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i &UAW. It is stated that the revision of the Old Testament will be completed in July. Hon. Eugene Wilson of Minnea polis, win deliver the address Decora tion day at Anoka. On tiie Pennsylvania Railway the average consumption of fuel for all passenger trains is 56 pounds per train mile. The editor of the Rat Portage Pro gress, (Manitoba) says: "1 still slip port my reputation by publishing a newspaper, and my family by sawing wood." We regret to learn that Brother Parke of the Pope Co. Press is in poor heath. He is improving now, how ever, and we hope will continue to do so. It remains to be seen whether the district convention on the 28th Avill be the end or the real beginning of the contest bet ween Seheffer and Fletcher in the Fourth Congressional District. Republicans of the Fifth District can by reviewing their experience of two years ago, form a good opinion of the contest now going on between Schefter and Fletcher iu the Fourth District. H. A. Castle has been elected chair man and Mr. D. Flower secretary of the Republican state central commit tee. These men have git-up and-git qualities which bespeak an active cam paign this Fall. Aniens the items in the Agricultu ral Appropriation bill as amended by Senate committee are $50,000 for sor ghums experiments, $20,000 for ar tesian wells to reclaim arid lands, $15,000 for encouragement of silk cul ture. The Inter-Ocean states that dele gates to the Chicago convention will have six admission tickets besides their own. Alternates will have but one each. All the railroad lines to Chicago will sell round trip tickets at reduced rates. At Norwich, England, a drive well has been put down to a depth of 157 feet, and might have been driven deeper if required. The tube was two inches internal diameter. At mon treal, Canada a drive well tube has been driven 174 feet. When the animals are turned out to grass provide them with salt freely and regularly. Main- good farmers prefer placing rock salt where stock can get to it at all times. When this is done the animals will never take more salt than is srood for them. At the Methodist General Confer once in Philadelphia the following bishops were elected: Dr. Isiude, President of Garrett Biblical Iustitute Dr. J. M. Walden, of the Western Methodist Book Concern, Cincinnati Dr. W. F. Mallalieu and Dr. C. H. Fowler, of Chicago. OrtonvilleXorth Star: The Demo crats of the Fifth expect to 'gobble' up the Kindred vote at the coming election. In making these calcula tions, they reckon without their host, for the vote of Mr. Kindred's friends wili be caste for the Republican candi date, Hon. Knute Nelson. The Kin dred men are under no obligation to the Democrats. Do not turn stock on pastures too early give the grass a chance to get fairly started. After months of winter feeding there is nothing like freshgreen food to quicken the action of any ani mal's system but it is better to give a ration of bran and flaxseed meal oc casionally for that purpose than to in jure the pasture when grass is starting. Orange Jndd, who has ably managed and edited the American Agricultur ist for thirty years, has retired from the latter paper and removed to Clii cago, where he is employed as editor of the Prairie Farmer. We wish Mr. Judd great success in his new field of labor, we congratulate the Prairie Farmer on its good fortunate in pro curing the services of so valuable a coworker. The Livingston hotel has favored us with a specimen copy of their bill of fare. This hotel, be it remembred is conducted on the European plan. After selecting such dishes as we would probably want for a dinner and noting the price, we find that a single meal would cost $3.65. This for rural editors and other high toned people would be just the thing but for ordi nary humanity it is rather exdensive. Eugene Field in Chicago Daily News: There is probably no truth in the rumor that Henry Villard intends returning to the newspaper business. Still we are of the opinion that if he were to prove as big a failure in journalism as he has proved in rail roading, he would undoubtedly com manda potent influence in New York and would eventually rank among the leading civil service reformers of the age. Exchange: Most Western corn growers fully understand why the crop failed last year late planting poor seed, seed grown in a wrong lati tude, and early frosts. They can not hasten the advent of spring, or put off autumn frosts, but they will be likely to see to the seed part of the business this year. It will take at least three or four good corn crops to render them again careless in this matter after that the forgetful may again look out for a corn failure. Minneapolis Tribune: On Satur day and Sunday last ten thousand im migrants landed at Castle Garden. Most of these are bound for the North western states, where many of them have friends. No wonder the Great Northwest is rapidly being trans formed from a wilderness to a garden •When it is constantly receivings such additions to its working fcrce. The European immigrant no longer con tents himself with stopping in New York and running for alderman his eyes are fixed on the wheat fields of Minnesota and Dakota, and he is never satisfied till he holds a warranty deed to a portion of the wealth pro ducing soil of the finest poor man's country in the' world. Now that most people have sold their wheat, the bulls have taken possession of the market and up goes the price of the golden grain. A correspondent to an agricultural paper says: "I wish some one to tell me which it costs most to produce, a pound of