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-L Vol. XXXVIII—No 31.
Official News of Mower 'County h^^AL^-r'}
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN
Farmer Ben alwus was opposed to
the race suicide so fur as .families that
are able to support and eddicate chil
dren are concerned. It is gettin' worse
and worse on account of the big apart
rnent houses in the big cities where
folks hav no home life and where
babies are ruled out. Why, up in Min
neapolis a canvass has been made in
pari and out of 155 families livin' in
the high toned apartment blocks only
thirteen babies hav ever come while in
families in the south side and separ
ate homes 137 babies hav been born.
That is to say, for every eleven families
in Minneapolis swell flats one baby has
come while for every eleven families on
the south side 38 babies have appeared.
This tells the story more eloquently
than a windy orator. The homes
where wealth and refinement and cul
ture and plenty are, are gettin' child
less and in the homes of others they
come a good average while in the
families where filth and degradation
and squalor exist in the big cities they
often breed like rabbits or rats. These
conditions ought not so to be, I be
lieve in evenin' up such matters.
Every family ought to bear its share of
producin' a new crop of folks.
n.rutu* $ $
I tell you it makes a heavy drain on
my sympathy to read about the hard
life lots of the young girls hav in the
big cities. Up in Minneapolis the
other day a penniless girl drowned her
self in the Mississippi because she was
accused of some petty larceny and 1
noticed a while ago that a young wo
man down in the old Bay State had
suicided because the false tongue of
scandal had smeared her character with
the blackest of lyin' falsehoods. I tell
you girls in the big cities are hangin'
on the edge of the precipice of perdi
tion every tick of the watch. With lots
of 'em it's ruination if you do and
ruination if you don't. And to think
that the tongue of lyin' scandal wags
in small towns as in big ones agenst
innocent and unprotected and well
meanin' girls and smirches 'em so
it won't come oft'. If there's any old
worthless human bein' that ought to be
hung and thrown out on the dump it's
the long tongued gossiper that eats
scandal like vittles and gluts over
every nasty slur and hint and diaboli
cal insinuation about others. Such
folks ain't lit to throw guts to a bear
or swill to to a hog. They're in a class
by theirselves. Their hides ought to
be skinned off and hung up to dry. 1
wished that every country girl could
know where she is best off insted of
plungin' into the whirlpool of city
temptations.
«s
I've been down to the old farm for
the past few days lookin' after the
thrashin'. You bet that my renter got
his stuff into the stack in good time in
spite of all the threats of naybors to
cut him off of axchangin' help in
thrashin'. I tell you I like to see all
the grain in stack quick after it's fit
and go thro the sweat and when the
rains fall hard and long I know I'm
protected insted of bein' wide Open in
the shock. I alwus think of the old
times of thrashin' when we had the
horse sweep on. Those was the times
when there was lights and rumors of
fights. The driver of the teams on the
sweep alwus had the chance to whip
up one and let the others slack and nay
bors was alwus watchin' for such par
tial business and sometimes the driver
had to suffer fist action. It used to be
hard to feed the old cylinder by hand
and cut bands by hand and pitch on to
the table for the hand band cutter.
We used to think that when we got to
feedin' from both sides it was a big
progress and the grain used to roll out
pretty fast at the spout. When the
steam power came on 1 wouldn't let it
into my yard for years. But now
thrashin' don't take long with steam
power and self feeders and self band
cutters. And the blowers save the
man from gettin' into the the straw
pile.
$
Raisin' apples is pretty near as easy
as eatin' 'em. It beats all how the trees
I set out years ago down on the old
farm hold out for a crop. I've putter
ed round among 'em quite a bit and
protected 'em from rabbits and mice
and kept 'em down and it's just a treat
to pick the apples off by the barrel and
sell enough to more than buy 'twice
more .Michigan apples for winter than
We can use besides havin' all we can
get away with in sass and .pie and dried
apples and sweet cf'der./- I don't believe
there's a country in 'ttfe world where
with the same care folks can raise
apples and plums easier than rite here.
