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Year: 1873

TIME PROPRIETOR OF THIS FAVORITE
L Hotel takes pleasure in announcing to his
friends and the public generally that he has re-
fitted and re-furnished the establishment through
out, and is now prepared to entertain guests in a
style equal to any other house in Northern Cal
ifornia. The PARLOR and ROOMS are large
and commodious. and the BEDS and sleeping ac-
comodations unsurpassed


THE TABLE
will always be supplied with everything the mar
kets of this locality afford, and every possible at
tention will be paid to the wants of guests and no
pains spared to render them comfortable


At the BAR none but the best brands of Wine
Liquor and Cigars will be dispensed to customers


The Oregon Cal. Stages arrive at and leave
this Hotel daily.
Year: 1873

SHARON SPRINGS, N. y, August 80, 1873


At halfpast nine O'Clock tonight the Eldridge
House was discovered to be on fire in the third
story, above the main entrance The fire had such
headway when discovered that 1t was impossible
to save the hotel. Part OF the furniture was
the time, yet had 1t not been for
the trees completely surrounding the hotel,
the larger part OF the village would have been
and would accommodate about $50 people. Owing
to the advanced stage OF the season there were
only fifteen guests In the house. No lives were
lost Two or three persons were injured. The
origin of the fire is unknown; loss unknown; in
surance $35,000
Year: 1873

The question, "Will wasps freeze ~
has been decided by a Peoria man,
who found one in frozen nest one
day last month, and took the insect
into the house and held it by the tail
while he warmed his ears over u gas
Jet. You wouldn't believe it, but the
Peoria naturalist says its tail thawed
out first, and while its head was so
stiff and icy it couldn't wink, its
"prObe" worked with ineOneeiyable
rapidity, 10 the great distress of the
minister who was present, and was
dreadfully distressed by the hideOus
profanity consequent ON each and
every movement Of the probe afOre-
said
Year: 1873

The Central Falls Visitor says that
at a recent funeral at MOshassuek
Cemetery, after tine collin had been
lowered TO its last resting place, the
mOurners stood in silence a few mo-
ments, apparently not knowing what
to do next, when q man stepped up 70
the undertaken, and said loud enough
to be heard all around: "Well, 4 sup
pose you might as well fill her up"
That is all the service there was Al
the grave.
Year: 1873

It is easy to "knOw thyself" but
who is 10 introduce yOG2 Most people
go through life without making the
acquaintance in question; and il a
friend should take the liberty Of in
Producing YOU 10 yourself you hate
I him forever.
Year: 1873

r. has been suppOsed-with what
reason does not appear, that the water
OF the Atlantic was higher than the
water Of Pacific at the Isthmus Of
Darieu. The D4rien canal survey has
ascertained that the water level Of the
two oceans are the same.
Year: 1873

A wife asked her husband f"r a new
dress. He replied, "Fimrs are hard.
my dear-so hard I can scarcely
keep my nose above water" You can
keep your nose above water easy
enough if you have mind to; but
the trouble il that you keep lt ton
much above brandy"
Year: 1873

What is the use Of trying to hOnest?"
asked a young man the other day Of a
friend. "Oh, you ought to try it
once and see" was the reply. And
the young man wanted to put a head
! on bis plain spoken friend.
Year: 1873

Now that Or. Askew has been appointed the
Commissioner to represent us in the Centennial,
we expect Delaware to take high position in
that enterprise. Much work is vet to be done,
and the money is none too plenty.
Year: 1873

A confding contemporary relates the
following circumstance: Once a care
less man went to the cellar and stuck
the candle in what he thought was a
keg of black sand. He sat near it drink
ing wine until the candle burned low;
nearer and nearer, until at last the blaze
reached the black sand, and, as it was
nothing else but black SAND, nothing
happened.
Year: 1873

fevered dream; but there lay the hor-
rible witness that they were too true.
His head lay within the doorway and
/ was Obliged to pass him to give as
sistance TO his wounded and suffering
comrade. Ny feet seemed like lead; /;
but I moved slowly and mechanically,
to do what must be done. drought
him water, removed the mask and
raised his head that he might drink,
staunched the blood and applied n
bandage to his wound, bathed his
face, placed a pillow under his head
and spread o blanket over him TO
protect him from the cold.