beef, live weight, at three years old, or a pound of horse flesh live weight at four years old. My own opinion is, there is more money in raising good roadsters and draft-horses than in fattening beef animals. An any rate, this is a ques tion worthy the the thoughtful con sideration of famers." Prairie Farmer: About every "ready reckoner," "guide," "calcula tor," or memorandum book ottered to farmers contains one or more rules for judging the weight of animals by measurement. These rules arc repro duced by the general newspapers, and sometimes even by agricultural journ als. This is well enough, perhaps, as the liiersurenients, if carefully made, may give the real weight, appoxinia tely, quite as near as the guess of the so-called expert cattle traders but good farm scales, accurate to the fraction of an ounce, are now so cheap that all guess-work should be general ly abandoned. Such a scale is one of the necessities in intelligent and profitable farming. A large interest on the cost will be saved in buying and selling produce. The Inter-Ocean describes a nove invention as follows: An injenious fellow in Ohio has constructed a sheet iron lien that promises to lay him a golden egg. It is finished up to life, full size, cakles clucks, and looks with one eye at a time so naturally that it will deceive the oldest lieu hawk in the country It is so arranged that when a hawk mink, or polecat pounces on to it, the back springs open and the wings fly up and the assailant drops on to a rav enous buzz saw that makes-1,700 revo tions fer minute. At'toi moving half a minute the saw stops, the hen closes up, folds its wings, and begins to cackle as though it had just laid an egg. One winding up will answer for three massacres, provided the rather delicate machinery does not get clogged up too much with the blood, bones, and feathers. He set a freshly painted one out in the sun to dry the other day, which attracted the atten tion of a fine old cat belonging to a doctor who had been poking a great deal of fun at the fool thing. The hen is there but the cat is hence. Wheat Not "Gone to the:Dogs." Correspondence iu Prairie Farmer: A letter just in from a prairie farmer, exhibits great fear on the part of him self and neighbors as to the future of the wheat market, and lie asks "if the wheat crop as a source ot profit for American farmers, has not gone to the bow-wows." There are multi tudes of others in the same anxious state of mind, brought on by tk& present very low prices as compared with a few past years, and reports of future strong competition from India, Australia, Southeastern Europe, etc. It is true that we are in part realiz ing what this pen predicted two and three years past, viz, that if the spec ulators were not choked off, the natural export would be checked, and the unatural high prices maintained would stimulate the development of supplies from distant regions. (As we write this, the telegraph brings word of the financial fr tilure of one of the great speculators who was the leader in the most u ufortunate grain pool ever started-—unfortunate for farmers and for t'ae entire country. Few tears will be ,hed over this Kcene chastisement—or that a man who in such ways got together a large part of his seven millions, should now go down under a -eall for a paltry few thousands.) Startling Facts. Permit me r. Editor to give your readers some facts from good authority. The statistics of the Treasury Dept. at Washington declare the annual cost of alcoholic beverages in the U. S. to be not far from $700,000,000. Our schools cost us $85,000,000 annually. Our libraries are worth $50.000,.000 Our gifts to missions are less than $5,000,000 annually. How .do these figures look to patriotic citizens? Are they not some what alarming? To me it is a startling fact that while from $12,000 to $20,000 has annually been finding its way into the pockets of our saloon keepers, we are unable to sustain preaching in our churches. We are unable to have necessary work done to our streets and we are too poor to have a much needed school house built. And it is also an astounding fact that our good christian "business men," for whose success the prayers of the saints are weekly offered up, are sofearful of injuring the saloon in terests and "driving away trade,'' that they not only oppose the "no license" idea but refuse to run the present very low license to a reason able sum. Gentlemen, you are seek ing prosperity from a villanious source You are building your business hopes on a very rotten and entirely unscript ural foundation. "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink thatputteth the bot tle to him and maketh him drunken also." "As a partridge sittetli on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that gettetli riches and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at the end shall be a fool." Nehimiali did not put his trugt in the amount of whisky his next door neighbor could sell for he says "The God of Heaven, he will prosper us therefore we will arise and build" Surely "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence iu" whiskey SOLON. How They Uot Halt. [Kansas City Journal.] Among the many privations, incident to war, which the people of-Alabama suffered, was tho want of salf. It was obtained by digging up the earth under the smoke-houses and leaching it until the water was clear. When this was boiled down very good table salt was procured. Ramsey: Never reason from what you do not know. If you do you will soon believe what is utterly against reason. