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Year: 1875

The Parade Committee of the Exposition
Commissioners have requested Col. Bullock,
President of the Street Railroad. that on the
day Of the parade he issue orders to the con-
ductors and drivers of cars. who find
themselves in the way of the un-
Obstructed movement of the procession, to re-
verse their cars and pull back to the first con-
venient point for switching off from tho line Of
march. This, although severe tax upon the
Street Railway Company, has been promised
by Col bullock, who seems to be willing to
make any needed sacrifice for the good Of the
Exposition.
Year: 1875

An old man, we'll known in Brussels.
who would appear every afternoon with
mathematical regularity in the Saint Hu.
bert arcade, where he would walk for ex.
acily one hour, from four to five O'Clock,
died recently in that city. The Oldest
dwellers in that part Of Brussels remember
TO have seen him take his daily promenade
for many years buck without ever convers.
ing with any one. Among his papers .
will was found. IN which he asked to be
buried in neighbor,ng cemetery BY his
wife's side, and requested that a person
who now fills an exalted position in 81.
Petersburg might be informed of his
death. 1t appears that when young Ia
had been employed in a diamond -rrodu-
cirg district of Asia Ono day he found
an enormous diamond and determined 10
secure il for himself The difficulty was
how to escape the lynx-cyed agents. He
made deep wound In the calf Of his leg
in which he concealed the diamond. He
then pretended that he had been wounded.
and his leg was bound up and he was
authorized to leave the district. He sue.
ceeded in csc ping to Russia, where he
sold the gem for large sum. 1t is now
one Uf the crown diamonds of Russia.
Having thus acquired wealth, our hero
travelled al over the world. In England
he married young lady. who died in
BRUSSELS some years ago. After her death
he did not wish to leave tho city where she
was buried.
Year: 1875

the Grange shall be ten cents.
Any member whose dues shall
remain unpaid for more than
six months, shall he declared
suspended by the Master, and
at the next regular meeting may


be expelled by the Grange.
Year: 1875

October % registered package contain
ing the death warrant of the brothers
Nicholson, who murdered the peddler
Marcus Young, was sent to the sheriff OF
the parish of Red River. No intelligence OF
its receipt has been received, nor has any
official confirmation of the escape of the
murderers. Ample time has elapsed for full
information on both points. If nothing is
heard within few days Governor Kellogg
will communicate with the district attorney
and direct an investigation.
Year: 1875

In an old churchyarl stood stone.


Weather marked and stained;
The hand Of time had crImblc'! r.


50 only pari remained.
Upon one side ! could Just ific,..


ia memory Of our mother
An cpiiaph which spoke Of home


Wn- cliisclcd on the other
I'd gaZcd on monuments nl l-mc.


High tOwcrin" 10 the skies;
I'd seen the sculpiur"d marble stone
Where a great hero lics;
But by this cpiiaph paused,


And read il DER and DER
For had never seen inscribed


Such words as these before.
"She always made home happy Whai
4 noble record left
A legacy Of memory sweet


To those she left bcrcft.
And what a testimony given


by those who knew her best,
Engravcn on this plain. rude Stone
That marked their mothers rest
1t was an humble resting place
knew that they were poor;
But they had seen their mother sink
And patiently endure.
They had marked her cheerful spirit
When bearing, one by one,
Her many burdens up the hill,
Till all her work was done
So when was still her weary head,
Folded her hands so white,
And she was carried from the home
Shed always made so bright.
Her children raised monument
That money could not buy
As witness of a noble life


Whose record is on high.
A noble life, but written not
In any book Of fame;
Among the list of noted ones
None ever saw her name.
For only her own household knew
The victories she had won,
And none but they could testify
How well her work was done
Year: 1875

