Standard (Newspaper) - December 19, 1878, Albert Lea, Minnesota f COUNTY STANDARD PUBLISHED EVERY BY Williams Hobinson Per Year in Advance HATES OF y 1 oo J 50 15 50 4 H 5 00 X IX lf 50 R 00 00 i i ID uo is oo so oo 50 00 LAWYERS LAND AGENTS J H PARKER And of tin of anil near the Court Minn HERMAN LAND FOR S A L E LISA MIXX W B ATTORNEY AT MINN intention to Short time Uf JOHN ANDERSON 10 Y 30 AW over A O ATTORNEY AT LAW Cor VOLUME 18 ALBERTLEA MINNESOTA AY DECEMBER 19 1878 NUMBER 51 FOR I ravins mat returned from the East I will supply j LOVELY ATTORNEY AT LAW Hewitt's Block Broadway LKA E C STACY ATTORNEY AT LAW COLLECTING AGENT SI DRAY LINES As well as New with GOOD OSTE OK A H CITY EXPRESS DRAY LINE in SOFT Seasonal Wood left on at C M to at BROS HARD GOAL WOOD Office at J store MEN'S OVERCOATS ALSO O Dealer in AND A UE in mil linn enil PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS M M M D AND SURGEON ami tho I DR A H STREET I on Minn DR DE M CRANDALL over hca FREEBORN COUNTY CAL ESTATE A G IE IN C Y AND A M TYKER Albert Over 100 improved farms for Farms in every town in the county to purchaser for cash or on Ions time Village Lots with or without houses for sale or to rent Prices to suit limes mid tomers Parties to purchase Minnesota tral or St Peter Rail Road Lands Can And a full list and Prices at my office DOWN With High CHICAGO SCALE co A 151 Jefferson St Chicago III Have reduced the prices of all kinds of SCALES Wagon Scales AH other sixes at a great reduction ly Scale warranted All orders promptly Tilled Circulars Price List and Testimonials sent upon application BUY THE CHEAPEST AND AT THAT CANNOT BE TOUGHED Y OR HOME Do not to upon him Before Elsewhere Men's Suits from Young Men's Suits from Boy's Suits from r Children's Suits from Upward 4 2.1 250 TRUNKS VALISES HATS CAPS FURNISHING my sincere thanks for past favors and hoping to give more faction than ever I am yours truly is the in some to t a 0 Man's Friend Bananas Few people who see bananas hanging iu think of them as more a tropical luxury In fact they are staple article of food in some parts of and according to Humb acre of i bananas will produce as food for a man as twer fv n wheat It is the ease bananas are grow A tbat great to tropical countries lt is so eas living without wovk that no ever be made and the men lazy and shiftless All hat is needed to a cutting into the jt will ifs mut ia twelve to months without further care each plant having from seventy-five to one hundred and twenty-five bananas and when that dies down after fruiting new shoots spring up to take its place In regions where no frost ever reaches bananas are found in all stages of growth ripening their fruit every day and every month in the year Colonel Whitner near Salt Lake Fla has probably the largest banana plantation in the United States containing nearly plants in bearing Some of these are large trees which do not die after bearing their fruit the majority are of the dwarf species which arc renewed every year Slips are planted about eight feet apart and rapidly push up leaves ing six or eight small bananas behind this protection Sonio plants will have sixteen or twenty leaves and bunches of fruit bending over as it ripens forming a most beautiful sight Opera and theatre bonnets are very small size in the form of toques of white pearl tmd cream felt arc trimmed with white and pale tinted ostrich plumes and tips a clash of colors in the form of some fancy mixed feathers of red and peacock green and blue or white grebe leathers and sometimes a heron's but no Can you eat them she asked as she placed before him a heaping plate oi buckwheat cakes Guess I'll try the wedge he alter that I'll to eat the maul She said he had been growing worse ever he was suns truck An Irish shoemaker lately advised a when he complained of his new boots being tight not to put them on he had worn them for a dav or Millinery and MRS JOHN STAGE ving done in for many rb 1 acquainted with Uie M of the people and the pui allure of has and is now re- a Larger Stock of Fall Goods ever before She expects that Low Prices Fair Treatment ill enable her to the en til c lot PRICE PAID IX CASH FOR MAN BABBIT NOBLE WOOD J CRTO on he at SALM R G D F ST AC SURVEYOR surveyed and appraised for donts All orders promptly attended to with K BANKERS Freeborn County Bank CAPITAL Minnesota THOB H ARMSTRONG President S W B ew Exchange St Bank La Crosue LANDS These valuable lands which remain unsold n Freeborn arc offered ftt low rices on easy terms is the Time to Secure Them Inquire of the to whom also 11 money due tho Trustees of Laud should be paid No extensions of where taxes are Airt of Trustees Lu Crosse TOs MEAT MARKETS MEAT MARKET THE OLD AND Favorite Stand One door north of Palmer's store e found a full and complete stock of Kinds of Meats T Which will be sold CHEAP as tho CHEAPEST The patronage of the public is respectfully EVERY CLASS OF and in its season J G BRUNDIN Proprietor Cash paid for Hides and Tallow ie MAKES CLOSE CONNECTIONS At Ramsey with Minnesota B A LITTLE BROWN DOtt He was a poor little fellow errand boy in the large grocery of Rice Cloves Co I don't mean the brown dog but Harry and he earned just two dollars u week Sixty cents of this went for care he lived so far from the store that he was obliged to ride to and from the rest to his mother who with that and trie eight dollars a week she received from the cloak factory where she worked supported herself her twelve years of