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I S E THURSDAYS
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Worthington, Nobles Co., Minn.
Terms:—Two dollars a year, in advance
One dollar for six months Fifty cents for
three months.
The OldEstablished Paper. Offi
-cial paper of the County.
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Editor and Proprietor.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tk Propoaea
A St. Petersburg correspondent says it
is not yet known whether the British govern
ment will accept the new formula, namely:
that Congress shall consider the treaties of
1836 and 1871, in relation to the treaty of San
Stefano. The British eabiuet doe9 not insist
on any particular form of words, but merely
demands that Russia should in 60ine way re
cognize the supremacy of Europe relative to
the Eastern question. The truth is that the
discussion about the formula covers more im
portant matters. One issue out of the pres
ent complications consists in undoing much
of Russia's work and Riving to the rest a
European instead of a specifically Russian
character. Another consists in what is called
the principle of cquhalents or comucnsation
to the powers for Russia's acquisitions. The
latter solution is the one Russia desires, while
Great Britain seems resolved to insist upon
he former.
Furious Stornis.
Th first stage from tlio Hilte for five
days arrived at Bismarck, D. T., on the 33d inst
ten days from Deadwood, bringing neither
passengers nor mails. The messengerreport
cd the road in an execrable condition, and all
stream* impassable, save the small ones this
side of Cannon Ball. All bridges have been
swept away. South of Loreati the storms have
been of snow, north of there of rain. One of
the heaviest storms ever known in that section
visited St. Louis on the 23d inst. Water fell
in torents, doing a great deal of damage. Near
ly three inches of water fell. At Memphis
Tenn., on the same date there was a terrific
rain and milder s'oim. It is feared planting
Interests have suffered severely. At Indianap
olis, Intl., about 1,200feet of the railroad was
washed away. The sama 6toim appears to
have extended up into Illinois where it did a
considerable amount of damage.
Detroit OAlce Destroye by
VI re.
A fire at Detroit, Mich., on the morn
ing of the dyth ult.. destroyed the printing
office of the Detroit Free Press. There were
in the building the chief pressman, two mail
clerks, the night engineer aud five pressmen,
all of thom escaped, after the fire broke out,
two of them slightly injured. The Free Press
company occupied two four story brick build
ings, corner of Woodbridge and Qreenwall
streets. The burning gas ascending through
the stairways ignited every lloor of the Viuil 1
lngs. An effort was made by the pressman
to turn on the safety h03e, and throw a stream
of water on the fire below, but the attempt
was abandoned as futile. The city lire de
partments were promptly on hand, but, des
pite their effoits, the two buildings were
thoroughly gutted by the tire.
Tim (."have Dtfalcatloa
Meetings of the directors of both the
Border City and Sngamore mills were held at
their respective offices at Full River, Mass.,
on the 2Gth inst. It was expected that state
ments \t ould be laid before the directors by
the experts who ha%e had the books under
examination. Those of the Border City mills
found such a condition of affairs as to render
a statement in.po«siule, and further assistance
will be given to the experts, and the books
will be examined from the organization to the
present time. The Sngamoie mills' books,
which are in much better condition, have had
careful examination by experts. The direct
ors do not deem it udVitcable to make the re
port public. The books show a deficiency in
cash, and irregular paper contiuues to come
of itu Old a
A novel discovery has been made in
the library of Lyons, Franee. It is a map
the entire system of the entire plateau of
Africa, which has been of late years explored
by Grant, Baker, Lhingstone and Stanley.
The system is traced upon the globe which was
constructed in 1701, and contains in detail the
sources of the Nile and the Congo. This map
was executed by order of Fathers Placide de
Saint Amour, principal of the Monastery of
the Third Order of St. Francis, by CrUpurien
Of Toulon, and by the mon'*s of Bonaventure
and Gregoire^both connected with the above
establishment The report does not mention
the name of the explorers. The modern
maps place the source of the two rivers slight
ly to the northward of that just discovered.
I an Father
Th jury in the case of J. R. Mick
lin, clerk in tho war department, for excessive
cruelty to his daughters, failed to agree
Judge TVylic said this was a c£se surrounded
by difficulties, lie was satisfied a verdict of
acquittal would shock the community, and
he knew a verdict of guilty would likewise
shock the community, for the consequences
to follow such a verdict would be as injurious
to the children as to their father. ITe hoped
their would be no other trial of the case, and
suggested that an application be made to the
court of chancery to provide a guardian for
the children and require the father to support
them.
Halne Uy(Oraln Speculation.
Mat. Weaver, cashier of the Citizen's
National bank, Urbana, Ohio,"is a defaulter to
the amount of $40,700. Weaver resigned his
position in the bank a short time ago, when
the defalcation was discovered, but it was kept
secret until the amount was made up by
assessing tho stockholders, and the'bank is
«ow in good condition. Weaver appropriated
over S75.0J0 of the bank's money, but the
directors recovered 630,000. Other citizens of
Urbana are lowers to a large amount. Among
them, Weaver's younger brother will lose
$30,000. Speculation in grain in Chicago is
•aid to be the causr
Pop I.eo'o a enojcHeal
A encyclical just issued by Pope Le
points out that it is wrong for society to coin
bat the church and the Roman pontificate,
especially regarding the civil principality,
which is a guarantee of its liberty and inde
pendence. The Pope renews and confirms
the protest of Pius IX against the occupation
of this civil principality of the. church. His
holiness is confideut that, with the aid of
God and the zeal of the pastors, society will
finally return tho homage it owes to the church.
The encyclical is generally moderate and full
of expressions of affection toward society.
«rea«ed by a lUlzzard.
A heavy wind and rain storm passed
over Cleveland, Ohio, on the aith inst. The
roof of the new Methodist church was blown
off, damaging Judge Yeoman's residence con
siderably in its decent. During the storm
Judge Milton Stullffa dropped dead from
apoplexy. Damage by the storm is much
greater than was supposed at first. The cast
ing house of the furnace was blown down,
Trusdell & Townsend's warehouse at the fac
tory demolished, and also the stack at the
manufactory and the city planing mill stack]
Houses, chimneys and trees were wrecked in
all directions.
Vatdl a a Sraanh-TJo.
A accident happened on the 26th inst.,
to the mail train on the Richmond & Danville
railroad, near Clover, 96 miles form Richmond,
Va., and resulted in five persons being injur
ed as follows: B. F. Gravely, fatally C. E.