SECRET PRAYER. Besides the open
return there il a secret reward of secret
prayer. There is a peculiar and present
Joy in communion with God The deep
er pleasures are the purest; and Of all
pleasures, the purest is the peace with
God. To feel that he is Ioye-to draw
so near him as to forget the world-so
near as to lose the love Of sin-is of all
pleasures the sweetest, Of all blessedness
the purest and most profound. And
next to this highest communion with
God-next to this joy Of passion Inlled,
and sins slain and selffOrgotten in
adoring fellowship with the Father OF
Iights-is their sedater comfort who can
pour their griefs into the Heavenly
Fathers bosom, or who feel that they
have bespoken help against coming gtoils
and trials at their Heavenly Fathers
hand. To know that God is near-to
know that he is trusted. hOnOred, loved
to feel that you are acting toward him
as a reverential and alTectiOnate child,
and that he is feeling toward you as "a
gracious and compassionate father
there is in this itself an exquisite salts
faction, a present reward.
Year: 1875

HELPING OTHERS. seems a strange
thing, but nevertheless true, that shar-
ing another's burden will tighten our
own. If you begin doing little things
for your neighbor, it viii soon be easy
for you to perform greater deeds in his
behalf No man is sufficient unto him
self Trust in Providence is nothing but
a higher belief in humanity. You may
feel very much depressed some day, dis
eouraged and well nigh despairing, when
some kind friend happens in-GOd sent
and you are soothed, cheered and en-
couraged; the vail is lifted, and you are
happy once more. Many are able to
give substantial help to those who are
in need; money, to tide over some finan-
eialtrouble; food, to keep a family from
starving; gifts, that nourish the heart
with assurances of love; something that
may be trifle in itself, but helps make
up the sum of human happiness. But
perhaps you cannot do this; you have
large family and limited income, or are
otherwise prevented from making the
hand the almoner.Of the heart. Well,
then, draw on the spiritual treasury
Give kind words to those who need
them; comfort those who are bowed
down; speak lovingly to little children,
and eneouragingIy to those who faint
for this support. Stand ready to help
everybody.
Year: 1875

MR. CHARLES NOEDHOFF does get
some light as he travels southwark. In
his last letter he says: 1.-The thing
which was ofteEest said to me in Mis-
sissippi by Democratic politicians was
this: Our only hope is in the Demo
cratic success in the next federal cleo
tion. The Democratic successes last fall
gave us our first gleam of light But
when asked how Democratic admins
tration could help them. the reply was,
Because then We can disorganize the
colOred vote. They will not vote with
out white leaders to organize them
And when / asked one OF tine leaders of
the white line movement, whose object
is to draw the color line strictly, how he
could hope to get all the white people
with their strongly diyerging views. into
his movement, his prompt reply was
Wen make it too id hot for them to
stay out Now, to me, this does not
look ike the American way of carrying
an election
Year: 1875

JOHN MINOR MILLIKIS, OF Butler
county, was nominated at Columbus as
candidate for State Treasurer in eompIi-
anee with the demand made in open
ConveD ton that the Agricultural inter
ests Of the State should be represented
in the ticket The selection made does
honor to that interest Mr.. BlilIikin had
the mis- fortune TO have been bred a law
yer, bat he very early saw the evil of his
ways and fOrsook them. He became q
farmer and delved in the soil. As a far
mer he has occupied "A number of posi-
tons Of trust, all of which he has filed
TO the satisfaction of the public. The
farmers can do effective work this season
by seeing to it that their fuD strength is
brought out, and deposited in favor of
Millikin--SprinQtfeld Republic.
Year: 1875

WHILE the Republicans have
reversed the large democratic major
ity of last year, in New Hampshire,
and carried tho State this year by q
bare plurality, and also carried the
Legislature, one Congressman has
been lost to them by the infamous
gerrymandering of tho State by the
last democratic Legislature. That
democratic Legislature also gerry
wandered the legislative districts, and
against this fearful odds The Republi-
cans in the late election had to battle.
and while the victory 10 notso decisive
as first reports gave 1t, yet It is never
the loss hopeful and cheering one,
and shows the signs Of the times to be
that tho country is awakening to the
impending danger of democratic as
tendency.
Year: 1875

The Prussian Diet is considering the
new eclesiastical bill introduced into
Lower House. Germany is fighting a
determined battle with Catholic Papal
domination, and both sides strike with
vigor. On the 18th inst. the following
Is tho telegraphic report Of the pro.
ceedings:


"Dr. Falk, Minister Of Public Wor-
ship, In speech explaining the neces.
sity for freah .legialstion ON the rela-
dwelt especially on the fact that the
Pope had authorized the Austrian
bishops to obey laws similar to those
which he denounced In Prussia. The
State was not afraid Of the encyclical,
but considered tho matter serious, and
would not permit itself TO be treated
with scOrn by the church.


