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Year: 1873

a8 On looking thfqLgf 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 various institutions we are
greatly surprised to find such an endless
variety in any one store as we find 1T
A. J. CLARK'S new store corner of Bush
and Third streets. 1t would seem almost
impossible to call for anything in the Drug,
Grocery, or Fancy Goods line and be dis
appointed in not getting it. We also found
Dr. G. 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. We can safely say there is no
more complete store in the State than this.
1t will pay you to 60 and examine goods
are sold very reasonable.
Year: 1873

LET OUR FRIENDS REMEMBER, that ii they
expect another number Of The Grange Ad-
vunce they must send in their subscriptions.
We can no more give away the paper than
the farmer can give away his wheat. Send
in your subscription at once, and thus Sc
cure the paper on the very start.
Year: 1873

WHERE THE DANGER LIES.


Agriculture has always been looked upon
in America with respect. In the early
days Of the Republic the farmers and plant
ers were among the chief men OF the Ma
tion. Never las the farmer come down to
the low level of the peasantry Of Europe.
The reason of this has been, not only the
absence Of land-lordism, the fact that the
American tiller owned his own soil but it
has been because agriculture has had the
dignity of independence and profitableness.
The great danger now is that this profta-
bleness Of agriculture in the West is to be
destroyed.


Large grants Of land, and large bounties
have been given to railways; to them has
been loaned the public credit the right of
way has been granted them often with the
express promise upon the part of the
roads that they should be so operated as
to make better markets for grain in the
regions through which they should pass,
that they should open this western country
80 that the tilling of its rich soil should be
profitable, and always with the implied
agreement that they should carry freights
for reasonable rates and thereby be great
public benefit.


Relying on these promises and repre-
sentations of the railways, men left eastern
homes, and homes beyond the ocean, and
came to the western wilds and with hardy
industry went to work expecting adequate
returns for their labor; expecting and be-
ieving that when they had conquered the
soil and made it yield its rich harvests,
they should through these railways find
profitable market. But now that the
country is developed, and they and their
families settled in their homes, and their
farms begin to yield abundant harvests as
returns for their toll, what of the rail-
ways? Simply this, the men who operate
them being situated so that combination
was easy have combined, not. to better
carry out their promises, but to violate
them, and after quietly pocketing the
bounties and land grants, to extort from
the people what they have dug out of the
soil. If the railroads succeed, farming in
sections having no other outlets than rail-
ways must become still more unproftable,
and the wealth already accumulated be sap
ped from the farm. The farmer not being
able to make his income meet expenses must
pinch closer and closer, must deny himself
the lu1uries if not the necessities of life.
He must forego books and education for
his children, must make of himself slave
to keep poverty from the door, His farm
must be let to run down for want Of means
to make repairs and improvements, or to
keep up the soil. and this must 20 on until
the farmer is q serf and the rich grain.6elds,
like those Of the later Roman Empire, must
become swsmps and dunes and barren hill
sides. This is where the danger lies. But
the, Patron has seen and felt the danger
and is struggling up from it. He sees that
TO live he must have the cost of production
and fair return for his toll. He feels too
that he is something more than q drudge,
thst he has mind as we'll as body that
! he has soul alive to the beautiful in
4 art as we'll IS nature ). that his children
Year: 1873

The GRANGE ADVANCE solicits correspon-
dence from all parts Of the State upon ag
ricultural topics and matters Of interest to
the Oranges. 1t proposes to be a medium
generally, may avail themselves Of each
others experience. Any man who expects
to succeed in this age must aid his own ex
perience by that of others engaged in the
same trade or calling. Two men will 10
an equal amount Of work, and one will reap
twice the benefits from his labor that the
other will, because he has worked inteil;
gently, and made every stroke count, while
the other has gone at it hap hazard. 1t is
not the amount that man reads that counts,
but the amount that he reads on his own
business-that which he can make available
in his every day life.


y single hint or communication will
sometimes be found in THE GRANGE ADVANCE
that will be worth more than the subscrip-
ton price for the whole year.