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Monday, May 12. The orop outlook in Iowa is of a most cheering chat-after. The grand stand on the Chillioothe, Ohio, base ball ground*, collapsed during a game, twenty persons receiving injuries. A bronze statue of Chief Justice Marshall, resting on a terrace stairway on tho west front of tho capitol at Washington was unveiled by Chief Justice Waite, in pres ence of a large assemblage. Harry L. Wolls, wlio testified recently that ho heard Sharon introduce Miss Hill as his wife, tearfully confessed at San Francisco Friday that in doing so he swore falsely, and that a bribo of $100,000 was held out to him. Tuesday, may 13. Another party of filibusters have left Key West and vicinity for Cuba. A liarness-maker in Syracuse has just tanned a piece of human skin which a physi cian is going to have made into a pair of slippers. El Madhi is said to have demanded a ransom of £2,500,000 for Gen. Gordon. As his excellency has not yet caught his proy it seems that his demand is rathor "previous." The "Wabash road, with $87,352,853 in bonds and S50,44o,4U0 in stock, is to be placed iu the hands of a temporary receiver until the mortgago bonds can be exchanged for preferred stock. Wednesday, May 14. The German parliament has adopted the anti-Socialist law. Mr. Vennor, the weather prophet, predicts cold weather for tho first few days in July. The elevated short route railway along tlia river front at, -'.sisviUe, l..iu by C. P. Huntington at a coot of $1,000,000 has been form.illy opened. Baker Pasha, for twenty years an exile from England, has arrived in London, and was loudly cheered by the people for his gallant work in Egypt. Health Commissioner DeWolf, of Chicago, produces statistics to show that Chicago has tho lowest death-rate of any city in the world, being 10.55 per 1,000. This is reckoning the population at 580,000. Thursday, May 15. The editor of The Century Magazine received AW poems last month, of which oi::y oue -,vas accepted. The pastors of Peoria, 111., churches have held a meeting: to protest against Sun day base U".i: playing. The house of commons rejected the censure motion by a vot-3 of 303 to 275. The Pametfites voted with ti e minority. Lew Wallace, United States minister to Turkey, has left Constantinople on a four month s' leave of absence in America. Tho extra session of the California legisit tu re has been concluded, leavia un done the business for which it was called. Col. Fred Grant said at New York that '.lis father, brother, and himself had been fools in their connection with Ferdinand Ward, and that at present, nothing was too strong to say against Ward. Tine tobacco-growers of New England havf) started a movement to secure the repeal of a 11 internal revenue taxes on their product, an«\ they expect aid from southern and west en i politicians and tobacco men. Friday, May 16. The Lonsiana Democratic state con vention is called for Batu i Rouge June 17. Tin in large quantities has been "found in Mason county, West Virginia, caus ing much excitement. The national Republican committee "has received thus far only two notices of con tested seats in the Chicago convention. A deed registered in Wyandotte, Kan., called for the transfer of a certain lot to one "William Henry Harrison Tyler Tippecanoe Coon." Dealers who have been selling cider by tho glass at East Tawas, Mich., have been notified to stop. It is believed that whisky, in some way, gets into the apple-juice. The State Savings bank at St. Joseph, Mo., closed upon the suspension of Dunnell, Lawson & Simnson at New York, owners of the concern. Statements are made that the bank received deposits for some time after it had been telegraphed from New York to close. It is feared that if the concern ia not in a good condition a number of business hon es '.viil be affected. The Anti-Monopoly onvention v. hicli met ia Chicago u'eiuiesday is Wo iiist of six national conventions for the nomina tion of candidates for the presidency. The next will be the Greenback Labor convention at Indianapolis May 28, and the others the Republican, at Chicago, June 3 American party, at Chicago, June 19 Democratic, at Chicago, July S, and Prohibition, at Pitts burg, July 23. Saturday, HEay 17. A Florida fisherman has seen a swamp snake thirty feet long, so he says. A cablegram from Vienna chronicles the destruction of the Stadt theatre by fire. Early vegetables in southern Wisconsin have been greatly damaged by a heavy frost. Tho Mexican senate Thursday confirmed the reciprocal treaty between Mexico and the United States. Queen Victoria is negotiating for the pur chase of the villa at Cannes in which Prince Leopold died, with the intention of convert ing it into a convent and chapel. Orrin A. Carpenter, who was tried and ac quitted of the murder of Zura Burns at Lin coln, Ills., a few months ago, is settling up his business in that place preparatory to re moving to Dakota. Frank W. Smith, ex-secretary of the To ledo Railroad Y. M. C. A., will visit Ander sonville and hold services at the National cemetery on Decoration day. He proposes to decorate the graves of the 13,701 soldiers buried there, and will place flags at tho head of each. At Rockford, Ills., when the remains of Mike Connors were about to be lowered into the grave, his brother Tom tried to take from the coffin the silver plate which the •wife and her brother had purchased through many sacrifices. The wife protested against the outrage, and her brother promised to break Connors' head. The plate was buried "with tho remains. While Mr. Anderson, the treasurer of a school district near Bismark, D. T., was in this town for the purpose of drawing $300 