age Eddie seven and Jennie Air Jacklow Mr Jacklow was her husband and the less said about liim the better I'll merely that he could sit in a and smoke aud think than any man I ever knew But besides this two dollars a week Harry who was a bright-eyed willing whistling young chap sometimes got a two or five cent piece or more rarely a dime from liis customers when ths grocers wagons being over- loaded or the customers in a great hurry home their purchase for them And it was this money he hud been ing ever since the 1st of January for the purpose of having a good time on the next holiday On day they had a real nice time at his house His hnd given him two dollars and the superintendent of the place where his mother worked had given her oue and somebody they had nevar found out who had gent them a large turkey ana the down stairs had put a box of tools in Eddie's whut am I she couldn't have done that I meant to say she had given Ned a box of tools and Jennie a doll in the name ot Claus Harry had d hit mamma with u new and his mamma presented him with a woolen comforter and pair of woolen Jacklow hart bought himself a new pipe and when Harry saw how happy they all were he quickly made up his mind to them a party on the very next day which would be the Fourth of July It was the 3d of July when my story commences and Harry liad bis of wiving every penny of his wages lie had had to pass many a heap of rosy without glancing them run away from many peanut stands force himself not to look into the ing windows ot the candy Mores and go by on the other side when he knew self near a well known bakery to do but he had so ard now his reword was near The house in which he lived was an old-fashioned in an street A quarter of K century it had been a small surrounded by but now it bad a large tenement on each side and a whole row of brick in front of it But one splendid old oak before the to tack dog in all the world and I love him best ot everything cept granny and I love him just the same as her when she scolds and my mamma brought him home one day just before she went to heaven and I've hai him ever since and he's the best dog that ever lived and never did thing wrong in bin life cept once when he stole a piece of boiled corned beef somebody d set out in the back alley to cool and he wouldn't have done that cept he knew how hungry granny and me and the tears rolled down her cheeks so Don't said Harry Here take my handkerchief and wipe your eyes They'll kill commenced the child if I can't coax them to let him out and I don't want him to go to heaven that way I'd rather we'd both go together and he could run on in front snd then mamma d say Why here's must be coming you sure he's in asked Harry Oh yes He was playing by our toor yesterday afternoon most night and I poking chips in the stove to make the Kettle boil and I heard him railing like he was in gome trouble run out and two men had him in a cart and Jimmy O'Neil said they was going to take him to the pound So 1 run after the cart without putting my hat on and soon it went so fast I couldn't see it and then I asked every body where the pound was I remembered the name by thinking of a pound of sugar and at last I pot here and it was shut up and so staid here nil and do you think they'll open are you going to do when thc.y do open asked Harry Oo in and bog the dog man to cive Prince back lie's buch a little dog they won't him But he won't give Prince back unless you par two said Harry I haven't any a said the child hut I've brought these rising and holding out her apron which held a tiny china doll a headless cat of the came a string of glass beads two pink motto papers and a round white shell These were all given to me she said and I've kept good all cept the cat and her head's in my pocket and he can stick it on and the candies out of the ate one and gave the other to the man may have them every one if he will let poor afraid he won't take said Harry shaking his head Ob what shall I cried the child My dear little my dear dear little Harry the tears starting in liis own eyes You shall have I have a dollar and eighty-two cents and I'll borrow the eighteen my mother The little face lit up with joy blio thrust the toys into his hands Take them you good good said and I'll tell my mamma about you when clapping her hands in delight and the next moment he was in her arms ing her face with dog kisses Harry marched out handing the man the money as he passed The tall gentleman followed with the little girl and her dog and when they were all in the street once more he stooped and ted Prince on the head at the same time tucking Harry's which was hanging half way into his jacket pocket and saying You'll lose that if you're not careful my boy Then he kissed both children and went into the pound again And Nellie threw her arms around Harry's neck and gave him a good hug and told him she should love him forever and made him promise to come and see her and Prince and they parted And that's the end of our July said Harry a short time after to the Jacklow family as he ed his breakfast and his story at the same time You're a good boy and did just said all the Jacklow family with the exception of Mr Jacklow who re- marked mildly that dollar and ninety-two cents would have kept him in tobacco a long while And baby Jennie came and gave her big brother a sweet fact a very sweet kiss for some of the syrup which she had been eating on her bread and butter went with it and as she toddled