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MINNESOTA NEWS.
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The St. Paul school show a large
increase and the board is confronted
with tlie problem of insufficient room.
Albert Schufsky was accidentally
shot, near St. Paul, while out hunting
with a companion.
The state agricultural society has a
balance of $16,572.50 as a result of the
fair this year.
Victor Bodeen of Mora, Minn., was
killed in the railroad yards at Sand
stone by being- struck by an engine.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Minnesota Bee Keepers' association
was held at Winona. A number of in
teresting papers were read.
Rev. W. G. Trower of Minneapolis
has accepted a call from the Baptist
church of Hastings, and entered upon
his pastoral duties.
Tire at TracY destroyed the livery
barn occupied by H. R. Searles, wiTh
part of its contents. Loss about $2,000,
with small insurance.
Frank Bresland, sentenced at Hast
ings last month to sixty days in jail
for an assault, was pardoned condi
tionally by Gov. dough.
Fire was discovered in an outbuild
ing near the Brunswick hotel, at Fari
bault, recently. An alarm was given
and the flames extinguished with
small damage.
Anson Hall, an old resident, living
ten miles from Appleton, committed
suicide by hanging. Long-continued
ill-health is supposed to have^been the
cause.
The firm of S. Asplund & Son, deal
ers in groceries and provisions at Lake
City, has made an assignment for the
"benefit of their creditors. Anson Pierce
(was named as the assignee.'
John Wortler's large barn, four miles
{west of Woodstock, was destroyed by
ifire. Children and matches are sup
posed to have been the cause. One of
the children narrowly escaped crema
tion.
The New York Life Insurance eom
ipany secured foreclosure of the mort
jgage on the Polladin building, a seven
Story office building on Superior street,
Tulut The mortgage was for $142,-
000.
Burglai's entered the postoffice and
store at Currie, but only secured a few
stamps and small change. They were
discovered by means of a burglar alarm
in the store, but fled before any one
reached the place.
Fire at Little Falls partially de
stroj ed a house belonging to the Home
Building company and occupied by
Emil Nelson as a dwelling. Part of
the contents were saved. There was a
small insurance on the building.
J. S. Manton will discontinue the
management of the Commercial hotel
at Crookston, and the place will prob
ably be closed up. Mr. Manton has
leased the Palace hotel and purchased
*the restaurant owned by D. McKmnon.
He will open at once.
At Winona William Wallace was sen
tenced by Judge Gould to 18 months
fliard labor in Stillwater for larceny in
tthe second degree. He, as well as his
wife, who was present, broke down
when the sentence was pronounced.
Creditors of the insolvent Manufac
ixirers' bank, of West Duluth, held a
-meeting, at which it was stated that
C. E. Peaslee, receiver of the bank,
was managing its affairs extravagantly
A committee was appointed to draw up
a petition for the court to remove him.
While superintending some work on
the City Opera. House at Sauk Rapids
A. O. Schivner fell headlong to the
floor below, a distance of 18 feet, and
was seriously injured. He is proprie
tor of the SinK Center bouse and a
member of ih" fity council.
S Lobdill oi ^piing Valley was re
turning horn "ti outing with his wife,
three aaughieis. Bimer Lloyd and Roy
Viall. In passing another team, the
vehicles collided and Mr. Lobdill's
team ran away. The carriage was
overturned and Mr. Lobdill and his
osvife were both seriously injured and
two of his daughters slightly hurt.
Caroline Schwartz, aged 18, was
drowned in a small lake on the Chip
pewa river, near Evansville, while out
fishing. The bodv was found next
morning in eight feet of water. The
position of the arms*indicated that she
had made a hard struggle, but likely
fell out qf the boat and the wet clothes
dragged her down.
Burglars broke into the Chicago fc
Northwestern ticket office at Marshall
and blew up the safe, but there was
nothing in it. They took two grips out
of the baggage room and broke open a
trunk. They then raised the window
screen to Dr. Person's bed room and
took the doctor's suit of clothes, $10
in cash and watch and his wife's pock
etbook.
At Little Falls Judge Searle, of the
district court, sentenced Erick Eck
iman, charged with murder in the first
pegree, to imprisonment for life. Eck
toan, on Aug. 2 last, shot and instantly
killed Daniel Klof in the town of Ran
dall There was no apparent reason
for the deed. Eckman was under the
Influence of liquor. The prisoner is
over O years of age, and that is one
Teason for not inflicting the death pen
alty.