from the bank, his house was attacked by two men. They pried open the door, and point ing revolvers at the frighted wife demanded what money she had. The little son, with commendable pluck, grabbed the shot-gun and fired, killing one of the desperadoes. The temperance workers of Chicago met in Farwell hall to provide means for carrying on the crusado commenced by Francis Mur phy. Tho announcement was made that over 3,000 persons had already signed the pledge. Most of those present favored the erection of a temporary tabernacie, to be ro~ moved from point to point in tho city, which has secured P'arwell hall for a series of meet ings next week. The question of location was left to an executive committee. The Papachoag mill, near Worcester, Mass., burned to the ground, causing a losi of $150,000. Several of the employes jumped from the windows, some being fatally hurt it is feared that bodies will be found in the ruins. Ward's Startling Disclosures* NEW YORK, May 17.—In the examination of Ferdinand Ward some of tho testimony elicited was of a most startling character. Mr. Ward admitted frankly that tho business of the late firm of Grant & Ward had been conducted on a wholly fictitious basis, and implicated a number of gentlemen who will feel very small in consequence of his revela tions. The tendency of the testimony thus far is to show that the sons of Gen. Grant and other financiers wero well aware that the business of the firm was being conducted on a basis of prodigious swindling. In the courso of his testimony, Mr. Ward was asked by counsel: "Had you any contracts whatever from which you could pay large proflits to your customers?" Answer—"None whatever." "Then all your representations as to those contracts wero falsey" A.—"They were."j "Now, Mr. Ward, I want you to tell us who wero interested in these swindling operations." A.—"Capt. E. Spicer, Col. F!r0d Grant. JMHGrant. #r„ Stcsies Ti. E. H. Tobin, H. E. Tobiu, W. R. Grace, J. Nelson Tnppivn, W. W. Smith, U. S. Grant and Jauies It. S i.ith." '•(.'an you n me any of tho directors of the Marino bank interested directly with you?" A.—"J. Nelson Tappan and Mr. Sponcer, tho treasurer of tho Erie Railroad company." "When you ilrow money for your own use did you draw it by check*" A.—"If I drew ••usth, I we.it to the cashier of our linn and iu "iv^ me a couple of hundred dol •i:11 n i'.si I told the cash v h:ch I would dfi- .. hi»i.." yox.r cro.iit with your firm proeou-3 from*' A.—"It is hard for mo to •.1. Col. 1-Wi Grant might give mo a note on his account for $50,0JO." "And an that note your firm gavo Col. Grant crvit £00,000/" A.—"We did." "Ami tb" Co). Grant gave you a check for that amount, and you drew the cash out on that Ci-eckf'' A.—"1 did." "Was tUit a portion of the imaginary profits of your linn}" A.—"It was." "So that {ho real nature of your business consisted of imaginary profits to be derived from fictitious capital up imaginary values paid by Fred Grant and his associates?" A.— •'It did." "Was that anything short of humbuggery?" A.—"it was not." "iVho were your accomplices?" A.—"I had no confederates." "Do you mean to tell us you had no accom plices'in il:at swindle?" No answer. "Wkero is your banking account?" A—"I do not know." "When did you begin that imaginary business*" A—"I cannot remember." "Had you written articles of partnership?" A—"We had. There was no humbug about that." "Did you keep tho run of your affairs?'' A—"1 did not." "Are you quite confident that you did not iraw out largo amounts after you knew that the money paid on originally was long gone?" A—"I am not confident." Burned to Death. WORCESTEII, Mas?,, May 16.—A fire broke aut in the Pakachong mills at 9 p. ni. Threo buildings with their stock and machinery wero totally destroyed. Loss, 9150,000. Th-J mills wero running night and day aud a largo number of girls were at work at the time. The doors and windows wero all fastened, and they had great difficulty in es caping. Eleven wero seriously injured and two are reported burned to death. Their remains have not been found. ANTI-MONOPOLIST CONVENTION. meeting and Adjournment Butler Nominated for President. CHICAGO, May 14.—Horshey hall presented a gay but crowded appearance when the na tional Anti-Monopolist convention, over 1,000 strong, assembled to nominate a candidate for president. Several hours were consumed in organizing the body and examining the credentials of delegates. Tho various states held caucuses at the Briggs houso in the morning before the con vention, and each voted for the nomination of Butler. The Michigan delegates elected Mildman Mills, of Detroit, a mem ber of the national committee. As to the platform the Anti Mo nopolists say they will reiterate the plat form adopted in Chicago a year ago. This calls first for the abolition of monopolies, then a tariff for revenue, and finally absolute free trade. A. J. Streator, of Rock Island, who was elected chairman, in his address referred to the panic in New York, saying tho humb ling of monopolists was an auspicious cir cumstance of the opening of the convention The result of a score of motions and amend ments was the appointment of three delegates from each state delegation to act on the com mittee on credentials, platform, and perma nent organization respectively. A resolution from the executive committee of the New York Anti-Monopoly league was read, which objected to the nomina tion of a candidate at this time, but pro posed to havo committees appointed to at tend the Republican and Democratic con ventions and endeavor to influence the nom ination of Anti-Monopoly candidates at