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Year: 1873

Dear Str: I thought would let you know how
am getting along. am as well and feel as well
as ever did, and am cured of all but shortness
of breath. am entirely shut of pain. have a
very good appetite, and can stand work about as
well as ever. l now weigh 100 pounds; when
commenced TO doctor with you my weight was
about 40 pounds. 1 feel very thankful to you for
what you have done for me, and hope yOn may
live to help many more afflicted people. Had Il
not been for you and my husband l Should have
quit doctoring as felt discouraged as others had
told me could not be cured, but now feel very
lnahkiuI tlat dld not give up as now consider
myself cured with the exception of that sbOrtpess
OF breath, and hope that VIII get better too. fell
as though II was my duty TO write You and for the
Deneht OF other afflicted persons. Yours,


Mr.. A. and Mrs j. HENsEI


1ou have our sincere thanks for the GOOD Won
nave done. Mr.. A. and Mrs. j. HEEsFI
Year: 1873

SALEMf OSu.i haTcu lotn.


Dear Mrs. DURiicdy:-In your issue of
last week 1 find my poem has two or
three typographical errors, one of which
Injuries the sense muchi it occurred in
the fourth verse, fourth line, fourth
word, hearts for hopes. In the last
verse, third line, the word justice occurs
in place of future. If you could make
the correction would like it. do not
want to have others say, as my husband
did on reading it, al don't see any sense
in this line;r meaning the one 1 first
mentioned.


1 congratulate you on your Alliance
victory; 1 really think it means a great
deal. 1t was not the opposition that
your opposers felt towards you as q
woman, or any personal hatred, I think,
but the bitter antagonism in their
hearts to the opinions that you repre-
sent and promulgate. The personal
pique of Judge Thornton's case was very
plain, but with many Of the seceders it
was only opposition to the woman
cause that made them think of you as
they did.


You are right in your first editorial
article when you say temperance is a
political question, and if the Alliance
met to discuss a political question, how
absurd TO shut out delegates from 'po-
/ litical association" like the Woman
Suffrage Conyentionl


l suppose, according to Webster, the
Woman Suffrage party is a political
party, though it seems laughable to
think of party without a head, as you
/ say. l think there is some mistake
here. Indeed / can hardly tell what
part is lacking, we have brains and
/ tongue-buty yet we have not the power o.
legal eXposition-as one may say.
think We are dumb, as a party; we say
things, but have no right to say them
IT is to be hoped we may come to a full
use of our voice lin the governmen0 il
due time.


l was glad to see that Brother Dillor
takes such n reasonable course. Is h,
in advance of what he was last year
He is an honest man, and will not fai
to yield q point just as soon as ne i
convinced, and there are many NOR
like him in that respect, so have cour
age and work for the world in goot
hope. Yours, etc.


BELLE w. Cooke.
Year: 1873

sity. and no more ridicule was heard,
and il is not now seen in any journal.
The next was the negro with his long
heel, his sharp shinbOne, and his black
skin. But he became power and sat
in the Senate hall, and he is not now n
iibe of sport for any one. Who are the
next? The women! Every day in the
papers l see jibes on woman, and feel
my womahood insulted through some
other woman. / would sacrifice a pa
nier before l would a principle laugh
teri, aud | believe the time is close at
hand when these jibes will cease. 1 re-
member once seeing in the newspapers
a report of a negro and woman-suffrage
meeting at the same time. The negro
meeting was giving in full; ours with
sneers and laughter, and yet the resolu-
tions were of equal merit on both sides,
but the women were not voters, the ne
grOes were. Hence the difference.