Ain't it queer that lots of farmers ain't
got ambition enuf to set orchards? I
ain't sayin' that trees don't need takin'
care of but they pay for the care all
right. I never got discouraged because
some of my trees got sick and died
after bearm' me a few bouncin' crops.
I just dig 'em out and set others.
There ain't been a spring for twenty
years tlfkt I ain't set out a few new
trees of approved varieties. The
braggy professionals may raise a hun
dred varieties if they want to but I
siick to the Dutchess and Wealthy and
Malinda and Northwestern Greenin'
and a few such standards and I'm get
tin' fruit right along while experimen
ters are gettin' the experience, I've
got apples to giv away this year but
none of 'em are goin' to naybors that
are too lazy to raise 'em.
FARMER BEJi.
$100 Reward, $100
Tlie reade»s of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science hastieen able to cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is thg only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. .Catarrh being a constitu
tional disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces^ of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature, in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura tive
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Tax*
Train Stalled In Tunnel.
The passengers on Grand Trunk
passenger train No. 8, from New York
for Chicago, the through Lehigh Val
ley tlyer, had a nafrow escape in the
tunnel under the St. Clair river between
Fort Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Canada,
on Wednesday. The traia was about
half way through the big bore when
the coupling between the locomotive
and baggage car gave way and. auto
matically set the emergency brake.
For half an hour the train was stalled in
the tunnel with the air steadily growing
thicker and more difficult to breathe.
The train crew averted a panic among
the frightened passtengers by constant
ly assuring them that there was no
danger. The occurrence was the first
that a passenger train has ever been
stalled in the tunnel.
FRIENDLY WARNING.
No Need to be Alarmed About Stom=
ach Troubles if you Use Mi-o-na—
CureGnaranteed by K. O. Wold.
Shortness of breath, black specks be
fore the eyes, furred tongue, dizziness,
belching of gases or sour food, weak
ness and debility are all. signs of
catarrh of the stomach. There is no
need to be unduly alarmed, for this di
sease can be cured by Mi-o-na. It is
the only remedy that strikes at the
root of the evil and actually cures the
disease.
It does not contain opium in any
form, acids, alcohol, or any other harm
ful drug or chemical. It is a pure
remedy that heals the irritated mucous
membrane, stimulates the solar plexus,
and aids digestion.
Ask K. O. Wold to show you the
guarantee under which he sells Mi-o na.
It costs but 50 cents a box, and your
money is returned if it does not help
you.
Another Railroad Coming this Way.
President E, S. Ellsworth of the Des
Moines Short Line and his wife have
returned from their European trip. In
speaking of the extension of the Short
Line, he said that the most of the right
of-way between Iowa Falls and Mason
City has been contracted for and that
the construction company which has
the contract for building the line would
commence work in the spring. Work
will be done all along the line, as the
contract calls for the completion of the
line by Dec. 31,1906. It heretofore had
been believed that the road would be
built as far as Hampton this year. The
survey decided on by the company plans
almost a direct line from DesMolncs
to Hampton and from that point will
parallel the Iowa Central at a distance
of from one-half to one mile, thus miss
ing Rockwell, but striking Chapin and
Sheffield and several other prosperous
towns along the Iowa Central between
Masou City and Hampton. Austin is
on the short line between Mason City
and Duluth and the road should come
here.
Cured of Lame Back After 15 Years
Siifier^g.
"X had been troubled with lame -Jtack
for fifteen yearsandil founda complete
recovery in the use of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm," says John G. Bisher. Gilr
'lam, Ind. This liniment is also, with
out an equal for sprains and bruises.
It is for sale by all druggists.
i§S Austin, Mower County, Minnesota, Wednesday, September 27, 1905.
As Others See Austin Tele
phone Service.
From New TJlm Journal.
Recently while in Austin, a repre
sentative of the Journal haid occasion
to visit the new Inter-state local ex
change installed in that city and have
the .local conditions "which confronted
the new company by the machinations
of the Northwestern Telephone com
pany, explained. During the construc
tion period there was hardly an obstacle
which could be thrown in the path of
the local company that was not, by the
Bell company occupying the field, But
after surmounting these obstacles in
the face of henchman of the Bell mon
opoly holding the ground and stirring
up strife wherever possible, the full,
ness of the Bell company's treachery
was not displayed until after the ex
change was installed and the new com
pany was ready for service.