tjiose conventions. The resolutions were laid on the table by an overwhelming vote. The following permanent officers were elected: Px-esident, John F. Henry, of New York secretaries, Messrs. Shively and Kill man. Mr. Henry took the chair and called for the report of the cons nittee on resolution?. The platform was then reported and in sab stance is as follows: Tho Anti-Monopoly organization of the United States in convention assembled de clares that labor and capital should be allies, not enemies that corporations, the creatures of law, should be controlled by law that there should be the greatest reduction prac ticable in pullic expenses that there shall be enacted and executed just laws assuring equality of rights, privileges, and powers to all citizens that government should regu late commerce among states, in cluding transportation, money, and the transmission of intelligence, to the end that the controling influence of monopolies maybe removed that bureaus of statisics, state and national, should be established that the national eight-hour law should be enforced that the importation of foreign labor under contract bo made illegal that an inter-stato commerce bill should be passed that tho bonded debt should ba paid as it falls due that United states senators should be elected directly by the people that the income tax should be graduated that the present tariff should be reformed because it is oppressive and in the interest of monopolies, and not of labor that no further grants of public lands be made to corporations that grants already made be annulled wherever the condition s have not been strictly complied with that legislation has discriminated against agricul ture, which bears the brunt of taxation, and tho farmers and wage-workers should join Anti-Monopoly movement. The plank referring to the tariff is as fol lows: 8. We demand the payment of the bonded debt as it falls due, the election of United States senators by tho direct vote of the peo ple of their respective states, a gradual in come tax and a tariff, which is a tax upon the people, that shall bo so levied as to bear as lightly as possible upon necessaries. We denounce tho present tariff as being largely in the interest of monopoly and demand that it be speedily and radically reformed iu the interest of labor instead of capital. The platform was adopted and then nom inations wero declared in order for president and Mrs. Todd, of California, placed in nom ination Benjamin F. Butler, and a dozen others spoko in favor of the general. Mr. Blanchard, of Vermont, nominated Gen. Weaver. The chairman announced that he had confen'ed with Gen. Weaver and that the general would under no circumstances accept the nomination if tendered, and that he favored Butler. Mr. Schilling wanted to know if Gen. Butler would accept the nom ination. C. H. Leichtman said he knew that he would. The convention soon proceeded to ballot. Butler received the thirty-nine votes of the Illinois and twenty-two of tho Michigan del egations solid, and a total of 105 Thurman seven, and Solon Chase ten. The nomina tion of Gen. Butler was made unanimous. The nomination of vice president was rele gated to tho national committee, which com mittee was elected and the convention ad journed sine die. German Dynamite Bill Passed. BERLIN, May 16.—Tho bill regulating the manufacture and sale of explosives has the reichstag. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO, May 16. Allen, Mclntyre & Co.'s circular of this evening fays: The markets on tho board of trade were very weak curly, but recovered and closed very strong. Wheat—Jurft opened 88c, closed 89£c July, opened 89%c, closed 91^c August, opened 89%c, closed 90%c. Corn—June, opened GO^c, closed 5i%c July, opened 57%c, closed 58%c. Oats —June, opened :32%c, closed38c. Pork—June, opened and closed, $17.35. Lard—June, opened and closed, $8.20. Live Stock—Tho Union stock yards reports tho following range of prices: Hogs—Mar ket dull, weak, and prices 5(Rl0c lower shippers und speculator: principal buyers so far backers holding off light grades $5.15(g! 5.75 common to choice heavy mixed pack ing, $5.25te5.f5 common to fair, and $5.05@ 0.00 fair to choice hoavy shipping §5.05(^(5.05. Cattle—Market steady on best all below good 10c lower exports, $0.20(20.00 good to choice, $5.80(J 0.20 common to fair, 45.25 @5.(15 butchers,"S3@5.20 stackers, $3.60@ 5.40. Sheep—Market dull good to prime, $5.o0@7 common to medium, 50@75o lower. £J.5l)(g)5. Prouuco: Butter—Steady fine creamery, 20@22c: choice dairy, 15(^180 packing, 7@9. Eggs-Doing well good to choice counts, northern l^ia^c. Strawberries—Active nnd prices higher: poor to good southern, per IW K 3 A,i IT.v.i. air u t( lino lllinois 4.50. Potatoes—Old, choice to fine, 35rM0e: noor to fair. 30a35c£new. $3(24 Dsr bS^ new IforK. NEW YORK, May 10. Wheat—)y@lc lower, aud feverish mod erate trade in options No. 1 white nominal No. red June, 1.00^(«jl.D'-i July, $1.0:^(60 1,0-1 August, $1.0o(f£ 1.03)£: September, $1.01@1.05. Corn—lower mixed western spot, 59(^0o.jc future, c. Oats—%(3fKu lower western, 37«(. 15e. Pro visions—Beef, dull mess, $w.00(yfi 3.&0. Pork dull now mess, 818.50 old, $17. Lard un settled steam, $8.35. Toledo. TOLEDO, May 10. Wheat—Dull and quiot No. 2 rod cash, 03@95c May, 93c Juno, 94c July, 95%c August, 94c No. 13 soft, #l.0oa,1.07 No. 3 red, 87^90c. Corn—-Dull high mixo I, 00c asked No. cash or May, 57Xc June, 57c July, f8V.j'c August, tiuc rejected, 56^e. Oats—Nominal wliito, 39c No. 2 cash or May, 35,%c Juno, 30£c. Detroit. DETROIT, May 10. Wheat—Dull cash, May and June, til.03% July, $1.04)^ bid No. 2 red, 99c No. 2 white, 98.fo. Corn—Neglected No. 2 cash, 59j^e. Oats—Dull No. 2 white, nominal: 39j|e No. 2, 35%c. Nino Miles uf Locimtt* in Itfcxico. OAXACA, Mexico, May 13.