The Auditorium building in St. Paul
"has passed into the control of the Com
mercial club. The building has a
seating capacity of 8,000, and has been
the scene of many notable gatherings,
the last being the Grand Army en
campment during the first week in
September. In taking control of the
Tmilding, the Commercial club assumes
a gigantic task but St. Paul is now as
sured of a permanent auditorium for
the many large gatherings held annu
ally in this city. John S. Pinney, sec
retary of the Commercial club, is man
ager of the auditorium.
The Halstad extension of the Great
Northern line is progressing rapidly
toward completion. The track laying
crew is now within nine miles of
Crookston, and they are laying down
the material at the rate of two miles
per day As soon as the crew com
pletes this
workethey
SerfouN Accident at rowa^R Semi
centennial Celebration.
into tl
will taken over
on to the Hop extensione and work
will begin there. The completion of
the Halstad line is welcomed by Crook
ston business men, as the country open
ed up thereby is full of rich- farmers,
who haved heretoforedshipped their pro
!*^15 duce
1
procure their supplie*
an
through Moorhead and Fargo, but
whose trade will in future be tributary
to Crookston. it 4 J* 1 it'MBM
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Burlington, Iowa, Oct. 3.Dunne" a
parade to-day at the Iowa semi-cen
tennial celebration the reviewing stand
containing Vice President Stevenson,
Gov. Drake of Iowa and staff and
many other prominent people collapsed,
throwing all to the ground and injur
ing some thirty people. Vice Presi
dent Stevenson escaped with a shock
and Gov. Drake with slight bruises.
The injured are Maj. W. C. Wyman
of Ottumwa, ankle sprained County
Treasurer E. S. Burris of Burlington,
Leg broken James D. Bowen, of the
governor's staff ex-Gov. Sherman of
Vinton, Iowa Rev. Dr. Fellows, Fay
ette Lafayette Young, Des Moines,
orator of the day, slightly bruised
Auditor of State C. G. McCarthy of
Des Moines, head bruised City Com
missioner S. H. Jones of Burlington,
back hurt ex-Gov. Newbold of Mount
Pleasant, hand sprained Col. H. O.
Weaver of Wapello, ankle sprained
State Superintendent of Schools Henry
Sabine of Des Moines, slightly hurt.
Many others, including a number of
ladies, received cuts and scratches, but
none are fatally injured.
Vice President Stevenson and Gov.
Drake and staff had just left the pa
rade and went to the stand. There
were at least fifty people op it, when,
without warning, it crashed to the
ground. The most intense excitement
prevailed for a time, but cool heads, by
prompt action, managed to prevent a
stampede. The accident had a fright-*
ul appearance to the spectators. Vice
President Stevenson and Gov. Drake
went down clasped in each other's
arms, and it was several minutes be
fore they could be extricated from the
struggling mass of hunanity. The
greatest excitement prevailed for a
time, and it was a wonder that no one
was trampled to death. Ex-Gov. Sher
man was found lying under the debris,
with a large plank across his neck, but
was rescued without serious injury.
Vice President Stevenson was taken
in a carriage to the Hotel Delano,
where he is resting from the shock of
the accident. He is not in the least
hurt, and took the accident good
naturedly.
Fifty years ago Iowa became a state,
having previously occupied a promi
nent position among the Western ter
ritories. In honor of this semi-cen
tennial anniversary 20,000 people gath
ered in this city to-day to inaugurate
an eight-day celebration. Burlington
was selected as the place of holding
the celebration on account of its promi
nence in territorial affairs, being for a
number of years the seat of govern
ment. This "was the opening day and
governor's day and was honored by
the presence of Gov. Drake and staff,
several ex-governors, Vice President
Stevcnscn, and a large number of other
prominent citizens of the state and
nation.
ATE TAINTED FISH.
Fifteen Students in Milwaukee May
Lose Their Lives.
Milwaukee, Oct. 3.Fifteen students
and Dr. M. F. J. Albrecht, the presi
dent of Concordia college, are hovering
between life and death as the result of
eating tainted fish Tuesday night.
There are sixty students who were
made ill, but all but nften are in a fair
way to recovery. Concordia college is
a Lutheran institution and has upward
of 200 students from all portions of the
West p,nd Northwest. An attempt was
made to^et the names of those who
were poisoned, but the authorities of
the college would not divulge them, as
they said it would only cause unneces
sary alarm.
WHEAT GOJTfG UP.
Reports of tlie Failure ot Crops in
India the Cause.
