Mower County transcript. [volume], March 09, 1892, Image 8

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THE TKANSCBIPT
'Entered an second-claw matter at the poet office
Austin Minueisota.
BROWNSDALE*
Mr. Ames Is addiug a kitcheu to his
home.
Ike Arnold has buill him anew barn
recently.
Mrs. A. Sims will have a house to
rent the 1st prox.
Miss Mury Sims has been on the sick
iist the past week.
Steve Baoon will rent E. J. Stimson's
house the coming year.
Mrs. F. Ellsworth is suffering from an
attack of the rheumatism.
Miss McLauren spoke at the Baptist
church last Sunday-evening.
Mr. Ellsworth, who has been quite
poorly the past winter, is slowly improv
ing.
Frank Miller (we are told) will build a
new house iu our thriving village ere
long.
John Donaldsou's wife and child
returned home from Grand Meadow Sat
urday. They came on the evening freight.
Miss Edith Woodward returned from
Dexter Saturday afternoon, where she
had been visiting with her sister, Miss
Ona, for a couple of days.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M. E.
church will have a donation at the city
hall Wednesday evening All are cordi
ally invited to come and help make this
an enjoyable eyent.
Mrs. J. C. DuVal is still quite ill. We
understand that unless she improves soon
Mr. DuVal will be compelled to resign
his charge here. It is earnestly hoped
that she will improve rapidly.
Chet Hinkson has bought the old Redi
bush eiajhty a mile west of town. He
purchased it of Frank Tick nor of Austin.
Consideration $1.S00. He will com
mence building him anew house soon.
Mrs. Sarah Carrebou, of Tracy Minn.,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Casseday. She
has been spending the winter at Eureka
Springs. Ark., where she went for the
good of her health and also to visit her
brother, Sam Britts.
SUTTON.
W. Arnat was over to Dexter Saturday.
John George was over to Dexter Satur
day and attended the sale.
Among others that attended Benner
Bros.' sale from this vicinity were W.
Welch and T. L. Rothie.
F. Strangeman and Floyd Thompson,
were over to the village of Dexter Satur
day last and attended the sale.
Georgu Seebach is still enjoying him
self visiting old-time friends and relatives
abroad. We wish him a very pleasant
trip.
Mr. C. A. Robinson, our new staticn
agent, is filling the bill to perfection. He
has renovated the depot.' with ths aid
of Mr. Cornforth.
While in the outskirts of Sutton we
notice that the wood-chopper's ax has
been laying low some of the majestic
oaks that thrive in our public parks.
The Main street of our thriving city Is
rather sticky nowadays. Why not have
it macadamized? Who will be the fiist
on Oak Grove avenue to show as enter
prising a spirit?
The crowning event of the season was
the entertainment gotten up by Miss
Bemis in District 106, and took place on
Friday evening last. Pupils trom the
neighboring districts took an,active part
in the program, which consisted of dia
logues, declamations, essays, etc,, and
interspersed with melodous music. Each
recitation was followed by loud applause
which plainly showed the pains-taking
care and hard study that had preceded the
exhibition to enthuse an audience of over
two hundred people to such rapturous
delight. It was the largest audience
that ever attended anything of the kind
in our midst. There were people from
Elkton, Rose Creek, Adams, Austin
Brownsdale and Sargent. The enter
tainment commenced at 7:30 and lasted
nntil 11 £0 o'clock in the evening, and
was pronounced a success by all who
attended. It certainly was a red-letter
event for Sutton.
WALTHAM
Very pleasant weather at present.
Was you up to election Tuesday,
H. I. Anderson is on the sick list.
G. W. Hunt went to Austin Saturday
Henry Sherman went to Austin Mon
day.
Genie Markham is sick with a sore
throat.
H. A. Waldron of Sargent was in town
Monday.
A child of C, Schieks died Sunday
morning.
Fred Dennis is erecting a new house
just south of the church.
A relative of J. A. Stephen from the
East is visiting here this week.
Mrs. L. S. Chapman is visiting at
Brownsdale and vicinity this week.
