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t H E G 1UErl TE.K umla PH Items. Klee Valley hems <br />L.. I <br />Gage went to the cities Wednes- John H uas was a city visitor Friday. <br />IRVING Ttibri a 8ON. day. W. W. Strathern was in Hastings' <br />aaTURDAY FEBRUARY 8. 1908: Mrs. Henry Senn is able to be about Friday. <br />The cuupty board declined `to al, "gain. W. F. Torne was in the (it) i n, <br />point a superintendent of highways C. F. Dickman is preparing to fill Saturday. <br />at its recent session on account of the his Ice house, J. J. Mulrooney drove to Hastiugs i <br />great expense, $1,200 per annum, Mrs. H. Roberts, of Stanton, was Thursday. <br />with hotel bills, transportation, etc., here on Sunday. Mrs. Fred Maltby was in St. Paul <br />in addition., They reasoned that it Albert Otte went to 8t. Paul Tues- this week. <br />would be more profitable to divide day on busine8a. Mrs. M. Rowe visited in Minneapo- <br />this money among the towns and ex- William Cran, of Hayfield, was a lie this- week. <br />pend it directly upon the roads, in- caller on Tuesday. Miss niter Wetterlin was in the <br />stead of for bine prints. Miss Effie Kleeberger spent Wed- cities this week. <br />The twin city politicians are not neaday in the cities.. 0. R. Elston made a business trip: <br />satisfied with parceling out the four Eli Ballard, of Bampton, was in to the city on Monday. - <br />delegates at large to the republican <br />Alvin and Zr- <br />tow on Wednesday. Mies Adell Longfield, of 8t. Paul, <br />national convention among them- stay Peter. were in spent Sunday at home. <br />selves, but are also attempting to Dennison on Tuesday. Miss Lizzie Stumpf spent Saturday 111 <br />Hume the eighteen from the congres• Mrs' Albert Baker went to North. and Sunday in Hastings. • <br />atonal districts. If this thing is kept field Sunday on a visit. Miss Anna Wetterlin spent a few <br />up there is little need of holding any Martin Johnson was home from days in the city this week. <br />conventions at all. Red Wing over Sunday.. C. W. Curry, of Farmington, was <br />Miss Grace Kleeberger left for her in the valley Thursday and Friday. <br />Capt H B Wilson died at Red claim near Stillwater on. Tuesday. Mies Mayme Brown, of • Mioneapo• <br />Wing last Friday evening, aged Henry Senn -went to Fairmont lis., visited bete Saturdayand$uniltly, <br />eighty-seven years, He was a mem- Monday on business, to remain some Archie Wiley,- of Mioeespolis, <br />ber of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment time. visited his father, Qeorge Wiley; tips <br />during the civil war, auperiateolient• U." E. Petreimai, ot:: Cannon Falls, week. .: , ;, <br />of schools in Goodhue County, super- was in this vicinity on Monday and Miss Clara Connelry was the i nest <br />intent of public instruction 1870 to Tuesday. of ber sister Mary in Minneapolis on <br />1875, a member of the house 03 The -ladies' aid society". met with Saturday. ' <br />1877, auti of the senate in 18fi9 and Mrs. Warren Freeman Thursday J. M. Olson, eeotiod foreman, was <br />1881. afternoon. . called to South St. Paul Smithy to <br />It is expected that much of the Mr. and Mrs. Ira Alexander visited help clear a wreck. <br />work ou the river division the cow- his brother Allen, near Northfield, Mrs. Charles Strathern and Mise <br />ing season will be done between on Monday. Burgie Flannagan spent Friday in <br />Hastings and Red Wing, putting in a Mrs. Mary Douse, of Anaheim, the twiu cities. <br />double track. The road bed through Cal., was the guest of Mrs. William Miss Mayme Coughlin, of St. Paul, <br />the Iwttoma is to be removed closer Otte on Friday. spent Saturday and Sunday at the The Gardner alto lilac. . <br />to the river, and it is said that in one Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ryan, of homed her mother, Mrs. IieaTFeb.: 5th, 1908. <br />N. Coughlin. To the Editor of Thhee G Gazette: <br />stretch of twelve miles there will not Stanton, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. The ladies' aid society will give a Referring 10 the recent seizure at <br />be a single curve. Silas Ryan on Sunday. valentine social at the home of Mrs. Chicago of a car of our flour by <br />Dr. Lacey, of Revere, Minn,, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Otte