away Harry pulled out his handkerchief to wipe his mouth It came out with a jerk and four bright new silver half lars came with it and falling on the floor with a pleasant sound rolled away ward the corners as fast as they could But were pounced upon before they had rolled a foot tell gentleman said Harry Good bless said his mother Three cheers for our shouted Eddie and proceeded to them I wish I hud the morning said Mr Jacklow And was a party after all and besides tlie family there were three other old woman a small girl and a little brown Weekly Fashion Dolmans are very fashionable The hair should be worn low in the neck Walking shoes have small round Very high narrow back combs worn overcoats are given velvet Dinner and evening dresses are box are cut kinds arc revived for said to and there was any say ht number around to cry lf J h fnd WCUt keep them till I con liave always that when u setting off arid there is tho brighter tlie look to that boy Well Hurry had laid out the supper in bin mind ad Ice cream a whole quart twelve cent sponge cake live sticks of candy pitcher of lemonade apple pie hull a pound of cheese and some potatoes liked baked potatoes And he meaut to get his mother and the rest of them out of the room them down to vi it the dress maker who at the last moment was to bo let into the set the table himself and then when all was ready cull them up again it be fun to look at their faces when th saw he ice cream and the sponge cake and the candy and the lemonade and the pie and the cheese and the baked It would be almost as good as the circus had been there once and had never how delightful it And then after the supper was and they thought the entertainment at an end wouldn't it be Am again to see their faces when ho in- down on the from stoop to see the pyrotechnic your dictionaries So Harry had boon saving and saving and saving until he found himself on the evening of the lird of July one lar and eighty-two cents in his hand trowsers pocket Times had been hard very hard fince the year be- gan and people had looked very sharply after their small change or it is likely he would had double but amount he said to himself a dollar will get the feast and the rest will buy at least a dozen nice fire works lie got home from the store thut ing too late and too tired to go out for the things he wanted but the next ing ho was up before the sun the SUE rises pretty early during the mer and out in the street the first sunbeams told the tern sky morning had come The streets almost deserted and no ers or yet broke the silence But before he had walked a block cannons boomed in the distance and a peal of bells nearer by began ringing Yankee Doodle very merrily ing and jingling tho coins in his ets in tune und time with the music of the bells and wishing the stores where lie meant to bay the materials for his party would open ho sauntered slowly along until he reached the dog a place where all stray dogs are taken in hot weather and kept a day or two so that their owners may if they choose seek and reclaim them If found to bo friendless at fee end of that time the poor things are put in a large tank pre- pared for that purpose and drowned Harry heard the imprisoned doss ing and yelping and stopping to listen to them with a pitying look on liis like all kind hearted boys tie loved baw sitting upon the u very pretty little girl She wore a faded calico dress and blue checked gingham apron the apion she held gathered up in her hand as though it held something of value and tier head and feet wetu bare Her large eyes were of a soft brown and her hair of the same color hung in straggling curls about her face There wasn't another creature man woman or child Kith the exception of a milk man on the next block in sight and Harry looked at her with surprise At last he said with a smile 1 thought I got up early you must have got up much earlier than I did been hero all said the in a sweet patient voice Here all repeated Harry with a long whistle Good what d you do that Cause I want to go in the very ute the door opens My a in there Your Harry Yes He's the dearest little brown in her apron p them I come he said I wont be gone but a little while and away he ran to his home There lie found his mother making the lire and his father smelling the she had measured out ready for paid he will you lend me eighteen I intended to give you she said jour Fourth of July But why do you want it so eaily in the Please coaxed Harry Make it eighteen and I'll pay it back to you soon and mny I have a slice of bread and buttter for a poot little I'll tell you all about it I can't make it eaid his mother -I haven't another cent Take the ten if you want it It's in my book in the top bureau drawer and the on the table Don't bother me any in a hurry Harry helped himself and then he ran to where patiently awaited a smile of trust upon her lips ail said Harry putting the bread in her an uncommon thick slice it was too with plenty of eat that By this time there was a number of people in the street and pistols were being lired and torpedoes and ers set off and all the bells bosun ing And Harry looked at the stand the old woman who had just arrived with n bag and a basket of fruit cakes and candy was preparing for the day and at an early rocket that was going up in the sky he thought of time he had been saving the money and of the intended supper and the and the children and and then the door of the pound being opened he took Nellie by the hand