Chicago, Oct. 3.The wheat pit was
again to-day the scene of wild excite
ment, maiked by an advance in the
price of December to a point 2 l-2c
above tha final figures of yesterday's
session. The advance was not all held
by any means, for big traders, whose
persistence in holding on to their lines
has been partially instrumental in the
recent rise, took advantage of the ex
alted prices to earn an honest dollar
by dumping some of their holdings on
the market. The aggregate day's busi
ness was enormous. Not only were all
the local brokers heavy investors, but
outside speculation was much more
heavy than usual. The reason for the
bulge was the reports of wheat engage
ments for shipment to India, from Liv
erpool, a hitherto unheard-of transac
tion Eepoits of similar engagements
at San Francisco were confirmed, and
lent force to the statements that the
Indian crco was a failure.
Attei-ijitcil MT-rlc and Suicide.
Houghtcr-, Mich.. Oct. 3.Felix Dul
meiito &"- Ceo/^e C. Sheldon on the
prircipr' s%oPt of this city and with
out MI omailed his revolver
into bt
,\tyand
then jumped
t'M feet below.
srp: i to i"n-e drowned. It was
fount- i- ..L SlM^ldon's jaw had been
broker, OJIO arm paralyzed,
an,d
tlieio
that
a one bullet in his head while
anothev passed through his neck. His
condition is critical. He is a brother
of the Republican nominee for con
ixrczz. Dulmente was Sheldon's coach
man for several years. Two weeks
ago the two men disagreed over some
lapse of duty on Dulmente's part. The
latter gave Sheldon a severe beating.
To-day Sheldon had Dulmente arrested
tor assault.
Vessels- on the Beach.
Last Tawas, Mich., Oct. 3.The cap
tain of the steamer Westford, which
has jrst come in for shelter, reports
that the Shickluna and consort, St.
Louis, are on the beach one mile north
of Fifth Point. A very heavy sea was
breaking over both boats. The St.
Louis is lying broadside to the shore,
and is badly twisted. The life-saving
crew left here for the scene of the
wreck.
Capt. Hart Held.
Philadelphia, Oct. 3.Capt. Hart,who
was arrested yesterday on information
furnished by George W. Cowley charg
ing him with violating the neutrality
laws by shipping arms and ammuni
tion to Cuba on the Laurada,was given
a hearing to-day before United States
Commissioner Edmunds and held for
further hearing.
In Judge Brown's court at Perry,
Okla.. A. N. and Mrs. M. A. Drake of
Cloud Chief, Okla., were married for I
the tbii 1 time.
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Santa Fc PaaMensrer* Train's SeeonA
Terrible Experience.
Osage City, Kan., Oct. 6.A fright
ful railroad wreck, attended by seri
ous loss of life and made nidre terri
ble by the self-murder of- one of the
terrified passengers, occurred early
this morning on the Santa Fe road
two miles north of this station. Sev
en bodies have been recovered from
the wreck and it is feared other vic
tims are buried beneath the debris.
The wrecked train was the east
bound passenger No. 2, the same that
had such a thrilling experience with
bandits in New Mexico. The wreck
was caused by the explosion of the
boiler of the locomotive. The engineer
should have stopped for water at
Osage City, but being behind time, he
endeavored to run to the next tank.
Though it is not positively known, the
engineer and fireman having tooth met
death in the wreck, it is surmised that
their neglect was the cause of the dis
aster. The train had proceeded but
two miles beyond this place, about to
the Peterson coal chutes, when two
terrific explosions were heard, one fol
lowing close after the other. The lo
comotive was completely shattered.
The express, baggage and passenger
coaches came crashing upon the
wrecked engine and the coaches that
were ahead were piled up in one heap
of wreckage. The coaches in the rear
were all derailed, but the* passengers
riding in the rear escaped serious in
jury. The wreck was marked by
scenes of the wildest confusion among
the
Terrified Passengers.
The nerves of many were at high
pitch as a result of their experience
with the road agents in New Mexico,
End when the crash came the first im
pression of nearly all was that the
train was being attacked again by rob
bers. One passenger, William Beck*
ler of Los Angeles, Cal, en route to
Chicago, seemed to lose his reason en*
tirely. When the crash came he drew
a single barreled pistol from his pocket
and in the presence of a car full of ter
rifled passengers took his own life,
sending a bullet into his brain. Beck
ler had been drinking heavily. He
was about fifty-five years of age.