and Mr. M. S. Wallace next Friday evening. government officials on the ground <br />claims to be the man who met Eliza, and Mrs. August'Otte, jr., were in Mrs. Fitzgerald and Mies Maria that the sacks were improperly brand - <br />of Uncle Tom's Cabin fame, as she Rich Valley on Sunday. Cahill went to St. Paul Wednesday to ed, the facts in the case are as follows: <br />left the ice on the Ohio River in her Barnard Ode, of Bonifaclous, is attend the funeral of Mr. J. F. Ber• Some three months ago the Depart - <br />flight from slavery, and cared for the down to spend the winter with his gin, an old and respected citizen of meat of Agriculture at Washington <br />infant and its mother. He also knew daughter, Mrs. Jacob Engler. this vicinity. Gent .inspectors into the northwest to <br />Simon Legree, whose character was Mrs. Kauffman, of Hampton, was Hampton items. make an inspection of the flour mills <br />taken from life, the guest of her sisters, the Misses Martin Conzemius was a caller on under the pure food law. One of <br />Becker, the first of the week. Tuesday. these •ftsipectors ,;ailed at our mill <br />the early part df January, and the <br />writer personally took him into the <br />mill and intiiodu•©ed him to the bead <br />miller, with the request that he be <br />shown everything about the plant <br />that he . wished to see, as we had <br />nothing to Conceal in any way. He <br />made'a thnrorng6 inspection and went <br />away, stating that be was well satis- <br />fied. Not a word further was heard <br />from anyone until we were advised <br />that a car' of our flour had been <br />seized by the government, the com- <br />plaint being the sacks were improper- <br />ly branded. <br />There is positively no objection on <br />the part of the, government officials to <br />the quality of the flour, but in draw- <br />ing up the papers, owing to very•care- <br />less work on the part of the official <br />attending to same, it was stated that <br />the flour was adulterated and impure, <br />an absurdity on the ice of it. <br />The writer 'immediately went to <br />-Washington and took the matter up <br />with the authorities, with the result <br />that they amended the original bill <br />and made a dull retraction of the <br />charge of adulteration and impurity, <br />and the same has been published <br />quite generally in the press. <br />- As to the charge of misbranding, <br />It Is limply a question of whether or <br />not a small- pereentsge - of durum <br />wheat in our miittnilte is properly dc <br />scribed in the brand as "hard spring <br />lator R. A. Smith, of St. Paul, Mrs, Ulof Johnson and Fay Benson, TheFarmingtooCo-operativeCream- wheat." The Department of Agri <br />left fur Los Angeles on Wednesday and the booby by Mrs. Ness Monson ery bas started a cream route through culture sets up the claim that the <br />to remain until the next municipal elec- and Olot Johnson. here. words "hard spring wheat" mean <br />tion His turning down by the gang <br />South et. Paul Items. , <br />John Tabaka is on the siok list. only certain varieties of bard spring <br />will undoubtedly be remembered at <br />F. L. Henderson is to succeed Mrs. John Peine drove to New Trier wheat, wbile I claim and was able 10 <br />the polls William Dunwoody as assistant at Friday. substantiate before the government <br />F. B Kellogg is to trot out -the the postofce. Mathias Anton, of Baraboo, Wie., officials at Washington that the words <br />Taft band wagon at the Lincoln ban- The Riverside School Is to be re- spent the past week with Conrad "hart spring wheat" may properly in- <br />gnet in St Paui next Wednesday opened on the 17th Inst, to pupils Fieker• elude all varieties of hard spring <br />evening, with every seat filled and who have been successfully vacci- Mrs. Agatha Wiederbold of Ver- wheat <br />the passenger list closed. nated. million, called on Miss Susie Fioker For years past the Department of <br />R D. Haven, rep.,was elected A two year old son of Ray Davis Thursday, Agriculture has exploited the cause <br />mayor of Duluth on Tuesday by d was severely scalded in the bead and Quite a number otouryoungpeople of durum wheat in -season and out, <br />cheat on Sunday by overturning a attended the