But, while we most earnestly request
communications from our friends, we desire
to caution our correspondents against writ
ing long, tedious articles, for we cannot
publish such. We propose to make paper
of ideas, and not merely Of words. Give
us ideas and we don't care what kind of
words you use.
Year: 1873

SLAVERY IN BRAzIL.-The Emperor
of Brazil has just struck the last blow
against slavery in his dominions, by af-
fixing his sign manual to decree which
makes all children born hereafter of slave
parents free, 1t has been a weary pro-
cess, this abolition of human bondage
among civilized nations. At what cost
of blood and treasure this country has
got rid of the curse, history can attest on
many sad page. Now Cuba alone re-
mains, and even there the adjustment Of
the system is only question of time.
Year: 1873

NEVER was higher tribute paid the
marriage state than was given by the
married men who were passengers on the
wrecked atlantic. The record Of their
fate is extremely touching. With few
exceptions they all perished, refusing to
desert their wives and little ones. Wives
begged their husbands to seek safety by
fight from the quarterback, but they
never stirred. Hand clasped in hand,
husband wife and child went down to-
gether.
Year: 1873

HERE is another one of those delight
full facts of science Feeling is much
slower sense than sight. If a man had
an arm long enough to touch the sun,
and were to touch that body with the tip
of his finger, he would never find out
whether it were hot or cold, as he would
be dead before the sensation reached him
which would require 100 years.
Year: 1873

ACINcINNATI mother learned of her
daughters intended elopement, and on
the night appointed for the flight she put
some laudanum in the girls tea. She
fell asleep and did not wake up until the
next morning, and in the meantime Ro-
meo got tired of waiting and went home
disgusted. He goes with another girl
Year: 1873

HERE is sample of the way an Amer
ican local tells that young Frenchman
killed his father " A young man was re-
Gently sentenced to be executed in France
for exempting himself from military SER
vice by becoming the son of a widow"
Year: 1873

SUSPENDED animation isn't always n
good thing to indulge in. A man out in
Ohio had little of it, and overheard his
wife engage herself to another chap,
thinking he was dead. It's an awful thing
10 be so mad as he was without the pow
er to move.
Year: 1873

ENOr those who prefer n Ma
IL chime feeding the work away from
the operator, we ROW have one of
that description, quiet, casy-rumninss
and having all the other peculiar ex.
ceIlencies of the other style.
Year: 1873

ABOUT ALLIGAToRS.-All of our alliga-
tors, as well as the crocodiles of the trop-
les, are oviparous. They are gregarious in
their habits, although they do not seem to
act in concert in obtaining their prey.
During the winter season the alligators re-
main in state of torpor, buried generally
in the mud of the marshes and bayous.
The first warm weather restores their sus-
pended vitality, and few may then be seen
summing themselves on logs and other float
ing debris. They fish principally during
the night, and lie in sunshine half asleep,
on the surface of the water during the day.
A splash in the water, or any slight noise,
in fact, will instantly arouse their atten-
ton, and as their curiosity il great, they
will slowly swim here and there to ascer-
tain the cause of the disturbance. The
whine of the puppy seems to excite them
more than aught else; why, l cannot tell,
for it is equally eflicacious where dogs have
never previously been and where 1t were
impossible to suppose the alligators had
ever heard them. The resemblance to the
noise or bark of their young has been said
to be the cause but such reasoning is fall
lacious, as at seasons when their young no
longer BARK, they are equally attracted by
whine. Their ferocity and other danger
Gus qualities have been very greatly over
rated and exaggerated. That they are ex-
tremely voracious is unquestionable; but
they generally confine their ravsges to fish
aud other small prey. The narrowing tales
of families being devoured by them are
the "veriest coinage of the BRAIN" and
have in reality no existence Whatsoever
--GdlveStoa Cipilidn.
Year: 1873

An anonymous circular issued in the in
terest of Greonlears Arlthmetics and scat
tered broadcast through The State, informs
the public that the action of the Board is
advisory, not compulsory. The Legisla-
ture was not so short-sighted as to enact a
measure of so great importance to the
Year: 1873