Parker, Z. Intmeycr, seriously F. M. Iron
monger, Baltimore, fatally Mrs. Heyser,
•lightly. The accident is attributed entirely
to neglect. The train stopped on the main
track to coal and the train officers failed to
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signal a freight train coming in the same di
rection. The result was that the rear end of
the sleeper on the mail train was telescoped
by the engine or the freight train, badly
smashing the sleeper and freight engine, and
injuring the persons named. Other cars of
both trains were damaged.
Stepbea a the JUtn
••try.
The venerable rector of St. George's
Protestant Episcopal church, of New York
City, Rev. Dr. Stephen II. Tyng, senor,
preached his farewell sermon on the 28th
inst., Speaking of his ministry, he said it had
been no exception to tbe general rule gov
erning *he world. The labor and responsi
bility were great, and this, with his febleness
of body, led him to voluntarily retire. He
thanked the congregation for their kindness
to him, and said he had much for which he
thanked God daily, and nothing of which to
complain. Wheu speaking to them his voice
faltered. At the close he was led out of the
church, leaning feebly on the arm of one of
the congregation.
-""inifcer«l»»» Vls«««a»ly Denounced
Fifteen hundred people attended the
Catholic church at Milford, Mass., on the 28th
ult., attracted by the expectation that Father
Cuddedy would allude to the controversy
between himself and the order of Hibernians.
The Rev. Father denounced the order in the
most severe terms, and declared the pews in
the church, held by them, vacant, and warned
Americans agaiiiBt the order, as the Mollie
Maguirc disturbances in Pennslyvania might
be repeated in New England, he members
of the order declare their intention to adhere
regardless of the action of the church.
Th at Strike
A telegram from Manchester says it is
calculated that there are between eighty and
ninety thousand operatives Oil a strike in
Lancashire, about sixty four thousand being
weavers. Most of the mills were open on the
23d inst., so that the operatives could com
mence work if they choose, but none on the
strike resumed. A mass meeting cf operatives
numbering seven thousand, was held ut Burn
lay, and resolutions adopted, to the effect that
they should refuse to work unlil notices of
reduction were withdrawn. A small minority
opposed the motion, and prepared a com
promise.
Bugbee, the Def^alter.
Holt & Bugbce, lumber dealers, of Bos
ton, Mass., have prepared a statement. The
notes upon whicli the firm is liable as indors
er (in great part forged paper) aggregate
$313,109 of which the National Exchange
bank holds $60,593 the Blackstonc National
bank $tU,S47 the Metropolitan National bank
$33,464: the National Bank of Commerce $34,
075 and Richardson, Hill & Co., $19,208
The firm is liable on accommodation paper to
the extent of $52,000, making the total liabil
ities, disputed and undisputed, $264,224. Tne
total assets are reported at $282,993.
Sho by as Picker
Louis Larrault, an Italian rag picker,
of Chicago, on the 29th ult shot Nicholas
McCue, aged 18, killing him instantly. The
Italian had stolen some paper boxes from the
Novelty Manufacturing Works, and was mak
ing off with them, when McCue, in the employ
of tho firm, gave chase, and succeeded in cap
turing the thief, who thereupon drew from
his coat a revolver, and placing it close against
the left breast just bt low the heart, pulled the
trigger. Larrault was hurried off to the cer
tral station, to prevent lynching.
Th Crop*.
The Chicago Times prints dispatches
from nearly 200 points in Illinois, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota, Kansas, and
Missouri, covering the whole of the Western
spriug wheat region, which show when sum
marized, that the average is nearly 50 per cent
greater than last year. That the condition
and prospects are better than at aiy time
since 1800 that the season's work and veg
etables are three to six weeks ahead of the
usual time, and that there is an average of 15
to 20 per cent of the old crop on hand.
Vapt. Bartoa'a Dlatovery.
Capt. Burton, the celebrated African
traveler, commanding the Khedivan expedi
tion to survey the mines in the land of Midiao
has returned, bringing twenty-five tons of
specimen ore, comprising gold, silver, copper,
tin and lead. The captain found three sulphur
centres, three turquoise miucs, and extensive
deposits of gypsum, saltpetre and rock salt.
He goes to England to arrange for the
working of the mines for the khedive.
Willin at Aggravated.
The Times correspondent at Vienna
says all sides arc willing to continue negotia
tions, although there is some momentary ill
humor in St. Petersburg at tbe difficulties
concerning the mutual withdrawal from Con
stantinople. This is caused by questions of
detail, and not a change of mind, on the part
of Great Britain. Efforts to arrive at an un
derstanding on this point are not considered
abandoned.
Wrecke a Long I a ad S a a
The propeller City of N Bedford, of
the New York steamship company, with
freight and passengers for New York, went
ashore at the south end of Fisher's Island,
Long Island Sound, in the dense fog on the
night of the 27th ult., thumping considerably.
The passengers were landed at New London,
Conn.
he Troabled Texa Border.
Another Indian raid ia reported on the
Texas Northwest frontier. Raiders were seen
on the 25th inst, near Escandada, between
forts Coneha and Stocklen, where the mail
rider was killed lately. These Indians are from
Fort Stanton reservation. The Indians who
captured horses, and murdered 15 persons near
Larido, have made pood their escape.
Memorial a the Heath.
Memorial day was celebrated with
great ceremony, in Macon, Georgia. The
confederate monument corner stone was laid
by the Grand Masonic lodge of Georgia. An
eloquent letter from Jefferson Davis as read,
and an oration delivered by Gov. Colquitt.
The largest crowd ever known on Memorial
day was present.
a id in Mt. Loals.
Joh A Eag an architect who has oc
cupied a high professional position, was found
dead in his room in the building on the cor
ner of Fifth and Pine streets, St. Louis, Mo.,
on the 26th inst., with a pistol shot wound in
his head. It is supposed to be a case of sui
•ide.
Railroa Hold on Foreeloeare Malt.
The Eti railroad was sold on the 24th
inst, on a foreclosure suit by the Farmers'
Loan and Trust company of New York. The
road was purchased for six million dollars by
ex-Gox.E. D.Morgan, David A. Wells and
Lamher, who are trustees for the stockholders.
a a Kallroa a a Chicago.
The Chicago & Southern railroad,
which is the only opening for the Grand
Trunk railroad into Chicago, was bought on
the 24th inst, in the United States court by
Henry A. Rust, in the interest of the latter
corporation. Price. $155,000.
Chnreh.