Since the above was in type, an un-
lucky accident has mislaid the conclu-
sion Of the report and compels US to
leave the remainder to the Imagination
of the reader, only assuring him or her
that the interest increased TO the end.
Year: 1873

Father, romp with the children. In
leaving your business at evening, lay
aside your austerity and money-mak-
ing. Greet the little ones at home cor
daily and pleasantly. Then be a boy
again, with a larger growth added, if
need be. DO not repulse the approaches
and caresses of the children. Down on
the floor with them. Play doll, roll the
ball, take n cup of tea out of the little
cup, and for a time humor the baby
whims. 1t won't hurt you, and by so
doing you will open a whole world of
sunshine into the hearts of these house
hold pets. And they will remember it
as long as they live. They will not
look upon "papa" as n statue, but as
part and parcel of their own happy ex-
istence. Let not the demands of the
club or lecture or political meeting him
der you from giving n few minutes to
intimate and kindly intercourse with
your children. 1t will take the rust of
your own heart, and will be as dia-
monds glittering all along their youth
ful pathway.
Year: 1873

The Land Office has information tha-
forty thousand Israelites from Rout
mania and other parts Of Europe are
making arrangements to settle in this
country, and thus escape the persecution
to which they have been and are sub
jected in their native land. There is a
company formed with paid up capital
Of one million five hundred thousand
dollars, and they want to purchase a
body of land here and settle together.
The Land Office has sent the necessary
information abroad, showing how our
lands may be obtained.
Year: 1873

EXETER MILLS, Maine, }


February -, 1873.


Dear Mrs. DluliWdy:-I feel as though
had right to your attention for a
moment, as l do so long to congratulate
you on the wonderful success of your
work, and so much work. And / con-
gratulate you on your growth, for can
see that you are growing in your own
sunshine as well as l in your shadow.


1 often feel to shout, and do, all quietly
to myself, to think the cause has such a
woman in the harness. / remember the
prophetic hum l heard just about two
years ago, that we were to have two
mans paper in Portland, but probably
if the thing was not still born it would
be Of few days and full of trouble" But
time sped on and soon the day came that
brought upon its wings the New NORTH
WEST. y thing of beauty, and behold
it to-day like grand tree, scattering its
leaves and blossoms far and wide. Its
full fruit will be gathered in Heaven.
1t has helped many trembling woman
to don or adjust her own thinking
cap" yes, many poor soul that two
years ago hardly dared to agiHk, to-day
dares to think and some dare to speak
many thanks to the NEW NORTH
WEST. II. \. c.
Year: 1873

a prominent Labor Reformer in Hart
ford writes: 81 thank God for this Gree
ley rout. If the Democrats are suscep-
tible of wisdom, they will present living
issues to the people hereafter. They
have tried every dodge to get into power
without committing themselves to the
vital questions Of progress, and have
been inglOriously Now let them
take up the great question oil labor, at
tack the false and rotten monetary sys-
TEN, and they will go into power with q
rushu
Year: 1873

Pet-Nlamma, want to make a little
bargain with you. Mamma-What Is
it, my dear? Pet-If you will give me
a paper of sugar plums every day, L
won't tell anybody you take your hair
out of drawer.
Year: 1873

p. s. S.-Allow me to remark that
my wife must not be inquisitive about
my affairs. The most unfortunate men
| know are those whose wives are try
ing to find out every morning where
they spent the night before. 1 am too
high spirited to submit to that, or to
any interference with my innocent
amusements, such as smoking or chew
ing the sopolific, or taking social glass
occasionally. Among the most "un-
POPULAR women know are those who
are over-particular. None of that class
ever need hope for 4 reward OF merit'
in shape of c. Y.
Year: 1873

We have established an aristocracy
the worst in the world, and we ask you
to abolish this. 1t is an aristocracv of
sex, and this is, of all others, the worst
degradation. Look at the press of the
country. Who was the butt of the wit
some years ago? Poor Pat! But Pat
became power and political neces-
Year: 1873

vigor and abundance of bloom are such
as to surprise all who see them In
December. the rose bushes are loaded
down and covered with vigorous leaves,
and they are very much more satisfac
tory than if they were taken up every
fall"


This certainly is Il very simple plan,
which may readily he tried by any one
who can get even Il piece of old tin
leader. The idea ofintroducing sewage
water in this manner about the roots of
the plants Is not entirely original,
though the application of it is 81. The
carth-cloSct people have for some time
recommended that house sewage he
distributed through lawns or in fruit
borders by the usc of draining tile,
placed ten or twelve inches below the
surface. and We know of several in
stances in which this plan of manuring
Is i'll satisfactory igrjcultmriSt
Year: 1873