and marched in Is there a little brown dog he asked Named said Nellie her love making her dear little Ila the man that's good Why there's fifty brown dogs here and all of em I think Two dollars apiece Do you want to get one Yes Harry if you'll take a dollar and ninety-two I have At this moment a tall dark ing gentleman came into tho doorway and stood just behind the children Can't do said the man it's against the law to take less than two lars beran to sob again and the tall eutleman came forward he asked Harry No replied the boy Your was the next question No Sir I never saw her till this morning I came out to bay some things for a party and 1 took a walk down this way cause the shops wasn't open and 1 found her sitting on the and she'd been sitting there all night All repeated the gentleman just as Harry had done only without the whistle Tell me all about it And he looked so kind and good that Harry did tell him all about it And when the story was finished tlie man to the man at the door You'd better take the money Lewis But wait see il Prince is really here And led by their new friend the dren went in There were dogs of all kinds there nil all sizes all colors that dogs could barking growling and moaning Nellie looked eagerly around and shouted as louil as she could shout but could scarcely hear herself so great was the noise But a little brown dog whose ears must have been much sharper than hers sprang forward with cry of delight that seemed to come out of the very top of bis little browa head It's Prince I it's Prince I cried Nellie square-necked of all dress The waistcoat is adopted with all ments this winter The coat is a novelty in ladies wraps The fashionable toilet is satiu and tulle The variety of stockings seems almost endless Fancy basket woven are shown for ladies neck wear The favorite button is the Japanese in metals of three colors Evening shoes and house slippers have peaked turned up toes Four buttons is the average depth oi for street wear Black satin bows are worn at the top of the boot of little girls Velvets of every description aro sively used for trimmings Fashionable walking boots have cloth tops to match the costume Round and flat topped mannish are worn by young ladies Extremely long garments will be fashionable this winter White moire vests are worn with black or blue velvet Black worn with colored dresses is n caprice of the day Metal buttons for trimming waistcoats of all kinds are very fashionable The show of artificial flowers made in our is very brilliant Uncut velvet is a stylish material for ladies waistcoats collars and cuffs for making full dress bouffant on tlie hips are in the market Dolman ana fur-lined circulars are the fashionable wraps this season Plain black silk socks are iJe for wear with patent leather pumps The newest plaid dresses of scotch wool are of small bars of very quiet colors New table napkins have a small pen sketch in indelible ink in the corners For full dress lace-bordered chiefs are still the very height of style Bonnets faced with fur and trimmed with ostrich feathers are worn in Paris The fashionable fancy work at present is Honiton and duchesse laces For in cold and damp er shoes are the sensible stylo English velvet with long pile is the fashionable material for morning jackets with printed borders are used for morning shopping and home use Scotch plaid ribbons are very either for hat trimmings or neck wear Black velvet bands around the neck are revived for full dress ions Bridal veils are made of square tulle two three and sometimes four yards wide The overcoat is the nobby garment for fashionable girls The newest veils are masks of fine black or white tulle that is sprinkled with Jet passementerie and jet and silk ringes are much used in trimming black silk toilets A new ribbon is called camel's hair ribbon It is in soft stripes ot gold black and red Fine batiste handkerchiefs have richly embroidered borders two three inches in The Turkish fez is worn by children in dark red blue green brown and black cloth and velvet Black silk dresses arc still the favorite all occasions willi American women of all ages Gray camel's hair cloth caps trimmed with bands of fur or feathers are novelties in children's wear Hosiery for children is displayed in solid dark colors brightened by a band of gray Scotch plaid Great reductions in is what numerous leading ments are advertising circulars lined with red silk are stylish garments for school girl's wear According tp Emmeline Raymond crinoline of very small proportions is be- ginning to make its appearance Cosmetic m asks are revived as articles of the toilet and are in de- mand among fashionable women Bonnet strings are no crossed in the back the hair or in the nape of the neck by fashionable women Large Alsatian bows of wide black vet ribbon aro worn as evening dresses with at reception toilets White satin dresses trimmed with laces yellow with age are the most stylish evening toilets of the season novelty in ulsters is made reversible one side to be worn to business the other for calls and the opera The fashion correspondent of Bazar says that bonnets are much larger than they have been for some years past Cloth circulars have heavy cords and tassels fastening the garment in front knotted loosely and then thrown over the shoulders The bonnet is a leading sian novelty It is high above the fore- head narrow on the sides the strines er the ears tying under the chin and the trimmings are a mixture of