—A swarm of locusts, nine miles wide, has settled in the canton of Textnaica, destroying all herbage. O. W. Holmes: God bless all good women. To their soft hands and pitying hearts wu must all come at last. AN HUMBLE BEGINNING Origin and Growth of the Popular "Manicure" Business. A Wide-Awake Yankee Woman Im« proves an Accidental Opportunity •••Fortune from tlie Tide Taken at the Flood. ["H. H. A." in Chicago Tribune.] Ten years ago the caro and treatment of the finger-nails was an unheard-of business. Its beginning was of tho humblest de scription, as I shall relate later on. I have taken pains to ascertain to what ex tent this "profession," as it is now called, has grown, and am informed that in every city of tho United States of any importance, and in many of tho smaller town.1?, there are from one to twenty manicures, and that in New York, Bcston and Philadelphia they are not to ba numbered by the score but by the hundred. CAUGHT AN IDEA. Less than ton years ago there happened to be in New York a certain chiropodist who was occasionally assisted in the treatment of his lady customers by his wife. Fortunately for all parties concerned, this wife was an enterprising American woman and a typical eastern girl. It was her habit when the hus band was engaged at his office and a call came for the doctor to attend a patient at his or her residence, wben the patient was a lady, for the wife to attend her. One day she went to a well-known fashionable woman in New York city, and, after attending to her duties, was about to leave when the lady, who had recently returned from Europe, said to her: "I suppose, of course, you take care of the fingers as well?" Our American had never heard of any par ticular care of the fingers, but, true to her blood, did not propose to be fazed by a little trifle of this kind, aud answered, "Oh, cer tainly," having no idea what was to come next. The lady then said: "Have you your instruments with you?" to which the Yankee replied no, she had not, but would make an engagement if the lady wished and bring her thorn. Accordingly it was arranged that she should come the following Thursday, and that sho should give the client a treatment for her fingers. When she returned to her partner in the pcdicure business she informed him of the agreement she had made, and they both began to consult various works on the treatment of the feet in the vain hope that they would find something also regarding the hands. As neither of them spoke French— for it would have been very easy to have found something on this subject in that language—they wero kept in a state of ignor ance, and even had no idea that the word "manicure" applied to a doctor for the hands, GETTING THE MATERIAL. The wife, however, recollected that she had seen in the pharmacy show-cases certain little boxes with tools therein which wore called "Nail-cases" for the beautifying of the hands. She accordingly purchased one of these boxes at a drug store, and upon open ing the various little pots, found that one contained a powder, another a sort of red paste, and there was a chamois pad, or pol isher, besides tho scissors, file, etc. This lit tle case was imported, and had a slip of paper with some writing in French upon it. Our Yankee girl took the French paper to a ten ant of that nationality living in the same house with her who translated the same, by which she gained the information that the care of the nails was of as much importance to women of fashion as the care of the teeth, and that as much time should be spent on the beauty and preservation of one as the other. This was, of course, very instructive and to tho point, but gave no particular informa tion as to what sho was to do with the va rious instruments of curious shapes which the little box contained. Nothing daunted, however, by a little trifle like tho fact that sho was prepared to wage war on the delicate hands of her patient with the intention of using every blessed one of these tools, be the effect what it might, she proceeded to the house of her patron. The lady herself unconsciously aided our Yankee friend, and appeared with a dainty bowl of warm water into which sho dipped her rosy fingers before delivering her hands to her soi disant "manicure." By dint of absolute "cheek," for there is no other word for it, tho operation was successfully concluded, the lady appearing very well satisfied. The manicure, now fully fledged, pocketed her fee after making another engagement for a future day, returned to her husband and re lated her experience, and resolved forthwith to set up as a sort of branch to his depart ment a room where she could treat the fingers of such of the fair sex as could be inveigled into her den. A LAKGE BUSINESS. From this simple and most ignorant be ginning the woman of whom I write is now, I suppose, the most successful inauicuro by all odds in America, and I should say from a pretty fair experience is as good as any of the French women who after serving quite a long apprenticeship undertake the business, which is a very old one on the other side of the water. I do not know how much of a fortime this first manicure has made, but I am certain it is no inconsiderable sum. She not only has a suite of large parlors very ele gantly furnished, where, on a bright morn ing, may at times bo seen fifteeu'br twenty of t'. e most fashionablo Now York women, but she has for the last two or three years done a