Owing to the excitement and con
fusion little could be done to rescue
the injured and remove the dead
bodies until this morning's sun ap
peared. Seven bodies were finally re
covered.
The dead are William Beckler, Los
Angeles. Cal. Engineer Strump, To
peka, Kan. Fire nan Harry Hollister,
Topeka, Kan. William McAdams, a
tramp riding on the baggage car and
supposed to be from Chillicothe, Jowa
three tramps, names unknown, all of
whom were riding on the baggage car.
Among those injured are Mrs. Em
ma Maxwell, an editor on the Evening
Telegram at Colorado Springs, Colo.,
hands and arms cut and bruised1
ford Burns, tramp, legs and arms cut
and bruised James Coleman, tramp,
cut and badly bruised.
None of the express men or mail
clerks were seriously injured.
Tynan at Liberty.
New York, Oct. 6.Lispatches have
been received by friends of P. J. P.
Tynan stating that he has been re
leased from prison at Boulogne-sur
Mer, France, and is now on his way to
this country. Mrs. Gertrude Kearney
to-day received the following cable
gram from her husband, George
Kearney, at Rotterdam: "Am starting
for New York to-day." It is also ex
pected that Edward J. Ivory, now in
jail in London, and Haines, the other
Irish "suspect" under arrest at Rotter
dam, will be liberated.
Rotterdam, Oct. 5. Kearney and
Haynes, two of the Irish suspects,
have been conducted across the Dutch
frontier. The failure of Scotland
Yard men to secure the extradition of
Tynan made their arrests of no im
portance.
Coinage of Silver
Louisville, Oct. 6.In reply to a let
ter from the Courier-Journal to Secre
tary Carlisle asking for information
concerning the coinage of silver, Sec
retary Carlisle replies as follows:
"From Jan. 1, 1S9G, to Sept. 30, 1896,
standard silver dollars have been
coined at the mints of the United
States to the amount of $13,912,512.
Since, Nov. 1, 1893, the the date of the
repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act, standard silver dollars
have been coined to the amount of
17,869,491, or more than twice as
much as was coined during the whole
period of our history prior to 1878."
Attempt to Wreck a Train
Baraboo, Wis., Oct. 6.An .attempt
was made last night to wreck a pas
senger train on the Chicago & North
western railroad near Devils Lake.
Four bandits were discovered ob
structing Ihe track by Tom Patterson,
who shot one of them. They returned
the fire and Patterson was shot
through the leg and hat. The wreck
ers escaped. A sheriff and posse are
in pursuit. An attempt was made to
wreck the same train a week ago.
Death and Insanity.
Eau Claire, Wis., Oct. 6.The five
year old daughter of William Hennig,
near Brackett, this county, was
burned to death to-day. Her father
had set fire to a straw pile and the
child's clothes caught from it. Hennig
has become violently insane from
grief. The little girl was the last one
left of eight in his family, seven hav
ing died.
Terrible Butchery.
Little Rock, Oct. 6. Great excite
ment prevails at Devils Bluff over the
discovery of what is believed to be
the blocdiest tragedy in the history of
Prairie county. Bud Chaffin and his
five children are believed to have been
murdered, and suspicion points to Mrs.
Chaffin and John King, 1 er paramour,
as the murderers
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American Sprinter Defeated
Dublin, Oct. 6.Frederick E. Bacon,
the English ehanpion defeated T. P.
Conneff, the American champion, in
the three-mile race to-day, on the track
of the Balls Bridge grounds. Conneff
retired after covering a mile and 300
yards. The time was 15:29 3-5. The
race thus decided is the first of a
series of three events for $500 a side.
HfRichard Musser. sged seventy-three,
one of the foremost and best known
lumbermen in the Mississippi valley,
is dead at Musestine, Iowa.
GIGANTIC
Wil
France built the Eiffel tower and
turned up her nose at the world.
England's retort was to lay the
foundation of the Wembley Park tower,
a stolid, stupid retort, for, even if the
new tower is a few feet higher, it will
be a mere imitation of the French orig
inal.
America's reply t the Eiffel tbvrer
was the Ferris wheeL "Anybody," said
America, "can pile steel beams one up
on another. It Is only a shade more
intelligent undertaking than heaping
stone upon stone but we have put up
a structure as big as your tower, and
It goes round, instead: of standing still."
France stopped to thinks
Englandhull-headed enoughbuilt
a wheel of steel bigger than'ours, and
further differentiated by the fact that
it sometimes sticks instead of going
round, and leaves peripheral parties of
merry-makers to spend a night in the
air.