Rev. Morgan, of St. John's Epis
copal chnreh, Cincinnati, Ohio, has formally
announced his withdrawal from fellowship in
that church on account of its Romanian ten.
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The Worthin
dencies, and his intention to uuite witn the
Reformed Episcopal church.
Deat In a VI heat Bin
A Lewiston, Winona, county, Minn.,
on the 24th inst., Willie George, ten years old
son of Henry George, of that place, was play,
ing in a wheat bin in the warehouse, after the
spout had been opened to load a car, and he
was drawn into the vortex and buried under
400 bushels of wheat and takeu out dead.
CONGRESSIONAL
S E N A E, April 23.—The committee o.i
military affairs, reported back the letters of
the secretary of war aud the general of the
army, in regard to granting certificates of
merit for distinguished set vices to private
soldiers,non-commissioned ofUcers and musi
eians. Also a bill to amend section 1,285,
granting two dollars per month pay to those
holding such certificates. Both bills were
placed on the calendar. The Northern
Pacitie extension bill was passed without di
vision.
O S E, April 23.—Almost the entire
session was consumed considering the protest
against the river and harbor bill. The House
finally refused to accept the protest.
S E N A E, April 24.—A bill was intro
duced to provide for ocean mail steamship
service between the United States and Brazil.
A bill was introduced providing for uniform
compensation for transportation of mails on
railroads. A bill was passed appropi iat'mg
$200,000 to provide for deficiency in public
printing and binding.
O S E, April 24.—The judiciary com
mittee, reported a bill for the distribution of
the unexpended balance of the Geneva award.
Printed aud recommitted. The committee of
commerce reported a bill extending the op.
eratlons of the light house board *ver the
Illinois river. A bill was introduced re
moving the political disabilities of Robert
Chapman, of Texas. The Pacific railroads
funding bill was then taken un and passed,
yeas 243, nays 2.
S E N A E April 25.—The river and har
bor appropriation bill which recently passed
the House was read and referred. Senator
Blaine from the conference committee on the
bill to provide for deficiencies in the appro
priations for the service of the government
submitted a report. A long debate ensued,
in which Senator Windom, also a member of
the committee, objected to reducing the ap
propriation for the internal revenue bureau,
and also to reducing the appropriation for
printing for the war department. He also
objected to cutting down the appropriation or
$7,500 to asceitain the depth ol water secured
at the south pass of the Mississippi river. In
regard to the S75.000 for public schools for the
District of Columbia Senator Windom said he
never expected that the appropriation of last
year would be returned. The report of this
conference committee, should it be adopted,
means that the schools of the District must be
closed. He argued that while there was no
legal obligation on the part of Congress to
appropriate money, there wa3 amoral obliga
tion to do so. The report of the conference
committee was agiecd to.
O S E, April 25th.—After a sharp de
bate the House agieed to repeal the bankrupt
law, eas 206, najs, 39. The bill as ameuded
is as follows: Tnat the bankrupt law approved
March 2, 1807,and for other purposes, approved
June 2.J, 1S74, and all acts in amendment or
supplementary thereto, or in explanation
thereof, be and the same ate hereby repealed
provided, that such repeal shall in no manner
invalidate or ellect any cose in bankruptcy
instituted aud pending in anv court prior to
the day when this act shall take effect, but as
to all such pending cases and all future pro
ceedings thereon, and all penal actions and
criminal proceedings arming thereunder, the
acts hereby repealedeliall continue in full force
and effect until the same shall be fully dis
posed of in the same manner as if faid acts
had not been repealed. A joint resolution
was adopted providing for a joint committee,
to be denominated the committee on census,
and to take into consideration the proper
method to be employed for taking the next
census.
O S E, April 26.—A biil exempting
from enrollment and measurement all
vessels trading with contiguous foreign coun
tries, was passed. The post-office appropri
ation bill was considered and several amend
ments adopted, anion? them one making the
compensation of fourth-class postmasters de
pend upon stamps canceled instead of sold.
The bill then passed.
O S E, April 27.—The amendments of
the Senate to the bill regulating advertise
ment of mail letting* were non-concurred in.
The Indian appropriation bill was then taken
up and passed. It appropriate §4,720,000. It
provides that whenever it is found practicable
to employ Indians in farming or other civil
ized avocations, in which they can contribute
to their maintenance, the commissioner of In
dian affairs may use such portions of their
respective subsistence funds as can be spared
to pay for the services of such Indians as may
be induced to labor for their own advance
ment. It further provides that so much of the
appropriation as may be required to pay for
goods and supplies shall be immediately
available.
S E N A E April 29.—A resolution was
agreed to calling on the President for infor
mation relating to the policy to be pursued
toward Spain on the conclusion of peace with
Cuba. A resolution was agreed to calling on
the treasury for a statement of expenditures
for the District of Columbia from 1790 to 1870.
A resolution was agreed to inquiring the
amount of money expended in the improve
met of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. Bills
on the calendar were parsed, including one
for the relief of settlers on public lands and
granting to the State of Minnesota lands in
lieu of certain land heretofore granted. 1 he bill
appropriating $75,000 for schools in the Dis
trict of Columbia passed.
O S E, April 29.—Several bills were
introduced, among them one setting aside the
contract with the syndicate, one to prevent
assessments for political purposes and a joint
resolution for constitutional amendment
making members of congress ineligible for
offices created or whose compensation was
increased during their term. The house then
went into committee of the whole on the
legislative bill. Tho conference committee's
report on the naval bill was agreed to.
Milwaukee Produce Market.
GRAIN—Wheat, opened Arm and closed Steady
Wo. 1 hard, $1 18/2 No. 1, 1.18 No. 2, 1.14/,
April, 1.14'4 May, 1.12JX June, l.UJi No. 3,
1.09. Corn, old, nominal No. 2, 41c. Oats, firm
and wanted No. 2, 26»ie. Rye, Bteady and quiet
No. 1, 60c. Barley, firmer No. 2, 60c May, 69i&
»9J4c
PROVISIONS—DuU and easier mess pork, $8.80
cash. Lard, prime steam, $6 90
Chicago Produce Market
GRAIN—Wheat, excited and higher at the opening
and cloned active, weak and lower No. 1 Chicago,
$1 13@1 13'/i No. 2 Chicago 1.12 cash 1.12'/g May
1.11 June 1.08J4 July has sold at 1 124@1.M!4
May No. 3 Chicago 1 05l4@l 06%. Com, active,
weak and lowor at il\e cash 41H@*l}»c May
41ifc June 4214 July rejected 37c. Oats, fairly
active and shade higher at -7c cash, 2678c May 27c
June rejected 24c. Rye, steady and In fan- demand
at' Oc. Barley, in steady demand at 48c.