PROP. W. B. CARPENTER shows In an
essay Just published that the Red Sea
loses annually by evaporation at least
eight feet Of water-some estimate II as
much as twenty.three ieet-and regains
this by the inflow from the ocean; that
the Caspian has been brought down from
d sea covering large part Of northern
Asia by the excess Of evaporation over
supply from rain and rivers, and Is kept
at It's present size and level blythe fact
that evaporation takes of all the water
which It's rain and river supply furnishes
that the rain and river supply Of the Black
Sea is nearly all taken up by evaporation,
leaving but a moderate amount to flow
out into the Mediterranean; and that Of
this last gleat sea the rain and river sup.
ply makes good less than one.third Of the
amount taken up by evaporation, the rest
coming from the Atlantic by way Of the
current flowing through the Straits OF
Gibraltar. Prof. Carpenter shows also
that the depths Of the Mediterranean arc
stagnant, and that their turbidity and de.
ticiency Of oxygen cause total absence
Of life.
Year: 1873

A man must not yield to dcspondency,
nor sit down inactive, despairing, be-
couse he is in darkness. Sometimes
few steps onward or upward are all that
are needed, aud he, for want even OF
that activity, may remain all his life
hcneath the cloud. Perhaps you have
been ascending mountain with the
mist so thick before you that at a few
feet from You not an object was visible,
and so wet that it was like n dripping
rain. Timidity and dependency say IN
such case, You had better turn back,
Mt ony rate lie by in the first shelter
But perhaps you will find clear sky
with little more travel upward. Cour-
ace and hope say, Go on! Faith says,
Go ON higher up you find light. Sc
Won 90 on. and mt length, unexpectedly,
Mt one single step, you emerge INTO clem
sunshine. Then all your trouble is Tor
gotten. How glad you are that yo'
perscvered, that you did not turn back


YOU would have lost this glorious sight
this magnificent prospect, this peculiar
ity of glory, which you could enjoyed
only under these very circumstances o
preceding mist and gloom. "lo'
world have lost the sight of the cloud
under you, and the atmosphere rest'n


upon them as on sea of cholcodony
smooth, soft, undulating, and the sun


mits of the mountains all around gin


tering with ice and snow. And yo


would have lost the glory of the breal
,, ing MP and trooping away of these clou


congregations, as the departure OF a
. army with banners, and the reyelati'


of the unveiled world rs new creation
Year: 1873

THE FIRST FORGED BANK NOTE
Sixty-four years after the establishment
of the Bank of England the first note
was forged and presented for payment,
and to Richard William Vaughn, a
Stafford linen draper, belongs the mel
ancholy celebrity of having led the van
in this new phrase of crime, in the year
1853. The records of his life do not
show want, beggary or starvation urging
him, but simple desire to seem great
er than he was. By one of the artists
employed (and there were several en-
gagged on different parts of the notes
the discovery was made. The criminal
had filled up to the number of twenty,
and deposited them in the hands of a
young lady to whom he was attached,
as a proof of his wealth. There is no
calculating how much longer bank
notes might have been free from imitation
had this man not shown with what ease
they might be counterfeited. From
this period forged notes became COM
mon. His execution did not deter
others from the offence, and many a
neck was forfeited to the halter before
the late abolition of capital punishment
for that crime.
Year: 1873

A KIND WORD FOR MoTHERs.''-
Despise not thy mother when she is
old. Age may wear and waste moth
er's beauty, strength, limbs, senses, and
estate; but her relation as mother is as
the sun when it goes forth, in his might,
for it is always in the meridian, and
knoweth no evening. The person may
be grey-headed, but her motherly rela-
tion is ever in its flourish. 1t may be
autumn, yea, winter with a woman, but
with the mother, as mother, it is always
spring. Alas, how little do we appre-
ciate a mothers tenderness while liv-
ings How needless we are in all her
anxieties and kindness! But when she
is dead and gone-when the cares and
coldness of the world come whitening
to our hearts-when we experience how
few will befriend us in misfortune, then
it is that we think of the mother we
have lost.
Year: 1873

