is In love the girl Is not. l have studied hu


man nature, L have looked into the depths of
hearts, have made man and woman the study Of
my life, and aver that the girl In love is rarer
than black rose. She simply has for her lover
the same feeling that the you Ig mother has for
her baby She has an anxious desire to see to him
ior life, to make sure that he is comfortable that
his buttons are all right, and that his food Is what
lt ought to be. She understands that he ls In
love with her, and rejOices in the knowledge
The idea Of losing his love Il madness to her but
oil herself she does no understand 1t. woman
who is not selfish and greedy and mean, who does
not smile on any one who can give her fine clothes
and grand establishment, Overhows with the
mOtheF-feellng all her life. She expends Il or
her doll in childhood, on her poodle or her kitten
or her canary afterward, and, when the tims
comes, on her lover. Many man would lose {
great deal Of his cOnceit and vanity IL he knew
how the girl whom he supposed TO be in low
with him really felt. She also, would be surprised
TO hear that she was not In love at ALL but only de
lighted to have some one in love with her