"By this time Harry's face had
lost its purple hue, and his breathing
had become more natural. I bathed
his head with e-water, and as | had
heard that coffee Is nm antidote
against narcotics, I made some hot
and strong. / succeeded in arous-
ing him sufficiently to be able TO
drink it, and soon saw that the dan
ger was past. Then, woman-like,
was overcome by the consciousness
OF what I had been through, and
sank covering by the bedside, my
head upon my husband's breast, and
cIung TO him with the feeling that,
weak and half-conscious as he was,
he could still protect me.


when I was fully aroused the
next morning to knowledge Of my
situation, Harry stood at my side,
still pale and weak from the effects
OF yesterdays portion. Mr.. Lees
voice in the next room was giving
orders for the removal of the dead
body OF Mr.. Treinaine and the safe
keeping of his wounded associate
Thomas McGrath, the wood-sawyer
while dear Aunt Janet, with her arms
around my neck, was calling mt
Brave little woman little knowing
what coward / felt myself to be
and declaring me worthy membe,
of the family OF Gorden.


"This is the story. Anna, and you
will not wonder that / should shud
der and turn pale when anything re
calls to my rememcrance that nigh
| of terror"
Year: 1873

b6- The Canadian way of measuring tree
is said to be as uncertain as it is grotesque.
You walk from the tree, looking at it from
time to time between your knees. When you
arc able to see the top in this way, your dis
tauce from the root of the tree equals it's height
Year: 1873

ruin 1t forever. 80 many people reacn the
age of fifty, or sixty, or even seventy, measu.
rably free from most of the pains and in6rmi-
ties of old age, CHEEKY in heart and sound in


health, ripe in wisdom and experience, with
sympathies mellowed by age, and with reas.
enable prospects and opportunities for con-
tinued usefulness in the world for consider
able time. Let such persons be thankful, but
let them also be careful. An old constitution
is like an old bone-broken with ease and
mended with difficulty. A young tree bends
to the gale-an old one snaps and falls before
the blast. A single hard lift, an hour Of heat
ing work, an evenings exposure to rain or
damp, severe chill, an excess of food, the
unusual indulgence of an appetite or passion,
a sudden fit of anger, an improper dose of
medicine, any of these, or othersimilar things,
may cut off valuable life in an hour, and
leave the fair hopes of usefulness and enjoy
ment but shapeless wreck.


HOME INFLUENcE.-Ift the father talks
money, money" at home, he generally rears
a family in the worship of the almighty dol
lar. If he talks mainly horses, games and
races, he breeds a batch of sportsmen. If
fashion is the family altar, then the children
are offered up as victims upon that altar. IF
q man -nnukee hie-own- Greuico uttru0tivr5
may reasonably hope to anchor his own chill.
dren around it. My neighbor makes himself
the constant evening companion of his boys.
The result is that his boys are never found in
bad places Buff the father hears the clock
strike eleven in the clubhouse or the play
house, he need not be surprised if his boys
hear it strike twelve in the gaming room or
drinking saloon. If he puts the bottle on his
own table, he need not wonder if drunken
son staggers in, by and by, at his front door:
When the best friend that childhood and
youth ought to have, becomes their foe, the
homes become the "starting post" for moral
ruin.


How TO BORE HOLES IN GLAss.-Any
hard steel tool will cut glass with great facili-
ty when freely wet with camphor dissolved in
turpentine. A drill bow may be used, or
even the hand alone. A hole bored may be
easily enlarged by round file. The ragged
edges of glass vessels may also be easily
smoothed thus with fat file. Flat window
glass can be readily sawed with watch-spring
saw by aid of this solution. In short, the
most brittle glass can be wrought almost as
easily as brass by the use of cutting tools kept
constantly moist with camphorized oil of tur-
Ientine


KEEPING FISH FRESH WITH SUGAR.-A
method adopted in Portugal for preserving
fish consists in removing the intestines, ETC.,
and sprinkling sugar over the interior, keep.
ing the fish in horizontal position, go that
the sugar may penetrate as much as possible.
1t is said that the fish prepared in this way
can be kept completely fresh for long time,
the flavor being as perfect as if recently
caught. One tablespoon of sugar is sufficient
for a fve-pound fish.
Year: 1873

The Cututored savage as a Dressmaker'