dance in 8 m what • Ktwt Is. <br />majority of about seven hundred over 4, pt4►n Mon; They haye.urged the farmefo to raise pr'r.daby theft Ir no nautical term <br />Emil Tessiman, dem. The council is Qup of bot coffee. day night. it and the millets to grind it, and motes Qegoentiy used than the word <br />a tie, eight to eight. Delinquent consumers are to have Julius Rupp, of Minneapolis, is they anion reuorPiii official publics. "knot" The word V synonymous with <br />their water shut off on the 19th inst. visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. tions that durum wheat is a rio the nautical ° ' or 6.090,2'1 feet, <br />f. M Nye, of llinnesota, delivered The delinquency was reported at Rupp* wheat and thaL.1& is the hardest- gr�hic mire 0 6.kn fwest� Tle°. <br />- Peter <br />his maiden speech in congress on $340, some of it dating back fifteen Mrs. Lawrence Tabaka, of Virginia, variety of wheat known, and I stand would make the knot equal to 1.15 <br />18 <br />Tuesday, making a decided hit in months. Minn., is visiting ber mother, Mrs. on the position that I have not even <br />his indorsement of the Roosevelt Mr. W. W. Highie and Mise Jessie jobs Tabaka. <br />technically violated law in regard <br />administration Ayers were married in St. Paul Mise Dolly °shill and Grace Fee, to misbranding in the slightest way. <br />J S. Krehle, of Minneapolis, a Tuesday afternoon, a great surprise. of St. Paul, visited the Misses Fitz The Department of Agriculture is <br />student at Cornell University, ]oat Five weeks ago Mr. Highie adver_ gerald Sunday. also on record in ofilt:ial publications <br />his life last week while attempting to titled for a cashier in his restaurant, Tao Sewer& that this wheat makes the very best <br />save a friend in a burning fraternity and the successful applicant now be. The -work on Second Street is com• quality of flour, and they have even <br />building. comes mistress of the establishment, pleted and hack filled from .,Tyler to gone so far as to say that it makes <br />There's nothing like advertising. Vermillion, with a thousand and six better flour then the finest No. 1 bard <br />There are nearly adozen candidates feet of sewer pipe and an equal wheat, therefore it: is unnecessary {or <br />for the vacancy as commandant atb The returns from subordinate amount of water pipe laid, besides the me to offer any apology for using in <br />the Soldiers' Home. The trustees lodges, I. 0. 0. Ft, indicate the elec. connectio.,s with the four hydrants, our milling mixture a email percent - <br />will elect at the meeting next Tuesday. tion of C. H. Budd, of Montevideo, On Sibley Street pipe is laid to the age of durum wheat. As a result et <br />St. Paul has a centenarian by the as gaud master' alley, seventytour Leet of six inch the efforts put forth 'by the Depart - <br />name of Patrick Towey, a Dative of The dairy products of Minnesota PIPs and one hundred and eighty feet ment of Agriculture,'and the further <br />Ireland, who celebrated his one are estimated at ninety' per cent of of eight loch, and a hydiant put in at fact that farmers' have found . it a <br />hundredth hirthdity last month. the grain crops, over $100,000,000 the corner. The trench has been profitable crop, the ' production of <br />Miss Estelle Taylor, a former law annually, opened through Meloy Park extend- durum wheat in Minnesota and the <br />University, student of the Minnesotaing to the well, two hundred and flfty Dakotas baa so rapidly increased in <br />y, A Minneapolis gardener is expert- feet long, and from three to six feet .the past few years that It now equals <br />is under arrest at Galesburg, III., for menting with electric lights for grow. deep. Work on Tyler Street will be about one-third of,the total crop of <br />passing forged checks. ing lettuce in a greenhouse, resumed the comic week. . these states. Our local farmers ars <br />Baking <br />Powder. being In- <br />dispensable in the prepare - <br />tion • of our daily food, must <br />be free from noxious ingredients <br />Complete purity and whole- <br />someness are the unques- <br />tioned ebaraeleril:tiea of <br />RIC <br />CREAM .1. <br />NG WDER <br />active M'bte1le, cream 01 tar- <br />s ' a Pure, health -giving fruit <br />add, le d veO e1y from grapes <br />rolaallaus llrtisdlenb are loud la the <br />.. low -p teed baldag powders. Theile <br />active principle is a selaeral add de- <br />rived trout sulphuric add, oa of wt4ioi <br />SOW the babel sant buy <br />este bah*. peseder amok <br />Ire. *realest tartar <br />A half demented young man Edward Miller and family, of Peter Schweich left for North <br />named Edward Carlson, aged about Hampton, were the guests of Mr. on Tuesday. <br />twenty-one years, has confessed to and Mrs. Fred Koch on Friday. Anton Marschall was in town the <br />setting fire to the BallardM <br />-Trimble <br />lumber shedsit Red Winglast rs. C. F. Dickman, who bas been first of the week. <br />spending the past four months in St. John Deno, of New Trier, was in <br />mouth, causing a loss of $50,000. Paul during her mother's sickness town on Wednesday. <br />He was committed to the Rochester and death, came home Tuesday even- <br />Nicholas Frommes moved to <br />asylum: ing, accompanied by her father. Manahan on Tuesday. <br />The iron for the jail is here, the Miss Katie Meyer, of St. Paul, is <br />contractor declining to begin work on Inver Grove Items.. visiting at home this week. <br />the cells until the penalty of $10 per HenryLBester drove to St. Paul on <br />Monday J. M. Feipel shipped a car of stock <br />day is remitted Under the contract to South 81. Paul on Tuesday. <br />the building should have been cum- Andrew Oberg was in the city <br />on Peter Graten, of Hastings, was <br />pleted Nov. 1st, and the bond of Monday. <br />Thomas Ryan, of 8t. Paul, was among our ostlers Wednesday. <br />$6,378 is said to be good. home over Sunday. George Lanabe r'of New Trier' <br />It is given out in Washington that Olof Johnson drove to East St. Paul weeeek. business caller the first of the <br />there will be no revision of the tariff Tuesday with a load of corn. <br />until next winter, on account of the Misses Alma and Helen Anderson Bert Martinesd Fred Dafl!were <br />- <br />forthcoming presidential election. spent Thursday and Friday in St. Paul, among our business callers ono, Wed. <br />Then why tinker with the currency at Mrs. Ellen Anderson gave a supper°eeday, <br />this session in the interests of the Wednesday evdhi°g, with covers for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ranslow and <br />Wall Street gamblers? ten, daughter are the gdesteotMrs. George <br />Mrs. Clark Woodworth and Mrs, Toombs. <br />There have been so many changes Arthur Noyes, of St. Paul, was <br />on our mailing lists the past four Ralph Drake and daughter were to the down to attend the masquerade ball <br />or fire weeks that it is impossible to city on Monday. on Monday. <br />correct the yellow labels u to the Miss Effie Hagen, Mies Esther <br />p Malcum, and David and Nathan Mal- The masquerade ball on Monday <br />hour of going to press. Some of r eve, was largely attended, our neigh - <br />cum <br />them necessarily have to go over cum apart edaesday in St.Paul. boring towns being well represented. <br />until the next issue. Alex. Anderson gave a sleighride The first prize was won by Mr. and <br />• <br />party Wednesday evening to a nam <br />The defunct Nicollet Creamery Mrs. Joseph Nahl, the second by <br />ber of friends, stopping at the home Jacob Leonards and Mies Marie Iters, <br />Company of Minneapolis has finally of Henry Bohrer, where the evening <br />got into the courts. It is alleged Empire Rewe <br />that the farmers of the northwest was apart in games. H. P. Leifleld had a house moving <br />H. <br />Fay Benson gave a cinch bee on Monday. <br />were swindled out of $10,000 in, un- party Saturday, her husband's birth- J. P. Dreis and J. J. Beiesel made <br />pairs consignments of produce. day. The head prizes were won by a flying trip to Farmington Friday. <br />raising it in increasing quantity, and <br />our purchases ' at the mill have pro- <br />vided them with a satisfactory market <br />tor this wheat. I have always open- <br />ly stated to the farmers selling US <br />durum wheat that we ground a small <br />percentage with other varieties, and <br />this has been well known. <br />Writers who have made a study of <br />the subject claim for durum wheat <br />flour that it imparts a sweeter and <br />more appetizing flavor to the bread <br />and prod a more palatable loaf <br />generally. <br />For fifty y re, or since 1858, the <br />Gardner Mill has been steadily pro- <br />ducing high class flour, and the pro- <br />ducts of this mill in ever increasing <br />volume have carried the name of <br />Hastings over a large part of our own <br />country and into every important <br />market of Europe, Doubtless many <br />of oar own citizens will be surprised <br />to learn that in the year 1907 over a <br />million and a halt bushels of wheat <br />were here converted into flour, <br />The fact that we have run our mill <br />continuously night and day, Sundays <br />and holidays excepted, for two years <br />past, during which time many mills <br />have been obliged to run on short <br />time or shut down entirely, speaks <br />more strongly than anything I could <br />say for the excellence of our product <br />and the high quality of the flour we <br />produce. <br />I desire that those who are interest• <br />ed should know the truth, which is <br />my reason for writing you this letter, <br />and in conclusion I may say that the <br />whole mattgr is in a way to be dig <br />posed of before long in a manner en An Untamed Marquis, <br />The father of the Marquhi of Bute <br />Quack Oram. The-atreaaaa larder ?real <br />To the Editor of The Gazette: Judge F. M. Crosby delivered his <br />It is a fundamental principle of charge to tbejury Saturday morning, <br />agriculture that no plant can live occupying forty minutes. It was a <br />without leaves. In the language of fair and impartial summing up of the <br />an eminent agriculturist, "The leaves ease, the law applicable to murder in <br />of a plant are its stomach and lungs its various phases or degrees being <br />Deprive a plant of its leaves and the clearly defined, and the necessary in - <br />root will die of starvation." . The structions given. As to the Justine - <br />leaves of a pleat take in something 6ility of Michael Brennan, or whether - <br />from the air that is necessary for the I either were guilty in some degree, the <br />lite of the root. It is also a funds,,. jurors must be satisfied from the <br />mental principle of agriculture that a evidence given beyond a reasonable <br />plant cannot live without air. If. <br />fardoubt. He directed the jury to find <br />fermiers will apply these fundamen. separate , <br />t0l principles persistently and were ordered 10verdictsbe taandkenthe fotoexhibits the <br />thoroughly they can soon . rid their jury room The jury then retired in <br />discover a better method than that I J. Mfields of quack grass, • and perhaps charge of deputies J. J. Dunn and <br />.&W asser. <br />shall suggest.The jury came in Saturday night, <br />There are periods in the life at a quarter'past ten, after being out <br />of a plant when the roots are twelve hours, returning the following <br />weaker, have less vitality, than at verdicts: <br />others. This period is, usually, We the jury fled the defendant, Mich- . <br />when the root has in a measure exset N. Brennan, not guilty. <br />bloated its strength in producing the HENRY FINK, Foreman. <br />We the urythe defendant. Mich- <br />growth of the top. This is believed, me] Brenaso, otdguilt ' In manner and <br />by agriculturists, to be when the form as charged in the indictment, and <br />plant is in blossom. The to find m uuh <br />The-proper first dehigreeg,ilty HzaayofmanslaFrxx,gForetermanin.the <br />time then .to attack a plant for the There were very few present be - <br />purpose of killing itis when the plant shies the attorneys and officers of the <br />is in blossom and when the root is court, and the result was quite a sur - <br />the weakest. How then shall these prise, the general opinion being that <br />principles be applied to the eradica- the defendants escaped very easily. <br />tion of quack grass? Michael Brennan was taken back to <br />One efficient method is to jail in St. Paul on Sunday by Sheriff <br />mow as closely as ' possible McDevitt and Deputy Dunn, and <br />when in blossom, as the root Michael N. Brennan discharged. <br />is then the weakest. Remove the Michael Brennan is to be arraigned <br />hay from the field so that it will not for sentence next Tuesday, at halt <br />interfere with plowing. Then