Mr. Boliou seems to be a little better
at present writing. We hope to see
him up again soon.
$500 Reward
for any trace pf Antipvrine, Morphine,
Chloral or any other injurious compound
in Kkause's Headache Capsules. For
sale by Opera House Drug Store and
A. Pooler.., tf
ADAMS.
Fine weather, bad roads arid rio news.
E S- Rolfe shipped a car of horses to
Devil's Lake ou Wednesday,
The Gund Brewing Co. are short of ice
here, their cold storage house being
only about half tilled,
The village election parsed off quietly,
the following being elected:
ADAMS Vll.IiAQK.
President—J Krohsbach.
Trustees-Anton Nett.C Cannnaa.H Lovold.
Recorder—H Carey.
Treasurer—W Cavanautfb.
Justice—0 A Ramsdlll,
Constable—A Nett.
OSLO
J. Anderson is on the sick list,
Locmis Olson visited in Iowa last week.
The Vernon burg is making 1,000
pounds of butter per day.
Ole Kaasa intends to erect a large
machine shop on 43 East street this spring.
We are sorry to learn that Albert Hon
kom is reported sick at Albert Lea, win re
he is attending school. He is sick with
pueumonia.
Tho Dolgeville Way.
Whenever any great manufacturing
establishment or corporation has suc
ceeded in establishing satisfactory co
operative relations with its employees,
giving them a share of the surplus earn
ings and creating such a cordial spirit
on both sides that there ore never any
strikes or labor troubles, it has befen, al
most without exception, brought about
through one man, the founder of the in
dustry. When that founder has died,
moreover, it is the history of such en
terprises that they straightway go to
pieces. If the Dolgeville system of di
viding surplus earnings with working
men goes down when its founder, Al
fred Dolge, leaves the world, it will be
a pity.
He came to America from Germany
when a young man, without a cent, but
with a good knowledge of how to make
the kind of felt required for the ham
mers of pianos. He could also make all
the parts of a piano. His father had
been a socialist in Germany and suf
fered imprisonment for his opinions.
The son inherited just enough of his
father's ideas to make him kindly dis
posed to the workingman, at the same
time that he kept his head level enough
to use shrewd business sense in all his
undertakings.
He began the manfacture of piano felt
in Brooklyn twenty-three years ago,
Eighteen years ago he went to Brack
ett's Bridge, N. Y., where there was a
magnificent water power, and estab
lished his factory there. The place is
now called Dolgeville and has 1,700
inhabitants. When Dolge bought the
old tannery and turned it into a factory
the town had scarcely a hundred inhab
itants. It now has the best of schools,
a fine library and a handsome club
house for the working people. It is a
beautiful town. Dolge's workmen hate
an annual banquet with their employer.
At the last one there were present 700.
The industries at Dolgeville now in
clude piano felt and sounding boards
for pianos, with other articles made
from lumber, and felt shoes. The feature
in which all the world is interested,
however, is Mr. Dolge's provision for
his workingmen. The provision is made
from the surplus earnings of the fac
tories. It embraces a pension system
for old age, a life insurance plan by
which the lives of all employees are in
sured, and third an endowment scheme.
By this last an employee who has
worked for the firm over five consecu
tive years has credited to him each year
such an amount as he has produced for
the firm above his wages. He gets 6 per
cent, on this amount, and the principal
is paid to him when he is sixty years
old. If, On the other hand, he has
caused a loss to the firm, the loss is
charged against his endowment account.
If at the end of a year it is shown that
any department has made unusual prof
its, the surplus is divided with the
workmen in that department. Mr.
Dolge's creed is that capital and labor
should divide the profits between them.
In 1877 the appropriation for Indian
education was $20,000. This year it is
$2,250,000. Public sentiment has stead
ily grown in favor of educating young In
dians and reclaiming them from the wild
state in which, with present surround
ings, they fall lower and lower and are
a menace to civilization. The wild cat
tle of Texas are being gradually trans
formed into beef animals that would be
a credit to the Kentucky Blue Grass
region in time the Indiagi, too, may be
transformed by education, moral and
intellectual, into a civilized man. But
it will require time and the expenditure
of money, and that money should be ap
propriated by the general government.