The dusky maidens of the forest, says
the Reese River lNevada) Rere'le, are
heavy on calico, and whenever one OF them
.'cleans up" on a protracted washing job, or
makes winning at Indian poker, she
rushes directly to dry goods store and
makes an investment N calico OF giaflns
colors. She IS always accompanied oy


hand of red sisters. and as soon as the pur-
chase is completed the whole band squat


down on the sidewalk and the fortunate


souaw proceeds to the manufacture of the


garment. The Indian women hereabout ply
a group sitting on the sidewalk during the
operation of making dress. They chatter
along Just the same as white women ID
sewing circle. and we suppose sling scandal
as lively as church mem oers at tea party.
Even casual observer can detect an ex'
preston of envy on the faces Of those less
fortunate sGuaws who do not possess the
wherewith to indulge in new calico.
Year: 1873

A few evenings ago we heard a good, in
telligent gentleman, and one, who we be-
lieve has no antipathy against the Oranges
say, that within three years, such thing
as Patron could not be found in the State
of Minnesota. 1t is his candid opinion,
that the Order has sprung out of little
temporary excitement that will soon sub
side, and with it the Oranges will also
subside. Now we suppose great many
Patrons will pooh: at the idea. and doubt
our statement in saying that this gentle
man is an intelligent man. We, too, be-
lieve that he is very much mistaken in his
opinion. But, friends, let as not be TOO
over confident Of our strength and progress,
and totally ignore the fact that ii is a very
easy thing for US TO make shipwreck Of our
faith and most ignominiously fail. Success
will not fall upon US like rain from the
heavens, without aid or effort of ours. 1t
will not come to us like the glorious sum
shine without labor or price. IL this
movement: as in erything else, we must
work out our own salvation. To this end
there are two great duties uevolving upon
every Patron. First, to labor constantly
with the purpose Of making our Oranges
just what they ought to be, viz: Temples
Of purity. truth, fidelity and brotherly love.
Second, to work continually for the in
crease and up-bnilding Of the Order.
We must ever inculcate honesty, fairness,
and uprightness Of dealing between man
and man. Let every man purchase at as
reasonable rates as he can, but when he
has bargained, let him pay. While we are
talking so much about the unfairness and
dishonesty Of others, let not the same foul
stains be found upon our own garments.
Let us 8 i've the Oranges such a character
for honesty, integrity and fair dealing,
that the first question man will ask VII en-
he is inquiring after a mans credibility,
will be, Does he belong to the Grange
For the increase and extension of such an
Association every member oan work with a
heart and will.


Brothers and sisters let us labor to make
the Order grand and permanent organi-
zation, and glorious heritage for our
children.
Year: 1873

that is being SO well supplied; Goodhue
County, with its new eight run steam mill
at Red Wing, with the new mills in process
of erection at Cannon Falls, and the dozen
old mills now in operation with all their
proposed enlargements will also soon be
able to manufacture all her wheat into -four.
Let this work go on until every county in
the State shall be in like manner supplied.
Let not the people stop at this, but let
them unite in building up home maniac
tories, and then all reason of complaint
about eastern monopolists and extortionate
treights will come to an end, for the people
will be independent Of both the manufac-
turers aud the railroads, and if they do
not come to reasonable terms at first, the
people will be in condition to wait until
they do. When these men find their occu-
patton gone they will not be long in yield
ing.
Year: 1873

There has been no greater folly prac-
ticed in shis State, than that of shipping
our wheat to Eastern markets, in the rough


so to speak, instead of Touring it at home.
By this system all the profits of the manu-
fscture have been lost to our State, which
in itself is an item that would figure up
into the millions. Then all the feed which
has been so much needed has been virtually
lost, and the want Of that has made it ne
cessary to import every season corn and
oats from other States, and besides this a
great deal has been lost in freights We
are glad to see in passing through the
State that all this is being rapidly reme-
died. While at Rochester the other day
we found that they were just completing a
new grist mill with ten run of stone with
all the modern improvements. Then we
come upon the Oronoco mills in the same
county which we describe more particular
ly in another column, and heard of others
either in operation or in process Of erection


sufficient in number, as is now estimated, to
grind every kernel Of wheat raised in that
county. This is IS it should be. We are
glad that it is not O!msted County alone
Year: 1873

The war cloud. which had assumed pro-
portions much larger than mans hand,
seems to have blown over, and most fer
vently and devoutly do we thank the God
Of battles therefor. From war, pestilence,
and famine, Good Lord deliver US. The
bitter and bloody memories of our late civil
war are yet fresh in every mind, and thou
| sands of hearts then wounded and crushed
still bleed in agony. For them, life is a
dark and dreary night whose sun forever
set in that terrible conflict. Let us not
plunge into another war without it is an
absolute necessity.