CHEERFUL UNDER DIFFIcULTIEs.-
At Canterbury lives Lyman B. Foster,
who was brought home at the close Of
the war on lounge from which he has
not risen since. He was wounded in
the left thigh; the ball remains there
still; and he can neither sit up or lie
down, but reclines, as he has done
through all these years, at an angle
midway between the horizontal and
perpendicular. He now busies himself
by teaching classes who come to his
room, and by this means and his pen
sion supports himself well. He has
also organized literary society in the
town that is fourishing finely. He is
continually cheerful, and says he doesn't
regret going to the war.
Year: 1873

HENRY WARD BEEcHER, writing of
minister's amusements, says the time
has gone by when minister could in
crease his influence by starched man.
ner, by super-sober face, by clothes
and gait which will enable people to
recognize him as far off as Jew could
tell leper Ee is of opinion that it is
minister's duty to produce the i'm
preston that he is royal good fellow,
and thinks a creature who does not
play croquet for fear he will "lose his
influence may be sure that he has no
influence which he would not be all the
better for losing.
Year: 1873

MYSTERIES OF THE FEMININE TOILET
The other day, says a recent writer, l
heard of an incident which shows that
even men of society do not understand
all the mysteries of the feminine toilet.
A gentleman, who devotes large part
of his time to the society of ladies and
who believes himself c0nnoisseuw in all
that pertains to them, was much annoy
ed by observing that fair friend of his,
favorably known for her style of elegant
dressing, would insist, when the wealth
er would allow it, upon wearing an old
shawl devoid of any claims to beauty or
good taste.


The gallant endured this for long
while. He walked up Broadway and
Fifth Avenue, and rode in the park with
his friend. and often looked at the odi-
GUS shawlin way that he thought would
convince her of its unftness for so ele-
giant a woman as herself.


She did not take the hint, however,
but continued to display it on every pos
sible occasion. He lost patience at last,
and said to her one day


May L be permitted to inquire why
you will wear that miserable shawl all
the time? 1t ruins your dress. You
look so exquisitely otherwise that I can
not comprehend why you will deform
yourself with such a faded rag as that
1t has nothing in the world to recon-
mend it; and L believe if you were to
throw it off in the street nobody would
pick it up"


The bright eyes opened with surprise,
and strange expression fell across the
pretty face.


You are jesting, are you not? the
lady asked. You do not really dislike
my shawl, do you?"


never was more serious in my life.
I thoroughly detest this thing which
you call shawl"


Well, then, I'll inform you that this
is a camers hair shawl; and, though 1
think it in very bad taste to speak of
prices, it cost SO 900 at Stewards, and is
one of the finest ever brought to this
country"


The young man was astounded; but
his taste was correct
Year: 1873

We have received the following from
a California poet. 1t is too many for us.
Will the public assist in calculating the
mystery?


have beam just from the sun
And now recorded number one
And l wonder at the gift
Smile because have to lift
The dewy drop now of the sun.
have word just from the sun
And now recorded as pun


And as ponder at the light
Smile because have to slight
The watery beam now of the sun
l have so far just from the sun
Caught smile from no one
And as pass the word along
Begin to think it is too long


And therefore quit and sigh-go long
Year: 1873

Here is one of the soundest temper
ance arguments we ever came across.
The only temperance railroad in the
United States-indeed, in the world
is said to be the Marietta and Pittsburg
Railroad, running. from Marietta to
Cambridge, a distance of fifty nine
miles. Every officer and employee of
the road is practical temperance man,
and not single fatal accident has ever
occurred upon it since it was first
opened. This is suggestive as far as it
goes and it goes fifty-nine miles.
Year: 1873

Where are your reaper and mower, drill
or seeder, wagon, buggy, cutter, sleds,
90. Are they where you last used them,
exposed to sun and storm? If 90 take
your pencil and figure up what they have
cost you. Then think that in less than
three years they will not be fit for
use IT left thus exposed. Then think that
for less than fifty dollars you can build a
shed and put them in. thus keeping the
wood l sound and the irons and paint bright.
A reaper we'll housed will last ten years,
ana ' be as good as when used three years
exposed to al kinds Of weather. But you
Year: 1873

s~ On looking through the various
stocks of goods kept in Red Wing we find
an endless variety. and safely say. that the
stocks and stores Of Red Wing, are net
second to any in this or any other State.