"Prince Bismarck delivered pow
erfql speech In support of the bill. He
said the maxim that more obedience
Was due to God than TO man certainly
did not mean that more obedience was
due to . Pope misguided by Jesnits,
than to the King. The government
was doing its duty in protecting Ger
man freedom of mind against Rome.


ssThe House resolved to discuss the
bill in full sitting, instead of refer
ring II to committee"
Year: 1875

THE terrible crime of Jesso Pomeroy
the boy murderer of Massachusetts, is
remembered by our readers. The
character Of his criIo presented such
o state Of total depravity, such set
tied disposition Of horrid cruelty, that
the Governor and Council of that State
have decided not to interfere with the
execution of the criminal ON account
of his youth. Tho prevalence OF horrid
crimes, their intensely ficndish
character and the many executions at
the hands Of an outrage people with.
out tho forms Of law, have created q
strong current of feeling against the
disuse of capital punishment.
Year: 1875

s.r aSS
m<r's Union, is receiving a more Sc
rious goring than is even the sacred
Cow. He has been identified by a
New York banker as one who was
in company with Irwin, the Pacific
Mail Contract corruptionist, and
drew out $115,ooo on Irwin checks,
refusing to endorse or give his name.
King papers cannot see any reason
to doubt the purity of their Saint, but
do not explain whyhe wished to con-
ceal his name, in the mean time
they assert that their King who is
"child like and bland," will make it
all clear when he "rises to explain.
King has not risen to get up to make
his explanation as yet. The evil
dence IS getting more damaging, and
it now looks as though the post
master Of the House might never
be permitted to take a seat as
member, being rendered Ineligible
by his crimes. This is a good les
son for those Of Kings Minneapolis
constituents, who voted for him, ad-
mitting his corruption, with the idea
that he would be able to get through
"big job" for their special benefit.
Honesty is the best policy" after
all, and when the people who arc
Aowling about corruption become
SO corrupt as to vote knowingly for
man because they think he can
best advance their private interests
it is we'll that they should be brought
to open disgrace before tie whole
world All of which reminds us of
that passage Of Holy Writ" wide
A. Ramsey speech at State Fair


"God moves in mysterious wav,
His wonders to perform;


He plants his feet upon the sea,


And rides upon the Storm
Year: 1875

then, is not to hold on to and hoard
up every cent that one can scrape
together for fear of never getting any
more, but to use every cent in meet
ing the old obligations and in
this manner restore confidence,
make money more plenty, and give
new life and impetus to business.


If every one who has money or the
means Of getting it would commence
at once to pay all their debts, it
would not be long until we all could
pay our debts. "There is that scat
tereth and yet increaseth, is a prac
tical truth that is capable of more
than one application. The man
who boards money in hand for fear
that if he parts with what he has he
will never be able to get any more,
is doing the very thing that will pre-
vent his ever getting any more,
while he that uses his money even
in the paying of his debts will find
that it will return to him with a good
increase. This increase comes
through restored confidence which
gives a new life to all business, in
creases the demand for products of
all kinds, as we'll as for labor, afford
ing thousand opportunities for &C.
quiring wealth where otherwise none
at all would have existed.


"A state of things in which nobody
is buying anything that he can avoid
and men are letting their money lie
at two per cent. per annum in United
States bonds sooner than engage in
any productive industry is essential
ly sickly and can bring neither man
nor nation out of the financial
slough" The want of confidence
in one another is what cripples the
farmers in their movement. Money
must be set in motion, instead oi
being hid away. 1t must be invest
ed in active enterprises that will give
employment to the laborers, the me.
chanics, artizans, manufacturers, by
whatever name they may be called
and give to them the means of pur-
chasing the products Of the farm.
Year: 1875