There are about 50,000 Indian youths in
the country, and the cheapest thing to
do with them will be to teach them, the
three R's and trades suited to them.
D-PRICE'S
Jssfci
.Joys That Fade
Quoting from Bishop Phillips Brooks
a comment on "the vast power to make
one another unhappy" that is possessed
by mortals, the Philadelphia Pnblio Led
ger proceeds to investigate whether thore
are not some individual joys so inde
pendent of others that we oan make
them permanently ours, and no man,
woman or child will have power over us
to take them away from us. The Led
ger thinks there are such sources of hap
piness—plenty of them.
First of all is mentioned tho joy of
perfect work—"the hope of excellence."
For this kind of happiness we must have
a work we love. We place before our
mind's vision an ideal of excellence and
beauty in that work. No matter what
it is—it may be one of the mechanical
trades, it may be a farm or a vegetable
garden, or it may be the loftiest dream
of rapturous perfection that ever il
luminated the brain of poet, painter or
sculptor. Whatever it is if we keep be
fore us the desire and the determination
to reach perfection in that work then wo
cannot be all unhappy. We are artists,
loving our work, and no mortal can rob
us of this triumphant joy. Emerson
said. "A man is relieved and gay when
he has put his heart into his work and
done his best, but what ho has said or
done otherwise shall give him no peace."
Another joy made little of in this life
is the pure and exalted happiness of lov
ing people, and helping them jur.t be
cause you like to do so, without looking
for any return price to be paid by them.
Some one has said that it is no true love
which exacts a return. If it is true love,
it desires only the happiness of the be
loved. It matters not whether the one
beloved cares for the one whose affec
tions are fixed on him it matters not
whether they ever meet in this life—the
one who loves for the sake of loving aud
of wishing good to the object of his af
fections is the only true lover. So they
say.
The Ledger mentions, too, the joy of
sterling character. Your reputation is
what other people think of you. Your
character is what you know yourself to
be. Your character is bad indeed when
you know in your heart that you are dis
honest, or a teller of falsehoods, or any
thing you would not be willing the
whole world should know you to be. If
you can look yourself in the face in the
58 and feel conscious that there is
not a shade of deception or hatred or
envy or desire to injure or crow over
another, if you know as you look at
yourself that you would not wrong an
other out of a dollar to get on in the
world yourself, that you would say no
word about a person that you would not
say to him, that you have not an opinion
on any subject that you would sneak
ingly hide from men because it is un
popular, then indeed you have in your
self a joy that mankind cannot give or
take away.
The Ledger says further:
Those aro bat a few of the many joys with
which no opo may meddle. There is a sense of
beauty, the delight in nature or art, the love of
learning or literature, the joy of thought and
truth, the enthusiasm in a good cause. It is
well to receive with gratitude or endure with
fortitude all the good or the ill which tha
world may bring us, but it is also well to lay
up treasures of joy in the secret recesses of our
hearts, with which no band can meddle and
which no circumstances can pweep away.
Bad Country for Newspapers.
There is no such thing as a really free
country on earth, social philosophers
say. But that some are considerably
freer than others is proved by the arrest
of the editors of the Cologne Gazette
for criticizing the celebrated speech
made recently by the German emperor
at Brandenburg, in that speech his
majesty recommended everybody who
did not support him, Emperor Billy
to shake the dust from his feet and get
out of Germany. He further said he
would "grind to powder those who op
posed him."
If a monarch in any other kingdom of
Europe except Russia had made such
silly and violent remarks, every newspa
per in the realm would have been out in
criticism against him next morning and
spoken in no measured terms. Thus much
has been gained for the press—even in
Europe. But in Germany this foolish
ruler will allow no criticism of any
his. acts in the newspapers. One thing
is plain, he is brewing for himself such
a storm that one of these days, unless
meantime he learns to keep his month
shut and modify his notions to suit the
requirements of modern times, his king
dom will come tumbling down over his
head. Instead of leaving Germany his
subjects will rise in a body and make
him leave it, that in short order too.