At this point the bottom fell out of
the prices charged for local 'phone rent.
Many of the renters of the North wes
tern's residence 'phones have free ser
vice, unaer certain conditions. One of
the conditions, it is stated, is business
houses having Northwestern 'phones
are furnished residence 'phones free.
This course was pursued by the North
western people for the reason that it
would cut the new company's business
in the residence districts, if possible.
The local company in the Mower county
Capital did not make a charge for the
use of their 'phones to their subscrib
ers until they had overtopped the num
ber of 'phones the Northwestern had
in that city. This condition alleviated
the situation somewhat and it was but
two months that the new company gave
free phone service. Two mouths only
were required to secure over 250 'phones.
Immediately the patronage accruing to
the Bell monopoly in that city began
to dwindle until at the present time the
Northwestern company has decreased
about one-third in Austin.
Austia is the center of a vast number
of rural lines, which radiate ali over
Mower county, some thirty and forty
miles in length. Many of these lines
were constructed over a year ago, but
construction work has kept the local
company busy all the present season,
and many miles of rural lines will be
constructed next year. Twenty of
these farmer lines enter Austin and
control the situation in adjacent terri
tory. The switch-board which was in
stalled by the new company in that
city about two years ago has a capacity
of 1,200 'phones, but the manager of
the local company states that it will be
impossible to supply the demand next
spring on the present switch-board and
that it will have to be enlarged. At
the present time the company has over
800 subscribers and is gaining prestige
on every side.
The Austin exchange and the one
the local company will install in New
Ulm are similar, each comprising the
most up-to-date features in telephony.
The instruments were not purchased
from the same company but the systems
are very similar. The rates charged
for long-distance service to the Twin
Cities from Austin and also many
other long distance calls have been
lowered from ten to fifteen per cent on
the old rates charged, since the new
Company entered the field,
The merchants of Austin are satis
fied with the conditions as they exist
at the present time, and are aware that
they could never have reached the rur
al districts only in the way that was
employed. They state that the tele
phone connections with the rural dis
tricts are an invaluable acquisition, for
it keeps the farmer in close touch with
the markets and time of delivery is set
to the hour, where time is a valuable
adjunct. The merchants of that city
praise the local system and state that
they could not get along without the
connections with rural districts.
Advantage of Tile Draining.
By the use of tile there are thousands
of acres throughout this section that
can be reclaimed and made into the
best of farm land. There are many
low spots of an acre or so, that can be
drained and so remoye an eyesore from
fields in all directions. But the simple
use of tile to drain these low spots is
not the only use it will be put to.
When it has been used for these places,
the farmers will find the advantages
gained on the higher ground through
which the drain passes and they will
ultimately drain all their land, high
and low, and get better results in their
crop returns. Land so drained he says,
has been found to work easier, is more
mellew, can be gotten onto more quick,
ly after a wet period, being more por
ous it stands the drouth better, and is
less liable to crop failure.—-Hutchinsop
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURE.
The Christian Science church on
Maple street, recenly purchased from
the Universalists, was filled Saturday
evening to listen to an interesting lec
ture by Bicknell Young, C. S. B. of
Chicago. The speaker was introduced
by Mrs, J. ±1. Skinner in well chosen
words. She remarked that while not
a believer in Christian Science she had
great iaith in and respect for the Chris
tiSW^cientists. The lecture was close*
ly listened to. Visitors were present
froro-several other points, including
Maniey, Osage, Ossian, and LeKoy and
other points. Mr. Young came here
from Fairmont Saturday and drove to
Albert Lea Sunday to lecture there.
We give a synopsis of his address here*
nr. Young Said in Part:
"Christian Science may be defined as
the science of all that relates to God,
and is science not only in relation to
healing, but as corrective in relation to
all problems of existence. Accepted
theories of religion and science have
scoffed at the association of these
words, but reason and logic show con
clusively that science must relate to
truth, and therefore to God, since God
is the cause and basis of all that is true.