PROVISIONS—Pork, in fair demand at low rata
$8.50©8 55 cash 8.50®8 62 May 8 70 June
8.87!4@8 90 Jnly. Lard, active, weak and lower at
$6.85.caah 6.87(4 May 6 95 June 7.721/, July. Bulk
meats, steady and in good demand shoulders 3.75
bulk short rib 4.75 bulk short clear 5.10.
New York Produce Market.
GRAIN—Wheat, heavy demand moderate re
ceipts, 188,000 buBhels No. 2 Chicago $1 18 No. 2
Milwaukee $1.29t @1.29Vi hard No. 1 spring 1.31%
No 2 red winter4 1 30 No. 1 Chicago 1 30 No.'j
northwestern 1 29@1.30. Rje, quiet and steady
western 72V4@74c. Barley, quiet and unchanged.
Malt, quiet and unchanged Corn, in moderate de
mand receipts, 47,000 bushels ungraded western
mixed, 49®56c steam 54K@-5Sc high mixed 55c
No 2, 55%@Mc round yellow 55®56c white west
em 56c. Oats, less firm receipts, 59,000 bushels
mixed western State 35%@364c No. 2, 36c white
36@40c.
PROVISIONS Pork, dull at $8.*XSH0.25.
Beef, western long clear middles, 5®5Ho. Lard,
•Mier prime steam 7.20®7.22i.
1 neolog In he a
Once on a time my cousin's child, a
four-year old boy, had to ''try on"' some
garments. Hi admiring mother, find
in she had made a bad muddle of the
cutting, naturally vented her own irrita
tion on the restive little figure wriggling
under the infliction of "taking in here
and letting out there.1' I ended in her
giving the poor child a slight shaking.
A night, as his- mother was preparing
him for bed, he said, "I was so naughty
you bad to shake me mamma, didn't you,
cause I wouldn't stan' still when you was
a makin' my new close, would I?" Then
suddenly, "Say, mamma tell me what
God has to do to the naughty boys up a
heaven that won't 6tan' still when he's a
makin' of 'em.
WORTHINGTON, NOBLES COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1878.
Minnesot a mews I
CITEtt TAIL COt'NTT.
Crops in Otter Tail are doing well.
A sturgeon weighing 95 pounds was spear
ed by a Furgns Falls man, recently.
A. J. Gibson, of Otter Tail Countv, who
attempted suicide by cutting his throat some
days ago, is likely to recover from the
wounds.
ANOKA COUNTY
The first logs of this season's drive reached
Anoka Monday of last week, and the saw
mills will soon commence work.
FiRIBAULT COUNTV.
The Winnebago City flouring mill has
been enlarged and greatly improved, aud it
is now one of the most complete institutions
of the kind in the State. Its capacity is one
hundred and seventy-five barrels of flour
daily.
Grading on the "Extension" has com
menced at this end, and as soon as a profile
of the work has been completed, a large
force of men will be put on all along the
route between this place and Fairmont.—
Winnebago City Press.
The Winnebago City Press comes out in
a handsome new dress with its issue of the
26th. Typographically the Press is now
one of the handsomest papers in the State,
while ita entire appearance is that of a suc
cessful and prosperous paper.
DOUGLAS COUNTY.
Efforts to learn the whereabouts of friends
of August Byrne, who killed himself at the
Minnesota house in Alexandria, have failed
so far.
Two prisoners, Langdon and Allen, es
caped from the Douglas County jail at Alex
andria, on Wednesday last. It is supposed
that outsiders assisted in the escape.
STEELS COUNTY.
The stock has been subscribed for a steam
flouring mill at Meriden, Steele county, and
work on the building is to be commenced
immediately.
MC LEOU COUNTY.
Judge Nathaniel T. Hauser, of Minneapo
lis, is about to remove to Glencoe.
The Glencoe Register man makes an im
perative demand for "the strawberries of our
daddies.*'
Mr. A. Baker, of Norwich, Conn., came
to this connty twenty-one years ago, then a
young man. He remained about two years
and returned to his old home, married, set
tled down, and raised seven children. All
of his household goods, on which Dr. Benja
min paid a $i)2 freight bill, arrived in Glen
coe last Monday, and Mr. B. and family will
be here this week. comes to make for
himself and family a home.—Glencoe Regis
er.
SIBLEY COUNT1.
About twenty tramps, who were stealing a
ride in an empty car, were switched off at
Henderson. Sibley County, one day last
week. They deliberately spread themselves
about the depot platform, to finish their
snooze.
NICOLLST COUNTY.
On Friday night burglars entered the de
pot at Minnesota Junction and secured a suit
of clothes from a trunk left there, and the
amount of ten cents from the money
drawer, after which they visited the depot at
St. Peter, where, after failing to open the
safe and finding only disappointment in the
money drawer, they walked away with a box
of cigars.
STATE AT LARGE.
Wheat is growing nicely, is the report
from all sections of the State.
New potatoes are turning np, or rather
being turned out of the ground, all over the
State.
CL1YCOUNTY.
Miss Norah Lewis, of Glyndon, who was
visiting Mrs. Dickey, at Moorehead, had her
face poisoned by some plant in the woods,
and was using a simple remedy. O Sun
day, of last week, she took by mistake a
dose of a mixture containing strychnine.
Fatal results were only avoided by the free
use of emetics. When the doctor arrived
Miss Lewis had begun to cramp.
WASECA COUNTY.
A son of Bishop Whipple is going into the
banking business, at Janesville.
Mee Brothers, of New Richland, Waseca
County, have made an assignment to Major
Dyke, of Faribault, for the benefit of their
creditors.
STEARNS COUNTY.
N. P. Clarke, of St. Cloud, has purchased
some 40 head of blooded cows from the
famous herd of Mr. Wm. S. King.
FREEBORN COUNTY.
Albert Lea has two new railroad depots,
very neat in appearance.
A tramp stole a watch from the house of
Jens Lee, in Albert Lea, last week, and was
caught and put in jail.
The next conference of the Danish and
Swedish Baptist churches will be held at
Albert Lea on the 6th, 7th and 8th of June,
A side-track will be run from the Southern
Minnesota railroad to Gordonsville, Free
born Connty, in time for moving the crops
next fall.