largo business in the manufacture of the goods necessary for the proper care and treatment of the hands. Each lady, of courso, has her own instruments just as much as each lady has her own combs aud brushes, and, while i am not awaro that the fabrica tion of them is very expetisi vo, I am perfectly convinced that the retail price admits of an immense profit, most of which, of course, accrues to the manufacturer. I11 every city in the United States these goods aro sold. Most of them aro patented, and besides the instruments the same person manufactures tho powder and paste. I should think this was one of tho remark able instances of taking "the tide in tho af fairs of women at the flood, which leads on to fortune." From a mere accident which, to a less observant aud ready woman, would liavo been passed by without pcrhap3 a fu ture thought, has arisen q, lucrative and well-founded business, which not only sup ports and brings a comfortable incomo'to the woman by whopo clevorness it was .created, but is the means of giving a livelihood to hundreds of others, most of whom !#ve started out without a dollar of capital, and A'ith nothing to depend upon but their own aptness and somo littlo skill, for I understand an apprenticeship of three or four days or a week is all that is necessary to learn this business. What Killed the oiuricliesu [Philadelphia C.Ul.j Tho California cstrich farmer has lost toij birds this winter. Some foe of his must have dropped a restaurant pie into the pen. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: The pro fuse oratoi'3 seem to como to congress from tlie mountain districts, wbern tiio eagles buil I their nest., the black bears still give their at? tention to tho honoy trees and moonshine whisky ia taken straight from goblets of tin. How Butler Likes the Nomination. WASHINGTON CITY, iiay 16.- Gen Butler 1 was 011 tho floor of the house when lie re seived the information that he had been nominated for president by tho Anti-Monop aly convention at Chicago. He did not con ceal tho fact that ho was pleasod upon re ceiving the information. He bad a talk with a number of leading Democrats, in which he discussed political matters. He admitted that ho hoped to receive the Democratic nomination at Chicago. There aro many Democrats here who think that, after Tilden, Butler has the best chance to bo tho Democratic nominee. It is quite surprising to notice the number of admirer^ I ho has. Tho Michigan 111011 aro red-hot for him. Leo Crandall, The National View edi tor and a Greenbaeker, says Butler will be nominated by acclamation that tho siz3 of that convention will astonish the country, and that tho platform adopted by it will be drawn by Gen. Butler's own hand, and will be liberal, progressive and popular, designed to start such a boom as will result in the gen eral's indorsement by the Democrats. BOSTON, May 17.—Gen. Butler has written as follows to Mr. Shively, of South Bend, Ind., tho socretary of the national Anti Monopoly committee: "If thero is any portion of the people in this country who desire to vote for me for president, I shall not oppose their doing so, and they may do it in any way they may see fit for it is their business to vote as they believe, and not liiiuo to direct them. Therefore, while I do not deem it proper for me to take any part in putting my name before any body of men as a candidate for any oflice, 1 shall greatly appreciate any action of tho people or any portioa of the people of th-i country who think I am fit to servo them in any oilice." in Simmer Millinery AX Miss Kellngg's FRIDAY & SATURDAY, HH 3LOCJLL 23 fc 24. AH Cordiuliy Invited to C-sili. 0 Pd in o o 0 0 0 ui a o w a z a 0 COFFINS J. D. Good's FURNITURE STORE. First Publication May SI, 1SJ4.J OETGAGE SAl.E. Default having been made in tlie payment of the interest due on the 1st day of January, 1884, upon a certain mortgage, duly executed and de livered by Dolos Fowler and Elnia A. l'owler, [his wife.] to The New England Mortgage Seen ity Company, bearing date the -ltli day of November, A. i. ISrfl, and duly recorded in the oilicc of tlie Register of Deeds ill and for the County of Stevens and State of Minnesota, on the 14*h day of Novem ber, A. D. 1S81, at 4 o'clock M.. in Book F. of Mortgages, on page 201, whereby the whole amount of the debt thereby secured has become due and payable, and there is now due thereon for princi pal and interest the sum of Four Hundred Fifty two and 4-1-10D Dollars, and no action or proceed ing at law or otherwise liaTing been instituted to recover tho debt secured by said Mortgage, or nnv part thereof Now therefore, notice is hereby given, that by virtue of a power of sale contained in said Mort gage. and pursuant, to the statute in such case made and provided, tlie said Mortgage will bo fore closed. and the premises described in and covered by said Mortgage, viz- The south-wot quarter of section eight (8), Town one hundred and twenty-three (123) north, range forty-four (-11), in Stevens County, and State of Iinnefota, with the hereditaments "and appurtenances, will be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, Dated May S. II. HUDSON, Attorney, Benson, Minn. 21 LAND OKIACI: AT FERGUS FAI.T.S, MINX., May 13,1881. Notice la hereby given that tlie following niiniod settler lias filed notice of his intention to lunkn final proof in support of liis claim, anil thiit said proof will be made before the Clevk of Court for .Stevens comity, a! Morris, Minnesota, on .Tunc C7th, 1SS4, viz: Fredrick Olo If. Htul, additional linniesteadapplication No. for the Frl. K of N\V Vi section 2, town 125 north, of range 4t' west 3th 1*. M., Minnesota. lie name.