Tho Board of Education submit to the
public the following statement, not SO
much for the purpose of vindicating them
selves against anonymous and irrepressible
charges, as because they hold themselves
bound to furnish to the people whose serv-
ants they are, all important facts explain.
ing their official action.
Year: 1873

NEW YORK, July l3.-A Times


special from Boston gives the following


account Of the treatment the steersge


passengers of the City of Washington


received after being landed from the


wreck: The weather was cold and wet.


and some of them We're absolutely with


out shelter Of any sort for five days and


nights, and with nothing better than


rocks for a bed. The Old sail cloth pro-


tected some from the elements. but


there was great suffering, particularly


among the women and children, They


suffered keenly from hunger. The


f0Od given them was, for the


most part, unfit to eat and very
scant in quantity Ii consisted
principally of hard crackers and beef
some OF which was absolutely pufrid.
and half-starved though they were they
could not force it down their thToats.
Ihey believed that by a little more
effort on the part Of the ships officers
they could have Jared much better in
TINS and IN every respect. Another
complaint, although not a general one,
Is that OF the loss OF personal effects and
money taken of, which they charge TO
the ships crew. All dav sun
day the rain poured down incessaDtIv.
Men were busy all that day getting
the baggage from the ship. and al
night nearly all had q blanket or a
mattress, and perchance some other
covering, but Of course were complete
ly soaked with rain and salt water. for
the sailors had tossed chem on shore as
carelessly as if it was a matter of no i'm
pOrtance St al whether they reached
land or were washed away by the sea.
Meanwhile, regardless Of the risk Of the
ship breaking up at any moment, and
leaving five hundred people with
out chance of obtaining a
morsel Of food, for three DAYS
cooking was done on the ship.
and no effort made to carry any provis-
ions to the shore. The cabin passengers
Jared well, the stewards being in their
company. The steerage passengers were
served IN camp, some getting plenty and
others none at all. There was no order,
no discipline and no regularity. Some
were so overcome by exposure and ia
tigue that they had to be left behind at
Year: 1873

sultry air, the thermometer, before
the storm, ranging away up in the
nineties.-MoRtg0Dlery Mail.


We are informed by citizens directly
from Birmingham that the fearful Wis
itatiou of cholera 20 which that thriv-
ing community has been SO suddenly
exposed, has caused great deal of suf-
fering among the laboring classes, and,
indeed, among all dependent on their
daily exertiOus for their support. We
are assured that the people have be-
haved well toward each other, and have
manifested a most unselfish disposition
i'm waiting upon the sick, and the per
formance of all kinds of friendly offices.
But that there is real destitution in GER
tain quarters, does not admit Of doubt.
We wish to call attention to The notice
ON the first page Of this paper in respect
to private subscriptions for the RELIEF OF
the Birmingham sufferers. In addition
we take the liberty to suggest that the
city council vote 4 small sum-say q
couple Of hundred dollars-to be sent at
once for the relief Of those who are great
~ in need in our sister city. These are
the occasions in which the kindly senti-
ments and bread charity of the good
Samaritan can be best exhibited. We
are pleased to know that some kind
hearted citizens made up a handsome
purse yesterday for our suffering neigh
bOrs. but more is needed.-AOntgODle
Mail


At last it is admitted by our city au-
thOIities that cholera Is prevailing in
this city, and a relief club has been or
ganiZed. This should have been done
some weeks ago, "but il is better late
than never" The cholera is prevalent
mostly amongst the poorer class Of our
population. Those who are unable to
procure necessary medicine, nursing
and comforts are the greatest sufferers.
Our people are not wealthy. Birming-
ham is inhabited principally by men
who earn their bread by their daily la
bOT. A number of those who have died
OF cholera have been buried by charity,
and, in some instances, widows and or
phans have been left without any means
of support. Our physicians have acted
nObly, and the city council have done
all in their power to aid the sick and
suffering. We need more than this.
We appeal to the benevolent and char
liable throughout the State to aid US
We do not need much, and if the eiti-
zens of our neighbOring cities and towns
will send US small contributions, they
will receive the thanks of all our people
Contributions can be sent TO Rev. Thos
II. Davenport, treasurer, or to Eugene
secretary of the Birmingh am
relief club.-BiTHliRghdm NeaUs, Sth in
slant
Year: 1873

