Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-11

borhood turned ont to hear what so mean
q man as Old Smithers would say for him
self after passing through conviction and
conversion. All was still ID Tie church
when Old tHmithexs arose to speak, He be-
gan hY telling what a mean man he had
been all his life: He said he had probably
demo more mean thugs than any man of
his years and opportunities living, aud if
there was any mean thing he had failed to
do, it7wss either because he hadn't thought
of it, or there was no good chance. After!
going somewhat into detail regarding his
meannesss astonishing evene those who
thought they know him best with tile reci-.
tall and debating his utter: s,,nwofthiness,
he RESUMED l,is seat. -. ...,., ~.....,.,g
. There was brief pause, after which a
neighbor of Old Snithers, a member OF the
church, arose and said; II have lived nigh
neighbor to Brother Smithers for Tong
time. have just listened to Brother Smith
ers' remarks, and from an intimate &C.
quajntance with him and his actions for
many years, I am prepared to indorse. in
the fullest manner all the charges he has
made against himself, and more TO: He is
certainly the. meanest man ever knew, in
the, whole course OF my life, and sat down:
" Then arose Old Smithers, pale and 'trem-
bling with ,raRe;. and. exclaimed: Sits, q
did lie, and I'll whip you as soon as you
leave the church Plat Contributo,:"' AZ -
Mr.. B!echei's Book Farming. :
Il From Mark Twain'A .Beechar's Private Hsbits.";
Mr., Beeeher'a. farm consists of thirty six
acres, and is carried on on strict scientific
principles. He never putsiin any part of a
crop without consulting his book. AS soon
as the library is complete, the farm will
begin to- be = probable investment; But
book farming has its drawbacks On one
occasion, when it seemed morally certain
that the hay oaghtto be cnt, the. hoy book
could not be found, and before it was found
it was too late, and the hay was all spoiled.
. Mr. Beeohery raises solno of the finest
crops of wheat in the country, but the I'M
favorable difference Between tho cost of
producinglit and its market value after it
Is produced has interfered considerably
with its success MS a commercial enterprise.
His speoial weakness, liza, hogs however
He considers hogs the best game farm
produces. He buys the original pig for
$780,, and feeds him. $40 worth of corn,
and then sells him for about SO. This is
the onlyscrop he ever makes any money on.
He loses on. the corn, but he makes 81. so
Oh the hog. He does not mind this, be-
cause he never expects to mike anything
on corn anyway, Il And Lazy way il; turns
ont he has the excitement of raising the
hog anyhow, whether he! gets the worth Of
him or not His strawberries would be n
comfortable success, if the robins would
ct tulnips; but they won't, md hence the
Twoyears a ago Mr.. Beetoher's far-siehted.
hess warned linn that there was going to
be . great >, scarcity Of .Watermelons, and
therefore he put in q crop Of twenty-seven
acres of that fruit But when they came
up they Turned out to be, pumpkins, and q
dead boss was the consequence. Sometimes
u portion Of his crop goes into the ground
TIE. most promising sweet potatoes. and
comes up the most infernalest carrots i
though Il never have heard him express it
jpst in that way Mr.. Beecher's most dis
astrous experience was the time he tried to
raise an iinmense crop of dried apples.
lie planted fifteen hundred dollars worth,
but never q one of them sprouted.
RAvAaEs OF THE CHOLERA IN INDIA A
letter from Calcutta, dated August Goth.
presents tho following sad gpicturo of the
ravages of cholera in India:
Although at Umritsir, Agra. and several
cholera has sensibly abated, it is still raging
country with fearful violence, and the total
death rite Is, at the very lowest estimnte,
400 day. Since 1858 there has been no
hot season so fatal rs the present to Euro.
peans.. All through The Northwest PROV
inces the pestilence is making sad !rayhges:
At Gwalior tho deaths are from sixty to a
hundred 4 dayy,, and Sepree, BhopaF and Sc
here aro suffering heavily, Tho sconrge
seems, indeed. to be steadily marching
along the Agra road to Bombay. AT Indore
the native Raiah has made the people; offer
sacrifices outside the city walls, with bare
:heads and dry chni>aliiss, but without any
marked SUCCESS, as upwards of 1000 men
have persisted during the past three weeks.
All through Melwa the horrors ofpestaekce
are aggravatel by the priyatione Of famine,
especially among, the thousands Of pilgrims
who have been Visiting the sl,rine'of Omcar,
aud are now obliged to remq qi in thet dis,
trict until the rains are OVER From South
ern India 'wo hear almost equally gloomy
tidings. At Hylcrabad the cholera has
mado terrible inroads, and Mt Madras and
all the: other main centros OF luQ'u}ation; ii
has had more or ess victims, - ~ {
The North German Correspondent
says: ''Prof:; Faber's spcaking:niachine is
to be exhibitodFht Hamburg 7during the
continuance Of the International Horticul,
triral Exhibition" II Is suid to artic'.late
various worda and even Ito answer. Dues.
lions by simple sentences with wonderful
distinctness. This is by no means The 1irst
invention of tho kind that has been invont.
ell. Wolfgang Won Kempele,1, tho Inventor
Of n chess affirmation who WAS. lovn nt
Prosburg in 1884, aud died Mt Vienna in
1901, both constructed machine of the
kind and wrote on the subject. The ma
chine about to DO exhibited ut Hamburg il,
however, more perfect than any previous
invaniion r,I A1.N kind -