Atrocious and bloodthirsty as the con-
duct Of the Cuban Spaniards undoubtedly
was toward the unfortunate wretches
taken with the Virginius, still, this alone,
would not justify a declaration Of war by
our Congress against their inhuman butch
ers. As we'll say that because a party Of
our cl'lzens had gone out to capture wild
beasts in the jungles Of Asia or Africa. and
had unfortunately been DESTROYED in the
attempt, that it would justify the United
States in fitting out an expedition to 60 and
clean out the savage wild beasts


Captain Fry and his men we'll knew the
character of those men they had deliber-
ately gone our to contend with. The re-
peated atrocities Of these Spaniards durin %
the last few years, admonsheI the a,}ven-
turers Of the Virginius that if taken bv
| them, instant butchery would be their fate
with these facts staring them in the face,
they took their lives in their hands, went
forth on a fllihustering expedition, were
captured, underwent farcial trial, were
condemned, sentenced, and SHOT. Now we
| believe in strictly maintaining our national
| honor, and in making high the standard Of
that honor, but we cannot see how the very


incest sense Of honor can require national


protection for every reckless daredevil


who goes out to take hand in the conflicts


OF other peoples. IT our country is to be


plunged into war by the imprudence. in
| discretion, or reckless folly of every adven-
turer who gets into trouble by meddling


with other peoples business, we might as
| we'll prepare for perpetual war Even the
| wars of the Roses had an end, but in this
respect they would have the advantage of
ours, which would be interminable, if we
are to be at the mercy of every would be
Champion or Liberator
Year: 1873

While at Oronoco the other day we visit
ed the new Touring mills at that point and
found MIR. Gooding in charge of the office,
who politely showed US through the build
ing. The Zumhro at this point affords
first class water power, and the firm of
Allis, Gooding & Hebbard, are making this
power useful by the erection of a first class
mill. The building is seventy-two feet
front, by sixty-two feet deep. They are
putting in four water wheels, three
Of which are to run two runs of mill
stones and the fourth one run, making sew
en- run in all. The mill is to be furnished
throughout with the most improved mill
machinery. While we were there we saw
them engaged in furrowing the stone with
one of Hoyt's Mill Stone Dressers."
This machine is run by the water power
that is to run the mill, does its work by
means of a hard grindstone, about the size
Of grindstones used for sharpening razors,
which moves back and forth over the mill
stone, not swerving the width of the finest
spider webb from straight line. The
stone is so placed as to make it impossible
toido its work in any other way than evenly :;
the work is done with rapidity and certain
ly with ease and we believe we'll done. 1t
struck US as being a great improvement
over the old method Of pecking out the fur
row by hand. The proprietors expect to
have their mill in operation about the 1st
of January. The bins of the mill afford
storage capacity of twenty thousand bush
els of wheat. The projectors of this en-
terprise certainly deserve we'll of the dwell
lers in the region thereabout.
Year: 1873

We discover that there is considerabl
feeling among our friends in Pierce county
against the Red Wing people on the subject
of the wood business. We do not know
just what the grievances complained of are,
and therefore cannot put them into definite
propositions. We would say, however, to
the men Of Pierce county, that our columns
are open to you on this subject, and pledge
you that The GRANGE ADVANCE will use its
influence il correcting whatever is wrong
in this matter. Let rs hear from you On
this subject gentlemen.
Year: 1873

''We can never resume specie payments"
said Mr.. Boutwell,, .'until the balance of
trade is in our favor That point has at
last been reached. For the past two
months our exports nave greatly exceeded
our imports in value. We sell more than
we buy The balance of trade is in our
favor. The time for resumption has come.
Yet the inhationists whom Mr.. Boutwell,,
if he does not represent at least most etfec-
lively succors, are still crying wait wait
and inlulging in gushing sentimentalism
over the beauties Of an ''elastic currency.''
We have no faith in these financial ouacks.
whose nostums have already prostrated
the nation. They are too homeopathic in
their remedies. "tSimiliu similiJus curautuy,''
is a dangerous principle in political phar-
macy 10 cure diseases induced by in
tation by imitation, is a remedy only worthy
Of brains that have given birth to the bold
absurdity that there is no such thing as
a science Of political economy