The recent heavy rains will, we fear,
injure the wheat that has been cut and
is now standing in the shock; nearly
the entire crop Of this county is nov in
an exposed condition. The prospect for
oats is better than it has been for many
years.-JOaesbOr0 Hsr0ld and Tribune.
Year: 1873

Several days ago a boy, some seven
teen or eighteen years of age, by the
name Of Frank Holmes, who hailed
from Michigan, committed a most bru-
tai outrage upon the person of little
girl about eight years old. The case was
Investigated before our mayor, and
Holmes was found guilty and bound
over to appear before the district court,
under bond of one thousand dollars.
As he could not give the bond he went
to Jail, and, after remaining there for a
day or two, succeeded in getting out,


with two or three other persons, by the
assistance of outside parties. Long
Year: 1873

Robbers are on the rampage at Canton,
says the Citizen. A bold and wicked at
tempt was made upon the life of Mrs.
Macy, who was severely chOked and
beaten by one rutfian while another was
plundering her stOreroom. The assault
ing rascal said he intended to kill her,
and that he was hired to do the job.
Mrs. NJ. resisted with the energy of
despair, and by her violent screams
alarmed the villain, who fled to escape
punishment. A good hanging is needed
in Canton WiROnG Mss AdUdnce.
Year: 1873

There are people with whom half
an hours talk Is like an invigorat-
inc bath of sunshine. Ia this there
Is an element of success. There Is
another successful manner, too, one
which impresses every one with 4
sense of your power. If yo0 nave
at once q manner gracious and
powerful, you have everything you
can wish as an outward aid to sue
cess.-Cornhill Magazine.
Year: 1873

Says the New York Tribune of the
lst: \ new manner Of catching rats
is exciting great interest among the
returning householders IL Madison
Avenue. 4 barrel Is filed half full of
water. y layer Of powdered cork IS
laid on its surface, and over this a
layer of corn meal is Sifted. : chair
and box or two are placed unobtru-
sively in the ncighborhood, whereby
the rat gains the edge Of the barrel.
He sees nothing bat the meal. lie
has no innate ideas which teach him to
beware of the treacherous foundation
on which that tempting surface rests.
He sniffs, he leaps, and goes gently
down to his watery grave. If any of
his friends see him disappear from the
edge Of the barrel, they hasten after
him to get their share of the probable
pluuder, and are in turn taken IN by
hospitable death. The plan seems
effective as against the rats, but is
calculated to destroy their confidence
in human nature.
Year: 1873

The mark which persons who are unable
to write are required to make instead of
their signature, is in the form Of a cross
and this practice, having formerly been
followed by kings and mobiles, is constantly
referred to as an instance of the deplorable
Ignorance Of ancient times. This sigma
ture is not, however, invariably proof of
such ignorance. Anciently the use of the
mark was not confined to illiterate per-
sons; for among the Saxons the mark of
the cross, as an attestation Of the good
faith of the persons signing, was required
to be attached to the signature of those
who could write, as well as to stand in the
place of the signature of those who could
not write. In those times, if a man could
write or even read, his knowledge was con-
sidered proof presumptivc that he was in
holy orders. The clericus, or clerk, was
synonymous with pennman; and the laity,
or people who were not clerks, did not feel
any urgent necessity for the use of letters.
The ancient use Of the cross was therefore
universal, alike by those who could and
those who could not write; it was, indeed,
the symbol Of an oath, from its sacred as
sociations, as well as the mark generally
adopted. Hence the origin of the ex-
preston "God save the mark as form
Of ejaculation approaching the character Of
an oath.
Year: 1873