The twentieth anniversary meeting of the
Baptist State convention and central associ
ation will be held in Albert Lea on May 28.
A Sunday school convention is called for the
day previous. The committee on entertain
ment consists of Mrs. Morin, Mrs. Whitman
and Mrs. Dr. Smith.
HOUSTON COITNTT
The Hokah library has recently had an in
crease in tbe number of its books.
OLMSTED COUNTY.
Dr. Martinitz, of Rochester, will leave for
Europe about the 4th of next month, to be
gone for a year or more on a visit to the
"Faderland."
Two hotel thieves robbed the Winona
house, in Rochester, of several articles of
jewelry and other things, on Wednesday last.
One of tho men, named Perkins, was ar
rested.
The Rochester & Northern Minnesota rail
way company have made a proposition to
build through the village of Oronoco for a
bonus of $20,000, and the Narrow Gauge
propose to rnn there for $25,000.
A gang of lightning-rod swindlers are
operating extensively in Olmsted connty.
Many farmers have been defrauded. The
rogues contract to supply rods of a good
quality, and afterwards put up cheap rods,
and demand a higher price than that agreed
upon.
The Eyota &, Plainview railroad has been
permanently located as far north as the
county line, and the right of way secured
over a good portion of the entire ronte. The
grade for three miles, from the summit, at
Doty's, north, is about «0 feet per mile, and
the bridging and trestle work on this part of
the line will require a good deal of heavy
work.—Rochester Record and Union.
The granary and stable of Mr. E A. Her
ning, three miles south of Eyota, was struck
by lightning on Sunday of last week. A
window was shattered, and a joist or scant
ling broken, a fragment of the latter striking
a fine Clydesdale stallion on the head. The
animal, which is valued at abont $1,500, was
not seriously injured. There were about
3,000 bushels of wheat in the building which
did not take fire.
WATONWON COUNTY.
A monthly cattle fair association has been
organised at St. James.
GOODHUE OOCNTT.
The Swedish Lutherans of Welsh, Good
hue county, are building a handsome church
edifice.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Mazeppa has collected a consider
able sum of money to be used in fitting up a
free reading-room.
Dr. Prentice and Dr. Anderson, of Minne
apolis, have been conducting a temperance
revival at Mazeppa in conjunction with local
ministers and others. At three meetings 170
signatures to the pledge were obtained.
Miscellaneous Items.
School Mistress. N what arc the
principal things we get out of the
earth?" Youthful angler, (confidently)—
"Worms!"
Parsnips, it is said, greatly enrich the
milk of a cow: W advise our milkme
to try the effect of this vegetable upon
the pump handle.
A'scientific question worthy the at ten
tiohxf Darwin is, id the potency and
power ol white spots on the finger nails
exist in the nebular hypothesis t"
Ex-Congressman Vance, of Ohio, and
the pretty wife of a music teacher, are
the last to join the innumerable caravan
tha$has gone to hunt Charley Boss.
Jones moodily remarks that he always
keeps his word. which Smith sar
castically replies, "Of course you keep
your word, because nobody else will take
it.
In a winuow of a shop in an obscure
part ,of London is this announcement:
•'woods removed, messages takeu, car
pets beaten, and poetry composed on any
subject.
A Texas man got mad because a wait
er handed him a napkin the other day
said he "reckoned he know'd when to
use a han'kercher without bavin' no hints
thrown out."
"Ho does the new cow answer?" ask
ed one man of another who had lately
purchased an animal. "I really can't
say," he replied, "for I've never asked
her any questions."
Master—" Bridget, have you seen my
Ulster?" Bridget (usually very civil)
N sure and I haven't it and what's
more, I don't want to. brother had
one on his leg onst, and I never want to
see another."
Cad luck is simly a man with his hands
in his pockets, and his pipe in his mouth,
looking on to see how it is coming out.
Good luck is a man of pluck, with his
sleeves rolled up, and working to make it
come out right.
During a dinner the conversation hap
pened to tall upon the household affairs.
A gentleman said carelessly. It is very
disagreeable to be obliged to dismiss an
old servant, but still I must get rid of my
valet de chamber." W I have
been asking for a foot-bath for the last
eight years. has never thought of
it, and really I cannot do without one any
longer."
Jo. Cook is inspired. There is no
doubt of it. Listen to how he flung him
self in his Monday lecture in Boston: I
there is uny young man in this audience
about to be married to a young woman
of about his own age, that future wife is
now living somewhere upon the earth!"
The recondite proposition partakes ol the
nature of piopuccy. It is not mere coin
cidence. It is a real out burst of the di
vine flatulence.
A Danbury boy of pugnacious turn was
taken to task by bis mother for striking
a companion. Sh told him he must ask
the forgiveness of the wronged one.
went up to him, having his back to his
mother, and whispered through his
clenched teeth: "I've got to ask you to
forgive me for hitting you, and yoa'u
better speak right up at once that you do
or I'll give you something to remember."
The victim spoke up
A Minister was once engaged to preach
to his Sunday school, but after the little
people were all placed before him in or
der, he told them that some of them
might be weary and want to go out before
he had finished, so he would rather have
any who fancied they would like to go
to do so now, and then no one would be
disturbed. Fo a moment all sat still
then one little fellow got his hat and
went down the aisle another and another
followed, until not a child was lett.
"Your husband is sick a good deal of
late, Isn't he?" remarked a Southern Illi
nois woman to another one day this week.
"Yes," answered the wife, "he got tuk
down mighty hard with them 'er ager
shakes agin." "I shud think it 'ud be
sorter distressin' like ter have him 'round
the housa," remarked the ether sympa
thizingly, 'spee'ly when your house
cleanin'." "Wal, so it wu be, replied
the wife, in self-consoling tones, "but
when he's got into one of his chills, and I
want the rag carpet shuk, yer see he's a
powerful smart hand to hitch on to it."
Dear Mr. Hawkeye, should one take
one's soup from the side or end of the
spoon? Edward." Oh well, if you've
got so stuck up and proud that you have
to eat with a apoon, we don't snpposc ,i
makes any difference, but we should
think you would have enough reverence
for the good old days and grand simplic
ity of the better times, and take your
soup as your father did blow it until it
is cold, then lift the plate with both
hands, and empty it by steady and long
continued suction, making a flipping
sound with your lips at the conclusion of
of the services to indicate to the waiter
that you are ready E the next course.