All of this is an old story.
But now we discovered what France
has been thinking about, and that Is
quite a new stocy..
"Your big wheel that goes round,'*
says France to America, "and the *3ng-
lish bigger wheel that won't go round,
are only fit to amuse country cousins.
What do you say to a great, lofty
building that spins slowly like a ma
jestic top? You sit in a splendid halL
under noble arches, surrounded by
stately palms and festoons of flowered
vines, and while you eat your dinner
and drink your coffee and talk to your
best girl and hear the band play, you
look out of the big windows at a city
which seems to move beneath your
gaze like the cloth of a gigantic pano-
rama."
The inventor is M. Devic, and he
calls his big tower the "Palace of Prog-
ress."
This extraordinary sort of a struc
ture is shown in the architect's per
spective drawing. The outer room of
the building will move at the rate of
1.1175 meters, or about three feet eight
inches per second, which is as nearly
aa possible to two and one-half miles
an hour. A complete revolution will
Extreme DlvUton f I*bar.
In the manufacture of knives the di
vision of labor has been carried to such
an extent that one knife is handled by
70 different artisans from the moment
the blade is forged until the instru
ment is finished ant ready for market.
MMlMi
'And why," the teacher continued,
should we hold the aged in respect?"
'Cause it Is mostly the old men that
hat all the money," Tommy answered,
land the teacher wasn't able to offer
'ftBjr totter rtaaoa.
DEFECTIVE PAGE
thus occupy about twoVs
fche views of Paris and1
minutes, and
of the hills and
plains of the Seine and Marne coun
try will change as rapidly as the scen
ery changes when one is strolling slow
ly along a road. The rotary building
will be only half the height of the,
Eiffel tower, but, as it is to be erected
near the summit of Montmartre, the
highest point within the fortifications,
it will command a broad view, cut only
by the tower of the new church on the
apex.
The bearings are said by the mechan
ical engineers who have prepared the
specifications to be so designed as to
absolutely assure the absence of all
sense of motion. When you are not
looking out at the view you will be as
tranquil as in any other building, but
when you swing your chair so that you
face the window you enjoy a serene
motion and contemplate a constantly
changing spectacle.
The motive power which will suppiy
the force necessary to. turn the struc
ture will be hydraulic, and its cost has
been calculated to be only 87 12 francs
per hour, although each time that the
movement is checked the hydraulic
pressure* needed to give it a new im
pulse will represent an expenditure of
232.80 francs.
Rozier, the caterer and refreshment
contractor, who has made a fortune
out of buffet concessions at all the race
courses in the neighborhood of Paris,
ia the largest shareholder in the en
terprise, and Marchand, manager of the
Follies Bergeres, and of two or three
other less important variety halls, has
underwritten a large block of stock and
will control the music and the vaude
ville attractions, which are relied upon
to assist in drawing pleasure-loving
Paris to this vortex of delights. The
upper part of the building will be oc
cupied by a public ball-room to be open
from II o'clock in the evening until 2
in the morning, and the space imme
diately below this for an artificial ice
skating rink, so that the allurements- of
the Palais de Glace on the Pole Nord
,wIH be added to those of the Moulin
Rouge and the Casino de Paris.
15,
Xn Averno
'Oh, yes," explained Pluto, affably,
"ladies are usually made rather timid!
by the fire at firsts For a week or
two they don't do much of anything
but throw chinaware out of the win
dows and carry feather beds down
stairs in their arms. Yes.*
Whereby it was made to appear be
yond cavil that the ewig weibHche was
essentially spiritual and not, aa has
been strenuously maintained in certain
quarters, a distinctly material and
^therefore mortal "entityDetroit
Tribune, X*
AN IRON CONSTITUTION^
Hre Is a Man Thwi More Than F.U*
tn BUL
A genius in Tonawanda, N. Y., has.
constructed an electrical man- It is-l|
made of steel, and furnished with a
storage battery, capable of holding elec
tricity enough to run it twenty-four
hours at a 'time. Of course, it isn't'
alive, and yet for all ordinary purposes
it can fill the office-of a man.'&lln some
respects it will be an improvement on
the ordinary man. It won't swear,
steal, nor talk finance at the store while
one's wife does washing and kills po
tato bugs at home. In fact, it doesn't'
talk at all. This quality would have
made it an ejvellent presidential possi
bility in the ealier part of the season.