feathers fur ribbon and ornaments The whole affair is frightfully ugly but it is the rage at the moment in the French capital Did you ever try to imagine when you were studying the beginnings of English history what kind of people those old Anglo-Saxons were and how they They were our far-off ancestors and our language for the most part was made from theirs in fact we are c Anglo- Saxons ourselves so we ought to be in- in them They were rude people in many respects and lived in a rude way com- pared with ours ITow would you like windows which had no glass in very small windows had oiled paper or sheets of horn Of course the rooms must have been dark and dismal you will And what would you think of houses without neys or anything should call But matters were really not much better even in king's houses about ten hundred years ago Tho most important room in those days was called the hall and it was large enough to accommodate the family the great company of servants and all the guests who chose to come They ate there sat there and most of them slept there ou rough benches or rolled up in skins on the floor It open to every chance traveler to the to beggars and everybody else The lire was built against a clay or stone arrangement answering for a at one end or an immense stone hearth in the middle and the smoke after ing up overhead found its way out through an opening or a kind of turret in the roof At dark they heaped high the logs and and happy was he who on a stormy night get near the blaze When came servants stood behind those at table aad held torches over their heads till the meal was over and when came the guests who had any other place than the hall to sleep in were lighted to in in the same wav As for the king he was more privileged than that though just what they first foi lights aad just when lamps be- cime common among the Anglo-Saxons it is not easy to rind out We sei in some very old pictures u simple little lamp shaped perhaps like a saucer hung by chains at the side of the room and holding no doubt a piece of wax or some kind of oil with a strip of cloth in it for a wick Sometimes in the royal chambers for a very long time after King Alfred's day a light was kept by means of wax in a stiver basin They knew how to make ever but instead of putting one in a it was put on it The stick had a point at the top called spike and the was made hollow at the bottom and slipped down over the spike one so was known as a prick et is among some illustrations of old customs a picture of a candlestick which is very queer though very elegant and looks like a little piece of furniture It is a tall stem rising from a ed three-cornered stand very much it cumes to a point at the top and a little way below is a plate to hold the tallow or wax that might rundown We do not know that King Alfred had anything like thib but be had what no- body had ever seen before in that country for he invented it himself and that was u lantern This good kim was a busy man the people him be willing to idle away their days over the fire tening to tlie harpers telling stories and playing with the hounds but he felt that he bad a great woik to do He wanted to make his subjects more civilized to teach them arts and he had not an hour to waste He built towns he built ships he read and studied and that was wonderful indeed in those days when there were but few books and when even princes could not write their own names He was the best the wisest and the most learned king that the Saxons had ever had He used to carry in his bosom randum leaves in which he made tions from his and this journal he was in tho habit of examining so much that he called it his And that is where the word book came from Of course he far into the night but he soon found two was no way lo mark the time for there were no clocks nor es then and he could not keep a light because the houses were so open that the wind came in from every ter lie had but those amounted to nothing on rainy days and everybody knows what a country England is for rain However when such a man as Alfred makes up his mind to do a thing he is almost sure to find a way So he had a quantity of wax prepared took of it to weigh down seventy-two silver pennies and of it had six candles made all weighing the same and each inches long and marked oft into twelve divisions He planned so nicely that these six would burn twenty-four hours and be always kept one lighted day before some holy relics and images of faints he had and which being a very pious man he carried about with his luggage wherever he went He would now have had not ble light but a very goad way of ing the hours if the candles had been sure of burning a given time But if the wind blew the flame flare and perhaps go out and the king made up his could be thing done to remedy he did it He made a frame-work and fixed in- to it little plates or windows of horw scraped so thin that the light could through set bis candle inside and shul it the thing was done Ho had a lantern sure in all weathers A very small affair it may seem to you but it was a great one to i saw a picture of a rude Saxon lantern somewhat like his perhaps though it was probably aa improvement on it for no sooner does one man invent a thing than another finds a way to make it better This in shape made me think of a without the tray ot It had a kind of much there bosses on them looking like around the bottom an to the and there pretty ar door Altogether it cuit but a clumsy and for