plow past nine a. m. <br />deep enough to bury all the leaves <br />and roots under ground, and thorough- ryes a'herar e , ras•a rho <br />ly exclude them from the air. If the saki g of Electric l Bitters. i y.. It is <br />speakio <br />land be plowed eight inches deep and deservesIteg berhood aa favorite vorite reverywhere. <br />the furrows perfectly turned over it <br />a probably will be . sufficient- Perhaps It elves quick relief in dyspepsia, liver <br />complaint, kidney <br />range ss, and gener- <br />ment. malnu- <br />a less depth will suffice. Some heavy eakn <br />al debility. Its actio on the blood RS a <br />foliage crop like buckwheat or millet thorough purifier makes it especially use - <br />may then be sown, so the farmer will teraariivs e tonic g sold unde gue. grand alt <br />not entirely lose the use of his land Rude's drug store. 50o. gOtO tft at <br />for that season. This tends to <br />smother, exclude from the air, an • The postotilcecontest aCAlbert Lea <br />quack grass plant that escapes bete has been settled by the re -appoint - <br />smothered by the plowing, g mens of i,mil Nelson. <br />The air may be excluded from small Minnesota dournalum. <br />patches by covering them with tarred Homer Sigler has assumed an in - <br />paper. To do so it will be necessary terest in The Appleton Press. <br />to cover the borders of the paper and <br />where it laps with earth sufficiently <br />to exclude the air from entering. <br />The purpose of mowing the quack <br />grass before plowing the land is In <br />make it poseibie to turn It all under <br />to a sufficient depth to exclude the <br />air from all of it. <br />Sprinkling the quack grass with <br />some substance that will kill the <br />leaves, like sulphuric acid or kerosene <br />oil, done so thoroughly as to kill all <br />the leaves, and persisted in so ire <br />Kwtea or Aaveewl°x. <br />quently that no leaf will grow, will in Ch1 ddltoualinch.... ,,,,,,, ,• .r6.« <br />time cause the roots to die. Canada o��°n,,iperwert10e...,•,•••,• .n <br />thistles or any other noxious weed Address by mall will respire prompt auenttoe <br />can be eradicated byapplying the fore• IRVING '%n>�a< sox, <br />easnn.klnn. <br />going principles in any manner that NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, <br />will deprive and keep them deprived WOOD WANTED. <br />of their leaves. F. M. CROSBY. r1 <br />The Markets. <br />BARLItY.-75 @ 85 cit., <br />Base. -116 ®b7, <br />BRAN. -423. <br />BUTTER. -25 cts. <br />CORN. -50 cts. <br />Eeoa.-20 etc. <br />Fc.Ax.—$1.10. <br />FLOUR.—$3.00. <br />HAY. -48. <br />OATS. -44 cts. <br />M rn0Lmos.-425. <br />PoRx.—$5.75 t2 $5.00. <br />POTATOEe.-35 eta. <br />RYE. -70 cis. <br />S REENINGS.—*23 <br />WHEAT. -85@95 Cie. <br />tirely Satisfactory to me. had an amusing <br />e <br />SEYttot'R CARTER. neighborhood of O estexperience le meta <br />cockney traveler who asked to be di - <br />How to Get Poor Quick- rected to a certain place. Deceived <br />b7 the marquis' accent, the visitor took <br />Do not try to save your loose change. <br />It lis too small an amount to put in the him for a supercilious <br />and tookaoccasion <br />savings bank. It would not amount to to make rnperaland remarks about <br />mach anyway, and ere L great com- saidthe barbarous islanders of Bute. He <br />fort In spending it. Jest wait until You me, " BEme me, I suppose you're Itis <br />get sumdent worth while before you me, an responded <br />bbsdspalt it "No," responded the marquis; "Pm a <br />Do not try to economise. It L an !n- native of Bute, this island." <br />fermi nuisance to always try to save ..good amazement <br />ura em ntcl "The the Lon- <br />a few cents hers and there. Besides, toner, tamed yer?'e"Then who to <br />you will get the reputation of being the dooce <br />mean and stingy. You want everybody Lordns Bute assumed a fierce a cudgel <br />to think you ars generous. slog and, railing a ponderous cudgel <br />Jot look oat for today. Have a good he was carrying, said angrily, "Who <br />time salt's I'm tame!" The alarmed <br />u you go along. Just use pontMaliGazette. <br />cock• <br />Oey tarred and red—Pall ll[all G <br />money yourself. Don't deprive your- <br />self for the sake of laying up some- <br />thing tot other people to fight over. Model of Economy. <br />Besldsa, Toa ars gars of today. Yoa A certain farmer who lives out in <br />might lot be alis tomorrow.