William seems to have never heard of
the French revolution.
When you write a letter to anybody
asking information which will be of in
terest or benefit only to yourself, inclose
a stamp. Always inclose a stamp. It
is enough of a bore to the other person
to write the letter and furnish the paper
and envelope.
Powder
Consolidated New York.
There is one way in which New York
city oan remain larger than Chicago for
fifty years to come, and it is a sure way.
It is the way adopted by the windy west
ern city itself just before a census. It is
easy and simple—merely the taking in
of the outlying districts.
For some years a commission has been
at work quietly making arrangements
for such a consummation. Its fiw^i re
port and recommendations have been
laid before the New York legislature for
acceptance and action. The commis
sion, at the head of which is the indefati
gable Andrew H. Green, asks the legis
lature to empower it to prepare a bill for
submission to the voters of the districts
concerned. The enlargement proposed
will take in Brooklyn, Staten Island,
part of the district lying immediately
north of the present limits of New York,
also a portion of the suburbs of Brook
lyn. Thus New York, Brooklyn, Staten
Island and a number of outlying towns
will be consolidated into one tremendous
New ¥ork with a population of not less
tljan 3,800,000. Then if two more
bridges are built between New York
and Brooklyn, and in some way not yet
clear rapid transit can be secured from
the upper end of New York city to the
Battery, and from Staten Island to New
York and Brooklyn, the sun will never
shine upon a more magnificent city than
this will be before many years. New
York seems bound to take this step in
self defense. The bitterest opposition to
it would probably come from the mayors
and town councils of Brooklyn and the
small suburban towns, who do not want
to be deprived of their civic dignities.
As soon as 1 discover my opinions to
be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce
them.—Abraham Lincoln.
DIED
RILDEBRAND—At Lyle, Minn., March 8tb,
l-l!9. Mrs. Mary Hiidebrand, aged 75 years,
of la grippe and old atre.
She was the wife of Bev. C. A. Hiidebrand.
a
German Lutheran preacher, wbo came from
Illinois to Mower county in 1858, and preached
to tbe scattered members of that nationality
and faith from St. Ansgar on the south to
Rochester on tbe nortb, tbe first in tbe whole
region. Eventually a small cburob was built
near hta residence, Mr*. Hiidebrand was
born in Oldenburg, Germany, In 1S16, and
bore her husband eight children. Sbe lost
her busband iu Deoember, 1864, and remained
on tbe farm bo bad pre-empted for ten years
thereafter. Sbe bas since lived with her
children at Adams and Lyle. Sbe was a de
vout woman, a kind pnront and neiirbbor and
bad enjoyed good health till eight days pre
vious to ber death. Seven of her children
survive to mourn her loss, one of wbom, Mrs.
A. D. Harris, is a resident of Austin.
worth
TWICE
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Used in' Millioifs of H6&&-- 4.0 Years the Staudard..|^ 'k$£- 3
good pair of boy's
(age 4 to 14 years
at 19 cents.
A good outing flannel waist,
(age 4 to 14 years)
at 19 cents.
FRENCH & WRIGHT.
Never again can you buy lands in Mower
County as
CHEAP AS NOW,
ago. We are always "in it" and on the
front seat in the land business.
Among other lands we have:
Sec. 1-104-17, Waltham.
20-104-16, Sargent.
30-104-16, Sargent.
4-103-16, Dexter.
60 dozen Champion socks,
(worth $1.50) at,90c. doz.
Only in dozens.
A good overall, sold at not
less than 65c. and some
charge 75 cts. for no
better price 38c.
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YOU HAVE
LAND TO
WE WILL BUY IT.
We also Loan IMoney, Make Collections,
Write Insurance, and do a
GENERAL LAW BUSINESS.
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Lands.
for all they are
what they were three years
Sec.. 1-103-16, Dexter.
24-102-15, Clayton.
1-102-16, Marshall.
34-103-15, Grand Meadow