"Christian Science does not proclaim
a new God nor a new law, but comes
declaring the same God, and the same
law that Jesus declared, the one infinite
eternal God, who is good, and his good
and unchangeable law. Christian Sci
ence declares the omnipotence, omni
science and omuipresence of God as do
all other denominations, and upon that
basis shows that evil has no power,
knowledge or presence in other words,
that it is unreal.
"Christian Science never ascribes
evil to God or makes him in any way
responsible for it, but shows that evil
originates in a belief of material ex
istence entirely apart from God, and un
supported by science or Truth. Of
all people, Christian Scientists believe
absolutely in Christ. They accept the
teachings of Christ esus without reser
vation. They declare that his com
mand to heal the sick is as binding as
that to preach the gospel, and that
there is no evidence that it was intend
ed for his time only. It was scientific
religion that healed the sick in the time
of Jesus and his disciples, and it does
the same work now, and must always
do it, since his life and work were an
example for all time, and his method
was a universal and imperishable her
itage of man.
What Christian Science Is.
"The steps of salvation in Christian
Science are not unusual. As in other
denominations they involve the admis
sion or conviction of sin, sorrow for
wrongdoing, or repentance, and reform
ation manifested in a corrected life.
Salvation in Christian Science, how
ever, includes exemption from sickness,
want and woe, as well as from sin. It
is not contingent upon death, but it is
a way of life, a way of righteousness.
Christian Science is founded upon the
Bible. The Christian Science text
book, "Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures," by Mary Baker G.
Eddy, is a commentary upon the Bible.
Other denominations have commentar
ies, but no other book in the world has
ever accomplished as much as this one.
Thousands of people have testified that
they have been healed, some of them of
so-called incurable diseases, through
the perusal of this book. In some in
stances this testimony has been given
in courts of law, and has not been in
the least shaken by cross-examination.
Many of these cases involved the most
teitiole diseases known to mankind,
such as cancer, tuberculosis, locomotor
ataxia, and in other instances such
diseases as asthma, hay fever, St. Vitus'
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dance and others.
"It is erroneous to suppose
that Christian Scientists deny the
reality of things. -They affirm the
eternal existence of all things, and that
they exut in the divine mind in their
perfect individuality and proper order.
They deny the materiality of things,
including all the discordant conditions
that material things manifest..
No Quariel With Doctors.
"Christian Scientists are in no wise
arrajed against' those who believe in
materia meiica They were all be
lievers in it themselves until they found
in Christian Science a more efficacious
way of healing. This way they believe
to be the very best one, because it is
Obd's way, as sbown in the works of
Jesus. Although charitably dispos
ed toward those who practice materia
medica, it is a well known fact that
materia medica is merely an Experimen
tal system. Surely after four thousand
years it ought to be beyond this stage.
Furthermore, it is a self-confessed con
dition of weakness that combinations
of medical societies and the medical
fraternity generally should come before
our legislatures demanding special leg
islation the tendency of which is al
most invariably to shut out all other
systems. Nor can any valid excuse be
given, as far as Christian Science is
concerned, on the grouni of protection
to the public, since Christian Scientists
do not advertise nor sanction quackery,
and they believe in obeying the regula
tions of health bo trd's in lvlation to
contagious and other dieases.
Disease Is Cured.
Those who believe that mentality
plays some part in disease and its cure
generally look in the wrong direc
tion, ana say that the cures of Christian
Science are affected by mentil sugges
tion, hypnotism, will power, mental
science, which is spurious and not re
lated to Christian Science, or to some
other erroneous or material belief.
Christian Science, however, declares
that it is God who heals diseases
through Christian Science, and they of
all people know best.
The Discoverer and Founder.
We scarcely dare to think what the
world would have been had not there
appeared from time to time a man or
woman good enough to be touched by
eternal truth, and brave.and self sacri
ficing enough to stand for it. Mrs.
Eddy discerned and proclaimed to the
world the God-given freedom of the
ra^e from all sicuness, sin, want and
woe. She revealed the science by which
men may begin to realize that freedom
and enter upon their heritage of do
minion over evil. Spme time this
knowledge had to come. According to
the promise of Jesus, it was to be the
spirit of truth, the Comforter leading
into all truth. Some one had to be good
and pure above all others in order to
perceive it. Any great discovery along
a given line is always made by one
whose thoughts, desires, and studies,
are reaching beyond those of other
people.