The inventor of this modest and unas
suming creature is a man of wealth,
and will immediately engage in the
manufacture of electrical men on a
large scale. We cannot have too many
of them. In case of military conscrip
tion a better substitute can hardly be1
conceived. Should we become em
broiled in a war with any European
monarchial effeteness, it would only be
necessary to send an army of electrical
men against it. Such troops would
need no overcoats neither would they
be susceptible to sunstroke. No mat
ter what confronted them, they would
trudge right ahead. The Six Hundred
that undertook to drive Russia out of |gg
the Crimea, and whose foolhardiness" 11
gave Tennyson such a nightmare of
meter and rhyme, wouldn't
ghost of a show in a race for fame^
along with a regimen of freshly"^
charged, steel-ribbed electrical men. m~
Here is your ideal soldier. The eleetri
cal man an be put to many practical
uses, such as plowing for the farmer
and doing odd chores around the house.
Several of the eastern cities have a^/
surplus of women. They will be un-AJ
able to find husbands without going i
west. Of course, no one will claim that %*tf
as a husband an electrical man would J*
be preferred to a man of flesh and to-t fj
bacco. But when a woman finds her
self slowly slipping down the decline of
spinsterhood, she's not apt to be 3
squeamish about her partner having vHi
such superficial accomplishments as a
talent for music, a flowing penmanship,
or the ability to use cuss words..' if
Every family will undoubtedly soon
have an electrical man to take care of.
the bees, arrange the line fence with
the adjoining neighbor, and to be in
terviewed by book agents. Dress one in
petticoats and a more desirable chap
eron could hardly be imagined. Let us J.
all extend the hand of fallowship to Jj
our iron brother.Life.
WOMEN WHO MADDEN MEN.
Do It Innocently, Because They Do Not f
Know How to Be Wives.
Women may\be charming, wholly de-f
voted to their homes and their hus- ^1
bands, and yet be so tactless, thought-
getting more enjoyment from the wife's
companionship. Of course there are
men who are always' out of sorts, spoilt
dyspeptic bears with sore heads, who
require strong mind's to manage thenv
but there are very many others who
only want judicious, sympathetic treat
ment to be the best husbands in the
world. Avoid being silly, avoid saying
silly things or trying to make conver-c
sation, or commenting on some re-"*-'*
mark your husband has made. Read
and thmk in order to cultivate intelli-^
gence and resourcefulness, with the ob
ject in- view of being his counseltor and
his friend, aird above all, his *chum'
that word means much."'London
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The Coat of a Drought.
The effects of the drought under
which New South Wales languished in
1895 are now registered in dry statis--|
tics, and the record is startling. The^
drought, as measured by the offiicial!
tables, may be said to have cost the
colony 2,000,000 bushels of wheat,, 18j-u Jj%
000 horses, nearly 400,000 cattle of va
rious kinds, more than 10,000,000 sheep
and 5,000,000 lambs! If to these ftgttrea
be added the natural increase, which
under ordinary conditions, the flocks
and herds and wheat lands of the eol
ony would have known, the mischiefs
of the drought take still more tragica?
dimensions*
1
Want a Farm?
There are still millions of acres oi
good land subject to homestead entry
in Minnesota and Missouri, in the for*
mer itate mainly, timbered,
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less and aggravating as to drive hus
bands to the extreme of misery. "Any
observant bachelor, could recall the
number of instances of women who, 3
from mere want of tact and intelli-,^
gence are almost driving their hus
bands mad by getting on their nerves ^J
They forget that busy men require ab-Tl
solute brain rest, change of scene,'.'"!
change of subject They forget that A
however worrying the little affairs of
a household may be, the anxieties of a
great business upon which the whole,.^
family's present and future depends^
are far greater. A friend of mm, who
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now nearly a millionaire, told me in
confidence that while he was sitting*^
one night over his smoking-room fire
wondering whether he could next day
survive a terrible crisis which wag'
hanging over his head and might leatL
to a disastrous bankruptcy, with debts
to the extent of 200,000 or so, his wife
came whining into the room to say
that the butcher must be paid the next,
dayand the amount of the butcher's***
bill was under 50!
"It is on such occasions that a man
wants a helpful wifeone who will tell
him about or read aloud the last good y,
novel, who will say, 'Come, let us go toS|
the^ theater to-night you need changef%^
of scene,' and above all, one who know.T
just when her husband requires noth-.
ing more than to be left alone. It is/ Jf
women who get on their husband's****
nerves, that drive them to take .bach
elor holidays when they ought to be fl