It is thew fangl?d ideas that are driving
the old simplicity and the old purity out
ot style and existence, and crowding soci
ty to the edge of the awful precipice that
leans and totters in crumbling weakness
over the dark and fathomless abyss of
corruption and destruction.—Hawkeye.
Electri in Chicago
[Chicago Time*.
The new electric light at the water-works
was tested last night under the direction of
Prof. Barrett and Dr. Hill. Two lamps
are employed and are suspended from the
ceiling on the west side of the engine-room.
The lamps consist of a coil of wire, called a
magnetizing helix, containing a moveable
core, which regulates the movement of the
upper carbon. Tbe two carbons are like
the carbon of a lead pencil, only they are
three-eights of an inch square, and are
coiled with copper to make them better con
ductors. The ends of the carbon are sepa
rated a quarter of an inch, and it is the flow
of the current across that space that gener
ates the light.
As last night's test was a first experiment
of course perfection could not be expected,
but it was very satisfactory. The entire en
gine room was brilliantly lighted, nor was
any inconvenience felt from a glare, which
might have been looked for. The light was
somewhat unsteady, owing to the fact that
the conducting wires were too small, but that
can be easily remedied. The light was also
colored pale green, giving things a
ghostly look, and as the intensity of the
light varied the color varied also to blue,
violet, orange, red, etc., producing a pretty
effect, but rendering the test not perfect.
The color of the light is supposed to be due
to impurities in the copper covering of the
arbon points, which time and experience
will remove.
Each lamp has a power of two thousand
candles, so that the two have a power of four
thousand candles. They are also equal to
six hundred and sixty-six jets burning six
feet pa/ hour. The lamps as tffey stand will
brilliantly light a room two hundred feet
square with a parabolic reflector they will
throw a light by which one could
read a paper at ton miles, and
Advance.
the same light on the gallant
sail yards of a ship can be seen one hun
dred and twelve miles. The amount of heat
generated between the carbon points is the
enormous one of ten thousand degrees
Farhenher, and is the only heat that will
melt iridium. I it iron melts instantly,
and ia burned up like paper. The heat,
however, is not radiated, and does not heat
woodwork or adjacent objects.
My a E a
I never told anybody how very, very
near I was to death that night, just a year
ago but as I can now look and calmly
recall each thought, each word, each act,
I think I will write it dow as a warning
t» all who may find themselves similarly
circumstanced, hoping, with all my heart,
that the number may be few.
In the first place, my name is Frede
rick Putnam. I am, and have been for
the last ten years, the foreman and book
keeper of the large lumbering* establish
ment of William Winston & Co., and
hope to be for another decade, unless
something better turns up. Mr. Winston
is the resident partner and manager of
the manufacturing part of the business,
The other members of the firm, of which
there are two, live in the city, at the foot
of the lake, aud attencd to the sales of
lumber, which we send them by vessels.
This is by far the largest share of what
the mill cuts, although the amount of
our sales directly from the mill, to supply
the country to the west of us, is quite
large.
Well, one cold December evening, iust
as I was preparing foa home, I heard foot
steps on the creaking snow outside, as
presently the office dio flew open, as
though some one in haste had given it a
push, admitting a tall, stout, well dressed
man, with a small traveling-bag in one
hand and a shawl thrown over one arm.day.
I wa9 alone, Mr. Winston having gone
to the house some half an hour before,
locking the safe, in which we kept our
books and papers, and taking the key
with him, as usual.
I had already closed the damper to
the stove, put on my overcoat, and was
just in the act of turning down the lamp
—but of course I waited.
Good evening, sir." said the man. bust
ling up to the stove, and kicking the
damper open wilh his right foot. "Has
Winston gone to the bouse?"
I answered that he had.
"When I was afraid of it.-'
drew out his watch—a very fine
one, I thought.
"I shall not have time to go up," he
said. "The train is due in fifteen min
utes."
"Is there anything I can do?"' I
asked.
"I wanted to leave some money with
Winston. I intended to stop in town a
day or two, but 1 have just got a dispatch
that calls me home."
"What name, sir?"
"Anderson, of Aadersonviile."
I knew him then though I had seen
him but once before. had been one
of our best Western customers. I say hadi
been, for the rea on that during the past
year his payments had not been so prompt.
In fact, he was considerably behind, and
Winston a that very day told me to
write him, and 'punc him up a little,"
as he expressed it. Th letter was then
in the breast pocket of my overcoat.
"You can leave the money with me
sir, aud I will give a receipt."
seemed to hesitate^ which nettled
me somewhat. I have never blamed any
body since, however.
Ho much is my bill?" he asked,
eyeing me sharply.
I answered promptly, for I had struck
the balance not more than half an hour
before:
Eleven thousand seven hundred and
fifty dollars and twenty-three cents."
less than I supposed. Write
out a receipt frr that amount."
left the stove and came and looked
over my£houlde while I wrote,
I is all right, Mr. Putman. I know
you now. You've been with Winston a
long time. I can tell your signature
anywhere."
drew from an inside pocket a large
black wal'et, ycry round and full, and
counting out eleven different piles of
bank-notes, he told me to run them over.
It was a short and easy task, for each pile
contained just ten one hundred dollar
bills.
The ballence was in fives, tens and
twenties, and it took more time to count
them but at last we got it so that both
were satisfied.
A this moment we heard ih whistle
for the station. Anderson sprang for his
traveling-bag, and, giving me a hasty
hand-snake, was off on the run.
I closed the door and counted the
money again. Findin it all right, I
wrapped a piece of newspaper around it,
and slipped it into my ovarcoat pocket.
I did not feel quite easy to nave so much
money about me but as Winston's house
was at least a mile distant, I concluded
to keep it unill morning, when I could
deposit it in the bank.
I closed the damper again, drew on
my gloves, took the office key from the
nail just over the door, and stepped up to
put out the light. A I did so. I saw a
bit of paper on the floor, which, on pick
ing up, I saw was the receipt I wrote for
Mr. Anderson. had dropped it in his
hurry. I put it in my pocket, and thought
no more about it. Only that I would
mail it to him I would have done it
then, but as the last mail for that day
had gone out on the train which took
Mr. Anderson, I could do it just as well
in the more ing. Then, too, I was in
something of a hurry that night, for I
had an appointment and I may as well
state here that it was with a young lady,
who, I hoped, would be my wife before
many months.
I hastened to my boarding-house, ate
my supper, and then went over to Mr.