—tlucct,ss the county and who is noted for his <br />�• closeness is money matter hu a <br />twelve -year-old son, who is u indus- <br />trious u his father is penurious. <br />Recently the father and son made a <br />compact whereby the latter would re- <br />ceive 10 cents for every cord of wood <br />he sawed and piled in the wood abed. <br />Immediately the boy became very <br />busy at the wood pile, and his earnings <br />have been piling up at a rapid rate, <br />of geoprraphkal miles, lad therefore, Ida mother keeping her son's bard <br />to order' to compare the speed of earned mints for him. <br />1 boat exprewed in knob with a ran."What are you going to do with all <br />road trill. it L necessary to multiply me fW money?' the thrifty youth was <br />the speed in knots by L15. Anotherasked. <br />petal to be remembered L that speed "Gob' to buy a new saw with it," <br />MOMS a distance traveled in unit time• was the reply.—fat, Loads Globe -Demo - <br />so when one speaks of a boat hiving Qat <br />a speed of 20 knob it la not necessary <br />or proper to add per hour, as the word <br />Itself when employed as a unit of <br />speed signifies nautical miles per hour. <br />A cruiser that maids 21 knob travels <br />14.15 geographical miles per hour. <br />County Board Proceedings. <br />Adjourned session, Feb. 4th. <br />Present Come. Beerse, Cahill, Gieter, <br />Parry, and Werden, the chairman <br />presiding, <br />One abatement was granted and a <br />number of bills allowed. The mat <br />ten of plumbing at the poorhouse <br />and appointing a oonnty superin- <br />teodent of highways were dismissed, <br />bat no netios token. <br />Tits Microscope. <br />There Is good reason to believe that <br />the magnifying power of transparent <br />media with convex surfaces was very <br />early known. A convex lens of rock <br />crystal was found by Layard among <br />the rains of the palace of Nimrod. <br />And it is pretty certain that after the <br />invention of glass hollow spheres <br />blown of that material were commonly <br />used as magnifiers. The perfection of <br />gem cutting shown 1n ancient gems, <br />especially 10 those of very minute <br />size, could not have been attained <br />without the use of such aids to the <br />eye, and there can be little doubt that <br />the artificers who ctlald execute those <br />wonderful works could also shape and <br />polish abs magnifiers best suited tan_ <br />their own or others' - <br />81de will be received up to Feb. 14tb, 1608, at <br />tam., for twenty -eve cords green second growth <br />oak or ash and sort maple, to be delivered at the <br />public school buildings, this pity. <br />11. 0. VAN BEECK, <br />Chairman Purchasing Committee. <br />LOW RATES <br />via <br />Builmton <br />Rou1E <br />From Hastings <br />Colorado and Utah <br />$33.5o to Denver, Colorado goring,/ <br />and Pueblo and retur•s,. Feb. 18, and <br />March 3 and 17; $44.7s to Salt Lake <br />City and Ogden and rdtirn $43.g10 to <br />Butte and Helena and return, $43 -go <br />to Billings, Mont,, Basis, Cody and <br />Worland, Wyo., and return, <br />Homeseekers' Rates <br />Very low round trip rates to <br />practically all points west of the <br />Missouri River on the let and 3rd <br />Tuesdays of February and March. <br />Pacific Coast <br />$37.53 to San Francisco,Los Angeles <br />and San Diego. $30.40 to Seattle. <br />Portland, Tacoma and Vancouver. <br />Similar rates to other pointe in <br />California. Oregon, Washington, <br />British Columbia, Nevada, Idaho,. <br />Arizona and New Mexico. Tickets. <br />on sale daily March 1 to April 90. <br />Personally Conducted Excursions <br />almost every day to CalMorala via <br />Colorado. <br />These personally conducted ex- <br />cursions are the most coistertsble <br />as well es the most economics.l way <br />of making the trans -Continental trip. <br />The route via Colorado is the most <br />Interesting and attractive. <br />No matter when you arra going this <br />winter I pan aim you rtes, prtated <br />mama sod useful latormWoe. <br />J. M. O'BRIEN. Agent, <br />C. B. d Q. R. R. <br />!P <br />a <br />