There are two and only two methods by
which We can arrive at specie payments.
Either the greenbacks must be withdrawn
from circulation or the legal tender act.
SO far as it applies TO all future contracts,
must be repealed. One or the other of
these is an indispensable prerequisite TO re-
sumption. Men will never draw gold
dollar out Of their pockets and pay it out,
when ragged piece Of paper will answer
the same purpose. 1t is not the i" balance
Of trade . that causes them to hoard the
gold aud use the paper: hut that universal
principle of human action which prompts
everyone to keep the best and part with the
poorest. The Government can coin money
until dooms day, yet so long as the law
makes the greenbacks legal tender, so
long will they remain the circulating
medium Of the country-and so long will
gold be boarded Or at best used merely as
an article Of merchandise Either with
draw the greenbacks or repeal the legal
tender act.
Year: 1873

The old "war Governor" of Illinois,
Familiarity called Dick Yates, is dead He
died very suddenly at St. Louis on Thurs
day night last, at the age of ffty-six. DR..
Holman, who was instantly called in, pro-
nounced it clear case of apoplexy. We
call it clear case Of whisky.


Gov. Yates was native Of Kentucky,
but spent most Of his life in Illinois, which
State he represented in the Thirty-secopd
and Thirty-third Congress. He was Gov
ernor of that State from the beginning to
the close Of the war-from 1861 to 1865.
He was then chosen U. S. Senator, in
which position he was succeeded in 1871
by John A. Logan. He was man Of great
intellect, force, and energy; and what is
more, he was man of generous disposition,
and true nobility Of soul. But alas, all
this was not enough to save him from the
fell destroyer, the demon of intemperance.
He struggled with all his mighty powers to
tear himself away from the iron clutch Of
this demon, but all in vain. \ quenchless,
burning, maddening thirst had seized upon
his soul, which overwhelmed the powers of
reason and will, and plunged him into ex-
cesses which only augmented the fiery
thirst. No man was more fully aware of
the terrible consequences that must surely
overtake him than was the victim himself.
He Joined temperance societies, and hosts
of friends supported and encouraged him,
but repeated efforts were only followed by
repeated failures, until he seemed to be
convinced of his inability to cope with the
monster whose power increased as his own
decreased. We do not wonder that in des-
pair he gave up the unequal contest, and
that death at last came to his relief.


We are aware that it is not fashionable
to speak the plain truth on such an occa-
sion as this. A feeling of charity usually
urges us to mantle the faults Of the dead,
but we believe that the interests and well
fare Of the living demand that the truth be
spoken and heard in all such cases. Should
man fall into pit and perish, what would
be thought Of the man who would place
over its mouth, an insufficient and decep-
tive covering? Much less then should we
attempt thus to do with the dark, and wide,
and bottomless gulf into which so many
thousands have fallen, and forever per-
ished. If it is so deep that we cannot fill
it up, and so wide that we cannot safely
bridge it over, and has so many deceptive
allurements around it's borders that we
cannot keep men away from it, let us at
least raise the guide board of warning on
every hand. Young men Of Minnesota, we
point you to the SD fate of the great war
Governor Of Illinios.
Year: 1873

The balance of trade is now largely in
favor of the United States, and the credit
side of our balance sheet is rapidly gaining
on the debtor side. While we do not claim
oil the credit Of this for the Patrons. We
do claim that the principles of economy
which the Order inculcates, worked out
into practice Ill over this land has brought
about this much wished result. We be-
ieve that, with : faithful carrying out Of
Year: 1873

Whenever our government again desires
to protest against the " barbarous. inhu-
man and cruel treatment of prisoners by
the Cuban authorities, wouldn't it be
good thing to have some one besides the
unconvicted assassin of Philip Barton Key
to present the protest?
Year: 1873

The German Pioneer, of this city, believes that
the continuance Of Temperance preachers" and
Young Mems Christian Associations will be the
ruin of all morality in our country" This might
seem a startling expression, until we understand
the Pioneers peculiar notion that morality"
lies at the bottom Of beer mug.