-! the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultiva tion of snil land, viz: S.vvert Larson, Ole A. l.akke, O. N. Doh'an nnd Ne's ). Dolen, all of Nash P. ()., Stevens county, Minnesota. 21 D. X. .ionN.SON, Kegistor. LAND OI'KICK AT FKUl'\\T.I.s, INN.,/ Mayti, ISSI. Notice is hereby given that tlie following named settler lias filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support-of his claim, and that said proof will bo made before the Clerk of Court for Stevens county, at Morris, Minnesota, on .Tune -Sili, !SS4, viz: John M'. Kddy. Homestead Application No. 3593 for the W !.•: S\V '4 section 20, town 125, N, of range -12 W 5th P. M. He names the following-witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultiva tion of said land, viz: Orville Seamons, William 11. Hancock, Joseph L. Walker, and JohnR. Judd, all of Morris,,Stevens county, Mini«c?ota, 2l II. N. JOHNSON, Register. LAND OFVICK "AT RN-^SOX, MTXX, Mfly 3, ISfc-i. S Notice is hpreby given that the following named settler Juts filed not ice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Clerk of Court for Stevens county, at Morris, Minnesota, on June l:ith, 1SS-I, viz: James Foley, Homestead Application, No. 7(i24, for the S.!,, NWV section 12, town 121 Kanae •!:?. He names the following witnesses to nrove his continuous residence upon, and cultiva tion of said land, viz: James Moram, Timo thy Vaugban, John Harry, and lianiel llor gah.ailo* Morris, Stevens Countv Minn. 20 i}. !•'. II ALL, Register. "1 Send six cents for postage, •J Ti n,u receive free, a costly it box of good* which will help I Ujj.you to more money right a way than, anything s0 thix world. All of either sex, succeed from first hour. The broad road to fortune opens before t'Ucworkers, absolutely sure, At once Address, TRtte & Gd^ AtrgtisJa, Ifalne. humid!® to pay said debt and interest, and the taxes, if any, on said premises, nnd tweiitv-live dollars attor ney's fee, as stipulated in and by said Mortgago in case of foreclosure, and the disbursements al lowed by law which sale will be made by the Sheriff of said Stevens County, at the front door of the Court House, the village of Morris, in said County and State, on the third day of July, A.I). 1K84, at ten o'clock A. JI., of that day, subject to redemption at any time within one year from the day of eale. as provided by law. 20, A. D. 1884. THE NEW ENGLAND MORTGAGE SECUIUTY COMPAWT, _A.t Mortgagee. If. H. WKT.JJ3, Pres. L. E. PEAKCE, Vice Pres. W. MUNBO,Cashier. innnw Limy I Ui Morris, l^inrLoaota.. Organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota.) PAID UP CASH CAPITAL $50,000.00. A General Banking Business Transacted. Eastern and Foreign Exchange Bought and Sold, 100,000.00 to Loan ON IMPROVED FARM PltOl'KRTV AT LOW R.V! flH OF INTEREST AND ON LONG TIMK. Taxes Paid for Non-residents. The Fire Insurance Association of AGENTS OF IMIOIIn OIRIDEIRS, The Cheapest, Safest and Quickest Method of sending Money to any part of Europe. OOBEESPOJ DE2TTS, FIRST NATIONAL BANK, ST. PAUL. MERCHANS NATIONAL BANK, CHICAGO. METROPOLITAN NATIONAL BANK, NET." YORK. EEAL ESTATE, A La!•{?' List of Vilhiire Real Es ate. including rome of the most Residence and Business Property in Morri Improved and I'niniproved Farms for Sale in all parts of the County. Parties desiring to invest in Real Property in Stevens County are fjuested to call on us. J^T'Correspondencc Solicited. J. D. GOOD, Dealer in LUMBER. IPTTIRiTITTTieiE:, SsC_ -A-lso, GROCERIES. Apt for the CeletteS Meon lap. LOIKW• Leather Insurance Company of Boston German and Scandinavian Hail & Storm Iisuranee Company, St Paul 3 if Shoe and lE^OIR- THE 2-TEV7 SYSTEiZ i -1 ri: Uili. Patent HMIedicin.es, Paints, Oils, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Wall Paper, Etc, WOLFF & DIEDRICH, wood and Coal Dealers. WOOD AND COAL OF ALL KINDS, ~Very O K E Manufactv and Dealer in I_iO"w Prices. A full Stock of Hard Wood Lumber and Wag, on Materials. Scrap Iron, Metal, Rags, Etc. Bought. All kinds of Repairing in Wagons or Blacksmithing. Especial Attention given to Horse-Shoeing. House, Carriage and Sign Painting. All work guaranted to be satisfac tory. Prices at Rock Bottom. Shop on Fourth St„ opposite St. Paul House. MORRIS, MINNESOTA. Job Printing in All Styles, at LAND OFFICE AT FERGUS FAI,I,S. MTNN.J April 22, lSS-l. Notice is hereby elven that the following named settlor has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that, said proof will be made before the Clerk of Court for Stevens county, at Morris. Minnesota, on June 7th, 1SS4, viz: John l\ Frfshy, homestead application No. 7:ii for the NW1.! NKU a\d Tiot 2 section 22, toTn 125 north, of range -12 west 5th v. r., Minn. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence" upon ami cultiva tion of said land, viz: A. M. Cummings. Anst ness Kana, John H. Tlreen and William Walker, all of Jforris, Stevens county Minn. 18 B. N. JOHNSON, Register. I e L- re 14 Plows, SEEDRRS, Pi oil Tribune Office. LAND OFFICE AT RI:N.ON\ MINN.J April 20, 1SS3. s Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support- of his claim ana t.ial saul proof will be made before the Clerk or ourt for Stevens countv, at Morris, Minnesota, on June Kith, 18^4, viz: Johan Lenz, homestead application No. 9232. for tho north, of range 41 west,otii I M. Minnesota. Ho names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultiva tion ot said land, vis: John MeXallv, Kdwin ,, Is r«el Monibleau and \V. W. Uritt', all of Morris Stevens County, Minnesota. 18 D. & HAJLL,Register.