"That Christian Science has a place
in the world's thought today is due en
tirely to Mrs. Eddy. There was a time
when she stood absolutely alone with
God, and incurred the ridicule of ignor
ance and the hostility of theoretical
forms of religion and material modes
of medicine because of her discovery of
Christian Science. Today the whole
world is uplifted by her teachings and
example, and because of it, human
thought is rising somewhat from the
depths of gross materialism. These
are the simple facts. I should consider
it presumptuous to praise Mrs. Eddy.
A character touched by the deepest
humility and illumined with love to God
and compassion for man is Christlike
it needs no eulogy. Her life is an open
book wherein are recorded only good
deeds. The signs of these times are
prophetic. They point to the gratitude
to God that is appearing in,: the hearts
of men for the life and w6irks of the
leader of this great movement, destin
ed as it ip to accomplish. the regenera
tion of mankind."
MINNESOT*
HISTORICAL
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Austin, Minn.
James J. Hill Speaks Wis
dom to Farmers.
1 resident James J. Hill addressed
the farmers at the Fillmore County
fair held at Preston last week and what
he said about stock raising and diver
sified farming is worthy of general at
tention. He said:
The farmers in the north tier of Iowa
Counties just across the state line have
no advantage in soil or climate over
you. But they probably gave up the
raising of wheat a little earlier than
you did. They probabl'y took up the
care of live stock, of cattle and hogs,
earlier than you did, and for that reason
their yield per acre, and I am speaking
from the United States census, the
records show that they are 81 an acre
ahead of you.
You are ahead of the farms in the
northern part of Minnesota about $2 an
acre, and I say this because I want you
to bear in mind that as long as you cul
tivate the soil—and there is no calling
in the world where a man can be more
independent or happier than he who
cultivates the soil—a man on a good
farm is an independent prince and he
ought to succeed. Your future will de
pend more upon the cultivation of the
laud in an intelligent way and the res
toration of the qualities of the soil that
give good returns. Live stock on the
farm is worth more ihan the price you
can get for the live stock because the
manure as a fertilizer is worth one
third oi the market
vauie
4
of the feed
you give the animal. And bear it in
mind always that, if you can sell your
grain, your hay or your roots at home,
feed them to your live stock, and get
the mantel price, you still get one
third more than the market price in
the value of fhe feed that you get to
put on your Held to fertilize your land.
Fertilizing is as necessary as cultiva
tion. You cannot go 011 year after
year taking the grain out of the soil
withort putting something back, with
out putting what malas grain into it.
1
ou cannot do this any more than you
can take gram out of an elevator with
out pir.t'ng some back it is just as im
pogs ',l
I wu.it to say to
YOU,
cultivate your
land, lake good care of it. Nolhiug' will
pay you as well. I came through land
today, some of it valued
as hirh as
$80
and
-ir'.'O
acre, out near
VV\ feoff
Other
land equally as good not cultivated
quite in the same way, at $60 and $75
an acre, and other land with less culti
vation at $45 and $50. Now I want to
say to you that every acre of land is
worth as much as any other acre with
the same cultivation.
And you gentlemen who live here
know that what 1 say is true, that if
the land is cultivated, say all of it, if
one acre or one field is better adapted
to grass, raise grass on it if it is better
to roots, raise roots. Whatever you do
keep cattle and hogs. I have all my
life, since I have had money to own.
stock, have owned them. I like to
raise stock. 1 had to win ifay way by
degrees, and 1 always feel that it is
morn pleasure to go and see a lot of
live stock than it is for me to go to the
opera. I would 9 great deal rather see
a lot of live stock, like I did this after
noon, than to go to see any show that
you could give me. Stock raising
means more to you and to the country.
Keep your farms. Cultivate them
cultivate them
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Ji
Stand by your
state agricultural farm. Today I want
to call your attention to this. I have
taken ever since it was started the
greatest interest in the state farm.
Km