The Iowa State Grange, which
has beenmore successful and is more
experienced both in the matter OF
manufacturing and of dealing through
the agency system, adopted a report
from the Committee on State Agency
favoring the formation of co-opera-
tive associations, using local capital.
and managed by local corporators,
suggesting that the State agent be
instructed to assist such local as
sociations, and that he also cooper
ate with other State agents. They
also favored manufacturing on the
funds advanced as orders or onloans
from the National Grange. It is
being found everywhere that the
only way to accomplish the objects
Of the business arm Of the order, is
for the members to put their own
money into it. To cooperate with
other peoples capital is delusion.
We believe that the time will come
when we, in the west, will all see that
the building up of home mannfac-
tories is the only way out of our
trouble. When this point is reached
we hope that the farmers will have
developed sufficient confidence and
faith in one another to combine
their capital to this end, and thus
secure to themselves and their chill
dren the double benefit arising there
from:
Year: 1875

FARM ACcoUNTs.-We have fire.
quently in our colums referred to
the Importance to farmers of keep
ing accurate accounts Of every item


of farm expenses. Now with the


commencement Of the new year is
good time to open a book. This
book should contain a separate &C
count for each branch Of farm pro-
duction. There should be wheat
account, vegetable account,
stock account, and so on. For in
stance the number of acres OF
wheat should b. charged with every
bushel sowed, IT,. value of every
days work bestowed thereon. and
credited with the value of the pro-
duct, that is to say the amount
realized for the wheat either through
use or sale. Stock should be charged
with what the feed they consume
is worth, and with a reasonable
amount for the feeding stabling and
care, and credited with the value of
the increase, and the amount real
lzedfrom sales. The footing of these
several accounts can be carried into
general account, and show exactly
the profits Of the whole farm for the
year. This need not take any elabo-
rate bookkeeping. One book will
suffice; and there need be but one
entry IN the book for each item.
By the keeping of such accounts
the farmer can soon tell what branch
of business is paying him best, and
how much he is making. These
accounts will be found to be valua.
BILE at all times, as record of farm
work, for the entries should be made
daily, and they would often serve
as a check to wastefulness, neglect
and down n-at-the-heal-slip-shod


tendency. A machine account ir
which the value of the nachiner,
is charged, as we'll as the Interest


on the money invested therein, ant
the loss from wear and tear ane
credited with the value of the use o


the machinery, would be very ap
to lead to better care of farm imple
ments, and have tendency to stoI
;*one Of the greatest leaks of the farm
Year: 1875

Everybody in Minnesota should
remember that under the Constit,l-
ton and laws of our State, men in
putting their money into manufac-
turing corporations run no further
risk and assume no further obliga-
ton than the payment OF the
amount subscribed to the capital
stock. The Constitution was amend
ed and the law passed for the very
purpose OF encouraging manufacture
ing.
Year: 1875

railroad men say that the Oranges
have caused them, and the Patrons
say that the wheat rings, railroad
rings and all other rings are to blame.
The one side thinks that the CON-
plants of Patrons have DESTROYED
business confidence, ,have set theapro-
ducers to mistrrsting all other class
es, have caused them to demand
goods at their own price irrespective
of the cost to the merchant of max
ing the exchange, have by legislation
crippled railroads, made them non
paying investments and driven off
capital, by the cries of extortion have
stopped the buzz OF the spipdles,
and busy hum of manufactures, have
brought disaster to themselves and
ruin to all other classes. On the
other hand the farmers claim that
by extortion the profits of their la
Dor have been wsreted from them,
high freights, high tariffs, high prices
to meet high rents to pay for high
living and high salaries to "high"
clerks, railroad presidents and horde
of officials in high life have drained
the country Of its wealth and
knocked the farmers and pro-
ducers higher than Gilderoid's kite,
that hard times is the result of let
ting a little air out Of the inflated
bag of corruption and extortion.
Every one has a right to his own
theories and we may be pretty GER
tain that every mans theory will be
tinged with his own self-interest and
take color from his own partic ular
stand point. 1t is very happy fac
ulty that we all have of blaming
some one else for all onr troubles or
mlsfortunes, and it does not general
ly require much thought nor very
much talent to invent a theory by
which we can conclusively prove, to
ourselves at least, that we are not
in the least responsible for our own
or others bad luck.