Warner's wearing the overcoat with the
money in it, as I did not feel easy about
leaving it in my room. Carrie was at
home, of course, as she was expecting
me, and, leaving my coat and hat in tbe
hall, I went into the parlor. I do not
think a repetition of our conversation
would be very interestieg, so I will pass
it, merely remarking that nothing oc
curred to disturb me until I arose to take
my leave.
Carrie went into the entry form coat
and hat, that I might put them on by
the warm fire, but she came back with
only my bat.
W Fred, you certainly did not
venture out on such a night as this with
out an overcoat?"
N coat!" I exclaimed, in a dazed
sort of way, for the thought of the money,
flashed upon me so suddenly, that it al
most stunned me
The next moment I tore past her like
a madman, as I was. The coat was gone
Then I was unnerved. I grasped at
the stair-rail, and caught it just in time
to support myself. Carrie came runing
out, her face pale with alarm.
Oh, Fred are you sick? Let me call
mother and the doctor! Yo are as white
as a sheet!"
N no, Carrie!" I entreated. "There,
I am better now."
An I was better. I was strong, all
at once -desperately strong. A what
-brought about this change!* That simple
receipt which I had in my pocket. A
derson had nothing to show that tbe
money had been paid and was not my
unaided word as good as bis?
I was foolish enogh to believe that I
could brave it Ihiougb, and I grew con
fide nt and quite easy at once.
There, Carrie I am much better now
The room was to, warm, 1 guess. S
some sneaking thief has dodged in and
stolen my coat? Weil, let it go I
was an old one, and now I'll have a better
one."
Bu was there nothing in the pockets?
asked Carrie.
It is strange how suspicious guilt will
make us. I really thought that Carrie
suspected me, and an angry reply was on
the end of my tongue. I suppressed it,
however, and uttered a falsehood instead.
Nothing of consequence, Carrie. A
good pair of gloves and some other trifl
ing notions."
I am glad it is no worse, Fred. N
if you will wait just a moment, I will
get you some of father's coats to wear
home."
Thus equipped, I left her.
Yo may guess that my slumbers that
night were not very sound, nor very re
freshing. I never passed a more miser
able night, and in the morning my hag
gard looks were the subject of remark
Why Fred, you look as though you
had met a legion of ghosts last night?"
3aid Winston. What is the matter?"
I had a bad night of it," I answered,
with a sickly smile.
"And you'll have another if you're not
careful. Yo had better keep quiet to
the way did you write to
Anderson?"
I do not know how I managed to reply
for the question set me to shiveiing from
head to foot, and I was so weak that I
could scarcely sit in my chair.
I must answer in the affirmative, how
ever, for he said:
"Then we may look for something from
him to-morrow or next day."
Immediately after he added:
"Why, Fred, you shiver as though you
had the ague, and you are sweaing like
a butcher! You're sick, man Come
jump into my cutter, and I'll take you
home."
I was glad of the chance to get away,
and, reaching my room, I locked myself
in.
Winston sent a doctor round, but I re
fused to see him. Then Winston came
himself, but I would not open the door.
Then my landlady came, then some of my
fellow-boarders but I turned them all
away.
A h! those were terrible hours that I
passed, and night coming on brought me
no relief. Can you not guess what I was
meditating? Coward that I was, I had
at last resolved on sell-destruction.
I commenced my preparation with the
same calmness and deliberation that I
would have used in the most common
transaction. I wrote a short explanation
for carrie, another for Mr. Winston, a
third form poor mother, and I sealed
them all. I a fourth envalope I inclos
ed the receipt to Mr. Andersen. Al this
accomplished, I went to my secretary and
took out the weapon of death. I was
simply a revolver, small and in significant
enough in appearance, but all-sufficiear,
Having examined the cartridges to
make sure that there would be no failure,
I sat down before the fire to gather cour
age.
It may be interesting to know that no
courage came to me, lor the desperation,
the growing fear of life—1 can in no wise
call by that name. I was simply cow
ardice. Yet, whatever you may term it,
it was all sufficient tor the time. I nerv
ed my arm, and, lifting the revolver, I
placed its cold, death-dealing muzzle
against my forehead.
In another secoud I should have been
lifeless but just as my finger began to
press the trigger, there came a tap on
my door
It startled mc, and hasi ily concealing
my weapon, I called out that I could ad
mit no one.
"Not me, Fred?"
I knew Carrie's voice, and a yearning
to look on her loved face got mastery of
me. Quietly slipping the tell-tale letters
which I had left on the table, into my
pocket, I opened the door.
Oh, Fred, you are real sick!" exelaim
ed Carrie, the moment the light fell on
my face. W did you not send for
me? Aren't you better?"
Worse," I answered, huskily but,
Carrie—good heavens 1"
As I uttcrred this exclaimation I start
ed back, and then forward and then—
I scarcely know what, for hanging across
Carrie's arm was my overcoat!
Recovering from iny astonishment, I
snatched it from her, and thrust my
hand into the pocket. I drew out eleven
thousand seven iiundred and fifty dollars
and twenty-three cents.
have heard about, and perhaps
seen, the singular capers of a madman,
or the wild antics of those crazed with
rum, or the grotesque dancing of sav
ages. Well, judging from what Carrie
told me, and from the appearance of my
apartment after it was ail over, I am led
to believe that were it possible to con
centrate the three above-mentioned
species of demons into one, their caper
ing and dancing would appear tame in
comparison with mine that night.
Bu I cooled down after a while, and
just in time to save Carrie's head a
thump from the chair or the washstand,
which I had selected as partners in my
crasy waltz.
Then I ask for an explanation. I was
the simplest thing imaginable. I do not
know why I had not thought of it before.
It was simply a blunder ot Carrie's father.
had mistaken my coat for his own,
and worn it down town, never dreaming
that a small fortune was lying idly In
the pocket.
Well I didn't have the brain fever over
the affair, but I was the next door to it.
I made a clean breast of the whole thing
excepting my attempt, or, rather, my re
solve, at self-destruction. N one ever
guessed that part of it, and I tell it to-day
for the first time.
I sent Mr. Anderson his receipt, hand
ed ever the a ney to Mr. Winston, and
went right on with my duties, a wiser
and a better man, I hope. An to-mor
row, God willing, I shall lead Carrie to
the alter.