In visiting the variors institutions we are
greatly surprised to find such an endless
variety in any one store as we find at
A. J. CLARK'S new store corner of Bush
and Third streets. It would seem almost
impossible to call for anything in the Drug,
Grocery, OF Fancy Goods line and be dis;
appointed in not getting it. We also found
Dr. Y. w Boutwell, in charge Of the Medi-
Cal department, with everything on hand
TO attend to the wants of such as are, in need
OF medicines. Wecan safely say there is no
more complete store in the State than this.
II wi Will pay you to 60 and examine 6 goods
are sold very reasonable. s Sc IS
Year: 1873

~ 1t is matter Of interest to our
readers to know the best place to purchase
their goods. and there is no place where
they can buy their Dry Goods, either at re-
tail by the Patrons or at Wholesale by the
Oranges, than the large wholesale and re-
tail Dry Goods House Of H. Choate, Winona,
MINI. 1t is one Of the largest stocks in the
State, and has become justly popular by
keeping the best quantity and largest as
sortment of goods and always selling ut the
lowest prices. Oranges are sold as low as
they can buy in any Eastern Market.
Year: 1873

The Grange movement seems to be gain
ing strength. They are now publishing q
newspaper in Red Wing-7he Grange Ad-
vance-to advocate the cause Any move
ment that tends to the pecuniary improve
ment of the farmers and to their general
intelligence should be encouraged Pierce
County Herald
Year: 1873

Patrons who reason IN the manner stated,
also, unthoug ghtedly lower the standard Of
the important mission Of the Order. While
through organizations the Oranges seek to
benefit themselves financially, yet this is
BY no means the only nor the great object
Of the Order. The Patron seeks social
improvement, mental and moral elevation
which is vastly above and beyond all Incl
dental material profit, that may accrue
from q connection with the Order. Then
there is the social protection, so to speak,
the certainty of meeting with brothers and
sisters wherever labor may be assigned
him in this great field of the world, of care
in sickness, and Of decent burial after
death, which raises the existence of the
Order above all questions of material
nature. The great social, benevolent es-
thetic and moral privileges. of the Order
would, Of themselves, make the organiza-
tion one of the most important known
among men. were it impossible to derive
any material benefit whatever therefrom.
Year: 1873

~ Mrs. Charles has returned from
Chicago and New York with large and
elegant stock Of Fall and Winter Millinery,
and invites the ladies to call at her store
in Red Wing and examine.
Year: 1873

CIV VI 'Ao Ota|e aSoucy general, giving the
benefit to all farmers alike. The idea has
been advanced that if the benefit was made
general, then there would be no need of
belonging to the Grange There could be
nothing, certainly, farther from the mark.
II it was not for the organization of the
Oranges there could be no State Agency,
and no benefit could exist for either Pat
rons or any one else. If the Patrons, by
keeping up their organizations can derive
great benefits from such an agency, can to
some extent increase that benefit by per-
mitting others outside of the order to share
with them, then what great harm is done
Is it not rather good in which all good
Patrons should rejoice? If a traveller with
lantern in dark night can light fellow
traveller on his way and thereby help an
other without injuring himself, should he
not do this? Is there any one who would
say that man should cover up the light,
because the other had not helped to pay
for the lantern? y


II the plan that has been proposed be
adopted, it will not be long until all who
receive such benefit would be inside the
order. tt' It is easier to draw men than to
orlve them; men who will resist the strong
est reasoning and be deaf to persuasion,
cannot resist the kindly influence Of gem
erous treatment.