A servant Of the Rev. Rowland Hill
suddenly died, and his master preached
his funeral sermon to numerous audience,
in the course of which he mentioned the
followinganecdote: Many persons present
were acquainted with the deceased, and
have had it in their power to observe his
character and conduct. They can bear
witness that | speak the truth, when |
assert that for number of yeas past he
has proved himself a perfectly sober, honest
industrious, and religious man, faithfully
performing, as far as lay in his power, the
duties of his station in life, and serving
God with constancy and zeal and yet this
very man, this virtuous and pious man,
was once robber on the highway. More
than thirty years ago, he stopped me on
the high-road, and demanded my money.
Not at all intimidated, argued with him.
| asked what could induce him to pursue
so iniquitous course Of life. II have
been coachman, sir, said ne, but am now
out Of place, and not being able to get a
character, can get no employment and am
therefore obliged to resort to this means of
gaining a subsistence. | desired him to
call upon me he promised he would, and
kept his word. | talked further with
him, and offered to take him into my
service, He consented; and ever since
that period he has served me faithfully,
and not me only, but he has faithfully
served his God, And instead of having
finished his life in public ignominious
manner, with depravcd and hardened
mind, as he probably would soon have
done, he has died in peace, rejoicing IN
hope, and prepared, We trust, for the society
Of just men made perfect.
Year: 1873

1t was thus few days ago, we heard a
stripping Of sixteen designate the mother
who bore him. BY coarse husbands we
have heard wives 50 called occasionally.
though in the latter case the phrase is
more often used endearingly. At all
times, as commonly spoken, it jars upon
the ears and shocks the sense. An old
woman should be an object of reverence
above and beyond almost all other phases
of humanity. Her very age should be her
surest passport to courteous consideration.


The aged mother of grown up family
needs no other certificate of worth. She
is a monument ofexcellence, approved and
warranted. She has fought faithfully athe
good fight and came of eonqueror. Upon
her venerable face she hears the marks
of the conflict in all its furrowed lines.
The most erieyous of the ills of life have
Year: 1873

While in Rochester met Mr. Hebbard,
an old resident of Genesee county, who
saw Sam Patch make his famous jump of
Genesec Falls, thirty or forty years ago.
He says the day was great day in Ro-
chester The people gathered for miles
around to see this intermittent American
jump, as he performed his last feat


Sam Patch had previously jumped over
Niagara. Then, saying "some things can
be done as well as others" he slashed
around through the Western part of the
State to back up his proverb. Before his
last jump he bought big black bear of a
circus man, and led him over the turnpike
to Rochester


The morning of the day came. Sam
had arrived in town with the black bear,
and the crowd rushed into Rochester
from miles around Twelve O'Clock was
the hour to jump--to jump a hundred feet
downtown the terrible fall into the
boiling cauldron below. A staging had
been built out over the water, and Sam
appeared on the staging dressed in sailors
fancy jacket His friends now took up a
collection on shore, while Sam swung his
hat and said, after jumping himself, he
would return and throw the bear over.
Then, amid deathlike stiffness, he ran a
few steps and gave one leap into the air
and fell, cutting the mist, like lead-sinker,
two hundred feet into the seething whirl.
pool. As he left the staging his body
assumed an oblique position, his head
foremost, but above his feet. As he struck
the water there was dreadful silence
while the populace awaited with choking
breath his temperance. One minute
two minutes three minutes, and no signs
of the daring jumper. Then the people
set up loud wail-a long murmur Of
sorrow. This was the end Of Sam Patch


They say he had been drinking during
the morning, and failed to keep his fee,
together and his body perpendicular, as on
previous occasions So when he struck the
water the breath left his body, and he wai
knocked senseless. A month or so after
ward they found his body away down below
Rochester, drifted upon the rocks Com
mercial Adrertiser.
Year: 1873

The following simple method of drilling
a hole in glass, may interest many readers !:
First secure over the place to be drilled, a
thin piece Of pine, with hole in ii the
size of the one you want to drill. The
thin stuff used in backing picture-frames
will answer for this purpose. This is
simply guide for steadying the drill at
starting The drill is brass tube Of the
size desired, the thinner the better. Put
centre into the top of it and run with a
common bow like that used in drilling by
watchmakers. Feed the drill with rather
fine emery and keep wet with saturated
solution Of gum camphor in spirits of tur-
pentine, and you can drill glass as easily as
brass. The tubular drill cuts out circular
core, and the hole can be smoothed or
enlarged to any desirable extent, with a
round file wet with the solution referred
to. Keep the drill upright