Parents are often puzzled to help their
children when they get beans, buttons,
ect., in their noses. The Medical Record
says: "Blow the patient's nose for him
by closing the empty nostril with your
finger and blowing suddenly and strong
ly into the mouth—an efficient method
which has often succeeded when instru
ments have failed. Th glottis closes
spasmodically, and the whole force of
your breath goes to expel the button or
bean, which flies out at the
first effort."
,n.iy**r
HOME S I N E W E S
Persons looking westward for homes
can procure full information concerning
the A E S O Of, Iow a and in 4
sota, by subscribing for the Worthing- &
ton A A N E, published at Worthington .-,
Minnesota. Ben $ 2 for one year 1
for six months,, and 50 cents for three
months, to
NUMBER 35.
a
A A N B, Worthington,
Nobles county, Minnesota."
HOUSE AND FARltf.
Every family should cultivate small
fruits. A convenient plot should be set
apart for their growth.
I is said that a filthy man with filthy
hands, milking a filthy cow, in a filthy
corral, into a filthy pail, and setting the
milk in one corner of a hot, filthy kitoh-r,
en. is the perfection of filth in butter
making, and that the product will be
anything but gilt-edged."—Prairit
Farmer.
Cows giving milk need an abundance
of water. Th dry hay usually given -af
fords little material for milk, and even
with abundance of roots, unless water is
placed within easy reach, cows will tend
to fatten rather than to milk production.
A great difficulty in cold weather is in
having water so far from the yard that
cows will suffer long before going from
comfortable quarters to obtain it.
The Western Farm Journal is of the
opinion that neither cooked nor, ground
food promotes giAWth .and increase
flesh in animals commensurate with the
expense of grinding and cooking. I says
that there are plenty of instances where
feeding the whole grain raw has been
followed by as rapid a gain from a given
expenditure as when prepared food was
used. The Farmer is entitled to its opin
ion, although there are many stock rais
ers who differ with it.
Let no farmer be deceived. One year
ago, wise political and agricultural edi
tors said Prices have reached the low
est point. W are down to bed rock."
And yet the products of the farm are 3 3
per cent, below what they were when
these statements were made. W say to
the farmers, lay your plans, and manage
your farms for yet lower depths. Con
tract fewer debts, arrange for more profit
able labor, and be prepared for the worst.
We know this is safe advice.—Iowa State
Register.
It is stated, on good authority, that a
teaspoonful of cayenne-pepper mixed in
a quart of oil, ttn'd rubbing the harness
with the oil, will effectually protect it
against the gnawing of rats. It is also
said that an ounce of aloes to one gallon
of oil will afford the same protection.
Our remedy hertofore has beeD, and we
have never known it to fail, to hang the
harness up so that no rats can moiest it.
But as some people are careless in this
iespcct, the red pepper and the aloes
and oil remedy had better be adopted.
A friend at our elbow says carbonic acid
is a sure remedy.—Germantown Telegraph^.
many of our fair readers knowff
how to make what is called flpatingtJ9«
land?" There a be a number wJiqfcj
would be pleased to have the leceipt, auiL,
we give it Pu a pint of milk in a smalTr
tin pail, set it in a kettle of boiling wafeV*
and let it scald take the whites of three"'
eggs, beat to a stiff froth, then drop a
poonful at a time into the milk and let
hem cook about five minutes: then skim
them out into a deep *hsh. Take the yolks,
add one egg, sugar, nutmeg, lemon, and
a very little salt beat and turn into the
milk let it cook until it is as thick as
cream then turn into the dish with the
islands, which will rise to the top.
A leg of fresh pork, two tablet-poonfuls
powdcied sage, two of sweet marjoram
one sweet basil, one-quarter ounce mace,
powdcied, one-half ounce cloves, two-nut
megs, one bunch pot herbs, chopped £ne,
one loaf stale bread grated fine, one-half
pound of butter,'t\vo eggs, one tablespeon
ful salt, black pepper to taste mix all
with grated bread and egg take out
the bone of the leg of pork, rub the meat
on both fides well with salt, spread the
seasoning thick in the hole made by tak
ing out the bone, and tie up tightly and
in good shape, and skewer well put in a
dripping pan with water, and bake two
hours, basting well. This makes an ac
ceptable collared pork."
Oood Tool*.
Good tools are half the battle in
farming," some one has said, and I am
inclined to think there is more truth than
poetry in it I know it is a great deal
easier to work with good tools than with
poor ones, I have tried both and am
decidedly in favor of the former. Good
tools are far cheaper in the end than poor
ones. I is true poor ones usually cost
less to begin with, but the purchaser can
not do so much work with them as with
good ones, and then again, there are
many more lepairs to be made on them,
so that in the end they are the most ex
pensive. For instance, a farmer wants a
wagon his neighbor has two which ho
must sell, therefore he offers them cheap.
One nearly as good as new, while the
other has been run a great may years
and is weak in many parts. doesn't
know which to buy, but finally concludes
to take the old one, as it is a few dollars
cheaper and|he thinks it will do for his busi
ness as well as the other. S he takes it
home and goes to work. It does very'
well for a few days, but finally he get on
too heavy a load, drives over a little, and
wboa! his wagon has broken down. N
he is in a fix: his team must lie still a day or
two, his work must be neglected (perhaps
it is planting time, or he has a lot of hay
out) and he must go off right in the rush
of work and get his wagon repaired,
costing him more than it would to have
got the best his neighbor
offered him N wouldn't he have
been better off if he had god a good
wagon in the first place So it is in re
gard to plows, mowing-machines, liorse
rakes, and indeed all other tools which
a farmer uses. It is my opinion, and
that of many other farmers that the
best is the cheapest." Therefore, when
you want any tools, first find where you
can get the best," and then buy them.
.^te—
A Serpen Amon he
One day a gentleman in India went in
to his library and took down a book from
the shelves. A she did so he felt a slight
pain in his finger, like tbe prick of a pin.
thought that a pin had been stuck by
some carelesa person in the cover of the
book. But soon his finger began to swell
then his arm, and then his whole body,
and in a few days he died. I was not a
pin among the books, but a small and
deadly serpent. There arc many serpents
among the books nowadays. They nestle
in the foliage of some of our most fas
cinating literature they coil around the
flowers whose perfume intoxicates the
senses. W read, we are charmed with
the plot of the story, by the skill with
which the characters are sculptured or
grouped, by the gorgeousness of the word
painting—we hardly feel the pin-prick
of the evil that is insinuated. Bu it
stings and poisons us. Whe the record
of human souls is made up on what
multitudes will be inscribed, "Poisoned
by the serpents among the books!"
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