There is only one way in which
we may expect to arrive at anything
like proper conclusions, and that is
by Judging the present by the
past. Now what has caused all the
crashes and panics in the past?
What caused the crash in 1857? 1t
could not have been the Patrons
for they were not in existence. Yet
that crash was much more disastrous
than the panic in the fall of 1873 and
times were much harder than they
have been at any time since. The
fact is that financial crashes have
occurred at intervals with a great
degree Of regularity, not only in
this Nation but throughout the
world. They have always had their
causes, and they have almost invari-
ably followed upon periods of great
financial prosperity. We do not be-
lleve that either the complaints,
resolutions or legislation on the one
side, nor the combinations and ex-
tortlons on the other, have caused
hard times.


We often see men engage in pri-
vate enterprises and fail and do not
think of blaming any one except
themselves. We can always trace
these Individual failures to either a.
waut Of skill, proper management,
sufficient means, the failure to count
the cost and the undertaking too
much, extravaganza, or a thousand


other things


The result Of good times is nearly
always to lead men to undertake
more than they can perform. Men
elated by success and prosperity for
get that there is a limit to their
means and ability; this leads them
Year: 1875

A writer says that for farm of eighty
to one hundred acres, upon which the
usual rotation Of clover, corn, oats and
wheat is followed, and stock, chiefly
COWS, with small stock of sheep, is
kept to consume the bulky portion of
the crop, a pasture of twenty acres will
be found sufficient This should be
divided into Mt least three fields. One
would be grazed by cattle, followed by
the sheep-for these should never be
pastured together-but the latter, being
close feeders, may follow the former with
advantage, while the former could not
find subsistence i'll field that had been
cropped by the latter The third field
would then rest while the others were
being fed off. The alienation would be
beneficial for both the grass and the
stock. The rest of the farm should be
divided into fields or plots of proper
size by bands of grass, which can be
moved, or by simple paths. The most
convenient division is into six fields,
which would give each year one each of
corn, wheat and oats, and three of hay.
One of the latter three fields might be
appropriated to provisional crops, such
Us potatoes, roots, corn-fodder, buck
wheat or millet. The orchard, garden,
barnyard, with the building sites, and a
few paddocks around the baTnyard for
calves and colts, will occupy at least
five acres upon farm of The size here
described. All these must necessarily
be permanently and safely inclosed, and
the whole farm will be surrounded with
a substantial fence. However much the
abolition of fences may be desirable, it is
improbable that it will soon be found
practicable. Such fences as are here
mentioned may be taken as the least re.
quirement in that way of any well-man-
aged farm under our present circumstan-
ces. Outside fences may certainly be
done away with if general understand
ing is arrived at to that effect.
Year: 1875

A Parisian who attempted to hang
himself, but was cut down in time to
save his life, gives this account OF his
sensations [ had the sensation of re-
ceiving blow from hammer on the top
of my head. / did not feel the rope,
and the only defined sensation succeed
ING that of the blow was sensation of
weight upon my head. My head seemed
heavier and bigger than the great bell
of Notre Dame. 1t was night all about
me, and then there came terrible cold
,,in the lower part of my body, and thon


sharp pain where the rope was tearing
my mock, and then-nothing.
Year: 1875

Laughter has often dissipated disease
and preserved life by sudden effort of
nature. We are told that the great
Erasmus laughed so heartily at satiri-
cal remark that he broke tumOr, and
recovered his health. In singular
treatise on ''laughter," Joubert gives
two similar instances. A patient being
very low the physician, who had ordered
a dose of rhubarb, countermanded the
medicine, which was left on the table.
A monkey in the room, jumping up,
discovered the goblet, and having tasted
it, made a terrible grimace. Again
putting only his tongue to it, he per-
ceived some sweetness of the dissolved
mamma, while the rhubarb had sunk TO
the bottom. Thus emboldened, he swal =
lowed the whole, but found it such a
nauseous potion that, after many strange
and fantastic grimaces, he ground his
teeth in agony, and in violent fury
threw the goblet on the floor. The
whole affair was so ludicrous that the
sick man burst into repeated peals of
laughter, and the recovery of cheerful
ness led to health.